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| 3 Beads of Sweat was founded in late 2000/early 2001 by Tim Adams, who previously ran the Chicago-based Ajax Records label (and mailorder service, retail store, etc.) from 1989 to 2000. Conceived as a similarly-minded label with its act slightly more together, as well as a boutique mailorder service, 3BOS began mailorder service in 2001 with the first releases on the label appearing in April 2002. In 2005, the mailorder part of the operation was spun off into a sister company, Moops Music. Moops will act as distributor for both 3 Beads of Sweat and the Ajax Records back catalog, and a host of interesting labels from around the world, as time goes on. 3 Beads of Sweat is now just a record label. ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Do you accept demos? The realities of a small label like 3 Beads of Sweat "breaking" a new band are pretty harsh these days, but we're always looking out for interesting sounds, and even if we don't think we can do anything with your music, we might be interesting in distributing it through our sister company Moops Music (above). We are interested in new music as well as archival releases and reissues, so we encourage any interested parties to contact us concerning these. Do you send out promo copies of your releases? Yes, we do. But we focus our promo budget/allotment on magazines, websites, radio stations, blogs/writers, etc. who can reach the audience we want to reach and where we realistically have a chance of selling our releases. We do NOT send promos to individuals who happen to write for an individual publication or have a radio show on a particular radio station, with a few exceptions. It simply isn't worth our money to waste on such a small target. We send promos to radio stations and magazines with the hopes that many writers/DJs can give them attention. We especially do not send promos to exotic territories in Europe, Asia, Africa, etc. because our distribution in those areas is so limited in scope. I want you to advertise in our magazine/webzine/blog. Hook us up with some ad money, OK? We hear this a lot. As you're probably aware, there are now officially 9,000,000 sites/zines/magazines/blogs catering to the indie rock audience we hope to reach. We can't afford to advertise in even a small fraction of them. But, we do advertise, so the best way to go about attracting our interest is to send a copy of your magazine in the mail, or write a personalized e-mail describing your site/blog. Don't just spam us generic-like and talk about how your site has an interview with Sum 41 and Bright Eyes and expect us to care very much. If your site sounds interesting, we'll check it out. If you review records and look like the kind of site that might actually review our releases, great. If your magazine/site/etc. doesn't review records, we probably wouldn't be sending promos to you for that very reason. Also, a lot of our releases so far have been reissues, so we tend to only do a little promotion on these. CDM Profile URL: chicagodigital.stores.yahoo.net/3beadsofsweat.html |
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