"Monthly" Update

Our new mailing address is:

Geoff Wilbur’s Renegade Newsletter

P.M.B. 53

9791 Westheimer

Houston, TX  77042

That address is up and running and accepting mail for us already, even though I won’t be leaving Louisiana until the end of the week.  Anything already en route to the Monroe, LA address should arrive before I leave town, so if you update your mailing lists now, there shouldn’t be any lost mail.

But let me backtrack.  One key item, then I’ll include the usual GWRN update information.

We’re moving!  As most of you know, GWRN is not my day job.  Typically, when I start a new job, it takes about 3 months to get settled; then, GWRN resumes publication.  As you have also noticed, GWRN has been on unplanned hiatus since moving to Monroe.  A combination of the particular job and other factors around life in Monroe kept me from being able to resume publication.  I expect this move to Houston to remedy that, though it will probably be sometime this winter before the next issue is published.  I thank you all for your patience and understanding.  All of the outstanding reviews will run either online or in print; once we’re back, we’ll catch up.

Again, I’d like to thank our subscribers and those of you who have submitted discs for review for your patience.  Please don’t send me requests about the status of your reviews.  Once I get settled into my new job, I’ll be focusing on getting caught up and probably won’t be able to respond.

B) Standard, Every-Month Section

If you're new to a yahoogroups mailing list, try checking out the GWRN area at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gwrn -- there, you can read past monthly updates.  (If you are reading this on the geoffwilbur.com website, you should follow that link and sign up for the e-mail update.)  In the "Files" area, I've uploaded all the advertising rate and deadline information.  I've also put all pertinent Renegade website links in the links area.  And I have placed a few upcoming dates of interest on the calendar.  Your best sources of GWRN information, however, are at our official website (http://membrane.com/renegade) and at the GWRN information site I maintain (http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade).

As always, thanks again for reading our monthly mailing.  This monthly update ensures that, once a month, you'll always have the latest Geoff Wilbur's Renegade Newsletter information at your fingertips.  And if your e-mailbox is as full as mine, you'll be glad we only send the update once a month rather than more often.

C) Repeated From Last Update -- Please Read!

Disc Submission Forms:  We’ve put a section on our website about how to get reviewed -- http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/reviewinfo.html.  When we update the official GWRN website (http://membrane.com/renegade) this summer, we’ll place this info on that website, too, and point you there.  We’ve place a review submission form on the website (http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/reviewform.html) that will allow us to get reviews into the right people’s hands more efficiently, so please complete this form when sending a disc for review.  Obviously, signed bands get reviewed on the website, and this mailing list tells you when that’s been updated, so if you’re subscribed to the list (mailto:gwrn-subsribe@yahoogroups.com), then you’ll know when to look for reviews, but for unsigned/indie acts, this form is particularly important and helpful.

Promotion Idea:  Would your fans be interested in reading Geoff Wilbur’s Renegade Newsletter?  We can put together a web page for you (that will look similar to http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/suboffer_sample.html but with your band’s name on it, of course), and we’ll also send you a Word file with a one-page form you can print out.  (If you reduce the form we send you to 50% at Kinko’s, you’ll be able to fit 4 on a page.)  Then, you can direct your fans to the web page and hand out the forms at shows and other events.  (Most effectively, you can collect cash from your fans at the show and send the forms and a check to me through the mail – you know how people can be interested at the moment, but by the next morning, they won’t fill out the form and send the check.)  If you have been reviewed or interviewed in a previous issue and if we still have copies of that issue in our files here, we will offer that issue as your fans’ “bonus” rather than the bonus shown in the sample.  Otherwise, we’ll do something similar to the “mailing list” offer I referred you to as a sample.

What do you get in exchange?  Well… we’ll offer you 50% ad credit – meaning, for every $10 subscription, we’ll give you $5 toward advertising in GWRN.  You can find ad rates for the Industry Edition at http://www.geoffwilbur.com/ie_adrates.html and for the Country Music Industry Edition at http://www.geoffwilbur.com/cmie_adrates.html.  Please zip me an e-mail if you’re interested, and we’ll get you up and rolling.

New Address:  As I mentioned above, we have moved again!  Our new mailing address is:

Geoff Wilbur’s Renegade Newsletter

P.M.B. 53

9791 Westheimer

Houston, TX  77042

Anyway, thanks again for reading your monthly update.  As always, keep in touch.

Most of the backlogged interviews will appear in the next Online Edition.

6) GEOFF WILBUR'S RENEGADE NEWSLETTER CONTACT INFORMATION

Our headquarters have moved four times during our years of publication.  Our headquarters have been at the following cities during the following times:

East Lansing, MI (July 1993-September 1998)
Newport, RI (September 1998-September 2002)
Johnston, RI (September 2002-August 2003)

Monroe, LA (August 2003-October 2005)

Houston, TX (October 2005-present)

We accept CDs and cassettes of all musical styles for review.  Please send one or two copies to the address at http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/monthly_contact_info.html -- the shortcut listed in Section 6 above.  If  you are or represent an unsigned or independent band, please print out and include the review submission form on the website (http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/reviewform.html) that will allow us to get copies of the reviews into the right people’s hands more efficiently.

We're always looking for more writers.  Writing positions at GWRN are unpaid, though the perks are great.  If you or a writer you know would like to cover your local music scene for Geoff Wilbur's Renegade Newsletter, please direct an inquiry to Geoff Wilbur at geoff@....

Thanks again for reading yet another monthly update.  As the months pass, watch for more improvements and additions.  Feel free to make suggestions.  And hey, go to http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/subscribe.html, print out the form, and sign up to get yourself a subscription to your favorite edition.