Crescent City Sounds, the New Orleans Public Library’s free streaming service dedicated to local music, is now accepting submissions for fresh additions to the platform.
This year, organizers want to add 75 EPs and full-lengths by New Orleans artists to Crescent City Sounds, which already features more than 150 projects by locals.
The submission period is open Sept. 2 to Oct. 7. All genres are accepted, and artists selected will receive a $250 honorarium. Artists must primarily perform in New Orleans.
Learn more and submit your music at crescentcitysounds.org.
Crescent City Sounds launched in fall 2022 and opens a yearly submission period to add to the platform. Listeners can find music by glbl wrmng, Flagboy Giz, Basher, Gov’t Majik, Roger Lewis, Craig Klein, Anareta, Qween Qweezy and a host of others — all available to stream for free. There also are short musician bios, links to websites and an image library of concert posters.
Each submission cycle, Library associate Joshua Smith, who spearheaded the platform, is joined by a group of community curators to check out the submitted music and select albums they hope will represent the vast range of New Orleans music and musicians.
This year’s curator group includes musician Kevin the Persian; music scholar Kyle DeCoste; musician and DJ Toren Hardee; Bennett Kirschner, the artistic director at Intramural Theater and TV Pole Shine singer-songwriter; music industry professional Mark Roberts; Threadhead Cultural Foundation’s Dan Ring; and Brook Paulus and Ricky Ostry, who perform together in LSD Clownsystem and plan Solid Gold events.
Submissions to Crescent City Sounds must be from the last five years. A single track can be submitted, but if an artists is chosen, they must have an album or EP with a minimum of four songs or 20 minutes in length.
Submissions featuring hate speech will be rejected.
Learn more at crescentcitysounds.org/faq.
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