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Annie Reuter
 Annie Reuter, a New Jersey/New York-based freelance writer and music blogger, covers shows in and around the tri-state area. Some of her reviews and interviews have been featured on MTV.com, RollingStone.com and AbsolutePunk.net. In addition to these sites, Annie keeps up her own music blog, yousingiwrite.blogspot.com, where she has interviewed members of Switchfoot, the Ataris and most recently, up-and-comer Colbie Caillat. A somewhat recent college grad, when not at her current day job at WebMD, Annie is in constant pursuit of the next show to attend and band to interview.
Annie Reviews: singer-songwriters, indie rock, pop rock, punk, and pop
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Jason Randall Smith
 Based in Mount Vernon, New York, Jason Randall Smith is a contributing writer to Impose Magazine. In addition, he blogs for his own website, Both Sides Of The Surface, www.bsots.com, an archive of music reviews and life commentaries. Jason is also the creator of the Radio BSOTS podcast, a showcase for independent hip-hop, soul, funk, and electronic music. Under the DJ pseudonym Macedonia, he was a member of WCDB Albany 90.9 FM, hosting shows and producing promo spots during the 1990s. In 2003, Macedonia was featured as a rotating resident DJ for Recess Wednesdays at the Orchard Bar.
Jason collects vinyl, treats liner notes like canonized literature, and still equates the term "mixtape" with actual cassettes. Check out Jason’s podcast *endless shouting matches with yourself* here: endlessshoutingmatches.mevio.com
Jason Reviews: hip-hop, soul, funk, techno, downtempo & electronica
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Matheson Kamin
 After being part of a few failed internet-based companies, Matheson started writing for Exciting City, a small hard-copy publication in Cleveland, in late 2004. At the time, he wanted to promote the exciting things that were happening in his area in the arts and entertainment fields. After writing for Exciting City for almost 3 years, he began writing for an online publication called The Rock And Roll Report. He is very excited about being part of another publication where he can lend his talents as a music journalist, “I am excited at the prospect of being able to provide coverage to bands that want their music exposed to the world.”
Matheson Reviews: Rock (all types), Americana, Heavy Metal, Country and Jazz
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Wildy Haskell
 Wildy Haskell is the writer/editor of Wildy’s World, a blog dedicated to finding, reviewing and exposing some of the best independent music talent the world has to offer. Wildy cut his teeth doing comic music reviews (ala Monty Python) on University at Buffalo radio station WRUB in the early 1990’s, as part of the long-running sketch comedy show Don’t Panic The comic reviews later turned serious and became a regular part of the show. Wildy is or has been at one time a singer, guitarist, poet, actor and writer. His musical tastes run all over the map, and believes that there is value in every form of music – it just takes someone with the eye, or ear, to find it.
Wildy Reviews: all genres of music (rock, country, jazz, metal, blues, children’s, religious, classical, Broadway, comedy, spoken word, R&B, Hip-Hop/Rap... anything else you can think of)
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Andrea Guy
 Andrea Guy hails from Southwestern Pennsylvania where she collaborates with several friends on an online music site called Mossip on Livejournal. Mossip features music reviews gossip and the editorial column, Elfslut says that is Andrea's pet project among other fun musical features.
Growing up around many DJ's, music has always been part of her life. From the age of 5, The Beatles and The Monkees dominated her life. Over the years, music became more dominant and one room in her house is filled with CDs from the floor on up. There isn't a genre she won't listen to at least once.
Andrea Reviews: all genres of music
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Julian Gorman
 Independent musician, writer & game designer, Julian Gorman is a freelancer based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado whom currently is doing virtual odd-jobs while working to fill multiple artistic portfolios and looking for a new band to join. He has been singing since 1st grade and as a result been in many different types of bands and multiple stage productions, including lead rolls in the musicals Godspell, Guys & Dolls & You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. In ‘04 Julian was honored to sing with Opera Theater of the Rockies & the Colorado Springs Philharmonic as a chorus member in Carmen, with a small trio part in Die Flatermaus. Since 2001 he has written for local newspapers and in College. As a reporter / photographer and editorialist, he worked primarily for “Top ‘O The World” at Western State College & “The Ute Pass Courier.” He dreams of having a hit song in a virtual world he helped design. Julian is very critical of himself & thus a harsh, yet realistic, critic, if a bit eccentric
Julian Reviews: Alternative, Ambient, Blues, Breakbeat, Classical, Country, Dance, Downtempo, Drum & Bass, Electro, Experimental, Folk, Industrial, Garage, Gospel, House, Techno, Trance, Metal, Opera, Progressive, Punk, Pop, R&B, Underground & any hybrid styles
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Kendra Atleework
 Kendra grew up in a small town in the mountains where isolation encouraged her to develop her musical knowledge and writing skills. Now a junior at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, she is majoring in creative writing for contemporary media- in other words, music journalism. She works as music director for the campus radio station, KSPC, where she has been reviewing music for two years. She is also a DJ, hosting live bands and spinning punk, post-punk, hardcore, and indie rock. A childhood of squaredances in the woods has taught her to love Americana and folk as well. She is excited to be a part of the Los Angeles music scene and attends as many local shows as possible.
Kendra Reviews: punk, indie rock, garage rock, post-punk, hardcore, and folk/americana (she also acquired some knowledge about emo and screamo during her high school years)
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Heath Andrews
 Heath Andrews discovered a passionate love for music at the hands of Huey Lewis & The News albums. Though not the typical starting point for a career involving music, they nonetheless inspired him to attend Ithaca College, majoring in Radio/Television. During his award-winning tenure there, he climbed to the top of the internet radio heap by hosting and producing multiple programs in the classic and modern rock fields for the station, 106VIC. Since graduating, he has swapped his microphone for a keyboard and has been writing about the music he wishes he could be playing to an audience.
Heath's writing has been featured on the websites of friends who wanted a music review section, but did not want to pay him or the domain provider and thusly may be found on the "deep web". Other writing and interviews with artists such as David Knopfler, Nils Lofgren, and Bruce Hornsby have been featured on the 106VIC website, blog, and Ithaca campus newspaper. Though Heath's time in radio was spent mostly exploring the genres of rock, his pursuit of avoiding overplayed songs brought him to the fringes of the music industry and back again, picking up a love for and knowledge of music of various types, from country and blues to jazz/fusion and gospel. Currently working in a casino as a credit representative, Heath spends his time away from the office in search of more and more music to engage his ears, and critical muscle in.
Heath Reviews: Pop, Power Pop, Pop-Rock, Country, Blues, Bluegrass, Celtic, Gospel, Rock (in its myriad forms), Jazz, Fusion, Singer-Songwriter, Anything influenced by New Wave, Spoken word, Comedy, and Synthpop (if anyone ever decides to record some again).
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M. Morgan
 M. Morgan is a writer, podcaster (a.k.a. "Cecil Smith"), producer, and blogger for IndieSoupRunner.com, a blog about indie music, specifically for runners and fitness freaks. He has interviewed emerging artists, writes a column for CD reviews called "Reviews By The Spoonful," that includes album reviews specifically designed for selecting exercise music, and most importantly, produces and hosts a monthly podcast called "Indie Soup Runner's Edition," a monthly podcast in a playlist format featuring the latest and greatest indie music artists. His podcast is on iTunes as well as other popular podcast directories. His main areas of musical focus are dance, electronic, punk, pop and Americana.
M. Morgan Reviews: Dance, Pop, Punk, Americana, Psychedelic Pop
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Kelly O’Neil
 Kelly O’Neil graduated from William Paterson University in New Jersey with a degree in Music Management and a minor in English. She began her career in Public Relations in New York City with a diverse clientele including Foreigner, Jessica Simpson and Sir James Galway. Her journalism career launched when she moved to Nashville landing a job at Salem Publications where she wrote for CCM, U and CrossWalk magazines. Kelly’s freelancing credits include Reader’s Digest, christianmusicplanet.com and christrock.com.
While Kelly’s professional expertise may dwell in contemporary Christian music, she is also well-versed in classical and jazz having played in numerous large and small ensembles, most notably the Nashville Philharmonic and the Orlando Concert Band. However, she still loves good ol’ rock and roll – especially progressive rock. Kelly met her husband over a mutual admiration for King Crimson and now resides in Raleigh where she assists him with his professional recording studio Request Records.
Kelly Reviews: Christian Rock, Gospel, A/C, jazz, urban, and pop
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Zack Daggy
 Zack Daggy is an Internet DJ, new media entrepreneur, and the creator of a number of original programs. Dubbed “The Mothman” because of his late night habits, he’s passionate about the indie music scene and presents the best and brightest talent that the music industry has to offer on The Mothpod. Since August of 2006, Zack has featured bands and artists from both near and far, established and emerging, signed and unsigned, and has written reviews, conducted interviews, and heavily promoted all.
Zack produces nearly a dozen distinct shows, including The Mothpod and The Shameless Plugcast, and is also the author of Dark Worlds, an original horror trilogy.
Zack Reviews: Pop, Rock, or Alternative.
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Rhonda Readence
 Rhonda Readence is a freelance writer based out of Cleveland Ohio who currently writes the Artist of the Week feature for Exciting City Magazine. Rhonda has been blessed with a great love of writing and music, and has somehow managed to combine those two passions to become a music writer. When Rhonda is not listening to or writing about music, she works a 9-5 job at a bank, crunching numbers despite the fact that she can barely add and has failed math twice.
Rhonda also blogs daily on her myspace page, www.myspace.com/sickchick88, about a wide range of topics including music, writing, and life in general. Rhonda also enjoys painting, drawing, and going to as many live shows as she can. Rhonda would like to review music of all genres, but her specialty lies in rock of all types, metal, and alternative.
Rhonda Reviews: Rock (all types), Metal, Alternative
Michael Diamond
 Michael Diamond is music producer, recording artist, and music journalist in the San Francisco Bay area. Over a twenty year period, he has written monthly columns including album reviews, articles, and editorials, as well as conducting interviews with a wide variety of artists from Ravi Shankar to Jon Anderson of the rock group Yes, to name but a few. His writing has appeared in nationally published new age magazines such as New Frontier, Body, Mind, Spirit, and others. He is also a consultant and category specialist for songpeddler.com.
His main areas of musical expertise are new age, ambient, and electronic, although he is also well versed in rock, jazz, and world music. Michael's involvement in music is not only journalistic. He plays guitar and synthesizers and has five commercially available CD's, as well as currently playing in two bands and producing recordings for other artists. His most recent CD, "Indigo Moon" features guest appearances by Jefferson Starship keyboardist Pete Sears and ambient music pioneer Steven Halpern, whose music label distributes two of Michael's albums internationally. Michael's music has received airplay on the syndicated radio programs "Hearts Of Space" and "Echoes". Listen to samples at: myspace.com/michaeldiamondmusic. For more information: www.mdiamondsound.com
Michael Reviews: new age, ambient, electronic, downtempo/chill, jazz, fusion, world music, reggae, blues, funk, rock (esp. progressive and classic rock)
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Ian Wise
 Ian Wise has been an active participant in underground music for the past decade, helping book tours for bands from the US and Europe as well as running his own small label. He used to run the Going Through the Motions web zine and podcast, covering the gamut of underground music, and his writing has also been featured in American Music Press. An avid music fan and record collector, his tastes span the typical punk rock and hardcore he’s become an authority on and goes into garage, soul, jazz, and anything else deemed appropriately mischievous enough to fall outside of mainstream media.
Ian Reviews: Punk Rock, Hardcore, Metal, Ska, Rockabilly/Psychobilly, Rock
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Ray Van Horn, Jr.
 Ray Van Horn, Jr. is the author of the thriller novel Mentor. He has been writing for various music periodicals such as Metal Maniacs, AMP, Unrestrained, Hails & Horns, Pit, Impose, Angst, Loud Fast Rules, Legends and Caustic Truths, as well as websites such as Baltimore Metromix, DVD Review.com, Music Dish.com, Rough Edge.com, Pivotal Alliance.com, Live4Metal.com, Maelstrom and others. To-date Ray has interviewed over 300 musicians and conducted over 700 CD and DVD reviews. Ray is a former hockey analyst for an online site as well as a former beat reporter for a local newspaper. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals including five of his pieces collected in the paperback anthology Playing Solitaire. Ray sometimes frequents local open mike events as a regular reader and has been featured three times. He is currently at work on a Generation X angst novel as well as a non-fiction book related to heavy metal. His personal site/blog called The Metal Minute www.metalminute.com, averages 4,000 hits a week, and has more reviews and some short interviews there.
Ray Reviews: Metal and Punk
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Janie Franz
 Janie Franz still calls herself a Southerner (she was born in Tennessee) though she has spent half her life living in North Dakota. She holds a degree in anthropology and has an unquenchable curiosity. She’s been a radio announcer and did booking and publicity for a jam/funk band. She received her first writing check when she was 16, but it took her nearly thirty years to get another one. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and online, both in this country and overseas. She has written about everything, but specializes in music. She has been able to score celebrity interviews with music icons such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Arlo Guthrie, Marc Cohn, Martin Simpson, John Doyle, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Dewey Bunnel (America), Liz Berlin (Rusted Root), Tom Paxton, George Winston, Ralph Stanley, Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Jamie Masefield (Jazz Mandolin Project), Jerry Joseph, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Ladysmith Black Mambasso, John Hammond, Joe Bonamassa, Nils Lofgren, the Wailers, and rock and roll photographer Neal Preston.
Janie Franz is the publisher/editor of a new online music magazine, Refrain Magazine, that debuted in June 2009 (www.refrainmagazine.com). And, she also launched a new column called Music Up Close with Janie, a monthly mini-magazine, for Skopemag.com.
She has been happily married to a singer/songwriter for over three decades. They have a daughter who is an artist and married to an animator, and a son who is the executive chef and part owner of The Toasted Frog, a martini bistro, and plays drums with local bands.
Janie Reviews: jam, acoustic in all forms, rock (not metal or punk), blues, Americana/folk, singer/songwriter, jazz, world, and bluegrass.
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Kenn Deaton
 Kenn is a musician, dj, and audio visual engineer residing in Los Angeles. He has spent nearly a decade at KSPC Radio hosting the show Random Necessities for Audible bliss www.myspace.com/noisedream. At KSPC, Kenn shares the music he loves with all his listeners while also hosting live performances from local artists and reviewing albums for rotation. He believes in local music and art having a strong & positive effect in the community and supports this by hosting festivals and arranging benefit compilation albums entitled The People in Your Neighborhood www.myspace.com/soundsliketomorrow. These compilations feature all local artists and proceeds raised from sales are donated to a homeless shelter in Los Angeles, The Midnight Mission www.midnightmission.org. Kenn is kept constantly busy by running an independant record label and promotion company called Future Static www.futurestatic.com, and performing at as many gigs as possible.
Kenn Reviews: All types of rock and electronic music, industrial, punk, heavy metal, world music, classical, ambience, soundscapes, new age and healing, acid jazz, experimental, sound collage and noise
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Matt Johnson
 My name is Matt, I have been writing about music, off and on, for about 3 or four years now, exclusively on the internet. I've written about stuff from several different genres from rock to country to goth to club music. I've always enjoyed listening to music, remember how when you were young (or maybe you're still young) and you would lock yourself in your room for hours listening to music, the radio or a new album you just bought? well, I'm in my 30's and I still do that. I just can't get enough of good moving music.
Matt Reviews: independent music, non-pop, rock, goth, country, Americana
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Mike Ososki
 The 1964 Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan, and a 7-year old boy's heart melts. Thus officially began Michael's love affair with music. Naturally, many guitars and bands followed, spanning weekend cover gigs in the Midwest, to songwriting and publishing in California.
Now in Atlanta, Mike composes nearly every day, and works with MIDI technology to digitally flesh out his pieces. Live performances at Atlanta Botanical Garden and other venues also help keep the fingers limber.
With Mike O's 110% reviewer rating on over 800-songs at garageband.com/user/MikeOso, his commentary has proven invaluable to help encourage and advance the artistic accomplishments of many an aspiring music creator. Mike's specialties include rock and pop, subgenres and derivatives thereof, and anything that favors a melodic songwriting focus.
Mike Reviews: Rock and pop, and subgenres and derivatives thereof
Scott Homewood
 Born right outside Buffalo, New York but residing in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past fifteen years, freelance music writer Scott Homewood has had music in his blood since singing along with the AM radio in his parent's car at the age of three, taking drum lessons at the age of seven, and guitar lessons in his teens in the dingy basement of a music store near his home. Since that humble beginning, Scott has continued to pursue his love of music both as a performer in many bands during his youth (there are albums with his name on them floating around the Western New York area but he disavows all of them!) and currently as a journalist. Scott's acquiring of a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism (which he has put to good use as a much-published music critic and interviewer) has enabled him to have the career in the music business his mediocre songwriting skills would have never allowed. Scott's writing has been published in newspapers such as the Niagara Gazette; Buffalo Evening News; Charlotte Observer's Break; The Leader; and Creative Loafing among others, regional and national magazine publications such as Living Blues; Paste; No Depression; Skope; etc and websites including rockandrollreport.com; cdreviews.com; blogcritics.com; ampseleven.com; lostinthegrooves.com as well as many others.Scott Homewood has steadfastly stuck to his life's mission of interviewing his musical heroes (Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone and a phoner with both Rod Stewart and Ron Wood to promote The Faces box set being highpoints among many) and telling the world about new bands and artists while advising the music-buying public how best to spend their hard earned music-buying dollars.
Scott Reviews: rock (all kinds), soul/funk/R&B, blues, jazz, and country
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Rod Ames
 I love just about all forms of music, but mainly indie to experimental rock – along with blues and Americana. I have lived in Texas nearly all of my life and am a fan of ‘Texas’ Country, but that particular music form has become somewhat diluted. The good thing about its downward spiral is it has become more challenging to find the good stuff. The main thing here is I love music, am a frustrated musician (I can’t play an instrument, I can sing a little), I love to listen to music and I love discovering new music. It is my passion.
I’m the entertainment editor for an all online newspaper called The Texas Star Tribune www.texasstartribune.com. I have been writing for them for about a year. I never saw this coming though. A friend of mine, an author, and our managing editor, noticed some writing ability and encouraged me to write for him. I immediately fell in love with it and have written 30-40 articles or cd reviews since. I wrote a 5 part piece about the “grunge” period of rock during the nineties as my inaugural piece. I’ve been working some to help get Doug Sahm inducted into the R ’N R Hall of Fame plus I work in a drug treatment center to pay the bills. I am also working on a novel at this time.s.
Rod Reviews: blues, indie-rock, low-fi, experimental rock, and Americana.
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Dan MacIntosh
I've been a professional music journalist for 26 years and my work has regularly appeared in many local and national publications, including CCM, CMJ, Paste, Mean Street, Chord, HM, Christian Retailing, Amplifier, Inspirational Giftware, and Country Standard Time as well as Spin.com. I'm an expert in Christian and country music, but I'm also extremely knowledgeable when it comes to most every kind of rock. Furthermore, I've been through a few heavy reggae and jazz phases during my music listening history, so I can hold my own with the best world music and jazz snobs. In addition to reviewing CDs, I regularly write artist features and biographies. I graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a B.A. in Communications, emphasis Public Relations. I live in Bellflower, CA, "The friendly city," and my day job is with a software company located in Los Angeles, CA. I play a little guitar, badly, but I'm getting better. My wife regularly complains about my huge CD collection, but this doesn't stop me from stacking disc towers higher and higher.
Dan Reviews: all genres of music (except progressive rock & classical)
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