New approach
Like a garden, a website needs to be tended, pruned and taken care of. Occasionally, things need to be uprooted, and new things planted. It’s not a perfect metaphor. You get the idea. I’m changing stuff around here.
I’ve been thinking a great deal about ways to invigorate New Music Ideas. At present, as you know, it’s a site where one of a handful of music industry types (sometimes it’s me, usually not) reviews a website purporting to be of some help to independent musicians and music industry types like yourself.
But it occurs to me that this under-utilises this site’s greatest asset: its readership. Our opinions on music sites can be instructive and occasionally even accurate. Your opinions combined are authoritative.
“We’re a record label” or “I’m a distributor” or “I’m a singer/songwriter” or any similar kind of variation on that theme is The Wrong Answer. I didn’t ask what you are, or how you describe your job. I asked what you do.