About

Pretty Much Amazing is updated daily with new music news, reviews, and miniature critiques. Pretty Much Amazing started out as a hobby in June of 2007. Since then, it has exploded into something much more. In 2009, I am looking into leaving the corporate world forever and become a full-time blogger. Nothing will be cooler than writing for Pretty Much Amazing full time. To help ease the transition, consider making a donation via paypal. Remember, it’s eco-friendly.

CONTACT

If you want to contact me, you can do so at this address: pma dot editor at gmail dot com.

Here are the general rules:
1. If you’re going to send me music — do so by dropping your music via my dropbox.
2. If you want to send me press releases — email me
3. If you want to set up a contest — refer to the Advertise page.
4. If you want Pretty Much Amazing to review a product or album — refer to the Advertise page.
5. If you want to advertise on Pretty Much Amazing — refer to the Advertise page.

Pretty Much Amazing has writers in both the Los Angeles and New York areas, if you’d like to invite us to a show, party, screening, or event — email me.

DISCLAIMER

Pretty Much Amazing does not encourage or advocate music piracy. Pretty Much Amazing does not, nor will ever post full-albums. Pretty Much Amazing promotes good music and posts tracks for fans to sample. Pretty Much Amazing encourages and believes in buying music. Pretty Much Amazing acknowledges the importance of the Music Industry and the thousands of jobs it administers. Pretty Much Amazing encourages its readers to patronize their local music store, iTunes, InSound, and eMusic.

Note: Everything posted here is posted out of love for the music. Every song host here will be removed within 1-2 weeks. Go buy the music you like. Support your favorite artists by attending their shows.

WHO IS PRETTY MUCH AMAZING?

Editor/Owner/Best Guy You’ll Ever Meet — Luis Tovar
Columnist — Chris Barth from The Stu Reid Experiment
Columnist/Pep Squad — Jeff Lind
Gig Reviewer/Contributor — Genevieve Oliver
Contributor — Adam Offitzer
Contributor — Elle Hunt
Guest-Blogger — Ana “Half Note” Khachatrian from The Daily Eargasm
Guest-Blogger — Phil Gwyn from Not Many Experts
Guest-Blogger — Will Oliver from We All Want Someone To Shout For
Guest-Blogger — Anthony Cuellar from Tastes Like Caramel
Guest-Blogger — Bradley Stern from Muumuse
Guest-Blogger — Richard Yoon from Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Guest-Blogger — David Renshaw from It’s Getting Boring By The Sea

JOINING THE TEAM

At this time, Pretty Much Amazing isn’t looking for any regular contributors, but if you’re interested in helping out in another way (i.e. graphic design, gig attending/photography, album reviewing), email me.

WHY CAN’T I DOWNLOAD THIS SONG?

Some of you have been asking that question for a while now. If you haven’t noticed, some of the tracks covered here aren’t all available for download. No this isn’t a technical malfunction or a mistake — this is, indeed, intentional.

But Why?

As Pretty Much Amazing gets bigger, it becomes an easier target for the RIAA (and other groups) to attack. I’m sure you don’t want this blog to be shut down as much as I do. But just because you can’t download the song on PMA, it doesn’t mean you can listen to it. Oh and don’t worry, this rule only applies to “major” releases. You guys will still be able to download “indie” tunes, and remixes and covers from PMA.

I know this change is pretty drastic, so I’ve come up with something that I think is a win-win situation for everyone. I will provide download links for new singles and tracks off major-released albums, like I’ve always done, but the download window will only be available for a few hours. After the download window has closed, I will replace the link with link to the Hype Machine, where you can stream it.

But why the Hype Machine?

No matter how big Pretty Much Amazing gets, it will never be bigger than the Hype Machine. By promoting a song or single on the Hype Machine, it will give the artist/single a lot more exposure than the exposure PMA would give it. That’s the goal after all — to hype up good music.

If you have any questions or concerns, let me know in the comments, and I will do my best to answer them.