Choose only ONE category per post.
Music News - This is for information on new album releases. New tours. Band breakups. So on...
Album Reviews - This is only for NEW album reviews. You should join the music forum and email your forum name so you can be able to see the "music views" section. We have a section there for dibs on new album reviews because each new album can be reviewed by only one member. Each new album review must end with a score out of 100 (think metacritic)
The title format for all new album reviews should go like this: Album Name - Artist Name | Album Review
Show Reviews - This is for show reviews. For shows/concerts that you've actually been to. There's no rule on the title format but you should get the band name, place, and year of the concert in the title. Or if it's a festival obviously the festival name in place of the band name.
Song Reviews - This is only for NEW song reviews. This is for songs either on a newly released album or on a new single release.
The title format for all song reviews should go like this: Song Name - Artist Name | Song Review
Retro Reviews - This is for OLD album and song reviews. This is for any old album or song that you want to review. Use the same title format as you do for the new reviews but do not include an out of 100 score. That will only be fore new albums.
IHateU's Place of Hatred - This category is ONLY for IHateU - no one else can post here.
Music Trivia - Any sort of trivial music information that you want to share. Put it here.
MySpace Music - This is a review of a band/artist based entirely on their MySpace page. Primarily meant to review unsigned bands/artsists whose main way of being heard is via MySpace.
Gear Reviews - This is for your reviews of any music equipment you may own or have owned or are familiar with. Your guitar, your amp, your guitar pedals, your keyboard, your drum set. Please put the name of the gear in the title. This may be a good way to make a nice return on AdSense sharing compared to some of the other categories.
Interviews - This may be taken off the front page until we get some interviews. But the concept is pretty simple. This is for reviews that have ever either been transcribed to text, been recorded and placed on YouTube, or that were done via EMail or an IM system and pasted here.
Features - This is for everything else. This is for your "big idea" posts and also just for things that don't fall into the other categories. These are placed at the top of the site on the main page so they are important. It's a good idea to use the "optional excerpt" box when you are posting a feature because that optional text goes on the front page. When you scroll down on your post entry you will see an optional excerpt option. Open it up and place a sentence or two about your post.