Independent Clauses is a monthly online independent music magazine dedicated to reviewing independent music. While we were founded to help those bands without press get press, we work with everyone - bedroom acoustic pickers to indie-rockers on small labels to regional touring bands. We have reviewers that specialize in every genre of music except rap and hot country, so we cover a wide range of sounds here.

Music Submission

We take both digital and hard copy submissions. If you send us a hard copy (CD/cassette/vinyl), review is guaranteed. If you send us something digitally, we cannot guarantee review, due to the volume of submissions. The address for hard copies:

Independent Clauses
8820 S. 75th E. Ave
Tulsa, OK 74133 USA

If you have a digital copy, place an e-mail to Stephen@independentclauses.com and we'll send your link to our online singles reviewer. Also, you can drop us a line if you want to converse with IC for any reason at all. We're smart. We'll answer your questions.

Constitution

The ultimate goal of Independent Clauses is to become an established, self-supporting, profit-turning monthly print magazine with a dedicated readership interested in discovering the music that isn’t talked about in mainstream channels. This can only be accomplished through hard work, responsibility, and love for independent music. We strive to employ people who have those traits.

We will accomplish our ultimate goal through the achievement of these day-to-day goals:

• Provide coverage to bands that are little-covered or have never been covered before, and give them the same professionalism, courtesy, and interest that we would give to our favorite bands.
• Provide coverage to as many bands as possible.
• Show at least one good trait about a band in bad reviews. If this is not possible, we will not review the band, out of courtesy to the band.
• Have a creative take on anything we do: challenging interview questions, interesting story ideas, unique editorials, or thorough CD reviews.
• Treat the website like the professional media organization it is.
• Treat the staff like professional magazine staff. They will be entrusted with assignments and materials in the trust that they will do a thorough job and turn work in on time.
• Ignore bands that have already been ‘discovered’- no Modest Mouse CD reviews, no Broken Social Scene articles, no editorials comparing the Toronto scene to the Chicago scene (unless you’ve experienced –first-hand- the scene in both places).
• Be honest, courteous, and prompt in our contact with labels, bands, and other people who the IC comes into contact with, whether they be in person, by e-mail, or via phone.

Hiring

We are currently looking for more staff. Positions available:

• CD reviewer: Two CDs a month, we supply the music.
• Concert reviewer: You go to shows, we run your reviews. We occasionally can get you in for free.
• Columnist: You got opinions - we want to run them.
• Features writer: From features on bands to “Weird, Weirder, Weirdest,” this covers a very broad range of writing, and is our quickest-growing division.
• Photographer - Concert photography: You go to shows and take pictures, we’ll run the photos. Again, we occasionally can get you in for free. You don’t need writing skill to have this job, but if you do have some writing chops, you’re doubly valuable to us. You will most likely get a cover shot at some point in time.
• Marketing/Promotions: You got ideas to promote us? We’re listening. Join a team dedicated to getting the word out through better and better ideas.
• Design: You have magazine design skill? We’d like to talk to you.

All of these positions are unpaid, but pretty much everyone ends up with free music, and the experience looks great on a resume. If interested, please read the IC Constitution below. Writers should then send two writing samples to Stephen@independentclauses.com (we prefer them to be about music, but it is not necessary). Photographers, please send 2-3 pictures to the same e-mail address along with a link to access more of your photos. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Staff

Stephen Carradini, Editor-in-chief

Favorite Genres: Indie Rock, Mellow, Pop
Some Favorite Bands: The Programme, Elijah Wyman, Novi Split, Damien Jurado, Brand New, Sufjan Stevens, The Format, The Mountain Goats
Other info: My indie-rock band lives at purevolume.com/tragiclandscape
E-mail: Stephen@independentclauses.com
Aim: jacksonism1 918-855-9260

Scott Landis, Managing Editor

Favorite Genres: Hardcore, Post-hardcore, Ambient and Indie
Some Favorite Bands: This changes all the time but a few standards are Thursday, Funeral For a Friend, Norma Jean, Fear Before the March of Flames, The Beautiful Mistake, The Calico System, Pete Yorn and Brand New.
Other Info: I am a musician focusing on the study of electric bass.
Email: redbassist66@comcast.net (put something about the IC in the subject)
AIM: redbassist66

Karen Boevers, Copy Editor and Contributing Writer

Favorite Genres: Alternative, folk, music in general
Some Favorite Bands: Coldplay, The Weepies, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Doves
Other info: I’m a recent college graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Language Arts Education…I want to teach high school English eventually but am doing graduate school first…music is my first love and consumes my life…I also love grammar, which is probably why I’m copy editor…
Email: theboev@ou.edu

Allison Frank, Contributing Photographer

Some Favorite Genres: Emo, Hardcore, Screamo
Favorite Albums: A Retrospective - Saetia, Deja Entendu - Brand New, Hot Damn! -Every Time I Die, Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday, The White Album - The Beatles.
Other Info: I am a straight edge art major and biology minor at Elizabethtown College who loves to draw, paint, go to shows, do photography, write and generally have a good time doing just about anything.
E-mail: thisloverstryst@gmail.com
Aim: lonesomexloveus

Andrea Caruso, Contributing Writer

Favorite Genres: Punk, ska, emo, indie rock, alternative rock
Some Favorite Bands: The Descendents, The Toasters, Death Cab for Cutie, Alkaline Trio, Weezer, Incubus, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, The Agency, Minor Threat, The Anniversary, Face to Face, Bad Religion, Better Than Ezra, Counting Crows, Imogen Heap, 30 Seconds to Mars, Mineral, The Used, Camber, The Stereo, Something Corporate, Dropkick Murphys, Operation Ivy, The Promise Ring, Jets to Brazil, Flogging Molly, Sunny Day Real Estate (if you need more, I could probably go on and on forever...)
Other Info: I am a recent graduate of the University of Central Florida with a major in Liberal Studies (with concentrations in Art and Computer Science) and a minor in psychology.
E-mail: sunshine131@gmail.com

Mark Pranger, Contributing Writer

Favorite Genres: Post-Rock, Acoustic
Some Favorite Bands: Mogwai, Broken Social Scene, Andrew Bird, M83, Kunek, Deerhoof, The Black Keys
Other Info: I eat, sleep, and listen to music. Everything that happens in between is just filler.
E-mail: prangerm@yahoo.com

Tim Avery, Contributing Writer

Favorite Genres: Indie-Folk, Folk-Punk, Post-Hardcore, Lo-fi Indie-pop.
Some Favorite Bands: Polar Bear Club, Lemuria, Lucero, Rocky Votolato, Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Against Me!, Ghost Tales, Simon & Garfunkel, Little Yellow Bird, A Wonderful, The Knockdown, The Teeth, Helmsley, Damiera.
Bands I'm in: The Kitchen Sinks (Acoustic Folk), Modus and The Tollens (Folk-punk).
Hobbies/Interests: Running, writing, reading, indie-dance parties, co-op's, D.I.Y. ethics, cooking, gardening, afternoon naps.
E-mail: the_kitchen_sinks@yahoo.com

Travis Johansen, Contributing Writer

Favorite Genres: rock, pop, "indie" rock, folk, experimental/ambient, hip hop
Some Favorite Bands: Jens Lekman, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Belle and Sebastian, Joan of Arc, Page France, Aloha, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Cat Power, The Narrator, Meneguar, Promise Ring
Other Info: little-yellow-bird.blogspot.com
E-mail: tjj5649@rit.edu

Steve O’Riley, Contributing Writer

Favorite Genres: everything! …. Mostly indie
Some Favorite Bands: The Beatles, Death Cab For Cutie, ….the list is too long
Other Info: I write for the mcc newspaper The Monroe Doctrine
E-mail: Stephenc.oriley@gmail.com

Zack Albrecht, Promotions

Favorite Genres: Indie, Folk, Psychedelic, Hip Hop, Jazz
Some Favorite Bands: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dolly Partners, Phish, Jethro Tull
Other Info: I play guitar and drums and love the recording aspect of the music industry
E-mail: xelpcx@gmail.com

Erik Williams, Contributing Writer

Nick James, Contributing Writer

Brian Burns, Contributing Writer

Nate Williams, Contributing Writer

Declan Ryan, Contributing Writer

CJ Macklin, Contributing Writer

Chris Lui, Webmaster

Favorite Genres: post-rock, alternative
Some Favorite Bands: Nine Inch Nails, Elliott Smith, Explosions in the Sky, Anathema; see my last.fm
E-mail: Chris@independentclauses.com

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