The Voice : Gearing Up, Returning Home

First of all, I want to seriously apologise to every reader of this magazine, every artist and label relying on us, and every hopeful who has sent me their material. I've done very little since December, due to other professional activities - I'm running on about 10% of my normal commitments - but that's going to change soon.

As you'll see from the front page, things have gotten a little barren - we've taken on some talented and enthusiastic new writers, but our reviews section is rather short on action from me - as is the Album of the Month section, still dated 'November'.

The December entry seemed pointless, as it would have been undermined by the Album of the Year candidates. In addition, a few of the overall winners (Including the winners themselves) were December releases, thus making a standalone article to repeat myself seem rather stagnant.

At the time of writing, I am toying with truncating the section entirely, for various reasons - in particular the surprising feedback I got about it - we're here to promote and plug, but when that doesn't go to plan, I have to blame the source - enough said about that.

In its place, I am writing a monthly section dedicated to unsigned bands - the aim of a magazine is to focus on new talent, as well as existing, therefore I will be doing articles about artists that I think should be somewhere beyond the handful of 'likes', 'listeners', 'sales' that they're currently getting. To make the feature more fun, I will be inviting personal colleagues from other Industrial magazines to pick up the band and give THEIR two cents.

Finally, I'd like to ask all of our readers to check out my own business that I've been running since July. Juggernaut Services (for those who do not know) is a business run solely by me, acting as Band Manager, PR expert, and Adviser for bands who aim to improve their market and success. I currently have 24 acts on my roster, and so far a large percentage have had a release put out under my jurisdiction, gained significantly increased amounts of press coverage, received radio interviews, and in a few cases, even got signed to a label.

Therefore, If you weren't already familiar, I'd like to ask you to check out the business -

www.juggernautservices.com
www.facebook.com/juggernautservices
music.juggernautservices.com

I will be at Resistanz at the end of March, representing both Brutal Resonance and my Juggernaut crew - selling Merchandise at the Tradesmans Hall. I hope to meet some of you there.

Thank you for your loyalty.