If you follow the forums, lately you've noticed a lot of gibber jabber about some local bands. Now all the talk is just some stupid pissing contest, but it got us thinking of an idea: why not use sevs as a way to give some local bands more exposure than they might otherwise have. From what these bands say, they have shows and shit all the time, but personally, I wouldn't go to a show of a band I've never heard. Here's what we propose: any local musicians (bands, electronic musicians, mixers, rappers, skin flute players, whatever) send me one or more recordings you have done and we'll post it on sevs in one big event. If we're feeling saucy, we might even put it into some kind of shoutcast thing, who knows, but that's not really the important part.

This is not a contest, it is just a chance to let some people hear your music, and who knows, maybe make a fan or two along the way. Whatever kind of music you make, submit it, we want this thing to be a showcase of all the local talent (or lack there of) there is in Northport. You can submit anonymously if that's your bag, as long as you are from Northport, we want to hear your tunes. If you have a friend who's from Northport and is in a band or something, you could send in some of their material, as long as you have permission.

As far as submitting the material, an mp3 via email is the best bet, but any format will do, it is just more work for us. If the material isn't on the computer, give us an email anyway, we can accept tapes or cd's or whatever you might have and get it onto one. General rules apply: no copyrighted tunes, no crap, only stuff with a NPT origin. Hopefully this will end any whining about band x being better than band y, the people can decide for themselves. Who knows, with any luck, you could be the biggest thing to come out of Northport since Aesop Rock.

One last thing: on the submissions, don't whine about how this is a bad recording and your band acually sounds sooo much better, I don't want to hear it. I've heard stuff that sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom and it blows away studio stuff that probably cost $100,000 just to record, if the music is good, the music is good, period.

Submissions & Inquiries go here: webmaster@northportsevs.com

edit: We'd like this to happen within a month, so all entries must be received by Valentine's Day (2/14).