Here at the Palo Alto Pop Overthrow, we embrace and support new music and independent artists who want to share their talents with our loyal listeners. We put in a lot of time listening to, reviewing, and playing the best in modern power pop, indie pop, and chamber pop. In order to make the best use of our time and yours, please make sure we’re both on the same page!
Is my music something you’d play on the Overthrow?
If you enjoy music by and draw inspiration from two or more of any of these artists, we’re very interested in hearing your sound:
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Whew! Of course, no lists can confine each band’s style, but we hope that if you submit your music for our consideration, that we’re coming from some common ground.
My band stands on the shoulders of power pop giants. Can I send you my music?
If you think you fit the bill, your next step is to send us some songs to listen to, over email. We can play mp3, aac, and ogg. Please send us reasonably high fidelity reproductions: 192kbps preferred, lossless is great too, but 160kbps minimum. Please send an email with the songs, a biography (or link to a biography) of your band, and any other appropriate links/press kits/etc. to the following address:
subm…@palopop.org
(sorry, click on the “…” above to see the address, it’s a spam thing.)
We’ll do our best to get back to you in a timely manner, though we often only check that address weekly, in order to focus our reviewing time (the most wonderful time of the week, no lie!) in one batch. Thus it could be a week or two until we get back to you. If you’re concerned that we’re taking a long time, you can drop us another email – but please reply to the first email you sent us, that will push your submission back up to the top of our inbox and helps us keep everything together nicely and neatly.
What happens after that?
Well, if we like your music, we’ll ask you to send two physical copies of your album to a postal address we’ll provide. We’re serious about that. Call us old-fashioned, but we want to look at your band’s work as a full album, not just as a song or three. After all, we do “featured album” spots on the show, and we couldn’t well do that with just a single, now could we? 
Furthermore, Phil often DJs at clubs and other venues where physical media is still (surprisingly) the law of the land. Why two copies then? We want to be able to contribute a copy and annotated review to the most excellent library at Stanford University’s KZSU, where your disc might possibly be charted and played by even more folks!
