BIRP is a monthly compilation of new music of +100 tracks which you can be downloaded from either our torrent link or via a one-click multiupload link (playlists section on top). On top of the monthly playlist, we also run an in-site blog devoted to new music as well as act as a hub for a growing community of people that love to share and talk about music. It's our way of helping to promote all the independent bands we know and love and to give the listener a chance to get to hear something new.
BIRP! Is...Josh Blalock, Matt Adler, Ryan Donar, Matthew Sherling, Adam Ruhl, Alex Heemskerk amongst other guest contributors.
E-mail Submissions: If you're an artist or band wanting to send us your stuff, feel free to e-mail all music for consideration to
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. MP3 files are preferred.
We typically get a ton of daily emails so if we don't respond right away, it doesn't mean we didn't listen or like what you sent us. We try to follow up with a lot of the music we love, but time can be a cruel bitch sometimes. Between the group, we'll at least give everything sent a proper listen at some point during that month.
If you want to help us know who you are, feel free to copy and paste the following bolded text to include in your music submission e-mail. It makes for a lot less Googling and digging through news articles to try and find out who you are/where you're from.
Band Name:
Location(s):
MP3 Link(s): (N/A if attaching in email)
Song(s) Title (if not in the MP3 URL)
Album Title:
Album Year:
A short bio(optional):
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To mail physical albums/demos for consideration and review:
E-mail
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& title e-mail "Address Request". One of us will get back to you with a proper address where you can send us something.
WRITERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS/ILLUSTRATORS
We lead busy lives sometimes so we're always looking for help with the day to day postings. If you're a writer and would like to contribute to the blog/new music/interviews section or would like to submit art for playlist covers, we'd love to hear from you. Please send an email to
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with the subject as RE: Contributing to BIRP. It helps us and is a perfect way for your work to get exposure to a wide audience every month.
BIRP! TV
This section of the website is dedicated to sharing all the great new music videos out there. Everyone can contribute at anytime just by being a member of the site. No need to upload anything on the site, just find the URL of the video you want to share on youtube/vimeo/etc and paste it in the Upload section of BIRP TV. This is our way of streamlining and focusing some attention on the great artists and directors out there putting out new music videos.
COMMUNITY PLAYLISTS
The community playlist is an alternative playlist on this site that every member can take part in. Everyone who signs up to the site gets to submit one song of there choice to be added to the playlist. You can submit your song in the forum in the designated community playlist topic in the music section. Each time the community playlist reaches 100 tracks it is then uploaded to several filesharing sites and shared by torrent for everyone to download.
Important: To make it easier to go through each song please post the track in [Artist Name - Song Title] format. This makes it much much easier to sort though. And if you have a link to the file please include it. The community lists will be posted when time will allow us to.
ADVERTISING
birp.fm is an effective way of advertising any product or company. For any requests, please e-mail Josh Blalock at
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(Title Email "Advertising"). Our average reader age is 18-32, with the top countries being the United States (71%), Canada (15%), United Kingdom (13%), among many others. We reach over 42,000 unique readers a month (400,000 Page Views/Month). Extensive web site statistics will be given upon proper request for valid explanation. Prices vary, depending on the placement of your ad. An advertisement is usually on the sidebar, though exceptions can be made. They can be used in graphic or text form, whichever you prefer. Prices are very negotiable, and any request for phone number will be granted (if need be). If you have any other questions, have no hesitation to ask.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD
We always appreciate your help in promoting the site on the web. Whether it be sharing it with friends or whatever else you can think of (i.e. adding any post to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Stumbleupon, MySpace and linking to BIRP from your own site, etc, is all appreciated greatly). If you want to know what blogs we use and love, check out the sidebar at the bottom left.
You can also help by adding links from BIRP to your favorite social networking sites (like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, etc.) and signing up for the RSS feed.
DONATE/MERCH
If you enjoy this site and would like to make a contribution, it is all very much appreciated. I accept donations and have merch for sale (Click the Shirts/Donate button at the top of the page). All of the money made from donations/sales goes right back into funding the website/paying the server fees for hosting the MP3s and the rest of the site and generally making it a better place for all of us to continue to share great music.
Thank you for all your support!
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