Get Featured in EDM Sauce

As a music publication, EDM Sauce works in a category flooded with submissions from artists at every level. Without an existing story, a team or a release already gaining attention, most independent musicians find the door hard to open. A guaranteed placement works differently: it is arranged with the publication before any writing starts, you sign off on the draft, and it goes live on edmsauce.com within a window stated in writing, usually three days. It is a real article on the site that you can put in a proposal, a deck or a profile.

What EDM Sauce covers

Listeners in international markets turn to a music publication like EDM Sauce to find out what is new and who is making it. The category runs across hip-hop, pop, electronic, indie and everything between, and it covers singles, albums, videos, tours and the business behind them. Alongside the news sit profiles and interviews, which is where most readers first meet an artist they have not heard before.

Music writing is specific and opinionated. It names the record, describes the sound and places it in a scene, so stories about an artist’s first full project, a producer with a recognizable style, a DJ who helped build a local sound, or a label doing things differently all fit. What carries a piece is music a reader can press play on and a story that explains where it came from.

Who reads EDM Sauce

In international markets, EDM Sauce speaks to people for whom music is more than background. They follow scenes, compare releases and take pride in finding artists before everyone else does. Next to those listeners are the people who work in music and read coverage for practical reasons: promoters filling a bill, managers looking for collaborators, and labels and brands looking for talent.

A write-up in a music publication does something a streaming profile cannot: it explains you. With an EDM Sauce feature, the people you pitch can read who you are, what the music sounds like and what you have done so far. Artists use it with venues and agents, producers and songwriters with prospective clients, and labels and music companies with partners and investors.

Why visibility in international markets matters

International buyers often start with a simple question: has anyone they recognize written about this company? Coverage in EDM Sauce helps answer it for readers in international markets. Because the publication is followed in more than one country, a feature there supports conversations with partners, clients and investors in several places without a separate effort for each.

Demand comes from organizations that cannot rely on a single national audience: global service firms, online platforms, trading companies and consumer brands with international ambitions. Individual experts and executives who want recognition outside their own country are also common, as are regional companies testing demand in new territories.

The features that work in this category pair a body of work with a clear identity. That might be a debut project, a catalog of production credits, years behind the decks or a label’s first run of releases. Add the human details, where you started and what you gave up to get here, and the piece reads as a story instead of an announcement.

We begin by settling on one angle from the list below. Most artists and music companies have several that could work, and choosing the right one for this audience is where the piece is won.

What weakens a pitch

• Unfinished work. Demos, rough mixes and ideas for a project are hard to write about. It is usually better to wait for a finished release.
• Other people’s stories. A piece that leans on who you have opened for or stood beside says little about your own music.
• No sense of place. Music comes from somewhere. Leaving out the city, the scene or the community behind the sound removes the detail readers connect with.
• Vague release plans. “New music soon” gives listeners nothing to do. A title, a date and a place to hear it turn interest into a play.