The Return of TwoWayMonologues.com

I’m excited to be sitting here tonight penning this note for all of you.  I’ll begin with a sincere and humble apology for ever stopping the updates of TwoWayMonologues.  Over the last month I have been filling a definite sadness over the fact that the website has been dormant, and trying to muster up the energy it would take to get it back going.

Sometimes when things are going pretty well, you lose sight of what got you there in the first place.  The bookings and promotions at Rancho, in combination with Hi-Hat Recordings, managing bands and real life happenings, left very little time for much else — that’s what led to TWM going on hiatus.  But I keep on thinking to myself that none of those things ever would have happened without the review website opening the doors.

In the short term, I’m not going to be able to run it the way I did in the past with daily updates and constant information going up on the site.  But I do have a plan to keep fresh reviews and articles/features on the site.

We will be posting updates on Weds morning and Sunday morning with Track-Fu going up weekly on Sunday or Monday night depending what works with Terri’s otherwise busy schedule.  Each update will have 2-3 new pieces whether it is album reviews, live reviews, or interviews depending on what the writing staff has decided to take on.

I want to start having more contests, and figure out a way to have more interactivity with the readers of the site.  We want to review stuff you want to hear about!  We want to add things you give a shit about, and I’d really love to figure out how to have the online TWM sync up with what we have going on offline.  If you have any ideas send me a message at dan@twowaymonologues.com.

We also really need new contributors for TWM.  Our writing staff dropped off, largely due to me not having the time to track down top-calibre releases for the writers to get to review.  I am going to do my best and lean on other people who want this site back up and running to fix that problem.  We also might start publishing a zine version of TWM to be distributed free of charge at the shows.

In short, I am thrilled to be bringing this back.  It feels like I’m getting back to the core of why I got into the independent music scene in the first place.

Talk to you soon,

Dan