In their own words they are Seattle's Only Newspaper. Read more about them here: https://www.thestranger.com/contribute
Promoting with The Stranger is easy - send them your press kit and your inform them well in advance of your scheduled and booked Skylark event. They may consume your content and add it to their calendar. They may even contact you or go to your show - who knows!
Send them:
Check out The Stranger here: https://thestranger.com
Check out their Event contact form: https://everout.com/seattle/events/submit/
Looks like their event blog is now "everout" so submit your events to Everout.
If you received The Skylark Advance - meaning you booked a show at the skylark, the dedicated email address for The Stranger Events is shared with you!
When dealing with the media, it is important to always tell the truth. They usually shy away from messages like "it's going to be rad" and tend to like messages like "It's this genre, inspired by this artist, and there are 10 tracks being performed as a preview for the upcoming album at such-and-such date and such-and-such time and place." You know - just the facts.
Ominous Poster of Rules
Commander-in-Chief of Outer Space
The Skylark is calling on all local artists to make a showing on our Artist's Hub page. Do you want to get your content in front of tens of thousands of local people who are interested in you? We'll funnel traffic to this page using search engine magic and we'll also open you up a BandCamp Pro account if you want.
Create your page Artist page today!
1.) click the button to access the web application - no download required. create a user in the application
2a.) create an artist profile in the application - this is the public profile for your artist. not your user account.
2b.) create any additional artist profiles in the application (you may create many)
3.) when approved, it will appear on the website
4.) when approved, your changes in the application will appear on the website - you are in control of the page