I am writing to you today with a mixture of sadness andexcitement.  All good things musteventually find their terminus, and so it is with Wildy’s World.  Wildy’s World has been a labor of love forthe past four years.  With over 2,600 reviewsand closing in on 400,000 distinct visitors, the site managed to carve its ownlittle niche in the Indie Music landscape. Wildy’s World has been a resource for Indie musicians, major labels andeveryone in between.  So it is with somesadness that I announce you today that Wildy’s World will cease publication asof December 31, 2011.

The last few weeks have been inconsistent.  I’ve been sitting with the decision for awhile, wanting to make sure it was the right one.  But at this point in my personal andprofessional life I have so many other priorities that I cannot dedicate thetime to Wildy’s World that it needs to continue to successfully serve the musiccommunity at large.  I’d rather go outwell than feebly.  To that end, there arestill reviews to be published this year, and we will close it all out with ourtraditional year-end countdown of the Top-50 albums reviewed by Wildy’s Worldin the past year.

As many of you know, Wildy’s World was always a hobby; onethat found a place alongside my professional duties in the working world (awayfrom music) and my family.  Because ofWildy’s World I have also been offered opportunities to write commercially,writing the occasional review for pay for various publications and ultimatelywriting artist biographies and project pitches. I have been writing bios for a NYC-based agency on a free-lance basisfor over a year now, and have done a handful of on-demand projects privately aswell.  Going forward I will be focusingmore of my energies in that direction.  Iwill also continue to publish music reviews through BlogCritics, although at amuch less frequent rate than with Wildy’s World (likely 1-2 per week).  I may also look to start something else inthe social/digital atmosphere after I’ve taken a couple of months away frompublishing every day.  We shall just haveto see.

So if you wish to submit material for review on BlogCritics,I suggest you send me streaming or sample files so I can check them out.  If I choose to review, I will, as always, askyou to submit a hard copy for that purpose. But as I am previewing the music, I won’t ask for a hard copy unless Iplan a review.  To that end, the emailaddress wildysworld@gmail.com, andthe physical address will not change.  Ifyou need the address just drop me a line. If you’re an Indie or established artist whose trying to do DIY, but youneed help with a bio or one sheet or need a one time writing project done,please drop me a line and we’ll see if I can help you out.  If you work in PR or the industry and needsomeone to craft bios, liner notes, pitches or other such projects, get intouch with me and we’ll see how we can help each other out.

It’s been a lot of fun spending almost every day with youover the last four years.  I’d love tokeep it going, but I just don’t have the time or energy to do this the rightway anymore.  I hope to continue to be aprofessional resource for the creators and purveyors of Indie Music.  And you never know, I may get bored and startsomething else up down the line.

In the mean time, if you’ve contributed to Wildy’s World inany way over the last four years, thank you. Whether you’re an artist who has submitted music to be heard, a PR rep,a label rep, a music fan or even the multitude of spam bloggers in Asia andRussia who continue to pepper the blog with spam comments, you’ve all made itinteresting.  I wouldn’t trade theexperience for anything, and I’ve even made a few new friends along theway.  So thank you.  We’re still here for two more weeks, and we’llclose out the year counting down to the best album of 2011, just likealways.  Until then, my friends, be well.

Wildy