Can anybody please help us out??

There are lots of crazy clubs in NYC, you might be able to play at The Stone, I've never heard of most of the people on the schedule. The only problem is that I have no idea how you do that: they don't have a phone number or email address and they don't accept demos. I guess you just have to somehow get John Zorn to see your Myspace page. ;-) If you lived near Maryland, I would suggest Sonic Circuits, they seem to be more relaxed than John, probably because there are less people who care down here.

Edited by Henry Plainview - September 03 2010 at 23:32

I've never actually been a Sonic Circuits show, although I'll be going to part of their festival in a couple weeks, so I don't know how many people show up. But what I meant was that a lot of people must be throwing things John Zorn's way simply because he's John Zorn, and likewise, NYC probably has a lot more aspiring artists than Silver Spring, even taking population density into account. The Sonic Circuits shows are, besides the festival, almost all local or semi-local musicians, so I'm assuming it's easier to get in as a band that's not well-known. And even some of the festival players are local, although they're much lower on the poster than Merzbow and Magma, obviously.