February 2009
8 posts
Of all the nights to NOT be in Boston. . .
Jimmy Eat World has opened up a select number of tickets to their show tonight at the House of Blues. Ticket information can be found here.
What is it?
You look like you’ve seen a ghost.
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Evan Roth on the Entertainment Industry →
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This is my first re-mix under the name Beach Cab.
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"You know nothing about art or sex that you...
I believe that with being an indie artist, authenticity is the only thing defines you. It seems to be that the way indie music “sounds,” though styles and themes may change, has been predetermined. Indie music can be picked out of a 1000 song catalog by Indie enthusiasts over your typical, everyday top-40 songs. Indie music is often self-produced, self-authored and self-invested....
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"I am not a DJ" -Greg Gyllis
I think that, as this is my first post of the semester, that I should be up front with everyone reading this: I don’t believe in genres of music. While I recognize a select few core styles of music (i.e. hip-hop, country, rock, jazz and horse-shit) I believe that even those can be blurred in such a way that a new style of music is formed. Take, for example, Fusion jazz. A mix of Jazz music...
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Further impacting my theory that the music industry is leaning towards a trend of mash-up music and cover albums (no thanks to such albums as Punk Goes Crunk and such artists as the Reel Big Fish), there is now a festival that embraces this art. In preparation for the summer season, which could be called the summer of Warped Tour, The Bamboozle hosts two festivals, one on each coast, that...
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Can you dig it?
New stimulus plan today. Can it get me a job?