Marketing music: How Moonalice uses social media to build its audience
I referenced this earlier, but wanted to highlight the article in today’s GO! Magazine about Moonalice, the Bay Area-based jam band led by super-successful venture capitalist Roger McNamee. Not because...
View ArticleGoing viral: Kid gets “Low”
I couldn’t resist. Thank goodness there’s a song in this video so I can sneak it onto this music blog! As a confirmed ginger myself, this kid’s moves make me very proud. Look for him on the “Today”...
View ArticlePitchfork’s top 20 albums of the decade. Discuss.
The indie-tastemaking Web site people love to hate, Pitchfork, spent the past few days counting down what it considers the 200 best albums of the 2000s. Last night, the curtain was lifted on the top...
View ArticleThe funniest thing on the Internet (today)
You may have seen this one before, but that’s OK. It’s worth watching again. The Who shreds! They shreds so hard.
View ArticleBeyonce, Shakira, NOFX … and Reed Thomas Lawrence?
Congrats to local reggae-pop-rock singer-songwriter Reed Thomas Lawrence, whose upward trajectory continues today with his appearance as a featured artist on MySpace’s Music homepage. If you click that...
View Articlenew Web site dedicated to local music
Local musician David Miller — last seen playing with Bend-based power trio Bad Influence — has started a Web site dedicated to the Central Oregon music scene. Its URL, fittingly, is...
View ArticleA cornucopia of streaming albums …
Do you realize that right now, on the Internet, you can (freely and legally) stream brand new albums by Broken Bells (aka James “Shins” Mercer and Danger Mouse), Gorillaz, Frightened Rabbit, Johnny...
View ArticleYouTube is watching … and laughing at me
Warning: If you spend part of your afternoon watching this: And this: And this: And this: Then YouTube is going to think you’re hella lame:
View ArticleLocal music venues as seen in Google Street View
I’m a big fan of the Street View feature on Google Maps, which allows you to virtually plop down into the middle of a place and, through the magic of street-level imagery, see what’s happening there,...
View ArticleThis is my favorite comment on KTVZ’s “no more free concerts at Les Schwab...
Here is a comment on this story: As a reminder, here is Michael Franti’s current single:
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