Is It A Problem If People Only Discover A Musician Because They Have A Cool Kickstarter?

Source: Techdirt

the weirdest thing right now is that everybody KNOWS about it. i’m now famous for my kickstarter. which is a little depressing. i wish that i could steal all that enthusiasm and high-fiving i’ve getting from strangers in the street (literally) ...
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Minimalism Nowhere in Evidence as the Kitchen Honors Steve Reich and Joan Jonas, and James Murphy DJs

Source: ArtInfo

When Steve Reich walked into the giant marble ballroom at Capitale for the Kitchen’s annual spring gala, the dim interior of the old bank building was cheered only by twinkling little screens set at each dinner tab ...
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Media-Mind: How to Make It in the Music Business

Source: Mobiledia

Media-Mind is our column charting how technology's opportunities and challenges transform traditional media and entertainment, for better or for worse. Lady Gaga recently unveiled her own social network for her fans, in a move that may give soc ...
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Radiohead Gets Nintendoed

Source: Boise Weekly

This week, an ambitious and unusual tribute album hit the Web: Radiohead's OK Computer rerecorded in its entirety using only 8-bit video game sounds. It is available as a single streaming track on YouTube. QuintonSung, the user ...
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No singing, Daddy

Source: LehighValleyLive.com

I love music. I sing sometimes. I can’t help myself. My daughter does. She’s 5. Abby gets really annoyed when I sing. It started when I’d spontaneously intone the alphabet song. I wouldn’t make it to F without a te ...
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New Sounds Of The North

Source: Clash Music

This Friday in Manchester plenty of people have left the office and decided to begin their hedonistic weekend by, well, heading to the office. The city’s leading promoters, Now Wave, have curated a line-up of em ...
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Album: Gaz Coombes, "Here Come the Bombs" (Hot Fruit Records)

Source: LiveDaily

Gaz Coombes started out a precocious brat and still seems mildly immature, despite a suspicious physical tilt toward actual middle age. Maybe it's the sideburns. But Coombes' musical chops were never anything less than full-grown, even w ...
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Monday Music News

Source: The KEXP Blog

Mick Jagger closed out his hosting duties for last Saturday’s season finale of SNL by performing a medley of Rolling Stones songs with Arcade Fire, The Strokes, and Foo Fighters as his backing bands. Somewhere out in musicland, the ...
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'Exit Music' Starts Strong, But Punts on Radiohead's Later Music (Review)

Source: PopMatters

Radiohead is a band that has spent the better part of their career re-inventing themselves. They’re not necessarily the most consistent band of all time, but one has to give them credit for always trying to keep moving, and never falling into the same ...
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