In this blog post titled Portrait of an Artist as a Digital Native, Ernesto Priego writes about no matter how much web 2.0 you do, artists/musicians in the 21st Century still need the old media to have a good chance to make a career out of the arts. Success in the field of arts depend on the television coverage, radio, magazines etc, not just blog posts, tweets and facebook groups. Great read.
http://neverneutral.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-digital-native/
This guy is quite hilarious. Saw this video a couple months ago on hypebot.com, excerpt:
… At the 140 Characters Conference, Rolling Stone and Idolator critic Christopher R. Weingarten shared a witty and all too true overview of how music blogs, album leaks and Twitter are changing the role of the music critic. “Crowdsourcing killed indie rock…because people have awful taste…”. Watch it, chuckle and weep…
Oh Mercy – Get You Back from Milefire on Vimeo.
One of my favourite Sydney bands of the moment Sherlock’s Daughter are touring with the Devoted Few.
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Yolanda Be Cool – Afro Nuts (mp3)
Yolanda Be Cool – Afro Nuts (D-Cup remix) (mp3)
Mysterious new duo from Sydney Yolanda Be Cool drops us the very catchy Afro Nuts, right in time for a summer afro beats revival on dancefloors, spearheaded by UK’s The Very Best.
Sydney band Papa Vs Pretty have made a bunch of videos of themselves recording at home called ‘From The Bunker’ sessions, an on-going 8 part series being premiered every few weeks on their own vimeo channel. The first video here is for the song Club 77, a song they wrote after being refused entry to the Sydney hipster joint for being underaged. I’ve heard a lot about this band but only got to see them recently at the Oxford Arts Factory. I knew from this video that the frontman Thomas can sing, but what this video did not show that he was also a shredder. They did a commendable cover of Purple Rain, a song that I think is risky to do if you can’t pull off the solo with the right style (it is Prince after all), but he did very well. I asked him after a show how he learned to play guitar like that, and his answer was: “Well first I started at Van Halen (!), and then I moved to Page, and then Hendrix, and now I’m at Prince”. There you go.
http://www.vimeo.com/user2101882
http://www.myspace.com/papavspretty
Another great vid from the Moopjaw guys
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