I’m in Brisbane this week, speaking on a panel as part of the Bigsound music conference. If you’re around come along and say hi!

Blogging, Twittering & Online Publishing: Time Wasting or Tastemaking?
Wednesday, 09 September 2009 1:45 PM
VENUE: The Judith Wright Centre – Theatre Rehearsal Room

After that I’ll be hanging out with Matt Hickey and Sophie Benjamin and we’re gonna hit the venues and catch as many bands as we can! The lineup is pretty good. Any recommendations?

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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/

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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…

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Richard Kingsmill is the music director of national broadcaster Triple J. He is probaly the single most influential person in Australian music. I’ve emailed him a few times and have met him once, recently at Splendour. I used to think he has a very enviable; who wouldn’t want to listen to the latest music and decide what gets played on air across the nation? But the more I do this blog, dealing with all the daily music submissions, the more I realise that he has one of the most difficult jobs in the world. Perhaps only his equivalent in BBC’s Radio One has a harder task, if there is such a position, I’m not even sure. It’s very difficult listening to so much new music everyday and not get your ears too tired, because once you get to that stage, everything start sounding the same.

In an interview on tsunamimag.com Kingsmill explains what he thinks of the critics, complainers and whingers of Triple J. I realised that I have never read an interview on him before. He is a lot more forward and opiniated in this interview than I was expecting to read, mostly because the only time I get to hear him is when he is enthusiastic about new music on his weekly show. I have to say after all the blogs, websites, and daily demo submissions, Triple J is still my number one source of new music. Sometimes, I’m happy to just listen to Kingsmill’s great new music recommendations.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kingsmill
www.abc.net.au/triplej/people/richard_kingsmill.htm

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