Month: February 2010
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The Death of Digital Radio?
If this article is true and the threat to the BBC’s 6Music station is critical and more than the BBC Trust’s rap on the knuckles to get the station out there and focus more on music…then not only BBC has turned it’s back on quite a large 25-45 year old target age group who want…
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RC 184: Quiet Storm
A bumper show of 3 months worth of delayed music. Twas the storm’s fault, you see. A quiet storm…one you could hardly hear, but yet so loud. A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer…
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Teen Christian rock band ‘shines’ but in the wrong way…
You know it takes real effort to be memorably, totally, irrevocably bad. Most people manage ‘not good’ or ‘average’ or ‘quite shit’ by default, but a few manage to enter into that Zen state of self-denying shitness and produce something which in itself is an Epic Artform of Badness. Final Placement (for that is their…
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Videotones #2 – Kleptones – This Song Smells by BorisB
Yes installment #2* in the VideoTones saga is BorisB’s excellent video for Kleptones ‘This Song Smells’, which takes Nirvana’s ‘Smell Like Teen Spirit’ and Blur’s ‘Song 2’ and mashes them together – so blindingly obvious so of course no-one has done it before 😀 A veritable variety of vivacious video vernacular, especially where it builds…
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DJ Food & DK – That is the sound of ground being broken
For years I wondered who made the excellent drum and bass mix of The Beat’s Mirror in the Bathroom that Pete Juxtaposeur played in SF and on Radio Clash several times – might have been told ages ago but never tagged it, nor credited the people….finally found out who – it’s DJ Food & DK,…
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Music and Your Message (In the Hour of Chaos)
Been thinking about posting an article about Music Marketing 101 for ages, in two minds to post it. For one, marketing and advertising as Hicks said IS the devils work – and I should know I work in this world. Why should I help Satan’s Little Helpers? The other is that as someone who hasn’t…