how about houstoncalling or handstamp? jk I read 4-5 national music blogs daily, but also read those local Houston ones as well. I like Rashmon's idea: blogs.chron.com/musicscene or blogs.chron.com/TheScene blogs.chron.com/MusiciansView blogs.chron.com/MusiciansEye Will the blog focus on concert reviews, or just local artists or also national news? I've noticed the Houston blogs don't really cover any of the indie rock shows which are announced on Pegstar or SuperUnison.
/music /musicguide /whosnext but knowing things in houston chron.com will prob go with something like /discoverygreen /dynamo
count me as another inspired to obsession with Daniel Johnston since hearing about your directing of the play, i vaguely knew about him and some of his stuff, but now am immersed in it all... thanks for something amazing BJ
I don't really enjoy Johnston's music, but I am fascinated with him as an artist and a person. He is very eccentric to say the least. Have you seen the recent prize winning documentary about him?
Musical Notes Sound Off Different Drum Sound and Fury Headliner With the band Backstage pass Off the charts
You can always pretty much just go with Moe. My humorous suggestion: allmusicisnowfree (except Orange Is In , of course,...because I haven't been able to find it.) If your blog is Houstoncentric, my serious suggestion is : BayouBeat It's got alliteration and a double entendre' Slightly off subject, but I was looking for the new David Grissom solo CD (because of the new Storyville Live At Antones release) and found it at https://cdbaby.com/ They say the artist gets 91% of the $12.95 they charged for the LAME zip file. I could see this as a new paradigm of compensation for artist, cutting out the suits that killed real music. Apparently, Radiohead's new paradigm wasn't the right one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/07/nradiohead107.xml See, there's a whole blog article idea for you!
I read literally DOZENS of music blogs every day, locally and otherwise. I've written music stuff previously in my own blog, but it just didn't fit and I needed another forum for it. This just came up and works. If you want to read more indie stuff, you should check out Skyline Network. That's a local indie music blog. As for mine, it is not a blog about bands or concerts or reviews. It is a blog about the music industry and how it is changing from the perspective of a musician. It will cover bands and artists in the sense that I might talk about the relationships between bands and fans (Ryan Adams' outbursts at concerts might make for a blog post), new approaches to reaching fans and selling CD's (social networking sites, Radiohead's new CD sales) and things like that. There are plenty of blogs that write reviews and talk about bands and their music. This blog is more about the music industry in general, the media, technology, the internet and how all those things impact musicians today.
You can find the orange is in stuff on all the music download sites - CDBaby, Napster, iTunes - but, no, not for free. CDBaby has been around for quite a while. It's probably the #1 independent music sales site on the web. Radiohead's thing only worked because they were already famous. You can't go out and release a CD on a website to anyone for whatever they want to pay unless people actually give a crap about your band in the first place. That works for bands with huge followings, but not for independent bands trying to get to that point.
Do you get the same percentage from each download site? Do they pay promptly? And I thought the gist of the Radiohead article was that their cunning plan didn't work. (will now go to CDbaby and listen to all the track samples for Orange Is In) http://cdbaby.com/cd/orangeisin3
Good call! Reading through this thread the first time I was going to comment that he gave the best name as is!
insight is the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing...in Jeff's case: Music or you could use it as: ..."in sight"...as in the up and coming music artists that are "in sight" of the commercial public. Hence, "Music in Sight" or you could use it as: ..."in 'site"...as in Music in website...or for short Music in 'Site. Sorry, I've got 4 years of Marketing education under my belt. still fresh out of college, so please excuse my thinking haha. But Jeff chose Broken Record. That's cool, too.
That's a good one, too. But his title should be straight forward in the fact that it's a blog about music. I'd alter your idea a little to read: /musicNOTES
