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Do what you want and success will follow. It’s true, but it’s also completely irrelevant. It’s what you do next that really matters. Imagine you worked like hell to make something cool. People start catching wind of what you've done, and before you know it, you're rich and famous. You revel in the success. All eyes are on you. You're the new hotness and everyone wants to know what you're going to do next. So what do you do next? You flop. Your reputation descends, and your success rapidly dwindles. Everything you do just makes things worse, spiraling you down the drain. People start thinking maybe you never had it in the first place, or you got lucky. Nobody likes you anymore, and if anything you're worse off.

SOURCE: Atomicwang.org

This just in from GapingVoid…

It's Blogumentary, Watson!

He sees blog people

Chuck Olsen is the founder of Minnesota Stories, called one of the best videoblogs by the New York Times. He is the producer-director of "Blogumentary," the first documentary film about the rise of political and personal blogs. His work has screened at the Walker Art Center, Harvard University, and on renegade laptops all around the world. He is the Minneapolis correspondent for Rocketboom and works as a freelance producer, videographer, editor and educator.

SOURCE: blogumentary.org

Tricky, where you at?

SOURCE: brownpunk.tv/trickyblog

This just in from Seth Godin's blog…

Who you know

One of the mantras of networking (and the many social networking sites that people are flocking to) is that it matters who you know. The goal of having a thousand or more friends online is that you're well known. Connected. A click away.
I wonder if there's a more useful measure: who trusts you?

SOURCE: Senthgodin.com

Thank you, Qburns…

The music biz blows it, while Orlando blows up

LAST DANCE?

…So how can you possibly explain the banner year that little-known artists experienced in 2007? Thank you, MySpace. Gracias, YouTube. Likewise to CDBaby, Last.fm, satellite radio, CMJ, NPR, iTunes and all you other beautiful acronyms and jabberwockies.

The musicians have turned against the labels, and listeners besides. Hoist by their own petard, the corporate tastemakers have relinquished their right as victors to pen the history books of music each year, and strangely enough – impossibly – Central Florida and its neighbors have moved into the leader’s spot.

Record stores are dead? Tell that to Park Ave CDs, who have grown into not only a successful record store but a synergistic multiplatform hotspot. Small labels can’t get the word out for their peeps? Talk to Orlando’s X:144 & SPS, staples in ’07 on college radio Top Ten charts, or Band Marino, whose profile as one of the top 5 “MySpace bands” in Rolling Stone led to a talked-about performance at South by Southwest this year, or local rapper S.K.I.P, one of URB magazine’s “Next 1000” for 2007-2008, or Jacksonville’s Black Kids, named by Rolling Stone one of the 10 bands to watch in 2008. Even in Tampa, Yo Majesty was featured in Stereogum as a “band to watch.” Label-less Orlandoans Summerbirds in the Cellar were so big this year that their CD release party spilled into two shows.

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SOURCE: OrlandoWeekly.com

This just in from Orlando…

Make plans to attend the
4th Annual
Orlando Latin American
Film & Heritage Festival
from the edge ... and beyond the frame

SOURCE: olafest.org

Happy New Year!

Stereogum brings you a New Year's gift of sound.
Enjoy!

SOURCE: Sterogum.com

This just in from Drowned In Sound

Drowned In Sound posted its top 50 albums of 2007. Read and compare to your own list (if you've been keeping up with it all.)
Enjoy!
Zelo

SOURCE: DrownedinSound.com

Radiohead Celebrate New Year With Webcast

Al Gore brings the rock to your television set

Although there are already plenty of nice musical options to entertain you on New Year's Eve this year, here's a last-minute surprise: Today on Dead Air Space, after wishing us all a "peaceful Christmas", Thom Yorke announced that Radiohead will be "broadcasting a pre-recording of some songs and other bits on New Years Eve.." over at Radiohead.tv. It starts at midnight GMT on December 31, which is in the early evening here in America, leaving plenty of time to go get ready to see Spoon or the Black Lips or R. Kelly or whoever. "this is a wee celebration of the release of the physical manifestation of 'in rainbows'," Thom continues, referring to the fact that the new Radiohead album is finally due in stores. It's out today in Japan (via Hostess Entertainment), the UK December 31 (via XL), and the U.S. and Canada January 1 (via ATO/TBD and MapleMusic, respectively). Apparently the webcast is going to consist of a performance of In Rainbows in full, taped at the band's Oxford studio, a place we are already intimately familiar with. In America, the live show will be aired commercial-free on Al Gore's television station, Current TV. It premieres at 12 a.m. EST/9 p.m. PST. Current's website will also archive the show, so you can watch it again New Year's Day while writing your resolutions. (Resolution #1: Watch less television.) [MORE...]

Link-arrowVideo: Radiohead: New Year's Webcast Teaser #1
Link-arrowVideo: Radiohead: New Year's Webcast Teaser #2

SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

Marshall Arisman: The Ayahuasca Series

Mr. Arisman is the subject of a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Silver titled 'Facing the Audience: The Arts of Marshall Arisman.'

SOURCE: MarshallArisman.com

M. Night is trying to tell us something…

After months of rumors, cast updates, and hints about the film's content, we finally have our first official look at M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, in the form of a teaser poster.
The poster, first made available by ComingSoon.net, shows a city skyline in the distance, with a number of abandoned cars scattered over a long stretch of highway. At the top, it contains the following tagline: "We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening."

SOURCE: MNight.com

The Death of High Fidelity

In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever

David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts sound loud.
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SOURCE: RollingStone.com

It's not even on itunes yet!

From the fabulous Reax mag crew:

Summerbirds In The Cellar

Summerbirds in the Cellar’s Druids is as haunting as it is healing. Similar to the band’s previous release With the Hands of the Hunter It All Becomes Dead, Brad Register’s lyrics continue to mine dark caves and offer bleak, apocalyptic perspectives about our existence. The words are true, expressing beliefs and fears that have deep, universal resonance.

Druids surpasses its predecessor in intention and execution. The songwriting here is more focused and confident, with melodies that weave in and around the band’s trademark thick layers of guitars and keyboards. None of the nine tracks exist in isolation, but rather build upon one another, providing a powerful unity to the whole record. Rooted in rhythm, the sound is dense and muggy with a dream-like quality unlike anything the southeast music scene has produced. The patience precision of Druids further confirms Summerbirds in the Cellar as the Southeastern region’s most important and talented band.


SOURCE: reaxmusic.com/

Presenting Fader's Listmania!

Once again, The FADER and its extended family present their version of the Best of the Year list type things.
Click more for the real talk. more...

SOURCE: TheFader/Listmania

Getting Evens

The Evens are a band from Washington, D.C. Ian MacKaye plays baritone guitar and Amy Farina plays drums. They both sing. Their debut album was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in the summer of 2004 and released in March 2005. "The Evens, Get Evens", the band's second full-length release, was entirely self recorded in the basement of the Dischord House in the summer of 2006. The album was then mixed at Inner Ear Studios by The Evens and Don Zientara. The Evens have toured parts of the U.S. and Europe and have traveled extensively in the first half of 2007, including dates in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Eastern Canada and the United States.

SOURCE: Dischord Records

Introducing: Antelope

Antelope was formed in Washington, DC in 2001 by ex-members of the Vertebrates, Bee Elvy and Mike Andre, and El Guapo's Justin Moyer. In March of 2002 the band recorded six songs with Phil Manley (of Trans Am) at National Recording Studios. The self-titled EP was released in February 2003 as a split venture between Dischord and the band's own Bug Records. Antelope played its first regional shows in eastern and mid-western US cities and the band accompanied Q and not U and Black Eyes on an extensive tour of the United States in September of 2003. The two song EP "Crowns" b/w "The Flock" was recorded in July of 2003 with Ian Mackaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios and was released in February of 2004. In November 2006 the band recorded it's first full-length, "Reflector," at the Dischord House with Ian MacKaye. Antelope continued regional touring with Joe Lally and Soccer Team and embarked on a full-US tour in March 2007. European dates are scheduled for October and November and more US dates will follow into December.

Antelope:
Mike Andre - drums/bass/vocals
Bee Elvy - drums/bass/vocals
Justin Moyer - guitar/vocals

SOURCE: Dischord Records

This just in from NoRipcord

Angels Of Light
"We Are Him"
(Young God Records / Revolver)

Like some wicked fusion of preacher and devil; like a lost soul leading a band of nine-foot tall Frankensteins, Michael Gira's Angels Of Light return with their new We Are Him. Once again, Gira is backed by Akron/Family; together they chart a determined, frightening descent through personal hells and bleak travails. Opening track Black River Song begins the album like a waking nightmare: haunted piano, ghostly bells, and a guitar figure that sounds like it was run through an electric chair. Gira himself sounds positively possessed, howling, "Black river runs / beneath this ground / black river flows forever / but it makes no sound." The mission of the Angels Of Light may be to find that river and put it to music, and from start to finish, the instrumentation and production on We Are Him is immaculate; notes Michael Gira on the Young God Records website, "Despite Akron's valorous efforts and fine performances, things sounded thin and tentative to me, so I started calling my friends to help me flesh things out." All rise to perfect and glorious occasion throughout the album, never overpowering but pumping each song full of angry, yearning blood.

SOURCE: NoRipcord.com

"What's the point of this interaction?"

…The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.

— SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of five (no, it's six! [no it's SEVEN Free Prize Inside was published in early May, 2004] and All Marketers Are Liars was published in 2005) books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list.

Mind-blowing music

Between the Buried and Me

'Foam Born (a+b)'

From the new release 'Colors,'
Victory Records (2007)

Heavy Rotation

Why, that's iRonic

SOURCE: iRonic Productions Presents, 2007

My Bloody Valentine reunion confirmed*

Kevin Shields, the mercurial and elusive leader of My Bloody Valentine, confirmed that the legendary band has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, and that an album release is forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year. In an exclusive interview set to air Monday, Nov. 12 on VBS.tv, Shields speaks at length with Ian Svenonious on Soft Focus about his career and art, including some tantalizing hints about the next phase of My Bloody Valentine.

When The Daily Swarm first reported on the upcoming My Bloody Valentine reunion in August, their sources insisted on remaining anonymous, and Kevin Shields’ own statements came only in the form of fans’ personal encounters culled from a variety of message boards. Some accused TDS of rumormongering, but were confident in their work and that after years of false starts and dashed hopes, one of the most innovative guitar bands (second only to SY) of all time was truly gearing up for a return to action.

Watch Part One of the interview here

November 06, 2007
SOURCE: The Daily Swarm*

The Gardener

SOURCE: iwantsomecouch

StarWarz: In One Act

SOURCE: iRonic Productions Presents, 2007

Twenty-Three Minutes Over Brussels

How do you introduce Alan Vega?

One half of the seminal electronic duo Suicide, Alan Vega was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career as a visual artist, gaining notoriety in the early 70s for his radical light sculptures and through the mid-80s had numerous one-man art exhibitions at OK Harris and the Barbara Gladstone galleries in Manhattan. Also in the early 70s, Vega co-founded a lower Manhattan art & music forum, ‘the Project of Living Artists’ in a large warehouse space in SoHo. It was there he met Martin Rev and together they formed Suicide, whose minimalist music, a fusion of Rev's ominous, repetitive keyboards and Vega's rockabilly snarl, helped paved the way for the electronic artists of the future.

Five years in the making, Vega's tenth solo release, Station, is a blistering statement of intent from a rock'n'roll shaman whose work has always stretched parameters, managing to defy expectations at every turn.

As Vega himself says, “Station represents a kind of culmination point for me. It gathers up many of the elements that have been in my previous work and takes them all the way. In many ways, it's my most truthful record in that I'm now at the age where it’s easier for me to listen to my own heart-beat and act on it creatively.”

'Station' is out now on Mute.

SOURCE: AlanVega.com

Perpetuum Mobile

Einstürzende Neubauten is the first and only band which successfully uses the Internet productively to gather and concentrate activities of their fans from around the world. Einstürzende Neubauten launched their official website www.neubauten.org in 2002, and made it the center of their musical activities. Entire albums are financed by registered Supporters via subscription. The principle is simple: their Supporters buy the next Einstürzende Neubauten album before it’s recorded. With this funding in hand the band has time to work in peace rather than wasting time and energy in endless discussions with record companies about marketing and “brand identity” – irksome intrusions into the artistic process! In return Supporters world-wide have exclusive access to Einstürzende Neubauten’s internal working processes.

New release, Alles Wieder Offen (pronounced: ah-llus vee-der off-en), out now.

Find out more here.

Straight trippin', Boo…

East Village Radio (from 10/19)

Stream the "The Let out" Click here

Download the mp3 for free! Click here

Add the show to your favorite podcasts by pointing your preferred podcast software to:
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/podcasts/2008/68.xml
SOURCE: TheFader.com

Super Dave versus the Vampire

The Ultimate Larry Craig Interview

Last week, Super Dave Osborne conducted the ultimate interview with nosferatu Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and his wife for the Jimmy Kimmel show. In the best John Stossel manque fashion, Osborne "cuts the crap" and asks the questions American voters want to hear answered, especially the one about whether Craig hawked his wife's body parts on eBay.

SOURCE: Reasontv.com

Tangled up in blue

Police in Orlando Friday (10/19) arrested three employees of the Orlando Weekly on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. The three worked in the paper's classified section. Police say they were helping the city's escorts and massages parlors write coded ads to attract johns while escaping detection from police.

SOURCE: Reason.com via Orlandoweekly.com

lifeisbeautifulbabe

This made me smile!

SOURCE: Junoswift on Flickr via
YoungLiars blog

Do you belive in GodTube?

It's here!
GodTube.com

Last week the upstart Christian video site, GodTube became the first religious website to offer the hot-ticket social media trinity: user-generated video (à la YouTube), social networking (à la MySpace and Facebook) and live webcasting (à la Stickam.com). GodTube's claim that it has become the most trafficked Christian website on the Internet is trumped only by a second boast: that by the sheer volume of video watched by its users — 1.5 million hours last month — it is now the world's largest broadcaster of Christian video.

SOURCE: LATimes.com via MediaBistro.com