That titular participle happens to be the title of a book, to be published by the good folks at Sage, which is due in September of this year, and in which yours truly has contributed a chapter titled “Same as the Old Boss? Changes, Continuities, and Careers in the Digital Music Era.” I promise [...]
Depressingly on-point post-SxSW take from Advertising Age on indie’s long road to Automotive Brand Enhancement.
Basically, in the post-unit-sales, file-sharing era, indie music is ever more about marketing. The music, in fact, becomes marketing for an event (e.g., a concert) or merchandise (e.g., a T-shirt) and/or marketing for a third-party product (e.g., a Scion xD). Marketing [...]
I’m in Austin now, and gorged a bit on LPs yesterday at Antone’s, a great little shop on Guadelupe. Here, in all of their blurry iPhone photo’d glory, are what I walked out with, for a grand total of about 30 bucks!
Starting from a conversation between Jonathan Gray and Henry Jenkins, Wayne Marshall ponders the utility of “paratext” (”all those things that surround a book that aren’t quite the ‘thing’ itself…the cover, prefaces, typeface, and afterwords, but also reviews”) for music:
…“Crank Dat”…perhaps best illustrates the problem with trying to apply a theory of para/texts to music [...]
Pip Proud has been called the greatest Australian singer-songwriter of the ’60s. He released two weirdo folk albums for Polydor International in ‘67 and ‘69 before disappearing deep into the bush for three decades. He re-emerged in ‘98, lobbing a grenade toward the few straggling vagabonds slurping kipper snacks under the shadetree: the “Hey Gus“ single.
We were [...]
It appears as if The Dø’s A Mouthful, which I still enjoy much, will be seeing a US release soon via Six Degrees. So worth it.
Slate’s Dennis Lim on Up in the Air:
The first film in history was an 1895 short by the Lumière brothers with the self-explanatory title Workers Leaving the Factory. In the years since, as if in deference to their function as a leisure activity, movies have been largely blind to the daily rituals of work and [...]
My favorites: “Thieve’s,” “High Fullutent.”
(via Tom)