Popular indie music site Pitchfork announced it will launch Altered Zones, a sister site dedicated to DIY sounds so obscure not even those on staff at Pitchfork have heard of some of the bands or dreamt up cool new tags for the zany new tunes. Pitchfork has some lofty goals for the site, which wil[...]
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June 4th, 2010 - 2:36 am § in True/Slant
Music and the Media, Part 4: 'The Man' vs. The Music
A massive argument amongst indie music bloggers spilled over Twitter on Thursday. Or, in real terms, a blip on Twitter’s scanner brought up some pretty big concepts about how new music is transmitted dispersed online, and right from the keyboards of a few “big” name indie blogger[...]
April 26th, 2010 - 2:19 am § in True/Slant
Music and the Media, Part 3: This is an Advertisement
What is one expected to do when the economy’s in the tank and it seems harder and harder to make a decent living in your chosen industry? In music, the route to a sustainable existence appears to be written in the ads. Or, so it seems in the case of the Black Eyed Peas, a band [...][...]
April 21st, 2010 - 6:47 pm § in True/Slant
Everyone Everywhere and the future of free online music
Ever since Radiohead released In Rainbows in a pay-what-you-want format, bands and record labels have sought out new ways to use the Internet to their advantage. Often times, this occurs in the form of PR agencies emailing bloggers links to “exclusive” MP3s, which then become recycled th[...]
March 28th, 2010 - 11:43 pm § in True/Slant
Australian road safety campaign mocks youth subculture
It’s great when public service announcements try and reach out to youths by showing off their cred in humorous fashions. Yet, one particular road safety ad in Australia seems to take things a little too far [via The Sydney Morning Herald]: The government announced on Monday a new online advert[...]
March 24th, 2010 - 10:54 pm § in True/Slant
The album lives… live!
Friday night I stood for two-plus hours in awe as I watched The Appleseed Cast perform their entire 2001 double album Low Level Owl. The Lawrence, Kansas emo band played to a packed crowd at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge, and gracefully played the criminally overlooked double album, with a brief in[...]
March 21st, 2010 - 4:22 pm § in True/Slant
Free the Music: Everyone Everywhere
Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Everyone Everywhere – A Lot Of Weird People Standing Around. I first heard of Philadelphia’s Everyone Everywhere close to a year ago, when Fistfight At The Arthouse featured [...]
March 4th, 2010 - 4:33 pm § in True/Slant
Carissa’s Wierd reuniting, if only for a moment
From Hardly Art headquarters: It is with the upmost excitement and satisfaction that we here at Hardly Art officially announce our working relationship with Carissa’s Wierd. For those of you that are not familiar, Carissa’s Wierd was a much beloved Seattle band operating in the late 90s and ear[...]
