Sonic Youth has been coming up on conversation amongst my friends a lot lately. One of my favorite bands. Went to a great show last nite, and met some new friends (incidentally, The Wine Loft in Nashville is a really cool hang), and again Sonic Youth came up in conversation. We spent about an hour or so discussing the Daydream Nation record, which got me all excited to go home and bust out the small collection of Sonic Youth records I own (I need to buy more of their records), and jam.
Here’s a video of Sonic Youth performing “The Sprawl” live from their 1988 hit record Daydream Nation:
This one blipped a little while ago, but it just hit my radar nonetheless. Was poking around on Stereogum this morning, and came across a link to the video for “Despicable Dogs” by the band Small Black. Could the name perhaps be some kind of reference to Steve Albini’s band, Big Black?
In any case the music really struck me. Got a lot of My Bloody Valentine-esque qualities, and since MBV is one of my most favorite bands ever, naturally I was immediately into Small Black. [continue reading…]
I‘m a fairly regular reader of Hypebot, and today I came across post there, Skybox Offers Their Fans An Alternative to Filesharing, which covers a dialogue Skybox opened with their fans offering a win/win proposal to those who download their record from filesharing sites.
They suggest that anyone who likes the album pick a favorite song, and email it to 10 friends. On their website Skybox supports this request by including share buttons on all the music players on the site. Here’s the original post on the Skybox website: http://skyboxmusic.com/2010/04/filesharing-ok-cool-but-do-us-a-favor-too/
I had never heard of Skybox, but any band who understands fan engagement and puts their fans first (which Skybox is clearly doing), always gets me intrigued. So I popped over to their site to listen to some music. The first track I came across was In a Dream, which they were offering as a download in exchange for an email address. I did, in fact, like the song, so right then-as I was completely inspired by what the band is doing on a fan engagement level, as well as backing that up with good music-I decided that I needed to take them up on their offer and help them share their music. At the bottom of this post you will find the music player embedded. [continue reading…]
What controls you? Do you wake up each morning with a burning desire to get things done, with a thirst for progress, with goals? Do you immediately act on them? Does your passion guide you? Do you hold the keys to your success, and your destiny?
