This year the Houston Press inaugurated their Web Awards, and their very first honoree was SaveKTRU.org, for its efforts in fighting the sale of KTRU. The awards ceremony was earlier tonight, and Joey Yang, who served as the station manager during the campaign to stop the sale, was kind enough to bring me along [...]
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MYZOMBIE If today’s sale of Myspace at a fraction of its original sale price tell us how moribund the network is, I don’t know what else could. If you are a musician you know about myspace because at one time it actually was a very good way to connect with fans but the bloated [...] Here is a neat neurological disorder – synesthesia. Wikipedia describes it as “a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” So, if you have color synesthesia you will see numbers and letters like this… (from Wikipedia) Neat. [...] Oh man, I get a lot of stuff from PR people some of it decent a lot of it garbage but this one kind of hit a nerve. Check it out: Charlene Kaye launches a Kickstarter campaign to help fund upcoming LP Pity Me! (Photo by Shervin Lainez) Following the release of a [...] I follow exactly two record labels on Twitter: Thrill Jockey (known for intelligent indie rock and post-rock bands like the Sea and Cake, Tortoise, and Trans Am) and Southern Lord (known for crossover metal and post-metal bands like Boris, Om and Pelican, and for being founded by one of the guys from Sunn O))) [...] Tom Petty did kind of have it right – The Waiting IS the Hardest Part. This summer is gonna be all about that, but one thing I discovered in university is that downtime can be pretty damn productive. We used to pull out our hair from boredom in the University of Houston dorms [...] At this point in the story, you can probably see all of the different threads of things happening at the same time, so to write this story linearly is almost impossible. Therefore, I will take each thread one at a time in discussion. The easiest and most simple will be the interior design thread. [...] Coming back from LA on Thursday, driving up the 101, had forgotten the iPod back in the Bay, and neglected even to bring the cassette adapter into the passenger compartment, hence no backup iPhone action. My well-worn mixes would’ve sufficed, had my potentially gas money contributing rideshare prospects not all flaked in an unwelcome [...] Heatbreak is a bitch. It arrives like a death – taking away everything that means the world to you and leaving you trapped between what you want and what you cannot change but wish you could. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been a very good bandmate over the last few years because music is often about [...] |
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