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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Tuesday Indie Rock at the Library and bigger issues
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:18:00 -0500

Did you really expect the DTH to leap up & take notice? "Flash! -- Local Band to Perform at Local 506!"

Please tell me you didn't send an email encouraging them to check out your www.myspace.com/engarde webpage again. Hasn't that chick gotten enough play already?

I mean, I have lately taken to checking out as many local bands' Myspace pages as I can find, and downloading (whenever possible -- c'mon y'all, I don't know exactly how it works, but if it's up to you, enable the freaking "download" option on your Myspace mp3s -- you're not going to lose a sale of your precious 4-tracked demo) mp3s to play on the radio, but I'm willing to bet that most folks aren't necessarily willing to go to the trouble, even those who're ostensibly responsible for doing that sort of thing. Other than Grayson, I mean; I'm convinced that cat has taken to hanging around outside various practice-spaces, so eager is he to hear the latest from every-fucking-band in town. But he is clearly in the minority.

I could provide you a fairly long list of local bands whose CDs we've never even received at WXDU. What's the matter, y'all, afraid of blowing up BIG in northwestern Durham and the unincorporated portions of northern Durham & Orange counties?

I don't know that it's time for me to resend my primer on how to send your CD to radio (DO: send a full-size jewel box, with something resembling cover art. bonus points for marking tracks with dirty words. DON'T: bother with the highschool portfolio-folder with the B&W glossy & your manager's business card stuck in the little slits). I also don't know if anybody listens to radio. Actually, scratch that: the guys who built my house, honest-to-god Chatham County construction workers, did the entire thing while flipping back and forth between XDU & XYC as the mood struck them. And no, I had nothing to do with it.

Of course, they don't go to a lot of rockshows. Hmm.

Ross

James Hepler wrote:
Maybe the marketplace is cluttered, but I don't buy
it. I mean, that's probably why WXYC was so behind
the curve on new releases. But I don't buy it for the
other guys.

--- Glenn Boothe / Local 506 <gboothe2 AT earthlink.net>
wrote:

Sorry, should have merged these last two responses:

So before the En Garde/Criteria show, I emailed
the
DTH about either writing a blurb about the show...I
never
got a response.... Business, laziness, apathy,
scorn, who knows? It's
not
ignorance.

Although I have been disappointed at times with the
various student
media infrastructure (radio and press) in this area,
having been a
college music director myself, one thing to keep in
mind is just the
amount of stuff that is out now.

I can really only speak about radio, but back during
my heyday, there
were only a handful of local releases per year and
most releases were
met with great fanfare by the station, the press,
the stores and the
clubs. That number comes out monthly now. Heck,I
can't even do all
the CD release shows that come my way (and those are
usually the bigger
shows!)

For example, I just noticed on the wxyc playlist
that was just posted
that they are now playing The Strugglers and Physics
of Meanings. Both
of those bands had their CD release shows at 506,
one in late October,
the other early November...and it appears that the
station is just now
getting around to playing them. Disappointing yes,
but at least they
didn't get entirely overlooked.

Anyway, I don't think it's ignorance or any of the
other attributes you
describe, but just the fact that the marketplace is
cluttered...glenn

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