RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

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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