RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

http://www.heardtogether.com

Oh wait, that domain expired. Didn't that CD come out less than 1 year 
ago? Am I to assume that it wasn't considered a success by whatever 
metric they decided to judge it by?

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/ch-scene/2004-December/002940.html

Been years since I was a college student, so maybe I'm off-base, but is 
the local music scene that hard to find? Or, put another way, given the 
character of a lot of local music, without the relatively minimal level 
of curiosity needed to find it, is one going to possess the comparably 
minimal (but nonzero) level of curiosity required to enjoy it?

And where the heck do the DTH and the Chronicle come into all of this? I 
don't remember how often I read the weekly paper in my town when I was a 
freshman, but I do know that I read our college paper religiously, and 
so did everybody else. Is that no longer the case? Do they not provide 
even unreliable coverage of music (I guess Hep's experience would 
suggest not)?

Ross

Jeremy Blair wrote:
> We need a compilation CD of local bands to hand out at the bars during
> enrollment or other grab-bag type events. You could get to the target
> audience where they are, at the bars. Anyone have a spare $20k laying around
> to sponsor this?
>
> On 1/30/06, Katherine Carpenter <wwkd AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Actually most folks agree that the issue that made the powers that be
> > support Fetzer in '93 was not the scheduling czar, but the public
> > financing
> > of practice space rent. Wayne even agrees on that one.
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
> > Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.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 18:55:39 -0500
> >
> > Can't we all just get along?
> >
> > Back when Wayne Taylor was running for Raleigh Mayor, one of his
> > platform planks was the appointment of a rockshow scheduling czar who'd
> > make sure we'd never have to pick between 2 great shows on the same
> > night again. Needless to say, the vested Raleigh political interests
> > couldn't afford to let that happen, and they went so far as to throw the
> > election to Tom Fetzer as punishment for Wayne even bringing it up.
> >
> > Remember when we used to joke on this very list about the indie-rock
> > cabal? Hoo boy, that really brings back some memories. Good times.
> >
> > Oops, shit, gotta run, I'm late for the *real* indie-rock board meeting,
> > the one Calloway's pissed that we never tell him the location of.
> >
> > xo
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > Katherine Carpenter wrote:
> > > Actually, there's already such a 'Board' that has been meeting, at 7:30
> > a.m.
> > > the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, in the Durham public
> > > library. Please feel free to come on out!
> > >
> > > ----Original Message Follows----
> > > From: Sarah Freeman <sfree18 AT gmail.com>
> > > Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.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 17:59:27 -0500
> > >
> > > maybe this sounds completely lame and would just hit a dead end, but
> > > what about some board/group made up of club owners (both durham and
> > > chapel hill), musicians, and duke and unc students, whose purpose
> > > would be to take a good look at the situation and see what can be done
> > > to improve it (if anything). something big enough to have a decent
> > > supply of ideas and brainpower, but small enough to cut out
> > > bureaucratic nonsense and worthless sidetracking on trivial issues.
> > > it seems like there is a lack of communication between the students
> > > and the local music scene... is there any interest out there for
> > > something like this? s
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/30/06, James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >  > I didn't think I had any expectations at all.  Maybe a
> > >  > reply.  That was it.
> > >  >
> > >  > --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  > > 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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