RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

I dunno the answer to the first two (well, if you can't find an actual 
packaged copy of Rockin the Blocks, I could hook you up with a burn, but 
I heard they had a few hundred left over, so you'd hope they'd be 
interested in distributing them as opposed to landfilling them).

As for the third one, I'd go a couple of steps farther. *I* read Mark's 
blog, and I heartily encourage other people to do the same. He posts 
longer entries about one or two bands at a time, and is thus able to go 
into more depth, and is also clearly less burnt-out than I am, so he's 
willing to put some time into thinking of intelligent things to say. ;-)

As part of my personal freakout of web development activity that was 
spurred on by the Indy article (as in "oh fuck, people might actually 
look at my website"), I added a *bunch* of links to local-music-related 
blogs & websites here: http://www.trianglerock.com/etc/

Mark's is linked there, along with Karen Mann's excellent multimedia 
local-rock blog, Mann's World, as well as a few others (including the 
still awe-inspiring NCMusicHistory.com). There are also some links to 
non-bloggy (as in, they don't update regularly) but still-crucial stuff, 
such as Perfect Sound Forever's pretty-much-mandatory "How NC Got Its 
Punk Attitude."

Ross

Mark wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> 1)  Whatever happened to the Quarantines?  Their MySpace still exists,
> though their web site is gone.  Are they still around?
>
> 2)  Is there anywhere I can get a copy of the Rockin' the Blocks CD
> from last year?  Since it was a giveaway/promo thing (right?), would
> there be a problem with someone making me a copy?
>
> 3)  Does anyone want to read my blog?  The Oak Room
> (oakroom.blogspot.com) is a music blog about the Triangle.  I'm a
> little reluctant to self-promote like this, but if anyone is the
> audience for it, it's you guys.  Sometimes I feel like Ross's site
> makes what I do a little redundant, but our tastes are different
> enough that it's probably OK.  Feedback is welcome, and I'd love to
> hear from bands.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark