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By Ryan Van Etten on 07/25/2010
New school and old school collide here. New Music Seminar in New York last week was a 2.5 day collision of industry minds talking strategy and technology in today’s music market. You’ll see a mix of photos from the discussions and performances which included the Artist On The Verge contest, where three bands from OurStage were voted on to perform and compete—Yonas, Comic Book Heroes, and HotSpur. 28 photos
Posted in Events, Music, Photo Journal | Tagged Alex Cameron, Alex Suarez, Ariel Hyatt, Artist On The Verge, Aspacia Lindstrom, Bill Werde, Bob Cramer, Colin Willis, Comic Book Heroes, Corrie Christopher, Courtney Holt, David Hoffman, DeadStock Ric, Eric Garland, Frank Cooper, Gwen Lipsky, HotSpur, iPad DJ, Jay Frank, Jesse Malin, Jim Glancy, Jim Moeller, Joe Kennedy, Just Blaze, Kelly Cutrone, Little Steven, Margaret Cho, Martin Atkins, Mike Doernberg, music industry, New Music Seminar, Next Big Sound, Nile Rodgers, Nimbit, NMS NYC 2010, NYC, ourstage, Peter Kafka, Phil Antoniades, photos, Rana Sobhany, Richard Yaffa, Santos Party House, Scott Klein, Soulever, Sound Around, Stephane Minier, Steve Ferguson, Steve Klein, Swizz Beats, The Fire and Reason, Tom Jackson, Tom Silverman, Vin Rock, Webster Hall, Yonas
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/08/2010
Summer’s on, in Houston. For the second year, the independent paper, Free Press Houston, hosted the Free Press Summer Fest—a two-day mix of music and mud. Free Press promotes recycling and environmentally-friendly causes throughout the event. 100+ bands/DJ’s performed—double from last year—and included headliners like The Flaming Lips, Kid Sister, and Dead Prez. Why doesn’t every festival have a water slide? 15 photos.
Posted in Events, Music, News, Photo Journal | Tagged Dead Prez, festival, Free Press Summer Fest, fun, Houston, Kid Sister, mud, mudslide, photos, Shina Rae, Texas music scene, The Flaming Lips, Wild Moccasins
By Ryan Van Etten on 04/11/2010
UMF is an annual electronic music festival in Miami’s Bicentennial Park, and is the official closing event for WMC—a music industry panel/workshop event for DJ’s, producers, label reps, and the like. This year—for the first time ever—UMF completely sold out, and announced that next year this 2-day multistage dancefest would expand to 3 days. 25 photos.
Posted in Events, Music, News, Photo Journal, Popular | Tagged crowds, Dance, Deadmau5, Deadmau5 costumes, electronica, Faithless Sound System, festival, Gareth Emery, live music, Miami, music industry, music photography, photos, Sander Van Doorn, Swedish House Mafia, techno, UMF, UMF 2010, WMC
By Ryan Van Etten on 03/23/2010
SXSW is an annual music/film/media/design conference—a.k.a. week-long party—held in downtown Austin, Texas and hyped for featuring fresh music from many genres. Crowdsurf these 27 photos and tour this year’s live music events.
Posted in Events, Music, News, Photo Journal, Popular | Tagged alternative, arts, Austin, bands, crowds, crowdsurfing, dance pop, Dum Dum Girls, electropop, fans, Freeway, Fungi Girls, indie, Japandroids, live music, Meiko, music photography, musicians, noise pop, party, Pearl Harbor, Peelander-Z, photos, playlist, punk, Red Bacteria Vacuum, rock/pop, Sharon Van Etten, Sleigh Bells, Superchunk, SXSW, SXSW 2010, Texas music scene, The Beets, The Flaming Lips, The Lovely Feathers, The Octopus Project, The Very Best, The xx, Thee Oh Sees
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/02/2010
Piano music is as popular in Second Life as it is in real life. The setting is a virtual world—the music is real, interactive, and on key. This vivid photoset features pianos and players (avatars) in Second Life. 11 photos and 1 video.
Posted in Gaming, Music, News, Photo Journal | Tagged avatars, culture, music gaming, nightlife, photos, piano, pianos, Second Life, videogame, virtual piano, virtual worlds, virtuality
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/07/2010
The film Bomb It portrays graffiti as the “biggest art movement in humankind.” With any movement there is opposition and many see graffiti or tagging as mere vandalism. Art or vandalism—where do you spray the line? “Graffiti is energy” says Bronx graffiti artist T-Kid and “it represents life” says artist Pose 2. The same can be said about dance—
Posted in Activism, Music, Photo Journal | Tagged Adelaide, arts, artwork, B-boying, ballet, Bomb It, breakdancing, breaking, brooklyn, cities, culture, Dance, dancing, EDM, Elvis Presley, energy, Flamenco, gender, graffiti, hip hop, history, hosier lane, IDM, Josephine Baker, Keith Haring, laws, Lisbon, manchester, manhattan, Melbourne, Michael Jackson, movie, NYC, Paris, people, Photo Journal, photos, seville, sheffield, spinning, spray art, stencil graffiti, Street Art, tango, urban, valencia, world
By Ryan Van Etten on 07/28/2009
We’ll be running a new image series, called Photo Journal, where we showcase live music photos, deviations, and digital artwork relating to music, arts, virtuality, and technology.
Posted in Editor Notes, Photo Journal | Tagged arts, artwork, Creative Commons, digital, FAQ, flickr, flickr group, graphics, imagination, interpretation, music photography, open, Photo Journal, site info, visualjournal
