By Ryan Van Etten on 11/07/2010
What’s normal in New York is not normal in Fargo. Location changes costs. You’re in a touring band? You might want to consider this when booking shows and pricing merch/tickets. Expect higher expenses in the more expensive cities, but at the same time, expect fans to be willing to pay relatively more. To help gauge the spectrum, here’s a comparison of living costs in 100 U.S. cities that may be on your tour map.
Posted in Editorial, Infoculture, Music, Music Flux, News, Visual | Tagged BAH rates, bands, big media, business, cities, comparison, cost of living, entertainment spending, infographic, live music, location, merch, MusicBiz, NYC, on tour, pay what you want, price points, price variation, San Francisco, stats, strategy, touring |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/17/2010
Free streaming music sorted by urban scene? Powered by SoundCloud and packaged in a slick UI, CitySounds—dubbed ‘the music of cities’—is just that. Uploads are pushed to CitySounds in realtime—the music is fresh. Flickr adds style to the mix by displaying related photos. Listeners can see the most active cities and the most popular genres in each.
Posted in Apps, iPhone Apps, Music, Music Flux, News, Reviews | Tagged app review, cities, citysounds.fm, drum and bass, dubstep, electronica, flickr, local music, location, location-based music, London, mashups, music discovery, music mashup, music scenes, realtime music, SoundCloud, techno |
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 |
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