By Ryan Van Etten on 06/03/2010
In the sea of music blogs, best means most relevant to the reader. How can bands or listeners find blogs in their genre? How can they find blogs in a specific city? Google is an obvious search tool for most topics, but to really get in the trenches and find smaller indie blogs, here are five super-effective search techniques. Includes live music photos.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged blog aggregators, bloggers, Cymbals Eats Guitars, Delicious, Elbo.ws, genres, Google, Hype Machine, indie, Japandroids, last.fm, live music, location, music blog search, music bloggers, MusicBiz, No Age, noise pop, photos, resources, rock/pop, search relevance, search trends, similar artists, social media, stumbleupon, tips, Titus Andronicus, Twitter
By Ryan Van Etten on 05/28/2010
Think Death From Above 1979 meets The Knife. Call it noise pop…breakbeat rock…or dance punk. Sleigh Bells mixes heavy dance beats and lo-fi distorted guitars, produced/performed by Derek Miller, with the hi-energy vocals of female singer Alexis Krauss. This Brooklyn-based duo is blasting earbuds with their debut album, Treats.
Posted in Music, News, Reviews | Tagged album review, alternative, dance punk, dream crunk, electro rock, loudness, Music, N.E.E.T., noise pop, review, rock/pop, Sleigh Bells
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
