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When a bunch of Boston rockers started dressing a 18th-Century fops and playing AC/DC rock, they came close to their stated goal of "the worst idea for a rock band" ever. But the Upper Crust wrote their own music, and there's something inspired in what they made. They probably couldn't have created such great cock-rock riffs if they didn't wear powdered wigs: they weren't writing for themselves, they were writing for the Upper Crust.
The Upper Crust - Let them Eat Rock
So maybe worst idea for a rock band, ever, is GABBA. As a website, it looses points for not putting up whole songs. But the snippets are enough- Ramones and ABBA mashups, played by a band. They find an impressive number of puns and concordances, but the time it takes to poke through the site exhausts all the thought you want to expend on this joke. Mitigating factor: Dread Zeppelin is still touring.(Via DASP)
posted by bendy @ 6/22/2005 11:47:00 AM [permanent link]
I can't believe you namechecked the Upper Crust. Fantastic!
Upper Crust
said Anonymous, at
7/31/2005
I'm currently troubled by the rash of all girl cover bands that dress and mimic their male counterparts. I don't get how just because they are women, they aren't just another cover band. Oh well, it's not keeping me up at night.
simply delightful
Bleed Me!
UC rock harder with better songs then any rock band out there
Blackstrap is a rockpunk band that was formed in 2002 by several
disgruntled music fans. Some had played in bands for years, some had
never been involved in music. All of us were upset with the
direction the USA was moving. As you can tell, our impact on all that
has been overwhelming.
We broke up in 2004, just before releasing a debut EP. We still feel
bad about messing up 307 Knox Records
like that. We got back together in
2005. We might drive each other crazy again, so no promises.
We're a band that doesn't have many options as far as
money and time and touring and all those other thing that could make a
band be your life. The web is the main way we promote
ourselves. We figured out we should share what meager knowledge we have
obtained.
RESOURCES
or "Promoting Your Music as the Music Industry We Know and Dislike Dies...."
Websites are a lot of work to figure out, and don't work any magic
on their own. Most people who view your website are already going to know you exist.
Just having a website doesn't mean anyone is going to visit. So don't
worry about securing an Internet domain right away. Stick some
music on MySpace,
and then participate in sites that might actually drive interested
listeners to your music. Blackstrap gets more hits from our link
on ncpunkonline.com than from
higher-profile sites where we get lost in the shuffle.
There are advantages to having your own custom built website and
domain name, but it's only as useful to the extent that it gets linked to.
Here are some sites that are important and help to get noticed. They aren't all music sites, specifically. Alot of them require participation. But hey, you wanted to be on stage, right?
JUST HEARD
WEEKLY FAVS
LOOKING AT...
what else?
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