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Fake Pirate Radio
WFMU mentions that Clear Channel has started a fake pirate radio station in Ohio, even asking for donations. That's some sophisticated pseudo-cool. It's charming that they had the chutzpah to ask for donations. Turning money into rebellion and back into money.I remember, some time back in the hair metal era, a top 40 station that was "taken over" by a crazed employee who barricaded himself into the master control room and kept playing Def Leppard's "Rock Till You Drop." It went on for 24 hours and created a lot of buzz. Then it turned out it was a publicity stunt for the station's format change. It looks like this was a stunt for a format change as well.
England has real pirate radio: in London, I had a neighborhood pirate who played ska most of the time. In some London apartments, you pay for electricity not by a bill, but by a coin-operated meter. Apparently, this guy was in once such apartment. I remember the signal going dead. He returned a few minutes later, and apologized for forgetting to add coins.
posted by bendy @ 5/31/2005 11:27:00 PM [permanent link]
Here's the real "pirate radio" deal.
said Anonymous, at
6/09/2005
No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster
http://www.prometheusradio.org/
A new website
If you are seeing this, then you are seeing the new blackstrap.org website. What you are looking at is the new blog section. Previously, bendy blogged his music thoughts at lostpla.net. Now, these valuable opionions will be posted here, along with info from the rest of the band.
posted by bendy @ 5/31/2005 12:48:00 PM [permanent link]
you guys rock durham! hey, can u post the lyrics to that gothy song ya'll do?
said , at
5/31/2005
Astrid- You probably are talking about this song, the slow one we'd do.
THANKLESS TASK Everybody's working on a Thankless Task / Nobody knows how long it's going to last/ Everybody's living in a daydream world / But when they talk about it, it sounds absurd / You can take it for granted / And in taking for granted / You'll get taken for granted / And with your feet firmly planted / on the hat of another / why are your shoulders / hurting so much? / Everyone's got a demon on their back / But as long you ignore it, it might not attack/ Everyone's got a hammer in their hand / But the line is neverending, and the tracks are laid in sand / So I'm climbing the ladder / Ignoring the matter that the rungs they are stripping / and the base it is slipping / I'm just about there, they say / So climb for another day / So many things broken / And it's taken too much / Everyone's been notarized for the same will / The insects get it all and the graves get filled.
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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