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In Atlanta, Death Cab, the Shins, Modest Mouse and Interpol were all getting some serious airtime last time I listened to the radio. Looking at that station's playlist now, I kind of want to puke.  I haven't listened to them for a while, and there's a reason there.
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Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
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| Posts: 2266 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006 |  |
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Jedi
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Not to go down that whole 'what is indie' road, but of that group you listed, only the Shins are on an indie label. If you have Major Label dollars backing you, the chances of you being heard on corporate radio are much better.
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Weep to Water the Trees.
"This is my main concern with Obama; what if he has been groomed since childhood to blend in with the zionists and infidels? What if he has been led along by a radical islamic terrorist organization and positioned to become an influential politician?
What if Obama gets into White House and turns out to be some crazy muslim terrorist? What do we do then? We'll be pretty screwed. It could happen." -- by some fucking nutjob
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| Posts: 1996 | Location: The Noog, TN | Registered: 08 April 2007 | |
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Indie music is all over the radio. In fact, more so at times than your regular mainstream.
At least in Austin, Tx, that is.
We could be an exception though.
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| Posts: 226 | Location: Toronto, Ontario | Registered: 16 September 2007 | |
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That is an interesting (if not painfully obvious) article achengy.
I think the heart of the matter is that music must exist in a mode of production. Music is a commodity, regardless of its high aspirations. Just as Benjamin argued in his essay "The Author as Producer," that the authorial role must be aware of itself as an apparatus of production, so too must music makers embrace the means of production for their own benefit. When they acknowledge that their art is commodity, they can then challenge that apparatus and make something new and exciting (for example when Barnes says that he willingly wants to challenge his listeners despite selling his songs to commercials).
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Slacker First Class
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If you scroll pretty far down the page that was linked to a commenter linked to a related and perhaps better realized piece on selling out by Dave Eggers that is also interesting.(and it does relate to indie rock pretty well too)
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