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I was just referring to the specific album, released retrospectively as far as I'm aware, called The Early Years Vol. Something.  The one with Late Night Evening Prostitute and Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again.  I don't think the songs are bad, but I'd say they weren't really stellar.  Any of the actual albums from that period are absolutely brilliant though, no disagreement on that (although I love an awful lot of his weird, late stuff too).



I don't know if that's the best or the worst comment thread I've ever had.  Probably a little of both.  And don't worry squashed, with my reader numbers I think I am quite safe from Buzznet at the moment.

great article in culturespill on 80s underground band game theory.

http://culturespill.com/?p=278

Shameless self promotion: The Clash is the New Black - A Brief History of Sampling and The Clash. Using recent tracks by Santogold and MIA as a starting point, I retraced the artists who've sampled the Clash over the years including Will Smith, Garbage, Big Audio Dynamite, and many, many more. Also included, is a bunch of live videos of the original Clash songs. It's really cool, if I don't say so myself

puddle - I got your email about this but was troubled by your first sentence where you write that you're the first blog label. What about all the other great blog labels that are out there?

Puddlegum - I'm not sure if you mean something different when you say "blog labels", but DoneWaiting's Sunken Treasure label has been around for a long time.

Is it all semantics? Blogs that have a label... or a blog label? Are they the same? Or does it make a difference to run both under the same roof?

Either way, I think the concept is sound, albeit with the proviso that any blog or small label starts with - never assume it'll make money - but then I know you've accepted that anyway.  So what I meant to say was congratulations and go for it.  Must have been pretty hard to give up a brand and a name you've been nurturing for so many years.



Damn those other 'gums!

I put out my first blog/label release in March of 2004 and I wasn't the first.

I just announced the Blackdrop Portaits. It's just a start of an on-going series. Here's a couple to give you a taste:

 

Caitlin and Johnny of Two Sheds by Adrian Bischoff

 

Alexi of the Botticellis by Adrian Bischoff

 

Pete of Birdmonster by Adrian Bischoff

 

nice photos adrian! do you shoot those in SF? Let me know if I can hook you up with anyone for those. gorgeous.

they remind me of a more casual Richard Avedon style.

I randomly stumbled upon this cool unofficial video for Kissing The Beehive after I got my brains blown out by their show at La Zona Rosa last week. The video is just the audio of the song played over this 1964 animated short called "The Hangman". It isn't dark side of the moon - wizard of oz or anything, but it provides something cool to watch while you listen to that fantastic song. Check it out here.

on the french collective de la jolie musique!

http://wakingupto.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/34-de-la-jolie-musique-bender/

Hi there, I'm new to el.bows and relatively new to blogging too - I'd love some feedback on my site, echoisaacashe.blogspot.com, although having looked at some of those mentioned above, I'm beginning to think mine's pretty pants. Cheers, Isaac.

My blog is currently a "Hot Blog" on elbo.ws - how did it get there? I.e. how do you get to be a "hot blog"?

That's great Mike!  Can you give any more deets?

Posted by: mike green lightsI got my first freelance gig today! I doubt I'll get one as good as this again. It involves the three words: Blogging, Touring, and Allexpensespaid. Win.

 

Awesome! Who knows, may lead to more..

sounds like the plot of  "Almost Famous II"

Posted by: brandon@elbo.wssounds like the plot of  "Almost Famous 2.0"

 

Mike - Congratulations! And you should definitely watch Almost Famous. I liked it before, but seeing it again recently was a different experience. I've never toured with a band, but I did relate to the character's mixed feelings on criticizing a band he liked and his struggle to find the right words for every sentence. :)

@ Said The Gramophone, at the end of July (has this already been discussed?)

"The French newspaper Le Monde is actually scandalised that we have not yet written about Carla Bruni."

So Sean did. France apologised in the comments.

(maybe = Nayblog.)

nice!  Just don't forget about us a little guys when you rise to stratospheric, Stereogum-like fame :-p

holy crap chromewaves, congrats. not something we can all say we've done.

The Morning News have recently launched a blog drawing together their music, books and video coverage.

http://www.themorningnews.org/digest/

The 'reading' coverage is especially strong.

My piece on Burial, which I'm very pleased with, has just been published. I'll be writing a few pieces every week-writing about all sort of music unlike my blog (UK music only).

Recently we have covered Burial, Dan Deacon, Shugo Tokumaru, Girl Talk, Monkey: Journey to the West, Conor Oberst, Pony Up, Medications, Walkmen.

Oh, and I got a job interview to write about THE WEATHER.

(Note: THE WEATHER are not a band)

We can link to the files themselves if we want. If you look at the archives you can see that.

It's not necessarily about partaking or being scared, but doing something different, something better in many respects. Now which is more scary: doing something different or jumping in with everyone else?

And I don't think it's the mp3 blog concept, but the blog format which is a reason The Morning News went from weekly mp3, book and video round-up article to the blog format. We link to other posts because that is valuable commenting on what other people say, as happens with the literary coverage, as happens with the vidoes.

This is a very minor Yay! - more of a (yay) really - but I thought I'd ask for a little feedback.  I just posted an interview from Pickathon with a band called Bombadil and included a bit of video from the interview and the live performance with it.  The whole thing is ten minutes long, and it's a bit rough and ready and still being figured out, but I wondered if anyone had any tips or suggestions or feedback or anything like that.  I know the article itself could really do with being cut down too, but I sort of struggled to do that.



http://songbytoad.com/2008/08/19/bombadil-interview-live-review-from-pickathon/