May 2012
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My May 2012 playlist…. anything missing?
“…trouble is now, no model’s being provided by the writers of...”
– Neil Kulkarni via F.U.N.K: A New List From The NME, and some thoughts about pop-hackery.
You, Me, Technology, Music Discovery, The Future...
I get sent quite a few questionnaires around this time of year for people’s coursework and degrees/PhDs. Sorry if I’ve not been able to answer your Qs, but these questions from Alexandra Murphy really stood out. My answers hopefully cover topics others have sent me questions about, and I guess I should probably get a room and go write a book about ‘The Death of The Death of...
April 2012
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Do you have a people strategy? →
oohbrilliant:
Given that many people have no idea how to to deal with ‘people’ - this could be a complete disaster. Thoughts?
I wish 99% of the people who attempt to ‘reach out’ and ‘communicate’ or ‘interface’ with me, got to know me first. Which isn’t hard, as I sling myself all over the internet and have been writing about music for 14years. Failing...
“In truth, the most damaging situation is having a small, gradually growing...”
– Rob Dix When ‘If Anyone Else Likes It, It’s A Bonus’ Isn’t Enough - MTT - Music Think Tank
Yeah, I recognize it as this is pretty much what doing DiS day-in, day-out can feel like. We’re a bit like a mid-level band that’s been going for 12years, with a loving fanbase, but…...
“The bottom line is that it’s fine if you want to look good, but if you...”
– Hipster Lessons: 5 Ways To Make Indie Bands Less Annoying - Houston Music - Rocks Off
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“Facebook is rapidly nearing the 1 billion user mark. In today’s amended S-1, the...”
– via Brian Solis: The ‘ME’dia Generation: Facebook amends S-1: Now has 901 million users…plus other revealing facts
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“It isn’t so much an album that wraps you in a blanket of sound, moreso it kind...”
– Sean Adams (that’s me) reviews Chromatics - Kill for Love (via drownedinsoundcloud)
#killforreblog
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Towards a unified theory of starting up
Co-founder of Songkick dropping some inspiring truth-bombs!
soundboy:
Wired asked me to write something for the last issue about start-ups, aka that ol’ heartache.
Here’s my attempt at a unified theory for starting up:
1. Find the people you believe you could build something amazing with. These are your cofounders.
2. Find something you love deeply that could be so much better. This is your...
I made this.
drownedinsoundcloud:
DiS’...
Music for Office Workers #3.
…more of my...
“In the giddy months when Twitter was trilling up and up to its current state of...”
– New Statesman - Twitter is just a new home for old bores
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How To Write The Perfect Tweet | By Shea Bennett →
Hello, you have just been sucked in by scary Twitter science!*
In essence, the piece (linked to above) is about clever link-bait. However, on further inspection, this an article which uses a lot of wafty words to says things like:
…it’s perfectly acceptable to link to your own content, if you over-sell it, self-promote too much, or start to resemble an old-fashioned salesman...
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“There’s been a lot of talk lately about the “decline” of MP3...”
– - Matt Ogle, co-founder of This Is My Jam
I’ve started a new feature on DiS, chatting to people behind music services I love, and to kick things off, I’ve chosen my favourite service of the moment - Behind The Screens: DiS meets This Is My Jam
DO-IT-YOURSELF GUIDE TO DEALING WITH YOUR CRITICS
gnade:
1) Do not, under any circumstances, read the comments. “Anonymous” is not a real person. “Anonymous” is disappointment, weakness fighting back, and envy at its worse
2) This is how you’ll win: Surprise everyone with the next thing you do.
3) Don’t ever forget the reason you started doing this. When you do forget (and you will, if you get enough attention) find that thing again and get...
DO-IT-YOURSELF GUIDE TO DEALING WITH YOUR CRITICS,...
gnade:
6) The best things will always divide opinion.
7) The best things will always be hated by some, and hate always sounds louder than love. (“Sounds” not “is.”)
8) The most ambitious, heartfelt/hard-fought things will always be attacked hardest. That’s the reward of taking chances. (A kid from Nebraska sang this when he was still a kid: “ambition I’ve found can lead only to failure/I do...
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BBC News - Facebook buys Instagram photo sharing... →
BLIMEY!
Here’s a related piece I wrote for Notion magazine “Hyper-Analogue. Or the Future Was Never Meant To Be Like This”
doyoulikewhatiwrite: 10,000 people can be wrong →
charlesubaghs:
The Verge have run an excellent interview with the New York Times David Carr. Carr covers media for the Times and his considerable critical skills and healthy raised eye-brow are on full display here. He covers quite a bit including the need to cultivate one’s feed on twitter (and social in…
“I’d argue that an obsession with the new has been more damaging to music than...”
– Legendary Music Blogger Sean Adams on ‘Slow Death of MP3 Blogging’ | Evolver.fm
“Entrepreneurs should leverage the trend of obscurity: Obscurity is good....”
– - Peter Rojas, co-founder of gdgt.com and creator of Endgaget, Gizmodo, Joystqi and RCRD LBL (via hyuninc) (via tumblinerb)
I’m so smart that I’ve been ‘building’ things up for 12 years now… oh, wait…
March 2012
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WatchDrownedinSound Radio No.1 (Podcast from 2006) | Mixcloud
Back in January 2006, DiS launched a podcast. “DiS Radio” was one of the first podcasts to play music, although we were quite probably the first to get cease and desist letters from labels too. This is the show that kicked it all off. Enthusiasm was high but sadly the sound quality wasn’t - this was due in part to slow...
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“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh....”
– A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Memorable quotes
Reminded of this while discussing Deftones.
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“Although the Mail Online claims more than 50 million visitors a month, digital...”
– The shocking thing about the Mail Online’s sidebar of shame | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“Me: A lot of your lyrics mention drowning and waves…the idea appears in this...”
– Yes, I really went THERE. via Life, Death and Broken Bells - DiS meets James Mercer (The Shins)
“Q: How many Pitchfork readers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 7.6”
– C, E Flat And G Walk Into A Bar / Music Forum // Drowned In Sound
My 12 Favourite Songs Of The First Quarter Of 2012 →
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