Record of the Day, a music industry publication from the UK, has an interview this week with your humble webmaster. Here are some highlights:
Where are you based? Chicago. For now.
What made you start an mp3 blog? I used to have a more traditional music blog (
Glamorama). But then I realized it was pointless to spend two or three paragraphs talking about how great a song was when you could just post the mp3 or YouTube.
Who are your favourite three artists? Radiohead.
Rolling Stones.
The Libertines.
Pick just one artist as a tip to break through in 2008 Ida Maria
Is there a band or track that you were first to feature in the blogosphere that you are particularly proud of? I think this happened more often with my first blog, Glamorama. The blogosphere was a smaller, friendlier place then, and you didn’t have the same swift synchronization of opinion. With Interpol, a friend of mine played me an EP of theirs way back in 2000. I saw them in early 2002 before they were signed. So while there might have been some New Yorkers talking about them, I was probably the first to bring them to a wider audience. Same goes with
The Libertines. Of course, they had a boat load of NME hype, but I was an early champion of them outside of the UK, much to the consternation of
some other bloggers. More recently, I was probably the first blogger outside of LA to feature
Foreign Born.
What would be your dream job in music? I’m a drummer. I was out in LA for a while trying to ‘make it’. But the more I saw of the industry, the less I wanted to be a part of it. For me it always goes back to the Andre Kertesz quote: “I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.” I’ll always be involved in music. It just won’t be a paying gig.
Read the whole interview in the latest issue (8/7/08) of
Record of the Day (subscription required).
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