Pretty much
I don’t really feel like those two things go together. If this was more along the lines of “I want to get drunk and dance and scream along to Jimmy Eat World songs with you” that’d be more up my street. Speaking of which, less than three weeks until my beautiful reunion with Mosh in Leicester. Can’t wait.
C.S. Lewis (via quote-book)
TUMBLR IN ONE QUOTE.
(via areyouasking) (via gwainesexual) (via gingerisourqueen) (via iamonlythegirl)Fay, this quote is so relevant to our entire friendship. I miss you!
probably my favourite line to scream along to at a show. and I have it tattooed on my body in case I ever forget the words.
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Hey, I’m seeing Brand New next month! That’s exciting! My favourite show I ever went to was a Brand New show, in September 2006. And after every time I see them I’m convinced it’ll have been the last but they keep coming back. The one time I met them, Jesse held out his hand and said “hi, I’m Jesse” and I just took his hand & shook it and said “thank you”. Not my most articulate moment. I am really, really looking forward to seeing them again.
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My nails for meeting John and Hank tomorrow!
In case you can’t see what they are, from left to right: J Scribble, Pizza John, The Yeti, Hanklerfish, TSWGO ribbon, interrobang, TFiOS cover, Amsterdam flag (Thumbs: Hank and John)
This is spectacular and relevant to so many of my interests.
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… but i certainly follow them on twitter. its a good resource for tours, news and the like. some of our shows at New Slang arent allowed to be announced until NME exclusively announces them, bands i care about care about their NME album review etc etc. The blog on RSD last year was terrible. Rock Sound then showed the world why.
but today, their @NMEmagazine feed was SO bad, i thought someone had hacked them. but seeming not.
http://twitter.com/nmemagazine
a feed about #howshitisedsheeran is embarrassing, saddening and non-productive. its so bad. fair enough if you dont like the artist. Many do, many don’t. I have a lot of time for him and there’s some classy songs on there. His two sell out shows last year were personal highlights for me and he was so good with his fans and a model professional performer who has been doing it DIY for years.
but to encourage, and to glorify personal insults is a terrible thing. this negativity doesnt do anything to inspire bands, or music or community. it just divides.
a sad time for music journalism.
Very much agreed.
Album sales continue to fall despite a 24% rise in digital album downloads in 2011, against “a backdrop of chronic piracy”, says the BPI.
Why do I get the feeling that this is unexpected by some? It’s 2012. As unfortunate as it sounds, but CDs are on the way out and have been so for a long time.
I think this is much bigger than the issue of a “dying” format. It’s about the concept of the album and how people are choosing to consume music. A 24% increase in digital album sales sounds like good news to me, especially considering that buying digitally has generally favoured singles (from the same article, “sales of singles rose for the fourth successive year to 177.9 million copies, versus 86.6 million in 2007. Digital copies accounted for 98% of the sales.”). I certainly don’t want to see the end of the album but I am struggling to see how artists and labels will be able to justify the cost in the future if album sales do keep declining year after year.
(Source: BBC)
I literally hate everyone who has said some version of “oh Valencia is such a great band, why aren’t they bigger” but then NEVER did anything real to support them like going to shows, buying merch/cds, etc etc because you are part of the reason why this band had to struggle. you all suck.
Yeah I got to thinking. I’ve seen Valencia play small shows where no one knew them. I’ve seen Valencia play HEADLINERS to no more than 25 people. Yet, the Electric Factory, a 2300 cap venue, was sold out on Wednesday. And I understand a lot of people came from all over the country for this show, BUT WHERE WERE YOU WHEN VALENCIA NEEDED YOU MOST (pun intended). Like where were these people when Valencia was barely selling 50 tickets a show. Where were you to support them and love them when they still actually had the drive to want to continue as a band and try to make it work. Why are all these message boards on absolutepunk and whatnot suddenly bursting with love for Valencia? Why are they suddenly mourned so badly? I wanted to get on the stage and scream WHO THE FUCK ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE?
Bitter Valencia fan is bitter.
This. I couldn’t agree more.
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