http://thisisnotamusicblog.com Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have this friend Dawn. She's smart, super funny, totally hot, and in general - awesome. However there are some things we need to work on to enhance the package. For starters, her taste in music. A quick glance through her Twitter timeline will tell you she's got issues. There is ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=68 Am I the only person in the world who thinks Passion Pit has just the one good song? http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=66 So once upon a time I told a friend of mine "Sure, I'd love to write on a music blog." Nine months later I make a post. I suck. Sue me. But last weekend was the greatest bluegrass festival east of the Mississippi each year, so I thought I'd scribble down some quick ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=62 After spending my Thursday afternoon at the French Legation Museum with Brian, I decided to forgo my only chance to see the Oak Ridge Boys and went to see All Tiny Creatures at Habana Bar. If I could only say one thing about the show I would say it was ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=57 A response to Thomas from All Tiny Creatures: First, thanks for responding; I think it's only fair to you that I respond to your comment. I said that you guys "might as well be the octopus project" because you're both in the "electronic/indie/rock instrumental" genre and it was the easiest way ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=55 Somewhere around 5:00pm as the work day was winding down, I became aware that the song I was listening to on the 2nd half of the SXSW torrent sounded familar. And the band name... it wasn't a Z. I'd hit the end; Media Player deciding to loop back to the ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=53 Normally I hate posting chats, but we covered so much ground in this one, it seemed a waste to just let it go. So I prettied it up with links where appropriate, stripped out the "brb"s and present to you now. Also, check out the Austinist list of parties and ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=50 I preach over and over the benefits of using sched.org for your SXSW planning needs. It's awesome. FAR better than the my.SXSW site, especially when you get to the music schedule. [Viewing 100 different events going at the same time in a linear format? Ugh.] Anywho. Last year I printed out ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=49 Here we are, mere weeks away from SXSW, and neither Gus nor I have gotten around to doing our SXSW '08 writeups. Personally, I always thought it would be more interesting to do the writeups months later, after all the buzz and hubbub had died down. Our stuff would filter ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=47 Which I find almost impossible to believe, given the whole writing for a music site, writing about a band from Austin, live music capital, and so on. But yet here it is: To answer a question they'll soon tire of hearing, Harlem are not from Harlem. They're from Austin, Texas ... http://thisisnotamusicblog.com/?p=42