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Tweet MySpace is dead. With social media giants Facebook and Twitter’s easy formats to connect with others, it has left the pioneer MySpace site a cumbersome virtual ghost town. Nobody logs in. It’s still used to check out musician’s pages, but most likely due to lack of an easier music comprehensive site. Just like John [...]
Tweet Could the grocery store be the new hotbed for music? Probably not – but I have been noticing a trend. I was walking through Publix supermarket when Fleet Foxes’s Mykonos - (recently dubbed part of the “bearded folk” movement) was playing on the overhead speaker. Then, I heard a song by a Nashville-based emerging singer/songwriter named Griffin House. What? When did [...]
Posted by Allison (Rizk) Hare on Monday, December 7, 2009 at 1:00 am
Filed under Music · Tagged arena, Artists House, Atlanta, Don't Look Away, Element, emergence of the emerging aritst, emerging artist, Eric Lindell, Fleet Foxes, Gabe Dixon, Gareth Asher, Greg Laswell, Griffin House, Helio Sequence, independent, James Morrison, Katie Herzig, Kings of Leon, mainstream, Marc Broussard, Matt Nathanson, Matthew Mayfield, Morning Teleportations, Mykonos, Nathan Angelo, Needtobreathe, passion, Pete Yorn, Pretty Things, Publix, RadioPotato, Scarlett Johansson, singer/songwriter, Star 94, Susan Tedeschi, Tony Lucca, Top 40, Travis, Twitter, venue
Tweet If I were to guess what MTV executives goal is every year for the MTV Music Awards – my first answer would be ratings. How does MTV get ratings? SHOCK VALUE. I moved to Atlanta in 2000. Back then, Buckhead was known as the epi-center of the city and where all the twentysomethings would [...]
Posted by Allison (Rizk) Hare on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 1:25 am
Filed under Featured, Music · Tagged 2009 AMA's, a capella, Amazon, American music awards, Atlanta, bad romance, Bobby McFarrin, Boy George, Britney Spears, Buckhead, Christina Aguilera, drug-addicts, Elton John, Elvis, Fame Monster, Freddie Mercury, Iggy Pop, Kiss, Lady Gaga, Liberace, Madonna, Marilyn Manson, MTV, osama bin laden, pink floyd, Queen, shine on you crazy diamond, shock, spectacle, speechless, Twitter, wildly creative
Tweet As a person enters their thirties, one can no longer ignore the unstoppable tidal wave of adulthood crashing upon the shore of youth. You can always remain a kid at heart. But grow up! The struggling artist stereotype is cute, even sexy, but only for so long. You know what’s not cool? A forty [...]
Posted by Allison (Rizk) Hare on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:35 am
Filed under Featured, Music · Tagged Facebook, Fame Games, iTunes, Kickstarter, musicians make money, MySpace, Pandora, sell out, The Sixty One, Twitter, YouTube