From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #124 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, May 15 2007 Volume 13 : Number 124 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog ["Karen Hester" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 04:24:03 -0700 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 13 May 2007 New Guide entries added for: * Allison Sattinger Changes made to the entries for: * Mary Chapin Carpenter (new album) * Mila Drumke (new album) * Melissa Ferrick (new album) * Patty Griffin (new album) * Lucy Kaplansky (new album) * Joanna Newsom (two new releases) * Lucinda Williams (3 new albums) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.ectoguide.org/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.ectoguide.org/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:33:35 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Re: Kate covers Some of the guitar sounds very similar to Dave Gilmour's on that loud guitar live version Kate did (which also had male backing vocals). I wish Kate had recorded that version in a studio. Karen > From: Dave > Looking for videos of French singer Nolwenn Leroy, I came upon a cover > she did of Kate Bush's "Running up that Hill". She does a pretty decent > job I think. > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=RlIdVb3W_ZM ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:44 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13audience-t.html?pagewanted=1 This ain't new to ecto, but the anecdotes and thoughts on future types of artists is interesting. Impressed on me how exhausting it can be for musicians to successfully maintain online interaction with fans. Also illustrates how the main focus of the musician (their music) can differ from that of their community (the musician as a person). Some quotes: "the new online fan world: it allows a fresh route to creative success, assuming the artist has the correct emotional tools" (ie willingness to spend hours developing relationships with fans online) "For many of these ultraconnected artists, it seems the nature of creativity itself is changing. It is no longer a solitary act: their audiences are peering over their shoulders as they work, offering pointed comments and suggestions." (and some find it hard not to tailor their new music to what the fans want) "Perhaps there's no way to use the Internet to vault from the B-list to the A-list and the only bands that sell millions of copies will always do it via a well-financed major-label promotion campaign." "Kubler [guitarist in Brooklyn's Hold Steady] regards fan interaction as an obligation that is cultural, almost ethical. ... Now he wonders: Are today's online artists ruining their own aura by blogging?" "fans represent a new, wild-card form of journalism. Franz Nicolay, the Hold Steady's nattily-dressed keyboardist [says] "You start acting like a pro athlete, saying all these banal things after you get off the field." For Nicolay, the intimacy of the Internet has made postshow interactions less intimate and more guarded." "Even the most upbeat artist eventually crashes and burns. Indeed, fan interactions seem to surf along a sine curve, as an artist's energy for managing the emotional demands waxes and wanes." Karen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 01:50:54 -0400 From: meredith Subject: upcoming ectogasm in NYC Hi, I think this is definitely going to rank as #1 Show That's Killing Me To Be Missing of 2007: Noe Venable and Emily Bezar at the Rockwood Music Hall in NYC, Thursday, May 17 from 8-10 pm (Emily's on at 8, Noe at 9. And to make things even sweeter (or bitter, depending on whether or not you, like me, can't be there), Greta Gertler will be accompanying Noe during her set. So every ectophile within reach of New York City has zero excuse not to get your tuchases down to Allen Street this Thursday night. It's going to be magical. And dammit, I won't be there. :P :P :P - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #124 ***************************