» I am still reeling from two incredible interviews I taped with No Age and the Breeders this past week, to be featured on an upcoming epsiode of Pop Recon. Both bands couldn’t have been better people to simply talk with. And if I told my teenage self that I’d get to sit in a huddle with the Breeders, she would flip. (OMG, I remember staying up to watch this!) I think I’m taping something with Broken Social Scene and/or the Duchess & the Duke this week too. So busy! The most recent Pop Recon is online for your listening pleasure, BTW.

» Attended the Independents Day Conference hosted by the Philly chapter of the Recording Academy, and as mentioned before, spoke on a panel about radio. I felt like a fish out of water because unlike most places, I get to play whatever I want when I want. I can only hope that I offered up some useful advice. Places like WPRB, WXPN, WFMU and the like remind us that radio isn’t “dead”; most of what happens at radio stations is that a lot of (well, nearly all) energies are misdirected. I have many more things to say about this, but perhaps I’ll talk about ‘em another time.

I can’t lie: I was troubled by the digital panel. Was it about blogging, PR in the Age of the Internet or digital distribution? Wait, it was all three. The moderator did quite good job at trying to straddle all three and made some really good links, but IMHO all three topics deserve their own respective panels. Anyway, gotta mention at how wowed I was by everything Stephanie Renee had to say. Amazing on top of amazing.

» I definitely noticed that many of the questions asked up by the audience in the stuff I attended were of the “How do I do x?” nature. Though panels and breakout groups are designed to address these kinds of situations, is there anything else to help disseminate basic information, and to make sure that people aren’t rewriting the wheel each time around?

» I was bummed that I missed out on the legal and more business/financial panels — they’re always incredibly useful. Also, it’s nice to get out of the clusterfucky world of new/old/mass media. (Maybe that’s why I found Bruce Pavitt’s portion of the Sub Pop PF piece was so satisfying?)

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 9:42 pm and is filed under general, music.