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Carles: How Indie Finally OFFICIALLY Died: The Broken Indie Machine. (Hipster Runoff)
Carles: How Indie Finally OFFICIALLY Died: The Broken Indie Machine. (Hipster Runoff)
Maybe the indie experiment only existed to create Grimes, the ultimate internet content producer who makes content directly aimed at internet viewers. She is the best example of ‘not being a band/musician’, but instead a ‘playing by the rules’ content generation machine that resonates with humans wasting time on the internet.
·hipsterrunoff.com·
Carles: How Indie Finally OFFICIALLY Died: The Broken Indie Machine. (Hipster Runoff)
Steven Hyden: Lena Dunham, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, and the end of indie exceptionalism. (Grantland)
Steven Hyden: Lena Dunham, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, and the end of indie exceptionalism. (Grantland)
…the notion of indie exceptionalism (and its white, urban, and upper-class trappings) was repeatedly questioned this year, almost always by the very people who benefit from it. Indie-ness in 2012's pop culture has been depicted as an outmoded cliché, an indulgence for the rich and deluded, a jokey lyrical reference, a house of cards, and/or a pile of cool clothes for pop stars and corporations to try on and discard.
·grantland.com·
Steven Hyden: Lena Dunham, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, and the end of indie exceptionalism. (Grantland)
Keith Calder: vhxtv: We’re very proud to announce that VHX is powering the worldwide release of Indie Game: The Movie on June 12
Keith Calder: vhxtv: We’re very proud to announce that VHX is powering the worldwide release of Indie Game: The Movie on June 12
But this is it. This is where we start. Crowd-funded on Kickstarter; self-released on iTunes, Steam, and VHX. Our Edison is Steve Jobs, our Chaplin is Louis CK, our multiplex is VHX, and our Warner Brothers is Kickstarter. I hope you can be our Hitchcock, our Curtiz, our Méliès, or our Griffith.
·keithcalder.com·
Keith Calder: vhxtv: We’re very proud to announce that VHX is powering the worldwide release of Indie Game: The Movie on June 12
Jonathan Coulton: Megaupload
Jonathan Coulton: Megaupload
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. So I have a lot of trouble with the idea that the federal government is directing resources toward an ultimately ineffective game of piracy whack-a-mole (with some unknown amount of collateral damage to law-abiding citizens), when we are not even sure that piracy is a problem.
·jonathancoulton.com·
Jonathan Coulton: Megaupload
Nitsuh Abebe: Indie Grown-Ups
Nitsuh Abebe: Indie Grown-Ups
‘One good indicator of this norm’s normalness? The main criticism you hear about this kind of record—even outweighing references to Starbucks and/or the bourgeoisie—is that it is just too dull to even bother producing any more complex indictment of it. These acts, intentionally or not, have won; they’ve taken a lower-sales, lower-budget version of the type of trip Sting once took, from a post-punk upstart to an adult staple.’
·nymag.com·
Nitsuh Abebe: Indie Grown-Ups
Summer Time in Hell: Bowing Out
Summer Time in Hell: Bowing Out
“This is not something I entirely want to do or say. After this year has ended, Coma Cinema will end it’s run as a recording and performing entity.”
·summertimeinhell.tumblr.com·
Summer Time in Hell: Bowing Out
eMusic Q&A: Rob Sheffield
eMusic Q&A: Rob Sheffield
"To mark the publication of rock critic Rob Sheffield’s second book, an 'I Love the 80s'-style tribute to the music of his youth called Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, eMusic’s Michaelangelo Matos took a unique approach to the author interview: a jukebox jury in which music critics, rather than songs, were the focus of discussion."
·17dots.com·
eMusic Q&A: Rob Sheffield