UPDATED: Random Realizations Episode 1.0
I have gotten a bit stuck on what I wanted to do for this week’s blog post. It is a bit harder to upload an Excel chart to a blog than I thought. Thus I birthed (yes birthed) this blog post out of my subsequent frustration. Anyway these are two random things going on in either the blog-o-sphere and the music world that I have realized are important to note. And hopefully I will figure out how to post my cool Excel chart for next week. I imagine that this wont be the last episode of Random Realizations though… but on to the relevant items!
1) First off thank you to Angela for the article from the News and Observer about vinyl record collectors. My realization stemming from the article is that I have completely neglected record collectors in my recent posts about the future of music. Vinyl is one medium that doesn’t seem to be dying out, in fact the popularity and nostalgia of records seems to be growing. It is one bright spot for the world of hard copy music, many believe the sound quality of vinyl is better than digital copies. My excel post was related to this, so I am not going to get too far into the subject, I have to leave something for you guys to come back to next week.
If you would like to read the story, it can be found here. And thanks again to Angela for the article!
(P.S. While you are in the blog-o-sphere check out Angela’s blog Chapel Hill, China. It’s got some very interesting posts on the situation between Tibet and China among other cool things.)
2) Second Random Realization: (except it really isn’t all that random) It is getting to be that time of year again. That’s right concert festival season. There are several big festivals that have recently released full lineups that are very impressive. Lollapalooza and Coachella seem to be the hot tickets this year. Lollapalooza has secured Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West and Radiohead to headline (easily my favorite lineup of the summer). Coachella announced yesterday that the “Purple One” himself, Prince, will headline along with Jack Johnson (a very close second runner up only because Prince will be there).
Check out the line ups for all of your favorite summer festivals, so you can sweat it out with thousands of other people to all your favorite bands:
Lollapalooza: Chicago, Illinois, August 1-3
Coachella: Indio, California, April 25-27
Coachella East (All Points West Festival): Liberty State Park, New Jersey, August 8-10
Bonnaroo: Manchester, Tennessee, June 12-15
Bumbershoot: Seattle, Washington, August 30-September 1
Sasquatch: The Gorge, Washington, May 24-26
UPDATE: Ok so, I really have no life at all. So much so that I made a nifty time-line of the major summer music festivals this year with Simile. It only took, like, forever. Please click on each tour and click on the name that pops up for a link to each festival website.
Happy Road Tripping! (Oh and don’t forget to pack the sunscreen!)
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