Word On The Street - Volume 152
Frontside Word on the Street Volume 152
Musicians and fans seem to love to beat up on one another at concerts. It’s been going on for years as evidenced by this article on Wired’s blog http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/videos-egregiou.html However, last week I offended some with my insensitive comments about Noel Gallagher getting attacked on stage. I received a couple of emails from people who were definitely displeased with my description of the clip as “hilarious”. I want to apologize for those comments. After reading a couple of e-mails that came back to me I do realize that what I wrote was inappropriate and it was sensationalizing something that was potentially very dangerous. Let’s all understand that I don’t condone this kind of behaviour and it was a gut reaction that I definitely didn’t put enough thought into. That being said, let’s move on!
Spaceship For Sale
One of my favorite people in the entire world has finally started a blog. The Rock of Jaballster himself, Justin Wachtel, has gotten his ish together and started “Spaceship For Sale”. You have to check this out as he is one of the most passionate people I know and he loves him some music. He’ll cover everything from Electro to Hip Hop to well pretty much everything hipster related (haha) and he’ll do it well. The blog is in it’s infancy and he’s going to improve the aesthetics of it, but content is king right. Check it out, http://spaceshipforsale.blogspot.com/
Shad
Last week, or was it two weeks ago, we showed you the Shad video that basically replays the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air opening shot for shot. Well Shad has basically blown up over night and was on MOD last week and is popping up everywhere. This is what a good music video can do!! You get people talking about you and the sky is the limit. I know it’s not rocket science but word of mouth is powerful! The video is up to 500,000 hits already and it’s climbing fast. Do something original and endearing and people will sit up and listen. http://www.myspace.com/shad
The Wire
I got into The Wire a couple of years ago and watched the first season in about 2 days. My eyes were SORE. But then for some reason I just stopped following the show. Now, thanks to www.surfthechannel.com (shhh don’t tell anyone) I can watch all the episodes back to back whenever I want. So over the last couple nights I’ve just been completely absorbed by The Wire season 2 and 3. It moves slow like The Sopranos (yes, it’s an HBO show as well) but just gets you so addicted. I figure I’ll have all the seasons viewed by next Thursday, we’ll discuss then. www.hbo.com/thewire
Have you Heard
This have you heard doesn’t have that much merit but as we discussed before with Shad it has a great video. The Retro Kidz are from New York and guess what? Yeah their thing is all about Retro. They’re kind of on the border of being uber hipsters mixed with genuine retro throwback peeps. To be honest I’ve only ever heard one song but as I said the video is awesome. It has every old school cliché you can think of. Props to JT for sending this my way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2hn4pnrOO8
http://www.myspace.com/theretrokidz
Ear to the Ground
It is with a truly heavy heart that I have to announce that this will be my final Frontside Word On The Street. I will be moving on from Frontside to pursue other things. I really want you to know how much I enjoyed writing this and I want to thank everyone who ever read this, contributed to it, or responded in any way at all. I’m going to miss writing the newsletter but most of all I’ll miss hearing from all of you every week. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Craig Larson
Director of Street and Lifestyle Marketing
Frontside Promotions Group
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