He was yelling "Mmmm me want food, me want cookie...!" and so on and so forth until someone bit into his candy shell.
Anyway beside Zack's ongoing hunger,
It was our last panel today,
Artist Managers: The New Labels? The roll of the manager has drastically changed over the recent years. With many labels downsizing, artist managers have found themselves having to pick up the slack. Panelists will discuss these new rolls of artist management. M
MODERATOR:
Jason Spiewak
PANELISTS:
Dave Bason
Adam Berger
Tony Couch
Pat McGee
Mostly we had learned and talked about most of the trends and obstacles artists are facing but the Q and A really helped us understand more about percentages, what other managers are charging and the duties they are taking on for the artist.
We had a great time at the networking parties.
Luakabop = big surprise.
For those of you who do not know what Luakabop is, it is a world record label and you can check them out here: http://www.luakabop.com/cmp/index_banner.php3
They had this insane band called The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt that you can check out here: http://www.myspace.com/theterrorpigeondancerevolt
There was a lot of suspense of this artist. They threw down a costume box for everyone to choose a perfect outfit to dance with. There were slices of pizza and lions running around a guy and some characters with instruments in hand. We even chose our own costume to rock out in.
ALL OF THE SUDDEN! There was a guy who appeared to be a stuffed animal serial killer that sewed all of these plush toys together to make a all-encompassing cape outfit who thrashed out in the middle of the dance floor singing his dance songs. Every character came from the dance floor to join, an neon indian with his drum, a slice of pizza, cheetahs, glittery cousin its, 80's dancers, and more. They created a dance party band that the audience could either join or watch.
They had this song called "Snowday" where the lion and the cheetah of the band jumped on top of the counter of the bar with garbage bags of Styrofoam peanuts and a fan. You can imagine what happened.
The outfits changed often for the lead singer. I didn't catch a picture but the last outfit was him covered in white Christmas lights where he lit up on and off during the emphasis of his lyrics.
I strongly recommend you check out this artist! Especially if you can find a youtube. Live performance was key for these guys!
Fader Fort
The Fader Fort was a block from our hotel (good choice Sharod!).
This was the most decked out venue. It was basically a garage-like space that was totally re-invented with street and modern art from spray painting to pieces of vinyl, neon colors, stencils, and more.
We saw a few jam-band emerging artists, ran into some friends and some of the Windish crew including Matt and Kim from our previous SPB show.
It was a largely packed space with a great waterhole for networking. This was one of the most talked up spots of CMJ.
New York Noise Showcase
I'm not going to lie to you, I cannot tell you much about this showcase. It was very packed and the music was alternative. Everywhere there was someone who was someone important but all the press and photographers were dominating the venue.
French Horn Rebellion accompanied us for the night once again and Rob and I were spotted by the CMJ photographer to be added to the gallery!
Representing CHICAGO!Zack will fill you in on the artist playing but here they are:
Arlene's Grocery
It's not over yet!
We had to represent the Chi!
First a listen to The Envy Corps http://www.myspace.com/theenvycorps
This was the first band we were able to check out now at 1AM.
NYC never sleeps, I'm sure you've heard this.
Next was Hollywood Holt.
He taught me something, that New Yorkers didn't know what juking was!
I tried to teach them but ... uh... they need practice.
Holt of course put on a high energy performance as always. So intense in face that my camera could only catch awesome action blurs.
All I can remember after is that there was this amazing taco that was like a double decker except it had guacamole stuffed in between the shells. I wanted to tell Zack but he had already ate and cashed in for the night. It was good we had guides like FHR to take us to great places and spaces!
Webster Music Hall: Fools Gold Showcase (Thursday)
Sorry I thought this was Friday but I'll just give you my take on Webster really quick. All the showcases are so good they blended together!
We missed Crystal Castles!!!! but it was all okay because we got to check out some really hot Djs in this grand venue. I would say it compares to Aaragon Ballroom in size and very epic with older detailing and that grand ballroom feel.
Trackademicks or http://www.myspace.com/trackademicks definitely made us dance or I guess me dance but the rapper after well... I will let Zack rant about that one. All I can let you in on is that he sincerely said on stage, "Give it up for me!" and you can't give yourself credit as an artist, the audience decides if you're worth it.
Our Chicago artists were after including Kid Sister, Flosstradamus, and the whole crew.
Overview for Saturday:
Love- Paul Hammer's Band
IHEARTCOMIX- Juiceboxx
Totally Mike
IHEARTREVOLUTION
We have some amazing pictures for these next guys! We got in the crowds and in their faces.
No comments:
Post a Comment