"I've got Fanne Fox and Wilbur Mills..."

Hope everyone likes the new look.  I was... inspired, when coming up with a new banner image for the blog, to look up that perverted old Italian street fighter, Caravaggio.  And look what I dug up!

She gives neither a shit nor a fuck.

So yeah.  Also in the news, we should have some new bloggers on board soon... cynics, skeptics, mods, rockers, tea maniacs, people I went to high school with... the possibilities are endless.  And of course, if YOU want to blog for Crappy, let me know!  Glory awaits!

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Ben is doing all the blogging around here!

Let's give the boy a hand!

Dear CIMTB bloggers and readers,

I will admit to this without shame:

I just heard Helio Sequence (knowingly and willingly) today for the first time. I like them.

Does anyone else have anything to add?

Love, Goldie

my new office:

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Dear Anonymous blog commenter

Dear Anonymous blog commenter,

I am no longer accepting anonymous comments. I will accept your internet aliases and such. This decision is based on:

1. My inability to take most anonymous comments seriously.
2. It's annoying to have multiply anonymous comments on one post. It's confusing.
3. **tirade about the nature of The Internet**
   
4. Using your real name is best because it establishes your online credibility.
5. If you are in a band we are talking about you are more than welcome to discuss your music with us. Blogs ARE conversations. If you have criticism please share them. We aren't animals. If you are a venue, label, CD Baby... it's cool. Promoting your biznas it A-Okay... if you want to sell real estate then fuck off.
6. STOP BEING A CHICKEN!
   

There are many advantages and NO disadvantages to using a user name. There have been a rash of anonymous comments. Some are from a truly interesting person. I hope they don't feel attacked. I just can't take it anymore.

Join the community. Let us call you by name, any name.

Sincerely,
Goldie Davich <-- real name

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE Gmail, TypePad, Wordpress or AIM GET YOUR NEW USER NAME ACCOUNT HERE: OpenID

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Blog with us!

One of CIMTB's goals for 2009 is to find bloggers to help diversify our content. We want new voices. We want to hear new voices that keep it real, funny, absurd, whateve's. You don't have to be "cool" you just have to speak your mind.


image from http://www.nataliedee.com

Crappy Indie Music wants you to blog with us:

• You are in a band: write about venues, shows you went to, your friends bands, touring, tips for other musicians, compliments and complaints about and and all things listed above or whatever
  

• You love to blog: share your favorite online video, blog, wise cracks, photo's, you know whatever you want to blog about as it pertains to Portland music and/or loose affiliation with. Do you have friends you think make kick ass videos, music, photo's? Tell us about them. Maybe you make your own videos... Blog them here so people can see them.
  
  
• You love music: you listen online, you have favorite Portland, Oregon, Vantucky bands, you might throw house shows, maybe you are heavily into one genre of music (punk, jazz, folk, synth pop, drum and bass, hip hop etc.) and want to share the word about it by listing shows you would recommend.
  
  
• You hate music: you listen to music and it makes you mad. You might have a beef with aspects of Portland music, venues, bands, etc

Crappy Indie Music is at the cusp of running a promotional campaign to draw readers into our Portland-centric, unique, personal, uncensored, indie, blog. Our readers are local AND national musicians, critics, fanatics and music lovers. We are a unique voice for Portland's ever growing and increasingly nationally recognized music community. The CIM bloggers are the people who make the scene go round. We are musicians, critics and music lovers. We are documenting what goes on right now.

Crappy Indie Music is a place for people who want to speak frankly with others. Blogs are conversations. I have found more music THAT I ACTUALLY like from the bloggers and readers (can I get a witness). I have found like minded people and people that challenge my point of view.

If you are a writer, blogger, musician that is looking for exposure or simply want to help shape Portland's music community come blog with us.



If you want to blog let me know and I can get you set up right away. Have questions? Leave a comment or email me: goldiedavich@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Ste. Goldie

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Enter The Blog: How I can't wait for Portland, Oregon media companies to actually apply the awesome tools of Web 2.0

The internet means everyone can have a voice. The internet means "the powers that be" can take a breather and let the readers decide what is in and what is out, what is a radical paradigm shift, and what is an overly-hyped jab at the establishment.

Newspapers don't get to be the authority when it comes to music, literature, films, fashion, politics, social justice, or anything, anymore.

All newspapers, television and radio stations have credibility and censorship issues. But because they are the media you aren't going to hear about it from them. It's like how you never hear an ill word spoken of Jeff Gianola or Amy Mccullough. The journalistic integrity I keep hearing so much about is really about who can say what without stepping on you-know-who's toes. Yes, the corporate media is good at fact checking and will admit when they've messed up, BUT what they are presenting aren't always the facts the people are interested in.

Enter the Blog (omg it's like Enter the Dragon, only better!!!).

A newspaper or television station (OPB wants you to share what you know) can host a blog (topical, current, editorial or news breaking information) and let readers (humans) respond. It's free market research and information sharing, all in one!

Once the public starts to figure out they don't have to take what media companies are dishing, they can say goodbye to the internally selected and often ignored quixotic message in a bottle, i.e. "letters to the editor." They can simply join in the conversation. And if the writer of that particular blog doesn't see fit to respond to comments, then people will notice they are still caught up in the rules of print media. Writers aren't used to back-talk from their readers... Honestly, what could possibly make for better writing than to totally open it up? The brave new voices we will hear...

Ah the voices...

I want to hear new voices. I want to hear what COMMON PEOPLE have to say.

I hope to teach as many people as possible to start using their voice online. Crappy Indie Music--The Blog! is a group of people who aren't getting to paid* to write about Portland/Vancouver music they love and that is their culture. We consider ourselves authorities on WHAT WE LIKE and WHO WE LIKE. We consider YOUR comments interesting and inspiring. We post blogs because we want to talk to YOU, whoever YOU ARE. If you would like to post a blog or two or 100 here, please leave a comment and I will direct you on how to get started. - Ste. Goldie


PS -- this post is in response to my most recent meltdown regarding the WW's best band of 2008 thing


photo credit Enter The Dragon

* not that i totally wouldn't LOVE to get paid cash money to blog about Portland's increasingly out of control music scene... are you kidding me? Who wouldn't?

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Attention CIMTB Peeps! Google Reader is my best friend!

Google Reader allows me to find out when people are blogging about all kinds of things. I've always wanted this community of bloggers to stay in the loop. But you don't have to. I just want you to know how easy it is to be the most informed Portland music blog.

On the right hand side of this page I've posted a sweet widget of some feeds I think you might be interested in . If you have a couple minutes to read someone else's music blog you should totally do it. Especially try to check out our friends at Northwest Noise. I've conveniently listed a bunch of links to other Portland music bloggers.

Click on one of the links and it will redirect you to a new page. If you use "tabs" you can right click and "open in a new tab". You can also click on "read more" and be redirected to the full page.

Remember if you are going to leave a comment on another blog, you are a guest in their home. For example Northwest Noise doesn't like it when you tell them their favorite song is shitty... They won't publish your comment. Try being nice first and then if someone has posted something you really can't stand I guess just ignore it.

CIMTB peeps. Let's get tight with our PDX brothers and sisters and show them that it's OKAY to have an online community of bloggers. That it will actually help everyone and we will all end up with better content.

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Seeking Portland Indie Muisc Lovers

Do you go to shows no one has ever heard of?

Do you like music that isn't on a label (or a label that isn't Capitol Records)?

Do you love finding music and sharing it with your friends?

Portland has hundreds of bands the Mercury and the Willamette Week don't write about. Let's write about them here!

Things I want to read about:

1. Best of Portland 2007
2. Best Jazz of Portland, Oregon
3. Best venues to play shows at
4. Top Ten Bands no one has heard of but you swear are worth a listen!

If you blog for another blog -- Publish in two places! or leave a comment with a link to your best of Portland 2007!


(members of Westfold, AristeiA, present. Gary from Gas House was there! Amber Dawn, Ste. Goldie and others...) Photo taken with my camera by Mel!

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Dave Allen hates on me in a nice way!

The following has been copied and pasted from Pampelmoose:

Dave Allen Says:
December 11th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Mr Goldie, if in fact you are a Mr, maybe a Ms, your blog is fine, but such early days….you’ve got to earn the accolades in the blogosphere and it takes years believe me. The ‘tricks’ of getting traffic are out there but they don’t work, there are no shortcuts. What works is a dedicated posting schedule, an authentic voice, a good overview of your subject and/or topics, original content that other blogs will want to host on their own site, etc etc etc. You must become a journalist and do your research too. The Moose site is now heavily-trafficked after two years of at least 3 posts a day. 852 blogs link to the Moose and we get about 63,000 unique visitors a month…that’s uniques, not just our fine regular readers such as yourself. To get there I have put in on average about 3 hours a day every day for two years. Keep at it and you’ll be fine. BTW, my local top picks are up on Indie Music Portland

WOW! I HAD NO IDEA PAMPELMOOSE WAS SO BIG IN THE BLOGOSPHERE... Maybe I need to beef up on my online stalking techniques!

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