Denton, Texas: my Crappy Indie Music home away from home!

Rubber Gloves Recording Studio is located in beautiful Denton, Texas. I made two new awesome friends! Pictured below are Hunter Braasch a future PDX resident/bike mechanic (make friends with him now and when he moves here he will fix your bike!) and Caleb Hensley aka Chopper future PDX resident and heavy metal lord (send him...

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Things To Do -- Weekend of Friday 11/16/07 - Sunday 11/18/07

Click here to see a list of things to do this weekend:Cool new blog post I fou...

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Blogs: My Indie College or How I learned to love SEO Chicks

Blogs are a dialog! For an example of what I mean please go to this link and read the blog and the following comments!: Example of Why Blogs are Awesome"SEO Chicks: The SEO Blog with attitude" taught me AND provided an awesome learning environment for me.I woke up this morning to find I had a new subscription post in my Google...

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ACTION ALERT! ALL POINTS BULLETIN

REPOST:Heya-Just wanted to remind everyone that Tuesday, November 13 at 5pm is the deadline for submitting feedback to the OLCC about their proposed rule changes that would allow music venues and other art spaces to admit minors and still sell alcohol (i.e. stay in business). Send your emails in support of the changes to:jennifer.huntsman@state.or.usFor...

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[Updated 8/26/08]Open Mic Nights! -- An Indie Music Staple

Open Mic's have many purposes:1. work on stage fright2. meet new people3. share/shape your artistry4. support your friends5. have FUN!Two of the BEST open mic's in Portland, Oregon are:SUCK ON MY MICSuck My Open MicWednesday Nights Hosted by Tamara J. Brown@ The Alberta St Pub1036 NE Alberta, Portland, OR."Performers of all...

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Why Meyercord is playing a show with NIRE

I asked Ben Meyercord of the band Meyercord to write a little something about his upcoming show. This is what he had to say:I am very excited to play this show on Thursday.A while back I decided I was going to play a show with the band NIRE because a) I like their music and b) they live here in Portland just like me. In fact,...

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Unlease your inner Indie Music Dominator! Write a blog!

Marketing is not just about wasting natural resources like florescent pink 8 1/2 x 11 inch pieces of paper.It is about SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.If you have a band, recording studio, record store or t-shirt company you need a blog.Blogs are:web·log (wĕb'lôg', -lŏg') pronunciationn.A website that displays in chronological...

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What I Learned at Old Town Pizza Tonight

1. some people look good dressed up as gnomes2. Brandon Gordon and Adam Steinfink like to chat it up like a couple of hungry seagulls.3. Gary from Gas House Recordings may have a thing or two to learn from the old Goldster! Well not really two things... 4. Gabriel Darling, host of Incubator (which is not happening this week November 6th by the way)...

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Chairman! He's not crappy! He's my brother!

Here is a video of Chairman's solo musical odyssey (he's of DRATS!!! in case you didn't know) THE CHAIR PROJECT. This performance took place at the Portland Mercury's PIZZAZZ! talent show at the Wonder Ballroom (Friday, October 26th 2007)p.s. He will be doing another Chair Project show on Thursday, November 29th at Langano Lounge (15th & SE Hawthorne,...

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Pandora.com Vs. Last.fm

Last.fm is cool.butPandora is EASY.If you are looking for an online community to sink, sink, sink your sharp, astute, teeth into then go with Last.fmIf you are at a friends house and you are jonesing for M.I.A. and your friend doesn't have the CD and your iPod is in the toilet (or you don't have one) then go to Pandora.com...

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