Belgrade Music Scene in NY Times
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If you don’t believe me, try New York Times. Rachel Doyle writes about several Belgrade clubs, as well as hot young bands.
writers of fiction
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Vanja is a film editor from Belgrade, who always dreamed about playing drums. Together with a friend Ivana, a singer in two bands, she moves towards the realization of her dream, by forming a tribute band for the Decemberists. They schedule a concert ten months ahead, before she ever stepped behind the drums. An audition [...]
Tags: music film decemberists
all i’ve ever learned from love …
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Leonard Cohen is a gentlemen. The kind, who wears and suit and a hat. Which he raises from his head, in a sign of respect. A kind that will mean less and less in the days to come.
In little more than two and a half hours of playing, he turned Belgrade’s Arena, which is essentially [...]
Tags: belgrade, leonard cohen, music, robert altman
Last from the Gypsie Queen
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Madonna was in Serbia last week. And no, she did not mention Gypsies. My guess is that people would react in the same way they did in Bucharest in Romania, booing, when she started criticizing them on general treatment of Roma people. Not that I am for discrimination towards Gypsies, but I truly do not [...]
Tags: 2009, belgrade, madonna, sticky and sweet tour
They Call Me K.O.F.Y.
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under Uncategorized, music
A frequent objection to Serbian pop music scene is that it bears no reflection of realities of life in our country, that musicians are too involved with themselves and without ambitions. Then again, the same criticism could be applied to music scene in general. Anywhere. Posture over attitude, crate digging over originality, even indie bands [...]
Tags: Africa, K.O.F.Y., music, politics
Music interlude # 1 - Give us more National!
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I can’t decide between Interpol and The National, who is my favorite band. The latter are uber fancy bunch in expensive designer suits from Manhattan, erudite and conceited, intimate friends of models and actresses, while the former are friends from Ohio, who struck camp in hipster central Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Between sounding like Joy Division or [...]
Tags: download, interpol, new songs, the national
keepers of the cultural choice
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In the end of April, an interesting conference on music industry, entitled Balkan Beat, was held in the cultural centre Grad in Belgrade. A number of guests, mostly from the UK came to share their experiences with their Serbian counterparts, that is, to talk about management techniques, organization of festivals, online marketing or new [...]
Tags: balkanbeat music conference, belgrade, domino records, john dyer, Last.fm, online music, popboks
My Family’s Role in the World Revolution
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, music, popcult
Last night, boyfriend asks me to burn a film Burn After Reading (so much burning, right_?) on a CD, so he can take it to his boss, who likes Brad Pitt. I take an unmarked CD, pop it in the laptop, but it turns out it has music on it. Pop Levi, Ben Folds Five, [...]
Tags: balkan brass, beirut, bora ćosić, gulag orkestar, lon gisland ep, my family's role the world's revolution
what’s next for music
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, music, popcult, web 2.0
Faced with the widespread torrent or p2p network downloads, record companies are teaming up with social networks trying to monetize on the increasing online participation.
MySpace Music being the last foray in this area.
As a social network, MySpace has been associated with teenagers and unsigned musicians, who hoped to be spotted and propelled into stardom (there [...]
Tags: Facebook, Last.fm, MA thesis, MOG, music, MySpace, online music services, social networking
