Loud and Fast

The Conclusion of Loud & Fast

The Loud & Fast project blog, which goes hand in hand with my class project on the future of the music industry and, will be coming to a close today.

The school year has ended and I made an A in the class - as well as an A on the project. I’ll be focusing my efforts on new ideas, new non-school related projects, an internship and hopefully a new blog. It was fun and maybe one day I can buy a real dot com user address and restart this blog. The sky is most certainly the limit. Thank you for reading!

Paramore’s Spring Tour Opener in Knoxville, Tennessee on April 26, 2010.

I was there. Click here for a handful of balcony level pictures from the show.

Because Every Song Ever Created Started With An Idea

See a handful of my best pictures from Record Store Day in the Loud & Fast Flickr photostream.

Record Store Day 2010

My photos from Record Store Day at Knoxville’s Disc Exchange, which this was this past Saturday in case you missed it, will be posted here tomorrow.

- Melody

See more pictures of Third Man Records from my Flickr photostream.

This is what happens when a record store and studio is only open to the public four hours a day - you get deceptively original behind the scenes pictures from their loading dock.

Truth be told, I didn’t plan properly. And my belief that any business that only stays open for four hours a day must not be hurting for business or attention. Thus, my photographs aren’t what I thought they’d be. But they aren’t terrible either, I don’t think.

So enjoy what I was able to get! Again, they aren’t bad pictures I just wish they would have turned their heads for just that one time and let me sneak inside via the loading dock…

Third Man Records in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Next Generation of Music-Based Video Games

The editing on those pictures from my trip to Nashville are still in the works - so I’ll post them tomorrow!

For today, check out this USA Today news article on a new music video game that could help create a new generation of musicians. It’s called ‘Power Gig: Rise of the Six String.’ And it’s controller looks a lot like this.

It doubles as both a controller for ‘Power Gig’ and a real guitar. That the player can actually plug into an amp and play. It also works for existing games Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

YouTube is alive with commentary videos, trailers and demos at video game conventions. Some fans suggest that it won’t catch on because it requires more skill and concentration than simply matching color-coded buttons. If it does, this may be a new way to cultivate aspiring musicians into real life guitar heroes.

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I think it’s high time the mentors, big brothers, big sisters, parents, guardians, and neighborhood ne’er do wells, start taking younger people that look up to them to a real record store and show them what an important part of life music really is. I trust no one who hasn’t time for music. What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation orphaned from one of life’s great beauties. And to the record stores, artists, labels, dj’s, and journalists: We’re all in this together. Show respect for the tangible music that you’ve dedicated your careers and lives to, and help it from becoming nothing more than disposable digital data.

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Jack White of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather (among many other side projects).

More tomorrow on my… uh, interesting trip to Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, Tenn.

- Melody

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