It was a perfect storm of buzz.
1. Yesterday, the esteemed professor Iain Ellis emailed me to ask if I'd heard of the Lawrence band Rooftop Vigilantes, saying, and I quote, "I've just been listening to some of the songs from their upcoming album Carrot Atlas ... fookin' brilliant!" High commendation, that.
2.The same day, the influential indie blog Stereogum posted this, the blog's second entry on the band from our neighboring hipster community.
3. That same night, the band was playing at t
Ladies and gentlemen, the wheat has been separated from the chaff, the cream has been skimmed from the top, and the nominees for the 2009 Pitch Music Awards have been chosen.
Because we are insanely in love with the scene and wanted to cover as wide an array of local awesomeness as possible, we upped the size of the ballot from16 categories last year to 21 this year, for a total of 126 nominees (30 more than last year).
And, as is always the case year after year, there are many local acts --
Featuring all-new MP3s from Sailor Sequence, Oriole Post, the Rich Boys, James Christos and Waiting for Signal and classic jam from Thunder Eagle.
The Pitch Music Showcase is this Thursday night. In the meantime, we'll be giving you an audio-visual taste of the 28 bands, DJs, rappers and solo artists who are playing for your $5 (buy wristband here) by posting MP3s and photos for, hopefully, all of them today and tomorrow.
Many of the songs the artists contributed have never been released until
I'm not sure whether it was Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler arriving in their limo to a gaggle of paparazzi outside of the Riot Room or if it was seeing Kurt Loder interviewing T-Pain on the roof of McCoy's, but somewhere between those two sightings -- but two incidents within a major-media-filled, celebrity-packed evening -- I realized, Man, the Pitch Music Showcase has gotten sorta big.
Then I realized someone had slipped peyote into Hefeweizen.
Forester MichaelClick on piano cat for sli
As soon as I get it, I'll post the schedule for this Sunday's Pitch Music Awards Ceremony. In the meantime, here's a schedule for the VIP pre-party for the nominees and guests. (NOTE: All nominees must RSVP now if you haven't already. Like NOW now.)6 p.m. - Doors open.6:07 p.m. - Doors still open.6:11 p.m. - Cars pass, crickets chirp.6:13 p.m. - The Hearts of Darkness drive up, Joad-family-style, piled in the back of a flatbed truck. Truck has no breaks; Hearts end up in a California peach or
