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Hi everyone,

I recently took over Salon.com's Audiofile site (http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/), which I know isn't on many people's radars. I was looking for some advice as to what kind of stuff I could offer on the site that might entice more of y'all to take a gander. As it stands, I've got one song for download each day and run a weekly record roundup as well as frequent conversations with musicians, directors, producers, etc. If anyone's bored on a given day, I hope you'll take a look and let me know what I could do to make it better. Thanks -- hope this wasn't too much of a nuisance.

― david marchese (davidmarchese), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

hidden/forgotten Music gems by genre / justification

― M T (BlackIronPrison), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

PLAY SOME JUDGE DREAD

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

How about some international stuff that doesn't get marketed much, if at all, outside its own country, like, oh, I don't know, Shiina Ringo for instance. But just generally (good) things that aren't going to normally be picked up in print media because there's no marketing push behind them. That's a gap that online sources are already filling, but more could be done. I'm thinking especially of artists who aren't necessarily particularly "indie" in their own countries.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Less indie rock.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Underground acts such as Rilo Kiley or The Decemberists, and people who are doing intersting things with hip-hop and moving way from a guns'n'girls aesthetic.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Coupe Decale

― R_S (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

hi. i like to read audiofile. thanks.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

maybe take down the toadying links to Hua Hsu, Julianne Shepherd, and SFJ. your predecessor has likely wrung all the networking value from them already.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh weird, isn' that the one Doveman used to run?

― brokenfuses (brokenfuses), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Underground acts such as Rilo Kiley or The Decemberists, and people who are doing intersting things with hip-hop and moving way from a guns'n'girls aesthetic.

Interestingly enough, this is the blueprint to ensure that I do not read the site.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sarcasm 101

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Thomas Bartlett (aka Dovemen) has bequeathed Audiofile duties to me so he can focus on his music career.

― david marchese (davidmarchese), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

doveman used to write audiofile? i swear i saw his own music on there before.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Less indie rock"

Actually, NO indie rock.

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the downloads have definitely been weighted towards indie-rock -- but one of the deals with Audiofile is that we're supposed to be offering legal downloads. Indie rock labels tend to be the most generous with allowing us to offer their music. I'd love to post more different kinds of music but it can be difficult to get permission to do so. If you guys know any world or jazz or metal or whatever record labels that are good about that kind of thing, let me know!

― david marchese (davidmarchese), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

metal = Southern Lord maybe...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

sarcasticcomment.txt

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Amie Street, the new-ish online music store, has all independent releases, if I'm not mistaken... if you need track ideas.

http://amiestreet.com/

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

>Yeah, Thomas Bartlett (aka Dovemen) has bequeathed Audiofile duties to me so he can focus on his music career.
-- david marchese (davidmarchese8...), January 16th, 2007.

Oh, I see that Bartlett is playing keyboards with David Byrne in that upcoming Carnegie hall thing about Imelda Marcos that Byrne wrote the songs for with Fatboy Slim.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

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