Tag: St. Louis
“Behind the Scene” Reaction
A social media response to my final project
Posted: June 17th, 2012 under Community, Music, Thesis.
Tags: analytics, audience, Behind the Scene, facebook, response, social media, St. Louis, twitter
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Interview with Tara Pham
Preview of my upcoming final project — Behind The Scene: Those Building St. Louis’ Indie Music Community It’s almost here. My final project over the St. Louis indie music scene will be officially published this weekend on this site and today we have the second of two previews of “Behind the Scene”. Tuesday’s post featured [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2012 under Community, Music, Thesis.
Tags: An Under Cover Weekend, eleven magazine, local music, Michael Tomko, music scene, St. Louis, Tara Pham
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Interview with Michael Tomko
Preview of my upcoming final project — Behind The Scene: Those Building St. Louis’ Indie Music Community Coming to you this weekend is the publication of my final project for my journalism masters degree. The project is over St. Louis’ indie music scene and those working hard to build it into something special. A major [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2012 under Community, Music, Thesis.
Tags: An Under Cover Weekend, Behind the Scene, Michael Tomko, St. Louis
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Jack Buck Play Fox Hole Tonight
St. Louis metallic noise rock band Jack Buck will perform live at The Fox Hole in St. Louis tonight, Saturday April 28th, at 8pm. Video by Danny Matteson Jack Buck has quickly developed a reputation as one of St. Louis’ most exciting bands in the short time they’ve been performing live. Described by musician and [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2012 under Music.
Tags: Atomic Cowboy, concerts, live music, St. Louis, The Fox Hole, Xerxes
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4 Shows in 3 Days
Jack Buck and Coward tour the midwest Photo by Chase Macri On January 12-14th, the bands Jack Buck and Coward set out across the midwest to play four shows in three days. The tour, entitled the “Home Turf” tour, went through each of the three cities the members of the bands live: Kansas City, Columbia [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2012 under Music.
Tags: Columbia, Coward, Jack Buck, Kansas City, St. Louis, tour
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Beeps, Boops, and Brotherhood: Noise and Folk at Floating Labs
Video of Kevin Harris performing at Floating Labs Floating Laboratories is one of a crop of new underground, do-it-yourself venues hosting alternative, experimental and noise music in St. Louis. Most of the events are spread through word of mouth, or announced via blog posts on sites like Josh Levi’s Flood Yr Face blog (check out [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2011 under Music, Video.
Tags: electronic music, Floating Labs, interview, live report, St. Louis
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What Does It Mean To Be Successful? Josh Levi and the St. Louis DIY Scene
Josh Levi Interview by chasemacri The word “success” can mean many things. It can be measured by the level of income an individual makes a year. It can be shown by owning a house, a car, by having a certain prestige in your field or title at your job. For musicians, “success” could be having [...]
Posted: December 11th, 2011 under Community, Music.
Tags: diy, interview, Josh Levi, podcast, punk, St. Louis, success
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Cranky and Relieved: Cranky Yellow A Few Months Later
David Wolk of Cranky Yellow | Photo Chase Macri “Overall I’d say I was just relieved. To have had the experience, and it was awesome, and being able to just kind of move on from there.” As previously reported on this site, last we left David Wolk he had decided to shut down Cranky Yellow, [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2011 under Community.
Tags: Cranky Yellow, David Wolk, St. Louis
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After 15 Years, The Conformists’ Mike Benker Goes Out On Top
Fifteen years is a long time to be doing anything. It is an especially long time for a band. On Friday November 18th, The Conformists celebrated fifteen years of playing music together. Despite the joyous setting, the evening was also bittersweet as the bands vocalist, Mike Benker, feels that fifteen years is enough for him. [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2011 under Music.
Tags: Mike Benker, St. Louis, The Conformists
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How Jack Buck Writes Songs
The above video is an example of basic video storytelling that describes the songwriting process of the band Jack Buck. The bands songs are melodically disharmonic and rhythmically complicated, and their assembly involves more counting than it does feel initially. The video shows the band working through their songs and was shot in the bands [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2011 under Music, Video.
Tags: Jack Buck, metal, narration, songwriting, St. Louis
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