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Janie Danger

The No Bar and Grill - Muncie Indiana 1985-1988 32 Replies

Started by Janie Danger in Music Venues- Past and Present. Last reply by Matt Chapman Jan 10.

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Thoughts on Split Lip/Chamberlain? 16 Replies

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RIP Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009 59 Replies

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Jeb Banner

Vinyl & Me



I discovered music via my parents collection, as many kids do.

First up were Elvis and The Beatles. I played these records to death. "Lucy In
The Sky With Diamonds" was the most amazing thing my 7 year old mind could imagine- I couldn't understand how they made those amazing sound… Continue

Posted by Jeb Banner on February 8, 2010 at 11:30pm — 12 Comments

Jeb Banner

New Features in MFT Archive

Hey Gang, we've been hard at work tricking out the MFT Archive.


Here's some of new features you will notice when browsing the site. Thanks to Jordan Wilson at Small Box for making all these changes the past few days. There are more on the way and I may just update this blog as we go.


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Posted by Jeb Banner on February 6, 2010 at 1:41pm — 13 Comments

Michael Eugene Henry

Indiana Musical History and Review

First of all, Jeb asked me to start a blog of this type a couple days ago. Well, I already had one similar to it but no one, including myself, was posting.With all of the hullabaloo regarding New Orleans vs Indiana in sports; It was said by one Rachel Maddow that Indianapolis shouldn't try to compete with New Orleans musically after viewing music video's for both teams on her February 2nd show. I posted this fact on the Mix Tape blog soon after and then the peach cobbler hit the fan. There were… Continue

Posted by Michael Eugene Henry on February 5, 2010 at 11:50pm — 20 Comments

Kooch

Got my band a brand-spanking new website and it could have been free!

http://thegitmos.com/ is where you'll find it. I already owned the domain name, but other than the cost of that (15 bucks a year) and having wordpress use that address (10 bucks a year) it was all FREE. Free I say!
Jeb turned me on to bandcamp.com for the music streaming and downloads. Thanks, Jeb! It's a pretty cool service that lets you embed your music elsewhere and sell or give away downloads with no charge to the ban… Continue

Posted by Kooch on February 4, 2010 at 10:41pm — 1 Comment

Andrews Feigenbaum

Band of the Month - Accordions



Ben Bernthal of the band Accordions always greets me with a firm handshake and a smile, either at a show or at the Broad Ripple Bagel Deli where I run into him with some frequency. Usually Paul Cobb (who sometimes moonlights wit… Continue

Posted by Andrews Feigenbaum on February 4, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Jeb Banner

In Defense of Indianapolis

There has been some very articulate trash talking recently by New Orleans fans about the "cultural wasteland" of Indianapolis. I know it's mostly Super Bowl driven but I love this city and I think those looking in from the outside see a different reality than what I'm seeing day to day. This town is more than Corn and Colts.

Indy is a surprising city. I moved here over 10 years ago (1998) with no real intentio… Continue

Posted by Jeb Banner on February 4, 2010 at 12:00pm — 79 Comments

Daniel Fahrner

JOOKABOX - Dead Zone RMXS



Audio Recon -Indy's own all-digital hip hop / experimental / jazz record label- recently lent some of its talented artists to Asthmatic Kitty for remixes of select songs from… Continue

Posted by Daniel Fahrner on February 4, 2010 at 10:00am

Ed

Fatalistic Funnies Included in Mega-Mini Comics Anthology

While I was an art student in Bloomington, I spent some of my time making mini-comix under the label, Fatalistic Funnies. Mini-comics were 8-page comic books (sometimes called 'newave' mini-comics) made from a single, double-sided 8.5x11 sheet, usually traded for other mini-comics in the mail (they fit perfectly in a regular envelope). The main place for finding out about them was in Factsheet 5, a zine which reviewed basically everything anyone sent it, and which was theref… Continue

Posted by Ed on February 3, 2010 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

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man, that would have been a nice score- the Butcher!
23 minutes ago
interesting. Now if you could actually hit a button and somewhere a large jukebox would find the album, put it on the turntable and stream it, that would be something!
29 minutes ago
Here is an example of a vinyl archive, Jeb: http://rineke.net/records/ here is a example of album detail: http://rineke.net/records/coverhtmls/KE%2031556.html The assemble of this amazing thing used to have mono lo-fi rips of each album up, tra…
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Oh, and the records from my parent's collection that really launched me? Their collection of "original Broadway cast" musicals made me think about telling stories through music; Allan Sherman's "My Son the Nut" taught me that music can be both serio…
2 hours ago
I’ve probably mentioned this before here at MFT, but the first time I really, REALLY wanted a particular recording and found out it was only available on CD...late July of ‘95...that was one of the saddest days of my life. Crushing. I’m not sure jus…
2 hours ago
I need to write a blog totally marginalizing vinyl. I'll get to work on that ;) Seriously, good piece. I need to find my way back to vinyl - I need to convince my wife to let me set up the turntable in the living room again.
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My family still had 78's and a record player that would play 'em when I grew up in the '50's. My father had big band, Beethoven, country, all kind of things. My mother worked at the RCA plant that made records in Indianapolis, when she left to have…
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