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Apple's Ping Music Network- Good, Bad, Genius or Evil? MySpace killer?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/itunes-ping/

Apple is looking to play in the music network waters. This could be a MySpace killer.
Could it be an MFT killer? Or could it be a powerful tool to take the MFT archive and present it in front o… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on September 1, 2010 at 2:42pm — 9 Comments

Doc Dart-The Troublemaker

I came across this piece just the other day and found it fascinating:

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n1/htdocs/the-troublemakers-515.php

Doc Dart was the lead "singer" for the early '80's Michigan punk band The Crucifucks. Notoriously confrontatiional, Dart was arrested several times for his "anti-police" sentiments. I have to admit that I haven't thought about him or his band for many years but th… Continue

Added by steve schmidt on August 31, 2010 at 11:33am — 2 Comments

2000 MFT Members begs a question- How big is too big?

We just passed the 2000 mark for members on this site. Although I know that only a small percentage of the members visit the site on a daily basis I have begun wondering, should we cap membership on this site at some point in order to keep the quality of conversations as high as possible. So is we decided that the site should only have 2000 members we could let in new ones as inactive ones were gently "bumped" from the site. I don't want this to be exclusive club but I also worry that growth,… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on August 30, 2010 at 1:43pm — 14 Comments

Can a sense of continuity exist in a region without documentation?

I could use some help from the community as I try to get our panel selected for SXSW 2011:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7946

If everybody who reads this thread would sign up for an account, give us a thumb's up, and leave a comment it would be awesome.

I will start to answer the question Can a sense of continuity exist in a region without documentation?

I mean the answer clearly is no. Maybe a… Continue

Added by PJ Christie on August 26, 2010 at 11:28pm — No Comments

How does the Internet bridge the past to the future?

I could use some help from the community as I try to get our panel selected for SXSW 2011:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7946

If everybody who reads this thread would sign up for an account, give us a thumb's up, and leave a comment it would be awesome.

I will start to answer the question and this is my longest expose of the blogs.

How does the Internet bridge the past to the future?

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Added by PJ Christie on August 24, 2010 at 9:52pm — 19 Comments

What happens to all the music that never enters the marketplace?

I could use some help from the community as I try to get our panel selected for SXSW 2011:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7946

If everybody who reads this thread would sign up for an account, give us a thumb's up, and leave a comment it would be awesome.

I will take a stab at answering the question.

What happens to all the music that never enters the marketplace?

There has always been… Continue

Added by PJ Christie on August 23, 2010 at 4:57pm — 15 Comments

Pecha Kucha 8/27- Vinyl Records in 20 Slides

I just found out that my offer to present on vinyl records- their history, how they are made, why they rock, etc. was accepted by Pecha Kucha.

I presented on MFT at the last one and I really wish I had videotaped it since I think it went well. I could share the slides but they wouldn't make a ton of sense. Hopefully this presentation I can have the presence of mind to record.

Any input… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on August 23, 2010 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

Wikipedia- Music Of Indiana

I was researching some records I bought and came across this page on Wikipedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Indiana

I was surprised and disappointed to see that it was very incomplete and clearly edited by someone with an agenda

"In 2008, we were introduced to two new anthems of hope in the Symphonics' "Commencement", which blazed with vocals by Brendon "Bishop" Garrett, and poetry by John "Juan… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on August 23, 2010 at 8:19am — 2 Comments

How does a sense of musical history tie a community together?

I could use some help from the community as I try to get our panel selected for SXSW 2011:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7946

If everybody who reads this thread would sign up for an account, give us a thumb's up, and leave a comment it would be awesome.

I will take a first stab at answering the next question.

How does a sense of musical history tie a community together?

I believe that… Continue

Added by PJ Christie on August 21, 2010 at 3:00pm — 8 Comments

Why does a scene matter?

I could use some help from the community as I try to get our panel selected for SXSW 2011:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7946

If everybody who reads this thread would sign up for an account, give us a thumb's up, and leave a comment it would be awesome.

I will take a first stab at answering the question.

Why does a scene matter?

Any form of creativity is made more relatable by understa… Continue

Added by PJ Christie on August 20, 2010 at 2:39pm — 75 Comments

Rockabilly Hall of Fame: JIANTS, from Marion, Indiana

Marion Indiana where I went to middle/high school has a Rockabilly Hall of Fame member. The Jiants were from Marion, and featured Jerry Hedges. His son Aaron plays in the Crawpuppies, playing at Birdys (see events).

Our high school was The Giants, so maybe that's where the name came from?

I looked up the Jiants myspace. Check it out! They should be on MFT!

http://www.myspace.com/jiants1959

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Added by Frankie Camaro on August 17, 2010 at 1:00pm — 14 Comments

Interview w/ Carl Broemel - Indy Tour Date!

Good news! MFT friend and our favorite guitar player for My Morning Jacket, Carl Broemel, is releasing a new record and touring through Indy in October to support it. Check it out! Jeb will be playing with Brando for this one, too.

CARL… Continue

Added by Daniel Fahrner on August 12, 2010 at 12:00pm — 7 Comments

MFT Mixtape - August 2010 - 90's Rock

Download Here - http://bit.ly/MFTstrohm

Stream Here - http://musicalfamilytree.com/band/mft_mixtape

I returned to my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana in late 1990 after spending five formative (late teens/early twenties) years in Boston. My not-so-secret… Continue

Added by John P. Strohm on August 9, 2010 at 9:59am — 62 Comments

MFT at SXSW, We Hope

Hope everybody is having a great Summer so far. I wanted to send a quick message from Austin and let everybody know about an opportunity to gain some real visibility for Musical Family Tree. I have proposed to present on behalf of MFT for the music seminar. I have a short period of time to amend my proposal and it would be great to hear from other members if a. they would find it interesting and b. the can make the proposal better.

Here's the pitch:

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Added by PJ Christie on August 4, 2010 at 10:30am — 22 Comments

Help release The Ronnie Henn Story

Starting in 1975, my dad made several trips from our home in Richmond, Indiana, to Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked temp jobs while singing in bars and recording dozens of demos. Around 1983, dad pressed his four favorite recordings on a pair of DIY country singles released on his own Charit… Continue

Added by Jason Henn on July 28, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Gift Horse

I visited Bloomington last weekend for the first time in a couple years. I wasn't around long enough to check out any live music, and I was too busy catching up with old pals to hear much about what's going on in town (other than things of immediate interest such as trendy new restaurants).

I did, however, find time to catch up with my old pal Glenn Hicks, who gave me a copy of the demo by his current band Gift Horse (available on this site). First I should say as a caveat that

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Added by John P. Strohm on July 27, 2010 at 10:19am — 4 Comments

Thoughts On Recording

The recent comments/conversation on the 80s Mix Tape blog started to nicely devolve into a discussion around recording, especially recording techniques used in the 1980s. Since I have some opinions on the topic, and I'm sure others do as well, I wanted to post a blog with my thoughts and hopefully others can chime in.

I started recording on 4 Track cassette machines back in the late 1980s. My buddy Simon Hanstad and I would make epic albums with a mic, a 4 track and some very primitive… Continue

Added by Jeb Banner on July 23, 2010 at 11:39am — 17 Comments

We Are Hex Interview - Hail the Goer

In addition to focusing on our favorite bands of yesteryear, we at MFT often like to champion our favorite locals that are working hard to gain national recognition for themselves.

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Added by Daniel Fahrner on July 21, 2010 at 11:59am — 6 Comments

MFT Mixtape - July 2010 - Vintage Punk

Howdy gang,

We enlisted two Indiana Punk experts to help us compile a very special mixtape this month that pays homage primarily to the 80's punk scene here in Indy. This was a legendary scene that truly set the tone for the next two decades. This compilation is by no means meant to be exhausting, but rather a reference to the growth of the scene and the beginnings of a deeply rooted Musical Family Tree (see what i did there?).

Drink it in and then slam-dance it out. Thanks to… Continue

Added by Daniel Fahrner on July 8, 2010 at 12:00pm — 182 Comments

Indiana album reviews

Andrew Bean & the Lady Apollo kick off a weekly series of Indiana album reviews in The Star/Metromix: http://tinyurl.com/2cuo98n Continue

Added by Dave Lindquist on June 29, 2010 at 7:55pm — 18 Comments

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