Archive for December, 2009
Average Band Lifespan is about nine months
According to The Village Voice:
As of ’09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype cycle. Faster than you can tweet “Serena Maneesh,” entire genres of music are “discovered” by attention-starved writers; bloggers engage in hilarious slap-fights about who was there first; magazines feel pressured into writing clueless, hackazoid, late-pass trend pieces; bands get elevated to a critical mass of attention they can’t possibly handle; and the phenomenon is promptly abandoned once we find a newer, shinier toy to play with.
How will your act buck this trend?
Fans Determine UK #1 For Christmas
Thanks to social media and fans rallying their support, Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 “Killing In The Name” will be the #1 song on the UK Christmas charts.
Rage Against the Machine Get Christmas Number One Spot in the U.K.