Let's Start A Cool Music News Site

Serious discussion area.
You realize that sometimes you're not okay, you level off, you level off, you level off...
Post Reply
User avatar
trentm32
Posts: 2272
Joined: 3/17/2002, 2:51 pm
Location: my heart is in New York.
Contact:
Contact trentm32

Let's Start A Cool Music News Site

Post by trentm32 »

I just got an idea: why don't a few CM-er's get together and make a website that reports on 'cool' music. My definition of cool includes: OLP, Countig Crows, Better Than Ezra, Live, Train, singer-songwriter stuff, etc., etc. Not so much with the 'punk' or 'hard rock' or 'rap' or 'r&b' type stuff. If anybody'd want to get in on this, I've been working on a layout; and I know of a pretty good free webhost. I could handle the layout work, etc. About all that would really be needed is people to post daily news, album reviews, show reviews, etc.

I really want to do this, I think it would friggin' rock. What really got me wanting to put this together is I often go to music news sites; but most of the news is lame 'punk' sk8er music crap; and it's hard to find any news on 'cool' music.

Plus, as far as domain hosting goes, I could host it as a sub-header under my site. That would make the site's URL something like "music.tildanet.com", or something to that effect. Let me know if anyone would be up for this.

I personally wouldn't be able to post much news, daily work, etc. Because I'm swamped up the butt with daily work on tildanet.com . But, if some rockin' CM-ers would step up, they could run the site, and then other 'cool' people like us would have a place to check out 'cool' music news, etc.

Either post some replies in this topic-arooski, or drop me a line at trent@tildanet.com , and we can go from there.

Peace quackers... 8-)
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.

<a href="http://www.soundthesirens.com">SoundTheSirens.com</a>
Top
User avatar
Neil
Posts: 8405
Joined: 9/27/2002, 8:26 am
Location: Minnesota

Post by Neil »

meeeheh?
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. - Niccoló Machiavelli
Top
areusad831
Posts: 5427
Joined: 4/14/2002, 9:40 pm
Location: Palmerton, PA

Post by areusad831 »

Train is cool music?
old school CM'er 4 Life
Top
User avatar
Neil
Posts: 8405
Joined: 9/27/2002, 8:26 am
Location: Minnesota

Post by Neil »

hey.......Meet Virginia? haha
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. - Niccoló Machiavelli
Top
User avatar
Sufjan Stevens
Posts: 6738
Joined: 3/17/2002, 12:25 pm
Location: Detroit, MI

Post by Sufjan Stevens »

Wait, how can you completely deny those genres of music? Last time I checked Bright Eyes is a pretty good singer/songwriter kind of band, a hell of a lot better than Better Than Ezra and Train, and I even like the both of them. And don't get me started on how you can completely deny Alkaline Trio because people lump them in the same category as pop/punk. You don't have my support. < thumbs up >
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
Top
Penguin Josh
Posts: 7664
Joined: 4/29/2002, 1:27 pm
Location: Boston

Post by Penguin Josh »

I want in
Top
User avatar
trentm32
Posts: 2272
Joined: 3/17/2002, 2:51 pm
Location: my heart is in New York.
Contact:
Contact trentm32

Post by trentm32 »

Cool beans. Yeah, I figured I'd offend quite a few with the exclusion of 'punk', etc. And I wasn't necessarilly saying that Train was cool; just that that is the kind of sound that would be covered. I just thought this would be a cool idea, because there isn't really a 'singer songwriter genre-ish' website out there.

I just thought that CM-ers would be the best folk to staff it with, because if a person likes OLP, they usually like stuff around that genre.

It's just an on-going idea...
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.

<a href="http://www.soundthesirens.com">SoundTheSirens.com</a>
Top
Johnny
Posts: 31096
Joined: 8/21/2002, 5:35 pm
Location: Edmonton

Post by Johnny »

Sounds cool :)
Professional Canadian.
Top
Penguin Josh
Posts: 7664
Joined: 4/29/2002, 1:27 pm
Location: Boston

Post by Penguin Josh »

I realy want in
Top
User avatar
thirdhour
Posts: 7420
Joined: 1/19/2003, 10:23 pm
Location: montreal

Post by thirdhour »

sounds like a pretty good idea, maybe you should also have new or emerging artists. :nod:
Image
Top
Odin
Posts: 461
Joined: 3/17/2002, 7:32 pm
Location: winters

Post by Odin »

I got to www.pitchforkmedia.com for my music news.
Al's emails put a smile on my face, even though all they say is "You've got a private message!"
Top
User avatar
thirdhour
Posts: 7420
Joined: 1/19/2003, 10:23 pm
Location: montreal

Post by thirdhour »

nice
Image
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Somewhere To Unwind”