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hey! this is tomorrow! it's gonna be awesome!

(I still need to install the webcam ahh)

how would you guys measure a "thriving" scene? is it the number of active artists, or fans, or show attendance?

I'd honestly say that it's a combination of the three! but I'm interested to hear how it works in other communities

it's kind of telling that the scant coverage of chiptune on pitchfork's website isn't about original works -- it's about a cover of two radiohead albums.

I don't think that this kind of typecasting should be encouraged, because when a big site like pitchfork covers our entire genre/medium/whatever and only puts up gimmicky 8bit (not even) covers of other songs, everyone starts to think that chiptune is just about covers of songs but lo-fi. bluntly put, it's lazy journalism.

kedromelon -- you should all your tweets from being in Maryland for the summer and compile them into a book and title it "Longing"

bestseller status I swear!

Here's the obligatory San Diego update:

So we're slowing down a bit since I last checked in -- the main three are still me, (Mike) Bleeds, and Hyperwave, but Hyperwave has been pretty busy at school and he hasn't been able to play many shows or write stuff.

We've been playing a bunch of shows but it's kind of plateau-ing, I think. San Diego's a tough nut to crack for pretty unique reasons! One of which is the fact that you have to drive everywhere.

Here's the thing -- our public transportation is not robust enough to get everyone to the big venues around San Diego, so cars are basically required if you want to go see music. The problem is, when you get someone into a car, you basically have to PROMISE them a good time; otherwise they won't go. It's different than in the bigger, more dense cities like NY, where if a band is shitty you can just walk to a bar nearby and hang out.

Second -- even if you manage to get to a venue, they probably won't be playing music from the independent scene. Most of the big venues are concentrated in the downtown area, and the downtown area mostly plays music from outside of SD, or electronic dance music. This means that even if we managed to get known around the other San Diego neighborhoods, we'd still have to compete with huge acts from outside, which is REALLY tough.  And then you have to deal with the fact that half the people in the downtown area aren't even there to hear bands or anything like that; they're there to go to clubs, get wasted, and fuck.

So these two features create this feedback loop where people won't go out unless they're PROMISED a good time, and the only way to promise them a good time is to say "fuck the local scene" and give them a really big act from out of town, which gives them even less of a reason to go out and explore the local scene. Consequently, the rest of the indie scene just wants to get out of SD so they can play in a local scene where it's actually rewarding to NOT leave

I guess the solution is just to play more shows and get more people involved...it's just difficult with a fickle area like this! I want to hear some of the other California musicians chime in on this because I want to know if it's like this in other areas!

my entire discography minus like 4 songs is 2xlsdj!

makes playing live a bit difficult, but totally worth it

ok -- HOW do I get the touhou games? I've wanted to play them for a really long time but it's just really hard to find a really good set of instructions in English! and yes, I've googled a fair bunch, (inb4 lmgtfy)