arcade fire was this big rock band that made these songs you wanted to holler along with. to me, it felt like the moment that indy rock crossed over into something bigger. it s the first time that you had indy bands sound tracking commercials for mainstream multinational products. in part, because everyone was trying to figure out how do i make money now that no one will pay for my albums. historically, there had been some wariness about sell iing music to advertisers. it was seen as selling out.
two years ago, she surprised everybody and dropped an album with music videos in december of 2013, nobody saw it coming. and she totally skipped the music label. she went right to the fans. and since then, we ve seen other artists do it. david bowie, drake s done it, even u2, but those are superstars. my husband s a radio show dj and does indy rock and bands that are on the cusp but they re not big yet, and they re having a really hard time breaking through. right. so if you are a fledgling artist, perhaps it s a great thing that the internet has impacted the music industry. if you re a superstar, you can distribute your music any way you want. if you re taylor swift, you can ignore it, people will still go to itunes. but if you re in the middle, you
conventions, whether experimenting with the guitar and with reggae when it was taboo. why is he influential? where do you see his influence? you see his influence on people that were influenced like patty smith, rem, the strokes:you can see his influence on virtually anyone considered indy rock, punk rock the way he did tee-shirt challenges and things in different ways. he transcended music. one of the things that set lou reed apart, he was very politically active is he was more than music. steven tyler in his tweet referenced max us. it was a salon effect. it was a bar in new york city artists made into an idea factory. a lot of partying as well. lou transcended music. he would often say the music has to mean something. when it stops meaning something. when it s just about entertainment, it loses its value and becomes a commodity.
it only holds about 200 fans. maxwell s has been a mainstay of the new york area music scene since it first opened its doors in 1978. most of the indy rock and punk bands you have ever heard of have performed there including anywhe nirvana in 1999. the club will end its long run. 48 minutes after the hour. a high school senior in alabama denied her diploma and fined over a feather. this is my feather. they told me that if i wore it, then they would pull me off the field. chelsey ramer wore the feather anyway. now she can t get her diploma or transcripts until she pays a $1,000 fine. that was the penalty for wearing her eagle feather and breaking the graduation dress code. she says the feather shows pride in her native american heritage. so far the school has not commented on the situation. if i had a dime or feather for every time we did a zero