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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Hi Everyone,
We're putting together a year in review for 2009 piece for My 411 Source's next edition. Its focus is, of course, our local music scene in Western/Central Mass. We've contacted several venues and promoters for their input and we would like to get input from area musicians and show goers. You can answer via this myspace page or to info@my411source.net (place End of Year Insights) in the subject line. Deadline for responses is November 27th.
1) Your name / Band name, if applicable (we will not use it, its just so we know who you are and to establish you're place in the scene)
2) What changes, if any, have you seen in the local scene in 2009? (good or bad) Have you seen more unity?
3) What and who has been key players or who you feel has made major contributions to helping the scene and how?
4) What struggles have you noticed or experienced?
5) What are you're most memorable local music moments in 2009?
6) What do you predict for 2010?
Thank you!
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Friday, October 16, 2009
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CURRENT FEATURES AND POLICIES
(updated October 2009)
Our primary goal is to get out 'what's happening' in local music scenes in Western Mass and surrounding areas. At times, we'll feature bands from other areas and those coming to our area.
We publish quarterly editions. Occasionally we will have a special edition in between. (New schedule in the works and will be published soon).
FEATURES
Showcases: We showcase underground acts. All previous featured acts are noted in another blog.
Song of the Week: Found in the music player on our Myspace page
Show Database and “The 411 in the 413“ news: Have shows? Have News? You can submit your info to info@my411source.com or on myspace.
Please note: Deadlines for monthly updates to our show database are the 28th of each month for the upcoming months (updated between 1st - 3rd). News for an upcoming edition is due by the 28th of the month prior to the next published edition (noted in bulletins on myspace or facebook group). Any shows or news in between MAY be sent out via bulletins on myspace, facebook, and possibly updated on website, dependent on staff availability. You can always post comments to our myspace page or facebook group yourself!
Mailing Lists: You can sign up for our mailing list to receive occasional 411 updates and our monthly e-newsletter with local music news, shows, etc.
Venue Show Listings: We now have links to area venues on our website (events page) to access show listings at venues. If your venue isn’t on the list and you would like to be linked up, notify us. Venues listed no longer need to send in show info UNLESS you have a special event such as charity events (we can place in preview calendar and on the database).
CD Reviews: Occasionally, we will perform CD reviews; however this is a rare occurance depending on our per diem writer's availability and cannot guarantee a review. Contact info@my411source.com.
However, you may want to contact Patty to inquire about getting airplay on 411 Underground at www.myspace.com/411underground.
Groups: http://groups.myspace.com/my411source and http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=153036384269
POLICIES
1) Anyone can post their shows, info or comments. Inappropriate content, content in poor taste, or extremly offensive comments will be removed! We will disable this feature if abused; we have in the past. Don’t ruin it for the majority who use this service and respect this policy.
2) If you do not support 411’s efforts, the local music scene, the other local bands, etc., - keep going - do not add yourself! NEGATIVITY IS NOT TOLERATED!! WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER!
Also, we are not a marketing page for businesses who are not here to support the scene but are here for the sole purpose of marketing their business!! If you are a studio/label/venue here and promoting your musical artist and shows... post comments with that news.. that's fine! But this is not a place to post comments soliciting and marketing potential clients for your business... they will be deleted. In other words, if you are not here as a fan of, or promoter of, local music, and seeking "clients"... we are not the page for you..
3) If you utilize the 411 community page to place comments for your events or 411 promotes you via bulletins, posting your show info on site, or you are - or have been - featured on 411, the 411 community IS SUPPORTING YOU!! OUR GOAL IS A SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY! We only ask that you support the community and other musicians by promoting us in some form to get exposure for all! You can do this by bulletins, posting our banner on your site, placing us in Top Friends, word of mouth, etc. If you would like one of our banners for your site, contact us. This is not mandatory but your choice. You will not be removed from the page or refused a feature or any use of our services if you do not promote us.
4) Bands should assist with the promotion of their monthly feature on 411. They can do this by bulletins and/or placing an announcement on their page. Again, only a request but you do want people to see your showcase, correct?
5) Featured bands are also required to participate in the creation of their feature by providing requested information. If you request to be showcased and submit your information for consideration, we may contact you for additional information. Without all the info, there's no feature.
6) We often take pictures and shoot videos at shows we attend. They may go up on our pics/video on myspace, youtube, and main website. If your bands photos or videos are up, feel free to copy and post on your site. Our photos are watermarked and/or under copyright and ask you do not edit them in any way or remove our watermark. (At times, they are not watermarked but still published and protected under copyright... in this case, note us as the source). The watermark keeps them FREE for your use. If you would like an original for promotional materials, ask how you may get our "permission" to use and obtain them.
7) Bands are also welcome to use the reviews and such we do about them as long as they note My 411 Source as their source. However, they are to link their article notices to the website www.my411source.com for viewing. We ask that bands DO NOT copy and publish an entire article/review on their sites while the article is part of a 'CURRENT' issue. They may do so AFTER the next quarterly edition comes out (when the article is moved to our articles/archives page). If you would like to use it before the next quarterly edition, place an inquiry to info@my411source.com to Patty's attention.
You can find many previous articles at my411source.com (archives page).
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Category: Music
Previously Featured at My 411 Source
Fear Nuttin Band “I Feel the Vibes”
Fear Nuttin Band “Rule the World”
Coolie Ranx “Flippin Pages”
Danny Pease & the Regulators “She Says”
Brian Lucas "Setting Sun"
American Business Machines “Smallest Finger”
Barely Legal Blues Band “Lyman Street Blues”
Barely Legal Blues Band “Waiting For A Better Day”
Sly Poonce “Mary Jane’s Last Chance”
The Shinkickers “Weeping Willow”
Full Recovery “Stay Awhile”
Sharky “Aint No Sunshine”
Blue Collar Convicts “There was a Time”
Stealing Jane “Heartbreaker”
Jennifer Hill “The Other Side”
The Alchemystics “Homecoming”
Barely Legal “Southbound”
Walk the Line Band “Walk the Line”
Mystic Bowie “16 Dimples”
Tripsonic “Baby Got Back”
PTheory “Your Love is Like Sunday Morning”
Polyester Pimpstrap “Money Dog”
Danny Pease & the Regulators “She Dubs”
Barely Legal “Whiteline Fever”
Jennifer Hill “The Other Side”
The Shinkickers "Do Anything for You"
Brass Attack of Springfield “Soul Man”
The Few “Wake Up to What’s Outside”
Danny Pease & The Regulators "Fire It Up"
Sleepypisser Thunderhole "Slow Hubcap the Great Race"
The Alchemystics "Shine-eyed Girl"
Millions Dead "Minor Threat"
Mystafine ft. Highah Seekah "Foundation"
The Mad Hatters Blues Band "When Love Come to Town"
Wylder "Man, I Feel Like a Woman"
Souled Out "That's the Way of The World"
Independent Idiot "Final Destination"
Switchblade Suicide "Stop your Bitchin"
One Bullet Solution "Needlepoint"
American Business Machines "Smallest Finger"
Warsynium "Eldest of Evil"
Millions Dead "We're All Gonna Die"
The Distributors "17 Days"
Stevee Octane "The Magic's Gone"
Fear Nuttin Band "Can't Get Mi Weed"
Project Fatalist "Who I Am"
BuzzUniverse "Lovelight Babylon"
Sinista Eskapone "What I Wanna Do"
Article 19 "Bringin' Down the House"
Ric Anderson "Won't Ya Come Back"
Switchblade Suicide "Live Fast, Die Young"
Shanta Paloma "Tombstones"
Under Falling Skies "Quiver"
Beware the Ides "Severed Ties"
The Room "Don't Wanna Be Together"
The Uncomfortables "La La La"
DPR "She Says" new CD version
HotBlack "Stealing a Camero"
Shanta Paloma "Wake Up, Bittersweet Love" Tony Lee Thomas "One Who Got Away"
Mark Thompson "Point of View" Fragment Poly "One More Lonely Night" Reason 837 "Take Cover"
Barely Legal "Gyspsy Queen" Barely Legal Blues Band "Dwight Street Preacher"
Warsynium "Destruction of Leviathon" Sifer "Feeling of Mine"
The Poncherellos "My Sister Joined a Cult"
The Problemaddicts "Genesis" Escape Velocity Project "Dark Bloom (Done With You)" Tony Lee Thomas "Storm of the Century"
HotBlack "In the Hole"
The Devil's Moses "Lady Liberty"
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
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From Patty:
When I started My 411 Source, it was my vision to support local music as a result of my experiences over the years, stemming from the lack of support of the ever so many talented people in our local music scenes… in our own back yards.. Our community! Yes there are MANY others like myself who are passionate and devoted to our love and this cause! But it was the community that was the issue! Trying to get them to support the local scene.
The first catch phrase I used was, “Keep All Music Alive.. Support Local Music.” I’ve been quoted from an interview as stating, “My 411 Source is about getting the community to join together and support its local talent and the members of the local music scenes to support each other. Support Local Music, period! Without local music scenes, the music we grew up on and listen to every day on the radio would not even exist! It doesn’t just appear out of the blue on the radio or MTV one day. It all begins somewhere, in our local scenes!.”
Over the past three or four years, there have been many who have contributed to the establishment and growth of My 411 Source. We have had several volunteer staff that have come and gone, but 2 remain strong from beginning until the present time… myself (Patty) & DJ Scooby. Many have assisted 411 in some form or another, or in many forms.
Although My 411 Source is on hiatus indefinitely while I pursue radio with 411 Underground, there are projects belonging to others that are upcoming that we are a part of, so we are not completely gone. We may bring you periodic news from local music until our undetermined, pending return… such as the “Local’s Only Show Series” at Maximum Capacity!
I would like to take this time to reflect and thank the following for several different reasons. This group consists of people who have helped me establish and maintain My 411 Source; volunteer staff (past and present) who put in work, time and resources to report, website maintenance, street team duties, etc.; those who help promote and support My 411 Source; former bands I worked with in pre-411 days who supported my vision and project; those who have contributed to our stories and features; those who have sponsored our projects and events; and those who have helped in any way (past, present, and future!).
This list took some time to compile, as I wanted to do my best to recollect and include everyone and hope that I did, although I’m sure I’m missing some. If I missed you, I apologize and thank you!
Patty would like to thank:
First and foremost… MY KIDS… for putting up with my musical passion and madness... My daughter Nikita for being the Hip Hop/R&B liaison.. recruiting and reporting from that field. My son Sergio for being our doorman at My 411 Source events.
Secondly, thank you ROBBIE (R.i.P. & I LOVE YOU).... AN OUTSTANDING SINGER who died from complications of a car crash in August 2005. He is the reason I decided to continue with my idea for My 411 Source when I gave up hope after his death. In his memory and for his love of music as well, I implemented My 411 Source on August 19, 2006.. a year and a day after his death.
DJ Scooby; WAIC; The YellowJacket newspaper at AIC; Ian and Sara (UK 411); My brother Paul Seifert; Barely Legal Blues Band AND later the new lineup as Barely Legal; Eric Franco; Ric Anderson & R.A.M.M. Productions; Chin Lee & Sabrina at Flavours; Don and Pete at Maximum Capacity; Tonye at Blastermonkey Entertainment; Anna at The Waterfront; Justin Accident aka DJ Studebaker Hawk; American Business Machines; Ash of The Chaos Box at 99.3 FM (LA, Cali); Shanta Paloma; Jay-T; Fear Nuttin’ Band; Danny Pease & The Regulators; The Alchemystics; Tailor Made; Hope Lies Within; Kill Shot; Carrie Pratt; Stevee Octane (R.i.P.); Andy Poncherello (Rebel Sound Radio at WTBR / Rebel Sound Records / The Poncherellos); Punk Rock Jon at WTBR; Marcus Simpson; Cheryl Thomas; Steiner (Stillborn Extraction); Al Taylor and Sly Poonce; Bobby Hoyt; Jesse Mushenko; Josh Noone; Crystal Williard aka DJ Kissy (photography); Crystal Novik (photography); Danielle Orcut (photography); Jeni & The Shinkickers (our blues friends in the Land of Oz); Bitter Records; Dragonfly Kingdom; Warsynium; Millions Dead; Sifer; Dredi; Reggae Vision; Mark Thompson; Walk the Line Band; Jared McCloud; The Big Sway; Kiana India; The Problemaddicts; Corey and Exhale; Demse of Northfire Studios; Force; Berkshire Roller Derby; Puerto Rican Pedro; Cozmo and Headwrench; The Distributors; Vicious Disorder; CLIP; Mortal Punishment; The Drunx; Unbound; Hallraker; T.R.i.P.; My New Shell; Ditchwater; Mystic Bowie; Jason of Back from Death; Adam and Mystafine; Gina Coleman and The Misty Blues; Charles Neville; Lara at Pulse Magazine / Pagio Inc.; Switchblade Suicide; Franc at Bishops Lounge; Finn McCool’s; American Legion Paper City Post 325; Paper City Brewery; Jim Benson at The Mission Bar & Tapas; The Pump House; Lucky Dog Music Hall; La Cocina Music Hall; Club Meadows; Bill at The Dalton Depot; Dirtnap Entertainment; Mill Street Brews; Mary Verdi; Here at Home Committee; Tony Lee Thomas; Static; Fragment Poly; Impakt; Lachrymator; Wonderland; Stealth Mode; Moriah; Sugar Plum Dandy; Beware the Ides; Full Recovery; SunDown; Mt. Sinai; Rah Dollah (80 Proof Productions / Paperboy Limelight Apparel); Stealing Jane; Jim Townsend of Tenet; Bullseye Jones; Jacob’s Son; SwillMerchants; Blue Collar Convicts; Sanity is Chaos; Faness; The Few; Sleepypisser Thunderhole; The Room; Blind Eclipse; Longview Gunslingers; Travis Raab; Domino Theory; Hung by the Hated; Cynthia Fargus; Ras Moon & Monsoon; Jennifer Hill; The Hog Farm; Molly at Infolode.com; Tox; Fury; Brian Lucas; Reason 837; Project413.net; Jenn Smith at The Berkshire Eagle; Bush-I at Valley Free Radio; One Bullet Solution; Project Fatalist; Article 19; Independent Idiot; Phallic Medallion; The Prozacs; Agent Orange; The Dollyrots; Prick Bastard; The Pop Collars; Cobble Mountain Band; As I Lie Awake in Ruins; The Uncomfortables; Shock Treatment; Harbour Grace; Rocky Velvet; Vision (CT); Born in Winter; My Last Flight; SmartAss; MC Soulfighter; Jeff Torres; John Kickery (photography); Larry Botto; Weekly Band Email at Hampmusic.com; Abbatats; Boston Beer Company; Student Advisory Board - AIDS foundaton (Spfd); Shaun’s Barber Shop; Colonial Theatre; Cranwell Resort & Day Spa; Michelle’s Day & Spa (Gt.Barrington); WTBR; WBRK; and all those who followed My 411 Source features and services supporting us and local music!
THANK YOU.. WITHOUT YOU.. IT WOULDN’T BE POSSIBLE!!!
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Current mood:Reflective
Category: Music
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Paper Trail
By T.i.
Release date: 2008-09-30 |
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