Geek Force FiveCast - SomerVaudeville Edition (Video)

Last week, I had the immense pleasure of attending SomerVaudeville, a 21st century vaudeville performance featuring my friend Andy Hicks (The Pluto Tapes), among others. It was put on my Theatre@First, a Somerville-based drama troupe, and I had a grand old time.

For the past week, I’ve struggled to put together a movie of the footage I shot at Johnny D’s that night. I’m not sure if this video quite captures the awesomeness of that evening, but when it features banjos, musical saws, and covers of both Paula Abdul and Kermit the Frog, how can you not watch?

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Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead Dominate Last.fm Charts

The cutting-edge music distribution tactics employed by Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead in recent months seem to be paying off. The latest offerings from each band, NIN’s Ghosts I-IV and Radiohead’s In Rainbows, dominated the track charts at Last.fm this past week, writes leviathant of The NIN Hotline. I’ve taken a screen-shot of the glorious news and posted it above.

Me, I couldn’t be happier that this method of distribution is working out so well (and, also, that my using Last.fm to religiously track what I’m listening to helped contribute to this great news). I only hope that the financial realities Trent Reznor mentioned in an interview with Australia’s Triple J (transcribed here) don’t preclude smaller artists from getting into game eventually.

My friend Andy distributed the first album by his band The Pluto Tapes via iTunes last year. Maybe he’ll stop by and let us know what the reality is for small artists looking to get their music out there.

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