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Kristen covers a great indie artist, in a great original way with a great voice. Also, she wears killer lipstick.
a-year-at-sea:
CLOSING THE DOORS- CAROLINE SMITH AND THE GOODNIGHT SLEEPS
I may or may not look/sound like a boyscout, but that’s mostly because my sinuses were being poor sports. also because boyscouts have impecable fashion sense.
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Casey Shea and the boys came up on our office roof and rocked “Chelsea”. Of course we were busted mid-song by our kind and benevelont landlord who let them finish the song. Turned out they were standing on top of the skylight, with 2 inches of rubber between them and the glass structure underneath, but no one died! Totally worth it! Wait for the end to see the landlord pop up trying to...
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This week’s article on WesleyVerhoeve.com is about Community Management. For those of you who have inquired about the community manager position at Family, and wondered exactly what a job like that would be about, please go take a gander. Excerpt below, full article linked at the end.
Manage Your Community (Or The Missing Links In Music Business Job Openings)
Community Managers are vital...
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Song Of The Day: Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home
Sometimes one great lyrical line makes me want to check out an entire album I wasn’t that interested in before. In this case it was “I was walking far from home, but I carried your letters all the while,” which somehow touched me and painted a vivid picture. Beautiful.
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Sophie was originally charged with managing customer support. We recently...
– Sophie’s Voice: Scaling the Personal Touch in Customer Service (via david-noel)
In the next few months, we are going to be adding a part time person to the Family team that will handle community management. We are lucky to have a wonderful fan community for our artists and Family as a whole. We...
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Our dear friend Harvey made this amazing video of Pearl and the Beard performing “Hot Volcano” off of their upcoming new album! Check out more of his work on MonkeyWhale.com and catch Pearl and the Beard live at Brooklyn Bowl tonight! More info on that here.
Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or...
– Steve Martin (via petervidani)
The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making...
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005 (via happythings.)
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This short film for the new Rodarte fashion line is gorgeous, as is the Deerhunter soundtrack. But it’s a bit disturbing to know Elle Fanning is 12 years old, modeling clothes intended for adults almost twice her age (and some sadly hoping to be her size), in 4” heels. Perhaps I’m taking this too seriously. What do you guys think?
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Our friend Misty Boyce released a new video today, for her song “How Long”. Misty is not only a great singer/songwriter, you will notice during the first part of the video she is also the world cutest pouter. Don’t worry, she smiles towards the end of the video again.
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