Posted on: July 11, 2005 in Music
Some good band blogs
I love the new Sigur Ros tour diary. This is how bands should use technology to reach out to their audience. My favorite part is their turn-the-table approach of the band interviewing a fan. They do lose points for not having an RSS feed though.
The Mike Doughty site is an even better example. It probably won’t work for every artist, but when Mike Doughty writes about how stoked he is to be on Letterman, it’s positively contagious. It closes the boundary between performer and fan and it makes me care. Caring is good.
July 22nd, 2005 at 5:38 am
we will put rss onto the tour diary, but at the moment we are using blogger but before the american tour starts we will (perhaps) move over to wordpress or something more versatile than blogger. so when we do we will have rss and all that larky enabled.
also, the tour diary is written by the staff of sigur-ros.co.uk, not by the band.
dw
(sigur-ros.co.uk)
July 22nd, 2005 at 8:47 am
Thanks Darren, Looking forward to the American tour (especially the Vancouver, BC portion), and the new blog. Also, instead of switching to wordpress from blogger though, you should take a look at the company I work for, Bryght.com.