Musical Family Tree

The Indiana Music Archive and Online Community

Musical Family Tree

Welcome to MFT Community
What's the deal with this site? Good question! Find out here

You are in the Community area right now. The other sections of MFT are:

MP3 Archive
Store

Forum

Janie Danger

The No Bar and Grill - Muncie Indiana 1985-1988 32 Replies

Started by Janie Danger in Music Venues- Past and Present. Last reply by Matt Chapman Jan 10.

NealTaflinger

Thoughts on Split Lip/Chamberlain? 16 Replies

Started by NealTaflinger in MFT related ideas. Last reply by tbyrd Jan 6.

chipsman

RIP Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009 59 Replies

Started by chipsman in Welcome to the Musical Family Tree Community!. Last reply by Randy Ochsenrider Jan 4.

Badge

Loading…
 

Blog Posts

John P. Strohm

The Future of Music?




My good friends at MFT asked me to write something about where I think the music industry is going over the next ten years. In other words, my good friends at MFT have invited me to set myself up to look like a total idiot in ten years. Regular MFT readers know, however, that I don’t shy a

Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on February 9, 2010 at 4:00pm — 17 Comments

Jeb Banner

Vinyl & Me



I discovered music via my parents collection, as many kids do.

First up were Elvis and The Beatles. I played these records to death. "Lucy In
The Sky With Diamonds" was the most amazing thing my 7 year old mind could imagine- I couldn't understand how they made those amazing sound… Continue

Posted by Jeb Banner on February 8, 2010 at 11:30pm — 14 Comments

Jeb Banner

New Features in MFT Archive

Hey Gang, we've been hard at work tricking out the MFT Archive.


Here's some of new features you will notice when browsing the site. Thanks to Jordan Wilson at Small Box for making all these changes the past few days. There are more on the way and I may just update this blog as we go.


Continue

Posted by Jeb Banner on February 6, 2010 at 1:41pm — 13 Comments

Michael Eugene Henry

Indiana Musical History and Review

First of all, Jeb asked me to start a blog of this type a couple days ago. Well, I already had one similar to it but no one, including myself, was posting.With all of the hullabaloo regarding New Orleans vs Indiana in sports; It was said by one Rachel Maddow that Indianapolis shouldn't try to compete with New Orleans musically after viewing music video's for both teams on her February 2nd show. I posted this fact on the Mix Tape blog soon after and then the peach cobbler hit the fan. There were… Continue

Posted by Michael Eugene Henry on February 5, 2010 at 11:50pm — 20 Comments

Kooch

Got my band a brand-spanking new website and it could have been free!

http://thegitmos.com/ is where you'll find it. I already owned the domain name, but other than the cost of that (15 bucks a year) and having wordpress use that address (10 bucks a year) it was all FREE. Free I say!
Jeb turned me on to bandcamp.com for the music streaming and downloads. Thanks, Jeb! It's a pretty cool service that lets you embed your music elsewhere and sell or give away downloads with no charge to the ban… Continue

Posted by Kooch on February 4, 2010 at 10:41pm — 1 Comment

Andrews Feigenbaum

Band of the Month - Accordions



Ben Bernthal of the band Accordions always greets me with a firm handshake and a smile, either at a show or at the Broad Ripple Bagel Deli where I run into him with some frequency. Usually Paul Cobb (who sometimes moonlights wit… Continue

Posted by Andrews Feigenbaum on February 4, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Jeb Banner

In Defense of Indianapolis

There has been some very articulate trash talking recently by New Orleans fans about the "cultural wasteland" of Indianapolis. I know it's mostly Super Bowl driven but I love this city and I think those looking in from the outside see a different reality than what I'm seeing day to day. This town is more than Corn and Colts.

Indy is a surprising city. I moved here over 10 years ago (1998) with no real intentio… Continue

Posted by Jeb Banner on February 4, 2010 at 12:00pm — 82 Comments

Daniel Fahrner

JOOKABOX - Dead Zone RMXS



Audio Recon -Indy's own all-digital hip hop / experimental / jazz record label- recently lent some of its talented artists to Asthmatic Kitty for remixes of select songs from… Continue

Posted by Daniel Fahrner on February 4, 2010 at 10:00am

Photos

Loading…
 
 

MFT Archive Links

Latest Activity

I know some oldsters who are very resistant to the idea that people won't own their music collections in the future. But the point is that ownership becomes irrelevant if we have ready access to high-quality audio streams. What's the point? Well, t…
5 minutes ago
There was a lot thriving in Anderson in the sixties and seventies. No more. At least not as far as I know. I would be happy to be wrong about that, though.
1 hour ago
Apple represents a different case, though. They've managed to fetishize the player rather than the album or single. Furthermore, I would offer the theory that people pay more for the convenience, rather than a true artistic experience. And it still…
2 hours ago
Ryan- I think people will pay for the experience. Look at Apple. Their stuff does the same thing, basically, that other stuff does but people pay a premium for it. It's all about the experience. If you give someone a superior experience and charge t…
2 hours ago
Anderson had a thriving Soul and Funk scene in the 1960s and 70s. I know that Jason Yoder used to scour their Goodwills looking for lost treasures.
2 hours ago
Re: labels - I can see already established labels continuing to have some impact (just like some established bands can give away their music as pay-as-you-want and still make money and get publicity for it), but they're unnecessary going forward. Th…
2 hours ago
"the documentable social consequences of digital culture tend to undermine the power of collective action in society" nice one there Mike! I think the concept and definition of "ownership" is perhaps one that needs a little attention here. If I hav…
2 hours ago
"consumer ownership of music recordings is on the way out. Respectfully, I have to wonder if that's really even possible." Well, here I agree with a skeptic, so my comment must be sloppy. My interest in and expectation that streaming and licensing…
3 hours ago
 

© 2010   Created by Jeb Banner on Ning.   Create a Ning Network!

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service