April 13, 2018
SXSWfm 2018 Showcasing Artist Interview: Buck Meek
During the SXSW 2018 event, SXSWfm interviewed Alexander Buck Meek who was here to showcase his solo project, Buck Meek. He sat down to discuss his roots in Texas, making the big move to New York, and his time as the lead guitarist in the band Big Thief. Read an excerpt of the interview below, and listen to it in full on our Mixcloud.
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Buck Meek Interview Highlights
Is this your first time playing at South By?
Buck Meek: It’s our first time playing under the name Buck Meek. I’ve played the last two years with the band Big Thief.
Why was coming to SX so important?
Buck Meek: The number one reason, to be honest with you, is that I grew up here, and I always grew up coming to SXSW as a kid. My dad and I always used to come and we had so much fun. I think that for me it’s just really exciting to be a part of that in a different way now, from behind the scenes.
What made you decide to do this side project as Buck Meek? Was this before Big Thief?
Buck Meek: I’ve been writing music on the side and writing songs for a long time. Big Thief took over a lot of my time for the last four years, and in the last six months I’ve just been prioritizing my own project more. So Big Thief has been going out a little bit as a trio here and there – one our of four tours I say they go out as a trio which gives me some time to work on this project.
How has growing up in Texas shaped your music?
Buck Meek: Well, I grew up listening to so many great outlaw songwriters and blues musicians out in the woods in Wimberley. And a lot of the old western swing players from Bob Wills’ band were living out there. So I was exposed to a lot of that western swing music and the narratives of country.
You released Cannonball! a couple weeks ago. Talk me through the writing process.
Buck Meek: That was a song I was processing a breakup four years after the breakup, which is often how I write. After the initial mourning process of this breakup, I was just flooded with so many positive feelings about this woman – all of the bittersweetness and everything. But also, it was really easy for me to compare that as a memory to the pain, I suppose. Almost as if it was happening at once – to feel the memory of the positive aspects and the beauty of our relationship with the pain and how they intensified each other into this even more bittersweet feeling. So with the verses against the chorus – the verses are these memories and the conversations between her and I.
When can we expect more music? Is there going to be a solo tour?
Buck Meek: We just crossed the dessert, [Twain] and I playing as a duo. But I’m going to be going out with Margaret Glaspy for a week and a half. And then more solo dates out to California. And I’m putting out more singles until the album comes out in May.
Tune in to hear the full interview with Buck Meek below. Look out for his new album coming out in May. Keep checking our Mixcloud page in the coming weeks as more interviews with 2018 SXSW Showcasing Artists are released. You can listen to SXSWfm 24/7 via our online player.
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April 13, 2018
Nike Air Max 270 Illustration & Typography
Nike Air Max 270 Illustration & Typography
Happy Friday guys! Already the end of the week and hope your week went pretty well. We are cooking with the idea for keeping Fridays entirely for you guys, we would pick projects that we have received from our community through Facebook or Instagram and feature them on ABDZ. Let’s start it off with the work of Wes L Cockx who is a 3D illustrator based in Brussels, Belgium. He is sharing his project about Nike Air Max 270 and it’s always amazing seeing artists making awesome work with 3D. Something that we dearly love on Abduzeedo, hope you will enjoy!
3D illustrations for Nike’s Air Max 270 Air by you release China, Air Max Day 2018. Lightness • Biggest Air • Movement • Innovation
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April 13, 2018
The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, April 13
Music news comes from a number of locations. Of course, there’s the studio and stage, but there’s also the boardroom, the courtroom, the non-physical internet space and the abandoned Toys R Us. The Daily Chord scouts all of these places and shares six pertinent links each weekday. Subscribe to the email blast, and don’t miss a day.
Monday, April 9
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Meme, myself and I: How pop’s new gen deal with social media anxiety
Post from The Guardian -
Irish trad music’s ‘lovely girls’ want to talk gender balance
Post from Irish Times -
EMI FAQ: A beginner’s guide to what could be this summer’s biggest music industry auction
Post from Billboard -
The man who discovered Prince explains what is was like to discover Prince
Book excerpt from Noisey -
The story of Jean Grae, one of rap’s greatest lyricists, in 8 songs
List from Pitchfork -
‘Invasion Of Privacy’ is Cardi B’s victory lap
Review from The Ringer
Tuesday, April 10
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Fleetwood Mac fires Lindsey Buckingham
Post from Rolling Stone -
YouTube hack hits popular music videos
Post from The Verge -
Is UK drill music really behind London’s wave of violent crime?
Story from The Guardian -
Music Modernization Act to be introduced Tuesday
Post from Variety -
The Thermals announce breakup
Item from Consequence Of Sound -
Johnny Cash ‘American Recordings’
Review from Pitchfork
Wednesday, April 11
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Music industry growth back at Britpop levels, BPI says
Post from BBC News -
How to make your music streaming experience more social
Post from Wired -
Music publishers win major copyright fight over streaming of legendary rock concerts
Post from Hollywood Reporter -
Yvonne Staples, member and manager of the Staples Singers, dies at 80
Obituary from NY Times -
Bb-bad to the bone? Small Kentucky bar faces potentially steep fine for music
Story from Lexington Herald-Leader -
Portland music festival sues Coachella for monopoly, ‘restrictive’ contracts
Post from Portland Business Journal
Thursday, April 12
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Sweeping new legislation highlights just how much music and tech need each other
Post from NPR -
Mariah Carey: My battle with bipolar disorder
Post from People -
Apple Music hits 40 million members, names a new leader
Post from CNET -
The outrage over Coachella’s radius clause is misguided and uninformed
Commentary from Uproxx -
Purevolume shutting down
Post from Brooklyn Vegan -
The new jazz torchbearer: Kamasi Washington on his musical message
Interview from Rolling Stone
Friday, April 13
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In the loops: The female producers making hip-hop waves
Story from The Guardian -
Sister Rosetta Tharpe gets her day in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
Story from NPR -
Rockstar must cut some music from GTA IV, but plans to replace it
Post from Kotaku UK -
Spotify acquires music licensing platform Loudr
Post from TechCrunch -
Five arrested for holding illegal rave in abandoned Toys R Us
Post from Variety -
Gustavo Santolalla’s music travels from TV to film to concert stage
Profile from The Frame
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April 13, 2018
From CBGB to the World: A Downtown Diaspora Featured Session at SXSW 2018 [Video]
“There wasn’t a feeling of winning the lottery. There wasn’t this idea of if we play our cards right, we can play that mansion. It was like – if we play our cards right, then we can do something we love.” – Chris Stamey
In From CBGB to the World: A Downtown Diaspora, Rolling Stone Senior Writer David Fricke moderates a conversation about the lasting cultural impact of the iconic NYC venue CBGB, featuring a group of musicians and creatives who were regulars of the stage and bar. Joining Fricke is Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club), Chris Frantz (Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club), Chris Stamey (The dB’s), Richard Lloyd (Television), and Julia Gorton (rock photographer).
The conversation focuses in on NYC’s rock scene as the seventies ended, a period when the music was being reimagined and the economics of the city provided a place for the next generation of “starving artists” to hone their craft and find inspiration in the gritty atmosphere. More than just a history lesson, the speakers also talk about aspects of the musical creative process that are timeless – the willingness to suffer for your art, the drive to pursue art through adversity, and the importance of finding a unique musical identity.
“I always tell young people who want to be professional musicians – be prepared to make very good friends with lady poverty, and find a dive that nobody else plays out so no one can take it out from under you.” – Richard Lloyd
Watch the video above for the full 2018 SXSW Featured Session From CBGB to the World: A Downtown Diaspora, where the speakers share personal accounts of what the venue meant to those involved before it would go on to gain its mythical status. Learn from a diverse group of thought leaders at SXSW – browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SXSW News for the latest SXSW coverage, recaps, announcements, and stay tuned for information on SXSW 2018.
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April 13, 2018
YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki on Navigating the Video Revolution in the Digital Age at SXSW 2018 [Video]
At SXSW 2018, YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke with Wired Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson about the company’s new approach to battling misinformation, the platform’s goals, and how YouTube has evolved as a result of the global creator economy during the Featured Session “Navigating the Video Revolution in the Digital Age” at the SXSW Conference.
YouTube as a company represents freedom of expression in the same way that the library system serves the public. However, YouTube strives to be more than just a digital video archive. The goal for YouTube is to be a “next-generation platform” with the broadest collection of content distributed globally.
“If there’s something that’s happening in the world, there’s an important event, we want to deliver the information.”
With over 1.5 billion users every month, Youtube is changing the face of entertainment around the world. But without the infrastructure to approve and disapprove content, YouTube has become a host for conspiracy theory videos and fake news. During her session, Wojcicki described the ongoing challenge in balancing YouTube’s responsibility for the content it hosts while allowing for freedom of expression on the platform. “What this year has really shown is that sometimes those freedoms [of expression] are in conflict with each other. The last year has shown us how important it is for us to get that right and to deliver the right information at the right time.”
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Wojcicki and Thompson’s conversation at SXSW was the announcement that YouTube will be rolling out a new feature called ‘information cues’. In the coming weeks, YouTube users will see a text box on conspiracy-related videos that will link to Wikipedia articles offering alternative viewpoints. This new feature is the first step the media giant has taken towards mitigating the problem of fake news.
Watch the full video above to learn more about the platform’s changing role and how originality and innovation are redefining the media landscape starting with YouTube.
Get inspired by a multitude of diverse visionaries at SXSW – browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SXSW News for the latest SXSW coverage, recaps, upcoming 2019 announcements, and more.
Photo by Jason Bollenbacher/Getty Images
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April 11, 2018
SXSWfm 2018 Showcasing Artist Interview: Twain
During the week of SXSW 2018, SXSWfm interviewed Matt Davidson, the frontman of his alt-country project Twain. They discussed the impact of social media, thoughts on spirituality, and his upcoming release focusing on the meaning of being a “man child.” Read an excerpt of the interview below, and listen to it in full on our Mixcloud.
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Twain Interview Highlights
How many times have you played here?
Twain: Six times.
Why is coming to SX so important to you?
Twain: Can I be honest? I want to play music for a living because I can’t do anything else. That’s not the main reason, but I’ve tried to do other things. Can’t do anything else. And it’s very important to me on one hand that I make a material life out of music. That’s hard to admit. Then I find it’s necessary to come and be visible…and then suddenly one day, you wake up and there are months and months of shows booked, and tours planned, and wonderful people helping you, and it’s a dream. Truthfully, last year at South By helped me organize that. I made contact with my label who put my last record out, began working with my fantastic booking agent, Jim Romeo, and it actually worked the way South By is traditionally supposed to work, or dreamed to work for the upstart musician.
Tell me about some of your inspirations, or your creative process when you write…
Twain: I meditate quite a lot – in practice, not so much sitting, but in the day. I like to think about problems that are happening in the world, and mostly problems that are happening to me. I think about a lot of internal problems and certain discomfort of the soul and body that I feel. When they become really intense and it’s time to write a song, then that’s how I make the words – thinking about the different problems that I feel.
Every song [on the album Rare Feeling] has a different story, but is there a theme? Or did you write music and it just all came together?
Twain: There’s not a theme. It was mostly some stuff we recorded in my buddy Scott’s toolshed. He’s one of my heroes and he invited us to hang out. We ended up taping most of the record and they were just songs from a couple year’s period of time. I’ve looked for a theme in them and I haven’t found one. There’s love songs for different people, there’s a few songs that are vague, there are spiritual numbers. But the record I’m working on now has a pretty distinct theme: being a man child.
Well what’s next, you said you are working on that next album, when can we expect that? Are there more shows to come?
Twain: In terms of recording, we are going to put out a record over the summer that’s two EP’s. One is Alternator which is out. But the other one is called Radiator and that’s basically side three of Rare Feeling – more songs that didn’t fit on one disk. That will be available over the summer. Hopefully by the end of the year another full length. I’m touring quite a lot. Going back to the East Coast after this and then to Europe for six weeks. And then lots of festivals – Nelsonville Music Festival, the Lost Sierra Hoedown, and then some more exciting ones that I’m not at liberty to discuss yet. It should be a fun summer.
Tune in to hear the full interview with Twain below. Keep checking our Mixcloud page in the coming weeks as more interviews with 2018 SXSW Showcasing Artists are released. You can listen to SXSWfm 24/7 via our online player.
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2018 Showcasing Artist, Twain – Photo by Shelby Magness
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April 11, 2018
Photography Search for Geometrical Shapes & Symmetries in Vienna
Photography Search for Geometrical Shapes & Symmetries in Vienna
Hlinka Zsolt is an urban photographer looking for geometry and symmetry obsessively in each composition. The next station in the photography search for geometrical shapes and symmetries is Vienna: its architecture, like Budapest, carries both the lasting impression of the past, and also the promise of a bright future, and the unstoppable nature of progress.
In my photographs, I have captured this dynamism, so the common topic was chosen to be the upward aspiration. They have been apostrophized to be tunnels, reaching towards the unknown.
Though the objects may seem like stationary and silent, upon closer inspection we can see the memory of countless past events. Not only historical buildings are depicted, which are well versed in the actualities of old times, but their modern pairs are also showcased. These forms are developed by building on their predecessors, respecting or even breaking traditions, which means they cannot be separated from each other.
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April 10, 2018
Score the awesome PlayStation VR headset right now for $199, its lowest price yet
If you’re looking to enter the world of virtual reality, you don’t have to spend a small fortune. The excellent PlayStation VR, one of the best virtual reality headsets on the market, can now be yours for a new low price of $199.
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April 10, 2018
A VR experience lets you ride a jetpack over the world’s most romantic city
Nothing says 21st-century romance quite like taking your other half on a jetpack flyover of Paris. Fortunately, a brand new Parisian attraction called FlyView is here to help using virtual reality.
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April 10, 2018
Concept Art for Surreal Air Carriers
Concept Art for Surreal Air Carriers
Paul Chadeisson is a Senior Illustrator & Concept Artist, full time freelance since 2016, working for games and films. He has an incredible portfolio of concept art for clients including NCSoft’s ArenaNet, 343 Industries, Walt Disney Pictures, Alcon Entertainment, Lionsgate, 20th Century fox, Square Enix, Unit Image, OATS studios, The Senate VFX. He also had the chance to contribute to incredible movies and like BLADE RUNNER 2049: Black Out 2022, The Surge, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Alien 5, Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV, Tron: Uprising.
For this post we want to feature one of the coolest concept art ideas, the Air Carriers. They look like the come from a Star Wars movie but when you look closely you will see they are nothing more than a regular container ship that flies. The details are quite amazing and definitely worth featuring here on Abduzeedo. For more information about Paul, make sure to check out http://paulchadeisson.com/
In 2012 i co-founded Ragequit Corporation, an Independent video game company with my friend Pierre-Etienne Travers, Cédric Lecacheur and David juhens. We developed and published Strike Vector on STEAM in 2014, and Strike Vector EX in 2016 on STEAM and PS4.
Concept Art for Air Carriers
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