** Edited to correct the date of the chat which, as Andy Carvin pointed out, has not actually happened yet. Sorry, Andy! We sweethearts make mistakes sometimes. And now…your post:
Ah, the beginning of a year. Time for reflection, resolution, and a clean top five records of the year list. I had a hard time with 2008. It seemed to be the year of dance rock (Girltalk, MGMT – who are NPR sponsors! – etc.), which does nothing for me. I need more awesome, less crap.
A week into 2009, NPR has posted what (after a quick first listen) is already a contender for this year’s top five: Andrew Bird’s newest record, “Noble Beast“. I love it when NPR is able to post entire records before their actual release date. It’s also nice to see musicians embracing sharing over the internet.
Also, I learned from Andy Carvin’s twitter that a live chat with Mr. Bird will be hosted on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern. It would be awesome if there was a calendar of upcoming live chats with musicians so that people could plan to attend and get their questions ready.
This seems like a really awesome way for NPR to improve its web audience with social networking if people participate. Does anyone know if any more artists plan to do early releases of their records this way? Do any of you plan to be on the chat? I’m going to try to.
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Please go back and look at my tweets again. The chat is this Thursday at 1pm ET, so I was giving several day’s notice. I’d love to have a calendar too but the reality is that we often can’t confirm people til the last minute. But we’re working on it.
Andy –
Sorry for the mix-up. The error has been corrected above. I’m going to try to make the chat if work stuff isn’t too insane. Thanks for catching my mistake!
K
No worries…. Like I said, we’re working on it. I’d really love for us to have a robust calendar with multiple chats each week, but we’d have to work out some staffing issues first (ie, don’t hold ur breath). But I’ll talk with the music folks to see if we can give earlier notice about music chats, which I hope will be happening more regularly anyway.
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