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Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) &8212; DeutscLord Taesang Shoeshe Bank AG, BNP Paribas SA and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are among banks that must hold additional capital buffers ranging from 1 to 2.5 percentage points under plans approved today by the Group of 20 nations.
A total of 29 lenders may have to meet the requirementsBluedots Guides, according to a provisional list published by the Financial Stability Board. The measures were agreed on by regulators to prevent any so-called systemically important financial institution from failing and roiling the global economy. The list doesn’t specify the exact surcharges banks may face.
Systemically important banks need higher capital requirements which will reflect the cost of their possible failure, Mario Draghi, the FSB’s chairman, told reporters in Cannes,ragnarok onl.Dark Delvings. France.
Bank watchdogs have clashed with some lenders including HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc. and BNP over the plans, with the banks warning they could cause them to cut lending or support to international trade. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which drafted the surcharge plans, in September rejected calls to scrap additional capital buffers, instead agreeing to changes to how it calculates them. The measures were published today after approval by Group of 20 leaders in France.
Nomura, Lloyds
Nomura Holdings Inc. and Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, which were both included in a list of 25 SIFIs published by Morgan Stanley analyst Huw van Steenis in June45; Part 1, escaped the FSB’s list. Lloyds Banking Group Plc, which Steenis didn’t expect to make the regulator’s list, did.
The list in general is not a big surprise,buy cheap rs gold if you look at who are the world’s top 30 banks, Irving Henry, a director at the British Bankers’ Association, said in an interview. It’s interesting that there is no Standard Chartered, although this may be because it’s not big in the U.K.
It’s also surprising that there is no Nomura, he said.
The surcharges will be applied on top of an overhaul of bank-capital requirements that international regulators agreed on last year. Those changes, known as Basel IIIReign: Sanctified Lasherweave Handgrips, will more than triple the core reserves that lenders must hold.
The additional buffers mean lenders may face core capital requirements of as much as 9.5 percent of assets, weighted on risk. At least four banks face the top surcharge of 2.5 percent, according to provisional data published today by the Basel Committee, which didn’t specify any individual lenders.
U.S. Banks
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are among eight U.S. banks on the list. David Wells, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs in New York, and Howard Opinsky, a JPMorgan spokesman, declined to comment. Jeanmarie McFadden, a spokeswoman for Morgan Stanley, which is included, also declined to comment.
Societe Generale SA and Credit Agricole Groupe are also among four French lenders included on the list. Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank AG are the two German lendersrunescape store , while four U.K. banks, including HSBC Holdings Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc face the surcharges.
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The list was dominated by European and U.S. banks, which was expected, Richard Reid, research director for the International Centre for Financial Regulation, said.
9 Percent
Some banks in the European Union already face requirements to hold 9 percent in core reserves, after sovereign-debt writedownsEuropean Summit: A Plan With No Details, under plans adopted by EU regulators in response to the Greek financial crisis. Banks will need to raise 106 billion euros ($145.9 billion) in fresh capital to meet the rules, the European Banking Authority estimated.
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Four Asian banks, including the Bank of China and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. in Japan, also face the additional capital requirements from the Basel Committee.
Dismembered
I am a bit surprised to see Bank of China, but maybe we are so Euro-American centric that we don’t recognize how big other banks areSite Admin, Henry said. I was also surprised to see Dexia because it’s being dismembered.
The extra capital requirements will be phased in from 2016 through 2018. They will have to be met with core Tier 1 capital, a definition of banks’ reserves which includes mainly ordinary shares and retained earnings. Banks that can’t meet the rules face restrictions on dividends and bonus payments.
The surcharge plans were approved by the G-20 in tandem with measures to ensure the orderly winding down of failed banks and to shield taxpayers.
‘Moral Hazard’
The measures are aimed at reducing moral hazard so we can deal with failures of large institutions without, hopefully, having market disruption and without havdefinition of tier 1 capitaling to use public money, Draghi said.
The plans also include requiring systemically important lenders to draw up so called living wills, showing how they could be wound down should they fail.
ING Groep NV’s inclusion one of the 29 banks was in line with expectations, said Carolien van der Giessen, a spokeswoman for the bank. Wells Fargo &038; Co., Citigroup, Unicredit Spa, and Santander, which were all also on the list, declined to comment. UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group AG representatives couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
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From the European perspectivecheap rs money , we also had BBVA, Intesa and possibly Standard Chartered on our list, said Andrew Stimpson, an analyst with Keefe Bruyette &038; Woods Inc. in London. The question is whether it really matters given that the national regulators are unlikely to allow banks to operate with lower capital ratios given that they are systemically important regionally and in Europe if not globally.
The list of surcharge banks will be updated each November, using fresh data. The banks that will initially face the extra requirements will be those contained in the version of the list published in November 2014.
Some of the omissions from the list reflect that the method for calculating the surcharges is too focused on size rather than interconnectedness, Henry said. The list should, or ought to, change as Euro-American banks evolve and big players rise from the emerging markets.
Banks in the future could face surcharges of up to 3.5 percentage points if they grow bigger or more systemically important, the FSB said.
Provisional FSB List of G-SIFIs
&8211;With assistance from Theophilos Argitis in Cannes, Aaron Kirchfeld in Frankfurt, Maud Van Gaal in Amsterdam, Donal Griffin and Dawn Kopecki in New York, Giles Broom in Geneva, Nicholas Comfort in Frankfurt, Sonia Sirletti in Milan. Editors: Anthony Aarons, Christopher Scinta, Edward Evans
To contact the reporters on this story: Jim Brunsden in Basel at jbrunsden@bloomberg.net;
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net.
CONSTRUCTION companies from across the East Midlands were urged to seize the opportunities currently available in their sector through the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond, at an event held by Lloyds TSB and the East Midlands Development Agency.
Lloyds TSB arranged the Meet the Buyer event on Tuesday 15 November, held at Derby County Football Club in Derby, as part of series of similar regional events to highlight the construction opportunities available through the official London 2012 tendering websiteHeroic Sanctified Crimson Acolytes Copy, CompeteFor, and how to access them.
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Were committed to providing support to our customers to help them take advantage of the construction contract opportunities available,Angels Sanctuary. and during the first nine months of 2011 we provided 32 billion of committed gross lending to UK businesses, of which 9.6 billion was to SMEs.
Steve Mulliganwow guild ap, Lloyds London 2012 business lead for the East Midlands Development Agencyrunescape cash , said: Construction firms across the East Midlands have played a crucial role in the building of many of the iconic buildings on the Olympic Park and have won over 300 million of business from London 2012 opportunities.
We are keen to build on this success and are delighted to work closely with Lloyds TSB to deliver this event, which aims to raise awareness of the thousands of construction contract opportunities continuing to be advertised through CompeteFor.
These opportunities relate not only to the redevelopment of the Olympic Park, but also to the Crossrail project, currently Europes largest civil engineering project, which has selected CompeteFor as its preferred procurement route for all contracts below EU thresholds.
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WOW CEO Stanley Wright: Wireless TV provider will continue to screen local channels (Photo by Akil Simmons)
&8211;>Wireless digital TV provider WOW has moved to &038;147;distance itself&038;148; from a long-running dispute that could see Bermuda CableVision dump ZBM/CBS and ZFB/ABC from its line-up by the end of the year because it doesn&038;146;t want to pay Bermuda Broadcasting to include the channels.WOW said it planned to continue to carry ZBM, ZFB and VSB/NBC at no additional costBasics of Ao, and would not be moving the local channels up a tier to justify any access changes.President and CEO of WOW, Stanley Wright, rs gold cheap runescape money told The Royal Gazette yesterday his company had agreed to pay Bermuda Broadcasting for the channels.WOW weighed in as the Government and the Telecommunications Commission still have made no decision in Cablevision&038;146;s controversial bid to remove ZBM/CBS and ZFB/ABC from their line-up. If the channels were dropped, CableVision subscribers who wanted to watch channels 7 and 9 would have to do so by using an antenna.CableVision had said it expected to drop the channels the first of this month. It had expected the Commission to have submitted its report to the Minister earlier this month and a decision announced soon after on when it could drop the channels.CableVision has said it can drop the channels under the current legislationWeekend action keeps teams on ice,ragnarok mon. it is just a matter of when.A Department of Telecommunications spokesperson said yesterday: &038;147;The Telecommunications Commission is currently dealing with this matter. Once it has been completed, the public will be notified.&038;148;CableVision has stated that its customers should not have to pay for channels they can get for free through a TV antennae.Local channels have historically been included in CableVision&038;146;s service under &038;147;must carry&038;148; rules and it was not charged for including them. New legislation introduced three years ago allowed local broadcasters to choose between &038;147;must carry&038;148; and &038;147;retransmission consent&038;148;. If a local broadcaster elected &038;147;retransmission consent&038;148; CableVision could only carry the channels if it paid licence fees,tier 1 capit. a cost which CableVision would then pass on to customers.CableVision general manager Terry Roberson said in early August:: &038;147;Our primary concern is our customers. Why should our customers pay for a service that is provided free to non-cable customers who use an antenna? We believe that this amounts to a &038;145;cable broadcast tax&038;146;.&038;148;Bermuda Broadcasting has said it&038;146;s planning to switch over to digital before the end of 2011 in any eventworld of warcraft gold , making ZBM and ZFB available in digital for free without a cable subscription. CEO Rick Richardson has accused CableVision of an attempt to acquire popular ABC and CBS programming (which BBC has exclusive rights to) by another signal.The ongoing dispute this week prompted WOW to take out advertisements saying it wanted to distance itself from the controversy.&038;147;We have had customers question us as to what our plans are and we just wanted to get out there that we have nothing to do with this dispute,&038;148; said Stanley Wright, president and CEO of WOW.The WOW ads stated: &038;147;The fostering and support of local broadcasters along with providing the best of international content to the highest standard and at the best possible price and customer service is at the core of our mission.&038;148;When the ZBM/ZFB transmitters were knocked out by lightning nearly a year ago WOW stepped in to offer the channels free as a public service to those without WOW or CableVision subscriptions.But Mr Wright said yesterday the company was now chawow tier 2rging a small fee for the equipment rental to access its network and those channels; with Bermuda Broadcasting&038;146;s equipment appearing to still not be fully repaired. It appears only ZFB is available to people without cable subscriptions who use an antennae for local TV.Bermuda Broadcasting boss Rick Richardson declined to comment on when or even if the transmitters would be fixed.Mr Wright said WOW was preparing for imminent Telecoms sector regulatory reform and expected to be a significant player.&038;147;We want to grow moreEmpress Bles,runescape buy money we are a young company, but we are making progress,Magma Plated. &038;148; he said. &038;147;We are starting to expand our product offering.&038;148;WOW has begun offering on-demand pay-per-view services, he said.The company employs nine people, operating from offices in the Washington Mall Phase 2. Mr Wright said the company is revamping its website and recently changed its logo.&038;147;We think reform is a good thingbuy cheap wow gold ,&038;148; he said. &038;147;The only caution is we just hope in moving forward that the current economy and fact the size of the market is contracting has been taken into consideration&8230; If we are not careful how reform is implemented it could benefit those that are the larger players in the market.&038;148;Bermuda Broadcasting, meanwhile, is said by industry sources to be preparing to launch GoMedia, having made application to Telecoms to offer programming to cars, portable DVD players, computers and other devices. Mr Richardson declined to comment on that either.
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Tier 1 Lawbringer Armor
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Paladin Tier 1 Lawbringer Armor (Set 8 pieces)
HEAD (Garr, Molten Core)
LEGS (Magmadar, Molten Core)
SHOULRS (Baron Geddon, Molten Core)
CHEST (Golemagg The Incinerator, Molten Core)
HANDS (Shazzrah, Molten Core)
BOOTS (Lucifrom, Molten Core)
BELT (Mobs in Molten Core)
WRIST (Mobs in Molten Core)
Tier 2 Judgement Armor
Paladin Tier 2 Judgement Armor (Set 8 pieces)
LEGS (Ragnaros, Molten Core)
BELT (Vaelastrasz The Corrupt,Blackwing Lair)
BOOTS (Broodlord Lashlayer,Blackwing Lair)
HANDS (Ebonroc/Firemaw/ Fgor. ,Blackwing Lair)
HEAD (Nefarian,Blackwing Lair)
CHEST (Nefarian,Blackwing Lair)
SHOULRS (Chromaggus,Blackwing Lair)
WRIST (Razorgore the Untamed,Blackwing Lair)
Tier 3 Redemption Arm
Paladin Tier 3 Redemption Armor (Set 9 pieces). , but the 7th Paladin Tier is similar.
Tier 4 Justicar Armor
Paladin Tier 4 Justicar Armor (Set 5 pieces)
HANDS (The Curator, Karazhan)
HEAD (Prince Malchezaar ,Karazhan)
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SHOULDERS (High King Maulgar, Gruuls Lair)
CHEST (Magtheridon, Magtheridons Lair)
Paladin Tier 5 Crystalforge Armor (Set 5 pieces)
CHEST (Kaelthas Sunstrider, Tempest Keep: The Eye)
HANDS (Leotheras The Blind, Serpentshrine Cavern)
HEAD (Lady Vashj, Serpentshrine Cavern)
LEGS (Fathom-Lord Karathress, Serpentshrine Cavern)
SHOULDERS (Void Reaver, Tempest Keep: The Eye)
Tier 6 Lightbringer Armor
Paladin Tier 6 Lightbringer Armor (Set 8 pieces)
CHEST (Illidan Stormrange,Black Temple)
HANDS (Azgalor, Mount Hyjal)
HEAD (Archimonde, Mount Hyjal)
LEGS (The Illidari Councill,Black Temple)
SHOULDERS (Mother Shahraz,Black Temple)
WRIST (Kalecgos, Sunwell Plateau)
BELT (Brutallus, Sunwell Plateau )
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Tier 7 Heroes&038;39; Redemption Battlegear
Paladin Tier 7 Heroes&038;8217; Redemption Battlegear (raid 10) in darks colors
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LEGS (Thaddius, Naxxramas 10)
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Paladin Tier 7 Heroes&038;8217; Redemption Battlegear (raid 25) the golden armor
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HEAD (KelThuzad, Naxxramas 25)
LEGS (Thaddius / Gluth, Naxxramas 25; Archavon , Vaoult of Archavon 25)
CHEST (The Four Horsemen/ Gluth, Naxxramas 25; Archavon , Vaoult of Archavon 25)
SHOULDERS (Loatheb / Gluth, Naxxramas 25)
Tier 8 Valorous Aegis Battlegear
Paladin Tier 8 Valorous Aegis Battlegear (set 5 pieces) in light grey, Ulduar 10 men raid.
HEAD (Mimiron)
LEGS (Hodir)
CHEST (Yogg-Saron)
SHOULDERS (Thorim)
HANDS (Freya)
Paladin Tier 8 Conqueror&038;8217;s Aegis Battlegear (set 5 pieces), the red and lila color. Raid: Ulduar 25 men
HEAD (Thorim)
CHEST (Hodir)
HANDS (Mimiron)
LEGS (Freya)
SHOULDERS (Yogg-Saron)
Paladin Tier 9 (set 5 pieces). It had 3 tiers levels but theyre identics. The last Paladin Tier9 requiered to have Trophy of the Crusade but This item is no longer available within the game in Raid 25 HC Trial of the Crusader.
Tier 9 Alliance Conqueror&038;39;s Turalyon&038;39;s Battlegear
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Paladin Tier 9 Conqueror&038;8217;s Turalyon&038;8217;s Battlegear
Tier 10 Lightsworn Battlegear
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Tier 11 Reinforced Sapphirium Battlearmor
Paladin Tier 11 Normal Reinforced Sapphirium Battlearmor (set 5 pieces) in blue. Points, raids 10 or 25 en normal.
SHOULDERS (ChoGall,href= target=_blank>rift platinum/a> The Bastion of Twilight)
LEGS (points, Argaloth Baradin Hold)
CHEST (points)
HEAD (Nefarian, Blackwing Descent)
HANDS (points, Argaloth in Baradin Hold)
Paladin Tier 11 Heroic Reinforced Sapphirium Battlearmor (set 5 pieces) in red color . Raids 10 or 25 Heroics. Requiere el item en normal para ser obtenidas.
SHOULDERS (ChoGall,Wrath of the Lich King Tier 8 armor.. The Bastion of Twilight HC)
CHEST (Halfus, The Bastion of Twilight HC)
LEGS (Maloriakgaia archang, Blackwing Descent HC)
HEAD (Nefarian, Blackwing Descent HC)
HANDS (Magmaw, Blackwing Descent HC)
Tier 12 Battleplate of Immolation
Paladin Tier 12 Normal Battleplate of Immolation (set 5 pieces) with yellow and brown details. You have it with points, raids 10 or 25 en normal.
SHOULDERS (Majordomo Staghelm, Firelands)
CHEST (points)
LEGS (points, Occuthar Baradin Hold)
HEAD (Ragnaros, Firelands)
HANDS (points, Occuthar Baradin Hold)
Paladin Tier 12 Battleplate of Immolation Heroic (set 5 pieces) in red color, raids 10 or 25 Heroicas. You need the normal item for have it
LEGS (Shannox, Firelands HC)
HEAD (Ragnaros, Firelands HC)
HANDS (Baleroc, Firelands HC)
CHEST (Alysrazor,Free Realms Quest. Firelands HC)
SHOULDERS (Majordomo Staghelm, Firelands HC)
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text-align: left; color:00afff>ByChris DeLine on inFeatured /Music Features
It was just about 10 months ago that I first metMac L. In a number of ways the cocksure MC served as my introduction to a side of Nashville that I didn&038;8217;t know much about when first moving here, and certainly a sector that isn&038;8217;t entirely visible unless you&038;8217;re actively looking for it: the rap and hip hop community. The night we met we talked at length about the issues facing young artists in Music City, discussing in detail the lack of cohesion between contemporaries and other factors cramping development such as scarcity of live venues in the city that are open to urban acts and general disinterest from the media. I was a bit taken back by the reality that Mac painted for me that night and here it is, 10 months later, and I still don&038;8217;t know what to make of this city. Sure, Nashville faces issues that strike every city, regardless of location, concerning the nurturing of local artists, but Nashville also has a few of its own problems that are more specific to its community that I&038;8217;m still trying to figure out.
The main purpose of this article is to document and celebrate something Mac&038;8217;s accomplished in the time since I first met him. To put it bluntly, I probably wouldn&038;8217;t be posting this if I hadn&038;8217;t told Mac many months ago that I&038;8217;d help sponsor his mixtape (I&038;8217;ve not really been blogging about much of anything lately). As time passed I about forgot my promise, but I figured why not Mac&038;8217;s my friend. This isn&038;8217;t to say that his new mixtape, Raw Material, doesn&038;8217;t deserve recognition however. It&038;8217;s an interesting album in that it identifies a young lyricist in transition, slowly growing into the realities of the modern political and economic landscape, slowly identifying his changing perception of the country, slowly finding his place. One of the things that Mac isn&038;8217;t slow to, however, is announcing his own importance as an artist, nor is he slow to suggest that his future will be anything less than successful. As irritating as his self-assured chest beating might be at times, which he does no more or less than any other MC who&038;8217;s trying to gain attention, I admire Mac&038;8217;s persistance he isn&038;8217;t about to let anyone tell him that he isn&038;8217;t as good as he thinks he is.
A free download of the entire album is available below, and for those interested in learning a bit more about Mac there&038;8217;s also a brief Q&038;038;A with him that touches on his future in the city, whether or not he&038;8217;s calling it quits after this release, and why he feels that there is no one else who makes music like me (there&038;8217;s also this interview with him from this past January). The bottom line is that Mac might not be every bit as phenomenal as he feels he is (yet?), but I&038;8217;m still comfortable standing behind Raw Material and putting my name on it because it just so happens to be that in addition to being my friend, he&038;8217;s also one of the select Nashvillian MCs whose work I actually enjoy. It&038;8217;s my hope, as I&038;8217;m sure it is Mac&038;8217;s, that you too enjoy what he&038;8217;s put together here. Cheers.
Mac L Raw Material [18 + 3 bonus tracks, 142MB zip download]
1.)Raw Material [01:57]
2.)Mac Is Back (produced by Dviousmindz) [02:08]
3.)Overdose (produced by Taebeast) [02:45]
4.)Dead Season (produced by Nujabes) [01:17]
5.)The Art of War (samples &038;8220;Shadowboxin&038;8217;&8221; by GZA) [02:16]
6.)Wildstyle (produced by DJ Premier) [02:52]
7.)Back in the Day (produced by True) [03:50]
8.)Coordinates (produced by M. Will the Shogun) [03:10]
9.)Sooner or Later (produced by Ion the Prize, samples &038;8220;Diggin Deeper&8221; by Average White Band) [03:57]
10.)Breathe (produced by Thelonious Martin) [02:48]
11.)40 Acres &038;038; a Deal (samples &038;8220;So Appalled&8221; by Kanye West) [01:59]
12.)Walkin&038;8217; Out (samples &038;8220;Walkinonit&8221; by J Dilla) [01:42]
13.)40 Blades (produced by Scram Jones) [02:41]
14.)Excursions 2011 (samples &038;8220;Excursions&8221; by A Tribe Called Quest) [02:14]
15.)Letter to the President (samples &038;8220;All Caps&8221; by Madlib) [03:42]
16.)You Don&038;8217;t Hear Me (produced by Pele) [04:23]
17.)Circulate (samples &038;8220;Circulate&8221; by Young Jeezy) [03:36]
18.)Curtain Call (produced by Jonathan Lowell) [02:56]
[For three additional bonus tracks, including collaborations with the likes of Lord Jamar, Vithym &038;038; Deshawn Supreme, head toBandcamp to download the entire album.]
On Raw Material
Chris DeLine: On one hand you speak to how proud you are of graduating college, but the flip side is your own sense of feeling disenfranchised by the system: how the degree helps your self-esteem yet burdens you because it has yet to give you an advantage in finding a job. Do you feel people can relate to you on this and how much do you struggle with this daily?
Mac L: The short answer is yes. I know people can relate to me, simply because I know people who are going through the same things I&038;8217;m going through buying runescape money , if not worse. I&038;8217;d be lying if I said it didn&038;8217;t hurt, but you gotta have faith. That&038;8217;s why I try not to let this get to me daily, because with despair comes opportunity. As of late I&038;8217;ve come to realize my destiny, and ultimately I need to stop letting the system stop me from my dreams. With that said, I&038;8217;m no longer looking for a job, but an expansion of my career.
Chris DeLine: We briefly talked about this before cocktails might&038;8217;ve been involved on either or both ends of the conversation but you&038;8217;ve hinted that this might be your swan song. Are you going to continue pursuing rapping as a genuine outlet following this release, and if so, what still drives you to push forward?
Mac L: (Laughs) Blame the alcohol. Rap always was and always will be my outlet. I enjoy music too much to quit, as an artist and a fan. With that said, I&038;8217;m already working on my next project as I wait to release this one. I have two younger siblings that look up to me. They mean everything to me. My brother plays my music all through the house and even has his basketball teams (yes, teams) playing my joints. There&038;8217;s too many people who enjoy my work,Metin2 assas. who depend on me, who expect great things from me, and that&038;8217;s because there&038;8217;s no one else who makes music like me, who can drop knowledge and entertainment at the same time. For me to give up, at this point, would be turning my back on everyone who has ever had a kind word for me.
Chris DeLine: &038;8220;&038;8230;and that&038;8217;s because there&038;8217;s no one else who makes music like me, who can drop knowledge and entertainment at the same time.&8221; This isn&038;8217;t meant to sound confrontational or critical, but do you really feel that way? Deep down inside, that you&038;8217;re in an elite tier among MCs?
Mac L: Shit, I know I&038;8217;m not the only one who can do it. I just feel like I&038;8217;m the only one that actually takes a stab at it. I&038;8217;d be lying if I said I didn&038;8217;t have my doubts, but who doesn&038;8217;t? As far as being in an elite tier, the record won&038;8217;t allow me to say that I am. I will say that I&038;8217;m on my way though. My plan and my ability will show and prove it for me.
Chris DeLine: How much did you invest in Raw Material when all&038;8217;s said and done, and how much might that aspect of the artistic process play into whether or not you continue to release music in the future?
Mac L: I invested a lot of time, energy, and money into Raw Material. The few people that heard The Great American Paper Chase will understand that my main focus is progression. My next tape will be a further example. The only thing that would stop me from continuing to release music would be if I lost my artistic freedom.
Chris DeLine: Raw Material touches on everything from grievances with the President to celebrating nostalgia, but what was left on the cutting room floor? Do you have any half-finished ideas that you simply had to let go?
Mac L: There were TONS of songs vanguard Vul,PressBox. some finished, some unfinished. If you notice the tracklisting, there were basically no features on the mixtape. That&038;8217;s not the way I originally intended. If Raw Material went the way I originally wanted it to be, there&038;8217;d be a movie to go with it. I had more feelings to unload, more ideas, more stories, but it was too much. I had to understand that I&038;8217;m not in a position where I can just do whatever I want and expect people to gravitate toward it. Some songs will be on future projects. Other songs may ultimately be scrapped. A lot of songs were put on The Prelude, which is up for free download now. For the record, despite my frustrations with our President, I&038;8217;m standing by him.
The rest of this doesn&038;8217;t have so much to do with Mac as it does about four years of other issues. Obviously it&038;8217;s a bit lengthy, it&038;8217;s probably a bit boring, and I know that it&038;8217;s likely a little too personal, but it&038;8217;s ultimately really important to me.
I moved to Nashville last summer on a whim, really only because one of my best friends lives here and it seemed like a not-so-terrible idea. And here I am 17 months later, still waking up each morning in some strange city that has somehow become a part of me. I can&038;8217;t explain what exactly it is about Nashville that makes it unique, nor can I narrow down what it is about the city that I really enjoy, but perhaps part of my appreciation reflects the circumstances that have arisen during my time here that have allowed me to swap out certain labels that help define who I am. For the past three years I&038;8217;ve been able to miraculously survive as a &038;8220;professional&8221; music blogger which, as far as job titles go,world of warcraft money doesn&038;8217;t really have an authoritative ring to it, does it? but in recent months, largely because of dumb luck, I&038;8217;ve been able to slowly move on from that stage of my life. I can now just be a fan of music again, which has been kind of nice because I&038;8217;ve become very conflicted about this whole blogging-about-music thing. The daily obsessing, processing and digesting of an endless supply of music is tricky, and for whatever reason, six and a half years of it has left me a bit tired of actually listening to new music. The irony of this coming to a head while living in Music City isn&038;8217;t lost on me.
While reflecting on the past few years though it&038;8217;s become quite apparent to me that this growing distaste for the process is largely of my own doing, and mostly because of my own inability to be honest with myself. For the most part, having to push out blog posts to get the page views to get the pay checks means promoting music that&038;8217;s not necessarily good, but really only good enough to blog about. This issue becomes amplified for local blogs that seek to promote local talent, something that I&038;8217;ve aimlessly tried to do for a number of years and something that, quite frankly, I&038;8217;ve really made a mess of. Again, mostly because of that dishonesty with myself.
Early in 2007 I met a bunch of really fun and interesting people who were working together under the banner of a review website calledHow Was The Show in the Twin Cities. I wrote a few forgettable concert recaps for the site but the introduction helped open my eyes to something I hadn&038;8217;t even really considered before: focusing on local bands. This process of digging into the scene was rewarding in that it led me to discover some cool music that I didn&038;8217;t know existed, and the consideration of local artists ultimately spread to this blog where I started to document local goings-on. In the following years some friends joined in and this Twin Cities focus on the blogmomentum. Around this time the opportunity became available to contribute to the local alt-weekly,City Pages, where for a little under a year I put together locally-focused news posts online (nearly) every weekday, while also adding various show previews and features along the way to the print edition. By the end of 2009 though I was really struggling with some things in my personal life and I made some poor decisions which led not only to putting this blog on the shelf, but the unfortunate crumbling of a few good friendships. If I could do that all again, I&038;8217;d handle things much differently.
A couple months later, I found myself unable to land work up in Canada, where I&038;8217;d moved, and out of necessity to get some sort of income going again I started blogging again. I should have just done my own thing, but to some degree I had sold myself on the idea that there was some inherent value in building that local presence and promoting local artists. Unsuccessfully grasping for some sense of relevancy I tried to put together some locally-based news posts (something I later failed to do consistently here in Nashville, as well) and I even went as far as putting together a local band directory. Before long however I was back in the States and I lazily tried to again turn the focus locally. I really didn&038;8217;t have any direction with what I was doing until some time in December though, when a phone call influenced how I approached the next few months of blogging.
Chatting with a friend online I was asked if I&038;8217;d met John Gotty, who runsThe Smoking Section, yet. Honestly, I hadn&038;8217;t frequented the site in ages and had no idea he even lived in Nashville. A few days later I got in touch and we eventually connected on the phone. Unable to really figure anything out on my own, I was curious to ask him about what was going on in terms of rap and hip hop in the city and by chance it just so happened that he was preparing an idea that would start showcasing the very community I was trying to learn more about. He was still in the planning stages of bringing Yelawolf to town in a move that he was hoping to replicate: attracting audiences to come out to shows by alluring them with a big name and offering local MCs the chance to be seen by new faces by adding them to the bill. The Yelawolf show at Phat Kaps worked (big time) and the procedure has continued to do so, bringing a bit of visibility to local names who might not otherwise have the opportunity to perform in front of large audiences. But what it also did was spark a bit of a push to encourage local MCs in general.
This past May Sean Maloney wrote an article in the Nashville Scene that covered this rebirth, of sorts, titled &038;8220;How guys like Openmic, Dee Goodz and more are leading the Nashville hip-hop charge, and creating a scene all their own.&8221; In the article Sean discussed a few of the MCs he felt were driving this new breed, while also touching on a few additional factors which were helping to drive the shift including an increase in media coverage, including a push from such blogs asBreak on a Cloud,2Ls on a Cloud (I still crack up at the unintentional similarity in their names), and this blog. Why go through explaining all this? To emphasize that while I&038;8217;m still relatively new to Nashville, and still have no idea how deep or shallow the pool of talent in the city might be, I&038;8217;m not new to the idea of supporting local artists, pushing for them in local online and print publications, and hyping local shows. What I am new to, however, is an idea that leaves me feeling that depending on how it&038;8217;s done, it might not have the value that it appears to. But supporting the community is the right thing to do, right? Buy local, support local artists, etc. WellEditorial: The price of water The Ceremoni, there&038;8217;s a little more to it than that.
Part of the reason that I personally grew tired of focusing on Twin Cities&038;8217; acts was that when it comes right down to it, a lot of them just really weren&038;8217;t that good. Or maybe they were good, but they just weren&038;8217;t my thing. Numerous times I was responsible for blog posts on City Pages&038;8217; website or show previews in the paper that promoted artists in the name of community who I genuinely didn&038;8217;t care about. Instead of being honest with myself however I went with the flow: To some degree it&038;8217;s part of the job, but had I realized then what I believe I do now I would have given up on the local-focus long before I landed in Nashville, and long before I got involved in promoting local artists here. I would have never blogged about plenty of the acts that hit the front page had it not been for the fact that they were based in the community which I lived. This doesn&038;8217;t reflect well on me, and I realize this,WoW Patch 4.3: Tier 13 Set Bonuses. and that&038;8217;s fine, but it&038;8217;s important to consider because dating all the way back to 2007 when I started to spend more time looking at the city around me, no matter where I&038;8217;ve lived, I&038;8217;ve hardly been the only person selling local mediocrity as something truly worthwhile. Sadly I think that this is a symptom of locally-aimed outlets wherever you go, and I might take some heat for saying this but Nashville is no exception.
What might be most interesting thing about Sean&038;8217;s May-article came not in the cheerleading but in a comment which followed from &038;8220;Yep&8221; that read, &038;8220;We&038;8217;ve seen iterations of this same story since the early &038;8217;90s. Between Count Bass D, Iayaalis, Haystack, Utopia State and others, Nashville hip-hop still has not taken off. This city is still in retrograde mode when it comes to supporting music that does not have a country spin or a light &038;038; bright face attached to it.&8221; Perhaps by coincidence, perhaps by purpose, it was around the time that a friend of mine gave me an article which ran in the Nashville Scene in September of 2005 titled &038;8220;Cashville Underground: Nashville&038;8217;s hip-hop scene is poised to blow up.&8221; The timing was remarkable.
Written by now-Managing Editor Jack Silverman, the article detailed the rap community in Nashville and defined the landscape as being &038;8220;a scene that, given the right set of circumstances, could boil over at any minute.&8221; Citing MCs such as Cadence &038;038; Jelly Roll, the article reflects a similar feeling of optimism that Sean&038;8217;s did when he called Nashville &038;8220;a scene on the move.&8221; Jack&038;8217;s article did well to not get entirely ahead of itself by explaining some of the difficulties facing local artists though, and while Sean&038;8217;s didn&038;8217;t detail them, many of the problems still exist: the city&038;8217;s MCs tend to stand on their own rather than work together, there is a scarcity of local venues that consistently welcome MCs, and the list goes on. All of these issues might be changing, and some are even beginning to turn around completely, but there remains this curious tendency tohyperbolize the local rap scene here in the city. To some degree I think it has to do with the anger tied to Nashville&038;8217;s image being so very tightly pinned to the development and support of country music (nearly exclusively),November 2011. but part of it also has to do with that broader issue of supporting local for local&038;8217;s sake. I want to make something clear here, buy gold world of warcraft I&038;8217;m as guilty of this as the next person (perhaps guiltier than the next, even) and I&038;8217;m not trying to point fingers or make a mockery out of anyoneworld of warcraft gold buying , be it artist or media member. What I&038;8217;m trying to do is suggest that there&038;8217;s an alternative way of doing business that might be more valuable to everyone involved. Sean and I haven&038;8217;t always seeneye to eye, but he&038;8217;s a good guy and is leading the pack right now in terms of giving exposure to a largely overlooked faction of artist. And to be fair, I think he&038;8217;s trying to confront this very same issue as he continues to push things in a positive direction.
In addition to various features which date back to long before I even moved to the city, Sean&038;8217;s recently been compiling submissions from local MCs for weekly Party &038;038; Bullshit blog posts. We chatted about them a little bit online earlier this week and he addressed this need for better curation, &038;8220;At the beginning P&038;038;B was mostly me with my fingers crossed hoping that I&038;8217;d have a enough material to even write a blog post. Now it&038;8217;s a question of whether or not I have time to listen to everything that comes my way and then wrestling with what I want to put in there. That there&038;8217;s enough hip hop in Nashville these days to be really selective about what I cover.&8221; I&038;8217;m really glad he brought this up because what Sean&038;8217;s saying here about the process of increased selectivity is as important to the ongoing development of any &038;8220;scene&8221; as it is for the growth of individual artists.
In a recentHuffington Post article, filmmaker Kevin Smith spoke to how unnecessary it is to degrade the work of creative-types, as on the flip side,atlantica Mu. &038;8220;It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential return is immeasurable. A song will cheer your mood. A movie will let you escape. A podcast will make you laugh. Nice dividends to a simple investment.&8221; He continued, &038;8220;Art can&038;8217;t save the world, but it can make the world a lot easier to take. You tell a budding artist something good about their work, or share with them the things you&038;8217;ve learned, or show them how to advocate for their art themselves? It costs you nothing but time. The potential upside? Maybe one day, they make your favorite movie. Or write the book you&038;8217;ve read twenty times. Or record the most-played song on your iPod. Or rock the longest-running podcast in history. All because you said something kind.&8221; He makes a great point, and I&038;8217;m not here to argue that, but when these avenues of positive feedback are so widely open for access, and so readily lending encouragement it begins to water down the entire process of defining what&038;8217;s actually good. C.S. Lewis has a funny quote that sort of applies here: &038;8220;Dont use words too big for the subject. Dont say &038;8216;infinitely&038;8217; when you mean &038;8216;very&038;8217;; otherwise youll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.&8221; There&038;8217;s probably no real use in telling an artist that their work is laughably terrible. But it might be more detrimental in the long-run to lead on like what they&038;8217;re doing is great when in reality it&038;8217;s only marginally better than being entirely forgettable. It&038;8217;s a difficult line to walk, finding a balance between insult and embellishment, and unfortunately we&038;8217;re usually left leaning closer to the latter.
My opinion, over time, has became fairly worthless in this online forum largely because it&038;8217;s been so heavily tied to nonchalant blog posts about artists who I really didn&038;8217;t care about (this isn&038;8217;t specific to local artists though, more on that to come in a later blog post). Without setting a higher standard for who we place on a pedestal and offer our support to, we&038;8217;ll be left with preaching about how an act like Mobb Mafia could be the key to the success of an entire city&038;8217;s musical development (as MC Kool Daddy Fresh did in Jack&038;8217;s article). But even if we do place our collective weight and support behind a talent that we feel is legitimate, I&038;8217;d still argue against putting the weight of such our-scene-is-on-the-cusp-of-breaking-out articles on their shoulders. You don&038;8217;t really have to look any further than Jack&038;8217;s article to see what I mean, particularly focusing an MC that he pumped up pretty hard in his piece when he explained that &038;8220;It&038;8217;s almost unanimous among local rap insiders that All Star is the next big thing to break out of Cashville.&8221;
Now performing under the name ofStarlito, the MC might have had the potential to be that break-out star that a scene needs, but damned if he didn&038;8217;t face some major hurdles along the way. Hitting big with the 2005 Yo Gotti &038;038; Young Jeezy collaboration &038;8220;Grey Goose,&8221; All $tar struck a deal with Cash Money, but even so, by February of 2008,when the New York Times&038;8217; Kelefah Senneh wrote a feature about him, he was still struggling to rise to the next level. &038;8220;He calls himself All $tar, and he has what most rappers dream of: a devoted fan base,Shadowblade. a strong regional reputation and a big-time record deal. His major-label debut, &038;8216;Street Ball&038;8217; (Cash Money/Universal), is one of the years most eagerly anticipated Southern hip-hop albums. But all that was equally true last year. And in 2006. And in 2005 too. All $tar, who just turned 23, has been Nashvilles next big hip-hop thing for so long that the title has stopped seeming like a compliment.&8221; Starlito&038;8217;s local shine hasn&038;8217;t really faded away in the years that followed this past December he released the full-length albumStarlito&038;8217;s Way 3: Life Insurance, and he dropped theUltimate Warrior mixtape earlier this month but that next level never really materialized for the still-young MC. This isn&038;8217;t to say that he&038;8217;s not talented, that he didn&038;8217;t hustle, or that a breakout down the road might not still happen, but simply that it&038;8217;s just ridiculously hard to actually break out and taste mainstream success, let alone carry an entire city&038;8217;s roster of MCs into the public eye with you. Perhaps nothing would have changed if such a burden of potential success wasn&038;8217;t placed on his shoulders at such an early age, but it still makes me cringe a little to see the same thing happen in 2011 to a talented guy likeOpenmic who&038;8217;s barely legal, himself. Artists need time to develop, and if they&038;8217;re being illegitimately touted (again, as I&038;8217;ve been guilty of countless times) there&038;8217;s a chance that they begin to buy their own hype regardless of whether or not they actually have the talent to back it up. The really depressing thing is that this empty hyping isn&038;8217;t even the worst thing that I&038;8217;m guilty of in terms of pushing the whole local angle on the blog. The fact is that I was being dishonest without even really realizing it: I&038;8217;d been going about things the wrong way for so long that I didn&038;8217;t even realize that I was trying to make it more about me, and my &038;8220;personal brand&8221; or whatever, than about the music.
It&038;8217;s disheartening to go back through the mental scrapbook and realize all the times that my intentions were put out there for personal gain while I was spouting off about building community. Certainly I believed in its importance, and I still do, but I guess I wasn&038;8217;t ever really honest with myself about how much of what I was doing was a personal grab at some sort of notoriety. Sad as it might be, this blog has been one of the only things that ever really made me feel important in my adult life, which might be why I&038;8217;ve always returned to it, but that realization hardly cleanses the bitter taste that all of this has left in my mouth.
The reason I&038;8217;m bringing this up is because I feel that it&038;8217;s the another one of the key issues that can get in the way of any local music scene developing: The music has to speak for itself and validate its own importance, not the importance of those who document it. There&038;8217;s a documentary that I&038;8217;d recommend people checking out calledPressPausePlay that focuses on the democratization of art in the digital era. In it Pitchfork&038;8217;s Amy Phillips touches on the idea that just because you can make music does not mean that you&038;8217;re entitled to a fan base. The exact same thing is true of bloggers: just because we can figure out how to install WordPress and embed some YouTube clips doesn&038;8217;t mean that we deserve to be seen. And just as they do with musiciansR6] Lv121 Soul Breeder /w R6 Angel &038; R5 Naga, audiences have to assume motivation with bloggers. It just so happens to turn out that after all this time I had become largely misguided about what mine was. I feel like I&038;8217;ve been deceptive and I really regret that.
Last week I asked Gotty, who continues to be nothing but a rock in this city, for some feedback about what he&038;8217;s seen happen this year and he explained another problem facing Nashville artists, which could potentially be the most crippling. &038;8220;The biggest challenge the city faces is much like any relationship: sustaining and finding a way to stay in love. Keeping the rap romance going requires continuing to spread the word and bring friends to shows, taking a gamble on shows where maybe you don&038;8217;t know all of the artists on the bill but you know the show&038;8217;s host and their ability to put together great bills or going out to a Wednesday night show because there will be newfound friends there, etc.&8221; One doesn&038;8217;t need to look any further than Jack&038;8217;s article to see how short the lifespan of a regional talent can be, and I don&038;8217;t know that many of the MCs and producers making music in the city right now will fare any better. But what seems apparent is that there continues to be a shift in the local culture. Sean added, &038;8220;It used to be that I would know every show that was happening and every person that was going to be there and, well, that&038;8217;s just not the case anymore. There are more club nights and shows and artists than I can even keep track of AND there&038;8217;s an audience that keeps showing up for all of &038;8216;em, which is just mind blowing. I think Nashville hip hop has finally found itself.&8221;
As far as whether or not there&038;8217;s a legitimate chance that Nashville develops into a nationally-regarded scene for anything but country music is far beyond me. It&038;8217;s still a strange city and I still have no idea about how it works. TakeNashville&038;8217;s Dead for example: since I moved here it&038;8217;s been one of the most influential blogs that I know of in terms of pumping local talent. The people who write the blog posts might be friends of the people they write about, or in the bands themselves, but it&038;8217;s still a damn fine outlet to discover what&038;8217;s going on in the city. Yet despite its consistency, or the work of my aforementioned Cloud friends, theNashville Scene recently named itself the &038;8220;Best Music Blog&8221; for the second straight year, comically adding as its runners-up both a &038;8220;music discovery platform&8221; that recently (un-ironically, mind you) posted aColdplay tribute, and a blog aimed at the sharing of &038;8220;experiences in marketing music and managing artists&8221; which most recently awarded Switchfoot as its &038;8220;October Pick Of The Month.&8221; (Yes it was a reader&038;8217;s poll and yes Sean made room fora well-deserved special mention of Break on a Cloud, but that breakdown still concerns me.) Had I been paying better attention these past few months I&038;8217;d probably be able to list a few more instances of goofy industry goings-on, but as such I haven&038;8217;t.
Even if music-heads are able to avoid puffing up local talent that isn&038;8217;t all that talented, even if those documenting the community don&038;8217;t mistake their own importance for that of the subject their covering (essentially if you can do what I haven&038;8217;t done), and even if MCs are allowed to develop slowly, with artists taking time to find their voices and grow into their music, this is still a tough industry city (maybe The Industry City),wowgold and from where I&038;8217;m at the process of swimming upstream against the current here appears damn near impossible. Add to it that Nashville, by population aloneDragon Tendo, is a relatively small market, and thus has a smaller pool of talent to rely on. Interestingly enough though, I might be in the distinct minority here.
Sean closed our discussion by summing up his take on the future, &038;8220;I&038;8217;m thinking there are going to be a lot more high quality records from innovative artists. I also think that folks outside the city are going to start noticing what&038;8217;s going on here.&8221; He continued, &038;8220;Basically, I&038;8217;m thinking 2012 is going to make 2011 look like a quiet and unproductive year, which it definitely has not been&038;8230;&8221; Gotty reflected a similar feeling of optimism, &038;8220;There&038;8217;s no reason Nashville, as &038;8216;Music City,&038;8217; should be continuously overlooked as a hub, either for tour stops and the music being created here. For years, the rap scene here has been overlooked and un-nurtured. Now, everybody&038;8217;s working, taking shifts and adding their skills to the mix in order to make sure the garden&038;8217;s growing.&8221;
The whole purpose of this, other than it being helpful for me to figure myself out a little, is to say that I really didn&038;8217;t go about things as I should have in Minneapolis, I was completely misguided in my lazy attempt to focus locally in Calgary, and to go on doing so in Nashville would be a disservice to not only those who are doing it with genuine intentions, but also the few artists who do deserve better. I take issue with the idea of a &038;8220;scene&8221; even needing to be built, when a strong community (there I go again&038;8230;) is really what&038;8217;s most important. If all that happens in the coming years is that MCs begin to really work together and fans continue to pack shows, the city will be immeasurably better for it. When it comes down to it I do want to see people succeed (even those who I don&038;8217;t feel are all that good at what they do), but I don&038;8217;t want to see this become another scenario where some blogger is pointing the finger six years from now saying WE did things all wrong, questioning why there still isn&038;8217;t any rap or hip hop scene in Nashville. Sorry if I&038;8217;ve already let you down in working against that happening.
i read this blog, all of it &8211; while listening to Mac L&038;8217;s &038;8220;Raw Material.&8221; (i enjoyed Raw Material a lot, for reasons not relevant to this comment.) i agree with lots of CB&038;8217;s observations and feelings. i respect any and all attempts at honesty &8211; with others and with oneself. but it&038;8217;s not as easy as we might hope! and music we really like one day might not measure up the next time we hear it or when we hear it compared to the same artist, later in his/her career. likewise, writers and/or journalists. so please don&038;8217;t beat yourself up for &038;8220;selling out.&8221; i agree, however, that you don&038;8217;t have to love every artist on the bill in order to promote a show &8211; in totally good faith! EVERYone deserves a chance to show what (s)he can do! PLEASE &8211; keep listening to music, keep caring about artists Ox Pouldron, keep writing about both!
Hi Chris. At this point I&038;8217;ve read all the articles you have on your site regarding music blogging and local scenes. Although you seem to correctly outline a common situation in local scenes, both on and off the internet, this article and your other articles seem to neglect pin-point answers/solutions for &038;8220;quality&8221; artists to promote themselves in an effective way&8211;again, either on or off the internet.
I live in Eugene, Oregon where I feel much of what you described, the promotion of local artists for the sake of being local and supporting local art, occurs. This kind of promotion, for the most part, discourages public interaction with many of the artists that deserve attention. So my question for you is: How would you suggest an artist approach using the internet to promote their work in either a very big or small way. How does a &038;8220;quality&8221; artist get the attention they deserve off the internet?&038;8230;. Maybe a strange and well documented publicity stunt?
Good insights!
Julian
Right away, thank you very much for spending your time here on this blog and reading what I had to say. I really appreciate that!
As far as the question goes&038;8230; I&038;8217;m not sure that I have a good answer for you. So much of success can be circumstance, and that really has nothing to do with whether or not you&038;8217;re actually a &038;8220;quality&8221; artist (when you say quality I read good).
I&038;8217;d like to believe that musicians who are making music that&038;8217;s actually worth attention will get it with a bit of time, a lot of work and a few lucky moments along the way. That said, I know this isn&038;8217;t usually the case. What I wouldn&038;8217;t do runescape store , if I were in your shoes though, is look to something to momentarily boost your profile, like the publicity stunt you mentioned. That,Cetus Ox Arm. to me, speaks more to desperation (desperate times DO call for desperate measures though, right?) than it does to something an Artist would do. Or at least an artist seeking a longterm fan-base rather than short-term notoriety.
Wish I had the answer, but I know I don&038;8217;t, and I&038;8217;m not even sure there is one. Just work to prepare yourself so that in the event that an opportunity arises, you&038;8217;ll be ready for it. Have your social presence tight (can I find you online? can I stream your music somewhere? do you have a twitter/facebook account? is it easy to contact you? can I find out where you&038;8217;re playing? can I buy your music? can I download it?&038;8230; etc.). Know your city and work the local club grind as much as you can. When that&038;8217;s on lock, look toward touring nationally. Along the way, don&038;8217;t get caught up in the music exclusively, and try to leave a trace of yourself wherever you can go. (DIY merch is a great way to do this on a budget, and can be inventive depending on the audience you&038;8217;re trying to develop &8212; vid, below.)
The hope would be that if you are &038;8220;quality&8221; AND you&038;8217;ve consistently hustled to find new ears for your work AND you&038;8217;ve seemingly taken your music as far as it can go AND you still can&038;8217;t get the attention that you feel it deserves (on or off the Internet)&038;8230; well, maybe it&038;8217;s just not as good as you&038;8217;re thinking it is. Maybe it has reached the level of music it deserves.
If more &038;8220;artists&8221; were comfortable with this thought, and were cool with a modest level of recognition, I&038;8217;m not sure that your question would even be an issue. But as such, everyone who has an idea and a guitar, laptop, or mic is out there vying for the very same time and attention that you&038;8217;re aiming for. Wish I had a better answer than that.
Thanks again for reading and commenting Julian. Best of luck as you continue on with things.
Chris, thanks for the speedy response!
What would you say about Die Antwoord as a case study? They don&038;8217;t seem to fit the model/image of most artists, at least the artists you described above, and they gained quite a bit of fame a year or two back. I can remember the reason I, and most other people, first heard of them was that I saw their music video, &038;8220;samurai&8221;.
So, in other words&038;8230; what do you think about alternative methods for artists to become in vogue?&8211;such as the method Die Antwoord used.
-Julian
Die Antwoord as a case study? Well&038;8230;
It&038;8217;s hard to look at their breakout and apply it to this conversation. A trio of South African rednecks, who each have a bit of a sideshow appeal: Ninja (a skin and bones 15 year veteran of the SA hip hop scene), Yo-Landi (seemingly an albino fairy) &038;038; DJ Hi-Tek (who had a rare genetic disease which rapidly accelerated his aging process&038;8230; and passed earlier this year).
They caught Internet buzz (that video you mentioned) and parlayed that into a record deal. Then they were able to capitalize on the label&038;8217;s insurgence of cash to make a play for a bit of mainstream attention (late night TV spots, a wide-scale tour, major media coverage, etc).
If vogue is the goal &8211; sure, I mean, they might have captured it on some levels (briefly?). But now, after leaving Interscope, I can&038;8217;t imagine they&038;8217;ll continue on with the same rate of success. To some degree, I think they need someone to sell what they&038;8217;re creating &8212; and if they&038;8217;re not considered vogue, their music seems like a terribly hard-sell.
To answer your question though: I don&038;8217;t have much of an opinion one way or another concerning the methods used to become &038;8220;vogue&8221; &8211; they are what they are. It&038;8217;s what happens after that time passes that becomes the interesting part of the equation to me. So you had your corporation-backed moment in the sun? Alright. Now what?
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If I understand right you stopped you job. Where you get moneytier 9 set bonuses forums for new albums?) Or this album gave you enough for new?
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Every week, WoW Insider brings youShifting Perspectives forcatwow tier 7 p,bear ,restoration andbalance druids. Welcome to our feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron ofThe Fluid Druid blog. Let the face clawing begin! Gear, gear, everybody wants gear! Happily, we get our first piece of visible progression gear in, well, forever. A flaming kitty is a raiding kitty &8230; awesome.
This update to my gear list focuses on items from new 4.2 content and bottoms out with ZA gear. If youre just starting out, the list compiled a few months ago is still quite good.
A few notes before we get to the items:
One of my most common questions is Which secondary stat is best? WellTraduccin] Articulo de Crafting, the small Rip nerf, plus the eventual loss of the two-piece T11 bonus once you upgrade into tier 12, knocks mastery down a peg. The buff to Savage Roar boosts haste up a peg. Unfortunately, this means our secondary stats are pretty much even. Ive tested this extensively,rs gold and at the 359 to 378 gear levels, reforging to different stats affects simulated DPS by less than 1%. Personally,tier 10 mmo. Id recommend sticking with mastery until you break two-piece T11, then try a hit/expertise cap setup; see how it works for you. As always, any fight with little to no off-boss time will favor haste, while fights with large interruptions in DPS time will favor mastery.
ThankfullyDeath Ward, the leveling out of secondary stats makes rough gear comparisons quite easy. You can generally consider 1 agility to be worth about three points of secondary stats. Looking at PVP gear, then, Id say a PVP piece is roughly equal to a PVE piece thats 1.5 tiers lower (about 20 points in ilevel). An ilvl 371 Vicious item, for example, will work about as well as a 353 item from ZA. This is not considering the PVP set bonuses; add half a tier to each PVP item in terms of estimation if you have the two-piece set bonus, or a full tier for two-piece and four-piece.
Finally, if youre planning which item to use as an offset going into T12, Id recommend the hands or legs, due to superior socket coloration. Definitely try to stick with two-piece T11 as long as you can, though; the two-piece T11/two-piece T12 combination is very strong and only a tiny bit behind full four-piece T12 in terms of DPS.
Let the hunters get the Ranseur, and you get Fandrals. K? K. The Witch-Hunters Harvester is one of the new unlockable craftables from the Molten Front &8212; dont expect to see these for a whilerunescape shop , but as the base materials arent overly expensive, they should come down in price pretty quickly.
And the BH slot machine starts up again! Note that Occuthar drops and VP costs for T12 gear are still unknown.
I suspect quite a few raiders have the heroic Stormriders piece (heroic Halfus is the easiest, after all), so this will probably be a lower priority spot for VP.
Just my personal opinions on these: Many could use more testing. UW, in particular, sims really well, but Im not convinced of its actual value. Im also holding off on ranking Rickets Magnetic Fireball until I get some more info on the proc.
A good choice for (eventually) using off set, due to the blue socket on tier. I believe the recipe for the LW BoE drops in Firelands, though thats unconfirmed.
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Yay, an offset that isnt named the same as the set! As with the gloves, I expect the Treads to be a Firelands drop recipe.
Well, time to work on Ashen &8230; no, Earthen &8230; no, Avengers rep for a nice ring. If you can hold off until Halloween,runescape buy money there looks to be a new Headless Horseman one also.
I believe the developers are overcompensating for the lack of cloaks in Wrath. Youll get your good cloak just by following the Elemental Bonds quest line. A better one is shortly to follow via Avengers rep, though.
The boring slot. At least its a BOE this time, so you can buy/sell as you need. Hopefully, it has a reasonable drop rate.
Still the last place to put VPs.
That wraps up the gear. I havent included heroic Firelands items, for space reasons; obviously, if you have a heroic Firelands item, itll likely be best in slot (except for the Avengers exalted ring). Have fun in the Firelands, and remember: Friends dont let hunters roll on feral weapons!
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