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http://music3point0.blogspot.com/2016/02/rock-still-isnt-dead-according-to-new.html
I personally never heard that rock was dead, maybe because I am a musician surrounded by people that love rock music. I don't think it will ever die since everyone has the opportunity to keep listening to their favorite bands in all the ever-growing streaming sites. I know I have discovered so many new rock bands in the last few years. One thing I have discovered is that fans of this particular genre are very loyal and won't stop following their idols and spreading the word of good bands in the scene. I grew up listening to rock because my brother was such a fan. Whenever I encounter a new rock band or whenever I feel nostalgia about a song of an old band I would post it on Facebook for more people to see. I mean, how can rock ever be dead? all the uncountable subgenres coming from it will preserve their roots. I love how Guns and Roses got together again and are bringing all the attention to plain rock and roll again. The success and press they are having now after all these years is pretty impressive.


http://www.kismetthoughts.com/why-snapchat-will-be-major-in-the-music-industry-in-2016/#comment-475
Hi Alison, let me just begin saying I love your blog and I'm happy I found it by looking for some Music Industry advice. I also believe Snapchat is very important right now, at least til another app becomes more popular and take its throne. I personally just use it to fool around and send photos and videos to my friends but I notice that every time I put something in my "story" it gets a LOT of views, which I think is great and very rewarding. I never really thought of Snapchat as a way to promote my music but I will definitely take it into account once I start releasing my own original music. I think it's a game changer for artists that decided to be a part of the social media movement. Most of the already famous musicians feel very unreachable and seldom reply to their fans comments in their videos so like you said, those who actually use something like Snapchat give the fan a little taste of their lives and hopefully create stronger artist/fan connection. Also, I think you made an important point saying that it's targeted to a younger audience. I would make total sense for a new up-and-coming artist to use it because the younger fans are the ones that are more active in social media anyway and they'll help you spread the word.

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Kismet thoughts

Alison Perdue is the creator of a blog called Kismet thoughts. She is a seventeen-year-old student from Toronto kinda new to the blog scene since she just started posting in October of 2015. She describes herself a person with a powerful passion for music and she has studied music management at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, one of the best music schools in the country. In her blog, the language she uses is very conversational and she doesn’t use very technical “lingo” in order to appeal to all sorts of readers. Her diction is consistently casual and she throws the occasional joke here and there to make it more enjoyable and to prevent the topics to get too dry. Alison’s way to phrase sentences is truly captivating and engaging because it makes the post flow freely and easy to read. Because of reasons like this is that she’s done some guest posts in other music industry related blogs such as http://musiclinx.com/blog/, http://www.jtvdigital.com/blog/ and laststopbooking.com.

In her post called the Overlooked Advantages of Streaming she talks about how streaming services have major advantages for musicians even though a lot of people attack them by saying they are destroying the industry. In this post, she is more serious than in other posts and keeps it more informative and opinionated. Alison did an interesting comparison between music and clothes. She suggested that going to the record store to buy albums from major artists is like going to your go-to stores to buy clothes. Then she said, “Now imagine if all clothing was available for free. Wouldn’t people spend more time discovering more styles, designers, and stores, simply because they now have the freedom to do so? Clothing would no longer be a huge investment, and instead, people would have the ability to freely shop, find what they truly like, without having to worry about the effect of its price on their bank accounts”. I liked this analogy because it helps more people understand the benefits that sites like Spotify or Pandora can give you as an artist in the long run, such as more fans that would go to your concerts because of discovering you on a streaming site.

Creating An Amazing Experience For Fans – Live Performances is another one of her posts. She explains how different shows are for every artist or band but also talks about the similarities that are seen in every show. In order to do this, she uses some of her own live shows experiences to support her opinions. One of her funnier lines was “Despite the fact that I mention Taylor Swift in almost all of my articles, it’s justified… I swear.” Reading that line makes me think she doesn’t want to be seen as the typical die-hard fan of Taylor Swift since some of them are seen as too mainstream by some people (including me). After that line, she actually gives some good analysis of Swift’s shows by explaining what works for her as an artist and her image as a representation of the music she does. Alison then goes on to give some advice on how to get familiarized with all the techniques musicians use to make their shows a memorable experience in a list layout. I really like the fact that she encourages her readers to comment about the different topics she discusses in her posts because it shows that she cares about getting feedback and see what the readers have to say.

Even though Alison is new to the music industry since she is very young, I can tell her drive is over the top and she seems to be very easy going. I’m looking forward to read her future posts and what she does in the future. Go show Alison some love!