Sell outs...

[redsock]

The fact that the current sellouts on the board are Better than Ezra, Gavin Degraw and OAR says everything you ever needed to know about the DC music scene.

[bellenseb]

I was pretty shocked that Better than Ezra sold out. Aren't they sort of Live On Penn band?  Almost as shocking is Motley Crue playing MCI.
 
 Will Bright Eyes sell out?

[eltee]

Other bands have sold out 9:30 in the past year...Just some shows for others happen to be scheduled this month...But you do have a point, I'm surprised BTE sold out. A variety of reasons though...it's a Friday, the holidays, maybe it's b/c of the two opening bands? (I have no idea who either of them are.)

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  Will Bright Eyes sell out?

yes

[Bags]

Originally posted by redsock:
  The fact that the current sellouts on the board are Better than Ezra, Gavin Degraw and OAR says everything you ever needed to know about the DC music scene.

I know I get defensive, but it's not just DC.  These are the bands that sellout most places rather than Le Tigre, The National or Clearlake.
 
 Look, frickin' Bright Eyes will sell out.  If that's not the nadir (or zenith) of the indie scene, nothing is.    :p

[Seth Hurwitz]

Muse & Interpol sold out on consecutive weeknights
 
 I would say that speaks for the sophistication of our town
 
 the fact that stuff sells out that you think is dorky shouldn't take away from that

[Guiny]

The last two posts are dead on. I'm not seeing Better Than Ezra this time cause I've seen them about five times already in the last two years, but I can say that they put on one heck of a live performance.

[Guiny]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  I was pretty shocked that Better than Ezra sold out. Aren't they sort of Live On Penn band?  Almost as shocking is Motley Crue playing MCI.
 

Well that would make GBV and other Indie bands "Live on Penn." bands since they also played there.
 
 As for Motley Crue, that concert is gonna be a great concert and the MCI Center will probably be the only spot inside the city that can hold the crowd.

[redsock]

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
  Muse & Interpol sold out on consecutive weeknights
 
 I would say that speaks for the sophistication of our town
 
 the fact that stuff sells out that you think is dorky shouldn't take away from that

I'm not suggesting the OAR crowd is the only type of show to sell out around here, merely that these "safer" shows tend to be what the general public want to see. It obviously makes sense since corporate radio plays to the same exact crowd. And despite Muse, Interpol, GBV, etc., I think the number of good bands that hardly get an audience, whether at 930, BC or other places, heavily outweighs the few that do sell out. In a place like NYC or LA, they do grab god audiiences.
 
 I realize I'm being captain obvious here, but it just made me a little sad to think that there are good bands who can't even find a place to play in DC, much less draw a crowd. And Gavin Degraw sells out 2 shows.

[bellenseb]

The lack of local college radio with a decent signal plays a part in this, I think. People won't likely go to a show of a band they've never heard.

[nkotb]

What exactly makes Muse or Interpol "unsafe."  No disrespect to those bands or their fans intended, but they don't seem that far from Better Than Ezra to me.
 
 

Originally posted by redsock:
 It obviously makes sense since corporate radio plays to the same exact crowd.

[thirsty moore]

Carlos D's a loose cannon with herpes.
 
 

Originally posted by nkotbie:
  What exactly makes Muse or Interpol "unsafe."

[redsock]

Originally posted by nkotbie:
  What exactly makes Muse or Interpol "unsafe."  No disrespect to those bands or their fans intended, but they don't seem that far from Better Than Ezra to me.
 
   

Originally posted by redsock:
 It obviously makes sense since corporate radio plays to the same exact crowd.

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You don't think the average 35 year old woman from Connecticut would find Interpol or Muse a bit too edgy? Granted, both bands are played on HFS, but generally speaking, the majority of Clear Channel tations wouldn't play them over their standards, wheher it be GnR, Shania Twain, Degraw, Barenaked Ladies etc... For crying out loud, Matchbox 20 and Fountains of Wayne pass for cutting edge on many of these stations. Whatever you think of those two bands, cutting edge they are not. Even the new stuff they play on DC101 is cookie cutter rock. That is why things like the Shortlist award really are important.

[godsshoeshine]

i can't remember the last show i went to in dc that wasn't really crowded. maybe aislers set like a year and a half ago

[HoyaSaxa03]

They're really far apart.
 
 Muse and Interpol are "hip"
 
 Better Than Ezra, despite a very interesting and genre-busting 1998 LP and a rootsy-indie feel on their last album, can never be "hip" after that 'good' song.
 
 

Originally posted by nkotbie:
  What exactly makes Muse or Interpol "unsafe."  No disrespect to those bands or their fans intended, but they don't seem that far from Better Than Ezra to me.
 
   

Originally posted by redsock:
 It obviously makes sense since corporate radio plays to the same exact crowd.

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