Hell yeah brother! Noah Jones is a Charleston treasure. I’ve loved watching him evolve over the past few years and now he’s widely recognized as one of the most talented people to call Charleston home. Well deserved.

Every time he’s on the stage the collective talent is elevated, and its clear that all the musicians also love playing with him. He can write songs, he can improvise, and he has fun doing it.

This song is awesome, can’t wait to hear more.

Image upload works!

If it doesn’t work for you, try clearing your browser cache it

 

Another day in the world of code… the image upload plugin works on my testing site but not on the live site. Think it might have something to do with my hosting and/or firewall setup. I am trying to get to the bottom of it as direct image uploads would be sick to have here

EDIT

I have decided that we’re gonna go with direct uploads. Thinking back to olden internet days and Photobucket has me thinking that using Imgur may not be the best long term solution. I’ll just have to buck up and optimize the F out of the uploads and hope we make enough money to cover the rising server costs as this place grows!

Image uploads are currently the #1 priority item on my list

@meghanveino yup once a month, for now. Maybe next month we can find a way to promote it better on Instagram

I think I’ll just make a new thread each month for us to post playlist songs in…

Next update sometime in the middle week of march..

We are good on bands for now but thank you. I like to wait on the early daytime slots because most bands will say yes at that level so I can zip it up in like a day after I know the headliner. So I’m being calculated about who I ask because I’m running out of room.

Tree Limbs kicked the fest off last year and they were great.

Zack Mexico as the headliner is really just going to melt the walls of that place. They’re like the best underground band that I’m aware of. Really hoping they commit

Another one with an LSD dealer… this guy also says that it changed his life to see the Grateful Dead on acid

Sharing my pre-interview notes here, as a reference for any writers who need inspiration for interview questions… i might share this in the main area after i actually do the interview… This is what i will be staring at when i talk to him in a couple hours and its ultimately the foundation for my upcoming article Death Kings Ryan “Little King” Stasik – bass, vocals – Umphreys McGee, Doom Flamingo Uncle Mike “Muerto” Gantzer – guitar, lead vox – Aqueous Mikey “Ox” Carubba – Turkuaz Origins Formed during the pandemic, self-titled debut dropped about 2 years ago on Valentine’s Day (2022). Still feels pretty fresh – you have lots of other stuff going on. Have played probably about a dozen shows so far? A few times at the Windjammer last year, a few UM afterparties, and then a Pour House show on a Tuesday night September 2023 Want to tell the story of the band, how did the three of y’all meet and get the idea to collaborate? Recording the self-titled debut – where done, writing process To me it sounds like y’all had a blast recording it. Blowing off steam caused by the pandemic? I know there is some heavier influence in UM, Aqueous, in general What’s in mind for the future? Have you been writing any more for this project? Anything else you want to mention?

“Jack Straw” 10/20/84 – absolutely rips. I listened to this whole show and Bobby seems pretty pissed off. The “take a step back” is rather aggressive. This is the set one closer. Really gets going. I love 80s dead for shit like this

Side note: reading archive.org comments on Dead shows is one of my favorite pastimes

chubes said:

MarleyFacedBoy said:

I think so? The time stamp was off (one of them should read 11:15) but I did get 2:

• chubes mentioned you in “Feature Requests” -<small>2024-02-07 23:17:23
• chubes mentioned you in “Feature Requests” -<small>2024-02-07 23:17:10</small>

Also I tried dropping an image of this from my desktop but couldn’t. Uploading pics might need to become a necessity unless my morning brain just isn’t able to figure it out rn

I actually have this really crazy idea…

Which is making a plugin that automatically uploads images to Imgur and then brings them back here to post. Giving the illusion of uploading without actually taking up space on my server.

It’s in the think tank.

This plugin is going to be done probably by the end of the long weekend. Which will allow image uploads on the blog via the imgur api, very simply and easily and intuitively

Artist Introductions board added as a place for artists to introduce themselves.

I created it because it pairs nicely with the new music board.

Soon, I will work on the Profiles. Fan profile is working pretty good so far but I’d like to make Artist and Industry Professional profiles be these useful things that could serve in addition to or as a portal to the actual website. Even in place of it if you really wanted…

More on that later… but I added the board on this date at this time

I’m still coming up with all sorts of ideas to increase engagement around here. Currently the goal is to figure out how to get some of the thousands of visitors to the main blog each day to come over here and hang out with us on a regular basis. Increasing the visibility of the Community on the main blog is key for this and the Community Activity feed should help

It has some cache issues in that it doesn’t show up fresh for people not logged in which I have to figure out how to resolve without slowing the site down too much.

But, if you’re logged in (which should now also last for 6 months), you should see a fresh and up-to-date community activity feed in the sidebar of the main blog. At the very bottom of the page on a phone.

Cheers!