{"id":1196,"date":"2008-02-04T00:22:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-04T00:22:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:22:27","slug":"power-pop-listserv-audities-coming-to-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/power-pop-listserv-audities-coming-to-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Pop Listserv Audities Coming to End: Power Poppers Vow to Continue Praising The &#8220;Other&#8221; Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5WC_gdIRsuA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nLongtime power pop listserv <strong>Audities<\/strong> is coming to a close. List moderator <strong>Michael Coxe<\/strong> announced that he&#8217;s closing shop in a couple of weeks. The sudden announcement sent shockwaves through the Power Pop Community, which vows to hold the community together under a new name and leadership group. <\/p>\n<p><em>As Coxe posted:<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seriously, this list has outlived its usefulness. We&#8217;re all so very tired &#8211; it so shows in the posts. It has for a long time. All the bickering, core subscribers leaving week by week, disappearing into lurkerdom. I doubt anyone&#8217;s heart is really in it anymore. Let&#8217;s face it: the keg&#8217;s empty, the record player&#8217;s broke and the party ended at 3AM, but we haven&#8217;t found the sense to pack it in &amp; go home to sleep it off.<\/p>\n<p>So it finally hit me that the solution was to just end it.<\/p>\n<p>*********************************************************<br \/>\n*********************************************************<br \/>\nI have decided to end the operation of the Audities-List.<br \/>\n*********************************************************<br \/>\n*********************************************************<\/p>\n<p>There&#8230; good&#8230; I said it. Feels really good (no regrets).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bravo<\/strong> to Mr. Coxe and good luck to the list&#8217;s still-enthusiastic members, of which I no longer count myself after having disappeared into lurkerdom. I think Coxe said he&#8217;d been running the list for 11+ years. That&#8217;s a hell of a lot of time to maintain a <strong>labor of often unrequited lust<\/strong>. That&#8217;s a hell of a lot of time to log on 20 times a day, hoping to see some magic, discovery, and fun take root. Personally, as I&#8217;ve expressed, I have some reservations with the limitations of the power pop genre. It&#8217;s the musical equivalent of a good, greasy diner. I can&#8217;t eat there everyday, but it sure can do in a pinch. As a participant, I&#8217;d run out of things to say, or things I could say that might bounce back my way in the form of dialog. I met some good people a&#8217;plenty, though, when I needed them. <\/p>\n<p>Dating back to Rock Town Hall&#8217;s formation as a small <strong>Yahoo Groups list<\/strong>, as list which still exists for reasons beyond my complete comprehension and desire to simply flick the switch, we&#8217;ve been doing our thing for more than 5 years. The core tastes, obsessions, and quirks of our founding members have given the Hall a fairly consistent tone, but I hope that we keep ourselves open to new voices, new sounds, new points of view, new topics. As always I ask that you feel free to do your part to make your voice heard, and I ask all of us to keep our ears open to the music and musical ponderings that fellow Townspeople set on <strong>The Main Stage<\/strong> for your consideration. I can&#8217;t imagine how many more shots I can take at <strong>The Byrds<\/strong> or you can take at me in another 6 years, but I hope we stay fresh enough to allow for the occasional kicking of dead horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime power pop listserv Audities is coming to a close. List moderator Michael Coxe announced that he&#8217;s closing shop in a couple of weeks. The sudden announcement sent shockwaves through the Power Pop Community, which vows to hold the community together under a new name and leadership group. 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