The DIY Rockstar

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The DIY Rockstar is a music blog focused on mainly indie pop/rock and related genres. The main selling point of The DIY Rockstar is its regularly featured interviews with up and coming and established indie artists, such as Criteria, Metric, Jason Collet (Broken Social Scene), The Elected, The Subways, Rogue Wave, David Dondero, and others. Besides that, The DIY Rockstar has several entertaining recurring segments, i.e. "Here's an Opinion for You to Disregard Completely", "Never Ending Math Equation", and "My Weekly Listening".

[edit] History

DIY Rockstar got its start sometime around October, 2005, but didn't officially launch regular content until January 1st, 2006.

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Jeff Bess is the main author of The DIY Rockstar. In addition to The DIY Rockstar, he has written some for KyndMusic.com, God Is In The TV Webzine, and Filter Magazine's website. He also frequently pariticipates on the ELBOWS forum, and is the founder of the Music Blog Wiki. He also is very smart. Just ask him.

Martin Gleissner contributes a weekly column to the DIY Rockstar as a fellow music enthusiast and Scandinavian correspondant. He also writes Scandinavian Sounds.

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