Kurt Vile Tag Archive
Kurt Vile: “I’ve always been kind of elusive to technology”
Kurt Vile’s music evokes a kind of feeling out-of-time — a world of dusty roads and silent rooms and shadows — so it’s no surprise that the musician isn’t the most plugged-in of singers. Regardless of his Howard Hughsian approach to social media, however, Vile topped the MTV Music Meter for a good portion of last week, earning him a slot in this week’s Music Meter Monday — a column where we highlight a musician blazing through our social chart.
Titus Andronicus: “If you don’t like social media, get on it and do it better”
For someone who has only been tweeting for less than a month now, Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles has already made quite an impact on the micro-blogging site, which is why we caught up with the musician to talk about social media and the ever-important concept of “keeping it real.”