Rudolf Dethu

Konser Kejutan & Bebas Bea Michael Franti di Bali

Artikel mengenai konser Michael Franti ini tayang pertama kali pada 28 Desember 2010 di situs Rolling Stone Indonesia. Saya tampilkan di situs pribadi saya demi mendokumentasikan tulisan yang pernah saya buat untuk arsip yang sahih lagi sinambung.

Domestic Groove: BOBBY KOOL

DOMESTIC GROOVE ~ Celeb’s Chosen Seven is my biweekly column in The Beat (Jakarta) mag. Basically it’s an interview via e-mail which focuses on small, intimate, domestic stuff; what Indonesia’s public figures are really into, musically speaking.

For the ninth edition I went upclose-and-personal with Bobby Kool.

Deklarasi Cupumanik: Grunge Harga Mati

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Cupumanik are back. These Bandung’s grunge veteran just released their newest single with a video clip, “Grunge Harga Mati” a few days ago. This song is their first ever single after quitting from a major label. It’s also their significant step to fully apply a kind of Do-It-Yourself ethos. Che, the frontman, said that starting December 2010 they will release one song every two months and give it away a.k.a. free of charge. Another six songs are ready to be distributed thru next year.

The single “Grunge Harga Mati” is like a declaration that Cupumanik is identical to grunge, Cupumanik is grunge itself. They have always been tagged as a grunge band by the public, and it naturally has become their flesh and blood so this time they formally declared it. Regarding the video clip, it basically talks about the transformation that happened with Cupumanik, from major label to an indie band. It is expressed in the clip via the change in their fashion statement.

Check out their newest single & video clip in YouTube. Keep updated with them via www.cupumanikband.com

Album Terbaik Sepanjang Masa: Kiss ~ Alive!

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Domestic Groove: MIAN TIARA

DOMESTIC GROOVE ~ Celeb’s Chosen Seven is my biweekly column in The Beat (Jakarta) mag. Basically it’s an interview via e-mail which focuses on small, intimate, domestic stuff; what Indonesia’s public figures are really into, musically speaking.

For the eighth edition I went upclose-and-personal with Mian Tiara.

Endank Soekamti: Semoga Kau di Neraka

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The melodic punk outfit from Yogyakarta, Endank Soekamti, have just picked “Semoga Kau di Neraka” as their second single. Not only the is the title pretty in your face (it means “wish you were in hell”), but the circumstances as to why it was chosen are a little unusual. They conducted a poll on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter, hoping to gauge which song was considered the best to be the second single. And viola… As the second single, “Semoga Kau di Neraka”, has also made an impact on the ring back tone sales, featuring even higher than their first single, “Audisi”.

So far Endank Soekamti has released 4 full-length albums. The first one, Kelas 1, was released in 2002 with help from Pongky Jikustik and Tony traX. The second, Pejantan Tambun, in 2005, and third, SSSTTT!!, in 2007, were both released under Warner Music Indonesia. In 2008 at the same time they quit from Warner, they started their own online radio: Soekamti FM.

In 2010 they joined the Nagaswara label and in May released their fourth album, soekamti.com. A few days ago they finally decided to use “Semoga Kau di Neraka” as their second single. Watch them live on Dec 19 in 1000 Bands concert in Cibubur. Or stay tune with what they are doing via http://soekamti.com

Tonite! Melodicpunk & Meat Beat Manifesto!

Tonite! Wednesday, December 15, 2010; 8-10 PM

R-n-R Exhibition [mini version]: LECIR
Melodicpunk & Meat Beat Manifesto

:: Introduction, playlist, and photo, written and handpicked by Lecir Himself ::

Saat pertama kali Rudolf Dethu meminta saya untuk terlibat dalam The Block Rockin’ Beats untuk ikut berpartisipasi (dan bukan hanya sebagai pemutar CD di radio), saya tentu saja sangat merasa senang dan merasa terhormat.

Saya sering berbeda pendapat dengan Dethu. Utamanya tentang melodicpunk juga Fat Mike (NOFX) yang sering disebutnya sebagai sosok fasis. Ya, di situs jejaring sosial macam Twitter kita memang sering berdebat tentang melodicpunk yang tidak fashionable. Tapi Dethu adalah seorang yang fair dan bisa menghargai perbedaan pendapat.

Saya bukanlah seorang pembuat mixtape yang baik. Well, karena memang tidak pernah bikin sebelumnya! Haha… Maka dari itu saya akan berusaha merangkai lagu-lagu di dalam playlist ini sesuai dengan selera saya saja!

Selamat menikmati!

♪♬♫ Radio streaming live http://army.wavestreamer.com:6356/listen.pls

Maroon 5, Presale Tickets & the Power of Twitter

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Like it or not, you have to agree with the power of Twitter—or social network, at least. Look what happened with Maroon 5. They are scheduled to play in Jakarta on April 27, 2011. Java Musikindo, the promoter, started promoting the concert a month ago and opened the sale of presale tickets on Sunday, Dec 5; although the information about the presale tickets day was only published on Twitter and a few big banners ads, the 6000 tickets were sold out in less than 10 hours!

A similar thing happened a few months earlier, Java Musikindo sold presale tickets of Pitbull, and 4,400 of them sold out in less than 24 hours. As with Maroon 5, Java Musikindo only promoted the presale tickets via Twitter, and it worked really well. Who would’ve thought that Pitbull would get that awesome response from the public?

Java Musikindo is also using this strategy for the upcoming Deftones gig, scheduled to play in Jakarta on Feb 8. Their presale tickets were sold on Nov 27, a few months before the gig. Although no proper data is published as to how many tickets were sold, if we look from the Twitter time line obviously the Deftones concert has created a lot of hype on that web platform.

Earlier in October, JavaRockin’Land already proved how effective this Twitter marketing can be. By creating its own account which people can follow and know what’s going on minute by minute with JavaRockin’Land (e.g. are Smashing Pumpkins confirmed to play? When are the presale tickets on sale?). The gig itself ended up a massive success: Almost 50,000 people came to witness the biggest rock concert in South East Asia. Maybe not all because of Twitter, but there’s no doubt that Twitter played a major role here.

Yes mister, the super power of Twitter!

Domestic Groove: HENRY FOUNDATION

DOMESTIC GROOVE ~ Celeb’s Chosen Seven is my biweekly column in The Beat (Jakarta) mag. Basically it’s an interview via e-mail which focuses on small, intimate, domestic stuff; what Indonesia’s public figures are really into, musically speaking.

For the seventh edition I went upclose-and-personal with Henry Foundation.

Awas Serigala!

Manusia serigala bertebaran di sekitar kita. Sepertinya ungkapan tersebut tepat untuk menggambarkan fenomena yang kian kerap terungkap di negeri Ini. Coba kita kilas balik, tentu masih lekat di ingatan kejadian memalukan sekaligus menyedihkan dimana perempuan yang menjadi korban: Syekh Puji (praktek pedofilia, menikahi gadis di bawah umur), A’a Gym (poligami sumbang, ingkar janji), Anand Krishna (pelecehan seksual), serta yang terbaru Zainuddin MZ (pelecehan seksual).