Author: Missed the Gig
Missed the Gig is a group column. Consisting of photos of gig flyers from around the world, its purpose is to highlight the role that concert flyers play in our lives. Contributors include Souciant staff and friends.

World Music

By Missed the Gig
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Posted in Sound, World

In most contexts, it’s an insult. That is, if you’re under forty, into urban music, and uncomfortable around older persons who make a habit out of fetishizing ‘indigenous’ cultures. To an increasing number of persons, popular music from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East has become so ubiquitous that it’s become impossible to view such idioms as being unique, or exotic. (More…)

Introducing Missed the Gig

By Missed the Gig
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Posted in Electronica, Hip-Hop, Sound

You can’t get to know a place without knowing what the folks in town listen to. The best way to do that is to keep your eye out for gig flyers. In all likelihood, the shows have already taken place. Still, what you’re left with is, at best, a testimony to local music, at worst, the work of an overzealous label intern. (More…)