We are Huge in Brasil

If you were paying attention on June 18th, you would have seen the announcement made about the outrageously awesome music festival curated by this site and 21 others happening on August 25th in Brooklyn called After the Jump. This past week, I was interviewed by a Brasilian magazine site about the show. If anybody can read Portuguese, enjoy.

Here's a bit of a translation:

How did the idea for it [the festival] come up?

I came up with the idea for the festival last summer. I wanted to hold
a big concert around Christmas time with other music bloggers to
support the non-profit, Toys For Tots. A lot of people were
interested, but the idea sort of fizzled when I couldn't find an
indoor venue. This past spring however another blogger, Pat from
PopTartsSuckToasted.blogspot.com, told me that he wanted to throw a
blogger curated festival as well and my passion for the project was
ignited again. The name was the brainchild of David Caplan of BumperShine.com.


Will there be any benefit aspect to it? I saw a charity@afterthejump email...

The festival is completely for charity, that is the reason why it was
started. Because there are so many different people involved in the
planning of this event, we decided to choose a charity that would be
meaningful to all of us, giving money to underprivileged schools in
New York. We decided to start an initiative through DonorsChoose.org
and their Bloggers Choose program.


Which Brazilian bands do you know, besides CSS and Bonde do Role?
Do you believe is there more room for another 'exotic' act from South
America?

I have been a big fan of Edu K for a while, but I must admit, I don't
know as much Brazilian music as I should. There is definitely enough
room for acts from all over the world. I have found that now people
seem to be embracing all types of music, in all sorts of languages
because they are craving something new and different. We routinely
speak to bloggers in different countries, from Europe to Central
America.
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MP3: 'Popozuda' by Edu K