Side project tonight: rebuilding BandsThatJam.com from Archive.org snapshots. This is where it all started in 2007. Concert photography, live show recordings, festival reviews out of Buffalo, NY. The site has been offline for a while, but the content still exists in the Wayback Machine. Pulling it back together as a showcase of where Brooks New Media came from. Every business has an origin story. This is ours, and we are not letting it disappear.
Why now? Because the old site was a brochure. It listed services and had a contact form. That is it. No story, no personality, no reason for someone to care. We started Brooks New Media because we loved music and wanted to help our community grow online. The website should reflect that. Not just what we do, but why we do it and where we came from. Buffalo summers, GrassRoots Festival, BandsThatJam.com, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, the move to Ithaca. That is the real story. Time to tell it.
For the first time in 15 years, we are rebuilding the Brooks New Media website from scratch. The old WordPress site has been running since 2009. It did its job, but it does not reflect who we are anymore. New stack, new story, new services. Starting tonight.
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