What’s most different between the music scene in the US and Brazil?
T: It looks like things really happen here. When somebody tells you he will contact you by Myspace or email here, he really makes this contact. In Brazil things are far from each other—I don’t really understand how things work in Brazil. I: We don’t have an all-over underground music scene in Brazil. It’s only in certain cities and its only beginning to make sense as a scene. Each city works independently. T: After getting to know the American independent scene, I realize that in Brazil they’re kind of immature about it. The people don’t understand that they need to support the bands—they only want to go to free shows. N: And ask for your drumstick T: And get as much as they can from you. It’s hard to make the public guilty. They’re getting what they can. But I think we have a long way to go. I: It’s really hard for example to sell merch—even really cheap CDs—in Brazil. Here our CDs were sold out when we weren’t even halfway through. It’s very different the way that kind of support wor
