I just bought 2 $20 tickets on Ticketmaster ( UNKLE at Webster Hall , FTW). Total for the order, all said and done, was $51.90. For the record, that's $2.50 in order processing fees and 2x$4.70 for the convenience. I don't want to say I'm happy to pay $11.90 in fees for my $40 worth of tickets. But either I've blown the exorbitant charges way out of proportion in my head, or they're less than they used to be. I was expecting the total to be more like $60. Anyone out there know [...]
When you hear people talking about Net Neutrality and how important it is, this is what they are talking about: We don't need no thought control. AT&T leave my tubes alone. Eddie Vedder released a statement about this: Most telecommunications companies oppose "net neutrality" and argue that the public can trust them not to censor.. Even the ex-head of AT&T, CEO Edward Whitacre, whose company sponsored our troubled webcast, stated just last March that [...]
You know, it's funny. They love him on Long Island (boy, howdy.), but I'm not much of a Billy Joel fan. And I'm not much of an OAR fan, either. But I can't say no to free tickets for a beautiful summer night at Jones Beach though, and when this happened near the end of the show, I was really glad that I was there to witness it. Sure [...]
The saga Coheed and Cambria have been crafting since their inception is ambitious to say the least. It's hard to imagine even the most patient scholar being able to extract the full story from the records, without the help of the accompanying comic books (or are the records just companions to the books?). Case in point: singer Claudio Sanchez recently told MTV that it involves 78 planets. That's a lot of planets to cover in 5 or so records. Nonetheless, in October Coheed and Cambria plan to release the awesomely named [...]
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm posting this because it features Bruce Springsteen , and not because I'm a huge Jesse Malin fan. I've spent more time in the photo booth at the bar he owns than I have listening to his music. This song is pretty ok though. [As seen on Stereogum ]
It's been announced today that music-store-slash-social-netwo rk Amie Street has closed its Series A funding with Amazon leading the investing. As it's been explained to me, this has nothing to do with Amazon's own eventual entry into the digital music retail space. The belief is that there will be more than one winner in the digital music future, Amie Street and Amazon hit different demographics, and Amie Street's unique model positions them well for success. There are some social networking aspects to the service (befriend other users, etc.) but at its heart [...]
Watch this and try not to smile. Junior Senior will release HEY HEY MY MY YO YO in about a week and a half.
Canadian group Stars sparked a conflagration of blog entries when they put their new record In Our Bedroom After the War up for sale online 4 days after its completion, despite a September 25 release date for the physical disc. It was an if-you-can't-beat-'em... sort of move, but for my money it was the right one. I bought it on eMusic and I think it's quite good. "Personal" gives me chills. Anyway, they just posted this EPK, giving me an excuse to weigh in on a story that I was too busy [...]
Many moons ago, when I was first figuring out what PulverRadio was going to sound like, I spent hours and hours in contact with great indie bands, finding places for them in playlists, trying to help them out any way I could. One of my favorites from that time was a Swedish band called The Confusions . Lately I've been back in touch with Mikael Andersson-Knut , singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Confusions. I asked [...]
From a recent eMusic mail blast: Announcing eMusic Mobile from eMusic and AT&T! If you're thinking about getting a new mobile phone, now's the perfect time. As of today, eMusic and AT&T are offering "over the air" access to eMusic's catalogue of over 2.5 million tracks. Owners of select AT&T mobile phones can now sign up for a monthly eMusic Mobile subscription plan. Subscribers will also have access to free MP3 versions of all mobile downloads on the eMusic web site. A feature of eMusic I've always thought was neat but never had a need for is that [...]
About a month before the Internet radio station I was working at began to fall apart, I finally got around to inviting one of the most exciting singer songwriters I've ever come across to perform live on the air. Around that same time, a long-overdue record deal was coming to fruition behind the scenes. My station shut down, and Jaymay was whisked away to London (where her new label is). As much as anything else in my post-radio life, I'm regretful that the timing never worked out to bring Jaymay into my studio. But she [...]
Triangle Forest , who I've said before would already be blog-huge if they lived and played in New York instead of Providence, will be playing a few dates in the city this summer: Jul 27 2007 | 8:00P Galapagos | Brooklyn Jul 30 2007 | 8:00P Cake Shop (w/ Mixel Pixel) | New York Aug 9 2007 | 9:00P Club NME New York | New York I'm out of town for both the July ones, which blows, but you can count on seeing me 8/9 @ NME. Details on these dates and a [...]
It should be noted before I even get started that after I decided to write this piece, someone at Blender did in fact write about 3eb (disappointing knee-jerk backlash here ). So I figured I'd wait a few days, and then have a go at it anyway. Maybe it's just because I was on the downhill side of high school and had a car for the first time in my life. But I consider the summer of 1997, when "Semi-Charmed Life" hit the [...]
When UNKLE 's Psyence Fiction was released in 1998, I was a senior in high school, and deeply concerned with collecting everything Radiohead-related I could get my hands on. At one out of the two keg parties I ever got invited to in my entire high school career, (if you can remember that far back, party soundtracks were CDs, or -- if the host was truly enterprising -- mix CDs), someone put on Psyence Fiction , which even at background music level perked my ears up when I heard Thom Yorke's unmistakable guest [...]
From a MySpace bulletin just sent by The Hold Steady : We're asking you to scan and send in BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOBOOTH photos of you and your friends to PHOTOBOOTH@VAGRANT.COM We will use the photobooth pictures for the artwork on the forthcoming new single from The Hold Steady as well as in the marketing for the release. PLEASE SCAN THE PHOTOS IN 300dpi HIGH-RESOLUTION FORMAT! We also need you to print this release form (it's a PDF) for EACH PERSON IN THE PHOTOS and SIGN THE RELEASE and scan in a lower-resolutiuon [...]
The band that everybody loved for a little while but nobody will admit they ever even liked a little bit, Matchbox Twenty , plan to release a new record cleverly titled Exile On Mainstream . Really. They're calling it that. The new single "How Far We've Come" is streaming at myspace.com/matchboxtwenty (and at matchboxtwenty.com too, but leave it to a major label to fuck even that up and stream a super low-quality version). Whether you love it or not, you and I both know this will probably be the best song [...]
The long-beleaguered Providence Public Library System is getting support from a bunch of local musicians who hope that their contributions to the appropriately named " The Library Album " might raise awareness and a bit of coin to keep the doors open at some endangered branches of the public library system in New England's 2nd largest city. At the very least, it's a neat look at some of the more book-friendly musicians to be found in Providence, and who doesn't like a cross-sectional view of a city's music scene? If you dig, maybe you'll toss a buck [...]
If you go through your CD (ok, mp3) collection, how many of your favorite bands have you never had a chance to see live? I consider myself lucky in that the list of my top-tier artists that I've yet to catch is short and ever shrinking. Last night I finally crossed one off the list officially that had until now been asterisked. ( 5 song sets at the Apple Store , while certainly cool, don't quite count.) The Decemberists got off to a surprisingly rocky start with two of their best in "July, July!" and [...]
If you don't live in the UK and you've been insulated from the hubbub about the release of Prince 's Planet Earth as a throw-in "covermount" with the Daily Mail , well, then you might not know that The Artist... is releasing a new record. And you might not have needed to. Whether or not you recieved it for free with your morning paper, you can now stream Planet Earth in full courtesy of MSN . The verdict? Anyone who says they love it is [...]
I've been thinking a lot lately about the vast landscape of bands that remains largely uncharted by the music blahgosphere. I've been thinking that something should be done. And so I humbly introduce to you a new feature on wealsoran.com. " Nobody Writes About: " will cover bands that...nobody seems to write about. It will be updated only as regularly as I feel like updating it, and the entries will be sparsely researched and fueled almost entirely by arrogant conjecture. Hope you like. [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
