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. The evolution [...]
SoundExchange 's John Simson appears to be softening up as Internet radio broadcasters nervously eye the gallows. Although the new rates are scheduled to go into effect this Sunday: In an interview with RAIN last night, Simson explained, "For the people who want to comply with the law and are in bona fide negotiations with us, we don't want those people to be intimidated. And we don't want them to stop streaming." Simson qualified his statement by noting, "That's just so long as they're continuing to pay under the license they had." So maybe your [...]
You may remember Cobra Starship as the band that did the song that got swept up in the hype about Snakes On A Plane . Well, I don't think it would be correct to say that Gabe Saporta (formerly of Midtown ) wants you to take him and his band seriously , but he'll gladly have you know that they are in fact a real band with other real songs, and not just a one-and-done Hollywood soundtrack concoction*. The video above, for "Send My Love to the Dance Floor," is a video depiction [...]
Yesterday afternoon the Washington DC Circuit US Court of Appeals denied an emergency stay to delay the impending royalty hike for webcasters that will go into effect on July 15th. With only 3 days to go before the rate hike takes effect, barring some miracle it looks like Internet radio is going to have to keep fighting the rate hike while paying the new high rates. And as you might guess, it's going to continue to be an uphill battle. From RAIN : Apparently, the court's denial of the emergency stay is a very brief [...]
Roger Friedman over at FOXNews.com (yeah, I know) writes that an impending new Springsteen release (very likely E Street Band, not side project Bruce) bail some water out of the sinking ship that is Columbia Records. I don't mention it often on this blog, but I was almost NAMED after Bruce Springsteen, and from an early age I've been indoctrinated into the Boss's church. I know every record by heart, and I cherish his contribution to rock and roll. That said, there's no way Columbia is ever going to see black ink [...]
It looks like Universal is seeking a month-to-month agreement with iTunes, notable stipulations of which being that iTunes would not be guaranteed access to all of Universal's catalog, and Universal would be free to offer iTunes' competitors exclusive content rights. It's still possible that all of this is merely to annoy Apple into sharing iPod (and maybe iPhone?) revenues with UMG, as I hypothesized earlier . But this is looking more to me like Universal just doesn't see the writing on the wall: iTunes is going to rule until someone comes in and does it better. [...]
Stereogum just announced the completion of the previously unannounced OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer . Basically, when Stereogum says "Jump," bands ask "how high?" And when Stereogum says "cover Radiohead to commemorate the 10th anniversary of OK Computer ," bands say "OK! (heh.)" The compilation is, of course, a free download and cool from start to finish. Go to Stereogum for the whole deal, but here are direct links to the covers of my two OK Computer favorites: The Twilight Sad - [...]
...as you've never seen her before. After departing from the Halo Friendlies , Ginger Reyes (a.k.a. Ginger Sling ) embarked on a solo career before being snatched up by Billy Corgan as the latest in his line of bass players of the finer sex. More information than you could ever possibly want available at the YouTube page for this video. Information like this: Ginger Sling's own music is powerful, melodic and full of pop and rock sensibilities. Her main influences are the Beatles, Elvis Costello, Superdrag [...]
For as long as I've been subscribed to Bob Lefsetz's newsletter , he has lauded XM Satellite Radio's programming and decried pretty much everything else about their business -- especially their marketing. I've always just shrugged it off because I'm largely unaware of XM's marketing campaigns, which considering my age and interests, is probably exactly Bob's point. But I went to a Yankees game on July 3rd and saw something between innings that left me absolutely dumbfounded. The promo goes as follows. XM wants to play a song by the popular rock and [...]
Well, the video looks like something I'd expect from The Spice Girls or Cher, but I liked the song "Straight Lines" a while back when Tankboy posted it , and I think I like it more now. At the time he referred to Silverchair as "the poor man's Nirvana (even poorer than Bush, if you can believe that)" but I think a Coldplay/Keane comparison is more proper now. Our boys're all growns up. Do yourself a favor and don't give up on the track before the 3 minute mark. The new Silverchair [...]
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This one's a little less obvious and blatant than the Mike Doughty case , and also a little further along in that lawyers are involved. Play the video above and decide for yourself if Avril (or the people who write her songs for her) ripped off obscure 70's pop-rockers The Rubinoos *. Nicholas Carlin, the lawyer representing Rubinoos songwriter/founder Tommy Dunbar, certainly thinks she did. "She's made a lot of money off of my client's song," Carlin said by phone from northern California, where the claim was filed. "The entire song [...]
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