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Secret NYC Phoenix Show Next Week!!!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:02:45 -0500

Secret NYC Phoenix Show Next Week!!!:

mybuzzedrecall:

(via poptarts)

i don’t see how this is a secret…but who cares!

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy (Live at Knitting Factory on...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:26:05 -0500

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy (Live at Knitting Factory on 03.07.98)

azizisbored:

Wow. What a performance. Somebody convince Jeff Mangum to do music again please.

"Playdar is a “music content resolver” platform. You put the Playdar software on all the machines you..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:58:57 -0500

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Playdar is a “music content resolver” platform. You put the Playdar software on all the machines you have with music on them. And then Playdar makes it so that you can play your music via the web whenever and wherever you want. This is not the first effort to do this sort of thing, but it is the first time this has been done as an open source platform.

This is an important distinction. Like audioscrobber was the foundational technology for last.fm and many other music web services, Playdar can and will be the same.

”

- why playdar is the most interesting thing i’ve seen or heard in the music sector in a long time - @fredwilson (via artistspaid)

Go Shark?! dogandponyshow: “I’m An Animal” is # 95 on the Hype...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:19 -0500

Go Shark?!

dogandponyshow:

“I’m An Animal” is # 95 on the Hype Charts. 24 likes. I have no idea why this has happened, but am happy.

Love Lockdown by The Gossiporiginally by Kanye...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:29:42 -0500

Love Lockdown by The Gossip
originally by Kanye West

via copycats: (posted by mialegria)

yvynyl: The cover for the original release of only love can...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:56:24 -0500

yvynyl:

The cover for the original release of only love can break your heart breaks hearts.

(via abelson)

dogandponyshow: NOV 27th aka BLACK FRIDAY aka THE DAY AFTER...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:26 -0500

dogandponyshow:

NOV 27th aka BLACK FRIDAY aka THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING

::Liam the Younger

:::Family Portrait

::::Shark?

:::::TBA Opener

Totally Free

Hot Burrito #2-Flying Burrito Brothers via barefootjukebox

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:43:06 -0500

Hot Burrito #2-Flying Burrito Brothers

via barefootjukebox

What Is SoundExchange and How Does It Work?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:01:11 -0500

artistspaid:

artistshousemusic:

SoundExchange is the US organization responsible for collecting royalties for music performed via non-terrestrial radio and distributing those royalties to the artists so featured.

This video has been making the rounds on the blogs, and I didn’t want to miss out. But I’ve got more for you than the other folks. Not only do we have a full 50-minute interview with the head of SoundExchange itself, John Simson, but we also have many other music industry professionals commenting on the subject from the perspective of their various fields. First, from SoundExchange itself:

Next we have an exclusive Artists House interview with Attorney Dina LaPolt, founder of LaPolt Law, P.C., an entertainment law firm based in Los Angeles, CA. Here she briefly explains how SoundExchange works in the real world:

Finally we have a fantastic interview with John Simson. In addition to being the head of SoundExchange, he is also an attorney and a former artist manager (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Steve Forbert) who has long been involved in advocacy and legal matters within the music business as a whole.

If that didn’t quench your thirst, you can search the Artists House Music video database for more music industry professionals talking about Sound Exchange here: http://is.gd/4YczT

Five questions with Gold Streets + ticket giveaway to CD release show! // EAR FARM

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:35:44 -0500

Five questions with Gold Streets + ticket giveaway to CD release show! // EAR FARM

Beach House - Norway. indierawk: This is Beach House’s new...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:36:49 -0500

Beach House - Norway.

indierawk:

This is Beach House’s new single off of their upcoming 2010 release Teen Dreams. Devotion was a personal favorite of mine in 2008, hopefully Teen Dreams can top that.

If you like the song, Beach House is offering it as a free download on their website!!

newwavetimewarp: Joy Division’s “Transmission” came out...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:55:39 -0500

newwavetimewarp:

Joy Division’s “Transmission” came out November 17, 1979. Here’s a phenomenal live performance from right around then.

Never gets old.

Grizzly Bear - “Knife” indierawk: Can’t you feel...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:53:31 -0500

Grizzly Bear - “Knife”

indierawk:

Can’t you feel the knife?

Sometimes, I pretend to myself that Grizzly Bear is actually singing about The Knife.

Although it’s not true, no one ever said that the boys of Grizzly Bear weren’t fans.

A hipster can have his dreams, can’t he? Can you even imagine a collaboration between Grizzly Bear and The Knife? I can. Too bad it’s one of those bands that will only ever play live shows in the basement of my mind. Sorry everyone.

The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings [NPR]

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:35:41 -0500

The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings [NPR]:

awakinglim:

It’s listed alphabetically.

Physical & Digital, Together at Last!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:38:46 -0500

Physical & Digital, Together at Last!:

yvynyl:

Bandcamp sez: “Starting today, you can sell both your physical merchandise and your digital music from Bandcamp, and better yet, you can sell them together. So, for example, you can easily create a vinyl, poster and download package, give your fans the digital files immediately, and then ship out their merchandise.”

Dinosaur Feathers announce Cameo Gallery...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:21:54 -0500

Dinosaur Feathers announce Cameo Gallery residency!

via poptarts

The Ampeater Review - Shark?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:45:57 -0500

The Ampeater Review - Shark?:

dogandponyshow:

Shark?’s new Digital 7” is up on The Ampeater. Sorry to post this long blurb, but I’ve never been so diced up and analyzed before and it’s fascinating. Go to the website to download the tunes.

The biggest question asked by the music of Shark? is, well, Shark? No, seriously, this is pretty straightforward business, albeit masterfully made, with an expansive, almost theoretical understanding of what “indie rock” could mean in an era when that term has become practically meaningless. So, regardless of how, I don’t know, not-new—in terms of synth wobbles, cut-up drums, faux-afro flavor, fu*k it, even compression—Shark? sound, that reactionary aesthetic, here appropriated with live instruments the way other bands mine Max MSP, is very interesting indeed.

Why? Because Shark? (from Brooklyn) proves that there is such a thing as an “indie” sound that has nothing to do with actual “indie-pendence”, that the accidental aesthetic of basement productions of the 80s and 90s has become dislocated from the conditions of their production. What we have here is pure simulacrum, the sign (rock) dissociated from its signified (filth, 4-Tracks, etc.) to make way for an “indie rock” that is nothing but sound signifying itself.

Snore. But really, it’s worth noting how this pattern has been unfolding across the pop-music consciousness of America since, let’s say, The Strokes (and by the Strokes, I don’t specifically mean the Strokes, but that whole idea of the Strokes). Not that “indie” is a new term. I remember that shit on my amazon.com wishlist when I was 8 and not knowing what it meant. Still, “indie”, at some point, must have meant “independent”, as in, not “independent-y sounding music”, but independence from major labels, playing nasty, hepatitis-C-infected living rooms, breaking strings and selling your shoes for new ones, the van blowing a tire in Topeka, and a bunch of other stuff I could make up. “Indie” wasn’t a way to play, it was an economic situation that necessitated a way of playing. Do I sound like an old dude? I’m not complaining. It’s just I have to believe that “indie” was a real thing before it was a genre, just like there was an “industrial revolution” before there was industrial music.

But back to Shark?. I love this band. Their record sounds great! They have incredible songs, great craft, a thick sound that I’d be psyched to see live. It sounds like some undiscovered 1976 gem of a single dug up in the way back of the last surviving CD store in Minneapolis’s going-out-of business sale. Kind of. Or it could be from Sweden. That’s the whole point. Wherever these guys are from, the music is place-less, scene-less, history-less while at the same time evoking perfectly someplace, some scene, some fraught and cool history.

“I’m an Animal,” has my new favorite comeback. In response to the title, the singer, on the second verse, rebuts, in a dead-eyed, crackly voice, “You’re a mineral.” Brilliant! Let’s talk about this. The song kicks off with some shambolic hi-hats, then a big organ swell, then some staccato guitars, meaty-bass, echo-y, tinny vocals. It’s pitch-perfect in its imperfections, like a cheese-filled with delicious fungus and covered in holes. Yada-yada, the tune continues. Then, out of left-field comes this warbly, crazy-flute synth, somewhere between “My Heart Will Go On” and MGMT (wait, is there “somewhere between” those two things?). It’s a killer riff. But what is it? The singer knows. If verse one was the animal, verse two is the mineral.

The second track “Colder Arabella”, a slightly-renamed cover, apparently, of another Brooklyn band called Dinosaur Feathers’s tune called “Cold Arabella,” drives the disconnect home. While the titling is amusing, it’s also a seemingly out-of-place nod to remix culture: Dinosaur Feathers’s is cold, but this shit is colder! I’d believe it. The track, dry, fuzzed-out, deadpan, a little out of tune, is so anonymous it could have been produced autonomously from a sentient version of the 1984 SST catalog. It’s chilly, not like steel girders in February, but like circuits in cold storage.

What we have in Shark? is a question without an answer, where the unanswerability of the question (where, when, who) makes the band unique and specific. Shark? could only exist now, whenever now happens to be.

Nirvana - On A Plain (MTV Unplugged in New York) [via] “And...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:55:52 -0500

Nirvana - On A Plain (MTV Unplugged in New York)

[via]

“And one more special message to go
And then I’m done, and I can go home
I love myself better than you
I know it’s wrong so what should I do?”

via perfectsongs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night. “Buying out the fight...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:55:05 -0500

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night.

“Buying out the fight gon walk on water. Gon catcha squeeze dry. Gonna bend my finger. We’re sweatin in the winter”

via indierawk

"The producers of the hit HBO series ‘The Wire” have purchased the rights to Rolling Stone journalist..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:18:16 -0500

“The producers of the hit HBO series ‘The Wire” have purchased the rights to Rolling Stone journalist Steve Knopper’s “Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age”.”

- “Wire” Producers To Bring Record Industry To HBO. Who Should Play The Roles? - hypebot

That sound you hear is an explosion in my pants.

(via danielholter)

This is going to be awesome. And, um, gross.

(via evangotlib) (via mikehudack)