The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak
Wow. The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak – New York Music – Sound of the City (Village Voice)
Articles by Mark Zip
That other list is out
That other list is out LPs 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Domino 2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Glassnote 3. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone – Anti 4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! – DGC/Interscope 5. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca – Domino 6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest – Warp 7. The xx – xx – Young Turks 8. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Part II – Ice H2O/EMI 9. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic – Warner 10. Girls – Album True – Panther Singles 1. Jay-Z (ft. Alicia Keys) – “Empire State of…
Music Lust Albany NY – Sun Jan 24 | NY Record and CD Fairs
Music Lust Albany NY – Sun Jan 24 | NY Record and CD Fairs. First show of the year for the Hudson Valley NY
OK (Go) – I’ll bite.
via Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go. A really good primer from one of the OK Go boys on the state of the music industry today. And why EMI / Capitol will not let YouTube enable the embedding code on their videos. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
Lhasa de Sela RIP
A bit late on this one: She passed Jan 01 of breast cancer. I have been a fan, on and off, since “La Llorona” was released in ’97. And the latest CD makes my PoOPlist for 2009. Very sad. And she was born in Big Indian, NY Her site: Lhasa de Sela
Music industry still not dead – Nielsen
In among the numbers: LP sales up 33% A Big Music Year for Jackson, Boyle, Swift, Digital Downloads… and Vinyl? | Nielsen Wire (hat tip: Lazygal, dangerouslyirrelevant, Mashable)
PoOPster Hubris Warning: The Decade in Music Genre Hype
Funny and insightful, Christopher R. Weingarten (he of the 1000 twittered album reviews) has “a solemn tribute to the once-hot-shit trends that (mostly) won’t be joining us in the ’10s” New York Music – The Decade in Music Genre Hype Serves as a sobering grounding for those of us compiling our PoOP lists this week… right?
Bono equates file-sharing with child porn. Idiot.
Quoting: But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content. Op-Ed Guest Columnist – Ten for the Next Ten – NYTimes.com
It worked! – RATMachine beats X Factor winner UK Xmas #1
Further to my last post, the winners have been declared and “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” is the Christmas refrain on the top of the UK charts. The Grauniad (look it up) has a good round-up of the news and reaction: Rage Against the Machine beats X Factor’s Joe to Christmas No 1 | Music | guardian.co.uk One item of particular interest is that claim that RATM won on downloads alone. It makes sense, given that the campaign for RATM and against the X factor winner was launched and mostly conducted online. Also, it’s unlikely that…
Shock! Rage Against the Machine swearing on BBC Radio 5 live
The UK Christmas Number One Single tradition has lead to all sorts of silly stuff over the years (Oasis vs. Blur for one), but the last few years have been dominated by awful, treacly pop songs spewing from the “winners” (or “indentured servants”, take your pick) of Simon Cowell’s X-Factor TV show. In the last few weeks a strong campaign has developed to make Rage Against the Machine the number one single this christmas. The campaign is specifically targeted at the Cowell machine, so the choice of RATM is particularly apt. The song the campaign has chosen is “Killing in the Name” ,…
MOG – Perfected steaming online music gets close, really close. Must try.
Just a quick break from the salt mines (making my way through a large collection of CDs, with an interesting jazz collection in the wings) to strongly suggest that you check out the new features of MOG. MOG has been around for a while in the music blogging/socializing sphere and they have just launched a streaming music service. (US only for the moment, others soon come) This link is to the overview page and the guided tour. Free trial now going on (it lasts one hour) and after that the pricing is $5.00 a month or 6 months for $25.00 You…
WFMU Record + CD Fair this weekend
Friday to Sunday October 23 to 25 125 West 18th NYC All the details are here: WFMU Record + CD Fair Includes dealer list and .pdf of the table placements. Poopsters Zip and Greak will be at there own tables selling (and, no doubt, buying). Others are sure to want to join them.
Could it be that Bass Culture is in trouble?
Wayne&Wax has several posts and discussions jumping off from this post: Mobile Music & Treble Culture. With the proliferation of bad sound on iPods and phones, can we see a march towards treble in the way we consume music? Here are parts twoand three of the string. It’s an interesting exercise, thinking about the ways in which the physicality (or lack of it) of how we listen to sound sound affect the way we hear it. Or should that be the other way around?
One nation under a Moog.
Simon Reynolds in The Guardian on the development of synth pop (in the UK in particular) Takes in quite a bit for a mainstream pub: One nation under a Moog | Music | The Guardian (Reynolds often publishes the uncut version on his site later.
New Brisbane bridge named after Go-Betweens
Not content with having critical success, these attention seeking songsmiths have finally been given the ultimate accolade, having a major civil engineering project named after them: New Brisbane bridge named after Go-Betweens
The White Album, Heard in 1968 and Pronounced Boring. And Now?
This weeks NYT Popcast has a fascinating discussion between Ben Sisario and one of my favorite writers, Nik Cohn. Really good insights into how the times influenced Cohn’s review in The Times back in ’68. I found myself nodding in agreement and saying “Yes! You put your finger on it!” The White Album, Heard in 1968 and Pronounced Boring. And Now? PS: You’ve heard the term “He’s got a face fit for radio”? Well, Jon Pareles has a voice fit for the newspaper. Someone really needs to help him with microphone / headphone technique and perhaps give him a nice expectorant……
RIP Mister Magic
He died this morning, apparently of a heart attack. A true hip hop pioneer, one whose show, “Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack“, I listened to religiously whenever I was close to the signal (and sometimes when I wasn’t). Somewhere in the stacks I have a beat up cassette tape of one of his mixes (this is not it, but it’s close) from 83 or 84. Just the damn coolest. You see, kids, many years ago we were not able to listen to everything all the time from everywhere ‘cos we didn’t have no intarwebs. Just the “World’s Best Lookin’ Sound” (WBLS) (who have…
Audio researcher’s “Fidelity Potential Index” pits mp3 against vinyl; science or pseudoscience?
Devin Coldewey over at Tech Crunch has a report on an Audio researcher’s “Fidelity Potential Index”, which pits mp3 against vinyl; science or pseudoscience?. The original report is here: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Magazine/manufacture/0909/, it includes many caveats…
Mad Decent bigs up David Rodigan
Diplo’s Mad Decent radio interviews David Rodigan, don of selectas. Also links to some wicked videos of the man in action RAM JAM PODCAST!!! | Mad Decent
Sound archive of the British Library goes online, free of charge
Sound archive of the British Library goes online, free of charge – so The Guradian tells us. (But I can’t yet make it work…)