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Courtney Love plans to have a Christie’s auction featuring items owned by Kurt Cobain. Says Love,
“I’m going to have a Christie’s auction. [My house] is like a mausoleum. My daughter [14-year-old Frances Bean] doesn’t need to inherit a giant hefty bag full of flannel f***ing shirts … A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to Teen Spirit — that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just f***ing sell. … We’ll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity.”"
Birds of Avalon - Bazaar Bazaar
[amazon.com
Release date: May 22, 2007
Bizarre.
Sky Eats Airplane is a Texas Electronica/Hardcore outfit that has only recently become a full band, recording their entire debut album, Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day, as a humble two-piece. Pretty impressive. It won’t be long before some label comes and snags these guys.
I couldn’t take my camera into the event since hardcore and metal these days are making money. When a genre is making money lawyers get involved, and well… no pictures unless you have a press pass. Remember 10 years ago when hardcore bands would’ve begged to be mentioned on some music blog? (more…)
Stream the new Fall Of Troy album, Manipulator, in stores May 1.
Preorder the album from MerchNow.
From Lambgoat:
Evergreen Terrace has completed work on their upcoming full-length. Titled “Wolfbiker,” the effort was recorded at Blasting Room Studios in Fort Collins, CO with producer Jason Livermore (Rise Against).
The album will be out Jul 24.
various - Live Your Life, Vol. 1
[zambooie.com]
Release date: May 22, 2007
This sort of thing makes me glad that all of my high school and college yearbooks from my graduating years have been burned away.
Remember our post about Cartel going into the bubble to write and record their new album? Bob Lefsetz (a music industry insider for 20 years) had something to say about it the whole thing:
“Did you read that inane story about Epic’s band Cartel recording its new album in a huge transparent bubble on the Hudson, with the act entering said “biosphere” live on MTV?
Ever heard of Cartel?
Not me. But I’m sure they can’t be making music I’m interested in. Music comes from inspiration, not marketing plans. Whoever convinced the act to be involved in this stunt, whether it be their manager or Charlie Walk or somebody else, should be exiled from the business immediately, made to live in said biosphere WITH the band, sans BlackBerry, sans dinners at Peter Luger’s, sans ANY of the creature comforts of modern society.”
Soon after Cartel singer Will Pugh wrote Lefsetz:
“All you guys think we’re just another dickless band with mediocre songs without even giving us a chance. That’s no way to find out about a band you might actually like. We will gladly accept all the fans that will have us even if they are of the generation that only listens to radio…..why? Because they just listen to music…..they don’t analyze business decisions or marketing ploys. They only care what’s coming in their ears and that’s what we’re about. Not some scene that’s too stuck in the past to do anything worthwhile anymore.”
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The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) recently denied webcasters’ requests for a rehearing on its ruling of unfairly high new royalty rates — a stunning 300 to 1200 percent increase — for Internet radio for period 2006-2010.
Internet radio is singled out from all other radio, burdened with fees not paid by AM or FM stations, and at rates at least 3-4 times paid by satellite and cable radio. The ruling even included absurd minimum of $500 per station per year to penalize the smallest webcasters with the highest rates.
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Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight
[amazon.com
Release date: May 15, 2007
Since the demise of hardcore band live jump shots in the mid to late nineties, band photos are hardly ever given an initial thought in CD layout. This one focuses less on the actual individuals and more on the band as a series of figures barely distinct from each other, not to mention the sobering contrast they generate against the stark white sky.
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