May 3, 2007
Rosie Thomas will be part of Barnes & Noble’s Upstairs At The Square series on May 10 (Union Square Barnes & Noble) at 7pm. Rosie Thomas recently released These Friends Of Mine recorded with Sufjan Stevens and Denison Witmer. Also in attendance will be the French novelist, Anna Gavalda.
Admission to the Barnes & Nobles “Upstairs At The Square” series is free. Audio downloads of all nine previous events are available on the Barnes & Nobles site.
MySpace: www.myspace.com/rosiethomasmusic
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May 3, 2007
Earlier this week Snocap, a San Francisco based digital licensing company, announced a deal with Warner Music Group making WMG songs available for purchase on sites such as MySpace.com. Under this deal Snocap’s MyStores widgets will allow users to directly purchase music from the likes of Lupe Fiasco, T.I. with more websites to be added in the coming weeks. The DRM-ed music files will be WMAs instead of MP3s. Is it safe to say that WMG is pro Zune?
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May 2, 2007
Bang On A Can Marathon will bring the likes of Yo La Tengo, Juana Molina, The Books, Dälek, and many more. The FREE music festival will take place on June 2-3rd in Lower Manhattan. It’s suggested that you bring a sleeping bag.
Ban On A Can Marathon
Saturday, June 2, 8pm-Sunday, June 3, 10pm
World Financial Center’s Wintergarden
FREE
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May 2, 2007
Presale tickets becomes available tomorrow. Tickets for the 7/24 show at Madison Square Garden starts on Thursday (5/4). From The White Stripes’ newsletter:
Hello Children,
Tickets for The White Stripes’ upcoming North American tour officially go on sale starting as early as tomorrow. Please see below for general info on sale dates.
Need your tickets before the official on sale date? There are currently a small amount of pre-sale tickets still available for select locations, visit the presale link at the top of the “shows” section of the site to see if they are available in your area.
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May 2, 2007
Metric’s Emily Haines spoke with NME recently with news about recording tracks for their next album.
We just got this amazing space and the first recording and writing sessions for Metric are in there right now. We’ve written about 15 songs. We’re starting to hone in and choose some of our favourites. It’ll be a summer album, regardless of when it’s released. It definitely will have a summer atmosphere.
Source: NME
Metric will be previewing new materials by playing at intimate shows in Canada. “We’re doing a few shows in that’ll be strictly new material,” Haines said. “We’ll play eight new songs and then an encore.”
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May 2, 2007
Add this to the many more reasons why we love NPR. NPR plans to broadcast Bjork’s May 5 show from United Place in NYC.
Be sure to tune in on May 5 at 8PM on NPR.org for the full concert webcast.
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Apr 30, 2007
There’s been a lot of talk in the UK about Viacom’s potential purchase of LastFM. Apparently the purchasing price is now at $450 million dollars. The London based social music network recently made a deal with Warner Music Group in February allowing the label’s entire catalog to stream on the music network. LastFM said that they are in similar negotiations with other major music labels.
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Apr 30, 2007
Paul McCartney will be releasing his 21st studio album, Memory Almost Full, via Starbucks’ Hear Music label in June.
The full tracklisting is as follows:
01 Dance Tonight
02 Ever Present Past
03 See Your Sunshine
04 Only Mama Knows
05 You Tell Me
06 Mister Bellamy
07 Gratitude
08 Vintage Clothes
09 That Was Me
10 Feet In The Clouds
11 House Of Wax
12 End of the End
13 Nod Your Head
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Apr 27, 2007
Brooklyn Vegan posted about the Shortlist Prize Finalist earlier today. Here are the ten finalists.
- Band of Horses
- Beirut
- Bonnie Prince Billy
- Cat Power
- Girl Talk
- Hot Chip
- Joanna Newsom
- Regina Spektor
- Spank Rock
- Tom Waits
Find out more about The Shortlist Music prize by going on www.shortlistofmusic.com/ or you can visit their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/shortlistofmusic. The winner will be annouced in May.
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Apr 27, 2007
You’d probably have to go back to the heyday of the Beatles in the early-mid Sixties to find anything that could come close to matching this record
Source: Reuters UK
The above quote comes from HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, who is claiming that the Arctic Monkeys could have 18 singles in the top 200 on Sunday, after a rule change that means Internet downloads are now eligible and physical forms of tracks are no longer necess.
Did anyone catch The Artic Monkeys performance on Jimmy Kimmel last night? The video has not been found on YouTube yet.
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