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All the music waiting to be purchased gets fropped into a wishlist, just incase someone was to feel a little generous ….
If only there was an easy universal wishlist app out there.
Tom McRae album
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Yippeee my copy of the latest Tom McRae album - The Alphabet of Hurricanes has arrived with a bonus EP, which comes if you buy through Tom’s official website.
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new album from Jesse Malin
Posted by monster in General, Music
Jesse Malin is very happy to announce that my new album “Love It To Life” is finished and will be released in stores on April 27, 2010 on Side One Dummy Records. It is produced by Ted Hutt (Lucero, The Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly), and YES it will available in VINYL, as well as CD and all the other digital stuff!!! The record was recorded with my new band, The St. Marks Social.
I’ve not yet seen the album listed on the usual online stores yet to preorder yet.
Article worth checking out
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Glorious Noise hve an article about trying to support real record stores here. Although I do want to agree with the direction of the article, I am lossing faith in the bricks & mortar stores because they only seem to want to flog mass market and not cater or encourage more diverse tastes.
Having said that when I was in San Franscisco recently, I had a little bit of time spare and came across Rasputin Records. This is how record shops should be, rough around the edges - with that feeling you’d get that Nick Hornby captured in High Fidelity. Four stories of this within a block of Union Square!
The National - new album as well
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The National have started to release news on the follow up to their brilliant The Boxer album. The new album hasn’t had its name published yet, but should be released in May through 4AD. Prior to the relaese will be a European and North American tour with dates through April and May (Royal Albert Hall in London May 6th).
Turin Brakes - Outburst
Posted by monster in General, Music
News of album releases are coming in rapidly now. The latest is for Turin Brakes with their new album Outburst due out on 1st March 2010. If you can wait that long then head onto their website (http://www.turinbrakes.com/) as has details of a free track download from the forthcoming album.
Plus a video of the creation of the album at http://www.vimeo.com/8715360RegardsTBx
Disappear Here - Hybrid, sound promising
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Scratching My Back ….
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Finally the special edition of Peter Gabriel’s new album has a release date. Having heard extracts of the album it sounds very interesting …
New Josh Rouse album ….
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Pre-Order Josh Rouse’s El Tourista and Get an Exclusive Digital Bonus Track Instantly at the Yep Roc Webshop.
Unexpected and utterly sublime, El Turista’s sultry song cycle shuffle seamlessly in tandem with Getz/Gilberto and Paul Simon’s Graceland, albums as boldly surprising in their eras as El Turista is in this one. The record marks a new direction for the critically acclaimed artist, while offering the musical sophistication and emotional depth Rouse’s devoted constituents have come to expect.
His new songs continue the consistently enthralling body of work highlighted by the modern-day landmark albums 1972 and Nashville. Throughout El Turista, simple, Spanish-influenced street rhythms unfurl into epic versions of Guaraldi-like jazz numbers, resulting in yet another career defining touchstone and a genre-blending album that is as sophisticated as it is infectious.
For one week only, Yep Roc/Bedroom Classics are offering fans a chance to stream the entire El Turista album for free. Click HERE to stream the latest release from Josh Rouse and to get a FREE download of “I Will Live On Islands,” starting today and ending 1/26.
Click HERE to pre-order Josh Rouse’s El Turista on CD or LP now.
Street Date: March 9, 2010
Every customer that pre-orders El Turista on CD or LP from the Yep Roc Webshop will receive the exclusive bonus digital track “To The Clock, To The City” in their Stash immediately upon completion of their order.
Alternatively …
El Turista
Josh Rouse @ Amazon
O Reilly article with an interesting look at the future of music
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O Reilly published an article with a view on the history and the future of music. The article suggests in some respects that we’re approaching the point of closing a cycle in the way we can appreciate music.
I have to say although the article raises some interesting points, I am not entirely sold on all the arguments. But make your own mind up - article here.
Depeche Mode mini album
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Depeche Mode are to release a new 8 track mini album on December 8th in time for their forthcoming UK tour. The album features track pulled from their recent ‘Sounds of the Universe‘ album as well as some special remixes. The full track list runs:
‘Fragile Tension’ - radio mix, ‘Hole To Feed’ - radio mix, ‘Perfect’ - Roger Sanchez Club Mix, ‘Come Back’ - SixToes Remix, ‘Fragile Tension’ - Laidback Luke Remix, ‘Hole To Feed’ - Popof Vocal Mix, ‘Fragile Tension’ - Peter Bjorn And John Remix, ‘Hole To Feed’ - Joebot Remix
Watch for Depeche Mode new releases at Amazon here.
Free Joseph Arthur tracks
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Free Joseph Arthur downloads according to his website …
“Do you have friends whom you know will love the music of Joseph Arthur? Send them a message using this form and you’ll receive a free mp3 of the track “Can’t Let You Stay,” one of the bonus tracks from the newly released Nuclear Daydream re-issue! Be sure to let them know that if they join Joseph’s Mailing List they will receive a free mp3 of Joseph solo performing “Slide Away” from the Montreal Jazz Festival from July 4th, 2008, only available for signing up on the mailing list. For those of you already on Joseph’s Mailing List, you can fill out the mailing list form again and we’ll send you a link to download the mp3. We’ll make sure you only receive one email copy of Joseph’s newsletters.”
Where science meets music & video with brilliant results
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I cam across an amzing site, that has combined video clips from science documentaries such as Carl Sagans’ stunning Cosmos with music, with the video samples having their images and audio very cleverly massaged to meet the tempo of the music. The clips are such that the science still makes sense ….
If you’d like to see more then where you can download quality versions of the video or just audio.
ISPs to be rail roaded with anti-piracy legislation in the UK
Posted by monster in Music, Technology
Despite a lot of opposition is looks like the current government are going to force the 3 strikes and your connection is cut off approach as an attempt to cut down piracy (more details at the NME). With ISPs reporting that the process is very difficult and costly to implement I can several scenarios playing out of a lot of incorrect cut offs, service pricesses increasing and/or service quality dropping as ISPs try to claw back the investment (and reduced revenue as they can’t earn from a cut off service).
Aside from what happens with ISPs I think the process is likely to stiffle media development, consider how the Arctic Monkey’s got going - a lot of buzz generated by allowing people to download live performances, and who easy that will be to mixup with illegal material. Those who are intent on sharing will find means to defeat the ISP checks - more sophisticated file hiding etc. The fact that technology will always run faster than legislation has been missed. What the industry needs to wake up to is to make it more attractive to people to pay for music. This doesn’t mean bigger and heavier prouncements about piracy, look at the anti taping campaigns of the 70s and 80s to see what that did, or didn’t do.
Fortunately a few artists have started to try and develop their approach such as the Nine Inch Nails. The record industry shoul look to develop the ‘long tail’ by supporting more smaller artists as the proportion of copyright theft drops as you move down the tail. So rather than pooring millions into a big ad campaign for one artist, whos ‘product’ is then panned by a fickle audience (to be a little more blunt - a poor quality product trying to cash in on a fad or fashion), costing lots and resulting in labels simply blaming piracy for dumb thinking.
We’ll see what happens in July 2011. I hope to be proven wrong, but I suspect it will all endup being a repeat of RIAA mess, and we’ll see court battles about being denied people’s inealiable right to surf the web etc.
Faithless free track
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As a sweetner to get people to sign up to the immenent face lift of the official Faithless website there is a free download song (all part of the promo machine for the forthcoming new album). The song is called Sun To Me. As a track the lyrics are pretty weak; but musically this a real club/gig number that will have the place bouncing like a bunch of nutters in the same way as God Is a DJ does (yes I’ve been to a few Faithless gigs). All of which looks promising for the new album. But what is also really cool is that as there isn’t an official video to go with the track a fan has created one, which has been picked up by the blog Arjan Writes. The video is in some ways rather reminicent of I Want More.
Fingers crossed of a top album, and another tour.
Matthew Ryan - new album
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Matthew Ryan has a new album out called Dear Lover, if you cant wait then the digital release is available from now from Amazon, iTunes and via his own website here. I what suggested that if you want an old fashioned CD then you would have to wait until next year. But the latest check on the website is saying ordering from the website and you’ll get it as quickly as the US Postal service can deliver it.
Unkle’s Psyence Fiction
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As many are currently doing, DJ Shadow has just released a deluxe edition of their classic Psyence Fiction album. The special edition is available through DJ shadow’s site here. In addition to download version, he has followed Radiohead with the exclusive special pack of CDs, t-shirts etc - although they’ve already sold out. Atleast DJ Shadow isn’t just trying to extract money from old rope, he is also regularly releasing live performance recordings and remixes as well. Although I’ve yet to try such a recording (I didn’t enjoy the last studio work) his last live CD was a brilliant piece of work. The album includes brilliant vocal performances from Thom York and Richard Ashcroft.
Delays
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I was lucky enough to catch the Delays performing at The Joiners Arms in southampton on saturday - absolutely cracking gig.
Plus some pics I took with my mobile phone -here
more freebies from Moby
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Moby seems to have a sussed the nice balance between record label managed websites for artists which tend towards the dull with just announcements for releases and tours, or the other extreme where artists blog about every little detail of life in the studio. not to mention there is the regular sweetener of free tracks. The latest being a remix of ‘One time We lived’ which can be found via Moby’s site here.
Moby
In addition to the remix, NPR (US National Public Radio) have got a full Moby gig that can streamed or downloaded here.
