MUSIC NOTES: The Thom Yorke - Hannah Montana connection
As the official countdown begins until I see Radiohead in Camden, NJ next week (five days, by the way), I am reminded of the pre-In Rainbows tour two summers ago when I purchased tickets to both nights of their Tower Theatre run for 450% above face value. Both nights sold out within seconds, and I [...]
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MUSIC NOTES: On the Last.fm Payroll
Yesterday at the Metro stop, my wallet unsnapped and violently sent my spare change flying through the air. Feeling a little self-conscious about my stinginess, I stooped and collected every last penny; I’ve made enough trips to the Commerce Bank coin counter to know that a few cents here and there can add up to [...]
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MUSIC NOTES: Playing the building
New York’s Battery Maritime Building (personally, I think the name I came up with, Le Cathedral Concrète, has much more pizzazz) has been virtually abandoned for the past fifty years.
Now, for three days a week, the South Street structure resonates with whistles, whirs, creaks, and clatters that harmonize into an unlikely choir of voices and rise [...]
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MUSIC NOTES: Nerdrap Myspace
The blog-o-sphere keeps telling us that Myspace Music is the future of A&R scouting - the easiest place to find the up and coming artists, the next big stars, the young sensations. Armed with oozing enthusiasm over having the internet at my desk, I thought I should take a peek into the uncharted Future of [...]
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MUSIC NOTES: Capitol on autopilot, no one at the wheel. And FREEBIES!!
Following today’s music industry is a full-time job, not recommended for the faint-of-heart or those chained to an internship at NPR, a weekend job selling club-wear to Georgetown’s bargain-hunters, and/or some semblance of a life, all of which are plates I spin delicately.
I still try to keep up, though. Headlines change almost hourly and music [...]
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