May 2012
2 posts
listening to "John Mayer - Perfectly Lonely... →
yep.
March 2012
1 post
listening to "Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Live HD" →
January 2012
1 post
listening to "✿ MARVIN GAYE feat. BETTY WRIGHT -... →
hope your lover is not so distant in 2012~ !
November 2011
9 posts
Lefsetz 11.8.11 →
Fabulous:
I get it, Doug Morris is playing to win. And of everybody extant, he’s got the best track record, I give him credit for this.
But I cannot applaud his deal with Dr. Luke. Sure, Mr. Gottwald may make hits, but Doug’s move seems as defensive as much as it is offensive. In other words, Doug is taking Dr. Luke off the table, he’s removing his ability to play for...
listening to "Shadows Break" →
God just one more…
listening to "Jules →
and again.
listening to "Jules and the Polar Bears - You Just... →
f*ck-yeah
listening to "Frank Zappa Black Napkins Live... →
listening to "Camel - Sahara" →
gnite music.
listening to "ISN →
listening to "Rod Stewart.My Heart Can →
@pacha17 - so you like Rod.
listening to "smoke - curtains (from jem cohen →
poor benjamin
October 2011
2 posts
Jason Derulo Opens Up On Stalkers, Cocky Producers
NEW YORK
Slide Show: The 10 best rock-and-roll movies ever...
[at MarketWatch] - What are the 10 greatest rock-and-roll movies of all time? It is a matter of opinion, of course. You may nod your head in agreement with my choices - or think I’m out to lunch. Either way, it’s all good....
September 2011
3 posts
New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media
LONDON (Reuters) - James Palumbo is best known as the co-founder of Ministry of Sound, the music and nightclub business that claims to be the world’s largest independent record company. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/entertainment/~3/8wKbIWN9d4Q/us-books-palumbo-satire-idUSTRE78S2QN20110929
Mailbag From: chamillionaire Subject: Re: Innovation Bob, Let me start off by saying I’m a former major label recording artist who is
Bjork, 'Moon'
Bjork is back to greet us once more before her highly built-up album, Biophilia, drops Oct. 11. Last week, she added her latest single, “Moon,” to the growing pile including “Virus,” Cosmogony” and “Crystalline,” one by one acclimating us to the space-meets-nature-meets-earthlings mood of the album. Bjork is sounding especially tinkly on...
August 2011
12 posts
listening to "Sunny Came Home -Shawn Colvin... →
and it goes on
listening to "The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of... →
bang.
True Crime Diary →
Lefsetz 8.24
I know it’s counterintuitive, but think about it. I was on the phone with a publisher, he was encouraging me to do a book. In the conversation he revealed he was a big Ryan Adams fan, even e-mailed me the one released track from his new album (http://bit.ly/qTR9lU). And in our discussion of Ryan’s work, from Whiskeytown to the doldrums, I told him about this article I’d written...
listening to "Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You" →
oooohhh yeah.
listening to "Yoko Ono - John Lennon" →
wow.
listening to "TODD RUNDGREN SWEETER MEMORIES" →
take a few of these.
Lefsetz
1. It doesn’t matter what kind of music you make. You build your own audience. There’s an established niche for every genre. From folk to metal. Don’t worry about playing to everybody, just play to somebody. The last thirty years, the MTV era, has been about giving people what they want, which is just like what they’re already consuming. Major labels and major media, most...
listening to "Wilco - War On War" →
hey @Flying_Roundhouse :-)
listening to "Prince Amy Winehouse Love is a... →
Bang.
July 2011
3 posts
Jack White Ventures Into Hip-Hop Production With...
Jack White may be a garage-rock legend, a guitar hero and one of today’s most enterprising musical entrepreneurs., yet Third Man Records’ newest release sees him taking on a previously unexplored role: Rap producer.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/jack-white-ventures-into-_n_896455.html
Songs for Todd
if it makes you happy / sheryl crow
I don’t want to talk about it / paul carrack
surprise surpise / brett dennen
June 2011
4 posts
listening to "Brett Dennen - Who Do You Think You... →
your sittin’ at a different table - but we’re both drinking the same poison.
listening to "Brett Dennen - Surprise, Surprise... →
they throw their money in the fire just to watch it burn …
todd radio →
Lefsetz 6.3.11
If you want to sign to a label… Last night we went out to dinner with Daniel Glass and his wife, and then to see Glassnote’s new signing, Givers, at the Bootleg Theatre. We met at Craig’s. Craig’s is the new hip joint on Melrose. And the story is important. Because Craig used to be the maitre d’ at Dan Tana’s, which J.D. Souther just went on record as being the...
May 2011
5 posts
Lefsetz on Adele 5.27.11
All the scuttlebutt about Adele has been the chart success, BUT HAVE YOU LISTENED TO THE MUSIC? For too many years we’ve been inundated with look at me artists. I’m better than you. Watch me dance, see my big tits, come join the party. You don’t want to party with Adele. THERE IS NO PARTY! Hip-hoppers sing of kicking women to the curb. This is a record made by someone who WAS...
Lefsetz 5.25
From: Michael Shrieve
Subject: Re: Rattlesnake Shake
Well Fuck, God Bless you for caring enough about the music to really seek it out.
Peter was a friend of mine back in the 70's. Sometimes, when I was on tour with Santana, which was always, and Peter was in the Bay Area, I'd loan him my house in Mill Valley. Of course you could stay there, Peter. I'd call him from the road and check in. Is everything OK? "Everything's great, mate".
So tonight, right now, I'm back from my weekly gig, which I've been doing for four years in Seattle, with my band, Michael Shrieve's Spellbinder. It's an instrumental band, but cool as shit, and we get the whole range of age groups at every show. Here's the truth. I make $60.00 every Monday night; $30 of which I pay to a friend to set up and take down my drums. I don't enjoy that part of it, so it's worth it to me. So I make $30.00. The people love the music, and I know why. It's real musicians, playing passionate, beautiful music right in front of there eyes. Exceptional musicians, truly.
You want to know my reality? This year alone I have been voted one of the top 50 drummers of All Time in Drum Magazine, and been voted in the Top Ten in a Reader's Poll in Rolling Stone Magazine two months ago of Best Drummers of All Time. Of course, you should know, no real musician considers these accolades as something serious, because the real players know that there there is always someone better than you. But that is not to say that we are not grateful for the recognition. But that and a buck fifty will get you on the bus.
If I told you how many Booking Agents I have contacted all around the world to consider booking my band you would be shocked. If I told you how many of them have had the decency to even reply to my emails, you would be even more shocked.
I ask myself, WTF? Why do I bother with this shit? I love music, like the heart that beats inside me, but is this worth it? And I have come to the conclusion that no, it is not worth it. I must find another way to make a living. I should build on what I have, and I have ideas, but it is so completely different than what I had imagined.
I didn't mean to rant, but it here I go. I love the vibe of that music that you posted, like I used to love Michael Bloomfield with Paul Butterfield and those extended jams like "East West". I still love that shit. But I insist with my band that we are not a jam band, that we play tighter arrangements than other bands. Everybody jams now, but it better be fucking great because frankly I'm tired of hearing 10 minute guitar solos.
Back to Peter. Part of our connection, aside from the fact that with Santana, I recorded his song "Black Magic Woman" and made it more famous than he would ever imagine, we shared that Black Magic Woman, and her name was Annie, and she was truly remarkable, and mystical, and nurturing, as were a few very special ladies in that time and place. It was a very special time.
Years later, when Santana was being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Fleetwood Mac on the same evening, Carlos was gracious enough to invite Peter Green to play "Black Magic Woman" with us, as it became obvious that Fleetwood Mac was not going to have Peter Green be a part of their ceremony. Shame on them. Peter was a shadow of himself then, and barely remembered me. It was sad, for sure, but he was there with us on the stage playing his song that we made famous. And that night The Eagles were also inducted, as was Fleetwood Mac, and I saw the road kill of what was the leftovers of that fiasco as well. The tears in the eyes of the wives of the members of the band that left or were kicked out, and finally seeing their embittered husbands getting a shred of recognition for the work they put into the band that became so famous, the few that survived shined and the rest are road kill. It's not a pretty picture.
God Bless the musician that has his own, I always thought.
But now, even I'm not so sure of that. I always told myself when I younger, watching older musicians becoming embittered, don't ever become bitter, that serves no one. I remember telling Mitch Mitchell, who was so bitter because truly, he got so screwed financially with all the Hendrix stuff, "Mitch, forget about it. What you've done, no one can ever take that away from you. Your contribution is so enormous, anyone would trade places with you. Forget about the money, forget about the lawyers, I said. Go back to that place where you first loved music, go play in a club every week like I do, and forget about everything else, and trust me, the music will set you free, like it did in the beginning.
But man......
With Respect,
Michael Shrieve
LimeWire Settles, Pays $105 Million To Recording...
Long Way from $75b. SAN FRANCISCO — File-sharing software company LimeWire, which shut down last year after being barred from allowing people to share copyright-protected files online, reached a $105 million out-of-court settlement with the major record labels Thursday, the labels said. In a statement, Recording Industry Association of America Chairman Mitch Bainwol said his group, which...
Before he directed The Shining and A Clockwork... →
April 2011
11 posts
Audio HELLO ITS ME: CHAKA KHAN / TODD RUNGREN -... →
It couldn’t be that easy - it had to be much...
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Brett Dennen
Perry Farrell's Plan to Save the Music Business
In partnering with the city of Chicago, Lollapalooza and its owners Perry Farrell, C3 Presents and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, have created a model that works. Now Farrell tells Billboard.biz he thinks he knows how to save the music biz. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediaredef/~3/4q4NUo3QP4s/perry-farrell-s-plan-to-save-the-music-business-1005124752.story
Sade featuring Jay-Z – The Moon and The Sky...
Here comes the previously announced Sade and Jay-Z collaboration in the shape of the “The Moon and The Sky” remix. Production credits come courtesy of Noah ’40′ Shebib who created an intriguing beat for this legendary get-together. The tune was premiered on Jay-Z’s recently launched Life &… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediaredef/~3/vGBqOQYRafs/
Lumet weighed society's failings
Film News: Helmer eyed our imperfect institutions — My first exposure to Sidney Lumet came by way of a VHS copy of “Murder on the Orient Express” that I received as a Christmas present, owing to my childhood enthusiasm for Agatha Christie. At the time, I was too nascent a movie lover to know Ingrid from Ingmar, and I devoured the film with more concern for the fidelity of Paul...
Roger Nichols, music engineer, dies
Obituary: Grammy winner worked with Steely Dan — Grammy-winning engineer and producer Roger Nichols died April 9 after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118035225?categoryid=16&cs=1&cmpid=RSS|News|LatestNews