Internet Radio Gets Trendy, Now Has 60 Million US Listeners
For all you Pandora Radio faithful out there, you should probably know that you’re being watched. Well, more like counted. Digital Music News is reporting that over 60 million people in the US listen to internet radio every week, indicating that the web-based broadcasts are not a mere flash in the pan, but a bona fide consumer trend.
Many of those 60 million are streaming old school radio broadcasts that are also available as online streams (futuristically dubbed “simulcasts”), but a growing number are using internet-only sites like Pandora that read your mind to magically create near-perfect personalized playlists. And if the trends shown in this Bridge Ratings report prove accurate, then the use of exclusively online radio services may eventually surpass the use of simulcasts. That’s a trend within a trend, people!
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How many Swedish noise-pop bands that use numbers in every full-length album title and have full-time saxophonists can you name in 60 seconds? That’s right, one. And how many of those bands are starting tours in late-March? Right again. Love Is All is releasing their new album Two Thousand and Ten Injuries on March 23, and will be traversing the nation from near East to far West with Canadian garage-rockers Japandroids to support it. Love Is All are working with a new label (Polyvinyl) this time around, and is having Two Thousand and Ten Injuries pressed to 180 gram yellow, white, and black vinyl to celebrate. But you’ll have to be lucky to grab one of the more interesting colors, as they’re only making 500 of each (and the yellow is only out in Europe). Two Thousand and Ten Injuries tracklisting: 01. Bigger Bolder Catch Love Is All and Japandroids before they retreat to their far-flung homelands: 03.27.10 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s * Japandroids • Love Is All: http://www.myspace.com/loveisall8 |
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Love Is All Sustain Two Thousand and Ten Injuries Preparing for Spring Tour with Japandroids |
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| 02-08-2010 |
This just in: Terra Firma — the firm whose name means "solid ground," remember? — is now reportedly trying to raise an additional $160 million to keep EMI afloat in, uh... financial water. The figure, as well as the mixed metaphor, is apparently needed despite recent successes meeting financial obligations to lender Citigroup (read: the Beatle$ rema$ter$). After having fallen short on earlier covenants, Terra Firma had reportedly used reserves to cover the deficits, and now (duh) the Financial Times noted that Terra's chances of meeting upcoming covenants are in serious, like, Alex Trebek-with-a-gun-and-nothing-left-to-lose type jeopardy. The Wall Street Journal has noted that Terra "is almost certain to fall short" on upcoming financial tests and has pointed to "revised business plans and proposals" from the label group. I guess "revised" usually means "better," but hey, we could all use a good semantics lesson now and again. Separately, a source close to the label recently indicated the expectation of a "near-term blowup," including possible divestitures and breakups of various recording and publishing units. Yipes. Quick, everyone: think. THINK. Aren't there more ways to keep selling people the same Beatles tracks over and over? How about 26 new albums that each feature any and all Beatles songs that start with a given letter of the alphabet? Or maybe a record of instrumental versions of all of the songs Ringo sang lead on? |
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Terra Firma Seeking $160 Million In Life Support for EMI; News Writer Seeking Asian Redhead (Must be Willing to be the Breadwinner) |
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| 02-08-2010 |
John Davis, formerly of Q and Not U and Georgie James, has started up a new band more in the musical vein of the latter rather than the former, called Title Tracks. Always the gentleman, Ted Leo has decided to take Title Tracks on the road with him and his Pharmacists this March. Before that, Title Tracks have some headlining dates of their own lined up, coinciding with the release of their debut album, It Was Easy, due February 23 on Ernest Jenning. It Was Easy tracklisting: 01. Every Little Bit Hurts Title trekking on the road: 02.11.10 - Washington DC - Black Cat ^ ^ w/ Pretty & Nice • Ted Leo: http://www.myspace.com/tedleo |
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Ted Leo and His Pharmacists Take Title Tracks Out On the Road |
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From The Guardian:
• Dankworth's Qnote Records: http://www.qnote.co.uk |
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RIP: Sir John Dankworth, British jazz musician |
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This Saturday, February 6, Dengue Fever, the alt-psych-rock outfit aiming for circa 'Vietnam Conflict' vintage pop, are playing a Haitian Benefit show. "What?" You ask. "Yes," I say, at The El Rey in loving Los Angeles. Presented by KCRW, scope this line up: • Ska revivalists, Hepcat All proceeds of ticket sales will be donated to Operation USA's relief efforts. Oh yeah, the date is also Bob Marley's 65th birthday. That sounds about right. • Dengue Fever: http://www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic |
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Dengue Fever: Not a disease, but relief (hopefully) for Haiti this weekend. |
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After moving through the standard steps of grief upon learning the news myself, it is with great sadness I relay the message that Gowns, a phenomenal band that counts many of this site's contributors as fans, have announced their dissolution. In a five-year career, they produced two EPs, one full-length, and several tours' worth of heart-stopping live sets. From Gowns member Erika Anderson's blog:
The band has posted their final release, a fantastic 17-minute track called "Stand And Encounter," as a free download (you can stream it at the Chocolate Grinder). And for more information on their new projects, read the rest of Anderson's post. After a single listen on the suggestion of a fellow TMT writer, I implored every one of my musically-inclined friends to get Gowns' sole LP, 2007's Red State (TMT Review). I extend the same suggestion to you. The album is exquisitely beautiful and deeply unsettling, totally gut-wrenching, and surprisingly humanizing. Anderson once told me that, during its production, every member of the band had moments where they felt they'd gone crazy, striving to make every second achieve total perfection and clarity. After listening to the album dozens of times as a whole and to every song individually dozens of times more, I believe what they produced is unprecedented, peerless, and indeed perfect. I guess something as good as Gowns is never long for this world. • Erika Anderson: http://cameouttanowhere.com |
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In Really Disappointing Music News: Gowns Break Up |
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So it's come to this, has it? Apparently, the industry's eyes are so glazed over with paranoia that they've started issuing warrants for little old ladies to get dropkicked in the ass by their ISPs. 53-year old Cathi Paradiso reportedly had her internet suspended by Qwest Communications after they assumed she'd been downloading illegal material, including ZombieLand, Harry Potter, and South Park. Now, ladies and gentleman of the jury, I ask you this: do these television programs and/or movies sound anything like what a 53-year-old woman would download? Would a 53-year-old woman even know how to download a movie? Maybe, but these film and TV titles do sound like 13-year-old boy fare. COME ON NOW! Doesn't it seem the least bit possible that little boys (or sad-sack man-boys) were stealing internet juice from the older, unassuming lady? Not that all old ladies are unassuming — many are impeccably tech-savvy — but you get what I'm saying. It seems pretty unlikely. After being dropped abruptly from her ISP with a stern slap on the wrist, Paradiso alerted the media, hoping this would help locate the true culprits. And true enough, some interference from CNET prompted a technician to have a closer look at Paradiso's network. Indeed, they determined that Paradiso's network had been "compromised" by another (and probably way less mature) party. Case closed. Next week on Dragnet, Sgt. Joe Friday, and Sgt. Ben Romero take on the case of the missing B Channel... |
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Older Woman Wrongly Accused of Downloading Movies, Gets Dropped by ISP |
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| 02-05-2010 |
In 2007, I saw former Sun City Girls guitarist Sir Richard Bishop open for Animal Collective. During the show, he told the audience that he was over 500 years old. There is only one explanation for this fact: Sir Richard Bishop is a dragon. Sir Richard Bishop is going on tour this winter. If you don't want to go, it means you don't want to go see a dragon, and, let's be honest, that is stupid. Also, Bill Callahan is playing some of the dates and, while he is not a dragon, he is pretty damn good. 02.05.10 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands * Bill Callahan • Sir Richard Bishop: http://www.sirrichardbishop.net |
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Sir Richard Bishop Goes on Tour, Possibly Incinerates Audience Because He Is a Dragon |
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| 02-05-2010 |
The Windish Agency is a really cool indie artist representation group that I wish would give me a job. (If you or someone you know works for Windish, why not, say, just forward them this article? In the body of your email, you can also add that I am a hard worker with an impressive skill set that involves finding the funniest animals on the internet, having great hair, and drinking more caffeine than you or your doctor previously thought possible. I am a STEAL, let me tell you.) Windish represents groups like A Place to Bury Strangers, El Perro del Mar, Fever Ray, and GZA. And now they've expanded from their original outpost in Chicago and added a location in New York, which is just really fucking awesome because I totally want to live in New York! (Yes, yessssss, you should definitely forward this. Have I mentioned that I am also good at buying drinks and paying people off for favors done in 24K gold Rolexs and a night alone with Paris Hilton? It's all true.) So congrats Windish on the expansion, and also to you New York, for your music business community is getting just that much more rad with this addition. • Windish Agency: http://www.windishagency.com |
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Windish Agency Opens Branch in NYC, My Heart |
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Back in 2005, Dirty Projectors mastermind Dave Longstreth and an earlier DP incarnation cranked out The Getty Address, a sprawling, glitchy, insular, heady concept album filled with processed female choirs, sequenced beats, and orchestra parts that would almost certainly have George Martin rolling around in his grave (trust me, he's dead), topped off with a pretty po-mo storyline about... well, Don Henley and Sacagawea. Only they aren't Don Henley and Sacagawia. Get it? Well good. You're about as in the know as most of us, then. Anyway, since that record, Dave and co. have conquered a heck of a lot of indie rock territory. So much so, in fact, that they've apparently finally got the fanbase, the balls, and (most importantly) the budget to go all-out and resurrect TMT favorite The Getty Address live in its entirety! As a special favor explicitly to us! Maybe. (Maybe?) Uh, yeah, so, on February 19 at New York's Lincoln Center (already sold out, y'all) and February 27th at Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dirty Projectors will present the record in full with 15-piece contemporary music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, conducted by Alan Pierson and in an arrangement by Matt Marks. In addition, they will play a set of material from their TMT smash hit, "We Are the World"... I mean, Bitte Orca (TMT Review) . The New York show at Lincoln Center is part of the badass American Songbook concert series, and The L.A. show is a co-headlining thing with the L.A. Lakers... I mean, the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During the first half, the Philharmonic will play orchestral pieces that Longstreth has hand-picked(!!!), and then the REAL musicians will take over for the second half and play the REAL high art stuff (a.k.a. the DP album). Finally, a chance to SIT DOWN IN ASSIGNED SEATS at a rock show! Oh, how I've been waiting... • Dirty Projectors: http://www.dirtyprojectors.net [Photo: Neate Photos] |
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Dirty Projectors to Perform The Getty Address in Full. Yes, IN FULL. |
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