Radiohead Drummer Phil Selway Announces Solo Tour, Lisa Germano Opens
By Aaron Norman on Feb 8 2010
Phil Selway, drummer of Radiohead is embarking on a solo European tour this March. NME announced in September 2009 that Selway is also working on a solo album; this was corroborated by Lisa Germano of 7 Worlds Collide (a band in which Selway sometimes contributes) in a recent interview. The supposed project name? Boybrain.
Who knows if the solo project will see the light of day or what it’s name will be. The tour on the other hand is a sure thing; Germano will be opening and performing with Phil at all listed dates and here they are:
03.27.10 - Turin, Italy - Spazio 211
03.28.10 - Florence, Italy - Sala Vanni
03.29.10 - Ferrara, Italy - Sala Estense
03.30.10 - Bologna, Italy - Covo Club
03.31.10 - Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
04.01.10 - Milan, Italy - Tunnel
04.03.10 - Barcelona, Spain - La (2) de Apolo
04.04.10 - Valladolid, Spain - Auditorium
04.05.10 - Puerta de Santa Maria, Spain - Mucho Teatro
04.06.10 - Lisbon, Portugal - Aula Magna
04.07.10 - Porto, Portugal - Casa da Musica
04.08.10 - Vigo, Spain - Museum of Contemporary Art
• Radiohead: http://www.radiohead.com
• Lisa Germano: http://www.lisagermano.com
Internet Radio Gets Trendy, Now Has 60 Million US Listeners
By Deno on Feb 8 2010
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!
Rise Records Reissues Piebald’s Entire OOP Catalog; Former 26-Year-Old Emo Kids Rejoice!
By Annapocalypse on Feb 8 2010
Remember Piebald? Sure you do; they had that catchy song called “American Hearts” that you probably put on a mixtape when you were 17, right next to Saves The Day and Kind Of Like Spitting. If you’ve been missing them all these years, it’s your lucky day because Rise Records announced plans recently to reissue Piebald’s entire out-of-print catalog as a three-volume set, entitled Piebald: First Ten Years. Each volume will contain two discs, compiling the band’s first three full-length albums (When Life Hands You Lemons, If It Weren’t for Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains for Us All, and We Are the Only Friends We Have), as well as all of their EP’s, B-sides, and live tracks. Volume I is due out in late April, while Volume II and Volume III will be released in May and June, respectively.
In other Piebald news, the band announced recently that they will be playing their 2002 album, We Are the Only Friends We Have from start to finish during their upcoming set at the Bamboozle Festival on May 2.
• Piebald: http://www.myspace.com/piebald
• Rise Records: http://www.riserecords.com
Love Is All Sustain Two Thousand and Ten Injuries Preparing for Spring Tour with Japandroids
By Deno on Feb 8 2010
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
02. Repetition
03. Never Now
04. Less Than Thrilled
05. Early Warnings
06. False Pretense
07. The Birds Were Singing with All Their Might
08. Again, Again
09. Kungen
10. A Side in a Bed
11. Dust
12. Take Your Time
Catch Love Is All and Japandroids before they retreat to their far-flung homelands:
03.27.10 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
03.28.10 – Brooklyn, NJ – Knitting Factory
03.29.10 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel *
03.30.10 – Philadelphia, PA – Barbary *
03.31.10 – Boston, MA – Middle East (Downstairs) *
04.02.10 – Montreal, QUE – Ill Motore *
04.03.10 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern *
04.04.10 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
04.06.10 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
04.07.10 – Champaign, IL – The Highdive *
04.08.10 – TBA
04.09.10 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
04.14.10 – Seattle, WA – TBD
04.15.10 – Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
04.16.10 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
04.17.10 – San Diego, CA - Casbah
04.18.10 – Los Angeles, CA – Echo (Part Time Punks)
* Japandroids
• Love Is All: http://www.myspace.com/loveisall8
• Polyvinyl: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com
Terra Firma Seeking $160 Million In Life Support for EMI; News Writer Seeking Asian Redhead (Must be Willing to be the Breadwinner)
By Nobodaddy on Feb 8 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?
