Black Lips Have ‘Roided Up, Learned Some New Slurs, and Are Ready for Touring in 2010
By Nobodaddy on 01-19-2010
Shutter your pretty-pink-ass window shutters, all ye alternative lifestylers! That band who hates everyone (no, not The Fiery Furnaces; they’re just Anglophobic Scientology-haters) is hitting the road next week, and they are ready to kick some ass in the name of… some press for their band, I guess, right?
Okay, so maybe Black Lips won’t spray paint any penises in your hometown this time. Maybe they won’t use the word “faggot” so much this year. Maybe they’ve grown up a little bit in 2010.
Oh wait. The name of their band is “Black Lips.”
01.20.10 - Costa Mesa, CA - The Detroit Bar
01.21.10 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
01.22.10 - Pomona, CA - The Glass House
01.23.10 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
01.24.10 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
03.17.10 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
03.18.10 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
03.19.10 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
03.20.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
03.21.10 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s
03.23.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
03.24.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
03.25.10 - Cambridge, MA - The Middle East Downstairs
03.26.10 - Montreal, QC - Le Studio Juste Pour Rire
03.27.10 - Toronto, ON - The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
03.28.10 - Toronto, ON - The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
03.30.10 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
03.31.10 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
04.01.10 - Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
04.02.10 - Madison, WI - The High Noon Saloon
04.03.10 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
04.05.10 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown, Jr.
04.06.10 - Columbia, MO - Mojo’s
04.07.10 - St. Louis, MO - The Firebird
04.08.10 - Louisville, KY - Headliner’s Music Hall
04.09.10 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Café
04.10.10 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
[Photo: Daniel Arnold]
RIP: Kate McGarrigle
By Shane Mack on 01-19-2010
From NorthJersey.com:
Canadian folk singer and songwriter Kate McGarrigle, best known for performing with her sister Anna, has died of cancer. She was 63.
McGarrigle’s brother-in-law, Dane Lanken, said the singer died at her Montreal home Monday night surrounded by her sisters, Jane and Anna, and her children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, also singers.
He said McGarrigle had been battling cancer since the summer of 2006. He said the cancer started in her small intestine and spread to her liver.
• Kate & Anna McGarrigle: http://www.mcgarrigles.com
• Kate McGarrigle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McGarrigle
Why Doesn’t That Surprise Me: Lala.com Lost Warner Music Group a Shit Ton of Money
By Elzee on 01-19-2010
According to FMQB News, Warner Music Group sold increasingly-baffling music distribution site Lala.com to Apple for a tidy $9 million on December 4 of last year. Unfortunately for Warner, the never-quite-successful venture cost them $11 million more in investments than the amount for which Apple took it off their hands. Somehow I don’t feel bad for Warner.
I’m curious to see what the new owners do with the site, whose clever initial premise – trading CDs at a fraction of retail cost – lost its relevance within a year of introduction. I’ve only seen their newish audio streaming service in frequent use on Pitchfork, which I think started around the time Apple bought Lala. In my awake-at-3:30 AM mind, this clearly establishes that Apple secretly owns Pitchfork or at least runs some sort of music website shadow government.
Shit, that’s terrifying. I’m going to sleep.
