Sub Pop Offers Scholarship to (Hip) Losers

By Scout Leader Kyle on

Are you a loser? If you answered yes, yep, yeah, or "no, I'm actually pretty cool," then the Sup Pop "Loser Scholarship" may be just right for you! Okay, so in order to be eligible, you have to live in Washington or Oregon and be a graduating high school senior, and you should also have an interest in music and the arts. But if all this applies to you, then you have a chance at getting a scholarship from the label that released Bleach!

Sub Pop is giving away one $6,000 scholarship and two $3,500 scholarships, so that ought to help pay for a book or two.

Alright, my little 18-year-old TMT reader, let's do the financial aid rain dance:

To get the scholarship, you have to submit a one-page essay with images and links to your work to scholarship@subpop.com.

Make sure the essay includes this stuff:

- What are you doing in the arts/music field in your community?
- How and/or why did you become interested in artistic outlets?
- Why do you need this scholarship money?
- What are your influences and/or who inspires you?
- Who are some of your favorite bands or artists?

If you want to do it snail mail:

Sub Pop Records

Attn: Scholarship
2013 4th Ave, 3rd Floor

Seattle, WA 98121

Good luck! The deadline is May 1st. If you need more info or want to bitch about how the 48 other states aren't eligible for the scholarship, then mosey on over to Sub Pop's information page here.

Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely And The J. Spaceman/Sun City Girls Soundtrack Get Release Dates; I Don’t Know Who the Target Audience Of This Story Is, But They’re Probably Totally Nuts

By Joe B. on 03-31-2008

Harmony Korine, the goofy bastard responsible for such lovable fare as Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy (Dogme 95-approved), as well as the screenwriting for Kids and Ken Park, is set to release a neat little movie called Mr. Lonely (trailer). It's about celebrity impersonators. At one point in the film, the main character, a Michael Jackson impersonator, “comforts a nonagenarian non-actor who appears to be hitting himself with a plastic hammer."

Clearly the film needed a heavy dose of good sense, so Korine tapped the sensible, old-fashioned bedrocks of stability, Sun City Girls and J. Spaceman (of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized), to write the soundtrack (yay!), but independently of each other (awww). This news is extra notable for Sun City Girls fans, as the band broke up last year after the untimely death of drummer Charles Gocher. The soundtrack is among the last recordings of theirs yet to see the light of day.

But here's the new news: both the film and the soundtrack have actual release dates! The film is scheduled for a U.S. release on May 2, while Drag City announced the release of the soundtrack, Mister Lonely: Music from a Film by Harmony Korine, for April 22. It will be packaged in a convenient recorded format, which doesn't require the consumer to, um, view the actual Harmony Korine movie.

Mister Lonely: Music from a Film by Harmony Korine tracklisting:

One More Reason to Wish You Had Disposable Income: Futuresonic Announces Headliners RZA and Wire

By Liz Louche on 03-31-2008

As spring sets in and summer festival fever starts to take hold of the UK, Manchester's Futuresonic festival reveals the first additions to this year's lineup. The festival, which runs from May 1-5, will feature performances from Mike Paradinas (you know him as µ-Ziq) Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert, Flying Lotus, Chrome Hoof, The Chap, Dirty Projectors, Gay Against You, Rolo Tomassi, and so much more! In this case, the "more" in question consists of headlining performances from the Wu Tang Clan's RZA as Bobby Digital and legendary post-punks Wire. But the fun doesn't stop there! OH NO IT DOESN'T. Because, you see, Futuresonic is not just about music -- it's also about art, learnin', and FUN.

Futuresonic gives props to music and digital culture through a series of conferences with experts, big-wigs, and assorted movers ‘n’ shakers from both fields. Expect intellectual stimulation from "media futurist" Gerd Leonhard, "gaming academic" Aleks Krotoski, and a whole slew of fun, smart people. And around the city there will be art and art experiments! There's just too much to describe. Besides, the laundromat where I wash my clothes and steal free wireless from the adjacent apartment building smells terrible, so I need to leave as soon as possible, but the Futuresonic website has extensive information. Now if only the festival provided ticket scholarships for unemployed former graduate students, it would be PERFECT.

Let’s All Read Harvey Keitel’s Mind In Hopes It Will Shed Some Light on the New Girl Talk LP

By Joe B. on 03-31-2008

Those Dates He Was Talking About:

* Denotes unsettling date

Oh, and while I was looking for a suitable picture of Mr. Keitel, I found this website, which catalogues some of cinema’s greatest bathroom scenes. Just figured I’d let you know.

Stereogum Fully Owned by Buzznet; Interscope Buys Stake in Buzznet

By Mango Starr on 03-31-2008

paidContent (via news aggregate The Daily Swarm) keeps us abreast with Stereogum news so we can keep you updated. But why should you care about Stereogum? Well, first of all, it's an influential (and, uh, promotion-heavy) music blog. Second, we love us some industry news, and Stereogum is a good example of the increasing corporate interest in online music coverage, which I think readers like you should know about. Besides, you probably read it anyway.

Late last year, we relayed the news that Stereogum traded an estimated $5 million worth of equity stakes to Buzznet, a social media network. Along with founder/ex-VH1 dude Scott Lapatine and ex-MTV guy Jason Hirschhorn, Stereogum is partly owned by former AOL executive Bobb Pittman, owner of investment firm The Pilot Group. (This guy's known for investing heavily in new media like DailyCandy, Thrillist, Double O radio, TV stations, the OTX net marketing company, and GarageBand.com.)

Just 3-4 months later, word has it that Buzznet now fully owns Stereogum. What's more is that Buzznet has recently raised something around $25 million, which includes a few million invested from Universal Music imprint Interscope. What does this mean? Well, aside from the fact that Stereogum's parent company has investments from crap label Interscope (oh wait, you probably like Feist), you can bet your ass that this is just the beginning of more "content acquisitions."

Alright, enough of that. Time to brand some indie rock artists!!

Oh wait, wait... oh shit... it's coming, oh fuck, it's.. it's.... BLEEECHHHHHH!!

Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival Lineup Announced!

By Annapocalypse on 03-28-2008

As your official random Midwest festival reporter here at Tiny Mix Tapes, I feel it's my duty to announce the lineup for the upcoming Mission Creek Festival, taking place in Iowa City, IA from April 2-5.

The festival, now in its third year, is being held in conjunction with Iowa City’s Documentary Film Festival. Mission Creek will take place at the following area venues: The Mill, The Picador, The Yacht Club, Java House, Englbert Theater, Black Box (IMU), and Hall Mall. All-access passes are available for purchase right here. Four-day all-festival passes are priced at $40 while two-day passes are $30.

- Mission Creek Festival lineup in graphic form:

- Mission Creek Festival lineup in text form:

Cursive, Dan Deacon, Bon Iver, Neva Dinova, The Hood Internet, Spoon, The Walkmen, Headlights, Evangelicals, Alejandro Escovedo, Pieta Brown, Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes, Oh Astro, Capgun Coup, Fourth of July, The Poison Control Center, White Rabbits, Cepia, These United States, So Many Dynamos, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, Baby Teeth, Brighton MA, Death Ships, Lair of the Minotaur, Caleb Engstrom, Samuel Locke-Ward, Vandaveer, The Western Front, The Gglitch, Master/Slave, Today is the Day, Datagun, Mannix!, Porno Galatica V. Zap!Rowsdower, Wolves in the Attic, The Wheelers, Michael Morris, The Glowing Glass, Mit’n, Kelly Pardekooper, Illinois John Fever, The Blacks, The Mayflies, Sam Knutson, Dennis McMurrin, Monadnoc, Sarah Cram and The Derelicts, Highway Shelter, Foul Tip, Birth Rites, MC/VL, Henrihenrietta, Complete Failure, Mouth of the Architect.

- Mission Creek Festival lineup in graphic form with cool Photoshop effects:

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