Daytrotter launches “The Record Barn,” offering uncut live sessions for cash
By A Chugg on Mar 25 2010
For just over four years, Daytrotter has been recording live sessions in its modest facilities in Rock Island, Illinois. All 1,000+ sessions have been recorded to 1/4-inch reel-to-reel tape, provided by the New York and Hollywood film and television studios who have since gone digital. Well, hold on to your hoofs, because the site has just launched an exciting new feature called The Record Barn that allows you to listen to the entire tape, just as it was recorded: an entire live session, uncut with interviews, laughing, belching, and all. So far, over 100 sessions are available for download.
The sessions can be downloaded for free (as 128k MP3s), or purchased for $4 as lossless files.
• Daytrotter: http://www.daytrotter.com
Radiohead (The Horse) set to race in The Kentucky Derby; meanwhile, Muse (The Donkey) misses the qualifying round
By Annapocalypse on Mar 25 2010
It appears that Radiohead has a fan in the horse-racing industry, as a horse that goes by the same name as the band is one of contenders for this year’s Kentucky Derby. The following are some facts about the horse (which make no sense to me since the closest I’ve been to a horse race is a Sex & The City midnight movie showing): Radiohead is a three-year-old chestnut-colored colt that bookies have picked as 20-1 to win the Derby on May 1. So, uh, I guess that’s good?
Radiohead’s trainer, Rick Dutrow, Jr., said in an interview with the Miami Herald that the horse was indeed named after the band, and not the Talking Heads song where the band got their name from. “He’s a cool, happy, curious horse. He’s very proud of himself. He’s game, you know. He’s game for an idea. He knows he’s going to have to show he can run against good horses.”
RIP: Johnny Maestro, doo-wop singer
By Shane Mack on Mar 25 2010
From Spinner:
Doo-Wop singer Johnny Maestro has lost his battle with cancer. The Brooklyn Bridge tenor died Wednesday in Cape Coral, Fla., bandmate Les Cauchi told the Associated Press. Maestro was 70.
Maestro started his music career as a vocalist in the New York-based R&B doo-wop group the Crests in the 1950s. The group’s biggest hit was ‘16 Candles,’ which rose to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958 and eventually went gold. […] Known for songs like ‘Blessed Is the Rain’ and ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ the band also had the opportunity to perform their big hit, ‘The Worst That Could Happen’ on the ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ The band went on to record 12 studio albums and released its most recent album, ‘Today Volume 2,’ in March 2009.
Before his death, Maestro thanked his fans on the band’s website for their ongoing support soon after he was diagnosed with the disease. “I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for their thoughts, get-well wishes and prayers while I am undergoing treatment for cancer,” he wrote. “I want everyone to know that when I read your messages, it brightens my day and gives me strength and determination to get back on stage. Your support is the best medicine.”
• Johnny Maestro: http://www.j-maestro-bklyn-bridge.com
• Johnny Maestro (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Maestro
New Daniel Johnston album: Beam Me Up!
By Nobodaddy on Mar 25 2010
When we last left our illimitable hero Daniel Johnston, he was, naturally, gearing up to tour Europe backed with an 11-piece Dutch orchestra. And while the “pilgrim of indie music with 30+ albums, hundreds of songs, and dozens of fans” probably could have left it at that and left us all perfectly bemused/satisfied, he’s just upped the game, announcing the release of a new full-length studio album with the aforementioned musicians in the BEAM orchestra, a mere seven months after the release of his last full-length, Is and Always Was (TMT Review).
The aptly titled Beam Me Up LP — which consists of three previously unreleased solo Johnston songs, “Mask,” “Sarah Drove In Her Car,” and “Last Song,” as well as nine re-recorded Johnston classics backed by BEAM, including “Devil Town,” “Beatles,” “Walking the Cow,” and others — will apparently be released on vinyl this Friday(!) via German label Hazelwood. But for those of you who are just yip/jumping to hear “True Love Will Find You In The End” played by an 11-piece orchestra, the whole album also seems to be available now for stream or download.
Now then, who’s got some frequent flyer miles I can use to get my ass over to Europe?
Beam Me Up:
01 Sarah Drove Around In Her Car
02 Syrup Of Tears
03 Must
04 True Love Will Find You In The End
05 Wicked World
06 Mask
07 Try To Love
08 Devil Town
09 Love Enchanted
10 Walking the cow
11 Last Songs
12 Beatles
Daniel Johnston European tourdates:
04.01.10 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso *
04.02.10 - London, UK - Troxy *^
04.03.10 - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street *
04.05.10 - Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus *
04.06.10 - Frankfurt Am Main, Germany - Mousonturm *
04.09.10 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller Music Hall *
04.10.10 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega *
04.11.10 - Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall *
04.13.10 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique *
04.15.10 - Paris, France - Le Bataclan *
04.16.10 - Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-Son *
04.17.10 - Bourges, France - Printemps de Bourges *
04.18.10 - Lille, France - Les Paradis Artificiels *
05.07.10-05.09.10 - Minehead, UK - ATP Festival
05.10.10 - Milan, Italy - Teatro Ciak
05.11.10 - Ferrara, Italy - Ferrara Sala Estense
05.12.10 - Rome, Italy - Auditorium
* BEAM Orchestra
^ Jeffrey Lewis
• Daniel Johnston: http://www.hihowareyou.com
Dirty Projectors announce US tour in support of the time between Bitte Orca and their next album
By Mango Starr on Mar 24 2010
Dirty Projectors are about to set forth on yet another US tour. But not before Dave Longstreth’s fake interview with TMT!
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So, what’s it like?
What’s what like?
You know, being a star?
I’m not sure if you could call me a “star,” per se.
Well… then what’s it like to play The Getty Address in full? Isn’t Bitte Orca your hit album?
I think the album is underrated and want more people to hear it. I want more people to hear me too, because I’m also underrated. Have you even heard The Getty Address? Can you believe all the amazing shit I did on it?
Have I heard it? Shit, son — I practically wrote that motherfucker. It was on our decade list even.
What decade list?
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/favorite-100-albums-2000-2009-60-41
Oh, you write for a webzine or something?
Fuck yeah, dude. Tiny Mix Tapes, only the most well-regarded webzine of all-time.
Never heard of it.
It’s an underground sorta thing.
Is it like Prefix?
Dude, fuck you.
What do you mean?
I mean “fuck you.”
No need to get hostile, bro. I just never heard of Tiny Mixed Tapes. Do you guys actually make mix tapes?
Well, we make tracklists out of mix tape requests.
Tracklists only? People can’t even hear the music, then?
No, they could download if they wanted to though.
What’s the point then?
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Dirty Projectors tourdates:
03.27.10 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival
04.10.10 - Dennis, MA - Cape Cinema
04.11.10 - Dennis, MA - Cape Cinema
04.17.10 - Indio, CA - Coachella
04.25.10 - Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival
05.06.10 - Middletown, CT - Wesleyan
05.07.10 - Clinton, NY - Hamilton College Green
05.15.10 - Chicago, IL - University of Chicago
05.30.10 - Quincy, WA - Sasquatch Festival
06.19.10 - Denver, CO - Westword Music Showcase
06.25.10 - London, England - Barbican
08.06.10 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
• Dirty Projectors: http://www.dirtyprojectors.net
• Domino: http://dominorecordco.us
[Photo: Greg Neate]
