According to TwentyFourBit, Thom Yorke is joining Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 1 tomorrow. What to expect? “Soul, hip hop, house, Afro, Latin, dubstep, jazz and beyond.”
Check out BBC Radio 1 for more information, including a sneak peak at Thom’s penis.
RIP: Kate McGarrigle
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
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.
Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Dirty Projectors, Thom Yorke, Faith No More
The Coachella 2010 lineup has been announced. Highlights include Faith No More, Thom Yorke???? (what a name), De La Soul, Dirty Projectors, and Yo La Tengo. Lowlights include Muse.
The fest runs April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA. Check out Coachella’s official website for more details about Muse.
FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.
SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.
Severe Layoffs Hit Universal Music Group, Who Insist on Smiling Through Their Teeth
Ruh-Roh. Hold on to your back catalogues, boys, cause this ain’t good news. Sources are saying that there have been severe layoffs within Universal Music Group, including 50 employees (a few of which are VPs). No label heads that we know of have been affected. According to a press release sent to The Daily Swarm, “Universal Music Group is continuing to transform our organization to better serve our artists and business partners. Given the current economic climate, we have to be as agile and efficient as possible. Unfortunately, these ongoing efforts have resulted in some redundancy. However, UMG will now be even better positioned to compete in the growing global, digital marketplace.” Never was there a better time for “coughBULLshitcough.” But I digress.
Layoffs affected those at Verve, Interscope, Def Jam, and Motown, as well as Universal Motown Distribution. Ouch. But this is all for the best, right? Let’s hope for all the people still at UMG that Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga will continue to churn out the bankable hits.
Surprise Cell Mutation Leads to Break-Up of Post-Rockers These Arms Are Snakes
The four members of These Arms Are Snakes awoke recently to discover that the previously serpentine appendages attached to their torsos had become normal human extremities. Longtime champions of truth, the band realized they could no longer perform under a name that had been rendered fallacious and called it quits in a public statement:
It’s with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It’s been a great run and we’d like to send out a very hearty “Thank You” to everyone that we’ve worked with or anyone that we’ve toured with; anyone that lent us a floor, towed our van and/or trailer, lent a van, given us a listen, downloaded our records prior to their coming out, bought our shit, or asked us where our band name came from; everyone who cooked us food, made habanero-infused tequila, had a safety meeting with us, let Steve gyrate all over you, had to live with any of us, made us pay shitloads of money to get off your punk label, got us into LOST, found Steve drunkenly wandering the streets of Tokyo alone, played Madlibs in the van (plural nouns), lost money promoting one of our shows, took Chris to the hospital, put up with our drunken sorry asses, got into a fight with us, etc. etc.
This band could not have been possible without all of you. We sincerely thank you.
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