New album
I will be releasing a new cello tribute album soon. Stay tuned!
Great poster by Joe Newton of Wrong Dots for this Saturday’s show. We’re so excited to play Brooklyn, and to play with these two bands!
Tickets here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/53183
Seriously can’t wait to play this.
From @schuyler: A CS grenade, and two 12 ga shotgun shells purportedly used by the police to propel the beanbag bullets. #OccupyOakland
Meanwhile, police are reporting that they didn’t use any method like this at Occupy Oakland.
DONT STOP REBLOGGING, PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
It a killer app. Well designed. I like it as a listening platform. But what I think is totally wrong: Spotify pays different monies to different labels. As everyone is under NDA it its impossible to find out what those deals are but the word on the street is that majors receive profits from Spotify’s advertising revenue and indies do not. The end result is that a major artist makes more per play than an indie artist. Spotify doesn’t talk about this but The Guardian sums it up well. That’s it. That’s my complaint: fairness.
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Zoe Keating on Spotify, Apple and Independents (and lettuce) — My Music Thing Excellent article with well-articulated, compelling arguments. The bit at the end about the niche-artist economy is great, too. Very conflicted about whether to distribute my music to Spotify or not. |
My top 3 weekly #crapstfm artists
- Midi Nickelback (-345)
- Netflix Startup Sound (§)
- 18M Mid-Atlantic Crying Homeowners Bailing Out Basements (1)
Tour!
We are getting out of Florida for the next several days. If you live in or near any of the following cities, we’d love if you stopped by. Come say hi!
- 8/5 - The Bleu Pub, Valdosta, GA
- 8/6 - Broadway’s, Asheville, NC
- 8/7 - The Lunchbox, Charlotte, NC
- 8/8 - DC9, Washington D.C.
- 8/9 - TBA, Durham, NC (nothing like a last-minute adventure!)
These Tampa-based guys (and gal) are totally worth seeing. If you live near any of these places you should come out.
Holy crap, I can’t believe I forgot that today marks the release of Robert Pollard’s band Boston Spaceships’s new epic double-LP, Let It Beard. I am honored to have contributed cello to one of the tracks (“Red Bodies”)! Other guests include J. Mascis and Colin Newman from Wire (!!!). Get it on Amazon MP3 for $8.
