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PG's World Cup Gala cancelled. Maybe we will get to see it in four years in South Africa.

Rolling Stone looks into Neil Young's world

April 25th--New Drive-by Truckers CD. A Bless and a Curse. 11 new yummy songs.

iTunes upgrade with Adware attached?

Radiohead v City of Chicago. I guess we know for certain that they are touring.

i.e. marketing reports: Verve Forecast is proud to announce the release of Rhett Miller's second solo album, The Believer, due in stores on February 28th 2006. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed The Instigator, the new record is brimming with, as Blender said, "knock 'em dead songs." Already widely-loved for his work as frontman and main songwriter of the hard-charging rock 'n' roll quartet the Old 97's (of which he is still a member), The Believer takes its predecessor's achievements several steps further, with a dozen deeply felt, craftily melodic tunes that demonstrate the Texas-bred artist's knack for using accessible songcraft to address complex emotional issues.[

Hey, you look like you've got more money than sense. Step inside, we've got quite an offer for you. That's a nice iPod you have, but isn't it a chore having to take it out of your pockets sometimes?
Imagine the unbelievable stress on your arms each time you have to haul your iPod from the pocket of your jeans to turn it on or off or to work out what blindingly esoteric song your impeccably varied playlist has thrown up. Wouldn't it be so much easier if someone just invented a pair of iPod jeans? Guess what - someone has done just that. The Levi's RedWire DLX iPod jeans are going on sale in the autumn. Now you can die a happy person.

What Ken Burns did for jazz, VH1 does for heavy metal -- only a lot louder. "Heavy: The Story of Metal," premiering Monday -- Thursday, May 1-4 at 9PM* each night traces the evolution of heavy metal music and culture, from its dark, grim beginnings in Birmingham, England to the worldwide force that it remains to this day.
In a series of four themed hours, "Heavy: The Story of Metal," explores four decades of music, each hour examining this powerful and often misunderstood genre, from metal's pioneers to its love of glam and excess; from the fight for metal's rebellious soul to its storied flirtation with the devil[

Get lost in a maze but remember "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

More later
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the title is from those wonderful Canucks New Pornographers. The tune is Streets of Fire. Do yourself a favor and get anything AC Newman has done. NP is his group and check out an early band of his Zumpano and of course his solo cd. You will really be a better person because of it.


Day in Rock reports: We received a lot of emails in response to the kick off of this series last week. Some people asked "who cares," others readily agreed that this is a crime against music. Now to answer the "who cares" crowd we could have a long lament on how this is just one more nail in the coffin of rock and roll and how if this doesn't bother you may be part of the larger problem with rock today. E.g. the target audience that doesn't really believe in musical integrity, you buy up what's hot today and discard it for what's hot tomorrow. But at the end of the day it is supposed to be art, sure mostly silly and insipid art, but art nonetheless and as bands have proven in the past you can make credible music and make lots of money. But the focus should be on the music, not making the cash as becomes more and more of the case each year. That's the 2 cents on that but to get the core of the problem with the practice of using classic songs in music; John Densmore of The Doors summed it up perfectly. Below is an excerpt of an article from Adtunes.
There's a reason you never hear music by the group The Doors used in TV ads. Much to the dismay of his former band mates, Doors drummer John Densmore hasn't allowed any of the band's music to be used in television commercials. Whether it's $15 million offered by Cadillac to use the song "Break On Through (to the Other Side)" in an SUV ad or the $4 million offer from Apple Computer, Densmore hasn't given in. The reason, in his own words:
"People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music," Densmore said. "I've had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn't commit suicide because of this music…. On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent."