Indie Study: Sugary pop from Ladybirds Backed by high-rising synthetic swells and the pitter patter of bouncing drum machine licks, Ladybirds bat around an 11-song repertoire of electro-dance poppers that are meant to do just that. By Paul Olund Updated: 3:15 p.m. ET July 6, 2007 Pop. Ladybirds co-creators Teeter Sperber (Ley Royal Scam) and [...]
from Ray Beckerman at The Recording Industry vs. The People: RIAA Adds New Colleges and Students to its Hit List p2pnet.net reports that the RIAA has sent 405 more blackmail letters, adding to its hitlist an additional 23 universities, including Boston University (50 pre-litigation settlement letters), Columbia University (20), Dartmouth College (11), DePaul University (18), [...]
from Ray Beckerman at Recording Industry vs. The People: Notice: Calling all College Students Who Want to Talk to Rolling Stone magazine By Ray Beckerman Notice to college students targeted by RIAA in recent days A freelance writer for Rolling Stone magazine is doing one or more stories on the RIAA’s new campaign against college [...]
Podcast of Deerhoof on PRI’s “Fair Game”: click here (MP3).
Sundance to the Music Idiosyncratic soundtracks from festival films like ”Black Snake Moan” and ”Dedication” shed light on filmmakers’ tastes, from trad Memphis blues to alt-experimentalists By Neil Drumming …At Sundance, where presumably every movie is born of some dedicated filmmaker’s powerful conviction, it only makes sense that many of the films’ soundtracks reflect equally [...]