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Archive for March, 2007
The Vault: Pailhead Helps Start The Industrial Evolution
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Brian Raftery
In 1988, Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye and Ministry’s Al Jourgensen teamed up to form Pailhead, a one-off side project that combined hardcore with industrial, and was therefore unlistenable to more than 90 percent of the earth’s population. More »
Our Advertisers Can’t Wait For The New M.C. Rove Album To Street
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Brian Raftery
Many thanks to this week’s sponsors, who are still singing along to “Gettin’ Libby Wit It.” If you’d like to join this motley crue, you can find more information here. More »
Aggregated Assault: What The Music Blogs Are Posting Right Now
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Maura
- If this post helps bring about the Hanoi Rocks revival, we will feel mighty pleased. [La Blogotheque] – Before Bono was Bono, he was just another dude whose band put out a 7-inch. Oh, the things that can happen in 28 years! More »
To Leak, Or Not To Leak?: Why The Labels Need To Learn To Chill Out And Float On
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Brian Raftery
On Feb. 15th, MP3 files from an advance copy of Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead… showed up onto the web, nearly five weeks before the album’s official release date. Mouse fans with even the slightest bit of web savvy could now download their own version of the album, and within days, message boards and blogs were bustling with pro-or-con discussions, many of which were poorly hyphenated, and more than a little caustic. The fans had the record, free of charge; there was really no reason to expect they’d show up a month later and actually purchase a copy.
But during its debut week, Dead went on to sell 129,000 copies–enough to put the album at the top of the Billboard chart, and to once again prove what we’ve been saying for years: Leaks don’t hurt.
The iPhone Release Date: Let The Fanboy Countdowns Begin!
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Maura
There’s a rumor going around this morning that the iPhone–the Apple-crafted iPod/phone hybrid that will allegedly change the world in ways that haven’t been seen since March 6–will be released on June 11. But that date, which was allegedly confirmed by a Cingular customer service manager, smells fishy to our gadget-laden siblings at Gizmodo:
Leak Of The Day: Rihanna, Jay-Z Make It Rain
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Brian Raftery
“Umbrella” is the first track from Rihanna’s upcoming Good Girl Gone Bad; it’s also, so far, as we can tell, the first song to drop an indirect Abigail Breslin reference. More »
Outro: Looking Back On A Week In Which We Reconsidered Our Stylist’s Suggestions
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Maura
- When Gwen Stefani can’t stomach your singing, you clearly need to figure out a way to get luck on your side. – Just when we thought we couldn’t get more offended by Karl Rove’s antics, we did. – Modest Mouse was this week’s big cheese, leak or no leak. More »
Ending On A Good Note: Friday’s MP3 Roundup
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Maura
PICK: Pailhead – Man Should Surrender [more info] 1990s – You’re Supposed To Be My Friend [more info] Blood Red Shoes – ADHD [more info] Pailhead – Ballad / I Will Refuse [more… More »
Even Trent Reznor Wants To Give The RIAA A Smackdown
Fri Mar 30 2007 by Maura
Not to toot our own horns, but today we got a nice little bit of confirmation that those Nine Inch Nails leaks from a month or so ago were actually the work of Trent Reznor, and that the RIAA acted a bit too hastily in calling in their lawyers. More »
