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sellouts?

Santogold Shakes The "Rock Sellout" Hornet's Nest

Santogold has ruffled some feathers with her thoughts on the idea of a musician "selling out," which she expressed to New York in an interview that ran this week. "Everybody wants you to sell a lot of records," the former Epic A & R exec told NY's Sara Cardace, "but it's not considered a failure if you don't. The record labels know that most of the money nowadays is made in licensing.... So where before it might have been, 'Oh, you're gonna sell out?,' now it's how we make our money." This quote inspired outrage from some of the more purist quarters out there, but does Santi have a point? More »

6:00 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,130 views, 22 comments

Latest by rogerniner: It's interesting to hear that selling out is more now about product placement, than just gaining a larger audience, which I am grateful for. And the variety of appropriate product placement to song has balanced out well, due to ad more »

"Stay tuned for news on Dave Mustaine's new coffee blend available ONLY to his fans coming up next week. After "sharing" his daily morning coffee with fans at the Megadeth Forums in the last few months and enganging in several conversations with coffee lovers there, he came up with a true blend he would love to share with all of you." Oh sure, Dave. Talk to the coffee people while our phone call to you goes unanswered. We see who really matters now. [Megadeth.com via Blabbermouth]

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Courtney Love sold Universal Pictures the rights to Charles Cross' Nirvana book Heavier Than Heaven and the Nirvana catalog as a package deal, so expect your favorite track by Kurt Cobain and Co. to be used in a sledgehammer-over-the-head way in the Love-produced Cobain biopic when it hits theaters next year. (Sorry, I'm still reeling from the way Control clumsily used "Love Will Tear Us Apart" to score a marital-spat scene. Oh really? It'll tear us apart? You don't say.) [NME]

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More details on the physical release of In Rainbows, which is set for next year and which will shun major labels entirely sort of: The band will reportedly license the album to ATO Recordings in the U.S. and XL Recordings outside of the States; the labels will be licensed the album for a set period of time, with Radiohead retaining ownership of the recording itself. [NYT]

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Hilly Kristal died with a net worth of about $3.7 million, a sum that could have probably bought him a lot of CBGB T-shirts. Of course, now his whole family's squabbling over the fate of the fortune. [Village Voice]

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licensing

Get Ready To Get Even More Tired Of James Blunt's Ugly Mug

In this New York Times profile of ubiquitous mewler James Blunt, we learn a lot of little factoids about the crooner—women who eat at "trendy meatpacking district restaurants" somehow find him sexy! he's probably shut down the Ibiza party scene with the power of his own blandness! he's buddies with Kid Rock!—but probably the most enlightening part of the story is the breakdown of just how, exactly, the world came to be throughly sick of "You're Beautiful" a year ago:
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8:53 AM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By mjohnston
711 views, 7 comments

Latest by valerie: Linda Perry is incredibly depressing to me. I used to see 4 non blondes play when she was a little spitfire with a huge voice. She was the kind of performer who wore her politics on her sleeve, but was more »

teenage angst has paid off well dept.

Season Premiere Of "Cold Case" To Be Subtitled "I Loved The '90s"

If you have a sudden '90s-nostalgia jones that can only be cured by the promise of a scripted show about that storied time, you may want to catch the season premiere of the CBS procedural Cold Case, which will delve deep into the Nirvana catalog for an episode that's loosely based on the story of the West Memphis Three: More »

9:30 AM on Wed Sep 12 2007
By mjohnston
619 views, 6 comments

Hey, Dan Gibson here again. Alas, my terrible July reign of guestblogging comes to an end as noted MS Paint specialist Jess Harvell will take over full-time a week from today. This leaves me with some extra time on my hands, so if you need someone to liveblog your upcoming wedding, quinceañera, or corporate function, feel free to contact my (imaginary, but very powerful) agent.

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licensing

Interscope Would Like You To Buy Them A Drink (Or Two)

The music business' latest attempt to create new revenue streams comes from a division of Universal Music Group, which, in an attempt to ape Sammy Hagar's tequila success, has enlisted a beverage company to market drinks emblazoned with the likenesses of its artists: More »

3:30 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By mjohnston
691 views, 4 comments

follow-ups

The Case Of The Wienerschnitzel Song: The Label Owner Fills Us In


On Tuesday, we posted about the indiepop band Tullycraft, whose song "Sweet" had been licensed without the band's knowledge to an ad for the hot-dog chain Wienerschnitzel; the licensing was handled by Darla, a California-based label that reissued some of Tullycraft's early material a few years back. Last night we got an e-mail from Darla proprietor James Agren clarifying his side of the story, and he's agreed to let us print it here: More »

2:04 PM on Thu Jun 21 2007
By mjohnston
1,458 views, 37 comments

licensing

The Song That Makes The Nutter Butters And Hot Dogs Dance Has A Sad, Sad Beat Behind It


If you've seen the recent ad for the hot dog chain Wienerschnitzel's Nutter Butter Freeze (screencap above), you've heard a snippet of the song "Sweet" by the indiepop band Tullycraft. What you may not know, though, is that the band itself isn't getting any money from having its song in the ad—and in fact, the members didn't know about the ad's soundtrack music at all until recently: More »

4:37 PM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By mjohnston
1,578 views, 24 comments