Why couldn't it have been e-cards instead? As a Pitchfork reader, you re aware of the impact the internet has had on the ways in which music is discovered, disseminated, championed and discussed. From sites like ours to blogs like yours, musical interaction on the web seems to become more vast and exciting with each passing day.
But an integral part of that landscape-- internet radio-- is , due to a new law. Although the consequences of this are far-reaching, the death of web radio would be a particularly crushing blow to under-the-radar sounds.
Countless numbers of people listen to the radio on their computers every day, seeking shows that appeal to their chosen tastes, expand their musical horizons, or simply give them something to drown out the Maroon 5 seeping over the adjoining cubicle wall.
Net radio offers broadcasters the opportunity to do just about whatever they please-- an impressive feat when contrasted with the focus-grouped farce that is most corporate-owned terrestrial radio in 2007. Here at Pitchfork, we think that turning people on to new music is pretty important. (Hell, it s what we do every day.
) And losing web radio would significantly reduce exposure to new music. We think that sucks. So Pitchfork News is taking a little time off from our usual routine of reporting who s on tour, who s putting out albums, and what Sufjan Stevens ate for breakfast, to clue you in to what s going on with net radio.
Hopefully you already know, and have your Senator on speed dial. But if not, here s a brief run-down. For much more information, go to .
That would be Kentucky, not, um, the other KY On June 10, a Sunday, Will Oldham will take the stage of Louisville, Kentucky s Headliner s Music Hall in his guise to play his classic 1999 album in its entirety. Joining him will be the same band who played on the album itself (brother Paul Oldham, Bob Arellano, Colin Gagon, Peter Townsend) with the key addition of Chavez/Superwolf/Zwan guitarist Matt Sweeney. And that s not all!
The concert is a celebration of the tenth anniversary of , a Louisville video store that specializes in renting and selling videos and DVDs that are hard-to-find, obscure, or just too weird for the chain stores, according to its website. Other performers at the event include Saturday Night Live s , ( the original dirty rapper! ), comedian , and WFPK DJ Woody Chancy.
Tickets to the event are five dollars, and all ticket proceeds will go to .
To recap: For just FIVE BUCKS, you get to see ALL of I See a Darkness, PLUS the dude who interviewed Cat Power and plays Prince PLUS the guy who did Shitting on the Dock of the Bay ! The scourge of prolix-penned punters everywhere, UK brood-rock troupe -- whose sophomore set An End Has a Start lands overseas on June 25 via -- have announced the U.
S. album release you ve all been praying for every night before you go to sleep. Admit it, you have.
An End has a Stateside start slated for July 17 via Epic/ , who also treated us to the Eds debut, . It includes the 10 tracks listed in , among them first single Smokers Outside the Hospital Door , which our UK brethren can scoop up in handy skinny-cased single form on June 18. Try before you buy by scoping the video below.
Recorded with accolade-earning producer Garret Jacknife Lee (U2, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol), End also finds our intrepid Editors combating such heavy subjects as The Weight of the World , Spiders , and, most ghastly of all, split infinitives.
Editors intend to boldly tour (whoops!) parts of the Americas in September.
Until then, it s a hearty sampling of European festivals for our fair shepherds of the written word.
Plus: Magic Numbers, Sean Lennon, A Fine Frenzy, Sarah Slean, Joan as Police Woman s in support of the just-released has swelled to ginormous proportions, now a sprawling, continent-spanning, many-tentacled mass that whisks our Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk salesman from Paris to L.A.
and very nearly everywhere in between.
One opener could not possibly stomach so much road-worn Wainwright, and one opener won t have to: merciful Rufus has enlisted a dozen or so like-minded musical entities to help keep his wiles in check while on tour.
Chief among them, , who ll croon to folks on the August 8-17, mostly-Southern stretch of Rufus campaign.
UK softies take over for Case thereafter, while latest Tori torch carrier bears the brunt of Wainwright s whimsy, sharing opening duties on both stretches. Lad of the Lennon seed also opens a selection of pre-Case dates, and lucky peoples in Calgary and Vancouver get treated to the often enchanting . Antony amiga does a June NYC date too, and we think that s mighty swell.
Case has a basketful of Rufus-free summer dates as well, several of which we ve . Both Neko and Rufus dates are listed below for your geeking-out convenience. will celebrate the recent release of their third album, on , with a short North American tour in late spring and early summer that kicks off tonight (May 18) in Brooklyn.
Their dates are confined to the East Coast, Midwest, and Ottawa, so West Coast fans of the Maryland band will either have to make the trek or constantly refresh their Page France + live + 2007 YouTube searches. However, a trek with Bishop Allen is in the works for the summer.
As a bonus, check out an mp3 of Page France performing Family Telephone s The Ruby Ring Man live at Seattle s Crocodile Cafe by clicking on the link below.
broke up, but if this is the first you ve heard of the split, don t worry, because the rap crew s two coolest members are already at work on new albums.
-- the baritone-voiced, standout MC of the group-- is heading to the studio to work on his solo debut, Fish Outta Water. He will also appear at Bonnaroo as a special guest during New Orleans funk band s set, and he ll guest on that band s new album, scheduled for release later this year.
Turntable wizard , who actually left Jurassic 5 last year to pursue his solo career, just finished a European tour as the opener for Shakira (?!); he ll continue to rock truthful hips at a handful of dates this summer in California and Japan.
The first of Chemist s shows is on May 26 in his hometown of Los Angeles, where he has enlisted fellow L.A. producer to help him remix a Russian film live as part of , a night of DJs, artists, and musicians exploring the art of the Stalinist-era Soviet Union.
And on June 24, Cut Chemist will join buddy for Brain Placement , a Hollywood event in which they will DJ using 45s almost exclusively.
Cut Chemist is also working on his next album, the follow-up to last year s The Audience s Listening. San Francisco producer/songwriter will release his sixth solo full-length via on July 24.
Titled Emerald City in reference to Baghdad s (though we re not entirely sure why), Vanderslice wrote the majority of the record during a still-unresolved legal struggle with U.S. Immigration over obtaining a visa for his girlfriend, a French citizen he met in Paris.
Emerald City is also distinct for featuring the fewest tracks, at nine, of any Vanderslice full-length so far, as well as being his first album with his face on the cover.
Emerald City was recorded mostly live in Vanderslice s own studio, and in addition to Vanderslice, it also features the musical prowess of David Broecker, Dave Douglas, Ian Bjornstad, and Scott Solter. While s label troubles have become one of their defining attributes over the past few years, it was only a matter of time before Pusha T and Malice wrangled themselves free of their contract with .
I mean, you don t diss your label in the single from your album and expect (or want) everything to be hunky dory.
That time has come sooner than expected, however, as Toronto publication reports that Clipse and Jive have indeed parted ways.
Right now Clipse are free agents.
There are a few labels that are interested, Malice says in an on Eye Weekly s website.
A Jive representative had no comment about the matter.
Thornton brothers, consider this your offer to be the flagship artists on my own Love Snow Can t Ski Records.
You will receive couch space and high fives if, in return, you rap for me as I microwave Hot Pockets and watch baseball games on TV.
In the world of things that will actually happen, Clipse are still scheduled to play the in Chicago s Union Park on July 14. The rest of the Saturday lineup remains as follows: Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Battles, Califone, the Twilight Sad, Fujiya Miyagi, Oxford Collapse, Dan Deacon, Beach House, Professor Murder, and Ken Vandermark s Powerhouse Sound.
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