Radiohead’s releasing their new album as a digital download through their site, and they’re letting the buyers determine what they’re willing to pay.
You know, I’m not even really that big a Radiohead fan, but I’m very seriously considering going online and buying a copy at a reasonable price – y’know, $11.99 or something – just to show my support for the mere idea of such a huge band going out of their way to avoid the major labels.
Anyone else…?
If you scoured CD bins at any point in the mid to late ‘90s, chances are you saw dozens of copies of Babe Rainbow, the album that spawned this Tuesday’s ruby, “You Don’t Understand.” The song serves as House of Love’s answer of sorts to the Charlatans UK’s “The Only One I Know.” You can almost picture singer/songwriter Guy Chadwick saying, “Oh, you’re gonna steal Deep Purple’s ‘Hush,’ are you? Well, I’ll steal Spencer Davis Group’s ‘I’m a Man,’ then! How ya like them apples?”
Actually, them apples is pretty sweet, if you ask me.
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Lollapalooza 2008 is far from announcing who its artists will be, but the event is already scheduled for August 1-3, so you can start making any early arrangements. For more information, please visit www.lollapalooza.com.
Eclectic singer/songwriter Luke Temple is back with a new album, Snowbeast, and has a busy touring schedule to support it. Critics are calling Snowbeast the Brooklyn based artist’s best work to date. To see what the fuss is all about, you can catch Mr. Temple at these shows:
09/26 New York, NY Lit Lounge
10/01 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place*
10/02 Boston, MA Middle East (downstairs)*
10/04 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom*
10/05 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church*
10/06 Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel*
10/07 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle*
10/25 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon**
10/26 St. Paul, MN Turf Club**
10/27 Chicago, IL Schuba’s**
10/28 Lafayette, IN Lafayette Brewing Company**
10/30 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom & Tavern**
11/01 Lexington, KY The Dame
11/02 Newport, KY Southgate House**
11/03 Nashville, TN Americana Music Conference**
11/04 Charleston, WV Mountain Stage Radio**
11/05 Pittsburgh, PA Club Café**
11/07 Northampton, MA Iron Horse**
11/08 New York, NY Joe’s Pub**
11/09 Philadelphia, PA Tin Angel**
11/10 Annapolis, MD Ram’s Head**
11/13 Atlanta, GA The Earl**
11/15 Boston, MA Boston University
* w/ The Good Life
** w/ Chuck Prophet
Los Angeles based five-piece band and Dallas based symphonic pop group The Polyphonic Spree will head out on a co-headlining tour beginning October 14 and running through November 17.
The Spree is touring in support of their latest, The Fragile Army, and Rooney in support of their Calling The World. Here are the confirmed Continue reading »
Back in 1989, when Cameron Crowe rounded up John Cusack, Ione Skye, and John Mahoney and produced one of the greatest teen romances of all time (duh, of course we’re talking about “Say Anything…”), he also found time to compose a rather memorable soundtrack as well. The film’s money shot, of course, belonged to Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” but songs from The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Replacements were used to great effect as well. Hiding way, way at the end of the soundtrack album, however, was a song that I fell in love with about as hard and fast as anything I’d heard in awhile: “Keeping the Dream Alive,” by Freiheit…or, as they’re more commonly known in their native Germany, Münchener Freiheit.
I didn’t know the first thing about Freiheit when I discovered “Keeping the Dream Alive,” but, damn, that song was such a gorgeous, sweeping ballad of ELO-sized proportions that I immediately knew that I’d have to seek out more of their material. As it happens, there wasn’t anything else to seek out…well, not in the U.S., anyway. Not long after, however, the band’s debut American release, Fantasy, found its way onto shelves and, almost immediately thereafter, into my collection. To this day, I’m still surprised that it never scored much in the way of success; it’s a highly enjoyable pop album that owes as much to Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus as it does Jeff Lynne. The only real explanation I’ve ever come up with is that it’s a bit heavier on synths and electronic drum beats than the kids were listening to at the time, but it still features heavily in my regular playlist even in 2007.
Unfortunately, Fantasy remains out of print in the U.S., and since that was the only Stateside release of the band’s career, Freiheit’s profile remains woefully low on our shores. Even the usually helpful All Music Guide gives them short shrift, with the bio in their entry simply reading, “This German band (orig. Munchener Freiheit) played power-pop music from 1982 to 1988.” That’s it. Talk about your inglorious retrospectives!
If you’re curious about the band, there are several import best-of collections available via Amazon, but you should be prepared to find them almost completely free of English-sung material. If you don’t speak German as fluently as the members of Freiheit, however, here’s a song from Fantasy that you might appreciate a bit more:
Everybody hates a music critic, especially when they trash one of your favorite artists or albums. Therefore there is the fine “I despise you and your so-called taste.” Just punch in your favorite band, album, or whatnot related to music and watch the “correspondent” deliver a vicious review of it. Good fun for the entire family.
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