Gig Posters: The Art of Contemporary Music Promotion, a Concert Poster art show at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, opens with this Friday’s Gallery Hop and goes on until May 16th. The exhibit is free if you go during the first Gallery Hop.
Many of the artists’ works are local or are somehow connected to the Louisville music scene ad have done posters for the community. One of my personal favorites, Ron Jansin (of MadPixel – above), will be presenting his work and will be available to meet and chat, and will also be screen printing one-of-a-kind posters for the opening night. Other artists include Alana Twelmeyer, Anna Martine Nilsen, Bangout, Bill Green, Christian Peters, Cricket Press, Brian Turner, Sarah Turner, Dan McCarthy, David Brooks, Gary Houston, Ian Gordon, Jake Early, Jason Munn, Julie Hill, Kraken, Kristen Thiele, Lars Privat, Michael Fluckigeiger, Miles Tsang, Patrick Jones, Remi, Rhys Cooper, Rokitmul Design Studios, Ron Lilberti, Sean Higgins, Stephano Manzi, Steve Mockensturm, The Farm Barn, Tiny Little Horses and some of the gig posters include Calexico, Moonstompers, Caven, Cojones, Skywise, Zippo, Stonebride, Earlimart, Fleet Foxes, Manjongg, Mates of State, Mission of Burma, Rosebuds, Dagobah, Built To Spill, Cat Power, Bonnie Prince Billy, Death Cab for Cutie, Doves, My Morning Jacket, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Old, Crow Medicine Show, Patty Smith, Ringo Starr, Dashboard Confessional, The Aquabats, The Elected, Cake, Neil Young, The Mother Hips, Beck, Deerhunter, Modest Mouse, Forget Cassettes, Nire, Jimmy Eat World, Esquizitos, Thursday, Arcade Fire, Super chunk, Feist, GirlTalk, GWAR, Kings of Leon, Murder By Death, Radiohead, The Black Keys, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Breeders, British Sea Power, Sterolab, Black Diamond Heavies, Mars Volta, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Yonder Mountain String Band, Flaming Lips and Butthole Surfers.
If you’re uncertain just how incredible show posters can be, I strongly advise you to check out GigPosters.com (many of the links above are directly into those artist’s GigPosters portfolio)
My Morning Jacket’s Evil Urges ablum was nominated yesterday for “Best Alternative Music Album.” Also nominated in the category were the following:
Modern Guilt Beck
[DGC Records/XL Recordings/Interscope]
Narrow Stairs Death Cab For Cutie
[Atlantic]
The Odd Couple Gnarls Barkley
[Downtown/Atlantic]
In Rainbows Radiohead
[TBD Records] * Also nominated for “Album of the Year”
Past winners include The White Stripes (x3), Radiohead (x2), Gnarls Barkley, Wilco, Tom Waits, U.2., REM, Green Day, Beck, The Beastie Boys and Nirvana. Not a bad group to be included with.
Amplive is giving away Rainydayz Remixes, his remix album of Radiohead’s In Rainbows. You can grab the album HERE. There was some trouble getting this album out, as it was created initially without authorization. Here’s what Amplive’s record label had to say:
After a cease & desist put the breaks on Amplive’s Radiohead In Rainbows remix project, the online music community reasonably wondered if the tracks would ever see the light of day. Well, here they are.
While the Oakland producer/DJ acknowledges that he probably should have contacted Radiohead (who were not involved in the project) to seek approval prior to making his interpretations publicly available, an agreement has been reached between all involved parties and Amplive has been granted permission to release Rainydayz Remixes for free to the general public. Effective immediately, the eight-track record is available here.
Rainydayz Remixes is composed exclusively of source material pulled from In Rainbows, re-envisioned by Amplive and complimented by vocal work from Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, Codany Holiday, and Del The Funky Homosapien.
The tracklisting:
Rainydayz
Video Tapez (ft. Del The Funky Homosapien)
Nudez (ft. Too $hort & MC Zumbi of Zion I)
Weird Fishez
All I Need
15 Stepz (ft. Codany Holiday)
Reckonerz (ft. Chali2na)
Faustz
Ratatat is also giving away his much acclaimed Remixes Vol. II available on Rapidshare.
Radiohead’s tour details stated that the US Tour would be split in two parts over a European interlude (Part I starting before June 6 and Part II sometime after July 8). THE FIRST PART OF THEIR U.S. TOUR HAS NOW BEEN ANNOUNCED (see below). For fans, there are several venues drivable from Louisville, KY, including Indianapolis (114 miles), St. Louis (260 miles) and Chicago (298 miles). The Indianapolis show is going to be on the second leg, sometime after July 8. The truly die hard fans have Atlanta (421 miles) and DC (608 miles) too. The tour is, of course, to promote the In Rainbows album (although in the wake of the post-In Rainbows music industry, maybe it’s the album that is promoting the live shows) which you can grab at Ear X-tacy if you haven’t already. Specific dates haven’t yet been announced, but as soon as they are….we’ll let you know.
CONFIRMED U.S. DATES (more to come)
5-5 West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre
5-6 Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre 5-8 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
5-9 Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5-11 Bristow, VA – Nissan Pavilion @ Stone Ridge 5-14 St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5-17 Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5-18 Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center
Confirmed Cities on Tour:
Atlanta*
Boston
Charlotte* Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas*
Houston* Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Miami
Montreal
New York
Philadelphia
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Seattle St Louis*
Tampa*
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington DC
West Palm Beach*
A little known band named Radiohead, who recently sold 122,000 copies of In Rainbows in its first week release in CD format (after having been available free online for sometime now), is coming to Indianapolis as part of the US Tour. The tour details state only that the US Tour will be split in two parts over a European interlude (Part I sometime before June 6 and Part II sometime after July 8). For fans, there are several venues drivable from Louisville, KY, including Indianapolis (114 miles), St. Louis (260 miles) and Chicago (298 miles). The truly die hard fans have Atlanta (421 miles) and DC (608 miles) too. The tour is, of course, to promote the In Rainbows album (although in the wake of the post-In Rainbows music industry, maybe it’s the album that is promoting the live shows) which you can grab at Ear X-tacy if you haven’t already. Specific dates haven’t yet been announced, but as soon as they are….we’ll let you know.
Confirmed Cities on Tour:
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Houston Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Miami
Montreal
New York
Philadelphia
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Seattle St Louis
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington DC
5-5 West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre
5-6 Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
5-8 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
5-9 Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5-11 Bristow, VA – Nissan Pavilion @ Stone Ridge
5-14 St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5-17 Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5-18 Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center
8-01 Chicago, IL – Grant Park (Lollapalooza) 8-03 Indianapolis, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center %
8-04 Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center %
8-06 Montreal, Quebec – Parc Jean-Drapeau %
8-08 Jersey City, NJ – Liberty State Park (All Points West Festival)
8-09 Jersey City, NJ – Liberty State Park (All Points West Festival)
8-12 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center %
8-13 Mansfield, MA – Tweeter Center %
8-15 Toronto, Ontario – Molson Amphitheatre %
8-19 Vancouver, British Columbia – Thunderbird Stadium *
8-20 Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre *
8-22 San Francisco, CA – Golden Gate Park (Outside Lands Festival)
8-24 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl *
8-25 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl *
8-27 Chula Vista, CA – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre *
8-28 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl *
* with Liars
# with Bat for Lashes
^ with Low, Clinic, Modeselektor
$ with Ensemble Nacional de España de Música Contemporánea, performing pieces by Jonny Greenwood and Radiohead
% with Grizzly Bear
Stuart David posted a new message today in the forums at Looperama
Hi
I’ve been thinking of releasing the new Looper album through We7, Peter Gabriel’s new thing where the audience can download the music for free, but the artists still get paid. (And paid more than they do for a $0.99 track on iTunes too.)
I’d be interested to find out what you all think of it. I put the first Looper MP3 EP on there as a trial, and it would be great if as many people as possible could sign up and download it to see how they feel about it. (It also means we’ll get paid every time you download one of those old tracks too.)
The address for the main site, to read more about it is:
Let me know what you think, and it would be great if you could give us some reviews on there as well.
Thanks,
Stuart
Stuart was the first artist I knew of who was big (admittedly my perception of what music is BIG is distorted) who put his albums up for free. I’d already spoken to that HERE when I spoke about Radiohead. The music industry is changing and while he’s quiet and would never admit it, I think Stuart is quietly leading the charge. Anyway, I’ve spoken with him several times through the forum & he’s the nicest guy. So if you don’t already have the albums, go to the linnks above and get them for free. Particularly “Pale Blue E-Type”, “Strangest Girl” and “Play the One I Like” are all AMAZING. Plus, the guy gave his last album away without asking for anything, so download it free in a way that gets him paid. I’ve been waiting for this new album for 2 years now.
Putting sponsorship money in its right place (presumably). Now this is the REAL FUTURE of music.
Local band, Digby, played a few songs at Ear-x-tacy Friday night before their show at 4th Street Live for the Homegrown Music Series. They were promoting their new album Why Not Plastic. In what seems to be a new trend (see Radiohead- In Rainbows), Why Not Plastic is downloadable for FREE here. You name the price to help Digby pay the bills.
Laser shows are offered every Friday night at Gheens Science Hall & Planetarium. Ticket prices are reasonable, and the shows are amazing. Three shows are offered and I recommend you buy the three show package. One show = $7 bucks, two shows = $13 bucks, all three shows = $19. Here is the line-up:
9:00pm Beatles
10:00pm Radiohead
11:00pm Pink Floyd- The Wall
The planetarium is located at 108 West Brandeis Ave.
The son of a preacher and a teacher, Saul Williams, one of my favorite artists of all time, whom I’ve followed since 1999 when I first saw Slam, is releasing “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust” on November 1st. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (who has also said screw you to the recording industry) produced the album. Trent & Saul have been working together for at least a few years now, and toured together extensively. While I love Moving Units, I was unfortunate to see them when the very next show Saul started touring with NIN. However, on another occassion I saw Saul in Lexington for Black History Month, and he was on fire.
Go ahead & sign up now, you’ll be sent a link on Nov. 1 on how to get the album.
I say that this is like Radiohead, but more practical because the way Saul and Trent are moving this album is at 2 price points…you can get it absolutely free, or you can pay $5. They don’t think anyone should pay more than that, and if you want to support the artist, you can pay $5, but if you don’t care about that you can get it free. This keeps them from getting $1 or 30 cents or something like that for the album where the transaction fee is likely to eat that entire amount up and waste their time. These people are not beggars…pay them or don’t pay them. But if we want to promote this channel of distribution, we can cough up $5. Also, if you fork over the $5, you have your choice of 192 kbps, 320 kbps, or flac (lossless), so that is another strong incentive. Of course all of the formats are DRM-free. Interestingly, with Radioheadmore people have illegally downloaded the album (its free people!) than have legally downloaded it. It’s a crazy world. Anyway, when I get home, I’ll add pictures of the Saul Williams performance in Lexington that I saw.
The tracklist is:
01 Black History Month
02 Convict Colony
03 Tr(n)igger
04 Sunday Bloody Sunday
05 Break
06 NiggyTardust
07 DNA
08 WTF!
09 Scared Money
10 Raw
11 Skin of a Drum
12 No One Ever Does
13 Banged and Blown Through
14 Raised to be Lowered
15 The Ritual
The closest Saul will be coming is Chicago on Nov. 11. Unfortunately that’s a sunday so I can’t justify the trip. The tour schedule is:
11-02 Pullman, WA – Washington State University
11-07 London, England – Bardens Boudoir
11-09 Zurich, Switzerland – Tonhalle
11-12 New York, NY – The Box
11-13 Storrs, CT – University of Connecticut
11-14 Bridgeport, CT – Housatonic Community College
11-17 Chicago, IL – Studio E
01-23 Laramie, WY – University of Wyoming
02-01 Fairfax, VA – George Mason University
02-15 Tacoma, WA – Pacific Lutheran University
As good as his music is, as good as his acting is (Slam, K-Pax), his poetry is far and away the best…check a few of them out here and buy it here. Also, friend him on myspace here.
Or, if you’ve never read his open letter to Oprah Winfrey, it’s been reproduced over at Stereogum.
Lastly, some of his stuff you can audibly here. All of these below are HIGHLY recommended!!!!
You fill in the blanks. Radiohead is offering its new album “In Rainbows” in a download format for whatever price you want to pay. It is available here:
You have to set the price in Pounds, but there is a converter. The download includes the entire album, except for bonus material included in the discbox (selling for £40, or roughly $81). Regardless, since you set the price, it has to be worth it. Pitchfork has a great collection of videos of Radiohead performing these songs live:
- Late note…THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING. I JUST LISTENED TO IT FROM START TO FINISH AND WAS BLOWN AWAY. GET IT NOW. NOW.
UPDATED: (cory) In case you’re not aware, Radiohead is just the first of a long line of artists giving it to the Recording Industry. So far, Trent Reznor has decided to go record label free (following rumors of Nine Inch Nailsdisbanding, as has Oasis, Jamiroquaiand Madonna. Truth is though, Looper (Stuart David, co-creator of Belle & Sebastian) did this years ago with the release of the MP3 albums, which you can find here (amazing). These artists are realizing that the role of the stagnant recording industry has been marginalized by the advent of the internet, and the recording industry’s inability to keep the pace with the internet’s leveling effect. As long as net neutrality is maintained, the RIAA keeps up its dirty tactics, and Records labels take the sort of % cuts they do, they’re going to drive themselves into irrelevance. I say out with the old, and in with the new.
Arcade Fire- 
Radiohead- 
The National- 
!!!- 
St. Vincent- 
Delta Spirit- 
Bat for Lashes- 
Wu-Tang Clan- 
Burial- 
Mother Mother- 
Dr. Dog- 
Iron & Wine- 
Sea Wolf- 
M.I.A.-
Cabin- 
LCD Soundsystem – 
Crystal Castles – 
Ezra Furman – 
Calvin Harris – 
The National – Fake Empire
Kate Nash – 
Justice – 
The Go Find – 
White Rabbits – 
