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The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
I love that Sasha Frere-Jones over at The New Yorker compares them to Budgie.

The New York Times reports this morning that Radiohead manager, Brian Message along with Nettwerk founder Terry McBride and Adam Driscoll have created a venture capital fund to support artists who are bypassing the record label system. Full article here.
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His venture, called Polyphonic, which was announced this month, will look to invest a few [...]

Pampelmoose writer Robert Ham recently moved from Portland to Seattle. This monthly column will follow him as he gets himself acquainted with a new local music scene.
I tend to take it as a given that if a young woman wants to pick up an instrument or a microphone and start a band, there’s very [...]

The New York Times has posted an article today titled ‘Music Industry Lures ‘Casual’ Pirates to Legal Sites.’ Here’s an extract, careful your jaw might hit the table:
Record company executives say there are three kinds of music fans. There are those who buy music, and those who get a kick out of never paying for [...]

Thanks for the link @melvingibbs
And 27 years later in Brazil..a little less austere..

If I were to go out today and buy the latest iPhone, the one with a 32gb capacity, I could travel with an untold amount of music files; days and days worth in fact. The mobile ubiquity of music [NB: not as in the cloud] creates a post-music dilemma for me – i.e, too much [...]

The Rumble – Saturday @ Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi)
I would be remiss if I didn’t drop at least one reference to this free show sponsored by Pampelmoose. But I would be excited about it regardless as it brings together two fantastic NW bands – The Blakes, the sneering garage pop band from Seattle, and [...]