More stations this week: Congrats to Moose artists Wet Confetti who were the #20 most added at college radio last week. If you dear readers live in and around these college stations give ‘em a call and say “hey can you play something from Laughing Gasping…..” Meanwhile Portlanders can see them when they play their [...]
The Oregonian reports today that “A performance of the Jimi Hendrix classic, “The Wind Cries Mary,” may cost Michael Dorr his restaurant. Dorr, the 37-year-old owner of Imbibe on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, has been slapped with a federal lawsuit by companies that own the rights to a trio of popular classics that were performed at [...]
This just arrived in my inbox. It’s a hilarious motion graphics piece using classic rock album sleeves engaged in battle. Worth a look for sure. Courtesy of Ugly Pictures
According to the Washington Post, “after a 29-hour auction, most of the bankrupt music retailer’s (Tower Records) assets were sold to liquidation firm Great American Group, which bid $134.3 million. The company out bid Albany, N.Y.-based retailer Trans World Entertainment by a mere $500,000. According to Tower attorney Peter Gurfein, Great American was set to [...]
Are online gaming champions the rock stars of the 21st century? Fifty million Koreans can’t be wrong.
Ok, this weeks PCast is a bit different. When I got back from Brazil recently, John Askew of Tracker fame sent me some MP3s of rough mixes he’d been working on for our new band Faux Hoax (Folks) which also includes Danny from Menomena. I figured this week was as good as any to expose [...]
Jack Nicholson apparently brings his larger than life persona to play in the new Scorcese movie, The Departed. One to see this weekend.
So the Blood Brothers label V2 just emailed and said it was ok to pull a track and make it available as an MP3. I’m digging “We Ride Skeletal Lightning”. Right click there to download. Click there to just listen.