Photos by Renee McMahon
This year’s fest was a little muted compared to last year when Beck and The Flaming Lips headlined. Day 1 was strong though especially with the Beastie Boys on the second stage, all pimped out in suits like the Blues Brothers. I have some footage of that to come. Meanwhile mainstage action [...]

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So I have to get a little, irritable thing off my chest. There we were, bands and musicians, sharing an amphitheatre with at least 20,000 people per day for 2 days, and not until Manu Chao hit the stage did I hear anyone speak out about the current incumbents at the White [...]

Friday was spent guiding the mobile Moosehome from one end of the Columbia Gorge outside Portland, backtracking the river and corner-cutting toward Quincy, WA, roughly one third of the way along it’s length to the site of The Gorge Amphitheatre, probably the best place to see a show in North America. It’s not like I’ve [...]

Photo:© Heidi Kirkpatrick:EMI/Capitol Records building Los Angeles
EMI agreed to a £3.2 billion take over by a private equity firm. Seems someone has faith in music sales….
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I’m happy to be going to the Sasquatch Festival but really bummed to be missing Luomo on Friday night at Holocene. Blurb - “Holocene is proud to present a night of gorgeous, glammy techno featuring Finnish superstar Luomo. Luomo’s brilliant mix of vocal house, techno, and R&B has led to rave reviews across the globe, [...]

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Not so Rancid after all..
Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong dropped his solo album yesterday and the first cut from it, Into Action, [MP3] is a rather sunny and happy sing-along affair. You can watch the video here.

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Ned turned me on to this one today. SplashCast. Here’s the blurb - “SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media ‘channels’ that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, [...]