Archive for March, 2008

the dandy warhols go it alone….

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

In an interview yesterday in Billboard The Dandy Warhols say they have partnered with World’s Fair Group to launch their own label, Beat the World. A new album is expected out this year. The group was previously signed to Capitol, on which it released four studio albums. World’s Fair is basically a one-stop shop for [...]

nemo design rolls out the photo blog

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Nemo Design’s Heather Hanrahan is keeping up the cool posts on the new Nemo Design Photography blog. It’s worth checking out…Here’s a typical post:
Photographer Ellen Kooi’s sweeping landscapes, are like a break mid-story. Though the landscapes seem to dominate the image, her focus seems to be the relationship of the human (most often woman or [...]

crystal castles, health tour rolls on after sxsw

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

You may have heard from all the right sources that Alice Glass, the singer for the Toronto electro-punk duo Crystal Castles, suffered two broken ribs in an accident which forced the cancellation of their tour with Health. Apparently after both bands have played their individual sets at SXSW they will join up again for the [...]

stephen malkmus & the jicks - video of the free show, portland march 4th

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

And thanks to Jamie Alexander for telling me about her camera in the video…

santogold album drops april 22nd

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Mark Ronson, Santo and some guy from Bloc Party
I’m really looking forward to the new Notwist album [see below] but I may be more excited to get the Santogold album. For the last few months I’ve been listening to tracks that I’ve sporadically drawn down from the ‘net so it’ll be real good to have [...]

the notwist, new music after almost 6 years…

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

It’s been a while since The Notwist dropped the rather fabulous ‘Neon Golden’ Although the new album ‘The Devil, You and Me’ isn’t released until the summer, imeem has offered up this mp3 of ‘Good Lies’ from the album. It’s released in late May in Europe on City Slang and June in the USA on [...]

Music Business 2.0 Without the Bullshit

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Here’s a quick rant from SSA Magazine about the next phase of the music industry and the fact that not only does nobody know shit right now, but nobody owns shit either: If it exists online, it can be pirated. If it’s any good, it will be. Copy protection was a total failure and in [...]

easter egg, portland rejoice

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Ok, so when Nilina comes by the shop we get to talking because Nilina is full of life and crackles with enthusiasm. She loved the Nemo Design space so much she’s coming back. Anyway, we sat down and shared musical notes..I was happy to push Dubstep and in particular Burial on to her. She came [...]