“The Dodos are relatively new to the placement game.  Their song ‘Fools’, from the 2008 album Visiter, was placed in an ad campaign for Miller Chill, a lime chelada beer, that started in May this year. Miller approached the band during the past winter.  After the band accepted, ‘they came back with the commercial mock-up [...]

“Damon Albarn has revealed details of the forthcoming third Gorillaz album, entitled Plastic Beach…The sometime Blur frontman got the idea for the title from the beach outside his house in Devon that’s littered with plastic bottles.”
EXCLUSIVE: marathonpacks.com has come into exclusive possession of some of Albarn’s actual rejected album titles.  They are:
1. Beach Bottles
2. Bottle [...]

“Bands are moving from being bands to being one and two pieces because of the economy. It’s really expensive to be in a band right now, so it’s easier to get acclaim by what you post to the internet.”
Like everything else he writes or says, this Eye Weekly interview with Christopher Weingarten is full of [...]

“The underground echo chamber of the Web has become indispensable for developing early buzz, but to reach a large audience, there’s nothing more powerful than a major label’s radio and retail promotion machine.
‘Having the viral, online grassroots discovery is the single most powerful way to expose a consumer to your brand,’ said Mr. Young’s manager, [...]

“I…experienced disorienting moments of temporal suspension when I downloaded large files of music; these were long moments of isolation and boredom. Everything seemed to pause in the speeded-up temporality of cyberspace. I had similar feelings of separation in Java during Ramadan, when performances and many social activities were halted for a month of fasting and [...]

“When I had a dozen CDs I loved them all and that was enough until the next one arrived. When I had a thousand… I wanted more. I am now 26 and I have had enough. Almost.
Part of it, I’m sure, comes down to wanting to recapture that moment when I first listened to In [...]

Oh man, does this excite me.  And it’s so overdue!  Overdue?  Maybe it’s perfectly timed.  He’s also featured in this film.  And in a “to be posted” episode of the amazing “Soul” series.  Those quotes!  “On your way to wonderful, you’re gonna have to pass through all right.”  “I would like to know how it [...]

“Dear Everlast from House of Pain, I’m sorry for calling you a ‘Leprechaun of Rage.’”
Haha yeah.  Dave Bry’s article, in which he laments a review he wrote 13 years ago, is a funny and self-effacing bit of critical revisionist stock-taking.

I have no idea who any of these people are, but I can verify that they’ve made something great here.  Like the fisherman said to the fish:  Just try to get that hook out of your head.

“That’s very simple. ‘Indie’ is short for ‘independent.’ Independently released music is not directly financially dependent on any of the four major labels (WMG, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal). ‘Indie’ does not refer to a style of music; it refers to the financial circumstances of its distribution. Anybody who tells you otherwise is lying to [...]