Friday Charts - 5/19/06
You can't make stuff up like the comments a few entries below. For the past three weeks or so I emailed a few different people at the Street Scene, hoping to hear some tips on bands that were playing or maybe even get some tickets to give away to readers of this website. I didn't hear anything until today when the design and media director of the Street Scene read my blog and called me "retarted" and "a joke" for suggesting that a Replacements reunion at the Street Scene might be an event worth getting excited about. I don't imagine that this kind of confrontation happened before the rise of the internet, and I think that we're all better for the chance to be randomly insulted by a grown man.
Intimate Secretary - Maybe my favorite song on the album (It's better live)
Secondly, tickets for the Raconteurs July 19th show at Soma go on sale tomorrow at 10 AM...technically...They are also available right now at the Raconteurs presale site. You need a password to get in, but I'll spare you the 10 seconds that took to obtain - it is "brokenboy". Tickets are a slightly pricey meat-a ball, at $30 a pop, especially for an album that didn't particularly distinguish itself the first couple of times you listen to it, but check out the ridiculous solos in the above video. I'm not one to doubt Jack White's powers. Bad things happen to the last guy who did that.
Thirdly, I saw the above image on BoingBoing today. I'm not sure what it was specifically referencing, but it made me think about the recent lawsuit filed by the RIAA against XM radio. It's broken down very well here, but basically the RIAA has decided to sue XM for making devices like the XM radio I have, that essentially act as Tivo's for your radio, allowing you to record 5 hours of music. You can't take the music off, you can't give it to a friend, five hours is a pretty short amount of music to record, and it's not CD quality. But that doesn't stop the RIAA, whose next logical plan would have to be to seek out and sue all the widows of Gulf War veterans, just in case there are people out there who they haven't alienated yet. It's one thing when the poor guy who opens up the Authentic Kazakhstan Restaurant in Pacific Beach's business fails, you kind of feel sorry for that poor guy. When its a bunch of dicks like the RIAA who seem completely unwilling to seize upon the advances and goodwill exhibted by the public towards the exciting future of music and music technology, there's just no sympathy to be had. XM has a good rebuttal of their own right here, they come across as 100% pro consumer. I wonder what the RIAA's message to their consumers would be...
Fourthly, we arrive at the Charts. Some major releases have been hapening lately. Let's see what the ten most seeded albums are at a certain file sharing portal. Links go someplace with album samples, live bootlegs, crazy remixes, criticism, maybe ALL FOUR!
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
2. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
3. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
4. Tool - 10,000 Days
5. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
6. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
7. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
8. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
9. Neil Young - Living With War
10. Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper
No real comments, many of these albums have been around for a while. What's more interesting to me is what didn't turn up on the list. Pitchfork has given out a few highly touted reviews lately, giving Shogun Kunitoki, Beirut and the Futureheads "recommended" status and Scott Walker and Danielson "Best New Music" status. These are usually enough to catapault something into the top ten, like has happened to Band of Horses, or Tapes 'n Tapes. I don't know if it necessarily signifies a decline in the influence of Pitchfork on peoples downloading habits, but it is interesting to note.
Finally, three of these bands are rumored to be playing the Street Scene, #s 2, 4 and 10. I didn't even realize that Angels & Airwaves was a Blink 182 related project until I looked for MP3s to link to. I guess when you are retarded, you tend to be fuzzy on the details.
Comments
Sounds like you need to get better tatse in music.
Posted by: Eric | May 19, 2006 06:36 PM
The most interesting part of that UT article: "We wanted to find a home for Street Scene so we wouldn't have to move every year," Callahan said. "We looked at other cities and states."
Good to see that the festival is truly an ingrained part of America's Finest City. Unless, you know, they decide to move.
Posted by: Chris | May 19, 2006 06:54 PM
don't know that was same guy- could be anyone.
Posted by: cat dirt | May 20, 2006 09:26 AM