The story behind “Help I’m Alive” is an interesting case study in modern music distribution dynamics.  Want the story?  Read more below, and in the meantime check out this wee experiment by Canadian film maker Deco Dawson.  Afterwards make plans to check out Metric on June 13 at First Avenue.

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posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:45 am Uncategorized Metric

Wondering where everything  went today?  Well, to New York City I suppose, and Northfield.  After flying into Laguardia, I got lost in Harlem, was chased by Batman, and passed by the Trump Tower.  After sharing my choice thoughts on Trump with a friend, we made our way to Time Square, Central Park, and the Mister Softies mobile.  For those uninitiated, Mister Softies is a New York mainstay, as are random hot dog booths.  Two chili dogs and a Mango juice later, here we stand on the brink of a cross-country journey.

See you all in the Twin Cities next week.  In the meantime, be good yourselves.

posted April 17th, 2009 at 8:31 pm Uncategorized

Serena Ryder will play the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Minneapolis this Monday evening at 7:00PM, taking the first great step in an extended national coast to coast  tour.  This is Minnesota love at its best, and here is a fine place to begin a tour, no?  Head on out to the Hard Rock Cafe Monday evening and show Ryder some love back, and while your at it, have a burger.  They’re pretty damn good there.

Did I mention this is a free show?  As if you needed another reason to go.   Check out a vid below.  (Yuck, that all rhymed!)

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posted April 16th, 2009 at 3:22 pm Concert Announcements Serena Ryder

Weading through the daily news.  A few last weeds before I leave.  New York, here I come.

Mark Hoppus Records Motion City Soundtrack – Aversion

Bob Dylan disses The Rolling Stones – Music Radar

Bob Dylan: ‘I’m surprised I’ve sold any records, I was influenced by freakshows’ - NME

What Pulldown? Warner Music Videos, Recordings All Over YouTube… – Digital Music News
(Warner Bros. PR is a mist of obfuscation)

LiveDaily Interview: Gavin Rossdale – LiveDaily
(Good ole’ Gavin!)

posted April 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm Music News News

It’s been talked about for months, and now it’s finally here.  Record Store Day, the day we all bum rush our local music peddlers and cause them dire stocking issues in the aftermath.  Of course, any local music shop would be ecstatic if they found themselves thousands of albums down, but tens of thousands of dollars up.  Towards this end various special events and deals are being offered by local record stores, and we’ve put together a short list (surprisingly shorter than we would like) of some you might be interested in exploiting!  (Note: record store websites are not very detailed.  If you’ve heard of a sale or event going on at a local record store this Saturday that is not mentioned below, please share!)

The Electric Fetus (Minneapolis, Duluth, and St. Cloud)

The Electric Fetus is offering a variety of sale deals , giveaways, and live in-store appearances on Saturday.  Per their e-newsletter:

Drop by the store for all kinds of limited edition releases, sale priced items, and special events including:

* Free food and beverages.
* Free “goody bags” of CD samplers, stickers, and buttons.
* Hourly giveaways of 7″ prize packs, CDs, DVDs, autographed posters, gift cards, and KOSS and Skullcandy headphones.
* Live music.
Here’s the schedule of in-stores at our three stores for Saturday:

Minneapolis:
2:30 p.m. – Chris Cornell meet & greet/signing
4:00 p.m. – Bad Plus in-store performance

Duluth:
3:00 p.m. – Danny Schmidt (Red House Records)

St. Cloud:
4:00 p.m. – Aby Wolf in-store performance

Down In The Valley (Golden Valley, MN)

Halestorm will be performing in-store live at 1PM.

Cheapo and Applause

Charlie Moranis will be performing live at GIGS, 80 N Snelling, St Paul.  Call for the time?

Other Record Stores Worth Visiting and Buying an Album At

Treehouse Records

Eclipse Records

Extreme Noise

Know Name Records

Roadrunner Records

posted April 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm Music News Record Store Day

I’m not exactly sure how all the imagery ties into the song, but I did appreciate the junking of all the teles towards the end.  I always encourage the killing of televisions.

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Rave On by: Buddy Holly

Links

M. Ward - Website / Myspace

posted April 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am Uncategorized Buddy Holly, M. Ward