David Wingo of Ola Podrida
Rollo & Grady Recommended New Releases – Tuesday, November 10th
Hyperstory – hyperstory (Buy)
Label: Pureland Records
Hyperstory – Ascension
Ola Podrida – Belly of the Lion (Buy)
Label: Western Vinyl
Ola Podrida – Your Father’s Basement
Pablove Foundation Benefit Show
Avalon – Hollywood
Saturday, November 21st
Performers
Band of Horses
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Shirley Manson of Garbage
Tom Gabel of Against Me!
Sea Wolf
Butch Walker
Jarrod Gorbel of Honorary Title
Songs for Kids
To purchase tickets (Click Here)
The Pablove Foundation raises money to improve the lives of children with cancer. Your ticket purchase directly benefits the charity’s programs. These include funding pediatric cancer research, helping families without health insurance, and improving hospital playrooms. Please visit pablove.org to learn more.
[Via – Bob Lefsetz – Lefsetz Letter, November 9th]
Are you catching the Britney brouhaha Down Under? Turns out she MIMES!
She’s got to. In order to deliver on the audience’s expectations. She’s got to be the Britney from TV. Perfect in every way. Dazzling them with her dance moves. And it’s almost impossible to dance like that and sing. Have you ever talked to one of those fucks who calls you when he’s on the treadmill? You wonder if they’re going to have a heart attack during the conversation!
But what does the audience expect? A show, a tightly choreographed presentation, something you watch and ooh and ahh to? Or a musical performance, that penetrates your body and mind?
Last time I checked, I didn’t see Widespread Panic on TV. Look at MediaBase, they’re not in the Top Forty either. By nineties standards, they don’t exist. But it’s 2010.
In the MTV-era, you had to look good. Your video had to be visually interesting. To the point where in the nineties, they wouldn’t trust so-called “artists” with creative issues, too much money was at stake. Write with the usual suspects, the pros, to create something we know we can sell. And we’ll employ one of the usual suspect directors to create a sleek clip. Hell, if we don’t get it right, we’ll scrap it and redo it! You only get one chance to make an impression. If it’s not exactly right, you’re toast. Kind of like the new album by Mariah Carey and the pushed-back opus by Alicia Keys. The initial singles stiffed, and the labels wanted to whip up a frenzy in order to sell a hundred thousand albums right away! Thus, the release delay. If you’re phenomenally lucky, you can ultimately sell a million. Still, you might mean nothing on the road. Is this a game you want to play?
Sure, there are old warhorses like Ms. Carey, but most of the acts are brand new. Thrown up against the wall and then discarded. They all have one thing in common. They want to be FAMOUS! They’re no different than the idiots on reality TV. They want to appear on TMZ and Perez. Then they’ll think they’ve made it. But that making it is very different from the old paradigm.
Budos Band (Myspace)
Hometown: Staten Island, New York
Album: The Budos Band (Buy)
Label: Daptone Records
The Budos Band – King Charles
The New Mastersounds (Myspace)
Hometown: Leeds, UK
Album: This Is What We Do (Buy)
Label: One Note Records / Kudos Records Limited
The New Mastersounds – Tin Drum
The Bamboos (Myspace)
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
Album: Step It Up (Buy)
Label: Tru Thoughts Records
The Bamboos – Golden Rough
We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to see Band of Horses and Warpaint at Club Nokia on Monday, November 9th. Please email us at rollogrady@gmail.com to claim the tickets. For further show info (click here).
Band of Horses – Is There A Ghost
Warpaint – Stars
King Khan and Mark “BBQ” Sultan
Fun Fun Fun Fest set times and our picks for Sunday, November 8th.
Orange Stage:
12:30pm – Growing
1:05pm – Black and White Years
1:40pm – This Will Destroy You
2:15pm – Fuck Buttons
3:00pm – Atlas Sound***
3:50pm – WHY?
4:45pm – Broadcast***
5:40pm – Lucero***
6:35pm – Mission To Burma***
7:30pm – Crystal Castles
8:30pm – Of Montreal***
