Welcome to our highlight of this week’s music, news, views, and reviews, and also our Quick Tip of the Week for using the Music Jobs website. Week ending 18th May 2012.
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Singer/Songwriter Tom Waits has faced similar commercial scheming in the past, with Frito-Lay and Audi hiring impersonators to sound like the music he declined to use in their ads, and Levis using a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover of his song “Heartattack and Vine”. Waits responded with lawsuits against all three companies–and won.
As for Beach House, they’ve released this pre-statement to an official statement on their Facebook page: “We will release a proper statement weeks from now when we don’t have more interesting things to do/talk about.”
For the full story, check out Laura Snapes article on Pitchfork.com.
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More often than not, the melody or groove of a piece of music is what gets stuck in your head. Lyrics are nice and all, but some music is just so infectious that you can’t help humming or imitating along. What we have here is an extended Spotify playlist of some of our favorite instrumental pieces – tunes and tracks to provide you with over an hour of melodic good vibes. Read more »
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Welcome to our highlight of this week’s music, news, views, and reviews, and also our Quick Tip of the Week for using the Music Jobs website. Week ending 11th May 2012.
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Martin Atkins is working on a new book, Band:Smart, and so he has decided to turn to creative crowd-funding website Kickstarter in order to get help with the finishing touches, the final editing and illustrating, and of course, the first edition print of the book.
We at Music Jobs have been fans of Martin Atkins for a while, first attending a Tour:Smart Plus crash course back in 2009, enjoying his guest panel speeches, probing him for advice for musicians and hanging out and showing support at SXSW. Atkins’ unique grasp of the current state of music industry and his even more unique delivery gets into your head, and gladly so, as what he says is necessary for musicians to survive in the biz.
Following the success of Tour:Smart, Atkins wanted to offer up even more ideas, experiences and advice, starting from the very beginning of an artist’s journey into the music business. Martin says, “Over the last few years I’ve been working on making Band:Smart as good as I can get it ( in its 71st revision) it addresses all aspects of being an artist, from starting out all the way through creating the entity (whatever it is); through the first shows, the writing, the recording, the packaging, the merchandising, the problems, the labels – why / why not, the people, the ups, the downs, and the ins and the outs [...] kind of like a d.i.y. bible“.
Check out the video below for his Kickstarter campaign.
So, if you haven’t gathered, or used Kickstarter before, think of it as a kind of ‘in-the-know-pre-production-guaranteed-prize-draw’. You can donate at a number of levels and in return you get different levels of goodies related to the project you support. You also get the satisfaction of helping creative people create, and keeping the world turning. Martin’s page again is here.
by Lee Jarvis.
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Fans of No Doubt will be excited to hear that after more than a decade the band is putting out a new album.
Their last release was “Rock Steady” way back in 2001 (Yes, it’s been about 11 years since you felt “Hella Good” watching Gwen Stefani race around on a jet ski in black leather).
Not much has been disclosed about the new record besides a release date set for September 25, but the band recently revealed to Rolling Stone that it will include a “party-ready reggae blast” track called “Steady Down”.
For more on the band’s new album check out Piya Sinha-Roy’s article on news.yahoo.com.
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Welcome to our highlight of this week’s music, news, views, and reviews, and also our Quick Tip of the Week for using the Music Jobs website. Week ending 4th May 2012.
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But recording a cover song on your album says a lot about you or your band. Especially the decision on which tune to cover. Think about it: in the early days Led Zeppelin drew attention to their blues roots by including covers made famous by blues greats; the Rolling Stones did likewise and mixed in a fair amount of Motown originals to boot. Van Halen took off like a rocket with their debut thanks to their wailing cover of the Kinks’ classic “You Really Got Me.” The Talking Heads had early success with Al Green’s soulful “Take Me to the River.” The Cowboy Junkies hit the radar after covering Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane.”
Each of these covers connected these relative unknowns to the original artists, for strategic reasons perhaps–as well as the fact that they’re all such damn good songs. The upside is obvious, but it also means you better know what you’re doing. If you’re not giving the cover a new interesting treatment, you’ll need to record a version at least somewhat on par with the original. But, in the case of my band Needle, it was well worth a shot. We covered Neil Young’s “Helpless” and it’s been our most popular song in terms of sales on iTunes.
Besides the artistic considerations, there are legal ones, too. You may wish to contact a lawyer for specific rights and liabilities (I’m not a lawyer and don’t play one on TV, or even on this blog). However, I can say that in the case of our recording of “Helpless,” we contacted Neil Young’s publisher and received a compulsory license where we pay $0.091 every time we sell the song. A service I strongly recommend is HFA’s Songfile, which is a web-based directory and database compiled by the Harry Fox Agency and can direct your request to record another artist’s song to the appropriate publisher in most cases. It can also help identify the publisher if HFA doesn’t handle the clearance.
To download Neil Young’s “Helpless” as performed by Needle, Click Here.
Written for Music Jobs by Steve Beck.
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Labor day weekend means many things to many people. For the last two summers, it has meant the arrival of a new festival on the Mid-West scene. Taking place in Union Park, the North Coast Music Festival arrived with a bang in 2010, headlining with legendary acts such as the Chemical Brothers, Nas and Damian Marley, and Moby. Way to make an entry. Last year saw two of the three days sell out, and so we are happy to hear that the fest returns again in 2012.
The first wave of artists have just been announced and tickets are now on sale. In other words, time to start getting excited! Artists confirmed so far include glitch-electro-funk superstar Pretty Lights, Swedish House Mafia DJ Axwell, Minneapolis rappers Atmosphere, punk-house live act The Rapture, electro-techno legend Felix Da Housecat, multi-instrumentalist and renowned live entertainer Dan Deacon, UK deep house newcomer Maya Jane Coles and many more. Expect more headliners announced very soon.
One special area of the festival that will be kept this year is the Groupon Silent Disco Tent, which will now be expanded to the Groupon Silent Disco Dome, where a rotating selection of DJs will perform a wide mixture of styles and genres, mashed together for just 200 people at a time.
The North Coast festival has formed as a serious rival to Pitchfork, and even shaken up what people think of the larger-scale Lollapalooza. It has impressed local Chicago music lovers and is very welcomed on the small festival scene. Don’t believe us? 1 – shame on you. 2 – check out the video below, a summary of the 2011 event…
For more info, go to northcoastfestival.com.
Three-day passes are now available from Clubtix.com, with single day tickets to be made available soon.
by Lee Jarvis.
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Welcome to our highlight of this week’s music, news, views, and reviews, and also our Quick Tip of the Week for using the Music Jobs website. Week ending 27th April 2012.
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