The Money Shot 11.14.05

Everything you needed to know...

The Darkness Takes on Coldplay
The Money Shot: "During Band Aid, Chris swanned in, stayed for about 20 minutes... we were there for two days and worked our behinds off."Hawkins told The Sun, "He obviously didn't care. I got the sense he was just doing it to raise his profile."

Beck Does The Robot
The Money Shot:"They have such an unbelievably fluid range of motions, so Beck and I just had to work out an elaborately choreographed number for them. I think it took the programmers in Japan about three weeks to program the routine into each robot."

Road Trippin' with Bob Mould
The Money Shot: His latest effort, Body Of Song, showcases his wide-ranging musical resume and he's been supporting it with a full band on the road this summer and fall. Next up, however, is a solo tour that will take him from Morgantown, W.Va., November 10 to Brooklyn, N.Y., December 3, with a dozen U.S. cities on the schedule.

Steve Earle's New Addiction
The Money Shot: "I'd been touring Australia and discovered the strongest heroin I'd ever taken. So when I got to New Zealand I went down K-Road and my usual MO was to find a prostitute, as they could always hook you up with what you wanted. But there was nothing available and it was a total shock to my system."

Death Cab Breakups
The Money Shot: After a couple more records I don't know what we're going to do. I guess I'm just going to have to keep breaking up with people. But I kind of want to hold on to this one I've got right now. So if it's really a record for each breakup, maybe that means we've only got three more albums and then we're done.

Road Trippin' with The Strokes
The Money Shot: As the Jan. 3 release of their third RCA album, "First Impressions of Earth", draws near, the Strokes are about to set off on a worldwide promo tour that will feature secret club shows in several cities. The outing will begin Monday (Nov. 14) in Tokyo and proceed to Sydney, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Milan and Madrid through mid-December.

Pearl Jam Gets Aggressive
The Money Shot: "It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."

Costello, Toussaint Team on New CD
The Money Shot: Elvis Costello is slated to head into the studio the week of Thanksgiving to begin a collaboration with songwriter/arranger/pianist Allen Toussaint. Joe Henry will produce the album for Verve Records. Henry likens the project to Costello's 1998 pairing with Burt Bacharach, "Painted from Memory".

More Mould... Surprise! He Wants His Music to be Heard
The Money Shot: At 44, Mould celebrated a career milestone of sorts when his new single "Circles" received airplay on the indie rock-friendly, teen-loving hit Fox television series "The O.C." "It feels good," Mould said. "Did you ever have 20 million people listen to your music?"

Coming Soon... David Bowie DVD
The Money Shot: Serious Moonlight, which will hit stores March 13, captures a performance at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, during Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight World Tour in support of that year's Let's Dance. The DVD features the original film as well as an extended version of the the tour documentary Ricochet.

Springsteen Comes Clean on O.C.
The Money Shot: "My obsessive/compulsive nature, which crippled me through much of the rest of my life, does come in handy once in a while," said a chuckling Springsteen. "And it came in handy at that moment. I wanted something unique that you couldn't hear in the live show."

Why The Dandy Warhols Love Their Record Label
The Money Shot: "It's really hard to interface with a big, fat, bloated, desperate, irresponsible company, so you've got to really focus on finding two people, three people there that will work for you. You find the people that understand — find the least stupid people and you fucking go into business with them. The company itself is going to be frustrating. They're all a joke. Every big label is just, like, bad and fucked up."

Hey Hey! We're The Arctic Monkeys...
The Money Shot: "Our greatest achievement?" muses ex-tiler Cook, fiddling absent-mindedly with the zip of his flimsy anorak. "Gettin' this far without 'avin' a fist fight. Seriously. It's a miracle."

Road Trippin' with Sigur Ros
The Money Shot: Experimental outfit Sigur Ros has a new U.S. tour on the books for February. The Icelandic group, which is touring Europe through the end of November, will land in Portland, Maine, February 6 and proceed across a dozen states throughout the month.

Liz Disses Critics
The Money Shot: But the 38-year-old contends that the critics were misguided when they lauded her for Guyville's so-called confessional songwriting. "I'm actually more honest and confessional in my material now," she said. "In my early [work] I was a lot more clever about disguising [the meanings] with metaphors, and I think that was really exciting to those brainiacs."

Coming Soon... Josh Rouse
The Money Shot: Josh Rouse is pleased to announce that he will release the Bedroom Classics, Vol. 2 EP on November 15 exclusively via iTunes! (Perhaps you’re one of the lucky fans to nab a super rare copy of the Bedroom Classics, Vol. 1 EP — only 750 printed and going for over $200 bucks on eBay.) According to Josh, “Bedroom Classics, Vol. 2 consists of 5 tracks, some instrumental and some with my voice. I’m excited about it, it’s really moody and different from anything I’ve put out.”

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The Money Shot 10.13.05

From my fingertips to your eyes...

U2 Not Into Political Fund-raising
The Money Shot: "Neither DATA nor Bono are involved in these (fund-raisers), and they cannot be controlled. The U2 concerts are categorically not fund-raisers for any politician - they are rock concerts for U2 fans."

Wilco to Play Katrina Benefit, Push Back Live Album
The Money Shot: Wilco's John Stirratt said in a press release, "The city is so vulnerable now, and with so much money being directed there, we need to avoid unnecessary loss in architecture and musical culture."

Coldplay Admits to Cross-Dressing?
The Money Shot: "We've everything to prove and we've finished phase one of Coldplay and now we're going to enter phase two, which could be the Abba phase it could be the transvestite phase, who knows, but it'll definitely be good."

Full Frontal Strokes?
The Money Shot: "We're doing a live performance at a radio station [in the video], which will be broadcast all across New York," he explained. "There might be full-frontal nudity. MTV will not play this video because it's so controversial, [but] it will be groundbreaking."

Queens Of The Stone Age battle the undead
The Money Shot: "Nothing can extinguish the eerie visual melee that Lynch serves up hot, because it's a story so fantastical that you'll do more than stare mouth agape, you'll relate."

Radiohead Continues Work on New Record
The Money Shot: "Jonny's stepping over guitar leads and pedals and laptop as we demo yet another new tune added to the blackboard called 'Rubbernecks'. At the moment its a demo. When is a demo not a demo? When its in time. Whats in time?"

Decemberists, Shins, Sleater-Kinney Talk Portland Scene
The Money Shot: "The reason Portland is so special is people aren't making music for the sake of getting mainstream attention. They are making music because they think art is an important part of our culture," says (Sleater-Kinney's) Brownstein.

Green Day Makes Vid for Epic "Jesus"
The Money Shot: "It's the new 'Thriller,' " singer Billie Joe Armstrong said jokingly — kind of.

Sufjan Stevens is Roadtrippin'
The Money Shot: "I think the road trip is the quintessential American vacation. The automobile is the centre of gravity for Americans. We do a lot of flying and going overseas more, but there's still so much driving. I come from a working class family and we didn't have the money to go overseas or even out of the state, necessarily. Our road trip every year was to Wawa, [Ontario] in Canada or we would drive from upstate to Detroit or to Windsor, [Ontario], where we had family. We just loved getting in the car and seeing things at 65 miles per hour. I think it's an important experience as an American."

Flaming Lips Wrap Up Movie
The Money Shot: "I'm thinking of taking it to theaters and having it be an experience where we bring in giant sound systems, smoke machines, Christmas lights, s*** falls on you from the ceiling and you can smoke pot and do whatever you want."

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Britney Removes Her Bra
The Money Shot: "This bra was worn by me during promotion of my HBO special, however it is not the one I wore on stage during the 'Baby One More Time' performance. I feel the correct thing to do is remove this item from the auction because I don't want any of you to feel misled."

The Money Shot 11.01.05

Catching up after a couple of light days... Looks like Trent Reznor's been busy. Maybe it's a Halloween thing. Lots of Wilco/Tweedy stuff too...

NIN, QOTSA Bring Voodoo Back To Orleans
The Money Shot: But in mid-October, after a call from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and former N.O. resident Trent Reznor, promoters announced that for one day only — Saturday, October 29 — Voodoo would return home, with another show taking place in Memphis on Sunday.

NIN Digs the Partridges
The Money Shot - My dad told me that I was always putting on Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced?, but I don't really remember that. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's greatest hits. I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Wilco Getting Stupid for 2006
The Money Shot: Two of the tunes from this first batch of material, "I'm Talking to Myself About You" and the tentatively titled "On and On and On and On," have been receiving stage time during recent shows. Tweedy says the former is "about as straightforward and as dumb as anything I've ever written, but musically it's really exciting and fun to play."

Gimme a little Tweedy on the Side, please
The Money Shot: Meanwhile, Tweedy is planning to regroup at some point in the near future with the Jayhawks' Gary Louris and Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy for a new album under the moniker Golden Smog. The group's last effort was 1998's "Weird Tales."

But wait... there's more Wilco: Live DVD Cancelled
The Money Shot: First Kicking Television was pushed back to November 15. Then the DVD was shit-canned. Tweedy explained the DVD's fate in the Reader, stating, "Some of the reasons were technical, some of it had to do with the way it was shot. The footage ended up being really claustrophobic. Basically, it gets down to my feeling that the audience should be a part of any live document. You should get a sense of the audience, a sense of the time and place. And the footage didn't do that."

Snow Patrol's New CD
The Money Shot: "The whole thing is bigger and bolder except the quiet ones which are as fragile as sugar paper."

The Constantines Follow Their Hearts
The Money Shot: "But we get this thing all the time that the record is not as intense as the live show. And I don't know if that's really our goal, 'cause listening to a record is a very different thing than going to see a band play. And it's interesting to play to the strengths of those forms. You can obviously translate a lot more subtlety on a record than you can playing in a bar, and I think we tried to do some of that."

Echo & The Bunnymen Don't Know What They're Singing About
The Money Shot: "I don't know what a lot of the songs are completely about and it's that mystery, the intrigue of it, that I like. Some of the phrasing and things, the combination of words that just sort of put a little image in your head — that's what I like about Mac's lyrics more than anything. There's one of the songs we're doing, 'Scissors In The Sand' and one of the lyrics says 'There's something on the roof.' I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky. 'Scissors In The Sand' — what's that all about? God knows, but it's got a dangerous kind of image to it somehow."

They play Ben Lee on the radio...
The Money Shot: "It's unbelievable," he says. "It's just been an incredible journey I've gone through this year. I've been recording for so many years and it's great to get some recognition. It's like the cherry on top."

Moby = Punk?
The Money Shot: "Over the last year I've written lots and lots of punk rock songs, and now I'm going to record them with [drummer] Scott [Frassetto]."

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The Money Shot 10.21.05

From Michael Stipe's lunchbox to iPod porn... Loads of stuff to read as we head to the weekend...

New Drive-By Truckers by Spring
The Money Shot: "We're at that point where we've cut enough songs, but I'm not quite sure where the final edit's gonna go," he says. "It could go three pretty radically different directions -- to me there's one that's probably a little more obvious, so most likely that's what'll happen. But things can always change when you have this many crazy, temperamental people in a room," he adds with a chuckle.

Chris Martin Outbids Bono for Stipe's Lunchbox
The Money Shot: The Coldplay man snapped his mentor's sandwich holder at a charity auction on October 16, outbidding Bono for the REM memento.

Light of Day Goes Bi-Coastal and Then Some
The Money Shot: Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, who have for the past five years been joined onstage by Bruce Springsteen, will headline the Nov. 5 show at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville. Also on the bill will be Yorn, Malin, Garland Jeffreys, Willie Nile and several local acts.

The End of the Stripes?
The Money Shot: A multitude of news sources are reporting this week that the White Stripes are set to split in 2006 -- but is it accurate? Jack White, half of the duo, announced earlier this year that he was forming a new band with longtime friend Brendan Benson, but in a recent Rolling Stone interview, Jack stated that the White Stripes were not at risk. Unfortunately, that segment of the interview is not excerpted on the website.

New Pornographers Not a Supergroup?
The Money Shot: The camaraderie is what makes the New Pornographers' traveling caravan work, Newman said. "We always knew it was going to be difficult for this band to function as a touring band. But we've made it work any way we can, because we have a good time."

Kaiser Chiefs Hang With Foo Fighters
The Money Shot: "People say, 'Dave Grohl, really nice guy,' but he genuinely is the nicest guy I've met in a long time," Kaiser frontman Ricky Wilson said via cell phone from somewhere near Champaign, Illinois. "The other night I'd gone to bed, but Nick [Baines, keyboardist] and Simon [Rix, bassist] were going to a pub across the road from the venue and it was after the Foo Fighters had played and you can imagine the pub near the venue is just full of people at the end of show, right? And Dave Grohl goes with them and just walks up and has a drink. And then apparently there were these two acoustic guitar guys and Dave did 'Everlong' with one of the guys, and it's like the best moment of the guy's life. And then Nick, Simon and Dave played 'I Predict a Riot' in this bar. Yeah, that was the wrong night to take an early night."

Patti Smith to Appear At ROCKRGRL
The Money Shot: From November 10-12, the Madison Renaissance Hotel in Seattle will host the world's largest gathering of female musicians when the ROCKRGRL Music Conference 2005 rolls into town to celebrate all aspects of the stronger sex's place in rock music industry. Patti Smith will be honored with the "Woman of Valor" award at a special conference kickoff banquet on November 10, which just happens to fall on the 30th anniversary of the release of her classic debut album, Horses. Smith will also play a set with longtime accomplice Lenny Kaye.

Live in Chicago - U2 DVD Coming
The Money Shot: U2 are to release a live DVD featuring footage shot on their 2005 'Vertigo' world tour.'Vertigo 2005/U2 Live From Chicago' was filmed on May 9 and 10 at the city's United Center venue.

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Video iPod gets a little steamier
The Money Shot: At least one unambiguously adult site, Povpod.com, has also released content for the device.

The Money Shot 12.05.05

David Byrne and Pete Doherty on the lam? Read on...

David Byrne In Trouble with The RIAA?
The Money Shot: The RIAA issued me a warning based on a previous radio playlist that featured all Missy [Elliot], all the time. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was passed by congress in 1998, was a hastily thrown together measure (in my opinion) which aimed to protect the music industry from the impending apocalypse. While some parts of the law seem reasonable, other aspects went somewhat overboard to protect the interests of the industry, before folks even knew what would be developed, invented or what half the terms actually meant.

Mould Says 'No' to Husker Du Reunion
The Money Shot: In the recent reunion-heavy climate, with everyone from the Pixies to Slint to Gang of Four rejoining on the stage, the idea of a Husker Du reunion has graced more than a few tongues. His revisiting of old material seemed to fuel those flames. And still, despite embracing his past successes, Mould is content to laugh off such an endeavor.

Arcade Fire Go To Church For Next CD
The Money Shot: Guitarist Tim Kingsbury told NME.COM: "We're going to start recording. We just bought an old church just south of Montreal and we're turning it into a recording studio. Win (Butler) and Regine (Chassagne) they both sort of had a fantasy of buying a church. "

Hatfield Keeping Her Shirt On
The Money Shot: "I can't compete in today's marketplace anyway," the 38-year-old said. "Mainstream culture is gross. People with the most amazing talent are taking their clothes off to sell their music. I find it disgusting and I'm not a prude. Aretha Franklin never put on a bikini to sell records. Would she have to if she was starting out now?"

Patterson Says New DBT is 'Blessing and a Curse'
The Money Shot: After the last two years of writing a lot slower than I’ve tended to write most of my life, I hit a real super-prolific streak. And I think it’s the result of the pressure of writing a new record, it kind of got me off my ass, and all the stuff that’s happened with having a baby and all of that. Plus at the studio, there’s a lot of downtime where you’re just stuck there. So I wrote a fuck-load. I’ve probably written three albums worth of material.

An Interview with Tommy Ramone
The Money Shot: "We were driving in our van and we pulled into a rest stop. We went in to use the facilities and as we entered the rest stop owner comes up to our road manager and goes, “It’s nice of you taking care of these retarded kids.”

On the Road with We Are Scientists
The Money Shot: The itinerary has them sticking to the northeast, starting at NYC's Bowery Ballroom January 12 and hitting Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Baltimore before wrapping at Philadelphia's North Star.

Doherty Facing Hard Time
The Money Shot: "I hadn't even told my mum I was back from Arizona and then I got nicked," he continued. "I feel really bad for doing this to her. I'm pretty sure though that I'm going to get in trouble - and I really think I'm going to prison this time.""I can't go back to prison. I can't - I don't think I could take it."

Coming Attractions... The Minus 5
The Money Shot: For the seventh album from his chamber pop collective the Minus 5, the former Young Fresh Fellow has thumbed through his massive rolodex and come up with the kind of guest list indie rock wet dreams are made of: R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, and Glenn Kotche, the Decemberists' Colin Meloy and John Moen, the Posies' Ken Stringfellow, Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger and the Long Winters, singer-songwriter-author John Wesley Harding, alt-country chanteuse Kelly Hogan, and, why not, Ministry's Bill Rieflin and Mott the Hoople’s Morgan Fisher. (Minus 5 indie cred points.)

The Money Shot 10.19.05

With musicians showing the imagination of the typical movie executive, the theme for today's news is repackaging old shit...

Beck Retreads 'Guero'
The Money Shot: Beck is eyeing a Dec. 6 release for the Interscope project "Guerolito," which will feature a remix of every track on his latest studio album, "Guero."

Hives are Buzzin' on new live DVD
The Money Shot: The band is currently soliciting photographs from fans to be included on the DVD. But not just any photo. According to the Hives' website, "The pictures you send in are of course supposed to have some connection to The Hives. Not just you in a tuxedo. Not just you in no clothes at all."

The Killers Retread 'Hot Fuss'... again
The Money Shot: Having already reissued its Island debut, "Hot Fuss" in an expanded edition, the Killers will on Nov. 22 offer a boxed set featuring individual 7-inch vinyl singles for every track on the album.

Blur EP yet this year?
The Money Shot: "I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability. I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar."

Los Lobos Retread 'Kiko'
The Money Shot: Los Lobos has announced it will recreate its classic 1992 album Kiko in its entirety at five West Coast shows this December.

Ferdinand Takes Manhatten Alive
The Money Shot: There was even a Spinal Tap moment when one of the panels of the backdrop got stuck — leaving the giant blowup of Thomson's face smack in the middle of the band's logo — before shuddering and then gradually moving into the correct position as a presumably frantic stagehand fixed it.

Before Weezer - Elisha Cuthbert?
The Money Shot: "We are exploring the history of Weezer. It's the Weezer prequel, if you will, and we're going to document the early days of the band," he explained. "A lot of people don't know this, but before Weezer was Weezer, they were a band called Weeze. Rivers [Cuomo] was just a roadie for the band, and they had a totally hot female singer."

The Posies Retread Themselves
The Money Shot: “In the past, we weren’t that grown up,” Stringfellow explains. “We weren’t very strong people, probably. Being young, we didn’t trust ourselves or each other to really have a very open atmosphere. The situation was fairly controlled in the studio, and that’s kinda worked. But this is much more free and much more creative.”

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NYT Keeps an Eye on Video iPods
The Money Shot: Watching iPodvision also requires one free hand to hold the device, which feels awkward after a while. Remember, too, that in urban settings, where iPods are muggers’ favorite delicacies, you have to hold the thing out in full view. You feel like you’re wearing a bumper sticker that says: “I’m an idiot. Rob me.”

The Money Shot 12.01.05

Because Dave & Oprah aren't the only ones in the headlines...

Thom Yorke says "Fuck Business Leaders!"
The Money Shot: “So the UN are meeting in Montreal to decide what to do after the Kyoto protocol, and already the US administration has buried its witless head in the fucking sand, refusing to take part. You can even see the strings being pulled. This is a true evil."

Clap Your Hands, Arcade Fire and Blog Buzz
The Money Shot: “Like we tend to get really carried away when we love a record, and while that tends to help a lot of bands we think deserve attention, there can also be negative repercussions if we go too nuts.”

Surprise, Surprise... Doherty Arrested
The Money Shot: The Metropolitan Police confirmed that officers had stopped a car driving erratically in the area. The force said "substances" were found and a 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing Class A drugs, a category that includes cocaine and heroin.

Coming Attractions... Guster
The Money Shot: Rock act Guster is eyeing a spring 2006 release date for its next Reprise album, "Ganging Up on the Sun." Among the tracks tipped for inclusion are "Hang On," "The Beginning of the End," "C'mon," "One Man Wrecking Machine" and an as-yet-unnamed track featuring vocals from a cashier who works at a food shop near where the band recorded in Woodstock, N.Y.

Meet The Subways
The Money Shot: “We’re going to work hard and make sure that the people who come out to hear our music really have a great time,” Lunn says, admitting to a mix of trepidation and excitement. “We’re coming there to prove ourselves and the only way to do it is to start from square one and build a foundation, build a community. We can hardly wait.”

Coming Attractions... The Eels
The Money Shot: Eels have announced details of a new album and DVD 'Eels With Strings Live At Town Hall'. The album was recorded live at New York's Town Hall on June 30, and follows-up the band's double album 'Blinking Lights And Other Revelations', which was released earlier this year.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' New Feline Concept CD
The Money Shot: During the pair's stay in Chile, O found a cat, and the soon-to-be-beloved pet eventually became the album's conceptual focus."The whole album is pretty much about this cat's journey from Chile to New York," Clean said. "Each track tells the story of the [cat's life]. So it starts with Coco's birth, to when they found Coco, and continues."

Coming Attractions... Minus 5
The Money Shot: Enduring rock collective the Minus 5 will on Feb. 7 release its next studio album, "The Gun Album." The Yep Roc set features core members Scott McCaughey, guitarist John Ramberg and R.E.M. members Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin surrounded by such guests as John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy and John Moen.

The Money Shot 11.07.05

Fresh off the presses and delivered to you...

Tweedy's Wingin' It
The Money Shot: Since he has no bandmates in tow who need to learn songs that were co-written and/or recorded by different sets of musicians on 1995's "A.M.,'' 1996's "Being There'' or 1999's "Summerteeth,'' Tweedy can just wing it onstage, and cull songs from the band's entire catalogue - not to mention songs he wrote for Uncle Tupelo in the 1980s and early '90s.
"This way, I can do any of the 200 or so songs I've written over the years,'' said Tweedy by phone from his manager's office in Chicago. "And it allows me to change it around every night, which is also part of the appeal - it'll be fun to just get up there without a firm set list.''

Coming Soon: Rhett Miller
The Money Shot: "The songs on The Believer are about sex, war, love and death . . . but mostly sex,” Rhett Miller says of The Believer, his second solo album and his Verve Forecast debut. “Before going into the studio, I thought I’d be making a punk rock Ziggy Stardust, but I wound up with George Gershwin does T. Rex's The Slider.”

Junkies' Subtle Protest
The Money Shot: "One of the things that surprises us is that not that many artists out there are commenting on it musically, which is one of the reasons we decided to go back to the songs of the '70s, because it seemed every artist was doing it back then," Anton explains. "Music has become so commercialized and corporate now that a lot of artists would be pressured not to get involved in this sort of thing."

Coming Soon: Tori Amos
The Money Shot: Six live recordings stemming from Tori Amos' spring and fall solo tours of the United States and England are being bundled together in time for the holiday shopping season. Due Dec. 6 via Epic, "The Original Bootlegs" brings together a set of discs that were released separately earlier this year and sold exclusively online, plus one that's previously unreleased.

Jimmy Page Gets His Stripes in London
The Money Shot: The famous guitarist, who Jack White is often compared with, was spotted watching the gig from the side of the stage throughout the 90 minute set. Unfortunately hopes of a duet failed to materialise because that was as close to the stage as the founding member of Led Zeppelin got.

QOTSA Playing Big & Small Gigs
The Money Shot: "The one in Austin was strange because I felt really ill. We showed up and people had been waiting inside Waterloo for an hour, and there was nothing set up at all. We had to set up in front of them watching. There was a drunk, 16-year-old girl there who tried to heckle and I had to destroy her with my telekinetic powers."

Devendra Banhart Busses Your Table?
The Money Shot: He's the wanderer, he may never drown, and he may just be fooling around. He's a man out of synch with any specific time, but he says all the right things. When asked what he would be doing if he weren't singing and playing music, he thinks a moment before concluding, "Wiping carrot dressing from your table in a restaurant."

Daltrey Next in Line To Diss Doherty
The Money Shot: "It's a waste of a life really, because he's got talent," Daltrey told the Sunday Mirror. "He seems to be feeding of it, now he's become infamous for his drug addiction he seems to think 'that's what I do so I've got to do it', it's very sad."

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The Money Shot 10.18.05

Jack cheats on Meg, Melissa smokes dope, Liz whines...

Jack White's New Duo
The Money Shot: "I don't want it to sound anything like the White Stripes," says Jack White of his newest project, the Raconteurs. "This is a full-on band -- dual songwriters coming together, building off one another, bouncing off each other."

The Frames Just Want to Be Understood
The Money Shot: "Because we make all different types of music, a lot of labels kind of felt like 'Yeah, we really like your band, and we like your songs, but we don't really know how to market you.' And it just felt like an issue for us with the labels." His voice rises a bit as he mimics some demanding label brass. "'Are you a pop group? Are you an indie rock group? What are you? What do you do?' We just never really gave an answer. So we didn't try, and it frustrated people and it happened with every label they put on us. We felt we were constantly being misrepresented and they felt that we were constantly fucking complaining."

Melissa Gets High
The Money Shot: When Phillips asked her whether or not her doctors approved of her toking up, Etheridge replied: "Every single one was, 'Oh, yeah. That's the best help for the effects of chemotherapy.' "

Son Volt on NPR Concert This Friday
The Money Shot: Hear the roots rock group Son Volt live online this Friday, Oct. 21 beginning at approximately 10:00 p.m. ET. NPR.org will webcast the band's full performance from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. live online.

Still Liz?
The Money Shot: "It wasn't a happy experience for me," Phair says. "I went from just being this person in the neighbourhood, to having all kinds of people saying things about me. 'She can't sing. She can't play. It's just because she talks about sex. She's a media whore.' People forget about those things. But I don't forget."

Neil Spends a Week with Conan
The Money Shot: "I wanted two solid months of Neil Young, but he told me it was, 'getting creepy,'...

Franz Ferdinand Releases DVD in November
The Money Shot: "The karaoke videos are really cheesy, abstract stuff. Like, a couple running through a field, people partying and dancing, all sorts of weird stuff,"

Ryan Adams' Hygiene
The Money Shot: "It's a pain in the arse," he told Rolling Stone. "I've got a rather large cyst lodged where my ear ends and my temple begins. Right now we're waiting for it to get uninfected enough to get in there and tear some more shit out."

The Money Shot - 10.7.05

Today's news on Musical Justice artists...

Iceland's Sigur Ros Moves at Own Speed
The Money Shot: "They sound like they're from another planet," says Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. "It turns out it was Iceland."

Fans Get a Taste of Apple in L.A.
The Money Shot: Apple told AP Television that this was only the second time she'd ever done a concert in a music store. "I have no idea why I'm doing it, she admitted. "I know what my part of the job is: I'm supposed to write songs and sing them ... There's other people that know what they're doing and they say to do it and so I'm doing it."

Elvis Costello Tries Hand at Opera
The Money Shot: Costello said he was inspired by Andersen's way of expression, adding that "many translations of (Andersen's) works miss the really good elements, the macabre, the weird and the social critique." Many of Andersen's fairy tales are rather gruesome. In "The Little Mermaid," one of his best known stories, the mermaid becomes mute after a witch cuts off her tongue in exchange for legs to replace her fish tail.

Exene's American Art
The Money Shot: "I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, and I think you can make the best art out of an ordinary item that is usually thrown away or people don't care about," said Cervenka, a dedicated thrift store-ista.

Gorillaz remain a mystery
The Money Shot: "You get cab drivers in London who say 'you haven't done anything for years Damon'" he laughed, "and I say 'Well I'm Number One, actually'. But you know, that's a minor detail."

Reunion Nearly Complete, Pixies Look Ahead
The Money Shot: "I think there are some band members extremely keen to start making a record and there are others who are more cautious because they don't want to mess with the legacy," Black says. "They may be afraid that if we make a mediocre record that it will still come out, because the money has been spent. That's fair enough."

And in general music-related news...

Legal Downloads And Frustrated Music Buyers On The Rise
The Money Shot: In one of the strangest moves in this legal vs. illegal downloading battle, Sony BMG have, instead of just getting rid of their anti-piracy program, decided to tell their consumers how to get around their copy protection. Consumers who complain about not being able to get their music onto their iPod are directed to a special site that explains how to beat the system.

The Money Shot 11.16.05

All the news I feel like blogging...

Laura Veirs: To Tour or Not To Tour?
The Money Shot:"It's a job, and I can feel it wearing on me," she said from the Arizona desert. "Touring is kind of fun but tough. We just got through with a 12-hour drive. It's not good on your body, and there's all this sitting around waiting. When I go home, I do yoga and eat well, but then I get back out here and I'm immediately smoking and drinking again. It's a very topsy-turvy existence."

Not Content to Bash Coldplay, The Darkness Takes a Pop at Doherty
The Money Shot: "I'd say firstly (Pete) doesn't do rock music, and secondly, he only sells records because people are curious as to what a junkie sounds like," Hawkins told Orange World. "I think that's really wrong and really irresponsible...I think he's a talentless waste of fucking skin!"

Road Trippin' with Supergrass
The Money Shot: U.K. rock quartet Supergrass will return to North America for a 15-date tour that begins Feb. 6 in Toronto. The trek will be in support of the group's latest Capitol album, "Road to Rouen," which debuted in August at No. 9 on the U.K. album chart.

Jem's a Whore?
The Money Shot: "I'm like prostituting myself," Jem joked. "No, I think it used to be a sort of dodgy thing to do, but I mean as far as I'm concerned, as long as it's done creatively ... I don't want my music on like a dodgy food ad or something, but I think that I'm really flattered and its catch is huge. I did write the album to be heard."

Coming Attractions - Morrissey
The Money Shot: The singer, has been mixing the follow up to 'You Are The Quarry' in Rome with producer Tony Visconti and has set a release date of March 20, 2006 for the LP.As previously reported, a single will precede the LP in early February.

Road Trippin' with the Decemberists' Colin Meloy
The Money Shot: For the second January in a row, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy will embark on a solo tour as his bandmates recuperate from another busy year on the road. The hardy Meloy will play nine cities on the trek, starting January 18 with a West Coast run that includes the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

and finally, because sometimes dreams come true...

Destiny's Child Plays Final Show
The Money Shot: The trio also gave its first and apparently last public performance of the new single "Stand Up for Love." Asked by Kimmel if the split would be permanent, Rowland seemed to leave the door open for a future reunion. "You never know," she replied.

The Money Shot 11.04.05

I'm off to St. Louis to see my Philly bros, Marah, tonight. Any day you get to see Marah is a very, very good day...

Vek Barnstorms States
The Money Shot: The band generated a good deal of hype with packed shows in New York City, Philadelphia and Los Angeles earlier this year, and now the four-piece is aiming to take the whole country. Tom Vek's fall dates run from November 4-23, beginning at New York City's Knitting Factory and hitting 14 major cities in the U.S. and Canada. The tour wraps in California at West Hollywood's Troubadour.

X Hits the Road
The Money Shot: After successfully exorcising their well-honed honky-tonk demons by resurrecting their alt-country alter-ego the Knitters for a reunion album and tour, legendary L.A. band X is grabbing guitarist Billy Zoom and painting the town punk.

Stripes: 'Denial' in the U.K.
The Money Shot: The White Stripes are set to make live recordings from their forthcoming UK dates available to fans.The band, who kick off their sold out British dates at the Hammersmith Apollo on November 5, will record a live version of song 'The Denial Twist' every night which fans can then download

Pete Doherty: Crazy or Just Nuts?
The Money Shot: "Yes, these are the things that were haunting me since I was a kid. Hallucinations or something. Long before I took drugs. I didn't take drugs till I was quite old. I think I took a couple of bad blows to the head, and ever since I've suffered bad hallucinations from an early age."

Damon Albarn Blurs the Lines
The Money Shot: When a reporter asked him about criticisms that he was "too clever for his own good," Albarn incredulously responded: "Are they saying it's better not to be intelligent and have no knowledge of other things outside pop music? How can anyone be too clever?"

Road Trippin' with Death Cab
The Money Shot: When we first started playing, you'd look out and you'd see all your friends, that was cool. And then it was great to go to a different city and have there be no one there that you knew. So, it's been an extension of that ever since then. Now, we play in some foreign country - around the world - and you're like, "How do people know about us in Singapore?" That's strange. I don't understand that, but that's cool. I like that.

Coming Soon: Beth Orton
The Money Shot: British singer/songwriter Beth Orton will release her fourth studio album, “Comfort of Strangers,” Feb. 7 via Astralwerks. The 14-track set was produced by Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Wilco), and features his accompaniment on bass, piano and marimba in tandem with drumming from noted Chicago musician Tim Barnes.

To hear these artists and more, click here.

The Money Shot 11.3.05

Coke, vicodin and the end of rock radio...

Jack & Coke
The Money Shot: "I've been offered the opportunity to write a song in a way which interests me as a songwriter. I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. "But to be asked to write something particular along one theme of love in a worldwide form that I'm not really used to appealed to me. I've written a song and I wrote it really quickly and it's an interesting commercial that's been made. I was inspired by the commercial."

Queens Take London on New DVD
The Money Shot: "I took enough Vicodin to kill a small child," he says with a laugh. "I didn't want to cancel again. That would have been seven shows, and people start using the word 'curse' after that."

Morrissey's Producer Brags on Next CD
The Money Shot: "I am two-thirds of the way through one of the best albums I've ever worked on, with not only Morrissey at his best, but the plot has twists and turns which somehow involve film composer Ennio Morricone and an Italian children's choir."

Shout Out Louds Hit the NY Times
The Money Shot: "I really like pop music," Mr. Olenius said, "but you have to damage it a bit to make it something new."

Sun-Times Reviews Wilco Benefit
The Money Shot: Not so long ago, the image of Tweedy grabbing the mike stand and just singing was unthinkable: He was the greasy-headed, frog-throated frontman of a roots-rock band. Here, though, he seemed vastly more comfortable with his backing players, more trusting of his urge to let space into his songs, and -- not least -- more adept as a vocalist. The greasy head remained.


and finally...

The End of Rock Radio?
The Money Shot: Unlike his bosses at Infinity, the acerbic Carolla believes K-Rock's switch from rock to talk is part of a larger trend that's likely to continue. "I don't know what year folks are living in," he says. "If you want to hear music, get an iPod. If you want to hear talk, get a radio. That's my feeling." (Or maybe a computer and Musical Justice?)

Bidding For Britney
The Money Shot: The London-based record producer/manager has taken to eBay to auction off his share of the Britney Spears single "Everytime." By his estimation, it is the first time someone has used the site to sell a copyright interest in a certified hit by an A-list artist. "I thought this would be a groundbreaking thing to do," Adams said Tuesday.

To hear these artists (except Britney) and more, click here.

The Money Shot 10.27.05

Will the Arctic Monkeys really quit before they've begun? Clap Your Hands Say Yeah too full of themselves? Read on...

Arctic Monkeys Diss Kaiser Chiefs
The Money Shot: "I think if we're next year's Kaiser Chiefs, we'll quit. I don't like being associated with them. I don't think they had the same following as us last year. I suppose they've sold a lot of records, but I don't like them. They're a bit annoying."

Hollywood's Cash Tribute
The Money Shot: Like his friend Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis has measured the dark side of life, which adds shadows to his voice when he sings something like "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." On Tuesday night, there was even more poignancy when Lewis sang that grand old spiritual because he did so in tribute to Cash.The only problem was that, a few bars into the song, Lewis was awkwardly cut off so that movie stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon could come on stage, smile into the television camera and properly introduce the singer. Lewis looked a bit bewildered for a moment but then gamely relaunched the song.

Ben Folds' Aussie DVD
The Money Shot: Due Dec. 6 via Epic, "Ben Folds and WASO Live in Perth" finds the artist and the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra running through 13 selections, including "Brick," "The Ascent of Stan" and "Rock This B*tch."

New Neko Case CD
The Money Shot: Says Case about Fox: "I recorded the album intermittently over the past couple years. With each record, you think you've figured it out, but once you get into the studio, you realize there's always more to learn. But I feel like we managed to get all my ideas to tape."

Vanderslice's Demons
The Money Shot: I was a little afraid of what I was gonna do," he admits. "I was having these unhealthy, supremely morbid thoughts, and I'm already a morbid guy, so if I can shock myself, then that's really something! And [Mountain Goats leader] John Darnielle, who I was working on new material with at the time, was like, 'Man, I'm really worried about you.' When friends who are as crazy as you are are worried about you, that's a sign."

Paste Disses Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Money Shot: With all the hype—from blogs, webzines and the like—surrounding Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, you might wonder if the attention will go to the band’s collective head. After discovering lead singer Alec Ounsworth prefers email interviews, you might even wonder if he’s become too big for his indie-rock britches.

Franz Ferdinand Talks Songwriting
The Money Shot: "That's where the best characters come from, the people that surround you," he said. "And then taking them and sort of combining them with all sorts of other things that happen to be flinging through your head at that particular time."

The Money Shot 10.25.05

The latest headlines, MJ style...

Liz Phair's Oral Fixation
The Money Shot: "I'm all about podcasting," Phair tells Billboard.com. "I'm totally fixated on it. It's what I'm into. We usually do a couple of live songs and then there are interviews. We're going to do it every Friday. It might be a little late here and there, but pretty much [it's up] every Friday."

Bruce Gets Sirius
The Money Shot: "E Street Radio will offer SIRIUS subscribers a unique perspective on 30 years of socially conscious music, and set the background for even more relevant songs to come in the future," said Scott Greenstein, SIRIUS President of Entertainment and Sports. "It will be the most comprehensive presentation ever of Bruce’s music and a true inside look at the work and artistry of an American icon."

Rivers Ain't Getting Any
The Money Shot: "I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music," he said. "So, it all really comes back to the music.

Jack White Loves the U.K.
The Money Shot: "There's a different attitude that comes through in every place," he said. "As a performer you have to come through and try hard to gauge that - particularly us, because we don't follow a setlist."

Devendra says "Duuuuuude"
The Money Shot: "I knew four hermaphrodites in Caracas," he begins, maybe not really helping matters. "I was thinking about them and I wanted to write a song from the perspective of all four of them combined. So it's a song about a schizophrenic hermaphrodite."

The Frames Like America More than England
The Money Shot: What I like about America is that it doesn’t really dig arrogance. There’s this whole cultural personality in England where it’s all full coat and no knickers, you know? It’s all fucked. And with Ireland as a nation, we’ve seen these bands coming over from England and we tend to react the same way the Americans do — it’s just like "Get off, get out of our country."

and finally...

Your Grandparents Kick Axl Rose's Ass
The Money Shot: According to the results of the magazine's latest poll, which can be found in the new "Cool" issue, Rose, at the ripe age of 43, is one of the world's coolest old people. He ranked second in the survey (that's 10,000 girls worldwide, with about 4,000 of them U.S. citizens), right behind top vote-getter "grandparents." Whose grandparents? Everyone's grandparents, it seems.

The Money Shot 10.20.05

Today's top stories...

Bono Goes To Washington
The Money Shot: Speaking recently about meeting with world leaders, Bono said he had nothing to fear. He explained: "They should be afraid, because they will be held accountable for what happened on their watch. I'm representing the poorest and the most vulnerable people. On a spiritual level, I have that with me. I'm throwing a punch, and the fist belongs to people who can't be in the room, whose rage, whose anger, whose hurt I represent. The moral force is way beyond mine, it's an argument that has much more weight than I have. So I'm not feeling nervous."

Rilo Kiley + (Death Cab x Bright Eyes) = Traveling Wilburys??
The Money Shot: "I've always loved the Traveling Wilburys, and I thought about who could sing the different parts. And I thought, well, Ben could play Roy, because his voice is so pure and beautiful, and of course I thought of Conor doing the Dylan part, which I think is pretty awesome and humorous in its own right."

MySpace Goes On Tour
The Money Shot: Now the site has picked five of its best and brightest up-and-coming acts to travel the country for nearly two months on the MySpace Fall Tour, which kicks off in Dallas October 26 at The Door.

Audioslave Takes on War
The Money Shot: "It has overtones,” Cornell said, “of a story that's happening right now in this country where we have to deal with the reality that young children are losing their fathers or their mothers or, you know, their brothers for something that I don't think anybody agrees with at this point is a very smart idea or ever was a smart idea."

Keane to Release DVD
The Money Shot: 'Strangers' will feature an hour-long documentary telling the story of the band from their formation in 1997 to touring the world in 2005. The package will also include 16 live performances from different venues across the globe, two photo galleries, six promo videos, two 'making of' videos and various concert visuals.

Wolf Parade Hits the Road
The Money Shot: "Well, we're basically, totally, a fuckin' train wreck," he says. "We get yelled at every day. We show up late. We leave shit behind [at clubs]. The kinda shit a five-headed retarded dog would do! We pissed on ourselves yesterday! I'm not kidding. "

and finally...

Poor, poor Ricky Martin...
The Money Shot: "There was a moment (in 2002) when I was onstage and I was just so angry...I thought, 'Something is wrong. I have the applause, I have a great band behind me, I live comfortably.' ... I was starting to become a victim of fame. Everything was too serious and I wasn't enjoying it."

The Money Shot 11.22.05

Catching up on the news...

Edge's 'Music Rising' to Help New Orleans Musicians
The Money Shot: "The devastation wrought by the hurricanes of 2005 to the Gulf Coast region has threatened not only the lives and livelihoods of the region's residents, but the area's rich and spirited culture as well," says the Edge. "Providing replacement instruments through Music Rising will not only help thousands of professional musicians affected by the hurricanes to regain a foothold on their future, but will also ensure that one of the Gulf Coast's greatest assets, its music, rises again." (Music Rising website here.)

Coldplay Scalping Their Own Tickets?
The Money Shot: On Saturday, the band launched a special online auction through Ticketmaster.com, which gives fans the chance to bid on pairs of tickets to the first leg of shows on the band's upcoming North American tour. By Monday, the minimum bid on tickets for several shows was already as high as $400, and no bid was lower than $80 for a pair of tickets.

Courtney In Rehab
The Money Shot: She clearly had a dysfunctional relationship with others in her group, who often came to her when they were feeling weak. "I'd sit at a meeting and I'd say I feel like doing blow today and all of a sudden there'd be a line of people that wanted to do drugs with me and it would be like 'Relapse?' 'Let's call Courtney.'"

Sufjan Stevens: The Ultimate Indie?
The Money Shot: 'Corporations are run on principles of greed, and making the most money possible with the least work possible, and I think that's counterproductive to the health of human beings and society,' says Stevens, a half-confident, half-nervous figure with limpid green eyes who manages to seem distracted and deeply attentive at the same time. 'They create wealth but they destroy cultures and families. The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.'

Jeff Tweedy's Not A Control Freak.... Yeah, Riiiiiiiiight.
The Money Shot: I don’t think I ever really had the energy or the interest in really exerting that much control. I mean, I know a lot of people have this idea of that being the case, and there’s certainly elements of truth to that, but one of them is not in being very dictatorial about what I want played.

Coming Attractions - Richard Thompson
The Money Shot: Details are finally coming to light about "RT - The Life and Music of Richard Thompson," which has been in the works for several months. Due Feb. 7 through the U.K.-based independent Free Reed Records and Music label, the five-disc collection set will trace the troubadour's career as a solo artist, with seminal U.K. folk act Fairport Convention, in partnership with ex-wife Linda and in other settings.

The Money Shot 11.17.05

Today's news highlights...

Jack and Meg Cracking Up in the U.K.?
The Money Shot: "Penny and I miss America, did you know? Maybe Penny should be Miss America? We miss the Grand Canyon, the Grand Tetons, and hundred grand candy bars.""Penny and I are sad that we have to take a break soon," he added. "It takes so long to play the whole world doesn't it? Why haven't we played in India? Why haven't we played more in Indiana? What is indie? What is mainstream? Is it sane to play mainly on the plains or only to the lonely?"

New Flaming Lips Track Hits the Net
The Money Shot: "You don't really know when the good stuff is going to happen, you just kind of have to be doing stuff and hope it turns out good and little by little. We kind of let some of it get out there and let people listen to it and we like getting some feedback. As ridiculous as that seems to go against the idea of an uncompromising artistic approach, you need some objective ideas need to be thrown your way once in a while because you get so caught up in your own world."

Coming Attractions... The Hives!
The Money Shot: The Hives' next album should be out by autumn 2006, the band have said. The group have a number of new songs for the follow-up to 2004's 'Tyrannosaurus Hives', but are resisting playing the tracks live.

Cash on "Walk The Line"
The Money Shot: Sadly, Cash died before he and Phoenix could meet face-to-face. But to the end, the legend appreciated and returned the love that such younger artists had for him."I'm aware that some of them do [admire me]," he said at the time, before acknowledging the crushing loss of his soul mate just three months prior. "My little world has been kind of limited lately, since June's death. I've kind of hung close to home here; yeah, I did hear from Kid Rock through Hank Williams Jr. that he would like to meet me."

Coming Attractions... Belle & Sebastian
The Money Shot: Veteran Scottish rock act Belle & Sebastian will release its new album, "The Life Pursuit," Feb. 6 via Rough Trade in the United Kingdom and Europe. The set will arrive the next day in the United States via Matador.

Interview with DBT's Jason Isbell
The Money Shot: Luckily for Isbell, the other members of the band accepted him, not just as the new guitar player but also a songwriter alongside Hood and co-founder Mike Cooley. "If I came in with a song that sounded like fucking Bauhaus, as long as it was a good song, they probably wouldn't mind, though Cooley would probably give me shit," Isbell said. He also found that the band had established a tight rapport. "If there's a song that's not strong enough for a Truckers' record, the person who wrote it will usually be the one to cut it. I think it's just a matter of the chemistry we have in the band."

The Money Shot 10.24.05

Today's new stories...

U2, Foos, Others Honor Cash
The Money Shot: U2, Foo Fighters, Norah Jones and Jerry Lee Lewis are among the luminaries set to perform at "I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash."

Cuomo Back to Finish Degree
The Money Shot: Harvard's spring term begins February 1, and when Weezer appeared on Howard Stern's radio show earlier this week, Cuomo said he plans on living in an on-campus dorm at the university and that he's currently three classes short of completing his undergraduate degree.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Leak New CD Details
The Money Shot: The untitled record is due for release in March this year. Speaking to fans online, singer Karen O revealed the titles of two songs, and said some of the older tracks worked on in the sessions may still see the light of day, despite not featuring on the album. She told a fan website: "Songs to be included on the new album include 'Cheated Hearts' and 'Honey Bear'. All the rest are new tracks. Some older tracks such as 'Down Boy' used in a special EP, but only MAYBE."

Death Cab Selling Out?
The Money Shot: Walla said he doesn't feel the band is "selling out" by allowing songs to be used in mainstream venues as long as "outlets don't become more important than the fact that we've been a band for eight years, touring and making records for a long time".

Arctic Monkeys Click with Online Fans
The Money Shot: "There is a massive online community out there," says Laurence Bell, the owner of Domino. "They are constantly exchanging tracks, passing it on, raving about it - check this out, go to this gig. They are bypassing traditional marketing routes, and the mainstream media, which is what major record companies have a grasp of and a hold on. Nobody's telling them to do it; that's the key. Basically, these kids are making the decisions."

and last (and probably least)...

Village People's Cop now among Most Wanted
The Money Shot: Legal troubles for the Village People's original frontman and cop, Victor Willis, mounted Thursday when he failed to show up in court for his sentencing on felony drug and weapons charges.

The Money Shot 10.14.05

Today's news on MJ artists...

Son Volt's Not Done Yet
The Money Shot: "I try to avoid being strident. It seems to turn people away. At most, I'd like to provoke discussion of some things, but it's not like I have answers," he said. Then he chuckled, "As of yet, I haven't been asked to play any peace marches."

Greg Dulli Goes Direct
The Money Shot: "If we sell 5,000 of this ourselves," McPherson says, "it's equivalent to selling 40,000 on a label."

Sleater-Kinney makes music because it's compelled to
The Money Shot: "As far as playing old songs, some don't fit into the set with the new material," Weiss said. "And some we get sick of and move out of rotation, like 'Words and Guitar,' 'I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone,' 'Little Babies.' Some of the big hit songs we get sick of, but they usually come back. We just don't want to play a song because we have to."

Decemberists Happy to Avoid Buzz
The Money Shot: "I think on the last record we established the Decemberists sound. It's exciting to say, here's who we've become. Here are the avenues we can explore. I think we're just looking on the next record to go further. I'm sure it'll backfire and no one will buy it because they'll have only heard the last record and they'll say, 'What the fuck is this? What's this 48-minute jam with a 12-string guitar and flute bullshit? [laughs]"

Kaiser Chiefs Get New Frontman?
The Money Shot: "I'm a big fan of the Kaiser Chiefs but often thought they could do with a better lead singer. Now they're going to have one. I've also been very impressed by my own radio shows but thought that there must be a better presenter available. Now we have one of those as well."

And finally...

Ok, But Where Do I Plug In My Headphones?
The Money Shot: Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman's breast implants. One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person's whole music collection.