Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Money Shot: 4.11.07

Today's headlines...

Scotland's music is taking on the world (Reuters)
The Money Shot: In the past 12 months alone, Paolo Nutini, the Fratellis and the View have all stormed the U.K. charts, while Snow Patrol -- which relocated to Glasgow from its native Northern Ireland -- scored 2006's best-selling U.K. album with "Eyes Open," racking up more than 1.5 million sales, according to the BPI, a U.K. music label trade group.

Bloc Party criticise Pete Doherty (NME)
MS: "Someone like Pete Doherty - his drug-taking and refusal to adhere to a traditional lifestyle - makes people thing that his art is somehow more relevant because he's a fuck-up. It's easier to be a misfit or a dropout than it is to be a genius and actually create something."

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band Ready for New Album? (NME)
MS: Now band guitarist Little Steven Van Zandt has told Spinner a new album could be on its way. "We gotta make a record, which could happen soon," he said. "I don't have any reason to say this other than my own instinct but I just get a vibe it's going to be sooner than later.

Conor Oberst finally emulates the greats by mixing brilliance with bloated bumbling (Village Voice)
MS: More than mere license to loft the mini-fridge through the hotel window or indulge a coke-high hankering for rock 'n' roll oboe, it's a distinction rarely bestowed on the argyle sweater set. Even if it doesn't give credence to the chorus who crowed about Conor being The New Dylan all those years, the big risks, big rewards, and occasional disasters within Cassadaga make it the real deal.

Vox Pop: Please Do Not Remain Seated (Popmatters)
MS: At all three of these concerts, many of the audience members were in their 40s and 50s. Are we to surmise that the majority of middle-aged people simply can not stand for any length of time? I’d like to believe (I need to believe, as I’m a boomlet myself) that boomers are not yet so decrepit that standing for, let’s say, 20 minutes at a time is an extreme sport.

M.I.A. Reveals New Album Name, Release Date (Pitchfork)
MS: Rolling Stone reports that M.I.A.'s hotly anticipated second album will be called Kala and will be in stores June 26 via Interscope.

Hear New Radiohead Material Online!! (Gigwise)
MS: “This is what happens when you spend too long listening to the same thing over and over again until you just cant tell anymore and you have to do something else instead."

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