Give Grime A Chance

According to AbsolutePunk.com, Myspace.com has no love for independent labels:

Colin & Myspace,

This last incident of *****'s advertising being booted without notice in place of a larger companies advertising is most unfortunate.

We booked this advertising far in advance (January 7th according to insertion order), cut that amount out of the rest of our advertising budget and looked forward to a successful campaign. Then the time our advertising is to run comes and goes and we do not see the full campaign we booked. We find out after the fact, that we received only 1/3rd the advertising we had been billed for and that the other 2/3rds was given to a larger company because they had bid on it then and there. We were given no notice and had no time to allot this amount of our advertising budget elsewhere. We were not even offered the opportunity to match their price. One part of our wide reaching marketing plan was foiled and can never be gained back. It was set up specifically to hit on the release date of *****, which had our largest marketing plan to date.

Damn you Tom! Read more about the rest of the rant here.

New Weezer album cover in hi-res. The new album Make Believe will be released on 4/10. Be sure to purchase your tickets to the May 10th show at Electric Factory in Philly cause the Roseland shows are SOLD OUT. Tickets for the Electric Factory show will go on sale on 4/8 at 8:00. All things Weezer can be found on Albumfive.com. We cannot wait to hear their Toni Braxton cover of 'Unbreak My Heart.'

Fischerspooner will have a record release party in Williamsburg on 4/7 at FS Studios
Excellent Workshop Salon (110 North 1st Street, Williamsburg, NY 11211). Fischerspooner will make appearances at the LA party and maybe the New York one. All events are open to the public on a first come first serve basis. Check out the flyer.

New Gorillaz teaser video for "Feel Good Inc." is availble for viewing WMA | REAL. The Full lenght video is now available WMA | REAL (high)
[New Working Full Video!]

Stream "Some Cities EPK" by Doves WMA | QT | Real (High).

View the Bloc Party's video for "Little Thoughts" here.

We decided to give Grime a chance. Listen to Dizzee Rascal's Respect Us (Crunk & Grime Mix).mp3 by DJ Semtex.

The following names have one thing in common.

• Eric and Rakim
• Kool Moe Dee
• LL Cool J
• EPMD
• Fresh Prince

You can view all their video's here.

From Good Times Roll comes this news about a music panel at Columbia:

Noise from Underground:
Pop Criticism and Cred in the Era of MP3s, Zines, and Blogs
March 29, 2005; 6:30 pm

Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism Lecture Hall, Third Floor
116th Street and Broadway
Admission free

STREAMING AUDIO AND MP3S ARE TRANSFORMING POP MUSIC, from indie-rock to hip hop. But what about those newly minted Web zines, blogs, and alt glossies poking into every nook and cranny of the music world? While the mainstream seems content to leaf through Rolling Stone and channel surf from MTV to VH1, these do-it-yourself publishing channels are busy creating a bewildering amount of chatter about music and contemporary culture.

These days, every aspiring pop critic can create his or her own soapbox. The resulting atmosphere is as fragmented as it is high-speed: A blogger shows up at a club, orders a beer, and reviews a show in real time. New trends break at a faster clip than ever before. How can anyone keep up? And which critical voice do you trust?

For the independent publisher, the zinester, the online gawker, the vintage vinyl collector, or the unknown turntablist, credibility remains the coin of the realm. Cred, after all, is what makes the underground so underground. But do these new voices ever permeate the mainstream? Are they gunning to take over? Are they speaking a new language of pop criticism? Or merely talking among themselves?

Bringing together writers, editors, and musicians, “Noise from Underground” is a welcome conversation about the present-day pop criticism whirlwind -- and whether cred is even cool anymore.

Moderator: Sasha Frere Jones, pop music critic, The New Yorker

Panelists: Watch for details on panel makeup, which will include critics, ‘zine editors, bloggers, musicians and observers both underground and mainstream.

Tunde Adebimpe, musician, TV on the Radio (Touch and Go Records)
Anthony DeCurtis, contributing editor, Rolling Stone; executive editor, Tracks; editor of "Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture" and author of "Rocking My Life Away"

Amy Phillips, blogger, More in the Monitor
Knox Robinson, editor in chief, The Fader
Brandon Wall, editor in chief, Prefix
Michael Azerrad, author of “Our Band Could Be Your Life” and editor in chief, emusic.com

We would have loved to go but we rarely get back to NYC before 7:15pm. We suggest you go if you can.
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