Feb 24 2006

And now, for some anti-corporate information….

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 14:11

Yes, this too comes from Pitchfork. What can I say? I wish I could find a forum for MY smart and sassy writing.

Best Buy to Indies: Drop Dead

Mairead Case reports:
On January 24, Best Buy announced its latest promotion: a sale on a handful of albums from “left of the dial indie heroes,” such as the Arcade Fire, Cat Power, Danger Doom, Antony & the Johnsons, Atmosphere, New Pornographers, and Broken Social Scene– all listed at the obscenely low price of $7.99. Yes, that’s cheaper than every other store on the planet, including iTunes. In fact, it’s cheaper than distribution wholesale.

How can Best Buy get away with that? Isn’t that illegal or something? Well, no. Continue reading “And now, for some anti-corporate information….”

Feb 24 2006

What is this? More liberal propaganda on this guy’s site??

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 14:06

Once again, music and culture news via my hipster site of choice Pitchfork. After awhile, I hope, you’ll just all start reading their site and stop worrying about what I post from them. At least, that’s my hope…. Unless i can get hired by them…. Anyway, read with me!

Devendra, Bright Eyes, Stipe Rock Against War

Kati Llewellyn reports:
The anti-war movement just got a whole lot cooler. Billboard.com reported yesterday that R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Devendra Banhart, Rufus Wainwright, Fischerspooner, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, and Peaches have signed on for the “Bring ‘Em Home Now” benefit concert, which will take place at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on March 20. It will commemorate the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and will raise funds for Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace.

Activist mom Cindy Sheehan will speak at the show, setting the stage for her 15-date April speaking tour with authors yet to be announced. Jaeane Garofalo’s Air America Radio show “The Majority Report” will broadcast live from the concert and will run interviews with its artists.

Fischerspooner’s Casey Spooner told Billboard, “We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.”

Whether or not performing electroclash songs while dressed up as extras from the musical Cats will bring about such truth remains to be seen.

* Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://www.ivaw.net/
* Veterans for Peace: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/