The Modern Age

The Stripey love of the UK continues, with a very special release of “Rag and Bone,” the first release of material off of Icky Thump, being distributed free with an issue of NME on June 6.
According to NME:
The track will be pressed onto red vinyl, while the flipside will feature a etching designed exclusively by [...]

Jasper pointed me out to an excellent post that he did today about the release of a remastered edition of The Henchmen’s album Hentch-Forth along with the four tracks off their “Some Other Guy” 7″ and an alternate take of “Psycho Daisies”…all on (get this!) some newfangled technology they call “compact disc” on Italy [...]

Meg and Jack White of the White Stripes have confirmed their new home — Warner Brother Records. According to NME:
“The new contract is for a one-album deal and, unlike their V2 contract, does not involve Jack White’s label Third Man”
Poor little Whirlwind Heat.
No word on whether the deal netted the rumored 3-4 million dollar price [...]

Rejoice! You can all go to sleep in peace knowing the fact that Pete Doherty’s band, Babyshambles, has found a new sucker in record label Parlophone, which has agreed to finance and distribute 3 of their future albums for a reported 1 million GBP.
Says Parlophone managing director, Miles Leonard, “Babyshambles, justifiably, have a great reputation [...]

According to the Associated Press, “independent record labels behind artists like The White Stripes (on British label The Beggars Group), Deep Purple and Arctic Monkeys announced a global deal Saturday to pool access to their catalogs, seeking to grab a bigger share of online music sales from the major record companies.”
The companies have signed up [...]

Many of you saw this coming, but now it’s offical–V2 Records as a label distributing new music is NO MORE (link from BV). Artists on its roster like Moby and The Raconteurs will no longer be able to release new music on the label. It is believed that 35 people have been let go from [...]

So as you might have noticed, for the last few months I’ve been Captain Super Boring, rarely going out to see *gasp* concerts and even less frequently going to dance/club nights of my friends. On one hand that makes me feel like a bad person, on the other hand I am an old lady and [...]

Time Out New York’s latest issue takes New York critics to task by dissecting their knowledge, style, taste, and influence and ranking them.
For music critics, The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones comes out on top, with a 4.98, and New York Times critic (and favorite TMA villian–yup, still pissed about that Strokes review like 3 years [...]

Check out the latest issue of Time Out New York featuring some familiar faces as part of a story called “The Closet Will Rock” which dresses up music industry professionals in clothing designed by musicians. Link from the Imaginary Socialite.

NOTE: This is the first part in my much delayed “who knows how long this is going to take” series on my concert-going experience at the Iceland Airwaves festival this year in Reykjavik (yes, I finally learned how to spell it without looking it up), Iceland. Enjoy!
OCTOBER 19, 2006
Yesterday I go into town somewhere between [...]