The Modern Age

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 [...]

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In other Stolen Transmission news, Ultra is famous. Check out the Marc Spitz-penned profile of her in the music issue of Vanity Fair.

The music industry is such a weird place. Why is it that it’s perfectly legitimate to use your naughty bits to sell records? For most people posing in compromising positions is a way to get yourself fired, not a raise. This totally came to mind when I was reading this New York Times article today.
To [...]

Wow, someone at Rough Trade finally had it up to here with Pete Doherty and now his band, Babyshambles, has been officially droped from the RT roster. Apparently Rough Trade can handle a lot of things, but squirting a MTV camera crew with blood from a syringe is not one of them.
In related news, Pete’s [...]

This just in, Surefire has just signed an indie deal to Lizard King Records! You may know Lizard King as the first people who signed this little band you might have heard of called…The Killers. Look out for a Surefire single to come out in the UK sometime this year.
Congrats kids!

Check out this awesome interview with internationally known dance music DJ Pete Tong from Wired. He has some really interesting things to say about how technology is affecting the art of djing, how aspiring spinners can start gaining a following, and what Apple needs to do in order to keep folks like him feeling good [...]

This made our month.
In their first proper interview of 2004, The White Stripes talk to the Observer about their formerly friendly Detroit comrads, why they dislike America, and why they just might move away from their hometown.
The highlights from the interview by Andrew Perry:
Jack on Jim Diamond: “Some people, you realise that they’re looking at [...]