"And could you draw us with some picture-perfect friends?" - Say Hi To Your Mom.
Things are pretty slow right now. In lieu of actual content tonight we'll just share our forthcoming schedule: Due to various weddings and vacations, Clicky Clicky will be off-line from the 8th to the 18th of July. During which time we will not be seeing Dinosaur Jr., or attending Pfork's Intonation festival, or a number of other things. Instead we'll be sitting on a beach and drinking beer and reading and listening to music for most of that time. There'll probably be a few more posts in the coming week, but let's not expect any miracles.
Cleaning out the Inbox, then:
You may not know that The Postman, a.k.a. the one-time Kam Fong bassist Ryan Widger, is a talented photographer. He has a new Internet Home Page here. Dig it. We think we'll post a picture of Widger rocking out some 9 years ago in a few minutes. So check back.
That is all.
June 29, 2005
June 28, 2005
"I've been home, I've been out, something's kept it from its rout." - Superchunk.
Tiny Mix Tapes has a surprisingly lucid and intelligent wrap on what the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al. decision means. Worth reading, with some pretty good context and analysis. As predicted, Coolfer wraps up the decision with pizzazz here, and links to Mark Cuban's blog where the man who made a gajillion zillion American dollars selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo makes a very, very interesting and under-reported observation about the importance of the decision to the financial markets: "Not one buyer or seller of stocks gave a damn."
Elsewhere:
Bono Vox sues stylist. Article provides useful metric for many reasons why the corporate rock and roll business is lame.
Nike apologizes for ripping off Ian Mackaye, but does not apologize for using sweatshop labor to pad its margins, engorge profits and make the rich richer. Way to go, Nike. You rule. On the bright side, the whole affair spurred what many are calling the best ILM thread in years:
"Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers."
Related threads:
"[L]ist other Dischord bands/slogans that can be appropriated for advertising purposes."
"Nike Apologizes to Minor Threat; Announces Replacement Campaign, 'In on the Thrill-Maker'"
That is all.
Tiny Mix Tapes has a surprisingly lucid and intelligent wrap on what the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al. decision means. Worth reading, with some pretty good context and analysis. As predicted, Coolfer wraps up the decision with pizzazz here, and links to Mark Cuban's blog where the man who made a gajillion zillion American dollars selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo makes a very, very interesting and under-reported observation about the importance of the decision to the financial markets: "Not one buyer or seller of stocks gave a damn."
Elsewhere:
Bono Vox sues stylist. Article provides useful metric for many reasons why the corporate rock and roll business is lame.
Nike apologizes for ripping off Ian Mackaye, but does not apologize for using sweatshop labor to pad its margins, engorge profits and make the rich richer. Way to go, Nike. You rule. On the bright side, the whole affair spurred what many are calling the best ILM thread in years:
"Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers."
Related threads:
"[L]ist other Dischord bands/slogans that can be appropriated for advertising purposes."
"Nike Apologizes to Minor Threat; Announces Replacement Campaign, 'In on the Thrill-Maker'"
That is all.
June 27, 2005
"I'm never ready to go." - Ryan Adams.
OK, we're all caught up. Look for our review of the recently released Say Hi To Your Mom record and Ghostly International's Spectral Sound Vol. 1 compilation (click the link -- the site is kinda nifty), which streets tomorrow, to be published between the pages of Junkmedia.org in the coming weeks. While you're at it, why not check out the page where we've archived all the links to all the reviews we've written in the last three years or so.
The Grokster decision came down today, in case you live under a rock. Plenty of other places will wrap up the details for you, we'd suggest Googling it or hitting Coolfer, which will likely do a wrap on coverage soon. We'd just like to stress to all the paranoid stoners and giddy teens out there that there is a difference between "can be found liable" and "is liable."
Follow Up: A very solid source wrote in to say that our back-of-the-envelop figuring on how the spoils of a digital music file sale are divided, particularly with respects to indie labels that use the services of IODA, were pretty off. When we learn more we'll pass on what we can. Our interest in this is basically a vestige of our time logged workin at The 'Noize, but that interest hasn't really waned. The sign says "Will Write For Money." Well, that's what the sign would say if we had a sign.
That is all.
OK, we're all caught up. Look for our review of the recently released Say Hi To Your Mom record and Ghostly International's Spectral Sound Vol. 1 compilation (click the link -- the site is kinda nifty), which streets tomorrow, to be published between the pages of Junkmedia.org in the coming weeks. While you're at it, why not check out the page where we've archived all the links to all the reviews we've written in the last three years or so.
The Grokster decision came down today, in case you live under a rock. Plenty of other places will wrap up the details for you, we'd suggest Googling it or hitting Coolfer, which will likely do a wrap on coverage soon. We'd just like to stress to all the paranoid stoners and giddy teens out there that there is a difference between "can be found liable" and "is liable."
Follow Up: A very solid source wrote in to say that our back-of-the-envelop figuring on how the spoils of a digital music file sale are divided, particularly with respects to indie labels that use the services of IODA, were pretty off. When we learn more we'll pass on what we can. Our interest in this is basically a vestige of our time logged workin at The 'Noize, but that interest hasn't really waned. The sign says "Will Write For Money." Well, that's what the sign would say if we had a sign.
That is all.
June 23, 2005
"Yeah, hi Howard I'm back, and the other kids quit." - Small Factory.
We're offline from now until we can get caught up on our CD reviews. We need another rainy weekend to really get in a groove, but since that doesn't appear to be in the cards, we'll just have to work extra hard to get back on the stick. Four more discs came through the door today, making the pile pile still higher.
Not that we'll leave you empty-handed:
We've always loved Wayne Rosso for making the unequivocally provocative statement, and it is nice he's still keeping the "digital music space" interesting. Speaking in regards to Mashboxx, a P2P service he has gotten behind, Rosso goes straight to the heart of the matter: "It's highly unlikely that any Mashboxx user is going to be sued." The Grokster decision is expected soon, so expect to see many more Rosso quotes when the decision is issued.
That is all.
We're offline from now until we can get caught up on our CD reviews. We need another rainy weekend to really get in a groove, but since that doesn't appear to be in the cards, we'll just have to work extra hard to get back on the stick. Four more discs came through the door today, making the pile pile still higher.
Not that we'll leave you empty-handed:
We've always loved Wayne Rosso for making the unequivocally provocative statement, and it is nice he's still keeping the "digital music space" interesting. Speaking in regards to Mashboxx, a P2P service he has gotten behind, Rosso goes straight to the heart of the matter: "It's highly unlikely that any Mashboxx user is going to be sued." The Grokster decision is expected soon, so expect to see many more Rosso quotes when the decision is issued.
That is all.
June 22, 2005
"Your stockings had barely reached your knee before I knew..." - Karl Hendricks Trio.
Just a couple quick ones tonight:
Again, more interesting numbers, this time from Tiny Mix Tapes. While the figure isn't sourced at all, we have no reason to disbelieve TMT's claim that currently ITunes "in the U.S returns 60% of its revenue back to the major labels, but only 50% to the indies." That makes the slices of pie we mentally figured in our IODA discussion last month or the month before that much smaller for indie bands and labels the digital music provider works with -- through not fault of IODA, of course.
[Brief Aside: TMT also mentions a band in another post with a name we've been sitting on ever since reading and loving the Haruki Murakami book that inspired it about 8 years ago: The Wind-Up Birds. Oh well. We probably don't have too many more bands in us at this point anyway.]
So say a digital download costs an even dollar. Apparently 50 cents of that goes back to the indie label (60 cents if you are a major). Then we know from one of our friendly label heads that IODA takes 15%, of course we don't know whether that is 15% of the gross song price or 15% of the label's take. But we assume it is the latter. So then IODA gets 7.5 cents for the sale. Seems like a nice fair piece of the pie, and well worth it according to our source. Now would someone hurry up and get the Simple Machines catalog online for crying out loud!
SVC has a really great post that casts J Mascis and Kevin Shields as Highlander-type superheroes. Includes a hysterical mock-up of Mascis as a (or The? I don't remember how the mythos went in that movie any more) Highlander.
That is all.
Just a couple quick ones tonight:
Again, more interesting numbers, this time from Tiny Mix Tapes. While the figure isn't sourced at all, we have no reason to disbelieve TMT's claim that currently ITunes "in the U.S returns 60% of its revenue back to the major labels, but only 50% to the indies." That makes the slices of pie we mentally figured in our IODA discussion last month or the month before that much smaller for indie bands and labels the digital music provider works with -- through not fault of IODA, of course.
[Brief Aside: TMT also mentions a band in another post with a name we've been sitting on ever since reading and loving the Haruki Murakami book that inspired it about 8 years ago: The Wind-Up Birds. Oh well. We probably don't have too many more bands in us at this point anyway.]
So say a digital download costs an even dollar. Apparently 50 cents of that goes back to the indie label (60 cents if you are a major). Then we know from one of our friendly label heads that IODA takes 15%, of course we don't know whether that is 15% of the gross song price or 15% of the label's take. But we assume it is the latter. So then IODA gets 7.5 cents for the sale. Seems like a nice fair piece of the pie, and well worth it according to our source. Now would someone hurry up and get the Simple Machines catalog online for crying out loud!
SVC has a really great post that casts J Mascis and Kevin Shields as Highlander-type superheroes. Includes a hysterical mock-up of Mascis as a (or The? I don't remember how the mythos went in that movie any more) Highlander.
That is all.
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