A few years ago I read an article somewhere that said record labels were preparing to make a lot of their out-of-print albums available for sale as mp3 downloads. This was exciting news to me, and visions of the Iron City Houserockers, Payola$, and Fleshtones catalogs were dancing in my head.
I don’t know the legal [...]
Twenty-five years?? Man, that’s disturbing. If I’d purchased a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a record, back when I first started getting into music, it would’ve been from the pre-rock era.
So, theoretically, a budding young hipster of today might look at this iconic album the same way we looked at Nat King Cole, or Patti Page, [...]
On Tuesday evening PBS will air the BBC documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives. It is an excellent film, about Eels frontman Mark Everett’s search for information about his deceased, math genius father. I know, it sounds a little odd, and it is. But I saw it prior to an Eels show in Philadelphia earlier [...]