I’ve said here a few times that I’m not a big fan of M Ward. I’m also not a big Norah Jones fan. But this show is very good. It’s a short, sweet set, chock full of duets and covers.
Whaddya’ll think?
2 Guess Things Happen That Way (w/Norah Jones)
3 One Life Away (w/Nora Jones)
5 When I Saw You (The Ronettes)
8 Someday (Louis Armstrong cover)
9. A Sentimental Blues (with Adam Levy)
10 Undertaker
- The Pixies, live, 9/1989
Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)-Pixies
- IN THE NEWS:
Trent Reznor speaks on illegal downloading:
As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. A couple of examples that quickly come to mind:
* The ABSURD retail pricing of Year Zero in Australia. Shame on you, UMG. Year Zero is selling for $34.99 Australian dollars ($29.10 US). No wonder people steal music. Avril Lavigne’s record in the same store was $21.99 ($18.21 US).
By the way, when I asked a label rep about this his response was: “It’s because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out - you know, true fans. It’s the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy.”
So… I guess as a reward for being a “true fan” you get ripped off.* The dreaded EURO Maxi-single. Nothing but a consumer rip-off that I’ve been talked into my whole career. No more.
The point is, I am trying my best to make sure the music and items NIN puts in the marketplace have value, substance and are worth you considering purchasing. I am not allowing Capital G to be repackaged into several configurations that result in you getting ripped off.
May 15, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Sorry, I’d like to believe you Trent, but YOU signed the record contract. You can go totally independant if you really want to. Plenty of artists do and make a nice living from it. You make great music, so why let record company hacks control your product. Do it yourself or have someone you trust do it for you.
May 15, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Getting your music out to a big audience sometime necessitates dealing with big labels so, ya really cant fault him on that one.
He makes great music and is setting an example for other artists to follow..
May 15, 2007 at 11:59 pm
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May 16, 2007 at 1:18 am
Trent is right, but it wall upon deaf airs - the Recording Industry are worse than the mob. Here is what Peter Noone of the 60s Herman’s Hermits emailed Bob Lefsetz with yesterday - and he was in a band that had a string of number one hits in his day:
“Wonder if anyone ever even got a royalty statement from my record company?
We never ever got one. (Herman’s Hermits). Apparently one was mailed in 1967 but it still hasn’t arrived.
I bet we sold a few records once upon a time. Maybe you bought one thinking that one of the Hermits or Herman himself would get a nickel or something? I just saw someone mention $1.40. That is more than we got for ALL our combined sales.
We all made records because we wanted to make records. Who knew that there were people waiting to steal all our work and buy houses and pay for bar mitzvahs for people we would never meet? I am proud to say I never made a record for money. That’s the way it was back then.”
May 18, 2007 at 5:52 am
Thank you so so so so so much for the mward show