Interview with Kurt Cobain’s Manager, Danny Goldberg

I was reading an interesting interview with Kurt Cobain’s manager, Danny Goldberg.  Here is a little piece that really caught my eye:

He’s the most talented person I ever worked with because he was talented in so many different ways. He’s a guitar player and a lead singer and he wrote all the songs. He did everything for Nirvana that it took Jimmy Page and Robert Plant to do for Led Zeppelin. Kurt also designed the album covers and wrote treatments for the videos. He even designed the t-shirts. He was really a comprehensive genius when it came to the art of rock and roll. As an artist he was the most talented and as a person he was the most tragic. I never worked with anyone who killed themselves, before or since. It’s just a terrible feeling and a terrible loss. I’ll never get over it.

Read the full article here.

Bon Iver

Go buy the album now. Amazing.

Anodyne

Still one of the better alt-country albums i’ve ever heard in my life.  I’ve been on a huge Jeff Tweedy kick lately. Please, Please, Please check this album out.

Sony Walkman Ads

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Australia
Creative Director: Steve Back
Art Director: Eron Broughton
Copywriter: Steve May
Illustrator: Electric Art
Production: Jeremy DeVilliers

Sorry for the lack of posts… evacuation from new orleans, eighteen hour semester, blah.

New Kings of Leon Single

Check out the new Kings of Leon single “Sex On Fire”. Kings have also released tour dates and more information on their upcoming album.

Only by the Night:

01 Closer
02 Crawl
03 Sex on Fire
04 Use Somebody
05 Manhattan
06 Revelry
07 17
08 Notion
09 I Want You
10 Be Somebody
11 Cold Desert

Kings of Leon:

08-09 Jersey City, NJ – Liberty State Park (All Points West Festival)
08-14 London, England – Brixton Academy
08-16 Staffordshire, England – V Festival
08-17 Chelmsford, England – V Festival
09-23 New York, NY – Webster Hall *
10-11 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint #^
10-12 San Diego, CA – House of Blues #^
10-15 Los Angeles, CA – Nokia Theatre #^
10-17 San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre #^
10-18 San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre #^
10-20 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre #^
10-21 Portland, OR – Schnitzer Hall #^
10-23 Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium #^
10-25 Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall #^
10-26 Oklahoma City, OK – Bricktown Events Center #^
10-28 Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theater #^
10-29 Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom #^
10-31 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom #^
11-01 Minneapolis, MN – Orpheum Theatre *^
11-03 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant *^
11-05 Milwaukee, WI – The Eagles Ballroom *^
11-07 Toronto, Ontario – Kool Haus *^
11-08 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore *^
11-10 Washington, DC – DAR Constitution Hall *^
11-12 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre *^
11-15 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory Ballroom *^
11-18 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle *^
11-19 Nashville, TN – Municipal Auditorium *^
12-01 Brighton, England – Brighton Centre
12-02 Nottingham, England – Trent FM Arena
12-04 Newcastle, England – Metro Radio Arena
12-05 Sheffield, England – Sheffield Arena
12-07 Glasgow, Scotland – S.E.C.C.
12-08 Liverpool, England – Echo Arena
12-10 Birmingham, England – National Indoor Arena
12-11 London, England – O2 Arena
12-14 Bournemouth, England – International Centre
12-16 Manchester, England – Evening News Arena
12-17 Cardiff, Wales – International Arena
12-22 London, England – Wembley Arena

* with the Whigs
# with the Stills
^ with We Are Scientists

Download Radiohead Lollapalooza Set

Enjoy.

Make sure to check out the Wilco video in my previous post.

Wilco @ Lollapalooza

Click here for full Wilco set @ Lollapalooza. Enjoy

House of Cards Video

Making of House of Cards:

Music Video:

Trent Reznor Does it Again

Trent Reznor does it again.  To kick off the band’s upcoming tour, Nine Inch Nails decided to hold an exclusive concert in Los Angeles on July 19.  A few weeks ago, Trent Reznor posted a file to the NIN website with tour locations that could be opened with the Google Earth app.  With these locations, Trent sent some of his craziest fans on a treasure hunt to find hidden envelopes with guest passes to the Los Angeles show.

That event kicked off a viral campaign that puts fans in treasure-hunt scenarios, but with the pressure-cooker timing of an episode of “24.” Trent Reznor and Co. have a reputation for these unusual stunts. The band launched an alternate reality game in 2007 for its “Year Zero” album. That adventure sent fans digging through a digital trail of cryptic websites, calling phone numbers and analyzing digital files found on memory sticks in concert venue bathrooms.

Thanks, Nick. For more information read the article.

Listening Post’s Top 10 Hottest Music Sites

WIRED.com lists the top ten hottest music sites.  Check them out.

Change is the only constant in the music business, and that goes double for the digital music business. Nonetheless, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 hottest digital music websites in the world.

Criteria were simple and admittedly subjective: Sites were chosen based not only on what they currently do for music fans, but also on their potential to impact the future development of the music industry. Based on how things go with the first iteration, this list could be updated periodically and opened for voting.