In addition to possibly selling off its distribution business, British equity group Terra Firma may try and cut the budget of recent acquisition EMI by slashing the employment rolls at its recorded music and publishing divisions. Just in time for the holiday season! More »
In addition to possibly selling off its distribution business, British equity group Terra Firma may try and cut the budget of recent acquisition EMI by slashing the employment rolls at its recorded music and publishing divisions. Just in time for the holiday season! More »
In addition to their December reunion shows, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are “going into the studio to record three new songs, and they plan to release them (along with previously unreleased material and vinyl B-sides) on a CD called Medium Rare.” My plaid heart just skipped a beat. More »
In addition to their December reunion shows, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are “going into the studio to record three new songs, and they plan to release them (along with previously unreleased material and vinyl B-sides) on a CD called Medium Rare.” My plaid heart just skipped a beat. More »
It’s Halloween! The most awesomest holiday of the year. Mostly because it’s 8:16 a.m. and I’ve already ripped open the econo-sized bags of tiny Snickers. More »
Bummed (like us) that your ghouls night out got cancelled at the last minute? Stuck fending off ungrateful brats in costumes? Stomachache from binging on three-for-one sacks of discount candy from Wal-Mart? More »
Kansas City’s KCKC flipped its format to all-Christmas music today, despite it being a) 60 degrees and sunny in the area and b) October. The switch is the latest chapter in a holiday-music rivalry KCKC has with fellow soft-rock trafficker KUDL; the Kansas City Star news item announcing the format switch was accompanied by a chart outlining just how obscenely early in the year each station made the soft-rock to snow-rock change. (Last year, KUDL went all-Christmas on Nov. 1; presumably the KCKC higher-ups thought they would fake everyone out by switching today.) And just when you think it can’t get any sillier, KCKC’s Wikipedia page further fleshes out how the two stations have engaged in Christmas warfare over the years:
Radiohead has confirmed that In Rainbows will get a boring old CD release in territories outside North America via XL Recordings, which put out Thom Yorke’s The Eraser last year. No details on a release for the U.S. have been announced yet. More »
Radiohead has confirmed that In Rainbows will get a boring old CD release in territories outside North America via XL Recordings, which put out Thom Yorke’s The Eraser last year. No details on a release for the U.S. have been announced yet. More »
