Rick McLaughlin | Bassist
Noteworthy
Yes, the blog has been a little quiet recently. It’s not for wont of cool stories, that’s for sure. Actually, I am working on several larger pieces, so that’s where my time has been spent in the past week or so. But the world doesn’t stop to wait for me, as it turns out, and [...]
Listening to Planet Earth
Prince’s recent marketing strategies have been impossible to miss. I wrote about it, it made the news everywhere, bloggers worldwide wrote about it. It’s huge. Turns out that the reviews of the music have been mixed. Pitchfork describes the problem with reviewing a Prince CD thus: We always expect too much of Prince, because it’s [...]
Shapes and Sizes
Over at Open Your Eyes, a music blog, Peter posted the following (try saying that three times fast): The Taste In My Mouth – Shapes and Sizes I don’t know what it is about this song, but it has completely taken over me. It doesn’t even feel like a song, more like a painful memory, [...]
A Couple of Stories and a Diversion
It’s been a tough week, let me just say that. The two most interesting topics are still:
The Decemberists and The Church
Who said that The Decemberists sound like The Church? Well, I did in that first sentence.
A New World Now
It’s not really news anymore that Paul McCartney put out his newest CD, Memory Almost Full, on Starbucks’ Hear Music record label. The thing that struck me was his quote in the press release. He said: It’s a new world now and people are thinking of new ways to reach the people.
Internet Radio In Survival Mode
It should be pretty obvious by now to those reading my recent posts, to those who know me, and to anyone who is paying attention, Internet radio has been in big trouble in the past few weeks. New royalty rates designed by the copyright royalty board with heavy lobbying from SoundExchange gave Internet radio stations [...]
Speaking of Wilco
So, VW announced a new arrangement with Wilco, which is great. Moments before I heard about it, my wife sent me a link to this Wilco footage from their new CD, Sky Blue Sky, a tune called You are My Face: Powered by AOL Video It rocks. Really. I mean, Wilco has been great for [...]
VW & Wilco
Volkswagon announced today that they have licensed the entire contents of the new Wilco CD, Sky Blue Sky. They claim that this is, “the first time anyone has ever used one album as a soundtrack for an entire TV campaign.” Congrats. I’m hard pressed to think of an example that puts that little fact into [...]
Future of Music vs. Clear Channel
Hello everyone, There are a few stories that have been catching my attention recently. Things like the AARP’s recent announcement and the impending death of Internet radio, well they are just super important to me. This week, the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) is blogging on what Clear Channel Entertainment is doing with Indie artists, [...]
