Soundloading // Foxfire interview
This week on Soundloading we sit down and speak to the awesome Toronto indie group Foxfire.
www.myspace.com/foxfireforest
SL // Chinese Democracy / Chocolate 7″ / These New Puritans
This week on Soundloading, M.I.A. retires, Chinese Democracy leaked and reviews are mixed, KISS hates the internet, Inner Party System releases their new single on chocolate, and everyone steals a lot of mp3s. Video spotlight on These New Puritans.
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Soundloading…
Watching the Youtube clip above, you might be wondering, where did New Sound Now go? What’s this Soundloading video hinting at? This is not my beautiful wife. This is not my beautiful house. How did I get here?
New Sound Now was always built to be a practice run. It ran 18 episodes and I’m very proud of how it was generally received. Every episode has broken 100 views (some even 200!), and most of them came from the day after it was uploaded, and for a single-camera vlog about a niche topic as music industry op-eds, that’s not bad. Most of the traffic came not from newsoundnow.com or Youtube, but from Radioexile.com, so obviously Shawn M. Smith and everyone there has a lot to do with it’s popularity. When the new show launches, expect the ties between Soundloading.ca and Radioexile.com to become even closer.
So, what’s this Soundloading show? Beginning June 14, you’ll be able to subscribe to two weekly programs, one video (like New Sound Now was) and one audio. Both will perform similar functions. We’ll bring you industry music news like nobody else does, and we’ll still play awesome videos and you can bet your ass we’ll still give you our opinions. There are two major additions. The first is the new host for the video show, Eisee Sylvester. She’s incredibly talented and outspoken, and knows the inside of the music industry incredibly well. The second addition is artist and band interviews, as often as we can book them. We hope that brings in some extra traffic, as well as getting more faces on the show (face it, it was boring after a while looking at my mug).
As well, we’ll have a blog on the website with transcriptions of these interviews, as well as longer op-ed pieces. You’ll be able to comment and add to the discussion and all that Web 2.0 jazz. Speaking of Web 2.0, we’ve already got a Twitter account with major music news, videos, etc. You can start following us here.
Our first show is going to be broadcast on the street during North by Northeast (NXNE), the Canadian equivalent to SXSW. We can’t wait.
New Sound Now // A rant on music reviews
Click here to watch the show, since youtube is being stupid this week.
As an append to this rant, check out Radio Exile to read some of K Sawyer Paul’s most recent album reviews. If that doesn’t paint the rant as somewhat ironic, nothing will.
Cassette Tapes For Crushed Lovers Volume 1
My favorite way to share music online has apparently added WordPress support since I mentioned them a few weeks ago, so to celebrate I’m putting up the first in a line of new online mixtapes from yours truly, Cassette Tapes for Crushed Lovers Volume 1. Enjoy.
No show this week because I’m in Amsterdam, but I miss you so here’s a Muxtape
http://newsoundnow.muxtape.com/
New Sound Now // silent rave, gracenote, rising profits
This week on New Sound Now, K Sawyer Paul talks about silent raves and how they can incite abuse of police power, BBC’s new top-1000 amalgamation engine Sound Index, Sony’s buyout of Gracenote, and a report from the financial times that artists are actually making money off the internet. Crazy, huh? Plus, videos by The Spinto Band, Black Ghosts, Teenagers in Tokyo, and Mates of State.
Links
Woman arrested at a silent rave for doing absolutely nothing
BBC launches Sound Index, an amalgamated top 1000 list of everything that everyone is listening to everywhere.
66% of people don’t care about music downloads on cell phones. At all.
Sony buys Gracenote, the company that automatically labels all your mp3s, for $260 million.
Artists receiving record amounts of royalties, thereby completely disproving the theory that the internet is bleeding artists dry.
videos
Mates of State – Get Better
Teenagers in Tokyo – Very Vampyr
Spinto Band – Summer Grof
The Black Ghosts – I Want Nothing
New Sound Now // Phreak615, bento albums, record store day
This week on New Sound Now, we talk about web streaming for music videos and concerts, sites that say they work in Canada but don’t, Bento boxes of food that looks like album covers, Phreak615’s “hack” on Much Music, and national record store day. Plus, videos by Death Cab, Lykke Li, and American Princes.
Links
Watch the entirety of the Coachella music and arts festival from here.
Pitchfork.tv, an indie video lovers’ dream so far
Pluggedin.com, Will Smith’s new venture to get mainstream music to everyone except everyone outside of America
Edible album art in the form of Bento box designs
Phreak615 “hacks” into Much Music to promote…?
Videos
Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
Lykke Li – I’m Good, I’m Gone
American Princes – Real Love
Spotlight
Greg Wind on National Record Store Day. It’s a great article.
The Record Store Day website.
New Sound Now // The Junos Rant
This week, K Sawyer Paul rants at length about the 2008 Junos awards. Plus, videos by Juno nominees and winners, including Wintersleep, Holy Fuck, Serena Ryder, and Jully Black.
Links
The Juno Awards
Jully Black live from the Junos
Hayden live from the Much Music Video Awards 1997
Videos
Wintersleep – “Weighty Ghost”
Holy Fuck – Lovely Alien
Serena Ryder – “Told You In a Whispered Song”
