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Posted Aug. 30, 2007,
PJ Harvey's Playing on a Coast Near You!
By Alexis Swerdloff
We're quite excited for PJ Harvey's forthcoming album White Chalk, which is out September 25th... it's been a three years since her last album and it's time we had some more PJ in our lives. In any case, for a while there, she had only confirmed a few shows in the UK, and just this second I got an email confirming two shows here in the States! She'll be playing on October 10th at the Beacon Theatre here in NYC and on October 15th at the Orpheum in L.A. Mark your calendars: Tickets go on sale September 7th!
Check out the video above, in which she sings "When Under Ether," a song from "White Chalk," at the Copenhagen Opera House.
Posted Jun. 28, 2007,
An Open Letter From Grizzly Bear
By Shanon Kelley
Grizzly Bear just posted this bulletin on MySpace:
I'm so very annoyed about the state of touring and selling your own T shirts. Essentially here's the deal. I'm MORTIFIED that our T shirts were sold last night for 25 dollars. That's just wrong. But guess what, we had ZERO choice. The venue FORCED US TO SELL IT FOR THAT and to boot they wouldn't allow us to get behind the table and sell it.
Essentially the bigger venues you play the more greedy they become and they start taking 25-35% of your merch. This of course forces bands to sell their stuff for higher. Taking into consideration of course that American Apparel shirts are not cheap and the taxes and screen printing fees and shipping fees. When a venue takes 35% of your T shirt sales you essentially make no money unless you raise the price 5 bucks.
Posted Apr. 17, 2007,
Lily Allen Cancels North American Tour
By Shanon Kelley
The music community is all a buzz buzz buzz about Lily Allen, who just cancelled pretty much all of her North American tour. There have been rumors for a while concerning her immense home-sickness and reluctance to completely devote herself to her "music career," but this seals the deal. She wrote on her MySpace page the following:
"Hey Guys, I'm writing to tell you that I have cancelled many of my May and June tour commitments in America. The reason for this, is because my mummy and daddy are very rich, and I have never been in a position where i have actually had to do any hard work before. I thought that being a popstar meant going out getting trashed with famous people and sleeping in all day. The fact that this is not true has come as a huge dissapiontment [sic] to me, and as a result I am throwing the towel in.
No but seriously, I have been on tour with this album for a year now, I have fulfilled every commitment up to this point. I am tired, but more than that I don't think I have been giving my best performances recently. I have been getting really drunk because i've been so nervous about doing bad shows, and I don't want people spending money on a going to see a show that isn't the best it could be. I am not falling apart at the seems, I am not suffering with exhaustion, I am not pregnant, and I am not going to rehab. I will be here in America, promoting the album and also starting to write the second album, which I am beyond excited about. The LA and New York shows will still be happening, and I am still playing Coachella and Bonaroo and all the other festivals.
I'd like to apologise [sic] to anyone who has bought tickets, but you can get your money back, if you take 'em back to the place you bought them from."
And there you have it!
Photo by Dan Monick