Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles invite you to check out their brand new music video, which is premiering exclusively on ArtistDirect! The video features the band’s latest single, “Stop and Think It Over” from their 2007 release “Diamonds in the Dark”.
“For the theme of the video, we tried to marry the 60’s rock-cool mentality of the Ronettes with the dark and stormy vibe of a bar after hours,” explains Sarah.
The video was filmed on location at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the legendary music venue where Sarah and the band first broke onto the scene. In a dramatic homecoming, the band recently returned to the Lizard Lounge to play two sold-out shows while treating their dedicated fans to an exclusive pre-screening of the new video. It’s now available for the rest of us, exclusively at ArtistDirect:
WHAT: Ringo Starr & Dave Stewart and band will perform a short set of Ringo’s songs LIVE at an exclusive event celebrating the release of Ringo’s new Capitol/EMI album, Liverpool 8!
WHEN & WHERE: 1pm PST on Friday, January 25 at Los Angeles’ House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. & LIVE webcast on Ringo’s official site
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THE PARTY:
Amoeba Music in Hollywood and Los Angeles’ KLOS 95.5 FM are giving you a chance to ‘bypass the line’ and guarantee your entry!
** Beginning Tuesday, January 22, while supplies last, purchase Ringo Starr’s Liverpool 8 on CD or USB wristband at Amoeba Music in Hollywood to receive one ‘bypass the line’ pass to guarantee your entry into the party!
One non-transferable ‘bypass the line’ guaranteed entry pass per Liverpool 8 CD or USB wristband purchase. Limit 2 per customer. Offer is valid while supplies last. Name on pass must match ID for entry. Pass void if transferred, altered or otherwise tampered with.
** Los Angeles’ KLOS 95.5 FM is the only radio station giving fans the chance to bypass the line for guaranteed entry to Ringo Starr’s Liverpool 8 album release celebration at the House of Blues. Tune in to KLOS all week for a chance to call in and win a pair of passes to ‘bypass the line’ and celebrate with Ringo Starr!
** Fans without ‘bypass the line’ passes from Amoeba Music or KLOS are welcome to begin lining up at 9am on Friday morning outside the House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. for a chance to be admitted to the event, space permitting. Due to capacity restrictions, there is no guarantee that fans without ‘bypass the line’ passes will be admitted, but we will do our best!
Event is all-ages. Doors open at 11am. Performance at 1pm.
ALL PASS-HOLDERS: ARRIVE NO LATER THAN NOON FOR GUARANTEED ENTRY TO EVENT.
IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE PARTY IN PERSON, ALL IS NOT LOST!
** We hope you can join us for the free LIVE webcast at Ringo Starr’s official site: www.ringostarr.com! Log on to the site on Friday for the 1pm PT (4pm ET) LIVE webcast of Ringo’s Liverpool 8 celebration!
Sally Anthony, the Midwest’s favorite anti-princess, has just released the second single “So Long” off her CD Goodbye. It’s a moving video, certainly a powerful message about her views of the good and bad about America and the forces affecting our daily lives..
Any of you that read this even semi-regularly know I am a vinyl nerd. I’ve been collecting vinyl (mostly punk) for many moons and have a pretty solid collection. A website devoted to one of the groups of bands I collect can be found here; beware that if you dig these bands you’ll spend an hour on the site looking at all the pics and reading the details…
One of my favorite bands, and possibly the first punk band I really got into, is Minor Threat. They don’t have a ton of material out there, but what was released is phenomenal to say the least. They were basically the start of the straightedge movement, along with bands like Teen Idles and SOA.
Dischord records has recently reissued their two 12″ records on color vinyl, and given how inexpensive Dischord releases are, these are worth picking up immediately.
It’s a busy January. My music promo company is pedal to the metal and we’ve got a lot going on.
One of my favorites that we’re just starting is Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles. Check out their Myspace page here. It’s somewhere between country and punk thrown in a blender with Americana, roots, pop, and rock. Sarah has a sultry voice, full of sadness and inspiration. The lyrics are very well written and express feelings that I bet most of us have felt (but possibly not been able to vocalize). One of the songs is an X cover and John Doe is both involved in the CD and just a big supporter, appearing live with Sarah on multiple occasions. What more do you need than an endorsement from X?!?! Really, really dig it.
Another artist we’re promoting is Sally Anthony – She’s a local superstar and has developed a legion of devoted fans that hang on every word she sings. Very outspoken and a lot on her mind. The kind of girl that will crash her Porsche, crawl out of the wreackage, kick your ass, then make you buy her a beer. Just released a new video today, you can watch it here.
Tons more too. Ringo Starr, Carole King, Ricky Nelson (yeah, that Ricky Nelson)… Also a few jazz cats for the crew at Concord.
People that say the music biz is dying (or dead) aren’t looking in the right places. True, the record biz is having some problems, but there has never been a better time for artists at all levels to get their music as far and wide as possible. I love that we’re promoting such a variety of artists, there’s a lot going on in the music universe right now.
For those unfamiliar, Seth Godin is a marketing guru who writes a great blog over here. A few days ago he wrote an excellent piece detailing how the music industry’s woes are relevant to all industries (and vice versa). Highly recommended reading, check it out at this link.
Sample: 8. Don’t panic when the new business model isn’t as ‘clean’ as the old one
It’s not easy to give up the idea of manufacturing CDs with a 90% gross margin and switching to a blended model of concerts and souvenirs, of communities and greeting cards and special events and what feels like gimmicks. I know.
Get over it. It’s the only option if you want to stay in this business. You’re just not going to sell a lot of CDs in five years, are you?
If there’s a business here, first few in will find it, the rest lose everything.
The older I get, the clearer the roots of my hobbies, interests, problems, abilities, and desires become. Today, we visit how I became such a badass rock ‘n’ roller / vinyl collector.
It all goes back to 6-year-old Feinberg’s grandmother giving him a record player as a gift. With the player she also gave me two 7″ records – “I Love Rock N Roll” by Joan Jett and “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley. I don’t know how she knew to pick such awesome slabs of wax, but I am pretty lucky she did. This was ‘82 or ‘83 – it could have been Barbara Streisand’s Soundtrack to Yentl.. Of course she could have also bought some Misfits originals for me and saved me the hundreds (or thousands) of dollars later in life.
I remember playing those records raw. My 6-year-old mind couldn’t quite figure out one major mystery – how could the band, wherever in the world they were, be ready to play that song every time I put the needle down? And how the hell did they know where to start when I put it down in the middle of a song? Yes, I specifically remember wondering this. One of my few, proud Ralph Wiggum moments.
Top this off with visiting said grandmother every summer and hanging out with my uncle who went from cashing his paycheck to the record store, and it all becomes so clear… And to really top it off, an older kid 10-year-old Feinberg met one summer introduced him to Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys.. It was ON after that. Every penny was spent on punk bands and records. And in over 20 years nothing has really changed…
From Big Champagne (via Wired):
Top Music Artists of 2007
1. T.I.
2. T-Pain
3. Akon
4. 50 Cent
5. R. Kelly
6. Lil Wayne
7. Justin Timberlake
8. Fergie
9. Ludacris
10. Snoop Dogg
For the list of top artists, BigChampagne tracked P2P downloads of both singles and full albums. The names here are better known — 50 Cent, R. Kelly and Snoop Dogg, for instance — but the list is still primarily made up of singles artists.
Garland says his firm tracks downloads of full CDs, but you’ll never see them at the top of the charts.
“Songs are the new currency online,” he says. “The volume of downloads for individual songs dwarfs the downloading of albums.”
