Saturday, September 09, 2006

Dear Santa, I know it's a bit early, but have you seen this?

The mighty Primus--bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry Lalonde and drummer Tim Alexander--return this fall with a formidable one-two-three punch. October 17 will bring twin releases: their first-ever retrospective CD They Can't Alll Be Zingers: The Best of Primus (Interscope/UMe) and a new DVD Blame It On The Fish (on their own Frizzle Fry Inc. imprint), subtitled "An Abstract Look at the 2003 Primus Tour De Fromage," their triumphant reunion trek.

For the lucky ones in the States -- Primus hits the road:

  • 11/01 Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX
  • 11/03 Verizon Wireless Theater (Aerial Theater), Houston, TX
  • 11/04 Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth, TX
  • 11/06 The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
  • 11/08 Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
  • 11/09 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY
  • 11/10 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA
  • 11/12 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA
  • 11/14 State Theatre, Detroit, MI
  • 11/15 Kool Haus, Toronto, ON
  • 11/17 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
  • 11/18 The Rave/Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
  • 11/19 Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
  • 11/21 The Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
  • 11/28 Hult Center, Eugene, OR
  • 11/29 Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
  • 11/30 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
  • 12/02 Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA
  • 12/03 Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, CA
  • 12/05 San Jose Civic Auditorium, San Jose, CA
  • 12/06 Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
  • 12/08 RIMAC Arena, San Diego, CA
  • 12/09 Mesa Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ

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David Byrne has posted a long article about SpiralFrog, yet another music download site -- users will have to watch a short advert before they can download a song free. Mr. Byrne has his doubts:

No mention whether or not SpiralFrog’s tracks have similar copy protection or similar malicious malware attached; maybe they won’t. But I can bet that the big advertisers won’t leap to sponsor the last 3 CDs I bought — Anja Garbarek, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Thelonious Monk. Niche advertisers might sponsor these kinds of records — they could sponsor them on their own sites via their own servers. Putamayo CDs are in effect sponsored by the health food stores and eco-boutiques that give them display space. A Mormon-owned Home Depot like chain, like the one featured in Big Love, might sponsor the choir’s CDs, and bars and coffee shops might sponsor the Monk CDs. The abovementioned search engine interface would find the tunes wherever they lived and the money would flow accordingly. They don’t have to be given free, as in the SpiralFrog model, but there are some obvious synergistic and mutually beneficial models that would naturally evolve to make this kind of sponsorship lucrative. For some.

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