FYI: Rage Against The Machine
Since the reunited rebels will be heading to Australia, New Zealand and Japan this month it seems like a good time to do an FYI on them.
- RATM formed in 1991 when guitarist Tom Morello saw frontman Zack de la Rocha rapping and was impressed by his lyric book, so…Morello brought in drummer Brad Wilk and Zack brought in childhood friend Tim Commerford on bass.
Manage Your Touring With GigTrak
January 10, 2008 by Eric Hebert
Filed under General, Marketing
Just outta nowhere (okay, I was doing some research, but that’s top secret for now), I ran into GigTrak, a browser based software application to help you manage your touring.
That’s right, it’s as simple as that. Manage your touring with a software application.Years ago, labels had to pay people to do half the job that this application probably does.
The Jesus and Mary Chain Post Demos
The recently reformed Jesus and Mary Chain have posted three rough demos on their MySpace page. The tracks, “War on Peace”, “Cookies” and “Boiling Over”, are the first tracks made public by the band since 1998’s Munki.
Radiohead North American Tour and ‘In Rainbows’ No. 1
Radiohead have confirmed the cities in North America that they will hit on the road this year, however dates and venues have yet to be announced.
The Lemonheads - It’s A Shame About Ray
January 9, 2008 by acostill
Filed under Song of the Week
Can anyone really bash the simple, poppy melodies from Evan Dando and company?
The Black Crowes New Album and Tour
January 8, 2008 by acostill
Filed under Concert News
The Black Crowes will be releasing their new album, Warpaint, on March 4 and are going to perfrom a series of one-night stands in support of it.
Warpaint is the first studio album from the Crowes in seven years, their last effort was 2001’s Lions. You can listen to the first single from Warpaint, “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution” on their site right now.
Seattle’s Alternative Grunge Music Scene
January 8, 2008 by Eric Hebert
Filed under General
If you happened to be living under a rock during the early 1990’s, you may have missed one of the most significant eras of modern rock lore - the Seattle grunge music scene.
Juno Soundtrack
January 8, 2008 by acostill
Filed under Album Reviews
Today is the physical release for the soundtrack to Juno, although it has been available digitally for some time.
Anyways, this soundtrack is great, it fits perfectly with the movie (which is very good and is defiantly worth catching). It’s indie friendly, but manages to squeeze in a couple classic songs and some 90’s alternative tracks, which is why is it is relevant to this blog.
Adding New RSS Feature to Blog
January 7, 2008 by Eric Hebert
Filed under General
I’ve been playing around with the idea of aggregating other music related content using RSS here at the evolvor blog, and I’m going to be testing out a Wordpress plugin that does just that today.
If you notice a bunch of new content from other sources here at evolvor, then it’s working.
Eddie Vedder “Guaranteed” Video Debut
Today is the day for the video debut of Eddie Vedder’s “Guaranteed”, although many of you may not be as excited as I am for this.
Trent Reznor “disheartened” by current state of music industry
I saw on NME this morning that the Nine Inch Nails mastermind isn’t too happy right now with the state of the music industry.
Reznor posted his feelings on Nine Inch Nails website after discovering the sales figures for rapper Saul Williams new album, which Reznor produced.
FYI: 1998
Since this is the first FYI of 2008, let’s jump into the dolorean and take a look back at what was going on a decade ago.
- Albums released in 1998:
- Ben Folds Five - Naked Baby Photos
- Pearl Jam - Yield
- Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
Eddie Vedder’s “Guaranteed” Video to Debut on Jan. 7
If you follow this blog then you already know by now that I can’t go at least one week without some mention of Pearl Jam; so I was extremely thrilled when I saw that frontman Eddie Vedder will have a music video debut on January 7.
Sell Songs, Ringtones, and More With Musicane
January 3, 2008 by Eric Hebert
Filed under General
Just caught a post from NIN main man Trent Reznor himself discussing the recent stats from his Saul Williams free download project. In the post, he mentions using Musicane as the service to distribute the album.
Musicane offers embeddable stores much like Snocap. Just sign up, add tracks, ringtones, videos, etc, and within minutes you’ll have a storefront to sell tracks in. Then just copy and paste the store wherever the hell you want to. Here’s what an example store looks like:
