We recently finished building out The Madison Square Gardeners’ Bandcamp site, where you can pick up both of their albums plus two free downloads from their upcoming First Of Three/Ioda Alliance Records release, “Taste the Thunder.” Additionally, they’ll be celebrating the release at CMJ this year with a show at Rockwood Music Hall’s new (larger) second stage. Click here to download the two free tracks and preview the rest of the record.
City Page’s Michael Walsh recently penned a rather insightful two-pager on The Farewell Circuit – pointing out everything from their politics to their songwriting prowess.
O’Brien, and the rest of the Farewell Circuit, are frankly not the cliché I pegged them to be. Their two most recent recordings, the 2009 album Birdless Sky and the 2010 EP Brother’s Eyes are a melancholy batch of indie pop songs in the vein of Copeland, Radiohead, and Death Cab for Cutie. But dig a little deeper and you will find a collection of passionately intimate, angry, pleading songs about collapsing worldviews and insistent, burgeoning ideology.
Click here to read the article.
The Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit is a terrific event that I have attended a number of times over the years – and the content never ceases to impress. From George Clinton’s opinions on sampling in 2006, to a ravenous debate between major label heads and independent music producers in 2008 (I should really find the audio from that – it was awesome), there is no better place to get a finger on the pulse of the industry side of the music industry.
This year, I’ll be joining musician/professor/lawyer John Strohm, Steve Morona from Educause, and Georgetown IP expert Heidi Wachs on a panel about how college students access music and media online (or offline, for that matter). From the description:
Many times, a band’s most valuable fans are college students. With disposable incomes, pockets full of gadgets, living in a highly networked environment, it’s easy for college students to ingest music. This mix makes college
campuses the music industry’s best customer base, or its worst source of copyright infringement. How are today’s college-age students accessing music? Which music services are they using? On what devices are they listening? And, what business models would they find attractive. role do universities and the government have in both encouraging lawful behavior and imposing deterrents to reduce unauthorized filesharing and bandwidth hogging?
Should be an interesting conversation. Other speakers at the event include T. Bone Burnett, Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy), Damian Kulash (OK Go), and, well… the list goes on. Read more on their website. Hope to see you there.
- Zach
Not to live down their habit of prolific songwriting, The Madison Square Gardeners will be releasing their second EP of the year in October. You can get a sneak peek of the new songs at their shows this summer. In addition to a slew of dates in the New York area, they just finished up a string of shows that took them through the heart of the bible belt.
Keep up with them on Twitter for news about their upcoming album and what promises to be a long-haul Fall tour.
Don’t Name the Pig, the 2009 Ioda Records release from The Madison Square Gardeners, is now available for free streaming on their BandCamp page. The full 9-song album is available for DRM-free download for just $5.
Kind words from blog Love/Hate on The Farewell Circuit’s new album Brother’s Eyes, in advance of their show next Friday:
Friends at The Farewell Circuit have a new EP coming out and were gracious enough to send a copy my way. As expected, more great music from the band, this songs been on repeat all morning.
