Creation Records Founder McGee Tells Bands to “Do It Yourself” Alan McGee, the former head of Creation Records who is credited with discovering artists like Oasis and the Libertines, spoke out against record labels in an interview with XFM. McGee urged new bands not to sign with labels, saying “I’d recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they’re all fucking rubbish. You’re better off doing it yourself. They’re living in the past.” McGee apparently practices what he preaches, as Poptones Records, the company he founded following the demise of Creation, has pretty much ceased to exist as the music industry continues to tilt digitally. Poptones was responsible for bringing the Hives to the U.K. and released side projects of bands like the Beta Band and the Icarus Line. The label’s website went offline this past May.
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Publicado: 2008-07-04
Proveedor: Rolling Stone
Etiquetas: Rock News, The Industry
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New Music Tuesdays: Ghostface Killah, The Libertines Rolling Stone’s Christian Hoard says Ghostface Killah’s The Big Doe Rehab is another stellar album from the Wu-Tang MC, though it doesn’t quite measure up to last year’s Fishscale and lacks some of that album’s colorful drug-slinging tales. The Libertines’ new best-of comp pulls together songs from the short-lived band’s first two albums and an EP — enough for new fans to get a taste of Pete Doherty and Carl Barat’s fiesty band, but not enough to justify doling out your hard-earned cash. Click above to watch the full reviews. Plus: Read the review for The Big Doe Rehab here. >>Watch every episode of our weekly New Music Tuesdays video podcast by subscribing via iTunes (when prompted, click “Launch application”). Every Tuesday, a new episode will be delivered to your iTunes. [If you don’t have iTunes, download it here.
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Publicado: 2007-12-05
Proveedor: Rolling Stone
Etiquetas: Videos, New Music Tuesdays, Podcasts
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Pete Doherty - Doherty Bids To Reform LibertinesPETE DOHERTY is begging his former THE LIBERTINES bandmate CARL BARAT to reunite the British rock band. The Libertines split in 2004, after Doherty was booted from the ...
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Publicado: 2009-03-17
Proveedor: Contact Music
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New Reviews: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wavves, Peter Doherty and MorePhoto: Josh Wildman It’s Tuesday once again, which means there’s a whole slate of new CDs on sale now at your soon-to-be-closing record stores or favorite digital outlet. Before you brave the St. Patrick’s Day-celebrating masses on the way to the store, let Rolling Stone be your guide to the best of this week’s new releases. Indie rock (or, in this case, sorta indie rock) is the place to be this week, mostly because of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ third album It’s Blitz. Awarded four stars in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands tomorrow, It’s Blitz finds the YYYs throwing an art-punk dance party. “The turn toward the dance floor makes sense: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are drawing on a tradition of arty New York dance punk that extends from the Talking Heads to TV on the Radio, whose guitarist, Dave Sitek, co–produced It’s Blitz! The big news, though, isn’t YYY’s groovier sound — it’s the heat they radiate,” Jody Rosen writes in his review. Out of San Diego, California, we have Wavves’ Wavvves, the second LP by one-man surf-punk auteur Nathan Williams. (Be sure not to mistake Wavvves for the one-less-”v” of Wavves, the band’s debut album.) A cacophony of Brian Wilson melodies and Jesus & Mary Chain distortion, Wavvves is bad–trip music for cloudless days: surging distortion, sun–dazed hooks and a dark sense of humor,” Will Hermes writes in his three-star review. “The battle between noise and melody veers from scary to hilarious to heroic, and as a metaphor for trying to feel good in trying times, it may hit you close to home.” There’s also Grace/Wasteland, the first solo album by former Libertines/Babyshambles trainwreck Pete Doherty (now going by the first name Peter), with the oft-troubled guitarist managing to “make his dysfunction sing” on his debut LP. The album also features “Sheepskin Tearaway,” “a sketch of a chemical romance and one of Doherty’s prettiest songs ever.” For the rest of this week’s New Releases, check below: • MSTRKRFT’s Fist of God • Maria
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Publicado: 2009-03-17
Proveedor: Rolling Stone
Etiquetas: Rock News
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