FISTFULAYEN

Grooveshark paid a guy on the beach 100EU to add their logo to his sand-buddha, unquestionably the best MIDEM sponsorship evar Every year in Cannes, France, the music industry gathers for its biggest boondoggle, MIDEM. I’m fresh home from the 2011 edition, my fourth visit to Cannes in as many Januarys. I can’t speak to [...]

Thanks Shamal for taking Zoe and me to see Rise, Ride, Roar, the film documenting David Byrne’s 2009 tour here in London tonight at this amazing local London theatre: I saw this show live twice in 2009 and was surprised how much I enjoyed the movie. Beautifully visually and sonically. Moving. When I saw the [...]

Everyone does their “best of” lists this time of year. You may call it predictable, but I prefer “reliable”. I love combing through people’s year-end lists, sampling some albums I’ve missed, and falling in love with a few new ones. Every year I find some new favorites this way. I’m thankful we’re no longer stuck [...]

This was a pleasant surprise today: Thanks to Alex for including me. I can’t wait for the commenters on Digital Music News to talk about how great my publicist is. I feel compelled to say I don’t have one and neither does Topspin. Hopefully we’ll hire one soon, though, as we have some big announcements [...]

My mom, Paulette Van Antwerp, posted the above photo and the below note to Facebook today. I concur. “Fourteen years ago today Townes Van Zandt died. I took this photo in 1995 at the Kerrville Folk Festival, he insisted on getting his ‘git tar’ out of the cab of the truck for the picture. As [...]