Posts tagged "Spotify"

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All Night Chemists Joe Paterno Paypal Tim Allen Cee Lo Pink Floyd Spotify

Nov 10

Life 101: With The Benefit Of Hindsight …

Hi,

Today I heard there was a new Pink Floyd reissue deluxe package thing of Wish You Were Here. Since I have access to all of the world’s recorded music through a $5 per month subscription to Spotify, I thought I would give one of the live tracks a listen because, as everybody knows, “Pink Floyd really gets it.” Imagine my dismay when I encountered the artist “Pink Floyd For Piano” and then the following message when trying, as I had with the new Coldplay album and the recent Adelle album, to listen to PInk Floyd on Spotify: “Unfortunately there are some artists who have opted not to be a part of Spotify at this point in time. Some frequently requested artists that are not in Spotify include Metallica, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. We hope that they change their minds regarding streaming soon!” Good thing I get to listen to Toby Keith whenever I want. 

In unrelated news, if you listen close to the following youtube clip of a promo for a TV show, you can hear me singing along with America as one of the great thespians from an era called “The 1990’s” is welcomed back to something called “prime time.” 

For those of you who love me and my ability to do things like “eat” and “pay rent” there is a demo version of the song where I sing the lead vocal available for your listening pleasure at the low price of $19.95. Please send check or money order to PO BOX 1340, NY, NY 10013. Or if you too live in the 21st century, or simply have an aversion to meaningful communication, you can send your $19.95 via something called paypal to the following email address: imbasile@gmail.com

In unrelated news, do you ever wonder how Cee Lo can sing so high?

In more news about hindsight and being a real manly man, I bet Joe Paterno wishes he was a better singer. Yeah … raar raar. Grid Iron! Raar! Raar! Pig Skin! Raar!

In unrelated news, my favorite lyric from “close but no guitars” LA rocker band Joy The Bug has always been “… are you sorry for the crime, or that you got caught?”

Finally, you should join me at Rockwood Music Hall tonight where I’ll be watching All Night Chemists release their new single. 

Mwah!

M

P.S. I heard this today on hypem.com and thought it was kinda cool. 


Casey Shea mother feather Jason Linkins Spotify The Black Keys El Camino Christmas

Dec 13

Holiday Shopping 101: Jason Linkins And Other Heroes

Hi, 

If you’re anything like the probably well meaning people at Spotify, you’re probably wondering why I just cancelled my subscription to something called “Spotify.” Below is the answer I gave them in the form of a quote of an article about the band The Black Keys and their new album “El Camino”: When the Black Keys’ latest album, El Camino, hit stores last week, it was conspicuously absent from major streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and MOG. As it turns out, this was a deliberate move by the band, who have opted to withhold the record from such services for financial reasons.

Streaming services “are becoming more popular, but it still isn’t at a point where you’re able to replace royalties from record sales with the royalties from streams,” drummer Patrick Carney told VH1. ”For a band that makes a living selling music, it’s not at a point where it’s feasible for us.”


Carney told VH1 that he is fine with services such as Pandora, which are built to encourage listeners to sample new music on a song-by-song basis, but is skeptical of Spotify, which he says is “set up to be a little more fair for the labels than for the artists.” By some industry calculations, a song must be streamed on such a service 100 times or more to generate the same profit that the artist would gain from the sale of one download.

In unrelated news, I’ve set to infinite repeat the song “A Very Merry Christmas” for the remainder of my subscription period Spotify (about 3 days) in the hopes that all those plays will translate into something called “A Christmas Bonus” for the members of a certain band that is playing at Bowery Ballroom this Thursday. 

In related news, I’ve had a stomach ache for about 39 1/2 continuous hours. 

Finally, if you click anywhere on the remainder of this sentence you will have an opportunity to also simultaneously think that Jason Linkins is a total badass and be totally depressed about a lot of things you wish weren’t always so depressing. 

Mwah! 

M

P.S. Below is proof of paragraph four …

P.P.S. You also have plans on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/events/206242276125015/