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Ye olde LEO’s Mat Herron has a long piece on John Timmons and the ear X-tacy problem. David Mann has a longish preview of Andrea Davidson’s show at the Vernon Club on Saturday. Herron also has the cover story about mountaintop removal plus Daniel Martin Moore and Ben Sollee’s new CD, Dear Companion, available at, ahem, [...] The Backseat Sandbar guys posted a video of John Timmons‘ press conference. The short answer to “What’s up with ear X-tacy?” is that owner John Timmons has two more months at his current location before he has to do something: move, close or renegotiate the current lease, which, he said, is too much for him to pay. The problems he’s facing are the familiar ones: the economy [...] No, Evil Rumblings is not a new pop-metal band but is, instead, a metaphor for concerns about the continued existence of the venerable ear X-tacy Record store, per a press release from owner John Timmons Here’s the press release: ear X-tacy Owner Addresses Potential Changes John Timmons, founder of the independent record store and owner for nearly 25 [...] I don’t read Business First quite as diligently as I should; I missed this story about Crash Avenue publicity ‘merging’ with the Bisig Impact Group. That would be ‘bought by’ Bisig, I think.Correction” Jeffrey Smith says he still owns 100% of Crash Avenue. A musician friend recently emailed me that he thought Open Stages and Jam Sessions were bad for working players, because it encouraged the venue owners to think they could get entertainment for free. A number of responses from other players finally encouraged me to write this: The clearest analysis of this problem can be done using [...] The Survival Kit 2K10 music networking event has named the panelists for the discussion. They include Caroline Beck, Digital & Mobile Sales and Marketing, Alternative Distribution Alliance, New York City; Rebecca Cornwell, Store Manager, Ear X- Tacy; Sean Wachsman, PR Manager, Southern Comfort; and Sean Cannon, Deputy Editor, Noise Creep, Editor, Buzzgrinder. Last weekend was a break for your humble editor – watching wild football games and tending to some household tasks occupied a big chunk of time. However, the rest of the world grinds on, including the music business, so a brief round-up: SonaBLAST! Records and Crash Avenue Publicity, together with the Forecastle Festival, have announced a [...] Some time back, we noted that Crosley Radio, based in Louisville, was still making turntables, among other things, mostly modern electronics packaged in old-style cases. They’re heading to the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, according to C-J Gizmo Editor Ric Manning. We wish them well – anybody in town who is making [...] The major label record business is swirling ever faster down the drain, in spite of the occasional spike upward, driven by sales from such unlikely acts as Susan Boyle, whose appeal is unquestionably to the boomer generation, a group still inclined to buy physical product rather than online – when they buy music, which is [...] |
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