R3TV Episode #41: “Where and When” - Hayden

The new album by (Paul) Hayden (Desser), In Field and Town, was officially released in the United States yesterday (April 29), and as it happens, the man himself was in town Tuesday opening for fellow Canadian Feist at the Hammerstein Ballroom (which he also did tonight). I haven’t got my hands on the new album yet, but I really love the single “Where and When” which you can view above courtesy of CBC Radio3’s R3TV YouTube feed. Hayden has a bunch of tour dates lined up including shows at The Knitting Factory and Southpaw on June 5 and June 6 respectively.

All Hayden tour dates after the jump.

“Hayden | New Record, Video, Tour (Southpaw, KF)” continued after the jump

This one kind of flew right under my radar, check out the park map and pics of the Led Zeppelin: The Ride below.

Hard Rock Park @ Myrtle Beach, SC

Led Zeppelin: The Ride at Hard Rock Park

Hard Rock Park is a 140-acre theme park, opening Spring 2008, with more than 40 attractions for rockers of all ages. The park includes roller coasters, shows, children’s play areas, restaurants, cafes, retail stores and a live music amphitheater.

HARD ROCK PARK FAST FACTS

Where is the park located?
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (off US 501, less than 3 miles from the beach)

When does Hard Rock Park open?
Dress rehearsal begins April 15, 2008, anticipate being fully open by May 9, 2008.

How large is the park?
55 acres

How much did it cost to build?
Approx $400 million

How many rides and attractions does it have?
Over 50 different rides and attractions

What is the ticket price?
$50 for rockers of all ages
Free for children under 3 years old
$150 for an Annual Pass
Please visit www.HardRockPark.com for updates

UK band sOuth (who were the next big thing a few years ago if I’m not mistaken) are back in the news again with a new record entitled You Are Here (April 29) and a North American tour. They’ll be kicking off their US tour on Saturday, April 26 at Union Hall, then making a quick little detour across the river to Maxwell’s on Sunday before heading back to The Mercury Lounge on Tuesday, April 29 for their final New York show. The good news is I’m giving a pair of tickets to The Mercury Lounge show to a random person who emails me at contests@bumpershine.com with the name of their favorite sOuth song. Winners will be notified first thing Monday morning.

DOWNLOAD: sOuth - “Better Things” (mp3)

All sOuth US tour dates after the jump.

“sOuth | New Record, Tour (Union Hall, Merc), Ticket Giveaway!” continued after the jump

I’ll be laying low for the next couple of days folks. If anything big happens, I’ll try and throw something up.

On Thursday, May 1st acclaimed radio and television host Ira Glass will bring the wildly popular show This American Life to the big screen for a one-night only event. Glass debuts never-before-seen extraordinary, funny and true stories from everyday life, shows outtakes, and answers audience questions. This exclusive theatre event will be broadcast LIVE from New York via satellite to select movie theatres nationwide.

This one-night event features special guests and is presented in HD and Cinema Surround Sound.

Tickets are limited and on sale now. Don’t miss your chance to see “This American Life - Live!” on the big screen Thursday May 1, 2008 at 8PM EDT / 7 PM CDT / 6 PM MDT and time delayed to 8PM PDT.

Attendees may submit a question for Ira Glass now through April 18th at ask@thisamericanlife.org. Select questions will be answered during the event.

Participating Theaters in NYC:
Union Square Stadium 14
Chelsea Cinema
First and 62nd Cinemas

The second season of This American Life premieres on Showtime on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 10 pm EDT/PDT. Also, This American Life finally comes back to Showtime On Demand starting April 30.

The good people at Sub Pop records are once again offering college scholarships to eligible high school seniors in Washington and Oregon. Check out all the details below:

Sub Pop Records in Seattle, WA is offering a grand total of $13,000 worth of college scholarship money to three eligible high school seniors. There are three scholarships—one for $6,000 and two for $3,500 each. To apply for these scholarships you must be a resident of Washington or Oregon, and a graduating senior on your way to full-time enrollment at an accredited university or college. We are looking for an applicant who is involved and/or interested in music and/or the creative arts in some way.

To apply for these scholarships we would like you to submit an essay, no longer than one page, letting us know about some of the following topics:

* What are you doing in the arts/music field in your community?
* How and/or why did you become interested in artistic outlets?
* Why do you need this scholarship money?
* What are your influences and/or who inspires you?
* Who are some of your favorite bands or artists?

Applicants are encouraged to send digital links and provide hard copies of their artwork along with their essay. However, please be aware that Sub Pop will not return any of this material, so please don’t send originals. Sub Pop will give equal opportunity to all applicants who fit the criteria outlined above. The deadline for applications is May 1st, please get in touch before then if you are interested.

Please send all submissions and attachments to scholarship@subpop.com

All physical submissions should be sent to:

Sub Pop Records
Attn: Scholarship
2013 4th Ave, 3rd Floor
Seattle, WA 98121

Amount: $6,000 / $3,500 / $3,500 – checks will be made payable to the university or college of the winning applicants’ choice and applied to winning applicants’ tuition.

Radio City Music Hall Speaker Series
“The Minds That Move the World”

04/21/08 Tucker Carlson, James Carville and Ariana Huffington
(Moderator: Anderson Cooper)
05/02/08 Vice President Al Gore
05/28/08 John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani (Moderator: Tim Russert)
06/17/08 President William Jefferson Clinton

Tickets on sale Sunday, March 30 at 10AM

So I woke up this morning content with the knowledge that I may or may not be one of the “world’s 50 most powerful blogs”, but the I read this article and I’ve been curled up in the fetal position ever since.

Spotted at the Bowery St subway station on Friday night (02/29/08).

More than 50 songwriters, musicians, bands, spoken word artists and other performers from the world of Antifolk will take the stage of Sidewalk Café (94 Avenue A, NYC. Club Phone: 212-473-7373) for the 2008 Fortified Summer Antifolk Festival, running February 19-29. The Festival provides the opportunity to tap into a cross section of the creative and expressive musical community centered in the East Village. More information is available at www.antifolk.net.

Tues. Feb.19 - 7:30-Kenny Cambre, 8-Andrew Duncan, 8:30-Ben Krieger, 9-Kelsey Bennett, 9:30-Dan Costello, 10-Art Sorority For Girls, 11-Carl Creighton

Wed.Feb.20 - 7:30-M.Lamar, 8-Peter Dizozza, 8:30-Frank Hoier, 9-Dibs, 9:30-Elizabeth Devlin, 10-Casey Holford, 11-Antifolk Reads Bernard King

Thurs. Feb.21 - 7:30-The Elastic No-No Band, 8-Joe Crow Ryan, 8:30-Brendan Kerwin, 9-John Houx, 9:30-Ben Godwin, 10-Soft Black, 11-Phoebe Kreutz, 12-Level II

Fri.Feb.22 - 7:30-Herb Scher and The Key-Lime Pie Revue, 8-Preston Spurlock, 8:30-Bendik, 9-Erin Regan, 10-Mike Baglivi, 11-Creaky Boards, 12-The Telethons

Sat. Feb.23 - 7:30-Scary Mansion, 8-Charles Latham (Philly Antifolk), 8:30-The Fools, 9-Brook Pridemore and The Valley Cubs, 10-Lach, 11-Don McCloskey, 12-The Humans

Sun. Feb.24 - 7:30-Masheengun Kelly, 8-Eric Lippe, 8:30-Liv Carrow, 9-Nan Turner, 9:30-Yoko Kikuchi, 10-Major Matt Mason USA, 11-Ivan Sandomire

Mon. Feb.25 - 7:30-The Antihoot with Lach. Sign-up 7:30.

Tues. Feb.26 - 7:30-Scott Alexander, 8-Pablo Das, 8:30-Bryan McPherson (Boston Antifolk), 9-Matt Singer, 10- Goodtimes Goodtimes (London Antifolk), 11- Michael Wagner

Wed. Feb.27 - 7:30-Brian Speaker, 8-Brownbird Rudy Relic, 8:30-Isto, 9-Poez, 9:30-Debe Dalton, 10-Eric Wolfson and The War Cabinet, 11-Jason Trachtenburg and The National Distractions

Thurs. Feb.28 - 7:30-Emily Price, 8-Peter Nevins, 8:30-Somer, 9-Josh Fox, 9:30-Alisha Westerman, 10-Darwin Deez, 11-The Sprinkle Genies, 12-A Brief View of The Hudson

Fri. Feb.29 - 7:30-Nate Awesome, 8-Jeffrey Marsh and Rick Sorkin, 8:30-Pearl and The Beard, 9-Dan Fishback, 10-Daniel Bernstein and The Happy Zealots, 11-Ching Chong Song

At first it was going to be a top 10, then a top 5, then it became a top 3. So here they are:

1. John K. Samson of The Weakerthans at Webster Hall

This was really only one of two shots from the whole night that I was really happy with.

2. Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers at The Highline Ballroom

The light was great that night, I got a ton of shots that I really liked, but I think this one turned out the best.

3. Gwenno Saunders of The Pipettes at the Blender Theater

The light was also great at this show, and the girls are extremely photogenic, but I think was my favorite shot of the night. I considered cropping out Becki and centering the shot a little more for this post, but in the end, I decided to leave it as I originally captured it.

I took more music photos in 2007 than ever before, if you want to see most of them, you can go over here.

I think ProductShopNYC pointed this out first a week or so ago, then New York Magazine mentioned it in the approval matrix, now it seems to be the big thing to do.

Sleeveface photo by Harry Harris

Check out the entire Sleeveface Flickr pool over here.

Since bands often post their tour schedules on MySpace (and sometimes nowhere else), I decided to do some detective work to see if I could find some useful RSS feeds on News Corporation’s erstwhile social networking site. Much to my unastonishment, MySpace seems to have no RSS feeds whatsoever, (if you know of some that I missed, feel free post in the comments). However, not being one to give up that easily, a little intrepid Googling brought me straight to the MySpace Feed Creator at MakeDataMakeSense.com. It turns out that you can take the MySpace URL of your favorite band or comedian and punch it in over here (http://makedatamakesense.com/myspace/event/) to create a feed. Then, once you get your resulting RSS feed, (which looks a little bit ugly in its native state), you can take it over to Feedburner.com and create an identical feed that looks a little more user friendly, something like http://feeds.feedburner.com/miraclefortress, for instance. Finally, once you’ve got your Feedburner feed up and running, click on the Publicize tab and activate the email subscription service. Once the email subscription service is active, you can then use your own email address to subscribe to your newly burned feed and just like that, gig updates should start arriving in your inbox in no time. (Actually, a message will only be delivered to you if your favorite band’s feed has been updated on that day. No new content, no email for you). If you don’t want email updates, you can just use a regular RSS reader to subscribe to your new feed and track things that way. In theory (and in practice), bands can even republish the link to their newly created MySpace/Feedburner RSS feeds on their non-MySpace websites. Until then, happy MySpace feed burning everyone!

PS Hey MySpace, why not get off your ass and publish some RSS feeds of your own!

Note: This article was based in part on Steve Rubel’s useful article, “Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub“.

Note 2: This whole process will crumble like a deck of cards if MakeDataMakeSense.com ever changes their MySpace Feed Creator or if MySpace changes the layout of their gigs calendar.

Do you miss the days of making your very own mix tapes? Do mix CD’s just not feel right to you? Well then, maybe the USB “mix tape” is more your speed. Decked out in its very own retro packaging, the USB mix tape, is a 64MB (really, that’s it?) USB key inside of a tape case. Cool right? Well, at least it looks cool and it’s really the music that counts. You can buy this tape and a bunch of other overpriced fancy gadgets at fredflare.com.

UPDATE: Due to a mistake on the Gap’s website, I originally posted about the 2006 winners. I’ve updated this post with the correct information now.

Congratulations to Jaron, Kenadi, Samantha and Parker who were the winners of the 2007 Kodak/Baby Gap Casting Call Contest. Look for them in an upcoming Gap photo shoot. Thanks to all who took and interest in this contest and commented on the blog. If you didn’t win, you can always look at this post for some tips on how to make your kid a star.