i wasn’t sure how to feel about this one upon first listen. i mean, timbo does what he always does (but autotune, really?). i like the heavy percussion. overall, it’s growing on me. timberlake holds it down a whole lot more on this one than on the other track we posted. i’m a bit surprised this one isn’t making shock value 2. i could see it being a smash with the right video.

download:

timbaland – crazy girl (ft. justin timberlake).

- panda

Cheryl Cole will release a song written by Adele as the B-side to her next single ‘3 Words’.

The title track from the X Factor judge’s debut album, a collaboration with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am, will be made available on January 11.

The flipside to the single will feature the Adele-penned ‘Boys’.

Cole’s solo LP has already gone platinum in the UK, selling more than 300,000 copies in its first two weeks on release.

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TALENTED singer Adele Sande can now add Cheryl Cole to her songwriting and singing successes.

Alford-born Adele’s song is to feature on the X Factor judge’s latest single.

Adele wrote the song, entitled Boys, for Cheryl Cole last summer, but it is only now that Cheryl is releasing it

on the B-side of her latest single 3 Words.

And Adele, who goes by her stage name Emili, has also been asked to help out R&B star Alicia Keys by writing a song.

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Browsing through my Ipod i stumbled upon this track from the Arctic Monkeys. It was on the B-Side to “When the sun goes down” (which is also an amazing track). I tell no lies but the Arctic Monkeys are my favorite band and Alex Turner is a bloody genius. So Enjoy this great track.

The Sugababes are to be part of a very special music project put together by HMV, featuring on the My Inspiration album, to be released today (October 26th). The compilation album, available only in HMV stores.

Sugababes – For Once In My Life (Stevie Wonder, Cover)

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Kolomenskaya Street, St. Petersberg, Russia

Irony, it seems to me, comes in two flavours: sharply bitter or sickly sweet. Thankfully, on the warm August afternoon we were spending wandering around St. Petersberg, it was the latter that was about to blossom mid-sentence.

Verbally bemoaning that the city lacked any decent record shops, Maddi interrupts me and points to the shop window, five feet from my face, with a pile of vinyl records stacked behind it.

The smell of the polished floor floods my nose as we enter, complimented by two sofas in the centre of the low room. However, the cream leather settees rather than for sitting, offer an impromptu stand for strewn vinyl and CDs, picked up by wandering hands and not returned to their rightful places, offering a scatterbrain-styled opportunity to discover Van Morrison or scathe through endless Phil Collins 12”s.

Centre stage, between the two sofas, is a top of the range vinyl deck, complete with the obligatory bald-headed bearded guy, twirling with knobs, reading sleeves and playing prog-rock as loud as the two small amps will allow. We pass him and he grins at us, showing us the cover of what he is playing, it’s a Slade album. We nod dutifully, but don’t mean it.

The vinyl collection, which spans three walls and countless over-flowing boxes dotted around the floor, is almost unblemished, spanning every genre, sub-genre and specialist-interest known to man. Plus, with each record, framed in a clear plastic bag, comes a slip of paper giving the info on the wax’s life – where it was pressed, which year it was produced, it’s country of origin etc…

Refreshingly, compact discs, aren’t completely shunned in favor of vinyl, and a sizeable collection spans the shops back wall. EPs and albums that I haven’t seen on CD anywhere else, from rarely-seen albums from Plastikman (Richie Hawtin), Daedelus, and Modeslektort to legendary releases such Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works (not a re-release either, as it’s £20 price tag confirms). It’s as near to spotless as possible, and seems to understand that the CD should be seen as a different media to, rather than a slayer of, vinyl.

It quickly becomes apparent that this is the type of record shop which credits clientele and good music above profit margins, where the staff smile at you as you linger over B-sides, instead of hurrying you to a decision. Here, making money lies secondary to the discovery of new music or new fans of old music.

As I bend down to the vinyl box entitled ‘rarities’ and began to flick, the shop manager rushes over bringing me a stool, to save my knees. I turn and thank him, wondering if I have made it to the record store equivalent of nirvana.

Purchase:

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Total Purchases:

Armand Van Helden – Ghetto Blaster – £1 [Tracklisting]

Club Azuli 1 – Mixed By Dave Piccioni – £0.48 [Tracklisting]

Club Azuli Part 2 – Mixed By Dave Piccioni – £0.79 [Tracklisting]

Chemical Brothers, The: Brothers Gonna Work It Out – £2.77 [Tracklisting]

Defected In The House – Mixed By Copyright – £0.79 [Tracklisting]

DJ Hardy Heller – Mix In Motion – £1  [Tracklisting]

DJ Shadow – The New Collection – £2.38

Le Le – Breakfast 12″ – £8.24 [Tracklisting]

Samim: Flow – £1.98 [Tracklisting]

Total Spend: £19.43

]]> http://whatveidonenow.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/led-zep-didnt-do-this-song/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:41:13 +0000 jenikkimagic http://whatveidonenow.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/led-zep-didnt-do-this-song/

But Queen did:

I like Freddie trying to be saucy.

Here are some words from Wikipedia:

“The “Seven Seas of Rhye” single featured the first of several non-album B-sides released during Queen’s recording career. This song dated from the pre-Queen band Smile. May heard the song “That’s How I Feel” by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on a TV program, but at the time he never caught the name of the song or band. He remembered the riff and some lyrics and brought them to the band, then proceeded to write “See What A Fool I’ve Been” around it.“

Incidentally, Queen II is my favouritist ever album (March of the Black Queen is my favourite song, it makes my ears smile); and on an unrelated note I’m slightly disturbed/amused that my blog is now the first result on WordPress Search for the words “I’ll kill Paul McCartney“.

Cheryl’s debut single, ‘Fight For This Love’ is out this very second.

You can buy it at the following places…

CD Single – Click HERE to order.
‘Fight For This Love’
‘Didn’t I’ (Exclusive all new B-Side)

iTunes – Click HERE to order
‘Fight For This Love’
‘Fight For This Love’ (Moto Blanco Club Mix)

Remixes – Click HERE to order on iTunes.
‘Fight For This Love’ (Cahill Club Mix)
‘Fight For This Love’ (Crazy Cousinz Club Mix)
‘Fight For This Love’ (Sunship Club Mix)
‘Fight For This Love’ (Moto Blanco Radio Edit)
‘Fight For This Love’ (Crazy Cousinz Radio Edit)

Orange Monkey Exclusive
‘Fight For This Love’
‘Fight For This Love’ (Cahill Radio Edit)

Vodafone Exclusive
‘Fight For This Love’
‘Fight For This Love (Sunship Radio Edit)

Help Cheryl get her first solo Number One and keep your Girls Aloud collection up to date – buy ‘Fight For This Love’ NOW!

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“Fight For This Love” is a song performed by British pop singer Cheryl Cole, who is best known as a member of British girl group Girls Aloud and for being a judge on talent contest The X Factor. The song, written by Steve Kipner, Andre Merritt and Wayne Wilkins, is to be released as the first single from her debut solo studio album 3 Words in October 2009.

Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love

Cheryl Cole – Didn’t I? (B-Side)

Girls Aloud have always been generous with B-sides – ‘Memory Of You’ and their ‘Megamix’ are two of our flipside picks of the year – and it seems Cheryl Cole is just as keen to give us something extra on her first solo offering, ‘Fight For This Love’.

In contrast to the sleek synths and R&B-ish beats of the A-side, ‘Didn’t I’ is a tender, piano-led ballad that – having listened to her upcoming album Three Words in full – is probably the closest she gets to her Girls Aloud origins. It’s subtle and understated, but Cheryl gets the thumbs up for delivering the melody with genuine conviction.

The full version is available on the ‘Fight For This Love’ CD single, out Monday, but thanks to our friends over at Polydor here’s an exclusive preview – check it out on Digital Spy by clicking here.

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I’ll start it off… Rhona Bennett ( Miss R&B )

“B Side” song on my forthcoming album “The Anticipation Of R&B”

Continue to scroll down and enjoy the ride!!!

Gloria Gayner … disco icon, forever a classic

“I Will Survive” b side to “Substitute”

Queen …  funky, flamboyant , crazy talented and innovative

“We Will Rock U” b side to “We Are The Champions”

Dee-lite… our throwback funk group in the nineties, fun, creative and dee-liteful!

“Groove Is In The Heart” b side to “What Is Love”

Elvis Presley … sexy, gutsy, energic and a music icon

“Hound Dog” b side to “Don’t Be Cruel”

Beach Boys… fun, creative and often coined “America’s band”

“Don’t Worry Baby”   b side to “Hello, Goodbye”

Doobie Brothers … classic American band, with some classic music, a breeding ground for Michael McDonald

“Black Water” b side to

Madonna … the queen of reinventing yourself! seductress, shock value, and classic pop diva

“Get Into The Groove”

Prince … dripping sex, creative vocals, innovator of sounds, a true artist to the core

“Erotic City” b side to “Let’s Go Crazy”

This song gets an honorable mention… They disabled the link. Sorry:(

KRS-ONE … one of the pioneers of hip hop, prolific lyric master, huge contribution to the “game”

“Hip Hop vs. Rap” b side to “Sound Of Da Police”

When exactly is it that comics, as in newspaper comics (also known as funny papers), became unfunny? And I’m not talking Family Circus unfunny, I mean in some cases downright depressing.

Take for example the never stellar but previously okay For Better or For Worse. Looking it up on the internet (cause let’s face it, that’s what I do), I found it’s a Canadian panel about a suburban Toronto family and that one of the remarkable things about it was that the characters aged in real time. As a child, I remember it being a sort of my-family’s-so-silly sort of funny. Maybe it’s my faulty memory making it slightly more amusing than it really was, but when I returned to reading the comics several years later the plotline was about somebody’s rape and the subsequent trial and emotional trauma. Not even remotely funny.

Funky Winkerbean is another example. I remember it being mostly revolving around a high school. I remember there were characters in the band, I remember a pizza place where characters slacked off, I remember the occasional laugh or so. This week when I opened the paper for some meaningless laughs it featured a middle aged couple walking around a fairground discussing which living facility to place an aging parent. There was actually a line that read “It’s sad to think she’s so young and already knows life will break her heart.”

Even Crankshaft, a spin-off from Winkerbean, about a crotchety old man has turned into some serious life commentary. Crankshaft’s antics used to be sort of funny, now it’s just about getting older and older and all the complications that come with that.

To which I say; really?? Are these supposed to be mindless escapism? Perhaps they take longer to read but I’ve always preferred to find my social commentary in books. Hell, even television does better than this shit. The comics are supposed to be the frothy section, the section I couldn’t wait to read every Sunday morning when I was a kid. I am unsure as to whether or not I want my ten year old sister reading about somebody’s rape.

Now, it wasn’t until writing this down that I realized what the problem is. Real time. Charlie Brown never got any older, and every once in while I still chuckle when Lucy jerks that football away from him. As soon as you get real time involved real life comes along with it, and there is nothing funny about that. Things like rape, and cancer, and people getting older and decrepit happen in real life, why do we need them in the so called funny papers?

I suppose I need to go to other places in order to find my comedy.

Sometimes I read the ‘Missed Connections’ in personals columns. Usually it’s to give myself a bit of a laugh at the skeevy people who write them looking for so and so who was wearing that sexy skirt at the mall that day (whoever that fountain jumper was at Easton mall a couple years ago definitely managed to turn a few heads). The misspellings and the incorrect grammar… they’re really hilarious. But sometimes I read them and I don’t chuckle. Sometimes I start thinking about the people who must be behind that, writing in a newpaper or website trying to find someone they genuinely liked and didn’t have the courage to talk to, and I just get sad.

I like shows about socially awkward people, probably because I’m sort of socially awkward myself. The sort of shows where everything goes wrong for the characters. Yeah, I know they aren’t real, but it’s nice to know there’s someone else out there who everything goes wrong for, and who are incapable (apparently) of making things work right for themselves.

I was watching Peep Show while thinking of this. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this program it’s about two utterly ridiculous guys, Mark and Jeremy, living together in a flat in South London. It’s pretty much an Odd Couple situation except neither of them, no matter what they think, can manage to function like normal human beings. Mark’s an uptight, suit clad, pessimistic, loan manager and Jeremy  is an arrogant slacker who doesn’t do much except loaf around all day and call himself a musician. There’s honestly not much to like about Jeremy as a person except that he’s played by Robert Webb and is hysterical. Mark, on the other hand, well… I have a soft spot for Mark. I might have a soft spot for David Mitchell in general, but he’s just so completely clueless and inept at his job, his women, and well… his life. What’s more; Mark is always so willing to accept the inevitable depressing outcome that will most likely come his way. Take this exchange from episode three of the brand new series, a conversation between Mark and a girl he’s interested in;

Dobby: “You don’t want to be happy, it makes you worried because you think it will end and then you’ll be more miserable.”

Mark: [Interior monologue] “Pop psychology, but pretty much on the money.”

I suppose it is it shouldn’t be surprising that I would find this sort of thing amusing, but, after enjoying Mark yelling at a hot water boiler for far too long in one episode I had to start examining this further.

Take for example another British sitcom, The IT Crowd. I have introduced this show to several people and haven’t had a miss yet. Probably because it’s just hilarious. It centers around two IT guys and their ‘relationship manager’ who work for a ‘leading industrial corporation’  called Reynholm Industries (seriously, http://www.reynholm.co.uk/). They are basically the lowest of the low, cordoned into the junk piled basement where they have many socially awkward escapades. And I mean socially awkward. For example; in a memorable episode in series three the two male characters attempt to have normal friendships with men by visiting a website that teaches them football (read: soccer) statistics and lingo. I’m sorry, they need a website to interact with other people. And oh how I wish that website existed (http://www.bluffball.co.uk/). Then there’s Jen, the relationship manager who acts as a bridge between the IT department and the rest of the company, basically because the IT department can not seem to speak to anyone else without causing calamity. Yet, just by being in the IT department her social skills seem to be declining. Of course, my social skills wouldn’t be too hot either if I was dating a man who looked like a magician. All three characters, with the careful application of The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding as the goth Richmond in some episodes, are ridiculous… which is obviously what makes the show, but really it’s Jen acting as comedic foil against Roy and Moss’s ineptitude. It seems like it’s always guys.

Take The Big Bang Theory for example. Here we have four physicists hanging out blissfully in their Pasadena apartment doing their typically geeky things like video games, arguing over which Sci-Fi series to watch, or playing Klingon Boggle. Enter Penny, the blonde waitress from across the hall with all the social skills. The point of the show, really, is what happens when you take some seriously ridiculous smart people and thrust them into the real world. Or, well, their version of the real world. And their version of the real world is sort of a lot like mine. They get take out, they watch videos, they go to all night marathons of Planet of the Apes, they go to the comic book store, bars, have occasional dates, but mostly they hang out together. Well, I can relate, even if when I am hanging out with friends I’m usually not trying to help fix a toilet for the International Space Station that my friend fucked up designing. And seriously… their jokes are funny. I mean, I know I’m a loser but I laugh, and not just at them. Okay, so I went to science camp when I was a kid, but I’m not exactly proficient in it now. When exactly did I start thinking science jokes were funny? Maybe it’s just because I’m so ultra clever and exceptionally well read (ps. I’m modest too). It’s probably just that I’ve spent far too many long hours on Wikipedia looking up base info on particle colliders.

Then there is Felicia Day’s The Guild, which revolves around a group who call themselves the Knights of Good playing a, World of Warcraftesque, Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (or MMORPG have you). Day created the series as a way of showing the world that not everyone who plays MMORPGs are either high school losers or thirty year old men still living in their mother’s basement. Well, I really don’t play World of Warcraft but that doesn’t mean I can’t relate to the tendency to withdraw from the world and into the internet, at least a little bit. In the first season of webisodes the Guild emerge from behind their avatars and meet each other, helping each other through various ups and downs and basic crises, all while managing to keep up with their busy eight hour a day gaming schedule. This is one of the few examples of equal opportunity geekiness, and it may not be my brand of geekiness, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining, or the social awkwardness less pronounced.

Now, why do I like these types of show? Well, that’s obvious. I’m socially awkward myself. I know I have said this before, but surprisingly a rather substantial amount of people don’t seem to believe me. It stems from one thing, shyness. And this is another thing that people tend not to believe. Well, yes, once I know you (or if I have had a few too many) I tend to talk the ear off you. I can be downright annoying in that respect, I am sure. But when I am confronted with a group of people I do not know, I am inundated with a crippling weight of panic, which generally results in me awkwardly standing in the corner wishing it was socially acceptable to pull out a book and read during a party. I generally opt for alcohol instead, it helps. This is also not helped by the fact that I can not dance. Seriously. Literally my body does not move. I am sometimes convinced my hips are locked in place via some sort of genetic malfunction. It’s not a good idea to expect me to dance without imbibing me with far too much alcohol to even remember the event in the morning. And in my defense, I have tried.

I also don’t like being places on my own. Take this example as a for instance. About a year ago my best friend and her husband invited me along to see some paintings up at a bar near us that were inspired by John Waters. I mean, I was obviously going, they are paintings inspired by John Waters. But the bar in question in located in between our two domiciles. I would be completely stupid for them to pick me up and arrive together, so we decided to do the normal thing and meet there. Well, said friend and her husband are always late. Always. And I am not even talking a couple minutes. I mean, I don’t even bother getting ready on time anymore cause they’re not arriving for ten to twenty minutes after they said they’d be there. I should have taken this into account. I also should have checked which bar it was. The way the Grog Shop and the B Side Liquor Lounge are set up is this; they are basically on top of each other and somewhat interchangeable. That being said they are by no means the same place. The B Side is the logical choice for a John Waters art exhibit, which is what I was thinking as I wrote down The Grog Shop on my perfectly color coded calender (I shouldn’t be quite so excited by that triple alliteration). I arrived, paid the admission at the Grog Shop and proceeded to wait for K and J for nearly twenty minutes alone in the bar getting more and more traumatized as the time went on. By the time I called them and discovered they were at the B Side waiting for me I might as well have been catatonic. They thought it was oh so hilarious.

Another example is this: About five years ago, give or take, my good friend D had a birthday party. I was living in Columbus at the time, going to school and working at a movie theatre which is where I met D in the first place. We were friendly but had never done anything outside of work until he invited me to his birthday party. Now, I knew that I had to go, that was unquestionable, but the anxiety I had working myself up about going to this party was just ridiculous. The night arrived, I picked my outfit, freaked out so much that I required six antidepressants, and stayed on the phone with K until I was actually inside the door. Okay, it’s not like I thought anyone was going to be mean to me or anything or kick me out of their party, but I only knew one person there and I didn’t think that he would have all that much time to hang out with me… birthday party and all. It didn’t help matters any when I walked through the door and the first thing anyone said to be was ‘Who are you?’ I almost ran back out. In the end everything was fine, I ended up making friends with a huge group of them and still consider them friends now. My anxiety was quickly averted with cosmopolitans, other substances, and the fact that D is, generally, a very good host. Still, no one should freak out so much about going to a party.

In conclusion? I’m ridiculous. I know I’m ridiculous but it doesn’t seem like that’s really going to change any time soon. I don’t know, maybe they should make a sitcom about me.

PORTO ALEGRE AGENDA CULTURAL
Exposição individual de Billy Argel, principal artista do skate brasileiro
As obras de  Billy Argel voltam à Porto Alegre, em exposição individual,
de 8 de outubro a 22 de novembro, na novíssima galeria de arte Fita Tape.
O artista paulistano, um dos destaques da mostra Transfer, que ocupou
o Santander Cultural em 2008, retorna à raiz de seus desenhos comerciais,
subvertendo a linguagem com a qual dominou as estampas de camisetas,
adesivos e pranchas de skate dos anos 80. A Fita Tape é parte integrante
do Complexo Master, novo espaço cultural da cidade que une música,
artes visuais, lançamentos de discos, livros, estúdio de ensaios
e de gravação de última geração e pub.
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It’s not long till the release of ‘Fight For This Love’, and we can now whet your appetite with the details of what you can get and where you can get it!

There will be an exclusive B-side on the CD single – ‘Didn’t I’ – and a set of fabulous remixes available. Full details below…

CD Single – Click HERE to pre-order.

Fight For This Love

Didn’t I

iTunes Exclusive Pre-Order

Fight For This Love

Fight For This Love (Moto Blanco Club Mix)

Remixes – click HERE to pre-order on Amazon.

Fight For This Love (Cahill Club Mix)              

Fight For This Love (Crazy Cousinz Club Mix)

Fight For This Love (Sunship Club Mix)

Fight For This Love (Moto Blanco Radio Edit)

Fight For This Love (Crazy Cousinz Radio Edit)

Orange Monkey Exclusive

Fight For This Love

Fight For This Love (Cahill Radio Edit)

Vodafone Exclusive

Fight For This Love

Fight For This Love (Sunship Radio Edit)

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This track is called “Skydiving” and it didn’t end up on Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel and we are kind of glad it didn’t. Ir doesn’t fit in and Mariah doesn’t need Timbaland for a radio hit, unlike Madonna. I have a feeling that it might get to be on the “deluxe” addition of the album should the album go places.

It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it

Fittingly enough to the title, rrrrrrrrock!

The Manics rendition of the Chuck Berry’s classic love letter to rock ‘n’ roll is three minutes of fierce rock and roll glory. Strict ABAB structure, loads and loads and loads of crrrrrunching guitar, steadily klinking machinegun piano firing in the background. It’s pretty identical to a lot of the other versions from the same song but with the big difference is that none of the other versions carry such a grand rock singer as our very own James Dean Bradfield who really brings down the house with this one.

Rock and Roll Music was originally packed together with the Masses Against the Classes single and while a cover, it played part in the album’s grand message of “we’re back, and we’re back with a rockin’ vengeange”. It also bears the honour of being one of the recorded covers which have ended up on the live stage, as witnessed by the stagestorming versions the band played around the 2000-2001 live gigs, twice recorded on DVD as well in the guise of both Leaving the 20th Century and Louder Than War.

It’s a simple rocker song but for the three minutes it thunders from the speakers, it’s all you ever need.

I just got back from a weekend of camping, probably the last trip of the summer.  I spent most of my weekend (when not ingesting large amount of alcohol) thinking about music and when I returned home today I wanted to see how many songs I’ve recorded but have no place on any proper album.  Over 30 songs.  So, because of this, I’ve decided the easiest thing to do would be to put out all of them at once on a B-Sides disc.  I feel cleaning house of all of these old songs would be great and I’d have to chance to start completely fresh with a new record.  I have no ideas regarding timelines but chances are I’ll have it out by January or February, seeing as I have to mix about 20-25 songs.

I’m well aware that a band usually has to be around a while before they put out this sort of compilation but I look at it like this: the most inspirational kind of music to me is the stuff a famous artisit did before he made it big, the demos from their basement, the failed bands preceding their most well-known one.  Maybe it’ll be 25 songs of bullshit that no one likes but if there’s one decent on in the batch that someone really digs, they at least had the opportunity to hear it.

Note: A few of my favorite pre-fame artists I love to listen to:

- Matthew Good’s “Broken” and “15 Hours On A September Thursday”
- Any of Daniel Johnston’s early records
- And although it’s not technically “pre-fame”, Tom Waits’ “Orphans” compilation is astounding.

Here at the Nucka we’re always doing incredible research to bring you the newest, strangest, and most intelligent news and reviews in music. And while listening to Clap Your Hand Say Yeah’s Alec O’s side project Flashy Python we came upon quite an interesting coincidence. The track Obscene Queen Bee was actually a CYHSY b-side and live favorite called Cigarettes. Not much has changed but which is actually the better song? I’ll leave it to you to decide gumshoes.

- Rubles
Cigarettes
Obscene Queen Bee

Independent Film Week, Sept. 19 – 23, 2009, New York City

“The model has got to change.   There are no instructions.   There are no kits.   Do it the way that works for you.”   This was just one of many memorable quotes from Palladin’s Mark Urman, who spoke on the panel “The State of Distribution: The Current and Future Indie Model.   Having seen the demise of his employers ThinkFilm and Senator, Mark is embracing the new world of distribution.  Palladin partners with filmmakers to distribute their films while allowing them to retain their rights.   The partnership looks different for each film due to expectations and the amount of money the filmmaker can bring to the table.    Some P & A budgets are in the 2 – 3 hundred range while others are in the 1 – 2 hundred range.  Laughing, Mark said “I don’t buy.  I enable.”

Panel Photo - The State of Distribution: The Current and Future Indie Model

While Mark believes the model has got to change, B-side’s Paola is not completely sold on the idea.   “The old model still works for certain types of films and distribution companies.” That said, she does agree that the old model is getting harder to do and filmmakers need to look at all the options.    One such option is IFC’s Film Festival Direct.   Born out of conversations with filmmaker Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs, Alexander the Great), IFC Film Festival Direct allows films to capitalize on their film festival screening by making it available on this VOD platform simultaneously. Mark encourages filmmakers to sell DVDs directly to the consumer at the film festivals.

Filmmaker and author Jon Reiss goes one step further by offering the following advice:  “Get help from MBA students to help distribute your film.   Create a hybrid strategy.  Use other media platforms to tell the film’s story (aka transmedia).   Redefine the theatrical experience by picking alternative places to screen films (e.g. churches).”   For more on this and other ideas, read Jon’s book Think Outside the Box (Office): The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution and Marketing in the Digital Era).

Panelists:
Paola Freccero (President of Distribution, B-Side)
Jon Reiss (director and author of Think Outside The Box (Office): The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution and Marketing in the Digital Era)
Jonathan Sehring (President, IFC Entertainment)
Mark Urman (Founder, Palladin)
Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker Magazine Editor-n-Chief, Moderator)

Thanks to IFP for another great panel!

]]> http://sickmuze.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/cleveland-whomp-rusko-noah-d-two-nights-of-madness/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:52:00 +0000 liz http://sickmuze.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/cleveland-whomp-rusko-noah-d-two-nights-of-madness/

rusko + super crazy crowd

rusko(tweet tweet) brought it. that was a given. boy, was he drunk. might as well dub him the rewind king, too. definitely some hyphy stuff going on in his record collection. the show was sold out before the day even started – big up, cleveland!

that wasn’t all the city had planned for the weekend sub-wise, though.

noah d . sub:merged 9.09 . photo credit: dave tucker

noah d made my little bass-obsessed heart wub-wub-wobble. the entire basement was moving! two words: seeeriousss vip. if you don’t already know what i’m talking about, you soon will.

noah’s apparently got quite the collection of nasty dubs. in between dropping classic bangers and a bit of his own sound, he surprised the crowd with stuff we didn’t even know existed. [mrk1's going down, namely.] nice one! don’t miss this kid when he comes to your area.

oh. and make sure to be on the lookout for some SEEERIOUSSS gear coming from subway in the near future. (loving that entire label these days by the way)

noah d . sub:merged 9.09 . photo credit: dave tucker

all in all, a big weekend in cleveland dubstep history! big up to everyone who came out.

oh yeah and kanye… he was right.

kanye west interrupts rusko thursday night at the b-side in cleveland to make an important announcement.

next month, sub:merged is bringing in badman dz to smash cleveland into bits and pieces. don’t sleep on that one, kids. i mean that literally – not singling anyone out, though.

And I am surprised. We all know why right? Duh, ’cause Aibons on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We see the current Momosu in the innermost part with the graduated members on the outside in an order I don’t quite understand. Also, it seems that the graduated member’s pics are of them wearing the outfit for the last single they were featured in. I thought that was pretty nice.

Not a gorgeous cover in any way but still wins simply because it has everyone in it. Although it does remind me of something(s)…