Via Ross Raihala, new First Ave shows announced:

Friday, March 10
Mainroom
STEREOLAB
$15/6 p.m./21+
Thursday, March 30
Mainroom
ROBERT POLLARD (of Guided By Voices)
$13/$15/6 p.m./21+
Tuesday, April 10
Mainroom
METRIC
$10/$12/8 p.m./21+
Sunday, January 29
7th Street Entry
JAH WOBBLE & THE ENGLISH ROOTS BAND
$13/$15/8 p.m./21+
Wednesday, February 15
Mainroom
ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND
$22/8 p.m./18+
Thursday, March 2
Mainroom
MATISYAHU
$21/$23/6 p.m./18+
And finally …
Saturday, January 21
7th Street Entry
First Avenue and Rose present
The Hedgehog: […]

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Minneapolis’ own Motion City Soundtrack is profiled on Pollstar.com today:
With the buzz around Motion City Soundtrack’s sophomore effort, Commit This To Memory, it’s high time for the latest band out of Minneapolis’ thriving music scene to embark on a major headlining North American tour.
The Mark Hoppus-produced album has garnered a lot of press for the […]

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Perfect Porridge is announcing the second issue of its printed zine, “Perhaps,” and this is your official invitation to contribute.
Send us your poetry, musings, song lyrics, photos, artwork or anything your mom would deem “fridge-worthy” for our free zine.
Guidelines:

-accepting any and all creative written word and graphic art (jpegs preferred)
-easily reproduced on 8.5″ x 6.5″ […]

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The Films
Label: Filter U.S. Recordings
The Films’ debut EP, a three-song EP, is catchy pop with an edge. The
quartet, friends since high school in Denver, Co., moved to
Charleston, S.C. two years ago and started selling out clubs
throughout the southeast. That’s when they decided that maybe their
sound had a chance in the big time. Think Elvis Costello, […]

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Yahoo Music quietly launched a blog today that may or may not be “official.” Hard to imagine that wires get crossed at Yahoo, huh? The guy posting doesn’t work in the PR department, so that’s good for starters. They’ll need to get some actual content loaded before I subscribe.
And after discovering that a majority of […]

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From Frank Barnako at MarketWatch today:
Word of mouth has always been a powerful promotional vehicle and a Harvard University study says it can be a fuse for an explosive online music business.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School said the key is online playlists and allowing podcasters or bloggers to […]

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Axiom is a progressive metal band based out of Eagan with a demo slated for mid January, ’06, and these boys need a new lead singer with high energy and stage presence!
Influences include: Pantera, (old) Metallica, Slayer, Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, etc.
Here’s the group’s MySpace page. E-mail Nick for more info: nickw19@comcast.net
And The Turns, a […]

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Blah blah blah, there was a lot of good music this year, rest of obligatory intro…anecdotal comment goes here, followed by self-actualized phrase about how this is our 100th post…then music = something…and here’s the list…

1. White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
Satan pissed off a lot of Stripes fans this year, but the true […]

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Yesterday Rolling Stone posted a story about musicians running their own recall programs to battle Sony’s malicious spyware-infected albums by offering them home-burned CDs:
Artist managers have been vocal in their opposition to the use of copy-protection software. “I just don’t think that this is the answer to the problem that they think exists,” says the […]

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Merry Mixmas
Various Artists
Label: Capitol
If you’re like me and appreciate Christmas music but tire of the incessant droning of the same standards piped into malls, etc. Enter Merry Mixmas, a compliation album of sorts with some well-known remixers taking their best shots at the classics, including “All I Want for Xmas,” “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “Let […]

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