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This week's show features interviews with Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp and Shonen Knife bassist Michie Nakatani.
Here is an early live clip of Shonen Knife.
Web radio show covering the best in women's creativity, with interviews and music.
Monday, 30 May 2011
Coming up on show 70
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Friday, 27 May 2011
Odd Girl Out: show 69
Show 69; 26/5/11; repeated 29/5
Veruca Salt—Seether
Planningtorock—Going Wrong
Liz Naylor—interview
Patti Smith—Redondo Beach
Beth Jeans Houghton—Dodecahedron
Lucinda Williams—Can't Let Go (KBCO)
The Breeders—Freed Pig
The Dark Shadows—Written in the Snow
Sharon van Etten—Save Yourself
Clara Luzia—Love in Times of War
Telstar Ponies—Voices from the New Music
Haruko—Made of Paper
The Knife—Pass This On
Gang Gang Dance—Mind Killa
Echobelly—Venus Wheel
Beach House—Zebra (Ring Trick mix)
CH-BB—Nobody's Perfect
Beate Bartel—interview
Bird Call—Lost Cause
Team Dresch—Hand Grenade
Chelsea Wolfe—Advice and Vices
Kathryn Williams—Soul to Feet
The Primitives—Need All the Help I Can Get
Kylie Minogue—Wow (MSTRKRFT mix)
Golden Starlet—In Honour of Takahashi Rumiko San
Petra und der Wolf—Jeff
Shonen Knife—Wind Your Spring
Amanda Mair—House
A Book About Elephants—Eve
Oh Land—Son of a Gun (Jacob Plant mix)
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Monday, 23 May 2011
Coming up on show 69
This week's interviews are with Beate Bartel and Liz Naylor, both veterans of the music industry, in varying ways. Beate was involved in the experimental music scene in West Berlin from the '80s onward, while Liz started out in Manchester playing in Gay Animals before working at various indie labels in London and releasing important Riot Grrrl records on her Catcall label.
Plus, there are new albums from Planningtorock and Bachelorette to explore.
Here is a clip of Beate in an early band, Mania D. She is mostly sitting on the left, when interviewed.
Plus, there are new albums from Planningtorock and Bachelorette to explore.
Here is a clip of Beate in an early band, Mania D. She is mostly sitting on the left, when interviewed.
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Saturday, 21 May 2011
Odd Girl Out: show 68
Odd Girl Out OR68 by Val_Phoenix on MixcloudA veritable plethora of vinyl on this show. Plus, the odd technical flub.
Show 68; 19/5/11; repeated 22/5
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Teen Angels—Go Away
Eleanor Friedberger—My Mistakes
Cat Power—I Found a Reason
Scarlet Season—Rewind
Rastro!—Some Things
Kids on a Crime Spree—Sweet Tooth
The Smears—Moms Rock
Josephine ft. Copycat—Darkest Side of Me
Ellen Fullman / Sean Meehan—Untitled
Helene Granqvist—interview
Supersnazz—Black Cat
The Horn The Hunt—Paris
Drinking Woman—Dog Boy
EMA—The Grey Ship
Melleefresh—White, Trashy and Blonde
Cocknbull Kid—Asthma Attack (WAWA edit)
Inge Thomson / Martin Green—Tears of the Sun
Kamala and the Karnivores—Love Like Murder
Rebecca Clamp—Kallio
Arcade Fire—We Used to Wait
No Joy—Indigo Child (Stereolab mix)
Joan Osborne—Spooky (KBCO)
The Scissor Girls—Stills
Clara Luzia—Frame
Holly Miranda—Forest Green Oh Forest Green
Burial Hex ft. Zola Jesus—The Far
ChuCha Santamaria y Usted—Fiebre Tropical
Robyn—Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me mix)
Giana Factory—Rainbow Girl (Glasvegas remake)
Freelance Whales—Hannah (Easy Does It mix)
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Monday, 16 May 2011
Coming up on show 68
This week features an extended interview with film producer Helene Granqvist, currently at work on the transmedia production Granny's Dancing on the Table.
Here's a teaser:
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
Odd Girl Out: show 67
Show 67; 12/5/11; repeated 15/5
Sidi Bou Said—Brittle
Allison Crowe—Going Home Tonight
Amor de Dias—Bunhill Fields
Nite Jewel—Another Horizon
Anna Duffield / Morag McKinnon—interview
The Clutters—Never Know My Name
Caitlin Rose—Feeling Blue
Odetta—The Foggy Dew
Seapony—Blue Star
The Slingbacks—Hot Rod
Quasi—The Poisoned Well
Laura Stevenson and The Cans—The Healthy One
Nerdy Girl—Cast Off
Juliana Luecking—Perfect Lesbian Bar
Thomas Tantrum—Sleep (RAC mix)
Woolf—Fishing with Alita
Dog Faced Hermans—Balloon Girl
Malvina Meinier—Hiver
Angela Motter—interview
Angela Motter—isitaboyisitagirl
Rachael Dadd—Sticking in Pins
Frumpies—What's His Name Hearts The Frumpies
Thao and Mirah—Folks
Cloud Control—Meditation Song #2
Siouxsie and the Banshees—The Passenger
Lykke Li—Sadness Is a Blessing (Gold Panda mix)
Donna Summer—Our Love (Peter Zohdy and Michael JT's Chicago rework)
8-Eyed Spy—Diddy Wah Diddy
Ginuwine / Timbaland / Missy Elliott—Get Involved
Solex—That's What You Get
MnMs—I'm Tired
Planningtorock—Doorway (CREEP mix)
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Labels: Angela Motter, Anna Duffield, Morag McKinnon, Odd Girl Out, playlist
Monday, 9 May 2011
Coming up on show 67
This week's show features a chat with producer Anna Duffield and director Morag McKinnon from the film Donkeys, an archive interview with Angela "Bucky" Motter, plus a new installment of my ever-so-ironic feature, Pop Princess.
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Labels: Angela Motter, Anna Duffield, Morag McKinnon, Odd Girl Out, preview
Friday, 6 May 2011
Odd Girl Out: show 66
Show 66; 5/5/11; repeated 8/5
Bratmobile—Bitch Theme (Peel session)
Rubella Ballet—Something to Give
Lay Low—3.Nott
Jesse Ruins—Dream Analysis
Exene Cervenka—interview
Exene Cervenka—Missing Nature
Sleepy Vikings—Flashlight Tag
Los Microwaves—Time to Get Up
Ra Ra Riot—Too Dramatic (Morning Benders mix)
Barbara Manning ft. The Go-Luckys—I Can't Get Over You
tUnE-YarDs—Bizness (Blackbird Blackbird mix)
Girl in a Thunderbolt—Nitroglycerine
Essential Logic—Wake Up
Superhumanoids—Mirrors (Captain Cuts and Grouplove mix)
Blindness—No One Counts
Alex Winston—Locomotive (Jaybird mix)
Jude Cowan—London
Rachel Goodrich—Light Bulb (ANR mix)
Cocteau Twins—Evangeline
Electrelane—Between the Wolf and Dog
Scarlet Season—Horse Fury
Muri Shinjuu—Shikyuu
Cults—You Know What I Mean
YACHT—Psychic City (Voodoo City)
LiLiPUT—Turn the Table
Ilona V—Southern Butterfly
Chicks on Speed—Warm Leatherette
Adele—Someone Like You (Jonathan Gering mix)
Stereolab—Speedy Car
Le Butcherettes—I'm Getting Sick of You
Destroy All Monsters—Bored
Jupiter—Sake (Anoraak mix)
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Monday, 2 May 2011
Coming up on show 66
This week's show will feature two archive chats, with sometime X singer Exene Cervenka and the recently re-formed Electrelane.
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The Section on Marxist Sociology will be concerned with developing Marxist Analysis as a method of scientific and scholarly research within sociology. Marxist analysis is not seen as focused on a specific aspect of social life, but rather as a method for analysis of the dynamics of social change, with an emphasis on the interplay of economic, social and political factors. This method involves a dialectical interaction between theory, method and practice.
The Section on Marxist Sociology facilitates the work of its members in several says. First, at its meetings, sociologists who are for an interchange of ideas, research findings and experiences in teaching and applying Marxist sociological perspectives. Second, the Section assists in the development of resources for teaching and research which enhance the contribution of Marxist perspectives to the sociological enterprise. Third, the Section encourages the development of local and regional activities by serving as a medium of communication among persons interested in Marxian analysis throughout the country. Finally, the Section encourages the publication and distribution of Marxist sociological theory and research bearing on the Marxist perspective.
OFFICERS OF THE SECTION. The Officers of the Section shall be a Chairperson, chairperson-elect and a Secretary-Treasurer. Voting members of the Association alone shall be eligible to hold office. The Chairperson-elect will automatically become Chairperson in the year following his/her office as Chairperson-elect. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be elected for a period of three years.
There shall be a Council consisting of six members, each serving for three years, with two Council seats being vacated each year. In the first election of the Council, two Council seats shall be identified as one-year seats, two as two-year seats, and two as three-year seats. Officers shall not succeed themselves. The Chairperson, Chairperson-elect and Secretary-treasurer shall also serve as members of the Council with the Chairperson of the Section serving as Chairperson of the Council.
POWERS OF THE OFFICERS. The Council is vested in principle with the power to carry out all necessary operations for the Section, acting as the representative of the membership of the Section. The functions of the Council include cooperating with the Program Committee of the American Sociological Association in planning the presentation of its field of interest in the Annual Meeting of the Association.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING. The elections of the Section shall be carried out in cooperation with the American Sociological Association and coordinated to their schedule. The exception shall be the first election, which shall be carried out noncomitantly with the formation of the Section.
COMMITTEES. There shall be a Committee on Nominations, elected each year by those members of the Section present at an open Business Meeting to take place at the Annual Meeting of the Association. The Nominating Committee shall be constituted of at least four members, with the stipulation that no member shall serve on the nominating Committee for two consecutive years. The Nominating Committee shall present two people for each office to be voted on by the voting members of the Section, by mail ballot.
Other committees shall be appointed by the Chairperson with the approval of the Council, on an ad hoc basis.
NOMINATION BY PETITION. Qualified members of the Section may be nominated for any office by a petition of 10% of the members of the Section or by 25 members of the Section, whichever is less. The choices of the Nominating Committee for each office shall be made known to the membership at least 60 days prior to the deadline for receiving nominations by petition.
REFERENDA. Any action of the Council, including changes of the By-Laws, may be referred to a mail ballot of Section members by means of a petition containing the signatures of 10% of the Section members or of 25 members of the Section, whichever is less. Any resolution passed by the annual Business Meeting of the Section shall be referred to Council. If Such resolutions are not accepted by the Council, they shall be submitted to the membership by mail ballot.
MEMBERSHIP. The membership of the Section shall be drawn from the members of the American Sociological Association who have expressed or demonstrated a major interest in Marxist sociology.
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Best-selling author Jackie Collins died of breast cancer Saturday at age 77.
People first broke the news, reporting Collins kept her stage 4 cancer diagnosis private for more than six years.
In her last interview with People earlier this month, she said she was happy with her decision to keep the diagnosis private and continue working. (Video via CBS)
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"I've written five books since the diagnosis, I've lived my life, I've traveled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it," Collins told People.
Many of her books made it to The New York Times bestsellers list, and several were turned into movies and miniseries — like "Lucky," "Hollywood Wives" and "The Stud," which stars her sister Joan Collins. (Video via Umbrella Entertainment)
Collins is best known for her sultry stories set in the glamour of Beverly Hills.
"If I find that my characters want to have sex, then I just go with it. But I don't control the characters, they control me," Collins told The Insider.
Her family said she was "a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force." (Video via Jackie Collins)
Instead of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization and to Penny Brohn Cancer Care.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singer Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, died on July 26, 2015, in hospice care. She was 22.
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Beau Biden, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's oldest son, died Saturday after a fight with brain cancer. He was 46.
Here are some facts about Biden:
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1. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013. According to The Associated Press, he had surgery at Houston's University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to remove a lesion and received radiation and chemotherapy treatment. He had a relapse earlier this month and was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington.
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2. He served two terms as attorney general of Delaware. In 2014, he announced that he wouldn't seek a third term and was considering running for governor in 2016, the AP reported.
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3. He was a major in the Delaware National Guard. In 2008, he was deployed to Iraq for a year and received a Bronze Star, according to the AP. A spokesman said Biden is entitled to military funeral honors.
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4. He was a lawyer. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and went to Syracuse University for his law degree. He spent five years as a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia and later focused on securities litigation at the Grant & Eisenhofer law firm in Wilmington, Delaware, the AP reported.
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5. He was focused on his family. He is survived by his wife, Hallie, and two children, Natalie and Hunter. "More than his professional accomplishments, Beau measured himself as a husband, father, son and brother," Joe Biden said. "His absolute honor made him a role model for our family. Beau embodied my father's saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did."
Beau Biden was preceded in death by his mother, Neilia, and sister Naomi, who were killed in a car accident in 1972, according to CNN. He and his brother, Hunter, were injured in the wreck.
Beau Biden, the vice president's oldest son, died Saturday after a fight with brain cancer. He was 46.
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Vice President Joe Biden's oldest son has died after a fight with brain cancer. Beau Biden was 46 years old.
Beau Biden had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013, at a time he'd been considering making a run for governor of Delaware. (Video via BarackObama.com)
His speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention introducing his father was moving and personal, and launched him onto the national stage.
A statement from the office of the vice president called the former Delaware attorney general "the finest man [the Biden family have] ever known."
Beau Biden is survived by his wife and two children.
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Grace Lee Whitney, who played Capt. Kirk's assistant on "Star Trek," died Friday at age 85, The Associated Press reports.
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Click here to see how William Shatner, George Takei and other stars paid tribute to the actress on social media.
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Longtime Fox NASCAR announcer Steve Byrnes died Tuesday of cancer, the network announced. He was 56.
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Byrnes, who had neck and throat cancer, was diagnosed in September. The NASCAR community showed its support by renaming last weekend's Sprint Cup race in his honor. Fans and drivers also rallied behind him with the hashtag #ByrnesStrong. Learn more here.
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Musician Johnny Kemp, known for the hit song "Just Got Paid," died last week in Jamaica, The Associated Press reports. He was 55.
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Details surrounding the death of Kemp, who was found floating in Montego Bay on Thursday, were unclear.
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I have boycotted the 2010 U.S. Census until today because it is racist. I will say it again, the Census is racist, and the only reason I am filling out the form is because I don't want some bohemian government temp worker knocking on my door and making their own snap judgments on me and/or my family.
The government did a wonderful P.R. job on why we should fill out the form; better funding for our neighborhoods and schools, blah, blah.
Back to my racist claims – It is either divide and conquer, or devalue the majority.
If you were to read the form, Question 6 asks, "What is the person's race?" You can be White, Black, American Indian, or a slew of other "races" that include Guamanian, Hmong or Samoan. An individual from Guam and one from the Philippines are about as close as a German and an Austrian, but the brown folks get their own box; the white folks are all the same. If you are Greek, that is the same as being Swedish, but if you are Laotian, that is entirely different from being Cambodian – yet Cambodians and Laotians are able to "write-in" their background whereas the Greek guy is lumped together with all the white people.
This is the same government and census that says Osama Bin-Laden is a white guy, most Asian people are not Asian, and black people have an option of being classified Negro.
Another question asks if you happen to be of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin. I would like to know what exactly a European person from Spain, a black man from Cuba and an Indio from Uruguay have in common other than the Cuban and Uruguayan's ancestors were raped and pillaged by Spanish explorers and force-fed the Spanish language and Catholicism.
If we choose to lump all white and black people together, regardless of using ethnicities, let's do the same for brown and yellow.


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Project Orphan Blessing
With the same basic goals as our Village Aid program—which is to take love and hope to hopeless orphans through humanitarian outreach—Project Orphan Blessing (POB) is unique in that we are able to invite mission teams to travel with us to deliver this aid personally and to minister in a variety of hands-on ways. If you have a heart to serve and you're looking for an opportunity to use your unique gifts to help others in need, our Project Orphan Blessing may be just the right avenue for you.
Our short-term trips enable us to provide needy children and their caregivers with services and training that would otherwise be inaccessible. Teams and individuals travel with us on exciting journeys with various objectives, such as:
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Our University Ministry is a branch of POB specifically designed to give university students and faculty life-changing opportunities to volunteer their time and talents to minister to orphans and their caregivers overseas. The rewards of such ministry are immeasurable and the memories are sure to last a lifetime!
We are currently accompanying teams to serve in China. If you have a group that is interested in traveling for a ministry opportunity, please contact Angie Blevins at email@example.com to start the conversation!
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text: In the foothills, in Bruntal, you'll find four-star hotel in Montenegro. Bruntal is an important historical city of the Region. Is rightly called the gateway Jeseníky.Hotel accommodation in Bruntal MontenegroVisitors to the hotel in Montenegro Bruntál can choose between single, double, triple modern rooms or spacious suites. All cozy and comfortable hotel rooms and apartments in Montenegro Bruntál have private bathrooms, satellite TV, minibar, telephone and Internet access.Hotel accommodation in Montenegro Bruntal gastronomyHotel Montenegro in Bruntal has an excellent restaurant and pizzeria in the building. You can look forward to excellent hot and cold dishes, which focuses on domestic specialties, Mediterranean cuisine and the unique cuisine of Montenegro.Are served breakfast. During the restaurant's dishes can be ordered in the room selected.Accommodation in Montenegro Bruntal hotel servicesHotel reception in Montenegro Bruntal is open 24 hours a day. If necessary, provide secretarial services, wake-up, exchange office, then you can borrow free dryer, iron with ironing board, spare pillows and blankets and board games. At the hotel reception in Montenegro Bruntál can also order massage or services pedicurists.Accommodation Montenegro Hotel in Bruntal areaBruntal located in North Moravia, west of the city of Opava. Bruntal through road leading from Olomouc through Šternberk to Krnov and then to Poland. Several streams flows through the town from which the largest is the Black Creek. The city is surrounded by deep forests growing on the tops of the northern Lower Jeseník. Square in the city has a square base and was founded in the 13th century. Street running out of the square next to the entrance gates to the city. On the site where originally a Gothic castle built in the 13th century, the castle was built, nowadays there is a museum. The present appearance is the reconstruction in the Baroque style, which took place in the 18th century. The castle was founded landscaped park, which is decorated with many statues of the early 20th century.


text: What if the poor and disabled voters voted Republican? There would be a convoy of hospital gurneys, wheelchairs, chair lifts and buses to take them to get their identity cards. Of course child care, elder care and disabled care would be provided. Meanwhile, I'm sure Karl Rove could raise a few dollars to purchase their identity cards for them. All they have to do is vote Republican !


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When something is working, the best thing to do is get out of the way.
Gold Beach Head Coach Jay Trost embraced that reality when it became apparent Todd Halcumb was having a hot hand early on in the game with the Panther's Sunset Conference rival, Myrtle Point.
For Halcumb, the basket was as big as a bathtub as he rained in 30 points in the first half.
"Todd was shooting the lights out, hitting some really big buckets."
Halcumb successfully connected on seven-triples launching a volley of ICBM's — intercontinental basketball missiles — from behind the arc, netting the Panthers 21 points. The offensive push would frustrate the Bobcat boys contingent on way to a Gold Beach 82-69 victory in front of an appreciative hometown crowd.
MPHS stayed with GBHS for the first period leading their hosts by a single point 22-21, before Gold Beach turned the tables and never looked back, taking a 45-41 halftime lead into the locker room.
In the second half, the Panthers continued to pull away amassing a 60-52 lead at the end of three periods before putting the game on ice with 22 points to Myrtle Point's 17 to the end game, 82-69.
Trost was pleased with his Panthers performance. Not only did they win the scoring battle but edged MPHS on the both offensive and defensive boards but equally important at the charity stripe hitting 55.6 percent of their free throws compared to Myrtle Point's 39.1 percent.
"It was very entertaining," Trost said, "my guys really stepped up. We played people at positions they weren't used to and everyone stepped up."
In addition to Halcumbs 36-point scoring spree, teammate Brandon Seuser-Smith put up 21 points and Luke Gilbert chipped in 7. Trost was proud of the rest of the team, too, saying "we had five or six players with 8 points."
For Myrtle Point, John Newton lead the way with 19 points followed by Jalen Robbins with 17.
With the win (2-1) Gold Beach currently occupies the second spot in the Sunset Conference behind (3-0) leaders Reedsport and Toledo.
On Tuesday, Gold Beach hosted Reedsport at home in what Trost describes as "a big, big game."


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Kuš Komikss and NabaKlab will be opening a Comic exhibition on January 11. 19:00. To check out some local Latvian Comic art and other stuff that will be going on, swing on down.
There will also be the possibility to participate in a workshop from 14:00 – 18:00 on January 11th in Nabaklab. This is held before the opening of the exhibition hosted by an Estonian friend of mine, Elizabeth Salmin, a cool young lady with nice animations and drawing skills. Check out Kuš Komikss in Riga for some good local artworks!


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Challenging Media Distribution and Music Distribution Challenges - Part Two, The Corey Smith Experiment
by Tim Anderson — Old Dominion University
June 01, 2009 – 08:51
Since the 2007 release of In Rainbows it's become cliche' to note that artists do not need labels. Often mocked by industry insiders who point out that "Radiohead isn't Radiohead without the many years of EMI promotion." That is no doubt true. Yet you cannot claim that major labels record companies have much to do with the success of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) or, more interestingly, in the case of Corey Smith. Radiohead, positioned as the popular purveyor of the avant garde, is seen as visionary, as is the work of CYHSY for similar stylistic reasons. But Corey Smith, on the other hand, is described as a "fun" artist who, while not "Nashville slick", is firmly rooted in several American genres. Musically the two have little in common, come from two different areas of popular music. And while I find Radiohead's work much more compelling, I think Corey Smith's experiments in building a fan base using web based tools is far more interesting in understanding how music will be made popular throughout the 21st century.
Halfway through my recent music industry class one of my students pointed to the example of Corey Smith as an alternative to major label distribution. The student is a young promising musician in the Hampton Roads area who, when he spoke of Smith, lit up in admiration for his music and more voiceferously, his entrepreneurial acumen. For those of you unfamiliar with Corey Smith his bio is as clean-cut American as baseball, apple pie and Mom. A long-time songwriter from Georgia who lists influences from "George Jones to Lynyrd Skynyrd to Nirvana to Tupac", the artist is college educated with a degree in Social Studies Education and a former career as a teacher. Marrying his college sweetheart and beginning his work as as a teacher, Smith turned to music as an outlet that begat an award from a songwriting competition that resulted in a demo cd that he distributed to friends and family. It was from there, as friend told friend, that demand for the CD and Smith's talent grew, or so says his bio,
I recorded it and sold it to friends and family and pretty soon it spread all over Georgia. I got calls from bar owners who wanted me to come and play shows. So I'd go to new towns, meet new people, and learn about other opportunities to perform. One thing just kept leading to another. It wasn't like I had a master plan so much as I was just being guided in that direction. Eventually, I knew music was what I was supposed to do.
Smith's music, which can be heard at his MySpace Page and some of which can be freely downloaded at his hompage, is in the tradition of Jimmy Buffet and James Taylor with a dash of Hank Williams thrown in. The result is a breezy singer songwriter whose dealings in nostalgia make him an easy fit for country western clubs, playlists and audiences even though his work could easily find audiences in those same frat houses that once spun Hootie and the Blowfish discs. Smith's "I'm not gonna cry" has become something of a staple for graduating High School classes throughout the US, a fact that he has posted his sheet music for this and another one of his songs, "21" for download through his site and sheet music direct. The result, as Bob Lefsetz in his Lefsetz Letter blog reports, Corey has succeeded by giving his music away,
I was leading a discussion in Aspen about the modern music business. The question came up whether you needed a major label. Jonathan Levine, an agent at Monterey, said he never considered a major deal as being necessary to sign an act. Actually, he found when majors shopped acts to agents, those acts tended not to succeed. Marc Reiter said Warner had done an incredible job with Mission Metallica, giving away content every single day in the run-up to the release of "Death Magnetic". But he wouldn't commit to re-signing the band to WB. And then Marty Winsch told the story of his client Corey Smith.
Corey was a high school teacher. Playing gigs on the weekend. Marty was booking a venue. Was there any way to make headway, for Corey to support his wife and two kids playing music?
Absolutely said Marty. But first they had to release the equity in Marty's recordings. They had to make them free on his site. To everybody.
And it was this giving away of the music that was Corey Smith's tour support. They didn't need a nickel from a label or a fat cat. Because once people heard Corey's music, they had to see him live.
Which they did. In 2007, Corey Smith grossed $1.7 million. This year, not even half a decade into Marty's management of the act, Corey's going to gross $4.2 million. Free music built the base. Fan rabidity blew the act up.
You can buy the tracks on iTunes. They've sold 420,000 so far. When they experimented last summer, and took the free tracks down from Corey's site, iTunes sales went DOWN! So, they put the free tracks back up. Actually, people e-mail Marty every day, asking for a track. AND HE JUST E-MAILS THE SONG BACK!
Not everybody's ready to commit right up front. The free music allows people to try Corey out.
They don't want radio play. They gave a station in a city sixty tickets to give away, but only on the condition that they DIDN'T play the songs. Marty wants people to experience Corey Smith live. That's where it happens.
And Marty wants it to be easy. So therefore, he sells FIVE DOLLAR TICKETS! Yes, he rewards fans. Tickets are CHEAPER on the on sale date. And let me ask you, how many people are going to tell their friends they scored such a deal? And maybe drag them along with! That's your marketing. Your fan base. It isn't about hiring a PR firm or using Twitter. Actually, Marty pooh-poohs most technology. He says you've got be wary that the technology doesn't get ahead of, doesn't overwhelm the act. He doesn't use Google Analytics to find out where each and every fan is. Marty goes on feel. He, and his uber agent Cass Scripps just go into a new territory, and although the first gig might be soft, the one after that never is. Because Corey delivers.
Actually, that's important. Marty has tried releasing the equity, giving away the music of other acts. But they haven't succeeded. Because they're just not good enough.
If you're truly good, you don't need anybody else's money, your recordings can be your tour support, they can put bodies in the seats, you can build a career.
These are huge numbers, and Lefsetz' is correct when he says what Smith and his manager have done is "released equity" in a plan that will only work if the live performer is good enough to attract a following. Of course, this is a plan for those who are healthy enough and has enough support to tour (i.e. a solid homebase, health plans, quality management, etc.), which was something that, in theory, a label was supposed to assist with and/or provide. That labels often operated in such a way that all of the risk would be placed in the hands of artists who would lose control of their assets and their royalties through the contractual recoupment of "advances" is a product of unique historical circumstances. The combination of technological change (from print to recording), limited means of distribution accumulated in the hands of relative few, and the emergence of an en masse unorganized, un-unionized workforce of musicians (i.e. the breaking of the American Federation of Musicians in 1948 and the rise of youth/amateur/folk musics as key content providers for radio, see BMI, and records companies) meant that companies who could control distribution and reproduction could leverage their advantages over labor in terms of terrible contracts. What this meant for audiences was an effective set of oligopolistic firms, stock and pricing practices that aimed to control demand and purchasing patterns.
None of this is new or shocking and all I am pointing out is how 20th century media economics concentrated power and production. What is new is that an artist such as Corey Smith and others are stitching together a set of best practices that emerge from multiple experiments and dependent of cultural contingencies. For example the Radiohead In Rainbows experiment worked because Radiohead's international stature paved the way for others to do the same pay-as-much-as-you-wish experiments that preempt leaks and stimulate the sale of premium materials to an international fan base. In the Corey Smith example you must give it away to slowly build a regional following that depends on live concerts and the incomes streams that performances initiate. In the Radiohead example you potentially sabotage your margins to exploit voluminous amounts of fans. In the Corey Smith example, you give songs away to grow a loyal fan base that may buy your CD, T-shirts and bring their fans to the concerts where volume may be limited (compared to the likes of Radiohead or NIN) but margins are wide. What we have are two different approaches, two different experiments to counter Paul McGuiness' of U2 managerial fame claim that "ultimately free is the enemy of good". Instead, I believe these and other experiments will result in free being the tool of better. But more on that later in a post on the music industry and "slow growth". In other words, to be continued…


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Leaked: New TV on the Radio Album Triumphs Over Superfluous Punctuation
It's probably too early to say for sure, but this could very well be better than ScarJo's album.
TV on the Radio, Dear Science,
Official Release Date: September 23
The Verdict: After all that Dave Sitek's given us this year — namely Scarlett Johansson's album — was it really reasonable to assume that TV on the Radio's new third full-length would live up to the feverish blog anticipation? Apparently it was! Dear Science, (the comma is, ridiculously, part of the title) improves on 2006's excellent Return to Cookie Mountain by draping the band's typical horny, atmospheric miasma over twitchy dance grooves and huge gorgeous choruses. "Halfway Home," "Red Dress," and the awesome "Golden Age" are the obvious standouts, but after a weekend's worth of listening, we pretty much love the whole thing. It's probably too soon to say for sure, but this could very well be better than ScarJo's album.


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Open Thread: It Happened to You
This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
There was a point in my life when I got a lot of yeast infections.
Great opening line, I know. But listen, I blame synthetic underwear, not myself. Or maybe it was that I was eating too much candy. Too much fruit? Drinking too much beer? Having big thighs? Anyway, it was happening over and over again to me, and it was not pleasant.
There is something you should know about me, though: I'm kind of a hippie when it comes to my body. I don't really take medicine, even Tylenol. I don't use drugstore tampons -- only those with all natural fibers -- and I wash my hair like once a week, so you get the idea.
That said, have you ever used those drugstore yeast infection cures? UGH.
My hatred of over-the-counter yeast infection cures started in when I was a teenager. My best friend used to drive me to school every day. Then one morning, my senior year, she called me saying she was sick and couldn't take me.
"Whats wrong?" I asked.
She was all, "Well, keep a secret ... but I have a yeast infection."
A what?! It sounded deadly! I was a late bloomer, so at the time I was not clued into all that vagina stuff yet. It seriously freaked me out! That's when my friend proceeded to tell me this story about how she used a one-day Monistat cure and her body reacted so strongly to it that she woke up and was so swollen ("down there") that, she said, "It felt like I had a dick."
That's right. A DICK!!!
THINK ABOUT THAT. THINK ABOUT HEARING THOSE WORDS AS A YOUNG IMPRESSIONABLE FEMALE. I was scarred for life. I mean, I didn't TOTALLY avoid using drugstore yeast infection cures from then on, but I was permanently wary about them. Who wouldn't be?
Fast forward to college. I had this boyfriend and I guess a few times I maybe got a yeast infection, and I used the Monistat 7 day thing. It was fine, but gross -- I really thought that stuff was so chemical filled! And I still do. No, I didn't like using it one bit.
So fast forward again to the period of time that I began this story talking about -- when it was literally like you'd look at me wrong and I'd get a yeast infection. Remember also that I'm total a hippie about my body, and a little bit of an alchemist -- I love DIY stuff. Now cue the internet. Uh-huh.
As we are all savvy Internetters, I'm sure we know what a dark abyss this place can be. YOU try Googling homeopathic yeast infection cures and see what comes up! I found ninety million weird things to stick up my vag, and I considered most of them. But yogurt is one that I had heard from friends, and so I figured I'd try it.
As yeast infection remedies go, yogurt is simple enough. It's not so much that you siphon it in there, though I suppose you could -- or use some kind of, uh, funnel or something. I would usually just dip an organic unbleached cotton tampon (see, I really am a hippie -- organic tampons!) in some Greek yogurt (this seemed stronger to me), and then put it up there overnight.
I don't know that it actually cured anything but its definitely a soothing feeling. Like a milk bath for your vagina! I mean, I think it cleared some of it up, and Internet accounts attest to this method's efficacy.
The buck doesn't stop there, though! I tried other things for DIY, all-natural yeast infection cures. Like what? Oh, dear readers, you may wish you never asked (even though I know, no, technically you didn't ask).
Okay, like … I've used garlic up there. GARLIC. Garlic? Yes, garlic! I would peel a clove really cautiously -- you have to be really careful it doesn't get punctured because garlic juice is super stingy. Then I'd wrap up the clove in sterile gauze and put the little parcel up there with the gauze ends hanging out for easy removal.
I believe this garlic to have worked ... but I am also basically a witch living in Salem in 1690. No, but really, the garlic is good! Your 'gina is gonna smell like food, however. So you should know that. (Sorry.)
Other interesting yeast infection solutions? You can use tea tree oil topically (meaning don't put it where you put a tampon, just on the outside) to help with burning or itching. This together with the garlic, together, I think really does work, but seriously-- with the garlic, the only thing is that your vagina will smell like pizza.
Every time I peed I would laugh about this, like, "Is these gross? Am I gross?" Also this is when I was working at a glamorous magazine publishing company and I always wondered if the woman in the stall next to me could hear me cackling and thought I was a complete freak -- which I basically am. (Cat, the beauty and health editor for this site who is also my friend, used to laugh at these DIY stories to my face.)
My ultimate conclusion is that all of this stuff kinda half-works for clearing up yeast infections. I mean, when you do them all together -- you know, putting the whole grocery store up your vagina -- I think that that works, along with doing the normal stuff like drinking more water and not eating too much sugar. You have to do it all.
In the end, though, I think the real best cure is probiotics, which I buy in pill form. They're basically that active cultures that come in yogurt. Cat is the worst health editor ever because she's emailing me with edits for this story asking, "What are probiotics?" Haven't you guys heard of them?
I buy the expensive stuff that you get at a legit health food store from a refrigerator and pay a pretty penny for. The good stuff isn't cheap, even if it is for hippies like me.
And, for Christ's sake, you BUY that stuff from a fridge, so KEEP it in your fridge! It's alive! It's July, you keep it out in this heat and it will die. You know, just like your dignity when someone finds "super yeast combating formula" pills out on your dresser. So TUCK THEM AWAY IN THE CHILL CHEST. That's slang for 'fridge.
Listen, I'm sorta a hippie, but I also want to have babies without deformities some day -- CRAZY, I KNOW. If you're like me I'd advise thinking twice before reaching for those insane one day-cure all-baby deforming-drugstore cures. Why not ask a loved one to help you shovel yogurt into your lady parts? HA. No, in all seriousness, do your body a favor and have an adventure in off-label food usage. Think of the stories you will be able to tell your perfect children!
Now you know I have to ask -- what are YOUR yeast infection cure stories? Let's all just go there.


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Carreg Coetan Arthur is a neolithic dolmen near Newport in North Pembrokeshire, Wales.[1]
Carreg Coetan Arthur dates from around 3000 BC and is the remains of a Neolithic burial chamber (also known as a quoit).
The remains consist of a 4-metre-long capstone on smaller supporting rocks. It would have originally been earth covered, but this has eroded away.
The site is managed by Cadw and it is a scheduled ancient monument.
- ^ Cope, Julian (1998). The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain : Including a Gazetteer to Over 300 Prehistoric Sites. Thorsons Pub. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7225-3599-8.
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A workshop to help know what to expect at career fairs. Topics include: how to plan a strategy for most effective and efficient use of time at a fair; the introduction – making the first impression a good one; statistics on number of interviews and jobs offered at career fairs; follow-up after the fair. This workshop will focus specifically on preparing students for the UW Green Career Fair happening on Wednesday, Jan. 26th from 10am-2pm in MGH Commons on the main Seattle campus, although all students are welcome to attend.
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There are many things I associate with game day in Ann Arbor from my youth:
1) Waking up to my uncle BLARING The Victors at first light
2) Little old ladies waving pom poms while they sit on lawn chairs trying to herd potential parkers into front lawns on Main St.
3) The Mud Bowl on Homecoming weekend (yes my parents took me to this annual event even when I was a little tot)
4) Buying Michigan apparel at Steve and Barry's like we'd never have the opportunity to purchase a Michigan shirt again…
The list could continue for awhile, but you get the idea.
Despite my random memories, there was one game day tradition that I was adamant about never missing (well, until pre-gaming took priority) and goes above and beyond all other schools in the realm of pwnage:
In these pictures from the OSU pregame show, Michigan's Man Up Front, Cody Martin from Plano, TX, continues the Michigan tradition* of bending backwards to touch his head to the ground.
One of the most infuriating things from tOSU's current cough success cough is their self-proclaimed "Best Damn Band in the Land" bullshit. While the band from "that school down south" conducts a spelling lesson, our drum major does a back bend and puts his head, not plume, not hat, but HEAD on the motherfucking ground. Pwnage at its best!
This gets me so psyched for fall I can barely contain myself! At least the Big Ten Network is good for something!
*Apparently a Drum Major back in the day fell one week while attempting his back bend. The following week he returned, removed his hat and touched his head to the ground to the student's surprise and delight, and set a new precedence for the future MMB Drum Majors. If any readers are band alumni, please feel free to add detail or clarification to this in the comments!