We spoke this week with Alec Bourgeois, spokesperson for Dischord Records, to get his take on the year in music.
I'd say one of the coolest developments in 2008 was the return of the independent record store, fueled in part by the 12" LP's refusal to obey the grim reaper's call. It's not that places like [...]
Justin Moyer of Edie Sedgwick/Antelope/Supersystem has packed up and moved Iceland–his tour blog–over to Brightest Young Things. The blog launched today with an open letter to Barack Obama.
Well, whatever, he's all yours now I guess.
No, I'm sure you'll be really happy together.
Actually, we were totally over it a long time ago.
Hey, did [...]
Dischord announces that Edie Sedgwick is going on tour soon. And that the LP is now available. Check details, tracklisting, etc. here. And tour news, here.
Full Disclosure: Edie may be Justin Moyer, who writes pretty regularly for CP. He wrote a great cover story this week on the McCain campaign.
Dischord folk write:
We are currently stocked on many Dischord titles on Vinyl that have been unavailable for months and in some cases years, including Dag Nasty, Can I Say, which is now available for the first time on blue vinyl. We are also fully stocked on the following releases:
Minor Threat Out of Step EP
Minor Threat, [...]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when Hoover got back together they played upstairs at Black Cat. So how did Faraquet get stuck on the backstage? It's not as if people weren't interested. The show was sold out and the room was so packed with people that the air started to gather a murky Cheetos-and-armpits [...]
Kay Bozich Owens and Lynn Owens' new book, Lost in the Supermarket: An Indie Rock Cookbook, includes recipes from the likes of Black Dice, Belle and Sebastian, Country Teasers (still keepin' it classy with a drink called "Red Headed Sluts"), the Mountain Goats, Xiu Xiu, Sonic Boom, and more. I know practically nothing about cooking, [...]
From the label's Web site over the weekend:
This Dischord "digital" site offers a unique hybrid of the direct sale and subscription based download services (as well as the usual CDs, LPs, DVDs, etc). Customers have the option to download entire albums for a set price (usually $7), purchase Digital Credits (15 credits for $10) [...]
Medications are playing a surprise show of sorts tonight at the Galaxy Hut. Rumor has it Chad Molter is back in town to do some round-the-clock recordings with the rest of Medications. Molter recently moved out West. So this show is big news for fans of Faraquet and Medications. [You can read Brent Burton's really [...]
The latest issue of the Believer has an interview with Ian MacKaye; the magazine's Web site has a teaser from it, but Idolator isn't very impressed after reading the whole thing.
Dischord Records has finally made the leap and created that bridge to the 21st Century, paved its own merge lane onto that information superhighway...In other words, Dischord is now making its records available in a downloadable format:
"This Dischord "digital" site offers a unique hybrid of the direct sale and subscription based download services (as well [...]
