From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #26 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, January 27 2009 Volume 14 : Number 026 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- new sarah slean [=?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= ] Re: new sarah slean [meredith ] Uk distrib Pinnacle going under..... [birdie ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:38:11 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= Subject: new sarah slean hi.. see article.. http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/01/26/sarah-slean-to-release-album-of-canadian-covers/#more-4778 sounds intriguing..even if it's covers..sigh. just found an artist with a good pun for a name..philip harmonic. anna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:00:44 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: new sarah slean Cool song selection -- definitely riskier than kd lang's choices (mary margaret o'hara! ), but then kd lang's album wasn't supposed to be risky... she was looking to pay homage to the canonical, seminal folks. - ----- Original Message ---- From: anna maria stjdrnell To: ecto@smoe.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 1:38:11 PM Subject: new sarah slean hi.. see article.. http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/01/26/sarah-slean-to-release-album-of-canadian-covers/#more-4778 sounds intriguing..even if it's covers..sigh. just found an artist with a good pun for a name..philip harmonic. anna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:45:24 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: new sarah slean Hi, Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > Cool song selection -- definitely riskier than kd lang's choices (mary margaret o'hara! ), ... and Feist's "Monarch"!! Martin Tielli! "Lodestar", for gods' sake!! I haven't been this excited by the prospect of a new Slean album since _Blue Parade_. But that said, I hope she toned herself down for these ... I can't stomach the prospect of Sarah Harmer done Edith Piaf-style, sorry. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:07:20 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Uk distrib Pinnacle going under..... This is kinda old news by now, but since they distributed so many indie labels & artists, and I didn't see any mention of it here... here is a little more reflection on why the best advice is to DIY and why we will need to keep our ears to our fave artists for direct sales and finding out what they are up to..... UK's Pinnacle falling into insolvency means that almost 100 lost their jobs. More fallout is expected as indie labels distributed by Pinnacle suffer from lack of payments. Its hard to tell if the financial collapse of Pinnacle, the UKs largest online indie music player and distributor, is caused by the global economy changing and evolving during this downturn or the ongoing issues with the music industry in general. The news is surprising in light of the success of the music player. Pinnacle already had bands and labels signed up on their service and an active user base. Similar to both Routenote and Grooveshark - other music players that also offer a way to buy music and support artists and labels - Pinnacles financial troubles could be a financial boon to other online music players focusing on the indie market. If you wonder whether the bankruptcy of the distributorship side of Pinnacle will affect you, the music listener, the answer is yes. Their distributorship handled more than 400 labels, including the labels behind artists like Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Hives, Belle & Sebastian, The Strokes, Arcade fire and hundreds more. The label side of Pinnacle also had a staff of 90. The combined loss of the online player and the distributorship will have a global effect, however; the artists can use this as a chance to become more self promoting and self distributing using online channels, web sites and social media tools. That is, if the suits and lawyers will loosen their contracts enough to let them - even indie artists become mired in the red tape of the sic. AIM, the trade body associated with indie labels, is planning to try and assist the labels so that they and their artists dont go down with the sinking ship that is Pinnacle. Unlike United States bankruptcies that are a ploy to restructure a poorly managed company, UK bankruptcy signals an end. The company will be completely shuttered. Ill be tracking the artists and labels to see where they end up, and tracking other distributors like RouteNote and Grooveshark so see if any flow to other services here or abroad. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #26 **************************