From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V5 #61 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Sunday, March 31 2002 Volume 05 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Liz Phair news from Pitchfork [Jase ] The wait continues... [Dan MacDonald ] Re: The wait continues... [Jase ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:33:13 -0500 From: Jase Subject: Liz Phair news from Pitchfork This comes courtesy of Pitchfork [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com]. It doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know, but hey, at least it's sort of a reassurance there will be a few new Liz songs to look forward to this year. By the way, Ken, Pitchfork usually links to a site for the artists they feature in their news updates. They provided a link to Mesmerizing with this one, which is only fair -- I think they pretty much got all of the information in the article from your site... New Liz Phair Songs to Surface on Soundtrack 1993 request to be your blowjob queen inexplicably retracted Will Bryant reports: Liz Phair has recorded three new songs for the soundtrack to Julie Johnson, the Sundance Film Festival fave starring Lili Taylor as a New Jersey housewife who dumps her husband, studies theoretical physics and shacks up with Courtney Love (Good Will Hunting meets Thelma and Louise?). The new songs are "Appletree," "Faded," and "She's Gone." "Uncle Alvarez," from 1998's whitechocolatespaceegg, is also used in the film, which will be released later this year by Universal Focus, the "independent" arm of Vivendi Universal responsible for Billy Elliot. The soundtrack is expected to be released by Shooting Gallery's own actually-independent label. Liz has also just wrapped a role in another independent film (does she shack up with Courtney Love?) entitled Cherish. She is also either putting the finishing touches on, or scrapping the master tapes and re-recording, her long-awaited fourth album with producer Michael Penn, who was pretty funny as the soulless hair-metal producer in Boogie Nights. You can even check out the video for a new song called "Down" at The Directors Bureau (created by digital filmmaker Rodney Ascher, who also created Sparklehorse's "Piano Fire" clip). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:42:36 -0500 From: Dan MacDonald Subject: The wait continues... > From: TheCowSay@aol.com wrote: >...and now...apparently her album's not going to come out until > > fall...? Oh no. Are you serious?? I so hope this isn't true. I was honestly expecting an August release date just like WCSE. Dammit. I figured since she was divorced she'd wanna get the rebound album out immediately. Stupid me. I do really like the song Down - quite a bit. I think it's kinda strong imagery and I could SOO get into an album full of songs like that...the same way I get into Whip-Smart - an album that still fascinates me in a really weird rainy-day kinda way. Anyway, time to get the hell outta here - new sleater-kinney in August - at least we have something to look forward to. Shit - we might very well see a new Bangles album before a new Liz album. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:01:50 -0500 From: Jase Subject: Re: The wait continues... Dan wrote: >>...and now...apparently her album's not going to come out until >> > fall...? >Oh no. Are you serious?? I so hope this isn't true. I was honestly >expecting an August release date just like WCSE. Dammit. I figured since >she was divorced she'd wanna get the rebound album out immediately. Stupid me. Well, we don't really know if the album will be out until the fall, or if it may be released sooner. I don't know how this "fall release" business even got started, since there's not even a tentative release date at all for the record at this point. Usually, an album is released about three or four months after it has been completed. If Liz were to finish the album sometime in April, there's still a chance that it'll be released around August. I don't expect we'll see anything sooner than that; as far as anyone knows, Liz is still working on the record and it has not yet been completed. She does have a pretty limited window of opportunity to get the album out this year, though. Usually labels rush to get everything of note out by the end of October -- the whole pre-holiday rush. Very few albums are released during the month of November and virtually none during December. The labels are too busy focusing on the marketing and promotion of all the 'superstar product' they've released in the fall, hoping to clean up in holiday sales. If Liz doesn't finish the album by June or early July, we probably won't see it released until next year. And that three or four month rule isn't even set in stone. By all accounts, Liz finished recording _whitechocolatespaceegg_ in January 1998. The album was originally slated for a June release, then got bumped to August, as Capitol had too many other high-profile records coming out around that time (the Beastie Boys being the prime example cited at the time). Hopefully both Liz and Capitol are happy with the material she's working on; otherwise, there could be even further delays. And if Capitol is cutting artists loose right now, it's hard to say what'll happen. _whitechocolatespaceegg_ was an underperformer, in terms of commercial expectations. Liz also hasn't released anything new in the time that has followed, and let's face it, when artists wait three or four years between albums, they do lose momentum. >Anyway, time to get the hell outta here - new sleater-kinney in August - >at least we have something to look forward to. Where did you hear the news about the Sleater-Kinney album? I'd only heard it would be out later this year, but not anything more specific than that. This is phenomenal news, though -- I've really been looking forward to a new album from them. I'll be disappointed if Liz doesn't get her album out this year, but at least there are a few things to look forward to. Wilco and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion both have new albums out in April. The Breeders, Mary Timony and Weezer all have records scheduled to be released in May. Aimee Mann's new one, _Lost in Space_, is tentatively set for late May as well. Courtney Love currently has 18 new songs recorded and is happy with 12 of them. That should be enough material for an album. And now Sleater-Kinney for August. I can almost feel my year-end top ten taking shape... Cheers, Jase NP: Magic Dirt, "Dirty Jeans" ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V5 #61 ***********************************