From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #117 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 Monday, May 12 2003 Volume 06 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Liz mention on Jen Trynin e-list/Melissa Auf der maur [s.fried@ugrad.unim] Phair's fare [Brian Cooper ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:53:49 +1000 From: s.fried@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Subject: Liz mention on Jen Trynin e-list/Melissa Auf der maur Hi, Got this from the Jen Trynin e-list thingy: First off, Jen recorded a live reading of an excerpt from the book she9s working on based on her experiences in the music business. She did it with Jay Allison, independent radio producer dude extraordinaire! He9s been kind enough to feature it on his super cool website this week, Transom.org. The following is what Jay sent out to his list: Transom.org a showcase & workshop for new public radio http://www.transom.org May 9, 2003 *** NEW SHOW: 3K-ROCK LIVES!2 *** Jen Trynin is a rock star. Sort of. Almost. In "K-ROCK Lives!" she tells about her flirtations with fame, her strategic errors, and her adventures in bad-ass commercial rock radio studios too early in the morning. It's radio about radio, words about music with music amid the words. Here's what she says about her story, "It was 1994... post-Liz Phair, mid-Courtney Love, and just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven long years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, I suddenly became the object of one of the most heated major label bidding wars of the year. One day I was playing opening slots at local clubs; the next I was "taking meetings" with the heads of every major label I'd ever heard of. One minute I was a waitressing-desktop-publisher, dropping knives and deleting commas; the next I was signed to Warner Bros. Records, on the radio, on TV, in Rolling Stone, and on the cover of Billboard magazine. My future was set, they told me. I was about to become a big star. But that didn't happen... On Transom is an edited excerpt from my story." http://www.transom.org/shows/2003/200305.trynin.html Also have heard that Melissa Auf der maur is releasing a solo album on Capitol, I'm not getting my hopes up considering her solo stuff I have heard has just been plain weird without her beautiful voice on it at all! What are you thinking Melissa? Also, someone (I'm sorry I can't remember who) mentioned the new Placebo album - is it really that good? Is it better than Black Market Music cause that was awful! Still gonna see them in July, WOOHOO!!! As for the new Liz, haven't heard any of it at all but let's just say judging from the various discussions am not getting my hopes up. Seeya, Sally "You were really something else, made me forget myself..." Echo and the Bunnyment ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 21:59:41 +1000 From: Brian Cooper Subject: Phair's fare Spotted in the music pages of today's Sunday Telegraph in Sydney was the following item. At least I know now what date the new album will be released in Australia. I'm not quite sure how to take this as the writer of this article is known for his sarcasm. Phair's Fare Sunday May 11, 2003 by Brendan Shanahan Every now and again, I feel a smug sense of vindication. One of the following passages is from a column I wrote several months ago, the other from the press release for the new Liz Phair album, available June 30: "Female songwriters are always brave. Their eyelids and lips tremble querulously with bravery every time they hit a high note." "Indeed, these are the most brave - yet most insanely catchy - songs of Phair's undoubtedly brave carreer." Double-brave! Someone erect a monument! ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #117 ************************************