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June 6, 2008
Tonight In Rock: Ting Tings, Ditty Bops, Dead Kennedys
Photo by pink_fish13 via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr
MOCA is starting up a six-week film series tomorrow night at their The Geffen Contemporary location in Little Tokyo and who better to be there to play a music set than Henry Rollins? The film screened will be "Underground Forces," a film about the early punk scene with footage of Black Flag, the Cramps, etc. Rollins will be on for two hours from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The movie will start shoryly after. It's free with that day's museum admission ($10 or $5 for students w/ID), so take advantage of that and peruse the galleries while you're there since it stays open late until 11:00 p.m.
Music listings after the jump...
Tiësto @ Vanguard
Quetzal @ Temple Bar
Local H @ Troubadour
Jonathan Richman @ The Mint
Jon Brion @ Largo at the Coronet
The Ting Tings @ Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Wombats, Pop Noir @ The Roxy
The Ditty Bops @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Aimee Mann @ House of Blues (Anaheim)
Living Legends @ Music Box/Henry Fonda
Chimaira, Soilent Green, Dethklok @ Wiltern
James, Sky Parade, Evan Slamka @ Spaceland
Mountain Goats, Annuals @ Natural History Museum
Pizza!, Pigeons or Panthers, Brother, No Paws (No Lions) @ pehrspace
Dead Kennedys, JFA, Union 13, More Than Ever @ House of Blues (WeHo)
The Monolators, Seasons, Avi Buffalo, Master Slash Slave, Billygoat @ Mr. T's Bowl
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WOW!!
I guess Jello Biafra patched things up with the rest of the DKs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_Biafra
I met him at the Nader Super Rally way back in 1999. He was pretty depressed that the rest of the DKs were sueing him because he didn't want Levi Blue Jeans to use the song "Holiday in Cambodia".
A cautionary tale to singer/songwriters about sharing that copyright with the rest of the band. Seems no good deed goes unpunished sometimes.
Nice guy, real down to earth.
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I doubt Jello wrote East Bay Ray's guitar riffs.
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Pehaps not, but the going rate for a guitarist's riffs these days is session work and session pay, not writing credit, and copyrights.
Jello was being very generous, and you know it.
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I usually agree with ya JRB, but "Going rate for riffs?"... yeah, maybe in 2008 and you're recording some two-bit asshole music for a Gap Ad.... but we're talkin 1980, and punk was barely even conceived. You can't even try to compare the dynamics of early punk bands to how things work now, especially 'session' work. Ick.
... and lets not forget, Ray started that band.
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I'm not saying it's fair, it's just the way things are, and were as far back as the '80s. Earlier really.
If everyone who could pick up an instrument weren't so eager to become a rock star, maybe musicians would have had more rights all these years, and the labels wouldn't have been able to so effectively fuck everyone over.
That's why it's not exactly breaking my heart to see the labels now getting fucked over by the digital age, and musicians being able to market their own products on-line and thereby have more control over their own music, and make money without labels getting the lion's share.
Actually Frank Zappa predicted this would happen in his autobiography. Too bad he didn't live to see it happen, I'm sure he'd be laughing his ass off right now.
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The current state of music is more exciting than it has been in years.
Somethings happening, and everything is in a vacuum. Trying to maintain the old business model is like having vertigo and driving a 747, while on weed.
Once this explosion dust settles a little, a new business model will emerge and the good artists will see money again. It may not be Madonna money, but should it be? I'm not sure. Thats an entirely new discussion.
Party on.
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"Once this explosion dust settles a little, a new business model will emerge and the good artists will see money again."
ITA I see a lot more potential for artists to be able to market their own music without having to give up so much to the labels.
And so much more cheaply that they won't really need one of the big labels to get them there.