Well, this sucks. Fuck YouTube:

From http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription

YouTube's Robert Kyncl on licensing: 'While we wish that we had 100 per cent success rate, we understand that is not likely an achievable goal'. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

 

Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Jack White could disappear from YouTube "in a matter of days" after the Google video service confirmed it was dropping content from independent labels that have not signed up for its upcoming subscription music service.

 

YouTube is about to begin testing the new service – which will charge people to watch and listen to music without ads, and download songs to their mobile devices – within the next few days, initially within Google.

 

The company's head of content and business operations, Robert Kyncl, told the Financial Times that the service – previously rumoured to be called YouTube Music Pass – will launch more widely later in the year.

His confirmation that YouTube will block videos from labels that do not sign licensing deals for the new premium tier will be hugely controversial among indie labels, with trade body WIN already filing a complaint to the European Commission about its negotiating strategy.

 

"While we wish that we had 100% success rate, we understand that is not likely an achievable goal and therefore it is our responsibility to our users and the industry to launch the enhanced music experience," said Kyncl, claiming that YouTube has signed up labels representing 90% of the music industry.

 

Independent labels are likely to disagree. Their licensing agency Merlin estimates that indies collectively account for a 32.6% market share of the recorded music industry's sales and streams.

 

Contacted by The Guardian following his comments, WIN's chief executive Alison Wenham was blunt in her response. "They have suffered a simple but catastrophic error of judgement in misreading the market," said Wenham, who had organised a press conference earlier in the month to protest at YouTube's plans.

 

WIN claims that the company has signed lucrative licensing deals with major labels Universal, Warner and Sony, while demanding that independent labels sign up to inferior terms or face having their videos blocked from YouTube's free service.

 

“Our goal is to continue making YouTube an amazing music experience, both as a global platform for fans and artists to connect, and as a revenue source for the music industry,” a Google spokesman said. He said the subscription-based service would bring new revenue streams “in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars YouTube already generates for them each year. We are excited that hundreds of major and independent labels are already partnering with us.”

 

Wenham's criticism echoes a claim made at the event by musician Billy Bragg, who said "I don’t know why they’ve opened this hornet’s nest right now, apart from corporate hubris. I don’t think they realise what a stupid thing they’ve done."

 

The site has become a key promotional outlet for independent labels of all sizes in recent years.

 

YouTube attracts more than 1bn monthly viewers, with music one of its biggest categories. Its upcoming premium music subscription tier will compete with Spotify, Deezer and Napster among other services, including Apple-owned Beats Music and Google's own Google Play Music All Access.

 

Independent labels have long complained that they deserve more respect from digital music services negotiating licensing deals, and set up Merlin to strike deals on their behalf.

The agency has remained silent throughout the recent arguments about YouTube's planned new service, although its chief executive Charles Caldas criticised the company at an industry conference in late April.

 

Referring to an earlier quote from Bragg suggesting that musicians unhappy about royalties paid by Spotify should be "marching to YouTube central with flaming pitchforks", Caldas said: "I can’t say Billy’s right, but I can say that he’s not wrong."

 

The move comes as Amazon too has begun to flex its muscles in ways that limit the content its customers can receive. Amazon is delaying shipments and refused pre-orders for some titles from Hachette, publisher of Harry Potter author JK Rowling, and home to David Baldacci, Stephen Colbert, David Foster Wallace and others.

 

It has also pulled pre-orders for forthcoming Warner Home Video features, including international blockbuster The Lego Movie, 300: Rise of an Empire, Winter’s Tale and Transcendence.

 

• YouTube accused of strong-arming indie labels into poor deals

Great stuff... Modernettes, Westerberg, Wanda Jackson.

Very enjoyable listen!

The second episode of Revolution Rock as a two hour program featured music from Link Wray, The Dream Dates, The Cramps, Wydle Rattz (a short lived band featuring members of The Stooges, Sonic Youth and Mudhoney), and The Velvet Underground.

The playlist:

1. Link Wray - Big City After Dark
2. Dream Dates - The Mess You’re In
3. Cousins - Other Ocean
4. Fuzz Kings -Republican Haircuts
5. Blitzen Trapper - Fletcher
6. Neil Young - My Hometown
7. Wanda Jackson - Tunnel Of Love
8. North By North - Break Some Bones
9. M.G & The Escorts - A Someday Fool
10. Cool Rays - Diary Of You
11. Wylde Rattz - Take LSD
12. She Wolf - Going Back Home
13. The Cramps - Lonesome Town
14. Cream - From Four Until Late
15. Nature Boys - No Subject
16. Mystics - Can’t Be Happy
17. Paul Jacobs - A Place To Stay
18. Tele Novella - Stephanie Says
19. The Carbonas - Count Me Out
20. The Modernettes - Confidential
21. The Spy’s - Machine Shop
22. Paul Westerberg - Got You Down
23. Paul Westerberg - Silent Film Star
24. Pow Wows - Plastic Factory
25. The Replacements - I’m In Trouble
26. Black Lips - Dog Years
27. The Almighty Defenders - Ghost With The Most
28. Dead Ghosts - I sleep alone
29. Plimsouls - Zero Hour
30. Nervus Rex - There She Goes
31. Velvet Underground - Heroin (Different Take) (1966 Scepter Session)

Download/listen to the podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20140607-1900-t1402164000.mp3

Check out my blog post on Velvet Underground's 1966 Scepter Studio Sessions here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-velvet-underground-scepter-studio.html

The Volts ,Yes , Los Punk Rockers' LP is SO fucked up...It takes on new meaning as a Punk record.

It was , of course , a quickie cash - in ( Dazzlingly inept covers of the entire Sex Pistols LP.) like the great Exploitation LPs of The 60'S. But , even worse !!!! I say that lovingly. Gary Pig Gold said he mentioned a review I wrote of an unauthorized (Boo hoo.) reissue of teh album to John Lydon , whom , he said , was very interested in hearing it.

I've been on a massive Dead Kennedys kick lately.  Plastic Sugery Disasters has been in heavy rotation it seems. 

McVICKER said:
...and the rezzilos!

YES!!!! 'Can't stand the Rezillos' is one of my top three favorites from that era. 

Lubricated Goat

Nice stuff, too. Thanks!!

How about these bands?

Playlist 06/14/14

Legal Weapon Daddy's Gone Mad
Saints Lost and Found
Hex Dispensers Taxidermy Porno
Len Price 3 Billy Mason
Electric Mess Better to be Lucky Than Good
Motobunny Thinkin About Me
Norvins I Need Your Lovin'
Mystic Brew Don't Cry No More
Sonic Avenues Automatic
Bleeding Rainbow Time & Place
Thee Oh Sees Drop
Warm Soda Postcards
Trousers I Get Around
Cryptics Do The Trash
Lovesores Mission To Mars
Curse World Domination
Harmonica Lewinski Running Wild
Bad Beats It Breaks Me Down
Banditos The Losing Game
Fagettes My Girl Looks Like Johnny Thunders
Deathrays What It Means
Safes The Wide Open Sky
Micragirls Rock n Roll Rocket
Black Randy and the Metro Squad I Slept In An Arcade
99ers Godzilla's A Punk
Forty Nineteens Can't Let It Go
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Top of the World
Redd Kross Stay Away From Downtown
Andy Smash She's Haunting
Porno Mags Not Free
Mighties The Seducer
ToughMF's Sweet Anneli
Ace Egil's Head-Ransom
Quity and the Don'ts All of You
Beach Party Geronimo
Dry Heeves The Creep
Bob Mould I Don't Know You Anymore
Sensible Gray Cells Tragic Roundabout
Godfathers Gone To Texas

I will be on the air and the web on Saturday June 14th playing the usual garage-punk trash. You can listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu from 1:00-3:00PM EST.

THE TRIP! 06-08-14! THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE!

This week on The Trip! Things really do go better with Coke!  Listen here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20140608-0000-t1402182000.mp3

The setlist! 


THE CREEPS - DOWN AT THE NIGHTCLUB 
THE ARGONS - DO THE DOG 
TONY RANDALL - THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE 
JERRY DALLMAN & THE KNIGHTCAPS- THE BUG 
THE MODS - I GIVE YOU AN INCH 
PETULA CLARK - THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE 
THE PAGANS - BABA YAGA 
THE TROGGS - COKE SPOT 
SALTY HOLMES - THE GHOST SONG 
GROTESQUE MOMMIES - ONE NIGHT STAND 
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - ABBA ZABBA 
EASY BEATS - COKE SPOT 
3 ACES AND A JOKER- BOOZE PARTY 
THE RUNABOUTS - WHEN I GET THE BLUES 
THE WHO - COKE AFTER COKE 
DUKES OF HAMBURG - ROSALYN 
JACK WEBB- THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE 
THE EARTHBOYS - SPACE GIRL 
THE PREMIERS - FARMER JOHN 
DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MITCH & TICH- COKE SPOT 
THE BIKINIS - BOOGIE ROCK AND ROLL 
BILLY THORPE & THE AZTECS - THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE 
THE DEL-MONAS - PETER GUNN LOCOMOTION 
THE SUPREMES - COKE AD 
JAN & DEAN - COKE AD 
POLKA DOT SLIM - A THING YOU GOTTA FACE 
PURPLE HAZE - ALT TAKE 
MARK & THE ESCORTS - GET YOUR BABY 
THE SEEKERS - COKE SPOT 
TAKESHI TERUACHI & THE BLUE JEANS - YAGI BUSHI 
DAVEY DAY - MOTORCYCLE MIKE 
FABULOUS MCLEVERTYS - BLAME IT ON ELVIS 

Chris Spedding, Nash The Slash & Hawkwind - nice mix.

THE TRIP! JUNE 1 2014! TRIBUTE TO BUNNY YEAGER!

This week on The Trip!  Greg pays tribute to Bunny Yeager and Nash the Slash!  Listen here: http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20140601-0000-t1401577200.mp3

The Setlist! 

ronnie self- pretty bad blues
the scarlets- stampede
warren smith- ubangi stomp
ronnie hawkins- down the line
wanda jackson- rock your baby
the waitresses- the comb
rubber city rebels- rubber city rebels
jerry lee lewis- you win again
robin & the 3 hoods- that's tuff
live wires- love
gretchen hefner- betty page is back
chris spedding- hey miss betty
blue devils- betty page
nash the slash- dead man's curve
hawkwind- motorhead
william shatner- silver machine
j.d. wilkes & the dirt daubers- drive
the buzzcocks- fast cars
the buzzcocks- i don't mind
sons of adam- feathered fish
girl trouble- hurt your heart
girl trouble- old time religion
throttle elevator music- throttle rocket

Radio What Wave Playlist June 12/2014. Shortened show and all London Ontario bands tonite!

1. Vintage Experience....You Really Got Me...recent demo from Ryan In The Red, host of Rock City Madness over on the Garagepunk Hideout. They are playing Sat June 21 at Norma Jeans.

2. Heart Attack Kids....Cold Hands...from the Hooligans download.

3. Don't Touch The Dancers....Acid Drops....they will be playing June 20th at APK as part of the CHRW CD release party.

4. The Icons...End Note....from a download.

5. Astoria....So Far Gone....from a download, part of their soon to be released CD and the radio debut of this song!!

6. Red Arms....Quiet Resolution....from a download.

7. Foam....Silver Spoons....from a download.

8. Fireball Grant....Jean Genie....from a live to air on Radio What Wave, Oct 31/2013. Not really from London Ontario, but from the thriving metropolis of Watford, between London and Sarnia Ontario.

9.Pink Cadillac Scat Cats....Jolena....from their Rip It Up CD from 2006. We had these guys as one of our very first live to airs!!

10. Larry Lee and The Leesures....Odd Man Out...from the Number 1 LP from the early 60's. One of the best songs to come out of sleepy London and few remember or have heard it. The Cramps shoulda covered this one, but The Black Holes did instead.

11. Matadors...Pink Lincoln...from the Devil's Music CD. They are at CTO tonite.This seems be the band people from outside London know of....and The Demics of course!

12. Black Frame Spectacle....Bust Out The Boogie...from their Grady Sessions II CD. They will be at Black Shire PubJune 20th

13. Alcohollys....Girls Night....from their CD, EP. They are at APK on saturday night.

14. Marcellus Wallace...Dollar Bill....from their debut CD, one of the only soul bands that play out regularly.

15. The Demics...Talk Talk....recorded live in Toronto early 80's.

16. The Demics....7 and 7 Is....as above. Showing The Demics roots in 60's garagepunk with these 2 covers.

17. Second Thoughts....Wound Up....from their only 7" from 1980

18. Crash 80's....Thrills....from t heir only 7" from 1980.

An all London Ontario show and this was only the tip of the iceberg. Join us next week as we do a special on late 70's/early 80's Canpunk (with the emphasis on the artier side) as we pay tribute to Steven Davey who passed away the other day. Steven was one of the prime movers behind the beginings of the punk scene in Toronto which in turn influenced the rest of Southwestern Ontario. If you tune in, you might just hear some of Steven's early bands, The Dishes and Everglades as well as some of the songs he wrote for bands like The Demics, The Diodes, Keith Whittaker of The Demics and many others.

And thanx for all the phone calls, emails, facebook messages and Heys!!!! And thanx to all the crazies that tune in every week while they do the dishes!!

See ya next week!

And here's a link to the podcast:

http://chrwradio.ca/programs/radio-what-wave

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
June 13, 2014

Chances are, unless you live in New York or unless you religiously listen to my radio show, Terrell’s Sound World (which, by the way, you should), you haven’t heard of The Electric Mess. Actually, if not for the glory of the internet — and, specifically, my favorite musical community of recent years, The GaragePunk Hideout — I wouldn’t have heard of this Mess either.

But, by golly, if you like wild, frantic, high-energy rock ’n’ roll, you really need to acquaint yourself with this New York band. The group’s third album, House on Fire, is as good a place as any to start. All 13 tracks are full of fire and craziness. The sound is not drastically different from the band’s first two albums (its self-titled debut from 2009 and 2012’s Falling off the Face of the Earth). But that’s a good thing. If you like this one, you’ll want to seek out those first two.

Fronted by singer Chip Fontaine (real name Esther Crow), the group has a sound rooted in 1960s garage rock but not shackled in nostalgia. True, The Mess is a guitar-based band that features an electric organ (Oweinama Biu), but you won’t get the idea that the musicians are trying to sound like Question Mark & The Mysterians or The Standells (though, at least in their early days, they were known to cover “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”).

Fontaine/Crow’s voice reminds me a little of Joan Jett’s. (Here’s a fantasy: a Jett/Crow duet on The Replacements’ “Androgynous.”) House on Fire’s highlights include the opening song, a crazed little rouser called “Better to Be Lucky Than Good,” which could be a grandchild of The Velvet Underground’s “White Light/White Heat.” (One recurring lyric: “They did it all for the white light.”) This is followed by the album’s title song, in which the speed is just as breakneck and intense.

“She Got Fangs,” which starts out with a throbbing bass line from Derek Davidson, is a hoodoo-heavy song about vampires: “Vampire woman, can’t you see/What your hunger does to me?” I’m not sure what Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone From the Sun” has to do with any of this, but it’s there, courtesy of guitarist Dan Crow (Esther’s husband), during one of the song’s instrumental breaks.

Then there’s “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave” (the title is from a classic John Belushi Saturday Night Live skit), which is about folks who always wear out their welcomes. And even fiercer is “Leavin’ Me Hangin’,” a song in which the singer expresses displeasure at being stood up. In the middle of the song is a weird spoken-word segment:

“Girl, you ain’t no Queen of Sheba, and I ain’t no piece of liver, but you never deliver. Man’s ego is like a fragile bird, but you step on that bird’s wings one too many times, and he turns into an evil hawk with red fiery eyes, on the hunt for you girl. ’Cause you’re my bird of prey, and this is what I have to say.” 

This is followed by a 10-second (yeah, I timed it) scream as the band goes into overdrive.

The final track, “Every Girl Deserves a Song,” starts off fast but then, after a minute or so, slows down into a wah-wah-enhanced groove. (Am I crazy, or do I hear a faint echo of The Allman Brothers’ “Midnight Rider” in here?) “Why don’t you bring some Percocets just to help me cool my jets,” Crow sings. No, you can’t exactly call this song mellow, but after the pace of the first dozen songs, The Electric Mess deserve to cool their jets a little.

Now go get yourself a copy of this album. And tell at least five of your friends. Next time I review an Electric Mess album, I don’t want to talk about how undeservedly obscure this band is.

Also recommended:

* Drop by Thee Oh Sees. I was just beginning to come to terms with last year’s announcement by Thee Oh Sees frontman and resident wizard John Dwyer that his prolific band was going on “indefinite hiatus.” The group’s album Floating Coffin, you might recall, was my pick for the best of 2013, and its Albuquerque show last fall was one of my favorite concerts of the year.

Now here comes a new album by Thee Oh Sees. And no, it’s not an odds ’n’ sods collection of old tapes, demos, and stuff from long-forgotten tribute albums. It’s actually a new album. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the band we came to know and love as Thee Oh Sees — vocalist and keyboardist Brigid Dawson, bassist Petey Dammit, and drummer Mike Shoun — seems to be, well, on indefinite hiatus. Dwyer moved from the group’s home base of San Francisco to Los Angeles. I think some of the other Oh Sees scattered as well.

But more good news. Even without the old lineup, Drop is a pretty decent album. Although not as overtly powerful as the magical Floating Coffin, it still has several mighty examples of Dwyer’s fuzzed-out, rubbery psychedelic excursions.

He saved his best for the first three tracks: “Penetrating Eye,” “Encrypted Bounce,” and “Savage Victory,” which make up nearly half the album. These could almost pass for outtakes from Coffin, or perhaps Carrion Crawler/The Dream (2011). One could make that argument for the garagey “Camera (Queer Sound)” as well.

While this is clearly Dwyer’s show, he’s aided on Drop by Chris Woodhouse — a longtime associate of the band — on bass, drums, and Mellotron and Mikal Cronin on alto sax. Cronin is best known as a guitarist (if you saw Ty Segall at High Mayhem a few weeks ago, you saw Cronin). There’s also someone called Casafis on sax.

Unfortunately, after such an auspicious beginning, the album ends with a three-song fizzle. “King’s Nose” sounds like an attempt to channel Electric Light Orchestra. “Transparent World” is plodding and over-synthy. And the closing number, “The Lens,” is uninspired wimp rock. Come on, Dwyer, lose the damned Mellotron!

Although Drop is a welcome addition, I’m not sure what the future of Thee Oh Sees is. Dwyer recently released an electronic album called Hubba Bubba under the name of Damaged Bug.

But he’s one prolific guy, so Oh Sees fans shouldn’t abandon hope.

Here's some videos from these bands

Hey John, thanks a lot. I will let him know.

Maybe , next year , Rudi can play at The Chicago Bluesfest.

They need new blood.

Not to say Rudi is a vampire. I did see him once  , on Hallowe'en , wearing a Dracula cape.

He asked if any women in the audience would like to help him take his cape off , saying ,

"It's OK , I don't have AIDS.   But , I do have Herpes."

"HERPES?!" , I said , "You're old school !!!".

RUDI PROTRUDI UNFUZZED

NEW LP, RUDI PROTRUDI UNFUZZED - LIVE, OUT JUNE 26

VIA HOUND GAWD! RECORDS

Rudi Protrudi is known primarily for founding and fronting legendary Garage rockers, »The Fuzztones«. His career spans 44 years and has included performing and recording with various influential artists such as Sean Bonniwell (Music Machine), Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Esquirita, the Cult's Ian Astbury, The Dead Boys, Lydia Lunch, Billy Idol, Sylvain Sylvain (NY Dolls), Lenny Kaye (Nuggets compiler/Patti Smith guitarist), the Chocolate Watchband, the Pretty Things, Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere & The Raiders) and 60' Garage icon Sky Saxon (The Seeds).

Rudi has instigated many other projects, including the first Link Wray inspired instro band, »Link Protrudi & The Jaymen«, and two solo albums in the (admittedly bent) Country vein.

His newest project, »Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed«, features the Garage guru in an acoustic setting, performing raw, gutbucket country delta blues and Chicago-style blues, backed by a five-piece band consisting of the best blues players in Berlin. For this recording he took the stage of Berlin‘s »Wild at Heart«, bringing a little piece of Mississippi to your turntables. Invoking the ghosts of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Skip James,»Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed« transform Rock venues into crossroads Juke Joints.

1. Want Ad Blues

2. Down In The Bottom

3. Made Up My Mind

4. Big Legs, Tight Skirt

5. Bad Like Jesse James

6. Black Girl

7. Evil

8. Boom Boom

9. Rock Me Baby

10. Bloodstains On The Wall

11. Dirty Motherfucker

12. Hoochie Coochie Man

13. What'd I Say

Record Release Shows:

June 13, 2014 at Bassy Cowboy Club; Berlin

June 14, 2014 at Wild at Heart; Berlin

Hound Gawd! Records

After 6 weeks of shows with a limited staff... here is the return of Voix De Garage with the 4 of us!!! Stay tuned, it will be this Wednesday 11th June and any time after that on podcast! For more garage, glitter, punk sounds of yesterday and today... WE ARE BACK!!!

Been thinkin' about it.  Don't know if I'll have enough cash...  Fingers crossed!

Mark

fifty-fourfortyorfightradio.com

Yes. He claimed peanut butter and honey all over a woman's body set the mood. 

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During?

Steve ,     I just remember two different interviews , one when Tiny Tim was still in his commercial prime .    He said "Young people are not following Christs's teachings. Even the wife and I only have S-E-X  if we're trying to have children."  No wonder she left him.

But , I saw another interview from the 80's where he calls out younger men for not knowing how to please their women . "I can go for four or five hours , why can't they?".

He added that peanut butter and honey was his secret ingredient.....Not before sex.

Sweet.