Thursday, March 11, 2010
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3.15-16
Darcie Miner
Loneliness Anonymous (Indminer)
Dawes "When My Time Comes" (ATO)
Dr. Dog "Stranger" (Anti-)
Jakob Dylan "Nothing But The Whole Wide World" (Columbia)

Jim Keller Sunshine In My Pocket (Elisha James)
Kiriaki Bozas Teacher EP (Independent)
Landon Pigg "Take A Chance" (RCA/RCAMG)
Laura Veirs "July Flame" (Raven Marching Band)
Living Sisters "Double Knots" (Vanguard)
Mayer Hawthorne "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out" (Stones Throw)
Nick Moss Privileged (Blue Bella)
Peter Wolf Midnight (Hip-O/UMe)
Seasick Steve Man For Another Time (Ryko)
Shelby Lynne Tears, Lies & Alibis (Everso/CO5)
Tonic Tonic (429)
Willie Nelson Country Music (Rounder)

KUT Gears Up For SXSW
If you're heading down to SXSW, KUT/Austin has quite an array of shows lined up for the week. For the first time, KUT will be presenting a series of live shows in the Hilton lobby each morning of the festival. Wednesday (3/17) will feature Carrie Rodriguez, Hayes Carll and Brazos; Thursday will boast Dawes, Frightened Rabbit and Carolina Chocolate Drops; Friday will see performances from Elliott Brood, John Hiatt and Courtyard Hounds; and Saturday will feature Danny Barnes, Exene Cervenka and The Gourds.

There's also the KUT SXSW Day Stage at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the Austin Convention Center, featuring Bobby Bare Jr. with David Vandervelde, Jason Collett and Nneka, not to mention the KUT showcase at Momo’s on Friday night that will be broadcast live on KUT. It includes Kat Edmonson, Sarah Jarosz, Freedy Johnston, Citizen Cope, Jon Dee Graham and Chuck Prophet. Additionally, The World and KUT will present All Music Is World Music on Thursday night at Momo’s where The World host Marco Werman will curate and emcee an evening of global talent.
KUT will broadcast lots of live performances during the day and non-stop live music every night of SXSW on 90.5 or kut.org. And lastly, they'll be at the Triple A Music Meeting panel, moderated by Sean Coakley of Songlines, at 11 a.m. on Friday at the Austin Convention Center.

Artists Added To FMQB Conventions
As you begin to make your summer plans, don't forget about the two Triple A conventions that are coming up in the near future: the 10th Annual NON-COMMvention in Philadelphia, presented from June 3-5 by WXPN and Media Sponsor FMQB, and the 2nd Annual FMQB Triple A Conference in Boulder, CO from August 11-14. We're very pleased to announce that ALO, along with a very special guest, will be performing at the Triple A Awards Brunch as part of our Conference in Boulder on Saturday, August 14 at 10 a.m.

The 2nd Annual FMQB Triple A Conference runs from August 11-14 at the St. Julien Hotel & Spa in Boulder, closing with the Awards Brunch. Additionally, Gold Village Entertainment President Danny Goldberg will kick off the Conference as the subject of the Keynote Interview with FMQB CEO Fred Deane, conducted on Wednesday, August 11. Look for the Fox Theatre lineup to be announced in early April. All details for registration and booking a room at the St. Julien can be found here: http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=1381075.

Meanwhile, more artists have been added to the NON-COMMvention, including Robert Francis, Dr. Dog and The Mynabirds. They join the previously announced lineup of Mayer Hawthorne, Retribution Gospel Choir and The Gaslight Anthem with many more still to be added. Meetings at the NON-COMMvention will begin at 10 a.m. on June 3 and the whole event will conclude around 1 p.m. on June 5. Registration is now open, and you can find all the hotel and registration information at this link: http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=530016. The early bird registration rate of $85 for radio and $185 for non-radio ends on April 30 at 5 p.m., so sign up now!


Ruling On EMI-Citigroup Stand-Off Expected At End Of Month
Reuters reports that a U.S. judge will rule on whether or not to grant a request by Citigroup to move a lawsuit by Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd to London in a dispute over its acquisition of EMI by the end of March. Last year, Terra Firma made a claim in a New York federal court that accused Citigroup had inflated the price of EMI by not revealing the withdraw of the only remaining bidder in the auction, Cerberus Capital Mgmt. Terra Firma pled to have its case heard in the U.S., rather than in London where the move could endanger the tax status of firm founder Guy Hands.

"I think the parties deserve to have a quick resolution but on the other hand this is not an obvious slam dunk decision," U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff told Reuters last week. "I guarantee a decision by the end of this month and the full opinion at a later point."
Latest File Sharing Court Ruling: $27K For 37 Songs
The latest file-sharing case has resulted in a federal appeals court charging San Antonio's Whitney Harper over $27,000 for 37 songs downloaded online. MySanAntonio.com reports that a three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous, lower court ruling charging $200 per song to Harper. The appeals court bumped up the fine to $750 a song, adding up to paying out $27,750 to the RIAA and five record labels.

The 22-year-old Harper acquired the 37 songs through Kazaa when she was a teenager. Her lawyer, Donald Scott Mackenzie, told the site that the case could force the Texas Tech student into bankruptcy. "She's already been denied jobs because of this federal case," Mackenzie said. "This has already impacted her."

Harper said in a court affidavit that at the time she downloaded the songs, "I understood Kazaa and similar products to be legitimate music sites that allowed a person to listen to music on their computer. Many of these sites advertised that this was 100 percent free and 100 percent legal which I had no reason to doubt."

Updated: 03.10.10

1. Frightened Rabbit
The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
Fat Cat 19
2. Drive-By Truckers
The Big To-Do
ATO 16
3. Peter Gabriel
Scratch My Back
Real World/Virgin/Capitol 13
4. Josh Rouse
El Turista
Yep Roc 12
5. Jeff Beck
Emotion & Commotion
Atco/Rhino 12

Updated: 03.10.10

1) Vampire Weekend
Contra
XL
2) Spoon
Transference
Merge
3) Norah Jones
The Fall
Blue Note/Capitol
4) Patty Griffin
Downtown Church
Credential
5) Galactic
Ya-Ka-May
Anti-
6) Jamie Cullum
The Pursuit
Verve Forecast
7) Citizen Cope
The Rainwater LP
Rainwater
8) Broken Bells
Broken Bells
Columbia
9) Carolina Chocolate
Genuine Negro
Nonesuch
10) John Hiatt
The Open Road
New West
Jack Johnson Goes Under The Sea
Singer/Songwriter Jack Johnson will return with his latest studio album, To The Sea, on June 1. The follow-up to 2008's hit Sleep Through The Static, To The Sea was recorded in just three weeks at Johnson's solar powered studio in Hawaii.

Speaking to MTV News, Johnson says the title of the album is "a reference to a father leading his son to the sea, with the water representing the subconscious. So it's about trying to go beneath the surface and understand yourself. I have three kids, so the album is about that. It's both me as a son of my own father and me looking down at my kids. I'm 34, right at this transition of still feeling like a child sometimes, but other times feeling like a father, and finding the father in myself. It's all about those things."
Johnson and his band recorded To The Sea quickly and as live as possible. "We don't need much time. Just four guys in the band, we try to get it live as much as we can, keep as much of it with the bleeds in it," Johnson said. "Three weeks is about as long as we could spend, because we tend to start over-thinking things if we go longer than that. We're a pretty small band, with pretty simple songs."

To The Sea will be out June 1, with the lead single "You And Your Heart" landing at radio in April. Johnson said of the tune, "at some point, some of the books I was reading started leading me in a certain direction, kind of like this broken king character. That area you get in sometimes, where you stop trusting your heart and you start thinking too much about logic and this and that. So it's basically about that separation that can happen between the self and the heart and trying to trust your heart again."
Johnson has announced a number of tour dates for later this year. He will play Australia and Hawaii in April, then a run of European dates (mostly festivals) in June and early July.
LW TW DAILY TOP 20 TRIPLE A ALBUM SALES - TUESDAY 3/9/10 %
-- 1* Jimi Hendrix Valleys Of Neptune SBME/ Legacy --
1 2 Sade Soldier Of Love SBME/ Epic -24
-- 3* Gorillaz Plastic Beach EMM/ Virgin --
-- 4 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat The Devil's Tattoo Cobra --
3 5 Johnny Cash American Vi: Aint No Grave UMGD/ Lost Highway -32
2 6 Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back EMM/ Peter Gabriel -76
8 7* Vampire Weekend Contra Xl --
10 8 Mumford & Sons Sigh No More Glassnote -8
6 9 Carolina Chocolate Drops Genuine Negro Jig WEA/ Atlantic -64
5 10 Lifehouse Smoke & Mirrors UMGD/ Geffen -65
11 11 Xx Xx Xl -26
4 12 John Hiatt Open Road New West -81
7 13 Rogue Wave Permalight UMGD/ Universal -51
12 14 John Mayer Battle Studies SBME/ Columbia -31
14 15 Charlotte Gainsbourg Irm WEA/ Elektra -23
** 16* Passion Pit Manners Columbia/3 Ent. **
19 17 Beach House Teen Dream Sub Pop -5
** 18* Avett Brothers I & Love & You SBME/ Columbia **
** 19* Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Glassnote **
** 20* Train Save Me San Francisco SBME/ Columbia **
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