Archive for the 'Industry' Category

The Raconteurs - Jack White & Brendan Benson

Monday, January 30th, 2006 < author: Petro >

This is news I have been waiting to here! A 7″ featuing 2 songs from this new Super Duo (with the help of Jack Lawerence & Patrick Keeler of The Greenhornes.) According the the bands web site www.theraconteurs.com (which is a really cool site especially if your into old Tandy Computers). The new [...]

weekly feat. updated

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 < author: david >

Rhino Records closes. This is the topic for the RTR Weekly Feature located in the third column of this page. This post is created for comment archive. I don’t know how to set up commenting on the weekly feature page. So yeah.

RLTV THRY and the interweb

Thursday, September 8th, 2005 < author: j dub >

When I checked my email this morning, I received a letter informing me of Mark Kozelek’s new adventures. MK is putting out the next Sun Kil Moon record on his own label, Caldo Verde, and it’s comprised of all Modest Mouse covers. The album is entitled, Tiny Cities and will be released Nov 1. I’m [...]

movies and politics… sufjan come save me

Sunday, July 10th, 2005 < author: david >

In case anyone didn’t know The Fader Company also has a film division called Fader Films (keep it simple, use the same logo, dominate the cool). Hopefully this excites you as Fader is pretty much hip to everything before anyone else, I actually think they create hip in the country and then send [...]

Dinosaurs, Engineers, Queens, and Illinois

Saturday, July 9th, 2005 < author: j dub >

I have been back from my vacation now for a couple of days and I haven’t posted anything (I’m sorry Bobby). So let me hip you to some of the stuff that’s been on my mind.
I heard Justin Hawkins (frontman for The Darkness ) sang the finale with Queen last night at their gig in [...]

I am a powerful robot

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 < author: david >

this may be of some interest to some as it is certainly an interest of Relative Theory.
Anti-burning CD Technology
let the page load completely so that it goes to the story i am speaking of.
I am not sure what this means for the record industry or the retail industry.
Read the article first then come back to [...]

HIGHLY interactive shit

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 < author: david >

Doris Henson played the record store on Monday night [06.20.05] with Travis Morrison and the Hellfighters. The crowd was thin as Iron & Wine played across the street but I have managed to get two moving picture examples of what Doris Henson was like (Travis Morrison will follow as well as Bella Lea performing [...]

NPR, DFA, and other acronyms

Thursday, June 16th, 2005 < author: j dub >

Talk about Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkills. Relative Theory has been a long time contributor of NPR and PBS. Tomorrow, the Senate is to vote on whether it should eliminate public funding for these two media outlets. Sign this petition to try and save NPR and PBS.
And this is why NPR kicks ass. Bloc Party [...]

Festivals and other news

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 < author: j dub >

There was 2 huge music festivals going on this past weekend. Midtown and Bonnaroo. Relative Theory’s own, Mr. Baldwin was in attendance at Midtown and he will post his thoughts once he’s back in New York.
I had a few friends who went to Bonnaroo but when I asked them about the most common response was, [...]