Yearly Archives: 2005

Check out the list from Donewaiting.com Los Angeles writer Han Q Duong and the lovely Donewaiting.com staffer Kiesha Jenkins.

All of the donewaiting.com staff year end lists can be found here.

Cory Doctorow summarizes it best on Boing Boing:

Today is Dean Grey Tuesday, a net-wide day of protest over Warner Brothers attempt to censor a stupendous noncommercial mashup album called American Edit that remixes Green Day’s album American Idiot.

For today, websites across the Internet are mirroring the American Edit album and/or turning their page-backgrounds grey. Mashup albums don’t hurt the sales of the albums they sample — at worst, they have no effect on sales, at best they can promote them. Artists who are signed to major labels can avail themselves of labels’ legal departments when they want to remix others’ work and get their samples cleared. Indie artists, hobbyists and fans don’t get legal assistance from labels’ high-priced fixers. This is pure patronage: in the old days you couldn’t make art unless the King or some bishop granted you permission; today you need permission from a studio executive.

The labels admit this. Last year, EMI made headlines by censoring DJ Danger Mouse’s Grey Album, which remixed the Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album. I raised this with an EMI representative at London’s Creative Economy conference and she shrugged it off: “What’s the problem? We later hired Danger Mouse to make a mashup album for us.”

The problem is that copyright law is supposed to decentralize the process of making art, moving the power to authorize art from royalty to the marketplace. Labels have no business setting themselves up as arbiters of what art can and can’t be made.

Happy Dean Grey Tuesday. Up yours, Warners.

More info here. We’d turn the website grey but I would probably blow up the whole CSS.

UPDATE:: I just wanted to say that this is an amazing remix/mash up project. I am really impressed with the amount of other songs that are mixed into the Green Day album, making it an altogether different piece of work. Definitely download this.

By now you should know the photos Kim takes for our site are freaking amazing. There’s no need for me to remind you.

We’ve got a great new gallery of last Friday’s Spoon/OK Go show. Kim likes this photo cuz you can see Britt’s Spongebob bandaid:

When OK Go was finished with their set, they did that dance that they do in their music video. Here’s a pic of that:

Get all the photos here.

• Of Montreal Tour Dates 2006
  Lots of stuff planned for the new year.
  (tags: music tour)
• Giant Drag Covers the Beach Boys
  MP3 of the cover “God Only Knows”
  (tags: music mp3)
• Mystery and Misery: Podcast
  One of my favorite music sites begins podcasting.
  (tags: music mp3 podcast)

Head on over here to see a new video for Doug Gillard’s song, “Symbols, Signs”.

Over on our Unofficial SXSW Music Festival Blog, we have rumors of Gossip, Silver Jews, J Mascis, Metric and more listed as playing the festival.

Over on Pitchfork today, they have “exclusive” news of the Decemberists signing to Capitol Records.

Luckily you’re a donewaiting.com reader and have known this for like two weeks.