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Coming Monday: World premiere of the new Phantods video, “Time & Teresa”

We’re all big Phantods fans here at Donewaiting headquarters and we’re totally stoked about being able to give you the world premiere of the new Phantods, “Time & Teresa”, on Monday. The song can be found on the band’s 2010 release, Creature (buy now on iTunes).

Keep checking back, we’ll post it as soon as we get it from the band! And while you wait, how about checking out the video they did for “The Promising” earlier this year.

Video: Tom Evanchuck – “Bury My Wife”

This isn’t new but it’s new to me.

Stumbled into the Rumba Cafe a little past start time for the Happy Hour show last night, ready to bid a long work week adieu. I was more than pleasantly surprised by Tom Evanchuck’s opening set of Delta-style blues/folk. If I understood correct, the singer’s name was Tom and the drummer’s last name was Evanchuck and they merged the two together to name the band.

Call it “being in the moment”, but given the time of day, the $1.50 PBR drafts, the respect the audience was giving the duo, the intimacy of the Rumba Cafe, I was having SXSW flashbacks. It’s always great to step into a club with no expectations and be blown away as I was last night.

While I’m kicking myself for not picking up a copy of the live album (Live Birth) Tom was promoting from the stage just before the set ended, both that album and a full-length (Tom) are available digitally on iTunes and Amazon. Remember that “Buy a $20 Amazon gift card for $10” promotion running rampant on the internet a week ago? Yep, I’ll be spending my on Evanchuck’s music today.

Raconteurs leaked … something's fishy about Apple.

raconteurs.jpgI thought The Raconteurs’ announcement that their latest disc, available both digitally AND physically this Tuesday, one week ago was pretty fucking right on as far as dealing with the whole album leak thing.

The notion of just getting it out there and then promoting after it was available seems pretty in step with where the industry is headed, and I still don’t know how they wrangled all the physical distribution channels so quickly and so quietly.

I guess they didn’t count on someone over at Apple posting the disc as being available on iTunes yesterday, leading to a bunch of folks buying the disc 5 days before it was supposed to be released. In a digital file-sharing culture this is the same as leaking the album 3 months ago, since the internet critics will be falling all over each other to give their definitive views of the album.

Personally I’m going to hold off until Tuesday. Waiting week for an album is nothing tome … heck I used to have to wait months before I could hear something, and that was even backing the days when we always got mailed physical promos due to long lead times (a practice that is quickly growing extinct). I understand folks are excited about new music, and especially excited about anything with Jack White and Brendan Benson’s name on it, but just this once, when the band went through great lengths to a) NOT keep everyone waiting and b) expose everyone to their new album at the same time, would it have killed folks to wait it out the extra few days?

Additionally, his isn’t the first time a greatly anticipated album has “accidentally” been offered for sale through iTunes prematurely, so shouldn’t someone be asking some serious questions about just what the heck is up over there?

Get Five Free iTunes Songs via Facebook Group

Via Spoofee:

Facebook group “Ticketmaster Live” is offering 5 free iTunes song credits.

1. Log in to Facebook

2. Search for “ticketmaster live”

3. Join the group

4. Redeem the 5 free songs link

5. Leave the group if you want.

I can confirm this works.