Joe Satriani’s Lawsuit Against Coldplay, Claiming That “Viva La Vida” Had Ripped-Off “If I Could Fly” Dropped, Most Likely Due To Out of Court Settlement (Too Bad – Satriani v. Coldplay Could’ve Split As Many Lines As Roe v. Wade [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream “N/A,” A Track By Seattle Locals Naomi Punk, All Sung By Rwandan Children (Meanwhile, Ryan Gosling Feels He Loves Children More…But Not In That Way) [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Stream a Piece of Sufjan Stevens’ Indie-Orchestra Suite The BQE, Entitled “Movement VI – Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges” (First Impression: Eh, It’s Not Tha — Oh! So Pretty!) [Asthmatic Kitty]
Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah Records Lewdest Song Possibly Ever Recorded; Watch Video (Read: Pornography); You’ve Been Dethroned, Three 6 Mafia, Your “Knobs” Will Be “Slobbed” No More [Videogum]
Stream New Times New Viking LP Born Again Revisited In Its Entirety; Released September 22 [Matablog]
San Francisco’s In the Tube-d Girls Announce Fall Tour; Album Released October 22 (And I Promise It’s Really, Really Good! Stream It Here!) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Masked Rapper DOOM, Formerly Known As MF DOOM, Announces Odds and Ends Compilation Unexpected Guests; Allegedly Working With TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek [Pitchfork]
Scarlett Johanson, Courtney Love, and U2 To Headline AIDS Benefit Concert At Carnegie Hall…(Not) More Importantly, Spin Calls The Trio “Music’s Biggest Stars;” Blows Last Vestige Street Cred [Spin]
New York’s Favorite Ivy-Leage Post-Afro-Poppers (New York Hates You, Chester French) Vampire Weekend Formerly Announce Sophomore Album Contra; Released January 12, 2010 [Spin]
Stream Jim James’, Conor Oberst’s, and M. Ward’s Supergroup Monsters of Folk’s Debut Self-Titled LP; Released October 22 [Stereogum]
compiled by Max Sebela
Roadtrip, Anyone? Initial Pop Montreal Lineup Announced [Brooklyn Vegan]
Santigold Working on New Album With Pharrell Williams [NME]
Prefuse 73 Organizes Super-Group [Pitchfork]
The White Stripes Making Documentary of Canadian Tour [Rolling Stone]
De La Soul Touring in Celebration of 20 Years of 3 Feet High and Rising [Brooklyn Vegan]
Mos Def’s New Album Available in T-Shirt Format [Pitchfork]
BAM Announces Schedule for Next Wave Festival 2009 [Brooklyn Vegan]
The Ventures’ Bob Bogle Dies [Rolling Stone]
Members of Blur and New Order Team Up to Form Bad Lieutenant [The Tripwire]
Coldplay Off The Hook In Cat Stevens’ Book [The Tripwire]
compiled by Erin Sheehy
New Kids on the Block! On a Cruise! In the Caribbean! [NME]
No Fun Fest Completely Sold Out, Except at New Museum [Brooklyn Vegan]
So Many New Albums to Stream Online This Weekend [NME]
Wanted: Clips of Joaquin Phoenix [Prefix]
Coldplay is Giving Away Their New Album – NOW [NME]
Ida Maria in Manhattan [Brooklyn Vegan]
Holy Fuck, How Did Chrysler Even Come Up With the Money to Make this Commercial? [Stereogum]
Roth and The Roots Live on Fallon [Prefix]
compiled by Elana Jacobs
Weekly Review
This week, unlike last, there didn’t seem to be any particular headline hogs. (Clever pun, huh?) No, Wilco’s camel on the cover was talked about just as much as Coldplay’s growing copyright calamity, “Dirty Projectors” appeared in print just as many times as “David Byrne,” and Coyne was referenced just as often as Coxon. There was the crazy Connecticut campus shooting, which probably deserved even more attention than it was given – our condolences go out to Ms. Justin-Jinnich and all of her family and friends – but otherwise, things seemed to be pretty calm on the music-news front. Maybe everyone has been on their best behavior in anticipation of today, that day when we celebrate the women who have always told us to eat our vegetables, clean up our rooms, mind our manners, and…
knock you out?
Yup, even L.L. listens to his mama. Happy Mother’s Day, moms!
by Elana Jacobs
Hardly Art Signs Brooklyn‘s Golden Triangle [Brooklyn Vegan]
Neutral Milk Hotel, Carousels, and Now a School Play [Idolator]
Daft Punk Forays Again into Film [The Tripwire]
Animal Collective Appears Live on Letterman [Prefix]
Van Halen the Video Game! [Billboard]
Flaming Lips Frontman Gets Back to the Books [The Tripwire]
Coldplay Comments on Copyright Case (and a Funny Video) [Idolator]
The Dodos Are Ready To Do It Again [Pitchfork]
compiled by Elana Jacobs
M. Ward Covers Chuck Berry [The Tripwire]
Jarvis Sets Up Camp Cocker [Idolator]
Kanye West and Jared Leto Really Are Working Together [Pitchfork]
Tour Bus Gone, But The Dears Persevere [Brooklyn Vegan]
The Blender Theater at Gramercy Goes on the Market [Idolator]
More Swine Flu Cancellations [Pitchfork]
Coldplay CDs FREE for Concert Attendees [The Tripwire]
Lou Reed Performs “Romeo Had Juliet” Live at WNYC [WNYC]
compiled by Elana Jacobs
March 22, 2009
Creaky Boards | Brooklyn Is Love
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Creaky Boards
Brooklyn Is Love
2008 | Unsigned
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At this point, “The Songs I Didn’t Write,” the opening track from Creaky Boards’ new album, Brooklyn Is Love, is more famous for what it isn’t than what it is. Namely, it’s not the song “Viva La Vida,” by Coldplay. A few months before the album’s release, Creaky Boards leader Andrew Hoepfner posted a video on YouTube in which he claimed that Coldplay had plagiarized the melody for “Viva La Vida” from the, coincidentally, aptly named Creaky Boards tune, “The Songs I Didn’t Write.” After a storm of YouTube hits, write-ups in the blogosphere, and random TV mentions, Creaky Boards was suddenly sort of famous. Of course, the two songs don’t really sound that much alike (Joe Satriani, who later claimed “Viva La Vida” was ripped off from him, has a much stronger case than the Boards, I’m afraid), and it seems to me that Hoepfner probably posted the video, in part, as a preemptive strike against folks who might think that he ripped off Coldplay when the album came out – though a lot of earnest bloggers may disagree with that assessment.
With all this hullaballoo about who copied who, what gets lost is Creaky Boards’ music. I mean, the Boards don’t really sound anything like Coldplay. Hoepfner has always been very forthcoming about his love for Brian Wilson and Phil Spector, so it’s no surprise that pretty much everything he writes and records comes out filtered through their sensibilities. “The Songs I Didn’t Write” more closely resembles a track recorded using Spector’s Wall of Sound than it does anything on the Top 40. The song does have one thing in common with today’s pop music – how easily it gets stuck your head. And even though it’s the result of some silly and irrelevant controversy, I would say that the song is worthy of the extra exposure it’s getting.
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August 13, 2008
Coldplay to Embark on World Tour
Strange to think the gangly fellow walking along the beach seeing yellow in everything around him is the frontman of what is now one of the world’s biggest bands, Coldplay. In order to keep the vibe alive, the British foursome are about to embark on a rather immense tour to support their latest effort, Viva la Vida (2008). Perhaps after the tour’s concluding performance in Dublin, Martin and company won’t want to look at anything yellow ever again.
Read more to see the full list of dates, including recently added U.S. shows in late October.
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