Apple Cuts Prices On Indie Releases: "Next Big Thing"

Trying to maintain a hipster appeal, Apple has started to sell so-called indie albums for as low as $5.99. The promotion is called "Next Big Thing", and deviates from Apple's previous flat-rate $9.99 concept for iTunes sales.

My guess is that the lower album prices are subsidized by the major labels that control these "indie" artists like Peter Bjorn And John (who I heard in The Gap a while back, some of you might remember.

Source: paidcontent.org

Virgin Festival Baltimore 2007: LINEUP

The lineup for Virgin Festival at Pimlico Race Course on August 4 & 5 in Baltimore is official:

August4:

The Police
Modest Mouse
Peter Bjorn & John
Sasha & Digweed
The Fratellis
Danny Tenaglia
Incubus
Amy Winehouse
LCD Soundsystem
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
TV On The Radio
Sander Van Doorn
Beastie Boys
Shout Out Out Out Out
Cheap Trick
Felix da House Cat
Paolo Nutini
Booka Shade
Miguel Migs
Fountains of Wayne
Fiction Plane

August 5:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Crystal Method
Bad Brains
Deep Dish
Velvet Revolver
Regina Spektor
311
The Smashing Pumpkins
Spoon
Wu-Tang Clan
Dieselboy & Andy C
M.I.A.
Infected Mushroom
Interpol
Girl Talk
CSS
Chris Cornell
Matisyahu
James Zabiela

Tickets go on sale May 5 at 10AM.

New Releases For Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Hitting your local record store today, and worth checking out (click on the art to pick up at Amazon):

Bloc Party - Weekend In The City

Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block

John Waters - A Date With John Waters

Keller Williams - Dream (I'm expecting a promo of this one soon, so I should post a review by the end of this week)

Kool Keith - Ultra-Octa-Doom

Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder

Public Enemy - Fight The Power: Greatest Hits Live - One of my favorite rap groups ever. Politically minded hip hop rules.

8-Bit Operators - The Music of Kraftwerk - I don't know. Nintendos hacked to make Kraftwerk songs? I'd rather listen to Kraftwerk.

Free MP3: Peter Bjorn & John - "Young Folks"

Peter Bjorn & John are at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC tonight, before taking a coast-to-coast flight for these dates:

February
01 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy
02 Long Beach, CA - Fingerprints Records




The new PB&J (get it?) album comes out February 6 on Almost Gold Recordings, and you can pre-order by clicking the album art.

For now, have some PB&J for breakfast, lunch, dinner, whatever meal is approaching and download "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn & John. Whistling, toe-tapping percussion, a head-bobbing bass hook, all lovely.