According to a statement front man David Coverdale posted on the band’s Web site February 19, Whitesnake will return to the studio to record a new album. And what will it sound like? “Soulful, bluesy, melodic power rock with a couple of underwear-moistening tear-jerkers thrown in for good measure.”
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OK Go front man Damian Kulash, now living in Los Angeles, penned an infuriated op-ed piece for the February 19 New York Times on EMI’s policy of not allowing blogs or Web sites to embed its music videos. Kulash, whose band broke out largely on the strength of its homemade video for “Here It Goes Again,” believes EMI is “cutting off its nose to spite its face.” Kulash painstakingly explains for the fogies how a video goes “viral” and notes that since EMI disabled embedding, “views of our treadmill video dropped 90 percent, from about 10,000 per day to just over 1,000.” The band made about $27 from the royalties YouTube has to pay but by Kulash’s accounting could’ve made some $5,400. The two vids they’ve posted in the past three months are nearing a million views, and the next one—for “This Too Shall Pass,” and sponsored by State Farm—will be embeddable. Look for it March 1 at okgo.net.
In a recent interview with Zack Rosen for the Web site The New Gay, Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt advised aspiring songwriters: “Don’t come out . . . I think it’s clear from the careers of gay performers that the way to be successful is to come out later, not beforehand.” Latham Zearfoss, promoter for popular local queer club night Chances, responds that if Merritt had ever attended a Chances party “he’d be covering Shakira and eating ass in public by now, not spouting nonsense.” The next Chances is March 15 at Subterranean.
