"Fagen and Martha, man"

April 7 we promised a post in regard to Mr Donald Fagen the next day. So it's long overdue. But here it is. Finally.

While Walter Becker's Circus Money will be out June 10, the other half of Steely Dan will beat him to appearing on a new record. Donald Fagen plays on one of the tracks on Martha Wainwright's new album I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too.
The release dates are as follows:

UK - May 12th
Australia- May 13th
Germany - May 23rd
All Europe - May 26th
Canada - June 3rd
USA - June 10

The track Donald is on is titled So Many Friends. Now, that's a song she has been playing live for some time, and you can actually find and listen to three different preformances of the song on the Internet.

March, 2006 she performed So Many Friends and two more songs on Minnesota Public Radio. Here's the link. There are two listen-links up and to the right on the page.

And this link will take you to another Wainwright performance of the song. This time on National Public Radio. Both her and Neko Case's sets can be downloaded.

And finally there's the YouTube clip from Milwaukee and 2006.

Go listen to all versions and try to figure out what Donald will do on the keyboards with this song!

And for all who've missed Michael Leonhart's Memory Man videos on YouTube. Here they are, featuring Harlan Post Jr. as the Memory Man. Now, doesn't Harlan look familiar...? ;)

Backwards free download idea

The dance duo Gnarls Barkley is the latest artist trying out the free download of music. But since the new album is called The Odd Couple it's being done ... the odd way:

What you do get if you go to http://www.fronttobackbacktofront.com and register is a file with the complete album ... in reverse! The file type? It's an OK 160 kbps mp3.

More on this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7354254.stm

Zeppelin goes digital (as in download)

The Beatles as well as Led Zeppelin are among the final big names who hasn't made their music available for legal download. Rumours regarding The Beatles finally doing that has been heard even more regularly since the solo stuff from Ringo, John, Paul and George has gone online.
But while The Beatles music still stays on CD, Led Zeppelin has announced that their complete catalogue will be available for digital download next month. That's November 2007.

Says Jimmy Page:
"We are pleased that the complete catalogue will now be available digitally. The addition of the digital option will better enable fans to obtain their music in whichever manner they prefer."

Ray Davies does a "Prince" - giving away 1 500 000 CDs

Prince did it earlier this year; gave away his latest album with a newspaper. While he went with The Mail on Sunday, ex-Kinks frontman Davies has picked Sunday Times. October 21 is the date to buy the paper to get his new album Working Man's Café. A "single"; the song Vietnam Cowboys will be available as a free download on the newspaper's homepage that same Sunday.

With the music industry changing it's another sign of record companies and artists trying new ways to get the music out to the public.
Radiohead is busy giving away their new album with downloaders having the possibility to pay whatever they feel for the songs.

A sign of the very same times is the news that successful superstar Madonna is set to leave Warner Music after 25 years. Instead she'll sign a 10 year contract worth 120 million dollars with the concert promoter Live Nation.
Live Nation will get the the rights to distribute albums, promote tours, sell merchandise and license her name.

The times they are a-changin'...

Download new Springsteen single for free

If you live in the US you go to the iTunes Store. In Europe and elsewhere it's The Guardian that has the new song Radio Nowhere as a free download for a week.

A third download site is radionowheredownload
You have to sign up with name/e-mail, but get a better sounding file than The Guardian one. 192 kbps instead of 128.

A short rocker with the E-Street Band and lyrics that can be seen as a critique of the bland music mix on commercial radio these days. Springsteen fans will like it, casual fans might say it sounds like Bruce but...
Go listen and see what you think!

The full album titled Magic will be out October 1.

Top 10 - August 5

The past weeks favourites on Radio Dupree. The first time for a non-CD/vinyl release in the top 10. GG/06 at number nine are none other than Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman from the 70's group 10 cc. They've so far recorded and made available five songs that may end up on an album. But so far they're downloads only. You buy them on their homepage.

1. Steely Dan - Everything Must Go - Everything Must Go
=. Frank Zappa & The Mothers - A Pound For A Brown On The Bus - Fire (Beat The Boots II)
3. Frank Zappa - Bamboozled By Love - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3
=. Frank Zappa - It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary - Guitar
=. Dick Heckstall-Smith - Crabs - A Story Ended
6. Little Feat - All That You Dream - The Last Record Album
7. The Tubes - Golden Boy - Now
=. James Blood Ulmer - Moon Beam - Black Rock
=. GG/06 - beautifulloser.com - Download GG06.co.uk
=. Billy Cobham - Red Baron - Spectrum