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On Saturday night I had a tour of the Dandy Warhols’ Odditorium, their downtown Portland warehouse that includes a full-blown kitchen, recording studio and rehearsal space. Click here for all the pics.
John Askew is a busy man. His resumé is as long as my arm; recording producer and engineer, label owner (Film Guerrero), multi-instrumentalist, solo artist (sort of, Tracker is the outfit) and now sidekick to me and Menomena’s Danny Seim in our new outfit Faux Hoax. In this interview John talks about the trials and travails of running a label whilst juggling most of the above on a daily basis. You’ll hear music from FilmG bands Mount Analog, Buellton, Manta Ray and Tracker.
UPDATE: Since talking to me John has a few new things under his belt - not least the specially-priced Menomena package from Film G that includes all three release from Menomena on FilmG. He’s also releasing Nonesuch recording artist Laura Veirs’ new album “Saltbreakers” deluxe edition 180 gram vinyl. As well as Menomena’s - Friend and Foe Deluxe Edition vinyl 180 gram due Summer 2007. And somewhere in this tight schedule will be the new Faux Hoax album. And he tells me he just got confirmation that he’s going to score and do the music supervision for the new Steve Zahn movie (co-star Chris Marquette) called “Calvin Marshall”. Last but not least he’s been in the studio recording Wow and Flutter ’s new album. Yikes!!
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Modest Mouse post enough sales, 129,000, to get the top spot on Billboard this week. As Pitchfork said, the drop in CD sales has really helped indie bands do well on the charts, although I wouldn’t call Modest Mouse an indie band any more. Apparently they are the first band to make number one with iTunes as the single biggest retail store! Check out their video, built by Motion Theory, here.
