'Scum' #1

I received a pleasantly annoying e-mail last week from an industry veteran/specialty show programmer who had a few critiques in regards to the hushhush ATTACK! newsletter. Imagine that. Dear Editor: “Now that I've seen many of these I feel that in your chart rap up report you do the same thing all the trades have done over the years, mentioning the same stations week after week. Don't get me wrong, I really don't care ya’ know, but forget about me, I'm sure there are others, other than the same old suspects, that's why no one will ever take this seriously. My ego-I'm tough, but think of all the other persons you are ignoring probably have bruised egos, LOL. ...Stop pumping me up in your e-mails. Just send music-don't promote me.” Dear reader, I agree. Having worked with radio at R&R & the now defunct Album Network over the years it was all about the monitored big markets stations and giving them as much “ink” as possible. But I must ask, how am I pumping you up (pun intended)? Quite frankly, I find this portion of the weekly newsletter boring and tedious myself. BUT just for YOU we’re going to mix up call letters starting this week. “North American Scum” returns to #1 again this week on the Mediaguide Songs and Albums chart with support from: KACV Amarillo, TX, WAWL Chattanooga, TN & WBTZ Burlington, VT - Plattsburgh, NY among many others. Regular rotation play on Sound of Silver at KLSU Baton Rouge, LA, WRAS Atlanta, GA & KWVA Eugene - Springfield, OR. Are you happy now?!?! Moving on, the flow is heavy right now and programmers are going whacky with the amount of material hitting their desks. Case in point… New chart debuts this week from: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Ponys, The Used & Wilco. Enough, I’m tired.

Record of The Week: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Nic Harcourt	Mike Walsh
George Ergatoudis	Tim Renner
Steve Schnur

Foreign Punters Do It-Up Cali-Style

Packing their Fish N Chips, Scotch Eggs, Schnitzel, Vegemite, Haggis and other foreign delicacies (soccer…oops…footie balls included) and heading down to West Hollywood to live-it-up Cali style April 29^th – 2^nd May will be many a tastemaker punter. Hailed as the United Nations of Music & Media (where’s Kofi?), MUSXPO will bring together some of the world’s top playaz under one roof – a dream come true for any label, artist or manager trying to break it globally and mingle with these globe-trotters…sounds like a slam-dunk to me! The All-Star cast already includes: George Ergatoudis, Head of Music, BBC Radio 1 (UK); Tim Renner, Managing Director, MotorFM (Germany); Rob Scott, Project Manager, Triple J Radio (Australia); Mike Walsh, Head of Music, Xfm London, Glasgow & Manchester; Martin Talbot, Editor, Music Week (UK); Christian Tattersfield, 14^th Floor (signed David Gray, Damien Rice, Biffy Clyro); Steve Jones, ex-Sex Pistol and DJ on Indie 1031 LA; Miles Leonard, President of Parlophone (Coldplay, Lilly Allen, Starsailor); Nick Gatfield, President, Island Records Group (Fratellis, Keane, Nine Black Alps), Mike Davies, DJ, BBC Radio 1 (UK)  to name just a fewzie! On the local front – faves such as KCRW’s Nic Harcourt, Lee Abrams, Chief Programming Officer, XM Satellite Radio; J Scavo, GM, MySpace Records; Chad Hurley, co-Founder/CEO, YouTube (maybe I can get my video on the YouTube homepage now…) and CNN’s Larry King will see whose got the bigger punter-hush at this int’l extravaganza. Not to be outdone on the musical side – Teddybears (Sweden), Bitter:Sweet (US), Dune (Denmark), Skybombers (Australia), The Mint Chicks (New Zealand), Soshy (France), Marit Larsen (Norway), The Tiny Dancers (England), Jyrojets (Scotland), Duke Special (N.Ireland), Losing Focus (Canada), Super700 (Germany) and Laura Izibor (Ireland) and 25 of your soon to be favorite int’l bands.. Practice your favorite fake foreign accent, strap on your Dutch suspenders, bring your passport and….leave your significant other at home and join this global “affair” (ooopseez…did I just say that…blush, blush…hush hush) and join the int’l soiree at MUSEXPO 2007.