Spoon #1 Dawg

Spoon keeps things moving with “The Underdog” at #1 for the second week in a row on The Mediaguide ‘Songs’ chart. Merge is killing it in ’07: Bud Fox/Merge Records’ Shout Out Louds jump from #51 to #2 this week on the strength of a brilliant brilliant & brilliant single, “Tonight I Have To Leave It.” Go to their myspace page and review the single. This is kind of amusing: The Editors (#3) & Interpol (#4) are back to back this week... Epic is releasing the Editors new full-length An End Has A Start which makes a huge debut this week at #3 on the Mediaguide Albums chart... Early tastemaker support on The Editors includes: Steve “the rat” Aldrich @ WKLQ Grand Rapids, MI, Crista Leigh @ WEQX Albany - Schenectady - Troy, NY & Joe @ KQRA Springfield, MO... And I have to be honest, I’ve never been a huge X fan or John Doe fan....BUT, these tastemakers must know something I don’t know... Early play on John Doe from Divakar (WEND Charlotte - Gastonia, NC - Rock Hill, SC), Chris Allman (WTFX Louisville, KY) & Ryan Manno (Q101 Chicago).

New Debuts: The Editors, Shout Out Louds, Chow Nasty & John Doe.

Record of The Week: Shout Out Louds

DJ Skeet Skeet – In the words of blogger/DJ lil’ Skeet himself, “I like art and fashion but I live for design and music. So you’ll be getting a steady stream of all of that good stuff. Also I’m a DJ. I use Torq, I use Skullcandy Headphones. I play dance music, I play music you heard on your graduation trip to Paris. I do a lot of live remixing, and funky shit with VST effects. I try and push the bar whenever I go out to DJ. I’m trying to bring club music to America. Listen to DJ Skeet Skeet’s “Totally Dude! Megamix” of the club anthem “Party Like A Rockstar” here.

The Teenagers “Homecoming” (Merok Records) – ...Everyone hates America... With lyrics like “...My American C&*%” the Teenagers are going to be huge in the mid-west. I Kid. Besides offending stupid ugly Americans, the Teenagers are busying themselves remixing stupid American artists like Brooklyn’s Au Revoir Simone. The Video for “Homecoming” is directed by Kinga Burza and can be viewed here . The band is currently playing select dates in England and Sweden... XFM is hosting the boys on June 11^th for an XFM Session....

After an extended hiatus, the blog section is back.  For those of you who have missed it, sweet, tell your friends we’re back. For those who haven’t noticed it was gone, sweet, your friends will tell you that we’re back.  Without trying to create some witty play on words for this week’s blog title, I’ll just give it straight to you: i guess i’m floating is one of the best blogs in the world.  I regret to inform you that I’m not a long-time reader of this blog, it has just came to my attention today in fact, however I have gotten more bang for my click with this blog than any blog I’ve written about all year.  It does the simple things that makes a blog really stand out, I’ll just name a few: the mp3s are tagged for itunes and ripped at 160kbps, it lists the official site/myspace site/more mp3s/buy music for all of the music it features, it boasts a dope calendar section with a photo section to boot, and most importantly its easy to navigate.  I’d like to go back to the features though, most “new media” kids don’t even know how to search the internet for specific file types, they merely rely on the interns to bring in cool new stuff.  This site actually gives you a ‘one click shop’ to find more mp3s, and BUY them as well.  Most importantly, it alerted me to the fact that Kanye West sampled Peter, Bjorn & John’s “Young Folks”, still not sure how that one sets with me though.  Enough rambling, I’m way out of shape in my blogability, consistency is key, be back next week.

Adrian Moreira

(VICE PRESIDENT ADULT MUSIC -RCA MUSIC GROUP)

hhA! How did you come up?

AM: “I worked in college radio with Aaron Axelsen of Live 105 fame, became a College Rep. for Sony music in San Francisco (60 bucks a week?  SWEET!), worked at Rasputin's music at the same time before moving on to Mod Lang Records in Berkeley (these were indie record stores...for the youngsters out there, you used to actually have to GET UP and GET DRESSED and GO OUTSIDE to buy music...I know, it sounds crazy, but it's totally true...google it...) where Aaron Axelsen and I continued our love affair and we got to work with Mike Schulman who ran the Slumberland Record label out of the back of the store and signed a bunch of bands from Stereolab to Velocity Girl (remember them?!  LOL...shit, i'm seriously dating myself...)...I was also living in the same house with Aaron, Jeremy Goldstein (of Beggars Banquet fame...) and Alan Sartirana one of the founders of Filter Magazine and Marketing... and I then got promoted to FMR at Sony Distribution  (Field Marketing Rep, the dude that used to set up goofy in store promotions, do those wicked cool origami display thingies with flats and posters. From ther I was promoted to being a hybrid FMR/ Sales Rep for Sony distribution in the bay area (the dude that actually SOLD the records to the record stores), then I went on to do marketing for Geffen Records in S.F., then I became regional marketing manager for Geffen in S.F. AND Seattle, then I moved to L.A. and became the West Coast Alternative dude for London Records (during the Harvey Danger, Rammstein era working with Bill Carroll), then I did local promotion in L.A. for London-Sire Records, then I came to RCA records to be their west coast Modern AC guy, then I took on AAA as well and then about 4 years ago, moved to NYC and started running the Adult department for RCA Music Group, covering Hot AC, Mainstream AC and AAA for RCA, J Records and Arista Records, working for Richard Palmese, Charles Goldstuck and Clive Davis.  Whew!” 

hhA!: Who are some of the people who you came up with in the industry (that aren’t selling real estate now)

AM: “Damn, I should have read this before rambling so much about my ex-roomies Aaron Axelsen (Live 105), Jeremy Goldstein (Beggars/ Matador) and Alan Sartirana (Filter Mag/ marketing) above...so those dudes, plus you of course [Rich Michalowski], plus Sat Bisla at A&R Worldwide, Rob Goldklang over at Warner Bros, Marc Tamo from Fat Wreck Chords/ Honest Don's...Robbie Lloyd at Interscope, Jaqueline Saturn at Epic, Matt Shay here at RCA, Jon Cohen at Cornerstone (who technically gave me my first gig ever in the biz as an EMI college Rep. for like a half hour, LOL...long story), Bill Carroll...a fair amount of radio peeps still (Jaime Cooley, Lisa Worden, Gene Sandbloom, Chris Patyk, Rob Cross/ Chuck Roast)...I'm spacing on a ton of people, sorry...shit man, I don't even know how many of my ol’skool peeps are still in the biz, but there's not a ton of us survivors around that's for sure...”

hhA!: Whatever happened to Mod Rox?

AM: “I heard Fitz and Munro actually traded Mod Rox for some Youtube stock back in the day and got PAID (notice that's in ALL CAPS...) when the Google purchase went down...I believe they are currently being fanned and fed grapes by a cavalcade of ex-cheerleaders and Hooters retirees at a remote Villa on their own private island off of the coast of Greece.”

hhA! Who do you have coming through town?

AM: “BRMC was just here, Daughtry was just here, Foo Fighters are playing with the Police at Dodgers stadium (NO, I can't get you tickets...), American Idol Tour, Taylor Hicks seems to be around often, DMB are doing some shows...a lot of bands man...shit, I dunno, what am I Pollstar or something?  Use the internet.”