Vince grew up an hour and a half south of town. In the 80's he spent a number of nights road tripping to Madison looking for trouble, most of the time ending up at the Coliseum. He still has the ticket stubs to prove it! Ask him about his camping trips to Devils Lake or how many cars he totaled in high school. This kid was a mess.
He's always loved music and began his radio career at Southern Illinois University. Vince figured the further he got away from his parents the better. His parents couldn't have agreed more!
After five years in San Diego and acquiring a taste for fish tacos, Vince moved to Detroit to take his broadcasting career to the next level. Yeah, everybody thought he was crazy. Eighteen years later he's come full circle and landed back here in Madison. Follow @vincecannova
Alan Palomo will be celebrating his Mexican heritage on Cinco De Mayo Saturday, May 5th at the Majestic Theatre. Ahead of Neon Indian's stop in Madison the band will release a 10" single for Hex Girlfriend with a b-side remix done by Twin Shadow April 21st.
I'll keep you posted on other Record Store Day releases as they are made available. In the meantime grab a free download of the Hex Girlfriend remix here.
The BBC has kicked in funding to complete a project making John Peel's record collection available online. The legendary British DJ, record producer, and journalist had 25,000 lps, 40,000 singles, and thousands more cds archived at the time of his death in 2004.
Peel's collection will become part of The Space, a new experimental digital service organized and funded by the Arts council and the BBC. Frank Prendergast of Eye Film And Television says, "The idea is to digitally recreate John's home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while viewing Peel's personal notes, archive performances and new filmed interviews with musicians."
Just how interactive the project will be remains to be seen. The Space will be available May - October of 2012 via smartphones and various pc platforms.
Santigold will release her sophomore record Master of My Make-Believe May 1st. It includes collaborations with Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, and DJ Switch who's worked with Beyonce and M.I.A.
"I connect with music that makes me feel alive, or a sense of possibility. Music is powerful. If I go out and I'm watching a show and it's really good, all I want to do is go home and work on music. It's a backhanded motivation when something is really good. I want my music to be that for other people."
I'm loving this single Disparate Youth available at itunes tomorrow.
Green Day headed back into the studio Valentine's Day to begin recording their ninth studio album. The band had road tested new songs like Carpe Diem at a few impromptu shows toward the end of last year.
Some of the songs working titles include Wow, That's Loud and Make Out Party. Green Day have been demoing new material since the spring of 2011. Billie Joe says the new record will be more straight forward and less conceptual than the last two.
While the trio is plugging away in the studio a feature film version of the American Idiot musical is in development and reportedly being produced by Tom Hanks.
Check out a clip of Green Day's first day back in the studio.
Bret McKenzie of TV comedy duo Flight of the Concords has grabbed an Oscar nomination for his song Man or Muppet in the new disney film.
James Bobin director of The Muppets called on McKenzie to write songs for the film. The two worked together previously on the HBO series Flight of the Concords. Crafting songs for a beloved brand like The Muppets had it's limitations.
"Jim Henson said if the music's too good, it's not right, so I took that to heart and kept the songs slightly shambolic. Also Miss Piggy can't sing very high or very low, otherwise she loses the sound of Miss Piggy."
One half of "New Zealand's fourth most popular folk parody act" immersed himself in the music of Paul Williams to strike the right tone.
"There was a lot of good demos too. Jim James from My Morning Jacket wrote one for Man or Muppet, he wrote a great version but it was incredibly mellow, and Disney got scared. It was a little too beautiful and it needed to be beautiful and ridiculous at the same time."
After the Oscars February 26th look for McKenzie in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and another film called Austenland.
Mumford And Sons have posted the trailer to their upcoming tour documentary Big Easy Express. The film follows the band from San Francisco to New Orleans and was shot during last year's tour with Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros.
Big Easy Express will debut at SXSW next month and was directed by Emmett Malloy who worked on 2009's The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.
Meanwhile Mumford And Sons are busy working on the follow-up to Sigh No More. Bassist Ted Dwayne has described their sophomore record due later this year as "doom folk". He's kidding right?
Portland's Blind Pilot recently hit the road in a renovated 1971 school bus. Look for them to pull into Madison for a show at the Majestic next Friday night (February 3rd).
Lead singer Israel Nebeker says, "We kind of just took out all the seats, and Luke is a pretty skilled woodworker, so he made bunks and a kitchen and all kinds of things that make it our home away from home."
Get a feel for Blind Pilot via their vimeo channel then register to win passes to a Live From Studio M with the band and tickets to their Majestic show here. You have until midnight January 31st to enter.
Blind Pilot's second record We Are The Tide dropped in September. Check out the title track below.
Two Canadians Tom and Gary have come up with the concept of a Decentralized Dance Party. They've organized events across Canada and are now bringing the party to the U.S. The only requirement for a stop in Madison April 9th is to raise $1000 via the DDP Kickstarter page.
The Decentralized Dance Party uses a portable fm transmitter and hundreds of boom boxes to get the party started. The money raised thru Kickstarter pays for boomboxes, batteries, gas and more. The deadline to raise funds for Madison is February 10th.
Stephen Colbert continued his quest to become the President of the United States of South Carolina and released a new Mitt Romney attack ad today. The ad titled Attack In B Minor For Strings portrays Romney as "Mitt the Ripper".
Jon Stewart, head of The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super Pac explained in a press release, "The new spot begins airing today in a major ad buy that will blanket South Carolina from Charleston all the way to North Charleston."
The illogical Supreme Court decision on Citizens United stating the First Amendment prohibits government from placing limits on independent spending for political purposes by corporations and unions has never been more clearly exposed.
Here's hoping millions are spent on this silliness and that it actually effects the outcome of the South Carolina primary. I mean, there is a donation page and all. It would be the best thing to happen to this country since January 21, 2010.
In 2007 Ecuador launched an initiative to protect the world's climate and the rainforest of Yasuni National Park by leaving 846 million barrels of oil valued at $7.2 billion in the ground. A new multi-donor trust fund managed by the UN Development Program was designed to offset lost oil revenue. It focuses on reducing carbon dioxide emissions by permanently foregoing extraction of fossil fuels from the park, developing alternative energy, protecting indigenous groups, and reducing poverty and inequality through sustainable social development.
In exchange for keeping the crude oil in the ground the Ecuadorian government has asked for compensation of $360 million a year for 10 years, half the revenue it would receive by drilling in the rainforest. The government then set a deadline of December 30, 2011. If both public and private donors gave $100 million by that date, the project would go forward. If not, the deal was off.
Business people, national governments, and celebrities from Al Gore to Leonardo DiCaprio have since donated $116 million. That's enough to keep 722 square miles of the park's most valuable rainforest free from oil exploitation, for now. The current goal is to raise the full $3.6 billion by 2024. Italy has written off more than $50 million of Ecuador's debt. Germany has donated over $40 million. But Ecuador President Correa's proposal really depends on crowd funding.
Anyone can donate to the Yasuni-ITT trust fund. Even small donations help validate the project's hypothesis that there is an international community that values natural resources enough to pay for their survival. Yasuni contains what is thought to be the greatest variety of tree and insect species anywhere on the planet. In just 2.5 acres there are as many tree species as in all of the United States and Canada combined.
Looking for a reason to head down to Texas? Well now you definitely have one! The lineup for this year's Austin City Limits has been announced, and boy is it a doozy! Headlining acts include The Black Keys, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Red Hot...
Good dental hygiene is important for your health and your confidence! It is for these reasons that one must know the proper steps needed to keep your mouth in good shape.
Brush your teeth twice a day.
Use fluoride toothpaste.
Floss...
As a Beatles fan, I like to think I'm pretty well-versed in Beatles history.
So I was a bit puzzled when I saw something on twitter that had been re-tweeted by Paul McCartney. It was from some one named Percy Thrillington who wrote: "Percy...
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Looking for a reason to head down to Texas? Well now you definitely have one! The lineup for this year's Austin City Limits has been announced, and boy is it a doozy! Headlining acts include The Black Keys, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Red Hot...
Good dental hygiene is important for your health and your confidence! It is for these reasons that one must know the proper steps needed to keep your mouth in good shape.
Brush your teeth twice a day.
Use fluoride toothpaste.
Floss...
As a Beatles fan, I like to think I'm pretty well-versed in Beatles history.
So I was a bit puzzled when I saw something on twitter that had been re-tweeted by Paul McCartney. It was from some one named Percy Thrillington who wrote: "Percy...
Did you know May is National Bike Month? It's the start of summer and the perfect time to get people thinking about ulterior means of transportation. You may have already participated in Bike to School Day, Bike to Work Day, or even Bike to Work Week...
Our challenge was to re-write our own version of On Wisconsin. Everyone was REALLY creative. As much as we didn't really think it was a great songwriting challenge, it sure was entertaining to see what people came up with. Tough decisions ahead...
The rallying of my fans, friends, and family has become an integrated process, now just part of my everyday routine. "Hey everybody! I've already asked you to vote 17 times, would you mind doing it again? Thanks! Appreciate it. Oh wait,...
Well, win or lose, this will be the last time we come to Triple M on Monday night to share a song. It was an interesting challenge this week - play our signature song. Sounded kind of easy at first, but we had a bit of diffcult time choosing. Do we...
It's probably not a big surprise to any one who knows me, but I was never a big disco fan. I never even owned a copy of "Saturday Night Fever."
But I did enjoy some early Bee Gees songs including "New York Mining Disaster 1941"...
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Vince grew up an hour and a half south of town. In the 80's he spent a number of nights road tripping to Madison looking for trouble, most of the time ending up at the Coliseum. He still has the ticket stubs to prove it! Ask him about his camping trips to Devils Lake or how many cars he totaled in high school. This kid was a mess.
