Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru

This video is kinda old. (like SO last year ya NOOB) Anyway it should get you ready for this year's Pitchfork Music Festival who just added New Pornographers, Battles, Stephen Malkmus, The Ponys, and De La Soul. Tickets are only $50 for the weekend that includes Friday nite's performance of "Daydream Nation" by Sonic Youth. You'd be crazy not to go.

Also check out "Human Giant" the new MTV show from Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Jason Woliner. (Some of the people from the above skit)

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Joanna, I Could Be Your Darling

Dear Ms. Newsom,

For as long as I can remember you have graced my dreams and more recently my CD player. Way before the Milk-Eyed Mender or even the extremely limited not-meant-to-be-sold-or-heard Walnut Whales you have been there, in my thoughts, plucking your harp amidst a circle of imaginary pastel colored bunny rabbits and pixies. Way before this whole New Weird America Freak Folk movement, way before Devendra Banhart could even grow a beard, your splendid voice caressed my soul.

I used to think that this beautiful fairy queen in my mind was no more than an amalgamation of Ferngully fairies and the classical music I once listened to before drifting off to sleep. Then I heard "Peach, Plum, Pear" and the now dwindling feelings for that mythological princess burned once again like a revitalized camp fire. Seeing you live for the first time boldly singing "Yarn and Glue" A cappella to a way too small crowd, I was sure it was you.

Now I know you're really into Bill Callahan (a.k.a. smog) and you guys are probably having a great time touring the country, accompanying him at his shows (I noticed he didn't return the favor), and discussing music. But it's not going to last darling. He's a player. You're just another notch in his $200 vintage leather belt. Cat Power, check, scenester groupies, check, You, check, before you know he'll be in a foursome with Feist, Eleanor Friedberger, and Kevin Barnes. You've learned all you can from him anyhow. Don’t let him hold you back in Baritone Boresville.

You and I will work perfectly together. I'll take care of all the art direction, photography, and music videos as well as tour managing and bodyguard duties. New album needs a classy cover containing magic dancing wisps? I'm on it. Need a press photo of you floating through a never-ending field of petunias? Done. Lame hipster guy won't leave you alone backstage. I'll release the hounds. Or the sharks. Or the hounds with mutated sharks on their backs who have grown opposable thumbs and now wield samurai swords. I'm SO ON it.

Think about it and get back to me.

Moore Signs Feline to Ecstatic Peace, O'Rourke To Produce

In a move sure to set the young alternative drog-rock crowd into a tizzy, Sonic Youth guitarist and all around renaissance man Thurston Moore announced Friday that the newest member of the Ecstatic Peace family would be Nora The Piano Playing cat.

The free thinking Nora the Piano Playing cat has been playing her own brand of post-noise inspired scratch rock for most of her 9 lives. "ME-ow", Nora smugly remarked at the press confrence set outside the Brooklyn area Pet Smart. Film Director Jim O'Rourke will produce the 184 minute 2 song album set for release in late June. The only tour date scheduled so far will be a benefit show for the Humane Society in the back alley of Cat-Free Teriyaki and Noodles in East Osaka Japan.

Rumors are that she will open for Yoko Ono in her planned world tour this fall.