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New York, NY (May, 2007) — This summer, Palm Pictures releases the highly anticipated and critically
acclaimed film YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME , the life of musical pioneer Roky Erickson, on DVD. Directed by
Keven McAlester and recently nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, this
riveting film details the rise and fall of rock legend Roky Erickson, whose band, The 13th Floor Elevators,
coined the 1960’s term “psychedelic rock.” The Original Soundtrack by Roky Erickson for YOU’RE GONNA
MISS ME will be released this summer, featuring classic songs from The 13th Floor Elevators, and Roky
Erickson and the Aliens. The 12-track CD also features mesmerizing solo acoustic performances from Roky,
available exclusively on this soundtrack.
The DVD will hit stores on July 10th
“YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME charts his wonderful transformation as the reclusive, troubled Erickson
re-enters his spiritual and artistic life after his younger brother takes legal custody of him. If you
think every film about tormented geniuses has to end in tragedy, YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME will
shock you.” – Ken Taylor, XLR8R
YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME DVD –Special features:
The Ultimate Roky Experience, an Hour and a half of ROKY RARITIES:
*Historic, Uncut Live Performances of: “COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS” & Intimate Acoustic Performances of
“BLOODY HAMMER,” “STARRY EYES,” “RIGHT TRACK NOW,” “DON’T SLANDER ME,” and many more
*The Complete “I KNOW THE HOLE IN BABY’S HEAD” and other readings by Roky
*The Collected Works of EVELYN ERICKSON
*POSTSCRIPT: Austin City Limits Festival Documentary (2005)
*POSTSCRIPT: Roky’s Emancipation Hearing (2007)
*DELETED SCENES & EXTRA DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE
YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME SOUNTRACK - Track Listing:
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Fire Engine
Starry Eyes
Bloody Hammer
Two Headed Dog
For You *
Mine Mine Mind
Unforced Peace
You Don’t Love Me
The Wind and More
Cold Night for Alligators
Goodbye Sweet Dreams *
*exclusively available on this soundtrack
ROKY ERICKSON US TOUR DATES
NY Times : Jon Pareles - It’s the sound of a man plunging into unknown territory with pride and desperation, knowing he might never return. And it still had that raw tone as he sang “Don’t
Shake Me Lucifer,”“The Beast,”“I Think Up Demons,”“Bermuda” (about the Bermuda Triangle) and “Bloody Hammer,” which insists, “I never hammered my mind out.” The songs were filled with
demons, but the music was ready to wrestle them down.
Rolling Stone: David Fricke “Erickson is alive, well and in the midst of an astonishing ressurection….he sang like a man reborn”
NY Newsday: “Erickson has lost little of his mojo”
The Village Voice: “…Simple awe-inspriring”
June
2 Castle Clinton - Battery Park, NYC
August
4 Lollapalooza Chicago, IL
September
3 Bumbershoot Seattle, WA
6 MusicFest NW Portland, OR
Film Synopsis:
In Austin, Texas, a 53-year-old man sleeps to the melody of four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and a Casio keyboard, all playing at the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth and his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock.
This is the story of Roky Erickson: manic frontman for the legendary band The 13th Floor Elevators, creators of psychedelic music and muse to Janis Joplin. YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME is a disturbingly intimate portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion.
Known for his colossal heroin & LSD binges, struggles with schizophrenia, and an unthinkable term at Rusk Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Roky went missing from the world. YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME reveals the shocking & triumphant truth behind one of Rock’s great mysteries.
The “2007 MTV Movie Awards” will mark the first live performance in the U.S. for soulful British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse as she takes the stage to perform her internationally acclaimed hit “Rehab.” Winehouse’s latest album Back to Black has been enthusiastically embraced by music fans on this side of the pond, entering The Billboard Hot 200 chart at an impressive #7 and making her the highest debuting British female artist in the history of the coveted U.S. albums chart. Amy Winehouse is just one of the most recent artists to take to the MTV Movie Awards stage, which has welcomed a variety of established and up-and-coming artists. Last year’s show welcomed Gnarls Barkley, AFI and Christina Aguilera.
Up for the coveted golden popcorn at the “2007 MTV Movie Awards” are “300,” leading the way with 5 nominations, and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” receiving four nominations. Also vying an award are “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Kazakhstan,” “Blades Of Glory,” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” with three nominations each. MTV will also celebrate the first-ever user generated category, “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” where viewers have the opportunity to submit their own original movie shorts parodying films from the past year via Yahoo! Movies ( http://mtvmovieawards.yahoo.com) as well as another new category, BEST SUMMER MOVIE YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YET giving a nod to upcoming summer blockbusters.
Fans can vote by visiting movieawards.mtv.com before May 29th. Viewers can also vote from their mobile phones by texting “MOVIES” to 22422. Voting is also available by dialing toll free to 1-877-MTV-VOTE where fans can support their favorite nominees in each category. For the first time ever, the “2007 MTV Movie Awards” will offer live voting during the show. One category will remain open and viewers will be asked to cast their votes via mtv.com and text messaging on their wireless phones.
Someone named TJ (Teresa) Searcy was kind enough to have invited me to attend a BurnLounge function here in Memphis on Wednesday night at Holiday Inn Select - 2nd Floor Ballroom 5795 Poplar @ I-240, Memphis on Wednesday, May 23, 6:30pm. After receiving the evite, I responded that I might be attending. I got frustrated with her emailing me the same evite repeatedly (four times in 12 hours). So after I had already responded saying I might attend, I did some research that I think people should check out. You see, folks, BurnLounge is a giant scam and they’re using some big names to try to convince you that they’re for real.
Memphis is a city filled with individuals who make art desperate for a chance to earn a living from their art. BurnLounge being a giant pyramid scheme, what better place to take advantage of people’s greed and ignorance than the city where stands a giant pyramid as a looming suggestion of how easily people can be manipulated. Everyone around here is desperate to make a buck, so who better to use as “marks” in the scheme than your own friends and family (or people who dream of making money on the internet)? When you see “Justin Timberlake Enterprises” and “Elvis Presley Enterprises” as people included in their “store owners”, you might be able to suspend your disbelief long enough to pay the fee to, as you would be led to believe, sell music. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Fine Print (or what the hell is wrong with these people):
1) BurnLounge uses interchangeable language to sell you on their “store owner” concept. People are led to believe that they can sell music through their store; however, BurnLounge’s financial schematic doesn’t really revolve around sales — it revolves around what all MLM’s revolve around, signing people up under you as “store owners”. They use the language of the music industry as a ply to get you to come on board and be involved. If you replace their references to the music industry in their pitches with any other industry — vitamins, time shares, cleaning products — you will get the exact same pitches used by notorious MLM’s like Herbalife, Amway, and many many others.
2) Up until recently, the format of the songs you could purchase were only good for people who are running Windows and are using Windows Media Player. No brainer, it’s not a tech-savvy site because, think about it, they don’t care if you sell/buy anything or not. Even though they now sell MP3’s, it changes nothing. The reason they made this change was to continue to look like they are “developing strategy” when, in reality, they’re just changing their tune to fit the model.
3) The only way someone can find your “store” is to search from within the BurnLounge interface — there are no direct links to your store that you can give to people, you can’t find your store in Google by searching for it, and you have to email people to get them to join you — which fits directly in line with the MLM model. Edit: They have direct links to stores enabled now and people have dedicated sites that merely redirect you to their BurnLounge stores.
4) Most Many of the songs (it is widely reported) are horrible quality, don’t work on your iPod, and/or are off-brand versions of the originals – and if you email their support team about it, you will get slow or no response to your issue, something you don’t find happening with iTunes. Among these many versions you will find many karaoke versions of well-known songs, instrumentals, and the like. Why is this? Because they’re not actually making the partnership deals with the major labels that they promise they are. The labels are all hip to what BurnLounge is and are unwilling to license their premium content to BurnLounge because of what it is: a top-heavy scam.. Edit: Major labels do license their content to BurnLounge, however licensing agreements are not the same as partnerships.
5) Representatives use misinformation to get you to buy-in to their plan. I have been approached by more than one person with a BurnLounge store who repeatedly denies that what they are doing is in any way a pyramid scheme. If you look at their model and what it is, there is nothing else that it can be.
6) You can make money, but not necessarily from sales of yours/other people’s music. You can make money either by signing people up as store owners or by selling songs. The primary method of generating income (as with all MLM’s) is how many people you sign up underneath you. Edit:You may have to complete a “sales quota”, but this is only so that you maintain a regular financial contribution to the downline.
7) They are quick to tell you about their affiliations with celebrity names in order to get you interested in making money with them. What they don’t tell you is that these people are all top-levels on the pyramid and you, who end up on the bottom rung of the pyramid, are not getting the same residuals as Rick Dees, Shaquille O’Neal, MC Lyte, Ted Nugent, and the others whose names they throw around. See, those people have thousands of contacts to place in their own downline. If you don’t, then you don’t earn any money.
This is network marketing that attacks the very fabric of Memphis’ music underbelly, manipulating and feeding on the hopes that you’ll get some mailbox money for your work as an artist. There is nothing I can say to you to make you stop what you’re doing, Justin Timberlake (why is Futuresex/Lovesounds is all but absent from BurnLounge even though you have a store?), but know that the Federal Trade Commission is keeping an eye on BurnLounge even though they’re trying to now manipulate people into believing their site is another social networking site for music fans in yet another attempt to create new marks for your so-called business.
Detractors say, “What’s your problem, E.J.? Are you against making money?” I’m all for making money in the music industry through doing what you’re supposed to do: making good product. If you agree with me, perhaps you should show up to this function and ask the tough questions like “Who do you think you’re fooling?” I’m all for competition with iTunes, but this is not the model, not the way, and not a smart investment for anyone looking to make a living off of their own music.
Additonal Reading:
BurnLounge is doomed to failure @ Puramu’s ITtoolbox Blog
Everything Just So
Flutterby
Wikipedia Entry on BurnLounge
Google Search for BurnLounge scam
Okay, truth is that I get busy and forget to do stuff. Here’s a bunch of songs that I keep meaning to post up and have forgotten to over the weeks with little or no commentary about them. Insert “no text” comment where appropriate.
Portishead - Sour Sour Times
Prince - A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell Cover)
Jamie T - If You Got The Money
Editors - All Sparks (Phones Remix)
Spank Rock - Lindsay Lohan’s Revenge
LEVY - Glorious
If you want to buy any of this stuff from anywhere, use that Google search box up there and find it some place. Then buy it. Yep.
Good lord, Aes! What took you so damn long? We’ve been waiting and debating while you were granulating, and it’s probably worth stating that giving your “secret details” to Pitchfork about the record first is as close as you can come to being a “sell-out” in the world of independent music. But hey, man, it’s cool. We understand needing to spread the word ‘cuz it’s been like….400 years since your last record? Thankfully, None Shall Pass shall see daylight on August 28th, and it’s got some appearances by some special guests & special ghosts, too — like John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. WHAAAAAAAT? IS YOU FOR REAL? Yeah, man. We for real around here. Just don’t drink the Kool-Aid or eat the applesauce. If you tryin to catch the Hale-Bopp, you already too late and, on top of it all, you’ll miss out when the full album drops. If you into cuttin’ purple triangles and them black ‘n white Air Force II’s, I can’t stop you.
Aesop Rock - “None Shall Pass”
Go visit my man Aesop Rock on MySpace by clicking here and don’t give him no gas face neither.
“Just pretend we’re a bar band in England before there was Lynyrd Skynyrd,” Alistair MacLean of The Clientele said, halfway chiding the audience at Hi-Tone Cafe last night where they soared through an absolutely lovely set. Following an achingly dreamy performance by Baltimore’s Beach House and a stellar set of dark psychedelia intermingled with reverent nods to new wave and soul music by The Third Man, The Clientele left a delightful imprint on Monday’s crowd at Hi-Tone Cafe. Spotted in the audience? None other than Memphis’ own non-stop touring machine Cory Branan. Check out some pictures.
Click here to see more pictures from the show.
Memphians may not be familiar with London’s The Clientele, but critics and reviewers everywhere (including us here at Loudersoft) have had their latest release, God Save The Clientele on frequent replay for weeks now. Creating dashing and daring 60’s-influenced pop medleys riddled with literary references, they have built a musical style and catalog of lovely harmonies and longing that peeks from behind the shaded windows to let the sunlight bleed in.
Appropriately, this tour brings them to the spiritual mecca that produced Big Star, a band whose influence is felt all over their newest record in uncompromising heaps. According to their press and biography information, this elicits a newly-uncovered “optimism” from their work; by any name, it makes God Save The Clientele another in a series of sketches capturing musical glimpses of pure beauty in their ever-growing drawing room. Along with one of our favorite artists of 2006, Baltimore’s etherial Beach House, and the newly-named The Third Man (formerly Augustine), I predict a show at The Hi-Tone tonight that will be both blissful and memorable.
The Clientele - “Bookshop Casanova”
The Clientele - “Somebody Changed”
Beach House - “Master of None”
You can purchase God Save The Clientele from iTunes by clicking here 
. You can purchase Beach House’s self-titled album by clicking here.
The Clientele on MySpace
Beach House on MySpace
The Third Man on MySpace
monday may 14th
9pm doors
$8 cover
Hi-Tone Memphis
If you missed Mickey Avalon’s first-ever Memphis appearance, along with the masters of “aristocrunk” Lord T & Eloise, you missed out big. Even though the show was, by all previous Mickey Avalon shows, fairly tame in the nudity department, “The Kosher Salami” didn’t spare any power — he tore the house down following the blistering opening set from Lord T & Eloise. There were people getting their freak on with each other at each side of the stage, girls making out with each other, with Mickey, and even a group of streakers that ran past the Deli just after the show ended. Check out some pictures, you’ll get the idea.
