leaks

Many predicted that Deerhunter would get Pitchfork’s #1 album of 2008, but in fact they gave it to Fleet Foxes. Bradford Cox should still be happy with both Deerhunter at #5 and Atlas Sound at #26 though…

State Magazine: What do you make of the whole album leakage scenario with Web Sheriff policing your album? Avey Tare of Animal Collective: I obviously think it’s a bummer for the fact that would leak one of our tracks or do that kind of thing because I feel like more often than not, we’re so willing to comply with certain requirements that magazines have, doing things that are almost a little bit hard for us to organise like special photoshoots and stuff like that…

Grizzly Bear @ Hammerstein Ballroom (more by Zach Dilgard)This is to inform you that, currently your relevant artist’s web-site is acting as the global-leak-source of the track, “Brother Sport”, by our aforementioned client,Animal Collective, which track is not due for release by Domino until January 2009 (please see http://www…

“For me the most depressing, the worse thing, that has happened with Wolf Parade, is how the media pit me and Spencer against each other.” Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) @ Terminal 5 (more by Kyle Reinford) We first spoke with Dan Boeckner from Wolf Parade two years ago…

“In the dying days of the music business as we once knew it, record labels are waging war on leaks—only to discover that many of the saboteurs come from within the industry itself…

SPIN Magazine has this interesting article on Leaks:…The new Linkin Park album, for instance, wasn’t given to anyone at all — reportedly, no one but the band members and their manager had copies before the album was sent off to the plant…

DOWNLOAD: Stars – The Night Starts Here (new MP3) Stars‘ new album In Our Bedroom After The War will be officially released on September 25, 2007, but to fight the inevitable leak, Arts & Crafts is selling the album digitally NOW…

DOWNLOAD: Filmcan podcast May 2007 video podcast (MP4)This video podcast “features 15 minutes of free content, including Blaine Thurier‘s “Intimate Portrait,” a self-made introduction to this New Pornographers member’s filmmaking capabilities, plus a look at the recording of the latest New Pornographers‘ album in Brooklyn, NY…