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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Santogold Is Now Santigold

Santogold was Santi White, the Brooklyn-based pop singer who made one of last year's best albums and who is just now starting to pop up on A-list rap songs. Santo Gold, on the other hand, is Santo Rigatuso, the Baltimore-based jeweler/filmmaker/huckster who made this infomercial and the no-budget 1985 aliens-fighting-wrestlers movie Blood Circus. You can see how just about anyone would get these two confused, right? I mean, they're basically the same person.

Well, apparently the world isn't big enough for two Santogolds. And now the Santogold you've heard of has changed her stage name. According to a press release, Santi White is now Santigold. She already has a new MySpace page that reflects the change, and the old one has already been taken down. As of right now, her website is still up. But according to her publicist, that her website will soon reflect the change, as will all future pressings of her albums and singles.

The Brooklyn Santogold hasn't yet revealed why she's changed her name, but connect the dots la la la. Last year, Stereogum reported that Santo Rigatuso, who had been calling himself Santo Gold since 1983, had filed a lawsuit against Santogold and her record labels, Downtown Music and Lizard King Records, for the use of the name. On his website, the Baltimore Santo Gold also reports that he's in the process of recording an album called I Am the Real Santo Gold, and he's already posted the title track on YouTube. Sample lyrics: "I don't like my name being stoled / Spent millions on my name, Santo Gold." So there you go. He's spent millions on his name.

The newly christened Santigold, meanwhile, has a few shows coming up:

03-27 Miami, FL - Ultra Music Festival
03-28 Mammoth, CA - Roxy's Chicken Jam
06-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival

[Pitchfork Media]

TODAY'S FLASHBACK VIDEO - The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

I played this record to death in the mid-80's at club gigs and on radio. Love it.

MADONNALIFE.COM web domain for sale

If anyone is interested in purchasing the web domain, MADONNALIFE.COM, please let me know. I bought this domain a couple of years ago and was using it to post official Madonna U.S. release information, but I've not updated the site in about a year and have lost interest in keeping it going.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

DOOM - Born Like This - revised sell sheet and tracklisting

Here it is folks. The revised sell sheet (which looks a lot more finalized than the previous one I posted from the label back in September of last year) on the first new solo album from DOOM in five years. Yes, I tagged the image because I know peeps gonna be jacking this image without giving me credit.

DOOM, a/k/a MF DOOM will release his new album, now re-titled, "Born Like This" (as opposed to "Born Into This" as originally titled) on March 24, 2009 through Lex Records.

TRACKLISTING:
1. SUPERVILLAIN INTRO
2. GAZZILLION EAR
3. BALLSKIN
4. YESSIR feat. RAEKWON
5. ABOLUTELY
6. RAP AMBUSH
7. LIGHTWORKS
8. BATTY BOYZ
9. COSTUME FOOLERY
10. ANGELZ feat. TONY STARKS (a/k/a Ghostface Killah)
11. CELLZ
12. STILL DOPE
13. BETTER THAN BEER feat. KURIOUS
14. MICROWAVE MAYO
15. MORE RHYMIN'
16. THAT'S THAT
17. IN YA DREAMS
18. THANK YA

The CD will be packaged in a deluxe soft pack digi CD case and the vinyl LP will be a 2 LP set on heavyweight vinyl.

Producers include Madlib, Dilla, Jake One, and DOOM.

DOOM will be featured on the cover of Wax Poetics issue #31 and featured in magazines GQ, Spin, New Yorker, URB and XXL.

New video coming in the spring.

Promo materials expected are CD samplers, limited edition DOOM posters and face masks.

*** KEEP IT POSTED TO SPYDER'S RANDOM THINGS BLOG - AS WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET SOME PROMO MATERIALS AND DO GIVEAWAYS ON THIS BLOG ***

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

867-5309 .. FOR SALE NOW !!

Here's a once in a lifetime opportunity for you. Now's your chance to purchase the legendary telephone number made famous in 1982 by Tommy Tutone.

28 year old, Spencer Potter, owner of a DJ company in New Jersey, has decided to sell off his very popular phone number on eBay. Bidding ends on Monday (February 9) and is currently at $369,100.00!!

This phone number gets at least 40 calls per day. In order to do this sale, Spencer is selling his DJ business that goes with the phone number with this auction.

Everyone is still looking for Jenny. Maybe it's Forrest Gump calling.

For tons of info on the pop song and this infamous phone number, check out this post I did back in September 2008.

R.I.P. Cramps frontman Lux Interior

Cramps frontman Lux Interior passed away today (Feb. 4th) at a Glendale, Calif., hospital due to a pre-existing heart condition, the band's publicist confirms to Billboard. He was 52.

The Cramps formed in 1976 and were part of the now legendary downtown New York punk scene. Their line-up shifted over the years but always included Lux and his wife, Poison Ivy. The band's rockabilly infused punk has been credited as an influence by bands like the White Stripes and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, was born October 21, 1946 in Ohio. He met Ivy in 1972 and started the band shortly thereafter.

The Cramps released fourteen albums over the course of their career. Their latest, 2004's "How To Make a Monster," sold 11,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Their best-selling album, 1984's "Bad Music for Bad People" has sold 95,000 copies.