CSS is destined for the underground club scene, sure to get waif-like girls plucked out of an American Apparel ad, dancing haphazardly to the stank that are these songs.
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For bands that define themselves in the live setting, it
Modest Mouse will play a host of live dates in Los Angeles, New York and London next month. The bad news? The band’s highly anticipated new Epic album, “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank,” has been bumped from its previously announced Dec. 19 release date to early next year.
A pre-sale is underway via the band’s Web site for four shows in Los Angeles, five more in New York and a one-off gig in London. These dates, which also include a previously announced Nov. 11 appearance at the Bang! Festival in Miami, will be Modest Mouse’s first with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who is now a full-time member of the band.
Marr also appears on “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank,” which is the follow-up to 2004’s breakthrough “Good News for People Who Love Bad News.”
Here are Modest Mouse’s tour dates:
Nov. 5: Los Angeles (Avalon)
Nov. 6: Los Angeles (Wiltern Theatre)
Nov. 7, 9: Anaheim, Calif. (The Grove)
Nov. 11: Miami (Bang! Festival)
Nov. 13: New York (Nokia Theatre)
Nov. 14-15: New York (Webster Hall)
Nov. 17-18: New York (Bowery Ballroom)
Nov. 21: London (Koko)
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In agreeing to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion on Monday, Google is making a big bet that it can harness its considerable advertising expertise to turn YouTube’s vast collection of video content into a media gold mine.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt went further, saying that the deal marked “the next step in the revolution of the Internet.”
Top executives at both Google and YouTube likewise offered few details on what types of advertising they plan to jointly develop. In response to a question about whether YouTube will adopt pre-roll ads, the company’s founder and CEO Chad Hurley said they “will explore a lot of options,” without giving specifics.
In its deal with CBS, Hurley also pointed out that YouTube is introducing a new automated system for protecting intellectual property rights. It will allow media partners to identify and remove copyright-infringing material from the site. The system is also intended to assure marketers that their ads won’t be linked to pirated or otherwise inappropriate content.
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