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Matthew Good Wants To Be Like Radiohead And Nine Inch Nails
10/05/09 3:22pm
by Sarah Kurchak (CHARTattack)
TORONTO — In a perfect world, Matthew Good would get his music out to as many people as possible as fast as possible.
That's part of the reason he's been streaming Vancouver, his new album, on his site for the past month, offering a free sneak peek to anyone who wants to hear the album before it becomes available for purchase on Tuesday.
"People should be able to hear it, I think. Make up their own minds about it before they buy it or not," says the singer/songwriter, who offered a similar preview for 2007's Hospital Music. "Not only that. As an artist, you're excited about it and you want people to fuckin' hear your work."
Good would actually love to make his work even more accessible, but admits the reality of his situation doesn't make that possible right now.
"A lot of people talk about the whole Nine Inch Nails/Radiohead giveaway thing, and one thing that gets lost in that conversation is that you're dealing with artists who have millions of dollars," Good says.
Being a Canadian rock star just doesn't provide the financial security, or fund the recording process well enough, to make that kind of model possible.
"In my case, I'm obviously on a major label and they gave me x amount of dollars to make a record and they need to recoup that money, so I still have to follow that kind of system of going about it," he says.
If circumstances were different, though, Good wouldn't hesitate to release albums, singles and EPs to the world whenever he felt like it.
"Had I that kind of money in the bank, I'd be all for it. I'd use that model in a heartbeat," he says. "Two years ago, I would have been doing what Radiohead's doing now. I'd record three tracks and I'd release them. Three tracks, release them. I'd go nuts, because I love that."
Here are Matthew Good's upcoming shows:
Nov. 3 Abbotsford, BC @ Abbey Arts Centre
Nov. 5 Nanaimo, BC @ Port Theatre
Nov. 6 Duncan, BC @ Cowichan Community Theatre
Nov. 7 Victoria, BC @ McPherson Playhouse
Nov. 9-10 Vancouver, BC @ The Centre For The Performing Arts
Nov. 11 Cranbrook, BC @ Key City Theatre
Nov. 13 Dawson Creek, BC @ Encanca Events Centre
Nov. 14 Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre
Nov. 15 Calgary, AB @ Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts
Nov. 16 Red Deer, AB @ Red Deer Memorial Centre
Nov. 18 Calgary, AB @ Epcor Centre For The Performing Arts
Nov. 19 Saskatoon, SK @ TCU Place
Nov. 21 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
Nov. 22 Thunder Bay, ON @ Thunder Bay Auditorium
Nov. 24 Barrie, ON @ Georgian College
Nov. 25 London, ON @ Centennial Hall
Nov. 26 North Bay, ON @ Capitol Theatre
Nov. 27 Parry Sound, ON @ Charles Stockey Centre
Nov. 28 Kingston, ON @ K-Rock Centre
Nov. 30 Kitchener, ON @ Centre In The Square
Dec. 1 Quebec City, QC @ Les Cercle
Dec. 3 Moncton, NB @ Oxygen Night Club
Dec. 4 Halifax, NS @ Cunard Centre
Dec. 5 St. John's, NL @ The Breezeway at University Centre
Dec. 8 Belleville, ON @ The Empire Theatre
Dec. 10 Montreal, QC @ The Metropolis
Dec. 11 Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
Dec. 12 Sarnia, ON @ The Industry
Dec. 14 Peterborough, ON @ Showplace
Dec. 17 Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Place Theatre
Dec. 18-19 Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
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- TinaR
- Fri, 10/09/2009 - 12:17am
We all know that Radiohead and Nine Inch nails was both
known for their own kind of music perhaps Radioheads’ front man Thom Yorke will
be making an appearance at a Los Angeles venue called the Echoplex. Radiohead fans are typically pretentious,
vainglorious, and all think they're some sort of pseudo-musical intellectuals,
who are actually just misplacing their frustration over constant belittling,
humiliation, and being outperformed in every aspect of existence by a truly
manly and sophisticated group of people – known as Slayer fans.The Echoplex is
also a very expensive and sought after guitar effect unit, designed by Mike
Battle and sold by the Maestro company in the 50s. One is worth getting payday loans to get, and the other is a venue.
- JaneBelinda
- Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:52pm
My my... JB'NB... you are a bitter, misinformed, miserable specimen. Get your story straight before you sling the shit in future, sunshine. I am a huge MGB/MG fan, but English and live in the UK, so maybe my opinion doesn't count...
- peek
- Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:42pm
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- Thu, 10/08/2009 - 12:59am
Radiohead and NIN have fans outside the country they live in, which is why they have millions of dollars. (This is debatable in regards to NIN because what Trent didn't squander on murder homes and funeral studios his management probably bilked...)Radiohead and NIN don't get up their labels ass in the press in the middle of the tour and call them "cocksuckers. Nor do they go on giant tirades against their own fans in regards to things like downloading, then switch viewpoints like a whirlygig in a Winnepeg windstorm because it's the cool thing to do that week..
They can do this because people like "talent", not some obese guy whining about his bi polar bears in a last ditch attempt to gain sympathy where he can't gain new fans and at that, during the last three seconds of the third period when the score is Home 0, away 3 ... a loser ploy...
See, the thing is with Radiohead (moreso than ReTread Reznor) is that even without that kind of funding, people would buy it, find it, get it.
No one is interested in a balding 40 year old fat guy from the suburbs of Vancouver who had his shot and blew it.
PEOPLE LIKE TALENT.
It's probably for the better that Mr. Good doesn't release three songs a week judging from his weak attempt at "Beautiful Midnight 2: Excrement Boogaloo" and the awful demos that preceded it.
One "Good" thing you can say is that the last few die hard fans will put up with pretty much anything this blowhard has to say and they buy enough of his recycled whinge to keep him in bad clothing choices and pay the rent on the Ticky Tacky cutout he bought in the seniors park he lives in now.
I should also add that said seniors complex is pretty far away from his "Raison D'etre", the downtown eastside of Vancouver, which he offers up like a sacrificial lamb anytime someone points a mic in his fat face.
Again Good does absolutely nothing about the DTES in terms of his "advocacy" or "activism" save pointing out the obvious on his droll blog and naming his bland new recording after a town that has all but forgotten him.
In a recent interview on Q, when asked " where did Vancouver go wrong? " (in regards to the artistic community) Mr.Good changes the subject to the DTES and then starts to babble , then name drops Libbie Davies and then the interview runs out of steam as he becomes seemingly hot under the collar....Probably because his depth of understanding for those in the DTES came from looking out his window rather than actively participating in it...
Again, this is indicative of all his"platforms" which seem to exist largely to act as filler between "I have strings on my album" to "I didn't try and fake suicide to get my girlfriend back and then turn it into a cause celeb in the press...." or "I am bi polar" or "my friend is a famous race car driver".....
Funny, the Vancouver scene in the "old days" was inclusive when he was off bragging about his record deal and being an "exclusive" and quite pretentious prick so in all fairness, "what happened to the Vancouver Music Scene" is an unfair question he is totally unable to answer....He wasn't there. Of course, like all things now, he is an expert on everything by virtue of the fact that he makes it impossible to pin him down on any of his bullshit.
Oh well.
As long as he looks good in the Orillia Free Press or the Barrie Bugle as he limps along the last legs of a Can Con career gone bad.
His career, draw and talent, like his band, his wife, his former management and to a very large extent his label; left him in the dust years ago....
At last, Ol' fatboy has nothing really left to say.....
Jenni Beths New Boyfriend...........