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We played our CD release party on thursday night at the Bovine and Kelly Clipperton (who does a lot of the tPH photography work) brought his band Kelly and the Kelly Girls to open for us.

They were great. Different genre than us, sort of a power ska/rythm and bluesey thing but very energetic and Kelly is the consumate showman. MC remarked “he's kinda like a combo between Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and Prince“. Good call MC.

Great band, I bought their CD.

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Get your butt down to the Bovine Sex Club on Thursday, May 12 for the Official CD Release party for “Polyester Fire Stater”

Kelly and the Kelly Girls will be opening the show.

Doors open at 10:00pm so come out and rock!

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Pick U Up was podcasted in episode 15 of the all creative commons Staccato Music. A mellower sounding set of songs but a lot of good stuff in there.

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Listening to Danny The K's I”ve Stopped Making Sense podcast on Old Wave Radio which is supposed to be the best sounds of the 70's and 80's but yet, our very own Stop Draggin' Us Nowhere is the leadoff track.

I guess that means we sound “post-punk” (Danny thinks we sound like the Jam!) but hey, we're not complaining. Thanks Danny!

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Michael Geist, (who I’ve had the pleasure of sitting on the CIRA Board with for the last three years) has published this article where he dissects the Canadian music industry’s claims of damaged revenues from P2P file sharing.

The short version: the industry and artists are likely more than making their money back on reduced CD sales from royalties being distributed under the new blank media levy in Canada and indie labels and artists (people like us 🙂 think P2P downloads ultimately help sales.

When faced with nonsense from the industry about filesharing I always pose the question: Pretend you’re an artist. You write a song. It catches on like wildfire and millions of people download it, share it, tell their friends about it, and blare it out of their cars while they’re driving down the street. Cover bands cover it. DJ’s play it and netheads podcast it. From the artist’s, their manager’s and the label’s perspective: is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Anyone who argues it’s a “bad thing” needs to retire.

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Get your butt down to the Bovine Sex Club in Toronto on Thursday, May 12th for the official CD Relase party

Kelly and the Kelly Girls will be opening the show.

Doors Open at 10:00pm

The Bovine is at 542 Queen St W Toronto (just east of Bathurst)

416-504-4239

See ya there!

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Thanks Jason for including us in your absolutely fsck-ing KICK ASS IR #21: Rock the @!#% Out! podcast.

I can only say…

WOW

I'm halfway through listening to the podcast and I've been just blown away by almost every track, a lot of these bands have really impressed me. I'm honoured to have tPH in the set, thanks for the kind words.

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The Global TV Segment on Podcasting has aired, very nice that they used Song About a Girl in the leadoff/intro. Thanks again Ross for including our music in your show.

All in all an interesting piece. Mark Federman from U of T's Project McLuhan noting that mass media is no longer “for the masses” but now “by the masses” may be only slightly ahead of it's time. Alan Cross from Edge 102.1 was downplaying the imminent death of radio, stating the industry will somehow co-opt the phenomenon to its own design. Which is possble but there is no denying that the emerging phenomenon will certainly change things.

The way I see it, mass culture used to be disseminated primarily via broadcast, what we'll see now is the emergergence of “network effect” proliferation. Those who have studied the propagation of memes or urban legends will enjoy seeing bits of narrowcasted cultural bits spread via network effects (P2P, podcasting, blogging) and the ones “with steam” will cross over a “tipping point” into broadcast or pseudo-broadcast.

Example: ever heard of Sri Lankan “sensation” M.I.A? Maybe not yet, but apparently she's spreading like wildfire and primarily via blogs and P2P.

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Thanks to Ross Rader for using Song About a Girl on today's Random Bytes show. Apparently Global TV is at Casa Disco as he does the show, doing a piece on the entire podcasting phenomenon.

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You can now purchase The Parkdale Hookers' first CD “Polyester Fire Starter“.

Recorded live off the floor over a weekend, this 6 song CD will be the ideal gift for any music fan.

Get yours for just $10.00!

Click here to get yours!

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