Ben Harper – “Fight Outta You”

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Liz talks new album

This Billboard interview is the first I’ve seen where she’s focused on the album coming this fall, instead of the EIG reissue.

Although it’s still without a title or track listing, Liz Phair’s new album is in its final recording stages. “This I can tell you: all my sloppiness is in there,” she tells Billboard of her ATO debut, due this fall. “I fought all the way through, and I’m not letting anyone take it to a perfected style.

“It’s not going to be ‘[Exile in] Guyville’ again, but I’m using all my tools,” she continues. “I keep pulling it out of producers’ hands, before they can do anything.”

Phair concedes that so far she’s confident in about “half of it,” but will be busy with the album all through August. The best way I can describe it is ‘natural,'” she says. “It has mistakes in it. It has layered background vocals of mine that just make an overall slop, but it’s perfect slop.”

Having split with Capitol earlier this year, Phair is finding that working with ATO is a breath of fresh air. “They literally look at me and say, ‘Here’s your budget, don’t go over, bring us something good,'” she says. “It’s a f*cking mind-bending experience after the last 14 years. Even when I was with Matador, combined with other labels, there were so many chefs in the kitchen. I’m working exactly the way I want to work.”

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

It’s Shark Week!

Here’s the rundown:
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The BPP goes silent

At least The Bryant Park Project has a final two-hour show, one last time. They’re going to try and keep the love going in a new social community but the show, at least in its original form, is no more.

Stupid broadcast-centric NPR economic models …

NPR responds to BPP fans

In the wake of the Bryant Park Project’s cancellation, NPR’s interim CEO, Dennis Haarsager, has responded to the deluge of blog posts, e-mails and phone calls from outraged fans. (I sent in a polite but displeased e-mail myself.)

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