Starbucks to Release an Album Called Shine
No, not that Shine, although this one also has the potential to be terrible. Starbucks, the overpriced coffeemaker-cum-music label, announced it’s signed the ugly-is-sexy Joni Mitchell to its new Hear Music label and will release her latest album in the fall. Mitchell joins Paul McCartney on the recently launched label:
Joni Mitchell, who had been largely retired from the music business since 2002, has joined Paul McCartney on the roster of Starbucks Entertainment’s Hear Music label. Mitchell’s new album, “Shine,” will be released September 25 through the coffee retailer’s stores as well as traditional outlets.
Corporate America is scaring the shit out of people, and all kinds of companies are sticking their noses where they usually didn’t belong. Shit, Wal-Mart was dangerously close to dominating the banking industry for chrissakes. Now Starbucks is building a serious music label, but strangely, I’m all for it. At least they have decent taste in music, signing Sir Paul and Joni as their first two artists. Baby boomer nostalgia continues, and it actually makes a ton of business sense. Maybe I’m just a sucker for Joni’s Coyote and it’s clouding my better judgment…
Man, they just do NOT write songs like that any more. Watching this, you know what’s missing from so many of today’s artists? Actual talent.
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It will be interesting to see what Joni has left in the tank after nine years without releasing an album of new material. Mitchell’s music seems to thrive during times of war, and perhaps this is the perfect time for her comeback.
Between an album called “Shine” being released on Hear Music, a band covering The Simpsons theme song yesterday, and an alleged meeting of former Pork Tornado drummer John Fishman, former Vida Blue front man Page McConnell, Leo Kotchke’s old bassist Mike Gordon, and 70 Volt Parade guitarist Trey Anastasio to discuss the possibility of forming a supergroup themselves for a show in Manchester, TN, I’d go so far as to say The Brahphracy is just a short “Phil picks his ‘Friends’: Former Kingfish lead singer Bob Weir, scuba diving enthusiast Bill Kreutzman, and Planet Drummer Mickey Hart” leap away from getting fulfilled.
starbucks? sell outs
since you have all that mooolah, why not let a small outfit put your cd out. oh, oh, thats right, so the boring music crowd can buy your boring adult contemporary cds because a major company tells them “hey, this is good, you should buy it to look cool” come on!
What’s with the “ugly-is-sexy” comment?
I think she’s pretty ugly, yet entirely sexy on stage.
She certainly is unique looking, but I have never heard her called “ugly” before. I also think that her stage sexiness pervades her off-stage. But I have felt this for some time now, so . . .