UPDATE: Myspace Music to Stream Matador at 21 Festival This Weekend

We posted a few days ago about how Myspace Music is streaming the super cool Matador at 21 Festival taking place in Vegas this weekend. Previously, certain bands like Superchunk and Sonic Youth were not going to be part of the stream, but now it looks like the sets of all bands will be streamed.

It also appears that the schedule has moved around some, and some bands that were in (Guitar Wolf, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Yo La Tengo) are no longer playing. Weird...

What's also cool is that the stream for Friday and Saturday will then repeat the next morning. We're waiting to hear back on the time things will start and will let you know.

Link for the stream is here.

Matador at 21 Festival Schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st
Chavez: 8:30pm - 9:10pm
Fucked Up: 9:35pm - 10:15pm
Sonic Youth: 10:40 pm - 11:30 pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2nd
Pavement: 12:00am - 1:00am
Girls: 4:40pm - 5:20pm
Come: 5:45pm - 6:25pm
Perfume Genius: 7:55pm - 8:15pm
Cat Power: 8:15pm - 8:55pm
Superchunk: 9:20pm - 10:00pm
Spoon: 10:25pm - 11:15pm
Belle & Sebastian: 11:45pm - 1:00am

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
Shearwater: 6:30pm - 7:10pm
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists: 7:35pm - 8:15pm
New Pornographers: 8:40pm - 9:25pm
Liz Phair 9:50pm - 10:10pm
Guided By Voices: 11:30pm - 1:00am

Myspace Music to Stream Matador at 21 Festival This Weekend

MySpace Music is streaming the Matador Records 21st anniversary this weekend (October 1-3). "As a three-day festival showcasing a vast array of talent the label has worked with throughout its storied lifespan, Matador at 21: The Lost Weekend will feature a reunited Guided By Voices as well as feature sets from such legendary acts as Pavement, Superchunk, Belle & Sebastian and many others."

Link for the stream is here


UPDATE 10/1:The schedule for the Matador @ 21 Festival has been changed. Please go here for the latest times/bands.

Set times for the festival are noted below. Some bands (those with an asterisk) will not be included in live stream; this includes really awesome ones like Superchunk, Jon Spencer, and Sonic Youth unfortunately.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1
Pavement: 12:00am - 1:00am
*Sonic Youth: 10:40pm - 11:30am
Fucked Up: 9:35pm - 10:15pm
Chavez: 8:30pm - 9:10pm
Guitar Wolf: 7:30pm - 8:10pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2nd
Belle & Sebastian: 11:45pm - 1:00am
Spoon: 10:25pm - 11:15pm
*Superchunk: 9:20pm - 10:00pm
*Cat Power: 8:15pm - 8:55pm
Perfume Genius: 7:55pm - 8:15pm
*The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: 6:50pm - 7:30pm
Come: 5:45pm - 6:25pm
Girls: 4:40pm - 5:20pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
Guided By Voices: 11:30pm - 1:00am
*Yo La Tengo: 10:10pm - 11:05pm
Liz Phair: 9:50pm - 10:10pm
The New Pornographers: 8:40pm - 9:25pm
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: 7:35pm - 8:15pm
Shearwater: 6:30pm - 7:10pm

News: Matador Reissues Delayed by Lost Album Masters

...or to put it another way, "How much does that totally suck?"

One of the largest US indie labels has postponed reissuing albums by Mogwai, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power after losing the master tapes when a pressing plant went bust.

Vinyl masters of albums by Mogwai and Yo La Tengo were among those lost when an American pressing plant went bankrupt in 2006, Matador Records has admitted. Records, vinyl lacquers, sleeve films and the masters themselves were binned when 33 1/3 went out of business, making it much harder to reissue albums like Mogwai's Happy Songs for Happy People, Yo La Tengo's Painful and Cat Power's The Covers Record on vinyl.

"Nothing was recovered from 33 1/3," Matador's director of production, Jesper Eklow, told Comcast News this week. "We lost everything. The doors were locked due to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy."

"Everything" makes a substantial loss. Matador is one of the largest American indie labels, representing everyone from Belle and Sebastian to Interpol. The label lost "pretty much everything up to May 2006," Eklow confirmed, delaying planned reissues by Pavement, the New Pornographers and many more.

While worldwide CD sales tumble, vinyl has seen a resurgence, particularly among fans who buy reissues. Records may make up less than 1% of album sales worldwide, but US vinyl sales were up 89% in 2008, making them that rare and valuable thing: a slice of the music industry that is still seeing growth.

Labels like Matador have therefore rushed to reissue popular albums on high-quality vinyl, so the 33 1/3 bankruptcy is a major setback. "Some titles prove difficult to reissue unless we go back and basically remaster the albums from scratch," Eklow said. "It's a slow, expensive and quite an annoying process."

While Pavement, Belle and Sebastian and Interpol reissues are promised "soon", others – particularly early records by Yo La Tengo and Mogwai – are much further off.

"There shouldn't really be any titles that we couldn't ever bring back," Eglo said, "but the question of course would be if it's worth spending a lot of money on remastering and reprinting components we already should have on hand on certain titles. The money lost on the 33 1/3 adventure is quite substantial." (Source)

(Thanks to Mouse for the lead)

Win a Shopping Spree at IKEA with....Pavement?

The PR people at Matador Records are either incredibly creative or incredibly mental, I can't determine which yet. One thing's for sure, obviously none of them have ever tried the Swedish Meatball lunch.

Win A Date To IKEA With A Member Of Pavement • You need to submit a photo and "short essay" explaining why you should be the one who wins iMeem and Matador's $500 Brighten The Corners IKEA shopping spree with "a member of Pavement." There's no word which member, but the winner gets a free "Swedish Meatball lunch," so you ought to be happy even if it's Bob Nastanovich. Enter at iMeem until 12/6 (winners announced 12/9). (Source)