Ticketmaster/Live Nation w/ Ben Sisario & Opinions on Caroline Polachek
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with New York Times reporter Ben Sisario about the latest developments in the long and winding saga of Ticketmaster/Live Nation. Plus, they'll review the new album by Caroline Polachek.
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Featured Songs:
Beyoncé, "COZY," RENAISSANCE, Parkwood and Columbia, 2022
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Capitol, 1967
Caroline Polachek, "Bunny Is a Rider," Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Sony and the Orchard, 2023
Caroline Polachek, "I Believe," Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Sony and the Orchard, 2023
Caroline Polachek, "Blood and Butter," Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Sony and the Orchard, 2023
Culture Club, "Karma Chameleon," Colour By Numbers, Virgin, 1983
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free! |
| 0:30.0 | You're listening to Sound Opinions in this week, we're talking about the strangle hole |
| 0:34.4 | ticket master live nation has on the concert industry and how it hurts music fans. I'm Jim D. |
| 0:40.4 | Rigatis and I'm Greg Kunt. We talk with New York Times writer Ben Cicario about the |
| 0:45.5 | exorbitant ticket prices for concerts by superstars ranging from Beyoncé to Bruce Springsteen. |
| 0:51.6 | But first, some new music from Carolyn Polychek. |
| 1:00.0 | That's a track called Bunny is a writer, a single it's been out for a number of months and it has wound up on the new |
| 1:29.2 | Caroline Polychek album Desire. I want to turn into you. Now, depending on how you're counting, it's either |
| 1:36.3 | her fourth studio album or her second under her given name. The first two projects were credited |
| 1:41.7 | to Ramona Lisa in 2014 and CEP in 2017. But now she's gone to her given name on the last two |
| 1:49.7 | pang was the first official in 2019 under her own name. She started out as an indie darling with |
| 1:59.6 | that duo chairlift, primarily with Patrick Wemberley, a series of albums between 2008-2017. |
| 2:08.0 | Chairlift broke up in 2017. Along the way, she's become a songwriter for Beyoncé and Travis Scott. |
| 2:16.2 | She's done collaborations with artists like Blood Orange, Charlie XCX, Grimes, |
| 2:22.0 | you know, a very prolific artist, dabbling in a number of different areas. |
| 2:27.3 | This is the new album Desire. I want to turn into you and here's a track from it I believe on Sound |
| 2:33.5 | Appearance, where there can be no compromise is done, I don't know, but I believe |
| 2:48.0 | I believe by Caroline Polacek from Desire, I want to turn into you what a great title Greg and there |
| 3:14.4 | is a lot of sensuality on this record along with a lot of other moods that Caroline explores and |
| 3:20.5 | expresses. This artist is a fantastic songwriter, mining that fine line between indie electronic |
| 3:30.2 | experimentation and mainstream pop and you hear, you know, I believe is like a stadium |
| 3:37.5 | rousing pop song, right? A great pop song that doesn't insult our intelligence or resort to |
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