Our Business is Rock
We are The Parkdale Hookers, an alternative indie rock group based in Toronto, Canada.
We can best be described as AntiGlam(tm). Take all the attributes you are supposed to associate with Rock ‘n Roll: glamour, being cool, being hip, being “in” - and get rid of it. What’s left is us. We’re like a trio of accountants who figured out a way to make Marshall stacks tax deductible and went with it.
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The Website Grader - Free tips on improving your lawn on the world wide web…
Any musician or band worth their salt these days needs to have a web presence and a good understanding of what brings people to their site and how people can find them on this ever growing world wide web.
A great resource on such topics and well as others in the Social Media Driven Marketing World is one of my favourite podcasts called “The Marketing Edge”
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CBC Radio3 New Music Tune of the Day
Noise is a very smart bass player. He said last year “if we record a Christmas song, it’ll get played every year as DJ’s and podcasters scramble for anything Christmas-like for their Christmas shows”, so we recorded Have a Parkdale Hookers Christmas Time last year which was today selected as CBC Radio3’s New Music Canada Track of the Day
Good work Phil. Take the rest of the day off.
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The New Parkdale Hooker Christmas tune
Free for the Holidays! Grab the new Christmas tune “Have a Parkdale Hooker Christmas Time” Put some rock in your stocking….
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Free MP3’s of “Polyester Fire Starter”
Remastered and re-encoded at a full lush 320 bits per second MP3, listen or download to the tracks off of the debut recording.
pick u up [3:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download stop draggen us no where, baby [2:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download waiting a long time [2:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download song about a girl [3:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Bridgetown [3:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download these 2 arms [4:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download> RIAA Shenanigans
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22 Websites That Drive Daggers Into The Heart of the RIAA
Here’s a quick roundup of some of the websites where you can find the music that you love for free. The market for these kind of websites is exploding so it’s definitely not a complete list but it should give you a good start. Support free music!
The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates
The Chronicle of Higher Ed got a briefing at RIAA headquarters on how the group catches pirates. They just use LimeWire and other software that pirates use, except that they've set up scripts to search for songs, grab IP numbers, and send out notices to college officials. They claim they don't target specific colleges, though many feel that they do
Piracy is Now a "Public Nuisance" in Los Angeles County
After urging from the MPAA and RIAA, Los Angeles County agrees that piracy is a "public nuisance" and that buildings and equipment used to store or manufacture counterfeit discs can be seized.
If Music DRM is Dead, the RIAA Expects its Resurrection
Despite widespread declarations of the death of DRM in music, the Recording Industry Association of America insists that it's far from dead. At the Digital Hollywood conference taking place in Los Angeles this week, the organization argued that DRM is still used in the large majority of music distribution methods.
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Polyester Fire Starter, the debut 6-song EP of The Parkdale Hookers is now available.
The CD costs a mere $10 CDN (more…)
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New at the Supply Cabinet: the “BTW: Punk is dead” T-Shirt can be yours for just $15.99us.