Marnie Herald

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http://www.spinmag.com/articles/eastsport-cafe-lollapalooza-08-butch-walker-and-marnie-herald



MARNIE HERALD AND BUTCH WALKER
This past weekend (Aug. 1-3), throngs of fans flocked to Chicago, IL's Grant Park for the mighty Lollapalooza festival, where they were able to catch top-notch sets by bands such as Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, Kanye West, Rage Against the Machine, and many more.

And while the heat blistered outside, SPIN.com lounged in the cool Eastsport Cafe with Georgia-bred producer and SPIN.com Hot Pursuit judge Butch Walker and his sometime collaborator, Marnie Herald. Watch video of the pair -- who often perform under the apt Butch & Marnie moniker -- shooting the breeze about "shit" bloggers, ridiculous Starbucks uniforms, and more before saddling up and strutting through "Sweet Baby," a poignant, countrified ditty highlighted by Herald's soft vocals. And don't forget to check out Spin Editor Doug Brod's blog wrap-ups from all three days of the event.
Now Watch This: Butch Walker and Marnie Herald, "Sweet Baby"


Interview with Butch Walker and Marnie Herald

- Spin Magazine Online

Spin Magazine Online
http://www.spinmag.com/articles/eastsport-cafe-lollapalooza-08-butch-walker-and-marnie-herald



MARNIE HERALD AND BUTCH WALKER
This past weekend (Aug. 1-3), throngs of fans flocked to Chicago, IL's Grant Park for the mighty Lollapalooza festival, where they were able to catch top-notch sets by bands such as Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, Kanye West, Rage Against the Machine, and many more.

And while the heat blistered outside, SPIN.com lounged in the cool Eastsport Cafe with Georgia-bred producer and SPIN.com Hot Pursuit judge Butch Walker and his sometime collaborator, Marnie Herald. Watch video of the pair -- who often perform under the apt Butch & Marnie moniker -- shooting the breeze about "shit" bloggers, ridiculous Starbucks uniforms, and more before saddling up and strutting through "Sweet Baby," a poignant, countrified ditty highlighted by Herald's soft vocals. And don't forget to check out Spin Editor Doug Brod's blog wrap-ups from all three days of the event.
Now Watch This: Butch Walker and Marnie Herald, "Sweet Baby"


Interview with Butch Walker and Marnie Herald

- Spin Magazine Online

Thursday, November 16, 2006

The List 053 - Marnie Herald
Category: Music
Today's Artist: Marnie Herald
Today's Song: You're Gonna Be

Back in the mid 1990's, I worked for a time at SONY Music as a local college/alternative music rep. All my life, being someone who is obsessed with music, but who had no clearly obvious skill at making music, I thought working in music would be a good idea. The job afforded me the opportunity to realize that labels - and I'm talking specifically about major labels - treat artists like shit. And I learned this through actually meeting and talking to lots of incredibly talented musicians who worked their asses off and toured constantly, but really received no noticeable support from their labels and then when the album didn't sell 10,000 units in the first week, the label would drop them.

It disgusted me so much I quit the job after only a couple months and vowed never to work in music again unless I had my own label. Well, I never got my own label (yet), but this List of mine is kind of the culmination of my music addiction and my obsession with telling anyone who will listen about some new, good, talented artist.

There was one woman - Heather Nova - who I got to know briefly back in my SONY days. She was and is gorgeous. She's had one of the most amazing lives of anyone I've ever heard about. And she had no business being on a major label. In the mid 1990's, there was not the incredible amount of great and successful smaller labels like today, nor the incredible amount of successful musicians who distribute their own music from their websites and myspace pages. She would have been perfect had she come around 10 years later. Unfortunately, she made two albums with Sony and then was dropped and disappeared for years. Well, she's back and seems to have figured out the modern methods pretty well.

Today's artist reminds me a lot of Heather Nova. Marnie Herald is gorgeous, she has a voice that could lull ships and their men into cliffs, and she has endless potential. Thankfully, she is not signed to a major that will ignore her, but it seems she has yet to figure out the modern methods. Her myspace page has read "my bio is coming along. slowly." for over six months now, as well the link on her myspace page to her actual website goes to a page with nothing but a photo of her and says "Coming Soon." This notice has also been warning us of this information for months and months now.

Her song "You're Gonna Be" is one of the more beautiful songs I've heard in a long time. Marnie is a talented musician and is endlessly fascinating to watch live (she plays semi-regularly at Largo in LA), but I fear she's missing out on her own good word-of-mouth. She has some 12,000 page views on her myspace page, but she doesn't have a calendar on her profile to let people know when and where she will be playing. Because she has no website, she can't self distribute her music, and I fear when people hear something they like, but have absolutely no way of staying up-to-date on that artist and have no way of getting their hands (or hard drives) on the music, they will lose interest.

I've been listening to the four songs she has on her profile for months now - they haven't changed - and I am a fan, but I wish someone would teach her how to make a website and how to update her myspace page because I'd love for more people to hear her beautiful music and to know when and where she is playing. She should make the songs downloadable, or make it so that we can add them to our own myspace home pages.

Hopefully, it won't take ten years for Marnie Herald, as it did for Heather Nova, to find her groove and a consistent level of success.

And in the meantime, if I get around to starting a label, she'll be one of the first people I approach to sign on.

Peace.
Sprinkle
- http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=105408627&blogID=194050560

Thursday, November 16, 2006

The List 053 - Marnie Herald
Category: Music
Today's Artist: Marnie Herald
Today's Song: You're Gonna Be

Back in the mid 1990's, I worked for a time at SONY Music as a local college/alternative music rep. All my life, being someone who is obsessed with music, but who had no clearly obvious skill at making music, I thought working in music would be a good idea. The job afforded me the opportunity to realize that labels - and I'm talking specifically about major labels - treat artists like shit. And I learned this through actually meeting and talking to lots of incredibly talented musicians who worked their asses off and toured constantly, but really received no noticeable support from their labels and then when the album didn't sell 10,000 units in the first week, the label would drop them.

It disgusted me so much I quit the job after only a couple months and vowed never to work in music again unless I had my own label. Well, I never got my own label (yet), but this List of mine is kind of the culmination of my music addiction and my obsession with telling anyone who will listen about some new, good, talented artist.

There was one woman - Heather Nova - who I got to know briefly back in my SONY days. She was and is gorgeous. She's had one of the most amazing lives of anyone I've ever heard about. And she had no business being on a major label. In the mid 1990's, there was not the incredible amount of great and successful smaller labels like today, nor the incredible amount of successful musicians who distribute their own music from their websites and myspace pages. She would have been perfect had she come around 10 years later. Unfortunately, she made two albums with Sony and then was dropped and disappeared for years. Well, she's back and seems to have figured out the modern methods pretty well.

Today's artist reminds me a lot of Heather Nova. Marnie Herald is gorgeous, she has a voice that could lull ships and their men into cliffs, and she has endless potential. Thankfully, she is not signed to a major that will ignore her, but it seems she has yet to figure out the modern methods. Her myspace page has read "my bio is coming along. slowly." for over six months now, as well the link on her myspace page to her actual website goes to a page with nothing but a photo of her and says "Coming Soon." This notice has also been warning us of this information for months and months now.

Her song "You're Gonna Be" is one of the more beautiful songs I've heard in a long time. Marnie is a talented musician and is endlessly fascinating to watch live (she plays semi-regularly at Largo in LA), but I fear she's missing out on her own good word-of-mouth. She has some 12,000 page views on her myspace page, but she doesn't have a calendar on her profile to let people know when and where she will be playing. Because she has no website, she can't self distribute her music, and I fear when people hear something they like, but have absolutely no way of staying up-to-date on that artist and have no way of getting their hands (or hard drives) on the music, they will lose interest.

I've been listening to the four songs she has on her profile for months now - they haven't changed - and I am a fan, but I wish someone would teach her how to make a website and how to update her myspace page because I'd love for more people to hear her beautiful music and to know when and where she is playing. She should make the songs downloadable, or make it so that we can add them to our own myspace home pages.

Hopefully, it won't take ten years for Marnie Herald, as it did for Heather Nova, to find her groove and a consistent level of success.

And in the meantime, if I get around to starting a label, she'll be one of the first people I approach to sign on.

Peace.
Sprinkle
- http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=105408627&blogID=194050560