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Title: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: Green Lectern on September 23, 2009, 01:07:27 PM: http://pitchfork.com/news/36578-ted-leo-signs-to-matador/

This should be pretty cool. Matador has a couple of decent bands on their roster.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: yesno on September 23, 2009, 01:09:55 PM: Maybe Matador can supply Pitchfork with a new publicity shot.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: methanolcereal on September 23, 2009, 01:41:09 PM: Congrats Ted. I'm glad you found someone to put out your records.

Quote from: Green Lectern on September 23, 2009, 01:07:27 PM
http://pitchfork.com/news/36578-ted-leo-signs-to-matador/

This should be pretty cool. Matador has a couple of decent bands on their roster.

Yeah, just a couple.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: Matt on September 23, 2009, 02:42:32 PM: This is awesome news! Congratulations Ted!
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: Kim Kelly on September 23, 2009, 03:56:30 PM: Four for you, Ted Leo! You go, Ted Leo!

But seriously, congratulations.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: wood and iron on September 23, 2009, 09:53:29 PM: Congrats, Ted!

This seems as good a place as any to ask this:

Is The Tyrrany of Distance out of print? Also, was it ever pressed on vinyl?

I have two albums by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and a bunch of random mp3s I found through legal means but now I want to purchase his whole catalog.

Any help would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: Stan on September 24, 2009, 02:15:59 AM: Quote from: yesno on September 23, 2009, 01:09:55 PM
Maybe Matador can supply Pitchfork with a new publicity shot.

Why?

Most of us (myself included) looked better in 1998.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: scratchbomb on September 24, 2009, 11:41:11 AM: Matador is good people. As is Ted. Great news.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: AaronC on September 24, 2009, 08:38:52 PM: Congrats Ted and the Rxs! I would also love to see the Lookout albums repressed on vinyl.
Title: Re: Ted Leo signs To Matador
Post by: dave from knoxville on January 23, 2010, 08:25:33 AM: Hello d00ds,

Many of you are Facebook friends with me, and will read this there. I am really interested in your opinion on a nagging question that occurred to me after I posted this; is it too much about Green Day and not enough about Ted? I mean, I really hate Green Day (for me they could be the Disney Channel version of Ted Leo,) and that sure comes through, but in attempting to praise our local hero, have I not actually paid enough attention to him? Thanks for your consideration.

"I listened to this; if you start at Green Day, remove the atrocious 90's-style compression on the guitars to allow them to sound more like, well, guitars, replaced their studied sloganeering with carefully crafted lyrics that actually mean something, granted them the ability to create a melody that you could remember three minutes after the song ended, and replaced that cartoonish dwarf with a human being (I love that one of my students referred to the Green Day guy as "Adam Lambert Sr" the other day), you'd be about 1/3 of the way towards what Ted Leo and the Pharmacists bring to the table. I listened to this SEVEN TIMES yesterday; it inspired me for a difficult meeting, then carried me 200 miles back home. Power punk/pop at its best. BUY IT NOW."