Jukebox – Music News Cuts – 8/9

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Horse Jumper of Love

Boston indie rock band Horse Jumper of Love will be releasing their new LP, Disaster Trick, next week, and after finishing a tour with DIIV, they’ll be putting forth a new spate of headlining shows. These shows will be in November, and the band will be joined by Spencer Radcliffe & Everything and Primal Rat Screw. On November 22^nd, there will be a NYC show in Bowery Ballroom.

In addition, Horse Jumper of Love has North American tour dates with Babehoven, Sour Widows, Truth Club, Joyer, Teethe, Villagerrr, and Guitar. Also there will be shows in the UK and Europe.

Below are the tour dates.

HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE: 2024 TOUR DATES

Aug 8 Thu Rough Trade New York, NY, United States

Aug 11 Sun No Fun Troy, NY, United States *

Aug 16 Fri Banquet Records Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

Aug 17 Sat Southsea’s Pie and Vinyl Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Aug 18 Sun Rough Trade East London, United Kingdom

Aug 19 Mon Rough Trade Bristol, United Kingdom

Aug 20 Tue Rough Trade Nottingham, United Kingdom

Aug 21 Wed Rough Trade Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sep 13 Fri Longboat Hall Toronto, ON, Canada ^+

Sep 14 Sat Mahall’s Lakewood, OH, United States ^+

Sep 15 Sun Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL, United States ^

Sep 16 Mon Turf Club St Paul, MN, United States ^+

Sep 19 Thu Polaris Hall Portland, OR, United States ^#

Sep 20 Fri Fox Cabaret Vancouver, BC, Canada ^

Sep 21 Sat Barboza @ 7:00pm Seattle, WA, United States ^#

Sep 23 Mon The Holland Project Reno, NV, United States ^

Sep 24 Tue Rickshaw Stop San Francisco, CA, United States ^

Sep 26 Thu Lodge Room Highland Park Los Angeles, CA, United States ^

Sep 27 Fri Soda Bar San Diego, CA, United States %^

Sep 28 Sat Valley Bar Phoenix, AZ, United States %^

Sep 30 Mon Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio Denton, TX, United States ^

Oct 1 Tue Parish Austin, TX, United States ^

Oct 3 Thu Aisle 5 Atlanta, GA, United States ^@

Oct 4 Fri The Blue Room Nashville, TN, United States ~@

Oct 5 Sat Ace of Cups Columbus, OH, United States ~@

Oct 6 Sun Bottlerocket Social Hall Pittsburgh, PA, United States ~@

Oct 23 Wed Windmill Brixton London, United Kingdom

Oct 26 Sat Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff, United Kingdom

Oct 27 Sun BEC ARENA Sale, United Kingdom

Oct 28 Mon Brudenell Social Club Leeds, United Kingdom

Oct 29 Tue Stereo Glasgow, United Kingdom

Oct 30 Wed The Cluny 2 Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Nov 1 Fri Tsunami Club Cologne, Germany

Nov 2 Sat Marie-Antoinette Berlin, Germany

Nov 4 Mon Rotown Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands

Nov 6 Wed La Maroquinerie Paris, France

Nov 9 Sat Various Venues Little London, United Kingdom

Nov 12 Tue Pod Minogą Poznań, Poland

Nov 13 Wed VooDoo Club Warszawa, Poland

Nov 21 Thu The Sinclair Boston, MA =&

Nov 22 Fri Bowery Ballroom New York, NY =&

Nov 23 Sat Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA =&

Nov 24 Sun Metro Baltimore Baltimore, MD =&

* with Babehoven

^ with Teethe

+ with villagerrr

# with Guitar

% with Sour Widows

@ with Joyer

~ with Truth Club

= with Spencer Radcliffe & Everything

& with Primal Rat Screw

Jason Bittner

Drummer Jason Bitner is a popular man. He’s currently in the bands Overkill, Shadows Fall, and Category 7, which actually makes for an impossible schedule. This is why Bittner has announced that he is giving up Overkill to concentrate on Shadows Fall and Category 7.

“On August 1, 2024, I played the Vagos Metal Fest in Portugal, and it was the last show I will play in the band Overkill,” wrote Bittner. “For a while now I have been juggling a few different bands along with Overkill, and I knew at some point something would have to give since I simply can’t be three places at once. Over the course of this last year, my schedule has reached that breaking point.

“At this time Shadows Fall is working towards completion of our new material that will take us back out on the road sometime in 2025, as well as our fall shows we have booked for the rest of this year celebrating 20 years of The War Within.

“Compounded on top of this is my new band, Metal Blade recording artists Category 7 whose album just hit the shelves last month and will start touring soon through 2025. All of this adds up to something having to ‘take a break’, so as of today I no longer play drums in Overkill so I can concentrate solely on the bands that I am a full member/owner of.

“Now don’t worry – they currently have another great drummer already learning the material, and he will be ready to do battle for the upcoming tours. I would like to thank EVERYONE in the Overkill extended family for 7 1/2 years of laughs, killer shows, and fun around the globe.

“All our crew members throughout my run, our agents Dolores Lokas and Mike Monterulo, my tech Animal for always having my back (Shake and Bake), as well as all of our crew past and present, the SKULLKRUSHERS (much love Jurgen), and all the fans who supported my tenure in the band, I love you all, thank you, and will miss you on the European and King Diamond tours… but I’ll see you out there with Shadows Fall and Category 7.”

Spotify

Last year, Spotify netted $345 millioin in stock sales for CEO Daniel Ek. Royalty accountant Hunter Giles wondered how many streams an artist would have to have to make that much money. Giles started with a “generous” stream royalty on $0.03 per stream, with the artist owning the publishing rights. He calculated that if Ek were a musician on Spotify and not the CEO, he would need to pull 115 billion streams to keep his current cash flow.

115 billion streams is 15 billion more than Spotify’s biggest performer, Drake. And that’s over Drake’s entire career.

This, admittedly by Giles, is a very rough estimation. Spotify doesn’t just pay per stream. Different artists and different publishers and labels get different deals, and it’s not transparent.

Ek has been famously quoted as saying that music is “content” that costs “close to zero” to create.