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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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We've got here another great indie-rock song. You could know this one form Grey's Anatomy and it is called War On Sound, interpreted by swedish band Moonbabies. Enjoy!
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Robert Wyatt - Comicopera |
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
On October 8 2007 Robert Wyatt is to release his new album and first for Domino records.
Called 'Comicopera', the 16 track album will be available on both CD and double vinyl formats. It was produced by Robert himself, and recorded at his home in Louth as well as Phil Manzanera's Gallery Studio.
'Comicopera' is divided into three Acts - 'Lost in Noise', 'The Here and The Now', and 'Away with the Fairies', and is initially more diverse and live sounding than it's predecessor 'Cuckooland'.
Featuring a cast of musicians including Brian Eno, Paul Weller and Phil Manzanera, Robert says he was keen for the album to capture the sound of a group of musicians playing in the room together, but more importantly to have friends playing together. "Music isn't just an abstract pleasure, it is a company, when you play a record. Why I like Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, the Big Bands - is because every character in the band is identifiable as that person - there's this group of humans in a room" he says. It is this that gives 'Comicopera' a sense of spontaneity, despite it's deliberate pacing and construction as something of a three Act 'Opera' |
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CD review: Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
"I can't believe I'm still here," Osbourne moans on his ninth solo album. "I should be dead." We're glad he's still here, but the fact is that the Prince of Darkness is usually only as good as the guitarist he's paired with. On Black Rain, longtime axman Zakk Wylde repeatedly breaks out generic metal riffs that were used to significantly better effect on 1991's No More Tears. The strongest track, "Black Rain," is basically "War Pigs" updated to reflect the war in Iraq. It's a reminder of how good Ozzy can be when given decent subject matter and a spooky riff -- and a beacon of hope that next year's rumored Black Sabbath reunion could restore Ozzy's glory. But this one is highly skippable. |
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Still True to the Red, White and Black |
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
JACK WHITE, the singer-guitarist of the White Stripes, has always kept a tight rein on his band’s image, applying stringent rules to everything from the musical arrangements to the black-white-and-red color scheme. His arrival for an interview felt comparably meticulous.
Mr. White lives in this tiny, blocklong town, a short drive from Nashville, with his pregnant wife, the model Karen Elson, and their 1-year-old daughter, Scarlett. He pulled into the parking lot of an antiques shop in a cream-colored 1960 Thunderbird, dressed head to toe in black. By his side was the band’s drummer, Meg White, his ex-wife, wearing a black top and a red skirt. He ambled through the store and settled onto the back porch, a bucolic spot overlooking a creek. He graciously accepted a bottle of water from an associate after the clerk at the grocery store across the street said he had never heard of sparkling water.
It was a classic rock star entrance, at a time when there are very few Rock Stars left. While indie-rock tastemakers tend to champion bands that look like them, Mr. White still believes that smoke and mirrors, the kind of approach that once caused detractors to dismiss the White Stripes as a gimmick, are integral to successful art. “Everything from your haircut to your clothes to the type of instrument you play to the melody of a song to the rhythm — they’re all tricks to get people to pay attention to the story,” he said. |
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We've Got Everything - mtvU Winner! |
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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The great Modest Mouse has spoken. The winner of the "We've Got Everything" video contest is Joe Stakun, a self-described "21 year-old total dude from Philadelphia." In his winning video, Joe sets the band against a paper cut-out lunar landscape and turns loose the satellites. Watch his world premiere - CLICK HERE! |
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Fall Out Boy: Australian Tour Dates Announced! |
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Friday, 01 June 2007 |
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Fall Out Boy heads back down under this September. Public onsale in Thursday June 14 at 9am for the following dates - Wednesday, September 26 in Sydney; Thursday, September 27 in Brisbane; Friday, September 28 in Melbourne and Saturday, September 29 in Perth. Check the tour dates for links or go to www.ticketmaster.com.au |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
The Killers Pre-Sale : Council Bluffs, Cleveland, Columbus, Grand Prairie, and Houston
On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM (local venue time) members of The Victims, the official fan club of The Killers, will have access to purchase pre-sale tickets for the following shows: Council Bluffs, Cleveland, Columbus, Grand Prairie, and Houston. To purchase tickets login to www.thekillersvictims.com, go to The Road, and click the "Buy Pre-Sale Tickets" link next to the show you would like to attend. Tickets are available on a first-come first-serve basis. Limit four (4) tickets per person. Purchase your tickets as soon as possible because quantities are limited. Show dates and venues are listed below. Tickets will be on sale to the general public on Saturday, June 9, 2007 and can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/924503.
Pre-Sale Start: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM (local venue time) Pre-Sale End: Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 9:00 AM (local venue time)
09.05.07 Council Bluffs, IA :: Mid America Center 09.07.07 Cleveland, OH :: Wolstein Center at Cleveland State 09.08.07 Columbus, OH :: The LC Pavilion 09.13.07 Grand Prairie, TX :: Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie 09.15.07 Houston, TX :: Reliant Arena |
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Exclusive Blonde Redhead Podcasts |
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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 Following five glorious shows across the UK this week, Blonde Redhead now head off to Europe then onto the US to continue their tour of the new record, '23'. Whilst the band were in London, they chatted to us about the making of the new record - their hopes, fears and inspirations and how it created their most richly beautiful record to date. Over the next 10 weeks we?ll release eleven 5 minute episodes featuring everything from interview clips with Kazu and Amedeo talking about making ?23?, to videos crafted by the renowned artist Mike Mills and inspired by Blonde Redhead?s music. You can subscribe to the podcast to have each week?s episode arrive directly into your iTunes. Or, alternatively, you can check back to the videos page on www.blonderedhead23.com each week as the latest episode is added: www.blonderedhead23.com/videos |
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CD Review: Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris |
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
"I'm one of a kind," Josh Homme boasts on the new Queens of the Stone Age album. "I'm designer!" Well, that's one way to put it. There aren't any others like him, that's for sure, and he's never been an easy one to figure out. Here's a rock star who seems to shuffle his band's lineup as often as he shaves his back, yet who always sounds like himself, making fun of solemn art types but working harder than any of them. He manages to be the token metal dude for indie kids and the token punk for headbangers, without compromising for either camp. Homme makes music in all kinds of incarnations -- the Queens, Eagles of Death Metal, his endless Desert Sessions projects. But he always seems to inhabit his own musical world, a zone where lost kids chase the desert acid-trip vibe of classic Seventies midnight movies like Vanishing Point and Two-Lane Blacktop. Really, the scene in Vanishing Point where the naked hippie chick cruises across the desert sand on her Harley, blasting Mountain's "Mississippi Queen," could be the starting point for every song on this album.
Era Vulgaris is Homme's fifth Queens album, and like the others, it's intricately crafted, meticulously polished and ruthlessly efficient in its pursuit of depraved rock thrills, with robotic rhythm machines like "Turning on the Screw" and "I'm Designer." Last time, Homme got slept on with the excellent but underrated Lullabies to Paralyze -- people were thrown off initially by its down-in-the-dumps mood, which may be why the music took longer to kick in for some fans. But Era Vulgaris is a lot cockier than Lullabies, clobbering you instantly with guitars louder and uglier than a psychedelic biker party at Joshua Tree's Skull Rock. "Misfit Love" is the ultimate Queens anthem, all low-register guitar crunch, with a percussion track that sounds like tennis balls the size of Betelgeuse crashing into a Moog factory. Homme snarls, "I wanna see my past in flames," and he gets his wish. |
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Still Needing, Still Feeding the Muse at 64 |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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THE first video from Paul McCartney’s new album, “Memory Almost Full,” is an otherworldly fantasy, directed by the French filmmaker Michel Gondry, in which a postman brings this former Beatle a box with an old mandolin and, it turns out, an assembly of mischievous ghosts. As Mr. McCartney plays “Dance Tonight,” with its simple percussion and bright pop melody, the ghosts — including one played by Natalie Portman — leap around him, throw sparkling fireballs and scare off the postman. Mr. McCartney later follows them into the box, and as the clip ends, he is seen jamming with them, playing the drums. Surreal as the video is, it says a lot about what Mr. McCartney is up to on “Memory Almost Full,” to be released on Tuesday on the Hear Music label, a joint venture between Starbucks and the Concord Music Group. The ghosts may terrify the postman, but Mr. McCartney happily cavorts with them. And while the ghosts don’t seem to be from Mr. McCartney’s past, his comfort with them suggests the ease with which his history informs many of the songs on the album, including a suite that moves from childhood memories to thoughts of death. He is describing “Memory Almost Full” as a “rather personal” album.
It almost wasn’t an album at all. Mr. McCartney began recording it at the end of 2003 with his touring band but abruptly shelved the project. It wasn’t that he was dissatisfied with the music, he said in a telephone interview from his recording studio in Sussex, England; but he had wanted to work with Nigel Godrich, Radiohead’s longtime producer. When Mr. Godrich became available, Mr. McCartney decided to start fresh and to play all the instruments himself. That collaboration yielded “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard” in 2005.
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