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Lily Allen With Panthers

2009-10-14T03:55:00.001-07:00

Recently, Q magazine was awarded with professional prize from the Maggie Awards for designing the best cover page. As Gigwise notes, it particularly relates to Q’s April (2009) cover, which shows absolutely stunning Lily Allen; eyes just get stuck on her due to some intimate electricity. She is obviously very cool, and that’s the only reason why Q designers were able to get the prize. Editor-in-Chief of Q magazine Paul Rees has noted, “Lily Allen is hardly under-exposed, so it was essential for us to come up with something that was both striking and unique.” Absolutely great girl, and those panthers only underline her character and unique qualities. By the way panthers are absolutely real, they were brought into Q photo studio in special cages. Rees also said that wild cats were not photographed right next to Allen. “Patently no one would let us put a pop star within three feet of a man-eating big cat, so in 18–foot high cage separated Lily and the Q team from them, and the magic of digital photography put them together.” So far there is no information on Lily Allen’s reaction to Maggie Awards’ prize, which was given to Q with her beautiful help.

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Tom Waits Tells Stories

2009-10-13T05:53:00.001-07:00

American singer and actor Tom Waits had prepared the release of his new album, said Pitchfork. “Glitter and Doom” will come out on two disks on November 24 and should contain those songs, which were performed by Tom during his 2008 tour. On the first disk listeners will find sixteen tracks that were recorded in the American and European parts of the tour; the second half is called “Tom Tales” – it literally includes tales and short stories told by an artists during his performances. Actucally, very unique way to make things going in the music world, and it trully represents Waits. The whole track list of the “Glitter and Doom” album looks like this:

CD1:

01 Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down (Birmingham - 07/03/08)
02 Singapore (Edinburgh - 07/28/08)
03 Get Behind the Mule (Tulsa - 06/25/08)
04 Fannin Street (Knoxville - 06/29/08)
05 Dirt in the Ground (Milan - 07/19/08)
06 Such a Scream (Milan - 07/18/08)
07 Live Circus (Jacksonville - 07/01/08)
08 Goin' Out West (Tulsa - 06/25/08)
09 Falling Down (Paris - 07/25/08)
10 The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh - 07/28/08)
11 Trampled Rose (Dublin - 08/01/08)
12 Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville - 6/29/08)
12 I'll Shoot the Moon (Paris - 07/24/08)
13 Green Grass (Edinburgh - 07/27/08)
14 Make It Rain (Atlanta - 07/05/08)
15 Story (Columbus - 06/28/08)
16 Lucky Day (Atlanta - 07/05/08)

CD2:

01 Tom Tales

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Plagiarism?

2009-10-12T05:55:00.001-07:00

Legendary Guns N’Roses, which was recently accused of plagiarism had totally denied all of it like never before. As Rolling Stone magazine said, the band’s representative Irving Azoff told the public that everybody in Guns N’Roses “vigorously contests these claims and intends to respond accordingly.” Two independent record labels, British Independiente and it’s American branch Domino Recording Company have started the court procedure against Axl Rose on October 5. They insist on the fact that Guns N’Roses without any consent with them had used fragments of Ulrich Schnauss’ (German musician) “Wherever You Are” and “A Strangely Isolted Place” on their “Riad N’ the Bedouins”, which was released on the latest album “Chinese Democracy”. The following record labels have rights to Schnauss’ music and currently will ask Interscope-Geffen A&M for one million dollars of compensation. Azoff has underlined that “the band believed when the record came out and still believes that there are no unauthorized samples on the track”. Again, things of this nature happen again and again among musicians, and honestly, most of them never really turn into reality. A lot of music tracks sound similar, sometimes almost identical, but at the same time there is no act of plagiarism. This time it may not go anywhere because most likely nobody will prove Gn’R’s possible sample taking process. Most likely it just did not happen.

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Oasis Is Over?

2009-10-09T04:22:00.001-07:00

Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher said that he is not hoping to get his band back on stage any time soon. This quite strange announcement came out from him during his recent interview with The Times. Before he told this sad information the band’s faith was still not very well known, and a lot of speculations were heard here and there. As Liam noted, the band was practically destroyed right after his brother Noel Gallagher had decided to leave Oasis; and it’s true because without their duet the band simply cannot be imagined at all. “Well, Oasis is no longer. I think we all know that. So that’s done. We’ve always had a lot of fun. I’ve always had a lot of fun. That’s why it was never hard work for me. It was a joy and it was always a bit of a bummer when the tour ended”, he said. Formally they fell apart on August 28 this year, when Noel (guitarist and the author of almost every song they’ve produced) wrote a message on the official band’s website stating that he is leaving them. Practically, the reason for it was a big fight between two brothers that they simply could not overcome, so Oasis seems to be over for now.

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Music And Literature

2009-10-08T04:26:00.001-07:00

Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore is planning to open his own publishing house, said ClashMusic. Musician wants to publish books written by his close friends and those he admires the most in this world; those who have influenced his ideas. This guy is already well known for his knowledge of literature, especially among Sonic Youth fans. One of the first publishing experiences within his project is going to be a book by Raymond Pattibon who had previously co-worked with the band in the past; he particularly designed an album cover for their “Goo” album. As ClashMusic notes, Moore’s publishing house, which is now called Ecstatic Peace Library will unite all Pettibone’s art works. For those who are not very familiar with his art may recall black and white cartoons, or at least something of that nature. It’s already planned that Ecstatic Peace Library will start working by the end of 2009, and may become closely related to the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Ecstatic Peace! was opened in 1981 by Moore and produced a lot of interesting bands among which are Be Your Own Pet, Awesome Color, Violent Soho, Black Helicopter and many others. In other words, Moore is more than just a musician, he keeps on producing and creating everywhere and all the time.

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They Got Out

2009-10-07T05:33:00.001-07:00

Madonna has won the court case against the British newspaper Mail on Sunday, which published a few photographs from her almost ten years old wedding ceremony with Guy Ritchie, said Sky News. At the same time there is no information on the amount of compensation she is about to receive. Basically, why Madonna still cares about those photos is not very well known, hence she is not with Ritchie anymore, plus this was so long ago. Madonna ‘went’ to court and started this legal action against Associated Newspapers (Mail on Sunday’s owner) right after they’ve published those eleven photographs that according to her opinion had to be kept in secret. The wedding between Madonna and Guy Ritchie took place in Scotland in December 2000; and the most important part about it was that she did not allow any journalists to the ceremony. However, one of her house designers had copied some pictures and later sold them for five thousand pounds. It was all secret until October 19, 2008 when The Daily Mail’s additional issue (Mail on Sunday) had published them all, thus angering Madonna. Money that she is going to get will be sent to the Raising Malawi foundation, which is being led by Madonna and Michael Berg.

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Jack White Is Trying New Things

2009-10-06T06:22:00.001-07:00

The White Stripes leader Jack White made an artistic debut in producing and directing a video, said The Rolling Stones. This video was filmed on his song called “I Cut Like a Buffalo”, which is a third single made by Jack’s new music project The Dead Weather. The guy is trying himself in almost everything, and once again proving the fact that if a person is talented in one thing then he is going to be talented everywhere. The Rolling Stone journalists are noting that White was most likely inspired by the infamous David Lynch; it may be proved by the dark and mysterious atmosphere and colour themes used in a video. Actually, not the worst example for the beginner! This debut turned to be The Dead Weather’s secong video; previously it was “Treat Me Like Your Mother”, also quite successful thing. It’s interesting to note that “I Cut Like a Buffalo” is the only song from the “Horehound” album which was written by White and nobody else from his band. He is surely trying his talents all the way through, and so far everything was very successful. The album “Horehound” was produced by the Third Man Records label, which was particularly created by White in 2009.

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A Story About Ramones

2009-10-05T02:28:00.001-07:00

Currently, some talented fans of the legendary Ramones are planning to make a movie about their favourite band, which was formed in 1974 in New York, said Hollywood Reporter. The base for this movie will be a book written by Mickey Leigh – Joey Ramone’s brother, called “I Slept With Joey Ramone”. A book itself should see the light in December 2009, so the movie’s plot will be known to fans way before it comes out. Ramones were always surrounded by lots of scandals and rumours, so possibly this new material will show some details, and maybe shall clear things up for everyone who likes the band. It’s known that talks about making a movie about them were already taking place for years, and the only problem was in the lack of those who could actually make it. Right now, Fox Searchlight studio had decided to actually move on with it, but still there is no solid agreement on whether they will make it happen at all. Again, even today not everyone can tell a clear story about Ramones. Of course, all the details are totally “classified” and surely nobody knows when it will be ready, so those who trully admire Ramones should get themselves together and just wait; hopefully it will come out one day.

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High Tech Cameras

2009-10-01T01:11:00.001-07:00

Sir Paul McCartney had prepared the new double album, with his recent concert performances, said New Musical Express. Also, this release will include the DVD with all kinds of interesting things. Generally speaking it will incorporate his summer 2009 concert in the Citi Field stadium in New York, and like most of his performances shall go into history. “Good Evening New York City” should come out on November 23 and as Gigwise particularly notes the US fans may see it a little bit earlier, on November 17; vinyl version will be available as well. “Good Evening New York City” includes thirty three songs by The Beatles, The Wings and Fireman. The last two bands were personally formed by Sir Paul, so all of it is already legendary and will go into history books. The high quality DVD recording should be absolutely stunning because first of all, it was made with fifteen super high tech cameras, and second, before the concert it’s organisers gave seventy five additional cameras to fans who were supposed to record everything around them. In other words, power of McCartney’s fans was particularly strong during that New York concert, and surely it should not upset those who are about to watch it in their homes.

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Got Sick, But Did Not Give Up

2009-09-30T05:27:00.001-07:00

Australian legend AC/DC was literally forced to cancel six US concerts due to it’s vocalist’s health problems. As the New Musical Express said, doctors have recommended him to stay at home for a certain period of time after they’ve found something not so good about his physical condition. Brian Johnson is about to turn sixty two on October 5, and if taking into consideration his pretty harsh lifestyle all kinds of things may show up. As the result of it, AC/DC had cancelled it’s concerts in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Lousville, Kansas City, Des Moines and Milwaukee. However, this unpleasant thing will not totally interrupt their American tour, which is going to be continued on October 16 in Washington. All of the AC/DC guys are pretty strong people and once they’re after something, especially if it’s touring process, then absolutely nothing can stop them. Current tour had started in 2008 and was organised to support their new album called “Black Ice”. This time AC/DC did not follow an easy path, hence this tour had begun in 2008 and will end in 2010, so it’s no wonder why Brian got sick. Also, Johnson had noted that after this tour will be over, he is about to quit music for good, but his fellow bandmates told him not to allow this at any cost.

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Possible Return, Maybe True

2009-09-29T04:22:00.001-07:00

British singer Robbie Williams was recently seen in one of the New York’s recording studios, and according to The Daily Mirror, he specifically went there to co-work with his former collegues from Take That. Interesting twist in this guy’s game, hence he was not really planning to re-unite with them. The newspaper had discovered that he is about to record a new song with his former bandmates, and if it actucally comes out then it will be his first collaboration moment with them since 1995. Williams has left the band fourteen years ago and did not participate in the process of making music with them in any way. As the newspaper’s source (closely related to the band) had noted, there is a possibility that Take That’s new material is most likely going to see the light, and fans will hear it. At the same time it may be supported by the tour in which Williams is going to participate, and surely will sing together with Take That as an equal member. However, it’s not known when Take That is planning to release this new stuff, and their representative had refused to comment Robbie Williams’ return. In the beginning of 2009 his manager had particularly noted that his client is not looking at the possibility of reuniting with Take That on the every day basis.

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Is She Really Quitting?

2009-09-28T10:32:00.001-07:00

Popular British singer Lily Allen who’s recent album “It’s Not Me, It’s You” was released in February this year, had decided to finish her music career, said ClashMusic. This news is quite shocking because this girl is currently on the top, the last album was able to get to the first place on the British national charts, and suddenly she came up with this strange decision. She insists on the fact that there will be no new albums, and there will be no new contract with her record label. Not so long ago a singer wrote in her blog at the ‘It’s Not Alright’ website that she is very upset with the online piracy, and that she doesn’t feel like getting along with this kind of situation. “The days of me making money from recording music have been and gone as far as I’m concerned, so I don’t (at this point) stand to profit from legislation (against file sharing). Except future purchases of previously recorded material (which won’t be much)”, she said. Nobody knows (and she didn’t say anything) what she is about to do after quitting music; the best guess will be that she is planning to start up her acting career. After all, a lot of musicians are speaking about leaving music, but usually their words don’t really come true.

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Rochdale Remembers

2009-09-25T04:41:00.001-07:00

On Wednesday, September 23 Britain was witnessing the ceremony dedicated to the post-punk band Joy Division and the legendary BBC DJ John Peel (the real name John Robert Parker Ravenscroft). This event took place in Rochdale, Greater Manchester county where Joy Division and Peel have started their careers. The idea of installing so called Blue Plaques came from the town council of Rochdale, so it definitely means that they care about modern culture and the history of their place. Practically, post-punk sounds of Joy Division and John Peel are surely giving some serious credits to this small town. The Blue Plaque which is dedicated to Peel was installed on the building where Tractor Sound Studios was previously located; simply the guy began to finance it in 1973 and generally took care of it. Moreover, those who have decided to organise the Blue Plaque for Peel have underlined that even though he was born in Liverpool, he is still very much connected to Rochdale because for a certain period of time he had worked over there on the textile factory. Joy Division’s Blue Plaque is now located on the building where legendary Cargo Studios were based back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Cargo Studios was like the ‘alma mater’ for them.

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MM Was Diagnosed With Swine Flu

2009-09-25T00:31:00.001-07:00

Infamous American rock musician Marilyn Manson (the real name Brian Hugh Warner) had told his fans that he got sick with A/H1N1 virus, better known as the “swine flu”. This information came out on September 24 on the Australian music news site Undercover. “So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with the swine flu. I know everyone will suggest that f..ing a pig is how this disease was obtained. However, the doctor said my past choices in women have in no way contributed to me acquiring this mysterious sickness. Unfortunately, I am going to survive,” wrote Manson in his Facebook page. When he became sick is not known at all, but he is surely not planning to stay sick for a long time. In the nearest future Manson is planning to perform in Halifax, and some other cities in Canada. So far there was no information if he is planning to cancel these venues. It’s interesting to note that he is not the first famous musician who got ‘swine flu’ – all Kasabian bandmates were hospitalised with the characterised symptoms. Also, there were some rumours that Pete Doherty (Babyshambles) became sick with H1N1, but later this information was denied.

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The Abbey Road Sign

2009-09-24T23:57:00.001-07:00

The street sign from the infamous Abbey Road in London is now put on the eBay Internet auction, said NME. The most important part of this lot is based on The Beatles popularity, which dragged the street name into the same fame; this band’s 1969 album is called “Abbey Road”. Besides that, the band’s recording usually took place at the studio located on Abbey Road, so the street sign is surely worth of something. The one who put that piece of historical metal on eBay will become known on September 29, and before it anyone who wants to participate in the process can offer his own price per this lot. Money that will be taken from this sale will go into London’s transportation system. “This is a rare opportunity for someone to own a precious piece of Beatles memorabilia and Westminster history,” said councillor Danny Chalkley. Also, it’s interesting to note that along with the “Abbey Road”, forty two other street signs will be sold out, and probably used for the same purpose of helping London. The Abbey Road street sign was erected in 2003, but only after four years had to be removed because The Beatles’ fans just kept on writing on it. Currently, the Westminster authorities are thinking about creating the new sign, but this time it should be very strong and protected from any possible signatures.

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Jon Bon Jovi Is Against It

2009-09-21T01:39:00.001-07:00

Jon Bon Jovi had supported musicians from legendary Nirvana, which have accused Activision in illegal use of Kurt Cobain’s image, said BBC News. During the last week bassist Chris Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl have announced the fact that they don’t like how Cobain looks in Guitar Hero 5. Actucally a lot of musician are accusing this game of something bad, this time it’s a bad image of their fellow bandmate and the leader. Besides that, they were angered because in the game Kurt is performing other band’s songs among which is Bon Jovi. In his interview Jon Bon Jovi had underlined that Activision was proposing him to participate in the Guitar Hero 5, but he decided to reject it. He said that while talking to him, Activision representatives did not mention that his “image” may be performing other songs, and he obviously doesn’t like it. Also, he didn’t make any comments on what he would do if Guitar Hero 5 went against his wil, and put other music tracks on his digital self. The scandal around Guitar Hero 5 began right after Courtney Love wrote on her Twitter mini blog that she is going to sue Activision for using her dead husband’s image (most likely without her consent).

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Sudden Appearance

2009-09-18T07:00:00.001-07:00

Infamous Amy Winehouse had performed at the surprise concert in one of the London’s small clubs called Jazz After Dark. Possibly it’s one of the best things about being popular; one can show up somewhere, right next to people and perform live while sharing love and respect. This improvised show took place on September 17. British media sources have assumed that Amy’s sudden performance at Jazz After Dark was dedicated to her birthday, which took place on September 14 (she turned 26). Singer herself had decided not to make any comments on this issue, and probably was right. After all, what could she say? This concert was one of her first live appearances in 2009; the last one took place in August. At that time she had appeared on stage together with The Specials and performed a few songs. In May 2009 she had participated at the music festival in Saint Lucia, which is also her new living location. It’s interesting to note that her Saint Lucia performance had received a lot of negative feedbacks, and was generally dumped by her critics. Right now nobody knows when she is planning to release a new record, there are many rumours and controversies, but definite answers may be given only by the future itself.

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Pop Is The Legend

2009-09-17T01:03:00.001-07:00

The Stooges leader, legendary Iggy Pop will receive the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour award as the living legend, said The Daily Telegraph relating this news to the ceremony’s organisers. A solemn ceremony where a sixty two years old musician is going to attain his prize will take place in London on November 2 this year. He definitely deserves to get it, hence Pop is not just the living legend, but he also belongs to survivors. So many times he could’ve pass out from this world due to drugs, alcohol, and other difficulties that stood on his way, but could not break him, and now he receives what trully belongs to him. Iggy himself had said that he is extremely happy to get this prize, which was established by the Classic Rock magazine. During the previous years such artists as Ozzy Osbourne (2008), Jimmy Page (2007), Alice Cooper (2006) and Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister (2005) were awarded with it. Surely all of these guys including Iggy Pop deserve it because again, all of them are survivors along with being the living legends. Other Classic Rock magazine’s nominees will become known to the public right during the ceremony. It will include “The best new band”, “The best album”, “The best band of the year”, and “The best movie of the year”.

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The Young Phrazes

2009-09-16T02:36:00.001-07:00

The Strokes vocalist Julian Casablancas had finished his work with the solo album, said ClashMusic. This new work had received the name “Phrazes For The Young”, and will be the first solo project created by this artist. It should be released as planned on October 19, 2009. It’s already known that the track list will include eight songs personally written by Casablancas and nobody else, so this new thing belongs exclusively to him. Frontman of the American garage-rock band was working with the solo album in various studios, which located in New York, Nebraska and Los Angeles. Musician had told the press that in the nearest future his new creation will be available on his official website, and that he may support the album with some short tour in around the UK soon after it’s release. Casablancas is not the first guy from The Strokes who began to record on his own. The band’s rhythm guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. had released two albums: “Yours To Keep” in 2006 and “Como Te Llama?” in 2008. Bassist Nikolai Fraiture had organised his own side project called Nickel Eye and during the winter of 2009 had released “The Time Of The Assassins”. In other words, this band is full of talents and they just can’t stay away from making new and cool stuff.

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Long Awaited Video

2009-09-15T05:38:00.001-07:00

American legendary band Alice in Chains had finally released a new video to their song “Check My Brain” from the upcoming album “Black Gives Way To Blue”, said Blabbermouth.net on September 14. The best part is that it’s their first video in ten years, so it was nervously awaited by fans and those who just like rock music in general. “Check My Brain” video is going to be the first in which their new vocalist William Duval was fully presented. The video itself is currently available on MtvU website on 24/7 basis. It was directed by the infamous Alex Cortes, who has gained a lot of fame through his works with U2 and The White Stripes. The last Alice in Chains video came out in 1999 with their previous vocalist Lain Staly, who has died due to the drugs overdose in 2002. Practically, the band was silent since then and many believed that they are not even planning to come back, but things began to change. “Black Gives Way To Blue”, which is going to be released on September 29 will be their first album in fourteen years. In 1995 they’ve released “Alice in Chains” album and since then just kept on re-releasing previous stuff in various compilations.

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Phil Collins Will Come Back Later

2009-09-14T02:13:00.001-07:00

Genesis vocalist and drummer Phil Collins had damaged the upper part of his spinal chord, and therefore this nasty accident may put his career under the danger of being knocked out for an uncertain period of time. As The Daily Telegraph said, at least it may put him away from the stage for a few years, hence this kind of trauma takes a very long time to recover. Besides the fact that Collins went through a successful surgery, it’s still not known if a musician is going to be able to perform on drums because his hands are not functioning right. Hopefully, current medicine and good care will restore this guy as soon as possible. Collins personally noted that he received this trauma way back in 2007 during the Genesis tour “Turn It On Again: The Tour”, which was dedicated to his return (he left the band in 1996). “Somehow during the last Genesis tour I dislocated some vertebrae in my upper neck and that affected my hands”. He cannot play drums and keyboards right now, but at the same time Phil is trying to keep up with his spirits. “Maybe in a year or so it will change, but for now it is impossible for me to play drums or piano. I am not in any ‘distressed’ state – stuff happens in life.”

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Photos And Oasis

2009-09-10T02:10:00.001-07:00

Tommorow London is going to see an exposition, which is about to include rare and previously unpublished pictures of now legendary British band Oasis, said New Musical Express. This art expo will open on September 11 in one of the London’s night clubs. Photograph lovers and Oasis fans will be able to look at some very interesting and rare photos made by Michael Spencer Jones, the band’s photographer who used to work with them almost since the beginning of their career. Surely, this guy knows a lot about them, and if he still works with them, then he is a trully good photographer and a true admirer of Oasis. Jones co-worked with the band during the release of their debut album Definitely Maybe (1994). Also, Jones had produced photos for the release of their fourth single “Cigarettes And Alcohol”; his photo had appeared on a single cover. To the viewer’s attention this expo will show Oasis photographs made my Jones during the band’s studio sessions, and tours. Moreover, many of these photos were already included in the recently released Oasis photo album. Practically, this gathering was designed particularly for those who like this band, and generally enjoys photography, so those who are in London don’t miss it.

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Anti Music Video Games Opinions

2009-09-10T00:53:00.001-07:00

Ex-The Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman had criticised music video games, said BBC News. In the recent time projects like Guitar Hero or Rock Band are possessing the great popularity among gamers. As Wyman believes they’re distracting children from playing for real on the real music instruments. Quite interesting remark from an old guy who grew up in a totally different time, and possibly cannot understand the fact that such games are actually driving kids into playing music on the real instruments. Meanwhile, the same opinion is shared by the Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. He has noted that Guitar Hero or Rock Band are interesting games, but it annoys him that children are spending so much time playing them. Mason had also unterlined that if children were spending the same amount of enthusiasm learning how to perform on the real instruments then by now they would become good guitar players. Of course both musicians get to the point, but seriously can these games trully distract from the real music? After all many of these kids will actually start the real music careers with the help of these games, so it’s hard to tell whether they’re getting distracted. It’s not the first time when promiment musicians have decided to criticise video music games. In June, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and the leader of The White Stripes Jack White have shared the same point of view.

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Heteropoda Davidbowie

2009-09-08T02:22:00.001-07:00

German scientist Peter Jager had discovered a new type of spiders and decided to name it after the infamous British musician David Bowie. This cool news was spread out by The Daily Telegraph on September 7. This unique type of spiders, which is now called Heteropoda davidbowie was discovered by Jager in Malasya; special quality is in it’s deep yellow hair. So far there is no clear information if the “guy” is dangerous to human beings. The Daily Telegraph supposes that Jager named this spider after Bowie because a musician had popularised this sort of species in his songs. The whole deal is in the fact that spiders were mentioned in Bowie’s legendary album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars”, which was released in 1972. Peter Jager said that by giving famous names to rare species, scientists are able to bring some attention to the problem of their extinction. Pretty good idea, especially if David Bowie will notice his old friends from Mars. So to speak, Bowie is not the first musician to ‘give out’ names to spiders; in 2008 American biologist Jason Bond has named another rare type of spiders Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after Neil Young.

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He Is Not Leaving

2009-09-07T02:09:00.001-07:00

Musicians from The Rolling Stones have denied any rumours regarding their drummer Charlie Watts. The problem was based on some information that Charlie is planning to leave the band. However, recently Reuters said that the band’s official representative called all of these rumours to be “a fabricated story”. This strange rumour had appeared on September 2 with the help of the Australian website Undercover relating this news to some circles that surround the band. It was noted that a 68 years old musician just got tired from his work in the band (since 1968) and wished to leave it. Undercover was also underlining that “rollings” are planning to invite Charlie Drayton who is constantly recording together with Keith Richards. Previously, Mick Jagger and Richards kept on saying that without Watts the band cannot stay together no matter who may replace him. Possibly that without anyone of them the band may not stay together; their unchanging lineup is simply the one and only solid lineup. As Rirchards had told the press, in 2010 The Rolling Stones are planning to record a new album, which is going to be produced by Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather). It’s already known that Richards had already recorded something new with him.

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Metallica Is Loved By Monkeys Too

2009-09-03T02:55:00.001-07:00

American scientists have noted that monkeys are practically not accepting/perceiving human musical sounds. The only song which was able to create some sort of a reaction in them was Metallica’s “Of Wolf And Man”. Scientific article about this strange effect had appeared in the Current Biology magazine, and it’s short version may be seen on the Madison University’s website. Within the frames of this study scientists were learning about the behaviour of monkeys called Cottontop Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Scientists were making videos of fourteen different monkeys during five minutes, later they’ve played music for thirty seconds and compared their behaviour. This project had included a professional violencellist David Teie who had chosen various music tracks that may influence monkeys. Among played tracks are “Grudge” by Tool, “Fragile” by Nine Inch Nails, and “Adagio for Strings” by Michael Barber. Also, Teie had produced some music of his own, which presumably had to influence monkeys – or monkey music. Eventually, those tracks which were ‘happy’ made them behave in the calm way, ‘sad’ or ‘noisy’ music made them look more disturbed. On the other hand human music did not influence them at all except Metallica. While listening to the “Of Wolf and Man” monkeys look calm and happy, so Metallica with it’s lound music made a huge and positive effect on these creatures.

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Lego Wins It All

2009-09-03T02:06:00.001-07:00

The White Stripes video “Fell in Love With a Girl” made by Michel Gondry had taken the first spot within the best videos chart, which includes all sorts of videos created since the year 2000, said Pitchfork. Their video was set up in the unique lego style (or brickfilm); everything what was shown in the video was designed with the help of Lego toy building bricks. “Fell in Love With a Girl” was released as a single from the album “White Blood Cells” in 2002. The White Stripes is in many ways the unique band, hence it constantly trying to reinvent something what had already existed before, but makes it look new and cool. Such lego styled video could be made up way back in the 80’s, or early 90’s. However, it still looks original. Totally, Pitchfork had chosen 50 videos, which now may be seen on their official website. Here is the best ten of those: 1. The White Stripes – “Fell in Love With a Girl”, 2. R. Kelly – “Trapped in the Closet”, 3. Weezer – “Pork and Beans”, 4. The Avalanches – “Since I Left You”, 5. Feist – “12345”, 6. Pulp – “Bad Cover Version”, 7. Bat for Lashes – “What’s a Girl to Do”, 8. Justice – “D.A.N.C.E.”, 9. “Fatboy Slim” -“Weapon of Choice”, 10. OK Go – “Here It Goes Again”.

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Not This Time

2009-08-04T00:51:00.001-07:00

Original organiser of the first 1969 “Woodstock” festival Michael Lang could not find a sponsor in order to fund festival’s 40th anniversary, said Rolling Stone magazine on August 3. As promoters say, if this event did eventually happen then it would absorb up to ten million dollars. However, Woodstock is not that popular anymore, or there is just not enough people who have money and would like to share it with music lovers. “Woodstock-2009” had to take place in New York right in the midst of August (15 and 16). Those bands and musicians which have performed at the original “Woodstock” had to be located in the area of Prospect park in Brooklyn. Interesting place to make this sort of event, hence it’s not that big, at least it’s way smaller than those grand areas in upstate New York. Previously Lang kept on saying that if he will be able to sign a contract then the entrance should be free for everybody. This sounds even bigger because just imagine how many people would pound into Brooklyn and Prospect park recreational area. Artists who have agreed to participate were The Who, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain, Carlos Santana and many others. Brooklyn would be taken apart by pieces because it takes millions to see totally free “Woodstock”.

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Back In The Game

2009-08-03T02:16:00.001-07:00

American legends Red Hot Chili Peppers are planning to return in the following October. This information was given by the band’s drummer Chad Smith in his recent interview to Billboard. Awesome news because earlier this year it seemed that they’re not planning to come back at all or at least not in the nearest future. It looks like these guys cannot stay apart for a long time, even when they’ve had their serious drugs related crisis back in the 90’s. Band members have decided to take a break from the ‘business’, take some rest from each other after the release of “Stadium Arcadium” in 2006 and the world tour which followed it. The whole break took two years, and now they would like to reunite and possibly show something new to their fans. However, not every member of the band was doing nothing, for example guitarist John Frusciante had recorded a solo album “The Empyrean”, bassist Flea took music courses at the University of Southern California, and Chad Smith had created the band Chickenfoot with Van Halen and Joe Satriani. Only vocalist Anthony Kiedis was not dealing with music, but he was busy raising his year and a half old son. As Chad had said, the band is not possessing any specific plans yet, but their upcoming gathering should be the start up for new ideas.

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Fisher's Copyright

2009-07-31T03:12:00.001-07:00

Matthew Fisher, an organist from the British psychedelic group Procol Harum had returned himself the copyright to one of the band’s most famous songs Whiter Shade of Pale, said BBC. According to the House of Lords rule, the highest court in Britain, Fisher should own fourty percent of the original copyright. Fisher’s court struggle was going on since 2006, when he began to insist on the fact that his organ part in a song should be appreciated and valued according to his terms. The court took Fisher’s side, but later Procol’s vocalist Gary Brooker and the author Keith Reid have appealed it’s decision, so things began to hang in the air. Organist kept on saying that his part of a song is ‘the main crop’, and he surely deserves some positive feedback. Whiter Shade of Pale is the first and most successful single that was ever produced by the band; in 1967 during six weeks this song was staying on the first spot within the British major hits list. In the US it went up to the fifth spot. Procol Harum had tried to repeat this incredible success in the later years, but this kind of magic did not happen again. In 2004 Matthew Fisher had left the band and currently works as the computer programmer.

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Is She Moving Back?

2009-07-31T02:00:00.001-07:00

American pop singer Madonna had recorded a song about her ex-husband, famous movie director Guy Ritchie. As ContactMusic notes, in a new song she calls him to be “the eternal love”, not more not less. It all means that their breaking up was caused by his wishes, not Madonna’s, but currently all of this belongs to rumours only, so it’s too early to make any conclusions. It was reported that a nameless song so far, includes some lyrics about a pair in love, which separetes and later re-unites again. This curious information gave a root to a lot of speculations about the fact that Madonna is planning to start it all again with Ritchie. After all who knows, maybe there is some sentimental thing going on between them two, but most likely these talks shall not come true, even if she still feels something towards the guy. Their marriage was cancelled on November 21, 2008 after eight years of living together in a relative happiness. Some say that their difference in age turned to be the driving factor behind this separation, but no one really knows it for sure. There is another interesting fact that Madonna trully respects Ritchie as a person, and people say that there are not too many people whom she trully respects like this.

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Blocked At The Stadium

2009-07-29T02:07:00.001-07:00

Dublin commuters have organized a samll street rally against the group of technicians who support and professionally maintain the U2 world tour, said AP. Certainly without these guys the band shall not be able to perform or even move out from their studio, so those practically silly protesters are hitting at the right place. During the last weekend this legendary band gave three concerts in their hometown at the Croke Park. After the concert technicians spent the whole night by moving sound equipment, the stage, which totally weighs 390 tons and all other things that correspond it. All this complicated stage equipment will be going to Göteborg (Sweden) where the band plans it’s next performance. These operations were co-ordinated with the local authorities, but the noise was so big that dwellers simply got angry. In the morning people have blocked an exit pathway from the stadium, and finally technicians did not arrive on time at the sea port. They just had to say goodbye to their ferry, and that was the will of ‘them’ Dubliners. Later the crowd decided to let some equipment trailers out, so Sweden is going to see U2, even though with some delay. As the U2 management says, Dubliners have interrupted the tour schedule, but it’s too early to proclaim the next venue cancelled.

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How May People Are Doing It?

2009-07-28T01:41:00.001-07:00

Nearly two thirds off all Internet users have confessed that they’ve been downloading music illegally at least during last three months, said Torrent Freak relating this news to the analysts from Interpret. This news contains the real situation that is taking place within the music industry, Internet and music lovers. Interpret’s study included sixty four million people; 36% or twenty four million people are actually downloading music for free. A little less than a half of them believes that the music they’re getting on the Internet should be much cheaper than on CDs. Practically, it means that record companies and ‘restriction institutions’ don’t really have power over them, music is getting in and out despite all their tries to stop it. After all, Internet is so democratic and even slightly limitless in it’s core that in order to make it more restrictive things should get way beyond modern laws. Such laws exist in countries like North Korea were people have problems with electricity supplies and don’t have computers, but for example in countries like US controlling the Internet will not be so easy. Temptation of getting music for free is absolutely all powerful, and people will always have a desire to get something online without going into their pockets.

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Apple Makes Deals

2009-07-27T02:27:00.001-07:00

Apple and the world’s leading record labels are currently working under the project called Coctail, which possesses the aim of selling music on iTunes, said The Financial Times. Well, this news looks quite obvious and seems to be very usual because what else those big companies can do when it comes down to selling music. Large record companies have certain designated places online where they would like to sell music, so things like Pirate Bay don’t have a chance. Coctail should start in September and will include EMI, Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Muisc, practically all of those from a big stash. As Apple plans, after the Coctail project begins iTunes should double it’s sales almost immediately, and at the same time they’re promising that prices will not go up. They say that sales will rise due to the usage of a lot of new interactive services that will be implemented into their selling strategies. In March 2008 it became known that Apple is taking care of some business talks with the above mentioned record labels. It was also rumoured that it may turn into the most successful deal that had ever happened in the world of online music marketing techniques. In order to make things sound more simple it should be said that it’s just another way to make people buy music legally.

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The Hall Of Performances

2009-07-24T01:10:00.001-07:00

Twenty fifth anniversary of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame is going to be marked with the grand show, which will include a numerous number of musicians who in various years were welcomed by the Hall. Organisers are planning something absolutely out of this world because according to them everything what was taking place before was not good enough. After all, this is right, this organization or better to say a club had never created something absolutely stunning on stage, something on the level of Woodstock. This year’s show shall not welcome as many people, but those who will get out on stage over there are definitely going to leave certain mark on the history of live performances. As the Billboard noted here is the scatch list of those who are about to arrive: U2, Metallica, Crosby, Stills & Nash, soul singer Aretha Franklin (recently she had decided to take a break, but made an astonishing exclusion for the Hall), Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen with his band The E Street Band. One of the best rock n’ roll artists in the history of music. Also, New Musical Express had found some uncertain information that Sir Paul McCartney and The Eagles may be participating on this historical show.

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Sylvian Hits It Back

2009-07-23T00:54:00.001-07:00

Ex-vocalist of the British new wave band Japan David Sylvian had finished working with his new solo album. This talented musician is famous for the variety of experiments with music and particularly new sounds that may be classified as part of the new age. His official web site says that “Manafon” is going to come out on September 14. Another cool record that may be interesting to those who worth experimental and chill out sound. Besides regular release fans should see the double CD version, which is going to include a documentary called “Amplified Gesture” that tells about how this album was made. As DavidSylvian.net notes, “Manafon” which contains nine tracks was recorded in Vienna, London and Tokyo. A song “Small Metal Gods” is seen as the possible first single and if everything goes smooth it may reach certain number on the British music charts. Obviously David Sylvian was not the only person to produce this record, particularly here is the short list of those who were built into the process: Christian Fennesz, guitarist Keith Rowe, Japanese electronic musicians Sachiko Matsubara and Otomo Yoshihide, saxophonist Evan Parker, pianist John Tilbury and members of the Austrian band Polwechsel. In other words it seems like something big, so those who worth this kind of music don’t miss to follow it all.

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Kazaa Is Back

2009-07-22T00:39:00.001-07:00

Brilliant Digital Entertainment had resurrected the long forgotten file sharing network Kazaa, said The Sydney Morning Herald. Now this service is going to allow absolutely legal downloading, but this time for the monthly payment. For twenty dollars a month user may keep on downloading without any limits, and it looks like this particular option will be the most popular. After all, it’s nice to see Kazaa back, even if they’re not standing here for free anymore. Currently users of the new Kazaa version can exist only in the US, but soon it’s going to be available in Australia as well. Most likely their new service will be extended and in the nearest future it’s going to be available all around the world. Also, together with Kazaa users will be allowed to pay their phone bills too. Great idea and at the same time it’s probably why they start doing it only in US right now, hence such complicated thing is hard to get implemented in other countries due to local billing regulations. All Kazaa files should be available in WMA format and as BDE representatives say, they’ve already received all sorts of help from big and small record labels. Totally Kazaa music library contains one million files, so if you live in US or Australia get ready to download.

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Cheese For Music

2009-07-21T01:56:00.001-07:00

Blur bass guitarist Alex James is about to establish his own brand of cheese, which is going to be advertised with the help of Duchy Originals company. The best part about it is that this firm belongs to Prince Charles himself, said Gigwise. This new cheese will be created out of milk produced by some unique breed of cows from Ayrshire, Scotland. Absolutely stunning news from Blur, and again it proves the fact that if one is talented in one thing then he or she will be talented in anything else. Each pack of Blur’s cheese should go for three pounds, so practically anyone will be able to afford it, noted James. It’s not the first time when this guy began to deal with “cheese industry”, it all started way back in 2003 when the band had stopped touring and recording albums. By the end of 2008 James has invented a cheese called Little Wallop, which soon was awarded with the silver medal on the annual world’s best cheese contest. Besides making a product for Prince Charles’s company, James is also working on creating another one – Blue Monday. This future brand of cheese was called like that in dedication to New Order’s infamous song. Well, cheese is great, maybe not less great than music itself.

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Pearl Jam Goes With "Backspacer"

2009-07-20T02:37:00.001-07:00

Legendary American rock band Pearl Jam is beginning to accept pre-orders on their ninth brand new album “Backspacer”. Those who have moved the grunge scene along with Nirvana stayed a little bit silent for a certain period of time, and right now they’re coming back, hopefully with something epic again. Currently it’s possible to visit their official web site and purchase a CD for 13,99$ or for those who worth retro things attain a vinyl piece for 19,98$. Besides that a vinyl version contains the first single from the album “The Fixer” (additional 5,99$). A lot of musicians and particularly defenders of the ‘real music’ just love vinyl stuff. Possibly due to their activity it even created some little comeback during the last year, and certainly Pearl Jam moves along with it. CD’s and vinyls are going to be delivered to buyers on September 20, 2009, which is the official release date. “The Fixer” was already presented by Pearl Jam on the Fox Channel, but it’s still not coming out until August 24. Generally speaking “Backspacer” is the first album which is being produced by the band without any record labels, so in order to distribute it they’re using small music stores and one big American retail store Target. In the rest of the world the album will be spread by Universal Music.

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Amy Calls It Quits

2009-07-17T00:56:00.001-07:00

Popular British retro-soul singer Amy Winehouse has divorced her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, said BBC News on July 16. Following the given information, the whole process of separation took only a few minutes, so making it pretty easy case of it. Fielder-Civil had pleaded for divorce in the midst of January 2009 motivating it by a presumable cheating on Winehouse’s side. During that exact time it also became know that the owner of five “Grammy’s” is staying at Caribbean island of St. Lucia together with so far unknown actor Josh Bowman. While recently Winehouse was answering various questions regarding this issue, she kept on underlining the fact that it’s better not to think about her relationship with Fielder-Civil at all. “Blake was exactly like me. We were doing drugs together. But when I’m with Josh I don’t need any stimulating substances”, noted Winehouse. Despite the fact that during the last winter she had stopped taking drugs, she still could not beat her drinking habit. This girl is not planning to settle down in the nearest future, even though some of her worst addictions may be slowing down. Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil have met in one of the London pubs in 2005, and soon after fell into a lot of legal troubles.

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Switching Roles

2009-07-16T01:08:00.001-07:00

Actress Emma Watson famous for her role of Hermiona Granger in “Harry Potter” is planning to act in Marilyn Manson’s show, which is now being directed by this eccentric rock musician, said Monsters and Critics. The project is going to look like the gothic version of “Cinderella”, and for sure it will look awesome if MM does his director’s job properly. After all, he is not doing what he was used to do, it’s totally new for the guy, but let’s hope things turn out good for him. As the unnamed source close to Watson had recently said, she wants to demonstrate that her image can go further than what became typical of her after “Harry Potter”, she simply want’s to be known somewhere else too. “She’s saw how Daniel Radcliffe managed to branch out into something completely different when he starred in ‘Equus’ and thinks this could do the same for her,” added a source. In one of her latest interviews, Watson had confessed that she really wishes to continue her acting career. In the upcoming time she may accept offers to participate in the projects that will arouse as much enthusiasm as “Harry Potter”. Many other sources keep on telling that Watson also plans to go to college/university, but it’s not known where, so let’s wait to see it.

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Teaching Some Lesson

2009-07-15T11:18:00.001-07:00

On Tuesday the American blogger who in June 2008 stole all nine Guns N’Roses songs from their new album “Chinese Democracy” was sentenced for one year on probation, said Associated Press. According to the decision made by Los Angeles Federal judge, Kevin Cogill will spend two months under the house arrest and will give up all his computers for check. Besides that, blogger had promised to produce a video for the Recording Industry Association of America were he is going to call for the online anti-piracy actions, notes Wired.com. Absolutely hard and difficult for someone who was doing something totally opposite, but in order to escape jail he will do even this thing. A twenty-eight years old Cogill had presumably understood his wrongdoing and began to co-operate with RIAA in December 2008, so they’ve dropped the orginal claim that could force him to pay three hundred seventy one thousand dollars. Prosecutor was insisting on some real jail time, but the judge has come to a conclusion that a young man had already ‘learned some lesson’. Surely, this decision is very mild and nice, seems to be extremely liberal, but fare because it’s still not forth of isolating someone for music. Even if it looks bad, jail sentence for stealing music should be replaced with some moral or ethical blame.

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Sometimes It Breaks

2009-07-13T02:30:00.001-07:00

Canadian musician Dave Carroll who had recently accused United Airlines of damaging his precious guitar, has recorded a song about this incident and placed it on YouTube, said Agence France-Presse. As Caroll says, in 2008 him and his band have departured from Halifax (Canada) to Nebraska (US), everything was allright, but during their short stay at the O’Hara airport in Chicago they’ve witnessed the way loaders were handling his instruments. When musician had received his guitar back it turned to be broken. Eventually he was trying to sue the company, but things just turned against him and he was left without money. Carroll’s guitar is worth of three thousand dollars and seems to be quite cool if he can’t forget that day. Actually, any musician would get angry, especially if that instrument means something special. No money for the damage make things lool twice as worse. The first song which is now available on YouTube is called “United Breaks Guitars”, which tells the whole story. Those who are getting under the fire are loaders and company representatives who keep on ignoring him. “I should have flown with someone else or gone by car,” sings Carroll. In his comments to this video Dave has noted that the second one is coming soon.

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Plagiarism?

2009-07-10T00:39:00.001-07:00

Producer and DJ Adam Freeland has started the legal procedure against Black Eyed Peas. Musician is sure of the fact that they’ve stolen his song “Mancry” and used it’s melody in their “Party All The Time”, which was released on the album “The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)”, said ContactMusic. Freeland had placed both melodies on his Twitter micro-blog in order to give his fans a chance to compare it and give their own opinion. It’s a typical misunderstanding between bands and musicians, who stole what or why such and such melody sounds so similar. Usually these debates end up in mutual disagreement and finally cease to exist because often they do sound similar, but there is no act of plagiarism too. Proves are scarce in situations like this one. At the same time scandalous blogger Perez Hilton who had recently sued Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina, insists that the band could hear Freeland’s song during his personal private party, which took place in 2008, before “The E.N.D.” came out. In other words, lawyers are already talking, but there is nothing on when they will take these talks to court. Currently, Black Eyed Peas are getting for the grand world tour in support of the album mentioned above.

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The Road To Abbey

2009-07-09T03:10:00.001-07:00

Abbey Road studio, which became legendary due to the fact that The Beatles used to rehearse and record over there, starts a new life. The whole idea behind their new project is to give young musicians a chance to co-operate with the Abbey Road’s experienced specialists. Sort of transferring an experience to those who wish to learn, or just stay in touch with the old rock n’ roll legends. Now their web site is saying that any band or musician can use studio’s online-mastering tricks. In order to get an access, one should register by filling out an application and send his demo to the Abbey Road specialists who will take a look at it. Pretty cool idea, but for some reason there is no clear information on whether it will be free or not. There is no doubt that many musicians would like to join this project, so money factor may play some role in this game. Abbey Road studio was founded in London in 1931 and in the beginning used to work exclusively with classic musicians, but later began to provide services to pop and rock n’ roll bands too. Particularly Abbey Road, which is now owned by the EMI records label had produced all twelve The Beatle’s albums. One of them was even called by it’s name - “Abbey Road”.

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The Last Rarity

2009-07-08T03:49:00.001-07:00

Paul McCartney has finished working with John Lennon’s extremely rare song “Now And Then”, and in the nearest time plans to make it public, said ContactMusic. This song was written by John Lennon in 1978, but for some reason he was not able to record it before his death in 1980, so it existed only in the demo version. In 1995 Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono had decided to give this practically unknown record, plus some others including “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love” to his former bandmates while they were working with The Beatle’s “Anthology”. Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have finished their parts in “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love”, and later included them into “The Beatles” album, but “Now And Then” remained unfinished due to some internal factions. During the last two years McCartney had finally ended up working with this song, also incorporating what was made up by the rest of his collegues. If “Now And Then” will see the light then it should be the first song since 1996 basically created by The Beatles, and practically the last rarity that still remains unreleased. “Real Love” which was part of the “Anthology” (1996) seemed to be the end line, but let’s wait for “Now And Then”.

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According To "Drum!" He Is The best

2009-07-07T01:44:00.001-07:00

“Drum!” magazine had announced the list of those musicians who are going to get this year’s Drummie Awards. Their cool prize was founded by the magazine itself and is given out to the best drummers of the year. The lucky one who turned to be the best of the best is a Canadian drummer from Rush, Neil Peart. He just passed by everybody and according to “Drum!” has deserved to get the highest prize they can offer to him. Also, Peart had received the title “of the best progressive rock drummer”, and therefore repeated his 2008 and 2007 success, when he was awarded with “the best live performance” and “the best drummer of the year”. In other words, “Drum!” loves this guy, so they just can’t stop giving him one award after another. Well, Peart is trully one of the most influential drummers, extremely talented and surely deserves a lot of respect. In 2007 this magazine gave him five Drummie Awards, probably beating everyone else’s records. Besides that, “Drum!” granted him with one more “the coolest live performance” award and particularly his work with the album “Snakes & Arrows”, actually another Rush’s masterpiece. The whole list of the Drummie Awards 2009 nominations is going to be available in the magazine’s August issue.

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Two Awards

2009-07-06T02:07:00.001-07:00

Famous pop group Take That was recently granted with the second Silver Clef Award in their history, said BBC News. Therefore, they’ve turned to be more successful (of course, in terms of getting this award only) than Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones, which have received Silver Clef just once. The first award was given to the band way back in 1995, only a few months before Robbie Williams has left them in order to start his absolutely smashing solo career. Why this award’s organisers like Take That so much is not very clear though, and why such monsters of music as The Rolling Stones and Sir Paul were left behind them is even more strange. However, Take That is not without a talent, and definitely they deserve certain amount of respect. After all, musicians like McCartney are surely way above them, and their fame is dwelling on the higher level, on the level of history. Take That is not that huge, so maybe that’s the reason why they deserve to have more awards of this sort. Silver Clef Award was founded by the Nordoff-Robbins charity foundation and is traditionally given out annually to all kinds of musicians including such bands as Take That. During this year’s ceremony there was an auction, which enabled Silver Clef’s organisers to collect up to 400 thousand pounds. Surely, not without Take That’s help.

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Another Big Sale

2009-07-03T06:44:00.001-07:00

Infamous Christie’s auction house, for recently able to sell John Lennon’s guitar for more than 240 thousand euros, said The Guardian on Thursday, June 2. In the beginning auction’s organizers were showing some interest in selling it for 100–150 euros, but the interest for this lot just grew out of any expected proportions. Practically, it’s not about the price, but it’s about the one who was using it, so all these huge costs seem to be slightly off track. Why just selling it all, selling it all the time while thinking only about prices, lots and other ‘down to earth’ miserable things, when musician’s art matters the most? Neil Roberts, auction’s manager who is specializing on selling of items that deal with pop/rock culture said that on the day when they’ve put on sale Lennon’s guitar, his firm was literally attacked with phone calls, emails and visitors. This guitar turned to be a spectacle among thousands of fans. As historians believe, Lennon had purchased 1958 Hofner Senator in one of the Liverpool’s music stores and used it primarily at home. Auction’s lot also included George Harrison’s letter in which he is saying that Hofner Senator was one of Lennon’s first guitars. Possibly this fact was the major force that drew fans into buying it.

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Who Is The Winner?

2009-07-01T03:34:00.001-07:00

American Federal court has ruled out that the World Wide Video company possesses no rights to John Lennon’s rare footages made in February 1970, and gave these rights to his widow Yoko Ono, said Associated Press. Ten hours video content was filmed by Ono’s first husband Anthony Cox in London at Lennon’s house during three whole days. This material includes terrific moments when Lennon is playing piano, smokes weed, and jokes about giving Richard Nixon a cup of tea with LSD. Seriously, why this stuff should belong to some strange video company, when it morally and even historically must be owned by Yoko. It’s worth of noticing that recently she is winning nearly every case that deals with Lennon’s heritage, sometimes this may look slightly unfair when McCartney or Ringo are losing these cases, but right now it seems to be absolutely fair. World Wide Video representatives have gained the copyright for 125 thousand dollars from Cox himself (originally the price went up to one million, so they’ve planned to use these money to make a documentary called “3 Days in the Life”). However, after a public demonstration of some parts of this unique footage, the WWV company was immediately contacted by Ono’s lawyers. The result was her total victory.

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Not Too Quiet

2009-06-30T00:50:00.001-07:00

Legendary Bruce Springsteen was recently fined right after his a little bit too long performance at the Glastonbury festival in Britain, said ContactMusic. Of course, abropting someone like Bruce will never work, and writing out ‘tickets’ is absolutely impossible. Usually those are very small amounts of money for people like Springsteen, but the whole idea behind ‘cutting’ of a musician because he is not stopping on time looks slightly odd. On June 27 Springsteen was closing a third day of the festival together with his group E Street Band on the Pyramid Stage. Bruce’s debut performance at the Glastonbury stage was lasting for two and a half hours, including twenty five songs out of his classic arsenal such as “Badlands”, “Born To Run”, and “Thunder Road”. Eventually he was fined due to the fact that his performance lasted on forty minutes longer than originally designed by the organizers and local authorities. After twelve o’clock at night it should be quiet in around the Glastonbury area. Come on, it’s the festival event and Mr. Springsteen is performing, law is law, but certain exceptions are definitely possible in these cases. However, festival’s top manager Michael Eavis said that he is going to pay Bruce’s fine because he believes that his performance was absolutely stunning. In 2004 Paul McCartney was also fined for a long performance.

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The Last Return

2009-06-29T01:45:00.001-07:00

Michael Jackson’s hit’s album “Number Ones” went number one on the British national music chart. Previously, it was standing as far as the 121 place can be, but after the recent tragic events things have changed unbelievably quickly. Before, the first spot was occupied by Kasabian and it’s album “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum”, but it just could not resist the wave of sentiments coming from every corner right now. So often death of an icon, which was not so popular anymore or was shadowed by so many unpleasant scandals, suddenly makes that icon universally big again. Also, the first ten includes “Thriller”, “King of Pop”, “Off the Wall” and “The Essential”. Besides that, British people began to show an intereset towards Jackson’s singles among which are “Man in the Mirror”, “Thriller”, “Billie Jean”, “Smooth Criminal”, “Beat It” and “Earth Song”. All of these infamous singles are within the first forty hits. Currently, a lot of people identify Jackson with an era, which was long gone (even though it was just in the 80’s and early 90’s), but now everything what may be dealing with this figure sort of comes back. The king of pop had returned for a certain period of time in order to remind of himself, probably for the last time.

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Music And Movies For Gallagher

2009-06-25T11:20:00.001-07:00

Vocalist from the legendary British band Oasis Liam Gallagher is about to participate in the movie called “Powder”, which is based on Kevin Sampson’s book of the same title. This news came out on Wednesday this week with the help of New Musical Express, as always. Particualarly, the one who told this info is the infamous Guru Josh, very cool British post acid house musician. Following some other facts givem by ContactMusic, Gallagher will start acting in September 2009, right after the current Oasis tour. Another example of a multi oriented talent. It’s well known that Guru Josh (the real name Paul Walden) will act himself in the movie, but what role shall be granted to Gallagher will become known a little bit later. “Powder” is produced by Sampson himself, so it should turn out pretty close to the original idea. Since the issue of his book the guy always wanted to project it onto screen and finally it should come in to existance. In the past Sampson used to manage The Farm, a group from Liverpool, thence his connection with the music world is quite strong. “Powder” itself will tell about the history of the music industry and particularly about Brit pop, which obviously includes Oasis as one of the beginners of this genre.

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Being On Top

2009-06-24T04:20:00.001-07:00

According to Forbes, Madonna had taken the first place among the richest musicians in the world. During the last twelve months, from June 2008 until the same month this year she was able to gain 110 million dollars. Such a thing could become possible with the help of Sticky & Sweet Tour, which took place in support of her eleventh studio album - “Hard Candy”. However, these statistics did not include Madonna’s spendings on a divorce with Guy Ritchie, which presumably stole seventy five (!) million dollars from her pockets. Interesting, did she spend all these money on lawyers or gave it to Ritchie? Why did the ‘guy’ agree take it from her, and anyway, why it should be so expensive after all? The second place was conquered by Celine Dion – one hundred million dollars. Third spot went to Beyonce – eighty seven million. All three are obviously don’t look very poor, especially after spending millions on divorces. Among men the richest musician is Bruce Springsteen, his “Working on a Dream” tour brought him seventy million dollars providing this musician with the fourth place. Fifth position went to an American country singer Kenny Chesney. Lots of money and lots of fame, power and respect that keeps on being recorded by Forbes.

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Time To Move

2009-06-23T06:23:00.001-07:00

Founder of the British Glastonbury festival Michael Eavis is now thinking about taking some rest from his work. As the guy says he is planning to leave director’s position of one of the biggest music events in the world. This should happen in 2011, notes New Musical Express. Eavis also wants to give all his responsibilities to his daughter Emily and her future husband Nick. Their involvement in Glastonbury affairs is going to grow and by the time when Eavis shall leave the business a couple will start taking care over everything. However, the founder of Glastonbury had noted that even after his leave he wants to participate in the events anyway. “I still feel I have an important role to play. Even if I go I’ll worry about the drains, the rubbish, the recycling. There will be a gradual process of her and Nick taking it over,” said Eavis. The old king still wants to know what happens and no matter what stick his nose in the affairs of the future generation. Glastonbury-2009 will take place on June 26–29 and will include a lot of prominet musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, reunited Blur, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Status Quo, Madness, The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand and many more.

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Beck Is Going To Do It Everyday

2009-06-22T07:27:00.001-07:00

Infamous American musician Beck Hansen is now the founder of the “Record Club” project, which is planning to organize and record the album per day. This curious information was taken from Beck’s official website. It’s either very strange or very talented because how can one write so much stuff without having some special qualities to do so? The answer is dwelling in covers, not the original material. Maybe it’s just part of the music PR and advertisiment process in order to make Beck look quite different from the rest of the music business crowd. Even by writing this article about the news means that if it belongs to PR then they’ve achieved their goal. Seriously, one album each day, very interesting thing after all. As the New Musical Express said, Beck’s “Record Club” was already joined by a singer Devendra Banhart, the band called MGMT and the famous British producer Nigel Godrich. The project will start with covering The Velvet Underground’s debut album – “The Velvet Underground & Nico”. When exactly this unique “club” shall start it’s actual recordings is not know yet. Beck believes that before going to the studio, musicians have to rehearse and try to excercise in order to make some cool covers. He did not mention what other albums these brave guys are going to cover, but had promised that it will be announced right after the club begins it’s activities.

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McCartney Writes For Cartoons

2009-06-19T05:59:00.001-07:00

Sir Paul McCartney is going to become the author of a soundtrack for his own “High in the Clouds” tale, which came out in 2005, said BBC News. McCartney is one of those creators who can perform constantly without swithing their life towards some kind of an artistic time out. Music goes into acting (not in his case though), acting may go into writing or drawing and other things of this nature. Rob Minkoff who had produced “Lion King” and Michael Lynne famous for his co-working the the creators of “The Lord Of The Rings” are currently making “High in the Clouds” cartoon film. It’s not known so far when exactly this artistic piece will come out, but again, everything from rock music to little squirrels… “High in the Clouds” was written by McCartney together with Philip Ardagh and became very well known all around the world among many children since 2006. McCartney’s romance with cartoons is not suppose to be something extra ordinary because such thing had already happened before. In 1984 Sir Paul wrote a song “We All Stand Together” for another anime called “Rupert and the Frog Song”. Back then in turned to be the hit. In other words if a person is talented in one thing, he is going to be talented in everything else too.

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Is It Really Over?

2009-06-17T03:11:00.001-07:00

Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor had recently told the press that his two hour performance at the Bonnaroo festival on June 13 was the last concert in the US, said NME. This news of course sounds a little bit upsetting to those who admire this band, and especially to those who love to see them performing live. Nine Inch Nails used to spend a lot of time off the stage, not every album was produced regularly often taking years of waiting for them to come out from the studio. During the recent four years the band was on the rise again by making something new almost every year. Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction have just finished the joint tour in around the North America. The Los Angeles Times notes that the band’s summer 2009 European tour is going to be their last one. In the meantime NIN’s offical web site was recently posting some information about the fact that the band is about to take a rest from the concert activities, but did not clarify for how long and wheather it may touch it’s presence at the studio. Many journalists believe that such action can be tied to Reznor’s decision to get married. In May it became known that Reznor is engaged to Mariqueen Maandig, a singer from the West Indian Girl.

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DUI, Drugs And Doherty

2009-06-16T07:57:00.001-07:00

There is absolutely no setting down for some rock stars, they just keep on having fun, wild parties and rebellions all the time. On the night between June 10 and 11 Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty was arrested again, this time for driving under the influence and possession of illegal substances. Also, he refused to follow everything what cops were asking him to do, said BBC News. The guy is having fun, that’s for sure. He was accompanyed with a 30–years old lady whose name was not told to the press so far. Double fun. Doherty was stopped by the Gloucester police in England on the way back from the solo acoustic concert. As BBC says, cops have decided to stop his car after noticing that it’s not following traffic rules, it simply looked too suspicious. Currently, the law enforcement people speak of his resistance to stop right away, and some total lack of sobriety on the side of his female company. She was arrested too for keeping drugs. It’s all quite interesting because the guy was already arrested only six days ago at the Geneva airport for using illegal substances during the flight. Then a singer was let loose pretty quickly after he paid a ticket. This time it may go a little bit more further due to the DUI case.

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Blur Is Coming Out

2009-06-15T09:27:00.001-07:00

The British band Blur which publicly announced it’s reunion by the end of 2008 had eventually performed live for the first time in ten years, said Contact Music. The band was singing at it’s best on June 13. Noteworthy, in order to come back to the stage Blur musicians have chosen the same venue where they’ve been performing for the first time in their career in 1988. Damon Albarn’s group did this again right next to the Railway museum near Colchester in England. For some strange reason they’ve tried to stay away from any kind of performing, and therefore left out the main thing which creates the real rock n’ roll environment. The band lost certain connection with what people call the fan base. This show’s set-list contained twenty four songs among which are Blur’s major hits such as “Girls And Boys (“Parklife” 1994), “Country House” (“The Great Escape” 1995), “Country House” (“Blur” 1997), and “Coffee & TV” (“13” 1999). The concert itself was arrangd in the classic, chamber like style including journalists, photographers and closest friends or relatives. New Musical Expresse’s main editor was taking care of the online broadcast via Twitter. In the nearest time Blur is planning to participate at the number of major shows, and those include “Glastonbury” and “T in the Park” in London.

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New Drummer, New Life For The Pumpkins

2009-06-12T02:38:00.001-07:00

The world famous Chicago group The Smashing Pumpkins had eventually found a new drummer, said their official web site. A new member of Billy Corgan’s band is going to be the 19–years old Mike Byrne from Beaverton, Oregon. This young drummer had already spent some time with the band’s frontman and even was able to participate during the latest demo recording process. As Corgan says, Byrne is totally fitting into the band’s requirements, very talented and progressive guy. The Smashing Pumpkins vocalist had also noted that he considers Byrne to be a drummer of the future. Seems that Mike is marching on top as fast as anyone can imagine. Nineteen and working with such a band, it looks absolutely unbelievable. Before joining Corgan he used to play with an indie group “Moses, Smell the Roses” in his home town. Byrne had replaced Jimmy Chamberlin who has left The Smashing Pumpkins in March, 2009. While leaving the band Jimmy had commented it with no real anger in his voice, only stating that The Smashing Pumpkins is not doing what it suppose to do and that he is going to spent all the time with his new solo project Jimmy Chamberlin Complex. At the same time he remains to be in good relations with hix ex-bandmates.

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"L'Amour Et La Paix"

2009-06-11T05:24:00.001-07:00

“L’Amour et La Paix” poster drawn by John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their famous “Bed-in for Peace” action, which took place in 1969 at the Canadian Queen Elizabeth hotel is going to appear on the auction sales, said Canwest News Service. An auction which was of course organized by the Christie’s should occur on July 1. Another sale of Lennon’s stuff, another very common thing which repeats itself over and over again. It looks like a lot of folks out there are making big money on such things. It is expected that at least seventy thousand dollars should be squeezed out of that drawing. It seems that if something like this is getting sold out, auctioneers are just pushing it to the limits. In fact things that were created by a guy like Lennon are priceless. This poster is not going to be the only thing to get to that auction. It should also include some photograph where Lennon and Oko are standing right next to “L’Amour et La Paix”. While commenting an upcoming event one of the Christie’s representatives said that Lennon used to be extremely concerned with politics and could not stay out of it, no matter what was going on. In fact, “L’Amour et La Paix” was a couple’s reaction to political turmoil in the French speaking Quebec.

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Restrictions Over The Flying Dickinson

2009-06-10T13:16:00.001-07:00

Iron Maiden’s leader Bruce Dickinson is not going to operate an airplane for a short period of time. A singer is a certified pilot, but during his band’s touring journey he will not be able to fly for at least twelve hours after the show, the rest is allright for him, said Blabbermouth. Stress, tiredness and other things that may be associated with the show may distort concentration that is crucial while operating an airplane. For the first time such sanctions were taken in 2008 during Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere Back in Time World Tour”. He was recommended to stay out of the cockpit for at least twelve hours after each show. Dickenson himself hoped to get the right to fly without any restrictions, but the British Civil Aviation Authority thought otherwise and recommended him to use a co-pilot’s help during the tour. Iron Maiden possesses it’s own Boeing-757, operated by Dickinson. Pretty cool thing for any band to have this kind of an airplane, especially if it’s being controlled by one of the bandmates. Even though Dickinson was somewhat upset after he had received the above mentioned restrictions. The rest of his band had agreed with the aviation authorities. “Some of the road crew were like, ‘What? After running around onstage, he is going to fly us back?”, said Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain.

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Tom York Is About To Perform... Alone

2009-06-09T05:14:00.001-07:00

Frontman of the legendary British band Radiohead Tom York is planning to make the solo concert in the nearest time, said BBC News. Musician’s performance should take place on July 19 within the frames of Latitude music festival. The main organizer Melvin Benn has underlined the fact that he is very proud to present Tom at his festival, which is traditionally taking place in Suffolk county, England. The set list which is being planned exclusively by York himself did not go public yet, but it’s very well known that recently he was preparing some solo material. Particularly, it stopped being a secret after the release of Radiohead’s new album “In Rainbows” (2007). In other words, this guy had plenty of time to write something new and hopefully it will be absolutely cool. At the same time York’s representative had noted that musician will not release any studio album with this new material. It simply shall not go into Tom’s plans. In 2006 Tom York had released his one and the only solo album “The Eraser” which was able to reach number three on the British national music chart. Eight out of nine songs which were included in that album were personally written by York.

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Converse Shares It With Meta/DC

2009-06-08T06:24:00.001-07:00

Famous shoe making company Converse had announced the news that it’s about to release a new line of their product, which was inspired by nothing less, but musicians. In the nearest time people will be able to see sneakers with Metallica and AC/DC photographs on them, said Aversion. Sneaker’s design that was dedicated to AC/DC will be set up within the band’s “Highway to Hell” album style (1979). In what particular way Metallica’s shoes will look like is not known yet. As Prefix notes each pair of such sneakers should go for fifty five dollars. Basically, every Metallica’s and AC/DC’s fan should strive for it, even though it may look a little bit too commercialised for many rock n’ roll lovers. Converse is not trying to do this kind of work for the first time. In 2008 they’ve produced sneakers with Kurt Cobain’s autographs and also with themes from The Ramones, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. In addition to this, Converse’ shoe style is one of the most popular among rock music fans today. Currently, there are not so many companies that are making stuff like this, in order to get a t-shirt or jacket with ‘bands’ on it, one should make a serious search. Converse was founded in 1908 by Marcus Converse who had established his company’s headquarters in Malden, Massachusetts.

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Cook Prepares "Surreal" Once Again

2009-06-05T02:44:00.001-07:00

Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook have announced the fact that they’re getting ready for re-releasing of their first and only joint album, said New Musical Express. The album “Surreal” which came out in 2008 was the result of their co-operation within the side project called Man Raze. The new deluxe edition of “Surreal” will not only include the original twelve tracks, but five more additional songs too. These new tracks are, “You’re So Wrong”, concert version of “Low”, dub-remix of “Turn It Up”, instrumental version of “Runnin’ Me Up” and acoustic “Can’t Find My Own Way” recorded during their performance somewhere in Britain. Sex Pistols and Def Leppard were quite different back in a day, so this co-work between Collen and Cook looks very positive. The new version’s release is going to be surrounded by Man Raze’s North American promotional tour. So far there is no information on ticket sales and venues. Man Raze was formed in 2004 by Collen, Cook and Simon Laffy from the British glam-metal band Girl. Their first concert took place on September 27, 2005 in London’s Spitz club. Certainly, tickets to that club show were sold like never before and right now it’s considered to be something out of the legendary rock n’ roll past.

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Adam Lambert May Not Join Queen

2009-06-04T02:13:00.001-07:00

“American Idol” participant and a singer Adam Lambert said that he is not planning to become a new Queen’s frontman, noted Blabbermouth. He believes that it’s going to be better if he concentrates upon his solo career right now, instead of getting involved with any other side projects. Of course, turning into a new vocalist in such a great band as Queen would be terrific for any performer, but this guy thinks otherwise. Information on the fact that Lambert may become Queen’s new member began to circle news agencies during the last few days. Brian May had recently said that he will not be against if a young and talented musician joins them, also underlining that such vacancy is not foreseen only for Lambert. On the other hand in one of his interviews, Lambert was thinking about making some co-operative and productive work with Queen, but did not show any particular wish to sing with them all the time. “They’ve never actually offered me anything. They expressed interest in working together, but just said they’d like to have a meaningful conversation, and that’s it. It could have meant they wanted me to come to dinner with them, it could have meant they wanted to talk about the meaning of life,” noted Lambert. Actually, it’s a little bit strange because for a guy like him it would be absolutely fantastic. Well, maybe he doesn’t like Queen that much.

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Trent Against Manson

2009-06-03T04:32:00.001-07:00

Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor had recently given an interview to a Mojo magazine where he was extremely negative towards his ex-protege Marilyn Manson, said Rolling Stone. “He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody’s face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he’s become a dopey clown,” noted Reznor. As Trent also said he used to experience some difficulties with Manson way back during their joint 1994 tour. According to Trent Reznor even at that time Manson was doing everything only to enter the fame, nothing else was interesting to that guy. However, Reznor kept on co-operating with Marilyn Manson for a while and helped him to release a number of albums such as “Portrait of an American Family (1994), “Smells Like Children” (1995), and “Antichrist Superstar” (1996). In 2000 Marilyn Manson had participated in the Nine Inch Nails video “Starfuckers, Inc”, so things were not so bad for a long time since both musicians began to have arguments. Some say that there is a degree of jelousy on both sides, some believe Manson is a star with an attitude. Besides all of this, recently Trent Reznor had enough time to say bad things about other performers as well. In his Twitter micro-blog Reznor had posted some bitterness against Chris Cornell, Prince and Weezer vocalist Rivers Cuomo.

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Madonna And Guy

2009-06-02T02:39:00.001-07:00

Unfortunatelly, Peter Howson was not able to sell his unique “Madonna and Guy” at Glasgow’s art dealing auction, which was organised by the McTear’s Auctioneers and Valuers, said New Musical Express. A canvas which shows naked Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie in the grotesque form did not inspire buyers to purchase it. This painting received a few requests, but none of it was able to reach the required price of fifteen thousand pounds. Surely, Howson’s painting is a little bit odd and strange, even offensive at some point. However, it’s possible that some time later, after many years will pass, it shall be worthed on the right level. Many controversial works of art such as this one did not get enough attention in the beginning, but later were considered to be something very special. “Madonna and Guy” is still avalable for purchase, however McTear’s is not going to continue to put it on auction anymore. They just lost any hope to make it big right now. “Madonna and Guy” was created in 2005 and was immediately included into Howson’s collection of paintings where Madonna is not showing any clothing. Among those who possess this artist’s other paintings are popular musicians such as Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Madonna herself.

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Ozzy Wants 50%

2009-06-01T02:46:00.001-07:00

Legendary Black Sabbath leader Ozzy Osbourne had started the court procedure against his old collegue and the band’s guitarist Tony Iommy, said Blabbermouth. The reason for such an action is Ozzy’s disappointment over Iommy’s rights to literally own “Black Sabbath” trademark, which now legally belongs to him with the help of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As Osbourne says, Black Sabbath guitarist had registered “Black Sabbath” as a brand without having any legal rights to do so, at least without consulting him. Ozzy is insisting on changing the registration documents and wants 50% share. What particular role is Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy’s wife and manager) playing in this process? Maybe she is involved, hence Sharon is a huge business lady and knows how to count money very well. Her strong influence on Ozzy is also quite famous. On the other hand, Iommy was not supposed to do something like this because how he could forget to include one and the only real frontman of Black Sabbath. Of course, he was (Ozzy) not the only one to participate in the band, but he was the original and without any doubt the best. In addition to this news, Ozzy also wants some of those money Iommy was making while totally possessing “Black Sabbath” as a brand. Iommy should better give something to Ozzy because truthfully it’s not really fair.

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Scarlett Goes Singing

2009-05-28T06:39:00.001-07:00

Famous actress and singer Scarlett Johansson is getting prepared to release her new album, which was recorded together with Peter Yorn. As Pitchfork says, Scarlett’s new disc “Break Up” will be out in stores with the help of Atco/Rhino record label on September 8. This talented girl is certainly not giving things up, and just keeps on moving forward with her acting and music career. This record which was produced by Sunny Levine was inspired by the 1960’s duet of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. This artistic work includes nine songs, eight of which were written by Peter Yorn and one is a cover version of Big Star’s (Chris Bell) “I Am the Cosmos”. The first single “Relator” is already available on the project’s official website, so those who trully respect Johansson and Yorn can start getting into their new work. There is a saying that if a person is talented then he/she is talented in everything they do, maybe it’s not true sometimes, but in the case of Johansson it’s absolutely real. She began to perform as a singer in May 2008 when she released the cover album of Tom Waits’ “Anywhere I Lay My Head”. Later she has covered The Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry” and Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye”. In the future Scarlett is planning to release her own album.

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Two Giants... Why Not?

2009-05-28T06:26:00.001-07:00

Sir Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan have decided to create something together, said Gigwise on Tuesday. Musicians are getting ready to co-operate in the nearest future, and it’s also rumoured that they’re planning to start studio sessions during this summer. In one of his recent interviews The Beatles’ legend has told that his wish to work together with Dylan is not new, and he is waiting to produce something absolutely fantastic with him. McCartney had also underlined the fact that such co-operation is one of the biggest artistic ambitions that ever existed in the world of music. At the same time Dylan whose new album “Together Through Life” was released last month is absolutely not against co-operating with McCartney. In other words everyone who respects these two musicians should be waiting for cool stuff to come out in the near future. Nevertheless, in the midst of April this year, while talking to Gigwise Dylan had stated that McCartney is a popular, and in many ways commercial artist who was able to acquire success due to his knowledge of new tendencies in music. In contrast, when speaking about himself Dylan did not put his music career under the shadow of “commercial umbrella”. However, these two geniuses will most likely work together, and it’s the best part about it all.

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Persson Goes For Covers

2009-05-27T12:55:00.001-07:00

Vocalist of the Swedish band The Cardigans Nina Persson had recorded the mini album which contains cover versions of numerous famous rock groups/artists, said Prefix. This work was created by her and members of her solo project A Camp. Seems like cover albums are getting more and more popular among many musicians out there in the music world. The album is now called “Covers”, pretty simple and clear and it includes three songs. Persson and her musicians have recorded all versions of “Us and Them” (Pink Floyd), “Boys Keep Swinging” (David Bowie) and “I’ve Done it Again” (Grace Jones). Why A Camp chose particularly these three songs to make their EP is not known. Basically, the following songs are extremely great and powerful in terms of history of rock music. It should be quite simple. “Covers” were produced by the Canadian label Nettwerk and should hit the stores on June 9. The album will be available only within the North America throughout iTunes service only. Why it’s being spread exclusively in Canada and U.S. is a mystery. Currently, A Camp is touring Canada and the Unites States. This tour is dedicated to the release of their album “Colonia” which came out in January this year.

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Boys With The Name

2009-05-27T03:15:00.001-07:00

American hip-hop group Beastie Boys had announced the name of their new studio album by sending emails. The following text message said, “Hot Sauce Committee,” notes Billboard. Sounds like this band still tries to be very original, even by giving cool names to their new pieces of artistic work. It would be extremely exciting to hear what they’ve prepared for their fans this time, and hopefully it’s great. Beastie Boys fans have received above mentioned emails on May 25. Also, those messages did incorporate some information about their future plans and specifically the fact that they’re going to appear on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday, May 26. People who saw the show last night probably know more about “Hot Sauce Committee” right now. Billboard is not opening any secrets on how the band was able to send these messages particularly to their fans, for example other people did not receive anything. Most likely those who got it were registered on certain Beastie Boys fan sites. Otherwise, it would be a total mystery. It is interesting to note that previously Beastie Boys have already told everyone the name of their new album. In February they’ve said that it’s going to be called “Tadlock’s Glasses”, but later changed their minds and swtiched it to “Hot Sauce Committee”.

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Oasis Rocks The Chart

2009-05-26T02:54:00.001-07:00

A song “Live Forever” from the Oasis debut album “Definitely Maybe” (1994) was recently called to be the best British song of all times. Such results were taken by the British Xfm radiostation after surveying of many thousands of it’s listeners, said The Daily Telegraph. It is interesting to note that Oasis had also conquered second and third places as well – “Wonderall” and “Don’t Look Back In Anger” from 1995 album “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?”. Another song from the same album “Champagne Supernova” took tenth place. Practically, these guys from Oasis are rocking the world or Xfm was making something in the wrong way. It’s hard to imagine that The Beatles or Led Zeppelin did not even get into the Top 10 list. The Beatles were dominating this Xfm’s survey for years, and now things just began to change. Anyway, Oasis is the great band and this chart is just showing that they’re not the last musicians in the world. Top 10 list also includes The Stone Roses, Joy Division, The Verve, The Who, Arctic Monkeys and The Clash. Here is the list itself:

Oasis - Live Forever
Oasis - Wonderwall
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
The Who - My Generation
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
The Clash - London Calling
Oasis - Champagne Supernova

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Paul Rodgers Is About To Quit With Queen

2009-05-14T04:14:00.001-07:00

British singer Paul Rodgers has told in his interview to VH1 that he is about to quit co-working with legendary Queen. At the same time Brian May had published Paul’s words on his official website. “We’ve carried out the world tour, later tour around Europe, Asia, Eastern Europe, we’ve released the studio album and I think it’s time to stop. Possibly we are going to give charity concerts from time to time,” said Rodgers. So far there is no information on how the rest of the band had reacted after hearing his decision. On June 20 the American city of Charlotte will be the first to see Paul Rodgers’s band Bad Company performing after it’s recent reunion. Besides Rodgers the original Bad Company’s line-up consists of drummer Simon Kirk and guitarist Mick Ralph. Lynn Sorensen is going to replace Boz Burrell who is in the better world now. Paul Rodgers had joined Queen in 2004 when the band was in need of a new vocalist to perform at the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. By that time Queen was not coming together for nine years, particularly since the release of “Made In Heaven”. This album incorporated the last Freddie Mercury’s records. In September 2008 the new Queen’s line-up had released the new album “The Cosmos Rocks”, which was able to conquer number five on the British music charts.

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Aerosmith + Lottery = Fun

2009-05-14T02:17:00.001-07:00

Aerosmith had decided to run a lottery for those who wishes to get their concert tickets, notes Rolling Stone. The band had made an agreement with GTECH (this company is specializing on gambling industry) and as the result of it American fans will soon be able to get beautifully designed lottery coupons all over the U.S. Each piece shall reflect Aerosmith’s song themes, so it’s not just a lottery, but also an advertising thing too. Among those songs that will be used for such design Rolling Stone is specifically underlining their legendary “Dream On”, which was released in 1973 bringing them an incredible fame. All together Aerosmith fans are going to receive twenty lottery coupons. Lucky people will be able to get to their concert for free and also visit the band while they’re getting prepared for performance. Backstage drinking and partying is one of those things that may be the most important part of it all. Stuff like free stickers, souvenirs and even autographs don’t play any significant role in such situations. Another cool part is that winners will be able to see the band during one of their closed shows – sounds like a lot of fun right there. Backstage plus secret show, drinking, partying and of course Aerosmith.

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Bravery, Farrell And Jane's Addiction

2009-05-13T03:06:00.001-07:00

Janes Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell was hostpitalized on May 10 right after his band’s concert in Atlanta due to a leg injury, said Associated Press. This incedent took place when a musician had performed the first song, but even after that his band was able to finish the whole set and only later Farrell was sent to the Atlanta’s Medical center. An injury turned to be not so bad, but despite that he is going to stay at the hospital for at least three days. Pretty brave move on his side, lots of respect to his band, fans and everyone who likes their music. Usually artists stop performing when something like that happens to them, but not in this case. Currently, Jane’s Addiction, which had reunited in 2008 in it’s original line-up is on “Nin/ja” tour with Nine Inch Nails and Tom Morello’s (former Rage Against The Machine guitarist) new band called Street Sweeper. Jane’s Addiction was created way back in 1985. During the following five years they’ve recorded a number of albums among which are “Nothing’s Shocking” (1988) and “Ritual de lo Habitual” (1990). Despite the fact that the band had chosen alternative rock as their main music style, they’ve included elements of funk and metal here and there. In 1991 the band had fallen apart, even though they’ve been super popular at that time.

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The Stone Roses: Remastering In Process

2009-05-12T00:42:00.001-07:00

British group The Stone Roses, which fell apart in 1996 is planning to re-issue their debut album, said New Musical Express. The original version, -“The Stone Roses”, was released on Spring 1989. Pretty lazy comeback because it would be way more interesting if they tried to record something absolutely new or least make some sort of a tour as other old bands do in such cases. The release of this innovated version is going to take place on August 11, 2009. Particularly, this re-visited album was prepared by John Leckie (he had also worked with the original “The Stone Roses” in 1989) and a former frontman Ian Brown. All of the “new” songs were re-recorded using digital remastering process. A new edition of the first album will be released in three different variations. “The Stone Roses: Special Edition” will be accompanied with the awesome and colourful booklet. Second one is representing the wide version, it will include a box-set of previously unreleased songs under the name of “The Lost Demos”, and a DVD with their live 1989 concert “Live In Blackpool”. Also the whole edition should contain the 28 page booklet as well as the first edition. Third, “Stone Roses: Collectors Edition” will be the biggest, it shall include lots of photographs, flash card with ringtones and videos. In other, words collectors should not miss this remastered release.

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Gilmour Turns To Charities

2009-05-11T04:30:00.001-07:00

Pink Floyd vocalist and legendary guitar player David Gilmour is going to participate at the ‘secret show’, which is being set up by the charity organization called Crisis. Their main focus is to help homeless people, said New Musical Express. Gilmour is about to share the stage with a duet from Mali, Amadou and Mariam. “It was a wonderful surprise when they called recently, inviting me to collaborate with them on this special one-off occasion for Crisis. I’m looking forward to breaking down a few musical boundaries in the cause of helping the homeless,” noted Gilmour. This concert will take place in London on May 25 and it’s called ‘secret’ because the exact time and location shall be announced only twenty four hours before the event. In other words those who have purchased tickets are going to get an email message. All the money will go to the mentioned above charity foundation. It’s interesting to underline the fact that this performance is a part of one big series of such ‘secret’ events which began on May 5 in London. The whole program includes numerous cool bands like The Bluetones, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Pipettes and Dodgy. For example another group called Hot Chip had performed on May 5 by showing their new material.

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Screenwriting and Nick Cave

2009-05-08T02:24:00.001-07:00

Famous Australian rock musician Nick Cave is well known for being an author of the “Gladiator” scenario, which turned to be one of his best projects outside of music business. However, his ideas that were implemented into “Gladiator” were not fully opened in the movie itself. As The Guardian says, Cave’s fans have found a text which is continuing general Maximus’s life and generally speaking gives the future to that heroic story. Following Cave’s version after Maximus had died in Colosseum he was resurrected by the Roman gods and received immortality. After he became immortal Maximus had participated in practically every war that came later in history including Crusades and even Vietnam war. Eventually his position in the modern days is to be someone big at the Pentagon. “We tried to go with Cave’s script. Russell didn’t want to let it go, obviously, because it worked very well. When I say ‘worked very well’, I don’t refer to success. I mean, as a piece it works very well”, said “Gladiator’s” director Ridley Scott. In other words, Nick Cave’s scenario appeared to be too large and not very well fitting into the “Gladiator” everyone knows right now. DreamWorks Studios also had decided not to go with such continuation and turned it away.

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The Beatles On The Screen

2009-05-07T05:40:00.001-07:00

Developers from Harmonix Music Systems are planning to release new controllers that are specifically designed for the game The Beatles: Rock Band, said Rolling Stone. Music and games, what can be better than that? During the upcoming autumn this game’s release will correlate with the release of these controllers - Rickenbacker 325 guitars, which absolutely copy the original type that belonged to John Lennon and George Harrison. Such guitars will go for 99,99$ (or 99,99 euros for Europeans) a piece. Just imagine how expansive will be the original guitar. Probably everything what was used by these two legendary musicians is already sold out to some private collection or something of that kind. However, in this case the progress in software technologies made it available to practically everyone. Also, these controllers will not be included into the Limited Edition Premium Bundle, which goes for 250$ (or 199 euros). Previously, developers were promising to incorporate Paul McCartney’s Hofner bass guitar and Ringo’s Ludwig drums, but it may not happen. At the same time the Limited Edition Premium Bundle shall include mentioned above The Beatles: Rock Band. The official release of the Rock Band, which is totally dedicated to the legendary band is planned for September 9, 2009. Currently, it’s almost definite that it should contain 45 songs that were recorded by The Beatles between 1962 and 1969.

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Coldplay: Stolen or Not Stolen?

2009-05-06T02:19:00.001-07:00

British performer Yusuf Islam who was previously well known under the name of Cat Stevens said that Coldplay’s song “Viva La Vida” is copied after his 1973’s “Foreigner Suite”, noted NME. Coldplay is getting under such fire all the time, maybe they trully stole something? It’s the third time when Coldplay is being accused of plagiarizing this song which belongs to their 2008 “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends” album. Guys who began to accuse them for the first time was a group from New York called Creaky Boards. They’ve said that “Viva La Vida” was taken from their “The Songs I Didn’t Write”. As that band believes one of the “Viva La Vida” authors Chris Martin could hear it during their concert in October 2007. Martin said that “Viva La Vida’s” demo version was recorded in March 2007 and could not be copied in any shape or form. Another famous American musician Joe Satriani proclaimed that it’s partially his 2004 “If I Could Fly” and started some strange court procedures against Coldplay. Chris Martin was forced to deny everything again, even though he admitted that songs sound similar. In Yusuf Islam’s case there will be no legal action, but just another possibility of the fact that Coldplay could steal some music.

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Plastic Ono Band Comes To London

2009-05-05T01:41:00.001-07:00

John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono is planning to participate at the concert which was personally organized by her and Plastic Ono Band, said Yoko’s web site. Yoko is surely trying to reinvent the wheel or at least manifest her artistic talent once again – pretty cool idea. This concert is going to take place on June 14 this year at London’s Royal Festival Hall where Plastic Ono Band will perform together with Yoko and her son Sean Lennon. The rest of the band’s lineup is not known yet, but it was already rumoured that a lot of musicians will be invited. Among those is one of the avant-garde jazz pioneers Ornette Coleman who was taking some important part in recording of the 1970’s “Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band” album. “I’m really worried about the upcoming concert because it’s going to be the first Plastic Ono Band’s performance in Britain and it will be absolutely great if Ornette joins us”, she said. This woman is obviously very powerful, and her abilities seek no end, especially when she goes out there to fulfill the world of art. As Yoko has told the press, lately she had finished working with the new album, which is about to appear in stores by the end of 2009. This record was produced by her and Sean Lennon.

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Some Stories To Tell

2009-05-04T01:15:00.001-07:00

Frontman of the legendary American rock band Aerosmith Steven Tyler had finished working with his new book in which he described his life and told about difficulties of the music career, said Undercover. A book “Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?” will be publicly presented on May 28 at fair event in Connecticut. In 2008 one of the HarperCollins’ branches – Ecco had promised to pay two million dollars for the rights to publish Tyler’s memoires. Surely, this guy has something to say about his life and music, share some precious experience by telling what not to do or what may be better if one wants to start his band nowdays. In this autobiographical work musician tells about his childhood (spent in Bronx, New York) and about his early passion with music, particularly those who have influenced him. Also, Tyler centers upon Aerosmith, it’s history and his relations with the other band members. Singer talks about those episodes of his life when he was dealing with drugs and alcohol, to many it may be the most interesting part of a book. Besides that Aerosmith’s frontman had dedicated some parts of this literary piece to his four children. Mr. Tyler is particularly famous for his turbulent personal life, wifes, kids and reunions he was making with them.

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Charitable Page

2009-05-01T02:25:00.001-07:00

Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page with a help from the charity foundation created by his wife in 1998 (“Action for Brazil’s Children”) had carried out a charitable auction this week, said AFP. A Forca Da Rua sales event that was set up in London on April 29 had exposed two guitars that were painted by the British and Brazilian graffiti artists. Charity activities made by guys like Page or Bono are extremely good and show that the music is not just sounds or words, but also actions which may literally change something and help somebody. “It’s very important for me to take part in this project. Children of course need not only money, but they definitely play a huge role. We hope that stuff which is being done will help Brazilian children who don’t have a lot in their lives and from the early years they know what is the real difficulty”, said one of the artists who had participated in A Forca Da Rua auction. In March 2009 Page and some of his collegues ex-Cream bass Jack Bruce, ex-The Animals frontman Eric Burdon and Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver singer Slash have already done an auction of this kind. Practically, they’ve been selling their autographed instruments and photographs on eBay.

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Guitars Are Coming Back

2009-04-29T04:11:00.001-07:00

Guys from Sonic Youth have found one of their guitars, which was stolen from them ten years ago, said Pitchfork. Probably thieves thought of getting it back, but just wanted to try it out for a little more than was expected. In 1999 musicians became victims of some unknown thieves who stole their guitars and other sound equipment. Band’s guitarist Lee Ranaldo had published a message to Sonic Youth’s fans asking them for assistance in finding that equipment characterizing it as “very old, modified and slightly broken”. One of those guitars was Fender Mustang Ranaldo, which can be seen in the band’s videos “Macbeth and “Mary Christ”. Each of the stolen instruments was rebuilt by the members of Sonic Youth in order to make them sound in some special way. Particularly, Lee is famous for playing his guitar with the help of srewdrivers and drum sticks. Nevertheless, ten years later one person from Holland under the name of Sauerkraut had purchased the guitar on eBay, which later turned to be Lee’s. He immediately contacted Sonic Youth and confirmed a meeting with them to return this precious instrument. As a reward that guy is going to get a unique privilege to see the band at any concert he would like to visit following the VIP status.

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Alice Returns to Wonderland

2009-04-27T23:59:00.001-07:00

American band Alice in Chains is getting ready to release the first album in fourteen years, said Rolling Stone. This band was quiet for so long that nobody could expect them to get out of nowhere right now, but music is calling Alice to come out and see the wonderland again. Most likely the Virgin/EMI record label will be the one to sustain this release in September 2009. The exact date of the release is not known yet. Also, it’s not known what name they’re going to give to this new album. In 2005 the band had hired a new vocalist William Duval who came in there to replace a former singer Lane Staley. Lane had died in his home in 2002 due to the drugs overdose, and the band spent some time in order to find someone who could be equal to him. Before joining Alice in Chains Duval used to participate in the project called Comes With the Fall, which was formed in 1999 and released five studio albums. As the guys from Alice in Chains believe the new album which was going through some serious recording process since October 2008 will allow them to come back to the world of music and may enable the band to restore it’s position within the most popular bands in the world.

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Unexpected Performance

2009-04-27T01:01:00.001-07:00

Lately Blur guitarist Graham Coxon had performed at one of the London’s pubs, said New Musical Express. This performance is also related to the recent Blur’s plans to reunite. Coxon’s presence at The Spread Eagle pub on Saturday, April 25 was particularly cool due to it’s momentous happening – no one could expect him to come out and play over there. Certainly those who have visited that pub were quite amazed and will remember it for the rest of their lives. Coxon had played seven songs from his upcoming solo album “The Spinning Top” (it’s release is planned for May 11). Among those songs that he played at the pub NME is particularly noting “If You Want Me”. Possibly it’s going to be the next single. Here is the full set of songs that could be heard at The Spread Eagle – "This House"
"In The Morning"
"If You Want Me"
"Perfect Love"
"Brave The Storm"
"Dead Bees"
"Sorrows Army"
Besides that Coxon was performing together with some unknown bassist and drummer. NME is also noting that the concert had attracted a lot of people from streets, so those who were not able to get in just kept on watching from the outside. Coxon looked very happy and nice to everyone, he read a lot of poetry accompanying it with numerous jokes.

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Not A Minute Longer

2009-04-24T01:21:00.001-07:00

Organizers of the Coachella music festival, which took place on 17–19 of April in California will be fined for violating public order, said Prefix. As the local police representatives say, they could keep the stage open only until 12pm and those who are responsible for the concert were warned about such consequences. Every minute of extra performance will cost them $1000. Anyone can understand the reality of bureaucracy that rules over such events as concerts, but each time when it happens the whole idea behind the music and art gets seriously damaged. The first day was finished by Paul McCartney’s performance who kept on playing for fifty more minutes. Those who trully like music, especially if it was performed by Sir Paul should not really care about charging extra dollars. However, they always keep on saying the same stuff like law is above all and forget about everything else. The last day of Coachella was also marked by another incident of this sort which caused The Cure to play without any electricity. The Cure of course was not respected as much as McCartney, plus nobody wished to pay for them. Nevertheless, it’s always rude when bands have to obey and shut themselves from the crowd over some senseless security people.

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Bonnaroo Rocks With Byrne

2009-04-23T02:05:00.001-07:00

British musician David Byrne had become a curator of the eighth International (annual) music festival Bonnaroo, which is going to take place between 11–14 of June in Tennessee, US. All this information can be seen on the festival’s official web site. Byrne promotes a lot of new bands and generally speaking acts as someone who pushes creativity forward. Due to his activities this year’s event incorporates Santigold, Dirty Projectors, Katzenjammer, Ani DiFranco and Annie Clark who is better known as St. Vincent. Practically, David makes it very exciting because of his love of many musical styles, numerous variations of sound and good communication skills. “It was very logical to appoint David – his love of all musical styles and his knowledge of how to get his favourite music to the listener turn him into someone absolutely special”, said the president of Bonnaroo, and festivals co-organizer (A.C. Entertainment) Ashley Capps. Following David Byrne’s own words his method of choosing bands is very simple, he invites only those groups which he personally saw somewhere during the life performance. In addition to the list above people who will go to this year’s Bonnaroo may also see Bruce Springsteen, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, The Mars Volta, TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah, Yeahs, Public Enemy and many more.

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The Cure Without Electricity

2009-04-22T01:44:00.001-07:00

The Cure was literally forced to perform and so to speak successfully finish their concert without any electricity, said NME. This incident took place during their live performance at the Coachella music festival on April 19. Practically, if the band can keep on playing even after electricity goes down it means that musicians can handle some serious challenges. The Cure had already played twenty nine songs when the concert organizers have warned them and asked to finish their performance. At that moment the band’s leader Robert Smith had shared some bad words with the crowd and began to play “Boys Don’t Cry”. They definitely didn’t care about rules and regulations by showing some serious rock n’ roll attitude. Two minutes later organizers have decided to use some pressue and turned down the electricity, but it did not stop Smith and his band from playing. “Jumping Someone Else’s Train” and “Grindng Halt” were played in the acoustic version, so only those who stood right next to the stage could hear it. Pretty nice concert after all, real rock n’ roll and a lot of “I don’t give a f…” to those who organize concert events. This performance had finished the three-day festival, which annually takes place at the California’s Coachella valley since 1999. The only exception was in 2000 when the festival was cancelled due to some financial problems.

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Billy Corgan Invites Everybody

2009-04-21T03:22:00.001-07:00

American band The Smashing Pumpkins began to take auditions in order to hire a new drummer instead of Jimmy Chamberlin who has left them in the end of March. System Of A Down drummer John Dolmaian also took his chance to participate in this process, said The Smashing Pumpkins official web site. Twelve musicians have visited the first session which took place just a few days ago in Los Angeles. Due to the fact that the band’s leader Billy Corgan had received too many offers from a numerous number of musicians, The Smashing Pumpkins guys are thinking about organizing another audition in May that will allow them to get the final result. Besides System Of A Down Dolmaian is also well known for his presence in Axis of Justice, Scars on Broadway and Serj Tankian’s solo project. In 2006 John Dolmaian was declared to be a drummer of the year by a Drum! magazine. Jimmy Chamberlin had explained his decision by the loss of interest in what The Smashing Pumpkins is doing today. At the same time he keeps on denying traditional for the music world misunderstandings that could appear between him and his former bandmates. In the upcoming time he is planning to stay with his own group Jimmy Chamberlin Complex.

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Not Only Music

2009-04-20T03:33:00.001-07:00

British soul singer Amy Winehouse keeps on bringing more news. Recently, she said that it’s in her upcoming plans to write a book for children, noted Monsters & Critics. As this news source says, Winehouse has decided to write with the help of her collegue Pete Doherty (The Babyshambles). He told her that writing poetry will enable a lot of new artistic qualities and feelings. “Amy’s been stimulated since living in St. Lucia. She loves the chilled out atmosphere and has found it has encouraged her to write again,” said one of those who is closely related to her. Right after Doherty told Amy to start writing poetry she thinks about releasing a book first, which will discuss her tough artistic life. In other words it’s going to be a good practice before she may continue on something more serious. However, what she is already planning sounds quite important anyway. Writing poetry for children is way more sophisticated and no one knows yet when she is going to begin to fulfill this plan, but she promises that one day it’s going to happen. Currently, Winehouse is planning to buy a house in St. Lucia in order to stay away from London because “it influences her in the negative way”.

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Chronic Breaks It All

2009-04-17T01:29:00.001-07:00

Recently, British soul singer Amy Winehouse and the infamous rapper Snoop Dogg were not able to record two songs together. As rumours say they’ve spent the whole day at the studio and simply smoked too much weed, so any kind of work was impossible, notes Gigwise. Smoking made them too relaxed, and eventually nothing could be done to record anything new. Sounds pretty funny, for sure these two had some terrific fun together, but it’s also interesting to find out who was actucally able to drag this information. Maybe they were not trying to hide it too much? Gigwise is not possessing absolutely clear information on what they’ve actually smoked or drank, but anyone knows that Snoop is into smoking and at his presence nothing else is being tried except weed. Winehouse is not getting behind and her notorious behaviour including smoking of that stuff is quite well known. As the above news source says both musicians began to record music, but soon after found themselves making some short chronic breaks, so eventually they could not finish what they’ve started. So far there is no data on when they’ll come back to work again. Lately, Amy’s record label asked her to edit some songs that she made up for the upcoming release. On the other hand Snoop is working with his new album “Malice in Wonderland”.

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AC/DC Said "No"

2009-04-16T01:46:00.001-07:00

Guys from AC/DC have told their fans that they did not sign any agreements to headline the Romanian Bucharest Rock Arena festival, said New Musical Express. They’ve stated that festival’s organizers were speaking out on AC/DC’s participation before consulting them, so they are not going to take any part during this event. It should be pretty sad for their Romanian fans, but also festival organizers had to worry about it earlier, hence band’s like AC/DC can’t just get up and go anywhere without their any agreement. At this moment there is some clear information that Bucharest Rock Arena festival was cancelled, notes Blabbermouth. It had to take place on May 30/31 this year near the Romania’s capital city. Usually this event attracts up to 70 thousand people not only from Romania, but also from other parts of the EU and closely located countries as well. Previously, on Tuesday they’ve performed in London at the infamous O2 Arena and currently the band is getting prepared for the grand tour, which is going to be launched in support of their latest album “Black Ice”. Good chance for those who have missed them in Bucharest by the way. AC/DC is one of those unstoppable bands that keep on rocking despite their age, time and anything what may stand on their path.

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Such Combinations Always Work

2009-04-15T02:12:00.001-07:00

Legendary David Lynch had created the animated video for Moby’s song “Shot In The Back Of The Head”. For real, not less famous Moby and his majesty David Lynch have composed the greatest combination ever and currently anyone can visit Pitchfork site to see what they’ve created: http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/966-moby-shot-in-the-back-of-the-head-mute Starting with April 15 “Shot In The Back Of The Head” is going to be available for free on Moby’s official web site. This song will be the first single from the new Moby’s album “Wait For Me”, which is going to be released on June 30. This record as the previous one (“Last Night”) was made up at his home studio in New York. A lot of local musicians which are not very well known in public were built into the process of making this new record, so everyone expects trully cool innovations. Ken Thomas who used to co-work with Sigur Ros, Throbbing Gristle and M83 was taking some important part in producing of “Wait For Me”. Here is the full track list of it: Division
Pale Horses
Shot In The Back Of The Head
Study War
Walk With Me
Stock Radio
Mistake
Scream Pilots
Jltf 1
Jltf
A Seated Night
Wait For Me
Hope Is Gone
Ghost Return
Slow Light
Isolate

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"Chinese Democracy" And Remixes

2009-04-14T03:02:00.001-07:00

Guns N’Roses leader Axl Rose is planning to release remixes album which is based on songs from “Chinese Democracy”, said Blabbermouth. Originally this information was given out to a Modern Drummer magazine by Guns N’Roses drummer Brian Mantia. However, his interview will be published only in May this year. It’s very interesting to know what kind of other sounds will be added and how these remixes should sound if Axl decides to make them more electronic. Traditionally, this band is keeping it with the classic sound, but times are changing and everyone wants to experiment. In addition to this, Mantia had already created a club remix to a song “Shackler’s Revenge” which was fully accepted by Rose. Nevertheless, so far there is no clear information on when this album will be released, and hopefully it will not take fifteen years. Usually Axl is not making fast moves while releasing something new, he keeps on waiting and seems to be worried about keeping it secret until the actual release takes place. It’s still very hard to imagine Guns N’Roses and club remixes…

This band’s sixth studio album came out in November last year and took fifteen years to get produced. During that time Axl Rose kept on changing his band’s lineup while making some sporadic concerts in Las Vegas. Despite good critic’s judgements “Chinese Democracy” could not reach number one on the British or American music charts.

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Serj Tankian Needs Obama's Support

2009-04-13T03:59:00.001-07:00

Ex-System of a Down singer Serj Tankian had started a political campaign which is going to ask the US authorities to recognize the Armenian Genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, said Blabbermouth. Tankian’s appeal is dedicated to the civil rights violations victims’ memory day (April 24). This campaign also includes Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and Tankian’s side project Axis of Justice. One of the major parts of this campaign is a video clip in which Serj and his collegues (including congressman Adam Schiff) ask the US president Barak Obama to make the world officially accept the fact that there was a Genocide of Armenians in 1915. Also, Tankian asks viewers to keep on asking the White House and Obama to “end the international ignorance towards this historical tragedy” that took place during the first quarter of the XX century. In his video Tankian had stated that “Barak Obama is the only American president who can actually change this situation to the better and make some significant influence on the international community”. Besides that, Tankian wrote a big article where he explains in details why he is so worried about this topic, why there is no reason to stop such campaign and why he trusts Obama.

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Woodstock Reinvented

2009-04-10T02:43:00.001-07:00

In dedication to the 40th anniversary of Woodstock music festival everyone should waiting for the release of a documentary, said ClashMusic. Filming process, which shall receive the name of “Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace And Music” actually took place during the time of the original Woodstock festival in August 1969. The original version of it was directed by Michael Wadleigh in 1970, but due to the 40th anniversary this movie will be re-released and probably enhanced. Besides classic performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Johnny Mitchell the new version should incorporate some other material which was not included in the previous release. So far the new variation adds on Paul Butterfield and Johnny Winter, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead and Mountain. Truthfully speaking, the old version left out a lot of absolutely brilliant artists and it will be super great to see them on the new one. It is also very interesting to know that all these additional footages were never included in any other movie about Woodstock. The whole documentary should be out there on June 15 this year, only two months before the line of concerts that will start during this August in New York and Berlin. Currently, anyone who wants to pre-order such a historical documentary can simply go to Amazon.com and make it all happen in one minute.

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