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June 30th, 2008
By Mike
The Glastonbury festival was a blast. Or for some, a blast from the past. At least there was a little bit more sunshine this year.
One particular favorite of ours is the amazing KT Tunstall, who played last Friday on the Pyramid Stage, despite falling rain. Read the review here.
There’s some great [...]
At first glance, the Beatles legend and populist Venezuelan leader may seem like they are worlds apart. But ask them how they feel about Big Macs, and the gap narrows. Significantly. The former is mad that images of The Beatles are being used in Liverpool-area McDonald's to sell fast food. Meanwhile, the latter has shut down 118 of the golden arches over tax irregularities. But McCartney probably has the biggest beef, pardon the pun: He has been a stone-cold vegetarian for decades. "What so
Paul McCartney, with help from ex-Killing Joke member and The Orb co-producer Martin Glover plans to release a new album of music that, in his words, “could ruin my whole career.” The release, Electronic Arguments, is his third release under his “ambient” guise as The Fireman. For the project, McCartney and Glover produced one track a day over the course of the last year. McCartney says that Youth encouraged him to improvise during recording, adding, “Having written so much over the years, w
secondgradefresh: It’s taken me a while, but mainly for my own purposes - a round up of the Futureheads gig at the Tivoli. The Futureheads themselves were brilliant. It took them about three songs to get into anything from their debut, which they wound up playing almost every song from. This wasn’t hurt by their encore, which saw Barry take my suggestion of Stupid & Shallow “Stupid and Shallow”? he mouthed back to me, which got a vigorous nod on my part) and then another punter’s request f
It’s taken me a while, but mainly for my own purposes - a round up of the Futureheads gig at the Tivoli. The first support was surprisingly painless for a band named Bridgemary Kiss. Sounding like a 17-year-old version of the Arctic Monkeys with a tinge of late Kings of Leon, again, they weren’t as awful as this suggests. They played songs about girls with titles like Riot in Brighton and lyrics like “Sophisticatedly sedated/by a well awaited drug”. The two pretty boys (guitar/vox, bass) an
The shadowy dance rockers South Central commit their first five single releases to CD, previously available only on vinyl this release comprises of tracks culled from the band’s output on five uber cool labels over the last 2 years. If the shadowy dance rockers South Central aren’t fully on your radar yet, they will be very soon. The chances are that you’ve already heard the unrelenting power of their music, whether it be on Pete Tong’s Radio 1 show, the latest Bacardi commercial or in one of J
October 24th, 11:30pm, $12 425 Lafayette St., NYC Tickets on sale now! I'm 100% thrilled to announce that one of the most hotly-tipped new U.K. bands will be playing the Fall installment of MusicSnobbery.com Presents @ Joe's Pub. I'm also stunned and humbled that this is going to happen. No joke, if somebody asked me if I could book any U.K. act that haven't come to America yet, without hesitation, it would be Lucky Soul. Lucky for me and lucky for you, they'll be playing a full set and t
Photos by Meg Clark Seeing former Whigs founder and touring MGMT guitarist in his new incarnation was - for me at least - a refreshing change of pace from his previous work. Dead Confederate, meanwhile, blew me away. [Hank Sullivant] As mentioned, Kuroma is the new project of Hank Sullivant, the Athens, GA musician who's spent the last few years of his life under the immense shadow of a band he filled in as touring guitarist as a favor for some former high school friends. And even if NM
Steven Wells Can Make Anything Appear To Be “Rock N Roll” You know, for a while there, we used to really have it in for Steven Wells (pictured, wonder if he’s going to Leif Ericson Day). But these days, we’re a little older, a little wiser, and he kinda reminds us of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins what with all that cute cockney flibberdygibbet he’s always spouting. Wells, you’ll recall, moved here to write for the Philadelphia Weekly after he was kicked out of England for the crimes of making
Anne Moore, the head of Time Inc's magazines business - sorry, I mean, content business - has spoken to The Times about her long-term strategy for the company. It doesn't, it seems, involve flogging off UK consumers magazine business IPC: Home to NME and Country Life, IPC had faced question marks about its creativity in recent years – and there was talk that Time might be prepared to sell. “Where did you hear that from? I know, wishful thinking from bankers hoping for a mandate,” she says, pra
Time CEO Anne Moore Rules Out IPC Media Sale; Annouces Two-year Plan to Counter Downturn By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:14 AM PST She might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time Inc’s (NYSE:TWX) CEO and Chairman Anne Moore doesn’t sound too concerned. She tells The Times of a two-year strategy to get her company, owner of consumer UK magazine publisher IPC Media, through the downturn—which will look to add
Photo via Tell All Your FriendsA while back - a long while - I got an email from a reader asking if I could perhaps help him identify a video he'd seen somewhere by an English band and which featured a single take of the singer riding a bicycle around London's streets (or street - most of it's a single circle). Not the most original idea for a vid, but apparently memorable enough to warrant hunting down. I'd never seen the clip, however, and was no help but he eventually tracked it down and le
Imaginethat Fujiya & Miyagi are mask-wearing technicians dissecting music, keen to magnify particles of sound to create a pulsing antidote to the ordinary. They speak in tongues, using language as a rhythm, picking words that sound good, rhyming ‘jigsaws’ with ‘carnivores’. Their songs are incisive snapshots of real lives that make household appliances sound threatening. They are steeped in vintage music from evocative krautrock to deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth, Floydian Eng
Time CEO Anne Moore Rules Out IPC Media Sale; Announces Two-Year Plan to Counter Downturn By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:00 AM PST She might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time Inc’s CEO and Chairman Anne Moore doesn’t sound too concerned. She tells The Times of a two-year strategy to get her company, owner of consumer UK magazine publisher IPC Media, through the downturn—which will look to address its n
So, Channel 4 to pull out of radio. It’s a shame. Their entry into radio, and digital radio specifically would have been a good thing. New content from a new operator would have been good news for consumers and some promotional firepower for DAB on C4 properties would have been good too. However, it’s not the end of the world. Through Folder we help stations find a berth on digital radio and we’ve never had as many queries from new operators. Larger groups are developing stations as well and
As reported by NME, local-boy-made-good Beck will turn in a weekend-long hosting stint (beginning today) of satellite radio’s Left of Center station, on which he’ll play tracks from his own discography as well as songs by the artists who inspired it, along with live cuts from his most recent tour. When spinning the music that inspired him to record Guero, The Information, and Modern Guilt, look for Beck to play selections from Beck’s Odelay, Beck’s Midnite Vultures, and Beck’s Sea Change, over
Vancouver's Music4Change line-up has been announced: Grand Analog, Los Furios, DNA6, Elias, and Fur Bearing Animals. The event takes place Oct 17 @ Richard's on Richards, proceeds to Oxfam. Exclaim! Watch F*cked Up perform "Twice Born" in a washroom. Punknews Peaches working with Simian Mobile Disco for new album. NME Stompin' Tom talks politics. Chart Actor Russell Crowe joins Great Big Sea on stage! Chart What is Really Important to You? 99 Matters asks your favourite indie rockers the quest
NASA to release star-studded album The countdown is on. Santogold, Tom Waits, Kanye West, MIA and David Byrne are among the artists who will appear on NASA's forthcoming album, The Spirit of Apollo. We refer not, of course, to the USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That NASA, the space-exploring one, is too busy fiddling with Mars probes to lay down tracks with Spank Rock and CSS's Lovefoxxx. No, we mean the other NASA, a DJ duo also known as North America/South America,
It was at the NME Awards in LA which he was hosting and he'd been laying into Sienna Miller first off, telling the audience: "Sienna, you should be given the inspiration award. The man you are having sex with is so ugly it's an inspiration to all ...
Oct 11 The Smell w/ Widdow Babies, Bad Dudes - LA, California Oct 16 Iceland Airwaves - Reykjavik, Iceland Oct 17 Cafe Hljomalind - Reykjavik, Iceland Oct 18 Matter (Moshi Moshi Bday) w/ Hot Chip, Tilly and the Wall, more - London Oct 21 Johnny Brenda’s w/ Popo - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Oct 22 Bard College w/ Panther - Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Oct 23 Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey Oct 24 Panache CMJ Showcase @ The Knitting Factory - NYC, New York Oct 25 Brooklynveg
Anastasia Beaumont-Bott is resigning from the NME October 9th, 2008 by Michael Rock Anastasia Beaumont-Bott is today resigning her post on the Conservative Future NME. She immediately gives up her regional responsibilities as well as her voting rights on the Executive. She will keep her role within the CFSAN (CF Social Action Network) to assist with the important handover to the next Executive. I have today accepted Anastasia’s resignation from the Executive. Since her election in March, An
