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Countdown of the Decade - Beauty
Growing up in London, Michael Cross (54) remembers a period in his life when wearing make-up wasn’t such a good idea: “Male make-up wasn’t new in the 1980s - 10 years before, under the influence of Bowie and Lou Reed, plenty of us borrowed girlfriends’
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Scarlets v Ospreys: Teams
Stoddart: Back from injury Related links Teams Newport Gwent Dragons The Ospreys Also see Sky Sports experts Rugby on Sky Live scores Video highlights At Parc y Scarlets, Friday December 26, kick-off 2.05pm There will be a full house at Parc y Scarlets
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Diary Movie
The Website points the way to a new Designing the Dark Side "developer dispatch" trailer posted here. The clip is narrated by writer Neil Pollner (perhaps a disciple of Darth Lou Reed), who discusses the two different aspects of the Firce's dark side
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Together for Years, but I Just Don’t Know You Anymore
I don’t know how to say this.
For years I defended you. I stood by you faithful to a fault. When people said you were dirty or unkempt, I called it character. When they said you were running with a shady crowd and staying out too late, I said it was a
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Billy Sloan: Who will make it into the top 2010?
This song from the 30-year reissue of Metal Box is a taster for their Glasgow gig on the18th.
Isle of Lewis singer Colin MacLeod wrote this great track with Ed Harcourt.
The title track from Sunderland brothers David and Peter Brewis's forthcoming
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Marc Almond’s early side project ‘Marc and the Mambas’
It’s always hard to pick your “top ten” albums when pressed, but two things that always come immediately to mind for me are Nick Cave’s first solo record, From Her to Eternity, and Marc Almond’s second Soft Cell 1983 hooky project with Marc and the
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That Viral Thing: My Year in Status on Facebook
My life is boring. I don't go to clubs, I have never done an extreme sport and when people ask me what's new, I usually tell them what I ate for lunch. I never really worried about this before that is, until I read a collection of my own Facebook
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Holly Woodlawn Musical to Premiere Off-Broadway?
The Village Voice is reporting that plans are in the works to bring a new Holly Woodlawn musical to an off-Broadway theatre. The blog reports that the writing team will include Penny Rockwell and Lance Cruz, who will also star as Holly. Additional
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The Beat: Pop culture memories from 2009
Listen to Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”. Nothing signifies the turning of the new year than that song, with its heart tugging wistfulness and misty-eyed understanding of the cruelty of fate.
RICHMOND, Va. -- If you have time before the clock
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Rock & pop albums to look out for in 2010
What better sound to wrench one from wintry torpor than wry, Oxbridge-schooled
geektronica? Hot Chip’s fourth album, One Life Stand (Feb 1) is more
cohesive and emotionally honest than their previous work, without
sacrificing their ear for the
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Musical calendar: 7 Western albums to buy in 2010
VINTAGE ROCK: Rolling Stones band members arrive at the premiere of a documentary film in New York.
Where have all the young rockstars disappeared to? It’s a time for names and acts from the last 40 years to show the posers a thing or two
The Red Hot
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Peter Gabriel goes orchestral for covers album
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Peter Gabriel eschews traditional rock'n'roll instrumentation on his upcoming album, "Scratch My Back," which sports orchestral covers of material originally recorded by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Radiohead and Arcade
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Eminem, Blink-182, Katy Perry Top The Most-Anticipated Albums Of 2010
If you thought 2009 was a big year for music, just wait until you see what 2010 has in store. While the past 12 months were all about Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the comeback, the sequel
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Peter Gabriel Plans Orchestral Concerts To Promote Covers Album
Peter Gabriel will perform selections from his upcoming covers album Scratch My Back with a full orchestra in Berlin, London and Paris in March (10).
The rocker's first new album in eight years will be released next month (Feb10) and features
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Spoon: Still Independent, Still Cool
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A SPOON show doesn’t quite end
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Munster v Ulster: Teams
O'Gara: Returns at fly-half for Munster Related links Teams Munster Ulster Also see Sky Sports experts Rugby on Sky Live scores Video highlights Munster have included all of their international players except John Hayes in their starting XV to host the
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China Is Now The World's Biggest New Car Market
I just sort of stumbled into the music business. I mean, I liked music a lot-- especially when I was high-- but by the time I started my own indie label I hadn't used any drugs in a decade. After a 24/7 stoned and alienated Vietnam War era college
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Lady Gaga: The brain behind 'The Fame'
Almost immediately after she deposited herself in a corner booth at L'Espalier, the restaurant at Boston's Mandarin Oriental Hotel after the first American date of her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga made a confounding statement.
"The Fame Monster"
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Mittens on Strings: Let's Go to Baba's (Capsule Reviews)
There’s a song on here called “Lou Reed Says”, and the not-so-subtle reference to the Velvet Underground speaks to at least half of what’s going on when you play Let’s Go to Baba’s. The deadpan vocals and jangly guitars certainly offer a nod to Reed
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Holograms and Moon Shots at 2010's Under the Radar Festival
The kids are all right—provided your definition of "all right" includes drinking, swearing, screwing, sojourning in Chinese brothels, murdering classmates, and breaking curfew. Happily, such youthful enterprise animates many of the 20 shows at this
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we7 confirms premium streaming music service, iPhone app
For a monthly fee, yet to be confirmed, listeners will be able to junk the ads
we7, the free ad-supported streaming music website based service has confirmed plans to introduce a premium service.
we7 allows users to listen to, share and discover music
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Travis Nichols: How Do You Like Your Poetry?
The covers, pages, signatures, glue-ings, and sew-ings that have been around from Dante's time to Dickinson's?
Or do you like readings?
The platform that has launched a million neo-Beats, and a million more Mike Myerses from So I Married an Axe
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Celebs Lose Lawsuit Against SoHo Trash Tower
The troupe of A-listers fighting against dirty, smelly trash coming to their pristine neighborhood have hit a bump in their road to a reek-free corner of Manhattan. The group — which includes celebs like Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Stipe,
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Jennifer Connelly and Kirsten Dunst Lose in Sanitation Garage Campaign
Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst and Michael Stipe have lost their campaign against the construction of a sanitation department in their New York neighborhood, after a judge rejected a lawsuit opposing the project. Manhattan officials have announced
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Scarlets do Leinster a favour
Scarlets 31 London Irish 22: London Irish failed to keep pace with Leinster at the top of Pool Six as they suffered an unexpected reverse at the Scarlets. Leinster can now afford to lose next weekend and still qualify for the last eight, as long as the
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Scarlets 31-22 London Irish
London Irish suffered a demoralising defeat at Parc-y-Scarlets that threatens to leave their Heineken Cup quarter-final hopes in tatters.
The Exiles blew a 22-10 lead and they now need to beat reigning European champions Leinster next Saturday - with a
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Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle: Havana Winter (Capsule Reviews)
The Barenaked Ladies have a funny streak 100 miles long, but keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hearn’s is different—more whimsical, less yuk-yuk dopey—than those of Ladies frontman Ed Robertson and former singer Steven Page. It comes as no
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Gorillaz Officially Return with Plastic Beach
Plastic Beach
It's been five years since the last Gorillaz album, 2005's Demon Days. Now, the Damon Albarn-led animated band have finally announced the release details of their third album, Plastic Beach, due out March 9 via
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Gorillaz returning with third album in March
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Hot on the heels of this week's announcement of a headlining slot at the Coachella festival in southern California in April, Damon Albarn's cartoon-pop band Gorillaz is set to return on March 9 with its third album. The 16-track
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Introducing: Tenebrous Liar
STEVE Gullick is a renowned rock photographer who has snapped the likes of Nirvana, Lou Reed and Nick Cave.
But, of late, he has been steeping into the limelight as frontman of alt-rock band Tenebrous Liar.
Their sound recalls The Birthday Party, The
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Brive 17-20 Scarlets
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The Scarlets are relying on Cardiff Blues or Sale to lose in the Heineken Cup on Sunday to secure a place in the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-finals.
Their hopes of a Heineken Cup knock-out spot
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No GENESIS Reunion at "Hall of Fame" Event Says Gabriel
MUSIC NEWS - Now that the pop music, one-time prog rockers Genesis are going to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame this March, there's been considerable hope (MNN included) that Peter Gabriel would be part of the festivities and perform with
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Roots | Folk review
The magazine Roots has played a key role in promoting folk, world music and the varied fusions of the new roots scene, and this brave, unexpectedly slick 30th-anniversary show managed to mix experiments, history and surprises, with performances from
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Foss Forward: Film Capsules
There’s a bunch of new movies out there that I’m dying to see, but last week I didn’t make it to any of them. So here are some movies I’ve recently watched on DVD.
CORALINE
“Coraline” is one of those films that was pretty much made for me, as it
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Lou Reed to bring Metal Machine Trio to UK for gigs - exclusive
Lou Reed has announced that he is set to bring his Metal Machine Trio to the UK for gigs this April.
The former man, along with musicians Ulrich Krieger and Sarth Calhoun, will be playing what he calls "a night of deep noise" at shows in the UK plus
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Now Showing | That's Coal
Jim Kivic Ralph Pucci’s Gallery Nine showroom in New York will feature coal designs by Jim Kivic.
For the past decade, Jim Zivic’s medium has been coal, which he sculptures, hones and polishes into massive tables for clients like Lou Reed and Salma
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Lil Wayne, Prince, More Set To Attend Clive Davis' Grammy Party
The Grammy Awards are about to go down on Sunday, but the night before the Grammy Awards is when the artists famously let loose and watch some headline-making performances take place at the pre-Grammy gala hosted every year by longtime Sony-BMG exec
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Lou Reed Reissues "Metal Machine Music", Tours With Metal Machine Trio
awww i just listened to Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Heroin!
I have a big VU tattoo on my upper back, it's awesome. To me at least. :)
If anyone cares, here's what it looks like: http://pics.livejournal.com/mk444/pic/0000zx4e/
It's the cover of their VU album/a
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Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio Announce Noisy Tour
01/28/2010
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Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio Announce Noisy Tour was a top story for this week. Here it is again: Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio will embark on a UK and European tour on April 17th, when they perform what is described as "A Night of
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Whispering Sweet Nothings
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Shutterbug: Shoot and See Great Photography In New York City
The New York skyline may very well be one of the most photographed views in the world, but every street and corner in The Big Apple is ripe for the taking. If you're a photo buff, you'll be in seventh heaven here. The city has several museums with
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Warhol’s genius was driven by work
In “Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol,’’ arts writers Tony Scherman and David Dalton trace the ascent of the iconic Warhol from his blue-collar roots to the pinnacle of the New York art world in the turbulent 1960s.
Warhol’s recipe for success combined
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Stars go west for Scots dates
Yes, until Edinburgh has a venue large enough to compete with The SECC, the only chance to see many big names is by making the trip west, as thousands do every year.
Over the next few months there are a few 'national' gigs worth catching at The SE
CC.
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Again, a sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel will release his ‘Scratch My Back’ album project on March 2.
Gabriel describes this as a very personal record with twelve songs performed only with orchestral instruments and voice — no guitar or drums. The album opens with David Bowie's '
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Charity & the charts: The hits and the misses
Love or hate them, when it comes to charity singles, extensive radio play and a top-five chart spot are almost guaranteed. Today's release of the Haiti relief single, a not-so-great version of REM's "Everybody Hurts", features performers ranging from
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Music Review | Fireworks Ensemble: Lou Reed’s ‘Machine’: Now More Strings, Less Metal
A real-time, chamber-music performance of an inhumanly generated composition: that was Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” as played by the Fireworks Ensemble at Miller Theater on Friday night.
The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical
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Fireworks Ensemble – More Strings for Lou Reed’s ‘Metal Machine Music’
On the album “Metal Machine Music” sounds frenetic. In performance the Fireworks Ensemble musicians were just that, with the string players in the front row sawing away at nearly constant tremolos. (One violinist’s bow trailed a hank of loose horsehair
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Hot Rats Evolve From Fun Distraction to 'Creative Experience'
As recently reported, Supergrass offshoot the Hot Rats have been making stateside rounds, currently promoting their debut record 'Turn Ons.' The title isn't necessarily referencing the bedroom, either. The duo, comprised of Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey,
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Record Review / Night Control: Life Control
I don’t remember exactly how I found it (it seems easier than ever—what with the sheer volume, the hype, etc.—to become jaded about new music, and every once in a while I need to be reminded why I spend so much time pushing my hand through a haystack)
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Peter Gabriel's new sound
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Paris - Peter Gabriel revisits a dozen cover songs in a new album to be released next week that strips songs to their bare essentials - the lyrics.
"Songwriting is what drew
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Gil Scott-Heron :: I’m New Here
Without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music, has been called a Vietnam-era Langston Hughes, a proto-rap pioneer, and - offensively but not inaccurately - the black Bob Dylan, someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye
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Let’s be clear about Delusions
L aurie Anderson was an influential experimental artist when she crossed into the mainstream with her hit song O Superman in the early 1980s. A performance artist, musician and writer (who happens to be married to Lou Reed), Anderson is preparing for
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Peter Gabriel Discards Drums, Guitar for New Album
NEW YORK (Reuters) - British rock singer and songwriter Peter Gabriel has taken what he calls the "scary" step of paring down a new album of cover songs confined to orchestral instruments and his voice. Called "Scratch my Back," the album is being
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Little Jimmy Scott Has a Role in 'Passion Play'
I haven't been at all enthused about the idea of watching Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke get cuddly in the upcoming Passion Play -- is anyone, really? -- but fie those buggers for making the project infinitely more interesting. According to Jimmy Scott's
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Peter Gabriel offers first solo album in 8 years
Rock singer and songwriter Peter Gabriel has taken what he calls the “scary” step of paring down a new album of cover songs confined to orchestral instruments and his voice.
Called “Scratch my Back,” the album was released in the United Kingdom on Feb 1
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Pump it up: Elvis Costello added to the lineup for Olympic Neil Young tribute
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Elvis Costello will join a superstar lineup for a scheduled Olympic tribute to Neil Young.
The new-wave pioneer joins a group that includes songwriting legend Lou Reed, Canadian singer Ron Sexsmith and members of Broken Social
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Music For A Lifetime: Perfect Day
While I was watching the Olympics last night, I turned away to get a drink only to hear the sound of a familiar song on an AT&T Commercial. “Is that Lou Reed?” asked my wife correctly. I often wonder how advertising pitches must develop, especially
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Letters: Jeff Beck: A Fan’s Remembrance
The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion.
Jeff Beck may be “the greatest guitarist that millions of people have never heard of,” but he was already a cult figure in
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The last light out at record store
I got a call late Sunday morning from my friend, Jeff, asking me to help him move some records. More than 10,000, actually, from the bowels of City Lights on East College Avenue to the basement of former owner Greg Gabbard’s house 15 miles outside of
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TRANSFORMATION 2010 LIVE: News And Twitter Updates From AAAA Conference
Follow Transformation 2010 live through our curated Twitter lists: speakers, attendees, and sponsors of the AAAA conference!
Transformation 2010 is taking place between Feb. 28 and March 3 in San Francisco. The AAAA conference aims to get people across
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Get ready to get wild ... at a violin recital
Violinist Monica Germino will lie down on the floor and play. She'll play while running around the stage. She'll set her instrument aside and sing. Anything to make the good old violin recital interesting.
"I think it's hard to watch a solo violinist
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Bill Callahan, “Bowery (Live)” MP3
Last summer, just before he performed, someone introduced us to Bill Callahan and it was terrifying. It’s impossible to make small talk with the man who made A River Ain’t Too Much to Love. “Nice to meet you, thanks for making the single most important
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Jason Liebman's 'Sacrifice' really is sweet
Jason Liebman wasn't planning on putting out another album as a solo artist. He just sort of fell into it.The Woodmere native, whose 2002 debut, "The Driest of All Seasons," showed a lot of promise, has spent the past several years in other people's
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Stream: Gorillaz, “Superfast Jellyfish” + Plastic Beach Album Mix MP3
Damon Albarn might have a pact with whatever deity is capable of giving eternal youth and endless creativity. We’re just listening to the Gorillaz‘ Plastic Beach teaser mix and thinking it must be good to be him, making weird ’80s beats for Lou Reed,
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Life’s A Beach For The Gorillaz
The virtual band that’s getting their fair share of real press as their upcoming album, Plastic Beach, gets ready to hit stores. Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett invited a lineup features a great mix of rappers, indie artists and music legends
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John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground:
John Cale Says No To Any Future Velvet Underground Reunion
While promoting a performance of his Paris 1919 album in full, Velvet Underground violist John Cale got asked the inevitable "Will The Velvet Underground ever reunite?" question, to which he responded with great lucidity:
"Anyone who wants to reform
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John Cale: 'No Plans For Velvet Underground Reunion'
John Cale has ruled out a reunion with former Velvet Underground bandmates Lou Reed and Mo Tucker - because the band wouldn't sound the same without late guitarist Sterling Morrison.
Reed and Tucker recently joined forces for a public chat about their
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Gorillaz's Plastic Beach: Human After All
In 1998, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett cooked up Gorillaz as a knee-jerk reaction to the chiseled boy bands and mawkish mook-rock acts that paraded across the airwaves of MTV. The idea, it would seem, was to create a group that matched the substance
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Peter Gabriel talks about new covers album
NEW YORK — Peter Gabriel has always been an experimental artist. He pioneered the progressive rock movement in the 1960s with his band Genesis, explored African rhythms with his solo work, and branched into world music later in his career.
Now the
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Gorrilaz refuse Perry’s proposal
London, March 5 (IANS) English band Gorillaz has refused to collaborate with singer Katy Perry because she is marrying Russell Brand.
The group, created by “Blur” star Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, was apparently approached by Perry. She
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Jet lag
Am I dreaming, or did it used to be stronger? Twenty years ago, it seemed like a good dose of jet lag could mess you up for a week. After six or seven hours in the air, zooming toward the sun or away from it in a pressurized cigar tube with
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Gorillaz — from cartoon gimmick to pop powerhouse
POP
Gorillaz
“Plastic Beach”
Virgin
★★★ 1/2
Virtual/animated bands are usually good as a gimmick but not necessarily as a sustained endeavor. The exception is Gorillaz, the brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett, which
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Gorillaz Issue 3rd Album With Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Virtual band Gorillaz released its third album "Plastic Beach" on Monday, with Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed and Bobby Womack among the eclectic list of guests featured. Underlining the cartoon group's star-pulling power, Hollywood actor
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Kristin Chenoweth, Lauren Flanigan, Lou Reed, et al. Set for New York City...
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New York City Opera has announced its 2010-2011 season, which will spotlight American composers and 20th-century works.
The season will begin with the New York premiere of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet
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Gorillaz collaboration album 'could be last one'
10/03/2010 - 10:42:18
Gorillaz latest album ‘Plastic Beach’ is likely to be the group’s last.
The animated band’s bassist, Murdoc Niccals, said with the group’s third album their work “feels complete” and it could be the last time the collaborative
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New York: PHOTO FLASH: Elton John and David Furnish Visit Next Fall
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Also in attendance were Loraine Bracco, Bobby Cannavale, Kate Clinton, Edie Falco, Milos Forman, Whoopi Goldberg, Donna Karan, Lou Reed, Sherri Shepherd, and Urvashi Vaid. The cast and guests
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Gorillaz to be Joined by Members of the Clash?
The concept of the guest appearance is one that virtual band Gorillaz hold dear to their hearts. Their previous albums -- the eponymous debut and 'Demon Days' --- have seen turns from the likes of Happy Monday singer Shaun Ryder and Brit rapper Roots
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Beastie Boys Check Your Head
Johnny Cash 1958-1986
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young So Far ('74)
Prodigy Fat of the Land
Joan Baez Very Early Years
Ride/Drive Pumped Mix
Gordon Lightfoot Did She Mention My Name
Metallica Garage Inc.
Talking Heads Remain in
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Weekly Singles Round Up: 15th March 2010
Spring has finally sprung and all of your favourite indie-pop bands are out tiptoeing through the tulips, far too busy to be doing all that dull stuff like making records. Hence a slimmed down pile of singles for you to digest this week. There's still
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Young Rival Announce Album Release Tour Dates
3/15/2010 By E.D. Cauchi
For a band that have yet to release a full-length, Young Rival are already presenting themselves as a heavy contender. As we told you last month, the trio of gritty garage rockers hailing from Hamilton, ON recently
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Alicia Keys announces Melanie Fiona as support
Grammy nominated R&B singer songwriter Melanie Fiona will join Alicia Keys on the UK dates of the forthcoming THE ELEMENT OF FREEDOM tour.
ALICIA KEYS
ANNOUNCES SUPPORT ACT FOR 2010 UK TOUR
MELANIE FIONA
UK DATES MAY 2010:
BIRMINGHAM, GLASGOW, LONDON,
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Munster v Scarlets: Teams
Dowling: Returns for Munster Related links Teams Munster Scarlets Also see Sky Sports experts Rugby on Sky Live scores Video highlights Bet now Winger Ian Dowling has recovered from an ankle injury and will start for Munster in Thursday's Magners League
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Alex Chilton, R.I.P.
A few personal words about musician Alex Chilton, who died
yesterday of a heart attack. (This will be personal, and fannish,
and long, and if that's not interesting to you, move on.)
Chilton was, most importantly, singer or writer on lots of
really,
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Japan Off-griders
Hello, any off-griders from Sweden?
I am near Khankaiskii Nature Reserve area
For Off-Grid.Net.
Working from home is OK. Recent journalism grad would be ideal. Tasks: research, writing, dealing with PRs, occasional travel.
Send resume to nick@off-grid.
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SANDRA BERNHARD JOINS SCISSOR SISTERS ONSTAGE
The I Don't Feel Like Dancin' hitmakers played their first show of the year at the city's Bowery Ballroom, with rocker Lou Reed and actor Alan Cumming among the fans in the packed audience, reports Spinner.com.
The quintet entertained the crowd with
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Album: The Bundles, The Bundles (K Records)
Even by their own slackstandards, it's somethingof a surprise that it hastaken a decade for Kimya(Moldy Peaches, Junosoundtrack) Dawson andJeffrey Lewis to recordtogether. The pair met inNew York City during theanti-folk movement ofthe late 1990s and
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The Alex Chilton panel at SXSW: "Those whom he touched, were touched immutably"
Big Star is usually talked about as a great band cursed with bad luck and contentious interpersonal relationships, but Hummel remembered Chilton and Bell working well together in the early days . “You had a couple of really alpha guys, but during
