Thursday 4 September 2008

Neil Young adds dates, looks toward Bridge School benefit

Neil Young [ ] has added a few dates to his coming fall spell, and has apparently has settled on dates for his annual Bridge School Benefit show in Northern California.

Young, world Health Organization kicks sour the run Oct. 14 in St. Paul, MN, will use the weekend of Oct. 25-26 for the annual acoustic benefit concert, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The concert, now in its 22nd year, acquired immune deficiency syndrome children with severe physical impairments and complex communication needs at the school Young and his wife, Pegi, helped found. Lineup and ticketing information has not hitherto been announced.

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The tour too includes a performance at Farm Aid, which takes place Sept. 20 in Mansfield, MA, outside of Boston, and includes regulars Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, among other performers. Details are included below.

Young's touring lineup features the same band that backed him on his recent overseas trek: Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Chad Cromwell, Anthony Crawford and Pegi Young. Death Cab for Cutie and Everest volition provide support from the tour's launch date to the Nov. 5 show in Omaha, NE; Wilco and Everest will loose the remainder of the schedule, except for the Dec. 9 date in Chicago, which will non feature Wilco.

Young continues to support last year's "Chrome Dreams II." Clocking in at more than an hour, the set includes among its 10 tracks two epics: one 18 proceedings long and another 13 minutes. Young and his "The Volume Dealers" collaborator Niko Bolas produced.

The original "Chrome Dreams" album was scheduled for release in 1977, just was shelved. "Unfortunately, all original documentation and fine art for this album was lost in a fervency that ruined Neil's Malibu home in early 1978," according to Young's website.

Young announced earlier this year that he was hooking up with Sun Microsystems to produce a series of life history music/video hybrid anthologies on Blu-ray Discs. The offset set, which will cover Young's vocation from 1963-1972, reportedly will be available later this year.

Earlier in the year, Young appeared at San Francisco's JavaOne conference to show off a multimedia project utilizing Java and Blu-ray discs that he ultimately will release on a series of life history overview music/video hybrid discs. The first set, ascribable later this year, volition cover Young's career from 1963-1972

"I am kind of a load down rat," he told a panel hearing at the conference according to Cnet.com. "I only give the record company what I want hoi polloi to see at the time. So I have a circle of unreleased material. Putting it all together tells a lots different story than just what has been produced (for public consumption)."


[Note: The following circuit dates have been provided by creative person and/or tour sources, wHO verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

September 200820 - Mansfield, MA - Farm AidOctober 200814 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center16 - Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Centre18 - Regina, Saskatchewan - Brandt Centre19 - Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome21 - Everett, WA - Comcast Arena at Everett22 - Vancouver, British Columbia - GM Place24, 25 - Mountain View, CA - Bridge School Benefit29 - San Diego, CA - Cox Arena30 - Inglewood, CA - The ForumNovember 20081 - Reno, NV - Events Center4 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center5 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center29 - Halifax, Nova Scotia - Metro CentreDecember 20081 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre2 - Ottawa, Ontario - Scotia Bank Place4 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre7 - Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills9 - Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena12 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Spectrum13 - Worcester, MA - DCU Center15 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden



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Monday 25 August 2008

CD: Rock review: The Real Tuesday Weld, The London Book of the Dead

The Real Tuesday Weld's acclaimed 2004 debut, I, Lucifer, soundtracked Glen Duncan's novel around the devil's return to earth. The London Book of the Dead brews a similar mix of the mythic and the macabre, with more than a dash of music hall. A pianissimo plays a simple repeated phrase. A bell chimes. A half-whispered voice croons, as if on a scratched track record: "Life is good when you're filled with blood, life is good when you're filled with sexual love." What follows is a collage of honky-tonk piano, strings, samples, soaring clarinet, jaunty banjo and, amid it all, the timeworn elegance of Stephen Coates's voice. In the centre, things sag down a little, and the Cole Porter parody Kix falls monotone. What's wanting is the fun of the deliriously bubbly Bathtime in Clerkenwell (from I, Lucifer), or the wilful craziness of their MySpace remix of Crazy in Love. But this fertile and strange album is surely one of the week's near intriguing offerings.







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Friday 15 August 2008

Download Willy Mason






Willy Mason
   

Artist: Willy Mason: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Indie

   







Discography:


If the Ocean Gets Rough
   

 If the Ocean Gets Rough

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 11
Where the Humans Eat
   

 Where the Humans Eat

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 12






With a reasoned that recalls Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash along with the cynicism of smirch and strong-armer, nonentity could conceive wry singer/songwriter Willy Mason was only 19 when he appeared on the indie scene. Born and brocaded on Martha's Vineyard, Mason grew up with his parents' dearest of folk music. He loved it, besides, simply his stripling years brought Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine into his life tarradiddle. Mason found their political and social messages practically easier to identify with and before long combined folk's softer and light bringing with the revolutionary mental mental attitude of his novel heroes. Writing came easy now and the adolescent had batch of self-penned material ready when a family friend asked Mason to appear on his local tuner usher. As chance would take it, Sean Foley -- an associate of Conor Oberst and his band, Bright Eyes -- was driving through Cape Cod as Mason was on the air. Foley was beguiled by Mason's sung dynasty "Atomic number 8" and leftfield his telephone number at the radio station, setting off a chain of events that would have Oberst and Mason hanging knocked out, doing gigs together, and touring America. With entirely three citizenry in the audience, a gig at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, seemed a catastrophe until unrivalled of the three introduced himself as BBC DJ Zane Lowe. Lowe was excessively entranced by "O" and added it to his play name when it appeared on Mason's debut, Where the Humans Eat, released by Team Love in 2004. Critics were incontrovertible almost the album and nemine contradicente shocked that the literate writer and performing artist of these songs was but 19. Tours with Rosanne Cash, My Morning Jacket, Evan Dando, Beth Orton, and labelmates Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins increased the winnow base and influenced the Astralwerks judge to pick up the debut. Astralwerks reissued Where the Humans Eat in early 2006 with bonus tracks and videos added to the original album. That like year Mason assembled a band that included Nina Violet and cousin-german Zak Borden, and in 2007 his soph platter, If the Ocean Gets Rough, came kO'd.






Thursday 7 August 2008

Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music   
Artist: Hot Water Music

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   



Discography:


The New What Next   
 The New What Next

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


No Division   
 No Division

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11




Gainesville, FL-based post-hardcore quartette Hot Water Music were formed in 1994 by singers/guitarists Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard, bassist Jason Black, and drummer George Rebelo. Debuting in 1995 with the 7" "Feeding the Filler," they earlier long returned with the EP Push for Coin, rounding erroneous belief kayoed the year with the button of their number 1 full-length crusade, Finding the Rhythms on No Idea. Fuel for the Hate Game followed in 1996, simply in the come alive of their third album, Forever and Counting, Hot Water Music disbanded. The grouping before long re-formed,






Friday 27 June 2008

DJ Falk Vs DJ Sakin

DJ Falk Vs DJ Sakin   
Artist: DJ Falk Vs DJ Sakin

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   



Discography:


No Fate 2007 Remix Vinyl   
 No Fate 2007 Remix Vinyl

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2




 






Sunday 22 June 2008

'Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian' Stars Get Royal Red-Carpet Treatment As They Defend Movie's Romantic Twist




NEW YORK — Nearly 1300 years may have passed in Narnia since the last big-screen adaptation of C.S. Lewis' beloved books, but the Pevensies were still looking youthful and beautiful at the red-carpet premiere for "The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian" last night in New York City. William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Georgie Henley and Skander Heynes were all smiles alongside the likes of Aslan and the White Witch, in the form of Liam Neeson and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton.


But it was a night dominated by the young stars of the hugely popular franchise ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" grossed nearly $750 million worldwide). Despite being the lead of the last Narnia adventure, William Moseley admitted to MTV News, "I still feel like a newcomer to this whole premiere thing." Indeed, Mosely made his film acting debut as Peter Pevensie in December 2005.

"It's a lot less freezing," Popplewell said, comparing the beautiful night in Midtown Manhattan to the London premiere two-and-a-half years ago. "It was a royal premiere ... and I had to really grit my teeth with my coat on," she recalled.

Few coats were seen in the sunny early evening on this go-round. In fact, one had to feel sorry for the Narnia guards in full battle regalia lined up along the red carpet.

Meanwhile, the titular star of the new adventure, Ben Barnes, confided that he had been dreading the premiere's gauntlet of reporters and photographers. He exuded calm, however, as he told MTV, "It's not as crazy as I thought it would be." Later, Barnes would inspire some hysteria simply by leaving the carpet to sign photos for the many Narnia fans who had come out for the event.

In recent weeks, Barnes' face seems to have been as omnipresent on the streets of New York as Starbucks — a fact that's been noticed by the actor. "It's so bizarre and surreal [to see the posters]," Barnes laughed. Asked if he'd followed the fan reactions to him since his casting had been announced, Barnes said, "I looked online once when I got the job and saw people write, 'I hate that they chose Ben Barnes. He's too old. He's got the wrong hair.' And then I looked again a few weeks ago, and they said they were sick of seeing my face everywhere. I won't be going [online] again."

If Barnes did go online again, he'd see that much of the prerelease chatter about "Prince Caspian" has been about a new element that the filmmakers contributed: a romance between Caspian and Susan. Barnes said he initially shared the concerns of many die-hard Narnia fans, "I was deeply concerned about [the romance]."

Director Andrew Adamson carefully defended the plot addition. "I think it's very sensitively handled," he said. "The kids are growing up. If you look at Ben and you look at Anna, it seems really implausible that they wouldn't have some feelings for each other."

Moseley is confident that the change only helps Lewis' story. "I think it's a much-needed addition," he said. "It adds a sweet, nostalgic touch."

But will it be the kind of change that fans can accept? Adamson was all optimism as he walked the final steps of the red carpet. "I think the Narnia fans are going to be happy," he told MTV News with conviction. "I'm a hard-core Narnia fan. I've seen the movie with some hard-core fans. I think people who see this movie are going to see the book that they read. I'm very respectful of these books. I grew up with them."

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