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Joe el Misterioso
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Pour la petite histoire, je viens de Valparaiso au Chili et je vis à Montpellier, dans le sud ensoleillé de la France.
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Velvet Revolver news
Velvet Revolver look online for new singer.
Velvet Revolver
According to the band's guitarist Slash, the group are building a website to bring in singers over the next month.
He said: "The band is actually talking about building a Web site [and] doing some auditions via that, so that's been something that's developing at this point.
"We're at that point of just listening to different things... it's one of those kind of situations where you can't really explain it to anybody because you'll know it when you hear it. So I'm waiting to get that feeling of, 'Yeah that's it.'"
The band are due to play a forthcoming gig in Las Vegas which will see a number of singers take up vocal duties.
Slash told Billboard: "I'm not gonna name any names, but a bunch of well-known people will get up and sing some songs, and then also bring up a couple people that we think are pretty good and might sing a couple songs."
As previously reported on NME.COM Weiland left the band on April 1 and immediately rejoined his old group Stone Temple Pilots, who are due to embark on a reunion tour in the summer.
Free Kitten news
Free Kitten are Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz and Yoshimi P-We of the bad-ass Japanese avant-punk band, Boredoms. They released three albums - in 1994, 1995 and 1997 - working at times with Pavement's Mark Ibold on bass. On May 20 they return with Inherit, issued on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Ibold's nowhere to be found (perhaps he's studying his Pavement crib-notes?) but instead there's a cameo by the hallowed J Mascis.
Inherit tracklist:
01 Erected Girl
02 Surf's Up
03 Sea Sick
04 Free Kitten on the Mountain
05 Roughshod
06 Help Me
07 The Poet
08 Billboard
09 Bananas
10 Monster Eye
11 Sway
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008
Lenny Kravitz news
Lenny Kravitz Hospitalized.
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - February 12 2008
Lenny Kravitz has been taken to a hospital in Miami after suffering from severe bronchitis.
Kravitz was sent to the Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday. He had been suffering from the flu since mid-January and had respiratory tract infections.
It is bad timing for Kravitz who had only released his new album 'It Is Time For A Revolution' last week. He was meant to be in Europe this week promoting the new release.
'It's Time For A Revolution' is Kravitz' first album since 'Baptism' in 2004.
Heath Ledger RIP
Heath Ledger Found Dead In Olsen Twin Apartment
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - January 23 2008
Aussie actor Heath Ledger died in an apartment owned by Mary-Kate Olsen, it has been revealed.
The 28 year old actor died of a suspected drug overdose. Police have not ruled out suicide.
Olsen was not in New York. She was in California at the time of Ledger's death.
The apartment was at 421 Broome St in Soho.
Heath had booked a massage for 3.30pm. When the masseuse arrived, the housekeeper let her into the room after he failed to answer the door. Health was found dead in bed with pills around his body.
Ledger's last screen role was in the Bob Dylan biopic 'I'm Not There'. He had completed his role as The Joker in the next Batman movie 'Dark Knight'. His next scheduled role was meant to be in the Terry Gillam comedy 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' which was due to start shorting in London shortly.
Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke denies the internet is the future.
Radiohead's frontman says his band always planned to release a physical version of In Rainbows and that to do otherwise would have been "stark raving mad"
Rosie Swash
Wednesday January 2, 2008
Guardian Unlimited
 Thom Yorke |
Radiohead signed a UK distribution deal with XL Recordings, home to Dizzee Rascal and the White Stripes, shortly after the digital release of In Rainbows in October, but not before their decision to effectively give away their music for free ensured it was the musical talking point of 2007.
Referring to this, Yorke said: "We have a moral justification in what we did in the sense that the majors and the big infrastructure of the music business has not addressed the way artists communicate directly with their fans." Added Yorke: "In fact, they seem to basically get in the way. Not only do they get in the way, but they take all the cash."
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008
Morrissey
Morrissey makes donation to Salford Lads Club appeal.
Morrissey
His band The Smiths immortalised the venue when they posed outside it for the inner sleeve of their album 'The Queen Is Dead' in 1986, and fans have made pilgrimages there ever since.
But now the club's owners are trying to raise £1million for essential maintenance to the listed building, according to the BBC.
Morrissey had reportedly originally intended to make a secret donation, but relented after it was pointed out that a public gesture would boost the campaign's profile.
Salford Lads Club was opened in 1904 by Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement as a boys-only venue and enjoyed a membership of 2000. There are now around 200 members, of both sexes.
English Heritage have recognised it as the "most complete example of this rare form of social provision to survive in England." The appeal - currently at the £330,000 mark - is raising funs to carry out work on the ceiling and put insulation on the roof.
Ringo Starr news
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - December 23 2007
Ringo Starr's forthcoming album 'Liverpool 8' will be released as a USB wristband.
The wristband album, Ringo's first back with EMI since 1974's 'Goodnight Vienna', will feature the full entire album also on CD, a personal video message, an interview, a track by track commentary, behind the scenes footage of the making of the album plus ringtones and photos.
To launch the album, Ringo will head back to his original hometown, Liverpool in England for a concert performance on January 8th.
The 12 tracks on 'Liverpool 8' were all written or co-written by Ringo. Eurythmics member Dave Stewart co-produced the record with the Beatle drummer. "The writing of the records is always the same," Ringo explains in a statement. "It's the same group of guys and we all sit together and write about what's happening."
The band is Gary Burr, Steve Dudas, Mark Hudson, Sean Hurley, Zac Rae, and Dave Stewart.
Ringo's last album was 2005's 'Choose Love', through BMG.
Ringo Starr: Liverpool 8 (CD, USB Wristband & Digital Album)
1. Liverpool 8
2. Think About You
3. For Love
4. Now That She's Gone Away
5. Gone Are The Days
6. Give It A Try
7. Tuff Love
8. Harry's Song
9. Pasodobles
10. If It's Love That You Want
11. Love Is
12. R U Ready?
Tori rules
Tori Amos Tells Fans To Fuck Off.
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - December 15 2007
photo by Ros O'Gorman
Two girls attending a Tori Amos concert in San Diego on Wednesday were shown the door by the star herself. Tori ordered the two inattentive girls to "get the fuck out of my show".
The two girls were seated in the front row of the show. Tori's policy is to not sell the front row of her show so she can upgrade people from the back rows. In this case, she picked a couple of non-fans.
The two girls spent enough time on the phone instead of watching the performance to anger Tori enough to have them evicted from the show. It's a privilege to sit in the front row and I reserve those seats for people who appreciate music, get the fuck out," she screamed at them.
Tori is on her Code Red tour. Tonight (Saturday) she plays in Anaheim and tomorrow (Sunday) finishes the tour in Los Angeles.
Hariprasad Chaurasia
From the lips of a true maestro.
India's favourite classical flautist tells Aditya Chakrabortty about seeing Krishna and ducking out on George Harrison
Friday December 14, 2007
The Guardian
'GAH! GAH! GAH!" That, apparently, is how modern pop sounds to an Indian classical flautist. Screwing up his face, 69-year-old Hariprasad Chaurasia mimics the music of the young. "They play it in their cars," he tells me. "GAH! GAH! GAH!"
Your typical Indian maestro is a rarefied thing; interviewing one is about as fruitful as trying out a Smash Hits quiz on a Sufi poet. But within a few minutes of our meeting, Chaurasia has derided pop's "cruel sounds" and advised Gordon Brown on election strategy ("win people's hearts by doing something constructive, then ask them to take sides"). As we part, he is describing with scandalised relish how some westerners buy land in India solely to grow marijuana. In short, Hariji, as fans call him, is not your typical Indian maestro.
But maestro he is. Chaurasia is among the small handful of Indian classical musicians who can sell out concerts in his homeland and around the world. At the start of the decade he was touring more than Mick Jagger: 11 months a year, playing more than 300 concerts. That's been cut back, he says, thanks to age. Now it's a mere eight months, sleeping as little as three hours a night.
We're in a vegetarian Gujarati place on London's north-western frontier because, well, even international legends miss home food. Chaurasia is in a lemon punjabi (a long, collarless shirt) and a white dhoti (a sarong-like garment) - exotic this close to Ruislip, but casual enough in India. To emphasise particular points, he grips my wrist, or playfully contorts his strong, broad face. We chat about that rite of passage for top Indian classical talent of his generation: being a Friend of George.
"George Harrison? He loved Indian food, Indian music and Indian traditions," he says, in an accent as thick and sweet as golden syrup. Harrison and Chaurasia recorded and toured together in the 1970s, and stayed at each other's houses. Or rather, Chaurasia was frequently a guest at Harrison's "castle" in Henley-on-Thames, but was reluctant to host the ex-Beatle in his Mumbai home. "If the media knew he was there they would besiege my house: 'I want an interview, a photograph ... ' I wanted to avoid all that. When George asked to visit, I would say, 'I am going out for a concert.'"
Was Britain's most famous sitarist really an expert in Indian music? "Well, he loved playing it. But he just learned a few notes; he did not take time to learn about it."
If Chaurasia is more earthly than many of his peers, it is probably down to his background. Indian classical music is a family business: father hands on tradition to son, and players boast of coming from gharanas, or schools, dating back a dizzying number of generations. Chaurasia's dad, on the other hand, was a famous professional wrestler. He considered music the trade of "prostitutes and bandleaders" and wanted his son to follow him into the ring. But the subcontinental Billy Elliot had his own ideas. "Early every morning, I would tell my father: 'I am going to temple.' Instead I would go to a friend's house to practise for two hours - although I had to hide myself, otherwise my father would beat me. I was wrestling to make my father happy; music was to make myself happy," he recalls.
His life is full of such wilfulness, from becoming a home tutor at 11 (he taught seven-year-olds for pocket money), to composing for Bollywood films - even while holding down a day job as a broadcaster/producer for Indian public-service radio. Aged 25, he lobbied Annapurna Devi, the wife of Ravi Shankar and a sitar maestro in her own right, to teach him classical music. "I wanted to learn from the beginning," he says. It was three years before she relented, only after Chaurasia vowed that he would never again play the flute with his right hand. The promise, and its implicit commitment to starting all over again, reduced Devi to tears. "For the last 35 years I have been playing with my left hand," Chaurasia says. "I have forgotten how to play any other way."
Devi became his mentor. "I got so much love from my guru. She used to take care of my food; she used to take care of my health. It's different in this country. You study for six years and get your certificate and just get out."
Indian musicians, he points out, have to commit their repertory to memory, and improvise within each work - a unique combination of discipline and freedom. "In the west you simply follow song sheets. Your memory is dead. But suppose the instructions get lost?"
This does not mean that Chaurasia is some classical fundamentalist - far from it. Not only has he collaborated with western musicians such as John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek, he also imported a folk instrument into Indian high art. The bamboo flute, as Chaurasia notes, traditionally belonged to "the rice field and the labourer"; he brought it into the concert hall.
"It is the only instrument connected to God," he says. In pictures of Hindu deities, the young Krishna is usually depicted as a cowherd, serenading swooning milkmaids with his flute. "Lord Krishna created something simple so you could play it without tuning."
Rare would be the bassoonist who considered his instrument divine. In India, however, playing classical music is also an act of spiritual devotion - something that Chaurasia, a Hindu, feels keenly. The virtuoso histrionics that mar many an Indian recital are, at his concerts, replaced by a meditative calm.
"I am playing for the audience. But between us, I can see Lord Krishna. And the audience can also see him." Even in the west? "They cannot explain why but they go into a kind of meditation." He played a festival a few years ago, where "people were lying on the grass. For one and a half hours, I played just one raga and the entire crowd did not want it to end."
Back to poking fun at western musicians. How the famous Irish flautist and "very nice man" James Galway must rue the day that he had Chaurasia round for supper. It ended in a battle of the flutes.
"He was not able to blow my bamboo instrument, but I was able to blow his flute. He had three gold flutes and I had only one bamboo flute. I said: 'Why don't we exchange? That way you can practise on bamboo.'"
The swap didn't happen, of course - but how Chaurasia must have relished attempting it.
Breeders news
The Breeders...
released their last album - Title TK - back in 2002. Since then, of course, Kim Deal has been part of one of the most highly successful and warmly received music reunions of all time, getting back together with the rest of The Pixies for a series of exhilarating live shows in 2004 and 2005. After that, Kim headed back to Dayton, Ohio to start writing a new record.
Mountain Battles is the result. It's an album which captures all the bittersweet electricity of classic Breeders records like Pod and Last Splash, and which breaks new ground at the same time; classic-sounding, yet as relevant and exciting as ever.
Mountain Battles was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, by Erika Larson at Stagg Street, by Manny Nieto at Manny's Studio, at Refraze in Dayton and by Ben Mumphrey in the Basement.
The band were : Kelley Deal, Kim Deal, José Medeles and Mando Lopez; José and Mando are both veterans of the Title TK campaign.
The Breeders will be playing live all over the world in 2008. Their schedule includes performances at Canadian Music Week and SxSW, plus full tours in the USA and in Europe.
The Breeders are also set to play a UK tour in April to mark the release of the album.
The Mountain Battles tracklisting is :
1. Overglazed
2. Bang On
3. Night Of Joy
4. We're Gonna Rise
5. German Studies
6. Spark
7. Istanbul
8. Walk It Off
9. Regalame Esta Noche
10. Here No More
11. No Way
12. It's The Love
13. Mountain Battles
4AD will release Mountain Battles on Monday 7th April 2008.
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[source: http://www.4ad.com/news/new-album-in/]