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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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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.
Visit The Breeders on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thebreeders
[source: http://www.4ad.com/news/new-album-in/]
Alanis news
Alanis Morissette Working On A Book.
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - December 7 2007
Alanis Morissette is planning on writing her first book.
In a posting on YouTube, the Canadian singer has announced that she will be writing the book over the next year or two and is currently looking for an editor.
As well as her own book, Alanis will star in the film adaptation of a book by one of her favourite authors Philip K. Dick next year. The movie 'Radio Free Albemuth' began filming around Los Angeles in October.
Alanis will play the part of Sylvia, an ordinary woman who is scene in a vision by a record executive who ends up hiring her as a secretary.
April 2008 will see the release of her 7th studio album 'Flavors Of Entanglement'. Alanis describes the album as 'a great snap-shot of the last year'. She also recorded an additional 10
songs that will be used for downloads and streaming.
Supergrass news
Supergrass To Release Single.
by Tim Cashmere @ Undercover - November 29 2007
Oxford band Supergrass are going to pump on your stereo one more time with a brand spankin' new single.
'Diamond Hoo Ha Man' is the band's next single, which is going to be released on limited edition 7" vinyl on January 14 in the U.K.
There is no word of an international release as of yet.
If you're one of those "don't own a record player" types, then you can download the track for free at http://www.parlophone.co.uk/supergrass/download/
The band's next album, thus far titleless, was recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin and will be released in March.
Help! The Beatles
Help! is restored to its Sixties glory - with a little assistance from a red phone box and £700,000
Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent
Sunday November 25, 2007
The Observer
The original, vibrant colours of the 1965 Beatles' film Help! are to be brought to the public eye once again tonight when a revitalised version is screened for the first time. The results of 11 months of work may surprise those who think they can remember what the 1960s looked like. At a cost of £700,000, the company the Beatles founded, Apple Corps, has given Help! an almost eerily fresh and contemporary look.
The key to unlocking the true tones of the original footage was the British pillar box. Once those who were working on the faded and broken celluloid reels had found scenes including a post box and a traditional red telephone kiosk they were able to use the shade as a template for the level of colour. 'A pillar box doesn't change colour. We all know that. It was bright red then and it is bright red now,' said film restorer Claire Ferguson. 'We knew from looking at this and from looking at the de-graded grey of the policemen's helmets in the film, which should be pure black, that the rest of the colour had to be adjusted to fit.'
The overall effect is a much lighter, more glamorous film. The spectacular costumes worn by actress Eleanor Bron, which include a striking pink leather trouser suit, are also shown to renewed effect. 'You don't often work on something with this level of attention to detail or that budget,' said Ferguson. 'We have worked out that something like 13 million individual spots of dirt have been taken away, but all the time the team had to walk the line between allowing the real colours to show through and not making it look unreal. I would say it now looks very much as it did when it was premiered at Leicester Square.'
Ringo Starr was shown the restored film in Los Angeles a week ago. 'I really remember Help! with lots of joy,' he told The Observer. 'Our attitude was that we're making our second movie and it's in colour - wow! The film has been cleaned up and re-graded so the colour looks beautiful.'
Help! followed closely on the heels of their first film, A Hard Day's Night, made in black and white. Both made history by going into profit before they opened in the cinemas because of the success of their soundtrack albums. Both were directed by Richard Lester and share plots that revolve around Ringo, the best actor of the four Beatles.
Starr puts much of the enduring appeal of the film down to the talent of its director. 'Dick was great because we really loved his humour and he enjoyed ours,' he said. 'He knew how to make a movie and we just knew how to be four lads from Liverpool doing our stuff. And he surrounded us with all those great actors - Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear - which really helped us.'
Director Martin Scorsese, a big fan of the 'deadpan humour' of the film, has also hailed the re-release. 'With Help! Lester went even further with editing and camera movement than he had with A Hard Day's Night.'
The scenes shot in the Alps to the backing of 'Ticket to Ride' are widely hailed as the reference point for all music videos since. Lester once received a formal notice from MTV telling him that he was seen as the natural father of the form. Lester is recorded as writing back immediately to request a blood test.
The director said this month that he and the writers wanted to call the film Help, but another film already existed with the same title. The addition of the exclamation mark meant the band were legally free to use the name and John Lennon and Paul McCartney set about writing a title song. 'That afternoon, John and Paul borrowed the studio piano and started work. By the next morning, they played the finished song to us and recorded it the next night,' said Lester.
The 75 year old co-creator of the Superman film franchise, was born in America, but has lived in England since 1955 and has 'a British passport, a British wife, British children.'
This year he said: 'Now, I don't want to make another film in the slightest. Forty years is enough.'
Apple Corps is about to start the slow restoration process of the Beatles' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour, but no date has been set for its release.
The restored version of Help! is to be shown on BBC4 at 7pm tonight.
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Stereophonics news
Stereophonics Release 19 Live Albums.
by Tim Cashmere @ Undercover - November 26 2007
Welsh rockers Sterephonics have recorded each show in their current U.K. tour, which will be made available to the fans after the tour.
The idea, pioneered by Pearl Jam and later adopted by the MC5 is that fans can purchase a copy of the show they were at, thus quashing any need for bootleggers, and let's face it, a copy of the concert you were at is better than a t-shirt.
The Stereophonics are doing it a little differently to the previous bands however, where Pearl Jam gave you a link to download immediately after the show, then later sent out a mastered copy and MC5 sold unmastered CDs at the merch stand immediately after the show, the Stereophonics will make the shows only available as a download.
To get the download, fans in the U.K. can text "Friends" followed by the city code to 78789 and fans in Ireland can text "Friends" followed by the city code to 57707.
City codes are:
NOVEMBER
4 – BIC Arena, Bournemouth – FRIENDS BOURN
5 – Brighton Centre, Brighton – FRIENDS BRIGHTON
7 – MEN Arena, Manchester – FRIENDS MAN
8 – Hull Arena, Hull – FRIENDS HULL
9 – Sheffield Arena, Sheffield – FRIENDS SHEFF
11 – NEC Arena, Birmingham – FRIENDS BIRM 1
12 – NEC Arena, Birmingham – FRIENDS BIRM 2
13 – Nottingham Arena, Nottingham – FRIENDS NOTT
15 – Wembley Arena, London – FRIENDS LONDON 1
16 – Wembley Arena, London – FRIENDS LONDON 2
18 – ICA, Cardiff – FRIENDS CARDIFF 1
19 – ICA, Cardiff – FRIENDS CARDIFF 2
20 – ICA, Cardiff – FRIENDS CARDIFF 3
22 – Newcastle Arena, Newcastle – FRIENDS NEWC
24 – ECC, Aberdeen – FRIENDS ABERDEEN
25 – SECC, Glasgow – FRIENDS GLASGOW
27 – Odyssey, Belfast – FRIENDS BELFAST
28 – INEC, Kilarney – FRIENDS KERRY
29 – RDS Hall, Dublin – FRIENDS DUBLIN
(Note: Belfast fans use the U.K. number)
The shows cost £1.50 for the U.K. shows and €2 for the Dublin shows.
The downloads can only be used on PC, so if you're a Mac user, you might have to go without.
Mountain Goats news
Mountain Goats Ready To Release Next Album.
by Tim Cashmere @ Undercover - November 21 2007
Californian indie folksters the Mountain Goats are set to release a new record in February.
The album will be entitled 'Heretic Pride' and will be released on in February through 4AD.
Singer and braindchild John Darnielle said on their official website, "We are really excited about this album, and we wish it were out right now, but there is a law against releasing albums in December unless you are Queen. Any album you see released in December is actually by Queen, no matter what it says on the cover. Then in January everybody is recovering from having listened to too much Queen. Hence, February. See you then!"
We at Undercover happen to be pretty big Queen fans, so December and January are exciting times for us, but yes, it is quite a far cry from the Goats.
The track listing for the album is:
1. Sax Rohmer #1
2. San Bernardino
3. Heretic Pride
4. Autoclave
5. New Zion
6. So Desperate
7. In the Craters on the Moon
8. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
9. Tianchi Lake
10. How to Embrace a Swamp Creature
11. Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident
12. Sept 15 1983
13. Michael Myers Resplendent
Divinyls news
Divinyls Add More Shows.
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - November 15 2007
photo by Ros O'Gorman
Interest to Divinyls reunion has been overwhelming. After a decade in hibernation, the great Australian rock band recently announced a tour, new single and album.
Divinyls tickets have been some of the hottest tickets in town.
Now more shows have been added.
Divinyls will play an extra show in Sydney on December 12 and another Melbourne show on December 16.
A copy of the single 'Don't Wanna Do This' is a bonus with every ticket sold.
Seconds shows for Sydney and Melbourne go on sale on November 19.
Dates are:
December 8, Sydney, Homebake
December 11, Sydney, Enmore Theatre
December 12, Sydney, Enmore Theatre
December 15, Melbourne, Forum
December 16, Melbourne, Forum
December 20, Adelaide, Thebarton
December 22, Perth, Fremantle Oval
January 1, Melbourne, The Hot BBQ, Barrarung Marr
Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers joined by Britpop legends.
Electric Proms show sees very special guests.
The Chemical Brothers played a very special set tonight (October 25).
The duo played at the Electric Proms venue of Koko in London.
During their encore the band were joined by Tim Burgess for a version of 'The Boxer'.
Meanwhile Beth Orton strapped on an acoustic guitar and played and sang along to 'Where Do I Begin'.
Despite the rumours the likes of Willy Mason, Noel Gallagher and Ali Love failed to appear on stage with the band.
Earlier Justice played a frantic set.
The duo of Gaspard Auge and Xavier De Rosnay played behind a DJ booth in front of a huge illuminated cross.
During their set the biggest cheer came for their tune versus Simian- B'We are Your Friends'.
They played::
'No Path To Follow'
'Galvanise'
'Burst Generator'
'Do It Again'
'Get Yourself High'
'Hey Boy Hey Girl'
'All Rights Reversed'
'Krafy Numbers'
'Out Of Control'
'Don't Fight Control'
'Temptation'
'Star Guitar'
'Surface To Air'
'Under The Influence'
'Saturate'
'We Are The Night'
'The Boxer' (Tim Burgess)
'Where Do I Begin' (Beth Orton)'
'Leave Home' / 'Block Rockin Beats'
Ministry & Paul Raven
Ministry's Al Jourgensen Issues Statement About The Death of Paul Raven.
by Paul Cashmere @ Undercover - October 22 2007
Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen is in shock following the sudden death of bass player Paul Raven.
Jourgensen said "I am in total shock. The world of music is a sadder, emptier place. Not only was Raven an extraordinary talent, but one of my closest dearest friends. Our condolences and prayers go to his immediate family. He will be truly missed by artists, musicians and his fans the world over.
The one consolation is knowing Raven's already hooked up with the right people and started a new project in the After Life. God's speed, Raven. Rest In Peace, you fucking pirate."
Raven was found dead yesterday (October 20) in Geneva, Switzerland from an apparent heart-attack.
Raven was the former bass player for Killing Joke, Prong and Ministry.
In 2006, he received a Grammy nomination for his work with Jourgensen on the 'Rio Grande Blood' album.
Ministry recently broke-up. Raven played on the final album 'The Last Sucker.
He was in Switzerland to commence work with French artists Treponem Pal on their upcoming release.
A memorial dedicated to the Life and Art of Paul Raven can be found at www.thirteenthplanet.com
Paul Raven RIP
Ministry/Killing Joke Bass Player Found Dead.
by Paul Cashmere - October 21 2007
Paul Raven, a former bass player for Ministry and Killing Joke, has been found dead, the victim of an apparent heart attack.
Raven had recently arrived in Europe to record his friends Treponem Pal.
Doctors are yet to release an official cause of death for the 46 year old bassist.
Raven joined Killing Joke in mid 1982 and remained in the band through their heyday until they broke up in 1991.
Next stop for Raven was metal band Prong. He performed on their albums 'Cleansing' and 'Rude Awakening'.
In 2003, he returned to Killing Joke for their reunion album and in 2005, moved onto Ministry. He features on the Ministry album 'Rio Grande Blood', as well as the final Ministry album 'The Last Sucker'.
Treponem Pal is a French industrial metal band. Raven was to be the featured bass player for their new album.