For the most part, The Go-Betweens have recorded a satisfying record that evokes palpable feelings and emotions yet becomes a bit uneven at the end. Despite that, the album is worth it for the first three tracks alone.
Sometimes a reunion can be an embarrassing thing. But X acquit themselves most admirably on the appropriately-titled Live In Los Angeles, taped November 26 and 27, 2004 in the city where the punk legends first burst into raucous life. With no more set decoration than a curtain with a large
Settle down lovers, Bloodshot’s newest signing, THE DETROIT COBRAS, have announced their fall US tour — They’ll be on the road supporting their Bloodshot debut and the band’s first US release in four years.
Baby,” The Detroit Cobra’s first release on Bloodshot Records, is a detour off the beaten path, a collection of 20 inimitable, rocked-out renditions of mostly obscure R&B songs that pay homage to Detroit’s thick musical background reflecting back to Fortune Records and D-Town’s back catalog.
10-08-05 — Beachland Tavern — Cleveland OH
10-11-05 — North Star Bar — Philadelphia PA
10-12-05 — The Mercury Lounge — New York NY
10-13-05 — Southpaw — Brooklyn, NY
10-14-05 — Middle East — Cambridge MA
10-15-05 — Maxwell’s — Hoboken NJ
10-22-05 — Culture Room — Ft. Lauderdale FL
10-25-05 — The Parish @ HOB — New Orleans LA
10-27-05 — Rudyard’s Beer Bar — Houston, TX
10-28-05 — Gypsy Tea Room — Dallas, TX
10-29-05 — Emo’s — Austin, TX
10-31-05 — Plush — Tuscon, AZ
11-01-05 — The Clubhouse — Tempe, AZ
11-03-05 — The Casbah — San Diego, CA
11-04-05 — Troubadour — West Hollywood, CA
11-05-05 — Bottom Of The Hill — San Francisco, CA
11-07-05 — Sabala’s — Portland, OR
11-08-05 — Chop Suey — Seattle, WA
11-10-05 — The Velvet Room — Salt Lake City, UT
11-11-05 — Bluebird Theater — Denver, CO
11-16-05 — The High Noon Saloon — Madison, WI
11-17-05 — Mad Planet — Milwaukee, WI
11-18-05 — Triple Rock — Minneapolis, MN
Pearl Jam will cap a slate of fall tour dates with a Sept. 30-Oct. 1 stand at the 3,700-capacity Borgata in Atlantic City, N.J. Sleater-Kinney, which previously toured with Pearl Jam in 2003, will open both shows, tickets for which go on sale July 9.
The Atlantic City stand will come at the end of Pearl Jam’s three-week tour of Canada, which kicks off Sept. 2 in Vancouver and will close Sept. 25 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The band will also open a Sept. 28 show for the Rolling Stones in Pittsburgh.
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According to a story on pitchforkmedia.com, multi-billion dollar shoemaker, Nike has stolen the legendary artwork of hardcore pioneers, Minor Threat. Destined for a campaign called Major Threat, the style and iconic imagery was used for the advertising and done so without the permission of Washington, D.C. based indie Dischord. The label owns the copyright on both the recording and artwork. When asked by Pitchfork, the label had this to say with regards to permission:
No, they stole it and we’re not happy about it. Nike is a giant corporation which is attempting to manipulate the alternative skate culture to create an even wider demand for their already ubiquitous brand. Nike represents just about the antithesis of what Dischord stands for and it makes me sick to my stomach to think they are using this explicit imagery to fool kids into thinking that the general ethos of this label, and Minor Threat in particular, can somehow be linked to Nike’s mission. It’s disgusting.
Dischord is currently evaluating its options, and you can click Read More to compare the artwork for yourself.
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Legendary rap act Public Enemy has joined the extensive lineup for Hellfest 2K5, a three-day New Jersey festival that will boast 188 acts, most of which fall in the category of heavy rock music. Described as “a barricade-free, circle pit induced festival,” the Aug. 19-21 event at Trenton, N.J.’s Sovereign Bank Arena will feature five stages of music as well as a flea market, tattoo convention and skate park.
With original members Chuck D, Flavor Flav and Professor Griff, the Public Enemy performance is being billed among Hellfest’s reunion acts, which also include hardcore groups Youth Of Today, Bold, 108 and Good Clean Fun, upstart punk group Outspoken and metal act Killing Time.
Leading up to the festival, organizers are announcing participating acts in weekly bursts, with Chimaira, Hatebreed, From Autumn To Ashes, the Misfits, Sick Of It All, Anti Flag, Bouncing Souls and Cryptopsy among the 120 so far revealed. The full list of confirmed acts can be found on the event’s Web site.
A limited allotment of three-day tickets are available for $99.99 through the site. The venue’s box office will sell remaining general admission passes for $12
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Toward the end of winter 1998, Phish began preparing to record “Story Of The Ghost”, their first studio album since 1996’s “Billy Breathes”. The band gathered alone for pre-production recording and practice sessions in a rented farmhouse in rural Moscow, Vermont. Using a four-wheel drive vehicle to navigate the driveway during mud season, they practiced and recorded the beginnings of many new songs like Shrine, Roggae, Shafty (Olivia’s Pool, funkified), Frankie Says, What’s The Use, Fikus, Birds of a Feather, Meat, the Meatstick and My Left Toe.
Soon after this first of two “Ghost Meat” sessions, the band decided to play some live shows in the northeast. So-called Island Tour was quickly scheduled and the result was standout shows at once extraordinarily risky, playful and emotive. With little time to warm up, the band hit the stage running with two shows at Nassau Coliseum immediately followed by two at Providence Civic Center. The four nights-in-a-row were a whirlwind of energy with each set building on the last to a funky crescendo that left the band headed back to work on Story Of The Ghost with an electric swagger.
The band has released all four nights of the famed run that hit both islands- Long Island and Rhode Island. Each 3 CD set is available in mp3 and FLAC livephish.com
The Intonation Music Festival will be the Midwest’s landmark
independent music event this summer on July 16 &17. Curated by the online music magazine Pitchfork Media, the two-day festival will showcase a multi-genre line-up featuring many of the most innovative acts in music today, with 2 stages as well as a DJ Tent created by Biz 3 Publicity pairing unlikely musicians spinning together. There will be a WLUW Record Fair and a unique variety of food, clothing, and art vendors.
Due to a tremendous response to the festival announcement from music
lovers coast to coast, the festival site has been moved to Union Park in Chicago, one of the city’s wide-open green spaces. With far
greater capacity than our previous site we will be able to
accommodate a higher expected festival attendance and create a
spacious and comfortable festival environment for all. Admission
price is $15 per day or $22 for a limited number of two day passes
which will be available on-line only.
SATURDAY, JULY 16:
1:00 pm Head of Femur
1:30 pm Pelican
2:00 pm The M’s
2:45 pm AC Newman
3:30 pm Magnolia Electric Company
4:30 pm Four Tet
5:30 pm Broken Social Scene
6:30 pm The Go! Team
7:20 pm Prefuse 73
8:00 pm Death From Above 1979
9:00 pm Tortoise
DJ Stage-presented by Biz3
3:30 pm Laurent from Pelican
5:30 pm Will Oldham/Jean Grae
7:30 pm Will Oldham/Jean Grae
SUNDAY, JULY 17:
1:00 pm Thunderbirds Are Now!
1:30 pm Dungen
2:00 pm Xiu Xiu
2:45 pm Out Hud
3:30 pm The Hold Steady
4:30 pm Andrew Bird
5:30 pm Deerhoof
6:30 pm The Wrens
7:30 pm Les Savy Fav
8:30 pm The Decemberists
DJ Stage-presented by Biz3
3:30 pm Reine from Dungen
5:30 pm El-P
7:30 pm Diplo
Apple Computer Inc. released new software Tuesday designed to make it easier for users to listen to the increasingly popular, but largely unstructured podcast offerings.
Apple, which also announced color screens for its iPod digital music players, said the new iTunes software comes with a podcast directory that lists more than 3,000 free audio programs. It also sports a new menu and the ability to automatically send new episodes of podcasts to the user’s computer.
“Podcasting is the next generation of radio,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.
Podcasts are downloadable audio files that are often similar to radio programs. They allow anyone to become a Web broadcaster.
On iTunes, podcasts focus on a range of topics from electronic gadgets to movies and astronomy. Shows come from mainstream organizations such as ABC News and Newsweek as well as Web journals, or blogs, like Engadget.
The software is available for both Mac and Windows computers.
Apple also said it is merging its iPod and iPod photo lines, so all models will now have color displays that can view photos and play slideshows.
The 20-gigabyte model can hold about 5,000 songs and costs $299, while the 60-gigabyte version holds 25,000 songs and sells for $399. That means customers will get a photo model for about the same price they previously paid for the standard, black-and-white screen.
The new offerings come amid warnings from some analysts that cell-phone makers could threaten Apple’s grip on the market for digital-music players if portable phones can be rigged to play music.
“We do think cell phones are a legitimate threat but it could end up like what happened to the camera-phone market,” said Shaw Wu, an analyst for American Technology Research in San Francisco. “Cameras may have helped the cell phone guys to get customers to buy new phones and upgrade but it didn’t slow down the digital-camera market.”
Too many questions remain about whether cell phone batteries can handle the extra load of playing music, or whether phone companies would want customers to burn battery power listening to music instead of talking on the phone, Wu noted.
Apple also said it was cutting $20 off the price of the $149 iPod Shuffle, which uses flash memory instead of a hard drive and can store less music.
As Apple introduced its podcasting features, search company Blinkx Inc. was expected Wednesday to begin making podcasts and their video counterparts fully searchable using its speech-recognition software to transcribe and index feeds.
Suranga Chandratillake, the company’s founder and chief technology officer, said Tuesday the company’s indexing software has identified about 20,000 channels of user-generated audio and video, generating about 500 hours of programming a day.
Search engines and podcast directories generally index audio and video by analyzing text that appears near the file or using humans to create summaries. Some also pull closed-captioning transcripts from video programming, but user-generated content generally carries no closed captioning.
Chandratillake said Blinkx attempts to fill the gap by using speech-recognition softwre to transcript feeds when closed captioning is unavailable. It already indexes feeds, mostly video, from companies with which it has deals, including CNN, the British Broadcasting Corp. and Movielink LLC.
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Live 8 has added a concert in Moscow’s Red Square, ensuring that all of the G8 industrialized nations will be represented at Saturday’s (July 2) event. At deadline, the only act confirmed for the show was the Pet Shop Boys. Last week, a concert was added in Tokyo, featuring Bjork, Good Charlotte and McFly.
Live 8 will now encompass 10 shows in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Philadelphia, Barrie, Ont., Johannesburg and Eden Project in southwest England. AOL Music will cybercast each show live.
It was also confirmed today that the Barrie show will be closed by Neil Young, making one of his first live appearances since suffering a brain aneurysm in March. He will be accompanied for select songs by the Fisk University Jubilee Choir.
Meanwhile, Sheryl Crow has dropped off the Paris bill due to “substantial logistical and personal challenges,” according to her official Web site.
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