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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 1 Jul 2007, 02:49

    New New Musical Express - July 2007

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    Post your news, views and gig reviews here.

    * Brainwaves, Singing, Jolson, Brainwaves.
    * Stumbled Upon - Grotrian Pianos
    * Exposure - Candidate
    * Exposure - Elvis Perkins
    * Stumbled Upon - DMF
    * Sonic Youth and Starbucks Team Up
    * Universal Music declines long-term iTunes deal: source
    * EMI and Snocap Music Deal
    * Tom Jones at Concert For Diana, 1 July
    * Concert for Diana - English National Ballet : Swan Lake
    * PJ Harvey to return with new album in September
    * Kylie Minogue For Christmas Doctor Who
    * allofmp3.com shut down, again
    * Streamers: Jarvis Cocker
    * Morrissey - That's How People Grow Up
    * Video - Kanye West - Stronger
    * Video - The Thrills
    * Study - How Consumers Use Social Network Sites
    * Lily Allen on Friday Night Project
    * Video - Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula
    * REM's Live Rehearsals
    * Gigs will make you go deaf: official

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    * Ukulele Recommendation: Mara Carlyle
    * Snowden
    * Arcade Fire at the BBC
    * Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is new EP
    * iPhone root password cracked in three days
    * Video - OOIOO - Umo
    * Scott Matthews
    * Jazz performer George Melly dies
    * O2 'to get iPhone contract in UK' / Oh no it doesn't
    * Rio's Live Earth gig 'suspended'
    * Kate Moss chucks out Doherty’s belongings
    * London Live Earth line-up revealed
    * Cameron pledge over violent music
    * Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger - "Groovy Girl" Video
    * Journal - Review of Twinsistermoon - When Stars Glide Through Solid, by pabanks46
    * 700 employees lose jobs in Fopp collapse
    * The miraculous return of Edwyn Collins
    * Gogol Bordello to play with Madonna? (Live Earth)
    * Tea Break - Amadou & Mariam - La Réalité
    * Journal - This Month In eMusic, by Woodshed1
    * Channel 4 and Sky prepare to challenge BBC in radio market
    * Feist - 1234 (Van She Tech Remix)
    * Make Model - The LSB
    * Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
    * Tea Break - The Flirtations

    Page 3

    * Madonna at Live Earth, with Gogol Bordello
    * Exposure - The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
    * From the desk of stokedfish, journals - album of the day #37 (nirvana - nirvana) and album of the day #38 (the moon and the nightspirit - regö rejtem)
    * The Arctic Monkeys on Friday Night with Jonathon Ross
    * Last.fm strikes Sony music deal
    * Exposure - The Octopus Project
    * From the desk of stokedfish, journal entry - aotd #39 (max richter - memoryhouse)
    * Polaris Prize Nominees
    * Miniature Cardboard Audio Equipment
    * From the desk of stokedfish, journal entry - aotd #40 (aborym - kali yuga bizarre)
    * Bookies taking bets on whether Amy Winehouse turns up to gigs
    * Insurers urged to cover music downloads
    * Blogs with Tracks: Fennesz - Cendre
    * From the desk of Llapen - Journal - On the Side - The Sign Said Professionals Wanted
    * Video - Tripping Daisy - Blown Away
    * Video - The Wildhearts - So Into You
    * Video - Urge Overkill - Positive Bleeding
    * Video - Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya
    * Video - Mashup - 50 Cent vs. Bee Gees - Stayin Alive In Da Club
    * Journal - Review of Prince - Planet Earth - by Babs_05
    * Video - Metalchicks - 10,000 dB
    * Journal - New Music Aug 07 - by Nialloleary
    * Time Magazine - 50 Best Websites 2007 : Last.fm at No. 3!
    * Video - Jarvis - Fat Children

    Page 4

    * Exposure - Paw Paw
    * Journal - The Brian Jonestown Massacre at Islington Academy, by hotchk155
    * Turin Brakes
    * Mercury Music Prize Nominees
    * Reviews: Prince's Planet Earth
    * Blogs with Tracks: Thom Yorke @ The Bridge School Benefit - 26 Oct 2002
    * Video - Rilo Kiley - The Moneymaker
    * Video - Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours
    * Video - Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place
    * Tea Break - Visage
    * Video - Valeria - Girl I Told Ya
    * Video - Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong
    * Exposure - Eugene McGuinness
    * Exposure - Jacob Golden
    * Journal - John Vanderslice: Emerald City, by puddlegum
    * Video - Thomas Dolby
    * Video - Debate '08 - Obama vs Giuliani
    * Journal - Indian Summer Festival Review, by Spectral_Shift
    * White Stripes: One Note Gig
    * Identities of online music swappers protected, EU court says
    * Journal - Chris Isaak Rules, by popgurl
    * Journal - Benzos: Branches out August 7, by puddlegum
    * Tea Break - Andrews Sisters - Gimme Some Skin, My Friend
    * Why Prince's Free CD Ploy Worked
    * Rihanna 'may make chart history'

    Page 5

    * Disney music label offers new CD format
    * Journal - BRMC, Black Angels at Somerset House, by hotchk155
    * Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
    * Interview - The Black Angels
    * Blogs with Tracks: Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles
    * Tea Break - Hanson
    * Video - Dragonette - Take It Like A Man
    * Blogs with Tracks: Some Fine Tunes
    * Streamers: Happy Mondays
    * Streamers: Afghan Whigs
    * Streamers: Figurines - The Air We Breathe
    * Streamers: Chromeo - Tenderoni (MSTRKRFT remix)
    * Streamers: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
    * Streamers: Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races
    * Streamers: Iron And Wine - Boy With A Coin
    * Streamers: The Coathangers
    * Streamers: Pinback - From Nothing To Nowhere
    * Video - David Ford - Go To Hell
    * Exposure - Palladium
    * Exposure - Newton Faulkner
    * Robbie Williams to team up with The Smiths?
    * Warner eyes Chrysalis music publishing arm
    * Oh No! Oh My! cover Huey Lewis
    * Tea Break - Easy Star All -Stars - Radiodread
    * A Review of Palladium ( as mentioned above) and Architecture in Helsinki (also mentioned above)

    Page 6

    * Stars new album released months before its official release.
    * Video - Caribou - Melody Day
    * Video - Fionn Regan - Be Good Or Be Gone
    * Video - Prison Thriller
    * Video - Blonde Redhead - The Dress
    * Orange gets into the music biz
    * Rehearsal pledge for young bands
    * Coldplay plan 'Hispanic' comeback
    * Can the CD single be saved?
    * New Sufjan Stevens Song - Governor
    * Video - Komputer - Like A Bird
    * Video - Brinkman - Change It
    * Tea Break - Smoke City - Underwater Love
    * Exposure - Speck Mountain
    * Streamers: John Vanderslice - Emerald City
    * Journal - Streamable Track Gots - Jul 07, by IanAR
    * Exposure - Chungking
    * Exposure - Anti Atlas
    * New Single - Gravenhurst - Trust
    * Indie-Pop Band Stars Want You To Steal New LP — 'If You Have The Guts'
    * Video - Candie Payne: One More Chance (produced by Mark Ronson)
    * Exposure - Bobby Conn
    * Exposure - Sweet Sixty Nine
    * Streamers: M.I.A. - Bamboo Banger
    * Journal - This Month in eMusic, by Woodshed1

    Page 7

    * Journal - Eight ways to promote your music blog on Last.FM, by puddlegum
    * Journal - I'm kind of getting sick of the Indie kids, by hayden_is_a_go


    Edited by Babs_05 on 31 Jul 2007, 18:00
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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 1 Jul 2007, 03:07

    Brainwaves, Singing, Jolson, Brainwaves.

    You wanted views, so here they are. I found that brainwave entrainment and stretching improves your singing dramatically. I listen to brainwave CDs (Alpha, Theta, etc.) CONSTANTLY, and I'm healthier and better at everything than I've ever been, it's particularly the improvement in my singing that I've noticed.

    I recently watched the Al Jolson film "Big Boy", and I discovered from his singing that he's cycling between different brainwave frequencies in his mind as he's singing. He used them as a guide to control where his singing would go, and at what intensity to sing. So he's not just singing notes, his state of mind is being altered. Here's the important part, the audience can TUNE IN to those specific brain frequencies being conveyed through his singing. That's one of the most magical things that can come from singing; altering the audience's state along with yours. This is what Jolson was famous for; only HE could play with the audience's mind in this manner, which is why he was called the world's greatest entertainer. I've never heard anyone else come up with a theory like this, and only someone who loves Jolson and is interested in brainwaves would have discovered this. I could be wrong, but then again, there's a good chance I'm right.

    I remember, about some Dalai Lama conference, somebody saying that everybody in the room's state is altered by his presence. I don't think that has to do with being enlightened (though, it helps). Jolson certainly wasn't enlightened in any sense. I think anyone can do it if they can conjure up the "right" frequency in their mind. Not everyone can do that, though. Well actually, nowadays, everyone can, because of brainwave learning programs like the one I'm using. I don't work for them in any way, just ECSTATIC about their brainwave product.

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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 1 Jul 2007, 03:15
    There's a lot of research on brainwave activity and Mozart. Mozart seems to reach the parts other artists leave behind (to mis-quote an old ad). I'd be interested in more linkies to research if you have them.


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    • 1 Jul 2007, 03:22
    Oh yeah, I've read some of it. There are even products based on them. "The Mozart Effect" CDs, and Mozart for Babies. I even think it's funny how Bach and Beethoven are actively excluded in this area of research. Yeah, Beethoven, you're good, but NOT quite!

    The Grady Institute's website has some good research, and I have a few books, but besides that, I just know brainwaves through intuition. I also know that long-time meditators spend most of their time in Alpha, while average people spend most of their time in Beta. So in a way, by leaving an "Alpha" track on during daily activities, I get to be the Dalai Lama for the day!

    The correlations between great music and brainwaves seem to be potent. I definitely want to do more research on this. The Beatles probably have something going on. There must be something more to their fame than just a herd effect.

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    • 1 Jul 2007, 18:23

    Stumbled Upon - Grotrian Pianos

    Looks like a total waste of time, but plenty of scope to exercise one's creativity.

    http://www.grotrian.de/spiel/d/spiel_win.html


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    • 1 Jul 2007, 19:08

    Exposure - Candidate

    Candidate release their fifth album tomorrow. Amazon.

    Alternative / folk / rock, their sound is old-fashioned by today's standards: a little bit Haight-Ashbury flower-power, a little bit 'we live on the open road where the sun always shines'.

    There's hardly anything on the net to share with you, apart from their MySpace. Hope that all changes soon.

    http://www.myspace.com/candidateband


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    • 1 Jul 2007, 19:50

    Exposure - Elvis Perkins

    Elvis Perkins is the son of actor Anthony Perkins, who died in 1992, and photographer Berry Berenson, who was on the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. Understandably, then, his work is about loss, guilt, trying to make sense of things, and acceptance. It doesn't really make for easy listening, nor should it.

    Ash Wednesday is his debut album, due to be released 9 July. Amazon.

    http://www.myspace.com/elvisperkins


    Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping mp3

    Elvis Perkins - All The Night Without Love mp3

    Elvis Perkins - The Dumps mp3

    Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Doomsday mp3

    Elvis Perkins - Moon Woman II mp3

    All The Night Without Love


    Edited by Babs_05 on 2 Jul 2007, 04:41
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  • Stumbled Upon - DMF

    Also a complete waste of time.

    dmf

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  • Sonic Youth and Starbucks Team Up

    Sonic Youth are following in the footsteps of Paul McCartney and Antigone Rising by releasing a compilation album in Starbucks’ Coffee Shops. Sonic Youth will also be recording a new track for the forthcoming album. It will be jointly released by both Starbucks Entertainment and Universal Special Markets, and will not be positioned under the freshly-launched Hear Music label, according to a representative.

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    • 2 Jul 2007, 12:14

    Universal Music declines long-term iTunes deal: source

    Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal with Apple Inc.'s iTunes music store, leaving open the possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an industry source said on Sunday.

    Universal will continue to sell music and videos of artists including 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Black Eyed Peas via iTunes on a month-to-month basis, rather than be locked in to a two-year agreement Apple had proposed, the source said.

    The music company, owned by French media giant Vivendi SA could now agree to offer significant portions of its repertoire exclusively to new partners, potentially weakening Apple's dominant hold on digital music retail.

    Apple currently has more than 70 percent market share of all digital music sold in the United States. It also sells the most popular digital media player, the iPod.

    The two sides had extended a previous two-year agreement by 12 months last summer, and that deal expired last month, the source said.

    In effect, Apple will now have similar terms to those that Universal already has with the majority of its retail partners.

    Some music executives have privately expressed frustration that Apple's dominant position may have hampered growth of the fledgling digital music market by keeping users locked within the Apple system.

    More on the story: Reuters UK


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    • 2 Jul 2007, 12:24

    EMI and Snocap Music Deal

    EMI Music has reached an agreement with SNOCAP which enables U.S. fans to purchase DRM-free, higher-quality MP3s by EMI artists through artist websites, social networking pages and fan blogs. EMI will have the ability to place SNOCAP MyStores – digital storefronts that work on nearly any standard website – on the web pages of hundreds of its artist sites, making EMI the first major record company to partner with SNOCAP to sell its music in a DRM-free, higher-quality format.

    Beginning this week, music from a broad range of EMI Music artists will be available for purchase via SNOCAP MyStores. Downloads will be DRM-free MP3s, encoded at 320 kilobits per second, more than twice the audio quality of standard files. Artists whose tracks will be available via SNOCAP MyStores at launch include 30 Seconds to Mars, The Almost, Ryland Angel, The Bird and The Bee, KORN, Joe Lovano, Dean Martin, MIMs, Relient K, Saosin, TobyMac and Yellowcard, with additional EMI artists rolling out SNOCAP MyStores in coming weeks. EMI’s Blue Note Records label has also placed a SNOCAP MyStore on its main website making tracks available from both catalog and current artists – everyone from Freddie Hubbard to Sonny Clark – as well as the single from the upcoming Suzanne Vega album.

    The SNOCAP MyStore is an easy-to-use Web-based interface and digital storefront which enables labels and artists to place a retail point of sale almost anywhere on the web. EMI’s agreement with SNOCAP means fans will be able to download higher-quality DRM-free tracks without leaving the artist’s website or social networking page. SNOCAP is making tracks available for $1.30, and albums will be made available via SNOCAP MyStores later this year. Using SNOCAP MyStores’ “Spread the word” feature, fans, music bloggers and other third party sites will also have the ability to place SNOCAP MyStores from their favorite artists on their own websites.

    Source: Technology News Daily

    http://www.snocap.com/

    CNET News


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    • 2 Jul 2007, 12:45

    Tom Jones at Concert For Diana, 1 July

    The king of cover versions, Tom Jones performed an outstanding take on Arctic Monkeys' Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. I'm not a fan of the Arctics but even I stopped what I was doing to watch. See it here, after Kiss, which of course was Prince's song first.

    Huh!



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    • 2 Jul 2007, 12:50

    Concert for Diana - English National Ballet : Swan Lake

    You wouldn't have thought it would work, but it did.

    Viewing figures for the concert peaked at 15 million.



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    • 3 Jul 2007, 15:49

    PJ Harvey to return with new album in September

    PJ Harvey is to release a new album later this year.

    The singer's seventh studio album 'White Chalk' will come out on September 24.

    Harvey began work on the follow-up to 2004's 'Uh Huh Her', last year with producer Flood and John Parish, who also worked on her 'To Bring You My Love' and 'Is This Desire?' albums in 1995 and 1998 respectively.

    The new album also features the singer's long term collaborators Eric Drew Feldman and Jim White from The Dirty Three.

    Harvey is set to showcase new material from 'White Chalk' during her sold-out appearance at Bridgewater Hall on July 7 as part of the Manchester International Festival.

    Source: Old NME


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    • 3 Jul 2007, 15:51

    Kylie Minogue For Christmas Doctor Who

    Kylie Minogue has been drafted in to guest star on the Christmas special of Doctor Who.

    The Aussie songstress has what the BBC are calling “a major lead role” in an hour long episode called Voyage of the Damned.

    Executive producer of the show Russell T Davies says that he is “delighted and excited” to have secured Minogue’s services and promised “this will be the most ambitious and best Christmas episode yet.”

    Source: gigwise


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    • 3 Jul 2007, 15:56

    allofmp3.com shut down, again

    The controversial Russian music download site allofmp3.com has closed.

    The service, which sold songs at a fraction of the cost of other sites, claimed to be the second biggest seller of music downloads after iTunes.

    It was the subject of countless lawsuits from UK and US record labels that claimed it violated copyright law.

    The site's owners, MediaServices, maintained the site was legal under Russian law and has subsequently set up a new service called mp3Sparks.com.

    The closure of the original site has been welcomed by the record industry.

    Source: BBC News


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    • 3 Jul 2007, 16:25

    Streamers: Jarvis Cocker

    Gordon Brown's Prime Minister. And?

    Running The World mp3

    Brown sets out reform proposals - BBC News


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    • 3 Jul 2007, 17:18

    Morrissey - That's How People Grow Up

    On Letterman last week. New single from forthcoming album.




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    • 3 Jul 2007, 17:25

    Video - Kanye West - Stronger

    Stronger

    Good tune, good production, disappointing lyrics (I'd have expected better from him), too much spent on the video.



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    • 3 Jul 2007, 17:40

    Video - The Thrills

    Nothing Changes Around Here, from the new album due 23 July, Teenager. Amazon.co.uk.



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    • 3 Jul 2007, 17:49

    Study - How Consumers Use Social Network Sites

    Forrester.com Study - Excerpt from first document in the "Social Networking" series.

    Executive Summary: Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have seen tremendous growth over the past two years, attracting a young and engaged audience. Frequent users of these social networking sites not only engage in more activities and have a more positive attitude about these sites, but they are also far more interested in profiles from their favorite companies. Marketers interested in reaching their audiences on social networking sites should: 1) dispense with traditional Web marketing tactics, 2) encourage "friending," and 3) regularly refresh content.


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    • 3 Jul 2007, 18:04

    Lily Allen on Friday Night Project

    I missed the show but it looks like it was a good one. Lily Allen on last week's Friday Night Project. A hilarious waste of 10 mins. Lots more clips in YouTube.



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    • 3 Jul 2007, 18:11

    Video - Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula

    New single. Great on every level.

    Tarantula

    Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula mp3



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  • REM's Live Rehearsals

    There has to come a time when you get sick of going on about shiny happy people, the man on the moon and telling people that it's the end of the world as we know it (but you feel fine). REM must have played those old hits so many times over the decades that they feel no need to rehearse them.

    The same doesn't go for new material, but Stipe and co have long gone past the stage where they need to develop fresh songs in isolation. Instead, over five nights this week they are road testing the songs from their as-yet-untitled 15th studio album at Dublin's Olympia Theatre, which they're not due to start recording until later this year with producer-of-the-moment Jacknife Lee. Each night, Stipe is reading the lyrics to 10 works-in-progress from his laptop, the breaking-in of this new, reportedly quite rocky, material mixed with a smattering of old material, such as Second Guessing and Letter Never Sent. To outline that the audience are actually watching a live rehearsal rather than a concert, there are helpful flashing signs proclaiming: "This is not a show".

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  • Gigs will make you go deaf: official

    A study published today (July 2) describes how almost seven in ten of people who go to gigs suffer hearing damage as a result.

    The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) report that 68 per cent of people who go to gigs experience hearing damage afterwards, such as dullness of hearing or tinnitus - a constant ringing sound in the ear.

    Hearing can be damaged by noises above 85 decibels, so with the average gig clocking in at 100 decibels, the findings come as no surprise.

    Pete Townsend, guitarist with The Who, suffers from deafness after a lifetime of rock and is one star who has highlighted the problem.

    Last year the star said he feared there was "terrible trouble ahead" for the music-loving younger generation, especially for those who use iPods with headphones.

    Similarly, Brian Chippendale, drummer with hyper-loud US rock duo Lightning Bolt, is practically deaf and hears constant ringing in his ears due to the extreme noise his band makes. "Sometimes I lie in bed with my girlfriend and all I can hear is hissing," he said in a past interview.

    The RNID is recommending noise exposure levels for gig venues, and that fans use re-usable earplugs at gigs for protection.

    Via NME

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