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New New Musical Express - August 2007

 
    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 31 Jul 2007, 16:03

    New New Musical Express - August 2007

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    Post your new music news, views and gig reviews here.

    * Blogs with Tracks: M.I.A.: ‘Boyz’ Kimono Kops Remix & ‘URAQT’ LuvTek Remix
    * Stéphane Pompougnac - Hôtel Costes
    * Exposure - Emmy the Great
    * Sunset Rubdown - new album (Random Spirit Lover)
    * Blogs with Tracks: Sunset Rubdown
    * Journal - Gig Review - Reverend and the Makers, by Spectral_Shift
    * Video: Remi Nicole - Go Mr Sunshine
    * Journal - Iceland Airwaves Music Festival: over 170 bands, by puddlegum
    * Journal - Calvin Harris: I Created Disco to hit the US, by puddlegum
    * Journal - Rogue Wave: Asleep at Heaven’s Gate and tour with Feist, by puddlegum
    * BBC4 Sessions: Ryan Adams
    * Facebook kills Audio for copyright violations
    * Apple may be planning ad-funded iTunes, according to UK Copyright Tribunal
    * Ukulele Exposure: Michael Wagner
    * Journal - Architecture in Helsinki announces fall tour, by puddlegum
    * Tea Break - Jake Shimabukuro plays "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
    * Last.fm on Current TV UK
    * George Bush's Music Industry Insight
    * RIP Lee Hazlewood
    * Very Small Man Plays Guitar
    * Warner/Chappell Music Acquires Leading Production Music Library Non-Stop Music
    * Investors bear down on Warner Music

    Page 2

    * Video - Goldspot - Friday
    * Video - My Little Problem - Bench Sleeping
    * Video - Nicole Willis and The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (I Don't Know What Is)
    * Video - Xvostya - Russian Survivalism
    * Video - Bad Brains - Give Thanks And Praise/Jah Love
    * Journal - Live review - of Montreal, by homsar_rb
    * Journal - Canon Blue to debut Colonies on Rumraket, by puddlegum
    * Video - Ben's Brother - Let Me Out
    * Azam Ali - Roseland
    * Video - The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance
    * Anthony Wilson dies from cancer
    * Universal sells songs without DRM
    * 50 Cent promises to quit if Kanye outsells him
    * AT&T Cuts Anti-Bush Lyrics From Pearl Jam Webcast
    * Ukulele Exposure: Jacob Borshard
    * Ukulele Exposure: Woodshed1
    * Video - Rjd2 - Work It Out
    * Users riot as the lawyers land on Digg.com
    * Gbox to challenge iTunes
    * Manu Chao - La Radiolina
    * Video - The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me
    * Video - Kula Shaker - Second Sight
    * Video - Maps - You Don't Know Her Name
    * Video - Hatcham Social - Til the Dawn

    Page 3

    * Video - The Go! Team - My World
    * Journal - On the Side - Heaven is a Feeling, by Llapen
    * Journal - Keith Rowe - The Room, by pabanks46
    * Journal - Pela: video, tour, lineup changes, and new album, by puddlegum
    * Video - Wisin & Yandel - Pam Pam
    * Video - Editors - An End Has A Start
    * Video - Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything
    * Journal - Album review - The New Pornographers, by homsar_rb
    * Journal - New Music September 07 - by Nialloleary
    * Streamers: The New Pornographers - Challengers
    * Radiohead Album Delayed
    * Exposure - Paul Dateh & Inka One
    * Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach dies at age 83
    * CD celebrates 25th birthday
    * Gaming Surpasses Video, Social Nets In Online Popularity: Study
    * AllofMP3 founder cleared of copyright violation
    * Journal - Okkervil River: The Stage Names, plus North American and European Tour, by puddlegum
    * Last.fm Supports The Spitz
    * Video - Colleen - I'll Read You A Story
    * Exposure - Beach House
    * Mourners remember 'Mr Manchester', Tony Wilson
    * Streamers: Beck - Timebomb
    * Blogs with Tracks: Exclusive: Listen to The B-52's 'Private Idaho' (The Grid Remix)
    * Video - Ian Brown - Illegal Attacks

    Page 4

    * Blogs with Tracks: Eddie Vedder Ventures 'Into the Wild'
    * Streamers: Mark Knopfler - 'Punish The Monkey' and 'True Love Will Never Fade'
    * Journal - "Tunng" Love All Around - we're catching Bullets in our teeth.... la la la la, by champersnova
    * Journal - Beirut: The Flying Club Cup, and Elephant Gun single, by puddlegum
    * Journal - Jon Lucien Leaves Us 18 Aug 07 - Keep Listening Love, by IanAR
    * Robert Fripp - At The End Of Time
    * Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
    * Karen Dalton - Cotton Eyed Joe
    * My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse
    * Trilok Gurtu - The Definitive Trilok Gurtu: Twenty Years of Talking Tabla
    * Hallam Foe Original Soundtrack
    * Streamers: Comanechi - Death of You
    * Streamers: Cornershop - Topknot (feat. M.I.A.)
    * Video - Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
    * Exposure - Liz Green
    * Video - M.I.A. - Jimmy
    * Video - The Kaiser Chiefs- The Angry Mob
    * Exposure - Little Dragon
    * Tea Break - Bollywood 'Disco Dancer'
    * Tea Break - Bollywood 'Kadhalan'
    * Video - Grinderman - Depth Charge Ethel (Treacle Sessions)
    * Video - Bollywood - 'Aap Kaa Surroor' - Mehbooba
    * Journal - Nine Black Alps, 20.8.07, by Soundhog
    * Journal - Tegan & Sara, 12.8.07, by Soundhog
    * Streamers: M.I.A. - Jimmy

    Page 5

    * Internet radio gets a second wind
    * Journal - New-shoe-gazers: A Sunny Day In Glasgow, by champersnova
    * Journal - Battles in Brighton, by hotchk155
    * Journal - M.I.A. - Kala : Kyaa Bhaat Hai!, by Babs_05
    * Journal - Trail of Dead at Concorde 2 Brighton, by hotchk155
    * Journal - Super Furry Animals- Hey Venus!
    * Journal - Luke Temple - Snowbeast, by Babs_05
    * Video: Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
    * Exposure - Simphiwe Dana - The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street
    * Exposure - Paul Steel - Moon Rock
    * Video - Fionn Regan - Put A Penny In The Slot
    * Video - Chamillionaire - Hip Hop Police/Evening News (Correct Version)
    * Journal - Tim Williams: to release When Work Is Done on October 2, by puddlegum
    * Journal - Synthpop Meets Doom Rock: Hearts of Black Science, by champersnova
    * Journal - Band of Horses: Is There A Ghost, by puddlegum
    * Journal - Film School: Hideout on 9-11, fall tour, by puddlegum
    * Journal - The Innocence Mission: We Walked In Song released in Europe, by puddlegum
    * Journal - Horse Feathers: recording new album, fall tour, by puddlegum
    * Sony Ditching Connect Music Service
    * Sigur Ros release DVD and double CD
    * YouTube Licenses 10 Million Tracks From U.K. Music Societies
    * Blogs with Tracks: New Gomez - Moon and Sun
    * Blogs with Tracks: Rihanna "Umbrella" (Vandalism Remix)
    * Vivendi Up As Music Downloads Double, Games Grow 91.9 Percent
    * Video: Siouxsie - Into A Swan

    Page 6

    * Video: Cajun Dance Party - Amylase
    * Video: The Flies - High
    * Video: Múm - They Made Frogs Smoke Til They Exploded
    * Video: KT Tunstall - Hold On
    * ... And Finally... The Sheilas


    Edited by Babs_05 on 2 Sep 2007, 01:44
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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 31 Jul 2007, 22:12

    Blogs with Tracks: M.I.A.: ‘Boyz’ Kimono Kops Remix & ‘URAQT’ LuvTek Remix

    Let's start with (for me) more from the most anticipated album of the month.

    The tracks in this blog are remixes. Ought to keep us all going till 21 August!

    The Blog with The Tracks. ; )


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  • Thanks for the link, Babs. Will be giving those 2 a listen tomorrow.

    While browsing Amazon.co.uk earlier today for some new releases to get my hands on, I noticed Stéphane Pompougnac's new Hôtel Costes compilation, now at the tenth in the series, is up for pre-order before its release on September 25th.



    I only own 2 in the series, but both, and as I understand it, all of them specialise in the classy lounge / trip-hop / nu-jazz type material. They used to come in digipaks, but they're now housed in snazzy square boxes with models like above decorating the cover and booklet(s). Overall quite a nice package, one that further perpetuates (one of their many) stereotype(s), that the French are classy bastards.

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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 1 Aug 2007, 16:45

    Exposure - Emmy the Great

    Watch this girl's star rise. She already has over 4,000 listeners in Last.fm and the press have only just started noticing her. If Lily Allen opened the door and Kate Nash barged in and made a noise, then Emmy The Great is the one who calmly saunters in, pulls up a chair, and shows them how it's done.

    Hear three tracks from her forthcoming EP on her MySpace. MIA is about a fatal car crash, thought I'd warn you in advance.

    The style is 'girl folk' with a backbone. Gutsy, bare, observational and bold. (no, girl folk isn't a genre, I just made it up, but you get the idea).

    Pure Groove Records from 20 August.


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  • "And once I knew, I was not magnificent"

    MFM ///MUSIC FAN'S MIC
    Edited by Jambo234 on 1 Aug 2007, 18:15
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  • Sunset Rubdown - new album (Random Spirit Lover)

    Good shout on Emmy The Great by the way, have been following her for a while, she's bound to be huge this time next year.

    Sunset Rubdown however, have been sitting on the sidelines for a while, they've been something of a secret project merging in 2005, they don't even have an official website. Yet this is their third record to be released, as far as I know.


    Word of them has spread efficiently, despite the lack of press attention. This is likely to be because of the eye-catching name of Spencer Krug. Eye-catching, as some may recognize him as a member of the acclaimed Wolf Parade. Rubdown was originally a solo project, but he has sinced been joined by Jordan Robson Cramer, Michael Doerksen and Camilla Wynne Ingr. Binding together their musical talent, it's all rather exciting.

    'Random Spirit Lover', their new album should be described simply as, incredible. Defiant and brave, summery yet bleak, if any record released this year will make you go "wow" and reach for the nearest object to hang on to, this could very well be that record.
    Released in October, people who have heard it are already describing it as quite possibly, the album of the year. Let me announce that I am one of those people, and I have that opinion.

    Released October 9th. Keep your eyes peeled.


    "And once I knew, I was not magnificent"

    MFM ///MUSIC FAN'S MIC
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  • "And once I knew, I was not magnificent"

    MFM ///MUSIC FAN'S MIC
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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 1 Aug 2007, 20:34

    Blogs with Tracks: Sunset Rubdown

    Insufferable blog, but there are tracks at the end of it so you don't have to read it all.

    The Blog with The Tracks.

    Includes new song Winged/Wicked Things, unreleased song Jason Believe Me, You Can't Trust Your Dreams, and a couple of others from last year's album, Shut Up I Am Dreaming.

    Sounds very Interpol, Editors, that stable, to me.


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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 1 Aug 2007, 21:38

    Journal - Gig Review - Reverend and the Makers, by Spectral_Shift

    From the desk of Spectral_Shift, gig review, Reverend and the Makers.

    Extract:

    Reverend (Jon McClure) and his Makers have only been around for a year, have only released one single, yet they played the Other Stage at Glastonbury and their current tour dates are sold out. Their close ties to the Arctic Monkeys have helped but it’s the quality of the performances that keeps people coming back. The music is hard to pin down – a complex combination of guitar and keyboards that produces a brilliant funk rock sound, layered with dirty electro riffs and jittery ska-like beats.


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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 2 Aug 2007, 02:09

    Video: Remi Nicole - Go Mr Sunshine

    New single from Remi Nicole, due for release 13 August on Island Records.

    MySpace.

    Go Mr Sunshine



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    • 2 Aug 2007, 16:29

    Journal - Iceland Airwaves Music Festival: over 170 bands, by puddlegum

    From the desk of puddlegum - journal - Iceland Airwaves Music Festival: over 170 bands.

    Extract:

    Iceland Airwaves is sponsoring the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, October 17-21, in celebration to Iceland’s 63rd birthday. Of the 170 bands performing, the lineup for the festival includes: Bloc Party, of Montreal, !!! (chk chk chk), Best Fwends, Mum, Gus Gus, Buck 65, Bonde de role, Annuals, Loney, dear, Deerhoof, Lali Puna, Benni Hemm Hemm, and Jakobinarina. Over two-thirds of the lineup will be local Icelandic artists.


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    • 2 Aug 2007, 16:33

    Journal - Calvin Harris: I Created Disco to hit the US, by puddlegum

    From the desk of puddlegum, journal - Calvin Harris: I Created Disco to hit the US.

    Extract:

    Calvin Harris is being introduced to the US market on September 4, with the release of I Created Disco. The fourteen track album was first released in Europe on June 18 via EMI, already sporting several hit songs in the UK. Almost Gold, who brought us Peter Bjorn and John and Walter Meego, is Calvin's North American label.


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    • 2 Aug 2007, 23:41

    Journal - Rogue Wave: Asleep at Heaven’s Gate and tour with Feist, by puddlegum

    From the desk of puddlegum, journal - promo - Rogue Wave: Asleep at Heaven’s Gate and tour with Feist.

    Extract:

    Rogue Wave has confirmed a September US tour, opening for Feist over six consecutive dates. Three days after the tour, their new album, Asleep At Heaven’s Gate, will be released on September 18 on Jack Johnson’s brushfire records. Then in October they will headline their own tour in support of the new album. Presales for the October tour begin today, August 2.


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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 3 Aug 2007, 14:34

    BBC4 Sessions: Ryan Adams

    BBC4 (UK) weekly sessions series focuses on Ryan Adams tonight (Friday) with an hour long gig, recorded especially for the BBC.

    There's some extra footage to view online (UK only).

    BBC Four Music - Ryan Adams.


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  • Facebook kills Audio for copyright violations

    Facebook completely removed the Audio music-sharing application from its platform last night, saying it violated music copyrights.

    Audio was developed by a third party using Facebook’s platform for developers, and Facebook says Audio violates its newly updated developer terms of service.

    Audio allowed users to upload audio files in the mp3 format, share them with each other and listen to them within Facebook. By the end of last week, it had nearly 750,000 users.

    Read more on Venture Beat

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  • If you're not a music industry executive, you probably haven't spent much time perusing the documents from the recent UK Copyright Tribunal's decision on online royalty rates for music publishers. But some people have, and they've turned up evidence that Apple is maybe planning to introduce ad-funded music on iTunes.

    Digital music consultancy Music Ally did the sleuthing, which was published in its latest fortnightly report. Documents released after the UK Copyright Tribunal decided what the royalty rates should be show discussion around what happens when online music services give away tunes supported by advertising. And guess what? Apple was involved in that debate as one of the applicants in the Tribunal.

    Read more on Tech Digest

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  • Ukulele Exposure: Michael Wagner



    His MySpace

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    • 4 Aug 2007, 14:16

    Journal - Architecture in Helsinki announces fall tour, by puddlegum

    From the desk of puddlegum, journal - Architecture in Helsinki announces fall tour.

    Extract:

    Aussie sextet Architecture in Helsinki will release its third album, Places Like This on Aug. 21 via Polyvinyl Records, and will launch a full US tour on Oct. 10 in Philadelphia. The single, Heart It Races, is out now on CD EP, 12″ and 7″ formats.


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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 5 Aug 2007, 02:15

    Tea Break - Jake Shimabukuro plays "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

    Especially for Woodshed1. Enjoy! : )



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    • 5 Aug 2007, 21:06

    Last.fm on Current TV UK

    A little video of staff at Last.fm.

    http://uk.current.com/watch/71517102


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  • George Bush's Music Industry Insight



    via Hypebot

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  • RIP Lee Hazlewood

    Lee Hazlewood

    In 1956 Lee Hazlewood's song The Fool, recorded by Phoenix country singer Sanford Clark, gave Hazlewood, who has died of renal cancer aged 78, his first top 10 hit. The hits were to keep on coming; in 2003 the British band Primal Scream (teamed with Kate Moss) brought out their version of Hazlewood's Some Velvet Morning (1968), and half a century after his first success Hazlewood released a self-proclaimed "final album", Cake Or Death. His most famous song, These Boots Are Made for Walking, was a 1966 British and US No 1 for Nancy Sinatra. With its offbeat hook and sadomasochistic overtones, the work remains a fine example of the aesthetic that ran through a prolific, if unorthodox, career: his fan website hailed him as "the real creative genius of the popular music scene".

    More at Guardian Unlimited

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  • Very Small Man Plays Guitar



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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 7 Aug 2007, 00:41

    Warner/Chappell Music Acquires Leading Production Music Library Non-Stop Music

    Acquisition Gives Warner/Chappell a Key Presence in a Growing Segment of the Music Publishing Business

    Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp. today announced that it acquired Non-Stop Music, one of the industry's leading production music library companies. The move enhances WCM's presence in a fast-growing, high-margin segment of the music publishing business and underscores the importance of film, television, Internet and corporate outlets to the music publishing industry. WCM will immediately begin joint marketing of the Non-Stop library to an expanded base of synchronization customers and Warner/Chappell's other musical properties.

    Formed by musicians in 1981, Non-Stop is a leader in the production music library business and has built a library of more than 35,000 song titles that it licenses to film, television, Internet and corporate clients. Non-Stop also operates its own state-of-the-art recording studio and has a stable of musicians it draws upon to compose original film scores, music for film trailers, television theme songs, theme music for corporate films and commercial jingles.

    Source and full story: CNN Money


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    • Babs_05 said...
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    • 7 Aug 2007, 00:51

    Investors bear down on Warner Music

    Shares in Warner Music fell to a record low on Monday – more than 60 per cent below their peak for the year – as the last quoted recorded music company became the focus for investors’ bearishness about the industry’s prospects.

    Last month’s decision by Warner, which is due to report third-quarter earnings today, to drop its seven-year pursuit of EMI has raised questions about its prospects in the absence of a merger, which could have provided cost-saving opportunities and built a stronger rival to the larger Universal Music and Sony BMG.

    Its shares, which peaked at $27.24 late last year, were trading at $10.67, down 3 per cent, on Monday, after analysts at Citigroup lowered their price target from $19 to $10 per share.

    Warner is expected to report today that its US market share is at its highest level for a decade, at 20.4 per cent, and its share of revenues coming from digital distribution continues to rise.

    However, such strengths have been overshadowed by continued bad news about CD sales, still the most important part of the recorded music market, and by concerns that Warner may have to pay up to keep some of its most valuable artists.

    Source and full story: FT.com


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