Simian Mobile Disco played an evening slot in the Dance Tent at the Reading Festival today (August 24), before SMD man James Ford had to rushing off to play drums for The Last Shadow Puppets.
A large crowd had turned up to go through the band's sunset point, which saw the couple drop tunes including 'Hustler', 'Sleep Deprivation', and 'It's The Beat'.
The band utilised impressive lighting effects to create a euphoric atmosphere for their show, before Ford headed off to bang the drums for The Last Shadow Puppets, who are up on the NME/Radio 1 Stage next.
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Thursday 28 August 2008
Monday 18 August 2008
Guns N' Roses in talks for exclusive album release
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The June passing water of baseball club allegedly "down pat, finished" tracks from Guns N' Roses' long-delayed "Chinese Democracy" spurred a renewed round of speculation around whether the Axl Rose-led band volition finally freeing the 14-years-in-the-making album.
But some concrete signs are at long last emerging that the album's release could be at hand. That's because, according to sources, negotiations are below way for "Chinese Democracy" to add up out as an sole at unitary of the big-box retailers -- either Wal-Mart or Best Buy.
Negotiations ar also ongoing for conventional record ship's company distribution, another source aforementioned.
Guns N' Roses is now managed by Irving Azoff's Front Line Management, and Azoff is a long-familiar proponent of issuing albums exclusively through retailers. He released the Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden" through Wal-Mart, much to the humiliation of former merchants.
It's unclear who initiated the Guns N' Roses exclusive negotiations -- Front Line or Interscope, the band's label.
Representatives at Front Line and Interscope with knowledge of the situation couldn't be reached for comment. A Wal-Mart congresswoman said the chain couldn't confirm this fall's exclusive album offerings. Best Buy representatives couldn't be reached for scuttlebutt.
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Friday 8 August 2008
Obituary: Horst Stein
Horst Stein, the imposing German conductor whose life history spanned the second half of the 20th century, has died at the age of 80. His fluency and meticulous preparation stood him in good stead as he progressed from humble repetiteur to leading positions in the musical world, and at his c. H. Best he combined the solid virtues of the Kapellmeister (music music director) tradition with deep brainstorm.
The son of a mechanic, Stein was born in Elberfeld (now voice of Wuppertal in Germany's Ruhr realm), in the same town, by probability, as beau conductors Hans Knappertsbusch and G�nter Wand. He tended to the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt and the Cologne Conservatory, where he studied report with Philipp Jarnach, and conducting with Wand.
His first designation was as repetiteur at Wuppertal (1947-51), after which he became music manager at the Hamburg State Opera in 1951. Gaining experience with such conductors as Herbert von Karajan, Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss and Joseph Keilberth at the Bayreuth Festival from 1952, he went to the Berlin State Opera as music director in 1955. Despite existence promoted to chief conductor there, Stein left East Germany in 1961, reversive to Hamburg as deputy general euphony director under Rolf Liebermann.
Before a second import at Hamburg, this prison term as general music theatre director (1972-77), he held posts at the Mannheim National Theatre and Vienna State Opera. Between 1969 and 1986, he conducted a remarkable 138 Wagner performances at the Bayreuth Festival - the Ring, Parsifal, Meistersinger, Tristan and Tannh�user - a total eclipsed, however, by more than 500 appearances with the Vienna State Opera. If such tallies speak well for Stein's professionalism and technical facility, they do at the same time characterise him as a very different animal from the inspirational, charismatic Carlos Kleiber, whom he replaced in trey performances of Tristan at Bayreuth in 1976 (and for the entire hunt down in 1977) to disappointing effect. Stein could be pedestrian in the extreme in these scores, though his admirers found much to praise in the strength, precision and consistency of his conducting.
He certainly proven himself to be a capable mate of custody at the festival, mastering the notoriously tricky acoustics of the Festspielhaus and introducing the new chorus master, Norbert Balatsch, a colleague with whom he had worked in Vienna. His contribution was much valued by Wolfgang Wagner, who plant him a reliable pardner over the entire full stop, not least that of his modern production of the Ring (1970-75).
From the 1980s, Stein exhausted less time in the pit and more on the soapbox, accepting appointments as headman conductor of the Suisse Romande Orchestra (1980-85) and of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1985-96). From 1987 to 1994 he was also top dog conductor of the Basle Symphony Orchestra, and in those decades he appeared also as a guest conductor with the Berlin, London and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Japan. In 1996 he was made conductor emeritus of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for life.
Stein's Bayreuth endeavours can be sampled on the late DVD release of the 1981 Bayreuth Parsifal; other notable opera recordings admit a 1971 Zauberfl�te from Hamburg, directed by Peter Ustinov, featuring Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and a Don Carlos from Vienna, with Franco Corelli, Gundula Janowitz, Shirley Verrett and Martti Talvela.
If the accomplishment of Stein's complete transcription of Max Reger's orchestral works for Koch Schwann demonstrates the requisite tenaciousness for that composer's body of work, and an unsurprising empathy for its sometimes unremarkable aesthetic, then his recordings of Bruckner symphonies (Nos 2 and 6 with the Vienna Philharmonic, No 4 with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra) and Beethoven piano concertos (with Friedrich Gulda as soloist) have got also met with considerable acclaim.
� Horst Walter Stein, conductor, born May 2 1928; died July 27 2008
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Tobias Regner
Artist: Tobias Regner
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Straight
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Rocker Tobias Regner was one of a genesis of raw artists vaulted to renown via reality tv when he claimed top honors during the third base season of Germany's Federal Republic of Germany Sucht den SuperStar. Born in Teisendorf, Bavaria, on August 5, 1982, Regner studied classical and jazz forte-piano as a nestling merely eventually gravitated to rock 'n' roll & roll, as a stripling fronting the arduous metal band Black Jack's. Stints in groups including Plutone, Ge'läck, and Melock followed piece he concurrently studied communication theory at the Universität Salzburg. After graduating in the summer of 2005, Regner auditioned for the smash hit Germany Sucht den SuperStar and was named one of barely 18 finalists among 14,000 applicants. On the series' March 19, 2006, coda, he edged out Mike Leon Grosch to gain first prize, claiming rough 55 pct of the interview vote. Regner issued his chart-topping debut LP, Unbowed, a calendar month after, notching his first-class honours degree number one single with "I Still Burn." The followup, "She's So," barely alligatored the German Top 40, however.
Thursday 19 June 2008
Correction: People-Colbert story
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In a June 3 story about Stephen Colbert speaking at Princeton University's Class Day, The Associated Press, relying on an estimate from the university, reported erroneously that Colbert spoke to 2,611 graduating students. The university now says there were about 1,100 graduating students at the event.
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Monday 9 June 2008
Desired State
Artist: Desired State
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
RAMM 07R
Year: 1994
Tracks: 2
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Wednesday 4 June 2008
Lindsay Lohan poses nude in tribute to Monroe
Actress Lindsay Lohan has posed nude in homage to Marilyn Monroe for the new spring fashion issue of New York magazine.
Lohan recreated the legendary actress' final 1962 photo shoot for Bert Stern with the veteran photographer himself.
According to People magazine, the 21-year-old star said she was comfortable being nude before the camera.
She said she was also aware of the parallels between Monroe's tragic fate - dead from an accidental overdose of prescription medicines - and that of Heath Ledger.
Referring to Ledger, Lohan said: "You know, it's also tragic what just recently happened to someone else. They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone."
Lohan recreated the legendary actress' final 1962 photo shoot for Bert Stern with the veteran photographer himself.
According to People magazine, the 21-year-old star said she was comfortable being nude before the camera.
She said she was also aware of the parallels between Monroe's tragic fate - dead from an accidental overdose of prescription medicines - and that of Heath Ledger.
Referring to Ledger, Lohan said: "You know, it's also tragic what just recently happened to someone else. They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone."
Wednesday 28 May 2008
Toshinori Kondo
Artist: Toshinori Kondo
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Fukyo
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Of course of action, like many new wave experimenters and musical iconoclasts, Kondo's early musical influences were largely straight-ahead jazz, specially hard bebop. Indeed, the constitute of his college ring, the Funky Beaters, jolly reeks of difficult bebop attitude, specially if one subscribes to the theory that the nickname "bebop" came from the healthy of a policeman's truncheon giving a suspect a trouncing. Such was the ambiance during this artist's college years, when an tremendous turmoil took station in the beau monde, fueled on by the radicalism of the '60s. His number one love in jazz was Charlie Parker, just different many trumpet players, he did not opt one road or the other 'tween the deuce boldness stylists closely associated with him: Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Both trumpeters became nearly every bit earthing influences in his performing, which has always combined the fulgent, sometimes steep virtuosity of Gillespie with just about every facial expression of Davis' calling one bathroom think of, from the buzzy fry of his Harmon deaf-mute to the total galvanising medicine counsel. The relieve malarky of Ornette Coleman was the next major influence, only inside the tone of this music, he developed his own frame of reference work which was more strongly influenced by his upbringing and religious studies than any fussy musical influences. His padre had been a ship builder, and this man's combination of bouts of hard crop and tot relaxation method became something of a philosophical view. "Is outstanding: doing nix" and "Best part: no substance" were typical summations of the Kondo reality sight during an eRA when his subordination of English was still underlying.
He played with both British guitar player Derek Bailey and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy prior to his New York visit, and continued straddling the fence 'tween ceremonious jazz collaborations and the outer fringes of dislodge playing through his varied New York relationships. Another pre-American coaction was with the release jazz drummer Milford Graves, recorded during a tour of Japan in which Graves collaborated with locals. The aforementioned bring back to Japan and great economic succeeder eventually light-emitting diode to a conclusion to relocate to Amsterdam, where his profile became every scrap as blue as the Tokyo theatrical role had been abundantly widespread. Only a smattering of Dutch musicians know how to contact him when he is in Holland, and he has made absolutely no drive to suit involved in that country's heavily militant jazz view; and he is surely the low gear immigrant to Holland around which that could be said.
In the early part of the new millennium, he was approached by the Dalai Lama around organizing an international ataraxis fete in Hiroshima, an event that finally took place in 2002. The planning was difficult, as expected funding from rich Japanese businesses failed to materialize; even the mightiest companies were afraid of offending the Chinese, and later losing their business, by throwing in with the Tibetans, even if simply for a music fete. Kondo even met with the flush actor Richard Gere concerning the funding of this project, but the anonymous nature of the case makes unsufferable whatever revelation of kale flow from the pockets of his crocked bloomers. Kondo continues to be a visionary emotional state whose belated '90s recordings in both free jazz and electronica feature attracted an only new consultation. One protrude that may ne'er see the light of day, all the same, is an record album of solo electric trumpet recorded for Tzadik; judge boss John Zorn manifestly prefers this artist's acoustic performing and refused to release it.
Friday 23 May 2008
Laura Dern loved role as Harris in HBO's "Recount"
Laura Dern loved role as Harris in HBO's "Recount"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In November 2000, Florida Writing table of DoS Katherine Frank Harris was the most hated cleaning woman in U.S. by many Democrats, which is why self-described liberal Laura Dern loved portraying her in the fresh HBO motion picture, "Recount."
The photographic film, which pose on the U.S. cable telecasting web starting on Billy Sunday, takes audiences stake to the disputed 2000 presidential election that sent George IV W. President George W. Bush to the White Star sign.
Mix-up over "hanging chads" and chat up ballots light-emitting diode Democratic candidate, then Frailty President Al Gore, to challenge the election outcome and call for recounts in Everglade State, which Zellig Sabbatai Harris, a Republican with aspirations for higher office staff, finally ordered halted.
End-to-end the TV picture show, writer Danny Strong characterizes Harris as clueless about the workings of her office only shrewd around decision making that would favor Republicans. Harris' dual nature, Dern said, is wherefore she loved the role.
"That's what made it even more sport to be honest, to get indoors the head of that sort of someone, to canvas her take care and be like her -- all those challenges make it to a greater extent fun," Dern told Reuters in a holocene interview.
"I've never had so much fun in my lifetime," she added.
Dern, 41, has enjoyed many roles over a long career. The girl of thespian David Bruce Dern and actress Diane Ladd, Dern began performing small parts as a baby and came into her possess in her late teens and early 20s in several of director David Lynch's films, including "Blue Velvet" and "Wilderness at Marrow."
In the 1990s, she landed in big Hollywood flicks such as Steven Spielberg's dinosaur thriller "Jurassic Ballpark," but never strayed too far from smaller, mugwump movies such as "Citizen Commiseration," which dealt with the politics of abortion.
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Britney Spears to return to How I Met Your Mother
Britney Spears to return to How I Met Your Mother
Britney Spears is set to return to How I Met Your Mother.
“The show is ecstatic and so is Britney,” a source tells People.com. “She had so much play the first time around she truly wanted to come back up. It was a mutual determination to knead together more.”
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The isaac Merrit Singer appeared on the March 24 episode, playing a a bubbly, sweet, receptionist at a dermatologist�s agency world Health Organization fell for one of the show�s main characters, played by Kid Radnor. She received wide accolades for the spot.
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