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Cancellations and Postponements

Read More Black Angels Forget the Polar Vortex, the Winter Psych Storm is coming. A taste of Texas psychedelia hits the road as Austin’s The Black Angels brings 13th Floor Elevators rock legend Roky Erickson … Adele First up is Adele's 21 album has sold over 25 million records worldwide (10 million in the U.S. alone!). According to the press announcement, Adele is the only European female …

CNN wrote that concerts cancellations and postponements will be commonplace due to COVID-19 as Adele fights back tears when she announced her Las Vegas residency shows had been postponed.

According to On Gametime, the leading app/site for last minute tickets, two tickets to Adele’s show at Caesars Palace were going for over $96,950 (each seat is $48,475) including service fees.

Adele at the Theatre De La Jeune Lune (02 Jun 2008)

We are happy to brag that we saw Adele, front row seat, for $17.50 in June 2008. No one knew who she was at the time, having only just released her debut album 19. She actually didn’t have enough songs to fill out a full headliner show, so she threw in four cover songs, including Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” and Sam Cooke’s “That’s It I Quit I’m Movin’ On”.

Anyway, it’s sad to see the Adele cancellations, but this isn’t anything new to us, as we have experienced many last-minute cancellations since venues re-opened in July 2021 (Horsegirl at 7th Street Entry).

If you have a show booked this or next month, I suggest you check with the venue or the band’s social media accounts.

Recently, The Black Angels had to announce their show cancellation/postponement. Here is the message:

We're very sad to announce that we have to postpone our upcoming tour due to ongoing concerns and uncertainty about the spread of Covid-19. We will be announcing the rescheduled dates very soon, so please hold on to your tickets and they will be honored for the rescheduled shows. Can't wait to see you all when we get back out on the road soon!!!

Cancellations and Postponements.

Cancelled - Jan 19 Lomelda at 7th St Entry

Cancelled - Jan 20 OKnice at 7th St Entry

Cancelled - Jan 20 Dawn Richard at Turf Club

Cancelled - Jan 20 Wolves In The Throne Room at Fine Line

Cancelled - Jan 21 Early Eyes and Dante Elephante at 7th St Entry

Cancelled - Jan 21 Happy Birthday Janis at First Avenue

Cancelled – Jan 23 The Kernal at 7th St Entry

Cancelled – Jan 24 Diet Cig at 7th St Entry

Postponed – Jan 25 Jeff Rosenstock at First Avenue

Cancelled – Jan 27 Reptaliens and Yot Club at 7th St Entry

Postponed – Jan 28 Tall Heights at 7th St Entry

Cancelled - Jan 29 The Current's 17th Anniversary Party at First Avenue

Cancelled – Jan 29 Asaf Avidan at Fine Line

Postponed – Jan 30 STRFKR at First Avenue

Cancelled - Jan 30 Tim Lopez Birthday Show at 7th St Entry

Cancelled – Feb 3 Becky Kapell at Turf Club

Postponed - Feb 5 The Black Angels at First Avenue

Postponed - Feb 7 Pinegrove at First Avenue

Cancelled - Feb 11 Willie Wisely and The Scarlet Goodbye at Turf Club

Cancelled - Mar 2 The Staves at First Avenue

Cancelled - Mar 4 Jonathan Richman at The Fitzgerald Theater

Cancelled - Mar 5 Nothing But Thieves at First Avenue

Postponed - Mar 16 Vundabar at The Cedar Cultural Center

Cancelled - Mar 28 GASHI at Fine Line

Cancelled - Mar 31 FUR at 7th St Entry

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If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to [email protected] with a good lead time. Thank you.

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Cover Lover: Amanda Palmer, Outshine, and Pterodactyl Problems

Read More Amanda Palmer I have to admit, Amanda Palmer puts on a very good live show. I knew what to expect, having seen her previously, but it was a different type of show at her appearance last night at First Avenue. This is one of the reasons why we love …

AMANDA PALMER
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I’ve always liked Dresden Dolls, so when Amanda Palmer went solo, I naturally followed her adventures. Every time I see her live, she always puts on a great show. I’ll never forget seeing author Neil Gaiman at one of my shows, and was shocked to see how chummy they were (I didn’t it until later, but they were dating at that time).

Palmer was down-under (in Australia), and covered Midnight Oil’s hit song “Beds Are Burning”, featuring Missy Higgins on lead vocals. The song was part of Palmer’s Forty-Five Degrees: A Bushfire Charity Flash Record, a charity album in response to the bushfire crisis plaguing Australia at that time.

If you like Midnight Oil, you’ll be pleased to hear that she also covered “Truganini”, featuring Montaigne. You can hear both of these songs on YouTube, go here for “Beds Are Burning”.

Track listing

1 My Favourite Things (Bushfire Edition)
2 Beds Are Burning
3 The Drover's Boy
4 Black Smoke
5 Suck It Up, Buttercup
6 Truganini
7 Solid Rock
8 Regional Echo

Read More Kavinsky Ever since I saw the trailer to Drive, I wanted to see the film. What I didn't know at the time was that the movie is directed by one of my favorite (new) director, Nicolas Refn, who did one of my favorite film a few years ago called Valhalla Rising. ....

OUTSHINE
outshineofficial.com

Sweden’s Outshine released their cover of “Nightcall” last month. We first heard the Kavinsky (featuring Lovefoxxx) song as the soundtrack to Nicolas Refn’s Drive in 2011. It’s a stand-out song that follows that Beauty & the Beast formula (a growly dark male vocals in contrast to a sugar sweet female vocal), and it works really well in that song.

It’s obvious that Outshine heard this song, liked it, but didn’t really want to include the nice girl-vocals, instead, making their version deliberately dark and dreadful.

A few years ago, we caught London Grammar in Feb 2015 was surprised to hear that covered “Nightcall” on their live set.

Prior to this, The Bluetones frontsman Mark Morriss covered “Nightcall” on his album A Flash of Darkness in 2013.

About the same time, Natalie McCool released “Nightcall” medley with “Real Hero” on her 2013 self-titled album.

There’s something about that song, I just can’t explain…

Read More Adele First up is Adele's 21 album has sold over 25 million records worldwide (10 million in the U.S. alone!). According to the press announcement, Adele is the only European female artist in history to earn this "Diamond Certification" …

PTERODACTYL PROBLEMS
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Toronto rockers Pterodactyl Problems released their cover of Adele’s “Hello” on Spotify on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14, 2020). You can listen to the song via show.co/pS57a7I or buy it on Amazon.

The band is described as genre-bending, genre-defiling… and apparently now gender-bending version of “Hello”. Overall, if you like the original song, you’ll like Pterodactyl Problems’ version - which played faithfully to the original song.

Adele at the Theatre De La Jeune Lune (02 Jun 2008)

It’s hard to believe how big and far-reaching Adele’s music have gotten. There was a time that no one’s heard of Adele. I had front-row seating to see the singer when she came through town in June 2008. Tickets were $17. My memory is bad as usual, but I don’t remember seeing a packed venue - but was told the show was sold out at 600 capacity. Still... that's a tiny number for someone like Adele. This was Adele’s first time in the U.S.A…

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W♥M241: Hello

W♥M241: Hello (50 mins) Read More Adele First up is Adele's 21 album has sold over 25 million records worldwide (10 million in the U.S. alone!). According to the press announcement, Adele is the only European female artist in history to earn this "Diamond Certification" …

Langen, John, and Vu say "Hello!"

Topics:

Deadly Paris Attack

Eagles of Death Metal

Morrissey wanted to re-release single "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris"

Adele

Over 3 million 25 album sold

Absolutely no social media or streaming available

December Releases

November Shows

Recovering Rocktober 2015

Gogol Bordello at First Ave (14 Nov 2015)

Matt Pond at Turf Club (10 Nov 2015)

Carole King Musical at Orpheum (25 Nov 2015)

Slow Magic at Varsity Theater (29 Nov 2015)

Upcoming Shows

The Get Up Kids at Triple Rock (01 Dec 2015)

Rhymesayers 20 at Target Center (04 Dec 2015)

Song Picks

The McCoys' "Hang On Sloopy"

Adele's "Hello"

BONUS: Adele's first show in Minneapolis, playing to less than 100 people at Theatre de la Jeune in 2008 (now she sells out 10k plus arenas), plus Fargo television show is so good!

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W♥M240: Ben Sollee and Mother Falcon (31 October 2015) Vu, John W♥M239: June is the new Rocktober (8 July 2015) Vu, John W♥M238: Athfest 2015 (18 May 2015) Vu, Dena W♥M237: Road to SXSW 2015 (28 Feb 2015) Vu, Jonathan, Christopher, Brody W♥M236: Fuzzy Machete #1 Fan (21 Feb 2015) Vu, Fuzzy Machete W♥M235: Bud Petal (15 Feb 2015) Sally, Bud

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W♥M166: Winter Shows

W♥M166 (38 mins)

Brody came on W♥M Radio to talk list some Winter shows. Incidentally, I don't go to shows in the Winter, so I'm not attending most of these shows (I don't even have their tour itinerary): The Maccabees, The Cribs, Kasabian, Phoenix (France), Palma Violets, Kooks, Peace, Xx, Kaiser Chiefs (lost a guitarist). The only show I'm attending is The Faint, which is happening tomorrow at First Avenue (December 13th).

Shows Brody wants to go to: Andrew Bird (12/17 at State Theatre), Of Monsters and Men (12/18 at First Ave), Steel Panther (12/20 at Mill City Nights). … And even more bands on tour, too numerous to mention (Vaccines, Drop Kick Murphy, Muse, Django Django, Alt-J, Ben Howard, The Staves, Mumford and Sons, Peggy Sue).

News discussed: Adele hit Diamond Certification with her 25+ million record sold of 21. Psy's "Gangnam Style" became the #1 video on YouTube. It was so popular, it was covered by Glee, you can read all about that here.

Stars just announced their The North North American tour, you can see all the tour dates and read all about it here on W♥M. Song of the show is "Calendar Girl", from their Set Yourself on Fire 2004 album.

BONUS: Eels are heading out on tour, plus new album Wonderful, Glorious.

02/14 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory 02/15 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre 02/16 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore 02/18 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater 02/19 Seattle, WA Showbox Theater 02/22 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue 02/23 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre 02/24 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 02/25 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre 02/26 Montreal, QC Theatre Corona 02/27 Boston, MA Paradise 03/01 New York, NY Webster Hall 03/02 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live 03/03 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 03/04 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 03/05 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse 03/07 Dallas, TX Granada Theater 03/08 Houston, TX Warehouse Live Ballroom 03/14 Belfast, Ireland Limelight 03/15 Dublin, Ireland Olympia 03/17 Manchester, UK Academy 03/18 Glasgow, UK O2 Academy

03/19 Leeds, UK O2 Academy 03/21 London, UK O2 Academy 03/23 Bournemouth, UK O2 Academy 03/25 Brighton, UK Dome 03/26 Norwich, UK UEA 03/27 Nottingham, UK Rock City 03/29 Bristol, UK O2 Academy 03/30 Birmingham, UK O2 Academy 04/01 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso 04/06 Copenhagen, Denmark Grey Hall 04/07 Hamburg, Germany Grosse Freiheit 04/08 Berlin, Germany Astra 04/10 Belgium, Brussels Cirque Royal 04/12 Caen, France Le Cargo 04/14 Salzburg, Austria Republic 04/15 Fribourg, Switzerland Frison 04/16 Zurich, Switzerland Volkshaus 04/18 Milan, Italy Alcatraz 04/19 Graz, Austria Orpheum 04/20 Linz, Austria Posthof 04/21 Vienna, Austria Gasometer 04/22 Munich, Germany Muffathalle 04/24 Paris, France Trianon

Also, Trust and Morrissey.

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Record Breakers

Read More Adele Clearly the big winner of the night was Adele, winning six Grammys: Album of the Year (21), Best Pop Record (21), Best Short Form Music Video ("Rolling in the Deep"), Record Of The Year...

Did you survive Black Friday and Thanksgiving? If you did, you may have missed some of this record-breaking news over the last few weeks.

ADELE
adele.tv

First up is Adele's 21 album has sold over 25 million records worldwide (10 million in the U.S. alone!).

According to the press announcement, Adele is the only European female artist in history to earn this "Diamond Certification", as certified by the RIAA.

"What an incredible honour," Adele exclaimed, "a huge, huge thank you to my American fans for embracing this record on such a massive level."

Fans hoping to hear new material will have satiate themselves with Adele's latest single, "Skyfall", which is featured in the 007 James Bond movie of the same name, and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

It's been a pretty amazing ride for Adele; it seems only yesterday that I saw her at an intimate show.

Looking forward to 23 or 24, Adele!

Read More Psy Hey so why am I buying into this? This K-pop YouTube sensation that is essentially the new "Chocolate Rain"? Well, however long PSY's rise to stardom is, this meme doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon...

PSY
psypark.com

You know we like Psy, check out the review on Psy's album 6甲 (Six Rules).

It is still pretty amazing that for a non-"pretty boy" Korean singer rode his phantom horse to the top of the charts with virtually NO RADIO AIRPLAY. What drove the madness? His video for "Gangnam Style"! It's crazy how popular it became in late August, and by early September that the video was an internet hit.

In fact, it was announced that Psy's "Gangnam Style" recently toppled Justin Beiber's "Baby" video for the most viewed on YouTube with over 840 million views. WOW.

Anyway, even Madonna is a fan, who recently had Psy appeared on her live concert with Madonna getting in on the horse dance.

All those video watchers also bought Psy's single, and I'm happy to report that the RIAA certified "Gangnam Style" as double platinum (which means in excess of 2 million copies sold.) He doesn't even have a physical CD in stores, that's all thanks to digital downloads! If you want to get your hands on the physical single, you have to import it!

Like I previously said, I think this may be a one-hit wonder… but I'm hoping it's not. I'd like to see Psy do more than "Gangnam Style", because eventually people will get bored of it. Also, I hope he goes on tour now, while he's still hot. I've seen footage online, his shows looks amazing.

ONE DIRECTION
onedirectionmusic.com

One Direction became Cosmopolitan's first all male cover in its 40 year history. Some may jokingly suggest there aren't any "men" on the cover.

"We loved the shoot with Cosmopolitan. What an honour to be the first ever male cover of such a prestigious magazine!," said One Direction's Liam Payne.

You can check out more behind the scenes over at cosmopolitan.co.uk.

In other One Direction news:

One Direction is #1 in the U.S. with over half a million units sold. Their album is #1 in 32 countries (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Singapore), selling over one million in one week. Fifteen million teenage girls can't be wrong.

Anyway, look for the boy band to be on a world tour this Spring 2013. Their tour will be documented in an upcoming 3D concert film, pending release August 23rd, 2013, by Morgan Spurlock from "Super Size Me." Who knew he was a fan?

Also, the band joined the Z!NG Revolution with a brand new collection of specially designed skins from the premiere pop culture vinyl skin company. I have something similar for my iPod, it's basically vinyl stickers (that is easily removable) to cover your iPhone or iPad, etc. Anyway, these skins will be exclusive to the Z!NG store in New York until the end of the year. More details and images of Harry, Zayn, Liam, Niall, and Louise, on zingrevolution.com.

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Adele and Coldplay Piano Songbook

Read More Adele Clearly the big winner of the night was Adele, winning six Grammys: Album of the Year (21), Best Pop Record (21)…

Here is a review of the iPad application for Adele Piano Songbook and Coldplay Piano Songbook, both developed by Musicroom.com. Both applications are identical, complete with biography, more apps, and help options.

Since I don't know how to read music sheets, I am assuming all the timing, backing tracks and notes are perfect. I played the more popular hits ("Rolling in the Deep," "The Scientist," etc.), and they sound exactly as you would expect a pop song to be converted to "muzac." Just imagine if your favorite hits were stripped of vocals and the music replaced with piano melodies.

I have seen piano tribute albums going for $10+ and piano sheet music books for $20+, so having both these things appearing in one iPad app seem like a real bargain at $7.99 each.

I do have some minor issues/bugs with the application; for one thing it doesn't look great on landscape (you'll notice that 70% of the screen is white with a small music note in the center). It just seems to me that this app was design to read in portrait mode, and the landscape option was an afterthought.

If you swipe to the next page, the automatic paging turning stops working. I don't think this is a bug, but I found it annoying that the only way to get back to automatic page turn is to press pause and press start again. When it does work normally, the automatic page-turning feature is smooth and displays a live preview of the next page (this is perfect for anticipating the next set of keys).

Also, for an application that remembers your notes and annotations that you can leave anywhere on the music sheet, it sure doesn't remember the size setting! By default each song is set to "small," and will revert back to "small" when you go back into the song.

Outside of these small gripes, the software is solid. It didn't crash or show slow-downs, and the Noteflight notation piano audio sounded great.

If you're a pianist and want to play Adele and Coldplay hit songs, these affordable applications are perfect for you. You can pick up these apps on iTunes.

Adele Piano Songbook Chasing Pavements* Cold Shoulder Daydreamer Don't You Remember Hometown Glory* Make You Feel My Love* Right As Rain* Rolling In The Deep* Set Fire To The Rain* Someone Like You* Take It All Turning Tables* * with backing track

Coldplay Piano Songbook Amsterdam* Clocks* Don't Panic Fix You Green Eyes In My Place Sparks Speed Of Sound The Hardest Part The Scientist* Trouble* Violet Hill* Viva La Vida Warning Sign Yellow * with backing track

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News: The Grammy Awards 2012

News of the week: It's all about the Grammys. Before we get to the news - I just wanted to mention that Jaklumen recorded a podcast all about W♥M and his involvement. It's a little long, but if you were interested, you can hear it via soundcloud: Incidentally, Jaklumen wrote about a Adele mashup, who was the Grammy's award sweeper.

ROLLING IN THE GOLD
adele.tv

Clearly the big winner of the night was Adele, winning six Grammys: Album of the Year (21), Best Pop Record (21), Best Short Form Music Video ("Rolling in the Deep"), Record Of The Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), and Best Pop Solo Performance ("Someone Like You" by Adele).

Pretty amazing, especially after having disappeared from public singing performance due to her throat surgery last year.

It's really amazing how far Adele has come. I have been very, very lucky to have caught Adele at the Theatre De La Jeune Lune, Minneapolis 6/2/08 and she had practically no press. As I noted about her:

She sounded nervous, at first, but once she started singing, it was loudly with confidence. She played and sang on the first two songs, before being joined on stage by her acoustic guitarist (Benjamin Thomas) and keyboardist (Steve Holness)... it was pretty low key, with the music only there to serve Adele's voice.

If this is any indication, she will win her categories in the Brit and NME Awards, as I have predicted.

GOODBYE WHITNEY HOUSTON
whitneyhouston.com

Whitney Houston passed away on the eve of The Grammy Awards. When I first heard about Houston's death, I immediately asked if it was drug-related. Unfortunately, it's one of those realities; Houston had a troubling drug problem (especially after seeing her insanely thin-to-the-bones on her live appearance in 2001). Sony Music issued the follow statementing regarding Whitney Houston:

Whitney Houston was an icon and a once-in-a-lifetime talent who inspired a generation of singers and brought joy to millions of fans around the world. She had a voice of unmatched beauty and power that changed music forever, and she leaves behind an indelible legacy of timeless songs that will never be forgotten. She also was an important member of the Sony Music family who spent her storied recording career with Arista Records. She will be greatly missed. Our deepest condolences go out to her daughter and her entire family.

GOOGLE MUSIC: BEST OF THE GRAMMYS
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Google, I have come to the conclusion that they do evil. They're introducing all these stupid features I don't want (instant view, instant search, new image search, google plus sucks and doesn't work on anything!, personal search, etc). Personal search is by far the worst, it shows links that your friends "+". How is that useful? I can't turn it off when I'm signed into my domain. I just wish there were settings that disable all the "fancy Google" and just give me basic search. Anyway, what you probably already know is that Google is all-powerful and they do a lot of CENSORING. They censored us a few years ago, no reasons were given or effort to contact us (but it's not difficult to guess that it has to do with record companies complaining). I know what you're thinking: switch to another search engine. Have you tried this? Dude, it's hard.

Anyway, remember Google Music? They are having a sale for Grammy nominated albums for $3.99, so you can pick up that Jay-Z and Wilco album for cheap. Unfortunately, "Album of the Year" winner Adele's 21 album is still at an expensive $10.99.

Will I be buying them? No. Because I had bad experiences with Google Music. But it's not Google Music, it's "Android Marketplace". Very confusing, I thought it was "Google Music". Do I need an Android to listen to the music I purchase? Google is having a branding issue, in my opinion.

UPDATE: Tried using Bing as my default, and I freaked out when it clearly shows my Facebook account associated with Bing. It also knew my location (probably from my Facebook information). There wasn't any information on Bing how I can disable my automatic Facebook.

Here's how to turn off Bing from accessing your information. Go to your Privacy settings on Facebook. Disable "Instant personalization" and "Public Search": they are on by default.

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W♥M123: NME vs Brit Awards

W♥M123 (27 mins) Download: W♥M123 Read More San Cisco These guys just graduated high school, but already going to play at the big Aussie festivals like Big Day Out and Laneway, so youth is still on their side.

If you were wondering about the 3-2-1 Contact theme song, it's because the podcast is #123. I've love that PBS show.

So, Sally stopped by to discuss the music topics of the day.

J Mascis at the Sydney Festival.

Gotye. "Somebody I Used To Know" hottest song at the moment.

NME Awards 2012

Brit Awards 2012

Bands on our short list: Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Adele, Noel Gallagher.

Lana Del Rey canceled her Australian tour due to American backlash!

Band of the show is San Cisco, a band that we've both mentioned before. Their EP, Awkward was just released in America on February 7th, 2012, via Island City Records/MGM. The single is quite catchy with its boy-girl conversation-lyrics.

They are currently touring with The Jungle Giants throughout Australia:

THU 16 FEB Byron Bay Brewery (Buddha Bar)
FRI 17 FEB Alhambra Lounge Brisbane
SAT 18 FEB Spectrum Sydney
SUN 19 FEB Great Northern Newcastle
FRI 24 FEB* Fremantle Arts Centre

*without The Jungle Giants

BONUS: The Holy Soul will be playing on Sunday, February 12th, at Town And Country Hotel in Sydney.

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NME Awards 2012 nominations

The annual NME Awards is happening on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 (tickets to the event goes on sale Feb 3rd at 9am). Host for this year is Jack Whitehall (I think Jarvis Cocker hosted last year, or was it the year before?). Bands confirmed to play are: Kasabian, The Vaccines, and Florence + The Machine (with The Horrors).

It should be a good night, I like all those bands.

So, let's start taking some bets on the nominees (hint: I would put some money on Arctic Monkeys, they have won numerous NME awards from 2006-2008).

Matt Helders, Arctic Monkeys, adds:

We're up for all the big ones - we're very happy. We had a lot of fun making 'Suck It And See' and it's great to be up for Best Live Band. That's all we do - record or play live - so it's good to be recognised!

Yeah, the award might as well be theirs.

Best British Band Arctic Monkeys Bombay Bicycle Club The Horrors Kasabian Muse	Best International Band Arcade Fire Foo Fighters Justice Odd Future (OFWGKTA) The Strokes	Best Solo Artist Adele Florence + The Machine Frank Turner Laura Marling Miles Kane Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Best New Band Foster The People Lana Del Rey Tribes The Vaccines Wu Lyf	Best Live Band Arctic Monkeys Kasabian Muse Pulp Two Door Cinema Club	Best Album Artic Monkeys - Suck It and See The Horrors - Skying Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds PJ Harvey - Let England Shake The Vaccines - What did you Expect from the Vaccines?

 

Since there are a billion categories, from "Villain of the Year" to "Hottest Female", I won't list it all here. To see the full list, head over to news.weheartmusic.com.

 

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Mashups: King of Rock and Adele 1988

 

I Just Wanna Whole Lotta Love

Jay-Z/Led Zepplin/Crooklyn Clan

As those who follow my blog at all have noticed, I'm all about the mashups, and so I am back with a double feature.

First up is a mix by DJ Bling and the Urban Expedition Project (UEP) titled King of Rock.  True to the title, it features a lot of hip-hop, rap, and R&B mashed with rock from the '60s to '90s, as well as a lot of '80s electronic pop hits.  It's also likely to be true to mashup's general "bastard pop" genre label; I can imagine a lot of purists and hardcore rock fans being very pissed off about hearing their favorite rock anthems being mashed with contemporary hip-hop/rap artists!  But if you're really into a nice chocolate-vanilla swirl flavor of rock and rap, I would highly recommend giving King of Rock a listen.

The mix can be found at DJ Illa's site here.  It's long and continuous-- perfect for a nightclub or dance hall setting, but you can download it as a zip file with separate tracks, which is easier for burning a CD copy.

Make You Feel My Love (Remot Remix) Mick Boogie & Adele Adele http://weheartmus... They are calling Adele Adkins (or better known as Adele) the new "Amy" (Winehouse). It is no sur...

Mick Boogie's Adele 1988 is a decidedly different approach, although it has some similar mixtures of sound.  It's a mashup of the album 19 by 4-time Grammy nominated British soul singer Adele, with a late '80s hip-hop sound.  U.S. audiences may be familiar with her musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 18, 2008, which prominently featured then-Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin.  (Indeed, it's the first place I saw her as well.)

That said, I wouldn't call it a mashup in the strictest sense of the word, since mashups usually encompass two or more complete works that are independently whole.  Furthermore, this doesn't feature all of the tracks of the original album, although I would say it's fairly representative in what is used.  The Mick Boogie site calls it a complete reinterpretation-- and since most of the tracks are listed as remixes (without listing the artists sampled/mashed specifically), I would say it's more accurately called a remix.  Then again, mashups and bastard pop have been called forms of the remix, so the distinction is academic.

This download is also available for free, along with further details concerning Adele 1988 here at the Mick Boogie website.

 

Links: djilla.com mickboogie.com

 12/20/2008 16:24:20  ♥ written by jaklumen ( / jaklumen.vox.com)