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W♥M185: What's in a Name?

W♥M185 (52 mins) Read More Sinead O'Connor I love Sinead O'Connor. Probably not as much as she loves Bob Dylan, but I have been obsessed with her songs for a long time now. A few years ago, she released How About I Be Me (and You Be You) .…

The legendary Ryan is back on W♥M Radio! We recorded a special "tech-talk" section, but I will have to save it for a future non-music podcast.

Up for topics:

What's in a name? (courtesy of www.nme.com)

Fleet Foxes was first called Pineapple, but they had to change the name since there was another local band going by Pineapple.

Elastica originally called themselves Onk and Vaseline (but they had to change it when The Vaselines threatened them legally). So in 1993, they became Elastica.

Radiohead was called On A Friday in 1995 because that's when they met to rehearse.

Oasis originally named themselves after a Beatles song called "The Rain", so the band name was Rain.

Blur was called Seymour

Coldplay originally started as Pectoralz, and then changed their name to Starfish.

Pink Floyd had several names: Sigma 6, The Meggadeaths, The (Screaming) Abdabs (or Architectural Abdabs), Leonard's Lodgers, The Spectrum Five and The Tea Set.

The Detour became The Who in February 1964... then that summer they changed their name to The High Numbers. When that didn't take off, they changed their name back to The Who.

Bjork was in several bands before going solo: Spit and Snot, Sugarcubes, and Gling-Gló,

SINEAD O'CONNOR
O'Connor will be in America to do a series of residency dates in November 2013. Originally the tour was to take place in 2011, but that was quietly canceled due to various personal reasons. See complete tour dates on our previous article.

FATHER JOHN MISTY
Ryan's last gig was for Father John Misty (you can read more about him here). Seems like FJM will be returning to life on the road later this year:

08/24/13 Monterey, CA Monterey Co. Fairgrounds
10/06/13 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
10/07/13 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
10/08/13 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
10/11/13 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
10/12/13 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
10/13/13 Madison, WI Capitol Theater
10/14/13 Pontiac, MI Crofoot Ballroom
10/18/13 New York, NY Town Hall
10/22/13 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
10/23/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
10/24/13 Richmond, VA The National
10/25/13 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
10/26/13 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre
10/28/13 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
10/29/13 Austin, TX Emo's
10/31/13 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
11/01/13 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
11/02/13 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern

BELLE & SEBASTIAN AND GOD HELP THE GIRL
We love B&S and GHTP, it's only too bad they're only playing big festivals at the moment.

08/17/13 "Paredes De Coura"
08/30/13 "Zurich Open Air"
09/01/13 "End Of The Road Festival"

Ryan is gutted that he could not attend the London premier of the GHTP Musical Film, but we have an article on the Los Angeles premier. Apparently Stuart Murdoch's wife is preggers, according to the report.

Jennifer writes that the film was "Stuart’s story of the forming of Belle and Sebastian", so if you love B&S, it's definitely worth looking into.

As for the rest of God Help the Girl:
Asya who appeared on GHTP is currently in Chaos Chaos, but previously in Smoosh.

Neil Hannon (aka Divine Comedy) who appeared on the GHTP album is in a project called The Duckworth Lewis Method. Their new album Sticky Wickets came out last month, July 2013.

T.A.T.U.
Ryan tries to forget t.A.T.u. rather unsuccessfully. No idea what the two Russian girls are up to these days, but Vu is still in love with Julia Volkova.

Apparently there was a t.A.T.u. reunion four or five years ago. Then as recently as in last year, in various interviews Julia and her t.A.T.u. partner Lena Katina does not keep in contact. That's is untrue, apparently the two will team-up once more to play Kiev (Ukraine) on September 27th, while Lena is playing Hangar 110 in Sao Paulo on November and Cologne in Germany October 5-6th.

Julia recently appeared in a few singles in 2012: Lyubov Suka/Back to her Future and Любовь-Сука (feat Dilma Bilan). She also appeared in a film called "Zombie Fever". Lena will be releasing a new solo album in 2013.

CLOUD
The impossible to find Cloud band has an album called Comfort Songs that Ryan really loves. The album came out last week (August 5th) via Audio Antihero Records.

Song of the show is "Stomach Pit" from the album, which you can find more information on their bandcamp.

Bonus: XBONE or PS4? Cherie Currie from the Runaways is a 'cherry bomb'. Red Hot Chili Peppers could have been called Tony Flow And The Miraculously Majestic Masters Of Mayhem, or as Ryan would have it as TFATMMMoM.

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The Airborne Toxic Event w/ Kodaline - First Avenue, Minneapolis (04/23/13) live review

Setlist Tour Dates 04/27/13 Frisco, TX FC Dallas Stadium 04/28/13 Austin, TX Emo's 04/29/13 Houston, TX House Of Blues 05/01/13 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre 05/02/13 Orlando, FL The Beacham 05/04/13 West Palm Beach, FL Downtown 05/05/13 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre 05/06/13 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 05/08/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/09/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/10/13 Boston, MA House Of Blues Boston 05/11/13 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground 05/12/13 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank 05/14/13 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall 05/15/13 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre 05/16/13 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 05/19/13 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amph 06/01/13 Visalia, CA Visalia Fox Theatre 06/09/13 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre 06/12/13 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues 06/13/13 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall 06/14/13 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue 06/20/13 Clifton Park, NY Upstate Concert Hall Read More The Airborne Toxic Event Coming on the heels of their digital EP, The Secret, LA-based The Airborne Toxic Event is out on the road soon, in support of their upcoming 3rd full-length, Such Hot Blood, due April 16 on Island Records...…

The Airborne Toxic Event are a bit of an enigma. Blasting out of the gate to national attention in late 2007/early 2008 with the breakout single ‘Sometime Around Midnight’, the Los Angeles-based group never fully held our extended attention, but have recently and ably bounced back into the spotlight with their latest effort, Such Hot Blood (Island Records) and the singles ‘Timeless’ and ‘The Storm’. Their stadium-ready sound has always toed the line between inspired / influenced and indie / mainstream, perhaps making it difficult to embrace one type of audience or the other. But, playing to their largest to-date crowd in the Twin Cities Tuesday night, any comeback effort is being more than well received.

KODALINE

Dublin foursome Kodaline opened the show, promoting their self-titled ep (B-Unique/RCA), completely won the crowd over with their melancholy anthems and soaring choruses (think folk U2/early Coldplay). It didn’t hurt that many thought the Irish lads were also handsome and that they wrote a song specifically for Minneapolis for them to gain fans in a room that prior to their performance, very few had any familiarity with. ‘High Hopes’ and ‘All I Want’ were highlights from a band already playing a bigger sound than the venues they’re currently playing – with the right airplay and a little more stage charisma and maybe bombast, they could become the next The Script as far as popularity in the U.S.—a band to watch.

The Airborne Toxic Event then came out to a set decorated with two gnarled trees framing each side of the back on the stage, similar to the look of their first album cover. Lighting the fire, the band broke into ‘Gasoline’, an energy-filled opener from its debut album that got the crowd moving immediately. Following with ‘Happiness is Overrated’, lead singer Mikel Jollett was up in the balcony singing soon after, while Anna Bulbrook (viola, keyboards) rode on bassist Noah Harmon’s shoulders, tambourine in hand. While musically tight, the overall performance also echo’d a bit of familiarity and calculation about it – from Bulbrook performing on top of a piano to Harmon and guitarist Steven Chen dueling guitar sounds back and forth, the performance seemed more pre-planned than spontaneous, which may have to be the case when staging a 90 min. performance on a large club room tour.

Jollett freely admits being obsessed with death (the band’s name takes from a section of Don DeLillo’s White Noise), but mentioned his view changed recently after several close to him passed away in his pre-song intro to ‘Timeless’, which he dedicated to those lost. Following that with their biggest single, ‘Sometime Around Midnight’ which predictably got the night’s biggest response, Jollett also mentioned his memories of their first trip into the venue, opening for The Fratellis, then desperately selling t-shirts and CDs after.

AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

The band ended the main set appropriately with ‘All I Ever Wanted’, which was the title track of their live album, as well as on their 2nd studio album, All At Once. Returning for the encore with the somewhat inexplicable song choices of a cover of The Magnetic Fields’ ‘Book of Love’; the somber lyrics of ‘The Graveyard Near The House’; and ‘Missy’, segued with an All-American medley of 'Ring of Fire / American Girl / Born In The USA'. While energetic, it left some scratching their heads as to whether the band was just trying to interpret some of their favorite songs, celebrate American music, or make the statement that they belonged in that company.

Despite their sometimes inconsistent studio output and without any clearer definition of their identity (maybe for the best at this point), The Airborne Toxic Event does continue to impress live, with their tight hooks and arena-sized sound stretching the boundaries of the smaller places they are playing.

The Airborne Toxic Event at First Avenue, Minneapolis (04/23/13)

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Coldplay: Look at the stars, look how they shine for you.

Read More Coldplay I see there are quite a few bands announcing fall/winter tour dates, except for that "it's all yellow" band, Coldplay. They're giving away a nine-track live...

COLDPLAY
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In a recent conversation with Brody, we talked about what bands we would pay $500 to see. I said, if Morrissey & Johnny Marr and the two "lawnmower parts" Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce played a Smiths set - that would be well worth the five hundred clams. Brody, hands down, said it would be Coldplay. He loves them.

So anyway, Coldplay is releasing their live album, Live 2012, to be out on Blu-Ray/CD, DVD/CD and digital on November 19th.

Live 2012 is the Coldplay's first concert film in nine years, it documents the band's Mylo Xyloto world tour. If you missed the tour, or just a massive fan, this is the perfect item for your holiday checklist.

Concert footage includes Madrid, Paris, Los Angeles, Montreal and at the Glastonbury Festival.

Coldplay is currently in Australia on tour:

Sat 11/10/12 Auckland, New Zealand Mt Smart Stadium
Tue 11/13/12 Melbourne, Australia Etihad Stadium
Sat 11/17/12 Sydney, Australia Allianz Stadium
Sun 11/18/12 Sydney, Australia Allianz Stadium
Wed 11/21/12 Brisbane, Australia Suncorp Stadium

Rest of the world, check out VEVO's live clip of "Paradise" (Paris clip) from Live 2012 at vevo.ly.

IN OTHER COLDPLAY NEWS:

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL TODAY'S CHRISTMAS
nowthatsmusic.com

Surely you are familiar with these various compilation albums. It started off as "Now That's What I Call Music" but have spun off in many different specialty compilation, such as Now That's What I Call Jazz to Musica Latino to Holiday songs.

With over 80 "Now" albums in the original series (over 100+ in all the spin-offs), this is one of the most recognized various artists compilation.

To me, the people that buys these compilation are hardcore fans of one artist. Or they got it as a gift. Or they found it in the clearance bin. That's pretty much how I come across owning some of these Now CDs.

Anyway, Now That's What I Call Today's Christmas is out now and features Coldplay's song, "Christmas Lights."

RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO
rhythmsdelmundo.com

We wrote about Rhythms Del Mundo about five years ago, we liked the modern-day bands like Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand but with a Cuban Latina twist.

Well, Rhythms del Mundo is back with a new project, they are once again, taking modern songs to an African beat! Yes, your favorite Beyonce, Mumford & Sons, and Coldplay are all getting the African treatment.

Look for this charity album, Rhythms del Mundo: Africa, to be out November 20th on The End Records. The people behind Rhythms del Mundo are Artists Project Earth (APE), and they were formed by Kenny Young to help raise awareness for climate change and disaster relief projects.

They are hoping money raised by Rhythms del Mundo: Africa will help replant trees in the UK, Africa, Mexico and Brazil, as well as wetland conservations in Uganda, etc. You can find more detail on their work on apeuk.org.

JAMES LEVY & THE BLOOD RED ROSE
facebook.com/jameslevybrr

Wondering what Coldplay's bassist Guy Berryman is up to? Me too. He's gone on to produce James Levy and the Blood Red Rose's album Pray To Be Free, out now on Heavenly Recordings and Cooperative Music.

You are probably wondering how Berryman got involved with James Levy, well, as it turns out, he produced The Pierces' 2011 album, You & I, which they covered Levy's "Glorious" song. I guess he must have gotten in contact with Levy through that album… at least that's my best guest.

Guy Berryman fell in love with James Levy and Allison Pierce's vocals, so he produced Pray To Be Free to sound like "romance in all its guises; dark, twisted, hopeful and joyful."

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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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Splendour in the Grass - The Words: Part 3

So the ladies made it to Sunday unharmed...... or did they?

The suspense is killing me!

Read on!

 

Hungry Kids of Hungary

Gem: It only took only a couple of songs for me to become bored with the Hungry Kids set. I was just thinking of leaving when, during ‘Let You Down’, they threw large inflated balls into the crowd. And then suddenly it was fun times again. With the balls keeping me thoroughly entertained I momentarily forgot about the boring music happening on stage. Overall though, the Hungry Kids looked like they had lost their party edge. If it wasn’t for the giant balls, the faint smell of someone smoking a joint nearby, and my vodka spiked beverage I would have fallen asleep from boredom.

The Vaccines

Gem: The banner on stage during The Vaccines read “what did you expect?”, promoting their debut album. The phrase made me think. I expected indie hipsters, playing songs about pretty girls, getting drunk and partying. And that’s exactly what we got. Their songs seem familiar, probably due to the fact that they are influenced by the likes of the Ramones, The Strokes, and Joy Division. I enjoyed the set along with the many others crowded in front of the stage to see them. Although I can't help but wonder how long it will be until they will be categorised as "just another indie band" and be forgotten.

 

Cloud Control

Amb: Cloud Control played Circle of Life from the Lion King during their set for some reason, prompting hundreds of people to start charging up and down the middle of the hill. I have since decided that they were re-enacting the stampede scene from the movie. I really hope they were.

Friendly Fires

Gem: I think you can really judge a band’s performance at a festival by the injuries I have sustained during their set. Bruised butt during The Bronx at Coaster 2009 (unable to sit down for a week), sprained ankle sustained while moshing during Eddy Current Suppression Ring at Homebake 2009, and now Friendly Fires. For some reason Amb left me alone during Friendly Fires, she probably went get food or something, I don’t recall. Anyway it should be noted that it’s all her fault - I should never be left unattended at a music festival. I was thoroughly enjoying the dance tunes from Friendly Fires while dancing up a storm in the outer rim of the mix up tent. I was taking advantage of the extra room with some excellent aeroplane dancing. Aeroplane dancing, for those that don’t know, really just involves a lot of waving and flapping around of arms in aeroplane-like motions. I was totally in the groove, when suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my upper arm / shoulder leaving my arm paralysed. Unable to do aeroplane dancing, I pressed on regardless reverting to downstairs dancing only, a true reflection on the quality of dance-inducing tunes being created by the Friendly Fires. A highlight of the festival.

Kaiser Chiefs

Amb: Surprisingly awesome. I think I stopped paying attention to them shortly after 2006, but apparently they stayed busy and released a whole lot of songs that I know and like without being aware who sings them. They bring the party times, with the singer dude running back and forth across the stage with seemingly inexhaustible energy, despite the fact that they took 30 hours to get here from Japan, for some reason going via China and Melbourne.

 

Pulp

Gem: While we waited for Pulp to take to the stage a series of questions appeared in green on the screen behind the stage – “Do you remember the first time?” and “Do you want to see a dolphin?” (to which then a dolphin then appeared). Eventually Pulp did take to the stage and although the build up was entertaining it went on a little too long for my liking.

Amb: I want to wrap Jarvis Cocker up in greaseproof paper and take him home for later. We saw him a couple of years ago playing his own stuff, and it wasn’t a fraction as good as this. The dancing was unexpected but very impressive. He kept saying it might be the last time Pulp ever plays in Australia. I hope he’s wrong, because that would make me very sad.

Gem: It was hard for me to tear my attention away from Jarvis and his energetic on stage presence, hip shaking dance moves and ongoing chatter with the crowd between songs. I was so focussed on him that I really didn’t notice the rest of the band, although I am sure they existed. The entire set was great, in particular the songs ‘Sorted for E’s and Wizz’, ‘Babies’, and ‘Underwear’. However the stand out highlight was, of course, the final song, ‘Common People’. An unforgettable performance.

Things That Are Better Than Seeing Coldplay

• Eating burgers
• Watching shadow puppets (possibly interactive or possibly we were drunk)
• Dancing to Little Red and Michael Jackson in the Jager Lodge

We were part of the 0.2% of Splendour that didn’t see Coldplay. It wasn’t an accident, we had absolutely no desire to see the band. After Pulp we left the amphitheatre, battled our way against the sea of people who were flooding in to watch Coldplay. Every inch of the amphitheatre was covered.

So....

Despite not being massively impressed with the Splendour line up initially, many of the bands exceeded expectations and it ended up being three days' worth of musical delights. It's always nice when the number of disappointments is largely overshadowed by the number of surprise highlights, resulting in a rollicking good time being had by all. Nice work, Splendour 2011.

See official splendourness here: http://splendourinthegrass.com/

W♥M112: Splendour in the Grass Preview

W♥M112 (50 mins) Listening options: Archive.org: W♥M112

Happy holidays! It's also Sally's birthdate week, as she was kind enough to stop in to preview Splendour in the Grass, which takes place this July 29th to 31st. Doors at 9am, music starts at 11 and ends after midnight. Details at splendourinthegrass.com.

Before we get into the meat of the matter, we did wrap up NXNE, which you can read more details at nxne.weheartmusic.com and all my exploits and adventures and lessons learned.

I did touch a bit on Jo Williamson, not literally, but I kept running into her. Saw Washington played twice, saw loads of other bands too. Disappointed with Brian Wilson, but Men Without Hats, Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield saved the festival. Outro song is "Everybody Loves Me But You" by Hatfield.

Splendour in the Grass 2011 will be covered by the fine Festival Ladies, but Sally and I looked over Coldplay (it was all yellow!), Kanye West (he just shows up everywhere). A good bunch together of Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Gomez, and Regina Spektor in a block is pretty amazing. Also, Grouplove, who I saw a few months ago, they are on the up and up. Yelle, the French girl is pretty hot too. Of course, Foster the People are a really good band, love their songs!

Amazed that DJ Shadow is still around, he pretty much was the first guy that made a whole album of just entirely out of samples.

Song of the Podcast is: British Sea Power's "Georgie Ray" from their new album, Valhalla Dancehall.

BONUS
More Pulp than you can stand. Fitz & The Tantrums are playing the same night as Pulp, so Sally will have to miss out.

Britpop class of '95 article available on independent.co.uk spotlights on Justine Frischmann, Louise Wener, Debbie Smith, David Roundtree, and Tim Brown. Where are they now and what they are doing. Kind of glad to see Debbie Smith is still playing in several bands (I met her a long time ago in a bar and she asked about my t-shirt - it was my penpal's artwork of Morrissey).

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Splendour in the Grass - Update

So Splendour in the Grass is getting closer (29th to 31st of July) and we've got a little teaser video for you.

Have you forgotten who's playing?

How could you?!?

You can see the likes of Coldplay, Kanye West, Pulp, Janes Addiction, The Hives, Mogwai, The Living End, The Grates, Glasvegas, DJ Shadow ... oh loads!

There are some tickets still available for the days only (not camping). You can get them through moshtix here. 

For the full line up and all the information you need to sort it out head over to: http://splendourinthegrass.com

Also, have a listen to Vu and Sally talk about the festival and some of the bands that you'll see there (amongst other fabulously interesting things) here: W♥M109

 

Sally

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News: Upcoming Fall Tours

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Coldplay

Hey guys, just a few 'news' item to run through before I leave the house to see a concert. Since coming back from holiday, I've been finding it hard to get back into the writing/work mentality (I'm sure you know what I mean).

What I've been forward to new seasons of television shows! You can watch many of these shows on hulu (boo to their disabling PS3 browsers), including my anticipated "Flashforward" about the day everyone blacked out and saw visions of their future. It looks apocalyptic and co-star John Cho (the Harold in Harold and Kumar).

I'm also loving the Fringe Season One Bluray, which you'll want to get the Best Buy version to get the free comic book by Wildstorm/DC Comics.

Looking through news.weheartmusic.com, I see there are quite a few bands announcing fall/winter tour dates, except for that "it's all yellow" band, Coldplay (official/myspace). They're giving away a nine-track live album called Left Right Left Right as a free download at coldplay.com/lrlrl/lr.html.

No reason, they're not touring or in need of promotion. I think it was just a thankyou gift to their fans.

The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life

The Decemberists

Decemberists (official/myspace) are playing a few shows:

Sept. 23 Norfolk, VA The Norva
Sept. 24 Charlottesville, VA Charlottesville Pavilion*
Sept. 25 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium*
Sept. 26 Athens, GA The Classic Center*
Sept. 27 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium*
Sept. 29 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheater*
Sept. 30 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live*
Oct. 2 Houston, TX House of Blues*
Oct. 3 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Music Festival
Oct. 4 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom*
Oct. 6 Lexington, KY University of Kentucky, Lexington*
Oct. 7 Columbia, MO Ninth St. Fall Fest*
Oct. 8 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre*
Oct. 9 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre*
Oct. 18 San Francisco, CA Treasure Island Music Festival
Oct. 19 Los Angeles, CA UCLA Royce Hall
Nov. 18 London, UK Forum
Nov. 19 London, UK Coronet
Nov. 21 The Hague, Netherlands Crossing Border Festival

(w/ Laura Veirs & the Hall of Flames)

While I would like to attend, although I think they've long outgrown me as a band. Still, I'll always have their Kill Rock Star days, no? I also don't have their new album, The Hazards of Love, for review, but I suspect it was written on parchment paper in 1886.

God Only Knows

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston (official/myspace) is also on tour. I'll admit to smiling to myself when I read his tagline: "hundreds of songs, and dozens of fans". He's got more than a dozen.

If everything falls into place, we'll have a review of his New York show. Shame he's avoiding the midwest altogether.

10/02/09 Austin City Limits Austin, Texas
10/13/09 9:30 Club Washington DC
10/14/09 Highline Ballroom / Irving Plaza New York
10/15/09 Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts
10/16/09 UK Fed Montreal, Quebec
10/17/09 Mod Club Toronto, Ontario
10/22/09 Regency Ballroom San Francisco, California
10/23/09 Caines San Diego, California
10/24/09 Henry Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, California
11/01/09 Concorde Brighton, South
11/02/09 Union Chapel London
11/03/09 Town Hall Manchester, Northwest
11/04/09 Queens Hall Edinburgh, Scotland
11/05/09 The Sage Gateshead
11/06/09 Brudenell Social Club Leeds
11/07/09 Brudenell Social Club Leeds
11/08/09 Trinity Arts Center Bristol, Southwest
11/11/09 W2 Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant

Nico Vega - Cocaine Cooked the Brain (guns n bombs remix)

Nico Vega

Finally, barefooted Nico Vega (official/myspace) have announced that they are on tour with, guess who? The Manic Street Preachers! I don't know how they do it! They've opened up for loads of great bands, and I'm sure along the way manage to convert a few fans!

Here are the MSP tour dates with Nico Vega:

9/22/09 - The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
9/24/09 - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
9/25/09 - The Avalon, Los Angeles, CA
9/28/09 - The Bluebird Theatre, Denver, CO
9/30/09 - The Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis, MN

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Coldplay vs Satriani? Crimea vs...?

Ok, another cheap shot at posting Crimea stuff... but there's some real music here too :o) The BBC just let on that Coldplay aren't so great. Go figure. Apparently they plagurised a Joe Satiani track. Who? Never mind, the below video explains it all. I'd post full tracks but Vox editing clearly still sucks and it's already decided to kill my entire post once today so I ain't pushing it...

Did Coldplay copy Joe Satriani?

Edit: Oh wait, there's more! Ok just how many songs did coldplay rip off? Rofl...

ENANITOS VERDES - FRANCES LIMON

The Crimea - Baby Boom

On a similar theme, here's a track by the band I love to spam, The Crimea. It's a re-recorded version of their track Baby Boom, and along with sounding a whole lotdifferent from the original, it sounded a whole lot like something else I'd heard. Took me an entire day to figure it out though; after considering Morrissey, Sleeper, Echobelly, and figuring it had to be something brit pop, I even thought about asking that fountain of all musialknowledge Vu. No need though as I got it eventually. Guesses in the comments please, answer tomorrow ;o)

- Christopher

EDIT 12/13/08 VU: That first video was removed due to "a copyright claim by EMI Music".  Ironic because the video is about infringing on copyrighted works.  I don't think it should've been removed because it's fair-use with only excerpts of the chords.

 

 

News for the Week of 6/1/2008

Bo Diddley - I'm A Man	Bo Diddley - Gun Slinger
Coldplay - The Scientist	Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

I thought I would do something different for gathering news, since you may have noticed an absent of the weekly news. News will now be delivered though Links, from a variety of music news sources. I think the "links" links actully have a feed, so you can subscribe to this using your favorite rss newsreader. I personally use google reader myself, with about 500+ items every hour!

BO DIDDLEY
Topping the music news is the death of Bo Diddley from heart failure on June 2^nd. This R&B/Blues artist got his start in 1951 playing at the 708 Club in Chicago, Illinois. By 1955, Bo recorded some demos, "I'm a Man" and "Bo Diddley", the later went on to become a #1 R&B hit.

His early songs made him so famous, that he was asked to be on the Ed Sullivan show, but was eventually banned from subsequent appearance when he played "Bo Diddley" instead of a cover song of "Sixteen Tons".

That didn't end his career, instead Bo went onto record more hits.... and the rest is history.

Random vu-thoughts: it would seem to me that Bo Diddley had a passion for pop culture and genre, take for instance his "western" themed album titles: Have Guitar Will Travel (based on the western tv show "Have Gun - Will Travel") and Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger (with the title track having references to the famous shoot-out at the OK Corral). Later on, he would also have his "beach/surf" theme: Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party, all probably inspired by the teen-movie Beach Party.

 

The Get Out Clause - Paper

UNDER SURVEILLANCE
I also wanted to talk about the innovative video by The Get Out Clause. My my understanding, the band wanted to shoot a music video, but didn't have the finance - so they thought up the idea to have surveillance cameras film them in performance. Under the Freedom of Information Act, they requested the footage of their appearances and pieced together their video for "Paper".

The video became viral and have spread all over the UK press and picked up by NPR, making the band an instance success overnight! (That was in May).

With all the interests, you can pick up their EP, to be released July 7^th and "hand made by the band". Judging from the picture of the pre-order, it looks very cool.

Anyway, I think their video is such a cool idea, but I can't help but feel uneasy how "big brother" England's become, no?

 

 

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