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W♥M225: Party Line

W♥M225: Party Line (40 mins) Read More Belle & Sebastian We've been very excited about news of the new Belle & Sebastian 2015 album for a while now, but the band recently made things official: It is called Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance …

Sally is back on W♥M Podcast, talking about some Sydney, Australia, things:

Yes I'm Leaving (21 Nov 2014) poster

Yes I'm Leaving is playing this Friday (21 Nov 2014) at Petersham Bowling Club with The Holy Soul, Avoid Island, Small Town Incident and Garry David.

Newtown Social Club (newtownsocialclub.com) is a new music venue in Sydney. They are booking some excellent bands:

Hurray for the Riff Raff (26 Nov 2014)

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (3 Mar 2015)

Gruff Rhys (6 Mar 2015)

Sydney Festival is taking place most of January 2015... The Clean from New Zealand, and How to Dress Well are two of the bands playing at the Sydney Festival shows.

Johnny Marr is on tour for his second album Playland, stopping by Sydney's Enmore (05 Feb 2015)

Belle & Sebastian is playing in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre on Jan 29th and also at the Taronga Zoo on January 31st.

God Help the Girl film, Vu doesn't like, but Sally doesn't care.

B&S is releasing Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance for 2015, we previewed their new single, "The Party Line".

BONUS:

Harper's Bazaar (Dec 2014) Photographer: @simonlekias

Peter Hook played over three hours at a "no re-entry" sold out show.

Leichhardt Wind Orchestra's Summer Concert 2014 is taking place this 15th December 2014 at the Leichhardt Town Hall in Leichhardt, Australia.

Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine.

Roxette's got the look.

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Four Roads

Read More Kylie Minogue Yeah, I have a soft spot for Kylie. As if you didn't know, part of her "K25" (25 years of Kylie in music) celebration, pop superstar, Kylie Minogue released "Timebomb" remixes this week (July 17th)....

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

KYLIE MINOGUE
www.kylie.com

Yes, I love Kylie….

As part of K25 (celebrating global pop icon Kylie Minogue's 25 years in music), the artist just released The Abbey Road Sessions in the U.S. today (November 6th.) The album features 16 classic tracks, but re-imagined and re-arranged by a full orchestra. By its title, the album was recorded in London's Abbey Road studios.

If you think you know "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and "The Locomotion", think again because with the new arrangement, these are very different takes on the classic hits.

Already a big hit in the UK, where her album landed on #2, possibly due to the 1.8 million views of her single "Flower."

Look for Kyle to be in the state with performances on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” on November 13th and NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on November 14th.

WILD BELLE
wildbellemusic.tumblr.com

Wild Belle's first ever North American tour is happening this November, check out singer Natalie Bergman's video for Postcards from the Road N°1.

Wild Belle is a sibling duo (Natalie and Elliot Bergman) from Chicago, they are on tour with Deep Sea Diver (*) and Of Montreal (+):

11/25 San Diego, CA Casbah*
11/26 Los Angeles, CA Echo*
11/27 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill*
11/29 Portland, OR Doug Fir*
11/30 Seattle, WA Neumos*
12/01 Vancouver, BC Electric Owl*
12/07 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue (with Solid Gold)
12/08 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall +
12/09 Chicago, IL Metro +

C2C
c2cmusic.fr

"Down the Road" is the first single from C2C's Down the Road digital six-track EP (out now via Casablanca Records.)

The French turntable quartet is already big in Europe, having been around since 1998 and winning the "Disco Mix Club World Team DJ Championship" four years in a row (2003–2006).

It's really odd that the group finally released music in 2012 with Down the Road and Tetra, in their home country of France.

Anyway, check out the song on soundcloud.com.

CHRIS MANN
ChrisMannMusic.com

Chris Mann is a singer from Kansas… you might know him from The Voice. As you know, Lara is addicted to The Voice.

One year ago, Mann did his blind audition for The Voice. He was nervous: "I remember it was Halloween night and my blind audition for The Voice was just a few days away. I was a nervous wreck. I went to The Voice with the hope of just making the show."

The good news is that he won fourth place for the second season of The Voice. He quickly signed with Faircraft/Universal Republic and released Roads at the end of October.

"I would love to sing on an ancient amphitheater stage somewhere in Europe," Mann says, "and I’ve always fantasized about winning a Grammy. I can't wait to see where this road I've been on for so long leads me next."

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Quoth the Raven

The music news of the world, courtesy of news.weheartmusic.com.

ATLAS SHRUGGED
myspace.com/bradfordcox

Broadcast - Come On Let's Go

Broadcast

I got this note that Atlas Sound is heading out on tour next week -- with Broadcast! Since we haven't written about Broadcast in, like, 2007, it's good to hear about them recently.


Unfortunately, they're not coming near Minneapolis (I've visited Northfield before - it's a bit isolated!), otherwise I would love to do some coverage on them.

The tour information:

10/15 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
10/16 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
10/17 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
10/18 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
10/20 New York, NY @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
10/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/22 Boston, MA @ The Paradise
10/23 Montreal, QC @ Le National
10/24 Toronto, ON @ Lees Palace
10/25 Columbus, OH @ Wexner Center
10/26 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
10/27 Northfield, MN @ The Cave
10/30 Vancouver, BC @ Richards On Richards
10/31 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11/01 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
11/03 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
11/04 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
11/05 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
11/07 Denton, TX @ Hailey's

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head

Kylie Minogue

THE SHOW'S THE THING
kylie.com

Chicagoans, please note that tomorrow's Kylie Minogue's sold-out show at the Congress Theatre has been upgraded to the UIC Pavilion (University of Illinois at Chicago: 525 S Racine Ave., Chicago, IL 60607-3303). According to the announcement, this is being done because of "the sheer scale of the production".


All the tickets that fans have purchased for the Congress Theater will be good at the UIC Pavilion. However, because of the upgraded venue, more seats/tickets are available for purchase (it went on sale October 4^th, so I'm assuming it's probably already sold out). Good luck anyway, check with ticketbastard if you still have hope to attend.

MEAT IS MURDER
transformers.com

Since Christopher can't get enough of Morrissey and the Smiths, I thought I'd offer this: did you know the Smiths is in Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen? I know this may sound trivial, but I think it's cool.


Shia LaBeouf's character evolved from loving The Strokes & Green Day, to The Smiths, apparently.

TRANSFORMERS: Megan Fox hiding

TRANSFORMERS 2: Meat is Murder poster

PHONING IT IN
nuclearoreilly.com

Nuclear O'Reilly describes themselves as:

A music duo disguised as male escorts for librarians

The world's first iPhone album, Phoning It In, by Nuclear O'Reilly is available on their website for free. I think it's a good promotion for both Apple and its software, by Intua Software (which costs $19.99). Both platform and music software is powerful enough to produce this electronic album.

I did quickly listen to the album, it sounds a bit like a video game. If you think there are no vocals, you're wrong, you can hear some mumbling on "Creamatorium", which I'm assuming they used the iPhone's mic to record it. It's kind of a gimmick, but since it's free, why not check it out? Maybe they can be the next Guitar Zeros, or even worst, iBand.

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER
olympusamerica.com

For years now, I've been using my pocket Sony T7 Camera, which I've been quite happy with - for daytime shooting. If you are interested in a credit card-sized camera, T7 is a great camera for you. Image quality is great, but sensor is slow (as with all compact camera), but you can get around this by taking small 640x480 shots. The bigger the size, the worst it looks. Plus for night shots, see example, you tend to lose details. And you can forget about "fast-action" shots, the sensor is not fast enough to capture frame-by-frame.

The $400, I originally paid for the T7 in 2005, have been totally worth every penny. But in the day of technology growing in leaps and bounds, especially in the digital camera market, my T7 is a dinosaur!

I've placed an order for the Olympus PEN E-P1 Camera. Based on reviews I've read, comparing image quality with other standard SLR camera in its class, I am impressed with the Pen Camera. It particularly did really well with low-light situations, which is what I was looking for. It also shoots 1080 HD movie files, which I think will become more useful in the future. The only complaint people have said is that is a bit expensive (base camera starts at $800), and I've also read that it's slow on the SLR class - but slow they indicate as much as three seconds to startup the camera. Three seconds is not slow! I can live with three seconds!

The tracking number said I'm receiving the camera on Thursday, just in time for Friday's show: Asobi Seksu, Lonely Dear, and Anna Ternheim.

If it all works out, we should have some fantastic pictures from the show. Sadly, I'll still have a perfectly working Sony T7. Should I sell it? Any offers? It's probably most likely going in the bin of other retired electronics, like my all my old iPods, Palm PDA, and MiniDisc players!

PS, Hooray, we're listed as a neighbor on team.vox.com.

 10/06/2009 18:40:06 ♥ vu () ♥weheartmusic.com♥twitter.com/weheartmusic♥news.weheartmusic.com

Kylie Minogue - Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head Kylie Minogue Tour Dates 09/30/09 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA 10/01/09 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA 10/03/09 Pearl Theatre, Las Vegas, NV 10/04/09 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA 10/07/09 Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL 10/09/09 Air Canada Centre, Toronto 10/11/09 Hammerstein Ballroom, NY 10/12/09 Hammerstein Ballroom, NY 10/13/09 Hammerstein Ballroom, NY Discography [1988] Kylie [1989] Enjoy Yourself [1990] Rhythm of Love [1991] Let's Get to It [1994] Kylie Minogue [1997] Impossible Princess [1998] Intimate & Live [2000] Light Years [2001] Fever [2003] Body Language [2007] X See Also Dannii Minogue http://weheartmus... For those who aren't brushed up on their dance music, Dannii Minogue is the sister of Kylie Mino...

Just to give you an idea how popular Kylie Minogue is: I got an email announcing her first ever US (originally 6 dates), only to find out that her later New York pre-sale tickets were already sold out by the time my eyeballs saw the email. Demands were so high, they extended her New York stay to three nights from her original one night performance. Wow, it's kind of hard to believe that in her 20 odd music career that Minogue have never tour through North America!

Having already sold 60 million records world-wide, with 50+ hit singles, and sold-out world tours... Australian actress-turn-pop diva, Kylie Minogue, or simply known as Kylie, have come a long way from her humble beginnings in the early 90s as an actress.*

Kylie's latest release, at least in the US, is called Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008, and as the name implies, this is not a studio album but a remix album. Note that this is her 11^th remix album, earlier remix hits, check out Greatest Remix Hits 1 (1997) followed by Greatest Remix Hits 2 through 4.

The new remix album opens up with possibly the best song on the album. Technically not a remix, but more of a mashup between New Order's "Blue Monday" and Kylie's "Can Get You Out of My Head". The mashup version first appeared live at the 2002 BRIT Award from DJ Stuart Crichton, but later appeared on other releases (including an odd choice of movie soundtrack for Layer Cake, starring current Bond, Daniel Craig).

Other interesting remixes includes Fischerspooner's "Come into My World" remix, which remains intact as sounding similar to the original mix, but adding his own flair to it.

I have never heard of Death Metal Disco Scene (myspace), but I was definitely impressed with their "Wow" remix, where they mostly concentrated on the extremely catchy "bow-wow-wow! just the way that you dance! bow-wow-wow!" section.

I simply hated the original mix of "2 Hearts" that appeared on Kylie's 10^th studio album, X, but Mark Brown made it more bearable by making the song a little faster.

I haven't heard the original "Your Disco Needs You", but the Casino Mix on Boombox is really good. It made the song to sound more like a Pet Shop Boys sound to it, and I'll definitely will try and pick up her 2000 album Light Years to check it out.

The best remixes are the ones that either transform the song, making it their own distinct and unique version. Case in point is The Chemical Brother's version of "Slow". They manage to pull off their usual beats and rave sound, extending the middle part and only keeping mostly the chorus. If you hear this "Slow" version on the radio, you'd swear that it was a Chemical Brothers song.

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head

If you're new to the world of Kylie, this Boombox album does a decent job of compiling some of the best remix. If you're looking for a studio album, I will have to recommend Fever (2001), which features some of her best-known hits, including some Cathy Dennis-written songs like "Can't Get You out of My Head", "Dancefloor" and "Come into My World".

Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World

"Come into my World" was also a smash-hit music video by auteur director Michel Gondry.  The video remains one of my favorite Gondry videos (other favorites is the lego White Stripes and Daft Punk's "Around the World").

Boombox is available now at any box store that carries music. Starting in October, Kylie will be over in the US to do a few selected dates for her first US appearance. I'm sure by then tickets will be sold out - so buy your tickets now if you want a guaranteed seat. From watching her concert footage, it's a huge show with lots of costume changes and loads of dancers.

* Although primarily known as a pop singer, let us not forget her appearance in the horrible video game movie, Street Fighter, as Cammy. She made such a wonderful impression, that the Washington Post called her "the worst actress in the English-speaking world". Aw, well she now knows how Madonna feels.

 05/21/2009 05:32:56 ♥ vu () ♥ kylie.com ♥ myspace.com/kylieminogue