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- News Roundup:6/30/2010
The influential indie rock band Guided By Voices is set to reunite this summer for the Matador Records 21st Birthday celebration in Las Vegas. The reunion will feature frontman Robert Pollard and the rest of the classic ‘93-’96 lineup, including guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell, bassist Greg Demos, and drummer Kevin Fennell. Matador’s three-day anniversary celebration runs October 1st-3rd and includes performances by such bands as Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the New Pornographers, Superchunk, and Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. [Billboard.com]Emmy Award-winning television composer Allyn Ferguson died on June 23rd at his home in Westlake Village, CA, at age 85. Best known for co-writing iconic theme songs for such shows as Charlie’s Angels and Barney Miller, Ferguson also wrote hundreds of underscores for scenes in shows like Starsky & Hutch, S.W.A.T., and others. [NYTimes.com]
David Byrne has released a cover of Peter Gabriel’s “I Don’t Remember.” Recorded in response to Gabriel’s recent covers album Scratch My Back — on which he recorded The Talking Heads’ "Listening Wind" — the track comes from Gabriel’s experimental, electronic-infused 1980 self-titled album. [Stereogum.com]The Klaxons are streaming a new track from the band’s upcoming sophomore effort, Surfing the Void. The track, “Echoes,” is the album’s opening cut and can heard at the website for Modular, the Klaxons’ label. Surfing the Void is set for release on August 23rd. [Pitchfork.com]
NIN, Maroon 5, and Ben Harper are the latest artists to join The Sound Strike, a collective of musicians banding together to boycott and protest Arizona’s recent immigration laws by refusing to perform in the state. Led by Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha, Sound Strike is planning several concerts to take place outside Arizona and tentatively set for late July. De la Rocha also intimated that Rage Against the Machine is likely to perform at one of the concerts. [Rollingstone.com]
Переслать - The Summer Jams 2010: Usher – OMG
So Usher’s making a bunch of noise lately, talking about how gimmicky UK artists like Taio Cruz and Jay Sean are ruining R&B by not being real enough, that they are bringing down the “true value” of R&B. All the while he’s topping the charts with “OMG”, a ridiculously gimmicky POP single produced by the proudly unreal and totally pop Will.I.Am. The song pulls out every stop possible, using crowd chants, stutter-stop percussion, Auto-Tune, and corny lyrics (does he actually say “boobies”? I believe he does!) to burrow deep into your brain for three minutes. When the three minutes are up, the song flies away like a balloon filled with pure nothingness. And then you want to hear it again! Usher, you aren’t doing much to promote “real” anything (Beiber!?) and that’s OK with me. Just keep cranking out the insane and meaningless pop and we’ll be square.Click here to view the embedded video.
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Good news for cash-strapped Prince fans in Europe: the songwriter plans on releasing his newest album, 20Ten, by including free copies inside various newspapers and magazines. The Daily Mirror and Scotland’s Daily Record will be responsible for distributing 2.5 million copies of the album, while the German edition of Rolling Stone will offer the 10-track disc in its August issue. 20Ten will also be released in Belgium via the country’s Het Nieuwblad newspaper. Other newspaper deals are likely to pop up in the coming weeks, as are details concerning the album’s release in North America. [Billboard.com]Deborah Jo White, a former Lynyrd Skynyrd backup vocalist who performed under her maiden name, “Jo Jo Billingsley,” died last week in Cullman, Alabama. White toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd during the mid-’70s and left the lineup in August 1977. Two months later, she infamously warned her former bandmates about having a dream in which the group’s plane crashed. That dream came true in October, prompting White to leave rock music altogether and work as a Christian minister in Cullman. She was 58 years old. [Variety.com]
Lilith Fair launched its summer tour on Sunday, but the festival is already struggling to stay afloat in a market still reeling from the recession. Shows in Nashville and Phoenix were recently canceled due to slow ticket sales, and three Canadian shows have been relocated to smaller venues. Norah Jones, one of Lilith’s biggest names, has canceled five appearances in August, and the Go Go’s have pulled out of the festival altogether after guitarist Jane Wiedlin underwent emergency surgery for a hiking injury. [ArtistDirect.com]
Warped Tour, on the other hand, is off to a fairly good start. The punk festival launched its 42-date season last Friday, with over 12,000 fans and 90 bands in attendance. Although Warped Tour groups are traditionally fronted by men, the Pretty Reckless stood out from the pack with their own frontperson — Gossip Girl actress Taylor Momsen — who took the stage in a corset, garters, and other vestiges of Cherrie Currie’s wardrobe circa 1977. [Spin.com]
Kylie Minogue made a cameo appearance during the Scissor Sisters’ Glastonbury set on Saturday, having hatched the plan with frontman Jake Shears during a series of text messages. Popdirt.com has the footage. [NME.com]
Kylie wasn’t the only guest at Glastonbury. The Edge, originally scheduled to headline the festival with U2, joined Muse during their Saturday night performance for a cover of “Where the Streets Have no Name.” Keane also showed their support for U2, whose summer tour was canceled in light of Bono’s back problems, by playing an acoustic version of “With or Without You.” [RollingStone.com]
One of the year’s biggest buzz bands, Mumford & Sons, will release a new EP in conjunction with an upcoming U.K. tour. Ticket buyers who attend any of the tour’s six performances will also have the option to buy Volume 1, a limited-edition 10 inch EP released under Mumford & Sons’ alter ego, The Wedding Band. [NME.com]
Переслать - Trojan Country Reggae
With 50,000-watt clear channel American radio stations bouncing signals off the ocean, the moon, and the stratosphere, Jamaican musicians in the 1960s and early ’70s were as up on the latest American pop music as any kid listening to radio late at night in Delaware or Detroit, which explains the heavy influence of R&B, Motown, and soul on the island’s own wonderfully skewed pop music. Everything got filtered through that upside-down rhythm sense that led to the creation of ska, rocksteady, and reggae, so Jamaican covers of American hits often had little in common with the original versions save for a handful of lyric phrases and maybe the hint of a shared melody. Even country music had an impact on Jamaican musicians, and as Trojan Country, a three-disc, 50-track box set, shows, they rushed to add Caribbean rhythms and an ocean lilt to any number of country hits and created in the process an odd hybrid that usually defied categorization.Often the results were simply bizarre, like the version of “Tennessee Waltz” by the Carib Beats, who manage to take a straight waltz into ska time without a single thought as to whether they should. Then there’s the case of the mariachi horns from Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.” Originally arranged by producer Jack Clement, the “Ring of Fire” horn chart seemed to have spoken deeply to Jamaican musicians, and it turns up in countless singles, including the one collected here called “Occupation” by the legendary Skatalites. Some of the cuts included in this box are so singular, like Count Prince Miller’s insane and possibly demonic wailings on a cover of Frankie Laine’s “Mule Train,” that they defy internalization. What should one make of Pluto Shervington’s rocksteady do-over of Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya,” itself a faux homage to life on the Louisiana bayous? Crawfish pie? Irie, very irie.
Not everything here is strange Franken-music, though. Hopeton Lewis’ clattering take on “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” actually comes out pretty wry and poignant, particularly given Kingston’s infamous Gun Court. Likewise Nicky Thomas’ rendition of “Love of the Common People” (originally done by Waylon Jennings, although Thomas is more likely to have learned the song from the soul version by the Winstons), which is presented here in the no-strings version that was only issued in Jamaica, manages to retain the emotional nuance of the American hit while also seamlessly translating it into a Jamaican realm. Mostly, though, the tracks collected in this box set are more curious than necessary, and even though someone convinced Willie Nelson to do an ill-advised reggae album a couple of years back, there’s probably little danger of Jamaica going all new country anytime soon, which is no doubt a good thing. It could only lead to dancehall country and the world sure isn’t ready for that.
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