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- News Roundup: 8/2/2010
Producer/arranger Mitch Miller, who hosted the television show “Sing Along With Mitch” and criticized deejays in the ’50s for “abandoning adults” during rock ‘n’ roll’s early days, died on July 31 at age 99. A classically trained oboist, Miller played with George Gershwin’s orchestra during the ’30s and became an executive at Mercury Records in the ’40s. During his stay with Columbia Records in the ’50s, he developed the careers of artists including Johnny Mathis, Patti Page, Vic Damone and Frankie Laine, and made Columbia the top-selling pop music label. In 1958, he released the first Sing Along With Mitch album, which spawned over 20 more Sing Along albums and the 1961 NBC variety show, which ran for four years. Miller worked as a conductor in later years, and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2000 Grammys. [BusinessWeek.com] R.I.P. Derf Scratch, founding bassist for seminal L.A. hardcore punks Fear. Scratch, a.k.a. Frederick Milner, died on July 28 after battling an unspecified illness. With Lee Ving, Scratch formed Fear in 1977 and played with the band during their controversial Halloween 1981 appearance on Saturday Night Live, which ended up destroying the show’s set. After Fear released their 1982 debut album The Record, Scratch left the band. [OCWeekly.com]
As part of RCA’s celebration of what would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday, the label is issuing all the master recordings that were released while Presley was still alive. The Complete Elvis Presley Masters will be issued in a limited-edition run of 1000 copies on October 19 and features 103 rare recordings and a 240-page hardbound book. [CompleteElvis.com]
One of electronic music’s pioneering labels has signed one of the most pioneering artists in any style of music. Warp Records will release a new album by Brian Eno later this year. [Pitchfork.com]
Long-lost Detroit proto-punk band Death reformed on Saturday for a show that was part of the Detroit Breakdown, a festival celebrating Motor City music at New York’s Lincoln Center. The show was organized by the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, which is dedicated to giving unsung American musicians their due. Death played the seven songs on their album …For the Whole World to See, which collected their explosive recordings from the early ’70s. Another collection, Spiritual, Mental, Physical, is planned for release this fall. [Spinner.com]
Just in case you’ve missed a moment of Justin Bieber’s stardom, the 16 year-old pop phenomenon has a memoir on the way. Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story will arrive in October. [AOL.com]
Are we in the golden age of children’s music? [TheDailySwarm.com]
The Arcade Fire’s brand new album The Suburbs is streaming at NPR.org. Check out Allmusic’s review of the album here. [NPR.org]
Listen to Matthew Dear’s album Black City, out later this month, here. [FactMag.com]
Переслать - Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Montreal's Arcade Fire successfully avoided the sophomore slump with 2007's apocalyptic Neon Bible. Heavier and more uncertain than their near perfect, darkly optimistic 2004 debut, the album aimed for the nosebleed section and left a red mess. Having already fled the cold comforts of suburbia on Funeral and suffered beneath the weight of the world on Neon Bible, it seems fitting that a band once so consumed with spiritual and social middle-class fury, should find peace "under the overpass in the parking lot." If nostalgia is just pain recalled, repaired, and resold, then The Suburbs is its sales manual.Inspired by brothers Win and William Butler's suburban Houston, TX upbringing, the 16-track record plays out like a long lost summer weekend, with the jaunty but melancholy Kinks/Bowie-esque title cut serving as its bookends. Meticulously paced and conservatively grand, fans looking for the instant gratification of past anthems like "Wake Up" or "Intervention" will find themselves reluctantly defending The Suburbs upon first listen, but anyone who remembers excitedly jumping into a friend's car on a sleepy Friday night armed with heartache, hope, and no agenda knows that patience is key. Multiple spins reveal a work that's as triumphant and soul-slamming as it is sentimental and mature. At its most spirited, like on "Empty Room," "Rococo," "City with No Children," "Half Light II (No Celebration)," "We Used to Wait," and the glorious Régine Chassagne-led "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)," the latter of which threatens to break into Blondie's "Heart of Glass" at any moment, Arcade Fire makes the suburbs feel positively electric. Quieter moments reveal a changing of the guard, as Win trades in the Springsteen-isms of Neon Bible for Neil Young on "Wasted Hours," and the ornate rage of Funeral for the simplicity of a line like "Let's go for a drive and see the town tonight/There's nothing do, but I don't mind when I'm with you," from album highlight "Suburban War."
The Suburbs feels like Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused for the Y generation. It's serious without being preachy, cynical without dissolving into apathy, and whimsical enough to keep both sentiments in line, and of all of their records, it may be the one that ages so well.Переслать
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