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- News Roundup: 8/12/2010
Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 156,000 copies in its first week of release. Of those sales, 97,000 were digital downloads of the album, which was on sale at Amazon.com for the low, low price of $3.99. Laura Ballance, co-owner of Arcade Fire’s label Merge Records (and Superchunk bassist), was ambivalent about the deep discount: "Devaluing music is something that concerns me greatly … But it's hard to draw a hard line on it. At this point, people can download music for free if they really want to. If you're trying to get people to buy music, people who wouldn't otherwise, maybe that's the way to do it. Just to make it so cheap that it tips the scale.” The Suburbs sold significantly better than Arcade Fire’s previous album, 2007’s Neon Bible, which debuted with 92,000 copies sold. [TheDailySwarm.com]Fantasia Barrino is out of the hospital after overdosing on aspirin and sleeping aids earlier this week. The American Idol winner attempted suicide after rumors surfaced that her affair with a married man caused his wife to divorce him. Barrino’s manager Brian Dickens said that “She is more committed than ever to her daughter and her work because they are her heart, her soul and inspiration.” [UsMagazine.com]
More ailing musicians: Sum 41 have canceled their remaining five dates on the Vans Warped Tour following singer/guitarist Deryck Whibley’s attack in Japan on August 5. Despite his doctors’ orders, Whibley performed the band’s Summer Sonic festival shows, but his back injury has not improved. The attack aggravated a slipped disk injury Whibley sustained in 2007. The band issued a statement that says in part, “Knowing that they are unable to deliver their signature high energy show, Sum 41 made the tough decision that a break is needed while Deryck begins rehabilitation for the slipped disk.” [Spinner.com]
R.I.P. jazz educator Leon Breeden, who died of complications from an abdominal infection on Wednesday at age 88. Breeden was the director of the University of North Texas’ jazz program and led the school’s One O’Clock Lab Band from 1959 to 1981. Under his direction, the group was the first college band to perform at the White House in 1967, as well as the first to tour internationally and to receive a Grammy nomination. Pianist and composer Lyle Mays and sidemen “Blue Lou” Marini and Marvin Stamm were among Breeden’s students. [AOLNews.com]
The Faces’ reunion tour kicked off Wednesday night at London’s British Music Experience. Original Faces Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones were joined by Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, founding Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock and Wood’s son Jessie on rhythm guitar as they played classics including “Miss Judy’s Farm,” “Stay With Me” and “Ooh La La.” The encore included “Pool Hall Richard,” which they dedicated to original bassist Ronnie Lane. [RollingStone.com]
More news about Glee’s second season: Justin Timberlake will appear in the show’s post-Super Bowl show, joining Britney Spears as one of the stars to make a cameo in upcoming episodes. [Billboard.com]
Kanye West debuted a new song from his upcoming, untitled album on Hot 97’s The Angie Martinez Show. “See Me Now” features Beyonce and Charlie Wilson, as well as lyrics like “I might walk in Nobu with no shoes, he walks into Nobu like it was Whole Foods.” [Idolator.com]
Video roundup: Actor Ray Winstone stars in UNKLE’s video for “The Answer”, Joanna Newsom performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Thom Yorke performs a new Radiohead song, “Give Up the Ghost,” during his set at the Big Chill Festival. [FactMag.com, Pitchfork.com, Undercover.com.au]
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Chris Dedrick, the lead singer/songwriter for influential ’60s vocal pop group the Free Design died Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 63 years-old. Although not commercially successful during its prime, the group's unique style of jazz-influenced harmonies — mixing elements of sunshine, bubblegum and baroque pop — did develop a cult-following in the ’90s and informed countless indie-rock bands like Stereolab, who even named a song after the Free Design. [LAWeekly.com]Detroit-area band the Victorious Secrets has won Experian’s ad contest. The band, which hails from the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, won the contest which aimed to find a real band to replace the fake one that appeared in several TV commercials for Experian’s Freecreditreport.com. As winners of the contest, The Victorious Secrets get a check for $10,000, a gift package featuring items from Gibson, Pearl drums and Live Nation and get to take part in MTV’s Music Video Awards show. [NYTimes.com]
Former Happy Monday’s dancer Bez has been convicted of assaulting his girlfriend during a row over money. Bez, who is best known for appearing in concerts and videos with the iconic ’90s Manchester group Happy Mondays, was convicted this week of grabbing his girlfriend Monica Ward around the throat and throttling her. For his part, Bez contends Ward stole money from him and that he acted in self-defense. He will be sentenced on August 25. [NME.com]
Переслать - News Roundup: 8/10/2010
“I’m bout to get on to answer questions and chip away at my mystique one humanizing question at a time,” Kanye West tweeted this weekend, before signing onto the video service UStream and making several announcements. Among them: Kanye’s new album will be out sometime this November; it was once titled Good Ass Job, although several new ideas are now being tossed around; it is an architectural masterpiece (“I think Michelangelo, Picasso, the pyramids”); and fans can expect a single in 20 days. [Guardian.co.uk]Johnny Marr has written the theme song for The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret, an upcoming British sitcom starring David Cross. Currently on tour with the Cribs, Marr has also contributed music to the “Inception” soundtrack and composed the score for a new Antonio Banderas movie, “The Big Bang.” [NME.com]
Those who missed Arcade Fire at Lollapalooza will have to head overseas to catch the band’s next string of headlining performances, including appearances in Italy, Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, and Scotland. [Pitchfork.com]
Reese Witherspoon will co-produce and star in a biopic about jazz vocalist Peggy Lee. Marc Platt, who worked with Witherspoon on the “Legally Blonde” franchise and produced Broadway’s “Wicked,” will share production duties. [Variety.com]
Ray LaMontagne’s God Willin’ And The Creek Don’t Rise and Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society are both streaming in their entirety at NPR. [NPR.org]
If Flamingo, Brandon Flowers’ first solo album, sounds similar to his work with the Killers, that’s because Flowers says his songs were originally written for the Killers’ next album. Look for Flamingo early next month. [Spinner.com]
Returning to the stage for the first time since Bono’s back surgery, U2 threw three new songs into their set at Turin’s Olympic Stadium. A handful of deep cuts — including “Miss Sarajevo” and “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” — were also included. [RollingStone.com]
Переслать - The Summer Jams 2010: The End is Near
It’s sad to say but summer’s just about done around here. We need some songs that have just a hint of the creeping melancholy of back to school, some jams that sound like shorter days and cool nights. Especially since it’s still hotter than the surface of the sun outside. As New Edition so wisely said, we’ve got to cool it down! To that end we’ve got a new track from Mark Ronson, a sad tune from Robyn’s upcoming Body Talk, Pt. 2 EP, and a haunting dreamgaze ballad from School of Seven Bells.Mark Ronson feat. Ghostface – “Lose It in the End”
This track from Ronson’s forthcoming album has a dynamite hook, his usual tight and funky production, and a typically bonkers rap from Ghostface. Bonkers, but true as hell.
Robyn – “Hang With Me”
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School of Seven Bells – “Windstorm”
Переслать - News Roundup: 8/9/2010
Van Halen fans might as well jump for joy: It looks like the band will reunite with David Lee Roth for a new album and tour in 2011. A recent press release announcing Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s renewed deal with publisher Warner/Chappell also mentions the band is “is currently in the studio recording an album with Roth that is due for release in 2011.” In a recent earnings call, LiveNation Entertainment’s executive chairman Irving Azoff also said Van Halen is expected to tour next year. The last time Roth recorded with Van Halen was in 1983 for their hit album 1984. [Billboard.com]Lollapalooza wrapped up Sunday night in Chicago, and Rolling Stone has video highlights of some of the biggest and best performances, including Arcade Fire, Soundgarden, Cypress Hill, Yeasayer and more. [RollingStone.com]
R.I.P. Jack Parnell, best known as the bandleader for The Muppet Show. The jazz drummer, who was 87, had been battling cancer for a year when he passed on Sunday at his home in eastern England. Parnell was a professional drummer by his teens and played with and led his own jazz ensembles before becoming musical director of British broadcaster ATV. He conducted The Muppet Show orchestra for the show’s entire five-year run from 1976 to 1981, though though the ostensible bandleader was the pop-eyed Muppet conductor, Nigel. [AOLNews.com]
Weezer is letting the geek flag fly with the album artwork for the band’s upcoming album. As the name suggests, Hurley is named after Jorge Garcia’s character on the recently ended TV series Lost, and the album’s cover is nothing but a close-up picture of Garcia’s face. Explains Rivers Cuomo, “I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.” [Spinner.com]
The Buggles are reuniting for a special performance of their 1980 debut album The Age of Plastic, which spawned the classic single “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Producer Trevor Horn announced that he and the rest of the original Buggles lineup will perform their first ever full live gig on September 28 at a West London venue yet to be determined. The show will benefit the city’s Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. [SlicingUpEyeballs.com]
Video roundup: Check out the trippy-looking puppets in the clip for Clinic’s “I’m Aware” from their upcoming album Bubblegum and the NSFW antics of Nick Cave and the rest of Grinderman in the “Heathen Child” video. [ConsequenceofSound.com, Pitchfork.com]
MP3 time: “I Do” is a previously unreleased cut from Andre 3000 from the Limelight Exclusives mixtape; Soundgarden’s “Black Rain” hails from the sessions for 1991’s Badmotorfinger and will appear on the band’s upcoming collection Telephantasm. [Hypetrak.com, Stereogum.com]
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