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- News Roundup: 10/1/2010
In one of the most rockstar-worthy injures in recent memory, Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack was rushed to a hospital in South Africa last month after being bit by a lion. (!!) Bloc Party had flown to the area to play with the Parlotones in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the band visited a wild animal sanctuary during one of its days off. Lissack was playing with one of the sanctuary’s lion cubs when the animal attacked, leaving a nasty wound and prompting an immediate trip to the hospital. He has since recovered. [Spinner.com]Roger Waters’ new stage show has caused some controversy amongst his Jewish fans, who claim that some of the stage projections used during his nightly performances of “Goodbye Blue Sky” are antisemitic. The projections, which can be viewed here, consist of a series of symbols and logos that are dropped like bombs from airplanes, including dollar signs, Stars of David, crosses, Islam’s crescent moon, the Mercedes icon. Waters’ partner, Laurie Durning, rejected the claims of antisemitism, which are being spearheaded by the Anti-Defamation League. [Guardian.co.uk]
The most recent Glee episode, which focused on the music of Britney Spears, attracted the show’s largest audience to date, even besting last season’s Madonna episode. [CNN.com]
“The Social Network” opens today, but some of those involved with the movie’s creation have a different reason to celebrate. The Kolacny Brothers, the classically-trained conductors of the 200-member Belgian choir Scala, have landed a record deal as a result of the movie’s trailer, which featured Scala’s rendition of the Radiohead staple “Creep.” ATCO Records will release an album of the choir’s material. Although release details are still sketchy, Scala is in the process of planning an American tour for next spring. [Billboard.com]
The Velvet Underground’s self-taught drummer, Moe Tucker, has apparently joined the ranks of the Tea Party. Tucker — or someone who looks like her and is also named Maureen Tucker — was interviewed at a Tea Party rally in April, citing the country’s slip toward socialism and wasteful spending as reasons for her Tea Party support. [Pitchfork.com]
The early bird gets the worm: tickets for Glastonbury 2011 go on sale this Sunday. The price is £195, plus shipping/handling and a £5 booking fee. [NME.com]
Переслать - Tom Zé on LP
When David Byrne picked up a Tom Zé LP in a Rio record shop 25 years ago, he had no idea he was embarking on the beginning of an enduring and provocative musical, educational and personal relationship that would last into the 21st century and help to spread Zé’s reputation all over the world. That album, Estudando o Samba, was the first of the iconoclastic tropicalismo singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s “studies” albums that provocatively explored Brazil’s various musical traditions. It was followed by Estuado o Pagode (2005), and finally, Estudando a Bossa: Nordeste Plaza (2008), the latter of these gets its first North American CD issue on October 5. To celebrate this fateful anniversary, Byrne’s Luaka Bop imprint will release Studies Of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You, a hand-numbered limited edition triple 180 gram LP collection of Ze’s three “studies” albums (Estuando o Samba was released as Massive Hits by Byrne with a different cover and it’s the American release that is presented in the set). Also included is a 45 rpm single of Zé performing with Tortoise at the Barbican, a CD that includes a conversation between the Zé and Byrne, a 12-page booklet with a scholarly essay by Christopher Dunn, and a download key for each album. Luaka Bop is also giving out free work shirts for a short time with copies purchased from their web site. Ultimately, it’s about the music. The studies albums are among the most satisfying, humorous, and confounding in Zé’s long career. He has remained determinedly on the margins, exploring, questioning, and experimenting with Brazilian musical history and where it intersects with, and departs from, other global traditions. For Zé, the revolution is ever present.
You can listen to selections from the collection at Luaka Bop.
Переслать - News Roundup: 9/30/2010
Blues and jazz saxophonist Ed Wiley Jr. died on Monday in North Carolina at the age of 80. Wiley, who scored the 1950 hit “Cry, Cry Baby” and went on to work with Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Teddy Pendergrass, was leaving church on Sunday when he fell and struck his head, slipping into a coma. Wiley’s funeral will be held Friday in Raleigh, NC. [AOLNews.com]Detroit house producer and Wallshaker Music founder Aaron-Carl Ragland died in Detroit on Thursday of cancer, just a few days after canceling his European tour and confirming his diagnosis on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Best known as just Aaron-Carl, his critically acclaimed brand of soulful house was released on labels such as Ovum and Soul City before he launched Wallshaker Music in 2002. [ResidentAdvisor.net]
SOLAR Records founder Dick Griffey, whose label released hits by the Whispers, Shalamar, Lakeside, Midnight Star and Klymaxx, died in Los Angeles on Friday at age 71 from complications from quadruple bypass surgery. Griffey began as a concert promoter before working with Don Cornelius as the talent coordinator on Soul Train. The pair founded Soul Train Records in 1975, but split two years later. At SOLAR Records, Griffey championed Jam & Lewis, Babyface and Antonio “L.A.” Reid, who said in a Wednesday interview, “when we look at Motown as an example, the nearest competitor was SOLAR … the talent under that roof was insane.” In later years, Griffey supported South Africa’s African National Congress, built a girls’ school in Ghana and established a West African trading company. [KansasCity.com]
Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, but the real news is the chart debut of five songs by the Glee Cast, including their version of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind,” which entered the chart at number 21 and “Telephone” at number 23. Those two tracks became the fifth and sixth songs by the Glee Cast to surpass 100,000 downloads in a single week. [Billboard.com]
Trent Reznor is developing a TV mini-series with HBO and the BBC based on Nine Inch Nails’ 2007 album Year Zero. Reznor’s creative team includes Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender, Roswell executive producer Kevin Kelly Brown and writer Daniel Knauf, who also penned HBO’s cult series Carnivale. Said Reznor, “It’s been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.” [NME.com]
Audiovisual roundup: Check out new songs from Kanye West and the xx’s Jamie Smith, and watch Courtney Love’s animated search for fashion nirvana and Neil Young’s 38-minute concert film of Le Noise. [WeAllWantSomeone.org; FactMag.com; WWD.com; ConsequenceofSound.net]
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