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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 7, 2005 13:39:41 GMT -5
thought i'd create a sticky thread for anyone that has news of musician deaths, band break-ups, bands reuniting, or news on upcoming releases...
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 7, 2005 13:41:22 GMT -5
Finger Records has announced the signing of legendary Orange County punk rock act The Adolescents. The long running band will soon celebrate their 25th anniversary and to commemorate the event will be releasing their first new full length since 1988. The July 12th release, titled O.C. Confidential follows the Balboa Fun Zone released more than fifteen years ago.
The band will also follow the record with a performance at Virgin Records at The Block on July 12th and will follow that with a North American tour beginning July 14th in Boston, Massachusetts.
You can click Read More for the dates.
Since their last full length in 1988, the band has issued a number of releases and live recordings including Live at the House of Blues and The Complete Demos (1980-1986).
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 7, 2005 13:56:32 GMT -5
Grindcore act Pig Destroyer has posted an update on their plans for the next few month. The band is currently taking some time to work on new material for splits with Ipecac's Orthrelm, the Black Dahlia Murder, Rotten Sound and Premonitions of War. Also in the works is a collaboration with Relapse labelmates Zombi under the moniker Zombi Destroyer.
Besides their previously announced set on Hellfest, the band is currently booking a series of Southern California dates with Uphill Battle, Triac and Phobia. The band released their sophmore release, Terrifyer last year.
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Asian Man Records has announced some of their upcoming releases for 2005. Due out thiss month are new records from Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu)'s Ten in the Swear Jar, rock'n'roll from Tokyo, Japan's Yoko Utsumi and the reissue of Screeching Weasel's retrospective Kill The Musicians.
In August, Mike Park will release North Hangook Falling, his second solo record and follow up to For the Love of Music. Due out in December will be remastered, repackaged editions of the first two records from The Riverdales including their debut Riverdales.
The label has also committed to working on an upcoming Skankin' Pickle B-Sides and rarities anthology and is back on track with the Slapstick live DVD titled Live at the Fireside Bowl.
Mike Park, who is currently on his Living Room tour has also announced a handful of UK dates.
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 7, 2005 14:02:31 GMT -5
In Memorium Ray Davis, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Tuesday from respiratory complications at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., according to his son, Derrick. He was 65.
Davis provided bass vocals on songs such as "Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucka)," "One Nation Under a Groove" and "Flashlight." The latter two songs reached No. 1 on Billboard's R&B charts.
Under leader George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic fused R&B, jazz, gospel and rock styles combined with garish costumes and elaborate stage displays to form one of the most original bands of the 1970s.
Davis was a member of the original Parliaments, a vocal group formed in the 1950s by Clinton while he was a junior high school student. In the early 1970s, Clinton changed the group's name from plural to singular and also created Funkadelic, a funk band with a sound more influenced by the electric guitar. The two overlapping groups and other affiliated acts became known as "P-Funk."
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thought you might like to know this sanna Depeche Mode has christened its new album "Playing the Angel," which, as previously reported, is expected to be released in October via Mute internationally and Reprise/Warner Bros. in North America.
According to the band's official Web site, such tracks as "Macrovision," "I Want It All," "Sinner Me," "Precious," "John the Revelator," "Suffer Well" and "A Pain That I Used To Be" are candidates to make the final running order. The album is being mixed in London by previous collaborator Steve Fitzmaurice.
The album will be supported by a fall North American tour, dates and venues for which have yet to be announced. A European run will get underway Jan. 13 in Dresden, Germany.
It will be the follow-up to 2001's "Exciter," which opened at No. 8 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 421,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 7, 2005 14:02:59 GMT -5
thought i'd create a sticky thread for anyone that has news of musician deaths, band break-ups, bands reuniting, or news on upcoming releases... .... neat
Ill keep this post in mind
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 7, 2005 14:04:59 GMT -5
First-time filmmaker Greg Whiteley came to the subject of his documentary feature not as a fan but as a friend of Arthur "Killer" Kane, bassist for the short-lived but influential '70s rock band the New York Dolls.
Their unlikely collaboration began at the Mormon temple in West Los Angeles, where the one-time hard-drinking musician worked part-time until his death last year. This loving portrait centers on a June 2004 band reunion that quite startlingly turned out to be a valedictory for Kane. Screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival and slated for October release, "New York Doll" is a tender take on life after stardom.
With their cheap-hooker drag and proto-punk ferocity, the Dolls dusted the sequins off glam rock and ignited passions at a time when self-serious metal and prog rock ruled the day. In the film, Bob Geldof, Chrissie Hynde, Morrissey, Iggy Pop and Mick Jones testify to the Dolls' inspirational sway. Mostly, though, Whiteley is concerned with how Kane weathered his post-Dolls comedown. "I've been demoted from rock star to schlep on the bus," the car-less Kane notes with typically self-deprecating humor, childlike charm and the slightly stunned expression of someone not quite sure how his life turned out this way.
Barely getting by on extras work in films like "Spaceballs" after several failed attempts to start a band, he hit bottom after seeing former Dolls frontman David Johansen on TV in "Scrooged." His disastrous alcoholic rage led to the breakup of his marriage and his serendipitous discovery of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which he joined in 1989.
Several interviewees speak of Kane's envious appraisal of Johansen's music and film careers, his sense of being denied something due him and his obsession with the Dolls' heyday. So when Morrissey, guest curator of London's annual Meltdown Festival, asked the band to play last year, it was in many ways a dream materialized. Church colleagues gave Kane the $262.50 he needed to get his bass guitar out of hock.
Whiteley's access is most rewarding in footage of rehearsals for the show. Playing together for the first time in almost 30 years as part of the Morrissey-curated Meltdown Festival in London, the three surviving members -- Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and Kane -- have an easy chemistry. Whatever jealousies and adversarial tensions Kane felt toward Johansen dissolve in the evident creative connection and deep affection between them. As "New York Doll" powerfully captures, that reconnection turned out to be a blessing when Kane died unexpectedly just weeks after the show.
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 7, 2005 19:45:34 GMT -5
Break-ups: Q And Not U (1998-2005) Dischord act Q and Not U have disbanded. The band posted a statement on their website today:
After seven years, hundreds of shows, thousands of miles, 46 states, four continents, three albums, only one flat-tire and countless nicknames for Shawn Brackbill, Q and Not U is disbanding.
With all of your support, we feel that we've reached all of our shared goals as Q and Not U and we're ready to move on to other projects in life. We all hope to play music together again someday, but we feel that it's a beautiful and natural time to bring this band to a close. The band had released three full lengths on Dischord, the first No Kill No Beep Beep in 2000, followed by Different Damage two years later and most recently last year's Power.
They still have a handful of shows scheduled. Among them are festival performances in the summer and two hometown farewell shows in September.
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 8, 2005 1:15:28 GMT -5
Fat Wreck Chords has recently announced several interesting upcoming albums, two of them quite amazing:
- The Real McKenzies: 10,000 Shots. - Against Me!: Searching For A Former Clarity - Screeching Weasel: A compilation to benefit Protect.org. - Western Addiction - Rise Against's: A remix of The Unraveling plus a bonus track. - Propagandhi: One of my classical favourites. After quite some time of musical silence (but tons of updates about politics), here comes the Potemkin City Limits. - Lagwagon: Expected to be released in november.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 8, 2005 3:24:58 GMT -5
Break-ups: Q And Not U (1998-2005)Dischord act Q and Not U have disbanded. The band posted a statement on their website today: After seven years, hundreds of shows, thousands of miles, 46 states, four continents, three albums, only one flat-tire and countless nicknames for Shawn Brackbill, Q and Not U is disbanding. With all of your support, we feel that we've reached all of our shared goals as Q and Not U and we're ready to move on to other projects in life. We all hope to play music together again someday, but we feel that it's a beautiful and natural time to bring this band to a close. The band had released three full lengths on Dischord, the first No Kill No Beep Beep in 2000, followed by Different Damage two years later and most recently last year's Power. They still have a handful of shows scheduled. Among them are festival performances in the summer and two hometown farewell shows in September.
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 9, 2005 13:23:41 GMT -5
Burning Heart Records has signed Swedish punk four piece the Accidents. The label describes them as combining "the devastating power of the 50'ies rock with the ravishing grimness of 77' style punkrock" influenced by the likes of Gene Vincent, the Shakers, Johnny Thunders and Black Flag. The band will release a yet untitled new record on October 10th of this year. It will be recorded this summer at Studio Soundlab in Örebro and will follow up 2004's Bootleg Booze released All Time High. The Accidents features former members of Voice of a Generation (Danny Violence and Kim Belly, although they've since taken on new stage names).
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 9, 2005 13:43:08 GMT -5
Burning Heart Records has signed Swedish punk four piece the Accidents. The label describes them as combining "the devastating power of the 50'ies rock with the ravishing grimness of 77' style punkrock" influenced by the likes of Gene Vincent, the Shakers, Johnny Thunders and Black Flag. The band will release a yet untitled new record on October 10th of this year. It will be recorded this summer at Studio Soundlab in Örebro and will follow up 2004's Bootleg Booze released All Time High. The Accidents features former members of Voice of a Generation (Danny Violence and Kim Belly, although they've since taken on new stage names). like a mix between the hives and turbonegro
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 14, 2005 7:40:49 GMT -5
Burning Heart Records has signed Swedish punk four piece the Accidents. The label describes them as combining "the devastating power of the 50'ies rock with the ravishing grimness of 77' style punkrock" influenced by the likes of Gene Vincent, the Shakers, Johnny Thunders and Black Flag. The band will release a yet untitled new record on October 10th of this year. It will be recorded this summer at Studio Soundlab in Örebro and will follow up 2004's Bootleg Booze released All Time High. The Accidents features former members of Voice of a Generation (Danny Violence and Kim Belly, although they've since taken on new stage names). like a mix between the hives and turbonegro
if you say so... i know Voice of a Generation well though since i have their album. the swedish version of Dropkick Murphys
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Jul 14, 2005 7:44:35 GMT -5
Dylan Offers Rarities Bonanza On 'No Direction' By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
More than two-dozen previously unreleased tracks will be found on "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack," the seventh volume in Columbia/Legacy's Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series." As previously reported, the double-disc set is the companion to Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary of the same name. The album is due Aug. 30; the film premieres Sept. 26 on PBS.
Sequenced in chronological order, "No Direction Home" boasts 26 rarities, beginning with what is believed the first original song Dylan ever recorded ("When I Got Troubles," taped by a high school friend in Minnesota in 1959).
Also featured are two tracks recorded in Minneapolis in December 1961, a live version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" from a 1961 show at New York's Carnegie Hall that was previously not known to exist and alternate takes of "Mr. Tambourine Man," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "She Belongs to Me" from the 1964-65 "Bringing It All Back Home" sessions.
The album's second disc sports five alternate takes from the 1965 sessions for "Highway 61 Revisited" and three from the following year's "Blonde on Blonde," plus live versions of "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Like a Rolling Stone" from Dylan's 1966 U.K. tour.
Liner notes for "No Direction Home" were penned by producer Andrew Loog Oldham and Dylan collaborator Al Kooper, while journalist Eddie Gorodetsky offers track-by-track analysis.
Dylan himself narrates the film version of "No Direction Home," which boasts new interviews with such seminal figures as Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Al Kooper, Pete Seeger and Dave Von Ronk.
On the same day "No Direction Home" hits stores, another Dylan album will begin an 18-month window of exclusivity at Starbucks locations. "Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962" features restored recordings culled from the artist's early performances at the New York cafe.
Here is the track list for "No Direction Home":
Disc one: 01. "When I Got Troubles" (1959) 02. "Rambler, Gambler" (1960) 03. "This Land Is Your Land" (live at New York's Carnegie Chapter Hall, 1961) 04. "Song to Woody" (1961) 05. "Dink's Song" (1961) 06. "I Was Young When I Left Home" (1961) 07. "Sally Gal" ("The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" outtake, 1962) 08. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" (demo, 1963) 09. "Man of Constant Sorrow" (1963) 10. "Blowin' in the Wind" (live at New York's Town Hall, 1963) 11. "Masters of War" (live at New York's Town Hall, 1963) 12. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (live at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1963) 13. "When the Ship Comes In" (live at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1963) 14. "Mr. Tambourine Man" ("Bringing It All Back Home" alternate take, 1964) 15. "Chimes of Freedom" (live at Newport, R.I. Folk Festival, 1964) 16. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" ("Bringing It All Back Home" alternate take, 1965)
Disc two: 01. "She Belongs To Me" (“Bringing It All Back Home" alternate take, 1965) 02. "Maggie's Farm" (live at Newport, R.I. Folk Festival, 1965) 03. "It's Take a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry" ("Highway 61 Revisited" alternate take, 1965) 04. "Tombstone Blues" ("Highway 61 Revisited" alternate take, 1965) 05. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" ("Highway 61 Revisited" alternate take, 1965) 06. "Desolation Row" ("Highway 61 Revisited" alternate take, 1965) 07. "Highway 61 Revisited" ("Highway 61 Revisited" alternate take, 1965) 08. "Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat" ("Blonde on Blonde" alternate take, 1966) 09. "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" ("Blonde on Blonde" alternate take, 1966) 10. "Visions of Johanna" ("Blonde on Blonde" alternate take, 1965) 11. "Ballad of a Thin Man" (live at Edinburgh's ABC Theatre, 1966) 12. "Like a Rolling Stone" (live at Manchester, England's Free Trade Hall, 1966)
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Post by Cupcake Avenger on Jul 14, 2005 8:11:27 GMT -5
PEARL JAM RELEASING NEW ALBUM 2006
Rockers wrapping new album, readying tour
Pearl Jam are almost finished with their follow-up to 2002's Riot Act. The band plans to spend the next three weeks in the studio recording vocals and mixing. If all goes according to plan, the yet-to-be-titled disc could be released as early as May.
"There's a lot more up-tempo stuff," says drummer Matt Cameron. "It's a lot more rockin' than our last one." Song titles like "Severed Hand," "Worldwide Suicide" and "2x4" seem to reflect that harder edge. Though the track listing has not been finalized, other candidates include "Marker" and "Cold Concession."
Cameron, who teamed with guitarist Mike McCready on the track "Unemployable," characterizes the sessions as more collaborative. "We reworked everything together in the studio," he says. "It's a really healthy environment -- everyone really just wants to dig in and make the songs as good as they can be."
Pearl Jam hope to support the new record with a summer tour.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 14, 2005 12:00:40 GMT -5
like a mix between the hives and turbonegro
if you say so... i know Voice of a Generation well though since i have their album. the swedish version of Dropkick Murphys Kind of I guess.. just by judgeing their web page.. and listening to some songs..
Ive heard some voag songs.. they were fine.. I guess I should listen some more to them
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