This album comes out of the mind of Phil Pearlman. Pearlman is a veteran of the American 60’s rock scene, being the brains behind such epic psych albums Beat of the Earth and the great Electronic Hole. Relatively Clean Rivers’ only album was released in 1975/76 though it sounds straight out of 1969. This album is extremely rare and has proven to be quite a controversial privately financed release.
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Cydney Robinson is the spokeswoman for the shoeless. She finds that toothless poverty in all of us, the barefoot truth, the humanity that is all too aware, the wisdom seldom spoken out loud, and the Kentucky weeds that grow inside.
“Jebadiah was a preacher… in… my… town…” An ominous beginning. You want the song to stop a moment. “The story of this song isn’t very nice. But the music is pretty.” Cydney Robinson spoke the warning. She opens every show with this song, opens the album with this song, and opens up the listener straight to the core.
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Riddled with ethnic, world, and eastern flavours, Secret Story is one of Pat Metheny’s most diverse and varied albums. Ranging from classical pieces complemented by Metheny’s majestic guitar work, to the basic “coffee house/lounge jazz”, with only the dominance of the cosmic piano lacking (though its presence is still key), this is a very unique output. This is not Metheny’s first time incorporating foreign sounds, instruments, arrangements, and/or compositional approaches into his music, but it is the first time that the ethnic spice has remained switched on throughout the entire album - and never has been so strongly switched on.
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The American Society of Young Musicians (AYSM) presents its 4th Annual Hollywood Live Music Showcase on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood CA. Hollywood Live showcase is designed to give fresh, up-and-coming Artists/Groups a platform to showcase their talent in front of some of the biggest executives in the music industry. This year with an overwhelming response from artists, groups and bands from across America, the executive committee of the national ASYM has chosen the participants for the Hollywood Live Music Showcase.
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Hit me, baby, with
one more subpoena
NEW YORK – Kevin Federline now wants Britney Spears’ rehab records. K-Fed’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said Sunday that a chief administrator at Promises, the drug treatment facility where Brit completed a stint last March, had been served with a deposition subpoena over the weekend.
It was the fifth subpoena doled out by Mr. Federline’s lawyers, who are battling Britney for custody of the couple’s two young sons.
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A side effect of today’s fractured, tumultuous music industry is the fluctuating meaning of the greatest-hits album.
On one hand, it remains a giant moneymaker for labels, which are urging their artists to make best-of compilations increasingly earlier in their careers. On the other, iTunes has made it redundant. If you want an act’s highlights, you can assemble them yourself.
This dichotomy has, for some bands, made the decision to make a best-of album an increasingly difficult, sometimes contentious one. Some view greatest-hits albums as a blatant money grab that disrespects the integrity of the album. Pressure from labels can also come sooner than expected.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/greatest-hits-isnt-the-greatest-move/
NEW YORK (Billboard) - In 2004, U.K.-based independent label Memphis Industries released the sample-heavy, intentionally lo-fi and daringly jarring “Thunder, Lightning, Strike,” the Go! Team’s debut full-length CD.
The buzz was deafening, so in 2005, the label entered a joint venture with Sony BMG to distribute the album internationally, with the major’s Columbia subsidiary handling it in the United States.
It’s a turn of events that every band dreams of — unless that band is the Go! Team.
The brainchild of Ian Parton, the Go! Team was never supposed to be mainstream. Parton set out to make “dirty” pop songs — danceable, catchy tunes that were enveloped by chaos and besieged by left turns.
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Retired country superstar Garth Brooks is still retired country superstar Garth Brooks, and he says he’ll stay that way until his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2015.
But the biggest-selling country act in music history believes he’s still packing hits. On Saturday, he announced he’s putting out another boxed set — this one containing four new songs — and he spent time explaining that just because he’s retired from touring doesn’t mean he won’t compete for spins at country radio.
The presence of radio promotions wizard Scott Borchetta at the morning Renaissance Nashville Hotel news conference and the decision to corral 200 radio executives and dozens of music retailers in Music City for what was billed as the “Garth Radio Seminar” signals a seriousness about staying viable in the mainstream country market.
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Looking for the next hot thing in emo? Well, keep looking. Escape the Fate is not going to be able to escape their fate. To be fair, is not a terrible album it is just horribly lackluster. It doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. It slips back and forth through emo, screamo, and pop-punk. It seems like they weren’t sure what direction to take and chose to throw everything at the wall to see what would stick. I am vaguely reminded of Sugar Ray and their everything but the kitchen sink approach to , and when “Fly” hit, every song after sounded just like it. Of course, that is a different case, but the comparison popped into my head and feels rather appropriate.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/15/emo-escape-the-fate-review-of-their-dying-is-your-latest-fashion/
First and foremost, shouts to Rizoh for the ‘Pacavellian title. So what do I think of the latest attempt at keeping Tupac ‘contemporary’? Let’s go through it together…
When examining the work of the highest-selling rapper of all time, it must first be recognized that there are essentially 2 2pacs. (To me), first and most prominently is his poetic and revolutionary side which I’ve stressed for quite a while. Too often, both opponents of ‘Pac and fans alike have claimed ‘Thug Life’ as his motto. It’s actually true; it was. Unfortunately, many seem to confuse the underlying message behind it (Quote of the day by Immortal Technique: “What the industry did to ‘Pac, they did to Jesus”) with acts of senseless and self-destructive violence. He expressed the hope for a revolutionary attempt at social change. Analyzing the lyrics to songs like the (technically unreleased) track ‘Revolution’ explain the true message behind ‘Thug Life’:
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