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.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/thunder-lightning-strike-the-go-teams-debut-full-length-cd/
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.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/garth-still-works-for-radio/
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’:
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/13/2pac-review-of-nu-mixx-klazzics-volume-2/
In the annals of rock n’ roll no other rock band has a more checkered or colored existence other than Kiss. Whether you love them or hate them, Kiss is undeniably one of the most influential rock bands on the planet. It’s funny to think that if not for a double live album, they may have potentially disappeared into obscurity. In 1975 on the heels of three poorly selling studio albums, the band and their record label, Casablanca, made the gutsy decision to release a double live album. It was not only a wise choice but to this day “Alive!” is viewed as the essential Kiss album and the one by which all others are judged.
Universal Music recently released a 4-disc live box set entitled ‘Alive 1975-2000′. Housed inside this package are the first three ‘Alive’ albums and an unreleased one from their 1999/2000 Millennium show. This fourth album was to have been ‘Alive IV’ and put out in support of the band’s farewell tour in 2000, however, it never saw the light of day until now. If one were to buy this box it would most likely be a double dip for most fans, so I’m here to break down the contents for you so you can make a decision.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/10/kizz-new-fan-oriented-albom/
Interestingly how we all kind of intuited this before long, even if it was nothing we thought to articulate. The use of the word “album” diminished as the CD era progressed. Instead of saying, “Did you get the new Radiohead album?” you maybe, more often, said, “Did you get the new Radiohead CD?”
Bonus tracks were but the first step. Once music fans had pretty much abandoned the vinyl LP, by the early ’90s, the industry found itself released once and for all from the time restriction of the vinyl LP. After which point albums, sure enough, became longer. Quite a bit longer.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/07/the-fingerprints-cd-broke-the-spell-of-the-record-album/
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It wasn’t the like-minded, classical-meets-pop band Bond that gave Wang Xiao-Jing the idea for Twelve Girls Band, it was Chinese numerology according to the man himself. When the “father of Chinese rock music” decided he wanted to create a female ensemble, he knew it needed 12 members. In ancient Chinese mythology it’s the 12 jinchai (12 hairpins) that represent womanhood. The 12 women that Xiao-Jing brought together were veterans of the People’s Republic of China’s top orchestras, played ancient Chinese instruments, and all were in their twenties.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/01/12-girls-band-new-album/
Which is in itself surprising. After all, the 64-year-old guitarist for the Police is a well-traveled rocker. He gigged with psychedelic pioneers Soft Machine in the ’60s. He spent a decade in the Police rocking arenas and stadiums and making platinum records. He even played Carnegie Hall as a solo artist.
But the mad fervor surrounding the Police’s reunion tour - which makes a two-night stop at a sold-out Fenway Park on Saturday and Sunday - is unlike anything he’s ever experienced.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/27/police-reunited-rockers-ready-to-burn/
The Meat Puppets are back, and the Kirkwood brothers are talking again.
To anyone familiar with the tragic tailspin that bassist Cris Kirkwood’s life became in the mid-’90s, that’s no small wonder.
His heroin habit sabotaged the Meat Puppets just as they were solidifying their status as one of the most important rock acts to come out of the Valley since Alice Cooper.
“I cost us everything,” he said.
His descent put the brakes on the national success he, his guitarist brother, Curt, and drummer Derrick Bostrom were enjoying: A radio hit with 1994’s Backwater, healthy rotation on MTV, concert bills with Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and hefty royalty checks.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/20/meat-puppets-reunated-and-back-to-stage/
At this point, I’m out of jokes about Alberta hip hop. Here at the hill we’ve tapped into a pipeline of Alberta hip hop that flows across the country and ends up in Halifax for me to review. It’s fine by me, as it’s given me the chance to make plenty of jokes about how Alberta is lousy with oil money and out here on the East Coast we, uh, aren’t. Which might isn’t all that funny in theory, but I shall digress and discuss the latest Albertan hip hop export The Representatives’ (Touch & Nato) Intelligent Design.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/18/the-representatives-intelligent-design/
