Swerve Festival announced its initial lineup taking place September 28-30, including three premieres of independent feature films, plus screenings of additional short films and music videos. The FUEL TV initiative will also present a dynamic series of activities including free musical performances and art installations at the festival’s primary venue - the Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood.
“Swerve Festival isn’t just a film festival or a music festival or an art show-it’s all of these things,” says Jonathan Wells, Festival Director. “There’re no sidebars, all of our programs feature top-notch talent that stand on their own, yet are more cohesive as a whole. One of the trademarks of West Coast creative culture is the cross pollination of creative disciplines-art, music and film are interrelated and overlapping. This is the first festival to celebrate that.”
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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.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/24/phil-pearlman-relatively-clean-rivers/
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.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/23/the-song-to-stop-a-moment/
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.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/23/part-of-diverse-and-varied-albums-secret-story/
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.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/thunder-lightning-strike-the-go-teams-debut-full-length-cd/
Are you a Maroon 5 fan? We’ll if you are, then you already know about the upcoming Maroon 5 Before Long tour. Our staff is ready to help you find the seats you’re looking for. Please keep in mind, Maroon 5 tickets are hard to come by and many of the Fan Club tickets don’t get released until the week of the show. We are your best source for a wide selection of premium Maroon 5 tickets.
More about the upcoming Maroon 5 Tour - sourced online from Live Nation
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Like the mercurial comet he has been for more than four decades, Sly Stone suddenly appeared in concert in San Jose last night, burned hot and bright for a brief time and then disappeared into darkness.
But for the 16 minutes he was on stage, the 64-year-old funkmeister showed continued possession of the gifts that helped shoot Sly and the Family Stone to stardom in the late ’60s to the mid-70s.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/09/san-jose-concert-of-sly-stone/
The 2007 season of Beaumont Concerts in the Park kicks off Wednesday, July 11 with Air Supply at 7:30 p.m. at Stewart Park.
Wednesday, July 25 will be Three Dog Night at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. War will perform.
“The Tokens” and The Diamonds will entertain Wednesday,. Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
All concerts to be held at the Stewart Park band stand, Eighth and Orange streets in Beaumont.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/09/beaumont-concerts-season/
