Topic: MUSIK - on July 23, 2009 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
10 Things The ‘iPod Generation’ Will Never Experience
Hey you kids! Get the hell off my lawn! With your gameboys and iPods and knife crime. You don’t know you’re born. Back in my day we’d walk seven miles to pick up a CD from our local record store. Uphill. Both ways. The guy there would look down at us from behind the counter and we’d feel small. And we LIKED IT…
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 21, 2009 at 10:41:00 AM CEST
Pink Floyd’s Moon-Landing Jam Session
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd was recently asked by The Guardian what he was doing 40 years ago during Apollo 11’s flight to the Moon. Mr. Gilmour explained that the band was part of the BBC’s live coverage of the event:
We were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.
The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead — it’s a nice, atmospheric, spacey 12-bar blues.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 12, 2009 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
New Living Colour
The cult of personality will continue on this fall, when purveyors of hard funk-rock Living Colour return with "The Chair In The Doorway" - the band's first set of new material in nearly six years. Due September 15 on Megaforce Records, the eleven song set was recorded in numerous locations over the last few years, with a majority of the sessions taking place at Sono Studios outside of Prague in the Czech Republic.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 10, 2009 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Woodstock concert's undercover lovers, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, 40 years after summer of love
Of all the images snapped during the original Woodstock weekend, one stands above all: a young couple huddled together in a blanket, standing alone in a sea of people lying on wet ground.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 3, 2009 at 11:41:00 AM CEST
U2 fined in Barcelona for being too noisy
The band also held rehearsals without permission from the City Hall
Bono and U2 may have been able to organise video conference calls to the International Space Station as part of their launch of their 360º World Tour in Barcelona this week, but it seems the Irish superstars have tripped up when it comes to local regulations in the city.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 2, 2009 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
20 Jahre Love Parade
150 Menschen tanzten um drei Pritschenwagen: Die erste Love Parade vor 20 Jahren war alles andere als ein Mega-Event - und dennoch totale Anarchie für Organisator Dr. Motte. Auf einestages erzählt er von Kellerkindern auf dem Ku'damm und einem erstaunlichen Zusammentreffen mit der Polizei.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 1, 2009 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
VIBE Shutting Down
Vibe magazine founder Quincy Jones is distraught over the news that the famous hip-hop publication shuttered its doors today. Though no longer the owner, he did not anticipate this sudden demise, and he says he’s going to bring it back to life – albeit in a slightly different way.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 1, 2009 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
GROLL GEGEN DIE GEMA - 80.000 Kreative proben den Aufstand
Geht's der Gema an die Wäsche? Mehr als 80.000 Musiker, Konzertveranstalter und andere Kulturschaffende haben eine Petition unterzeichnet, die den Bundestag auffordert, den als bürokratisch und gierig gescholtenen Musikrechteverwerter endlich zu maßregeln.
Die muss sich ganz schön was anhören: "Arrogant" sei sie, mindestens "weltfremd" und "undemokratisch", eine "Mafia mit staatlicher Legitimation", ein "Apartheidsregime für Musiker", das "Rechtsbruch" betreibt und mit "immenser Bürokratie" und "Stempel-Stempel-Bullshit" Kultur "vernichtet und verhindert".
spiegel.de zeit.de Petition: Bürgerliches Recht - Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA)
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 30, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Glastonbury 2009 - The Big Picture
Over the weekend, appoximately 190,000 people made their way to Worthy Farm in western England to attend the 2009 Glastonbury Festival. Attendees came to see performances at what is billed as "Europe's largest open-air music festival" on many stages over four days - headliners included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and a reunited Blur.
Blur Live @ Glastonbury 2009
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 30, 2009 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
U2 360° Tour Preview
On June 30th, in Barcelona, Spain, the U2 360° Tour will open to a sold out audience of 90,000 people. Here's a behind the scenes preview of the tour.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 28, 2009 at 12:43:00 PM CEST
Music is Math is Beauty
Glenn Marshall is an Irish computer video artist and musician whose recent work has focused on audio visualization programed in the Processing language. Generally the program is left to its own devices, though his work-for-hire has more intentional design, as in his video for the Peter Gabriel song "The Nest that Sailed the Sky." Marshall has also been hired to create video for Guinness for Sky TV and the Rugby Six Nations Tournament, and a looping animation for Hermes of Paris. Marshall discusses his works with some detail on his blog.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 24, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
R.I.P. Andy Hughes, Producer for The Orb, Basement Jaxx...
Andy Hughes, electronic music producer/DJ who was born 11th November 1965 and, and who lived and grew up in Harrow, Middlesex, tragically passed away on Friday 12th June 2009 after a short illness.Andy was a genius who gave so much inspiration and passion to all with his incredible work.
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