Topic: MUSIK - on April 6, 2009 at 9:54:00 AM CEST
- Todestag Kurt Cobain - Smells like Verschwörungstheorie
Ende der Legende - oder ihr Beginn? Vor 15 Jahren erschoss sich Nirvana-Frontmann Kurt Cobain im Heroinrausch mit der Schrotflinte. Viele Fans indes glauben nicht an einen Selbstmord ihres Idols, sie wittern ein perfides Mordkomplott. Und natürlich haben sie Beweise.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 2, 2009 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Some of the most controversial album covers
It's amazing how times change. What would be considered absolutely unacceptable 40 years ago is the norm now. Sometimes I wonder what people will find completely acceptable 40 years from now. Yikes! In any case, just for fun, here are 30 or so album covers that were either banned, changed to appease an overly prudish
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 29, 2009 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
Actual Album Cover Parodies
Some albums are not just iconic, but their cover artwork is as well. Plenty of groups have released album covers with homages to more famous album covers. Sources for parody covers tend to be parody albums based on a performer (like Weird Al spoofing Nirvana), tribute albums, and sometimes the rip off is unintentional (designers with a limited design vocabulary). In some cases like the Clash's "London Calling", the copy becomes copied over time to the point where I'm sure some people aren't even aware of the original anymore.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 26, 2009 at 1:06:00 PM CET
Downbeat Operatics - Interview mit Tosca
Tosca ist das gemeinsame Projekt von Richard Dorfmeister und Rupert Huber. Seit 1994 versüßen die beiden österreichischen Musiker unseren Alltag mit hervorragenden Downbeat- & Ambient-Alben. Im Frühjahr dieses Jahres erscheint auf !K7 Records ihr fünftes, „No Hassle“. Zu diesem Anlass trafen wir Richard und Rupert in Berlin und sprachen mit ihnen über Inspirationsquellen, Wiens Geräuschempfindlichkeit, die interkontinentale Zusammenarbeit, Musik damals und heute und natürlich ihr neues Album. Ach ja: Und was aus Kruder & Dorfmeister geworden ist auch.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 26, 2009 at 1:03:00 PM CET
Hendrix's acoustic Electric Ladyland for sale
A quarter-inch tape of Jimi Hendrix acoustic demos is to be auction in April.
The 14 songs - of Jimi and a single acoustic guitar - are demos that Hendrix made in 1968 in advance of recording his third album, Electric Ladyland. A few tracks include an unknown second musician playing harmonica.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 23, 2009 at 11:43:00 AM CET
The dark side of Pink Floyd
It’s rock music’s most complicated saga, involving ego wars, madness and death. Robert Sandall explains why nothing — not even $250m — can put the pieces of Pink Floyd together again
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 20, 2009 at 9:18:00 AM CET
The Woodstock Death Count
This might be a tad morbid, but that’s the way it goes sometimes…
A friend recently sent me an email containing a link to a news story about the death of a 1960s musician. Well, he was probably a musician later in life as well, but was most famous during the ‘60s.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 18, 2009 at 2:44:00 PM CET
Mario on LSD
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 17, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CET
Streaming concerts, 10 albums of unreleased music for $77 Prince web subscribers...
Now Prince—the first marquee musician to flirt with the Web—wants to go on another virtual date. While he is partnering with Target to sell a new three-CD set for the recession-proof price of $11.98, Prince will also offer subscriptions to his new site, Lotusflow3r.com, for a not-so-recession-proof $77 per year.
Ultimately, the site, which is set to debut before the Target street date, will have to thrive apart from those first three albums. Clay says future plans for Lotus flow3r.com include a hybrid documentary-music video. But the deal-sealer, he concedes, is the potential for streaming live, VIP-only concerts from Prince’s Los Angeles mansion. “There could be a live chat going on with members watching a concert, and Prince could actually play requests,” Clay says. He also claims a colleague has organized 10 albums of old Prince music never released in any form.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 10, 2009 at 12:12:00 PM CET
The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own
Kick off Esquire.com's Music Week with our unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative list of the records your music collection requires. How many have you listened to?
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 8, 2009 at 12:31:00 PM CET
Laurent Garnier - Live @ The Village Dublin
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 6, 2009 at 1:07:00 PM CET
Tosca - My First
'No Hassle' is the new album by Viennese soundscape masters Tosca. Forefathers of the nu-Balearic/cosmic scene of artists such as Studio, Quiet Village, A Mountain Of One and Windsurf; Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber have produced their most magical and mesmerizing album yet. A luxurious tapestry of analogue and digital sounds, submerged samples and live instruments; 'No Hassle' evolves and expands into an hour-long ambient symphony. The title reflects not only the duo's laid back approach to making music but their whole philosophy of life.
Multi-instrumentalists Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber have been friends since their Vienna schooldays, when they founded their first experimental band, Dehli 9. Richard later became half of the globally acclaimed DJ-producer duo Kruder and Dorfmeister, while Rupert worked in piano composition, sound-art installation and acoustic networks. The duo rediscovered their musical chemistry again with their Tosca debut, the 1994 12" 'Chocolate Elvis'; a string of highly praised albums and remix collections followed.
g-stoned.com Tosca mit neuem Album "No Hassle" im April Review: Tosca - No Hassle
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