Topic: MUSIK - on April 8, 2008 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
Dylan wins special Pulitzer Prize
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture".
The special music award recognised the 66-year-old's "lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power".
Prize administrator Sig Gissler said the honour "reflects the efforts of the Pulitzer board to broaden the scope of the music prize".
Other recipients included US playwright Tracy Letts and novelist Junot Diaz.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 7, 2008 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
Amy Winehouse schmiert sich Kaviar ins Gesicht
Amy Winehouse hat ihre unreine Gesichtshaut mit Kaviar bekämpft. Angeblich benutzte sie Beluga-Kaviar aus dem Kaspischen Meer als Gesichtscreme.
Wie die britische Zeitung "Daily Star" berichtet, brauchte es einige Töpfchen der Fischeier, bis Amys Haut rein und entzündungsfrei war. Allein ein Töpfchen des exklusiven Kaviars kostet umgerechnet rund 500 Euro.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 7, 2008 at 1:29:00 PM CEST
Being James Brown
The Godfather of Soul invented funk, befriended presidents and laid the foundations of rap. And he did it by defying the laws of space and time. Inside the private world of the baddest man who ever lived.
In Augusta, Georgia, in May 2005, they put up a bronze statue of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, in the middle of Broad Street. During a visit to meet James Brown and observe him recording parts of his new album in an Augusta studio, I went and had a look at it. The James Brown statue is an odd one in several ways. For one, it is odd to see a statue standing not on a pedestal, flat on its feet on the ground. This was done at James Brown's request, reportedly. The premise being: man of the people. The result, however: somewhat fake-looking statue. Another difficulty is that the statue is grinning. Members of James Brown's band, present while he was photographed for reference by the statue's sculptor, told me of their attempts to get James Brown to quit smiling for the photographs. A statue shouldn't grin, they told him. Yet James Brown refused to do other than grin. It is the grin of a man who has succeeded, and as the proposed statue struck him as a measure of his success, he determined that it would measure him grinning. Otherwise, the statue is admirable: flowing bronze cape, helmetlike bronze hair perhaps not so much harder than the actual hair it depicts, and vintage bronze microphone with its base tipped, as if to make a kind of dance partner with James Brown, who is not shown in a dancing pose but nonetheless appears lithe, pert, ready.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 5, 2008 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
A virtual 303, 909 & effects setup in your browser!
303, 909, FX, MIXER = ACID VARSITY. In other words, two virtual 303s, a 909, effects and a mixer running for free right in your browser.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 5, 2008 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Procol Harum wins back "Whiter Shade" rights
Procol Harum founder Gary Brooker on Friday won his court battle over royalty rights to the band's most famous hit, the 1967 song "A Whiter Shade of Pale."
In 2006 London's High Court awarded former keyboard player Matthew Fisher 40 percent of the copyright of the track, which has sold an estimated 10 million copies worldwide, after he successfully argued that he wrote the organ music to the song.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 5, 2008 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Rolling Stones Kick Off YouTube's 'Living Legends' Q&A Series
Dying to know where Mick Jagger learned his trademark swagger? Or whether Keith Richards will cameo in any more Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
Here's your chance to find out.
YouTube kicked off its latest interactive project, "Living Legends," on Friday by inviting users to submit burning questions to the British rockers via video.
So far, the uploaded video responses consist largely of users pleading for the Stones to play in their hometowns, but a couple get creative in their delivery. A few of the video submissions morph into lengthy tributes to the band, which are almost guaranteed to be more entertaining than Jagger's and Richards' responses.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 3, 2008 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
Neu! / Kraftwerk Drummer Klaus Dinger, R.I.P.
A founding father of krautrock has passed away. Klaus Dinger, who played drums for Kraftwerk and went on to co-found Neu!, died March 21, although the news of his death was not made public until today. A report from Neu! label Grönland cites the cause of death as heart failure. Dinger was 61, and would have turned 62 on March 24.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 3, 2008 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Amy Winehouse kämpft gegen Dämonen
Rein, raus - und wieder rein: Sängerin Amy Winehouse ist in den vergangenen Wochen so oft umgezogen, als sei sie auf der Flucht. Ist sie auch, sagen ihre Freunde. Vor Dämonen, negativen Schwingungen - und vielleicht ein wenig vor sich selbst.
Erst vor wenigen Wochen war die Soul-Sängerin in ihr Haus in Camden, im Norden Londons eingezogen, nun will sie laut einem Bericht der "Sun" schon wieder die Kisten packen. Angeblich habe die häusliche Umgebung ihren Geisteszustand gestört, heißt es. "Sie fühlt sich, als sei das Haus voll von bösen Schwingungen und Dämonen, die sie bedrücken", sagte ein Freund.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 2, 2008 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
If it's a summer weekend it must be the Verve: festival fatigue sets in
As the Verve's anthems ring out over the fields this summer, thousands of festival fans will be hoping for a unique live moment. But for some it may prove a bittersweet symphony as Richard Ashcroft and his band repeat the exercise on stages across the UK and Ireland.
As dozens of summer festivals unveil increasingly similar line-ups, organisers have warned that several of the events are likely to flop as consumers tighten their belts. The problem is too few big-name acts spread too thinly over too many stages.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 2, 2008 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
Radiohead air classics in BBC set
Radiohead surprised a small crowd of competition winners by playing a set leaning heavily on their third album OK Computer during a special BBC concert.
The show, aired live on Radio 2, saw the band play three tracks from the album alongside several songs from their most recent album In Rainbows.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 27, 2008 at 1:59:00 PM CET
Smoking Gun scoops the L.A. Times
Last week's bombshell Los Angeles Times report claiming that the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio was carried out by associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs and that the rap impresario knew of the plot beforehand was based largely on fabricated FBI reports, The Smoking Gun has learned.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 25, 2008 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Happy 70th Birthday Holger Czukay!
He was born on March 24, 1938 in Danzig, "the true nephew of William Tell". He studied under Stockhausen from 1963-1966, then threw it all over to help create Can, whose fans included a bemused David Niven. (I Want More. Hunters and Collectors. Moonshake.) You may know him best as a pioneer of the found/stolen/ethno mashup later popularized by Brian Eno and David Byrne. (Cool in the Pool. Persian Love.) But sometimes he just gives us a sweet little pop song. He's the bloody Energizer Bunny of Krautrock. So Happy 70th Birthday, Holger Czukay, you daft and awesome German uncle I never had. (Hey, why not go over to his MySpace page and give him your regards?)
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