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Sunday, June 30, 2013
The Rolling Stones' Glastonbury Triumph
The Rolling Stones did not fail to impress at their much-anticipated debut performance at the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival in Somerset Saturday June 29, 2013.
Lead singer Sir Mick Jagger, along with his band mates, drummer Charlie Watts and guitarists Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, treated more than 170,000 fans at the event with their hits including Jumpin' Jack Flash, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It), and Paint It Black for two hours. MORE HERE & HERE
Watch the entire performance HERE
Elvis Costello Pumps It Up At Glastonbury
Elvis Costello takes a sun-basked Saturday (June 29, 2013) afternoon Glastonbury main stage crowd for a joyful jaunt down a musical memory lane. It’s a pity though that not everyone in the audience appeared to be a fan – meaning that appreciation seemed patchy at best.
Under a brilliant blue sky Costello successfully debunks the myth that spots and stripes are a fashion faux pas. Sporting a natty pinstriped suit and a purple shirt emblazoned with yellow polka-dots he leads his band, The Imposters, through a set that includes pretty much all of the tunes you’d expect...plus a Margaret Thatcher death song. MORE HERE
Watch the entire performance HERE
Brand New Pixie Music
But from the first few seconds of Pixies singer Black Francis' half-spoken, half-shouted line in "Bagboy" (above), it's clear that the band's vitality is fully intact.
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Lemmy Is Alive
Motorhead have issued an update on frontman Lemmy Kilmister's health.
The band have recently been forced to cancel three tour dates after Lemmy suffered a hematoma. The size, scale or location of the frontman's hematoma – where blood collects outside of a blood vessel - is not known, but the news of the medical problem follows reports that the frontman has also recently been fitted with a defibrillator because of heart problems.
With rumors circulating suggesting the band's future may be in doubt, Motorhead have released a statement updating fans on Lemmy's health.
The statement read: "We are happy to announce that despite rumors to the contrary, Lemmy is alive, breathing, talking, fucking, drinking, eating, reading and will be back to playing shows shortly...."
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Glastonbury 2013 Streaming Live
Glastonbury 2013 live coverage, day two ...
Tonight (Saturday June 29, 2013) will see the Rolling Stones headline on the Pyramid stage, Chase & Status take to the Other stage and Public Enemy on West Holts.
The simplest way to get live coverage is to head to bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
Seizure Inducing Video From Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails made their triumphant return last month with “Came Back Haunted
,” a throwback to their signature industrial-pop for their new album Hesitation Marks
.David Lynch was enlisted to direct the video (above) and he delivered something akin to his shorts and the large non-sequitur parts of the narrative that happen in almost every one of his feature films.
Warning: the video has been marked to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Yes, you read that right.
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NIN official website
David Lynch official website
Bad Company On Tour
Seventies rock-radio mainstays Bad Company return to the USA this summer for a rare American tour.
Runnin' with the pack. The current tour celebrates the 40th anniversary of Bad Company, a supergroup formed from members of Free (Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke), Mott the Hoople (guitarist Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell who died in 2006).
The tour visited Mountain View California on June 23, 2013 (above).
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Photograph : The Ringo Starr eBook
EVERY time I see your face, it reminds me of the places we used to go. But all I’ve got is a photograph, and I realise you’re not coming back any more.”
That’s the opening line from Photograph, one of Ringo Starr’s biggest solo hits. It was originally released in 1973, but today sounds as though he wrote it specially to fit in with his latest project.
Starr’s got an ebook out. Also called Photograph, it’s full of previously unseen pictures from the former Beatle’s life, from birth through to 1974, with special emphasis on those eight years when he, along with John, Paul and George, ruled the world. MORE HERE & HERE
Get it HERE
Friday, June 28, 2013
The Rolling Stones Get Ready For Glastobury
Glastonbury and The Rolling Stones share a parallel history but there have been many obstacles to overcome to bring the musical giants together.
The Rolling Stones headline the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night June 29, 2013, bringing 51 years of classic anthems and swaggering attitude to Worthy farm. According to Mick Jagger, he’s got his camping gear and wellies ready. MORE HERE
BBC4's John Humphrys has been speaking to Mick Jagger ahead of the Rolling Stones' headline appearance at Glastonbury this weekend. The full interview will be broadcast on Saturday (June 29, 2013) morning's Today programme.Check it out HERE.
Keith Richards in an exclusive interview with Newsbeat ahead of Glastonbury. HERE
Big Star Homage
Since Alex Chilton’s death in 2010, a group of Big Star fans, including Mike Mills, former bassist of R.E.M., and the musician-producers Mitch Easter and Chris Stamey, have come together with the original Big Star drummer, Jody Stephens, for several concerts.
They’ll do so again on Sunday at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, as part of this year’s SummerStage concert series. MORE HERE & HERE
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The Polyphonic Spree New Album Soon
'Yes, It's True'. The Polyphonic Spree return to the UK with a new album and tour dates this summer.
The band who captured the imagination of thousands from their first notes at David Bowie's Meltdown in 2002 and went on to take hearts and minds at Glastonbury and on a succession of UK tours have been away from our ears and eyes for some time but have remained a touchstone for all that is innovative, beautiful and downright different in the music scene..
The new album will be released August 6, 2013.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Melissa Etheridge To Wed After Supreme Court Ruling
U.S. rock singer Melissa Etheridge on Wednesday June 26, 2013 announced plans to marry partner Linda Wallem after the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings paved the way for gay marriage in California, the couple's home state.
Etheridge, 52, came out in 1993 and was an early and prominent gay rights advocate in the entertainment industry.
"I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem," Etheridge said in a statement.
The Supreme Court affirmed on Wednesday June 26, 2013 a lower court ruling that struck down California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage. The state would become the United States' 13th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
The country's highest court also struck down a key part of a the federal law, Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that denied benefits to same-sex married couples. MORE HERE
Black Sabbath Is Number One
Veteran heavy-metal band Black Sabbath landed its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday June 19, 2013, more than four decades after the rockers debuted their first album in the United States.
"13
," the 19th studio album from Black Sabbath, sold 155,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan, knocking last week's No. 1 album by Queens of the Stone Age off the top spot on the weekly U.S. album chart.
," the 19th studio album from Black Sabbath, sold 155,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan, knocking last week's No. 1 album by Queens of the Stone Age off the top spot on the weekly U.S. album chart.
Black Sabbath, an English rock band fronted by lead singer Ozzy Osbourne,
released their debut self-titled album in North America in 1970, but
were never able to notch the top spot on the Billboard 200 album chart
in a career spanning 43 years. MORE HERE
Motorhead Cancels Shows Due To Lemmy Illness
Motorhead has nixed a handful of live shows after the British heavy metal band’s iconic frontman Lemmy Kilmister suffered a hematoma.
Word of Lemmy’s latest ailment came from Barley Arts Promotion, the promoter behind the scheduled -- and subsequently canceled -- June 25, 2013 show in Milan, Italy.
The group’s June 21, 2013 See-Rock Festival in Graz, Austria was also canned.
Although the group’s official website hasn’t confirmed Lemmy’s hematoma -- a mass of blood localized collected outside the blood vessels -- the Motorhead homepage is circulating reports which confirm his ailment.
The rocker was recently fitted with a implantable defibrillator to correct an irregular heartbeat.
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The Island Years of John Martyn
An enormous, career spanning John Martyn box set has been confirmed.
A product of the folk scene, John Martyn was far too much of his own man to stick within the confines of any one genre.
Numbering 17 CDs in total, 'The Island Years' also contains a DVD featuring rare and unseen live performances. In total, the box set includes five complete discs of previously unreleased or first time on CD recordings and the equivalent of a further three discs of rare, live and unreleased studio material.
'The Island Years' is set to be released in September 2013.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Glimmer Twin Strike Publishing Deal
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have struck a deal with music publisher BMG to represent their interests in the Rolling Stones catalogue, including 1960s classics such as I Can't Get No Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash.
The deal is a coup for BMG as the songwriting duo, who have effectively managed their own interests for the past 30 years. MORE HERE
Little French Songs By Carla Bruni
The Italian-born, globe-trotting fashion model recorded an international hit in 2002, "Quelqu'un m'a dit
". In
2008, she married Nicolas Sarkozy, then president of France, and became
literally a rock star first lady.Now, with Sarkozy out of office, Bruni has released a new album, Little French Songs
MORE HERE
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Pink Floyd vs. Pandora Round Two
Internet radio service Pandora has responded to a strongly worded negative opinion piece recently written by the remaining members of legendary rock band Pink Floyd.
Pandora pays fractions of a penny every time a song is played by someone on its service, which may not seem like a lot of money, but it adds up — making music licensing the biggest expenditure for the company. And considering that terrestrial radio stations don’t have to pay anything, Pandora feels that a lower rate is reasonable. MORE HERE
Also : Martha Reeves Latest Artist to Criticize Pandora MORE HERE
Miscalculating Michelle Shocked
The Michelle Shocked concert scheduled for the San Francisco Pride weekend has been canceled.
In a statement, San Francisco Examiner Publisher Todd Vogt said: "I am officially canceling the plan to have Michelle Shocked come to San Francisco and perform a free concert and apologize for her recent anti-gay comments. I had hoped that her concert and apology would have held the performer accountable and shine a light on hatred and bigotry, but, unfortunately, it has not. Having Ms. Shocked stand in front of a San Francisco audience and perform her music was intended to help heal, but has only further angered and offended the community...I sincerely apologize to all." source
R.I.P.: Alan Myers
Alan Myers, Devo's drummer during their period of greatest success, died Monday June 24, 2013.
Myers became Devo's third drummer when he joined the band in 1976. Known for his precision on the kit, his playing featured on Devo's first seven albums, including 1978's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
and 1980's Freedom of Choice 
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which included the single "Whip It." He left the band in 1986 over a
lack of creative fulfillment as the group increasingly used electronic
drums, according to the 2003 book We Are Devo!
MORE HERE
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
20 Years Of Exile In Guyville
20 years ago (June 22), Liz Phair's seminal LP was released.
In 1993, no rock record was as divisive as Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville.
With her 18-song double-LP debut, Phair pried the lid off her life and sang away secrets. Even though it landed right at the apex of the cultural moment for "Women in Rock" and riot grrrl, Phair was something else. Her feminism was not wrapped up in dogmatic choruses, her rage was articulated in quiet disses tangled up in sublime indie-pop. Guyville was all guile and jangle. Phair dispensed with the innuendo and explained exactly, and explicitly, what she was game for. MORE HERE & HERE
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Liz Phair : Exile in Guyville
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