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Feb 07
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Feb 02
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"The basic gist of the plot is that Evan (Henry Cavill) must team up with his long-lost big brother Vic (Dominic Purcell) to rid a local farmhouse of a diabolically possessed family and their longtime houseguest: a satanic nazi vampire zombie-master. I'll leave the backstory to the Schumacher's noir-ish flashbacks (and while we're at it let's leave the character development to a handful of clumsy early scenes) and cut right to the meat of the matter: Once Blood Creek gets down to business, it's sort of a "isolated house siege" horror film, not unlike the settings found in Night of the Living Dead and The Evil Dead. Only instead of combating corpses or demons, our heroes (and that family of possessed kooks, don't forget) must fight off maniacal horses, re-animated hayseeds, and (all together now) a satanic nazi vampire zombie-master."
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Jan 30
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A rich tension has always existed between machine-made sounds and human emotions. One the one hand, there is equipment – exact, untiring, dispassionate, icy. On the other, there is the human heart – hot, messy, inconstant, yearning. This textural disjoint has made for decades of great pop music, from disco through house to Björk and beyond.
Hot Chip relish a good contradiction; they are better placed than most to mine the oppositions inherent to electronic pop. Dance music is about bodies; Hot Chip are a little more cerebral. Co-singer Alex Taylor in particular rocks geek chic to its specciest extreme. Even their name is a pun of sorts, involving computer memory and burnt fingers. Over three albums, the Chip have created their own substrain of affective dance-pop rich with humour and tenderness, rendered instantly recognisable by the interplay of Taylor's vulnerable falsetto and Joe Goddard's fuzzier deadpan delivery.
Their fourth album is not quite the copper-bottomed, hit-packed classic foreshadowed by their last but one, 2006's The Warning. But One Life Stand is a really great electronic album about love. Clubbing has always been more about pulling than avowals of affection like the deeply old-fashioned "Slush" – a waltz-time digital duet in which Hot Chip admit: "Now we are older/ There's more that we must do." But Hot Chip have effectively hitched the rhythms and textures more often attuned to lust to a higher emotional calling.
One track, at the very least, stands shoulder to shoulder with "Over and Over", Hot Chip's breakout anthem. The title track is soppier than a puppy and harder than a limpet to dislodge. "I only wanna be your one life stand," swoons Taylor in his little-boy-lost voice. "Tell me, do you stand by your man?"
"Hand Me Down Your Love", meanwhile, is a nagging neo-house track in which a couple appear to retrieve their emotions from a loft space. "Hand me down your love," urge the lyrics. "Open up my love..." The live drums are just one instance of several on One Life Stand where Hot Chip have used instruments as a surprise counterpoint to their exquisitely detailed digital progressions.
So much electronic music affects a stony froideur. Hot Chip, by contrast, have made a great big aural hug of a record.
"Take It In" is the second single:
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Jan 30
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Liam Gallagher's new band are aiming to release an album by July.
The singer says that his new group – featuring former Oasis bandmates Andy Bell and Gem Archer – had eight songs, and are aiming to head into the studio soon.
"A lot of these songs I wrote before the band [Oasis] split up," Gallagher told XFM. "I mean, there's a few new ones on there that are coming out now."
He added: "We're going in [the studio] in April with a producer, we're going to do three songs with him and if he doesn't balls it up and we don't balls it up then we'll go in and do the whole album with him."
Gallagher suggested he was keen to get on with the new, still nameless group - saying he regretted the fact that Oasis only made seven albums in the 16 years they had a record deal. He called the amount of music Oasis' put out in their career "poor", and chastised the band for taking so long to produce new material.
"Seven albums for Oasis is not good, I don't think. We've been going 18 years, 16 years or whatever and all we've done is seven albums. Ian Brown's on his seventh solo album. I just think it's poor, really," Gallagher said.
"I'm not going to beat myself up about it, I think we should have made better, bigger albums. Or more albums. Having like four or five years off is just no good," he added. "Obviously Noel (Gallagher) wanted a bit of time off and we don't. The band split in August – we was in the studio in November 'cos we're mad for it."
Elsewhere in the interview, Gallagher said he wants to appear on 'I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here or Total Wipeout – but only if no other contestants are involved.
"I'd like to do all that shit," he said, before adding that Total Wipeout is his favourite reality TV programme of the moment. "They do it in Argentina. I'd love to do it on my jaxy, with no one about."
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Huzzah!!!
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Jan 28
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The Knife has just released their latest cd "Tomorrow, in a Year" and is currently available for streaming on their official website here. If you go to their website, you can also pre-order the cd (March 3rd for the actual CD or February 2nd for iTunes) and download one of the tracks "Colouring of Pigeons" for free.
Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme. They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds.
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I knew they weren't iamamiwhoami!
What do you guys think? I love this so far. It's effing brilliant. I'm also excited to see the opera on Saturday. Gonna be amazing.
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Jan 23
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From the Good Charlotte blog :
We had a very strange End to 2009. We went in the studio for over 2 months recording a record we scrapped. We lost A DEAR DEAR Friend. I kind of lost my mind. For a moment. Such is life though right? What you do with these situations, thats where YOU decide what your gonna make of yourself right? Right...
So here we are. We decided we are the Luckiest Guys in the world to get to live our dreams like this. Getting to be creative everyday and make music...
When we got back from the last trip to Australia, we had pretty much finished recording the record. I went into the studio to hear some roughs and it just wasn't right. I couldn't figure it out. i was so lost. I love the songs, i love the lyrics, so what was the problem. i was just so bewildered. devastated actually. this had never happened. i felt crazy...
I told our manager to just PAUSE everything and i need time to think. i called all the boys immediately and called an emergency meeting. everyone sat down. and i just said "Guys, we gotta start over"
i was expecting everyone to freak on me and say "What?!" but Billy was the 1st to speak, and right away he said "I knew you were gonna say That, my gut is telling me the same thing" lets do it. Everyone agreed. While we were working with one of the most successful, biggest producers in the Business, all he seemed to focus on was "Commercial Success" of the record and all everyone seemed to talk about was the RADIO...
SO we are gonna keep working on this record and we are going to try and step up our communication, VIA this Blog.
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Jan 23
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Here is the trailer for the Japanese release of The Adventures Of Merlin season one dvd. It is very Arthur central and Morgana is featured heavily as well, with action taking a pivotal role and mostly ignoring the humor of season one in favor of making it a more guy friendly show I guess would be one way to look at it ?
And the quite cool looking cover -
The release date is 10 th February 2010.
Also, at the end of season one in Japan they have an actual song instead of the theme music.
"BBC drama 'Merlin' Japanese-dabbed version has original endhing theme.Norimasa Fujiwara, who is called a prince of pop-opera, sings."
The ending theme is "Kimi ga Omoide ni kawaru made"(Till you change into memories") . It's in his second album 'Appassionato' as a bonus track.
Pop-opera is a new genre which mixs popular music and opera. Fujiwara, whose parents are vocalists, is a newcomer debuted in 2008. His debut song is here for you to get an idea of what the song style and what his singing is like.
Source - http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DABA-674 and http://www.amazon.co.jp/Appassionato~情熱の歌~-初回限定盤-DVD付-藤澤ノリマサ/dp/samples/B002POEO1U/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1
and also - http://community.livejournal.com/merlin_tv/872117.html
IMO I love the Japanese dvd cover and looks the best out of all the season one dvd sets seen online. It is interesting how they are focusing on the Arthur and Morgana relationship and more Arthur himself than Merlin who is the main star of the show, but then again Bradley has the blonde hair and pale skinned look that seems quite popular in the anime films and comics.
What do you guys think will happen in season three ? Death of a main character ? Merlin to reveal his magic to someone finally ? Gwen and Morgana getting more screen time ?
And the quite cool looking cover -
The release date is 10 th February 2010.
Also, at the end of season one in Japan they have an actual song instead of the theme music.
"BBC drama 'Merlin' Japanese-dabbed version has original endhing theme.Norimasa Fujiwara, who is called a prince of pop-opera, sings."
The ending theme is "Kimi ga Omoide ni kawaru made"(Till you change into memories") . It's in his second album 'Appassionato' as a bonus track.
Pop-opera is a new genre which mixs popular music and opera. Fujiwara, whose parents are vocalists, is a newcomer debuted in 2008. His debut song is here for you to get an idea of what the song style and what his singing is like.
Source - http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DABA-674 and http://www.amazon.co.jp/Appassionato~情熱の歌~-初回限定盤-DVD付-藤澤ノリマサ/dp/samples/B002POEO1U/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1
and also - http://community.livejournal.com/merlin_tv/872117.html
IMO I love the Japanese dvd cover and looks the best out of all the season one dvd sets seen online. It is interesting how they are focusing on the Arthur and Morgana relationship and more Arthur himself than Merlin who is the main star of the show, but then again Bradley has the blonde hair and pale skinned look that seems quite popular in the anime films and comics.
What do you guys think will happen in season three ? Death of a main character ? Merlin to reveal his magic to someone finally ? Gwen and Morgana getting more screen time ?
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Jan 21
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Willie Nelson Way Passes Unanimously;
Brody Vercher | January 21st, 2010
* The town of Helotes, Texas voted to amend the name of one of its oldest drags. The street in question, Old Bandera Way, is remaining Old Bandera Way, but also taking on the name Willie Nelson Way. And in other street news, Patsy Cline won’t be having her own way, or boulevard, anytime soon. A bill that was introduced to change the name of Music Square East in Nashville to Patsy Cline Boulevard was withdrawn because one of the residents likes living on Music Square East.
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HE'S FINE Y'ALL THEY JUST DECIDED TO NAME A STREET AFTER HIM IN TEXAS.
Talk about worst way to word a headline ever though. At first glance ... well chyeah.
BUT IN OTHER WILLIE NELSON NEWS:
HE HAS A
NEW ALBUM COMING OUT APRIL 13th!
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That's 17 days before his 77th Birthday.
Shit he's ONLY 77?!
breathe. It's okay.
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Jan 21
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Pair of Dixie Chicks Plan Album, Tour as New Band Court Yard Hounds
With Natalie Maines on an indefinite hiatus, the other two Dixie Chicks — guitarist-banjoist Emily Robison and her sister, fiddler Martie Maguire — have recorded an album on their own, as Court Yard Hounds (a reference to the best-selling novel City of Thieves). “Emily and I had the itch,” Maguire says, “and every time we’d call Natalie and say ‘are you ready?’ she wasn’t ready. She wanted a clear-cut break.”
Recorded mostly at Maguire’s home studio in Austin, the intimate pop-folk album features Robison’s first-ever lead vocals and songs inspired by her recent divorce from country act Charlie Robison. “When Natalie’s singing a song it has to strike a chord with her,” Robison says. “These songs are very personal.” Robison is joined by Jakob Dylan on “See You in the Spring.” The duo will debut their new band at South by Southwest in March, with the album dropping in May and a tour to follow.
Although Robison and Maguire insist the Chicks haven’t disbanded, they admit they rarely see Maines, who lives in L.A. “I’m hoping she’ll come out to one of our shows,” Maguire says (the group’s last album, Taking the Long Way, came out in 2006). “Maybe it’ll inspire her to want to do music again.”
Quote to CMT from Lloyd Maines, Natalie's father, who co-produced the Chicks' 2002 album, Home:
"They were all here at my house for Christmas," he says. "Everybody seemed happy and healthy. And they were back here on New Year's Eve with their families. Everybody had a great time, but, I tell you, during holidays, I don't ask any business questions, and they didn't offer any insight. ... But they're definitely still an entity. ...
"I know that the girls seem really happy being out of the public eye. They hit it so hard for so many years. The dynamics have changed so much now because they've all got kids that are in school. The happy-go-lucky, just-take-off-and-go situation has definitely changed."
Rolling Stone, CMT
Super excited about this, I've been hoping for new music from them for years! Hopefully this isn't actually the end of the Dixie Chicks, but it doesn't look very good imo. What do you think, ONTD: do you think they'll reunite, or did they peak as a band with Home?
With Natalie Maines on an indefinite hiatus, the other two Dixie Chicks — guitarist-banjoist Emily Robison and her sister, fiddler Martie Maguire — have recorded an album on their own, as Court Yard Hounds (a reference to the best-selling novel City of Thieves). “Emily and I had the itch,” Maguire says, “and every time we’d call Natalie and say ‘are you ready?’ she wasn’t ready. She wanted a clear-cut break.”
Recorded mostly at Maguire’s home studio in Austin, the intimate pop-folk album features Robison’s first-ever lead vocals and songs inspired by her recent divorce from country act Charlie Robison. “When Natalie’s singing a song it has to strike a chord with her,” Robison says. “These songs are very personal.” Robison is joined by Jakob Dylan on “See You in the Spring.” The duo will debut their new band at South by Southwest in March, with the album dropping in May and a tour to follow.
Although Robison and Maguire insist the Chicks haven’t disbanded, they admit they rarely see Maines, who lives in L.A. “I’m hoping she’ll come out to one of our shows,” Maguire says (the group’s last album, Taking the Long Way, came out in 2006). “Maybe it’ll inspire her to want to do music again.”
Quote to CMT from Lloyd Maines, Natalie's father, who co-produced the Chicks' 2002 album, Home:
"They were all here at my house for Christmas," he says. "Everybody seemed happy and healthy. And they were back here on New Year's Eve with their families. Everybody had a great time, but, I tell you, during holidays, I don't ask any business questions, and they didn't offer any insight. ... But they're definitely still an entity. ...
"I know that the girls seem really happy being out of the public eye. They hit it so hard for so many years. The dynamics have changed so much now because they've all got kids that are in school. The happy-go-lucky, just-take-off-and-go situation has definitely changed."
Rolling Stone, CMT
Super excited about this, I've been hoping for new music from them for years! Hopefully this isn't actually the end of the Dixie Chicks, but it doesn't look very good imo. What do you think, ONTD: do you think they'll reunite, or did they peak as a band with Home?
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