Artist: Rutthna
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Doomsdaylight
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Sunday, 8 June 2008
LiveDaily Interview: The Duke Spirit
The Duke Spirit [ tickets ], a five-piece rock band based in London, are touring in support of their recent release, "Neptune."LiveDaily contributor Mark Wallet sat down with three of the five members--frontwoman Liela Moss and guitarists Dan Higgins and Toby Butler--to discuss the new album, their touring schedule and the differences between American and European audiences.LiveDaily: Duke Spirit, welcome to the LiveDaily Sessions. Thanks for coming down. Toby Butler: Hi. Thanks for having us.Your album, "Neptune," is currently out. I wanted to get you to talk a little bit about that. Maybe start with how it was recorded in Joshua Tree, CA. How did that come about?TB: About two years ago in 2006 we were touring here in the States and we got asked to do a song with UNKLE, the DJ collaborative guys. They asked us to go to the studio, which turned out to be Rancho De La Luna, so we went there and worked for a day. It was just after we played Coachella that year and we just dropped by the studio the next day and spent the day there in that studio with Chris Goss, tracking a song for their album. We just fell in love with the place right away. It's an amazing studio and an amazing collection of people that just hang out there and work, so it was at the top of our list to go back there and cut the album there which we did pretty much a year to the day that we did that song with UNKLE. It was just something about the lure of that studio that we just had to record our album there. Were you already familiar with Chris Goss and his past work and past productions?TB: Yeah, I can definitely say I was a fan of his. I love the way the Queens of the Stone Age albums sound and there's a British band called The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster that he did their second album which I don't think many people know about but it's a great album. We're definitely fans of the kind of sound and approach he takes to records.Liela Moss: It's not that we particularly wanted to go there and inflate the Americana element of sound or do some kind of desert stoner rock thing at all. In fact, what we wanted was to glean some of the masterful ways Chris Goss has with crafting harmony and things like that--things that you hear that he injects into a rock band that actually make them much more graceful and freaky and weird and majestic--the things you hear on Queens of the Stone Age records that makes them so wonderful. Of course they're great songs and everything but you just know that he approaches things uniquely.Dan Higgins: I think he was very interested in bringing out the Englishness of us as much as us bringing the more American approach or sound to it. I think he's an Anglophile at heart. LM: Yeah, and that worked really well because we're in a desert environment where we could have just spiraled into a clique but didn't at all because he loved the very stark English moments of our music so I think it was a really good pairing of personalities. I was wondering when you went into the studio, obviously you brought the sound of Duke Spirit, the soulful sound. What were you guys listening to or what were your influences going into this new record?LM: Multiple. TB: I always find that hard to answer actually. Me personally, I almost try not to listen to too much when we're in that scenario because I just end up wanting to copy things and rip things off, especially when we're writing and recording. You refer to songs and albums and bands just for influence and sounds. In the tour bus, we were into soul music and all kinds of '60s garage stuff.LM: A little bit of country.TB: We've got eclectic music tastes as far as five people go. It's just something in the background that you listen to for inspiration?DH: Yeah. It's appreciating what they do. You like that side of music and they might do something that you know you can't do or go somewhere with their music that you don't really want to go but you're pleased that they did. Talk a little bit about touring. Do you like it? Do you like playing other countries?LM: Definitely like it. Towards the end of it, we're all broken and ragged but soon as we get home, after about two days, I'm bored and itching to get back out again. DH: In America, there are so many great venues. There are just better spaces and a lot of them. It's always fun touring England too because you have a frame of reference since we're English. There are things they're always going to get that maybe don't translate. How's the reception been in other countries other than the UK or England? How about in America? LM: They rank pretty highly in extraordinarily welcoming. We feel quite a lot of love off American audiences. You see people becoming unself-conscious which is actually the main agenda behind what I like to think my role in the band and what I think about lyrically and what I think about on stage. We should be set free by music. You see people punching the air and not giving two hoots about whether they're perceived to be cool or not. I've been noticing that more and more over here. It does happen in England and Europe but perhaps over here, by virtue of us being British and a slight novelty perhaps, it's happening more and more. When you're on tour, do you start working on new songs?DH: No, we don't really write songs just sitting around on acoustic guitar. We like to experiment with guitar sounds and things like that. We like to tinker with pedals and effects when we're writing. That's as much of an importance as the actual chords or whatever you're playing so we like to be in our home environment where we can tinker around in our studio and come up with ideas like that. I wanted to ask a little about Enemy magazine. I read an interview where I think it was Toby said that the reviews in the UK affect the fans in the UK and that's something that the US doesn't have so you find that it's a lot easier to gather fans and find a following in other countries. Can you talk a little bit about that?TB: The Enemy in England is the biggest music magazine in the country and it sets a lot of trends as well as picking up on exciting new bands so it's important and it's influence is pretty vast in the music scene. The Scene controls the UK music scene as a whole anyway and that magazine has a large effect on what the music and what the kids are creating in the UK. So when you come over to somewhere like the States or even Europe, it does feel really different because you don't have that at all.LM: It seems more limitless. We're a smaller country and the Enemy picks up on something that's going on and quite rightly celebrates it but celebrates one thing for a long time. If that's not your clique or whatever, then there are things that get missed. Over here, it's irrelevant at times. Back in England, do you think that you're part of a scene or a sound?TB: Our sound isn't hugely unique in the sense that no one else is doing what we're doing so there are some bands around that you can see have the same influences as us but we're definitely not part of a scene at the moment. The UK still seems to be producing a huge amount of bands that sound the same, the sort of post-Libertines kind of sound. And to be honest, we always wanted to walk our own path. We always wanted to prove ourselves by doing our own thing. It seems harder to do it when you're not part of a scene but I think we prefer it like that.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Ric Ocasek
Artist: Ric Ocasek
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Nexterday
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Troublizing
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
This Side of Paradise
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Negative Theater
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
Fireball Zone
Year:
Tracks: 12
Although he's topper known as the leader, isaac Merrit Singer, round guitarist, and songwriter for the Cars, Ric Ocasek has too produced for a wide variety of other artists over the geezerhood. Born Richard Otcasek in Baltimore, MD, on March 23, 1949, Otcasek was 16 when he became interested in music via such early rockers as Buddy Holly & the Crickets. In the early '70s, Otcasek affected from Cleveland to Boston and began playing in a family band called Milkwood with friend Ben Orzechowski. They released a lone, disregarded album in 1973 called How's the Weather. When the record failed to chart, the group pronto split up, but Otcasek and Orzechowski would stay together. Inspired by proto-punk outfits the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground, and Roxy Music, they formed Rick & the Rabbits and changed their last name calling from Orzechowski to Orr, and Otcasek to Ocasek.
By the mid-'70s, the new set included extra members Greg Hawkes (keyboards/synths), Elliot Easton (guitar), and former Modern Lovers member Dave Robinson (drums). Shortly afterward, the quintet changed its list to the Cars (with Ocasek becoming the unquestioned loss leader -- penning all of their tunes), resulting in a more than aerodynamic sound and wait, which go in utterly with the burgeoning newfangled wave move. Signed to Elektra, the group rocketed to stardom on the strength of their classic, mega-selling self-titled debut in 1978, and with farther releases such as 1979's Candy-O, 1980's Panorama, and 1981's Shake It Up, the stria became one of the circus tent tilt bands in the U.S. It was besides during this clock time that Ocasek began to branch out artistically by producing for Suicide, Bad Brains, Romeo Void, and Iggy Pop, and issuing his 1982 solo debut Beatitude.
With the second Coming of MTV, the way a ring looked proved well-nigh just as important as the music, and the Cars seemed to be custom-made for the new channel as their 1984 release Heartbeat City became one of the year's biggest rock records, spawning several Top Ten singles and heavily rotated and fashionable videos. Ocasek ground himself in the tabloids around this time when he began geological dating, and finally marrying, fashion framework Paulina Porizkova (world Health Organization had appeared in the video for the Cars' hit ballad "Drive"). 1986 saw Ocasek release his second solo feat, This Side of Paradise, in front returning to the Cars for what would be their final album, 1987's gently received Door to Door, in front splitting up a year later.
Not much was heard from Ocasek immediately afterwards the Cars' split, merely he finally resurfaced in 1990 with Fireball Zone. He after released other solo deeds throughout the decade, including 1993's Quick Change World and Negative Theater, 1996's Getchertikitz (a collaborationism with Suicide's Alan Vega), and 1997's Billy Corgan-produced Troublizing (for which he supported with a very abbreviated turn, his showtime since going the Cars). Beginning in the mid-'90s, Ocasek began producing once more for acts of the Apostles such as Bad Religion, Black 47, Johnny Bravo, D Generation, Guided By Voices, Hole, Possum Dixon, Martin Rev, Jonathan Richman, and both of Weezer's hit self-titled releases in 1994 and 2001. In 2005 the Sanctuary distribution family gave him his have label, Inverse, to develop new acts of the Apostles and released the first-class honours degree new Ocasek album in eight-spot days, Nexterday.
Heath Ledger portrait wins Australian art prize
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A portrait of a brooding Heath Ledger, painted shortly before the Australian actor died in January, was voted the most popular painting in Australia's top art prize for portraiture on Thursday.
Kimpostor a Real Drag
Apparently we're not the only ones who think the fake Kim Kardashian looks an Adam's Apple shy of impersonating a chick.
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Wu-Tang Clan launch online chess game
Wu Tang Clan's RZA has teamed up with Chesspark to launch a new website called [url= http://www.wuchess.com/]Wuchess.com[/url].
Described as a place "for chess enthusiasts addicted to hip-hop music" once you're a member the website offers music, movies and celebrity as well as games of online chess.
Members of the site will also get exclusive mp3s, the chance to play a game of chess against a surprise celebrity guest and access to video clips.
A portion of the revenue from Wuchess.com will be donated to the Hip-Hop Chess Federation's scholarship fund.
Described as a place "for chess enthusiasts addicted to hip-hop music" once you're a member the website offers music, movies and celebrity as well as games of online chess.
Members of the site will also get exclusive mp3s, the chance to play a game of chess against a surprise celebrity guest and access to video clips.
A portion of the revenue from Wuchess.com will be donated to the Hip-Hop Chess Federation's scholarship fund.
Big Brother Housemates Unveiled
The housemates have been revealed tonight as the big launch night on Channel 4 excited millions of viewers in the UK.
The first non-celebrity couple entered the Big Brother house, known as 40 year old Lisa and Sylvester Stallone hot shot Mario, 42, who boasts of his daily sex activities with his girlfriend everyday.
She told the public that the best moment of her life was when her heartthrob Mario sold a Rolex watch to get her breast enlargement surgery � the man has also boasted that he has �sexed� more than 200 women.
Among the 16 housemates this year is an albino called Darnell, 26, who was deported back to the UK after getting involved with the US gang culture.
And the well publicized blind contestant, known as Mikey who is 33 year old and is a radio producer � he lost his sight 10 years ago during an operation which went wrong.
The most well-known contestant is �Popstars: The Rivals� reject Stephanie McMichael, who was kicked off the show a few years ago for being too young. She famously dated Big Brother winner and proud Geordie Anthony Hutton.
The other housemates are made up of a mad 20-year-old conservative, a single mother who converted from Christianity to Islam and a massage therapist.
Big Brother has promised this year the show will be far from easy for the housemates � so expect many twists and turns.
From top left by row, the contestants are: Alexandra, Dennis, Jennifer, Darnell, Dale, Sylvia, Rex, Lisa, Rebecca, Mohamed, Rachel, Mario, Michael, Stephanie, Luke and Kathreya
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Transformers - Foxs Hairy Dilemma
TRANSFORMERS star MEGAN FOX hasn't always been sexy - she was once so poor she couldn't afford a razor to shave her legs.
The actress/model - who was named FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World for 2008 - was so embarrassed about her unkempt legs, she was forced to wear trousers all of the time.
She tells CosmoGirl, "When I moved to Los Angeles. I had no money.
"I remember needing to shave my legs, and I didn't even have enough money to buy disposable razors. So I'd wear pants all the time."
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Cardiaca
Artist: Cardiaca
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Pattern Mode
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Colombian alternative rock and roll stripe Cardiaca started recording their first-class honours degree songs in August of 2000 in a local radio station studio. Formed by guitarist, publicist, and profound engine driver Camilo DÃaz, singer Cintia Lovo, bassist Juan Marquez, and drummer Nicolas Velasquez, the band made its debut with a self-titled phonograph recording in 2001.
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