Lily Allen has revealed that she wants to write songs for Lady Gaga.
The Smile hitmaker, announced earlier this year (10) she plans to quit recording and performing live after a string of summer festival dates, has vowed to carry on writing new songs after winning three prestigious Ivor Novello awards.
The singer said that she’’s decided [...]
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Lily Allen wants to write songs for Lady Gaga
May 22nd, 2010 |
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Lily Allen wins three Ivor Novello Awards
May 21st, 2010 |
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British singer Lily Allen has bagged three Ivor Novello Awards.
Her single ‘The Fear’, No1 for four weeks in February last year, won Most Performed Song and Best Song Musically And Lyrically at the songwriters’ bash on May 20.
Allen, 25, and Greg Kurstin, with whom she penned a string of her hits including ‘The Fear’, together [...]
Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal lead nominations for Ivor Novello Awards
April 21st, 2010 |
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Singers Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal have been nominated for a maximum number of awards at next month’s Ivor Novello Awards for song writing.
Allen, 24, has been nominated for her number one hit ‘The Fear’, which was chosen for best song musically and lyrically and most performed work, reports the BBC.
Dizzee Rascal, 24, is nominated [...]
“Elvis Costello With…” Bono, Toussaint, The Boss, More
December 7th, 2009 |
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BONO, ALLEN TOUSSAINT, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AMONG GUESTS IN SEASON TWO OF
SUNDANCE CHANNEL’S “SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH…”
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Sundance Channel will launch the second season of its critically acclaimed music/talk original series “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. et/pt with an episode featuring U2‘s Bono and The Edge. “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” combines the best elements of talk and music television and lets viewers in on intimate conversation and performances with host Costello and his guests, who range from legendary performers to promising new artists.
The series, executive produced by Sir Elton John, includes one-on-one interviews, unprecedented pairings and group discussions, as well as extraordinary performances, from impromptu “illustrative” moments to full band (and even multi-band) productions. Among the confirmed guests for the seven-part season are: Bono, The Edge, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Ron Sexsmith, Neko Case, Jesse Winchester, Ray LaMontagne, Nick Lowe, Levon Helm, Richard Thompson, and Allen Toussaint.
“We’re thrilled to launch a second season of ‘Spectacle’ on Sundance Channel,” said Sundance Channel EVP and GM, Sarah Barnett. “The series offers viewers unusually close access to artists through its mix of candid conversations and exciting musical performances. This season’s A-list lineup is a testament to the tremendous respect that artists feel for Elvis Costello as a musician and entertainer.”
“I am delighted that we can continue where we left off–making intelligent, and informative music programming,” said Sir Elton John, one of the series’ executive producers. Elvis Costello commented: “In the words of the great Joe Strummer, ‘Let’s rock again!’”
The program’s eclecticism and depth reflect its uniquely qualified host. Costello is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee; a Grammy and Ivor Novello Award-winning (and Oscar®-nominated) songwriter and performer comfortable in almost every genre imaginable; a musicologist of formidable breadth and knowledge; a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine; and a noted wit whose stint as guest host on The Late Show with David Letterman won rave reviews.
“Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” is taped in front of a live audience at Harlem’s world famous Apollo Theater in New York City and The Masonic Temple in Toronto, Canada. The series will also air on CTV in Canada.
You can find more information on Spectacle, including video, here.
Massive Attack To Release Heliogoland February 9
December 1st, 2009 |
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MASSIVE ATTACK SET TO RELEASE FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM
HELIGOLAND, ON VIRGIN RECORDS FEBRUARY 9, 2010
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Legendary trip-hop duo Massive Attack are set to release their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Heligoland, on EMI’s Virgin Records on February 9, 2010. Last month, the duo released their first new material in three years, giving fans a preview of Heligoland with a four song EP titled Splitting the Atom, which features two album tracks and two album track remixes.
Heligoland features an all star cast of guest vocalists including Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey, and Tunde Adebimpe. Long time cohort Horace Andy makes a return alongside Massive Attack founding members Robert Del Naja (3D) and Grand Marshall (Daddy G). Damon also plays bass on “Flat Of The Blade” and keyboards on “Splitting The Atom,” while Portishead‘s Adrian Utley plays guitar on “Saturday Come Slow.” The band also collaborated with DFA‘s Tim Goldsworthy on selected tracks. The cover artwork features an original image by Del Naja.
Over the last three years Robert Del Naja has written and produced soundtracks for a number of films and documentaries, including Trouble In The Water, 44 Inch Chest, In Prison My Whole Life, and Gomorra, the latter for which he won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Song. Earlier this year, Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. In September, Massive Attack headlined this year’s Bestival ahead of their first full UK tour in three years, and are expected to announce a U.S. tour next year.
Heligoland Track Listing
1. Pray For Rain – featuring Tunde Adebimpe
2. Babel – featuring Martina Topley-Bird
3. Splitting The Atom – featuring Robert del Naja/Grant Marshall/Horace Andy
4. Girl I Love You – featuring Horace Andy
5. Psyche – featuring Martina Topley-Bird
6. Flat Of The Blade – featuring Guy Garvey
7. Paradise Circus – featuring Hope Sandoval
8. Rush Minute – featuring Robert del Naja
9. Saturday Come Slow – featuring Damon Albarn
10. Atlas Air – featuring Robert del Naja
Massive Attack tour dates available here.
40th Ann Space Oddity EP
July 27th, 2009 |
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David Bowie And Virgin/EMI Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Space Oddity
With Commemorative Digital EP and iPhone/iPod touch App
 David Bowie |
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie‘s Space Oddity Virgin/EMI will release a commemorative digital EP and a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The digital EP, available now for download purchase from all major digital service providers, features four versions of “Space Oddity” plus its original eight multi-track stems, enabling fans to remix the song as they please using their own software or with iKlax software. iKlax’s “Remix David Bowie – Space Oddity” app, available now on the iTunes App Store, also allows fans to remix the track their way.
Originally released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landings, Space Oddity was featured by the BBC in its television coverage of the lunar event, the song later won an Ivor Novello award. The song’s enigmatic protagonist, Major Tom, has become a recurrent theme throughout Bowie’s work and career, and was revisited in the song “Ashes To Ashes.”
David Bowie Space Oddity (40th Anniversary EP) (digital)
1. Space Oddity (original U.K. mono single edit)
2. Space Oddity (U.S. mono single edit)
3.Space Oddity (U.S. stereo single edit)
4. Space Oddity (1979 re-record)
Blur Greatest Hits Collection
July 24th, 2009 |
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Capitol/EMI TO Release Career-Spanning Blur Collection
Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide To Blur, On July 28
25-Track 2-CD & Digital Collection Spans Band’s Seven Studio Albums
 Blur |
On July 28, a new 2-CD and digital collection of 25 tracks spanning Blur‘s seven studio albums will be released. In addition to presenting the band’s standout album cuts and singles together for the first time Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide To Blur also includes a long out-of-print track, “Popscene,” a single from 1992, which is exclusively available on the new collection.
Blur was formed in Colchester, England in 1989 by singer and keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. In 1990, Blur signed with Food Records and the band’s debut single, “She’s So High,” reached Billboard’s Top 50, while the follow-up single, “There’s No Other Way,” hit the Top 10. In 1995, Blur won an unprecedented four Brit Awards and went on to win the Ivor Novello Award for songwriting. Two of the band’s albums, Parklife and 13, have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide To Blur Track List
CD 1
1. Beetlebum
2. Girls & Boys
3. For Tomorrow
4. Coffee & TV
5. Out Of Time
6. Blue Jeans
7. Song 2
8. Bugman
9. He Thought Of Cars
10. Death Of A Party
11. The Universal
12. Sing
13. This Is A Low
CD 2
1. Tender
2. She’s So High
3. Chemical World
4. Good Song
5. Parklife
6. Advert
7. Popscene
8. Stereotypes
9. Trimm Trabb
10. Badhead
11. Strange News From Another Star
12. Battery In Your Leg