Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban aren’t the types to flash their babies’ faces on the cover of celebrity weeklies – so this super-cute, but grainy image, is all we’re gonna see of their new daughter Faith Margaret for now. Proud dad Keith showed off a cellphone snap of his baby girl to camera crews during [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rose’
Kid Congo Powers: New Album & East Coast Dates
January 25th, 2011 |
No Comments
SPRING RELEASE FOR GORILLA ROSE; TOUR STARTS FEB. 11
The legendary Kid Congo
Powers, co-founder of the Gun Club, guitarist for The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, will be
releasing his new album with his group Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds this spring. Titled
Gorilla Rose, the album follows in the footsteps of the band’s 2009 Dracula Boots with
more ram-charged boogaloo, sleazy psychedelia and Chicano garage rock.
In The Red records is gearing up for
the new album by releasing a series of oddball limited edition vinyl-only records by the band. The first of these
releases dropped this week in the form of the “Five Greasy Pieces” subscription series. This is a very limited edition
(250 of each) series of five different singles each containing two brand new tracks. Starting in January In The Red
will be issuing one of these a month. The fifth and final single in the series will come with a handsome box in which
all five will be housed. The only way to obtain these singles is to buy a subscription on the In The Red website. In
March In The Red will be issuing a live LP by the band titled Live At The Prom which will be
another vinyl-only limited edition release available exclusively online.
Catch Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds on their North East tour this February.
KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS TOUR DATES
2.11 Jack Pot Saloon Lawrence, KS
2.12 Crosstown Station Kansas City, MO
2.13 Off Broadway Night Club St Louis, MO
2.14 MOTR Pub Cincinnati, OH
2.15 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH
2.16 Howler’s Coyote Cafe Pittsburgh, PA
2.17 Bandito’s Burrito Lounge Richmond, VA
2.18 Comet Ping Pong Washington, DC
2.19 TBA New York, NY
Kid Congo Powers
Tour Dates
::
Kid Congo Powers News
::
Kid Congo Powers
Concert
Reviews
Sat Eye Candy: Guns NÂ’ Roses
January 22nd, 2011 |
No Comments
GOOD LORD, THEY WERE ONCE TITANS!
Rock is full of tantalizing “what ifs” but perhaps no single band has inspired more of them than Guns N’ Roses. What if Axl Rose hadn’t become a money squandering, megalomaniac control freak? What if Izzy Stradlin had stayed involved? What if the band that made Appetite For Destruction had gotten to evolve longer before the gold toilets and limos arrived? Ask anyone who was ground zero when the band roared out of Los Angeles in 1987 and the general consensus was one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll outfits ever was being born. But unlike the Stones, Zeppelin, et al. it quickly descended into madness, acrimony, self-indulgence and Olympian scale ego. It’s not to say that Use Your Illusion isn’t brilliant in parts, but in a single album’s time the over-tinkering fussiness that marks almost all of their subsequent work was already evident. The rawness and possessed invention of Appetite never surfaced again, devoured by the fame machine, lawyers, overblown, under-thought concepts and their own big, dumb mouths. And still, there’s more than a few who wonder what might have been for G n’ R if they’d been strong or smart to follow a different path. Would that band have brought us their own Sticky Fingers or Houses of the Holy? Might they still be making rock that reconnects one to the lascivious juju of Chuck Berry, Johnny Rotten and Elvis? It’s a mighty wistful “what if.”
Today is original Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler’s 46th birthday. It’s a bit of a surprise that he’s still with us at all given the life he’s lived, but one thing he’ll always have is being part of one of THE great moments in rock history, brief as it was. Truly a band that internalized the whole “better to burn out than fade away” mentalityÂ…and then lost control of the monster, which limps along still, powered by the residual love and excitement that remains from their late 80s heyday. Still, there’s some real moments and we’re gonna celebrate a few in honor of Steven’s bday. (Dennis Cook)
Where better to begin our stroll down seedy memory lane than “Paradise City,” a tune with all the sack swinging perfection of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” or “Black Dog.”
The creepy tingle that went up our collective spine the first time we heard this one is impossible to shake, the whole enterprise ringing with menace and bad intent, the sound of dreams crashing down into harsh reality.
An ugly little gem that evokes both 70s Stones and the New York Dolls.
Oh, Big Hair Axl, you were fun and wrote great, gritty love songs!
A cautionary tale about heroin that’s still so catchy it makes you understand on a non-verbal level why people dance with ol’ Mister.
Like most really great songs, the tunes off Appetite have a lot of malleability. The bands early dip into acoustic territory was one of the best things they ever did.
The ladies were right at the core of early Guns N’ Roses, represented by some of the rankest misogyny ever and an almost school boy sincerity and sweetness. We conclude our lil’ salute to the G n’ R that might have been with two about women, one sour and one as sweet as its title.
Grateful Dead: Europe Â’72 Tour Box Set
January 20th, 2011 |
No Comments
INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT DEAD.NET AND SHIPS IN SEPTEMBER
 sketch of new box set |
Grateful Dead slipped the
shores of America and crossed the pond for its first-ever major European tour in April 1972. The legendary 22-
show run spawned Europe ’72, a live triple album that remains one of the band’s best-selling and most
beloved releases. A tour this momentous deserves a boxed set of historic proportions and Dead.net has stamped your passport to relive every note from the European tour
with Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings, an individually numbered, limited edition collection
that includes more than 60 discs with over 70 hours of music featuring every show from what is arguably the
Grateful Dead’s greatest tour. The box set ships in September.
Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings is housed in a replica steamer trunk reminiscent of the ones
prevalently used at the time. The travel
chest contains tour memorabilia, a coffee-table book with never-before-seen photos, and a comprehensive essay
by noted Dead author Blair Jackson. Each performance will also be accompanied by an essay specific to
the show written by top Dead scholars including David Gans, Gary Lambert, Nicholas Meriwether, and
Steve Silberman.
Jeffrey Norman, the primary mixer of the Dead’s archival multi-track material for the past 15 years, is
mixing each
show from the original 16-track recordings.
Due to ship in September, the boxed set is available exclusively from Dead.net, which is taking orders now. The
price of the collection is $450, which works out to the remarkably low price of about $20 for each show, or roughly
the cost of a transatlantic flight from New York City to London in 1972 (price of time machine not included).
The first 3,000 fans to order will have
their copy personalized with a name requested by the purchaser. Once the 3,000 order goal is reached by April 1,
Dead.net will continue to take orders through the summer but will limit production of the collection to a maximum
of 7,200 pieces, all of which will be individually numbered. Orders will no longer be taken at some date (to be
determined) later in the summer.
The tour offers a snapshot of a band at the top of its game, still ascending in the wake of three straight hit albums—
Workingman’s Dead, American Beauty, and the live Grateful Dead (“Skull & Roses”). It had been a
year since
the lineup had gone to its single-drummer configuration, six months since Keith Godchaux had been
broken in as the group’s exceptional pianist, and this marked the first tour to feature Donna Godchaux as
a member of the touring band.
There was a ton of new, unreleased material that came into the repertoire in the fall of ’71 and during the spring of
’72, including “Tennessee Jed,” “Jack Straw,” “Mexicali Blues,” “Comes A Time,” “Ramble On Rose,” “One More
Saturday Night,” “Black-Throated Wind,” “Looks Like Rain” and Pigpen‘s “Chinatown Shuffle,” “The Stranger
(Two
Souls In Communion)” and “Mr. Charlie.” (Sadly, this was Pigpen’s final tour.) All those future classics were
interspersed with songs from the aforementioned “hit” albums—such as “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones,” “Sugar
Magnolia,” “Bertha,” and “Not Fade Away”—and then were topped off by loads of big jamming numbers—the Europe
’72 tour produced spectacular versions of “Dark Star,” “The Other One,” “Playing in the Band,” “Truckin’,” “China Cat
Sunflower” > “I Know You Rider,” “Good Lovin’,” “Lovelight,” and even the early Pig chestnut “Caution.”
GRATEFUL DEAD EUROPE 1972 TOUR DATES
All shows included in their entirety
April 7 Wembley Empire Pool, Wembley
April 8 Wembley Empire Pool, Wembley
April 11 Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
April 14 Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen
April 16 Aarhus University, Aarhus
April 17 Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen
April 21 Beat Club, Bremen
April 24 Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf
April 26 Jahrhundert Halle, Frankfurt
April 29 Musikhalle, Hamburg
May 3 Olympia Theatre, Paris
May 4 Olympia Theatre, Paris
May 7 Bickershaw Festival, Wigan
May 10 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
May 11 Rotterdam Civic Hall, Rotterdam
May 13 Lille Fairgrounds, Lille
May 16 Theatre Hall, Luxembourg
May 18 Kongressaal – Deutsches Museum, Munich
May 23 Strand Lyceum, London
May 24 Strand Lyceum, London
May 25 Strand Lyceum, London
May 26 Strand Lyceum, London
Guns N’ Roses “Glee†Musical Tribute Snub
January 18th, 2011 |
No Comments
Don’t expect to see the voices of New Directions rocking out to “Welcome to the Jungle” in the halls of McKinley High any time in the new future: Guns N’ Roses have become the latest act to turn down Glee. Slash, former guitarist of the groundbreaking band, says he and frontman Axl Rose have turned [...]
Kidman nicknames daughter ‘raccoon’
January 18th, 2011 |
No Comments
Australian actress Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban have nicknamed their daughter Sunday Rose “the raccoon”. The “Rabbit Hole” actress and her country singer husband are amused by the inquisitive two-year-old Sunday Rose’s habit of stopping to investigate everything she sees. But the couple don’t think she will always be so curious about her surroundings, [...]
Keith Urban Nicole Kidman Welcome Baby Daughter Faith Via Surrogate
January 17th, 2011 |
No Comments
Country star Keith Urban and his Oscar-winning wife Nicole Kidman are parents again in a surrogacy plot that may have been the best-kept secret in Tinseltown. The couple quietly used an anonymous surrogate, who gave birth to Faith Margaret Urban — Keith and Nicole’s biological daughter — at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville on Dec. [...]
Marion Cotillard Pregnant
January 10th, 2011 |
No Comments
Inception star Marion Cotillard is expecting her first child with her French actor-and-director partner Guillaume Canet. Marion, 35, and Guillaume, 37, first met on the set of the 2003 film Love Me If You Dareand began dating in 2007. The couple last collaborated on the 2010 French comedy-drama Little White Lies, which featured Guillaume stepping [...]
Dad hires singer to dedicate a song to Lindsay
January 3rd, 2011 |
No Comments
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan’s estranged father Michael has commissioned a singer from the Grammy-winning group ALL-4-ONE to write a song dedicated to his troubled daughter. Delious Kennedy, a member of the group, has revealed that he’s agreed to put pen to paper for a tune he calls “My Rose”, a dance club track about Lindsay. [...]
Nicole Kidman Misses Her Kids With Tom Cruise
December 29th, 2010 |
No Comments
Nicole Kidman has the mommy blues. As the actress raises 2-year-old daughter Sunday Rose with husband Keith Urban in Nashville, her children Isabella and Connor spend most of their time in L.A. with ex Tom Cruise.”They live with Tom, which was their choice,” the 43-year-old Rabbit Hole star admits to Hello! magazine. Though she hasn’t [...]
Singapore industrial output rose at fastest pace in six months
December 24th, 2010 |
No Comments
Singapore’s industrial production rose at the fastest pace in six months as electronics and pharmaceutical manufacturers increased output to meet demand.
Manufacturing, which accounts for about a quarter of the economy, climbed 39.8% in November from a year earlier, after a revised 29.8% increase in October, the Economic Development Board said in a statement today. The median estimate of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a 32.8% gain.
Kidman misses her adopted kids with Cruise
December 22nd, 2010 |
No Comments
Actress Nicole Kidman is saddened by her adopted kids Isabella and Connor’s decision to stay with their father Tom Cruise but says she respects it. Kidman, who adopted Isabella, 18 and Connor, 15 while she was married to actor Tom Cruise, says she misses them, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “They live with Tom, which was their choice. [...]
EDB Repair Tool – Solution for dealing with corrupt Exchange database files Posted By : jimi rose
December 22nd, 2010 |
No Comments
Sometimes, the EDB file becomes corrupt. Due to this, you are unable to access your mails, contacts, etc. To deal with this, you need to use an EDB Repair tool. Using a professional EDB Repair tool, you can successfully restore your inaccessible data stored in an EDB file.
JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology
December 7th, 2010 |
No Comments
INCLUDES 111 TRACKS, 200 PAGE BOOK OF ESSAYS,
TRACK ANNOTATIONS AND HISTORICAL
PHOTOS
 JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology |
Seven years in the making, JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology will be released by Smithsonian
Folkways on March 29, 2011. The six-CD box set traces the turning points of this 20th-century tale through its
legendary innovators and exemplary exponents: Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Parker, Gillespie, Davis, Hancock,
Corea, Coltrane and many more. The set opens with Scott Joplin‘s 1899 “Maple Leaf Rag” and spans
the entire century, closing with Tomasz Stan´ko‘s 2003 “Suspended Night Variation VIII.”
As the successor to the original 1973 milestone Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, the set has been
substantially updated with more than eighty percent new selections. In its nearly eight hours of music, many
hundreds of musicians are featured on 111 tracks, and the set is accompanied by a 200-page book of essays, track
annotations and historical photos. The six CDs encompass ragtime, New Orleans, swing, bebop, hard bop, cool,
modal, free, fusion, Latin and many more of the variegated creations in jazz’s magnificent sound mosaic.
A blue ribbon executive committee selected the final 111 recordings from thousands of tracks recommended by
dozens of jazz experts, and with annotations contributed by a team of 35 scholars and educators, JAZZ
offers a wellspring resource for jazz fans of all stripes – educators, students, musicians, beginners and
aficionados.
Click here for more information.
JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology Track List:
Disc 1
1. Maple Leaf Rag – Dick Hyman
2. In Gloryland – Bunk’s Brass Band
3. Livery Stable Blues – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
4. Dipper Mouth Blues – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
5. The Stampede – Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
6. Black Bottom Stomp – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers
7. Singin’ The Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home) – Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra
8. Back Water Blues – Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson
9. Black And Tan Fantasy – Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
10. From Monday On – Bix Beiderbecke & Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
11. West End Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
12. Weather Bird – Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines
13. That’s a Serious Thing – Eddie Condon’s Hot Shots
14. Handful of Riffs – Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson
15. You’ve Got to Be Modernistic – James P. Johnson
16. Moten Swing – Bennie Moten and His Kansas City Orchestra
17. Everybody Loves My Baby – The Boswell Sisters
18. Maple Leaf Rag – Sidney Bechet
19. Dinah – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
20. Swing That Music – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
21. Honky Tonk Train Blues – Meade “Lux” Lewis
22. Mean To Me – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
23. For Dancers Only – Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra
24. One O’Clock Jump – Count Basie and His Orchestra
25. Harlem Congo – Chick Webb and His Orchestra
Disc 2
1. Minor Swing – Quintette du Hot Club de France
2. Mary’s Idea – Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy
3. When Lights Are Low – Lionel Hampton
4. Body and Soul – Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra
5. Honeysuckle Rose – Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
6. Tiger Rag – Art Tatum
7. Ko-Ko – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
8. Hard Times (Topsy Turvy) – Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
9. I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me – The Chocolate Dandies
10. Stardust – Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
11. Let Me Off Uptown – Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
12. Shaw ‘Nuff – Dizzy Gillespie’s All-Star Quintette
13. Manteca – Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
14. Virgo from The Zodiac Suite – Mary Lou Williams
15. Dexter Rides Again – Dexter Gordon
16. I Want to Be Happy – Lester Young – Buddy Rich Trio
17. Indiana – Bud Powell
18. Embraceable You – Charlie Parker Quintet
19. Four Brothers – Woody Herman and His Orchestra
20. Misterioso – Thelonious Monk Quartet
21. Lady Bird – Tadd Dameron Sextet
22. Tanga – Machito and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra
23. September in the Rain – The George Shearing Quintet
24. WOW – Lennie Tristano Sextet
Disc 3
1. Boplicity – Miles Davis Nonet
2. The Golden Bullet – Count Basie Octet
3. Popo – Shorty Rogers and His Giants
4. Walkin’ Shoes – The Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker
5. 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West – Stan Kenton
6. Daahoud – Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet
7. Django – The Modern Jazz Quartet
8. The Preacher – Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
9. I’ll Remember April – Erroll Garner Trio
10. Jonaleh – The Chico Hamilton Quintet
11. Tricrotism – Lucky Thompson Trio
12. St. Thomas – Sonny Rollins
13. Call For All Demons – Sun Ra and His Arkestra
14. When I Grow Too Old to Dream – Nat “King” Cole and His Trio
15. Stompin’ at the Savoy – Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
16. Blues in the Closet – Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson
17. Ol’ Man River – Oscar Peterson Trio
18. Summertime – Miles Davis: orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans
Disc 4
1. Moanin’ – Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
2. Meet B. B. – Count Basie and His Orchestra
3. So What – Miles Davis Sextet
4. Giant Steps – John Coltrane Quartet
5. Better Git It in Your Soul – Charles Mingus
6. Blue Rondo à la Turk – The Dave Brubeck Quartet
7. Ramblin’ – Ornette Coleman Quartet
8. Work Song – Cannonball Adderley
9. Wrap your Troubles In Dreams – Sarah Vaughan
10. My Favorite Things, Part 1 (Single Version) – John Coltrane Quartet
11. Waltz For Debby – Bill Evans
12. Round Midnight – George Russell Sextet
13. Cotton Tail – Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra
Disc 5
1. One by One – Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
2. The Girl From Ipanema – Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto
3. A Love Supreme Part I: Acknowledgement – John Coltrane Quartet
4. E.S.P. – Miles Davis Quintet
5. Haig & Haig – Clark Terry – Bob Brookmeyer Quintet
6. King of the Road – Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery
7. Isfahan – Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
8. The New National Anthem (from A Genuine Tong Funeral) – Gary Burton
9. Matrix – Chick Corea
10. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down – Miles Davis
11. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters – Mahavishnu Orchestra
12. Watermelon Man – Herbie Hancock
13. Long Yellow Road – Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
14. Jitney No. 2 – Cecil Taylor
15. Bright Size Life – Pat Metheny
Disc 6
1. Maple Leaf Rag – Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams
2. Birdland – Weather Report
3. My Song – Keith Jarrett
4. Iya – Irakere
5. Bush Magic – Art Ensemble of Chicago
6. Steppin’ – World Saxophone Quartet
7. The Glide Was in the Ride – Steve Coleman Group
8. Manenberg (Revisited) – Abdullah Ibrahim
9. Nothing Personal – Michael Brecker
10. Airegin – Tito Puente
11. Down the Avenue – Wynton Marsalis Septet
12. Ting Ning РNguy̻n L̻
13. Kilayim – Masada
14. Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho – Medeski Martin & Wood
15. Neutralisme – Martial Solal and Johnny Griffin
16. Suspended Night Variation VIII – Tomasz Stan´ko
Cyber Monday Spending Rose in 2010: ComScore
December 1st, 2010 |
No Comments
Cyber Monday 2010 saw a noticeable jump in shopping dollars over 2009, according to new data from research firm comScore. – E-commerce spending rose on Cyber Monday 2010, in what analyst firm comScore termed the “heaviest online spending day in history.”
Created in 2005 as a marketing buzzword, “Cyber Monday” denotes the Monday following Thanksgiving, when holiday shoppers supposedly use their return to work and presum…
Kylie Jenner Modeling Nick Saglimbeni Photoshoot [Pictures]
November 30th, 2010 |
No Comments
Another Kardashian (by relation anyway) wants to be famous. Kylie Jenner, 13, is actually the half-sister of socialites Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe Kardashian, but there’s no mistaking the smouldering gaze and luscious dark locks in these shots from Kylie’s new photoshoot with celebrity snapper Nick Saglimbeni. Following in the footsteps of older sister Kendall — [...]
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
November 29th, 2010 |
No Comments
NEW ALBUM OUT FEB. 15 2011;
NEW TRACK PREVIEW AT PJHARVEY.NET STARTING
TOMORROW
 PJ Harvey |
PJ Harvey‘s eighth studio
album Let England Shake is set to be released on the February 15, 2011 on Vagrant Records in
the U.S.
Let England Shake was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset with long time collaborator
Flood who
co-
produced the album with PJ Harvey, John Parish and Mick Harvey. The record was also mixed by Flood.
The new album will be supported by a run of sold out live shows early next year, with dates in Brussels, Berlin, Paris,
and London’s Troxy on February 27 and 28. 2011 will also see Harvey return to the festival stage, with more details
to be announced. PJ Harvey will perform with a live band which includes Mick Harvey, John Parish and
Jean-Marc Butty.
A new album track will be previewed at the official website www.pjharvey.net beginning Tuesday November 30. The
completed tracklisting for Let England Shake is as follows:
1. Let England Shake
2. The Last Living Rose
3. The Glorious Land
4. The Words That Maketh Murder
5. All And Everyone
6. On Battleship Hill
7. England
8. In The Dark Places
9. Bitter Branches
10. Hanging In The Wire
11. Written On The Forehead
12. The Colour of The Earth
PJ Harvey
Tour Dates
::
PJ Harvey News
::
PJ Harvey
Concert
Reviews
Guns N†Roses files $20m lawsuit against ‘Guitar Hero’ makers
November 25th, 2010 |
No Comments
Guns N” Roses” Axl Rose has sued Activision Blizzard, the developer of video game Guitar Hero III, over a cartoon depiction of ex-bandmate Slash on the front cover. Rose alleges in his 20-million-dollar claim that Activision broke an agreement not to feature imagery of the guitarist. The singer claims they also agreed not to show [...]
Axl Rose Files Suit Against Activision, Manufacturer Of “Guitar Heroâ€
November 24th, 2010 |
No Comments
Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose is suing video game manufacturer Activision Blizzard for $20 million over their illegal use of the band’s 1987 rock anthem “Welcome to the Jungle” in the third edition of Guitar Hero. The law firm Miller Barondess LLP says it is filing the suit on Rose’s behalf. The complaint alleges [...]