This Week
Bobby Womack News:
Bobby Womack gets all-clear from colon cancer
From www.nme.com at 24/05/12 03:49 PM. 0 comments.
Soul singer and Damon Albarn collaborator's doctors successfully remove tumor
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Adele News:
There's more music like The Bridge theme lurking in the Norwegian woods
From www.guardian.co.uk at 24/05/12 12:55 PM. 0 comments.
The Swedes are poppy, the Danes are laid back â€' but Norwegian musicians embrace the darkness
Anyone who became hooked on Danish-Swedish crime series The Bridge knows its theme tune set a perfect mood for the gruesome, dark and grainy drama. Back in 2010, I described Hollow Talk by Danish act Choir of Young Believers as "a melancholic Arcade Fire doing the soundtrack to Wallander" (I used them as an example of a band that made beautiful music, but couldn't or wouldn't do self-promotion on social networking sites). Seems I was just wrong about which crime series the track would eventually land in.
For those who became fans of this dark, melancholic music, there's plenty more where that came from. All you have to do is go a bit further to the north-west. Where the Swedes have a pop sensibility that's been carried through the decades since Abba,and the Danes are more laid back, the Norwegians tend to produce music that isn't as accessible to outsiders on a first listen â€' though it doesn't stop them from topping the charts in their native country. And for the past few years Norwegian artists â€' especially the female ones â€' have produced music drenched in melancholia.
Take Susanne Sundfor, whose last album The Brothel spent 30 weeks in the Norwegian album charts (it sold 40,000 copies, which is a platinum album in Norway). If Cate Blanchett, as Galadriel, had...
XL Recordings News:
Bobby Womack No Longer Has Cancer
From pitchfork.com at 24/05/12 11:40 AM. 0 comments.
Wonderful news: Bobby Womack's doctors have given the singer the all-clear from the colon cancer with which he was diagnosed in March. A posting on Womack's Facebook page reads:
"We're delighted to announce that Bobby Womack has successfully undergone surgery for suspected colon cancer. A tumour was removed last night which turned out to be cancer free. We wish him all the best in his recovery from the operation. Thank you for all your kind messages and support."
Womack is to release The Bravest Man in the Universe, an album co-produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell, on June 11 in the UK and June 12 in the U.S. via XL Recordings. It's his first record in 13 years; listen to a funk version of album track "Please Forgive My Heart" below:
Jack Peñate News:
Beginning Of The End - Cornell Campbell Apocalyptic reggae...
From www.jackpenate.com at 24/05/12 09:59 AM. 0 comments.
Beginning Of The End - Cornell Campbell
Apocalyptic reggae coming from the one and only Cornell Campbell, a man with a vocal tone sent down from Mount Olympus...
Beck News:
Beck to release single on Jack White's Third Man Records label
From www.nme.com at 23/05/12 07:29 PM. 0 comments.
'I Just Started Hating Some People Today'/'Blue Randy' is out next week
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Beck News:
Beck to Release New Single on Jack White's Third Man Records, Hear Clips Now
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 04:17 PM. 0 comments.
Next up in Jack White's Third Man Records Blue Series of singles? Beck! On May 28, the label will release the one-off single "I Just Started Hating Some People Today" b/w "Blue Randy". Both tracks were recorded in Nashville last year when Beck was working on material for an upcoming album.
White produced both tracks and contributes "drums, acoustic guitar, punk vocal, background vocals" to the A-side, and drums to the B-side. Hear clips of both tracks here.
In addition to standard formats, a limited run of 100 tricolor 7"s will be available at Randy's Records in Salt Lake City on June 2. 50 more of those will also be "randomly inserted in mail orders for the single placed with Third Man Records."
The White Stripes News:
Watch: Carrie Brownstein Parties With the White Stripes and Furries in Pitchfork.tv's "Frames"
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 01:23 PM. 0 comments.
Today, Pitchfork.tv presents a new installment of its animated series "Frames". The show highlights first-person storytelling from artists, brought to life by Pitchfork.tv's animators.
This episode stars Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney, and "Portlandia" fame, discussing the dwindling allure of the post-show party. It features her bandmates, the White Stripes, and a congregation of furries (yes, furries) during two ill-fated attempts to "cut loose on tour."
Don't forget, Wild Flag perform at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival on Saturday, July 14. Single-day tickets are on sale here.
Thom Yorke News:
I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot
From www.guardian.co.uk at 23/05/12 12:11 PM. 0 comments.
Scratch any literate songwriter â€' Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey â€' and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS Eliot
The New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wrote in a review of the poet's letters: "He tried to shut the door on modern life. It was too late of course. He was the author of Prufrock and The Waste Land. He was already inside."
Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. They rummage through his masterpiece's treasure chest of arresting phrases: the "violet hour" and "bodies naked on the low damp ground" quoted in the Sisters of Mercy's Floorshow, "April is the cruellest month" kicking off Hot Chip's Playboy or the "red sails" picked up by David Bowie on Lodger (Bowie told William Burroughs in 1974 that he'd "never read" Eliot but I suspect he got around to it).
Likewise 1915's The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. "Like a patient etherized on a table" is paraphrased by avowed Eliot fan Win Butler in Arcade Fire's We Used to Wait, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" became a song title for Chuck D, and "the Eternal Footman" crops up in Tori Amos's Pretty Good Year. "Alfred J Prufrock would be proud of...
Jack Peñate News:
Last Words On Woody Guthrie
From www.jackpenate.com at 23/05/12 10:53 AM. 0 comments.
Last Words On Woody Guthrie
Jack White News:
The Flaming Lips Will Attempt to Break Jay-Z's Guinness World Record
From pitchfork.com at 23/05/12 04:16 AM. 0 comments.
Jack White's not the only one with Guinness World Records on his mind-- according to the Flaming Lips' website, they're gunning for a record of their own. "Most live concerts in 24 hours in multiple cities" is currently held by Jay-Z, who broke the record in 2006 with seven shows in seven cities. The Lips will attempt to break the record on June 27 with eight concerts, which will stream live and coincide with the O Music Awards.
While Jay accomplished the feat via plane (it was called "the Hangar Tour"), the Lips will be traveling via bus through the American South. UPDATE: Mashable has a video interview with Wayne Coyne about the record attempt, which you can watch below.
Here's what Wayne Coyne said, via a press release:
"Like when the Sex Pistols did their one and only American tour, the weird mid-south (Memphis to New Orleans), has something very absurd about it when contrasted with radical visionary musicians. ... Elvis and Jazz were at one time radical, but are now mainstream tourist attractions. ... I don't remember if I was asked or if I volunteered. ... But, I've accepted the job of, not DRIVING, but commandeering the Magical Mystery Merry Prankster bus. ... I've accepted the attempt at breaking the world record of performing 8 shows in 24...
Tyler, The Creator News:
Pearl Jam to headline Jay-Z's Made In America festival
From www.nme.com at 22/05/12 07:47 PM. 0 comments.
Odd Future, Rita Ora, Passion Pit, Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex will also play the Philadelphia weekender
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Radiohead News:
office chart ...out from under a blanket
From www.radiohead.com at 22/05/12 05:53 PM. 0 comments.
back in blighty humans running hither and thither stunned by the sudden release from under a grey thick blanket.
1. Wallow... Falty DL
2. Ratbastid... Mono/Poly
3. Dungeness... Tapes
4. Tears in the rain... Zomby
5. Mysty Garden... Semya
6. U don't survive (Chrissy Murderbot Rmx)... Machinedrum
7. She Died There (Traxman Rmx)... Machinedrum
8. Peace Beams... Semya
9. MS-14... Mono/Poly
10. Dibby Dibby Sound... DJQ
11. Mystics... Semya
12. Money... Jeremiah Jae
Thom
Willis Earl Beal News:
Jack White, M83, The Shins, Afghan Whigs, Neil Young, Stooges to Play Austin City Limits
From pitchfork.com at 22/05/12 11:30 AM. 0 comments.
The Austin City Limits festival has anounced its lineup. Jack White, the Black Keys, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Iggy and the Stooges, Crystal Castles, Zola Jesus, Alabama Shakes, Andrew Bird, A-Trak, Black Lips, Afghan Whigs, the Roots, M83, Willis Earl Beal, the Shins, First Aid Kit, the War on Drugs, M. Ward, Die Antwoord, Weezer, Metric, Tennis, Tegan and Sara, Florence and the Machine, Big K.R.I.T., Stars, Los Campesinos!, and many more will perform in Zilker Park October 12-14.
Click here for the full line-up, and watch the Black Keys performing "Thickfreakness" at ACL 2011 below.
Update: It had been widely reported that Bon Iver was part of ACL's bill as revealed via the festival's scratch and win lottery, whereby cards deposited around Austin from May 18-21 unveiled acts prior to the full announcement. However, Bon Iver was not part of today's line-up, and his appearance at the festival remains unconfirmed for now.
Update 9:48 a.m.: Austin City Limits has confirmed that the lottery card announcing Bon Iver was fake.
Jack Peñate News:
Pond Di Bank (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 22/05/12 10:59 AM. 0 comments.
Pond Di Bank (Taken with instagram)
Radiohead News:
Lost Angeles
From www.radiohead.com at 22/05/12 07:58 AM. 0 comments.
The exhibition by Stanley Donwood, LOST ANGELES, is now in its LAST week.
See the City of Angels being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm, all in a quasi-Mediaeval style!
Marvel at a work of art so long that a special curved wall had to be built for it!
Covet artwork made with 24ct gold leaf!
Also showing is LONDON VIEWS, the original work that ended up as the cover of THE ERASER.
Both Los Angeles AND London destroyed! In the same room! Et cetera.
LOST ANGELES: APRIL 28 - MAY 26 2012, SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS GALLERY
1331 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90026, USA
subliminalprojects.com
Dizzee Rascal News:
News in Brief: Big Fun in the Big Town, Soulsavers, RWD, Joey Ramone
From pitchfork.com at 22/05/12 02:34 AM. 0 comments.
-- Big Fun in the Big Town, the 1986 hip-hop documentary that features footage of Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and others, will be available on DVD on May 22. It's the first time the film has been commercially available in 25 years. Check out a trailer here.
-- The Light the Dead See is the new album from UK production duo Soulsavers, out May 22 via Mute. The album features contributions from Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan. Listen to the album here.
-- Today, RWD Magazine released RWD - The Legacy, a three-CD compilation collecting UK garage, grime, and dubstep. The compilation features Katy B, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, and many others.
-- Joey Ramone's second posthumous album, ...ya know?, is out May 22 via BMG Rights Management. Watch the video for "Rock 'N Roll is the Answer" here.
Tyler, The Creator News:
Dirty Projectors, Passion Pit, Pearl Jam to Play Jay-Z's Made in America Festival in Philadelphia
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 09:13 PM. 0 comments.
The first names have been revealed for the Jay-Z-curated Budweiser Made in America Festival, taking place on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia September 1-2. As Brooklyn Vegan points out, Pearl Jam's website has announced that Pearl Jam will perform in addition to Dirty Projectors and Passion Pit. (Unfortunately, President Obama isn't on the bill just yet.) UPDATE: D'Angelo, Odd Future, Maybach Music (featuring Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill), Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex, X, and more have been added to the lineup. The festival will benefit United Way.
Watch the brief "Made in America" teaser video Jay posted on Life + Times:
Radiohead News:
Listen: Radiohead's Entire <i>Kid A</i> and <i>OK Computer</i> Albums as 8-Bit Video Game Music
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 07:16 PM. 0 comments.
Ever listen to Radiohead's Kid A or OK Computer and thought, "I wonder what this would sound like as 8-bit Atari or Nintendo music?" Probably not. But one YouTube user, QuintonSung, has nonetheless painstakingly made vintage video game versions of both albums in their entireties , as At Ease points out (via i09). Check both albums out out below.
OK Computer [8-Bit]:
Kid A [8-Bit]:
Jack Peñate News:
Raw Hyde (Taken with instagram)
From www.jackpenate.com at 21/05/12 07:09 PM. 0 comments.
Raw Hyde (Taken with instagram)
Adele News:
2012 Billboard Music Awards
From www.adele.tv at 21/05/12 05:41 PM. 0 comments.
Adele collected 12 awards at last night's Billboard Music Awards including Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 album for
Top Artist
Top Billboard 200 Album
Top Female Artist
Top Hot 100 Artist
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Top Digital Songs Artist
Top Radio Songs Artist
Top Digital Media Artist
Top Pop Artist
Top Pop Album
Top Streaming Song (Audio)
Top Alternative Song ("Rolling In The Deep")
Vampire Weekend News:
Japandroids, Chromatics Added to Pitchfork Festival
From pitchfork.com at 21/05/12 05:00 PM. 0 comments.
Japandroids and Chromatics have been added to Pitchfork Music Festival 2012, which returns to Chicago's Union Park July 13-15. They join a lineup that already includes Beach House, Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, Flying Lotus, AraabMUZIK, A$AP Rocky and many, many, many more. Japandroids will perform on Friday, July 13, while Chromatics will perform on Saturday, July 14.
In case you missed it, three-day passes for the festival have sold out. Thanks to everybody who purchased! Individual day tickets are on sale now right here, but hurry, because they're going fast. Remember: ticket prices have not been raised this year. Individual day tickets cost $45.
Join the Pitchfork Music Festival on Facebook here and Twitter here.
Here's the breakdown by day. The full schedule, complete with times, will be revealed in the coming weeks:
Friday, July 13:
A$AP Rocky
Willis Earl Beal
Big K.R.I.T.
Clams Casino
Dirty Projectors
Feist
Tim Hecker
Japandroids
Lower Dens
The Olivia Tremor Control
Outer Minds
Purity Ring
Saturday, July 14:
The Atlas Moth
Atlas Sound
Danny Brown
Chromatics
Cloud Nothings
Cults
Flying Lotus
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Friendly Fires News:
Watch Florence + the Machine cover Talking Heads
From www.guardian.co.uk at 21/05/12 10:06 AM. 0 comments.
To mark their Bestival appearance, Florence + the Machine have put on fancy dress and covered Talking Heads' Wild Wild Life
Florence + the Machine have been announced as the Friday night headliners for Bestival, the festival curated by Rob da Bank and his wife Josie, on the Isle of Wight in September â€' and to mark the fact they have covered Talking Heads' Wild Wild Life.
Why that song? Because the fancy dress theme for this year's festival is wildlife.
Rob da Bank says: "The first time I met Flo she was whirling around like a spinning top to a Paul Simon track at a party I was DJing at. I hadn't even heard her open her mouth but she had this alluring vibe already."
The other headliners for the festival are Stevie Wonder and New Order, with the xx, Sigur Ros, Friendly Fires, Orbital, Frank Ocean and Hot Chip among the other acts announced.
The Guardian is the media partner of Bestival.
Adele News:
Adele dominates Billboard Music Awards 2012 with 12 awards
From www.nme.com at 21/05/12 07:46 AM. 0 comments.
Coldplay, Rihanna and Lil Wayne also score gongs, but are eclipsed by the '21' singer
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Adele News:
Adele wins 12 Billboard awards
From www.bbc.co.uk at 21/05/12 07:06 AM. 0 comments.
The British singer was the big winner at this year's awards in Las Vegas winning top artist and album for 21.
Jack White News:
First Jack White <i>Guinness World Records</i> Attempt Uncountable
From pitchfork.com at 20/05/12 10:28 PM. 0 comments.
Photo by Jo McCaughey
It looks like Jack White's first Guinness World Records attempt at "most metaphors in a single concert" didn't work out too well. According to White's website, after officials counted 1,203 metaphors in three minutes (!) at his performance in Gulf Shores, Ala., White "trivialized a metaphor by saying it too quickly." The attempt was forfeited, but he'll try again at tomorrow night's show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York.
Some of the attempted metaphors sound, uh, intricate:
Some metaphors were lyrical and others came from moments such as lighting changes and even the calm weather itself during the chorus which momentarily had the feel of Grandma's house in winter.
Also, the Guinness officials accidentally counted 312 similes and comparisons. Come on, guys.
Beck News:
Mick Jagger performs with Arcade Fire on Saturday Night Live
From www.nme.com at 20/05/12 10:57 AM. 0 comments.
The Rolling Stones frontman also sings with Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck
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Adele News:
2012 Ivor Novello Awards
From www.adele.tv at 19/05/12 02:33 PM. 0 comments.
Adele was named Songwriter of the Year at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards in London. Rolling In The Deep also won PRS for Music Most Performed Work.
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx News:
Report: The xx Live in London
From pitchfork.com at 19/05/12 12:47 AM. 0 comments.
Unveiling material from their forthcoming second album on the final date of a three-night run, the xx performed in front of visuals resembling the inside of a plasma globe, the kind you touch in science lessons to demonstrate the flow of energy through the body. If any band is an expert in the intricacies of bodily contact, it's the xx, whose self-titled debut spent most of its running time shirking the outer world to hide beneath the duvet, staring deep into another's eyes.
Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx's gentle but potent alchemy was one of the calling cards of The xx, a record that seemed so unique and significant that they couldn't (and shouldn't) hope to make it a second time. It's an album that undoubtedly soundtracked a lot of couplings at the time that have perhaps since disintegrated, a theme present in all of the new songs performed tonight bar one. But if there's been breakdowns in relationships, the band's sound has become fuller and more intricate in the process, most notably taking on elements of the style that Jamie xx has been honing with his solo work over the past couple of years-- and a palpable confidence. No one hid behind gallons of dry ice this evening.
"We're playing quite a lot of new songs-- I hope...
Willis Earl Beal News:
Festivals in Brief: Hozac Blackout Fest, Electric Daisy Carnival, London Calling Fest, Piknic Electronik
From pitchfork.com at 18/05/12 08:43 PM. 0 comments.
WHAT: HoZac Blackout Fest
WHEN: May 18-20
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Roky Erickson, Redd Kross, Davila 666, Human Eye, Bare Mutants, Rayon Beach, Fungi Girls, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Ketamines, White Mystery
WHAT: Electric Daisy Carnival New York
WHEN: May 18-20
WHERE: East Rutherford, NJ
WHO: Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Armin Van Buuren, Tinie Tempah, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Richie Hawtin, Borgore, Art Department
WHAT: London Calling Fest
WHEN: May 18-19
WHERE: Amsterdam, Netherlands
WHO: Grimes, Japandroids, Austra, King Krule, Willis Earl Beal, Porcelain Raft, Au Palais, Spector, Outfit, Trust, Evian Christ
WHAT: Piknic
WHEN: May 20-September 30 (Sundays)
WHERE: Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, Canada
WHO: Machinedrum, Benoit & Sergio, Jacques Greene, Wolf + Lamb, Art Department, Lunice, Manygances, Nina Kraviz, the Mole
Willis Earl Beal News:
This Week on Pitchfork
From pitchfork.com at 18/05/12 08:03 PM. 0 comments.
Today, we bring you the latest episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Pitchfork Weekly". In this week's installment, J. Spaceman of Spiritualized answers fan questions, Killer Mike talks about his new album R.A.P. Music, and Liars give us a sneak preview of theirs.
Subscribe to Pitchfork's YouTube channel and stay tuned every Friday for new episodes of "Pitchfork Weekly." Other new Pitchfork.tv episodes on our YouTube channel this week included the Danny Brown documentary "Detroit State of Mind", the full Doug Aitken "SONG 1" Happening, a "+1" with St. Vincent, a "60 Seconds Left" with Tennis, and a music video by Royal Headache ("Girls"). Pitchfork.tv also posted a Yours Truly performance by Willis Earl Beal.
Below the video is a round-up of highlights from this week at Pitchfork.
This week in Pitchfork News:
- We said goodbye to disco queen Donna Summer.
- Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," passed away.
- Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for Booker T. & the MG's and the Blues Brothers, passed away.
- Celso Chavez, guitarist for 1990s alt-rock band Possum Dixon, passed away.
- Animal Collective announced a new album, Centipede Hz.
- The Pitchfork-presented Douglas Aitken "SONG 1" Happening took place at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; check out photo and video.
- Jay-Z supports Obama's stance on marriage equality. He plans to
XL Recordings :
XL Recordings At The Independent Label Market
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XL Recordings At The Independent Label Market
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Dizzee Rascal News:
May's best music from across the MAP
From www.guardian.co.uk at 18/05/12 03:52 PM. 0 comments.
Listen to 34 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact
Click the play button to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the whole 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here.
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Prietto Viaja Al Cosmos Con Mariano - Ey, Esa No Es Forma De Decir Adios
PVACCM is a psychedelic rock duo (Mariano, drums and vocals; Prietto, guitar and vocals) from Buenos Aires. Their first recordings were kind of lo-fi experiments but in the past couple of years they've developed a unique sound with melodies and lyrics that grow on you in a melancholic way. This track is their rendition of Leonard Cohen's classic tune Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye and features on their last album, a 28-song double record that you can purchase from Bandcamp.
AUSTRIA: Walzerkoenig
Mile Me Deaf - Wild At Heart
Mile Me Deaf is one of the other bands Killed By 9V Batteries' Wolfgang Moestl plays in. And although side-projects - such an unfair name for a 500+ songs oeuvre - are usually a space for weird shit your band mates didn't agree to, their first album Eat Skull, and especially the first single Wild At Heart, is surprisingly free of noise and distortion. Instead, it creates the last-day-of-summer-holidays feeling you know...
The White Stripes News:
Jack White Responds to <i>Guinness World Records</i> With Hilarious Record Attempt
From pitchfork.com at 18/05/12 03:33 PM. 0 comments.
As mentioned yesterday, Jack White recently criticized Guinness World Records as an elite and arbitrary organization, when he (erroneously) believed that they rejected the White Stripes' attempt to set the record for world's shortest concert. Guinness responded, encouraging White to explore different means of getting into the book.
And now, the plot thickens: According to a comedic press release, Jack White will spend the duration of his current Blunderbuss tour attempting to set the world record for "most metaphors in a single concert."
From the press release:
The attempt may prove very exhausting and at times even dangerous, but the results could prove to be glorious and possibly even vainglorious. White and Third Man Records are certain that the extremely scientific and intricate analysis of the metaphors that occur will be examined in accordance with Guinness' usually very thorough methods probably, or at the very least if somebody answers the phone at the pub.
Third Man Records encourages all attendees of said concerts to please not interfere or interject with any metaphors that they witness occur during the show as to not disqualify or worse yet, trivialize the metaphor in question. In addition all concert attendees are encouraged to entice as many metaphors to occur during the show that they possibly can as long as they don't endanger themselves or Mr. White.
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Thom Yorke News:
Lex Records: Through the Years in Video
From www.dazeddigital.com at 18/05/12 12:04 PM. 0 comments.
The founder of the independent label guides us through the years of the imprint through YouTube videos and tells us about the first Danger Mouse record
Lex Records is one of our favourite independent London labels whose wildly creative output spans over a decade of landmark releases that have changed the music industry no end. From underground rap heroes (DOOM) to harbouring super producers with a perchant for cult collaborations (the myriad of Danger Mouse projects with the once incarcerated rapper Jemini and the transcendental meditating David Lynch) to lush, cinematic electronics and pop (Boom Bip and Neon Neon) and even deluxe audio books (legendary comic book writer and Watchmen creator Alan Moore).
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Jack White News:
Jack White vows to break a new Guinness World Record on 'Blunderbuss' world tour
From www.nme.com at 18/05/12 11:10 AM. 0 comments.
Guitarist jokes that he wants to 'break the world record for most metaphors in a single concert'
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Adele News:
Michael Eavis reveals he asked Adele to headline Glastonbury 2013
From www.nme.com at 18/05/12 07:58 AM. 0 comments.
Festival boss says singer would find headlining 'too daunting' though
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