Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Charlatans to play Sundae On The Common

The Charlatans will headline this year's Sundae On The Common festival, NME reports.

The event, which is sponsored by Ben And Jerry's, will take place at Clapham Common on July 26 and 27.

Joining The Charlatans on the Saturday bill are Guillemots, Delays, Charlotte Hatherley, Florence & The Machine, Brightlights and The Troubadours. Acts confirmed for the Sunday gig include Ash, Lemonheads, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and Slow Club.

Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess said that the two-day event "has it all".

"The weather, the lineup and the atmosphere," he commented. "The band have wanted to play there for a while now but due to other commitments we were unable to, so we are glad to finally be getting the opportunity this summer!"



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Saturday, 21 June 2008

Owner of NH music hall plans new $7 million complex in Derry

DERRY, N.H. -The owner of the Tupelo music hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire, says he’s closing it and building a new $7 million complex on two undeveloped lots in Derry.
Scott Hayward says he has not yet closed on the deal, but has made two deposits, signed a purchase and sale agreement, and finished the property survey.
He anticipates breaking ground in late fall on two buildings — the music hall and a 40,000-square-foot retail complex.



Hayward said he decided to move because there’s no place to expand at the Londonderry music hall.
The new music hall will be 10,000 square feet and seat 300 to 500 people. The space will allow for ample parking, which is now in short supply at the music hall.
Asked about the loss of the intimate setting, which has made Tupelo so popular with performers and audiences, Hayward said the plan is to re-create the same atmosphere.
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Information from: Eagle Tribune, http://www.eagletribune.com


Friday, 20 June 2008

Stefano Battaglia

Stefano Battaglia   
Artist: Stefano Battaglia

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   



Discography:


Raccolto CD2   
 Raccolto CD2

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


Raccolto CD1   
 Raccolto CD1

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9




Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia has recorded regularly for the Splasc(h) tag since his debut as a leader in 1987, Things Ain't What They Used to Be. By that metre, he had been performing piano for 15 long time and had gradational from the Conservatory of Milan triplet years prior. Active in both classical and idle words music, he has performed at a number of European festivals of each, including the 1986 J.S. Bach Festival in Düsseldorf and the Umbria Jazz Festival on several occasions during the '80s and '90s.


Battaglia has collaborated with a image of jazz musicians from Kenny Wheeler to Lee Konitz, from Barre Phillips to a number of musicians active on the Italian scene, including haunt collaborator bassist Paolino Dalla Porta. He has as well taught jazz for a number of long time in Siena. Battaglia has lED more than 15 recordings in settings ranging from solo (such as Baptism and the Swiss Radio Tapes releases) to his 16-piece tout ensemble Theatrum (heard on three 1997 recordings, including Gesti). He as well has on-going twosome projects with piano player Enrico Pieranunzi and with drummer Tony Oxley, and is in the triple ALA with violoncellist Chico Marquez and clarinettist Gabriele Mirabassi. Battaglia's more than recent releases include The Book of Jazz, Vol. 1 from Symphonia in 2001, and Raccolto and Re: Pasolini both from ECM in 2006 and 2007, severally.






Elliot Perkins

Elliot Perkins   
Artist: Elliot Perkins

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


Eurodac Express   
 Eurodac Express

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3




 






Philip Glass and Rainstick Orchestra

Philip Glass and Rainstick Orchestra   
Artist: Philip Glass and Rainstick Orchestra

   Genre(s): 
Avantgarde
   



Discography:


The Floating Glass Key In The Sky   
 The Floating Glass Key In The Sky

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 7




 






Wilfrido Vargas

Wilfrido Vargas   
Artist: Wilfrido Vargas

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Dance
   



Discography:


Merengue   
 Merengue

   Year:    
Tracks: 6




Wilfrido Vargas (b. Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez, April 24, 1949, Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic), was a bandleader, trumpeter, vocaliser, adapter, composer and producer wHO was subservient in making the merengue style a world phenomena. He began his musical studies early, attending the Municipal Academy of Music first at long time 10. Before he was 12, he was the trumpet soloist and director of a little local ring. It was in his 1920s, nevertheless, that he begun to have commercial and critical successes. His band, Los Beduinos, produced their low album, Wilfrido Vargas y genus Sus Beduinos, on the Karen label in 1974. It was the low of 17 albums that Vargas would record with Karen, all the while performing as mentor to a modern generation of merengue musicians. Half of that low album was written by pianist and composer Sonny Ovalle, wHO helped formulate Los Beduinos' sound and world Health Organization would later on make a major contribution to Vargas' dispatch albums in the '80s.


Vargas' first hit came with his one-quarter album, Punto y Aparte!, which was issued by Karen in 1978. It produced a dispatch undivided, "El Barbarazoí," and helped touch off a world-wide merengue fury, providing exposure for slews of Dominican artists. Vargas had a series of hit albums in the '80s, commencement with his pair with Los Beduinos vocaliser Sandy Reyes, Wilfrido Vargas y Sandy Reyes, which was issued in 1982. In 1987 he switched to the Sonotone label and produced quint albums with them, including Aliveness, which received a 1989 Grammy nomination. From 1991 on he was with the Rodven label, and while he remained a major list in merengue, he would never again accomplish the prominence that he had known in the '80s. Outside of the merengue genre, Vargas too made a major contribution to the Fania All-Stars, connexion them for their historic performances in Cuba in 1979 and contributing to the recording of the All Stars' Habana Jam album, recorded March 3 of that year at a concert in Havana.





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Phil Spector - Spector Sued By Hotel


Embattled producer PHIL SPECTOR is facing further legal drama - a Los Angeles hotel has filed a lawsuit claiming he failed to pay $100,000 (GBP50,000) bill during his murder trial.

In court documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court on Wednesday (18Jun08), the Westin Bonaventure Hotel + Suites claims to have reserved rooms for the Spector's lawyers and expert witnesses over the course of the seven-month trial last year (07), incurring charges of more than $104,000 (GBP52,000).

But after sending a letter requesting payment, Spector refused to cover the entire bill, demanding instead a "drastic discount of the outstanding balance", according to TMZ.com.

The hotel alleges breach of contract and is seeking to collect the entire bill, plus interest.

Spector was accused of murdering actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra, California mansion in 2003 and is facing a retrial over the murder on 29 September (08).

The 68-year-old, famed for his work in the 1960s with artists including The Beatles and Tina Turner, faces 15 years in prison if found guilty.





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The SoHo Dolls

The SoHo Dolls   
Artist: The SoHo Dolls

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


All music and videos   
 All music and videos

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12




 





Elegacy

Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro   
Artist: Suzi Quatro

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock: Glam Rock
   



Discography:


What Goes Around Greatest and Latest   
 What Goes Around Greatest and Latest

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 18


The Gold Collection   
 The Gold Collection

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 16


Oh, Suzi Q   
 Oh, Suzi Q

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13


The Wild One: The Greatest Hits   
 The Wild One: The Greatest Hits

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 20


Main Attraction   
 Main Attraction

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 10


Rock Hard   
 Rock Hard

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11


Suzi and Other 4 Letter Words   
 Suzi and Other 4 Letter Words

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 10


If You Knew Suzi   
 If You Knew Suzi

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


Live and Kickin'   
 Live and Kickin'

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 14


Aggro Phobia   
 Aggro Phobia

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 8


Your Mama Won't Like Me   
 Your Mama Won't Like Me

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 10


Quatro   
 Quatro

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 12


Rock 'Til Ya Drop   
 Rock 'Til Ya Drop

   Year:    
Tracks: 20




It's pretty farfetched, as some revisionists ar at present claiming, to view Suzi Quatro as a precursor to the "howler grrrls" of the '90s. Her trade name of mid-'70s glam pop was far more innocuous and, in any case, often supplied by professional songwriters. What she did turn up was that it was possible for a petite woman to act bass, whistle, and wear leather with a reasonable grade of grossness and pride. That, with enough musical meat hooks to cast in the teen pop push, was sufficiency to reel off a series of big British attain singles exactly ahead the coming of tinder, although she remained about unknown in her aboriginal U.S.


To the British audience, it seemed as if Quatro emerged out of nowhere in 1973, just in fact she'd been playing professionally for nearly a 10. While inactive in her early teens, she coupled the Pleasure Seekers, a Detroit set too featuring her sisters Arlene and Patti. One of the few all-girl garage bands wHO played their own instruments, they recorded a fine, gamy single for the local Hideout mark, "Never Thought You'd Leave Me"/"What a Way to Die" (both sides were reissued in the eighties on the What a Way to Die '60s garage compilation). Another unmarried followed for Mercury, and the group even toured Vietnam to entertain military personnel. In 1968, though, Arlene leave office the band to raise her kids (one of whom is actress Sherilyn Fenn), to be replaced by so far some other sis, Nancy.


The Pleasure Seekers became Cradle, which placed more accent on hard rock and original material. In the early '70s, British producer Mickie Most (the Animals, Lulu, Donovan, Herman's Hermits) happened to run across Cradle piece he was in Detroit to work on an album with Jeff Beck at Motown's studios. Most let Quatro know he was interested in working with her as a solo act; sixer months after, Cradle split, and Suzy was on her room to London (Patti coupled the all-woman rock'n'roll band Fanny in Los Angeles).


After her number one single flopped, Most dependent her up with songwriters Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, wHO were also provision material to the Sweet. The Chapman-Chinn-penned "Canful the Can" went to number one in the U.K. in 1973, and over the next few years the same team would spell around 10 other British chart hits for her, including four Top Ten entries. These amalgamate sparkle and bubblegum in much the same way as the Sweet did, though Quatro was maybe a shade raunchier (without always getting downright scarey). Quatro and her guitar player (and hubby) Len Tuckey did drop a line some of her material, though these efforts were normally imprisoned to albums. In the U.S., though, she could barely get into the Top hundred, though she did get on the cover of Rolling Stone.


Her American fortunes changed in the later '70s, when she had a transient, semi-regular erolia minutilla on the sitcom Glad Days as the guitar-playing, impertinent Leather Tuscadero. In 1979, she made the American Top Five with "Stumblin' In," although this was a duet with Chris Norman. Undoubtedly an influence upon the Runaways and Joan Jett, and thus by extension a meek influence on a subsequent generation of female bikers, she's unbroken a low profile in the '80s and '90s, although she's done some telecasting and theatrical work in Britain.





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213

213   
Artist: 213

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   



Discography:


The Hard Way   
 The Hard Way

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 19


Groupie Luv   
 Groupie Luv

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5




Over a decennium afterwards trey of the West Coast's peak tap artists -- Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Nate Dogg -- stone-broke up their 213 tercet and pursued respectively successful solo careers, they reunited for a long-rumored, much-anticipated supergroup album, The Hard Way. The oft-told 213 narration is more or less of a West Coast rap legend. It begins at the daybreak of the '90s, a couple age ahead Dr. Dre unleashed The Chronic. At that clip, Snoop (born Calvin Broadus), Warren (Robert Penn Warren Griffin III), and Nate (Nathaniel Hale) were danton True Young and unknown thus far talented and wishful artists from Long Beach, an outlying region of Los Angeles. Snoop and Warren rapped piece Nate panax quinquefolius the melodies and maulers, and elysian by Richie Rich's 415 grouping from the Cali Bay Area, the ternary named itself afterwards its have area code, 213. In special, Warren was the to the highest degree enterprising member of the group and unbroken trying to turn his half-brother, the one and only Dr. Dre, on to 213. It was a priceless connective, and liking what he heard, Dre invited the ternary to get together his then-burgeoning Death Row Records camp. Snoop got to the highest degree of the attention, initially leading aboard Dre on "Deep Cover," a big 1992 hit that lay out the stage for the Doctor's Chronic album by and by that class. Of course, that album became a giant achiever, in commercial as well as artistic footing. Snoop became an overnight genius, and both Warren and Nate presently scene to stardom themselves on their rack up pas de deux "Regulate." Ten long time by and by Snoop remained atop the strike game, ane of the few perennial superstars -- not only when a recording artist merely as well a popular touring creative person, Hollywood actor, boutique label possessor, and media personality. However, the success Warren and Nate enjoyed with "Regularise" had simmered over the long time. Both retained tepid solo careers simply couldn't puzzle a good break. Then came a one-off collaborationism between these three former group match: "So Fly," a mixtape freestyle travesty of Monica's reach single "So Gone." The song became a surprise radio receiver and tube hit in summer 2003 and cursorily light-emitting diode to an album deal with TVT Records. The reunited 213 then hit the studio apartment, and rough a yr afterwards, in August 2004, The Hard Way was released to a lot fanfare, preceded by the release of principal individual "Groupie Luv."