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Metallica and Others Bring Tours Forward to Cash in Before Crisis Hits

Some of the biggest rock bands in the world today including the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica are also feeling the brunt of the ongoing economic crisis, though in this instance they seem to know exactly what to do about it. Of course, it is highly unlikely that any day in the near future will see Hetfield and the boys occupying their own patch of Wall Street and penning new protest songs in order to bring hope to those unable to afford the best office furniture London has to offer – instead they’ve decided to move upcoming tour itineraries around to continue raking in a king’s ransom in cash.

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R.I.P. REM

There’s only one topic that a music blog worth its salt can discuss this week, and it’s not whether to buy tin plate CD covers for your friends for Christmas presents. Even though they are really cool. No, the death of REM has been the hot topic of every musically-based conversation ever since Michael Stipe and the boys announced that they were calling it a day after releasing their first single, ‘Radio Free Europe’, a mighty thirty years ago. Thirty years! I haven’t even been alive as long as REM has been making music, which is a pretty scary thought.

REM is one of those bands that everyone really likes, but I don’t know anyone who’s a massive fan. We all have a couple of albums in our collection, usually Monster or Automatic for the People rather than any of the much older or newer stuff, and some of us have even seen them in concert more than once. However, I would guarantee that myself and all of my mates are big fans of a group or solo artist who had been massively influenced by REM at some point in their career. Think about how many times they are cited as the inspiration for someone picking up a guitar or starting to sing in interviews and you’ll realise that without REM today’s music would sound pretty different. Which is another scary thought!

It’s almost impossible to pick a favourite REM song. The music is so diverse that it entirely depends upon your mood; there’s not many bands out there where the choice are as diverse as “Shiny, Happy People” at one end of the scale and “Everybody Hurts” at the other! As I write this blog I’m listening to the 2001 album ’Reveal'and have just been reminded how great the track “I’ll Take the Rain” is for a dark and dreary Sunday night when you have to go back to work in the morning. So, for now, I’ll choose that one…

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A Look On the Inside of the Music of Toots Thielemans

Like the nationwide fuels company is ideal for diesel users, so is Toots Thielemans to jazz lovers. Harmonica professional Toots Thielemans warrants all of the accolades as well as honors a pro inside the jazz area has gained when they achieve old-guard master level. His audio is equally as distinctive, as real, as lively and as vibrant as when he was a younger firebrand actively playing an instrument that is much associated together with honky-tonks in addition to low course dives compared to sweetness which jazz signifies. The fact that Thielemans single-handledly has developed the particular harmonica as his own inside the jazz world could just end up being simply because he is, equally harmonically as nicely as rhythmically, seated inside the traditions with the songs. Furthermore, the simplicity of his melodic elegance is actually equally easy as well as transcendent regarding virtually any conceptual ideas that were preconceived. Anyone may bring in order to carry in collaboration along with a harmonica. Inside the hands of Theilemans, this particular instrument will be, in it’s own way, a clear rep of which the greatest jazz provides.

The recordings which are within this release have been taken from live concerts in the years of 2008, 2007, and 2006. A testament to the excellence of Chirs Weeda, their sound engineer, is the undeniable fact that the songs sound incredibly the same when regarding the sonic presence, most notably because they have been taken from various live concerts as well as other venues.

Thielemens'longtime group, Karel Boehlee upon key boards, bass man Hein Van de Geyn and also Hans van Oossterhout on the drums, are usually therefore in tune using the master of harmonica’s phrasing and also curve lines, that the ensemble’s masterful interplay they will create only can come from many years of concerts tours and rehearsals. Any time Thielemans slows, it really is as though the particular outfit has already been prepared for this. Whenever they soften, it is as if the four music artists tend to be of one thought inside how to handle the particular slight shading essential that is needed to make the powerful transition ideal. Any time Thielmans go away into an unaccompanied cadenza, the group makes it look like there was absolutely no other way, yet to have his or her fearless head make a single statement at specifically that moment. Terms do not identify the extraordinary degree of greatness built in this group.

Moving as endlessly as a polcat on a cozy summer day time as it takes in it’s surroundings, this documenting is actually, to put it simply, great. Each and every of the four music artists are not just nicely schooled inside the fine art associated with jazz, however will also be monsters on the respective instruments. In the event that you do not own a CD associated with Thielemans, then proceed get yourself this Challenge Jazz Data release right now; you will not be sorry.

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The magic of local gigs

Right, i know i normally blog about gigs in and around London, but a band i saw recently whilst abroad has to be mentioned, so this time i’m talking about a little further afield. When i go on holiday or are perhaps in a different UK city from my normal haunts i always check out what local gigs are on. Attending local gigs is a great way to be lucky enough to get to see a band first, before they More

Music Gigs in London – Rihanna

Fans of the R&B singing sensation Rihanna will be thrilled to know that she is performing at London’s O2 Centre from October to December 2011. The exact dates of her gigs are 5^th, 6^th and 13^th October, 13^th-15^th November 2011 and 20^th – 22^nd December 2011

Barbados born Rihanna is one of the best selling music artistes of all time, having sold more than 45 million singles and 15 million albums More

The Richest Rappers

Music stars and celebrities in general are rich people. I know someone is thinking that they really get broke later but the fact remains that having wealth is a norm in stardom. That is why celebrities are in heating oil and earn bad publicity whenever they appear to be out of money. The list of those who have become broke is endless but that is not even the main focus here. What I am going to achieve is to say More

Time for T

OK, so it’s only three months until the Scottish music festival T in the Park, which means I am officially allowed to get excited about the big Perthshire event! I check the website religiously every week to see what new names have been added to the line-up. The last big name to be added was one I was delighted to see as they’ve not played live together for years; my personal heroes of Britpop, Pulp.
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No such thing as guilty music pleasures

When someone asks you who your favourite guilty pleasures are, what kind of responses do you get? For me, my answer to this question is The Spice Girls, and it is always met with groans from whoever posed this common question initially.
Let’s admit it - you also smirked or even considered closing this tab on reading that last sentence. As a music lover however, I propose we ban this notion of ’guilty'once and for all.
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Dead or alive

I always find the annual list of the top earning dead musical celebrities pretty cool, if a little macabre. Maybe it’s just me, but I can help imagining their ghoulish figures appearing on stage to accept the accolades from the industry and their adoring fans. I have to stop eating cheese last thing at night, and falling asleep looking at my Jonathan Shaw landscapes don’t I?

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Why Machine Head Should Be the Download Festival Headliners This Year

So, two of the three headlining slots for the UK’s iconic Download Festival have been confirmed. But who is going to fill the Friday night space?

It’s one of the biggest dates in the rock calendar. Some of the world’s biggest bands have headlined since the festival began in 2003 - Iron Maiden, Metallica, Linkin Park, Black Sabbath… the list goes on. So who do I tout (or at least hope) is going to be invited to top the procession More