Category: Miscellaneous Music
By DJ M on May 8th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
N.B.-- According to a publicist at Scott Walker's current label, 4AD, "Due to the complicated printing process involved with the detailed nature of the packaging, the release date has been slightly delayed. Previously May 9th - it will now be released o…
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By DJ M on May 7th, 2006
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ART TRIPP IS ED MARIMBA IS TED CACTUS
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By DJ M on May 4th, 2006
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"Dora Maar With Cat," a 1941 portrait by Picasso.
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By DJ M on May 3rd, 2006
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MEDIA MOGULS TARGET "PIRATES"
MEDIA INDUSTRY CLAIMS PIRACY HURTS BOTTOM LINE
Yet,
TIME WARNER’S PROFITS ARE UP 60%
TIME WARNER MAKES $1,460,000,000.00 IN PROFITS
BERTELSMANN, PART OWNER OF SONY/BMG, SEES PROFITS RISE
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By DJ M on May 2nd, 2006
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FINANCIAL TIMES “The Drift, [Scott Walker's] first album since Tilt in 1995, should do his cult appeal no harm, for it distances him so far from mainstream pop that it seems to exist in a musical galaxy of its own devising. Alternately unsettling and ri…
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By DJ M on May 1st, 2006
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NEW YORK MAGAZINE "Walker, who is 63, has one of the greatest voices in pop history, and in his younger days, when he battled orchestras as part of the sixties pop group the Walker Brothers, he was not afraid to use it. What he has lost—not much—in full…
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By DJ M on April 30th, 2006
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CHICAGO SUN TIMES "I called Matthew up about two years ago to sing with the Bangles one night at [the L.A. club] McCabes,” says Susanna Hoffs. “We were doing a fund-raiser -- and he mentioned to me during a break in rehearsal that he always wanted to pr…
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By DJ M on April 30th, 2006
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PIONEER PRESS "There wasn't anything called surf rock until [Dick Dale] came along," said Bob Berryhill, guitarist for the Surfaris (who did the surf classic "Wipe Out"). "Dick happened to be the one Leo Fender gave the first reverb unit to," says Berr…
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By DJ M on April 29th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys, Miscellaneous Music
WASHINGTON POST "I think people assume I'm this huge, elitist jerk."
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By DJ M on April 28th, 2006
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THE REPUBLIC
SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE
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By DJ M on April 27th, 2006
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REVIEW OF SURF MOVIE POSTER BOOK
DUMB ANGEL MAGAZINE BLOG
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By DJ M on April 27th, 2006
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PIONEER PRESS Buzz band Tapes 'n' Tapes, who got tons of love for their self-released debut album "The Loon," have signed to hip indie label XL. Cool.
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By DJ M on April 26th, 2006
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“In the real world, Sid n Susie are Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs – two navigators in the pop musical current, current tense vocally and as tunesmiths with prime craft of their own write.
They’ve bagged the best of the ‘60s, with uncanny insight. I…
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