Metronomy are set to play a Jack Daniel's Birthday NME Radio Session, scheduled to be broadcast on Tuesday (September 9) at 4pm (BST) on Iain Baker's show.
The electro-rockers, whose raw album 'Nights Out' scored nine out of decade in the new issue of NME (cover dated September 6), will play two songs for the session � one of which will be current single 'Heartbreaker'.
As previously proclaimed, Esser volition play a Jack Daniel's NME Radio session, set to be broadcast on Thursday (September 11) at 4pm.
Meanwhile, you can look on Glasvegas' recent Jack Daniels Birthday NME Radio session on the NME Video Blog now.
Additionally, each hebdomad five NME readers will get the chance to bring a friend to the NME Radio studio apartment to watch these performances. Visit NME.COM/jackdaniels for your chance to witness the Jack Daniel's Birthday Sessions number 1 hand.
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Monday, 8 September 2008
Friday, 29 August 2008
'Promises to Keep' a hit for Biden
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The publisher of Sen. Joe Biden's memoir, an instant best vendor for the presumed vice presidential candidate, is beingness reissued in paperback with a first-class honours degree printing of 100,000.
The Random House Publishing Group released "Promises to Keep" in hardcover a year agone. After a brief appearing on The New York Times' hardcover best-seller list, the book quickly faded, as did Biden's presidential candidacy, which ended in early January.
According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks just about 70 percent of gross sales, the memoir had only when sold 15,000 copies before net weekend's proclamation that Sen. Barack Obama had elect Biden as his running mate. "Promises to Keep" quickly reached the round top 25 on Amazon.com and was out of strain as of Monday afternoon.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Remix Cure for Fall Out Boy
THE CURE are lease their patriotic fans come a small-arm of the action with their
extroverted album.
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extroverted album.
The gloom merchants are letting bands world Health Organization have been inspired by them remix
their new album tracks for a special EP.
Members of FALL OUT BOY, AFI, 65DAYSOFSTATIC, 30
SECONDS TO MARS and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE will each record their
own remix of one of the tracks from the extroverted album.
With a career that has seen as many highs as ROBERT SMITH�s round the bend
hairdo, the band understandably feel it�s time to let their devotees get their
work force on their material.
Proceeds from the EP will go to the International Red Cross.
These are the tracks that will feature:
The Only One by JARED LETO from 30 Seconds to Mars
Freakshow by members of AFI
Sleep When I'm Dead by GERARD WAY from My Chemical Romance
The Perfect Boy remixed by PETE WENTZ and PATRICK STUMP from
Fall Out Boy
Exploding Head Syndrome by 65 Days Of Static.
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Saturday, 9 August 2008
Joy Electric
Artist: Joy Electric
Genre(s):
Rock
Electronic
Dance
Pop
Other
Gospel
Discography:
Workmanship
Year: 2007
Tracks: 6
The Otherly Opus
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Replay Music 2006-06-22
Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
The Ministry of Archers
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Hello Mannequin
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Friend Of Mannequin
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Tick Tock Treasury
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
The Magic of Christmas
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
The Art and Craft of Popular Music 1994-2002 (cd2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
The Art and Craft of Popular Music 1994-2002 (cd1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Starcadia
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Unelectric
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Legacy.Volume One.The White Songbook
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
CHRISTIANsongs
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Children of the Lord
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
The Land of Misfits
Year: 1998
Tracks: 5
Old Wives Tales Ep
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Robot Rock
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Plastiq Musiq -- Electric Music Compilation 1
Year: 1997
Tracks: 1
We Are the Music Makers
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Melody
Year: 1996
Tracks: 18
Five Stars for Failure
Year: 1996
Tracks: 7
Contemporary Christian synth pop chemical chemical group Joy Electric is the inspiration of Orange County, CA, native Ronnie Martin, erstwhile of Rainbow Rider and Dance House Children (which also featured his comrade, Jason Martin, of Starflyer 59).
Originally conceived as a solo design for Martin, Joy Electric featured spirited pop songs with religious and capricious lyrics lay out to gratifying synthesiser melodies. The group debuted with 1994's Tonal pattern on Tooth & Nail Records, unitary of the prime minister main Christian record labels, and home to Christian indie stone bands Velour century and MxPx. Melody and 1995's Five Stars for Failure EP were recorded with samplers, synthesizers, and drum machines, simply on 1996's We Are the Music Makers Martin switched to victimisation alone parallel synths for all melodic line and percussion parts.
After the release of 1997's Old Wives Tales remix EP, Joy Electric added the band's handler and keyboardist, Jeff Cloud, as an official fellow member of the grouping. That class likewise byword the button of the band's most popular album yet, Automaton Rock. Soon after, the chemical group added some other member, Caleb Mannann, and stirred to the BEC record label. As growing interest from the secular euphony scene added to an already unassailable Christian following, Joy Electric continued gaining fans with 1998's The Land of Misfits EP and the following year's Children of the Lord EP and CHRISTIANsongs album. Along with their duties in Joy Electric, Cloud continued to run his Velvet Blue record label and advancement business, piece Martin founded his possess electronica label, the capably named Plastiq Musiq.
2001 saw the incoming of The White Songbook: Legacy, Vol. 1, a high-concept synth careen candy album that showed the growing ambitions of Joy Electric. The following year, a ingathering of unexampled and one-time songs called The Art and Craft of Popular Music was released. But Martin wasn't done, no sir. In 2003 the prolific synth master issued the clickety pop, glitchy sweet of the Ticking Tock Treasury LP, followed a class later by the chillier traditionalist synth pop of the Friend of Mannequin EP and Howdy, Mannequin full-length. Martin also constitute sentence to spell Christian festivals and prepare Shepherd, an experimental guitar side offer. The fourth volume in the Legacy series, The Ministry of Archers, came out the next year, attended by an EP, Montgolfier and the Romantic Balloons. Both albums were produced at the fresh revamped Electric Joy Toy Company studio. The fifth and net Legacy album, The Otherly Opus, arrived in 2007.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Efecto Mariposa
Artist: Efecto Mariposa
Genre(s):
Latin
Folk
Other
Discography:
Vivo en Vivo
Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
Complejidad
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Que Mas Da
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Efecto Mariposa were natural in 1997 when Susana Alva (acoustic guitar, voice), Frasco G. Ridgeway (bass, vocalisation), and Raúl Osuna traveled by train from their native Malaga to Madrid chasing down dreams of a vocation in music. Joined by Alfredo Baón (drums), the band exhausted the following four days writing material, development a sound, and creating a network through performance. After a class of solid advancement and national touring, the band released its self-titled debut record with the help of Universal. Efecto Mariposa created meaning bombilate among Spanish acoustic sway fans, laying the groundwork for the band's solidly successful followup. Metamorfosis earned Efecto Mariposa an invitation to tour with Latin crop up star Juanes on some of the nation's largest stages. Metamorfosis II was released curtly thereafter, featuring two additional songs. Having quenched their contract with Universal, Efecto Mariposa distinct to develop, record, and tied finance their third spillage, Complejidad. Following the record's release in October of 2005, the Efecto promoted it and toured indefatigably, so much so that the band eventually released a second edition of Complejidad. The band's one-quarter album, Vivo en Vivo, is expected out in the summer of 2007.
Efterklang To Score Two Theatre Plays
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Producer Slams Lindsay Lohan Paparazzi Stalkers
The producer on Lindsay Lohan’s new movie Labor Pains has hit out at paparazzi for stalking the trouble actress, claming the lengths they go to in order to attain the picture picture is “insane”.
Hollywood bigwig Lati Grobman tells People: "It's the most insane thing I've ever seen in my life. They do things that are very, very aggressive.
"I'm not a producer anymore, I'm a policewoman!"
Grobman also talks about Firecrotch’s professionalism on set, explaining: "The difference between her and the other girls that are naughty in the business is that she's actually talented.
"It's not (like) Paris Hilton and the rest of them. We took a chance. It's good that we did. So far, so good."
Hollywood bigwig Lati Grobman tells People: "It's the most insane thing I've ever seen in my life. They do things that are very, very aggressive.
"I'm not a producer anymore, I'm a policewoman!"
Grobman also talks about Firecrotch’s professionalism on set, explaining: "The difference between her and the other girls that are naughty in the business is that she's actually talented.
"It's not (like) Paris Hilton and the rest of them. We took a chance. It's good that we did. So far, so good."
Monday, 23 June 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Jake Gyllenhaal tops gay icons list
Jake Gyllenhaal has topped a poll of the Hot 100 gay icons.
The 27-year-old actor - who famously starred in a homosexual love scene with Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain - came first in the survey of 100,000 people on gay website AfterElton.com, for the second consecutive year.
The website said: "What accounts for Jake’s ongoing appeal to gay men? His doe-eyed, boy next door (yet somehow smouldering) looks certainly don’t hurt, but we suspect what really makes gay men go for him is that he doesn't have an issue going for us.
"Jake has done as much as any actor to show straight guys there isn’t a good reason to be afraid of gay guys or gay roles."
Jake beat Torchwood star John Barrowman and Brothers and Sister's actor Luke McFarlane to the top spot.
Meanwhile, on AfterEllen.com - the lesbian counterpart to AfterElton.com - 30 Rock comedienne Tina Fey came top of the Hot 100 gay women list.
Tina beat US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, her girlfriend Portia de Rossi and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines star Kristanna Loken to first place.
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Chris Martin's knee injury delays Coldplay comeback
The mystery of why Coldplay have postponed their forthcoming world tour has finally been solved, and by Bizarre's Smart Gordon no less. Well, we did tell you on Tuesday that he was a super sleuth. Admirable suggestions such as "God is in a generous mood" and "they've realised that they're very, very boring" came in thick and fast from you lot, but it's the Sun man who has the inside scoop as to what's really behind the "production delays". Doesn't he always?
"The frontman has been left hobbling after twisting his knee awkwardly during practice sessions for the quartet's eagerly-awaited first gig in London on Monday." Smarto puts the injury down to Martin's apparent newfound love of trampolining, which is a bit weird to say the least, but also, because it's Chris Martin, totally believable. However, if Martin and co are hoping to have their pre-show nerves soothed by Smarto, they've got another thing coming.
"HMV is banking on the new album being the year's biggest seller. Their stock order is the largest they've placed in the chain's history." And that's not all: "EMI will certainly be hoping they set all sorts of records. They are relying on the album being a hit to raise some much-needed cash after their market share slumped to well below nine per cent in America." Wow, with trampoline injuries and the weight of the music industry's woes on their shoulders, Coldplay's live shows sound like a right laugh.
Punk is dead, long live punk! And then fly it to the Isle of Wight festival in a specially chartered helicopter! That, according to Kim Dawson of Kim Dawson's Playlist, is how the Sex Pistols are planning to make their entrance at the bash this weekend.
"The Pistols heard about the Rolling Stones chartering their own ferry to the festival and decided they too needed to travel in style," a source tells the Star's music columnist. That's nothing, apparently Iggy Pop is getting there by speedboat, though one can only hope the results of his performance aren't as gruesome as this little snippet from the Sun's Bizarre pages. The Stooges frontman tells Smart Gordon: "At an early 70s festival they cleared the crowd and some bikers had lashed a man to a tree and stuck an axe through his heart." It makes Rotten's summary of the Isle as "warm beer, old women and Johnny Rotten's haemorrhoids - yum yum", sound positively bucolic.
The Mirror's 3am team, like many others, have been keeping a close eye on what Lily Allen and her pink head have been up to in LA. It's not hard though, the singer has been blogging regularly about her time in the city, which mainly involves posting pictures of what she's been eating. Clemmie and Danielle have some dirt though: "We hear Lil, 22, had to shut down her impromptu party at a bungalow she is renting at the plush Chateau Marmont in LA because staff complained the noise was too loud." Call that juicy gossip?
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First Ever Chocolate Made 7" Coming Via Innerpartysytem
Strangely, Innerpartysystem are to release a new 7" single that will be pressed on dark chocolate.
Impressively, the 'Don't Stop' 7" actually plays on a normal turntable, although the sound quality is said to be of lower quality than lovers of vinyl will be used to.
Only 100 copies of the 7" (pictured below) will be available in the UK on June 30th and a video of the record being spun (and eaten) has appeared on YouTube here.
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The Weinsteins Hear the Neon Lights Are Bright on Broadway
Photo: Getty Images
Bob and Harvey Go Legit: Having run out of hapless Hollywood executives to devour with soul-crushing fury, Bob and Harvey Weinstein have turned their bottomless rage to Broadway. (Truth be told, we're not giving them enough credit, as the Weinstein Company was a minority co-producer in both August: Osage County and Boeing-Boeing, two plays that enjoyed seven Tonys between them.) Now the Weinsteins will dig through the Miramax catalogue and kick off their run with Finding Neverland in 2010, followed by a stage version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso, and Shall We Dance. Psst, Harvey, you forgot Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. [Variety]
Open-Mike Night for Carrey: Serious dramatic actor Jim Carrey has signed on to an untitled comedy project with Lisa Lampenelli at HBO. In the series, a serious woman unexpectedly inherits a comedy club and must play a motherly role to the resident comics. Since it's no longer 1997, we can only assume Carrey will play the serious woman. [Variety]
My One and Only Bacon: We have an update on My One and Only, George Hamilton's childhood adventure movie that no one under 60 could possibly care about! Guess who's joining the cast! It's — no, it's not Lawrence Welk. No, we're pretty sure Donna Reed is dead. Okay, fine — it's Kevin Bacon! [Variety]
MGM Buys a New Le Car: MGM has purchased a comedy spec from Wayne McClammy and Will Burke, both Jimmy Kimmel writers, McClammy having directed "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" and its Ben Affleck sequel. Their script is designed to "unspool as a found film made in the 1980s," about CIA agents who try to stop an "evil car" from blowing up the Lake Placid Olympics. [HR]
Universal Starts a Family: Universal has snatched up The Family Bond, an adventure spec by Jeff Lowell (John Tucker Must Die) about a "girl who goes on an adventure to rescue her mother, with the father she never knew she had, a Bond-like spy." Yes, this is exactly like Spy Kids. [HR]
History Repeating for Johnson: Have you just stopped caring, Universal? Dave H. Johnson sold Uni a comedy pitch, Repeat After Me, about a "couple who realize they are reliving their disastrous wedding day again and again." How about a movie about a studio that just keeps making Groundhog Day over and over again? [HR]
Bob and Harvey Go Legit: Having run out of hapless Hollywood executives to devour with soul-crushing fury, Bob and Harvey Weinstein have turned their bottomless rage to Broadway. (Truth be told, we're not giving them enough credit, as the Weinstein Company was a minority co-producer in both August: Osage County and Boeing-Boeing, two plays that enjoyed seven Tonys between them.) Now the Weinsteins will dig through the Miramax catalogue and kick off their run with Finding Neverland in 2010, followed by a stage version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso, and Shall We Dance. Psst, Harvey, you forgot Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. [Variety]
Open-Mike Night for Carrey: Serious dramatic actor Jim Carrey has signed on to an untitled comedy project with Lisa Lampenelli at HBO. In the series, a serious woman unexpectedly inherits a comedy club and must play a motherly role to the resident comics. Since it's no longer 1997, we can only assume Carrey will play the serious woman. [Variety]
My One and Only Bacon: We have an update on My One and Only, George Hamilton's childhood adventure movie that no one under 60 could possibly care about! Guess who's joining the cast! It's — no, it's not Lawrence Welk. No, we're pretty sure Donna Reed is dead. Okay, fine — it's Kevin Bacon! [Variety]
MGM Buys a New Le Car: MGM has purchased a comedy spec from Wayne McClammy and Will Burke, both Jimmy Kimmel writers, McClammy having directed "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" and its Ben Affleck sequel. Their script is designed to "unspool as a found film made in the 1980s," about CIA agents who try to stop an "evil car" from blowing up the Lake Placid Olympics. [HR]
Universal Starts a Family: Universal has snatched up The Family Bond, an adventure spec by Jeff Lowell (John Tucker Must Die) about a "girl who goes on an adventure to rescue her mother, with the father she never knew she had, a Bond-like spy." Yes, this is exactly like Spy Kids. [HR]
History Repeating for Johnson: Have you just stopped caring, Universal? Dave H. Johnson sold Uni a comedy pitch, Repeat After Me, about a "couple who realize they are reliving their disastrous wedding day again and again." How about a movie about a studio that just keeps making Groundhog Day over and over again? [HR]
Socrates
Artist: Socrates
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Phos
Year: 1976
Tracks: 8
Late Of The Pier thrill at warehouse party
The Horrors go techno this Friday
The Horrors are playing an exclusive techno set this Friday (June 20) at a free warm-up party for the Offset Festival.
The party is taking place at a secret location in east London and, although the event is free, to gain entry you must register on the guestlist. To do so, click over to Offsetfestival.co.uk.
The venue location will be revealed on Thursday June 19.
The Offset Festival takes place from August 30-31 in Hainault Forest Country Park.
The line-up includes Wire, Young Knives and Ipso Facto.
The party is taking place at a secret location in east London and, although the event is free, to gain entry you must register on the guestlist. To do so, click over to Offsetfestival.co.uk.
The venue location will be revealed on Thursday June 19.
The Offset Festival takes place from August 30-31 in Hainault Forest Country Park.
The line-up includes Wire, Young Knives and Ipso Facto.
Paula Abdul Splits From Boyfriend
Paul Abdul and her restaurateur boyfriend JT Torregiani have split after more than a year of dating, with his rep telling People magazine that the break-up was caused by their respective hectic work schedules.
“It became too hard to maintain the relationship,” says Torregiani’s rep. “They remain best of friends.”
The couple began dating in 2006.
Abdul had previously described her romantic life to ‘Today’ show host Matt Lauer as “a horror movie”, but said that “things are looking good right now”, as she was dating Torregiani at the time.
Photo courtesy of Bravo TV.
“It became too hard to maintain the relationship,” says Torregiani’s rep. “They remain best of friends.”
The couple began dating in 2006.
Abdul had previously described her romantic life to ‘Today’ show host Matt Lauer as “a horror movie”, but said that “things are looking good right now”, as she was dating Torregiani at the time.
Photo courtesy of Bravo TV.
Roving Mars
Roving Mars is a decent thrill ride even when it starts feeling like a commercial plug for NASA's failing space program.
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