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Kayos reports: Eagle Vision will release the legendary king of the blues, B.B. King, Live At Montreux 1993, on Blu-Ray disc and DVD on June 2.
The 17-song 99-minute set features the then 68-year old Mississippi Blues Boy in rare form, feeding off the palpable crowd love, singing his heart out and bending those notes on ol' Lucille, making her cry and moan. With his smokin'-hot bigband behind him punctuating every wiggle of his ample torso with staccato horn blasts, B.B. spans the gamut of blues from jump-blues and barrelhouse boogie to the kind of dramatic balladry that wrings out every last teardrop of emotion.
A special Blu-Ray exclusive features three tracks from King's triumphant 2006 Montreux appearance: "Why I Sing The Blues," "When Love Comes To Town" and "Guess Who."
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PR reports: Little Big Town is set to host Ride For A Cure on Sunday, June 14, 2009 benefiting the T.J. Martell Foundation. The event, presented by Roberts and Lyons, marks the third year of Little Big Town's involvement that features a motorcycle ride from the Harley-Davidson of Cool Springs to the Harley-Davidson of Columbia, a barbecue lunch provided by Applebee's and a post ride performance by Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Jamey Johnson, Jamie O'Neal, Jason Michael Carroll, Kate & Kacey, Ray Scott, and Shelly Fairchild.
Both motorcycle riders and non-riders are welcome to attend. The T. J. Martell Foundation is offering a special VIP ticket for $300 that includes breakfast, access to the VIP areas during the ride, lunch, a gift bag, t-shirt and performance. Rider and non-rider tickets are $35 and include the ride (if a rider), lunch, t-shirt and performance. Tickets may be purchased on line at the link below.
Proceeds from Ride for a Cure locally supports cancer research at the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The T.J. Martell Foundation supports leukemia, cancer and AIDS research at six top hospitals in the United States. The Frances Williams Preston Laboratories were named after Frances Preston, past President and CEO of BMI and current President of the national T.J. Martell Foundation.
- Event website
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Submitted News reports: Sleaszy Rider Records, the label which will release Of The Archaengel debut "The Extraphysicallia", noticed that the album release will be delayed since it will be finished in Sweden, on The Cutting Room studio (Amon Amarth, Opeth, Gorgoroth, Pain, Paradise Lost, Chrome Division, etc).
About the collaboration, the vocalist Alex Rodrigues comments: "When we received the news about the delay, of course, we weren't very happy, after all, we had booked the release of "The Extraphysicallia" in a concert with Opeth in S�o Paulo, and it looked like a wasted opportunity, but when we heard the reason, everything else was meaningless!
We are very happy with the attention that we are receiving from our label, specially when we remember the lack of interest of brazilian labels."
More information about Of The Archaengel and their forthcoming album are available at
- http://www.ofthearchaengel.com
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conqueroo reports: Until Isaac Hayes released Hot Buttered Soul in 1969, soul music had been a singles-oriented genre. Best known as the partner of David Porter in writing such Stax hits as "Hold On! I'm Coming," "Soul Man" and "B-A-B-Y" among others, Hayes, along with Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield gave the soul album a higher purpose, superseding the standard practice of assembling LPs around recent hits and filler. Even so, a four-song album whose two "singles" clocked in at 12:03 and 18:42 was unprecedented.
Stax Records will reissue Hot Buttered Soul on June 23, 2009 with two bonus tracks (single edits of "Walk On By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"), digital remastering, new rare photographs, and expanded liner notes by both music historian Bill Dahl and Hayes fan Jim James from the band My Morning Jacket.
Hayes had recorded one previous album, Presenting Isaac Hayes in 1968, which failed to impact the charts the way his Porter-collaborated song compositions had for other Stax artists. Nonetheless, label president Al Bell green-lighted Hayes' encore long-player. Hayes went to cross-town Ardent Studios to lay down the tracks.
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PR reports: Tim Delaughter, founder and frontman of 20-plus-member symphonic rock band The Polyphonic Spree, has composed and performed all the music for the new DVD art project WEE SEE, available now at weeseeworld.com and select retailers. DeLaughter's score accompanies images by New York visual artist ROLYN BARTHELMAN. WEE SEE was originally conceived as sensory stimulation for young babies, with its basic shapes and patterns tailored to the developing senses of newborns. But while fulfilling this original mission, DeLaughter says it evolved into much more. "It's been amazing to see people's reactions to it," he says. "Adults are as engaged as any baby we've shown it to. It's clearly something that will appeal to a much broader audience than we originally anticipated. It's an incredibly inviting experience that will play as well in a museum or a party as it will in a living room."
One of the greatest challenges and triumphs of WEE SEE is that it uses television in a way that goes against what the medium typically delivers. Spastic editing and abrasive audio dominates not only adult programming but children's videos as well. Capitalizing on the medium's unique capabilities, yet remaining cautious of its potential pitfalls, Barthelman crafted an entirely new experience.
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PR reports: A blend of Nashville twang and Memphis soul, Connie Lynn Petruk and Christmas Davis aka The Tall Pines are gearing up for their sophomore release, Campfire Songs, out June 23rd on MMAM. From raucous foot-stomping jams to crooning country ballads, The Tall Pines combine the nostalgia for musical era's past with a uniquely current sound.
Be sure to catch them when they make stops in NYC this June culminating in a record release party at The National Underground on June 23rd!
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PR reports: NYC experimental group The Present, aka producer Rusty Santos joined by Jesse Lee (White Magic/Gang Gang Dance) and Mina, will be heading out on a cross-contry US tour (starting in NYC today!) in support of their forthcoming sophomore release, The Way We Are, the followup to the band's abstract debut, The World I See, both on Lo Recordings/LOAF.The Present returns with a new album that delves ever deeper into the human psyche. Like an audio equivalent of Apocalypse Now, and with artwork once again by the very talented Andrew Kuo, The Way We Are is by turns terrifying, enchanting, hallucinatory and sharply focused. Like a psychedelic power trio from a mythical dimension, The Present create a music that seems somehow familiar.
Touchstones include the music of La Monte Young, Dmitri Shostakovich, Wolfgang Voigt, Cluster, Black Dice, Claude Debussy, Aphex Twin, Can, Arthur Russell, Boredoms and Brian Eno and yet it sounds like none of these. What it is: a kaleidoscopic trip influenced by New York City, The Ocean, Mountains, The Sun and the Trees, Andy Warhol, Yukio Mishima, David Lynch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Buddhist Mantra, Mass Transit, Cats, Birds and life. Life in all its myriad complexity and confusions, in all it's transcendent beauty and it's horrendous brutality.
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Nettwerk reports: Nettwerk is proud to announce their newest signing, The Hampdens, who are set to unveil a collection of songs titled The Croupier EP today on iTunes. The Aussie trio, who got their name from the Donna Tart novel The Secret History - which focuses on students at Hampden College involved in a pagan cult, strives to bring a fresh perspective to the indie-pop scene.
The Hampdens--Susannah Legge (vocals), Gavin Crawcour (guitar/bass) and Jules Hewitt (keys) - released their debut full-length album in Australia to critical acclaim. The Sunday Telegraph raves, "This music sends tingles up your spine," and FHM says, "The Hampdens have managed to combine the acoustic quirk of REM with the slowed-up soul of Morcheeba. Keep an eye on this band, they have the class to go far."
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PR reports: Santa Barbara-based reggae band Rebelution announced today that their long awaited sophomore full-length album "Bright Side of Life" will be released in stores nationwide and digital worldwide on August 4, 2009. The album follows up their award winning debut album "Courage to Grow," which garnered mass downloads and radio play on monster radio stations such as San Francisco's Live 105 where their single "Safe and Sound" was played on heavy rotation, with spins on San Diego's 91X, and Los Angeles' KROQ. The album was also selected as iTunes Editor's Choice for Best Reggae Album of 2007, and has been in the top 10 iTunes Reggae album sales since its release two years ago. In addition, "Courage to Grow" remained in the Billboard Top 10 Reggae Chart for 36 weeks, and peaked at #4.
Now for the summer of 2009, the band is ready to unleash 12 new signature tracks blending their cohesive mix of reggae, rock, and hip-hop influences in a calliope awash of front man Eric Rachmany's Santana-esque guitar flurries, Marley D. Williams' solid and attacking bass lines, the psychedelic and tasteful piano, keyboard and Hammond b-3 styling of Rory Carey and the jazz rock fusion of Wesley Finney's finesse drumming and percussion.
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Jackyl was often lumped in, a little unfairly, with the hair bands of the 80s. In response, the bands defenders pointed out Jackyls raw guitar tone, heavily blues-influenced riffs, and Southern-rock influence. Nigel splits the difference (4 stars)
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Hearing a song off Harpoon's debut full-length is like watching someone walk into a room and spray it down with bullets. It grabs one's attention like a face full of birdshot and stays inside like a bullet hole.
- Read the full Harpoon - Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide review
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