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New Damien Rice Track by amit

The long-awaited second album from Damien Rice finally has a release date (11/14) and a title (”9″). Check out an exclusive stream of “9 Crimes” welcoming back the delicate voice of Lisa Hannigan, a piano, and, of course, Damien.

Stream the track in QuickTime or Windows Media.

“9″ out 11/14

posted on 2:45 pm 10/07/2006
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Review: Lisa Papineau’s “Night Moves” 33/100 by quinne

I looked at the CD cover artwork for Lisa Papineau’s “Night Moves” with hope–it was comfortable, simple and inviting. It made me want to smoke some pot, take my shoes off and make snow-less snow angels in the green grass of my Los Angeles front yard. I put the disc in my CD player and sat down excitedly on my floor to do some painting. I was secretly hoping the album would bear parallels to Air’s “Talkie Walkie,” an album to which Lisa Papineau lent her vocals. “Talkie Walkie” is deliciously different from Air’s earlier music. Like the course of Radiohead’s musical journey, it shows progression and development–a positive and pleasant divergence from their previous musical output.

I was egregiously disappointed. The first six tracks left me bored. Instead of painting, I just sat on my floor, brow furrowed. I kept thinking that if Sarah McLachlan had been blindfolded, sedated and kidnapped from the nineties, and then thrown into the new millennium to embark on her musical career, it might sound like this. Lyrical? Kinda. Melodic? I suppose. Complex? Compelling? Passionate? Interesting? No, no, no and NO!

I felt like I had felt when I bought Sia’s solo album. Zero 7’s “Simple Things” touched me deeply, left me aching for more. It’s an incredible album. I checked out their other albums and was sadly less than impressed, however. When I heard that Sia, their female vocalist, had her own album coming out, I was first in line to buy it. And was first to be disappointed. I feel similarly cheated by “Night Moves.”

Luckily, after six tracks something changed briefly. It’s amusing, because the title of the song, “What are we waiting for?” asked the very question I had been posing in my mind. Why were they waiting until track seven to wake up and smell the listener? There is a resonance in that song that affected me subcutaneously. It worked its way under my skin and into my veins and bones. There it vibrated, managing against all odds for a little over five minutes to hold my attention. It wasn’t because the lyrics of this song are poetic or moving, nor because the music is more substantially crafted. There’s just one indescribable element to it that compelled my frown to momentarily disappear. I might actually download that one onto my iPod. But once I’ve done that, I’m mailing the CD off to Bob Seger. Maybe he can make “Night Moves” work for him.

posted on 11:42 am 10/06/2006
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Even Better Than The Real Thing by amit

“Q” magazine rounded up a list a songs the members of U2 wish they had wrote. It’s a real eye opener to each of their styles and tastes.

(each link jumps to iTunes for a sample)

Larry Mullen Jr.:
The Chemical Brothers - “Block Rockin’ Beats”

Adam Clayton:
Soul II Soul - “Back To Life”

The Edge:
Oasis - “Wonderwall”

Bono:
Bob Dylan & Sam Shepherd - “Brownsville Girl”
Massive Attack - “Unfinished Sympathy”
Oasis - “Live Forever”
Gavin Friday - “The Last Song I’ll Ever Sing”
The Verve - “Lucky Man”
Emm Gryner - “Almighty Love”

U2 in their trench coat mafia days

posted on 6:45 pm 10/05/2006
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New Moby Video Deserves Harpooning by amit

Moby was supposed to usher in the future of talent driven pop and electronic music. Instead his career was riddled with a Gwen Stefani duet, tiffs with Eminem, and protests about Net Neutrality (nerd alert!). Now the cue ball MIDI-mixer plans on releasing a “Best Of” album called “Go - the Very Best of Moby.” The compilation will also include a new track with vocals of Debbie Harry, front woman of the 80’s band Blondie.

Unfortunately there’s a music video. Watch as 4 track suit-wearing dolts dance around the Big Apple in attempt to be ironic, sarcastic and funny all to the background music of Moby.

posted on 5:33 pm 10/05/2006
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Nirvana Concert To Make DVD Debut by amit

Twelve years after the VHS version of Nirvana’s concert film titled Live! Tonight! Sold Out! was released, the film will make its debut on DVD. The flick features footage from the revolutionary grunge band during their ‘91-’92 tour and includes songs “Nevermind,” “Breed,” “Drain You,” “Dive” and “Aneurysm.” Also, thanks to the power of computers, the footage has been restored, color corrected, and digitally remastered. The disc is also slated to include unnamed bonus features. Other songs on the DVD feature “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “About a Girl,” “Love Buzz,” “Negative Creep,” “Come As You Are,” “Territorial Pissings,” “Something in the Way,” “On a Plain,” “Lithium,” “Sliver,” and others. This release will make only the second time footage of Nirvana was put on DVD (the first was part of the “With the Lights Out” box set). Live! Tonight! Sold Out! will be in stores November 7th. (Reuters)

posted on 1:30 pm 10/03/2006
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