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DJ’s often act as robotic mannequins, rocking or bobbing back and forth, plain clothed, and mostly looking as if a nightclub is the last place you’d find them. DJ Mehdi, however, has as much fun dancing and singing up on the decks as much as the crowd below him does. He tore into the dance floor Thursday night at New York’s Santos Party House ... read more |
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When U2’s Under A Blood Red Sky was originally released back in 1983, I have to be honest and say I wasn’t all that impressed with it. However, having said all that, hearing the new remastered version of Under A Blood Red Sky again all these years later has forced me to reconsider my original opinion ... read more |
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Earlier this week, the music world lost Pink Floyd keyboardist and founding member Richard Wright to cancer. Which makes the occasion of this Tuesday’s release of David Gilmour's first live album as a solo artist all the more sad, as it is likely Wright’s last appearance on record. David Gilmour’s Live In Gdansk will be in record stores this Tuesday September 23 ... read more |
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Natalie Cole, R&B songstress, and daughter of music legend Nat “King” Cole, has landed in the hospital due to complications from Hepatitis C, according to reports published yesterday at Yahoo Music and other news sources. Cole has been in a New York City hospital since September 12 according to the reports ... read more |
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Remember the infamous battle between rappers 50 Cent and Kanye West last year? 50 Cent ended up losing the bet, and no he didn’t retire. But the rappers are already gearing up for round two before the year is out. The rematch of the century won’t take place at Caesars Place in Vegas, or on pay per view, but will rather once again be fought out in record stores this December ... read more |
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Maybe it is true that work comes before play. Band of Horses has showed their label they can sell an album in the Seattle indie fashion with Everything All the Time, so their sophomore album sounds like the band’s return home, to the style they probably wanted to pursue from the start ... read more |
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2008 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductee John Mellencamp will be featured next Tuesday, September 23rd on an all new special for A&E’s Bio Channel. “Back Where We Started” takes a look at Mellencamp’s Indiana roots (hence the title), and will also feature an exclusive intimate concert at the historic Crump Theater in Columbus Indiana ... read more |
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On the eve of the release of their new Brendan O’Brien produced Black Ice album and their first American tour in eight years, AC/DC have just launched their very own channel on Sirius XM Radio. AC/DC Radio debuted Monday September 15, 2008 on SIRIUS channel 29 and is expected to run at least through through January 15, 2009 ... read more |
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Though Liam immediately debunked rumors of giving away the album for free (a la Radiohead and Coldplay, whose fans he thinks “are boring and ugly and they don't look like they're having a good time"), Oasis will be giving away copies of sheet music for three as-of-yet heard tracks with the purchase of this weeks NME magazine. ... read more |
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Love it or hate it, MTV’s “Total Request Live,” or TRL as it became more popularly known, was probably the last real link the network once known as Music Television had to actual music. And now, it too is gone. After ten years, MTV will broadcast it’s final episode of the video countdown show in November ... read more |
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Blessed be! We’re finally going to get back to the way things were—when artists damned the consequences and said whatever it is that they felt and thought on any given subject (be it politics, sexuality, or food). The Real Slim Shady is making his illustrious comeback to the music scene and giving the bullshit C-rap artists in full rotation on today’s Top 40 a true run for their money. ... read more |
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For much of the past year, Britney Spears life has been the sort of ongoing trainwreck that could be described as a “circus.” So it is only appropriate, coming off of her “comeback win” at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, that Britney’s new album will in fact, be called Circus. It is due in stores December 2 ... read more |
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Pink Floyd founding member and keyboardist Richard Wright has died of cancer. He was 65 years old. With Wright’s death, fans already dim hopes for a more permanent reunion of the notoriously feuding band would now appear to be dashed for good. Richard Wright, dead at 65, will certainly be missed by music fans ... read more |
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Initially brought into the limelight by opening for Parisian DJ-duo Justice on their late 2007 tour, dance-rock trio Midnight Juggernauts have been busy the last year securing an American following. Following the May 27 U.S. release of their debut full-length, Dystopia, their Saturday night appearance at New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge proved the trio had their work cut out for them ... read more |
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Tom Morello’s second solo album as The Nightwatchman is, musically speaking anyway, a bit louder than last year’s One Man Revolution, although not in the same sense as his better known work with his big arena rock bands Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave. The Nightwatchman’s The Fabled City arrives in record stores on September 30. ... read more |
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