Kid Rock has turn inspired to experiment with a soulfulness sound on his adjacent album after listening to Amy Winehouse's music.
The singer, who has been a hit with his 'All Summer Long' track in recent months, revealed that he wants to continue distancing himself from the hip-hop genre.
Rock told the Daily Star: "The only thing I've been listening to lately is Amy Winehouse. She's got me back into all that 'old skool' soul thang. Her album is so great, it's made me go through all my old Stax and Motown records over again. I'd really like to add a little of that spirit to my music."
He added: "Hip-hop's turned into bad pop music. People don't believe in half of the stream rappers and especially don't believe in what they have to say. No-one's really a killer or a mobster. That's why I'm vocalizing more."
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Polar Bear, Polar Bear
It's now three geezerhood on from Polar Bear's last album, Held On The Tips Of Fingers. It's non surprising that it's taken the band a while to catch back in the studio and invest something substantial together. The shock-headed and ubiquitous Seb Rochford has been working on so much stuff in the last couple of days in and out of the F-IRE collective, that we should be grateful that he had the time to return to this mythical combo. The self-titled third base album is a triumph.
This time about, rather than Rochford and bassist, Tom Herbert, beingness the lynchpins, it's been left to the drifting lo-fi strain sax combo of Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart to lead us into the Bear's world of vaguely dubby, glitchy, just always groovesome post-jazz. But this isn't to say that the bass doesn't hold the centre wish the biggest, most true hitching send you could care to tether your improv gymnastic horse to. There's rather more of a slinky Carribbean aspect to the flux now, like Sonny Rollins fed through Supercollider. Opener,Tay, shimmies into the room riding on Herbert's bass, and Tomlovesalicelovestom is a spry hop-skip through the most charming tune they've yet scripted. Leafcutter John's contributions are never overly pushy, though on this number he uses squeaks and squalls to dot the track with Clanger-like noises. If the Alice referred to is Coltrane, she'd o.K. of the cosmic bufoonery, I'm sure. Meanwhile Voices finds the band in pure digital land, filled up with chiming fretful bells and Industry is a cower through breathy melancholy and exclamation. Like another caterpillar track, It Snows Again, there's a gradual bulid up of tension that speaks volumes about the fashion in which they approach their sour these days.
For a band who could, at the drop of a lid, shred wallpaper if they so desired, Polar Bear is a surprisingly restrained affair, just that's no disappointment. Rather, the tunes and grooves contained herein speak of maturity, consideration and a great sense of precisely when to get weird on our collective asses.
The second raceway (perversely titled Goodbye) breaks into a space invaders-in-Birdland place halfway through, merely always the theme's nailed again in front the close two minutes of post-Soft machine double and drone electronica. Equally perversely named, Joy Jones, ends it all with beautifully funereal dissonance. It's a superbly liberating sense of release and control condition in fifty-fifty measure that makes Polar Bear such a fine record. Welcome back, boys...
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Thursday 19 June 2008
Recoil
Artist: Recoil
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Subhuman
Year: 2007
Tracks: 7
Strange Hours
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Liquid
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Jezebel
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Unsound Methods
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Stalker
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Drifting
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Faith Healer
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Bloodline
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Hydrology Plus 1 + 2
Year: 1989
Tracks: 5
After officially rending from Depeche Mode in 1995, longtime member Alan Wilder finally went ahead with his side project Recoil. Wilder started Recoil in 1985, simply efforts were lukewarm due to his responsibilities with DM. But scorn such conflicts of interest, Recoil issued a fructify of early demos entitled 1 + 2, which coincided with the release of DM's 1986 album Smutty Celebration. As the '80s were coming to a close, Wilder and his original bandmates were becoming international superstars with the chart-topping success of 1987's Music for the Masses and 1990's Debaucher. Subsequent Recoil EP releases such as 1988's Hydrology and 1991's Bloodline were naturally lost in the background of events. In 1997 Wilder was impertinently ready for Recoil, next up with the project's first album, Mentally ill Methods. This album, a purgative set up of techno-bombastic slews, brought in a wide reach of artists such as spoken word fresh girlfriend Maggie Estep, Songs of Faith and Devotion session vocalists Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) and Hildia Cambell, and Recoil mainstay Siobhan Lynch. Unsound Methods was critically tagged as "difficult" and "dark," merely it didn't cark Wilder. Certainly that was the reaction he was searching for. Three age later, his cunning melodious whodunit continued on Liquid. After a log hiatus, Wilder revived the Recoil name in 2007 with the album Subhuman.
Monday 9 June 2008
Apprentice Reject Michael Reveals Sordid Past
The Apprentice reject Michael Sophocles has claimed he’s a “sex addict” who became a male prostitute to support his gambling habit.
The telesales exec - who was finally booted off the hit BBC TV show this week - became a permanent fixture in his local casino whilst studying at Edinburgh University, and joined an escort agency to support his gambling.
He reveals he stooped so low he had the “worst sex of his life” with “a size-20 lady who looked like Dawn French with a moustache” just to get some cash.
He tells the News Of The World, “Halfway through I thought, ‘This is horrific, I'm sleeping with a heifer.' So I closed my eyes and thought about Girls Aloud.
“We only had sex once but she wanted me to stay until 5pm the next day. I got paid £380 and went to the casino and blew the lot.”
However, Sophocles claims he “turned my life around” after leaving for London in 2005, although he admits he’s now addicted to bedding women - despite dating upcoming singer Katie Vogel in past weeks.
"I'm a sex addict. I just love women,” he says. “We have been dating, but there have been other women over the last few weeks as well.”
The telesales exec - who was finally booted off the hit BBC TV show this week - became a permanent fixture in his local casino whilst studying at Edinburgh University, and joined an escort agency to support his gambling.
He reveals he stooped so low he had the “worst sex of his life” with “a size-20 lady who looked like Dawn French with a moustache” just to get some cash.
He tells the News Of The World, “Halfway through I thought, ‘This is horrific, I'm sleeping with a heifer.' So I closed my eyes and thought about Girls Aloud.
“We only had sex once but she wanted me to stay until 5pm the next day. I got paid £380 and went to the casino and blew the lot.”
However, Sophocles claims he “turned my life around” after leaving for London in 2005, although he admits he’s now addicted to bedding women - despite dating upcoming singer Katie Vogel in past weeks.
"I'm a sex addict. I just love women,” he says. “We have been dating, but there have been other women over the last few weeks as well.”
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Cool Water and Time Passing
Artist: Cool Water and Time Passing
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Last Night
Year:
Tracks: 12
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Wednesday 28 May 2008
AFTRA, AMPTP sign tentative deal
Actors retain consent over clips
After burning the midnight oil Tuesday into Wednesday morning, AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have reached a tentative three-year deal on the union's primetime TV contract.
Included in the deal is the continued consent of using actors clips outside the scope of promotional use, an issue that was a major stumbling block for both sides during the negotiations, which started May 7.
In the area of new media, AFTRA struck a similar deal to the WGA and DGA contracts but left by the wayside its attempts, like the other unions, to get increases in the DVD area.
The contract covers a dozen shows in primetime and cable, including "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Flight of the Conchords" and "Rules of Engagement," and must be approved by AFTRA's national board and ratified by its members before taking effect. The current contract expires June 30.
The tentative agreement includes establishing jurisdiction over programs produced for distribution on the Internet and in new media as well as creating a new residual structure for paid Internet downloads which AFTRA says significantly increases the current rates and establishes a residual platform for ad-supported streaming and use of clips on the web.
"This is a challenging time in the entertainment industry and this was a tough negotiation," AFTRA president Roberta Reardon said in a statement. "We recognized the hard realities currently affecting the traditional TV business and we focused on creating framework that would allow union members to participate fully in the emerging new media marketplace."
The contract also establishes wage increases in traditional media over the next three years and includes an increase in employer contributions to AFTRA's health and retirement plan.
In a statement, the AMPTP said both sides were "challenged during these talks to find a way to fairly and sensibly tailor our industry's new media framework to meet the needs of actors. As a result of compromise and creativity by both parties, we reached an agreement that makes the new media framework work for all actors."
Now that AFTRA has come to an agreement, SAG is expected to start up its negotiations again with the AMPTP. Talks were suspended May 6 after both sides were unable to reach an agreement and AFTRA was slated to begin its formal negotiations the following after it had twice postponed bargaining to let SAG continue.
"We now look forward to the resumption of talks with SAG, to building on the foundation laid during our first round of SAG talks, and to reaching an agreement that will prevent another harmful and unnecessary strike," the AMPTP said.
Now that AFTRA has come to an agreement, SAG is set to start talks at 10 a.m. Wednesday at AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks.
Talks were suspended May 6 after both sides were unable to reach an agreement and AFTRA was slated to begin its formal negotiations the following day, after it had twice postponed its bargaining sessions to let SAG continue.
"We now look forward to the resumption of talks with SAG, to building on the foundation laid during our first round of SAG talks, and to reaching an agreement that will prevent another harmful and unnecessary strike," the AMPTP said.
In a statement, SAG president Alan Rosenberg said he did not know the details of the tentative AFTRA/AMPTP deal but, along with staff, "thoroughly analyze and evaluate the principles" of the deal.
"We look forward to receiving an update from AFTRA staff regarding the negotiations as soon as possible," he added. "We look forward to hearing more during a face-to-face briefing with AFTRA's negotiating committee as soon as AFTRA provides the opportunity."
Rosenberg added with the actors' union remains committed to negotiating the best deal for its members, of which 44,000 are also members of AFTRA.
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Saturday 10 May 2008
Pete Doherty Jailed
Pete Doherty Jailed
Pete Doherty [ tickets ] has been sent to a Jack London prison for 14 weeks after violating his probation that resulted from October 2007 charges of possessing drugs and drive illicitly, according to BBC Intelligence. The Babyshambles frontman had been given a suspended clink sentence with orders to make regular visits to court for progression reports, as well as bring voice in a drug rehabilitation programme. Doherty reportedly had missed single appointment with his probation team and had been deep for another.Doherty's captivity forced the performer to hold over an April concert at the Royal Prince Albert Charles Martin Hall in John Griffith Chaney. The gig would have been his biggest solo show to date. The concert will be rescheduled and altogether tickets will be honored for the newly escort.Though Doherty was sentenced for 14 weeks in arrears bars, he is in all probability to serve exclusively one calendar month of his sentence, according to reports. However, if he spends the full 14 weeks in prison house, Doherty will miss a headlining slot on the Parkland stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
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