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AWARDS FOR MUSIC JOURNALISM AND PR 2009

post from The VPME on 03 November 2009 03:28:50 PM. © The VPME

AWARDS FOR MUSIC JOURNALISM AND PR 2009It?s that time of year again when voting commences for the “Record of the Day Awards for Music Journalism and PR,” which this year takes place at the Gibson Rooms, Rathbone Street, London on November 26. We (ie me), are up for Best Blog prize! Not bad eh? For what [...]

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DJ COCAS MAD CHART 1188 Highlights

post from Music Is My Life - Divas And Other Beings on 03 November 2009 03:23:00 PM. © Music Is My Life - Divas And Other Beings

What a great song "Million Dollar Bill" is! The best song written by Alicia Keys! Or is it Whitney Houston that makes the difference? She is still at number one, for the fourth week in a row! Love this video, and the great Freemasons mix! They really work well together:

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"Paparazzi", which is at number 3, is the first Lady GaGa song i really like! And...surprise..."Bad Romance" is the second! It happens that with the other Lady GaGa songs, i usually like them at first, but soon, they lost interest to me. I'm curious to know how i will react to these 2 songs in the near future. Meanwhile, "Bad Romance" is up, three places, to number 4:

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We learn to like Pink! We learn to love Pink! At first, she seems invisible, but, soon we see she is a great talent! The same usually happens to their songs. Discrete on the charts, at first. But they become great successes, little by little. "Please Don't Leave Me" was the first number 1 for the artist. And it rises to number 5 with 30 weeks! It's the older song on chart right now! And "Funhouse" peaks at number 6 , it's best position yet, with 19 weeks on chart!:

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Britney Spears went straight to number 1, in the USA, with "3", her new single. "Womanizer" was much better. The song rises from number 29 to number 16:

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At first i hated this song! Now, it's kinda different, and, i am liking it! Madonna's "Revolver" enters directly to number 18:

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DJ COCAS MAD CHART 1188 (Week Ending 30 October
2009)

post from Music Is My Life - Divas And Other Beings on 03 November 2009 03:13:00 PM. © Music Is My Life - Divas And Other Beings

Artist,Song,High Position

Whitney Houston ? Million Dollar Bill (1*4)

Madonna ? It?s So Cool (2)

Lady GaGa ? Paparazzi (3)

Lady GaGa ? Bad Romance (4)

Pink ? Please Don?t Leave Me (1*1)

Pink ? Funhouse (6)

Madonna ? Celebration (1*4)

Amaia Montero ? Te Voy A Decir Una Cosa (8)

Amaia Montero ? Ni Puedo Ni Quiero (9)

La Roux ? Bulletproof (2)

Janet Jackson ? Make Me (11)

Whitney Houston ? I Didn?t Know My own Strenght (2)

Paloma Faith ? Stone Cold Sobber (5)

Mariah Carey ? I Want To Know What Love Is (14)

Whitney Houston ? A Song For You (1*3)

Britney Spears ? 3 (16)

Mariah Carey ? Obsessed (9)

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Madonna ft. Lil Wayne ? Revolver (18)

Pink ? Bad Influence (2)

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Cesaria Evora ? Ligereza (20)

Pink ? I Don?t Believe You (21)

Tina Turner ? Kill His Wife (22)

Barbra Streisand ft. Barry Maniloww ? I Won?t Be The One To Let You Go (12)

Shakira ? She Wolf (2)

Daniela Mercury ? Oyá Por Nós (25)

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Slash Goes Solo

post from Starpulse Entertainment News - Music News on 03 November 2009 03:06:31 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News - Music News

Former Guns N' Roses rocker Slash has signed a new solo record deal, prompting fans of his super-group Velvet Revolver to fear the band will never play together again.[...] Read more!

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New video for Ramona Falls

post from Phantasmagoria on 03 November 2009 02:58:00 PM. © Phantasmagoria

Following up on Ramona falls, this is the newly released video from "Intuit" entitled "I Say Fever".

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To me, one of the best record that came out recently. I like the video as well, brilliant.

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Passion Pit Remix Max Tundra (Stereogum Premiere)

post from Stereogum on 03 November 2009 02:53:00 PM. © Stereogum

In addition to including Final Fantasy's justifiably hyperbolic promotional blurb when first posting on the excellently kinetic synth-pop of "Which Song," we added this bit from Ben Jacobs aka Max Tundra himself on the process and equipment used to achieve his tones:

The main technology behind this and all of my albums has been the Commodore Amiga 500 - bestselling home computer at the time - running a $1 public domain software tracker program. The sounds don't emerge from the Amiga itself however; the machine is used to control various synths, samplers and the like. I look at colums of numbers all day on the screen of a black and white television; these digits relate to pitches, durations and tones. A lot of the noises on my record are real; the cello, bass guitar, drums, piano, trumpet and others are all rehearsed and played by me, but sometimes I will use realistic fake versions of these noises. Each song is recorded in a different way; drumkits are recorded on mono cassette recorders twice, then stuck together on the left and right of a mix; string arrangements are planned and then layered up; each note of an electric guitar is sampled so that it can be sequenced in ways too complicated for my fat fingers to play at full speed. And then I have a cup of tea and sing my heart out.

It's worth mentioning this because a remix of a Max Tundra song is, by definition, a shattering of the laborious process that yielded a truly great track. That seems sad somehow! Luckily this remix is in good hands with Passion Pit, who know from putting synths to uplifting ends. The Boston boys wrap "Which Song" in syncopation and patches dialed to their "Little Secrets" presets, pitch-shifting their synths like elastic bands, ending with some cowbells and a glimmering fade out. It sounds like it could be a Manners track with less helium vocals and more of Max Tundra's, so -- for fans of Passion Pit and Max Tundra.

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News Roundup (04/10/09)

post from The 405 RSS Blog on 03 November 2009 02:26:56 PM. © The 405 RSS Blog

Today's roundup includes Ash, First Aid Kit, Green Man 2010 and Mum

*Remember! The news roundup gets updated throughout the day, so make sure you come back later for more news!

Ash
Check out the new video for the new Ash single, Joy Kicks Darkness, the second in their A-Z series.

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First Aid Kit
Prodigious Swedish teenagers Klara (16) and Johanna Söderberg (19), AKA First Aid Kit, have been gathering fans apace throughout 2009 since the release of their ?Drunken Trees? EP in February. Originally released on The Knife?s Rabid label, the duo was swiftly picked up in the UK by Wichita Recordings, who are proud to now unveil the glorious debut full length, 'The Big Black and The Blue'.

There will be tour dates surrounding the album to be announced soon.

www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit

Green Man 2010
Green Man has risen heroically from the ashes and is absolutely chuffed to announce that Earlybird tickets for next summer?s extravaganza go on sale next Tuesday, November 10, at the special reduced price of just £100!

As winter creeps in, all other Green Man 2010 tickets will be available during the Early Bird sale at this year?s credit crunch busting prices ? so that?s just £99 for students, £50 for teenagers, £45 for live-in vehicles, £30 for holiday tickets and £5 for car parking.

www.greenman.net

Mum
Mum are playing a new date. Brilliant!

Date: 8th December 2009
Venue Name: The Tabernacle, Notting Hill
Venue Address (with postcode): The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London, W11 2AY
Venue Telephone: 02072219700

Entry Price: £16.50
Door Time: 7.30pm

www.myspace.com/mumtheband

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The 405 Radar
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CASXIO: CMJ Showcase Norwood

post from HardCandyMusic.com - pop, electronic + indie music. on 03 November 2009 02:22:03 PM. © HardCandyMusic.com - pop, electronic + indie music.

After only hearing two tracks from CASXIO which I instantly loved (SEVENTEEN and BOILING POINT as featured on the Seventeen EP) I was eager to hear more from them at the High Rise PR CMJ showcase.

Casxio frontman Lucas Guerin had spoken to us earlier in the day about the material that would be on their first full length release, he was looking forward to seeing the reaction to it, and lets just say I think he'd have been pretty pleased... the crowd was so into it!

The bands live performance is just amazing, really high energy! The sound has been compared to Prince and I think its a justified comparison as Lucas hit some notes there that would totally give him a run for his money!

Look for our interview this Lucas coming to Hard Candy this week... It's a good one!

Setlist:

1. All My Love2. Seventeen3. Boiling Point4. Where Were You5. My Book6. Lose Control

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Forgotten George Harrison Beatles Song Completed
40 Years On

George Harrison scribbled a number of lines on a piece of scrap paper way back in the 1960’s. It’s the first 10 lines of a forgotten Beatles song called Silence ( Is it’s own reply[...]

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Dragonette East Coast Dates This Week

Free Download of "Pick Up The Phone" (Richard X Remix) Here. (http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1047047418&msgid=5409353&act=HF7L&c=36126&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zshare.net%2Faudio%2F668299218ed40cbe%2F) *UPCOMING EAST COAST DATES[...]

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