I don’t know about you but, my global warming awareness level has been running dangerously low lately. Thank God a bunch of “celebrities” have had the good sense to take some action and record a song for the cause.From AFP…British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who [...]
Capitol/EMI have announced a September 22 release date for two new Duran Duran products.First up is the 2-CD deluxe edition of their landmark album Rio. Included on the first disc is the original U.K. mix plus additional versions of tracks remixed for the U.S. release. The second disc is demos, B-sides, and other rarities. For those that purchase the album as a digital download, you will rec...
Duran Duran have entered the studio to record their 13th album with production by producer Mark Ronson. The group and Ronson worked together last summer for a special gig in Paris.While Ronson has become huge in the last couple of years while working with Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Robbie Williams, Adele and others, he's been friends with John Taylor back to their childhoods. Ronson also rec...
SATURDAY: DURAN DURAN | NERD | FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE | FRIENDLY FIRES | FAT FREDDYS DROPSUNDAY: GROOVE ARMADA | LADYHAWKE | SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO | HORSE MEAT DISCO | SECRETSUNDAZEDAY TICKET £42.50+booking feeWEEKEND £75.00+booking feeAllegedly, the music cognoscenti have dubbed 09 as the “year of pop”, which is a good thing, as if [...]
Duran Duran are set to kick-off the final leg of their Red Carpet Massacre world tour tonight (December 2) in Grand Prairie, Texas. The band is back in North American for the final leg of the 14-month jaunt.Among the dates scheduled on the U.S. and Canadian tour, are shows in Houston, Toronto, Montreal and Atlantic City. Duran Duran Tour Dates:December 2 - Grand Prairie, TX @ Nokia Theatre De...
Ben McCauley, Center, NCSU Men's Basketball Team, on 3.16.07 in Reynolds Coliseum. Photo Credits for this and the photo below, Ethan Hyman, Raleigh News & Observer.Last night was retro night in Raleigh, NC as the NC State Wolfpack played the second semifinal round of the NIT in Reynolds Coliseum, the barn that Everett Case built to house the Dixie Classic, a basketball match-up that eventually ...
...I mean seriously, Duran Duran teamed up with Grand Masters Flash and Melle Mel to do a cover version of the hip hop classic "White Lines" which I think was one ot the first 'just say nope' type rap tunes (and no, the VH-1 behind the musak irony isn't lost on me but you gotta give 'em an "A" for effort)...by 1995 a Duran Duran set of covers of the tunes that influenced them seemed to arrive a...
So at 6:30 this morning I dragged my ass up out of bed, fed the Bell (my nickname for the gato of the casa) and stumbled back to bed, laptop in hand, to stream Star 98.7 - a LA station offering "today's music alternative." What does this mean? It means Avril. Nickelback. John Mayer (I've been told that he is a "hottie" when flipping by the station while in the car when they should have been...
JJ Jackson, one of the original MTV VJs (RIP, Triple J) used to refer to Duran Duran as Double Duran, so that's what I'll call them here.Double Durans's first album went virtually unnoticed in the US, until after "Rio" hit it big, and the label reissued the album with the single "Is There Something I Should Know" on it. I was lucky enough to be in a record store in 1981 when they were playing t...
This is the first of a series of music videos upon which I was raised in my youth, in the early days of MTV. I will update this from time to time, as the mood strikes me.The year: 1982, if I recall correctly. My mom had talked a friend into hooking us up with cable TV, so MTV was a new and exciting thing. This video takes me back to when there were so few videos that MTV was really forced to re...
Facebook hates Mafia Wars...History is not kind to people who copy what was once an original thought....However imitation is the greatest form of flattery...Could an original idea be brought back, could it be as good as the first time, is it all too big now for it to work? Would they say it was simply a time and place thing, and it could never be repeated?I feel sad that I missed this, and will...
Hip-hop mogul Timbaland and pop sensation Justin Timberlake are helping Duran Duran get "sexy back," according to Yahoo.Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor joined forces with the U.S. stars for their 13th album, ??Red Carpet Massacre??, due to be released in the United States on November 13 and in Britain on November 19."It's a real collaboration and we haven't really written...
Burning the Ground reminds me of my older brother Rene. Every Friday he'd pick me up after school, we'd cash our paychecks and go vinyl shopping. Burning the Ground was one of his favorite records. We loved the Barbarella samples in the beginning of the song. This rare mega mix was released December 1989, the year I graduated from high school. Has it been that long?