So while on the one hand I have a friend calling me for Web 2.0 advise, the truth is--I know as much as you, and so when my "experienced" friend advised me to create more lists, well, I came up with this: The Top 5 Car Commercial's Songs.5. Dirty Vegas: "Days Go By" for Mitsubishi Eclipse When house music was reaching mainstream audiences, no longer just a raver's delight, this Dirty Vegas' son...
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Island Records continues the celebration of its 50th anniversary with an exhibition of memorabilia at The Vinyl Factory Gallery at Phonica Records in London's Soho district. The show opens this Friday and runs through Wednesday, June 17.Over 800 items are included in the exhibition which tells the story of Island Records from its Jamaican beginnings to today. Included are:Iconic prints by some o
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Last Tuesday, Hollywood endured a heavy blow. Overwhelming at first, the news that Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment at the young age of 28, took everybody by surprise. Nobody saw even hints of seeing it coming. Although the latest toxicology reports suggest that he may have died from "natural causes" (a heart attack to be precise) and not via an allotment of drugs, the bizarre and c...
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A film festival celebrating the shadowy life and time of Nick Drake will be held this weekend in Los Angeles. Nick Drake was enigmatic, self-taught, English singer-songwriter who failed to gain mainstream success in life and died tragicly at 26. Posthumous, his star has grown from the time of his dead in 1974 of an overdose of antidepressants in his parents home.The American Cinemateque is pre...
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So while on the one hand I have a friend calling me for Web 2.0 advise, the truth is--I know as much as you, and so when my "experienced" friend advised me to create more lists, well, I came up with this: The Top 5 Car Commercial's Songs.5. Dirty Vegas: "Days Go By" for Mitsubishi Eclipse When house music was reaching mainstream audiences, no longer just a raver's delight, this Dirty Vegas' son...
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I often tell people who ask me to recommend music to them to look to artists older than my father, who will be 61 in late June. There are always exceptions, but the date has generally worked. Nearly all of the artists that I listen to, or intend to brush up on at a future date, are older than my father or would be had they lived. Right under the wire, a few days before my father's birth in anyt...
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A few weeks ago my friend Gorm was visiting and spotted a couple of Nick Drake documentary DVDs on my shelf. I had been saving them for special occasions because I knew they would be emotionally challenging to watch and I would want to write about them (as this review bears witness to), and at the same time I hadn't really wanted to watch them for fear of disappointment - the usual syndrome tha...
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Last Tuesday, Hollywood endured a heavy blow. Overwhelming at first, the news that Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment at the young age of 28, took everybody by surprise. Nobody saw even hints of seeing it coming. Although the latest toxicology reports suggest that he may have died from "natural causes" (a heart attack to be precise) and not via an allotment of drugs, the bizarre and c...
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Well this year, I've seen (discounting festivals), such bands asChemical Brothers, Editors, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Richard Hawley, VNV Nation, Miles Hunt, Seasick Steve and InterpolI've seen them each a few times each this year - a bit repetitive but was really struggling to get fired up about some of the new acts out there.So... my final review.Was an early start, the tunes were pretty s...
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~~Nick drake was one of those artists whose fame came after he died. During his short life (he died at age 26) he released three records - "Five Leaves Left" (1969), "Bryter Layter" (1970), and "Pink Moon" (1972).There are very few pictures of him as an adult, and each year the cry for more of his music gets louder, obviously without any reciprocation.His was a life of depression and insomnia, ...
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For a rainy, reflective tuesday afternoonThe album cover claims that the posthumously released Time Of No Reply contains “10 previously unreleased tracks, including 7 completely new songs, plus the 4 ‘last session’ tracks” that were recorded in 1974. Rather than being mere bottom of the barrel scrapings, this clearing of the vaults more often than not simply offers songs that Nick had reco
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A black eyed dog he called at my doorThe black eyed dog he called for moreA black eyed dog he knew my nameA black eyed dog he knew my nameA black eyed dogA black eyed dog.I’m growing old and I wanna go homeI’m growiing old and I don’t wanna knowI’m growing old and I wanna go home.A black eyed dog he called at my doorA black eyed dog he called for more
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And finally the long Summer and never ending Indian portion of the warm season has been chased away by the cold, windy witches of "Samhain":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain returning to us the dark half of the sky and all of the winter stars so visible in the crisp sunset. These days are short and fleeting, in years to come they will only exist in memories...
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| 2 Clothes of Sand |
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| 3 Rider on the Wheel |
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| 4 Pink Moon |
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| 5 Tow the Line |
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