The Kinks will reunite for a special tour this year, reports "NME":NM.Lead singer and guitarist Ray Davies has been hinting at a reunion for some time, and the Daily Mail is reporting that the original line-up intend to reform for a 2008 tour.Ray Davies' brother and guitarist Dave Davies suffered a stroke in 2004 and bassist Pete Quaife has kidney troubles, but Ray said that they are both willi...
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I've just put together the ultimate stutter mixtape.Links in case you get any sudden urges to stammer along1. The Who - "My Generation" (Link)2. David Bowie - "Changes" (Link)3. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (Link)4. Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets" (Link)5. The Knack - "My Sharona" (Link)6. Def Leppard - "Foolin" (Link)7. The Kinks - "Lola" (Link)8. Phil Collins - "...
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Dave Davies, who was a founding member of the Kinks more than 40 years ago, says there are no plans to reunite now or in the immediate future quelling the rumors put forth by his brother and bandmate Ray Davies. "As previously reported,":PR The Kinks' lead singer and guitarist Ray Davies had been hinting at a reunion. The Daily Mail even reported that the original line-up intend to reform for a...
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"Court Ruling Could End P2P Music-Download Lawsuits":http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Ruling-Could-End-P2P-Lawsuits/story.xhtml?story_id=13200C4QK3CCA federal court has dealt a body blow to the recording industry's efforts to sue people who use peer-to-peer software to download music from the Internet. In fact, says one copyright lawyer, the P2P decision could mean the end of the Recording Indust...
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New Yorkers trying to save historic Tin Pan AlleyA group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the half-dozen row houses where iconic American songs were born.The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street were home to publishers of some of the catchiest American tunes and lyrics — from "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" to "Give My Regards.
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Charges against Jerome Barra, the man accused of shooting lead singer and co-founder of the legendary British rock group The Kinks Ray Davies, have been dropped for the second time. The Orleans Parish District Attorney's office dismissed armed robbery and aggravated charges against Jerome Barra, 28, because of Davies' absence from court, according to The Times-Picayune.Davies said prosecutors n...
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MPAA Chief Concedes: Pirates Also Go To The MoviesThe head of the Motion Picture Association of America, an organization that some Internet users have accused of using legal strongarm tactics to prevent them from downloading recent movies from the Web, has acknowledged that the downloaders go to movie theaters in far greater numbers than others.Speaking to the National Press Club in Washington ...
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The people who have demonstrated that they have noting but contempt for the rights of music consumers - Sony ("*See a post about their DRM rootkit malware at my old blog*":http://electronictiger.net/roare/2005/11/talkin-sony-bmg-drm-rootkit-malware.html) - are buying Gracenote (formerly CDDB):Sony to Buy Gracenote Music Data Company Sony Corp. of America will buy Gracenote, which made its name ...
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20th Century Fox is claiming that It still holds the rights to "Watchmen" and that Warners' film is in violation of those rights. According to Nikki Finke's DEADLINE: Hollywood column in Daily Variety:SAVE US! Warner's 'Watchmen' In Legal Peril After Judge Won't Dismiss Fox SuitEXCLUSIVE: A federal judge has denied a Warner Bros motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox's legal battle over the right...
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The latest turn in the matter:YouTube, Viacom agree to mask viewer data In a nod to privacy complaints, Viacom Inc. won't be told the identities of individuals who watch video clips on the popular video-sharing site YouTube.Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when Google Inc.'s online video site hands over viewership records in a $1...
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unSpun is a new online ... thing ... (from Amazon) which maintains lists of things for visitors to assign ratings to - sort of an ongoing survey to decide, for instance (as seen on "*my regular blog site*":http://electronictiger.com/roare/2007/08/best-english-invasion-band.html, as the script doesn't seem to want to work on MOG), the greatest English Invasion Band.The interesting part is that y...
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Quoting *PCMag.com*:Tired of listening to the same Web radio stations? Then grab your headphones and listen to other Web users' music on "*Radio.Blog.Club*":http://www.radioblogclub.com/. Simply enter an artist's name or song title, click on the file name, and enjoy music from that user's playlist. And if you don't want to keep your browser open, click on Detach Radio.Blog for a standalone play...
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So i now know that Natalie is 48cm long...Kate says her Daddy had to spend most of the day dealing with her two-year-old sister whop has strep throat and wasn't taking any of that "I'm-sorry-but-I-can't-make-it-stop-and-no-Mommy-couldn't-either-even-if-she-were-here-which-she's-not" stuff that Daddies try to pull on unhappy babies...
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what do The Clash, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, The Fratellis, and The Good The Bad And The Queen, all have in common? they all made their debut performances in an English pub! an English standard that is quickly disappearing to gentrification. The Clissold Arms was the site of the first Kinks show in 1963, just across from Ray and Dave Davies' childhood home. The Clissold Arms has remained the site
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Oh those discreet charms of the Kinks. As many of you patients out there in 115th Dreamland know, here at the asylum we love the dusty allure of the unreleased/lost album. Some of our favorites include: The Beatles Get Back (1969), The Beach Boys SMiLE (1967) and, now, The Kinks Four More Respected Gentlemen (1968). That's right patients, our rock 'n roll stethoscopes are talkin' about them ele...
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