Faux Pas, Wouter Jaspers (NL), Monster War (US), Altaar @ Revolver Oslo, Norway, 6th November 2009 When an Oslo noise mayor celebrates his birthday, it’s not a light affair. This weekend Revolver put on a one-night festival in Sten Ove Toft’s name. Let us hope it is the birth of a noise fest tradition. There are six acts [...] Related posts: Supersilent @ Roskilde Festival Supersilent @...
Buy from Tiger Experimental jazz group Supersilent are positively reliant on their own inherent jarring disparities; the assembled members all tugging in sonically different directions whilst simultaneously maintaining a startling collective knowledge of how to make the entirety work – and it is from this melting pot of conflict and cohesion that their impressive cross-genre sound [...] Related...
Leading up to the launch of Causecast Music, we’ve launched programs like TheVoluntour.org and traveled to multiple music festivals and concerts to discuss the relationship between music and social change with many of today’s top artists. Tegan and Sara on gay rights and the risks of being out while shaping their career in the music industry. (Added 10/26/09) Underoath on consumerism in...
The Roskilde Festival World Music Award will be awarding 30,000 euros [,000] to Malian star Rokia Traore's organization, Foundation Passarelle, which works on professionalizing the Malian music culture. RFWMA will be presented to Traore during the international world music expo Womex by Ritt Bjerregard, the Lord Mayer of Copenhagen, on November 1. The African music star has already confirmed her attendance...
A new Danish band recently caught my attention. It is the group Giana Factory who recently supported Glasvegas on their European tour and also played this year’s Roskilde festival. On Saturday they played a release gig at Vega here in Copenhagen to promote their debut EP ‘Bloody Game’ and must admit I was smitten. The light female vocals and the electronic backdrop in the songs totally...
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Here are three of my favorite Jeff Buckley live performances. I think these versions easily surpass the recorded ones, but let me know your thoughts in comments. "Vancouver" (Instrumental, Live at the 1995 Roskilde Festival) "Morning Theft" (Live at Arlene's Grocery) "All Flowers in Time" (Live at Selina's)Artist Links: Myspace Wiki Amazon Thanks Phil [[ This is a content...
Leading up to the launch of Causecast Music, we've traveled to multiple music festivals and concerts to discuss the relationship between music and social change with many of today's top artists: Jon Foreman of Switchfoot / Fiction Family on Darfur, peace, and what it means to be active. (Added 8/26/09) Alejandro Escovedo on social change, the 1960s, and his bout with Hepatitis C. (Added 9/4/09) India.Arie...
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Here are a couple of videos of the winner applications from the Nokia Open Screen Project. Check them out after the break… The CNN International Video app, from Flash Widgets LLC, targets the video mobile market in the regions of Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. A major advantage of this player is that it streams actual CNN on-air content using a progressive download innovation....
When Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer met backstage at Denmark’s Roskilde festival five years ago, the unlikely duo quickly discovered a mutual fandom. “As soon as I heard the Shins, I wanted to do something with James, no matter what,” Danger Mouse explains. Their partnership took time to develop, but in March 2008, [...]
Lama, Bjerga/Iversen, Casiokids, Shining, Braving the Glacier, Navyelectre @ Numusic Festival. Stavanger, Norway. September 9th and 10th 2009 Numusic festival overcame funding problems to celebrate its 10th anniversary this September with a diverse line-up spread across several stages in the city. The build-up to the event was dominated by the news that special guest composer Arvo Pärt [...] Related...
As I mentioned before Frej and I are makng wine from the apples we picked. It’s pretty easy to make wine, we’ve made a beet wine before. (Which was terrible, by the way, but that was because we didn’t let it brew long enough because we wanted to bring it to the Roskilde festival) But [...]
Oslo Jazz Festival @ the Opera and The Jacob Culture Church Oslo, Norway, 10th - 15th August 2009. Oslo Jazz Festival unofficially opened the 9th of August, putting Antony and the Johnsons on the Opera’s roof top, joined by the opera orchestra lead by Rob Moose. The following day was devoted to the late Radka Toneff, Norwegian [...] Related posts: Supersilent @ Roskilde Festival Supersilent @...
I’ve just been re-reading Black Postcards and Galaxie 500 are breaking up again… and it’s making me sad again… maybe sadder than my first read through. Anyway in amongst all that sniping and bitteness Dean describes their festival tour of Europe in 1990. In his description of their appearance at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark [...]
From suing Ticketmaster to sabotaging their own publicity, Pearl Jam's history reads like a masterclass in career suicide. Yet rock's righteous crusaders refuse to lie down In the heart of Pearl Jam's Seattle HQ, their singer Eddie Vedder contemplates what it felt like to be one of the two people who were, to the wider public, the faces of grunge. The other was Kurt Cobain, whose band Nirvana have...
Denmark - The 2009 edition of the Roskilde Festival took place in the Danish town of the same name recently, with an attendance of 65,000 people, and bands such as Coldplay, Nick Cave & The Bad ...
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