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| Pete Townshend's long-awaited memoir Who He?
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| Red Sea Rising's New Video - Standing In The Rain Press Release - December 11, 2011
Announcing Red Sea Rising And Attack Records and Filmwork Works Next Video Location Shoot
The Cargo Room At Commrow Will Be The Backdrop For Interscope / Universal Recording Artist Red Sea Rising’s Next Video. “Standing In The Rain†From Red Sea Rising’s Debut Album “ Eye of the Storm†Was Selected To Be The Next Video For Worldwide Release. Twoâ€Time Emmy Nominated Commercial Director And Editor, As Well As An Awardâ€Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Han Parker Is Now In Development For This Video Production.
A Special Thank You to Commrow’s Owner, Fernando Leal and General Manager, Dean Hanson for making the Filming Of Red Sea Rising’s New Video Possible.
[Submitted by Ken Pinkstaff]
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| New Year's Eve Black and White New Years Eve at The Black Tangerine. Live music from The Seeing Eye Dogs & 2012 Dance Mix by DJ Billy The Kid!!!
FREE CHAMPAGNE $5 COVER .. Anything Black or White, You don't have to dress in formal wear..I Hope to see all you friends for this event to ring in the new year with us. It will be a blast!
The Black Tangerine
9825 South Virginia st, Reno, NV 89511
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8:00pm until 4:00am
[Submitted by Ken Pinkstaff]
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| BreakTheCrates.com - A New Music Distribution Service   BreakTheCrates.com
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[Submitted by Ken Pinkstaff]
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| Van Halen - New Record Label - Interscope Van Halen At The Roxy With New Record Label Interscope
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Van Halen is up to something…
This Monday morning the VHND received emails from multiple sources saying that Van Halen was having their gear delivered to the famous ROXY club in Los Angeles that very day, complete with fake palm trees from Dave’s house. The band was to shoot a video at the famous L.A. club that day.
Then tonight, this very telling photo surfaced taken at the Roxy, and featuring Van Halen with their manager, Irving Azoff, and Interscope executives. This photo marks the first official confirmation from the band that they have signed with a new record company and are actually about to release a new CD!
In the photo: (L-R) Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Iovine, Chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Irving Azoff, Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman and CEO of the Front Line Management Group, Steve Berman, Vice Chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, David Lee Roth and Jim Urie, President and CEO, Universal Music Group Distribution. (Photo by Roth’s main photographer, Robert Yager).
This photo speaks volumes about a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT coming soon…
[Submitted by Ken Pinkstaff]
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| Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees dies Robin Gibb: He ‘Started a Joke,’ and Left Us in Tears
By Chris Willman | Stop The Presses! – 4 hours ago
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(photo: Frank Hoensch / Getty Images)Did a singer's name ever seem so prophetic and appropriate as in the case of Robin, one of the great male songbirds of rock's golden age? Bee Gee Robin Gibb succumbed to a longtime struggle with liver cancer Sunday, a spokesperson confirmed. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer was 62.
His death dashed the hopes of Bee Gees fans who'd hoped that a miracle was in store after the singer emerged from a coma late last month. Prior to his regaining consciousness, his family had revealed that Gibb had been given only a 10 percent chance of surviving and seemed to be preparing the public for his imminent death. Despite the shock fans are now experiencing, family members surely feel grateful for the month they had with Gibb after his unexpected awakening.
Disco fans are feeling their mortality this weekend, as the death of one of the principal voices of the 15-times-platinum Saturday Night Fever soundtrack follows the passing of Donna Summer by a mere three days.
A statement read: "The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery. The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time."
[Robin Gibb & the Bee Gees' chart legacy]
Robin follows Maurice (a fellow Bee Gee) and Andy (a solo artist) in death, leaving eldest brother Barry as the sole survivor among the legendary Brothers Gibb. The Bee Gees had officially retired as a group in 2003, following Maurice's passing, although Barry announced in 2009 that there were tentative plans to revive the act as a duo -- a potential reunion that never came to be after Robin fell seriously ill in 2010.
Some of Robin's health problems seemed to echo the maladies suffered earlier by Maurice -- who was his twin. The cause of Maurice's death nine years ago was attributed to a twisted intestine. Robin first underwent emergency gastro-intestinal surgery in August 2010. In January of this year, he revealed that he'd been diagnosed with colon cancer, which had spread to the liver -- noting that "the strange thing is, I've never felt seriously ill." But he had further intestinal surgery in late March. And the combination of chemotherapy and repeated operations had contributed to all-around depletion, his doctors acknowledged.
Back in early February, Robin was still giving interviews and describing reports of his dire health as exaggerated. "I was diagnosed with a growth in my colon," he told the BBC then. "It was removed. And I've been treated for that by a brilliant doctor, and in their words 'the results have been spectacular.'" The growth, he explained, "is almost gone and I feel fantastic. Really from now on, it's just what they could describe as a 'mopping-up' operation. I am very active and my sense of well-being is good."
[VIDEO: Robin Gibb, 1949-2012]
Sadly, that appears to have been the last time Gibb spoke with the press. Fans first realized the severity of the situation when he was unable to attend the premiere of his first classical work, Titanic Requiem, in London on April 10. A few days after that work's bittersweet debut, family members revealed that he had contracted pneumonia and was "fighting for his life."
Then, his rallying over the last few weeks was reported as nothing short of a miracle. "Robin has confounded his doctors by waking up from the coma he had slipped into after contracting pneumonia," a statement on his website read. "He remains in intensive care but is now fully conscious, able to speak to his loved ones and breathing on his own with an oxygen mask."
Gibbs' wife, Dwina, told an Irish newspaper that the family had been playing music to help rouse her husband -- and that the newly conscious singer had cried upon hearing Roy Orbison's "Crying." His doctor, Andrew Thillainayagam, told the press, "It is testament to Robin's extraordinary courage, iron will and deep reserves of physical strength that he has overcome quite incredible odds to get where he is now" -- while cautiously adding that "the road ahead remains uncertain."
That road ended Sunday, leaving Titanic Requiem to serve as his own unwitting requiem. He'd written the classical piece in conjunction with his son, Robin-John, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, joining together original vocal and orchestral themes with excerpts from the Latin Mass for the Dead. Gibb had been intending to sing one vocal number at the premiere, but instead, "Don't Cry Alone" was offered via a recording, according to a four-star review in the London Telegraph.
It was only fitting, if you believe in symmetry, that "Don't Cry Alone" should be the last vocal number unveiled during his lifetime, since, for many, his notoriety began with the tearfulness of "I Started a Joke."
Although falsetto-wielding Barry was the most prominent and most-parodied Bee Gee in later years (see Justin Timberlake's comic impersonation on SNL), Robin was often considered the unofficial lead singer in the trio's late-'60s early days, and it was his tender vibrato that early fans first associated with the Brothers Gibb, via not just "I Started a Joke" but other hits like "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" and "New York Mining Disaster 1941."
It was Robin singing on the group's first No. 1 British hit, "Massachusetts," which also topped the charts in most of the territories of the world (except the U.S., where it made it to No. 11). He was a lad of 17 at the time, and, of course, had never even been to the title state.
[Flashback Rolling Stone interview]
Competition with Barry led Robin to quit the group and go solo in 1969, though he returned in 1971, in time to participate in "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," their first No. 1 single in America. Their real renaissance, however, kicked off in 1975 when, in the earliest days of disco, they had a second No. 1 with "Jive Talkin'," followed by the similarly rhythmic "Nights on Broadway" and "You Should Be Dancing," which became the template for a block of Saturday Night Fever songs in 1978.
Fever revived "Jive' and "Dancing" along with introducing the instant dance-floor standards "Stayin' Alive," "Night Fever," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman," plus a ballad in the more traditional Bee Gees vein, "How Deep is Your Love." It was by far their greatest commercial triumph, and also, in a way, their unmaking, since only pockets of critics and fans were inclined to recall the pop chops and cred of their early albums after they couldn't shake their association with the waning disco tide.
The '80s and '90s were less kind to the brothers as hitmakers, although they continued to sell well overseas and never stopped being a concert draw. Befitting such a quintessential part of 20th century pop, they gave their last real concert on the last night of the millennium.
Critics and fans who would want to defend the Bee Gees' pre-Travolta reputation point to landmark albums like 1969's double-album Odessa -- which, of course, produced no major singles. But the more R&B-oriented smashes that came later provide their own defense, even if there was an inevitable longing among hardcore followers for the days when there was no beat to speak of except for the one inherent in the throb of Robin's vibrato. As the principal songwriter, it may have been brother Barry's job to start the jokes, and sobs, but in that early peak period, at least, it was Robin who finished them.
[Submitted by warchilin66]
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| The real deal The Golden Decade 1954 - 1963
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Rock-and-Roll (räk'n roll') n. first so used (1951) by Alan Freed, Cleveland disc jockey, taken from the song "My Baby Rocks Me with a Steady Roll". The use of rock, roll, rock and roll, etc., with reference to sexual intercourse, is traditional in blues, a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950's from rhythm and blues, characterized by the use of electric guitars, a strong rhythm with an accent on the offbeat, and youth-oriented lyrics. A form of popular music arising from and incorporating a variety of musical styles, especially rhythm and blues, country music, and gospel. Originating in the United States in the 1950s, it is characterized by electronically amplified instrumentation, a heavily accented beat, and relatively simple phrase structure
This web page attempts to explore the roots of rock in such a way as to illuminate the natural progression of musical styles. To often the study of rock begins with Bill Haley and His Comets and includes scant information about the blues and rhythm records that he, and others, used as a model. A musical genre does not simply appear, it gradually evolves to a point in time when some event-performance, publication, or recording allows listeners to perceive its unique qualities and apply a label. Wyonnie Harris' 1947 recording of "Good Rocking Tonight" was one of many "rhythm records" made during the late 1940s, however when it was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954 it seemed like a new and different approach. What made it seem new and different was its context. Without exploring the history of black popular music, country and western music, race relations, technical developments, and the music business one can be led easily to the conclusion that rock and roll was some new and different music which appeared suddenly.
This page begins with the African musical traits brought here beginning in 1619 and attempts to trace their fusion with the European music brought here by the colonists. The story of this musical interaction is also the story of American popular music and includes the plantation songs of Stephen Foster, the ragtime of Scott Joplin, the blues of Bessie Smith, the jazz of Count Basie, and the jump bands of Louis Jordan. The knowledge of the stream of American popular music allows one to understand that rock and roll was a natural result of the combined forces that effected the music.
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| Wayne Static, the singer in Californian metal act Static-X, has died aged 48. Wayne Static, the singer in Californian metal act Static-X, has died aged 48.
The Static-X Facebook page confirmed that Static had died on Saturday November 1, but gave no further information as to his cause of death. He had been due to tour alongside Powerman 5000 and Drowning Pool in the coming months.
"Platinum selling musician Wayne Richard Wells, better known as Wayne Static, passed away at the age of 48," read the message posted on the Facebook page. "Wayne Static was the enigmatic former frontman and namesake of Static-X, who later forged a successful solo career."
Static-X were a well-known nu-metal band in the late Nineties and early 2000s, with their debut album Wisconsin Death Trip, featuring single Push It, going platinum in 1999.
After releasing five studio albums, Static-X went on indefinite hiatus in 2010, with Wayne Static beginning a solo career, also under the name Static-X. He was known for his long, spiky black hair and beard.
Fellow musicians paid tribute to the star on social media, and although the cause of death has not yet been confirmed, his peers seemed to suggest that a drug overdose could be to blame.
The founding member of Papa Roach, Jacoby Shaddix, said on Instagram: "This is so sad. Too many musicians are dying from overdoses... The number of friends that I have lost to addiction is crazy."
[Submitted by warchilin66]
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| FOOD ????
November 17, 2014, 11:38 PM
With no fanfare, Amazon has entered the food-delivery arena in Philadelphia with the debut Monday night of its AmazonFresh service in Center City.
AmazonFresh delivers the usual supermarket grocery, perishable and pantry items plus products from specialty shops and restaurants in Philadelphia and Brooklyn.
In addition, said AmazonFresh vice president Tom Weiland, orders can include the familiar Amazon complement of toys, electronics, and household goods - about 500,000 items, all told.
Customers can place an order by 10 a.m. and get items by dinnertime, or order by 10 p.m. and expect delivery by breakfast the next morning.
Weiland offered a scenario of a customer's ordering for a house party, and getting the food and all the party supplies delivered at the same time.
Delivery is free for orders over $35. Members of Amazon Prime - the two-day delivery service that costs $99 a year - can use AmazonFresh for free through the end of the year.
The Prime customers will have to upgrade to Amazon's Prime Fresh service after that. Its $299-a-year price tag has generated grumbling in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the other cities that AmazonFresh is offered.
AmazonFresh debuted on the East Coast a month ago in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Weiland said the assortment of products in its online catalog justified the fee.
Prices, he said, would be competitive. A spot-check confirmed this.
The delivery area will expand beyond Center City, Weiland said, offering no timetable or geographic clues. He declined to elaborate on AmazonFresh's number of local employees, warehousing and distribution methods, or projected revenues.
AmazonFresh is competing with such services as Instacart (which delivers from various stores and state liquor stores in a wide swath of the Philadelphia metro area in an hour or less), Peapod (owned by the parent compay of Giant Food of Carlisle, Pa.), and FreshDirect (like AmazonFresh, a company that maintains its own warehouses and inventory).
AmazonFresh will deliver food from some Reading Terminal Market and Philadelphia merchants and restaurants as well as restaurants and food companies in New York such as Red Hook Lobster Pound and Kettlebell Kitchen
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