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The Live 8 concerts are taking place on 2 July in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia. These are the musical acts set to perform at the free events.Even more entertaining than the likes of Jamiroquai, Lauryn Hill, Coldplay, The Cure and their ilk is one of the comments left by a stupid American reader in the "have your say" section...
Hyde Park, London
Coldplay
Dido
Sir Elton John
Keane
Annie Lennox
Madonna
Mariah Carey
Muse
Scissor Sisters
Sir Paul McCartney
Joss Stone
Stereophonics
Sting
Robbie Williams
U2
REM
Velvet Revolver
Bob Geldof
The Killers
The Cure
Snow Patrol
Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Will Smith (host)
Bon Jovi
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P Diddy
Stevie Wonder
Jay-Z
The Dave Matthews Band
Sarah McLachlan
Rob Thomas
Keith Urban
50 Cent
Kaiser Chiefs
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Jamiroquai
Craig David
Youssou N'Dour
Yannick Noah
Andrea Bocelli
Calo Gero
Kyo
Placebo
Axelle Red
Johnny Halliday
Manu Chao
Renaud
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
A-ha
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Brian Wilson
Lauryn Hill
Bap
Die Toten Hosen
Peter Maffay
Circus Maximus, Rome
Duran Duran
Faith Hill
Irene Grandi
Jovanotti
Tim McGraw
Nek
Laura Pasini
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Zucchero
"I work 10 hours a day to feed my family, not Africa"Because I'm just so sure working 10 hours a day will provide food for him and his family when the American infrastructure implodes, the entire continent is embroiled in social unrest and famine strikes.
Chris Salinas, Philadelphia, USA
I remember when I first heard "Last Goodbye". It was 1995, when the majority of my music collection included artist such as Green Day, TLC, Notorious B.IG., Pearl Jam, Coolio, and yes Hootie & the Blowfish! *shivers* I was on the way back to school from a field trip when my friend Breanne handed me her headphones..."You have to check this artist out!" I proceeded and at that very instant I fell for his music.
Usually I'm not one to choice favorites, but if I had to I'd say Jeff Buckley is at the top of my inspirational artist list. His voice is unexplainable and beautiful along with his lyrics. Today May 29 marks the 8 year aniversay of his tragic death in Memphis. Since his death however, I have heard his melodies featured in various movies and TV shows. I guess it has brought him more recognition, surprise surprise! It's tragic yet haunting to think of how much more he could have accomplished in his life. Jeff would have been 39 this year.
Why?Because, it features reviews of the Gorillaz "Dirty Harry" 12'' and Self Scientific's 'Gods & Gangstas' LP in the reviews section.
Reviews which I wrote.
Fuckass.
And, if you're in New York City this weekend, you might wanna run out to Eleven Lounge at 162 Orchard Street for the 'Beautiful Decay' issue K release party this Sunday May 29th! DJ's Deck Demons ( Jayceeoh & Illogix ), Synapse, Gravy, Jedi, Animation, Fusion Kings and Dub-L will be spinning throughout the night and there will be performances from Sean Price, Lo Deck, Many Styles and Jahdan. Doors open at 9:30 PM and there's a $5 cover, but there's also an open bar ( if that's your sort of thing ) from 10 - 12 and the first 100 people get free shirts from MethodsNYC.
The Yesh track is especially dope, but you can check it out for yourself right here, right now...
Lynn Ness feat. Yesh "Ain't 2 Much"
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I gotta admit, I'm digging that shit a lot. It's like a little piece of 1996 came forward through time just to make my backpack happy or something.
Oh, and quiet as kept, but the Sach joint is pretty fuckin' hot too.
Wanna see it?
Chromeo "Rage!"
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You should also keep an ear out for...
The UK re-release of "Needy Girl" with remixes by Paper Faces (Jacques LuCont) and Bloc Party's Russel Lissack...
A mix CD from Dave and Peee -- Chromeo Presents 'Un Joli Mix Pour Toi' -- featuring obscure, '80s crack-funk by the likes of Modern Romance, Love Club, Sharon Redd, Kleer, Temper, and more, out on Eskimo Records in September...
And Chromeo's second record titled 'Cupid Took His Arrow Back,' which is due sometime in 2006.
If you ain't know, North Carolina hip-hop phenomenon's Little Brother will be dropping a "new" record called 'The Chittlin Circuit 1.5' on June 21st 2005.But if you can't wait that long to peep it you can always check out this fresh Flash player featuring audio of all the tracks.
Or, just tune in to The Urban Alternative Show this week, late night Wednesday from 12 midnight to 3 AM on 90.7 FM WTCC ( check the right side-bar of this very site for links to listen live online ) because I'm most positive that I'll be dropping their new single "Ain't Nobody Like Me" at some point during the show.
Since she was the featured cover artist in two different magazines I picked up this weekend... And, since I actually heard one of her songs on the radio ( and I wasn't the one playing it )...
And, since I finally saw her "Sunshowers" video Saturday night...
And, since I mentioned the disappearance of links to that same video from this very site no more than 24 hours ago...
And, since she really is quite attractive ( I mean, just look at her over there )...
I figured I might as well give the five of you who still aren't up on this broad a chance to listen to a few songs, and watch a video clip, from Miss Maya "M.I.A." Arulpragasam.
Get in on it now while you still can, that way you can act hipper than thou in a couple months when all your friends are asking you if you wanna go see her on some big Interscope tour with Gwen Stefani or some shit.
First up is a clip for "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" from Louis XIV, a group Emeyesi and myself have described as "sexy like Franz Ferdinand," or "Buzzcocks meet Postal Service." It's a tune I've been burning into the ground for a while now. So much so that it's become somewhat of an anthem for me... as songs about womanizing often do. I even posted the lyrics on my MySpace page for all to see ( yes, I'm lame like that ), and now I'm posting the video right here for you to see...
Louis XIV "Finding Out True Love Is Blind"
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Then there's a total fluke of a find by a dirty south "punk" band called El Pus ( pronounced El Poose ). The "on demand" description for the video was full of bad grammer and terrible spelling to a degree that made it totally nonsensical... so we just had to watch it to see what the hell it was all really about. And boy were we glad that we did. Hopefully you will be too...
El Pus "Suburb Thuggin'"
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And I know, I know, it's no big revelation on my part to tell you that Postal Service rules. We all know that they rule. I mean, how could a group who's tunes resemble more polished versions of Kip's wedding song from 'Napoleon Dynamite' not rule, right? But, when your visual interpretation of one of their emo-tronic selections includes a retro-futuristic family of singing, bike riding, Jedi, sun-cult members it becomes utterly impossible for one to deny their status as rulers of all...
Postal Service "We Will Become Sihouettes"
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We also watched that Gorillaz "Feel Good Inc.," and the clip for M.I.A.'s "Sunshower" ( why are there no Sri Lankan broads taking group bath's around here? ), but I've already posted both of those elsewhere ( even if one has been conspicuously removed, thank you very much Beggars Group! ) so there's no need to do it again.
Anyway, I'm totally hyped about the album and am trying to get my hands on it as I type this ( I know, I know, that's way too much for two hands to be doing at once ). I'll let yall know what I think of it if and when I actually do.
But in the meantime you might wanna check out this Sean Price interview with some German website where dude spits nothing but that real man talk™ about Heltah Skeltah, the Boot Camp Clik, Duck Down Ent., the state of hip-hop, radio & the music/video industry and being broke...
If you could change 3 things about the rap game what would they be ?Like I said, "nothing but that real man talk™" yall. Cuz you know only a real, old timey backpacker motherfucker could spit it like that.
I would make the radio stations more diverse, like honestly you know, I would like emcees to be more in communicato and shit like that. I would like to hear Fabolous rhyme with someone from Def Jux, nah mean. I wanna be the first emcee to do that. To be able to do a song with a multi platinum rapper and then do a song with a dude who sells 3 records. And we all just be cool with each other and don't hate cuz we on different levels of hip hop. The Rainbow Coalition rap.
On May 24th venerable soul proprietor Motown is stepping into the remix game with the release of 'Motown Remixed.' It's a project that finds the label handing over some of it's biggest hit tunes to DJ's, producers and remixers like Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, Green Lantern, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Spinna, Easy Moe Bee, King Britt and others, who will try their hand at giving the jams modern makeovers.I already got a triple pack of 12'' singles from the project featuring a number of the remixes, and other than a couple of standouts ( the Z-Trip mix included below being one of them ) I wasn't too impressed myself. But I'm holding off final judgement until a time when I hear the entire set.
You can check out a couple of the mixes for yourself right here though...
Jackson 5 "I Want You Back ( Z-Trip Remix )"
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Marvin Gaye "Let's Get It On ( Da Producers MPG Groove Mix )"
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And if you wanna know more, there's also an Electronic Press Kit featuring King Britt, ?uestlove, Z-Trip, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Green Lantern and others discussing their participation in the project...
'Motown Remixed' EPK
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A 'Motown Remixed' Tour, featuring DJ Smash, spinning the remixes and DJ sets utilizing the Motown catalog will be coming to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and another city to be announced in May and June.
They look a little something like this...
You may have also noticed the Gorillaz tune "Feel Good Inc." in that iPod commercial with the rollerskaters ( I know I did, and I rocked out every time it came on ).
Well, for you iTunes enabled folks out there that means that "the machine" is behind these cats, so the Apple music store is supposedly offering a free download of a 'Demon Days' album sampler of some sort.
So, if you've got an iPod, or iTunes, or whatever the fuck all that noise is about you might wanna check that out.
Now, it's finally starting to break into the wider consciousness. It's getting some big play and cracking the charts pretty much everywhere.
And rightfully so, the tune is tuff!
I just got hip to the fact that there's even a video for the tune, and I figured I might as well hip y'all to it as well...
Damian Marley "Welcome To Jamrock"
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The video's a hefty 4.9 MB's so lower bandwidth folks might wanna right click the link and "save as" rather than waiting for the whole thing to stream.
Oh, and the Ghetto Youths website is asking folks to request the video on MTV and other appropriate video outlets, so you might wanna think about doing that as well. Cuz t'd be nice to see some rougher, more traditional, reggae tunes catching on in the states for a change rather than the watered down, nearly techno-pop style, dancehall stuff that's been so big lately.
"What else with me? Just chilling, right now. Still ( doing charity work ) feeding the babies out there in Africa. I'm a servant of God. I got to do that. That's my job."He also builds on being "the first nigga to write rhymes, but a rhyme without no meaning," how "that radio-friendly shit" fucked up the game, how sample clearance has been the bane of his existence and his upcoming album with M.F. Doom & Pete Rock on production.
They hit pretty big with us here at Imageyenation and Urban Alternatives late last year with the dancefloor burner "Paris Hilton," the first single from their new full length 'Out Of Breach.' And now, they're hitting you, with a video for that very song...
MU "Paris Hilton"
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So check it out. Then proceed to "shake your body-body" and "move your body-body" with abandon!
According to those involved in the matter, Springsteen was never involved directly in the potential deal, which was handled by Columbia Records. Columbia also refused to comment. However, those close to the deal—speaking on condition that they not be identified—told NEWSWEEK that Starbucks initially wanted a promotional link between the new Springsteen CD and the Starbucks brand. But Columbia Records, apparently without consulting Springsteen, balked out of deference to the artist’s longstanding aversion to becoming a pitchman. The sources said Starbucks countered with a proposal to merely sell the CD at its outlets. But after listening to the album, Starbucks executives stopped negotiations after hearing "Reno."Starbucks now refuses to carry the album -- the first in Springsteen's catalog to come with a "parental advisory" sticker -- in their popular in-store music kiosks.
I don't now if it's the right time, but maybe somebody should break it to them that "Born In The USA" wasn't exactly the pro-American anthem they probably thought it was either?
Here's the video for the Hip Hop Hoodios' song "Gorrito Cosmico."
That's right, the super-producer known just as well for his chubby physique as the dopeness of his beats has put himself on a new regimen designed to turn body fat into "thick, protruding muscles!"
"I don't want to be lean and cut. I want to be buck," says Timbaland during an otherwise quiet evening at his mansion. "I just like that look. When you see horses, or animals, like you see a monkey or a gorilla, like, they cut.Umm, yeah, what he said.
"It's a freaky look. When you keep working out, you get to be almost like an animal," he continues. "I like the veins popping out. I love all that."
Anyway, all kooky talk aside, internet chatter seems to indicate that the new diet and excercise routine is doing Timmy's body good. At least one message board poster claimed they recently saw him on BET rocking "a smedium shirt" with "chest muscles on blast" and "arms all veined up!"
Yet and still, I can't help but wonder if silicone six-pack poster boy James Todd Smith didn't hip ol' Tim to the world of plastic surgery assisted body sculpting when the two collaborated on that "Headsprung" bullshit last year.
(Apparently, the video won't be up for long so get crackin')
But now this dude MetaFakta, one of the faceless cats from the Okayplayer message boards, has remedied that situation by coming with a really classy, smoothed out remix of "For The Nasty" sans the Neptunes production and rudimentary Pharrell injection. It sorta feels like what I might expect from certain UK remixers ( Yam Who come to mind ) smaked with a little Sa-Ra-ishness for good measure. And it comes off real sweet. Check it out for yourself...
Q-Tip feat. Busta Rhymes "For The Nasty ( MetaFakta's Bang Vibe Remix )"
When I downloaded the track I had to rename the file and add ".mp3" to the end of the file-name to get it to register as a valid audio file, so you might have to do the same. But don't sweat it, it's worth the extra two seconds work.
So check out their video for "16 Military Wives." It's real slick, and real clever. It's in Quicktime, and a .torrent is also available at that link.
Synopsis: An anti-war video set inside a high-school Model UN. And this one dude has a real mean beard.
You sure you ready?
Seriously...you might have to sit down right now.
You sitting down?
Okay I'll stop teasing.
Thicke feat. Pharrell "Wanna Love You Girl"
You may get up and proceed to get yo' dance on.
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