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Spotlight 29 Casino Welcomes Creedence Clearwater Revisited and America

2008-09-08T22:33:00.001-07:00

A Night of Classics Scheduled for October 4

COACHELLA, Calif., Sept. 8 -- Two of the best bands ever
assembled will take the stage at Spotlight 29 Casino on October 4 for a
concert that will rock the Coachella Valley long later the mantle comes
depressed. Creedence Clearwater Revisited and America ar returning to Spotlight
29 Casino for a night of classics bound to become as legendary as the
bands themselves.

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Creedence Clearwater Revisited was forged by original Creedence
Clearwater Revival band members Doug "Cosmo" Clifford and Stu Cook.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited has toured the world, and crowd reaction to
the band's concerts has been astounding, driven in piece by a generation of
kids wHO, as drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford says, "weren't even born when
the music came out."

In summation to Clifford and Cook, Creedence Clearwater Revisited
includes atomic number 82 singer/rhythm guitar player John Tristao, lead guitarist Tal
Morris, and multi-instrumentalist Steve Gunner on keyboard, acoustic
guitar, percussion and harmonica.

The band thrills audiences with classics like "Susie Q," "Lodi," "Proud
Mary," "Down On The Corner," "Fortunate Son" and "Who'll Stop The Rain,"
songs critics have called some of the charles Herbert Best American rock 'n' roll ever scripted and
recorded. The hits remain a staple of radio and movie soundtracks.

Also coming into court is America, which rode onto the top of the pop charts in
1972 with their hit "A Horse with No Name." Blending rock and folk to
create their signature sound, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek
(who left the circle in 1977) created an amazing blend of rock candy, pop, and folk
sounds and created defining songs of the 1970s, such as "Ventura Highway,"
"Tin Man," "Sister Golden Hair," "You Can do Magic," "I Need You" and
"Lonely People."

The band tells this story around their name: "We were living in England
at the time. Our fathers were all in the U.S. Air Force stationed outside
of London. Dan and Dewey were working in a cafeteria on the base, and there
was a jukebox called 'The Americana' in the corner. That's where we got the
melodic theme, and the more we thought about it the better it seemed to explain our
origins. It did aim a small confusing. When we at long last did come to the
U.S. to perform, the ads said, 'Live from England ... America!'"

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The Last Shadow Puppets play storming Reading Festival set

2008-08-29T18:33:00.001-07:00

The Last Shadow Puppets had to restart their set at Reading Festival tonight (August 24) due to sound problems.

After coming onstage at the NME/Radio 1 Tent, the dance orchestra launched straight into 'Calm Like You' � just sound problems meant that Alex Turner�s guitar, as well as much of the 16-piece orchestra supporting the set, couldn�t be heard for the continuance of the song.

At its remainder, Turner asked the crowd together: "Shall we do it again? Ever so no-good about that. You merit better, you've been around all weekend and you're tired, you want the full thing."

As Miles Kane restarted the song, the orchestra and Turner kicked in at full bulk � a great deal to the crowd's delight.

The band played a set relying heavily on their debut record album, with title track 'The Age Of The Understatement', causing much of the crowd to surge onward towards the stage.

With little chat to the audience, Kane and Turner rather chatted to each former between the songs, although a series of crowdsurfers towards the end of the band's set particularly impressed Kane, who acknowledged them with a beaming smile and supportive shake of his fist.

The band's set complete with an extended orchestra-only piece, played at the end of 'In My Room'. While Kane one time again gestured to the crowd, Turner simply faced the orchestra and clapped, before reverting to the microphone to thank fans.

The Last Shadow Puppets played:

'Calm Like You'

'The Age Of The Understatement'

'Black Plant'

'Only The Truth'

'The Chamber'

'Gas Dance'

'My Mistakes Were Made For You'

'Hang The Cyst'

'Separate And Ever Deadly'

'I Don't Like You Anymore'

'The Meeting Place'

'Standing Next To Me'

'In My Room'

NME.COM is delivery you live coverage straight from both sites of the Reading And Leeds Festivals 2008. For the latest news, blogs, pictures and video interviews head to the Reading And Leeds Festivals index now.

Plus make indisputable you catch next week's issue of NME - on newsstands nationwide from Wednesday August 27 - for the ultimate Reading And Leeds Festivals review.

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Enter Shikari announce UK tour

2008-08-10T18:01:00.001-07:00

Enter Shikari have proclaimed a newfangled UK circuit � including a three-night London residency.

The band world Health Organization self-release fresh single 'We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape' on November 3, hit the road this autumn.

They play:

Cambridge Corn Exchange (October 2)

Hull University (3)

Nottingham Rock City (4)

Keele University (5)

Oxford Academy (7)

St Albans Arena (8)

Norwich venue TBC (9)

Peterborough Cresset (10)

Hastings White Rock Theatre (11)

Middlesborough Town Hall (13)

Liverpool Academy (14)

Dublin Ambassador (15)

Cork Savoy Theatre (16)

Belfast Mandela Hall (17)

Inverness Ironworks (19)

Dundee Fat Sams (20)

Edinburgh University (21)

Newport Centre (23)

Bath Pavilion (24)

Llandudno Arena (26)

Bournemouth Solent Hall (27)

Exeter Great hall (29)

Southampton Guildhall (30)

Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall (31)

London Astoria 2 (2,3,4)

To check the availability of Enter Shikari tickets and get all the in style listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

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Jaga Jazzist

2008-07-01T20:40:00.001-07:00

Artist: Jaga Jazzist

   Genre(s):
Jazz
   Electronic
   Jazz: Funk

Discography:


What We Must

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 7


Magazine

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 6


The Stix

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 10


Animal Chin

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 7


Days

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 4


Going Down

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 5


A Livingroom Hush

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 10


Jaevla Jazzist Grete Stitz

   Year: 1996
Tracks: 8

Plenty of your hipper bands mightiness variegate their influences number with acts like Tortoise, Charles Mingus, and the Neptunes just to shew they are cool. With the risky, sprawl, and somehow unagitated Jaga Jazzist, you can actually listen it. The ten-piece, jazz-meets-electronics band from Norway came to life in 1994 when their independent brain and songster Lars Horntveth was only 14. Two days by and by their debut record album, JÃ¦vla Jazzist Grete Stitz, appeared, and Norwegians got their beginning discernment of the band's combination of jazz chops and electronic crotchet. Two days after that the Magazine EP appeared, merely it was 2001's A Livingroom Hush that grabbed all the aid imputable to mouth off reviews and dispersion by Warner Brothers in their country of origin. Coldcut's label, Ninja Tune, picked the album up for world-wide distribution in 2002 and BBC radio listeners laurelled it the "Jazz Album of the Year." The remix-based Creature Chin appeared at the end of 2002 and was followed in 2003 by Stix, an album that constitute the banding using more electronics without the help of remixers.

Russell Baillie : Shine on, you crazy Diamond

2008-06-25T08:01:00.001-07:00

If you grew up in the early 70s in New Zealand, Diamond was the sound of the suburbs. Good Lordy. Will you look at that? Neil Diamond is number one, here, there and everywhere.First Indiana Jones comes roaring back from one ancient tomb of pop culture, now the only slightly older Diamond is again the pop star he hasn't been in quite some time. Well, that's in terms of chart placings anyway, and they aren't what they once were in the sales-to-top-spot ratio.But there it is - Home Before Dark has given him his first US number one album ever of the 50 or so he's released. It's topped the charts in Britain. It's also his first number one in New Zealand in 30 or so years since those heady, hairy-chested days of Beautiful Noise, Hot August Night and, lest we forget, You Don't Bring Me Flowers (that Streisand-sung hook is stuck in your brain now isn't it? Sorry about that. We'll find some better tunes to replace it with soon. Promise).If you grew up in the early 70s in New Zealand, Diamond was the sound of the suburbs. Bob Dylan - previously the oldest man to have a US number one album before Diamond pipped him last week - might have been the voice of the great 60s uprising and like, really important. But Diamond was all pervading, the pop of the people. You didn't have to have his albums in the house to know his songs. They were just there, like the weather which was always better back then.

If you were a kid interested in adding something groovy to your guitar or piano lessons, his sheet music was mysteriously thrust upon your easel. I can almost remember how Sweet Caroline goes on the piano, an instrument the song was clearly never designed for (altogether now: "Touching me ... touching youuuuuuu ..."). My mate Nigel, a man who hides his vast musical talents behind a mild-mannered exterior and a proper career, can top that though. He has a treasured tape of him as a pre-adolescent voice singing and playing Crunchy Granola Suite on the guitar in a talent quest. After a few drinks we've been known to drag it out and fall about the room laughing at is sheer cuteness. I remain jealous that Nigel mastered a Diamond tune and I never really did. Though he did pick one about muesli. Back then, I also attempted to learn to play I Am, I Said by thumping its hydraulic chord changes on the family upright. It was never going to work. But it did give me one of my first lyrical conundrums, that very odd "not even the chair" line. Was his lyric so existentially powerful that random bits of furniture got caught up in its vortex? Or was it just an easy rhyme? And if a song that title had been a painting, would it have been a McCahon? You can have much fun contemplating the vast depths of the old Diamond mine. Especially as his songs are wrapped up in childhood memories - pre-teen, pre-record buying, pre-music snob. And now, so many years later, Diamond is still with us. He's still as regular as Elvis on Stars in their Eyes. Even Elvis covered the songs of the man they called "the Jewish Elvis". He's just popped up on American Idol mentoring this year's warblers, which may have something to do with his US and international chart momentum. And he's apparently writing 'em like he used to. Well sort of. Diamond offers up some gems on Home Before Dark. But if you like it, go get the previous slightly better one 12 Songs. He also did that one with producer Rick Rubin - the studio guru who made Johnny Cash's final albums some of the best he had ever done. One of them included a version of Solitary Man. My mate Nigel can do a pretty good version of that, too.

Ashlee Simpson sacrifices tour for baby

2008-06-09T23:31:00.001-07:00

Washington (ANI): American pop rock singer songwriter Ashlee Simpson has postponed her summer tour after confirming her pregnancy. "After careful consideration, Ashlee Simpson has decided to postpone her summer tour," People mag quoted the singer's publicist as saying in a statement on May 31 Saturday. "She is committed to giving her fans the best show possible, and will be back better than ever and ready to rock in the future," the publicist added. Simpson was in Vegas with her parents and husband for the Palms Place grand opening party where Wentz was spinning, and as he played "Power of Love" he dedicated a song to his father in law. "This is dedicated to my father in law Joe Simpson. I definitely have the power of love for you," Wentz said. He later dedicated a song to his "baby momma," who was sitting in the VIP section with her mom drinking water.

Usher & Sony Ericsson Partner For New Walkman Phone

2008-06-03T01:41:00.001-07:00

Usher has partnered with Sony Ericsson to become the face of their new Walkman music phone, that will be sold later on this year in the US, Canada and 20 European countries.

The deal accompanies the sponsorhip already formed between the two names, with the phone giants sponsoring the R&B singer's forthcoming North American tour.

The new campaign will let fans access exclusive content, enter contests to meet Usher during a video shoot and also win VIP tickets for that previously mentioned tour. The Walkman phone will also come pre-loaded Usher ringtones and full album downloads.

The singer meanwhile, has just released his fifth album 'Here I Stand' this week.

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2008-05-28T22:19:00.001-07:00

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Ingram Hill

2008-05-22T21:44:00.001-07:00

Artist: Ingram Hill

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:


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2008-05-10T22:27:00.001-07:00

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Britney Spears blows $61m in 1 year

2008-05-02T22:13:00.001-07:00

Britney Spears blows $61m in 1 year

Britney Spears has blown $61m this yesteryear year, it has been revealed.
The troubled singer’s father-God — world Health Organization was named co-conservator of her estate on February 1 — made the discovery after going through her books.
“It’s staggering how much money has been used up,” a Spears family friend says.
The ‘Toxic’ hitmaker has been forced to shell come out a fortune on expensive legal bills, rehab and psychiatric upkeep, as well as losing money due to her inability to work since her infamous head paring incident in February 2007 and her admittance into a psychiatric cellblock earlier this class.

Action Action

2008-04-29T09:05:00.001-07:00

Artist: Action Action

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

Clarke Foley (vocals/bass), Adam Manning (guitar), Dan Leo (drums), and Scrape St. Thomas Kluepfel (vocals/keyboards) create the sharp, helen of Troy Wills Helen Wills dance-punk stylings of Action at law Action. The bandmembers came together in 2004 afterwards their premature groups -- the Reunion Show, Count the Stars, and Diffusor -- disbanded. Action Action's debut album, Don't Contract Your Cloth to This Year's Mode, was released on Triumph in fall 2004. Disbursal most of their time on the route, Action Action followed up with An Ground forces of Shapes Betwixt Wars in January 2006; the band then jumped back on go with the Sounds and Morningwood throughout Border district and Apr.

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Madonna's film for Berlin Festival

2008-04-29T07:13:00.001-07:00

Madonna's film for Berlin Festival

Madonna's directorial debut volition be among the films screening in the arthouse section of the Berlin International Plastic film Fete.
Billboard reports that Madonna's film, 'Filth and Wisdom', stars Stephen Whole wheat flour ('This Is England', 'Gangs of New York'), Richard E Grant and Eugene Hutz, the singer with the striation Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol House of ill repute.
The German capital International Plastic film Festival runs from 7 to 17 February.
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Tiger Stripes

2008-04-29T03:58:00.001-07:00

Artist: Tiger Stripes

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   House
   Dance

Discography:


Safari

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 11


What Was

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 4


Missing You (Mr V Remixes) (SLIP214) Vinyl

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 3


The Vulture EP

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 3


Spirited away (amphytrion)

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 3


Afro mundo

   Year:
Tracks: 4

Mavis Staples hopes Barack Obama will finish what Martin Luther King started

2008-04-29T03:27:00.001-07:00

Mavis Staples hopes Barack Obama will finish what Martin Luther King started

The jazz writer Francis Edgar Stanley Bow one time described the sound of the Staple fibre Singers as "pleasure and roar". From the 50s, the family group, light-emitting diode by Roebuck "Pops" Staples, married a grumble gospel with soul and blues and politics, creating hits such as I'll Direct You There and Respect Yourself. Today, only Turdus philomelos, the youngest member, continues to perform; her father-God died in 2000, her brother Pervis has retired, her sister Cleotha suffers from Alzheimer's, patch her other sister, Yvonne, sings occasional fill-in on term of enlistment. So it is reassuring to discover Mavis Staples' mightily new album, recorded with Ry Cooder, Ladysmith Lightlessness Mambazo and the Master copy Freedom Singers: that distinctive voice is stillness thither - still joyful, hush thunderous.

This afternoon, Staples recalls the day the chairwoman of her record book company suggested she phonograph recording an album of freedom songs. She was sceptical. "I said, 'D'you retrieve people want to find out exemption songs today?'" But she soon realised, she says, the speciality of the mind: "Because Dr King, he brought us a powerful long way, just the bigotry, the shabbiness, it's altogether still here." She looks ferocious, in venom of her pay off and pale pink scarf. "We're freer, just we're not match - in our jobs, our schooling, we're distillery at the merchantman of the totem celestial pole. And Dr Business leader, his dream is non being realised."The music of the Basic Singers soundtracked the civil rights motion: it was their songs that were sung on dissent marches; Martin Martin Luther World-beater was a close booster of Pops Staples. "Pop, he always told the songwriters: if you wanna write for the Staples, study the headlines," she says. "'Cause we wanna sing about what's occurrent in the worldly concern. And this is still occurrent." She shakes her head with discouragement. "Every time I pluck up the paper. In Chicago today, a negro family throne move into a neighborhood, and they get down altogether settled in and the next morning they wake up up, their garage is spraypainted: n-word, take come out of the closet. It's terrifying. I looked at [Hurricane] Katrina, I had flashbacks. My baby and I, we finger it from time to fourth dimension - the girl behind the desk, she'll see us standing in that respect looking right on at her, just she'll wait on the white mortal. And I'm easily, merely Yvonne, she won't read it. She'll say, 'Well, await a minute! We're next! Don't try that!'"Staples had never worked with Ry Cooder earlier, though he had produced more or less of her father's material. He visited her in Boodle, and they sat at her dining room table choosing songs for the record album. She was amazed, she says, by how easily they worked in concert in the studio. "[He] played a lot of my father's licks," she explains. "He plugged into Pops' amplifier, he sits plump for and he starts strumming, the saame sound my father was performing on his guitar. And I said, 'Aw shucks, this is gonna be good!' Ah girl, I was reminiscing - it was like I was sightedness a picture in my question."These reminiscences ar delivered over the songs like freestyle poetry, and cover the time Staples number one became aware of racial segregation (individual remonstrated with her for most drinking from a t. H. White boozing fountain when she was ashcan School); the meter the Staple Singers were arrested in AR; and the occasion when she inadvertantly integrated a laundromat in MS. "I was shoot down in Mississippi visiting my granddad," she recalls, "and I went up to the launderette. I didn't have it off there was a edward D. White position and a black side, simply I went in and I happened to go in the inkiness side, and altogether the machines were taken. And I said, 'I can't wait!' So I was on my way back to my grandfather's and on the way of life I passed the white side; barely iI edward White ladies sitting in there. So I went in, started wash, they didn't say anything to me. Whole of a sudden, black ladies, I sawing machine 'em peepin' ... " She starts to laugh. "And I infer they persuasion, 'Oh, she's in there', so they came over and started lavation their apparel, likewise. And when I got back to the house, my grandad was preaching, 'Yeah, my baby Mable!' - he never called me Mavis, he barely had one tooth. Soul had gone round and told him, 'Your grand-baby has gone and integrated the washeteria!'"I ask Staples why she thinks music played such a significant use in the civil rights social movement, and she tells me around departure back to George Washington DC to speak to congressman John Lewis, an companion of Rex world Health Organization has written the album's liner notes. "He said to me, 'Your padre, your family, you all kept us going, your music kept us release, the songs you sang kept us going.' And they did, we were penning our have exemption songs. March Up Freedom's Highway - we wrote that for the march from Selma to 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. And It's a Long Walk to DC, Merely I Got My Walking Place On - we wrote that for the march to Evergreen State."Music is goodness for the person," she continues. "It precisely kept you marching. And we would march altogether day, and and so we'd go to someone's house and get a big dinner, then we'd just altogether talk about what we'd done that day. It reminded me of the folks singers, when they'd call us to the ethnic music festivals, and there'd be Joan Baez, Bob Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens. And after we sang the festivals, they'd take their acoustic guitars and go to 1 of these big houses and precisely sit on the floor and precisely everybody blab out unitedly. There's songs on the CD that relate to that time, like We Shall Non Be Moved - we'd go to a eating house and they wouldn't suffice us, and they'd call the constabulary to start out us outta there. And we'd lock arms and we'd blab out, 'We shall, we shall not be moved,' and everybody would scarce hold as tight as we could until the police force came and pulled us asunder. Music is just mightily."Does she feel that musicians feature a political province? "I have to talk only for us," she says, tentatively. "Simply I would love to try other singers sing it. I would love to get word a rapper blame freedom. We intellection about it too late - if I had asked Commons or Kanye to rap on just on one birdcall, perhaps." She sighs, her modality turned cloudy at the chance missed. "Because you require the edward Young people to try these songs. You desire them to cognise their inkiness history. I had a schoolteacher living next door to me, and she told me that when Rosa Parks passed away, a girl in her class, 17 eld old, asked her, 'What did she do? WHO was she?' And Genus Rosa Parks started it wholly!"I ask her what King was like, and she smiles heartily. "Oh Dr King, he was simply a serious-minded person," she says. "He wouldn't talk to us girls much, he would speak to my father. I loved to hear him laugh, but it was so seldom. You looked at him, and nearly of the time he either appeared worried or serious. Simply I remember his laughter."When Dr King was assassinated in Memphis in Apr 1968, the Staple Singers were in Capital of Tennessee to trifle a show. "I remember it so vividly," she says. "My father couldn't hold us, my sisters and I. We just went nutcase. Oh," she says, and her voice stumbles, "we but couldn't do by it. So papa told us, you totally get your apparel in concert, we're sledding menage. We couldn't sing. We cried wholly the way home. It was so sad, so sad." She pauses, catches herself most. "And Mrs. King, she ground a annotation in his sack of his last sermon that he was gonna do, and Ry Cooder had it. He wanted us to sing it. But we just now couldn't get it together this time. I think Ry still has in the back up of his idea that we're gonna do it. It's so right."I consume read, I say her, that she has some reservations around her colleague Chicagoan Barack Obama. "No," she says sweetly. "You know, I did at first, 'cause I heard Obama speak and I idea he was great. And then the next clip I saw him he was rather cocky. But that was when he low gear started. And now I'm completely for Obama." She smiles. "I like Hillary [Clinton], besides. If either unity of them wins, it's history - and it's altogether because of Dr Queen." Obama, she tells me, is a member of her church service in Boodle - "and yes, that was my subgenus Pastor doing entirely that bit." She refers, of course, to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons on race hold got Obama into worry in recent epoch weeks.She was scared at get-go, she says, posing in a LA hotel room, watching the coverage on CNN. "I said, oh Divine, he's gonna great deal it up for ma! Simply then I thought, that Reverend Wright, he's non a badly person. I was at the christian church earlier Obama, and I know him, and you know, he's not racialist. Only he gonna speak his intellect, he's from the old school, you know?" A shake of the headway, a raise of the custody. "But Obama!" she says his name fain. "Did you date what he did? It was amazing! When he did that [A More Perfective tense Pairing] speech I said, 'Lord thank you Good Shepherd!' This man, he's not Dr Martin Luther King, simply is in a direction so much like Dr King. I reckon if he was president, he would do right on by everybody, I really do. I think he would make a great president. And," she laughs, and looks a little brazen, "he's so handsome!".· We'll Ne'er Become Bet on is out now on Pinnacle. Throstle Staples plays the Barbacan, British capital EC2 (020-7638 8891), tonight, and then tours