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FABRIC SALE CONFIRMED The sale of London nightclub Fabric has now been confirmed. As revealed last week by CMU Daily, the faltering club was recently sold to a newly incorporated company called Fabric Life. A number of private investors have put money into the new company, but the club itself will continue to be run by the same team as before. There is still no official word on what fate will befall Fabric's loss-making sister club Matter, the website of which is still claiming that its closure will only last the summer. |
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GLASTONBURY 40TH ANNIVERSARY UNDER WAY Despite the fact that over 120,000 people were already on site by Wednesday afternoon and bands started playing last night, Glastonbury's 40th anniversary only officially kicks off today. Prince Charles was on site yesterday to have a bit of a poke about, and tonight Gorillaz are expected to be joined by all of the various collaborators from their recent 'Plastic Beach' album: Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, Bobby Womack, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Mark E Smith. |
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JACKO WORTH MILLIONS IN DEATH Today is the first anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, leading to many reports on the singer's profitability over the last twelve months. The Jackson estate has generated hundreds of millions of dollars since the pop star's premature demise (estimates of exactly how much vary, but some reckon, if you include all recording and publishing royalties, close to a billion). This news coincides with Jackson's sister LaToya reiterating her claims that her brother was murdered because he was worth more dead than alive. |
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STUART CABLE CREMATED IN ABERDARE Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable was cremated in Aberdare on Monday following a private funeral service. Hundreds of fans lined the streets as his horse-drawn hearse was led through the town in south Wales. The musician and broadcaster was found dead at his home in the Welsh village of Llwydcoed in the early hours of 7 Jun. Those in attendance at his funeral included his former Stereophonics bandmates Kelly Jones and Richard Jones, actor Rhys Ifans and comedian Rob Brydon. After the service, the coffin was carried from the church to AC/DC's 'Back In Black'. |
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SLIPKNOT BASSIST DIED FROM ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE Toxicology results following a post mortem examination of the body of Slipknot bassist Paul Gray have found that he died from an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl, a synthetic morphine substitute. Signs of significant heart disease were also discovered. A police spokesman said that Gray did not have a prescription for either of the drugs found in his system and that attempts were being made to ascertain how he had obtained them. He added that there was a possibility of charges being brought against the supplier. Gray's body was found at the Town Plaza Hotel in the Iowa city of Des Moines on 24 May. |
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PEAS AND AGUILERA BREAK CHART RECORDS The Black Eyed Peas' track 'I Gotta Feeling' has become the first ever single to be downloaded more than one million times in the UK. 'I Gotta Feeling' was originally released in June last year and became the group's third UK number one single. Meanwhile, Christina Aguilera has broken a less desirable chart record. Having gone straight in at number one last week, her new album 'Bionic' dropped down to number 29 this week, the biggest single-week fall in the album charts ever. Not only that, but having shifted just 24,000 copies to get to the top spot in the first place, it's also the lowest selling number one album for eight years. |
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Duncan Geere is a music and technology journalist, who, fittingly for this feature, was one of the first in the UK to cover Spotify back when it first launched. Currently he's working as News Editor on Wired Magazine's website, which means he's still very much the go-to guy if you want to know about new developments in digital music. As well as that, he does a bit of DJing and could once upon a time be found playing records at our CMU Social events. We've missed his song choices since then, so we thought we'd get him to put together a playlist for us.
Says Duncan: "I put together this playlist with a very specific goal in mind. One that's shared by almost every mixtaper you've ever met. To try to make some kind of connection with the listener. But the problem with making a playlist for CMU readers, rather than some girl I want to impress, is that I don't know you very well. In fact, I don't know you at all. So instead I've gone for distraction tactics that I'm hoping will snare a few of you while you're doing other things".
"If there's a theme between the songs, it's perhaps memories of a better time. In some places that manifests as homesickness. In several, it's missing a former lover, or a lover that you can't reach. In at least one case, it's your life flashing before your eyes. Everyone's got those memories and there's nothing wrong with them. So spare three quarters of an hour or so to wallow in it. Then get back to whatever you were doing beforehand".
Well, we have nothing more to add to that. Go forth and listen.| DUNCAN GEERE'S TEN | ||
| 01 | Jason Lytle | Yours Truly, The Commuter |
| The Grandaddy frontman's solo work has received relatively little attention, but it's the opening track on the album that's a highlight for me. There's something fantastic about listening to this first thing it the morning. It makes you feel like you've achieved something. | ||
| 02 | Glen Campbell | Wichita Lineman |
| I can't hear this song without melting a little inside. It's set in Oklahoma, where I spent a year studying, and relates the story of a lonely railway worker who hears the wind blowing over his telegraph wires and mistakes it for his lover's voice. | ||
| 03 | Interpol | PDA |
| This was the song the convinced me, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there was more to Interpol than just being a Joy Division covers band. While singer Paul Banks' lyrics are frequently nonsensical, if you tune them out and treat them as just another instrument then there are few bands you could consider more atmospheric. | ||
| 04 | Electric Six | Transatlantic Flight |
| Since their monster hit, 'Gay Bar', in 2003, Electric Six have recorded six albums, and are in the process of making a seventh. All of them are featuring songs better than 'Gay Bar'. If you like your rock dirty, sexy, and frequently hilarious, then treat yourself to listening to some of them. Start with 'I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master'. | ||
| 05 | Club 8 | Whatever You Want |
| During 2009's very disappointing clutch of releases, I sought solace in Swedish indie-pop. I've utterly fallen for Club 8's 'The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming', thanks to this track's soaring, faultless vocal. | ||
| 06 | Broken Social Scene | Sentimental X's |
| I've never followed Broken Social Scene very closely, but on listening to the band's latest album, this was the track that blew my head off. Keep your ears open around 4:05 for a crescendo that'll blow yours off too. | ||
| 07 | The Great Depression | The Sargasso Sea |
| With its horn riff, orchestration and gently melancholy slant, you'd be forgiven for mistaking 'The Sargasso Sea' for an album track on a Divine Comedy record. But it's not. It's the sound of a post-rock act trying to write a pop song, and succeeding brilliantly. | ||
| 08 | Yo La Tengo | Cherry Chapstick |
| It was tough to choose a song by American indie legends Yo La Tengo, but in the end I plumped for 'Cherry Chapstick' with its layers of rhythm, heartfelt lyrics, and screeching feedback. If I could only listen to one band for the rest of my existence, it'd be Yo La Tengo. | ||
| 09 | Doves | There Goes The Fear |
| This is my favourite song in the world. I can't explain why. It's just the way it feels when it climaxes at 4:48 and it soars far above the clouds. It's a pity that the band's never been able to match it since. | ||
| 10 | Bob Crosby & The Bobcats | Way Back Home |
| I play a lot of videogames, and this is from the soundtrack of 'Fallout 3'. It's impossible to listen to it and not feel simultaneously comforted and homesick. | ||
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Snoop Dogg remixing Tinie Tempah. In celebration of his first UK show for five years at Glastonbury tonight, Snoop Dogg released his own remix of Tinie Tempah's 'Pass Out'. What has Snoop done to the track? Frankly, very little. In fact, he's done nothing other than adding a verse of his own, referencing the lift on his ban from entering the UK and Glastonbury. But, hey, it's still a great track - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_zwg_lT3k | |
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Arcade Fire. The tracklist has been published for the new Arcade Fire album which, as previously reported, will be released via Mercury on 2 Aug. The band have also announced they will play a secret gig in London on 7 Jul. To get tickets for the gig, you have to pre-order the album from Universal's online store - store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/Arcade-Fire-Exclusive-Ticket/page/arcadefirepresale |
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Blonde Redhead. Recorded in Stockholm and New York with production duo Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid, the eighth studio album from multi-lingual indie types Blonde Redhead, 'Penny Sparkle', is due out in September. You can download the album's opening track, 'Here Sometimes', for free right now at the band's website and they will also play a one-off UK show in London on 29 Sep - www.blonde-redhead.com | |
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Fol Chen. As the dust settled around the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland after its air travel halting eruption earlier this year, Californian band Fol Chen, quickly despatched video director Chris Wilcha and local musicians Gudfinnur Sveinsson and Elìn Elisabet Einarsdóttir to the foot of the volcano to go and kick around in the dust to the sound of new single, 'In Ruins'. The results are pretty special - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u8FqrVK_rI |
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Blondes. Zach Steinman and Sam Haar set about creating their semi-improvised sound in 2008, taking in all manner of experimental electronica genres, as well as a bit of krautrock and half a teaspoon of pop to ensure that the occasional hook appears. The highlight of their debut EP, 'Touched' is 'Moondance', which is easy to lose yourself early on, only to wake up dancing later - www.myspace.com/blondeblondeblondes | |
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Breton. At their base in a warehouse in south east London, Breton spend their days writing music and making films. The music is a blend of electro, post-punk, art-rock, hip hop and more besides. Although the songs are recognisably Breton, each seems to have been approached as a standalone piece. The progression of their sound is not necessarily dictated by what they have done before - soundcloud.com/bretonLABS |
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Q1 How did you start out making music? HERE WE GO MAGIC: "I started when I was very small. I was kind of obsessed - I would refuse to leave the neighbours house every day because they had a piano. Finally my parents conceded and bought me a stand-up piano of my own, a white one with knobby keys. It was my very first love. I would take the backs of cereal boxes and circle the letters that corresponded to the keyboard. If it was the first or last letter of the word then I would play the black key next to it. I guess it was a flat, unless it was a C or an F. Then it was a sharp. I would make up little songs and use that as the sheet music. I don't remember anyone being very impressed with that music. And I think the healthy cereals produced the best songs, much to my dismay" Read more of Here We Go Magic's answers |
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Q2 What inspired your latest album? MATISYAHU: "It's hard to pin down one thing and say that was the inspiration. My songs are based on the ideas, struggles, ups, downs, life experiences, etc over a several year period leading up to and during the writing and recording of the record. Though, one place I did draw inspiration from was from the teaching of a famous Rabbi named Nachman who was know for his stories, in particular the story of the seven beggars" Read more of Matisyahu's answers |
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Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track? MIKE DOUGHTY: "Songwriting usually starts with a chord progression that I improvise when drinking coffee in the morning. I record it onto my computer and forget about it. Then, as I'm walking along in the world, on the subway, etc, I'll hear words or think them up, jot them down in a notebook. So months or years later I'll have a pile of words and phrases and a pile of chord progressions. I'll start trying them out with each other, testing melodies, bumping them around" Read more of Mike Doughty's answers |
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Q4 Which artists influence your work? ZOLA JESUS: "I try to refuse influence from others, but I do respect the Viennese Aktionists, Genesis P-Orridge, Schopenhauer, Stockhausen... figures who are fiercely dedicated to their passion" Read more of Zola Jesus' answers |
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Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time? BORN RUFFIANS: "Probably nothing. Just stare awkwardly. Maybe wave. Or high five them if they like it. Sob on the ground if they don't" Read more of Born Ruffians' answers |
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Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future? APPLES IN STEREO: "My goal is to make music that conveys a really good feeling and makes you want to sing along, that catches your attention instantly but gives you new details every time you listen, and that makes you feel hopeful about your life. That is the kind of music I want to hear" Read more of Apples In Stereo's answers |
Morrissey is known for his fervent vegetarianism. He's not afraid to call for meat to be banned at his gigs, or rant at meat eaters he sees (or smells) at festivals. Hell, he even wrote a song, nay an entire album, called 'Meat Is Murder'. Morrissey gets away with this for a number of reasons:
1) He is Morrissey
2) He's known for being a bit demanding
3) People like that he's a bit of an arse
4) He co-wrote 'How Soon Is Now?'
Leona's support act Gabriella Cilmi also told Digital Spy: "All I know so far is that the food's going to be vegan, and I'm not sure how I'm going to cope with that".
Rumours that a pack of drooling roadies have already eaten two members of Leona's band remain unconfirmed. |
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