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http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/ - This blog is mostly about music and is written and compiled by Variety associate editor Phil Gallo. Gallo, based in Los Angeles, writes about the music business for Daily Variety and reviews concerts, televison shows and theater.
Dean & Britta have composed a baker's dozen songs for a project that focuses on Andy Warhol's "screen tests," in which individuals were seated in front of a camera for four minutes and filmed in silent portraiture. “13 Most Beautiful … Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” will debut in Pittsburgh as part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts on ...
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An Australian newspaper reports that Michael Guglielmucci , who had a hit record in Christian music circles called "Healer," is a fraud. Guglielmucci claimed for two years to be terminally ill and has performed his hit song with an oxygen tube in his nose - he even lied to his family about his illness. Naturally, the Australian Christian Church suspended his ...
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Glen Campbell sounded as good live as he does on "Meet Glen Campbell," his return to Capitol Records after a 27-year absence. To celebrate Tuesday's release of the album,Campbell performed at the Troubadour in West Hollywood with an expanded band that included a fair number of contemporary rock musicians, among them Roger Joseph manning Jr. of Jellyfish. He has a exceptional command of ...
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Tom Petty
The Replacements
Green Day
John Lennon
The Time of Your Life
The first time around, Atlantic Records' CD issue of Graham Nash's brilliant "Songs for Beginners" sounded like crap. This is the sort of record that gets the blood boiling in the vinyl enthusiasts: Not only is the overall sound tinny, the vocals have none of the warmth or focus of the original record. That, I expect, will be remedied Sept. 23 when Rhino issues a new version of ...
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Dex Romweber, who used to go by his full first name of Dexter when he led Flat Duo Jets, gets props from Jack White in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary “It Might Get Loud” on White, Jimmy Page and the Edge. In the film, White acknowledges the Romweber influence, singling out the Flat Duo Jets’ “Go-Go Harlem Baby.” Film contains live footage of Romweber playing “Crazy Hazy Kisses” and “Frog ...
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Dexter
Prince and Ray Davies did it in the U.K.; Brian Wilson is first veteran act to do it in the States: Promote a new album through newspapers. From Friday until Labor Day, more than 50 Gannett newspaper and TV station websites will stream Wilson's new album "That Lucky Old Sun." It will be released Sept. 2. Gannett sites include USATODAY.com plus 32 local newspaper websites and 19 TV ...
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Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, 77, is working with Joe Henry, who has produced Bettye LaVette, Solomon Burke and Elvis Costello/Allen Toussaint in recent years, on a blues album. A parade of musicians have been working on the sessions, among them Van Dyke Parks, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Greg Leisz, who plays just about every string instrument imaginable. Word on the street is that the ...
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The Grammy Awards
Neil Young, who played large theaters on his last tour, will be performing in arena between Oct. 14 and Dec. 15. Once again he will wind up with a New York show, this time at Madison Square Garden. Tour begins in St Paul, Minn. The band remains the same: Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Chad Cromwell, Anthony Crawford and Pegi Young. Death Cab For Cutie will support dates through Nov. 5; Wilco ...
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Neil Young
Jared Leto responded Monday to Virgin Records' $30 million lawsuit against his band 30 Seconds to Mars, invoking a labor clause that relates to actors that Courtney Love used when trying to separate Hole from the clutches of Universal Music Group. Leto says a key reason the band has left EMI is the new regime and their pinkslipping of 2,000 employees. "It is hardly the same ...
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Partially following the lead of the Eagles and Journey, AC/DC will release its next album through a single retail outlet, Wal-Mart, on Oct. 20. "Black Ice" will be sold at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores and online at the ac/dc site , and Walmart.com and Samsclub.com. The band's first album of all-new material in eight years, it will feature 15 tracks and ...
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Eagles
Jerry Wexler had the sort of touch Miles Davis looked for in his playing: He knew which notes to not play. Like the best record men, it often requires an individual to be a facilitator, the guy who knows how to manage a room and the people in it. He was no great knob controller - that was Tom Dowd's job - but he knew a good thing when he heard it. Or when he saw the way Southern musicians ...
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Used to be that the music played over the PA before the headliner came out was handpicked by the artist and even if it was incongruous with the act, it somehow connected with the overall statement. The Beach Boys’ collection of instrumentals “Stack-O-Tracks” was played before every show on Neil Young’s”Rust Never Sleeps” tour; once music by the Beatles or John Lennon was heard at a U2 ...
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Placement in a General Motors commercial has bolstered sales of Brandi Carlile’s 16-month-old album "The Story," pushing her into the top 10 lists on iTunes and Amazon. The commercial, which premiered during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, features the album's title track. (The commercial showcases the company’s alternative fuel projects.) Carlile will donate all proceeds ...
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Olympics
Radiohead
Less than a week after Edgar Bronfman Jr. says he wants more money for music suplied to games, Warner Music Group has announced it will make its music videos available on Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Xbox Live members worldwide can download music videos by featured WMG artists from Xbox Live Marketplace and watch them on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. Warner singled out ...
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Death Cab for Cutie
Flo Rida
Matchbox Twenty
Panic! at the Disco
T.I.
Loved this song when I was 11. It's still valid today, maybe even improved from Elton's original.
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Elton John
The first list of artists confirmed for the the 28th annual CMJ Music Marathon in New York has been released and it immediately sounds like an improvement on last year's festival. Booked to perform are: 3OH!3, A Place To Bury Strangers, AIDS Wolf, An Albatross, Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim, Annuals, Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Cool Kids, Crystal Castles, Cut Off Your Hands, ...
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They Might Be Giants
Sam Moore will perform a tribute to the late Isaac Hayes at the Sunset Junction Festival on Aug. 23. Most of Moore's hits in the 1960s with his partner Dave were penned by Hayes and Dave Porter; Hayes often produced the duo and backed then on piano. Moore will perform on the Hoover Stage at 9:30 p.m. on the 23rd, the slot for which Hayes was booked.
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Isaac Hayes
A second batch of Roy Harper albums from the 1970s will make their debut in October in the U.S. "The Green Man," "The Dream Society," "The Unknown Soldier" and "Death or Glory" follow the batch released earlier this year, "Stormcock," "Jugula," "Flat Baroque and Berserk" and the two-CD best of, "Counter ...
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I found that the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame did not make enough of a distinction between the Hall and the Museum aspects, and now that they are planning a New York annex, that's probably less of a concern. It's about time someone figured out how to put New York rockers' ephemera on display. When I visited the Cleveland hall a couple of years ago they had a spectacular ...
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Few acts do better in bringing out the best in their guests than Thievery Corporation and the lineup for their fifth album is a solid array of international superstars. Thievery Corporation - Rob Garza and Eric Hilton - have enlisted Nigeria’s Femi Kuti, Brazil's Seu Jorge, India's sitarist Anushka Shankar, Slovakian chanteuse and violinist Jana Andevska and the king of go-go ...
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