’70s rock show postponed
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- ’70s rock show postponed
- A Classic Case
- ‘No Line on the Horizon’ by U2
- Classic title earns Reese respect
- Young rock star walks the red carpet
- The Cars Drive onto Rock Band 2 for the Wii
- Dutch stations ask listeners for license fee
’70s rock show postponed
New Straits Times Malaysia -
rganiser Mizi Kamarudin said that one of the bands had to pull out due to unforeseen circumstances leaving only one band Sugar Cane to perform on both days. Mizi’s original plan was to have two bands on each night. The good news however is that tickets for the dates are now priced at a cheaper rate (RM35) in view of the gloomy economy. The show on both evenings will kick off at 4.
A Classic Case
Cleveland Free Times H -
His debut The Inhuman Condition was the best-selling independent record release of all time in his native Canada. We Were Born in a Flame from 2003 is one of the best records of this decade and 2008's Love at the End of the World earns its accolades. "About a month after the tour of our previous record [2006's] Chemical City I took a month to gather the ideas marinating in my brain" says Roberts via phone from a tour stop in Portland Maine. "It just happened to coincide with the birth of my little girl in early 2007.
‘No Line on the Horizon’ by U2
Los Angeles Times CA -
r to put it another way: Draw new lines on the horizon. U2 has become such an edifice in pop that it’s hard to remember its emergence at the dawn of the 1980s all knees and elbows startling our ears with guitar drone delay and those slightly stoned yet bracingly direct rhythms topped by the unhinged yelp of Bono a born believer following Ezra Pound’s modernist dictum to “Make it new!”From the first U2 was more fervently reckless than any classic rock band yet more respectful of its roots and determined to be part of a lineage than the art punks with whom they’d started out. The sound the band hit upon which became transcendent on the mid-period albums Eno co-produced is big enough to contain rock’s historical essence and overshadow it. “No Line on the Horizon” which is due out next week and currently is available for streaming on the band’s MySpace page celebrates dissects reconfigures and sometimes pokes holes in that sound. The band’s 12th studio album it comes 30 years after those first face-slapping singles. It’s a pilgrimage — the religious metaphor is inevitable — along the path forged by U2 itself.
Classic title earns Reese respect
ESPN -
— Skeet Reese 2009 Bassmaster Classic champion was watching himself react to his 10-ounce victory on a television inside the Bassmaster studio. n the screen Reese was jumping in circles and screaming. In the studio it was just two fists straight up in the air and a huge smile.
Young rock star walks the red carpet
Pahrump Valley Times NV -
“He said he was really impressed with Derik. He really liked him. For the past three years Jordan has given his son who plays with the classic rock band Razorback a new Eddie Van Halen guitar to take to the NAMM convention so Derik can get it autographed by his favorite recording artists. At this year’s event Derik played his newest Van Halen guitar Wolfgang to a very receptive audience. “People kept telling us how great he played” said Jordan. “They got his autograph and wanted pictures with him. People thought he was Eddie Van Halen until they got up close and saw how young Derik is.
The Cars Drive onto Rock Band 2 for the Wii
Game Daily CA -
by GameDaily Staff on Tuesday February 24 2009. The available songs are as follows.
Dutch stations ask listeners for license fee
followthemedia.com (subscription) Switzerland -
The company’s owner needs about €8 million before March 11th or it’s shut down time. “Put your money where you ear is” says the promo. For €15 supporters will receive a special CD. The Dutch Radiocommunications Agency (Agentschap Telecom) notified Arrow Media Group owner Ad ssendrijver to clear the arrears license fee amounts by noon March 11th or the transmitters would be shut down the next day.
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