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06/27/10
stevie wonder close glastonbury
Stevie Wonder, MGMT, Julian Casablancas to play final day of Glastonbury

Stevie Wonder is scheduled to bring Glastonbury to a close tonight (June 27), headlining the Pyramid Stage.

Meanwhile, other acts gracing stages at Worthy Farm today include Julian Casablancas, MGMT, Ray Davies, Slash, The Drums and Grizzly Bear.

NME will be coming live from Glastonbury throughout the weekend. Head to NME.COM/glastonbury for the latest festival news.

Source NME

weezer works with ryan adams

Weezer working with Ryan Adams
by ROBIN MURRAY

American geek-rockers Weezer have been working on new material with alt country singer Ryan Adams.

Sure they might never top 'Pinkterton' but Weezer remain a hugely respected American group. Touring across the United States last year, a bus crash left singer Rivers Cuomo in hospital and shocked fans.

Taking time off to recover, it now seems that Weezer have begun working on new material. The band are busy constructing a follow up to 2008's self-titled effort, and is seems that they have called in a few favours.

Speaking to MTV, frontman Rivers Cuomo revealed that he has been working with alt country singer Ryan Adams. "I just wrote a song with Ryan Adams. Not Bryan, Ryan," he said. "It's a very stirring and emotional and powerful Weezer song. He was really inspiring to work with. He has a lot of wild and crazy energy."

Continuing, Rivers Cuomo hinted that plans are already well underway for a new Weezer album. "It's gonna be on the Weezer record. He plays lead guitar on it, but it will be on the Weezer record, for sure."

Ryan Adams 'retired' from music last year, but recently returned with a limited edition science fiction inspired rock opera - "wild and crazy energy" indeed!

Meanwhile, Weezer recently released an anthem for the United States football team. 'Represent!' was designed to cheer the team on, and given that they have now qualified for the last sixteen they could have succeeded.

'Represent!' is available as a free download from Weezer's website.

The band are also due to perform at this year's Reading and Leeds festivals. Weezer's first British date since their fateful bus crash last year, the performance is their only UK festival show this summer.

Source clashmusic

unreleased beatles on dvd
Unreleased Beatles Ed Sullivan footage coming to DVD
by JOE BOSSO

When originally broadcast, The Beatles' debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was the most-watched TV program in history. But if you think you've seen all of the footage of the band's first and subsequent Sullivan Show airings, think again.

On 7 September, UME will reissue The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles. The 13 minutes of extra footage includes an ad for Beatles dolls and Sullivan's interview with members of the band, neither of which has been seen since the show originally aired.

An option to choose either mono sound or a 5.1 remix will be included with the newly-remastered set, which will also incorporate the commercials that originally aired with the shows.

Broadcast on 9 February 1964, The Beatles' appearance on Sullivan's variety show was seen by 73 million viewers in the United States, a figure that at the time represented 86 percent of all televisions that were switched on.

Source musicradar

john power says cast will reform
Cast to reform, confirms John Power

Cast frontman John Power has announced plans to reform the band.

Power, who was also bassist in The La's, told Uncut's sister publication NME that recently contacted guitarist Liam 'Skin' Tyson, bassist Peter Wilkinson and drummer Keith O'Neill for the first time since they split in August 2001.

He explained: "For me to have rang the lads and for the lads to have come and sat in the same room as me is unbelievable because a few years ago I would have laughed. But now something musical is rising inside of me."

The singer added that he has started working on a body of new material which he feels would be right for the Liverpool four-piece.

"Something’s brewing in my mind and it’s ready to pop," Power explained. "I've been writing a body of work that has made me feel at peace with the stuff I've done in the past and I don't want to think too far ahead, but I thought it would probably work for Cast. So I thought, 'Why don’t we get together?'"

The star also hinted that his former band The La's may also resurface at some point in the future.

"I was with [singer] Lee [Mavers] the other night," he said. "I'll always be in The La's, regardless of whether that's a physical thing, because these things have touched me and they are there for life just like the Cast songs are. I'm neither one nor the other. I'm all these things and the idea is for all these things to come to fruition."

Source UNCUT

the black crowes announces hiatus

The Black Crowes announce hiatus

The Black Crowes are set to go on indefinite hiatus after celebrating their 20th anniversary with a special acoustic release.

The band are celebrating two decades since the release of their debut 'Shake Your Money Maker', and will releasing a new double-disc acoustic album reworking of some of their best-loved songs.

Called 'Croweology', the record will be released on August 3 and will be sold for the price of a single disc as a thank you to fans.

The band will then head out on a tour of the US dubbed the 'Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys' tour this summer, after which they are planning a lengthy period away.

Frontman Chris Robinson said: "With a smile so wide you can count my teeth and with a heart so full of love that it is spilling over the rim, I offer a humble and simple thank you.

"Thank you for your time, your imaginations, your heartaches and joy. Thank you for 20 years of cosmic rock'n'roll. 20 years of keeping it weird. 20 years of chasing horizons and before the band that dares to dream out loud puts it down for a while, we are proud to give you our 'Croweology'. This year the music is only for you as we celebrate what has been, what is now and whatever will be."

Source UNCUT

garry shider died

Garry Shider 1953-2010

THE FUNK WORLD is in mourning at the news that Garry 'Star Child' Shider, George Clinton's musical director and right hand man for 40 years, succumbed to brain cancer on June 16.

Apart from acting as main conduit between Clinton and his legions of musicians, Shider was renowned for taking the stage clad only in a large nappy, earning him the tag 'Diaper Man'. After hooking up with Funkadelic on 1971's Maggot Brain album, he sang, co-wrote and played guitar on all their major albums, along with sister group Parliament's post-1974 output, Clinton's later solo projects and many P-Funk offshoots. Shider was also band leader of Clinton's current P-Funk All Stars.

Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in July, 1953, Shider first encountered Clinton in 1960 at the fabled local barber shop which spawned doowop group the Parliaments while acting as a local epicentre for would-be musicians and bored teenagers. The seven-year-old Shider had bunked off church to get his hair waved but was smitten by the singing he heard in the shop that day. By the age of ten, at the behest of his father, he was singing behind gospel legends such as Shirley Caesar & The Mighty Clouds Of Joy, while staying in contact with Clinton at Parliaments gigs, telling friends he would one day join them.

At 17, Shider relocated to Toronto with bassist friend Cordell Mosson, forming funk band United Soul [or U.S. Music]. Clinton, who was also living there at the time, was sufficiently impressed to sign them to his new production company, producing a single for Westbound called Baby, I Owe You Something Good.

After singing on Maggot Brain, Shider joined Funkadelic full time, going on to play a major role on subsequent acid funk milestones including America Eats Its Young, Cosmic Slop, Standing on The Verge Of Getting It On, Let's Take It To The Stage, Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic and One Nation Under A Groove, for which he co-wrote the anthemic title track with Clinton.

With Parliament, he appeared on Up For The Down Stroke, Chocolate City, Mothership Connection, The Clones Of Dr Funkenstein, Funkentelechy Vs The Placebo Syndrome and Motor Booty Affair, co-writing songs including Unfunky U.F.O., Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication, Night Of The Thumposorus People and Let's Take It To The Stage. He also played on P-related albums by Fuzzy Haskins, Eddie Hazel, the Horny Horns, Bootsy's Rubber Band and many more.

During the '90s, Shider divided his time between Clinton and projects such as guesting on the Black Crowes' 1996 album Three Snakes And One Charm, TV shows [including David Letterman and Saturday Night Live] and movies including PCU and The Night Before. In 1997, he was inducted into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame with Clinton and 14 fellow funkateers. Recently, Shider had also been playing with fearsome US psych-funk outfit Drugs.

He was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in late March but insisted on undertaking one final P-Funk All Stars tour, without followers being aware of his illness. He leaves his wife, Linda, three sons, his mother, six brothers and five grandchildren. The Garry Shider Medical Fund has been set up to help his family clear his outstanding medical bills.

Clinton and his band are due to headline the Jazz Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday, while his old friend's memorial service will take place this Tuesday in Plainfield.

"Garry was the heart of the group... always about making the whole ship better, and finding new ways to make it consistently run," said Clinton. "No creature in this world or any other can replace Garry Shider. He is virtually un-clonable."

Source MOJO

 
 
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