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News from the darkest corners of the
musical universe:
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Sunday, July 24, 2005 ◦
Jandek will perform for the first time in the US at the Austin Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas on Sunday, August 28th, 2005. The performance will begin at 7:30 pm.
Tickets will go on sale soon at http://www.jandekinaustin.com
The historic Austin Scottish Rite Theatre is located at 207 West 18th Street, near downtown and the University of Texas. Doors will open at 6 pm.
The Austin show will be followed by two performances in early September in New Orleans and New York City:
New Orleans show:
September 2, 2005
Dixon Hall Annex
Tulane University
Doors 7 pm
New York show:
September 6, 2005
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003 USA
Telephone: (212) 505-5181
Fax: (212) 477-2714
Doors 7 pm
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 ◦
According to a recent Ralf Huetter interview published in the July/August issue of italian magazine Trax, the complete Kraftwerk catalogue will be reissued after the current tour, bringing remastered versions of their 8 main albums.
The 8 albums: Autobahn, Radioactivity, Trans Europe Express, The Man-Machine, Computer World, Technopop (Electric Cafe), The Mix and Tour de France Soundtracks, will be published in both English and German versions.
The DVD "MINIMUM-MAXIMUM" will also be released after the tour, in a special edition with a book. EMI Records Germany announced the release of upcoming Kraftwerk Live DVD "MINIMUM-MAXIMUM" for 26th, September 2005.
More info here.
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Monday, July 18, 2005 ◦
Joe Harnell, a Grammy Award-winning pianist, arranger and conductor, died Thursday of heart failure at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks. He was 80.
Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Harnell began studying piano when he was 6 and started his professional career as a jazz pianist at 14. He graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in music.
He enlisted in the Army Air Forces during World War II, touring with the Glenn Miller Air Force band. After his discharge at the end of the war, he studied composition with Aaron Copland and worked as a music director or accompanist for a number of leading singers. Harnell worked with Peggy Lee in concerts and on several of her albums in the late 1950s and early '60s. He also worked with Lena Horne, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Pearl Bailey and Frank Sinatra.
From 1967 to 1973, Harnell served as music director for Mike Douglas on his afternoon television talk and variety show.
Harnell moved to California and found work scoring for films and television shows, including "Santa Barbara," "The Incredible Hulk," "The Bionic Woman," "Alien Nation" and "V." He received three Emmy nominations for best dramatic score.
He recorded numerous albums under his own name, including "Bossa Nova Now" for Columbia and "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Hud and Other Movie Themes" for Kapp.
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Sunday, July 17, 2005 ◦
Finally complete, the now released Mama Kangaroos: Philly Women Sing Captain Beefheart features twenty emerging and established female artists from Philadelphia performing the songs of painter Don Van Vliet, the man better known as the legendary Captain Beefheart. The genre-hopping set covers material spanning the entirety of the Captain's 17 year recording career, while showcasing a diversity of talent and style that once again proves Philly to be one of the country's most vital music centers.
More info here.
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Friday, July 15, 2005 ◦
VENDSYSSEL is a classical orchestra project of composer Roman Schmidt-Tausendfreund. The new album 1. Teil, Menschen- und Naturgeschichten is the first of a two part release, which will be out soon. Listen to three full length tracks here.
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 ◦
On June 28th Misfits Records unleashed one of the most unusual Misfits tributes ever! 11 Classic Misfits favorites are interpreted by The Nutley Brass on Fiend Club Lounge. The Nutley Brass will have horror-punks and lounge enthusiasts going wild for these retro inspired "space-age pop" and "lounge" versions of all your favorite Misfits songs. Fiend Club Lounge also features original cover art by renowned "Famous Monsters of Filmland" artist Basil Gogos. First pressing copies include a FREE Limited Edition Fiend Club Lounge drink coaster as a special bonus!
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Monday, July 11, 2005 ◦
Light in the Attic will shortly be completing their mammoth Free Design reissue project. They have already reissued the final two Free Design albums One By One and There Is A Song. The last two releases in the project are the third of the "Redesigned" 12" EPs and a CD which collects all three of these EPs together into an album.
More information on all these titles can be found at the Light in the Attic website.
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Saturday, July 09, 2005 ◦
Ray Davis, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, a flamboyant 1970s funk band whose music is considered a precursor to modern rap and hip-hop, died Tuesday from respiratory complications at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. He was 65.
Davis provided bass vocals on songs such as "Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucka)," "One Nation Under A Groove" and "Flashlight." The latter two songs reached No. 1 on the R&B charts.
Under leader George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic fused R&B, jazz, gospel and rock styles combined with garish costumes and elaborate stage displays to form one of the most original bands of the 1970s.
"It started out as a doo-wop group," Clinton said in a 2003 interview at a Rhythm & Blues Foundation ceremony honoring the band. "Once we decided to change from that, we went as far as we could ... from diapers to any kind of costume that anyone might have on."
Born March 29, 1940, in Sumter, S.C., Davis was a member of the original Parliaments, a vocal group formed in the 1950s by Clinton while a junior high school student in Plainfield, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Web site. Other members of the group included Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins and Grady Thomas.
The group scored a top-20 pop hit in 1967 with the single "(I Wanna) Testify." In the early 1970s, Clinton changed the vocal group's name from plural to singular and also created Funkadelic, a funk band with a sound more influenced by the electric guitar. The two overlapping groups and other affiliated acts became known as "P-Funk."
Parliament-Funkadelic was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 in a class that included the Jackson 5, Bee Gees, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Young Rascals and Buffalo Springfield.
Davis, who lived in Franklin Park, remained active musically in recent years, according to his son, Derrick, filling in on bass vocals with the Temptations after the death of Melvin Franklin in the mid-1990s and touring since 1998 with original P-Funk members Haskins and Thomas.
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