The album is being recorded at The Church in Plymouth, Michigan and is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2010.

Founded in 2001, Downtown Brown has shared the stage with such bands as Fishbone, Slightly Stoopid, Me First & the Gimme Gimmies, The Aquabats and Pepper, among others and have been dubbed one of the top up and coming artists of the Midwest by several well known publications.

Stated founding member and guitarist Neil P., “We’re super stoked about this signing and feel that our new album will be our best work yet. To be a part of a label that has so many big name artists that we grew up listening to is really quite humbling and exciting for us.”

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Our dear friends, please record a wild cover version of your favourite R. Stevie Moore song for an upcoming tribute album project! Already have received over 200 submissions, and counting. Upload your wav, aif or mp3 file ASAP at the dropbox HERE.

This magic package will be offered as free downloads only, until further notice (possible ltd ed pressings are also being discussed). VOLUMES ONE & TWO available NOW, then subsequent volumes will follow. Currently, the loose plan is to compile enough songs to enable filling individual 80min CD-R’s. The original 30 June deadline has now been extended to 31 August 2010. And beyond. This can go on 4EVR. And will, looks to already be over 6, 7 CDs’ worth. How exciting for this Xmastime.

Read all about the project here.

Wanna find out more about improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant R. Stevie Moore first? Check www.rsteviemoore.com.

Imagine our surprise when a couple of days we started to receive a lot of traffic to our site from the official Residents website. It turns out our news feed is now the source for all “Non Residents News” on the site of the Eyeballed Ones. How cool is that?

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This week’s surgery follows an amazing return by Cesaria following a stroke in April 2008. Summer 2010 was meant to mark a return to North American stages. Three months after the stroke, she was ready to start rehearsing and working on her new album, Nha Sentimento (Lusafrica). “She hates rehearsing,” said producer and manager José da Silva in an interview earlier this month. “But she had a strong will to return to singing. The stroke made it harder for her to remember the words of new songs. She worked harder on this album than any other we have made,” says da Silva, who is staying at Cesaria’s side in the hospital. Music critics noticed that Cesaria’s voice had changed on the new album, yet she retained the essence of who she is. “I think the stroke scared her and she is now open to doing more things,” da Silva said before this week’s heart surgery.

Nha Sentimento explores the Middle Eastern and Arab influences of Cape Verdean music and culture, territory rarely explored before. The album features collaborator and admirer Fathy Salama, a former conductor of the Cairo Orchestra known for his work with Youssou N’Dour, and who arranged three mornas on Cesaria’s new album. Nha Sentimento will be re-released shortly featuring a bonus track of “Moda Bo,” Cesaria’s duet with Cape Verde’s up-and-coming singer and starlet, Lura, considered by some to be Cesaria’s heir apparent. The duet’s live debut was to take place during the June North American tour, for which Lura was set to be the opening act.

Meanwhile, the world waits and hopes for a speedy and full recovery of Cape Verde’s leading heroine of song, Cesaria Evora.

The original album is fashioned as a simultaneous parody of and tribute to the doo-wop music Zappa grew up with and worked on. The album has been described as a collision of high and low art, with Stravinsky-style chord changes and unusual tempos applied to purposely trite and banal teenage pop love songs.

The new cd features the original vinyl mix – previously unreleased on cd – plus bonus material. The exact track listing is unknown at this time, but the album should ship on or around april 23rd.

You can pre-order the album here.

Featuring the likes of Can, Harmonia, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Neu!, Cluster, Amon Düül II and Popol Vuh, this looks like it’s going to be a great introduction for anyone curious about the scene.

From the Soul Jazz website: “The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music ‘free’ from the past. A music that gave seed out of the cultural ‘nothingness’ that young Germans felt as a consequence of Germany’s role in the Second World War. A generation who grew up stifled by the recent history of Nazi atrocities, the guilt of their parents’ generation and their disillusionment at the reintegration of old Nazis into mainstream society.

From the opening of the first collective/cooperative in 1967, Commune 1, in Berlin, to the formation of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the bombings, kidnappings and killings of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (RAF), young Germans sought out new values and a lifestyle outside of ‘the system’.

These cooperative and communal experiences led to a number of new radical German bands including Amon Düül, Faust and Can.”

The two-disc or quadruple vinyl collection, available in early April, will feature 24 tracks.

The last two Arkestra appearances at Sullivan Hall were at or very close to a sell out, so it is recommended to make your plans in advance for this show. Tickets are $15, Show 8:00 p.m., Doors 7:00 p.m. For further information, please visit:

http://www.cegmusic.com/sullivan_hall/index.htm

For more information on the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen, please visit www.thesunraarkestra.com

The new version will be recorded on Monday in Los Angeles, reports E! Online, and the line-up is rumored to include Jennifer Hudson, Will Smith, Jason Mraz, Sugarland, Sheryl Crow and teen star Justin Bieber, among others.

Jones, the legendary producer who made “Thriller” with Michael Jackson, is being coy about exactly who will appear on the CD. “I want to get a final list before I put it out,” he says.

Director Paul Haggis will likely film Monday’s recording session, a source confirms.

The new wave band, who have recently been working on new material produced by Santigold, will play at the Whistler Medals Plaza venue on February 22, with the performance set to be broadcast on NBC.

Singer Mark Mothersbaugh hinted that fans could expect to hear new material from the band at the gig.

DEVO’s performance is part of the Whistler Victory Ceremonies, which runs from February 13-27 and features the likes of Feist, Usher and The Fray.

Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon will house this extraordinary event, as they did for one of Jandek’s earliest live shows nearly four years ago. That show, also produced by Jackpot Records, sold out and was released on cd to widespread acclaim as the album ‘Portland Thursday’. The subsequent years have only enhanced clamor and interest in this true outsider musician.

Thurston Moore, front man for Sonic Youth and aficionado of all things reasonably unique, is a dream collaborator, ramping up the possibilities for what this night could bring. This show, like the musicians themselves, is here only once and then gone forever.

The performance begins at 7PM and is open to all ages. $20 gets you in the door.

Tickets available at both Jackpot Records locations:

Jackpot Records Hawthorne
3574 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214 P: 503-239-7561
Jackpot Records Downtown
203 SW 9th Ave, Portland, OR 97205 / P: 503-222-0990
www.jackpotrecords.com

and online here.