terça-feira, julho 09, 2024
Hoje é dia de ouvir The White Stripes...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 04:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, bluegrass, blues-rock, garage rock, Jack White, Jolene, Punk blues, Rock, The White Stripes
Jack White - 49 anos
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:49 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, bluegrass, blues-rock, garage rock, Jack White, Punk blues, Rock, Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes
domingo, abril 21, 2024
Iggy Pop comemora hoje 77 anos
sexta-feira, abril 12, 2024
O álbum de estreia dos R.E.M. foi lançado há 41 anos
Murmur is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on April 12, 1983, by I.R.S. Records. Murmur drew critical acclaim upon its release for its unusual sound, defined by lead singer Michael Stipe's cryptic lyrics, guitarist Peter Buck's jangly guitar style, and bass guitarist Mike Mills's melodic basslines.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:41 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, folk rock, garage rock, jangle pop, Murmur, música, Post-punk, R.E.M., Radio Free Europe
segunda-feira, março 18, 2024
Iggy Pop lançou The Idiot, o seu primeiro álbum, há 47 anos
Described by Pop as "a cross between James Brown and Kraftwerk", The Idiot marks a departure from the proto-punk of the Stooges to a more subdued, mechanical sound with electronic overtones. Recording for it began at the château in June 1976 and continued into July. Further sessions took place at Musicland Studios in Munich in August. Bowie composed most of the music and contributed a major portion of the instrumentation. Pop wrote most of the lyrics in response to the music Bowie was creating. The album's title was taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, while Erich Heckel's painting Roquairol inspired its artwork.
After the album was completed, Bowie began recording his next album Low, which features a sound similar to The Idiot. Low was released in January 1977 and was a commercial success, compelling RCA Records to release The Idiot two months later. Upon its release, the album received divided, albeit largely positive reviews from music critics, many of whom noted a change in musical tone from Pop's earlier work with the Stooges. It charted in the US, the UK, and Australia. It was accompanied by the release of two singles, "Sister Midnight" and "China Girl", in February and May 1977, respectively; Bowie later issued his own version of "China Girl" as a single in 1983.
Pop supported The Idiot with a tour in March and April 1977, with Bowie as his keyboardist. Afterwards, the two collaborated again on Pop's second studio album, Lust for Life (1977). Retrospectively, The Idiot has continued to be received positively, with many noting Pop's artistic evolution. However, because Bowie largely created it, fans do not generally consider the album as being representative of Pop's output. It has influenced post-punk, industrial, and gothic acts, including Joy Division.
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segunda-feira, fevereiro 19, 2024
Beth Ditto, ex-vocalista dos Gossip, faz hoje 43 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:43 0 bocas
Marcadores: Beth Ditto, dance-punk, garage rock, Gossip, Heavy Cross, homossexuais, indie rock, música, Punk blues
domingo, janeiro 14, 2024
Caleb Followill, o vocalista e guitarrista dos Kings of Leon, comemora hoje 42 anos
Caleb é filho de Betty Ann e Ivan Leon Followill, um pastor da Igreja Pentecostal Evangelista, que viajava ao longo do sul dos Estados Unidos.
Caleb atualmente é casado com a modelo norte-americana, Lily Aldridge, que apareceu com ele no vídeo da música Use Somebody.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 04:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: Caleb Followill, garage rock, guitarra, Kings of Leon, música, Rock alternativo, Use Somebody
sábado, janeiro 06, 2024
Ron Asheton morreu há quinze anos...
Ronald Franklin Asheton (Washington, 17 de julho de 1948 - Ann Arbor, 6 de janeiro de 2009) foi um guitarrista norte-americano, mais conhecido como guitarrista e co-fundador da banda de protopunk The Stooges, juntamente com seu irmão Scott Asheton. Foi considerado o 60º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
Biografia
Ron Asheton foi o guitarrista da banda nos dois primeiros álbuns, The Stooges e Fun House, e do quarto, The Weirdness. No terceiro álbum da banda (Raw Power) atuou como baixista.
Fora do The Stooges tocou noutras bandas como os The New Order, Destroy All Monsters, New Race, Dark Carnival, além de tocar com outras bandas e artistas que foram influenciadas por ele como Dinosaur Jr. e Thurston Moore, do Sonic Youth. Também teve participações em filmes B como Mosquito.
Ron Asheton começou a tocar guitarra aos 10 anos de idade. Posteriormente, ficou conhecido por sua grande habilidade em dominar o efeito de guitarra wah-wah. Ron descrevia a sua forma de tocar como "os três dedos mágicos".
No dia 6 de janeiro de 2009 foi encontrado morto na sua residência em Ann Arbor. A data correta e o motivo da sua morte não foram revelados, mas de acordo com a polícia, a provável causa seria um ataque cardíaco.
Após a morte de Ron foi criada a "Ron Asheton Foundation", uma fundação que obtém fundos através de shows beneficentes e doações para subsidiar tratamento veterinário para animais de famílias pobres e departamentos musicais para escolas públicas, entre outros.
I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
In my room, I want you here
Now we're gonna be face-to-face
And I'll lay right down in my favorite place
Now I want to be your dog
Now I want to be your dog
Well, come on
And now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your…
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:15 0 bocas
Marcadores: garage rock, guitarra, hard rock, I wanna be your dog, Iggy Pop, música, Proto-punk, punk rock, rock psicadélico, Ron Asheton
domingo, julho 09, 2023
Jack White - 48 anos
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:48 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, bluegrass, blues-rock, garage rock, Jack White, Punk blues, Rock, Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes
sexta-feira, abril 21, 2023
Iggy Pop faz hoje 76 anos
quarta-feira, abril 12, 2023
O álbum de estreia dos R.E.M. foi lançado há quarenta anos!
Murmur is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on April 12, 1983, by I.R.S. Records. Murmur drew critical acclaim upon its release for its unusual sound, defined by lead singer Michael Stipe's cryptic lyrics, guitarist Peter Buck's jangly guitar style, and bass guitarist Mike Mills's melodic basslines.
Recording
R.E.M. started preparing for their debut album in December 1982. I.R.S. paired R.E.M. with producer Stephen Hague, who had a higher profile than the band's previous producer Mitch Easter. Hague's emphasis on technical perfection did not suit the band; the producer made the group perform multiple takes of the song "Catapult", which demoralized drummer Bill Berry. Also, Hague took the completed track to Synchro Sound studios in Boston and added keyboard parts to the track without the band's permission and to their dismay. Unsatisfied, the band members asked the label to let them record with Easter. I.R.S. agreed to a "tryout" session, allowing the band to travel to North Carolina and record the song "Pilgrimage" with Easter and producing partner Don Dixon. After hearing the track, I.R.S. permitted the group to record the album with Dixon and Easter.
On January 6, 1983, R.E.M. entered Reflection Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin recording sessions with Easter and Dixon. Much of the band's material for the album had been tested on preceding tours. Because of its bad experience with Hague, the band recorded the album via a process of negation, refusing to incorporate rock music clichés such as guitar solos or then-popular synthesizers, to give its music a timeless feel. Berry specifically was resistant to "odd" musical suggestions, insisting that his drums be recorded in a drummer's booth, a practice that was antiquated at the time. Dixon and Easter took a hands-off approach to much of the recording process. The pair would only fix up a vocal track or ask lead singer Michael Stipe to re-record a vocal if it was very substandard.
Due to Peter Buck's Fender Twin Reverb electric guitar being "dead", every song except 'Pilgrimage' featured Easter's Ampeg Gemini II. Mike Mills's Dan Armstrong bass guitar was set aside in favor of a Rickenbacker 4001, owned by Easter's girlfriend.
Recording was completed on February 23, 1983.
Packaging
The front cover features an image of a large quantity of the noxious weed kudzu, which grows so rapidly that it overtakes the landscape and kills other plants by completely shading them. The trestle featured on the back cover of the original vinyl LP release, originally part of the Georgia Railroad line into downtown Athens, has become something of a local landmark. Plans to demolish the trestle, now commonly referred to as the "Murmur Trestle", met with public outcry. On October 2, 2000, the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission voted to save the trestle. In 2012, the local government said it can not afford to keep it and declared in 2016 that it would likely come down. Later that year, the Athens-Clarke County Commission suggested that a trail tax could fund its existence. The Murmur Trestle was approved for demolition in 2019, and work began in 2020 to destroy it. A replica of the original trestle is intended to be constructed, as well as preservation of some of the original trestle.
Copies of the initial tape edition - catalogue number CS 70604 - list The Velvet Underground cover "There She Goes Again" as the final track, but it is not present. This mistake was fixed with subsequent printings. The track was intended for Murmur, but removed so that all the tracks would be original and the group would not have to take a royalty cut. It was, however, included as a b-side to the IRS issue of "Radio Free Europe" instead.
Critical reception
Murmur was released in April 1983. The record reached number 36 on the Billboard album chart. A re-recorded version of "Radio Free Europe" was the album's lead single and reached number 78 on the Billboard singles chart that year. Despite the acclaim awarded the album, by the end of 1983 Murmur had only sold about 200,000 copies, which I.R.S.'s Jay Boberg felt was below expectations. Murmur was eventually certified gold (500,000 units shipped) by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1991.
The album drew substantial critical acclaim. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars. Reviewer Steve Pond felt the album fulfilled the promise the band showed on Chronic Town. He wrote, "Murmur is the record on which [R.E.M.] trade that potential for results: an intelligent, enigmatic, deeply involving album, it reveals a depth and cohesiveness to R.E.M. that the EP could only suggest." He concluded, "R.E.M. is clearly the important Athens band." Jonathan Gregg of Record described Murmur as "a splendid little film noir of an album, austere but rich in implication." He particularly praised the band's distinctive "twitchy, restless dance beat" and the incomprehensibility of the album's meaning, noting that Stipe's already enigmatic lyrics are often hard to make out due to being sung with a deliberate slur, lost in a muddy mix, and/or drowned out by the instrumental work, resulting in an impressive sense of meaning even as the meaning itself is not understood. It was Rolling Stone's Best Album of 1983, beating Michael Jackson's Thriller, The Police's Synchronicity and U2's War. Buck noted in 2002 that I.R.S. was "mind-boggled" by the album's positive reviews, especially in the British press, since R.E.M. had not yet toured that country.
Accolades
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, except where noted.
Side one
- "Radio Free Europe" – 4:06
- "Pilgrimage" – 4:30
- "Laughing" – 3:57
- "Talk About the Passion" – 3:23
- "Moral Kiosk" – 3:31
- "Perfect Circle" – 3:29
Side two
- "Catapult" – 3:55
- "Sitting Still" – 3:17
- "9–9" – 3:03
- "Shaking Through" – 4:30
- "We Walk" – 3:02
- "West of the Fields" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, Neil Bogan) – 3:17
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, folk rock, garage rock, jangle pop, Murmur, música, Post-punk, R.E.M., Radio Free Europe
sábado, março 18, 2023
Iggy Pop lançou o seu primeiro álbum, The Idiot, há 46 anos
Described by Pop as "a cross between James Brown and Kraftwerk", The Idiot marks a departure from the proto-punk of the Stooges to a more subdued, mechanical sound with electronic overtones. Recording for it began at the château in June 1976 and continued into July. Further sessions took place at Musicland Studios in Munich in August. Bowie composed most of the music and contributed a major portion of the instrumentation. Pop wrote most of the lyrics in response to the music Bowie was creating. The album's title was taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, while Erich Heckel's painting Roquairol inspired its artwork.
After the album was completed, Bowie began recording his next album Low, which features a sound similar to The Idiot. Low was released in January 1977 and was a commercial success, compelling RCA Records to release The Idiot two months later. Upon its release, the album received divided, albeit largely positive reviews from music critics, many of whom noted a change in musical tone from Pop's earlier work with the Stooges. It charted in the US, the UK, and Australia. It was accompanied by the release of two singles, "Sister Midnight" and "China Girl", in February and May 1977, respectively; Bowie later issued his own version of "China Girl" as a single in 1983.
Pop supported The Idiot with a tour in March and April 1977, with Bowie as his keyboardist. Afterwards, the two collaborated again on Pop's second studio album, Lust for Life (1977). Retrospectively, The Idiot has continued to be received positively, with many noting Pop's artistic evolution. However, because Bowie largely created it, fans do not generally consider the album as being representative of Pop's output. It has influenced post-punk, industrial, and gothic acts, including Joy Division.
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domingo, fevereiro 19, 2023
Beth Ditto, ex-vocalista dos Gossip, faz hoje 42 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:42 0 bocas
Marcadores: Beth Ditto, dance-punk, garage rock, Gossip, homossexuais, indie rock, Move In The Right Direction, música, Punk blues
sábado, janeiro 14, 2023
Caleb Followill, vocalista e guitarrista dos Kings of Leon, faz hoje quarenta e um anos
Caleb é filho de Betty Ann e Ivan Leon Followill, um pastor da Igreja Pentecostal Evangelista, que viajou ao redor do sul dos Estados Unidos.
Caleb atualmente é casado com a modelo norte-americana, Lily Aldridge, que apareceu com ele no vídeo da música Use Somebody.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:41 0 bocas
Marcadores: Caleb Followill, garage rock, guitarra, Kings of Leon, música, Rock alternativo, Use Somebody
sexta-feira, janeiro 06, 2023
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 01:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: 1970, garage rock, guitarra, hard rock, Iggy Pop, música, Proto-punk, punk rock, rock psicadélico, Ron Asheton
Ron Asheton morreu há catorze anos...
Ronald Franklin Asheton (Washington, 17 de julho de 1948 - Ann Arbor, 6 de janeiro de 2009) foi um guitarrista norte-americano, mais conhecido como guitarrista e co-fundador da banda de protopunk The Stooges, juntamente com seu irmão Scott Asheton. Foi considerado o 60º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
Biografia
Ron Asheton foi o guitarrista da banda nos dois primeiros álbuns, The Stooges e Fun House, e do quarto, The Weirdness. No terceiro álbum da banda (Raw Power) atuou como baixista.
Fora do The Stooges tocou noutras bandas como os The New Order, Destroy All Monsters, New Race, Dark Carnival, além de tocar com outras bandas e artistas que foram influenciadas por ele como Dinosaur Jr. e Thurston Moore, do Sonic Youth. Também teve participações em filmes B como Mosquito.
Ron Asheton começou a tocar guitarra aos 10 anos de idade. Posteriormente, ficou conhecido por sua grande habilidade em dominar o efeito de guitarra wah-wah. Ron descrevia a sua forma de tocar como "os três dedos mágicos".
No dia 6 de janeiro de 2009 foi encontrado morto na sua residência em Ann Arbor. A data correta e o motivo da sua morte não foram revelados, mas de acordo com a polícia, a provável causa seria um ataque cardíaco.
Após a morte de Ron foi criada a "Ron Asheton Foundation", uma fundação que obtém fundos através de shows beneficentes e doações para subsidiar tratamento veterinário para animais de famílias pobres e departamentos musicais para escolas públicas, entre outros.
I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
In my room, I want you here
Now we're gonna be face-to-face
And I'll lay right down in my favorite place
Now I want to be your dog
Now I want to be your dog
Well, come on
And now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your…
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:14 0 bocas
Marcadores: garage rock, guitarra, hard rock, I wanna be your dog, Iggy Pop, música, Proto-punk, punk rock, rock psicadélico, Ron Asheton
sábado, julho 09, 2022
Jack White - 47 anos
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:47 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, bluegrass, blues-rock, garage rock, Jack White, Punk blues, Rock, Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes