Sebastien Tellier - "Divine"

France this year, bit the bullet, and actually entered a decent tune into the Eurovision song contest - Sebastien Tellier's "Divine", which is produced by one half of Daft Punk.
In any case, the Eastern European countries all voted for each other, which resulted in some instantly forgettable Russian entry winning.


Anyway, here's the video:

Daft Obama

Adam Freeland at Coachella, California, April 2008

Radiohead In Rainbows Reviews

Here's a bunch of reviews of the latest Radiohead album In Rainbows collected from around the web.

The Times

"For what it’s worth, In Rainbows was sent to me at 6.30am. Three hours later, this insidious index of sonic surprises is stacking up in my mind, like planes waiting to land. The trick, I guess, is to give your fans what they didn’t know they wanted. Radiohead, old hands at this, have been doing it for over a decade now. With In Rainbows, they appear to have done it again."

StudentDirect
‘In Rainbows’ is similar to ‘Hail to the Thief’ in its conception of mixing styles and sounds developed during the recording of The Bends, Ok Computer, and Kid A/Amnesiac. From the opening bars of the ‘Idiotequesque’ ‘15 Step’ to the final bars of the majestic ‘Videotape’, there is a vast array of genres and styles to feast upon.

Rolling Stone track by track review
Another track by track review
Dave Allen - a review of sorts
"With that in mind it’s fair to say that Radiohead have delivered access and value for sure. In Rainbow is not the ground-breaking existential, fuck-with-our-heads records that Amnesiac or Kid A were. It doesn’t take me on that helter skelter ride that OK Computer took me; it doesn’t even take me down the dark paths that Thom Yorke’s Eraser explored. Yet still it’s the most enthralling rock album that you’ll hear before the year is out."

Radiohead download

If you are looking for the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" it's at this url:
InRainbows.com


From the BBC:
"In Rainbows, the seventh studio album by alternative rock group Radiohead, has become available for download from their official website. The band have let fans decide what to pay for the 10 MP3 files - from nothing to £100."

SeedyR now in blog format

The Dublin based SeedyR record label (run by my mate Corrugated Tunnel) has moved to blog format for it's website.

You can visit it over here: SeedyR blog

BBC interview Corrugated Tunnel

Interview is here

Britney Spears MTV Awards

Atrocious
"Out of shape, out of touch, Britney Spears opened the worse MTV Awards Show ever, an atrocious disaster show inspired by Timbaland that served as a big infomercial for the Palms Hotel. If this is the music business, no wonder albums aren’t selling; they don’t have a clue what they are doing!"

Britney Spears Kicks off MTV Awards
Digg - Britney Spears attempts comeback at MTV Awards
Britney Back from the brink - in a bra

Nessun Dorma Lyrics

Luciano Pavarotti
October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007
ITALIAN;
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o, Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza,
guardi le stelle
che fremono d'amore
e di speranza.

Ma il mio mistero e chiuso in me,
il nome mio nessun sapra!
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo diro
quando la luce splendera!

Ed il mio bacio sciogliera il silenzio
che ti fa mia!

(Il nome suo nessun sapra!...
e noi dovrem, ahime, morir!)

Dilegua, o notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincero!
vincero, vincero!


ENGLISH
None must sleep! None must sleep!
And you, too, Princess,
in your cold room,
gaze at the stars
which tremble with love
and hope!

But my mystery is locked within me,
no-one shall know my name!
No, no, I shall say it as my mouth
meets yours when the dawn is breaking!

And my kiss will break the silence
which makes you mine!

(No-one shall know his name,
and we, alas, shall die!)

Vanish, o night!
Fade, stars!
At dawn I shall win

Pavarotti , in his own words:
"Pensho che una vita per la musica sia una vita spesa bene ed e a questo che mi son dedicato"

"I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to"

Live Earth concert

Live Earth concert times:
Sydney - 0110 BST (1110 local)
Tokyo - 0400 BST (1200 local)
Johannesburg - 1100 BST (1200 local)
Shanghai - 1130 BST (1830 local)
Hamburg - 1300 BST (1400 local)
London - 1330 BST
Washington - 1530 BST (1030 local)
New Jersey - 1930 BST (1430 local)
Rio de Janeiro - 2000 BST (1600 local)

London line up (start 1.30pm local) GENESIS RAZORLIGHT SNOW PATROL DAMIEN RICE AND DAVID GRAY KASABIAN PAOLO NUTINI BLACK EYED PEAS JOHN LEGEND DURAN DURAN RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS BLOC PARTY CORINNE BAILEY RAE TERRA NAOMI KEANE METALLICA SPINAL TAP JAMES BLUNT BEASTIE BOYS PUSSYCAT DOLLS FOO FIGHTERS MADONNA

New York line up, 2.30pm EDT KENNA KT TUNSTALL TAKING BACK SUNDAY KEITH URBAN LUDACRIS AFI FALL OUT BOY AKON JOHN MAYER MELISSA ETHERIDGE ALICIA KEYS DAVE MATTHEWS BAND KELLY CLARKSON KANYE WEST BON JOVI SMASHING PUMPKINS ROGER WATERS THE POLICE

More info/news:
Live Earth wiki page
Google News search

Chymera - Xcela - free to download

Chymera has released a free to download track from from this blogpost on MySpace.

Further links:
Chymera on MySpace
Chymera - official website

Chymera - Umbrella

if you dont want to hear a riff that will stay in your head until you've extracted your brain, then dont click on this link.

Bloc Party - The Prayer video

Although it was released a few months ago, I've only just noticed the video for Bloc Party's "The Prayer" on YouTube during the week. Intriguing, disturbing, and just brilliant - all at the same time. And the tune is rather good too. I have to admit that the video made me relisten to the tune , and i've had it playing on my car stereo non stop for the past few days. I'd keep an eye out for Bloc Party - they've got a powerful lead singer, and damn good music, and something about their music says to me that they'll be in it for the long term.

The song is taken from their second album A Weekend in the City

"Aldrin" - a Buzztracker clone for Linux

Aldrin is an open source clone of Buzztracker that is currently in development. Packages are available for Ubuntu Feisty and Edgy, as well as Debian. Screenshot and examples are over here.