Damon Albarn is Making Another Solo Album
Damon Albarn’s Dr. Dee opera soundtrack album is about to be released, but that hasn’t stopped him from announcing to BBC Radio 4 that he’s making a record under ‘his own name’ (via NME).
“This week we’re mucking around with these Russian synthesizers in a very loose mind of doing some kind of record under my name. I suppose you could call it a solo record, but I don’t like that word. It sounds very lonely – solo. I don’t really want to be solo in my life. But yeah, I’m making another record.”
If you don’t want it to be a solo record, I’ll pop by the studio and smash the cowbell for a bit. Blur are headlining a Hyde Park Olympic show, but that hasn’t stopped Damon from saying that the Olympics are ‘too corporate’.
“The corporate side I find a bit depressing. There’s too much of it [sponsorship]. A lot of people see it differently. We’re putting on another celebration for the official closure of the Olympic Games. But we’re putting it on for London and people who hopefully want to sing their hearts out in a park. I’m signed up to the idea of regeneration in London and putting on a good account of ourselves; definitely.”
When fast food chain, McDonalds, and cola company, Coke, are some of the main sponsors at an athletic competition, you’re damn right things are too corporate! Go write a song about it.
André 3000 to Play Jimi Hendrix in Biopic, All is By My Side
One half of Outkast, André 3000, will continue to not work on a new Outkast project and will continue his foray into acting, by playing Jimi Hendrix in a new film about the guitarist (via Pitchfork). The movie is called All is By My Side, and will begin shooting in Ireland in a few weeks. The film is rumoured to be about Hendrix’s time in England in 1966 (World Cup winners!) and 1967, when he wrote and recorded his first album, Are You Experienced. Instead, the film is actually about Hendrix’s love of British chocolate and how he had a famous chocolate factory, where children were dying to visit, and could if they got some kind of golden ticket. Actually, that sounds like a brilliant film – why has no one made a movie like this?!
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Morning Music Notes – The Most Super of Them All
What Might’ve Been: The Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis Supergroup
This is what was sent to Paul McCartney from Jimi Hendrix on October 21, 1969 by telegram (it had some minor spelling errors), “We are recording and LP together this weekend. How about coming in to play bass stop call Alan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams.” The telegram has been on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Prague (via Telegraph). However, Sir Paul was on vacation in Scotland for a couple of weeks, so Beatles’ aide Peter Brown (who is name dropped in the Ballad of John and Yoko) replied on McCartney’s behalf, noting he couldn’t join the group. So what I’m taking from this story is Scotland is to blame for the lack of this group!
Of course, the Beatles broke up shortly afterwards, and then Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, so maybe nothing would’ve been released anyway, but it would’ve been damn interesting, that’s for sure.
The End is Nigh – Paid YouTube Channels Surface
Don’t worry, YouTube is still free (for now). However, video creators can now charge their subscribers a monthly fee to watch select content (via Tech Crunch). Interest has come from the producers of Sesame Street (way to take advantage of those kids) and Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Subscriptions will be as low as 99 cents per month, and channels can offer 14 day free trials, as well as yearly discounted rates. This is a potentially good and easy way for people to bypass iTunes or Netflix to sell and distribute content. Hilarious cat video channels are going to make a FORTUNE!
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Morning Music Notes – Posthumous Releases Will Never Die
New Jimi Hendrix Out Due in March
ZombieJimi Hendrix will release a posthumous album on March 5. His estate is milking his musical legacy by releasing tracks that were recorded between 1968 and 1969 (via Spinner). Now seems like an appropriate time to randomly do that. The tracks were actually recorded separately from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and he was supposedly taking a new experimental direction. Well, isn’t that a clever way to hook us for the new album.Green Day Are Releasing a Fourth Item, ¡Quatro!
Green Day shocked us by
still being together in 2012announcing a trilogy of albums at the end of this year. But they haven’t stopped at just three things – they are now releasing ¡Quatro!, which is a documentary (via Consequence of Sound).A press release notes that the documentary “pulls back the curtain and takes fans inside the world of Green Day, from the various spontaneous live performances in select cities across the U.S. to the chronicling of their creative process while conceptualizing and recording their current trilogy of albums.”
I sort of hope Billie Joe’s meltdown is the climax of the film. The movie will premiere on VH1 next Wednesday and will be released in full in 2013. ¡Tré! is out on December 11, just in time to give it to your friends or enemies for Christmas.
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Sunday morning coming down with Baby Huey
No one artist or song is responsible for creating any one genre of music. For every band credited with creating a genre, there are a dozen bands before them that inspired them to create what they did.
Today, a focus on Baby Huey – an artist that released one EP (and died at 26 years old) who is part of the enormous mosaic of events that led to hip hop.
Baby Huey was part of the late 1960′s psychedelic soul movement that famously included Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Sly & the Family Stone. Baby Huey was the first guy in this scene that used self-referential spoken-word portions in his live show – not necessarily the jump-off point for hip-hop, but perhaps only because he was 10 years too early. Nevertheless – an impact was made.
It wasn’t until the Chicago native’s records started to get sampled by New York & Philadelphia’s hip hop acts in the 1990′s that Baby Huey’s legacy as an inspirational artist in hip hop became to illuminate itself to white Canadian guys like me… but this is manditory listening for any serious hip-hop fan.
Spend your Sunday getting to know Baby Huey.
Morning Music Notes – Overusing-the-same-suffix-palooza!
Pete is in Eastern Europe, rioting outside Poland-Russia football matches. The rest of us will do our best to cover for his slacking ass over the next week!
Lollapalooza 2012 Set Times:
Getting prepped for one of PHM’s favourite festivals – Chicago’s Lollapalooza? Plan your day down to the minute by getting the inside scoop on this year’s set times. Here’s an excerpt from our last visit:
- 1:42pm – purchase and consume entire bottle of white wine in hot afternoon sun
- 2:20pm – completely lose track of schedule
Ad Rock DJs benefit set for Pussy Riot
In his first public performance since the death of Adam MCA Yauch, Adam ‘Ad Rock’ Horovitz played a DJ set last night in Brooklyn at Death By Audio – a fundraiser for Russian Punk band Pussy Riot. This is certainly not the biggest Russian protest that happened yesterday, but watch more more music support for the 3 members of Pussy Riot who are currently in the Russian legal system facing 7 years in prison for Hooliganism. Crazy.
Via NME…
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Morning Music Notes – Pirates vs Hackers!
The Pirate Bay vs. Annonymous: Ultimate internet showdown!
The Pirate Bay officially condemned Annonymous’ attack of the Virgin Media site, an act of protest by Annonymous as The Pirate Bay was taken down by Virgin’s ISP service in the UK. The Pirate Bay made the following statement on their Facebook page: We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us.
A strong move for The Pirate Bay. An extrame example, but isn’t Annoymous removing Virgin from the internet for censoring The Pirate Bay analogous to going on a killing spree to protest the death penalty?
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Morning Music Notes – Once the Wineskin Gets Drained, You Never Know What’s Going to Happen
Damon Albarn is Making Another Solo Album
Damon Albarn’s Dr. Dee opera soundtrack album is about to be released, but that hasn’t stopped him from announcing to BBC Radio 4 that he’s making a record under ‘his own name’ (via NME).
“This week we’re mucking around with these Russian synthesizers in a very loose mind of doing some kind of record under my name. I suppose you could call it a solo record, but I don’t like that word. It sounds very lonely – solo. I don’t really want to be solo in my life. But yeah, I’m making another record.”
If you don’t want it to be a solo record, I’ll pop by the studio and smash the cowbell for a bit. Blur are headlining a Hyde Park Olympic show, but that hasn’t stopped Damon from saying that the Olympics are ‘too corporate’.
“The corporate side I find a bit depressing. There’s too much of it [sponsorship]. A lot of people see it differently. We’re putting on another celebration for the official closure of the Olympic Games. But we’re putting it on for London and people who hopefully want to sing their hearts out in a park. I’m signed up to the idea of regeneration in London and putting on a good account of ourselves; definitely.”
When fast food chain, McDonalds, and cola company, Coke, are some of the main sponsors at an athletic competition, you’re damn right things are too corporate! Go write a song about it.
André 3000 to Play Jimi Hendrix in Biopic, All is By My Side
One half of Outkast, André 3000, will continue to not work on a new Outkast project and will continue his foray into acting, by playing Jimi Hendrix in a new film about the guitarist (via Pitchfork). The movie is called All is By My Side, and will begin shooting in Ireland in a few weeks. The film is rumoured to be about Hendrix’s time in England in 1966 (World Cup winners!) and 1967, when he wrote and recorded his first album, Are You Experienced. Instead, the film is actually about Hendrix’s love of British chocolate and how he had a famous chocolate factory, where children were dying to visit, and could if they got some kind of golden ticket. Actually, that sounds like a brilliant film – why has no one made a movie like this?!
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The Jimi Hendrix Park Experience
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix will have a park in Seattle named after him to celebrate what would’ve been his 70th birthday. I’m sure Jimi would’ve loved to have had a cake and, you know, BE ALIVE, but I’m sure he will settle for a park (via Rolling Stone).
“Jimi Hendrix Park, which will be located in the city’s Central District, was revealed last week at a public meeting at the Northwest African American Museum. The 2.5-acre park will include stepping stones featuring his lyrics, rain drums, a sculpted butterfly garden, a performance area, a sound garden and ample green space.”
To pay tribute to Hendrix, it is recommended that fans go to the park and do copious amounts of drugs (note: don’t do drugs).
Morning Music Notes – Forever 27, Amy Winehouse
As pretty much all of you know right now, Amy Winehouse died on Saturday. While not a gigantic surprise to most, the shock factor is still there, losing someone so young. Amy burst onto the scene with her 2003 album, Frank, which was then followed up my Grammy-winning, platinum selling second (and final) album, Back to Black. Multiple tours were cancelled over the years. Winehouse checked into and out of rehab, cancelled tours citing exhaustion. PHM saw Winehouse do a so-so “I don’t want to be here” style set at Lollapalooza, which was followed by a tour cancellation shortly thereafter. Amy Winehouse earned all sorts of unfavourable nicknames, such as Amy Wine-o, or Amy Declinehouse, both mocking her alcoholism and her career shortcomings. Amy never got a chance to try and better her Back to Black album, as she was found dead at her place in London on Saturday. Below is a roundup of news articles and tributes.
Celebrity friends pay tribute to Amy Winehouse (via Telegraph). Hint: they are sad
Interview with Yahoo News, when Winehouse jokes that “I’ll be dead in a ditch, on fire” within 10 years.
Amy Winehouse proves the best way to increase album sales is to die. Album sales surge, reports the Guardian.
The Hollywood Report asks “Will Amy Winehouse’s unfinished album be released?” Her family will apparently have the final say.
The Telegraph has a career summary of Amy Winehouse, following her ups and downs, her album releases and stints in rehab.
NME reports that MIA has recorded and released an Amy Winehouse tribute song, called 27. This pays tribute to all the musicians who died at the age of 27, as outlined in the next section of these Morning Music Notes. Check out the song below.
Latest tracks by _M_I_A_
Forever 27
There is an infamous (that means famous!) list of musicians who have died at the age of 27. Amy Winehouse was also 27, and joins this sad club. Members include Jim Morrison from the Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones, and most recently, Kurt Cobain from Nirvana. Hendrix and Joplin died less than 3 weeks apart, with Morrison following them 9 months later, in the summer of 1971.
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