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SuperHeavy

SuperHeavy

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At this point, it would seem that Mick Jagger's only burden is having to be Mick Jagger all the time. The terrifically fun SuperHeavy solves that problem. Jagger passes frontman duties around like a spliff, with a spectacularly motley crew: reggae royalty Damian Marley, son of Bob; New Wave survivor Dave Stewart; also-ran U.K. soul diva Joss Stone; and Bollywood singer and composer A.R. Rahman.  Imagine an awards-show-scale revue on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly with musical direction by M.I.A., and you've got some idea of the glitzy craziness here.  On "Satyameva Jayathe," Jagger and Rahman trade Hindi verses over Celtic-Indian fiddle. On "Energy," a U2-style synth-pop jam with a leadoff by Marley, Jagger raps – raps! – and sounds positively hot-wired. On "One Day One Night," Jagger comes on like a broken hearted drunk in a Bukowski novel, smearing vocal vibrato all over.  If the songs sometimes feel a bit undercooked, the spirit is dazzling. On "I Can’t Take It No More," Stone yells, "Whatthe fuck is going on?" which pretty much sums the album up.  That song – where Jagger shouts, "I can’t fake it no more!"- may or may not be an answer to Keith's shit-talking memoir.  One thing's for sure: SuperHeavy is the wildest thing he's ever done outside of the Stones. 

Pearl Jam

Twenty (Soundtrack)

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Click here to listen to Pearl Jam's two-disc 'Pearl Jam Twenty'

One of the most stunning moments in Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary comes near the end, when the band plays "Better Man" at Madison Square Garden and the audience euphorically screams along to every word. The soundtrack to the film – which contains that "Better Man" – is for those hardcore fans. There's no "Jeremy," "Daughter" or "Even Flow" here. But there is a gorgeous demo of "Nothing as It Seems" from 1999, a demo of the 1990 Temple of the Dog track "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and an early version of "Alive," from Pearl Jam's second show, in December 1990. The emotional high point may be "Crown of Thorns," from a gig in 2000. The song was first cut by Mother Love Bone shortly before their frontman Andrew Wood died; the group recruited Vedder and changed its name to Pearl Jam. Wood always dreamed that his band would be hugely famous, and in Vedder's hands his greatest song is reborn as the arena-rock anthem it was meant to be.

Sleeper Agent, 'Celebrasion'

Sleeper Agent, 'Celebrasion'

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Click to listen to Sleeper Agent's 'Get It Daddy'

"We gonna have a ball/But we ain't got no need for chains," Sleeper Agent shout on their debut. The Kentucky sextet aren't the first band to hearken back to bygone notions of teenage abandon—they're just really great at it. In their retro paradise,Strokes guitars and Pixies power surges bump up against overheated Sixties-rock riffs, lusty Seventies bubblegum bluster and girl-group cuteness, while 18-year-old frontwoman Alex Kandel sings about raunchy hookups ("Get It Daddy") and her restless legs ("Love Blood"). If lines like "And this lust was built in/Straight into my bones" imply extracurricular interests that keep her parents up nights, the band's musical know-how would do its elders proud.

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R.E.M. Breaks Up After Three Decades

Michael Stipe of REM performs during the Voodoo Experience Festival in New Orleans.

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R.E.M. announced today that they have broken up after 31 years together. "As lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band," the band said in a statement on their official website. "We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished."

In just over three decades as a band, R.E.M. released 15 albums including landmark works such as Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Out of Time andAutomatic For the People. The band's final album, Collapse Into Now, was released in March of this year. The band have plans to release a career-spanning greatest hits collection later this year, which will include a handful of new songs finished after the band completed Collapse Into Now.


Photos: R.E.M. Through the Years

"During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, 'what next'?," bassist Mike Mills wrote on the R.E.M. site. "Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together."

Mills insists that the band have ended their working relationship on very good terms. "We feel kind of like pioneers in this," he says. "There's no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off. We've made this decision together, amicably and with each other's best interests at heart. The time just feels right."

Interview: R.E.M. Roars Back With 'Collapse Into Now'

"I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way," says frontman Michael Stipe.


Ethan Kaplan, owner of the R.E.M. fan community Murmurs and former Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology at Warner Bros. Records, says that the band's decision was influenced in part by label politics. "I suspected this was coming last fall," Kaplan tellsRolling Stone. "If you remember, they weathered a lot of storms in this business, and have always operated on their own terms. [Warner Bros.] changed starting last September, and I think the demands on a band now to get a record out were more than they might have wanted to commit. I can understand that after how hard they worked for how long, the thought of going back to 'paying dues' with new label staff, in a very weird industry, was too much."

In a 2007 Rolling Stone interview, Stipe summed it up nicely. "We didn't set out for this to be a career. We just knew it was something we wanted to do, and we would stop when we didn't want to do it anymore.

Έρχεται νέο άλμπουμ από τους Pearl Jam

Μιλώντας στο περιοδικό Rolling Stone ο μπασίστας των Pearl Jam, Jeff Ament αποκάλυψε πως το συγκρότημα έχει ήδη ξεκινήσει ηχογραφήσεις για νέο άλμπουμ.

Παραγωγός θα είναι ο για χρόνια φίλος και συνεργάτης του συγκροτήματος Brendan O'Brien. Σύμφωνα με την ίδια συνέντευξη θα πρέπει να περιμένουμε το άλμπουμ την άνοιξη του 2012.

"Αποφασίσαμε να δουλέψουμε το νέο άλμπουμ στο Los Angeles και όχι στο Seattle όπως συνηθίζουμε. Μια αλλαγή θα μας κάνει καλό!" είπε ο Ament.

Το νέο άλμπουμ (δεν έχει ακόμη τίτλο) θα είναι το δέκατο του συγκροτήματος και έρχεται να διαδεχθεί το "Backspacer" του 2009. Σαν παραγωγός ή μηχανικός ήχου, ο Brendan O'Brienέχει συνεργαστεί με καλλιτέχνες όπως Bob Dylan, AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen κ.α.

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Οι R.E.M ανακοίνωσαν την διάλυση τους....

Ύστερα από 31 χρόνια κοινής δημιουργικής συνύπαρξης, οι R.E.M ανακοίνωσαν μέσα από το επίσημο site τους ότι δεν θα υφίστανται πλέον ως συγκρότημα.

Ύστερα από 31 χρόνια κοινής δημιουργικής συνύπαρξης, οι R.E.M ανακοίνωσαν μέσα από το επίσημο site τους ότι δεν θα υφίστανται πλέον ως συγκρότημα.

Οι –λατρεμένοι από το ελληνικό κοινό- R.E.M σχηματίστηκαν το 1980 από τον Michael Stipe (φωνητικά), τον Mike Mills (μπάσο), τον Peter Buck (κιθάρα) και τον Bill Berry (drums) και έκτοτε, παρά την φυγή του Bill Berry το 1995 κυκλοφόρησαν θρυλικά  rock albums, πειραματιζόμενοι με ήχους που ξεκινούσαν από to alternative/college rock και έφταναν μέχρι την country/blues.

 Αγαπημένα μέχρι και σήμερα παραμένουν τα “Out Of Time”, “Automatic For The People”, “Monster” καθώς και οι κλασσικοί «ύμνοι» όπως το “The One I Love” και τα “Man On The Moon”, “Losing My Religion”, "Everybody Hurts".

Για το τέλος, σας παραθέτουμε ένα μικρό απόσπασμα από την ανακοίνωση του «αντίο» των R.E.M: «Στους fans και τους φίλους μας: Σαν R.E.M και σαν φίλοι και καλλιτέχνες  για μια ζωή, αποφασίσαμε να δώσουμε ένα τέλος στο συγκρότημα μας.  Αποχωρούμε με μεγάλη αίσθηση ευγνωμοσύνης και εκπλήρωσης του σκοπού μας, νοιώθοντας παράλληλα τεράστια έκπληξη για όσα κατορθώσαμε όλα αυτά τα χρόνια.»  Τέλος εποχής για τo σύγχρονο rock, μετά τους Oasis και οι R.E.M λένε αντίο…

(θυμάστε την τελευταία φορά που είδατε τους R.E.M στην Ελλάδα;) Aυτό ίσως κάτι σας θυμίζει