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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
New Releases / News This week's new releases (8/25/2009)
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Here's a quick list of some of the albums being released today:
Arctic Monkeys Humbug
Colbie Caillat Breakthrough
Collective Soul Collective Soul
John Fogerty The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
Whitney Houston I Look To You
Jet Shaka Rock
Kitty Daisy & Lewis Kitty Daisy & Lewis
Matisyahu Light
Needtobreathe The Outsiders
Willie Nelson American Classic
Delores O'Riordan No Baggage
Smokey Robinson Time Flies When You're Having Fun
Monday, August 24, 2009
On TV / Awards / News Dancing with the (music) Stars
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:34 AM
ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" has announced the new cast for the upcoming season and it's full of music-related names. Thankfully, I don't put myself through the torture of watching this show, but if you do, here's who you'll see this year among the contestants — singer Aaron Carter, songwriter Ashley Hamilton, singer Donny Osmond, singer Macy Gray, singer Mya and singer Kelly Osbourne.
Photos / Live Reviews / Jeff Hahne / News Live review: Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Augustana
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Traveling Circus and Medicine Show — Counting Crows with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Augustana
Uptown Amphitheatre
Aug. 21, 2009
The Deal: The Traveling Circus and Medicine Show — Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead and Augustana — stopped by Charlotte's Uptown Amphitheatre for a unique night of music. Hopefully, if you went, you knew that it was getting started at 7:30. Adam Duritz posted this on the tour's Web site:
Dear Everyone-Who-Happens-To-Read-This,I know you’re all used to showing up at 8:30 or 9PM for concerts that started at 7. It’s understandable. You’re there to see YOUR band and you’re showing up when you think they’re gonna play, right? Well, starting on Thursday July 16th at Marymoor Amphitheatre in Redmond, Washington, that’s all going to change.
Ladies and Gentlemen, at 7:15PM, when the curtain goes up on The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus & Medicine Show, Augustana AND Counting Crows are all going to be walking out onstage together and that show is going to start with EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US onstage singing and playing our brains out. We’ll do a few songs together and then it may be Counting Crows that plays the first set alone. I don’t know exactly how the shows going to run every night. It’ll definitely be different a few days later in Friant, CA when Michael Franti & Spearhead join up. It’ll probably be different every night. The only thing I know for sure is that EVERY show on this tour is going to start with EVERYONE onstage together and we’re going to all be running on & off stage all night playing on each others songs and playing songs all together and basically just playing whenever we feel like playing. So you get my point, right?
GET HERE ON TIME!
Cuz when the curtain rises…THE CIRCUS BEGINS
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So, how did it turn out?
Friday, August 21, 2009
The View from the Booth / Ray Anderson / News Don't even ask me...
Posted By Ray Anderson on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:53 PM
I would like to take the time this week to talk to you, Mr. and Ms. Party goer...
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had you come up to the dj booth and make requests, which, every now and then is ok. However, if I’m playing, lets say, an old-school hip-hop party, please don’t come to the booth and ask me to play Gucci Mane or Black Eyed Peas. If I’m playing a House night, do not take the time to come to the booth and ask me for “The Cupid Shuffle.” Especially in a place that is not known for that type of music.
I remember one of my first gigs. It was kind of slow, but I was still doing my thing, keeping the mood right. I was spinning house music, in a club that’s known for house music, and I had a chick walk over to the booth. She was nice and cordial, so I returned her vibes when I spoke. After we exchanged greetings, her true inner demon came out, “Umm….are you gonna play this techno shit all night?”
‘scuse me honey...but uhh... this aint techno, this is house.
“Well, whatever….are you gonna play this all night?”
Yes ma’am! Glad you asked. See, this is a House music club and house music is encouraged here.
“Well, can you play something that we know from the radio….”
...so I start to think about the house versions of radio songs that I have. Like the club versions of John Legend songs and Fantasia songs and stuff, but then she opened her mouth and finished her sentence: “…like Peety Pablo”
I died laughing... right in her face... right along with the bartender.
“Sweetie,” the bartender said “we don’t play that kind of music in here... Sorry.”
See, I thought that was funny the first 200 times it happened. Now, it just pisses me off. Would you go into Red Lobster and ask for a McFlurry? Understand your surroundings, your environment, and respect the job the dj is doing before making that stupid request.
10-in-10 CD Reviews / News 10-in-10 CD reviews
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Each Friday, we bring you 10 CD reviews done in 10 words each:
Joe Henry Blood from Stars — Singer’s 11th album full of dark overtones, solid bluesy songs.
Ramona Falls Intuit — Menomena’s Brent Knopf releases solo debut full of alt-pop.
Delbert McClinton Acquired Taste — Roots legend releases his first new album in four years.
Reba Keep on Loving You — Legendary country singer releases her 31st album full of twang.
Kaylah Marin Loving Life — Neo-soul singer from San Francisco releases her debut CD.
Theory of Flight Within Reach — Las Vegas band’s melodic rock kinda sounds like The Killers.
Cristen Grey and the Moving Dunes 10,000 Things — Former metal guitarist finds new life in something more contemporary.
Israel Darling Dinosaur Bones & Mechanical Hands — N.C. native Jacob Darden releases debut disc of folk rock.
U.S. Royalty Midsommar — D.C. group releases debut EP of soul-tinged indie rock.
Landed Liver and Lungs — Rotating cast releases six songs, one hour of noise rock.
Opinion / Jeff Hahne / News Have you heard the one about Sting and tantric sex?
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:13 AM
We've all heard it — Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, like to have tantric sex for hours on end. Now Sting's daughter, Coco, has come out to say it was all a joke and rumor that isn't true.
That's all well and good, but why in the hell did we have to hear this from his 18-year-old daughter? Kind of awkward isn't it? Personally, I don't know anything about my parents' sex life and prefer to think they've never done it and I was hatched.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
News Top five concert facts from StubHub
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM
StubHub has released some information about the biggest cities for concerts, as well as the biggest concert ticket prices, etc.
According to their findings, the top five summer concert tours ranked by sales dollar volume were Jonas Brothers followed by Phish, Taylor Swift, Elton John and Kenny Chesney.
The top five summer concerts based on the number of tickets sold were Phish followed by Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Buffet and Dave Matthews Band.
Finally, the top 10 "most rockin' cities" were:
1. New York
2. Boston
3. Chicago
4. Los Angeles
5. Philadelphia
6. Washington D.C.
7. Dallas
8. San Francisco Bay Area
9. Detroit
10. Denver
Atlanta came in 14th.
News / Mike McCray Former Charlotte on-air staple passes away
Posted By Mike McCray on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Former WPEG Power 98 on-air personality, Nate Quick, passed away late Wednesday night from apparent liver complications.
Quick was currently the program director at KRNB and was the marketing director at K104-FM, both in Dallas, Texas.
An obviously emotional No Limit Larry and Tone took the airwaves at 5:50 a.m. with the announcement during the first break of their show, The Morning Maddhouse. No Limit calling him "the greatest radio personality ever," and the reason he's on radio today. No Limit flew down to Dallas on Monday to see Quick and said, he was at peace with that.
I personally grew up listening to Quick, along with personalities like Eddie Owens, B.J. Murphy and No Limit Larry on Power 98, all of whom I took things from indirectly, when I started doing radio in college. The way I said things, came in and out of breaks was me going trying to do what I'd heard other jocks do, which meant the guys I grew up with, like Nate Quick on the Breakfast Brothers.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Mike McCray / News Real Housewives star very 'tardy' to Auto-Tune
Posted By Mike McCray on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Anyone that consumes the polished train wreck you can't seem the flip away from, Bravo's the Real Housewives of Atlanta, has seen "housewife" Kim Zolciak's seemingly forced and failed attempts at a music career.
In the past, showing seemingly no passion or work ethic for music but lots of expensive help, Kim has been able to get studio time with multiple Grammy Award winning producer, Dallas Austin in which her smoked out lungs could barely carry a tune.
With the addition of another Grammy Award winner to the cast of the show in newest "housewife," Kandi Burruss, one knew it wouldn't be long before she spent her way into another recording session.
Well she's apparently scrapped the country thing and went electronic, with the help of the oft-overused Auto-Tune, Kim's track "Tardy For The Party" leaked this week online.
Take a listen for yourself, (I apologize in advance for wasting the minutes in your life and 3MB of hard drive space on your computer).
Hey, if the other chick can go from stripping to a book deal, why not let a "homewrecker" get in the booth? If anything, I'm willing to bet one of Charlotte's seemingly endless douche-y DJs with faux hawks will be spinning this in their set before too long.
Me, personally? I'll be late for that.
Mike McCray / News N.C. artist makes Blueprint 3 roster
Posted By Mike McCray on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Previously written about on the Vibes blog, it was revealed that Fayetteville native and Roc Nation artist J. Cole will be featured on Jay-Z's upcoming album, The Blueprint 3.
Jay-Z officially released the track list for the album last night to huge online buzz and Cole finds himself in exclusive hip hop company, joining the likes of Kanye West, Pharrell, Drake, Kid Cudi and Young Jeezy as guests on the album.
Their song, "A Star Is Born," is slated to be track nine on the album, dropping September 11th.
Cole seemed relieved to get the news out last night. "Damn, yall know how hard it was to hold onto that news for so long," he said via his Twitter page.
The announcement has to be exciting for Cole, who just a few years before was working as a telemarketer and anonymously waited outside of Baseline Studios in New York City, in the rain, to try and give Jay-Z a beat for his then upcoming album, American Gangster, and was snubbed.
Below is the official track list for the album and for those who missed the boat the first time around, here's a link to download J. Cole's previous mixtapes, 2007's The Come Up and 2009's The Warm Up.
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