Electronic Music NewsPrince Portishead help make Coachella music fest a success in year 9
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- Prince Portishead help make Coachella music fest a success in year 9
- Electronic-based PlayRadioPlay look break onto national scene
- RIP: Reel Important People — April 28 2008
Prince Portishead help make Coachella music fest a success in year 9
International Herald Tribune – Apr 28, 2008
He followed a performance by the Verve another reunited British outfit. Their psychedelic Brit Pop sounded of another era but was still impressively powerful and self-assured. Drawing electronic music indie rock and pop acts Coachella — which is put on by concert promoter Goldenvoice — has fostered a cool identity of sun-drenched dancing. The crowd was largely composed of fashionable hipsters showing plenty of skin in dry hot weather that at times cracked 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius). The uber-cool MC M. A packed them into the Sahara Tent on Saturday night where even the backstage area was teaming with at least a hundred people clamoring for her.
Electronic-based PlayRadioPlay look break onto national scene
Arkansas Traveler – Arkansas Traveler (subscription) – Apr 28, 2008
Not to brag or anything. )”My music’s hard to describe” Hunter said. “It’s electronic music and rock mixed together. I’m really happy with the way [Texas] came out. ” Texas has quickly garnered much fan praise and popularity for Hunter. The album debuted in the Billboard top 200 charts according to billboard. com and the first single off of the album (the soft drum- driven “Madi Don’t Leave”) is even garnering a little bit of air time on MTV.
RIP: Reel Important People — April 28 2008
Cinematical – Apr 28, 2008
He also scored The Ladykillers (the 1955 original) Quartermass and the Pit and the 1971 horror film Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and did sound effects for the 1986 animated feature When the Wind Blows and 1967′s Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. A pioneer of electronic music he co-designed a synthesizer that was used by Pink Floyd The Who and Roxy Music. He died April 24 in Adelaide Australia.