Students reject ‘bad neighbours’ label
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- Students reject ‘bad neighbours’ label
- Muscles: Guns Babes Lemonades
- Bands hit global stage in Second Life
- Bryan Ferry: ‘I don’t want to be controversial’
- Beauty and grace Nahid Siddiqui
- Pop and Rock Listings
- APM Launches Second Year of Music Industry Podcast Series
Students reject ‘bad neighbours’ label
stuff.co.nz – Apr 11, 2008
"He rejected the "negative characterisations" of website allrealestate. nz which said that "doof doof" parties — with lots of electronic music which thumps monotonously — and students' reputations for long lie-ins and piles of dirty dishes around the sink alienate their middle class neighbours. Having such students as neighbours could devalue a home by up to 10 percent according to the website's Melbourne-based general manager Shaun Di Gregorio who said 59 percent of New Zealanders ranked students as the worst neighbours in an online poll of 242 (correct) people. "We have serious questions about the methodology and validity of this survey" said Mr Do. "Such a small sample size can hardly be expected to give valid results". Mr Di Gregorio said one in 10 potential homebuyers believed squatters next door would devalue a house by up to 15 percent and almost a quarter believed students would wipe 10 percent from the value of an average New Zealand home priced at $337000.
Muscles: Guns Babes Lemonades
InTheNews.co.uk – Apr 11, 2008
” Eddy Lawrence for TimeOut”The Woody Allen of new rave. ” Tony Naylor for the NMESo is it any good? Everyone is talking about how Muscles is making dance music that is ‘fun’ and accessible for people who don’t really like songs without really instruments and a lead singer in a little hat. Which is to say Muscles makes the sort of electronic music that occasionally gets really popular and reaches number one in the charts. Indeed there are probably some songs here that could make passable singles. Ice Cream is actually really quite funny – for an electronic song anyway – and is meaty and quirky enough that people could go nuts for it. It’s also got a silly chorus that people would enjoy shouting at a festival in the sun which is always a plus. The Lake is also OK sounding like a modern update of the sort of trance that was massive at the turn of the MillenniumAll very well if you don’t like dance music but anyone who does is going to despise this record.
Bands hit global stage in Second Life
The Age – Apr 11, 2008
“The main benefit is being able to reach a wider audience aswell as the ability to reach out to audiences globally and create alarger fan base” Wolff told Reuters in an interview. “Second Life also increases a musician’s confidence especiallyto those up and coming artists who feel the virtual world allowsthem to grow into their personas before performing outside thevirtual world” she said. Wolff 42 who makes mostly electronic music describes herselfas a “virtual musician. ” She has never performed outside SecondLife though she said “it would be wonderful to do so. She does however work in the real world giving advice tobands and indie artists about performing on Second Life. In Second Life artists use the game’s audio-video software toperform from their homes music studios or even from real worldshows. And apart from a good computer there is little cost or hassleinvolved with gigs in Second Life.
Bryan Ferry: ‘I don’t want to be controversial’
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 11, 2008
‘ Instead of taking his easel to a garret Ferry taught himself the piano and began to write music. He teamed up with five other musicians including Brian Eno he of the peacock-feather collars and synthesiser to form Roxy Music. They also worked with the fashion designer Anthony Price to combine the look of glam rock with edgy intelligent lyrics innovative electronic music and highly stylised vocals. Their first single Virginia Plain came out in 1972. After that the hits kept coming: Let’s Stick Together Do the Strand More Than This Love is the Drug Avalon.
Beauty and grace Nahid Siddiqui
Hindu – Apr 11, 2008
Just a kalai ka kaam (wristwork) in space or a head turn can create visual patterns unimaginable. A cluster of dancers moving as one body or charging from one end of the stage to the other as streaks of lightning the light airy silken movements in one sequence contrasting with the verve and footwork vigour in another Kumudini creates unflagging visual beauty. She shares a rare working relationship with Asit Desai her music composer of several decades though his too-loud electronic music interventions given all its creativity is like the bull in the china shop when compared to a flowing Desh or Behag or Darbari. However the all-male sequence inducting non-Kadamb male dancers lacked synchronicity. Adding to the proven prowess of disciples Prashant Shah and Vaishali Trivedi is now the brilliant Sanjukta Sinha. Homage to Durgalal The third side of this weekly Kathak triangle was Nandini Singh who in the homage to her guru the late Durgalal gave a Kathak recital at the Kamani leaving all speechless with the light-footed sensual grace by one who over the years has become too heavy (or so one would think) for dance. The delightful uthan the sheer grace of a “Ta Thai Thait Tat Ta” the vilambit paran amad where the 3579 combinations were knit into the same refrain those sensual chals and gat bhav ghungat and nazar andaz were done with feather light movements.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Apr 11, 2008
Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North Sixth Street Brooklyn (718) 486-5400. (Sisario)MARCIA BALL (Tuesday) Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and sings in a husky knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into on the way to a good time… 484 Union Avenue at Meeker Avenue Williamsburg (718) 609-0484; $12. (Sisario) ★ HOT CHIP (Saturday and Sunday) With wobbly electronic rhythms and a command of the drippy semi-ironic disco ballad this English group plays wistful but still snarky dance music. Get too lost in the beats and you’ll miss gags like the oh-so-art-rock countdown of nonsensical words of descending size (“S-E-X-I-N-G C-A-S-I-O P-O-K-E”). Hot Chip plays a full live show on Saturday at Terminal 5 and does a D. set on Sunday at R Bar.
APM Launches Second Year of Music Industry Podcast Series
sys-con.com – Apr 11, 2008
The first episodes are available now and new episodes from the conference will be released regularly throughout the Spring. They feature one-on-one interviews with composers Sondre Lerche (“Dan In Real Life”) Harry Gergson-Williams (“Shrek”“Shrek 2”“Kingdom of Heaven”) multiple Academy Award-winner Alan Menken (“Little Mermaid”“Aladdin”“Beauty and the Beast”) Glen Ballard (“Beowulf”“The Polar Express”) Jan Kaczmarek (“Evening”“War and Peace”) Andrew Hollander (“Waitress”“Anything But Love”) and the composing team of Paul Hepker and Mark Kilian whose collaborative credits include the Oscar-winning “Tsotsi” and “Into The Light. ” Also featured in one-on-one interviews are executives Steve Schnur Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing Electronic Arts and Jay Faires President of Music & Publishing Lionsgate. The APM Film & TV Music Podcast series explores the business of film and television music production and licensing through discussions with music supervisors and film television and video game composers as well as entertainment executives. It has become the leading podcast series on the subject with tens of thousands of listeners since its inception. The interviews were conducted by Billboard’s executive editor Tamara Conniff; Music Connection Magazine’s music columnist Dan Kimpel; The Hollywood Reporter’s features editor Kevin Cassidy; Billboard’s director of charts and senior analyst Geoff Mayfield; and The Hollywood Reporter’s editor; Andrew Wallenstein. “Last year’s podcast series from the event illuminated important issues facing our industry and profiled some of the fascinating people who make up this very special industry” said Adam Taylor president of APM Music.
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