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New Brooklyn Hipster Film Features Loads of Artists
05.12.10
Sure to garner a healthy cult following, directors Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace appear with their latest film, Wah Do Dem. The flick features Sean Bones as a skateboarding Brooklyn native, dumped and down on his luck till he wins a free cruise that lands him in Jamaica. The celeb list doesn’t stop at Bones as the likes of Norah Jones and Yeasayer’s Ira Wolf Tuton will reportedly also star in the film. Wah Do Dem, slated to hit DVD October 26th, will see music from the Suckers, Santigold, Yeasayer, MGMT, the Congos, and Bones. Check out a trailer for the new digs here!

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Bonnaroo Festival Staggers Unveiling of Confirmed Acts Via MySpace
02.09.10
Question: How do you make the excitement about your probably-going-to-be-pretty-damned-good festival lineup reach fever pitch? Answer: You drip the lineup out bit by bit in an all day online MySpace event! And that’s just what the folks behind Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, due to take place June 10th to 13th in Manchester, Tennessee have done this year. Instead of hitting us with the knockout blow of the full list of bands due to perform, they’ve decided to pummel everyone into submission blow by blow – in a good way of course – by relaying the lineup piece by piece in true artistic Bonnaroo fashion. Running from noon to 9pm Eastern Time this evening, the festival’s MySpace will showcase amusing animations for the release of each participating artist. Every five minutes or so a new act will be divulged through side splitting animes of cuckoo birds popping out of clocks, or cartoon men kicking each other in the love bits. But rest assured that with the end of each humoristic jaunt a new lineup name appears in the page’s cartoon clouds. Already confirmed acts include the The Avett Brothers, The Flaming Lips playing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, Weezer, Phoenix, Regina Spektor, Wale and Norah Jones. For more artists set to see Bonnaroo stage time, hit up the festival’s MySpace while there’s still fun to be had! Tick-tock-tick-tock…
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Resurrected Lilith Fair Roster Fleshed Out and Tour Schedule Revealed
01.21.10
Lilith Fair, the all-female festival founded by Canadian musician Sarah MacLachlan in 1997, is set to return after a break of ten years. Slated to take to the stage for this year’s extravaganza include Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige, Ke$ha, Tegan and Sara, Erykah Badu; with Norah Jones, Cat Power, Loretta Lynn, Heart and Gossip having just been added to the bill. The touring musical extravaganza will be hitting over twenty cities this summer, including: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Calgary, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, Hartford, Houston, Indianapolis, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montreal, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, DC and West Palm Beach. That’s a lot of cities. The full lineup is available for perusal at the Lilith Fair site.
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Warner And Hulu Team Up
12.23.09
Warner Music Group and video streaming site Hulu have joined forces to deliver the label’s artists to Hulu’s online portal. The first band to feel the warmth of said deal will be Muse, followed by calls for artist page creations by Jason Mraz and Paramore. Warner’s team up with Hulu is yet another punctuation on their aversion to VEVO, a new streaming site seeing handshakes between YouTube, EMI, Universal and Sony. Warner is not the first record house to field some contract ink with Hulu, as EMI saw talks with the streaming site in November, with Norah Jones lighting the candle by being the first singer to have her own artist page.
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Norah Jones Remixes Making Their Way Online
12.03.09
Norah Jones has an eclectic group of friends, musically speaking. An impressive group of artists were given the chance to remix tracks from The Fall, Jones’ newest album. This week the remixed tracks have started to appear on various websites. RCRD LBL is hosting the Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock and Mike D’s “NYC remix” of That’s What I Said. Over at Stereogum you can hear Santigold and Snotty’s re-imagining of Chasing Pirates. Artist Direct also has a remix of Chasing Pirates, this time coming from Droogs, an artistic collective counting Beck as a member.
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New Bridge Collection Boasts Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, Trent Reznor And More!
11.24.09
The Bridge School Concert, Neil and Pegi Young’s annual benefit concert for children with severe physical impairments and challenging communication needs, has attracted some fantastic artists over the years. The fourth compilation of tracks recorded at the Bridge School Concert is hitting iTunes November 24th, and features performances by Tom Waits, Tegan and Sara, Trent Reznor, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many more. Below is the full track list, in parentheses are the dates of performance. (more…)
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Norah Jones – The Fall
11.22.09
Her voice rings out like the wonderment of slow-melting glaciers on a starry night. The Fall tumbles to guitars instead of her trademark black & white keys; Norah Jones charters fresh waters again with her fourth album. (more…)
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