The Ting Tings have hit out at a former friend who has been selling rare copies of the band's Number One single, 'That's Not My Name', for around �60 each online.
The band originally pressed up 500 copies of the single last year, with the rare vinyl record now hot property since the band became a Number One-selling act.
Writing on Thetingtings.com, the band urged fans not to fork out for the singles.
"Unfortunately, when we put out our first vinyl copies of 'That's Not My Name' with a friend last year for kicks, she kept some back and is now trying to sell them to you guys for �60 apiece," they wrote. "This is nothing to do with us.
"We would never charge that money for our singles. Cashing in is shocking. We pressed up 500 copies which we put on our credit card because we had no money."
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Photos by amateur offer glimpse at small town life in 1940s Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa - He spent his entire savings of $12.50 on the 35 mm Argus AF camera in 1939 and for four years documented life in the small Iowa town of Ridgeway.
But it wasn't until he was diagnosed with cancer more than 60 years later that Everett Kuntz actually printed the more than 2,000 snapshots - church picnics, his mother husking corn, soda fountain scenes from the town's drugstore.
Although Kuntz died in 2003 at age 82, the University of Iowa Press has published dozens of his photos in a book, "Sunday Afternoon on the Porch."
"People thought he was kind of funny," said Kuntz's wife, Helen. "He took all those pictures and didn't even have the money to print them."
After Kuntz bought the camera, he carried it with him everywhere, clicking away during town gatherings, lazy afternoons on a neighbour's porch or even standing before a table piled high with his family's Sunday dinner.
He built a camera case using an old boot and a clasp from his mother's purse, and he bought movie reel film in bulk. He rolled his own film and developed it in a closet on his parents' farm.
The 350 residents of Ridgeway took to calling him "Scoop."
"There are some (photos) in which he seems to have captured so much in one shot, maybe partly by accident," said Jim Heynen, who wrote vignettes to accompany the photos in the book. "They remind people of what you might see in an old collection of family albums from the 1940s."
Heynen described pictures depicting "chiselled-looking prairie people" and a "community gathering spot along the creek with homemade ice cream."
Kuntz left Ridgeway after college, married Helen, had three children and worked as an electrical engineer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. He took his photo collection with him - neatly packed in a box and still unprinted - and told no one about it.
After being diagnosed with cancer, Kuntz pulled out the box and developed his photographs. His final months were spent looking over his collection and reminiscing about old times.
"He was emotional," said Kuntz's son, David. "You could see it in his eyes that it brought back memories."
One particular photograph seemed to interest Kuntz more than the others, his wife said. It showed his parents harvesting on their farm - his father carrying stalks of oats and his mother driving a team of horses.
"He stared at that one for 20 minutes," Helen Kuntz said. "In those last months, it all came alive for him."
His fondest memories of Ridgeway are captured on film. Like wading along the sandy Turkey River, or the day he walked past the railroad as workers laid down track with shovels and hammers.
It's a nostalgic collection Kuntz's family cherishes. His wife has several photos on display at her Minnesota home in the Twin Cities suburb of Mounds View, as does David Kuntz at his law firm in St. Paul.
"I kind of have tears," Helen Kuntz said, pausing to compose herself. "It's a fun tribute to him. ... It would have been such a blessing if he could have seen this book."
The photos represent more than her husband's legacy. For Helen, it's a reminder of the way America used to be - a lifestyle it should strive to rediscover.
"The idea of family is reflected there," she said. "Friends and the simple life."
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
Three Day Threshold embarks on tour of duty
It’s as if Uncle Sam stared out from his famous 1917 U.S. military poster, looked at Three Day Threshold and said, “I want you.”
The ferocious local bluegrass punk band has been enlisted to fly down to Honduras later this month to perform live for U.S. troops. When Uncle Sam calls, it’s tough to say no.
“We got asked by the Pentagon - no joke - to tour military bases overseas to support the troops as part of their Fourth of July celebrations,” said Three Day Threshold bossman Kier Byrnes. “We got asked about doing Greenland and Honduras, but the Honduras tour schedule worked better with our schedule.”
The band will perform five shows starting June 30 and finishing with some alt-country fireworks on July 4.
Before heading out, Three Day Threshold kicks off a three-night stand Thursday at the Chicken Box on Nantucket. A new live CD, recorded earlier this year in Belgium - appropriately titled “Lost in Belgium” - will drop later this year.
All set for the Presets
It seems every week another top-notch electro act is hitting Boston. Tonight, the Presets, the creators of perhaps the best electronic album of 2008, are at the Paradise (7 p.m., 18-plus, $12).
The Australian dance duo’s sterling new album, “Apocalypso,” officially dropped in mid-May on the Modular Interscope label, the home to fellow Aussie’s Cut Copy. The album has been killing dance floors from Allston to Perth on the strength of the stylishly cool synth-pop pulse of current single “This Boy’s in Love” and the faux-industrial boot-stomp rallying cry of “My People” - which was spun to raucous applause by Ed Banger label boss Pedro “Busy P” Winter earlier this year at the ’Dise.
Despite a few fleeting moments of pure cheese (check the painfully laughable lyrics to “Yippiyo-Ay”), “Apocalypso” could thrust the Presets to mainstream success.
The only wrinkle is an appearance by the equally fantastic (though slightly less danceable) electronic act M83, which is performing across the Charles at the Middle East tonight, too.
Making rock Fantasy a reality
The Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy Camp sets up shop at the Bank of America Pavilion July 31, but camp founder and music producer David Fishof will be holding court tonight at Guitar Center, 750 Commonwealth Ave., from 7 to 9.
Fishof will spill the details on how some lucky and talented camp attendees will find themselves opening for Extreme at the Pavilion later this summer.
The event is free and features a performance by guitar slinger Jay Geils and a chance to win a guitar signed by one of the camp’s rock-star faculty, which has included Slash, Brian Wilson and Roger Daltrey.
The ferocious local bluegrass punk band has been enlisted to fly down to Honduras later this month to perform live for U.S. troops. When Uncle Sam calls, it’s tough to say no.
“We got asked by the Pentagon - no joke - to tour military bases overseas to support the troops as part of their Fourth of July celebrations,” said Three Day Threshold bossman Kier Byrnes. “We got asked about doing Greenland and Honduras, but the Honduras tour schedule worked better with our schedule.”
The band will perform five shows starting June 30 and finishing with some alt-country fireworks on July 4.
Before heading out, Three Day Threshold kicks off a three-night stand Thursday at the Chicken Box on Nantucket. A new live CD, recorded earlier this year in Belgium - appropriately titled “Lost in Belgium” - will drop later this year.
All set for the Presets
It seems every week another top-notch electro act is hitting Boston. Tonight, the Presets, the creators of perhaps the best electronic album of 2008, are at the Paradise (7 p.m., 18-plus, $12).
The Australian dance duo’s sterling new album, “Apocalypso,” officially dropped in mid-May on the Modular Interscope label, the home to fellow Aussie’s Cut Copy. The album has been killing dance floors from Allston to Perth on the strength of the stylishly cool synth-pop pulse of current single “This Boy’s in Love” and the faux-industrial boot-stomp rallying cry of “My People” - which was spun to raucous applause by Ed Banger label boss Pedro “Busy P” Winter earlier this year at the ’Dise.
Despite a few fleeting moments of pure cheese (check the painfully laughable lyrics to “Yippiyo-Ay”), “Apocalypso” could thrust the Presets to mainstream success.
The only wrinkle is an appearance by the equally fantastic (though slightly less danceable) electronic act M83, which is performing across the Charles at the Middle East tonight, too.
Making rock Fantasy a reality
The Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy Camp sets up shop at the Bank of America Pavilion July 31, but camp founder and music producer David Fishof will be holding court tonight at Guitar Center, 750 Commonwealth Ave., from 7 to 9.
Fishof will spill the details on how some lucky and talented camp attendees will find themselves opening for Extreme at the Pavilion later this summer.
The event is free and features a performance by guitar slinger Jay Geils and a chance to win a guitar signed by one of the camp’s rock-star faculty, which has included Slash, Brian Wilson and Roger Daltrey.
Friday, 6 June 2008
EvilloT
Artist: EvilloT
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Power Symphony
Year:
Tracks: 7
U2 reissues packed with rarities
Don Ellis
Artist: Don Ellis
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Essence
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Soaring
Year: 1973
Tracks: 8
Don Ellis at Fillmore
Year: 1970
Tracks: 11
Out Of Nowhere
Year: 1961
Tracks: 1
New Ideas
Year: 1961
Tracks: 1
How Time Passes
Year:
Tracks: 1
A talented trumpeter with a vivid melodic imagination and the willingness to adjudicate newfangled things, Don Ellis light-emitting diode some of the most colourful big bands of the 1965-75 period. After graduating from Boston Unversity, Ellis played in the self-aggrandising bands of Ray McKinley, Charlie Barnet and Maynard Ferguson (he was featured with the latter on "III More Foxes"), recorded with Charles Mingus and played with George Russell's sextet (at the same clock time as Eric Dolphy). Ellis light-emitting diode iV quartet and threesome roger Sessions during 1960-62 for Candid, New Jazz and Pacific Jazz, mix together federal Bureau of Prisons, disengage jazz and his interest in advanced classical music. However it was in 1965 when he commit together his first orchestra that he really started to make an picture in jazz. Ellis's boastful bands were distinguished by their strange instrumentation (which in its early days had up to trey bassists and trey drummers including Ellis himself), the leader's desire to investigate strange sentence changes (including 7/8, 9/8 and even 15/16), its from time to time buggy sense of humor (highlighted by an excess of off-key endings) and an openness towards using rock candy rhythms and (in later years) electronics. Ellis invented the four-valve trumpet and utilized a halo modulator and all types of waste electronic devices by the belated '60s. By 1971 his band consisted of an eight-piece brass section (including French horn and tuba), a four-piece wood plane section, a string quartette and a two-drum rhythm section. A by and by live edition fifty-fifty added a outspoken quartette.
Among Don Ellis's sidemen were Glenn Ferris, Tom Scott, John Klemmer, Sam Falzone, Frank Strozier, Dave MacKay and the brilliant pianist (straightforward from Bulgaria) Milcho Leviev. The orchestra's nearly memorable recordings were Fall, Live at the Fillmore and Weeping of Joy (all for Columbia). After hurt a mid-'70s heart and soul attack, Ellis returned to unrecorded acting, acting the "superbone" and a by and by edition of his prominent band featured Art Pepper. Ellis's last-place recording was at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Fesival, a year earlier his heart at last gave out.
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Killers' hit voted number one driving song
'Mr Brightside' by The Killers has topped a recent survey of UK motorists' favourite songs to listen to when driving.
The track, which is taken from the group's 2004 debut album 'Hot Fuss', beat off competition from Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' to the number one spot.
Other popular tracks included 'Born To Be Wild' by Steppenwolf; 'American Pie' by Don McLean and Cyndi Lauper's 1989 hit 'I Drove All Night'.
The poll was organised by insurance company Elephant, and more than 1,000 motorists took part and found a number of differences between male and female drivers' favoured driving.
Tyler's hit topped the list of womens' favourite driving songs, while men opted for The Killers.
The overall top ten songs for British drivers were:1. Killers: Mr Brightside2. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight4. Don McLean: American Pie5. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City6. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild7. Cyndi Lauper: I Drove All Night8. Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger9. Stealer's Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You10. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
The ten favourite driving songs for women were:1. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero2. Killers: Mr Brightside3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight 4. Don McLean: American Pie5. Cyndi Lauper: I Drove All Night6. Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger7. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City8. Stealer's Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You 9. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild 10. Europe: The Final Countdown
And men chose the following ten tracks:1. Killers: Mr Brightside2. Don McLean: American Pie3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight4. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City5. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild6. Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run7. Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere8. Lenny Kravitz: Are You Going To Go My Way?9. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero10. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
The track, which is taken from the group's 2004 debut album 'Hot Fuss', beat off competition from Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' to the number one spot.
Other popular tracks included 'Born To Be Wild' by Steppenwolf; 'American Pie' by Don McLean and Cyndi Lauper's 1989 hit 'I Drove All Night'.
The poll was organised by insurance company Elephant, and more than 1,000 motorists took part and found a number of differences between male and female drivers' favoured driving.
Tyler's hit topped the list of womens' favourite driving songs, while men opted for The Killers.
The overall top ten songs for British drivers were:1. Killers: Mr Brightside2. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight4. Don McLean: American Pie5. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City6. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild7. Cyndi Lauper: I Drove All Night8. Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger9. Stealer's Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You10. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
The ten favourite driving songs for women were:1. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero2. Killers: Mr Brightside3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight 4. Don McLean: American Pie5. Cyndi Lauper: I Drove All Night6. Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger7. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City8. Stealer's Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You 9. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild 10. Europe: The Final Countdown
And men chose the following ten tracks:1. Killers: Mr Brightside2. Don McLean: American Pie3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight4. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City5. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild6. Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run7. Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere8. Lenny Kravitz: Are You Going To Go My Way?9. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero10. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
The Black Maria
Artist: The Black Maria
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Discography:
Lead Us To Reason
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Patricia Heaton - Heatons Saucy Photo Shock
The Breakfastaz
Artist: The Breakfastaz
Genre(s):
Rock
Electronic
Discography:
Against The Grain (ATG011)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Kick It and Green Light
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
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