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Kanye Inspired By PortisheadKANYE WEST was inspired to add orchestral horns and strings to his sound by British 'trip-hop' band PORTISHEAD. The rap star reveals he loved the loo
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Published: 2007-09-16
Provider: Contact Music
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News Ticker: Madonna, Matador Records, Portishead, Prince Madonna will make her new album Hard Candy downloadable to European owners of Vodafone cell phones a week before the album is due to hit stores on April 29th. The Material Girl, who in the past has shunned iTunes, will be the first artist to release their album via cell phone before the actual release date. No plans have been made yet for a similar release in the U.S. Matador Records have posted their Spring ‘08 Intended Play sampler for free download. The sampler features cuts from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Cat Power, the New Pornographers and more. Check out the video for Portishead’s “Machine Gun,” the first single from the band’s upcoming and long-awaited third album Third. The video is the band’s first in nine years. The LA Times revealed, and then retracted, a report that Prince will perform at this year’s Coachella festival during the April 25th weekend. Festival organizers said those reports were “absolutely not true.”
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Published: 2008-03-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup, Madonna
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My Bloody Valentine’s Coachella Absence Explained When the Coachella line-up was announced last month, many questioned the absence of the much-rumored My Bloody Valentine reunion. Whispers of MBV frontman Kevin Shields negotiating with Coachella date back to August 2007, but instead the festival announced Jack Johnson, Portishead and Roger Waters as the headliners. So why were they left off the bill? Coachella founder Paul Tollett tells NME, “I was hanging out with Kevin (Shields) over at the Led Zeppelin (reunion concert in December), and he said it was just too early. Coachella’s in April and I don’t think they’ll be ready yet.” This is a band that’s been inactive for eighteen years; you’d think they’d find ample time to practice. My Bloody Valentine does have a trio of European dates scheduled for later in the summer, and Tollett promises “Don’t worry. They’ll come to America.”
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Published: 2008-02-15
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Festivals
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Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily Radiohead magically appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone this week, and Rock Daily brought you a photo gallery tracking the band’s fifteen-year history and a look at the band’s musical and literary influences. Roger Waters, Portishead and Jack Johnson were named Coachella headliners; the New Jersey-based Vinelands festival bit the dust after Coachella’s promoters announced their own Jersey fest, All Points West. After the Writers Guild announced they won’t picket February 10th’s Grammy Awards, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Carrie Underwood were added to the show’s lineup of performers. Everyone who was anyone descended on Utah for the Sundance Film Festival: RS brought frequent updates from our own Peter Travers, a photo gallery of rockers on the scene and a report of the real This Is Spinal Tap: Anvil! The True Story of Anvil. Peter Travers also said farewell to Heath Ledger, who passed away this week at the age of twenty-eight in his New York apartment. We looked back at Ledger’s 2006 Rolling Stone cover story and examined his apparent Nick Drake obsession.
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Published: 2008-01-25
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Rewind
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Mick Jagger Releases Rarities, Miles Davis Box Set on the Way, Bruce Springsteen Guests on Patti Scialfa’s LP After finally exhausting every possible permutation of greatest hits packages for The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger will unfurl The Very Best of Mick Jagger, a collection of his best solo work, on October 2. The set will feature three unreleased songs, among them “Too Many Cooks,” which was produced by John Lennon, and two covers including his duet with David Bowie on “Dancing in the Street.” Portishead has tapped into the instigating powers of MySpace to attack Mark Ronson, accusing the producer of turning “decent songs into funky supermarket muzak.” They might have a point. Listen to The Cult’s new single “Dirty Little Rock Star” from their forthcoming album Born Into This, the band’s first album since 2001. The complete sessions from Miles Davis’ On the Corner album will be released in a six-disc box set. Bruce Springsteen and various other E Streeters will guest on the Boss’s wife Patti Scialfa’s upcoming third solo album. Photo: Greenway/Getty
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Published: 2007-08-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Single Minded: Emmylou Harris, Martha Wainwright and More Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Emmylou Harris, “Hold On” [MySpace] No flashing lights, no pop crossovers, just Emmylou doing what she does best: curling her smoky alto around dry chords and singing of sorrow and longing. Lil Wayne, “A Milli” [MySpace] The gauntlet has been thrown, Axl! After months of rescheduling, re-recording and about 750 different mixtapes named “The Leak” or “The Drought,” the year’s most anticipated hip-hop album is upon us. Meaning for that the next six months, indie rock bloggers are going to have nothing to write about. Martha Wainwright, “Comin Tonight” [MySpace] Is it just us, or does this family kind of remind you of the Tenenbaums? Or the Glass family in those Salinger books? Does the Wainwright’s pet terrier have a record coming out? Did they record it with Van Dyke Parks? This scorcher from sister Martha proves her worthy of her family’s heavy mantle. Flying Lotus, “Roberta Flack ft. Dolly” [MySpace] Now this is more like it: anyone who wishes the new Portishead sounded more like old Portishead should be mailing Flying Lotus $15 before they finish this sentence. Dark beats and druggy vocals — simply sublime. My Morning Jacket, “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream” [MySpace] All good beardos unite: MMJ broker a treaty between Radiohead and the Band on their latest. “I know it sounds confusing, but it makes a lot of sense,” Jim James sings on this one. You’re telling us. [Photo: Getty]
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Published: 2008-06-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Single Minded
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Single Minded: Robyn, Portishead, The Roots and More Robyn, “Who’s That Girl” [Full Album Stream] The new Madonna record is also out today, but we figure you know a lot about that already. Instead, try this track from Robyn, who’s referred to as the Madonna of Sweden. Coincidentally, this track is called “Who’s That Girl.” Can a mock crucifixion on a particleboard, assemble-it-yourself cross and a starring role in Desperately Seeking Sven be far behind? Portishead, “Machine Gun” [MySpace] The title does not deceive: Portishead’s return is angry, threatening and violent, full of tight bursts of sound and long, terrified wails. “Machine Gun” is theoretically the album’s single, but if there’s a radio station that will play this, please send us the call letters immediately Robert Forster, “Pandanus” [Yep Roc] Two years after the death of his songwriting partner Grant McLennan, one half of the greatest band that ever was returns with a bright, hopeful solo record that honors the memory of his friend. Estelle, “American Boy” [Live on Letterman] We’re cheating with this one, but only because this live version is so good. Breathless and soulful and speedy, it would be played at every wedding in the country, if wedding DJs all simultaneously got struck by a giant cinder block and realized that KC & the Sunshine Band are terrible and that nobody, nobody likes doing the macarena. The Roots, “Rising Up” [Official Site] On this cut from the excellent-as-usual new Roots record, Chrisette Michelle complains, “The radio’s been playing the same song all day long.” If only that song was this one, she’d have nothing to complain about.
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Published: 2008-04-29
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Single Minded
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Coachella Day Two: Portishead, Death Cab, M.I.A., Malkmus, Kraftwerk Saturday’s late-afternoon primetime sets began just before 5 p.m. at the Outdoor Theatre, where Stephen Malkmus was holding court with the Jicks. After joking about the environmental crisis, he half-heartedly crooned Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” adding, “I would have played that if I was over there,” gesturing towards the slightly larger Main Stage. After doodling one of his many lengthy solos during “Elmo Demo” (from the band’s new Real Emotional Trash), Malkmus, outfitted in a giant floppy hat, told the crowd, “That was one was for me. It felt so good to say something so stupid.” Informing the crowd the next track, “Hopscotch Willie,” was actually for them, the band broke into an extended desert jam, with power drummer Janet Weiss playing so integral a role, Malkmus spent the majority of the show turned sideways to partially face her. “These guys are so fucking good, I can’t believe I get to front this shit,” the former Pavement leader concluded. As the mid-day heat finally started to abate, strains of Death Cab for Cutie’s “The New Year” rang out across the Coachella field. Singer-guitarist Ben Gibbard rocked back and forth on his heels in front of several thousands fans at the Main Stage as his band debuted tracks from their new album Narrow Stairs (including winding, dark single “I Will Possess Your Heart” and “Long Division”), which sounded even broodier rubbing up against poppier older favorites like “We Laugh Indoors” and “The Sound of Settling.” Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis carries some glam with her in the form of passionate torch songs and fine threads. Over at the Outdoor Theatre she sang the tortured “I Never” with the lyrics “I’m only a woman of flesh and bone/and I wept much, we all do,” as guitarist Blake Sennett plucked out a romantic Fifties pop melody.
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Published: 2008-04-27
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Coachella
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