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Pleasure Pressure Point by Black AffairEx-Beta Band-er Steve Mason's latest group releases its debut full-length. [Rock, Alternative]
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Published: 2008-08-05 Provider: Metacritic
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Creation Records Founder McGee Tells Bands to “Do It Yourself” Alan McGee, the former head of Creation Records who is credited with discovering artists like Oasis and the Libertines, spoke out against record labels in an interview with XFM. McGee urged new bands not to sign with labels, saying “I’d recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they’re all fucking rubbish. You’re better off doing it yourself. They’re living in the past.” McGee apparently practices what he preaches, as Poptones Records, the company he founded following the demise of Creation, has pretty much ceased to exist as the music industry continues to tilt digitally. Poptones was responsible for bringing the Hives to the U.K. and released side projects of bands like the Beta Band and the Icarus Line. The label’s website went offline this past May.
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Published: 2008-07-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Industry
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FAST-FORWARD & PLAYWHEN the members of dance-punk group VHS or Beta aren't driving around in a tour van or making albums, they do some things they've been doing since they were young - fishing for bass and shooting clay pigeons. "We're totally the Dukes of Hazzard,"...
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Published: 2007-08-28 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Pfunder, band, everything, group, tour, punk, still, Beta, VHS, album, dance, doing, driving, find, hard, music
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Luna by The AliensThe Scottish band that includes three members of the Beta Band releases its sophomore album. [Rock, Experimental]
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Published: 2008-10-28 Provider: Metacritic
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Rock List: Twenty-Five Favorite Album Covers On Friday, we lamented the disappearance of striking cover art and asked you, the music fan, what your favorite album covers are. The result is a list of our collective twenty-five favorite record covers — but rather than tell you what they are, we’re showing you what they are. Check out the gallery of winners right here, and because there were so many passionate feelings about this rather personal topic, check after the jump for some RS staffers’ lists of favorites (they’re all subject to change, too). Evan Serpick King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King Led Zeppelin - I Can - Tago Mago The Clash - London Calling Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Melissa Maerz Beck - Mellow Gold Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - No More Workhouse Blues Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You? Swamp Dogg - Rat On! Ice T - Gangsta Rap Kevin O’ Donnell Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Sonic Youth – Goo The Roots - Things Fall Apart Steely Dan – Aja My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Andy Greene Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson Pink Floyd - Animals Ramones - Ramones The Who - Who’s Next Bob Dylan - Bringing It Back Home Caryn Ganz The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Sonic Youth - Goo The B-52’s, The B-52’s The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking Daniel Kreps Pink Floyd - Animals The Beta Band - Champion Versions Jean-Claude Vannier - L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches Nirvana - Incesticide Can - Monster Movie Jennifer Hsu New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies? Kraftwerk - TransEurope Express? The Beatles - The White Album Elvis Costello - The Year’s Model? R.E.M. - Murmur Nicole Frehsee The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed The Band - Music From The Big Pink Bruce Springsteen - The River The Beatles - Revolver Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
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Published: 2007-10-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists
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Bruce Springsteen Playing Warm-Up Dates, Sammy Hagar Speaks on Michael Anthony-Free Van Halen, Keane Channel Dr. Dre Before their new album Magic comes out on October 2nd, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play two benefit rehearsal shows at Asbury Park’s Convention Hall next Monday and Tuesday. Tickets for the event are $100, and will support an as-of-yet unannounced beneficiary. Springsteen and the band will embark on a tour, starting in Hartford, the same day Magic is released. Keane are bringing an unusual influence into the recording sessions of their third album. Drummer Richard Hughes explains that the band is listening to a ridiculous amount of Dr. Dre’s 2001, and hope to capture that album’s sparse sound on their next release. Sammy Hagar has finally spoken out about his former band’s semi-reunion. We say “semi-reunion” because Hagar feels it’s not the real thing without ousted bassist Michael Anthony. On a previous tour, when Hagar was still in the band, Eddie Van Halen attempted to exile Anthony, but Hagar insisted he wouldn’t tour without Anthony on bass. Hagar had no explanation for why Eddie wanted Anthony out, but it probably has something to do with Eddie’s desire to “play with his son (Wolfgang, who took over bass duties).” Yung Joc will emulate Snoop Dogg in Old School (or George Clinton in PCU, whichever you prefer) when he performs at the 100th anniversary celebration of Cornell University’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. The frat came under fire in 2004 for throwing a racially insensitive “Ghetto Fab” party at which revelers were told to dress like rappers. Friends of family of George Grantham (of POCO) are collecting items to auction off to help pay his medical bills (Grantham suffered a stroke and has no health insurance to defray the cost). Don Henley and Graham Nash have donated so far, and more information is available here.
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Published: 2007-09-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Astronomy For Dogs by The AliensBeta Band founder Gordon Anderson (also of Lone Pigeon) reunites with most of his former bandmates for this new, equally quirky project. [Indie, Rock]
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Published: 2007-03-22 Provider: Metacritic
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Thom Yorke remixes classical songRadiohead frontman teams up with Gorillaz and The Beta Band for special side project.
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Published: 2008-07-03 Provider: BBC
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Rock Band Network Beta OpensTest new music tracks and participate in peer review program.
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Published: 2010-01-20 Provider: AskMen.com
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New Steve Mason - "All Come Down"While his old comrades act like aliens, ex-Beta Band vocalist Steve Mason's kept himself busy with the ongoing King Biscuit Time and then his Black Affair moniker. Taking a look at his website and MySpace, though, it turns out this airy new track from th
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Published: 2009-11-30 Provider: StereoGum Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog
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![Picture: Your Weekend Of Holiday Festivals [To Do]](http://imagecache02.pixsy.com/11302007/a5/a5ea05e3-9a61-4d21-9f12-1b78360c34c2.jpg)
Your Weekend Of Holiday Festivals [To Do]Friday · Music round-up: Ghostland Observatory at the Henry Fonda, Aimee Mann's 2nd Annual Christmas Show with Paul F. Tompkins, Grant Lee Phillips, Nellie McKay, and Morgan Murphy at the El Rey, Jonathan Richman at Safari Sams, and Cake are at the Orpheum Theater. · The 5th Annual LA LGBT People of Color Film Festival begins tonight at the Egyptian. Saturday · Satisfy your communal tree-lighting and eggnog cravings at the Los Feliz Village Holiday Festival, 6-10 p.m. · Apparently the strike has hit the agencies harder than we expected: William Morris's Chris Lockhart will be hearing pitches from Alameda Writers Group members at the Glendale Library. · Can we interest you in some art? "Create:Fixate celebrates 6 years of art and music with a one-off salon style exhibit featuring a cross-section of the hundreds of artists we've worked with over the years!" Sunday · Musical offerings: Voxtrot at the Henry Fonda, VHS or Beta, Foreign Born, Afrobots at the El Rey, The Locust at the Knitting Factory, Kimya Dawson at the Smell, Mark Lanegan Band at the Troubadour. · Kirk Douglas signs Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning at Vroman's in Pasadena, where security will be instructed to turn John Travolta away, no matter how big a heart-shaped box of chocolates he happens to be carrying. · Dana Delany and quintessentially Angeleno authors Bruce Wagner and James Ellroy will perform a reading at the Hammer Museum.
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Published: 2007-11-30 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do
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pregamin before the first Beta band party!!KD loves Bet...
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Published: 2008-12-07 Provider: Webshots
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