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Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino. Before singing "Desperado" for an encore Saturday night, the 58-year-old rocker called Moore a "great American patriot" and "someone who is spreading the truth." She also encouraged everybody to see the documentary about President Bush (news -web sites). Ronstadt's comments drew loud boos and some of the 4,500 people in attendance stormed out of the theater. People also tore down concert posters and tossed cocktails into the air. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...people_ronstadt

Another review - this one from Slate: music box Pop, jazz, and classical. What's So Great About Wilco? How a spineless rock band became known for its nerve. By Stephen Metcalf Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004, at 10:13 AM PT Roger, Wilco Great. Along with God, flag, and country, you now have to love the rock band Wilco, or be forced to account for yourself. Wilco isn't just a band, you see. It's a symbol, maybe even a movement. "Slowly, improbably, unwillingly," as Kelefa Sanneh recently put it in the New York Times, "Wilco has become one of those bands that stands for something." What Wilco stands for is artistic backbone in the face of crass mercenary calculation, and this has made them something of a beacon in the Age of Britney. The story of Wilco's evolution—from competent pop-rock band to anticommercial rallying cry—goes like this: In 2001, Wilco produced an album its record label found far too eccentric to promote. Undeterred, Jeff Tweedy—the band's founder, singer, and songwriter—began playing his new music live and streaming it over the Internet for free. In the process, he turned an orphaned album into a pop cause célèbre. Re-signed to a boutique label, Wilco went on to sell 400,000 copies of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. So what's not to love? Single-minded visionary produces genre-busting album. Home office drones demand a remix and a hooky single. Visionary refuses, only to triumph when his version of the album nearly goes gold. A great story, only it gets the essence of Wilco almost exactly wrong. Here I should lay down my own cards. I don't like Wilco's music very much. They're ni carne, ni pesce, as the Italians say. To a listener accustomed to Hootie and the Blowfish, Wilco sounds like the Minutemen—daring, allusive, funky, weird, and yet so right. To a listener accustomed to the Minutemen, Wilco sounds like Hootie and the Blowfish: classic rock for frat boys. All its post-rock filigree aside, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot did nothing to disabuse me of this notion, and neither has Wilco's new album, A Ghost Is Born. However, a new book, Wilco: Learning How To Die, by the Chicago rock journalist Greg Kot, helps explain why Tweedy's music strikes some listeners as lacking the very nerve it supposedly displays in such abundance. Though the book is intended as old-fashioned hagiography, it keeps stumbling over one central fact: Wilco isn't the product of Jeff Tweedy's unswerving artistic conviction. Wilco is the product of Tweedy's epic insecurity. Ironically, it's Tweedy's peculiarly tractable sense of artistic self that has allowed Wilco to become the band of the moment. Tweedy's first band was Uncle Tupelo, which he formed in high school with classmate Jay Farrar. Farrar was a rock 'n' roll wunderkind, blessed with a "Who is that?" voice, full of homesickness and box cars and Hank Williams. Tweedy's singing was—well, how to even describe it? Through the first Uncle Tupelo albums, it was squawky and blessedly infrequent. ByAnodyne, the band's masterpiece, Tweedy had developed into a near-equal partner with Farrar. But his talents were still, by comparison, indistinct. I've saturated myself with Tweedy's music over the past month, and I still can't describe his singing. Sometimes he sounds like Ray Davies, sometimes like Paul Westerberg; he has hauntingly echoed Leonard Cohen; and on the new album's best cut, "Hell Is Chrome," I swear I'm picking up some John Lennon. Continue Article Tweedy himself wouldn't disagree. In Wilco, he agonizes in turn over his singing, his guitar playing, and his songwriting, each of which he finds clumsy and inchoate. As a result, Tweedy has reached out over the years to stronger artistic personalities for ballast. As Kot's narrative makes clear, every Wilco album reflects Tweedy's need for a partner, or even guru, to help lend his music its distinctive character. Tweedy has collaborated with Billy Bragg on The Mermaid Avenue projects; with the guitarist Jay Bennett, who shaped the aural contours of the albumSummer Teeth; and since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, with the Chicago post-rock gurus Jim O'Rourke and Glen Kotche, who are largely responsible for the Radiohead-style deconstructionist Tweedy has recently become. Early in Wilco's existence, the role of sound-shaping mentor was played by the record company, which wanted a breakout song to propel sales. The band's first album,A.M., was remixed by one of Tom Petty's old producers, as Kot tells us, "to give it a punchier pop feel, the type of mix that a radio programmer wouldn't dismiss out of hand." In 1999, Tweedy even repaired to the studio with David Kahne, the head suit in Reprise Records' A & R department, and a man who helped Sugar Ray and the Bangles manufacture hits. Their mission? To bang out, at the 11th hour, a radio-ready single, complete with melodic chimes and monster guitar hooks, to help sell Summer Teeth. The aim was to market Wilco as something called "Adult Album Alternative" (or "Triple-A")—in other words, smart rock for slightly older listeners. To this end, Tweedy was putty in the record company's hands. He let them tinker with his sound, making it too big and too poppy for college radio, while keeping it too clever and too complex for J. Lo radio. The problem, however, was never really with Wilco's sound. What Tweedy and his corporate minders couldn't get through their heads was how much the pop landscape had changed. That magic confluence that once made Beggar's Banquet, the White Album, Village Green Preservation Society, and The Who Sell Out into commercial and artistic triumphs within a year or so of one another no longer exists. In pop music, albums still triumph commercially, and albums still triumph artistically. But they're almost never the same albums. Accordingly, Warner Brothers never knew whether to go big or go small with Wilco; as a result, they created a confusing hybrid instead. This confusion is everywhere echoed in Kot's narrative. He breathlessly compares Being There, Wilco's 1996 double album, to Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde, the Rolling Stones'Exile on Main Street, and the Clash's London Calling. Setting aside the basic "Um, hello ..." factor at work here, Being Thereis not a cultural landmark of the same order. No one could argue that Being There "spoke to a generation." Eight years later, it has not even gone gold. Kot tries to stick to the script—rock auteur faces down the corporate suits—but the details in his book suggest another story, one that's much more interesting. It's the story of rock 'n' roll rebranding itself as a niche product, sold to a smaller and smaller subset of the record-buying public, and the identity crisis this has engendered—at the major labels, among record buyers, and in the sound of the music itself. Some consumers, of course, still need to feel as though the music they buy merits, if not exactly landmark status, some claim to cultural importance. Wilco is the band for such consumers; and to help them along, critics have provided the word "deconstruction." Deconstruction is now rock-press shorthand for the crumbling of the traditional Intro Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Solo Verse Chorus song structure. But its real significance has gone unnoticed. Deconstruction is currently doing for Wilco (and Radiohead before it) what it did for literary studies in the '70s and '80s: providing a sense of pomp and excitement during a period of near-total marginalization. The best and most original rock musicians of the '90s embraced this marginalization by cheerfully casting off all of rock's old pretense to grandiosity. I'm thinking now of Stephin Merrit, Elliott Smith, Sam Beam, Chan Marshall, and Stuart Murdoch, all of whom hide behind aliases or their fellow band-mates, or record out of their own bedrooms. Each one generally strikes an extremely dignified, vaguely anti-rock star profile. But Tweedy doesn't know what pose to strike—nice guy or demonic rocker? On one page, Kot paints him as a neurotic wallflower and compliant family man. On the next, he amateurishly baits a diffident British audience, or stages a St. Grottlesex-quality food fight. (My personal favorite is when a couple of girls gone wild flash Tweedy on the freeway. "We thought this was Waylon Jennings' bus," the women lament, after everyone has pulled over.) The Wilco story, it turns out, has an unexpected lesson: It's not "How to reinvent rock 'n' roll in all its glory." It's "What not to make of a diminished thing." Stephen Metcalf is a writer living in New York City. http://slate.msn.com/id/2103887/

Future looks bright for sun-lovers as drug offers 'instant tan' By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor 20 July 2004 It may not be instant but it is pretty damn quick. Scientists have developed a drug that boosts tanning by speeding up the rate at which skin darkens when exposed to sunlight. In tests, people who tanned in the ordinary way required 50 per cent more time lying in the sun than those who took the drug before stripping off. The tans of those who received the treatment - given by injection - also lasted at least three weeks longer. The research is at an early stage, but the drug could potentially hit sales of sun cream yet at the same time cut rates of skin cancer. It could put tanning salons out of business. It might boost the annual rush for the sun, if people felt better protected, or undermine it if they felt no need to "head for the Med" for a tan You can read more here: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_me...sp?story=542773

Hmmm....the general growth of Clear Channel and their hum-drum same old shit programming menus made me turn to public radio for all my listening. I just heard today that Clear Channel has decided to cut back on the number of commercials it airs because of public complaints--it will charge more for less commercials, but at least they will be playing more music.

True. :rotfl:

Bigger isnt better :(

Glad to know you survived, ok

Its a little hot during the day, but this is probably the most spectacular weather Ive seen for a stretch in LA for quite some time :bigsmile:

Pretty impressive work so far...

Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole...I bet they have to make big street signs to accomodate all those letters--I wonder how they handle the name on a map?

Might be more useful, Jippers, if you also posted what you liked from the list... *** Ok, here are the DJ Music Pics - What they played in their show. A pretty eclectic list on a random day... MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC NIC HARCOURT Blue Man Group Pvc Iv (fill) Audio Virgin Isobel Campbell Bang Bang Time Is Just The Same Snowstorm Belle & Sebastian Your Cover's Blown Present Books Rough Trade Jj Cale My Gal To Tulsa & Back Sanctuary Scissor Sisters Comfortably Numb Scissor Sisters Universal Ennio Morricone Il Triello (fill) The Good The Bad & The Ugly Ost Capitol Ollabelle Soul Of A Man Ollabelle Dmz / Columbia The Thrills Not For All The Love In The World Not For All The Love In The World Single Virgin Kd Lang Bird On A Wire Hymns Of The 49th Parallel Nonesuch Moco Early Liz Hurley Out To Go Pit Pony Rilo Kiley Love & War More Adventurous Brute/ Beaute Blue States Diamente (fill) Nothing Changes Under The Sun Eighteenth Street Magnetic Fields Dreams Anymore Pieces Of April Ost Nonesuch Brian Eno Baby's On Fire Here Come The Warm Jets Virgin Boeing Chill Out (fill) Beta Urabon Blue Nile I Would Never High Ray Charles Fever (w/ Natalie Cole) Genius Loves Company Concord Finn Brothers Anything Can Happen Everyone Is Here Nettwerk Helio Sequence Don't Look Away Love & Distance Sub Pop Gotan Project La Del Ruso (fill) La Revancha Del Tango Ya Basta Bebo & Cigala Veinte Anos Lagrimas Negras Bluebird Cosmic Rough Riders Life In Wartime Too Close To See Far 429 Records Badly Drawn Boy One Plus One Is One One Plus One Is One Twisted Nerve / Xl Monkey Bars You Be Want Some Fun Food Eating Food Subliminal Los Amigos Invisibles Playa Azul Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol 1 Luaka Bop Alex Gordon Waterlilies (fill) Small Craft Warning Tone Casualties Gift Of Gab The Ride Of Your Life 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up Quannum Sidestepper Deja 3am Palm Touch Acoustra Abha (fill) When It Comes Upon You Acoustra High Llamas Kid Loco - Space Raid Remix Lollo Rosso Remixes V2 Pete Yorn On Your Side Music For The Morning After Columbia Blue States Across The Wire Soundings Memphis Dr John Quatre Parish (fill) N'awlinz Dis Dat Or D'udda Blue Note Ollabelle Live Gone Today Amy Helm - Vocals Get Back Temptation Fiona Mcbain- Vocals Soul Of A Man Byron Isaacs - Bass, Dobro, Vocals I Am Waiting Tony Leone - Drums, Vocals John The Revelator Glen Patscha - Keys, Vocals Elijah Rock Jimi Zhivago - Lead Gtr, Acoustic Gtr, Harp, Vox Before This Time Doug Dawson, Tour Mgr Riverside Mario Diaz - Kcrw Engr Artie Shaw Begin The Beguine (fill) Great American Songwriter - Cole Porter Tribute Fuel 2000 ******** METROPOLIS JASON BENTLEY SONG ALBUM LABEL INFO Chungking Bubble Love Promo Just Jack Snowflakes Outer Marker Tvt Mark Farina (j. Boogie Remix) Dream Machine Single Ohm Dj Reset Mashup Between N.e.r.d. Frontin' Ad Beck Deborah Promo Mix Djreset.com Lemon Jelly Make Things Right Lj '64-'95 Xl Meat Beat Manifesto What Is Hip Tower Of Power Warner Brothers Troubleman Roll On Time Out Of Mind Million's Toes Thousand Fingered Man Extended Mix 12" White Label Ian Pooley Insel Passage Souvenirs Ministry Of Sound U.n.k.l.e. In A State Global Undergound:romania (jason Lavelle) Global Underground Pfn Flow Global Undergound:romania (jason Lavelle) Global Underground Max Sedgley Happy Fatboy Slim Remix Sunday Best Bootsy Collins The Bomb (fat Boy Slim Remix) Playin' With Bootsy Thump Mint Royale Show Me Single Faith And Hope Sia Where I Belong Red Astaire Remix Island Bjork An Echo, A Stain Luc Chable Remix White Label Gray Area Gravity Hybrid Mix Hope Recordings Slacker Turning To Air 12" Murk Time Chab Remix Tommy Boy The Orb From A Distance Hybrid Remix Sanctuary Prodigy Girls Single Xl Zoot Woman Hope In The Mirror Zoot Woman Wall Of Sound Felix Da House Rocket Ride Soulwax Remix ***** NOCTURNA RAUL CAMPOS WORLD ELECTRONICA Dennis Ferrer Orixas (fred Everything Remix) 12" Gotsoul Martin East Project Never Ending (jon Cutler Remix) 12" Binary Soul Kaskade Steppin' Out (monkey Bars Remix) 12" Om Brothers Behind The Light & Sbl If You Want 12" Binary Soul Mondo Grosso Souffles H Street King: Mix The Vibe King Street St. Germaine Sure Thing Tourist Blue Note Roy Davis Jr. Feat. Terry Dexter If You Wanna Ubiquity Latin Project Musica De Amor (masters At Work Remix) 12" Electric Monkey Quantic Furthest Moment Mishaps Happening Ubiquity Random Factor & George Levin Move On 12" 20/20 Vision Lux Northern Lights Cafe Del Mar 7 Mca Louis Vega Presents Anane Nos Vida (maw Mix) Soul Heaven Presents: Masters At Work In The House Ith Records Universal Love Ritmo Rua Soul Heaven Presents: Masters At Work In The House Ith Records Makus Enochson Feelin Fine Soul Heaven Presents: Masters At Work In The House Ith Records Poji Presents Carolyn Victorian Little Black Samba Soul Heaven Presents: Masters At Work In The House Ith Records Weekend Players Promises Promo Sidestepper In The Beats We Trust 3am Palm Nitin Sawhney Breathing Light Prophesy V2 Music Ananda Project Kiss Kiss Kiss (alternate Mix Re-edit) 12" Nite Grooves Saucy Pony Club (sex At Sunset) 12" Bamboo LET'S GET LOST KEVIN PONTHIER Vesna Dilemma Snow Sences N5md Skalpel Not Too Bad Skalpel Ninja Tune Ball Of Wax Comp Eastern Sun & John Kelley"rapture At Sea Groove Closet Ball Of Wax Tassel & Naturel Only Your Friends Fillet Of Soul Inflamable Weekend Players Higher Ground Pursuit Of Happiness Multiply Intuit Fenytola Intuit Compost Antibalas Pay Back Africa Who Is This America Ropeadope 12:45 Caia Heavy Weather The Magic Dragon Guidance Roy Ayers I Did It In Seattle Virgin Ubiquity Bbe Pj Harvey Darker Days Of Me & Him Uh Huh Her Island Sonic Youth I Love You Golden Blue Sonic Nurse Geffen Banzai Republic When She's Gone W/ Al Jarreau Where The Fun Starts Early In The Day Music For Dreams Tosca The Key Suzuki G-stone 4 Hero Ways Of Thought - New Sector Movement Mix Remix Album Raw Canvas Blue Note Revisited The Emperor - Dj Cam & Eric Truffaz Mix 12" Blue Note Noel Zancanella Lovely Noel Zancanella Sonom Ryukyu Underground Koi No Michikusa - Bill Laswell Mix Ryukyu Remixed Respect Fat Jon Talk To Me Lightweight Heavy Exceptional Rjd2 Someone's Second Kiss Since We Last Spoke Def Jux Rjd2 Holy Toledo 7" Def Jux Novabeats Sound System Comp. Mr. Soon - "handful Of Dust" (fill) (fill) Volume 1 Novabeats Quantic Prelude To Happening Mishaps Happening Ubiquity Jazzanova Jill Scott "a Long Walk" - Touch Of Jazz Mix Mixing Sonar Kollectiv Nitin Sawhney Raag Human V2 Uk El-p Sunrise Over Brooklyn High Water Thirsty Ear Ryuichi Sakamoto War & Peace Chasm Kab/itunes.com The Orb The Land Of Green Ginger Bicycles & Tricycles Sanctuary Forss Characteristics Soulhack Sonar Kollectiv The Mighty One Freedom On Fire Forgiven Self Released \ Faze Action Walking Time Broad Souls Bar De Lune Thievery Corp Lagos Communique Outernational Sound Eighteenth St Lounge Sea Groove - "big Boss Man" Outernational ***** BROADBAND DEBBIE ADLER Peggy Lee It's A Wonderful World Things Are Swinging Capitol West Indian Girl Trip West Indian Girl Astralwerks Pj Harvey The Darker Days Of Me & Him Uh Huh Her Island The Concretes Say Something New The Concretes Astralwerks Cinematic Orchestra Man With A Movie Camera Chillout Lounge 2 Beechwood Music King Frydai Sapatos Mestre Pinto Flies The Kite King Frydai Roots Don't Say Nuthin Tipping Point Geffen Joseph Malik Aquarius Song Aquarius Songs Compost Ustad Sultan Khan Aja Maji Rare Elements 5 Points Symphony Regina Do Not Kiss Via Gesu 8 Milano Milan Rilo Kiley It's A Hit More Adventurous Brute Paul Westerberg Looking Up In Heaven Folker Vagrant Cosmic Rough Riders For A Smile Too Close To See Far 429 Records Call & Response Colors Bleed Winds Take No Shape Badman Zigo Bach Overture No 3 Groove Gravy Masterworks Reworked Groove Gravy

Nic Harcourt Morning Becomes Eclectic Cosmic Rough Riders Too Close to See Far 429/Savoy Sandy Dillon Nobody's Sweetheart One Little Indian The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight Koch Keane Hopes and Fears Interscope PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her Island Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse Geffen Wilco A Ghost is Born Nonesuch Rachel Yamagata Happenstance RCA Victor Dean Martin Dino: The Essential Dean Martin Capitol Bebel Gilberto Bebel Gilberto Six Degrees ***** Jason Bentley Metropolis Felix Da Housecat Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever Emperor Norton Phoenix Alphabetical Astralwerks Erlend Oye DJ Kicks K7 Beta Band Heroes to Zeroes Astralwerks State of Bengal vs. Paban Das Baul Tana Tani Real World Quantic Mishaps Happening Ubiquity Afterlife Speck of Gold Bar De Lune Rodney Hunter The Hunter Files G Stone Grand National Kicking the National Habit Sunday Best Fragile State Voices from the Dustbowl Bar De Lune **** Raul Campos Nocturna Los Amigos Invisibles Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol.1 Luaka Bop Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs Capitol Quantic Mishaps Happening Ubiquity Afterlife Speck of Gold Bar De Lune Ozomatli Street Signs Concord Kaskade In The Moment Om Prince Musicology NPG/Columbia Aya Strange Flower Naked Music The Roots The Tipping Point Geffen I:Cube 3 Versatile ***** Tom Schnabel Cafe LA Huong Thanh Mangustao Act Cannonball Adderly Cannonball Plays Zawinul Capitol Eliane Elias Dreamer Bluebird Candido y Graciela Inolvidable Cheksy Harvey Mason With All My Heart BMG Various Artists Rare Re Elements/Ustad Sultan Khan remixes 5 Points Various Artists The Essential Shanghai Divas Collection Redefined EMI Angelique Kidjo Oyaya Columbia Tomasz Stanko Suspended Night ECM Monica Salmaso Iaia Biscoito Fino **** Liza Richardson The Drop Force of Nature 2 Libyus Quantic Mishaps Happening Ubiquity Chk Chk Chk Louden Up Now Touch & Go Kaskade In the Moment Om Theo Parrish Parallel Dimensions Ubiquity Felix da Housecat Devin Dazzle & the Neon Fever Emperor Norton Plej Electronic Music from the Swedish Leftcoast Exceptional Luomo The Present Lover Kinetic Cottonbelly X Amounts of Niceness Wrong Various Artists Trax Records, 20th Anniversary Collection

lol

I liked the first cut - pretty funky..

Hey, you're legal! Happy Birthday, man.. :good job:

thank u, warflower, and I missed all of you, particularly Shawn, cause of his nice computer wishes, and KEN, 'I only kill on Tuesday', who has threatened to kill me tomorrow :P

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Trance Dance - Rob Eberhard Young from his CD STicks and Stone on the Imaginary Road label (Really nice acoustic guitar work--it rocks)

Many Chinas - Mark Isham

Indie bands Mission of Burma, Vue, Blonde Redhead, Fiery Furnaces, TV on the Radio and Death Cab for Cutie headlined this year's Village Voice sponsored 'Siren Music Festival.: You can read Kalefa Sanneh's review here in the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/arts/mus...SIRE.html?8hpib

Hmmm...I think GabrielYoungFan is fantasizing about some dude again

Much appreciated info :good job:

Gotta website or links to their muisic and Ill check em out and let u know and thanx for the tip