„...ich mag den Gedanken an etwas zu glauben. Nur: Ich bin nicht gläubig."

• Wirklich alles über die neue "Pladde" in Kürze hier an dieser Stelle.

Das Album erscheint offiziell am 18. April!

"Auf dem Album werden Songs enthalten sein, die davon handeln, dass man einfach nicht mehr kann. Es geht um Zerrissenheit und Absturzmöglichkeiten. die Platte wird textlich jedenfalls gnadenloser, als man es bisher von uns gewohnt war. Ich kann Depressionen eben ganz gut nachvollziehen." (Herr Wiebusch im VISIONS vom Februar 08)

Kettcar Live! Präsentiert von visions und taz

VVK ab Morgen, 25.01.2008 über Kartenhaus und - NEU - jetzt auch im Grand Hotel-Shop

30.04. Rostock - Mau Club 01.05. Leipzig - Haus Auensee 02.05. Essen - Weststadthalle 03.05. Osnabrück - Hyde Park 04.05. Braunschweig - Jolly Joker 05.05. Saarbrücken - Garage 06.05. Stuttgart - Longhorn 07.05. Wien - Arena 08.05. München - Tonhalle 09.05. Köln - E-Werk 10.05. Berlin - Postbahnhof 11.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof 12.05. tbc

Listen to some tunes by Django Reinhardt over here!

Last.FM Blog: "As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. (...)With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be."

Wanna try?

Lou Reed & Pavarotti - Man, how geil is that?

James Brown & Pavarotti - Pretty geil too! Barry White & Pavarotti - The girls will love this one! Queen & Pavarotti - Wait a minute, where is the guy with the moustache?

Alex Britti, Joe Cocker & Pavarotti

Jon Bon Jovi & Pavarotti

DEEP PURPLE & PAVAROTTI

Pavarotti and Friends - All For Love

U2 & Pavarotti

And then there is Sepultura & Pavarotti!

Did I just miss the Rollins Show at the church in Kreuzberg? That's too bad...!

I can't get behind any of that...!

So, YOU better do not miss the MP3 of the clash of the titans before it's gone!

It's the one Henry talks about in that "Shock & Awe"-video which you can probably find somewhere on YouTube or Jabbadabbadong.

Always can do one more!

Check out Jamie's site. "Jim" will be released in April

Stytzer has a great collection of MP3s out there!

Boy from the Brazil is dead! But The Assassinations will be "RIPPING ROCK'N'ROLL A NEW ASSHOLE"

"in the winter of 2006 Boy from Brazil hooked up with Tico Zamora at Polytrash to produce, write and arrange the upcoming album FUTURE BLASTS FROM THE PAST. luminaries such as Taylor Savy, Fred Bigot (Electronicat), Tim Gaine were invited to contribute on guitars to the project. during the course of these recording sessions it became evident that a band was needed. after many try outs it eventually came to the powerful line up that is to become THE ASSASSINATIONS. what name would be more accurate for a rock'n'roll band in 2007 , in a decade where words like car bombs, ethnic cleansing, suicide bombing, kidnapping are the equivalent of elevator music on the news where cell-phone snuff of executions and beheadings, digicam pictures of torture, scatology and other humiliations usually reserved for aficianado pornographers has become common content in the mainstream media. by the way, there is two asses in the band name..."

From Simon Iddol

• With a Little YELP from my Friends

• Octopus's Garden

More Muppet Music on this Blog

More Muppet Music on this Blog

One of the coolest little bands in Berlin right now! Check out their homepage! Come and see them live this week. The first ten people get in for free!

LIVE IN BERLIN:

-Fri. 11-01-08 Kaffee Burger, Torstr. 60, Berlin, 21 hs. -Fri. 01-02-08 Quasimodo, Kantstr. 12a, Berlin, 22 hs. -Sat. 23-02-08 Oxident, Berlin -Sat. 08-03-08 Junction Bar, Berlin

I'm not kidding! Here's an MP3 of the thin white duke doing "Love Missle F1 Eleven"!

"Ghost On The Motorway", sie wissen schon. Hier is' der MySpace mit einem "unreleased Demo"

Vom 10. bis 17. Jänner auf Tour in Germany. Am 13. Januar im Tacheles!

If you wanna try something new, try the sound of Congo, a country formerly known as the "Heart of Darkness". They have a rich tradition of happy music you never heard of. Really interesting stuff and great for dancing. Here are some links to get you started.

Book: "Rumba On The River: A History Of The Popular Music Of The Two Congos is an enthralling dissemination of how changing times and ancient traditions blended to create a distinctive type of music along the Congo River. From the currents of political struggle to the tides of self-expression, the history, vibrancy, and popularity of this music flowed, and its indelible impressions upon the human psyche are succinctly framed in an unforgettable prose."

Read it online at Google Books

Buy at Amazon

A short history of Congo Music

Congo Music Videos

Music from Congo - A list of Homepages

Music from Congo - Another list of Homepages

Wikipedia:: Soukous ist ein ursprünglicher Musikstil der traditionellen afrikanischen Musik aus der Kongo-Region. Der Soukous beeinflusste später vor allem den Merengue in der Dominikanischen Republik. Seine Ursprünge liegen in den 1930ern und 1940ern. Später in den 1960ern wurde der Begriff Soukous auch für einen in ganz Afrika sehr populären afrikanischen Tanz verwendet, der auf eine für Afrika spezifische Variante des Rumba getanzt wurde.

Inspired by an interview with Carsten Höller, who is a big fan of the music of the Congos.

MP3 - Rufus Wainwright: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve ?

Frank Sinatra - It Was Very Good Year - MP3

Get The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle Outtakes and some other Bruce Springsteen Bootlegs

Frech kopiert beim Tonspion: "Am 5.12. beim Konzert in Zürich ließ die selbst ernannte 'beste Band der Welt' verlauten, ihre Musik verschenken zu wollen, wenn weniger Schweizer den Rechtspopulisten Blocher wählen würden. Nachdem Blocher im Laufe der letzten Woche nicht als Justizminister im Amt bestätigt wurde und daraufhin aus dem Bundesrat ausschied, erinnerte ein Schweizer Radiosender die Ärzte an ihr Versprechen.

Und die Band aus Berlin hält Wort. Weil die Server von Bademeister.de, der Website der Ärzte, beim ersten großen Ansturm auf die Economy-Version von 'Jäzz ist anders' am 14.12. in die Knie gehen mussten, bittet die Band alle Schweizer noch etwas um Geduld.

Am 19.12. 'gegen Mittag', so die Website der Ärzte, soll die Aktion wieder anlaufen. Dann sollen die technischen Voraussetzungen geschaffen sein, um den zweiten Ansturm all jener zu "überleben", die Blocher, Mitglieder der Schweizerischen Volkspartei, nicht gewählt haben.

Florian Schneider / Tonspion.de

TV-TIPP: Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback (Documentary) - Sunday, 21:15 on 3SAT in Germany

TRAILER

"Formed in 1964 by five American GI's stationed in Germany, the Monks started off as a very traditional rock'n'roll outfit. Initially called the Torquays, the band played the standard beat music of the day. The musicians (Gary Burger, lead guitar/vocals; Larry Clark, organ/vocals; Dave Day, rhythm guitar/vocals; Roger Johnston, drums/vocals and Eddie Shaw, bass/vocals) covered Chuck Berry tunes, surf music and various songs by British Invasion artists.

Fortunately, the band was comprised of highly imaginative musicians. They soon tired of the expected format and began experimenting with their sound, focusing almost solely on rhythm."

From a biography at furious.com

The Monks - Official Site

Rare video from the 60s on gofish.com !

Book: Black Monk Time: Coming of the Anti-Beatle (Paperback) by Thomas Edward Shaw

Legendär nicht nur ihr Debut-Album "Black Monk Time" mit dem schwarzen Cover (zwei Jahre vor dem "White Album" der Beatles!). Die Jungs galten als "Anti-Beatles" und waren mit ihrer rotzigen Attitüde, den Tonsuren, dem Chaos auf der Bühne und der komischen Mischung aus Garage, Surf und sonstwas an der Erfindung von Punk nicht unbeteiligt.

Während Herr Wahrhol und Konsorten dererlei Freakzeugs in Manhattan betrieben, tourten die Monks durch Deutschland, wo sie mit ihrem Sound relativ isoliert vor sich hinmuckelten. Vergleichbares produzierten zu dieser Zeit sonst nur die Sonics und andere Bands aus der Ami-Provinz. Viel von diesem Zeug ist bei Crypt Records, dem besten Label der Welt, erschienen, wo man auch die Vinyl-Version von "Black Monk Time" bekommen kann. Auf deren Website gibt es unter "Crypt Radio" übrigens diverse Perlen als MP3-Downloads.

Really cool collection at Metafilter: "The 1960's and early 70's saw an explosion of creativity and an astonishing variety of stylistic influences coming together in the pop and rock music of Cambodia.Tragically, almost all of the artists of that era were executed (or otherwise perished) during the nightmarish Khmer Rouge years."

Der traditionelle Clash of the Publikum mit Breakdance-Einlagen!

Home of the Cow-Fi

Via Sister Chain

Muppet Wiki: "Philip Glass (b. 1937) is a composer of contemporary classical music. In 1979, he wrote a series of short vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street called "Geometry of Circles.""

Watch the Video!

Boingboing.net had it first!

Looks like just another Search Engine for MP3s, but it does actually work!

You will go to hell for this one, Frank Farian!

About Fuzz.com: "As an artist or label you can stream and sell your music, post stuff to promote yourself or your bands, including an artist profile, individual band member profiles, photos, reviews, press and news. You can maintain a blog, a public gig/tour calendar, private event calendar (i.e. practices), send emails to fans, manage your mailing list, and see a list of all your fans. You can also create customized digital mixtapes to spread your music from fan to fan via email or by embedding them as widgets on other sites. There is an "artist dashboard" where you can check the status of your sales, page views, song plays, email campaigns, and which other sites send traffic to your Fuzz page. Soon you'll be able to sell tickets, merchandise and other stuff."

Example: Agnostic Front on Fuzz.com