Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Monday, January 26, 2009
'Boombox' featured on AOL's Listening Party
The US release of Boombox is now upon us. This past week saw various release parties held in Los Angeles and I'm sure there will be more across the country in the following weeks as there was when X was released earlier last year. For one week AOL Music is allowing people to stream the album in FULL along with a few other albums being released this week in the US. Check it out below! :)
Buy 'Boombox' from Amazon or iTunes!
Buy 'Boombox' from Amazon or iTunes!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Kylie is presenting the 2009 Brit Awards
From BBC News
Singer Kylie Minogue will present the Brit Awards alongside Gavin and Stacey stars James Corden and Mathew Horne.
Kings of Leon, Duffy, Girls Aloud and the Pet Shop Boys are among the stars who will appear on the night.
U2 will also be performing at the awards, which will be held at London's Earls Court on 18 February.
Brits committee chairman Ged Doherty said the show was going to be a "must-see event". Nominations for the awards will be announced on Tuesday.
Mr Doherty added: "We are heading towards a truly special Brits this year".
TV and radio presenter Fearne Cotton is hosting the nomination show at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London.
Among the acts tipped for success are Coldplay, who released their fourth studio album Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends in 2008.
It has already been announced the Pet Shop Boys will receive the outstanding contribution to music prize.
The public will be able to vote for their favourite British single, live act and breakthrough act once the shortlist has been announced.
The best British single is decided on the night by a telephone vote which will be open during the live broadcast on ITV1.
The Brits Academy, made up of 1,000 invited music industry professionals and critics, decide on the remaining eight awards.
Last year's big winners were Take That, who scooped best live act and best British single.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
An amusing Boombox review from the US
From Blogcritics
Being an American, I never actually heard of Kylie Minogue until a trip to London in 2001. I remember very little about my introduction to one of Europe’s most popular names: I was in a bar somewhere (probably Soho), I liked what I heard, and when I asked somebody who the artist was, I received a look of “Where have you been? America?” from the puzzled individual in question.
When it comes to foreign artists in the music industry, America always assumes the backwoods hillbilly stereotype that we’re oh-so-famous for. To explain this phenomenon in anything other than an analogy would be futile. So, here‘s an analogy: sure, we could just pop open a bottle of imported whisky, but why should we when we have our own lethal moonshine?
OK, so I’ll be the first to admit that analogy sucked, so I’ll try explaining it in words this time: America hates foreign music. There, I said it, and I’d say it again if I had to.
For those of you who don’t live in the States, I believe our profound bigotry towards foreign artists extends from the fact that we really don't like foreigners, period. We also find European music to be very silly as the lyrics mostly talk about dancing, loving, and music itself, whereas we Yanks prefer to listen to the strained sounds of overly-patriotic-yet-depressed (and drunken) rednecks who complain about their sorry-ass lives, or amusingly-attired urban thugs who talk about nothing but killin' and bangin' bitches. That's what we prefer to listen to in America, folks: rural shit or urban shit.
We pride ourselves on producing albums written by people whose behavioral studies usually contain the words "borderline sociopath" and whose vocabularies rarely include beyond the usage of words like “drink”, “motherfucker”, “nigga”, or “bitch” (and they all carry guns, too).
Well, I suppose you can call me silly, too, because I prefer European music: it’s a little happier, not as hateful, and it sometimes remembers that there in fact was such a thing as "Women's Lib". And those are the same reasons that I like Kylie Mingoue (well, that, and she has a killer body with a great ass), so when I saw that Kylie Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008 was coming out, I jumped at the opportunity to review it.
And I’m loving it, too!
Kylie Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008 brings us 16 tracks of booty-shaking joy, featuring new takes of some of Kylie’s best known (and a few lesser-known) tunes, all of which have hail from the minds of artists like Fischerspooner, The Chemical Brothers, and Mylo. It also includes the underground mashup/bastard pop/bootleg sensation “Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head” (which cleverly combines Kylie and New Order) comes as a wonderful surprise (it isn’t often mash-ups make it to commercial CDs — nice job, everyone!).
So, pop the Pill Of The Week, down a Cosmo, and get ready to dance the night away with Kylie Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008, because you’re going to love it, too!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
X2008 screen projection icons!
Use them for forums, livejournal, last.fm, etc. All I ask is that you don't steal these and claim you made them. I always find out, always. :)
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