Wednesday 3 September 2008

Armand Van Helden returns home as king of clubs

If he needed reassurance about his career pick, Armand Van Helden got a glimpse of the benefits of being a superstar DJ when he played a recent show in Montenegro with stone idol Lenny Kravitz.


�(Kravitz) plausibly gets paid way more than me,� Van Helden aforementioned from his home in New York City, �but he had five term of enlistment buses total of equipment. And I walk up there with my headphones and some CDs! I didn�t formulate this game, but it�s been going away on for a long time. I show up alone and I play. The phenomenon of how a DJ became a band is a whodunit to me, but I�m not complaintive. It�s working well for me.�


Van Helden, who headlines a holiday weekend electronic music bang on Saturday at Marina Bay Beach Club in Quincy, was born in Boston just moved all over the world growing up because his dad was in the U.S. Air Force. He returned to Boston to advert Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown and spent much of his early 20s in the Hub, helping to shape the city�s vibrant electronic music scene.




�There�s something magical around that whole time for me,� Van Helden said, reminiscing about his early DJ days in Boston clubs. �It felt like all the small sparkles were in the air.�


Working with friends from the subway system rave scene, Van Helden helped launch the fabled house parties at The Loft, a notorious, now-defunct downtown party spot that kept the speakers bumping until dawn. He promoted other parties at clubs in Saugus and Cambridge, but as his reputation began to soar, he decided to move to Manhattan, where he became one of the world�s premier house DJs and producers.


�Boston is a with child city if you don�t mind a limited measure of options,� Van Helden aforesaid. �But I want outright options in my life, so you have to move to a New York or a Los Angeles. And that�s the main reasonableness I had to move. But I love Boston.�


These days Van Helden is still a regular in the epicurean clubs on the Spanish island of Ibiza and frequently does mini-tours of Europe, where he plays before thousands at festivals and super-clubs. He�s seen trends in the dance scene come and go but believes the genre is as strong as ever, something he attributes partly to club-goers existence tired of hip-hop.


�Rap�s been pretty dead,� he said, �so a lot of people are looking for something to do. People ar floating o'er to the dance music scene.�


Van Helden expects to see old friends from his Loft days at his Quincy show this weekend, which also testament feature red-hot Boston production outfit Hot Pink Delorean. After geezerhood of heavy touring to make a name for himself, he�s happy he�s at the point where he tooshie pick and choose his gigs - and he�s choosing to make the time for a hometown show.


�I�ve worked pretty backbreaking the yesteryear 10 to 15 age in this music game,� he said. �I�m at the level now where I�m pacing things. The antecedence now is to iciness.�


- dwedge@bostonherald.com


Armand Van Helden, with Junior Sanchez, Hot Pink Delorean and Hearthrob, at Marina Bay Beach Club, Quincy, Saturday. Tickets: $20; 617-689-0600.





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Sunday 24 August 2008

Blogging Outside Lands: Carney arrives

The members of Los Angeles rock group Carney [ ], who released their debut EP, "Nothing Without You," in May, are composition and video blogging about their experiences at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival for LiveDaily. Here's the band's latest hit.

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Hey everybody!

463 miles, 1 dilapidated surrey, 90 transactions of rest, and 2 dead Gerbils later... We finally made it to Outside Lands!!! Turns prohibited we were never technically on the bill... But our direction has assured us that they ar currently "working on it..."

Nonetheless, we are a resilient bunch and are confident that we will be taking the stage in the following 2 hours regardless... Whether by free grace or by force! On a irrefutable note, when we trilled up on our surrey, 2 and a half people recognised Reeve as Radiohead's Thom Yorke, and a fleet of proud Bison threw a suggestive glance at Zane that blatantly declared "those tight pants truly accentuate your personality!"

Right now we ar preparing as though we are certain to perform, but we're realizing that security is a lot tighter than we had initially awaited... If, and WHEN ;) we do take the stagecoach however, we will be updating you with some VIDEO blogs chronicling the whole Shabang, so delay tuned!!!

--CARNEY (live from The Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco)

Video Blog: Carney at Outside Lands in San Francisco (No. 1)


Carney's debut full-length album, "Nothing Without You," is due out this fall.







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Thursday 14 August 2008

Prescription drugs more accessible to teens than beer

What is easier for a typical teen to get his hands on: a sixpack of beer or a bunch of prescription drugs?

More teens now say it's easier for them to get prescription drugs � commonly powerful painkillers � than it is to corrupt beer, according to the 13th annual survey on attitudes about drug maltreat, out today, from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.


Parents likewise are ignorant about their teens' purpose of drugs and alcohol, says the survey of teens 12 to 17 and their parents.


Almost half (46%) of teens surveyed say they leave their homes on school nights to hang out with friends � and sometimes use drugs and alcohol. But merely 14% of parents enjoin their teens leave home to hang out with friends.







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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Rene Aubry

Rene Aubry   
Artist: Rene Aubry

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Ambient
   



Discography:


Seuls Au Monde   
 Seuls Au Monde

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


Plaisirs D'amour   
 Plaisirs D'amour

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


Invites Sur La Terre   
 Invites Sur La Terre

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


Libre Parcours   
 Libre Parcours

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


Apres La Pluie   
 Apres La Pluie

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12




 





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Friday 27 June 2008

TeeKay

TeeKay   
Artist: TeeKay

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   



Discography:


Breezing Sequence   
 Breezing Sequence

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


Smoove City   
 Smoove City

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


Reflections   
 Reflections

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10




 






Thursday 19 June 2008

Cliff Richard - Richard Regrets Fat Elvis Snub

SIR CLIFF RICHARD once turned down the opportunity to meet legendary singer ELVIS PRESLEY - because he was too fat.

Richard, a huge fan of the Hound Dog hitmaker, insists his biggest regret is declining to have his picture taken with the overweight star, assuming he would one day have the chance to be photographed with a slimmed-down Presley.

He says, "The big regret is when I had the chance to meet him in America, I chose not to because he was going through a really big, fat...he was grotesquely overweight.

"They kept saying they wanted a photograph of me and Elvis and I thought, 'Hang on, I don't want to have that Elvis with me on my wall - I'd rather have the magnificent Elvis that everybody knows and loves'. I said, 'If we wait long enough, he does movies and he goes on these fantastic diets, then we can have a picture of me with my idol looking like my idol'.

"Now I really regret it. I'd rather have met him overweight than never."




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Friday 13 June 2008

Madonna to build girls' school in Malawi: lawyer

LILONGWE (Reuters) - U.S. pop diva Madonna plans to start building a multi-million-dollar girls' school in Malawi for underprivileged children this year, her local lawyer said on Wednesday.