Here is another band stimulating interest by offering a free download.
The first song from Blur in 7 years and its free. ‘Fool’s Day’ is available as a free download from www.blur.co.uk
1000 7″ vinyl singles were also released over the weekend in conjunction with world Record Store Day however the bands manager wishes everyone to be able to get it legally. “To avoid fans having to illegally obtain an inferior copy of this track from pirate sites – we have made it freely available through the bands website”, manager Chris Morrison stated.
The band split up after their last album, 2003’s ‘Think Tank’, but recently reformed to record the single for world Record Store Day. At the moment there are no permanent plans for Blur to reform beyond this single.
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Crowded House have announced the release date and title of their new album.
You can download the new single Saturday Sun form their website http://www.crowdedhouse.com/
Entitled ‘Intriguer’, the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Time On Earth’, will be released on June 14 by Mercury Records.
Produced by Jim Scott, the title for the group’s six studio album was inspired by a shadowy figure seen behind the curtains at a Sydney hotel, by frontman Neil Finn in 2001
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Two Chinese singers have become the first people in the country to fall foul of new rules banning lip-synching nearly two years after widespread criticism of miming at the Beijing Olympics’ opening ceremony.
The two young female singers were spotted lip-synching during a concert in southwestern China’s Chengdu city last year, the official Xinhua news agency said on its website (www.xinhuanet.com).”No signals were received from their microphones while the show was on,” it quoted an official with the local government’s cultural affairs office as saying. The two have been fined 50,000 yuan ($10,270 NZD) each, Xinhua added.
Lip-synching, known as “fake singing” in Chinese, burst into the open during 2008’s Beijing Olympics. China’s Olympic organisers were lambasted by Internet users and in the media after they admitted a nine-year-old girl lip-synched during the opening ceremony, in place of the real singer who was rejected because of her appearance.
In December 2008, China banned lip-synching from the nation’s biggest TV show, held to celebrate Chinese New Year. The broadcasting regulator ordered organisers to pick “real” singers and songs with “healthy” lyrics. The Ministry of Culture said it would revoke the licences of professional performers who are caught lip-synching twice during a two-year period.
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Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols and the man hailed as the godfather of punk, has died from cancer. He was 64.
McLaren recruited three local kids who frequented his Kings Road boutique — now called “Sex” — Glenn Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook, and dubbed them the “Sex Pistols.” He first tried out Jones on vocals, but soon found a more suitable provocateur. As Charles M. Young wrote in his 1977 RS Sex Pistols cover story, “One of the regulars at Sex was a kid named John Lydon, who was distinguished on three counts: 1) his face had the pallor of death; 2) he went around spitting on poseurs he passed on the street; and 3) he was the first to understand the democratic implications of punk — rather than pay ten pounds for an ugly T-shirt with holes in it, he took a Pink Floyd T-shirt, scratched holes in the eyes and wrote I HATE over the logo. McLaren stood him in front of the jukebox, had him mouth Alice Cooper’s ‘I’m Eighteen’ and declared him their new lead singer. Jones noticed the mung on Lydon’s never-brushed teeth, and christened him Johnny Rotten.”
McLaren amped up the new band’s notoriety with a stunt that featured the Pistols performing “God Save the Queen” on a barge during the same week of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. McLaren was arrested before the stunt was pulled off, but the single immediately topped the British charts. After releasing Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, the band embarked on a tour of the U.S. and ultimately split. For years, McLaren and Lydon fought over the Sex Pistols’ copyright and royalties in a rift that was never healed.
Later in his career, McLaren became a well-known musician in his own right. His 1983 hip-hop-flavored album Duck Rock produced the U.K. Top 10 singles “Buffalo Gals” and “Double Dutch.” A year later, McLaren also had a hit with “Madame Butterfly,” a song inspired the opera of the same name. McLaren’s “About Her,” a remix of the Zombies’ “She’s Not There,” was featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill 2. A punk renaissance man in the truest sense, McLaren was also an author, film producer and reality TV star.
Look back at the Sex Pistols’ career in photos.
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