Stagecoach 2012: Some highlights — Miranda Lambert, Dave Alvin
Right after a comparatively low-key very first day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Friday, with just a half-dozen acts on a single stage, the music kicked into high gear Saturday. On the second day, all 3 phases have been up and running with 17 a lot more acts representing nation, pop-country, alt-nation and each other form of hybrid nation music below the desert sun.
That’s downright modest compared to the complete sensory and routine overload of the 143 acts that played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the two previous weekends, but still adequate to develop some tough selections among concurrently scheduled performers.
For instance, do you catch 85-year-old bluegrass master Ralph Stanley at the expense of a rare possibility to hear singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, a single of the architects of the Southern California nation-rock sound that’s been the template for much of what is been coming out of Nashville for the final two decades? And then miss out on rising Texas singer songwriter Sunny Sweeney, who was on the Mane Stage at the exact same time as Stanley and Souther?
Such are the dilemmas of Stagecoach 2012.
A single solution: in a music festival equivalent of culinary grazing, attempt to get a representative, if truncated, sampling of as several bands as feasible.
Four-some Adele leads Ivor Novello Awards nominations
The British singer/songwriter who has already scooped SIX
Grammys and TWO
Brits in 2012 leads the way for this year’s coveted songwriting
honours.
She is nominated in the Best Song Musically and Lyrically category for Rolling
In The Deep.
And the 23-year-old has two chances to pick up the PRS for Music Most
Performed Work gong, with entries for Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like
You.
She is also up for the Album Award for 21 against Kate Bush’s 50
Words For Snow and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake.
Adele will face Ed Sheeran’s The A Team and Florence Welch’s Shake It Out in
the Best Song Musically and Lyrically category.
And Take That’s The Flood is her competition for the PRS for Music Most
Performed Work award.
Simone Felice: The ex-Felice Brothers member on his new album, near-death experience, and Courtney Love
In May of 2010, singer-songwriter Simon Felice should have been feeling on leading of the world. His band The Duke & the King was preparing to release their second album Long Reside the Duke & the King, the stick to-up to 2009’s critically admired Practically nothing Gold Can Remain, And Felice’s wife was heavily pregnant with their initial little one, a double blessing given the couple had previously suffered a late-term miscarriage the preceding yr.
But Felice, who very first gained a following playing alongside his siblings in folk-rock act The Felice Brothers, was not feeling on best of the planet in the early summer of 2010. In reality, he was feeling like hell warmed over. “If you look at pictures of me, I was just pale and grey,” says the singer, 35, more than the mobile phone from his property “on a cliff” in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. “I did not have insurance, I never ever went to the physician. I did not know it, but I was little by little dying.”
Felice is not speaking metaphorically. Immediately after suffering a string of fainting spells, the singer finally sought health-related guidance and was informed that he essential rapid heart surgical procedure to rectify a congenital defect that was severely decreasing blood flow to his brain. “They told me, Mr Felice, there’s no health-related explanation why you are even now alive, you need to have emergency open heart surgery tomorrow,” he says.
Felice was admitted to Albany Medical Center in upstate New York in which, on June 2, his chest was cracked open and an irreversibly calcified aortic valve was swapped for a mechanical replacement. “My wife was eight months pregnant with our first kid,” he says. “They wheeled me away on a gurney and I had to say goodbye [to her], and say goodbye to her belly and never ever know if I would see my child.”
He would. Felice “busted out” of the Medical Center immediately after just a number of days of convalescence—“Hospital is the final place I want to be when I’m not feeling well”—and his daughter, Pearl, was born a month later. “We had her up right here in the mountains with a midwife,” he says. “I cut the cord and I was just robust sufficient to choose her up. She looked me in the eye and it was virtually like a rebirth. It was like I was born the exact same moment she was born. I wrote the song ‘You & I Belong,’ the same day.”
Tyler, the Creator, Lana Del Rey: Collaboration in the Cards?
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,As reported on our sister website Spinner: Lana Del Rey “grew up on hip-hop,” as she sings on “Blue Jeans,” and now pop’s most controversial singer may possibly put her cred to the test and collaborate with rap’s most controversial figure, Tyler, the Creator, NME.com reports.
“Just Discovered Out Lana Del Ray Wished To Operate With Me,” tweeted last week. “Had No Notion. If Your Studying This Im Down, I Have Pretty Instrumentals.”
In response, the divisive ‘Video Games’ songstress mentioned Tyler is “Quantity 1″ in her eyes, so this group-up could be on. Maybe the unlikely duo must draft Del Rey’s alleged boyfriend Marilyn Manson and gun for a shock-pop 3-way.
Watch Lana Del Rey’s ‘Blue Jeans’ Video
Tour Alert: Jack White Extends His Solo Dates
Jack White performs on ‘Saturday Evening Reside.’
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By Ben Murray
March 20, 2012 4:twenty PM ET
Jack White
In anticipation of his first solo album, Blunderbuss – out April 24 – former White Stripes frontman Jack White has announced a handful of American headlining dates for the month of May. These exhibits come as an addition to his checklist of appearances at several main festivals, such as the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.
5/15 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
5/16 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
five/18-twenty Gulf Shores, AL – The Hangout Music Fest
5/19 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
five/21 New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
five/22 New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
5/24 Detroit, MI – Scottish Rite Theater
5/26 Quincy, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival
five/28 Eugene, OR – Hult Center for the Performing Arts (Silva Concert Hall)
5/30 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
5/31 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
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Lana Del Rey Slips Into Blue Jeans
New York-bred, London-based chanteuse Lana Del Rey aka Elizabeth Grant has released the 2nd single from her ‘debut’ album ‘Born To Die’ as her infamous moniker. Blue Jeans, in accurate Del Rey style, is a haunting enjoy song fusing dubby beats with her throaty, sombre vocal tones.
Del Rey and her tattooed Born To Die co-star, model Bradley Soileau engage in nevertheless one more intimate tryst in the latest instalment of their on-screen really like affair as they bask in rays of sunlight, swimming in an infinity pool. The black and white film is however another direction for Del Rey who began her viral attack on the internet with her homemade grainy video for unpredicted hit, Video Games. The 1st official single, Born To Die, then threw viewers an additional curve-ball as it portrayed a hugely stylised hollywood epic full with tigers and a burning American flag. Blue Jeans on the other hand fits into a fully various realm with a distorted lense, as if you are hunting by way of the water, providing a sublime and far more intimate seem at the reclusive singer’s inspirations.
Witnessed in a figure-hugging white bathing suit, fashion devotees are positive to be swooning above Del Rey’s appear in the video, but it is yet to be made the decision what is to be stated about the music. Who knows what Lana Del Rey will do following, but the world wide web is positive to be watching…and judging.
‘X Factor’: Seven judge-worthy divas beyond Britney Spears
Following the bloodbath on Simon Cowell’s “The X Element,” which left 1st season judges Nicole Sherzinger and Paula Abdul with a pink slip, the Web has continued to buzz more than who Cowell would tap to substitute the two female judge slots.
A virtual who’s who of the present pop diva landscape has been thrown into the rumor mill (Nicki Minaj!? Beyonce!? Janet Jackson!? Fergie!? Katy Perry?!), but just lately online speculation has intensified that Britney Spears is nearing a reported $ 10 million deal to join the present and sit up coming to Cowell and L.A. Reid. The large profile signing would put her slightly under the $ 12 million that Jennifer Lopez rakes in at rivaling competition “American Idol.”
Whether Cowell wishes to admit it, the search to uncover his new judges couldn’t have been an simple a single. A swath of mega-promoting pop divas will be busy touring this year, so Madonna, Cher, Celine Dion (she has a Vegas residency) and Jackson are instantly out. Jackson was extended rumored to be in talks to take a seat, but final week she announced that despite currently being flattered by the interest, it was impossible for her to do the gig since of film and touring commitments. There were also reports that just before her death Whitney Houston was contemplating throwing her title in the hat and desired to meet with Cowell.
Not that we do not have faith in Spears. Like Lopez and Abdul, she totally is aware of what it will take to be a effective pop star, but it’s tough to image her judging a singing competitors. Some will argue she’s unfit to judge because of her knack for lip-syncing onstage, but the main problem lies in how Spears would hold up with offering off-the-cuff criticism and bantering with her fellow judges on a weekly basis — on reside tv nonetheless.
With a formal judging announcement anticipated quickly, Pop & Hiss delivers Cowell a small bit of unsolicited suggestions just in case Spears falls by means of. Right here are 7 bold-named divas Cowell and Co. ought to think about: