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- Legendary Led Zeppelin feels a whole lotta love
- Baghdad heavy metal band still on the run
- The sound of Iran today: Hip-hop rap and protest
- Get your Led out
- Smoking Section: Stevie Wonder Live; Mark Ronson Album Preview; New…
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MTV.com – Dec 10, 2007
textContenturl:window. href} {button:true} ); Two weeks after news of his death first made headlines the autopsy results on late Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow — who was found in his Las Vegas home November 25. DuBrow reportedly died of an accidental cocaine overdose… Many other fellow rockers and fans — including Glenn Hughes Nikki Sixx and others —. Credited with helping to launch the 1980s glam-metal scene Quiet Riot are perhaps best known for their cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” which appeared on 1983′s Metal Health and eventually peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album is widely considered the first by a metal band to reach the chart’s #1 position. Rhoads formed Quiet Riot in 1975 but the group split four years later when he left to join zzy sbourne’s band (Rhoads died in a plane crash in 1982). DuBrow launched his own band called DuBrow and later reverted to the Quiet Riot name. While Metal Health put Quiet Riot on the map the band’s subsequent releases weren’t as well-received.
Legendary Led Zeppelin feels a whole lotta love
USA Today – Dec 10, 2007
Joining original singer Robert Plant guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones on drums was Jason Bonham son of original drummer John Bonham who died in 1980 after a drinking binge. The cause: A star-studded tribute to the late Ahmet Ertegun the Atlantic Records co-founder who signed Led Zeppelin to its first recording contract in 1968. Proceeds go to a fund that offers music scholarships in Ertegun’s name. The anticipation factor: This was the band’s first full live performance since one in Berlin in 1980 two months before Bonham’s death… Joining original singer Robert Plant guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones on drums was Jason Bonham son of original drummer John Bonham who died in 1980 after a drinking binge. The cause: A star-studded tribute to the late Ahmet Ertegun the Atlantic Records co-founder who signed Led Zeppelin to its first recording contract in 1968. Proceeds go to a fund that offers music scholarships in Ertegun’s name. The anticipation factor: This was the band’s first full live performance since one in Berlin in 1980 two months before Bonham’s death. Page Plant and Jones performed at Live Aid five years later and at a 40-year celebration of Atlantic Records in 1988 but considered both appearances flops. The concert was postponed from Nov. 26 after Page fractured a finger.
Baghdad heavy metal band still on the run
Middle East nline – Dec 10, 2007
“Most Iraqis now know about us. To be known in Iraq is not a good thing. Inspired by US megaband Metallica the group came together in 2001 and immediately gained local notoriety which maybe should have been expected of a band playing heavy metal music in a conservative country. After the American-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 the musicians felt optimistic about events in the country and even spoke about recording an album. They drew the attention of journalists of counter-culture magazine VICE who wrote a feature on the hard-rocking group of friends which helped them garner an international following by what Latif now describes as “courageous die-hard fans. Backed by VICE Acrassicauda — named after a dangerous breed of black scorpion — staged a sell-out show in Baghdad in 2005 one of only six gigs they were able to perform in Iraq. The documentary “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” focuses on the VICE team’s attempt a year later to find out what had become of the band members after the eruption of bitter sectarian violence across Iraq… Backed by VICE Acrassicauda — named after a dangerous breed of black scorpion — staged a sell-out show in Baghdad in 2005 one of only six gigs they were able to perform in Iraq. The documentary “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” focuses on the VICE team’s attempt a year later to find out what had become of the band members after the eruption of bitter sectarian violence across Iraq. By then four of the group had fled to Damascus amid daily bombings telephone threats to their lives and the nightly prowlings of death squads on the hunt for intellectuals professors actors artists poets and musicians. The documentary makers finding the band gone their studio destroyed and a bloody turf war raging in Baghdad began tracking them along a dangerous trail that eventually led to Damascus where Firas 26 lead vocalist Faisal Talal 26 guitarist Tony Aziz 28 and 24-year-old drummer Marwan Riyak were regrouping. Along with more than another million or so Iraqi refugees who escaped to Syria they lived pretty much hand to mouth helped along by two gigs which brought in some funding. Syria began cracking down on Iraqis living there earlier this year and the band had to decide whether they could risk going back to Iraq as at least 25000 have done since September according to the Iraqi Red Crescent. They decided this was still too risky so they made their way instead to Istanbul in mid-ctober selling their musical instruments and raising limited funds through earnest pleas on their website www.
The sound of Iran today: Hip-hop rap and protest
PopMatters – Dec 10, 2007
They’re listening to a wide variety of underground music produced by bands and individuals who have no commercial recording deals and no access to professional recording studios. The music is distributed almost exclusively through the Internet. The most popular styles of music include rap hip-hop and heavy metal and can be heard in almost every young Iranian’s bedroom. Because none of these groups have obtained a required recording license the distribution of their music is considered illegal. Some have gained a fanatical following. The latest song by the London-based rap group… A number of female artists have also made it big in the underground music scene including Salome Pani and Mana and Ghowgha. Some performers insist their involvement in the underground music world is non-political. Kami a rapper based in Tehran says he is only interested in music not politics. But even he conceded that the life of an underground artist in Iran isn’t easy.
Get your Led out
Malaysia Star – Dec 10, 2007
Flashback to 1976: a friend in my car in Petaling Jaya was complaining that I was playing Led Zeppelin II too loudly. What could he mean? Trust a Carpenters fan to not love those classic riffs in Whole Lotta Love never mind Bonzo’s drum solo on Moby Dick. Nobody could ever play Led Zeppelin music too loudly not even Led Zeppelin; it was just the way they played. Nor could they play live acts too often. In 1969 they declined an invitation to play at Woodstock because manager Peter Grant thought they would be just another band among many there. Then 10 years later they would play at Knebworth Hertfordshire. There would be other performers among them Ron Wood Keith Richards (half the Rolling Stones as The New Barbarians) Todd Rundgren and Fairport Convention… This was topped off with Robert Plant’s eerily electrified vocals that defined the world of hard rock all gelling with the tight harmony of The Who and the capacity for reinvention of The Rolling Stones. The result was uniquely Led Zeppelin notwithstanding occasional claims of plagiarism. ver the years they refused to abandon their blues element thus retaining their character and credibility while avoiding degeneration into crass “heavy metal”. Punk rockers who had come and gone protested against rock’s established giants but these nihilists could never touch Led Zeppelin on technical quality which is what matters and remains. A generation ago The Song Remains the Same was the only film on Zep and we watched it despite the mixed reviews. Patchy editing could not conceal their musical brilliance as when the audience drank in the rock anthem Stairway to Heaven. By 1980 the collective decision by Plant Page and Jones to disband upon Bonzo’s death despite having their pick of replacement drummer testified to their respect for his place in the pantheon of rock percussionists.
Smoking Section: Stevie Wonder Live; Mark Ronson Album Preview; New…
Rolling Stone – Dec 10, 2007
” Wonder told the faithful that the death of his mother in 2006 totally devastated him but inspired him to return to the stage for his first proper tour in twelve long years. implores all fans of music to see the Great Stevie before this run is up. And believers keep on believin’ that he’ll tour again and again… implores all fans of music to see the Great Stevie before this run is up. And believers keep on believin’ that he’ll tour again and again. “It was a moment of great happiness” Mr. Tony Bennett told the S.