E-Green "Entropia EP" in free download

E-Green, Italian rapper from Busto Arsizio (Varese), is out with a brand new EP titled "Entropia".
The EP contains both Italian and English rhymes, furthermore it features different collaborations on the microphone (Johnny Marsiglia, Mistaman, Pula +) and on the machines (Pisani Cartella, Michel, Shaki, DJ 2P, Gccio, Gerruzz, and others).
Out under Unlimited Struggle, label based in Treviso!

You can download the EP for free at this link.


E-Green, rapper Italiano di Busto Arsizio (Varese), è da poco uscito con il suo nuovo EP "Entropia".
L'EP contiene testi e rime in Italiano e in Inglese, inoltre presenta varie collaborazioni al microfono (Johnny Marsiglia, Mistaman, Pula +) e alle macchine (Pisani Cartella, Michel, Shaki, DJ 2P, Gccio, Gerruzz, e altri ancora).
Fuori per Unlimited Struggle, etichetta indipendente con sede a Treviso!

Puoi scaricare gratuitamente l'EP da questo link.





Here's a list of the artist's next shows and interviews. Click on the artists' and places' names to check their official webpages.
Qui sotto una lista dei prossimi eventi e interviste dell'artista. Clicca sui nomi dei vari artisti e locali per visitare le loro pagine ufficiali.


10/12/2011
Presentazione Ufficiale Di ENTROPIA EP + KILLA SOUL - BLOW - Code Club BUSTO ARSIZIO

13/12/2011
MISTAMAN & E-GREEN OSPITI @ Black Out, RADIO BOCCONI

16/12/2011
Ospite Al KANTIERE DI VERBANIA "RAPPOOSHI" RELEASE PARTY

23/12/2011
E-GREEN + DJ SHOCCA - SABOTAGE Get Up Club BERGAMO

5/01/2011
HOSTING & PERFORMING @ SABOTAGE "LIVE" E-GREEN LIVE ON STAGE BEFORE SALMO

13/01/2011
E-GREEN LIVE w/MISTAMAN & DJ SHOCCA - BARRIOS MILANO

14/01/2011
Hosting BLOW @ Code Club BUSTO ARSIZIO - RESET! Live + Special Guest

20/01/2011
E-GREEN - BASSI MAESTRO - MAURY B - BLOOM DI MEZZAGO


For other infos, check the artist's pages linked below:

E-Green Official Facebook Page
E-Green Offical Myspace Page
E-Green Official Youtube Channel
Unlimited Struggle Official Website


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Spank Rock (and Roll).

Spank Rock ha spaccato. Il culo a tutti i rapper del mondo, per la precisione.
Erissimaco, paragonando la musica all’amore, diceva che “la musica è l’unione tra ritmo e armonia”.
Così, Boyz Noize è armonia, Spank Rock ritmo, l’ultimo lavoro “Everything is boring and everyone is a fucking liar” è amore.

Il produttore tedesco di musica electro-techno Boys Noize è riuscito a iniettare agli Spank Rock, gruppo rap di Baltimora, quel pizzico di suono che era sempre mancato, pur avendo dimostrato di saperlo usare alla perfezione già in passato (come nella canzone “What it looks like” del loro primo album “YO YO YO YO YO”)

Ta Da, la prima canzone della tracklist, con un titolo quasi auto-introducente, dà fuoco alle polveri con una ninna nanna rap-minimal che si scontra con un testo dalla carica di un big bang in cui Naeem Juwan, il cantante, ci va sotto pesante con rime come “Every ghetto is a trap and all they chasing is the cheese then, every nigger is a rat”.

Ci si sofferma poi sugli ambienti aggressive e industrial di “Nasty”, per approdare alla voce paradisiaca della mitica Santigold in “The Car Song”, canzone con groove electropop, late-nite e uptempo, che evoca la stessa sensazione di scivolare in macchina sul tramonto del Sunset Boulevard.
Il viaggio continua, dal paradiso di “The Car Song” a un inferno di ritmi cinetici e metallici, echi dubstep e bassline lisergica di “Birfday”, lasciando il passo a “The Dance”, che ci riporta al pianeta Terra, più precisamente al Plastic tra hipster impazziti e scariche electro, per poi rimbalzare sulla dancehall sintetica di “Hit #1”, che con il suo fantastico video social decay, inscena la rovina di uno sfigato colletto bianco, entrato in un tunnel di follia, sesso, droga e rock ‘n roll.
Poi quattro pezzi, uno dietro l’altro: Turn it Off con una dose compressa di hypa hypa, Hennessey Youngman (Skit) , classico stile hip hop, quasi parlato, e infine si riprende il tipico “dirty rap” di Spank Rock con Hot Potato e Race Riot, un pezzo, quest’ultimo, che se arrivasse alle sue orecchie, farebbe andare Giovanardi in shock anafilattico ( “shake it till my dick turn racist”, canta il ritornello).

La penultima traccia, DTF DADT, che negli Usa sono gli acronomi di emanazioni politiche catto-bigotte come “Defend the Faith” e “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, viene accompagnata da un fantastico video in bianco e nero che sembra il rifacimento in chiave futurista de “Le Colline hanno gli occhi”. Un gruppo di aristocratici, nel mezzo di un baccanale, viene attaccato da tre figure geometriche comparse dal nulla, e reagisce, massacrando e stuprando, stile Arancia Meccanica, lo sventurato branco bidimensionale, con una voce sintetica di sottofondo accompagnata da echi minimal.
Infine Energy, la canzone con una deviazione standard di 1000, rispetto al solito stile di Spank Rock. Melodica, cantata, sembra quasi un Johnny Cash in versione nigga, skinny jeans e cappellino zebrato.

Album top, dunque. Il genio di Boys Noize, con la collaborazione di artisti come il fantastico Williams Pharrell, il fashionista Mark Ronson, il folle Sam Spiegel, ha condensato tutto in uno stile hipster hop, vestiti nu rave e occhiali alla NYC anni Ottanta, fanno di Everything is Boring and Everyone is a Fucking Liar una delle migliori produzioni dell’anno, sia nel mondo hip hop che in quello dell’elettronica.

Non ci si poteva aspettare di meglio da Spank Rock, continuando a sperare in una futura produzione che veda insieme Spank Rock, Santigold, Amanda Blank, M.I.A., Rye Rye e I Cool Kids.

Tutti artisti allineati a quell’hip hop alternativo , elettronico, colorato e auto-ironico, che rappresenta un po’ la terza via rispetto all’ hip hop pappone e pacchiano tipico degli Stati Uniti (Fifty Cent, Eminem, ecc.) e il Grime, ovvero quello ghetto-aggressive tipico della Gran Bretagna. L’hip hop italiano, con le sue emanazioni coatte, non lo consideriamo nemmeno.

E se qui in Italia i tamarri si consolano con il Time Warp e la sua minimal tech stantia, non ci resta altra alternativa che comprare al volo il primo biglietto per Baltimora. 

                       “I wanna go West, like Kayne” (cit. Spank Rock )



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E il sesto giorno furono creati i Justice

Justice. Un nome, un programma, e non è sarcasmo. È semplicemente realismo. Per chi non li conoscesse Justice potrebbe suonare come un duo di disgraziati neo-catecumeni creazionisti con in mano un synth al posto di una bibbia, o peggio, un Di Pietro che invece di scendere in politica si è dato all’elettronica. In realtà Justice è uno dei prodotti (parola usata volontariamente) musicali, a mio avviso, più riusciti della storia della musica.

Per comprendere meglio, questo discorso può essere esteso ad altri due progetti musicali, i Major Lazer e i Cool kids. Cos’hanno in comune Major Lazer con la loro dancehall elettronica, The Cool Kids con il loro colorato hipster hop, e i Justice con la loro electro biblica? Nulla. Perlomeno musicalmente parlando. Tre etichette differenti ( Mad Decent, C.A.K.E. e Ed Banger). Tre stili, generi e background differenti.

È nella composizione dell’immagine, del prodotto, dello stile, del personaggio, il tutto incentrato nella creazione di una propria nicchia artistico-musicale che troviamo affinità. È così che Justice diventa un “pacchetto”, un format, un’identità: una croce in cruda pietra, lapidaria, simbolo di giustizia divina, accompagnata da titoli musicali altrettanto giudaico-escatologici come Genesis, Civilization, Waters of Nazareth, Let there Be Light, e DVNO; e soprattutto la musica, ovviamente elettronica, combinata a linee di basso drammatiche, apocalittici colpi d’organo, schitarrate sintetiche assieme a suoni distorti e sintetizzati, condita da quel french touch, da quella nu disco e da quell’electro tipiche dell’etichetta francese Ed Banger (l’etichetta del manager dei Daft Punk in cui militano anche SebastiAN, Uffie, Mr Oizo, Cassius e Sebastien Tellier).

«Tu sei Pietra, e su questa pietra edificherò la mia Chiesa». Così i Justice hanno fondato una chiesa, e la loro croce ne è stata la cleuf de vaute con cui sintetizzare la fine dello scorso, e l’inizio dell’attuale millennio, riuscendo a canalizzare il background synthpop disco ed electro dei Daft Punk tipico della metà degli anni ’90, nello stile controverso e forse anche usato impropriamente, nu rave(accompagnati nell’impresa dai Digitalism, per dare meglio l’idea) tipico degli anni 2000.

Finalmente il loro nuovo album (il secondo), definito da loro stessi come “bedroom music”, con un titolo, nel solco della tradizione, di religiosa memoria, quasi francescana, Audio Video Disco. Horsepower, l’incipit, (ricalcante Genesis, il pezzo con cui esordiscono nel loro primo album, †, Cross), che come le trombe annunciano l’inesorabile giorno del giudizio, spiana la strada alla pietra miliare dell’album,Civilization. Civilization incarna il fragoroso frastuono generato nel corso dei secoli dalla civilizzazione, il roboante incedere della cultura umana con il suo processo trasformativo, l’assordante eco delle sue rovine e delle sue conquiste.

Evoluzione in pillole: «Stand in line as we march to the drums of the east, Paralyzed and possessed by crusaders deceased, Lost in the silence, the call from the turbulent times. Bound by the science that lives on the lips of the wise. The beating of a million drums/The fire of a million guns/The mother of a million sons.Civilization».

Mentre con Ohio e On’n’On riscoprono una vena eighties, a pezzi retrò e vintage, ai limiti dell’hippy, con lo stesso sapore di polaroid ingiallite e gite in California, Canon è energia musicale allo stato puro: Justice are back! Synth aggressivi e irruenti, schitarrate elettroniche e giri di basso graffianti, un omaggio al loro primo album,†, Cross.

Andando avanti, con Parade, si confluisce in una folla di fedeli in marcia, una parata di pianoforti e chitarre sintetizzati, ritmo andante e cadenzato, verso altri lidi, verso altri suoni, verso l’oracolo, che in questo caso è una croce, quella dei Justice. Nel nostro viaggio spirituale approdiamo a Newlands, in una differente dimensione musicale, chiamata rock, elemento che, seppur già familiare ai Justice, caratterizza specialmente il pezzo. La penultima canzone , Helix, simbolizza trascendenza musicale allo stato puro, suoni squillanti e crescenti, note musicali che evaporano come elio. Infine l’ultimo pezzo, il cui titolo Audio Video Disco ricorda un aforisma francescano, che con le sue polifonie, le sue voci corali, i suoi echi medioevali, sintetizzati in un unico flusso sonoro, santifica e purifica le orecchie peccatrici degli ascoltatori.

Religione, trascendenza sonora, rock ’n roll, electro, croci, organi, chiese, un disco, musica e giustizia divina, tutto condensato in un unico album. Nel sesto giorno furono creati i Justice. Giustizia fu fatta. (Genesis – †)


Flavio Ciabattoni
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Nigga is the New Black!

Quando Carter G. Woodson si apprestava a organizzare la Negro History Week, mai si sarebbe aspettato che 85 anni dopo, un ventenne dalla pelle bianca ne avrebbe scritto un articolo che sarebbe stato perfino pubblicato sul magazine che fa riferimento a uno dei più famosi esponenti dell’ex Msi. Ebbene sì, i tempi sono cambiati. Dal 1926, la Negro History Week, poi diventata il Black History Month, il mese di Ottobre, rappresenta nei Paesi angloamericani la celebrazione della cultura afroamericana, con la divulgazione delle sue conquiste e dei contributi apportati alla società.

«We could call it just history month, but it’s more than that. It’s about forgotten heroes and stories that we never get told at school. We are taught more about the Battle of Waterloo at school than the relevance of Dr Martin Luther King. We hope this month goes some way to fill in the gaps». Recita il sito della BBC radio 1 xtra, i cui dj dedicano parte del loro palinsesto alla musica black, lanciando candidati ai Black Music Origin Awards, che si sono tenuti a Glasgow il 5 ottobre, la cui peculiarità è che la metà dei candidati non sono manco di colore, per far capire quanto la cultura anglosassone sia intrinsecamente black.

I candidati dei Black Awards, vanno dalla hyper Nicki Minaj alla famosa Beyoncé, dalla cantante funky-dubstep Katy B al grime star Tinie Tempah. Oltre alla new star Jessie J, ai mitici drum step Chase n Status passando per la melodica Adele e finendo col figlio del reggae king, Damian Marley. Anche la bianca (ma non troppo) Italia ha avuto la sua parte, con Alborosie nominato (e vincitore) del Best Reggae act.

Dal 1926 di tempo ne è passato. Da un passato di soprusi e discriminazioni, quella afroamericana è diventata, in assoluto, la cultura più attiva, colorata e carica del mondo occidentale. Un afroamericano che diventa l’uomo più potente (e il presidente piu’ figo) del mondo, i fan di Bob Marley hanno superato in numero quelli di Gesu’ Cristo, le big mamas che vanno sempre più di moda, la musica black che spinge sempre di più.

Borghezio si augura una Padania bianca e cristiana. 

Io vi auguro un buon Black History Month a tutti.

Flavio Ciabattoni
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After 7 years..Mark Lanegan Band announced their new album is almost ready! Call Blues Funeral! Going to be out on 6th February 2012!
Check it out on his official site!
http://marklanegan.com/

MiniSnack! MTV EMA 2011 WINNERS

Yesterday evening in Belfast took place the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 Edition.
Many artists were featured during the show including Justin Bieber, Jessie J, Lady Gaga, or Queen right at the curtain's fall.
About 158 million people voted their favourite artists and bands. These are the 2011 winners:

Best Male - Justin Bieber
Best Female - Lady Gaga
Best Song - Lady Gaga
Best Video - Lady Gaga
Best Pop - Justin Bieber
Best Rock - Linkin Park
Best Hip Hop - Eminem
Best Alternative - 30 Seconds to Mars
Biggest Fan - Lady Gaga
Best Push - Bruno Mars
Best New - Bruno Mars
Best Live - Katy Perry
Best World Stage - 30 Seconds to Mars
Worldwide Act - BigBang
Global Icon - Queen


Congratulations to all the winners! See you for the 2012 edition!!



jules


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1971 Pink Floyd at Pompeii ha 40 anni

Si racconta che Adrian Maben, regista scozzese in vacanza in Italia, perse il portafogli e quando se ne accorse tornò sui luoghi che aveva visitato. Tornò dunque  a sera presso gli scavi di Pompei e arrivato sul posto vide quel luogo con occhi che non aveva avuto poche ore prima. Il silenzio immobile delle pietre, le ombre lunghe sul terreno, il profilo della montagna nel rosso del sole calante, istantanee magiche che meritavano di essere riempite da chi con la musica sapeva colorare le immagini. Nacque cosi il più straordinario, epico, insolito concerto rock di tutti i tempi.

Non fu un’impresa semplice, basti pensare ai chilometri di cavi utilizzati per alimentare gli amplificatori, oppure agli strumenti arrivati con ritardo e che resero le riprese più frettolose.

Nulla però di quella magia cui aveva pensato Maben andò perduta. Sette brani, estratti da Meddle dello stesso anno,  Ummagumma  e A Saucerful of Secrets e un inedito – Mademoiselle Nobs – “cantato” da un cane, esperimento già compiuto con Seamus nel disco studio dello stesso anno. Sessantadue minuti di sperimentazione psichedelica come non si era mai visto prima di allora.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2HaZInOK8

MiniSnack! Steve Aoki

Asian Tour for Mr Aoki, chek out the dates!

Meanwhile his new single "Earthquakey People", featuring Rivers Cuomo (lead singer, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the Weezer) is out!

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Masa

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A new music festival coming up: Movement Torino Music Festival from October 27th to the 31st!
Movement Culture will present in association with Roland and Pioneer the new technologies applied to Electronic Music, and hosting some of the most interesting acts in electronic music.
For info go to: http://it-it.facebook.com/movementfestival?sk=app_208195102528120

jules

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MTV European Music Awards are coming up soon!
On November 6th from Belfast Selena Gomez will present the 2011 edition.
Stay ready, stay tuned!

For further infos go to http://it.mtvema.com/


jules

Beirut?? They definitively rock!

Probably you already know them, and you're gonna criticize me for this, but I've only recently found out this band..and..it's amazing..the way this guy (Zach Condon, from Santa Fe) and his band combine lots of instruments, lots of different sonorities and music elements: folk music from Europe, mainstream indie, western music and pop. 

During his journeys around Europe Zach discovered and picked up those different styles that changed his life and totally influenced Beirut Music

Ukulele, trumpet, drums, guitar, accordion are only some of the instruments played by this extraordinary band.

In a time where everyone tends to uniform the music to a specific public and mainstream demand, they're breaking every boundary playing very originally…they definitively rock!!  

I would like to suggest you some tracks: 

first of all "Nantes" from their third album "The Flying Cup Club"…and then "East Harlem" a song from their last album "The Tip Tide" (August 2, 2011) UK #49, CAN #48 US #80

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Lor

MiniSnack!

Azari & III's song "Hungry For The Power" (Jamie Jones Ridge Street Remix) was awarded as ‘Track of The Season 2011’ at The DJ Awards in Ibiza.

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On October 24th British band Coldplay will release in physical and digital stores its new album "Mylo Xyloto".
The album will be officially presented on October 26th in Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, in Madrid.
The live performance of the presentation will be streamed live on www.youtube.com/coldplayVEVO or through Youtube apps for iPhone, iPad, iPodtouch, and Android.
Here's song "Paradise", world's most played single at the moment.



jules


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The Guardian this morning has published an article regarding ten of the best clubs and music venues in Edinburgh. It features The Cabaret Voltaire, Electric Circus, Bannerman's and others.
To read the full story click here.

RATAWHAT?

Bella guys!
Welcome back to PlaySnack! Music 2 Eat.
The new post of today is about RATATAT!
Formed by guitarist Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast (AKA E*vax) who met at Skidmore College the band formed during the first years of 2000.



Their first album "Ratatat" was released in 2004, a deep mixture of electronic music and rock, entirely instrumental except for some vocal excerpts which they define spoken interlude.
The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2 in 2004 on the British television show Soccer AM as the original background music for "The Crossbar Challenge" segment, also in Level One Productions's ski movie "Shanghai Six".
In the same year the band released "Ratatar Remixes Vol.1" a collection of remixes made by the duo to a list of original songs played by American Hip Hop artists. This volume garnered the attention of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Second album came in 2006 and was titled "Classics" from which three singles were extracted: "Lex", "Wildcat", and "Loud Pipes". Few months later, in 2007 the band released the second volume of "Ratatat Remixes" titled in fact "Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2", 14 tracks full of electronic indie sounds backing famous Hip Hop artists' rhymes. Like the first volume, the second reached a good success among the scenes both Hip Hop and Electronic one.
Third album came in 2008, simply titles "LP3". Unlike the first two albums, this one was recorded just in a few weeks. Here the band experimented different genres using percussions, synthesizer patches, sound effects, and samples.Ratatat is as much prolific on production as on live shows, having been touring top cities in USA and Europe. Their shows are a mix of light shows, swirling colors, and movie clips that get projected onto a screen. Evan Mast is the creator and the editor of those videos. A peculiarity of their concerts is that cameras are usually not allowed inside.In 2009 Ratatat contributed on two songs of the debut album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day" by Kid Cudi. The two songs are entitled "Alive" and "Pursuit of Happiness" (featuring MGMT).One year later, on June 8 2010 Ratatat released "LP4" fourth band's album. In an interview the band stated most songs were concepted during the recording of the previous album "LP3".In this new album many new instruments were used, changing slightly the band's sound never appearing though "completely different".Three music videos were produced for the tracks "Drugs", "Mahalo", and "Neckbrace".

My personal opinion on this band is that they are an extremely interesting act of the industry, for their artistic side that combines sounds and videos in a perfect mix that often makes the viewer reflecting, and for the innovation in style, not only because they can easily approach different genres and artists, but also for the freshness and the attraction power of their live concerts.

I chose to post three videos, the first is "Drugs" from LP4, the second is "Shempi" from LP3, and the third is a recording of one live concert (Bonnaroo 2011).

RATATAT

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jules

Bjork is Innovating!!

"in biophilia you will experience how three different things fuse together: nature-music-technology"

...

"We are on a bring of a revolution, that reunites human with nature, trough new technological innovation, until we get there, prepare, explore, biophilia…"

Bjork is Innovating!

Bjork, great artist of the alternative music scene, well known for her originality, always launched something new! but I think this time her idea is definitively outstanding! 

Yesterday, 10th October she released the first Applications-Album! made in collaboration with Apple and available for iPad and iPhone..

I don't have any of these devices to try, but as I understood, every song works like a little game, where you can experience the music, that changes depending on your choices.

It turn out to be not only a listening experience, 'cause people can actively play with every song, exploring not only the music, but also the nature (that's the main theme of the album) and the technological applications. She said that Biophilia was partially composed by using tablets, so involving, more than usually, a large amount of technological stuff, that also will be used during live performances! 

Don't worry! For the laziest guys or for who doesn't have any of the suitable devices, or for who just wants to relax by listening to music, there's also a normal version of the album, available for only £ 8.99 on Bjork official site (http://bjork.com/#).

Check it out!

Lor

MiniSnack!

Weezer Ex-bassist Mikey Welsh was founded dead on Saturday  8th October, 
R.I.P.
Just to remember one of their most famous song, from their firs album, this is Buddy Holly 
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Lor

TKOL remix

E' stato rilasciato su w.a.s.t.e. il remix dell'album dei Radiohead. 19 tracce rielaborate tra gli altri da Jacques Greene, Mark Pritchard. L'album può essere acquistato al prezzo di 12 sterline su www.thekingoflimbs.com/store.


OnaF

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New Bjork album is out today! Biophilia! This is Moon..
Check it out and stay tuned with Playsnack! 

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Alborosie won the best reggae category at the 2011 MOBO award, his reaction:"I was shocked I can't believe it right now, I can't say anything about it right now..."
Alborosie, Italian artist, he moved to Giamaica about 10 years ago, this is "Kingston Town"
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Lor

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Brazilian Band CSS will perform at Estragon in Bologna, Italy on November 25th.
This is their unique date in Italy, so fans can't miss it!
Tickets available on Ticketone for € 17.25
Here's a few videos of them... PlaySnack 'em!

Single "Move" extracted from second album "Donkey":


From a live performance in Brazil:
 

jules

WOW Deluxe is out! Brief talk about Verdena!

Yea! we're talking about Verdena, great rock band from Bergamo (Italy).
On 18th January 2011 was released their 5th album called "WOW", a double album (27 tracks), on 20th september 2011 was released WOW Deluxe, a special edition where you can find also a dvd with a live performance, backstages and videoclips from their last tour!
Personally I consider this album a masterpiece, although it would sound strange when you hear it for the first time, especially if you're an old fan of this band, 'cause it's totally different from their first or second album (when they were defined the Italian version of Nirvana). Now they use the piano, lot of synth and choirs. In my opinion it's like the last step of an evolution path they've been going trough.

Their prior album (Requiem) was released in 2007, so they spent a long time working on it, in the "Henhouse" (their studio it's a restructured henhouse in the mountains near Bergamo), experimenting, "bearing Alberto's pedantry" (cit.) and having had also some hard time (especially on the financial side: Roberta, one of them started to do some little jobs, Alberto and Luca borrowed money from their parents), but at the end the product was fantastic. They made and they're still making great success (lots of sold out during their tour). I went to some of their live performances and I totally suggest you to go as well... they absolutely rocks! There could be so much to talk about them, but I think it would be better if we could listen to some of their music!


This is the first extract from WOW, "Razzi Arpia Inferno e Fiamme"… PlaySnack it!




Lor

ALIVE

1990, la provincia americana e una città che ha poco da offrirti oltre la pioggia. La passione per la musica di una generazione che non ha vissuto il ribellismo degli ultimi anni ’70 e non si è riconosciuta nell’esplosione pop degli ’80. Passione che trova le sue radici nei nostri sacri di 2 decenni prima , dai Led Zeppelin agli Who, dai Black Sabbath ai Grateful Dead. L’anomalia di tante bands che non si fanno la guerra per una serata in un club ma che invece amano ritrovarsi a bere birra insieme e a scambiarsi esperienze artistiche. E poi il ricordo commosso dell’amico Andy Wood che se ne è andato troppo presto; proprio colui che aveva mostrato più talento, colui che avrebbe avuto la capacità di portare quella passione fuori dalla provincia.

Comincia così Twenty, il lungometraggio che Cameron Crowe ha voluto dedicare ai Pearl Jam; un regalo di un amico più che una celebrazione di una rock band. Il film non è quindi una pellicola celebrativa del gruppo di Eddie Vedder, bensì  uno splendido, intenso omaggio al rock tutto. I Pearl Jam sono solo il mezzo  che conduce attraverso questo viaggio dentro la misteriosa catarsi della musica. Ne viene fuori dunque un lavoro che è riduttivo pensare come un tribute-movie, ma che invece andrebbe guardato da tutti gli appassionati di rock, qualunque fosse il gruppo di riferimento. Pochi altri fenomeni sociali hanno la capacità di aggregare esperienze e culture diverse e di riunire sotto un’unica bandiera centinaia di migliaia di persone in un alchemico “pulsare insieme”.  Può essere intrattenimento e impegno, sballo e arte, istinto e tecnica senza perdere neanche un grammo della sua capacità aggregatrice.

Non mancano messaggi contro la prepotenza  delle major come quando  Eddie, davanti al pubblico dei Grammy, ritirando il premio dice “tutto questo non ha senso”. Oppure la loro battaglia contro il caro biglietti di Ticketmaster.

Naturalmente nel film c’è anche tanta musica e inediti spezzoni delle prime performance realizzate in piccoli pub. C’è un doveroso omaggio all’amico-rivale Kurt Cobain ma, fuori dalla retorica, questo è più un passaggio a rappresentare l’incapacità di alcuni di accettare il successo.

Twenty è uscito nelle sale come data unica il 20 settembre scorso. Sono disponibili disco e libro, non per ora il dvd. Il giorno dopo Micheal Stipe annunciava lo scioglimento dei REM. 

Altri protagonisti abbandonano la scena ma Camerone Crowe ci ricorda che, come cantava Neil Young, Rock and Roll can never die.


Onaf

Face2Face: LULU

Welcome back guys! This is jules and today I am going introduce you a new PlaySnack! feature...
It's called Face2Face! Once week Face2Face will expose you a recent or historical collaboration between two artists, two bands, or one artist and one band to form what we like to call "Superbands"!
Hope you will enjoy it, please let us know in the comments what you think about it!
Now I let Masa introduce you the first Face2Face... PlaySnack it!

jules



For today’s F2F we are going to talk about two Divinities in their genres, all around artist with decades of experience on their shoulder.

Lewis Allan Reed was born on March 2, 1942 and is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground cult band and for his subsequentely solo career (after 1971)

Metallica is an American Heavy Metal band from Los Angeles, California formed 30 years ago. The current line up includes the singer James Hetfielsd Lars Ulrich (drums), lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, and the bassist Robert Trujillo (since 2003). They had released nine studio albums, three live albums, five extended plays, 24 music videos, and 45 singles. The band has won nine Grammy Awards, and has had five consecutive albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200, making Metallica the first band to do so.

 

So about this absolutely non-conventional collaboration the site www.loureedmetallica.com says: 

The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, "Lulu," is coming your way this Fall (Oct, 31st) and this space will be your spot for all things Loutallica(!).[...]
"Lulu" was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind's plays "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box," which tell a story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships and are now collectively known as the "Lulu Plays." Since their publication in the early 1900's, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film ("Pandora's Box," 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with the 'Tallica boys for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 all guilty parties knew they wanted to make more music together. Lou was inspired enough by that performance to recently ask the band to join him in taking his theatrical "Lulu" piece to the next level and so starting in early May of this year we were all camped out recording at HQ studios in Northern California, bringing us to today and ten complete songs.

Here you are the first revealed song from Lou Reed and Metallica upcoming album, "The View" a pure example of a 21st century rock opera. PlaySnack it!!!!

M.

Do you prefer Cats or Dogs?

Welcome back to PlaySnack! ---- Music 2 Eat ----

Today I'm gonna talk about Evidence, Italian American rapper from Los Angeles, California.
Born of an Italian father and a Polish-American mother as Michael Perretta on December 10, 1976, Evidence started his career in the late 1980's in the beautiful city of Venice Beach, doing both rap and graffiti.
In the early 90's he teamed up with producer DJ Babu and rapper Rakaa to form the group "Dilated Peoples", which reached great success in the underground circuit by the end of the decade especially after the releases of "Third Degree" and "Work The Angles" (under ABB Records).
Dilated Peoples has so far released 5 albums, within 2000 and 2007.During his work with Dilated Peoples, Evidence became a champion of hip-hop culture. "This is for people who get what I do. If I'm going to come out independently and have the freedom to do what I want, there's no better way to represent. I want to be a leader and carve out a new path." his personal statement.
Apart from "Dilated Peoples" Evidence started his solo career in 2007 with the release of the album "The Weatherman LP" containing productions of The Alchemist, Jake One, DJ Babu, DJ Khalil, and Evidence himself.
The album reached #42 in Billboard Indipendent Albums!
Four years have passed since then, and Evidence has decided to release a new album... with a new label, the famous Minneapolis based "Rhymesayers".

The album I'm talking about is "Cats & Dogs" released two days ago, September 27th.
Available on iTunes in both normal and Deluxe edition, the album contains 19 tracks (17 in the normal edition) produced by The Alchemist, Twiz the Beat Pro, Evidence, Rahki, Sid Roams, DJ Babu, Statik Selektah, Charli Brown, and historical New York hip hop producer DJ Premier.
The peculiarity of the album is the reality of the arguments described, that fuse easily with the different beats, giving the whole concept an underground taste but with a mainstream sound clash.
Numerous artists feature the tracks starting with Aloe Blacc ("I Need a Dollar) in the first track, and then continuing with Raekwon, Ras Kass, Roc Marciano, Prodigy, Slug, Aesop Rock, Rakaa, Lil' Fame, Termanology, and Fashawn.
My personal advice is to buy this album, and to listen it carefully, you won't ever get tired of it!
The first single extracted is "You" produced by DJ Premier.

What are you waiting for?

PlaySnack it!

Buy the album on: 
http://www.fifthelementonline.com/evidence-cats-and-dogs-cd.html
For other infos:
http://www.facebook.com/misterevidence
http://www.twitter.com/evidence


jules


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Jamming in the desert?? It Rocks!

Have you ever picked up some friends, few instruments and went in an isolated place just to play and jam together for hours without any limit?

I think the most of those who play an instrument have done so!

But…have you ever thought about what would happen if your friends are people like: Dave Grohl, Matt Cameron, Joey Castillo, Nick Olivieri, Mark Lanegan, PJ Harvey and other twenty or even more people from the Alternative Rock scene ??

This is what Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal are some of the bands he played in) and some other BIG friends usually do. The location is Rancho de la Luna (Joshua Tree, California) 10 album were born there from these collaborations!

DESERT SESSIONS! 

Listening to the tracks you'll easily get the improvised style... So cool, so natural... Check 'em out!

These are some of the most famous tracks (you can also find them on QOTSA albums, "Era Vulgaris", 2007 and QOTSA , 1998) "I wanna make with chu" and "Nova"! PlaySnack it!

Lor

Lo capisci l'italiano?!

Ladies and gentleman, stay ready.
Hip hop heads, clean up your earphones because "Lo Capisci L'italiano?! Rap Controcultura?!", the new mixtape of Dj Double S hosted by Fabri Fibra is about to come out on October 1st!

Selected by DJ Double S and Fabri Fibra, Italy's number 1 MC and top charts artist, this album includes unpublished rhymes by Italian MCs such as Entics (which recently released his debut album "Soundboy" under Sony BMG and produced by Fabri Fibra's label "Tempi Duri Records"), Ensi, Kiave, Maury B, and Fabri Fibra himself.
The mixtape will be entirely released in digital free download on www.tempidurirecords.it for Big Picture Mngmt/Tempi Duri Records.
The mixtape is not a novelty for DJ Double S, in fact the DJ is at his fourth official release, counting the records published in 1997, 1999, and 2000.
Each chapter, always titled "Lo capisci l'italiano?!" and recorded on cassette, reached a huge success in the Italian Hip Hop scene, receiving acclamation by both Underground and Mainstream artists, and pushing the artist to re-release chapters 2 and 3 on CD formats.
But let's see a little more in depth who is DJ Double S.
Coming from Turin but of Southern Italian extraction, Double S has been working on a 20 years carreer. Starting djing at a young age, he has shared stages all around Italy with the best MCs of the peninsula, always bringing up and developing his passion for vinyls. Most important skills for a DJ are: technic, music knowledge, style, and talent.
We can easily say that he has all 4 of them!
Just back from Fabri Fibra's "Controcultura Tour" which touched all the most important cities in Italy, the DJ decided to gives his fans, but not only them, a personal gift that combines his passion for Hip hop and music in general.
"Rap as a way to have fun, to let off steam, to send messages, to denounce, to counterculture" his words on the upcoming mixtape!

Here we post four teasers for the promotion of the mixtape... so what are you waiting for??!! PlaySnack 'em!

jules


October 1st on www.tempidurirecords.it
DJ Double S with "Lo Capisci L'italiano?! Rap Controcultura?!"

You gotta have it!


For further infos check out DJ DOUBLE S – Official Links:

www.djdoubles.com
www.facebook.com/djmais

www.twitter.com/djmaisappeal                         

www.youtube.com/djmaisappeal



jules

We're new here

"Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American poet, musician (Blues and Jazz) and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s. His very acclamed poetic style has been influential upon every generation of hip hop since his popularity began. One of his most famous composition is “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, a sort of a hymn which had a massive impact on Black culture during the years and was generally defined as one of the best Political Songs. Just before dying Gil Scott Heron had relased an album after 16 years of silence titled “I’m new here”.

Jamie Smith a.k.a. Jamie XX is an English producer, percussionist and a former member of the XX, London-Based indie pop band that won with their first album the noticeable Barclaycard Mercury Prize.
“We’re new here” is the remix album of Gil Scott-Heron’s last album “I’m new here”.


Produced by Jamie XX and relased on 21st of February 2011 this record can be considered an experiment and a sort of a tribute by a big fan to a great Master of the music. The peculiar feature of this project is how you can hear the producer deconstructing and then reconstructing the tracks in a new way skipping in different subgenres .


My advice is to listen both to the original album and the remix one, you can taste the subtle difference between an analogical and a digital way of create a song.






Here's the video of "I'll take care of you", come on, PlaySnack it!!!

M.

Let's talk about Belle & Sebastian!

Indie-pop band from Glasgow, they were born in 1996 as a school project, precisely a final music course assignment for Stuart Murdoch... Initially they didn't want to become a real group, but the success of their first album "Tigermilk", totally unexpected brought the members to think about being a band! 

Personally I really love their music, not the usually mainstream pop music, since they combine lots of instruments, trying to do something new, without using much modern or electronic sounds inside their songs… so simple, humble, just like their appearance! They have already done eight albums...  Check them out!

I'd like to suggest you guys some tracks that I like ti listen the most: "It Could Have Been a Brilliant Carrier", "Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying" or "Judy And The Dream of Horses".

Their last album "Write About Love" was released one year ago, and has reached position 8 on "UK Top 100 Chart".
The next song is an extract of the album, PlaySnack it!

Come on Sister from Belle & Sebastian on Vimeo.

Stay tuned on PlaySnack!

Lor

This album is SuperHeavy!!

Have you ever imagined five top world's artist combining in one single band and releasing a massive hit album?
Well, if you have it's the case that you play SuperHeavy!
SuperHeavy is a rock supergroup consisting of Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, Damian Marley, and A. R. Rahman.
Just by reading the names you might understand the power and energy this band can release, but when you listen to the album "SuperHeavy" you might remain thunderstruck by its mixture of sounds and musical styles.
Ranging from Rock, to Reggae, up to Indian ballads this album will certainly thrill you.
The unmistakable Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones) is perfectly adapted to all the sonorities of the tracks, while Joss Stone brings a touch of Soul music with her tremendous and electrifying voice. Dave Stewart (The Eurythmics) brings its experience on the guitar by making solos and riffs in both rock and reggae styles, never appearing out of the album's concept.
Damian Marley, son of the most famous reggae singer of all times Bob Marley, fills the gap between the reggae rhythm of the band and the rock dresses of their members. Absolutely amazing!
A.R. Rahman, Indian film composer, record producer, musician, singer and philanthropist is capable of bringing into the band the typical ballads of his country, giving the album also an ethnic taste.
In short, this album kicks as*!!

SuperHeavy. From left to right: Damian Marley, Dave Stewart, Mick Jagger, A.R. Rahman, Joss Stone

In my opinion this is a perfect example of how some mainstream artists can create a sound that varies from the industry's main one, packing up a product that is perfect from the musical point of view, highly interesting on the experimental side, and soft but definetely conscious on the lyrics.
The album is already out (released in September 16th, 2011).

Here's the first single extracted, titled "Miracle Worker"... What are you waiting for?
PlaySnack it!