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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

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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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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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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.

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!

Who is Pierpaolo Capovilla?

"Arts must not reflect the reality, arts must carve the reality… arts is not a recorder…arts don't record, arts change the world..." (cit. Pierpaolo Capovilla).

Yea!

Today guys I'm gonna talk about one of the most known artists of the Italian underground scene…Pierpaolo Capovilla (born in Venice in 1968).

Controversial, politically active, thinker of music, rock and arts in general as the most powerful social instruments. Famous also for his speech and especially for his voice: so impressive, attractive, different. 

He's the leader of two cool projects:

The first is "One Dimensional Man" (Indie-Noise Rock) founded in 1996.

While I'm writing this post, I'm listening to their last album, and… Wow, it rocks! Really... Different from the previous ones and from the past works of Capovilla and company (among them: Giulio Ragno Favero, also founder of Teatro deli Orrori), it's more complete, with new sounds, electronic stuff, synth, in conclusion it seems a new era for ODM has just started! Let's say it's more adult, more mature. 

From their last album "A better Man" (June 2011) this is "Fly"!

"Il Teatro degli Orrori"

Capovilla's second project, in my opinion it's a very cool one! The band's sound has been defined Noise Rock; though they try to combine rock music with songwriter style words. So a great focus on the lyrics plus an original  music style give the result of a product that makes also people thinking other than only shaking their heads! Capovilla and other musicians founded this band in later 2005 and until now they have published 2 albums: "Dell'Impero delle Tenebre" (2007) and  "A Sangue Freddo" (2009). The last one won the PIMI (Italian Prize for Indipendent Music) for the best album, in 2010! 

This is "A Sangue Freddo" from the homonymous album!

Stay tuned... PlaySnack!

Why I chose the Queen as the background..

You might ask yourselves why is there the Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" single's cover as the background of PlaySnack!
The reason why I chose it is that there is NO REASON!
Everyday, I will be changing the background, uploading a different album/single/LP/EP cover.
And the coolest thing is that you can choose what cover you would like to be uploaded!
Just post your suggestion for the cover by posting on the blog, and your choice will be awarded!


This is PlaySnack! Music for everyone, music to eat, music that knows no boundaries. Free Music!
Screw the limits.
Enjoy this trip.




jules




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