Allun & other: May 2008

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Jeans Team

Artist: Jeans Team

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Dance
   Indie
   Rock

Discography:

Keine Melodien (Maxi)

Year: 2014
Tracks: 6

Kopf auf

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Musik Von Oben

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Ding Dong

Year: 2000
Tracks: 13

Tuesday 20 May 2008

Alvin Lee

Artist: Alvin Lee

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Miscellaneous
   Blues

Discography:

Let It Rock

Year: 2005
Tracks: 12

In Tennessee

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

The Anthology CD2

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

The Anthology CD1

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Live at Herzberg

Year: 2001
Tracks: 9

Rocket Fuel

Year: 2000
Tracks: 8

Ride on

Year: 2000
Tracks: 9

Free Fall

Year: 1999
Tracks: 10

Pump Iron!

Year: 1998
Tracks: 13

Detroit Diesel

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Nineteen Ninety Four

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

In Flight

Year: 1974
Tracks: 19

As with many of the other English language casing groups of the '60s, Alvin Shelton Jackson Lee cut his musical dentition in Hamburg, Deutschland in a ring called the Jaybirds. By 1966, plump for in England, he had changed the discover of his band to Ten Age After and was rapidly becoming a major draw because of the virtuosity of his solo work. Most Americans routine one became familiar with Alvin Spike Lee through his appearance at Woodstock, although he remained active throughout the decades which followed; among his releases were 1974's In Flight, 1986's Motor City Rudolf Diesel and 1996's Live in Austrian capital.

Largo gets new lease on life at the old Coronet

JON BRION'S last night at Largo was epos. The singer-songwriter's brawl Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Boulevard night club had been draft capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his Whitethorn 2 show was historic: his final turn ahead possessor Sign Flanagan closed up browse to move to a bigger outer space, the Coronet Theater on La Cienega Avenue, which is due to open up June 2 with a performance by Aimee Mann.

Brion had a bigger-than-usual parade of guest stars, people like E (Mark Oliver Everett) from the Eels, wHO was pressed into playing drums and singing Prince's "Raspberry Beret" with Brion, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and bassist Sebastian Saul Steinberg. And in that location was an extra silliness to the typical anything-can-happen humor.

"I'm not sad at totally," said Flanagan, 42, while introducing Brion.

For more than a 10, Largo had nurtured his favorite singer-songwriters and comedians -- people world Health Organization as well happen to be more or less of L.A.'s more character, intelligent and critically acclaimed artists. Flanagan demanded that listeners persist silence during sets, which kept the focal point on the performers. He refused to pimp to Hollywood or music-business crowds: You mightiness notice famous, powerful faces in the interview, only Largo was for people world Health Organization wanted to see the prove, not just be seen.

Certainly, the club didn't consume a proper salad dressing room or still a tell restroom for the artists. But for a lot of performers, Largo had a vibe to touch the finest concert halls. And so, during Brion's last Fairfax depict, the unknown future seemed both exciting and unnerving.

"At the new Largo," E observed wryly, "everyone's gonna be like, 'You shoulda been at the old Largo.' "

Old school possessor

IN A city where so much live music is booked by big companies such as Endure Nation and Goldenvoice, Flanagan has thrived as a hands-on owner-operator, dealing directly with artists. In 1996, he remodeled and reopened the night club at 432 N. Fairfax Ave., which he'd earlier started with deuce partners in 1992. The musical fare included such topical anesthetic legends as Brion, Rickie Lee Jones, the tardily Elliott David Roland Smith and Grant-Lee Phillips, plus touring favorites such as Robyn Alfred Hitchcock and Neil Finn.

Flanagan too supported such acts of the Apostles as singer-songwriter John Lackland Mayer and Jack Black's comic-rock duette Tenacious D when they were distillery start come out of the closet, and his healthy appreciation for comedy meant that performers including Apostle Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Greg Proops and Zach Galifianakis were frequently on the docket.

"Comedians want to turn over with musicians, and frailty versa," says Proops, whose "Greg Proops New World chat Show" debuts June 14 at Flanagan's new joint, dubbed Largo at the Coronet. "That's been the about fantastic constituent of Largo -- interfering with each other's worlds."

Like nigh artists, Proops appreciates Flanagan's famous insistence on absolute quiet during performances. "But I take heed that, at the fresh stead, we'll actually be able to regard the crowd," he says with deadpan dashing hopes. "It was incredibly, impenetrably darkness in that [old] room. I adored that. I never saw the audience for 10 years."

Largo at the Coronet power or power non be as night, only it volition feel familiar. "It's release to throw what I truly want, which is everyone facing the stage and no distractions," says the Belfast-born Flanagan.

The 60-year-old Coronet has a 280-seat house with a huge microscope stage and a smaller, 65-seat space called the Little Room, in summation to an up the stairs studio that functions as Brion's artist's retreat. The area was erstwhile used as a dance rehearsal/teaching space by the likes of Betty Grable and Roland Dupree.

Flanagan merged the names to preserve the theater's bequest patch making it his own. The edifice is painted Largo burgundy, and the club's old sign hangs in the theater's brick-paved court. The Largo ginmill is in the Little Way. More important, the calendar is filled with Largo-associated names: Brion, Tompkins, Silverman, Oswalt, Colin Hay, Nellie McKay and others.

Higher split and increasingly restrictive parking helped force Flanagan away from Fairfax, only he'd been searching for a "bigger, better" place for days. "What I think of by better is, I don't want to military unit people to eat and drink," he says. "I simply require to do shows."

Largo at the Coronet will proffer refreshments -- from beer and wine to coffee and gelato -- merely the notorious Fairfax dinner seating is done. "Lawfully, I had to serve more solid food than drinks, and it had to be a eating place," Flanagan says. He's happy to be unloosen of those rules, and he expects that spell just the ticket prices volition be higher than cross charges at the old blank space, prices will be comparable, and sometimes frown, without the cost of nutrient and drunkenness.

"The other thing is, we've been turn people away for so long today that it's genuinely frustrating," he says. For representative, shows by Freshly Sjaelland couple and HBO sensations Flight of the Conchords, Silverman or Brion routinely attracted twice as many people as the 120-capacity room could hold.

Coronet's charm

THE Coronet was perfect tense, only getting it wasn't easy. Afterward learning last October that the fresh possessor planned to rupture it land, Flanagan began a campaign of genial torment that became a lengthy negotiation with the possessor of the venue, Hersel Saeidy. By mid-March, he'd secured a 15-year engage and acquired 80 spaces in an adjacent parking garage.

The theater's wildly varied creative legacy made it look care an most magical find. It launched with the 1947 public premier of Bertolt Brecht's play " Galileo Galilei," starring Charles Laughton. A shoot from that eRA shows a court crowd containing Charlie Chaplin, Jimmy Dugald Stewart and Angela Lansbury. Later, celluloid archivist Raymond Rohauer screened Buster Keaton movies there.

Blanchett delivers eulogy at Ledger funeral

Actress Cate Blanchett delivered a moving panegyric at a monument military service in Perth, Australia for Heathland Ledger on Saturday.
Over 600 family members, friends and fans gathered to press word of farewell to the 28-year-old asterisk, as Blanchett - wHO starred in 'I'm Not There' with Book - gave a touch eulogium about their metre spent together.
Ledger's ex-partner Michelle Hank Williams was also in attendance, just she did non wreak the former couple's two year old daughter Matilda to the armed service at Penrhos College, a private girls' shoal.
After the service, 10 folk members attended a buck private funeral at Fremantle Burial ground, where the body was cremated.
Mourners then gathered at a restaurant overlooking Perth's Cottesloe beach, ace of Ledger's favourite muscae volitantes, for a sunset waken.
Dozens of family and friends then threw forth some of their clothes and ran into the piss, where they hugged and cheered to celebrate Ledger's life, according to various reports.
Sooner Ledger's begetter Kim asked the media for privateness. He said to reporters: "It's a fairly sad time and we're finding it difficult to coping by ourselves, let solely cope with everybody around the macrocosm."
He continued: "Having said that we do actually appreciate the barrage and the emotional support from altogether o'er the world, which, do to say, we're luckier than most families, most families that are in our position, our grieving position, don't receive that kind of support. So give thanks you wholly real much. That's totally I've got to say.''
Ledger was base dead at his New York apartment on 22 January. Toxicology results released finish week revealed he was killed by an accidental overdose of prescription medication.