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• Bryan Ferry Drafts Flea Johnny Marr and More for StarStudded New Album
  Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry is having himself a nice comeback year in 2014, returning to prominence with his excellent guest appearance on house producer Todd Terje's



• Australian anthems Icehouse  Great Southern Land
  No one had attempted to evoke the Australian landscape with synthesisers until Icehouse came up with this shimmering 1982 classicMany great Australian songs couldn't sound more different to the circumstances in which they were dreamed up and none more so than Icehouse's 1982 classic Great Southern Land. While the song evokes the vast emptiness of the nation's countryside, it was written and recorded in frontman Iva Davies's living room in the inner Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, right under the airport flightpath. Davies frequently had to stop the tape as the roar of the engines made the house's foundations rattle.Orginally named Flowers, the band started life in Sydney in the late '70s. They played the beer-barn circuit during the punk era, developing a style that was part-Roxy Music, part Ziggy-era Bowie. In 1980 they signed to Regular Records, soon changing their name to Icehouse (after their debut album) to avoid confusion with a Scottish band at the time called the Flowers. Anyone will tell you its a prisoner island,Hidden in the summer for a million yearsSo you listen to the land,It will tell you storyA story of a journey ended long ago Theyre gonna betray you,Theyre gonna forget you,Are you gonna let them take you over that way? Continue reading...



• Buraka Som Sistema is returning Portuguese dance music to the US
  Buraka Som Sistema are on the forefront of providing high paced performances featuring their own style of kuduro, an Angolan take on DANCE MUSIC EARMILK had the opportunity to catch up with them as they kick off their final US Tour tomorrow (4/7) in Los Angeles at the Roxy Theater.  I have to ask, since the [] The post Buraka Som Sistema is returning Portuguese DANCE MUSIC to the U.S. appeared first on EARMILK.



• Brian Eno and Karl Hyde make album
  The Underworld singer felt like he was 'nine years old again' working with Eno on Someday World, which features guests from Coldplay and Roxy MusicBrian Eno and Underworld's Karl Hyde are to release an album together, entitled Someday World. The two MUSIC ans previously collaborated on the track Beebop Hurry for the compilation album Athens, but this is the first time they've completed a full LP together."I had a big collection of beginnings sitting around waiting for something to galvanise them into life, to make them more than just experiments," said Eno, "That something turned out to be Karl Hyde."Someday World features nine songs and a plethora of guest names, including Coldplay's drummer Will Champion, Roxy Music's Andy Mackay and south London soul singer Don-E. Both Eno and Hyde will contribute vocals to their compositions.The Underworld man enthused about the pair's working methods: "It's a bit like being nine years old again. You have no idea what you've just been given, the record button has been pressed, and you're on. And then these unlikely patterns start to happen. The biggest surprise was discovering we both had a love of Afrobeat – cyclical MUSIC based in live playing. When Brian played me these early tracks, it was, 'Oh my God, this is home! Can I borrow a guitar?'"Someday World is due for release in May on Warp Records.Brian EnoUnderworldElectronic MUSIC op



• Brian Eno and Johnny Marr urge fans to vote Remain
  In a letter, Eno has highlighted the vested interests of campaigners who want Britain to exit the EU, while Johnny Marr has decried the ‘Nazi tactics’ of UKIPBrian Eno is the latest pop MUSIC an to caution against voting Brexit. In a Facebook post the composer, producer and former Roxy Music member has said that the European Union has, on balance, been a “net force for good”. Eno joins Bob Geldof, Jessie Ware, Johnny Marr and Alex Kapranos in favouring Britain remaining in the EU. Continue reading...



• Echos to Descend On Los Angeles For Roxy Theatre Show On Dec 3rd
  This Portland Oregon duo known as Echos have been creeping up on the DANCE MUSIC scene with their highly chill, highly AMBIENT indie sounds that you could pick out of a lineup. Their latest EP isnt the only appealing project they are on top of right now, which is self-titled and gives a perfect glipse [] The post Echos to Descend On Los Angeles For Roxy Theatre Show On Dec. 3rd appeared first on RaverRafting | We Are The Scene.



• Giorgio Moroder – 10 of the best
  From inventing Eurodisco and hi-NRG with Donna Summer to Oscar-winning ELECTRO ic soundtracks and a glorious conversation with Daft PunkGiovanni Giorgio Moroder’s dream of rock stardom in the conventional sense was never truly realised, but once the schlager-meister inadvertently discovered the Moog, he was on the road to immortality as one of pop’s most important innovators. The Italian’s MUSIC l career began 49 years ago in Berlin, and he scored a moderate hit with Looky Looky three years later in 1969, and then another with Son of My Father in 1971. Chicory Tip recorded the latter song in 1972, which went to No 1 in the UK charts, becoming the first hit record with a prominent synth (played by Roxy Music producer Chris Thomas). Continue reading...



• Bees Knees drops official remix for Miami Horrors Love Like Mine
  Miami Horror has been one of our longtime go-to's when we're fiending those feel-good disco vibes. Hot off the heels of a packed show at LA's historic Roxy Theatre, their "Love Like Mine" record has been given an uplifting DANCE flip with the release of the track's remix EP. Ready to be...



• Gregor Tresher – Live Roxy Prague – 16092016
  Gregor Tresher Live @ Roxy (Prague) 16-09-2016 Download: Uploaded, Oboom, Zippyshare Unlimited Download: Buy Premium The post Gregor Tresher Live @ Roxy (Prague) 16-09-2016 appeared first on Mixing.DJ - Electronic Music Magazine.



• Claptone – Live Roxy Club Prague – 09022019
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• Format B – Live Roxy Prague Czech Republic – 09022019
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• Roxy Music 10 of the best
  There are two Roxy Musics – and our 10 deals only with the first, those abrasive MUSIC l insurgents, not the smooth balladeers of later yearsAs mission statements go, the very first Roxy Music song on their self-titled debut album couldn’t be any more effusive or less idiosyncratic. Not since the Jimi Hendrix Experience had any one band sounded this good playing over one another in an almost competitive manner, though the glaring difference was that Hendrix’s trio were virtuosos to a man. Aside from steady rhythm powerhouse Paul Thompson, it’s fair to say the Roxy of 1972 were MUSIC ans finding their way, and Brian Eno on the VCS3 synth notoriously couldn’t really play a note (he still can’t, not that that’s hurt his career any). The gloriously egalitarian nature of pop means ability can come in a variety of different guises, and County Durham’s Bryan Ferry, with his trembling voice, turned apparent shortcomings into strengths. He also approached the serious art of songwriting with a dadaist playfulness, in opposition to the prevailing trend in the early 70s of earnest confessional singer/songwriters. Bryan also had a lovely head of hair, and still does. Re-make/Re-model is a relentless, pulverising, sonic car crash of a song, and one of the cars in the pile up bears the number plate “CPL 593H” (sung repeatedly as the song’s only chorus), apparently driven by a beautiful woman Ferry noticed in the rear-view mirror on the way to the studio. The outro features a post-modernist smash and grab, the band chopping up bits of Richard Wagner, Duane Eddy and the Beatles and mixing them all together in their own irreverent MUSIC l



• Jack White review – a wild tightrope walk across thrash funk and hiphop
  The Garage, LondonThe former White Stripes frontman twists up and melts down material old and new – and channels Roxy Music along the waySome mischaracterise Jack White as a dad-rock revivalist in deadening thrall to tradition and craft, but this does a disservice to just how electric, wilful and weird an ARTIST he truly is. This is a man who effected a rock revolution armed with limited MUSIC l elements, a monochromatic wardrobe and an ex-wife he pretended was his sister, and who tonight risks the ire of millennials by banning smartphones, to have the crowd’s full attention. Doing things straight has never been a part of the plan.This explains his gonzo new album Boarding House Reach, which adds wild funk, offbeat gospel and, most unexpectedly, hip-hop to his palette and which, against fierce odds, mostly works. One of a handful of intimate gigs White is playing this week in Los Angeles, New York and London to celebrate the album’s release, tonight sees him debut a number of Boarding House Reach tunes, along with highlights from his back catalogue, adapted for his new band. Continue reading...



• Blue Sails – “I Used to Try”
  The absolutely gorgeous I Used to Try comes courtesy of Blue Sails, a Wisconsin-based act formed by brothers Max and Mitchell Bell, who recorded between a city apartment and a studio in rural Wisconsin. Admiring acts like Roxy Music and The Smashing Pumpkins, no stranger to rich melodies or engrossing soundscapes, Blue Sails also remind [] The post Blue Sails I Used to Try appeared first on .



• THE BIG GIG JON HOPKINS
  THE BIG GIG: JON HOPKINSSaturday 22nd February, London ForumIssue:530After collaborations with some of the biggest names in pop and a constantly moving MUSIC l direction, comparisons between Jon Hopkins and Brian Eno are difficult to refute. Both started out playing keys for a pop act (Imogen Heap and Roxy Music respectively) before going on manipulate the boards for film syncs and art installations in some of the most innovative ways in MUSIC Where the younger protégé Hopkins (he even contributed to an LP by Eno) differs to his AMBIENT guru,



• Visiting the Famed Cheiron Studios in Stockholm Where Pop History Was Made
  A few weeks ago, I was in Sweden to dive into the local pop scene and I finally had the opportunity to tour the famed Cheiron Studios in Stockholm. Now called Roxy Recordings, this is the studio complex that was founded by the late Denniz PoP in the early '90s. Cheiron became the breeding ground of some of the greatest pop music ever recorded. Following PoP's passing in 1998 , Max Martin took over the studio and engineered a sound at Cheiron that turned artists like Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and N*Sync into mega-acts. In fact, it was in this studio that Britney Spears recorded Baby One More Time and most of her debut album. Fans used to camp out when Backstreet Boys recorded here and they had to install a secret elevator so the group could enter and exit the building without issue. Pop magic was made here and I felt so lucky to go inside and see the studios. It was very special to be in the same room that young Britney used to record her first songs alongside Max Martin. If only I could have been a fly on the wall back then. Learn more about the history of Cheiron Studios on Wikipediaand a little reminder of Cheiron greatness in the player below.



• Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented a new kind of pop We were game for anything
  With their thrillingly strange 1972 debut, Roxy Music announced themselves as a band that were unlike anyone else. The singer looks back at how they created a new kind of music – out of Stax, oboes and Marilyn Monroe More than 45 years ago, a new group released their first album. They didn’t wear denim, nor had they, apparently, paid their dues. Indeed, their heavily stylised presentation – a model posed archly on the cover in a 1950s pastiche, the musicians inside clad in leopardskin and leather with styled quiffs – could not have been more opposed to the rock modes of the day. “Is this a recording session or a cocktail party?” inquired Ferry’s friend Simon Puxley in the liner notes. Before you even got to the music, the record cover was a gauntlet thrown down – an explosion of glamour in a wasteland of faded blue cotton.“The clothes we were wearing at that time would have put off quite a large chunk of people,” reflects Bryan Ferry. “What I liked about the American bands, the Stax label and Motown, they were into presentation and show business, mohair suits, quite slick. And the cover art, I thought of all the American pop culture icons, Marilyn Monroe: selling cigarettes or beer with a glamorous image. But it was a bit off-kilter as well; there was something a bit strange about it, futuristic as well as retro. All that, instead of a picture of the band, in a dreary street, looking rather sullen. Which was the norm.” Continue reading...



• Bruce Springsteen Releases Official Version of Legendary 1978 Roxy Bootleg
  Bruce Springsteen has released an official recording of his 1978 performance at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. While bootlegs of the perforce were widely spread after its live broadcast on KMET-FM Los Angeles, the concert has finally been mixed and mastered for its 40th anniversary, now available as part of his ongoing archival live



• James Bay Shines Bright With Sensational Performance At Coca Cola Roxy
  Where does one even begin to start on a topic like the great James Bay. This UK bred recording artist has done unbelievable things for only being 28 years old. His debut single, “Hold Back The River” has been certified platinum, he won the award for Best British Male Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit [] The post James Bay Shines Bright With Sensational Performance At Coca Cola Roxy appeared first on thissongslaps.com - Electronic Dance Music Hip-Hop Media.



• Spine of Man – “More Than You and I”
  Copenhagen quintet Spine of Man produce a vein of guitar-pop with an 80s, starry-eyed appeal. Specifically inspired by bands of the era like Roxy Music and Fleetwood Mac, Spine of Man seamlessly transition between sparse moments of piano-laden elegance and more expansive pop, with jangly guitars and touches of synths. They will be releasing their [] The post Spine of Man More Than You and I appeared first on .



• RÜFÜS DU SOL Lights Up The Night At Atlanta’s Coca Cola Roxy
  The Australian Trio returned to our great city of Atlanta for one incredible night of great music and good vibes. You know you have chosen the right friends when you see 80% of your friend group at a Rufus show. SOLACE tour’s second stop came through Coca Cola Roxy with impressive production, top sound, and [] The post RÜFÜS DU SOL Lights Up The Night At Atlanta’s Coca Cola Roxy appeared first on thissongslaps.com - Electronic Dance Music Hip-Hop Media.



• Tickets To The Roxy with BriskinTheHouse
  Toronto artist and all around creative BriskinTheHouse released his latest mixtape titled Tickets to the Roxy. This laid back album promotes knowledge of self which is a theme that is very true to Brisk. Understanding ones self and your heritage is a subject that is rarely touched upon in todays...



• Catfish And The Bottlemen Unlock Rockstar Level With Powerful Atlanta Performance
  The Ferris wheel illuminates our path as we approach the top venues in Atlanta. There is something about the Tabernacle that Buckhead Theatre (Original Roxy), Coca-Cola Roxy, and others just don’t bring. You can feel it in the air, in the walls, and even in the crowd. The energy of every show I have attended [] The post Catfish And The Bottlemen Unlock Rockstar Level With Powerful Atlanta Performance appeared first on thissongslaps.com - Electronic Dance Music Hip-Hop Media.



• Neil Young Announces New Tonight’s The Night Live Album Coming This Record Store Day
  Neil Young has shared new details about his upcoming live album Roxy - Tonight's the Night Live, a much-anticipated recording from a series of performances at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles between September 20-22, 1973. Young performed with his band the Santa Monica Flyers, delivering Young's album Tonight's The Night "top to bottom, without



• Bastille Releases All The Feels During Magical Night At Atlanta’s Coca Cola Roxy
  It’s Friday and you are most likely gearing up for the weekend. On Wednesday night, we had the opportunity to shoot and enjoy Bastille at Live Nation’s Coca Cola Roxy. We were very excited to see Dan Smith and his band send it. They played lot of the classics, some of their newer releases, and [] The post Bastille Releases All The Feels During Magical Night At Atlanta’s Coca Cola Roxy appeared first on thissongslaps.com - Electronic Dance Music Hip-Hop Media.



• AM Only Brings Back A Positive Spin This December
  Last year, AM Only revealed their very first A Positive Spin benefit concert for Inner City Arts at The Roxy in Los Angeles. The magical night of music, memories, and melodic fun raised about $10,000 to provide arts education in the heart of Skid Row to the next generation of thinkers, doers, and creators. This [] The post AM Only Brings Back A Positive Spin This December appeared first on thissongslaps.com - Electronic Dance Music Hip-Hop Media.



• Roxy Music 10 of the best
  There are two Roxy Musics – and our 10 deals only with the first, those abrasive musical insurgents, not the smooth balladeers of later yearsAs mission statements go, the very first Roxy Music song on their self-titled debut album couldn’t be any more effusive or less idiosyncratic. Not since the Jimi Hendrix Experience had any one band sounded this good playing over one another in an almost competitive manner, though the glaring difference was that Hendrix’s trio were virtuosos to a man. Aside from steady rhythm powerhouse Paul Thompson, it’s fair to say the Roxy of 1972 were musicians finding their way, and Brian Eno on the VCS3 synth notoriously couldn’t really play a note (he still can’t, not that that’s hurt his career any). The gloriously egalitarian nature of pop means ability can come in a variety of different guises, and County Durham’s Bryan Ferry, with his trembling voice, turned apparent shortcomings into strengths. He also approached the serious art of songwriting with a dadaist playfulness, in opposition to the prevailing trend in the early 70s of earnest confessional singer/songwriters. Bryan also had a lovely head of hair, and still does. Re-make/Re-model is a relentless, pulverising, sonic car crash of a song, and one of the cars in the pile up bears the number plate “CPL 593H” (sung repeatedly as the song’s only chorus), apparently driven by a beautiful woman Ferry noticed in the rear-view mirror on the way to the studio. The outro features a post-modernist smash and grab, the band chopping up bits of Richard Wagner, Duane Eddy and the Beatles and mixing them all together in their own irreverent musical scrapbook. Continue reading...



• UK Punk and Reggae legend Don Letts picks his 10 ultimate Notting Hill Carnival tracks
  Don Letts is a true legend of UK punk. A filmmaker, musician and DJ, the London-born icon has stood at the helm of the country’s most vital scene for over four decades, as both a documentarian and participant.Known for bringing dub and reggae sounds into the punk sphere during his peerless DJ sets at The Roxy and forming the post-punk outfit Big Audio Dynamite with The Clash’s Mick Jones, Letts’ influence cannot be understated.As a child of the Windrush generation, whose father came to the UK from Jamaica after the Second World War, Letts has been acquainted with the social, political and cultural significance and joyous power of Notting Hill Carnival his whole life. With that keen understanding, as well as an encyclopedic knowledge of the annual event’s musical trajectory from the Trinidadian and Tobagonian calypso sound to Jamaican sound system culture and beyond, we asked the punk luminary to pick ten tracks that, for him, define Carnival.Sister Nancy ‘Bam Bam’“An old school reggae classic that reminds me of the time sound systems ruled Carnival in the mid seventies - back then there were hundreds.”Half Pint ‘Greetings’“A rally cry with a wicked bass line that’s an invite to all tribes to come and partake in the festivities”Cronixx  ‘Alpha Omega’“One of my current Jamaican favourites with the riddim twins, Sly and Robbie, in full effect - a modern take on the roots vibes that first drew me to Carnival in my early teens” Chaka Demus Pliers ‘Tease Me’“This one’s for the ladies ‘cause once they’re movin’ and groovin’ everything else will take care of itself”Congo Natty ‘UK Allstars’“A great tune that perfectly captures the heyday of jungle when it crashed Carnival in the early ‘90s by paying respect to the pioneers of the form"Bunji Carlin, Kubiyashi Walsh Fire ‘Chicken and Dumpling’“....and if you can resist all the culinary delights on offer across the two days of Carnival you're a slimmer being than me!"UK punk legend and iconic dub and reggae DJ Don Letts charts



• NEW HOTSPOT ALERT The Oyster Bar at the Roxy Hotel
  Perfectly paired with a show at The DJango Room. The post NEW HOTSPOT ALERT: The Oyster Bar at the Roxy Hotel appeared first on BlackBook.



• Hot Chips Guardian edit
  What happens when you give one of Britain’s best-loved pop bands the freedom to commission their own content? An interview with David Byrne, gaming with Peter Serafinowizc and nerding out over synths…Ever since they bounded onto the scene singing about toy monkeys and miniature cymbals, Hot Chip have stuck out as dance-pop’s odd guys. They wear funny outfits, their singer sounds sombre, and they distil influences like Roxy Music and Prince, Arthur Russell and Madonna with a nerdy zeal. Ten years later, they’ve carved a distinctively eccentric sound, taking in four-to-the-floor house, silky RB and golden-era disco – and the canny ability to write songs that go straight for the emotional jugular and make you want to get on one on a mid-week night. Continue reading...