It has been a weekend of Polish hip-hop and drum and bass at the Bongo Club. But even when you throw in the rock’n'roll ping pong, it won’t be enough to save it. One of Edinburgh’s most popular small music venues, it has been the launch pad for bands from the Scissor Sisters to Kasabian who played here before they became stadium-sized acts playing to stadium-sized crowds. Yet this will be its last summer as the Bongo faces closure at the end of August, one of an increasing number of live venues across the UK shutting down. (more…)
Small UK Rock Venues Under Threat May 27, 2012
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Venues where top bands started out are shutting down as rent rises and falling audiences spell crisis for gig promoters.
Florence and The Machine play at the 100 Club, one of many small music venues hoping for relief from the Live Music Act. Photograph: John Phillips/PA
Det 5 on Soi 8 Open Floor Monday at 8 May 25, 2012
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Monday night, get on down to Sukhumvit Soi 8 and Det 5 where you can Face The Music and strut your musical stuff, playing your own favorites on your own guitar…get down early book a spot and see how you shape up against the rest of the players along for the fun…and for fans and players alike, there’s great food and booze at prices you can truly afford!
Eric Blaszczak Guitars… May 5, 2012
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He is obsessed with building the finest electric guitars, the best since Leo Fender et al kicked off way back before even I was a pup. Eric will build you the best guitar you ever could need and he ain’t gonna break your bank either…and he’s passionate, nay obsessed with quality and tone and perfection – being a very gifted session guitarist himself he knows precisely what all we axe men are really looking for, and that includes good looks and fine attention to detail too…and boy, does he deliver..let him tell you how it is and why you should be beating a path to his door… (more…)
Changing Burma April 13, 2012
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By Jonah Fisher, BBC News, Rangoon
No U Turn’s Ye Ngwe Soe: “I do what I want even when there are restrictions”
In a dark basement in the Burmese capital Rangoon, Ye Ngwe Soe lets out a tortured howl. Then with a flick of his black spiked hair he raises his middle finger and turns to a microphone.
“Is it wrong to be at this place, wrong to have been born here?” the 25-year-old shouts in Burmese, metal rivets sparkling on his denim jacket.
“My eyes and brains are so disappointed, so come and take out my eyes and brain now.”
He pauses dramatically. Then there’s a thud from drummer Dino and the beat starts again, shortly followed by the renewed pulsing of Yarzar on bass guitar. (more…)
Estonia makes its mark on the musical map April 6, 2012
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Tallinn Music Week suggested the Baltic states will be the next region to burst on to the European music scene as the event featured 183 acts from the Baltic states and beyond. It was clear right from the start that last week’s Tallinn Music Week was not your ordinary music festival – and Estonia not your average country. The Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, opened the festivities by reminiscing about his days at CBGBs in New York, mentioning Neil Young, quoting lyrics from PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake, and touching on the perils of being an outspoken musician when the country was part of the Soviet Union.
The Garages of East Nashville… March 26, 2012
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Why the garages of East Nashville are now American rock’s hottest property. Forget the Grand Ole Opry; there are more thrilling new bands in East Nashville than anywhere else on earth. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, this place doesn’t look much like hipster central. Detached houses – those sprawling, wooden ones you see in US dramas – are set in wide, healthy lawns. There’s no sign of a thrift shop, a record store, or dimly lit bars. Just houses and more houses, split by the occasional mini-strip at an intersection: coffee shop, deli, filling station. Nevertheless, this homely area of East Nashville, across the Cumberland river from downtown, is now home to possibly the biggest concentration of exciting guitar bands in one city since the White Stripes and their garage cohort emerged from Detroit at the start of the last decade. (more…)
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Det 5 Open Floor Monday Night… March 26, 2012
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Det 5: Time to Face The Music – Yes You! February 7, 2012
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It’s true. We don’t get around much these days reminded as we are on a weekly basis at the very least that there “ain’t nowhere to go for good live music any more” in The Big Mango. That’s a lame excuse and not even true. How about Nothing But The Blues on Thonglor Soi 13? Or Fat Gutz on Thonglor 12? Or V8 Diner on Sukhumvit Soi 12? Or Tokyo Joe’s on Suhkumvit Soi 26? Adhere 13 Blues Bar at Samsen by Khao San Road? Saxophone at Victory Monument? The list actually goes on…with the Australian on Soi 11; Bangkok Beat on Sukhumvit Soi 7…! But the chance of meeting a dozen or so of my long-time muso friends in one hit after a year away was not to be resisted, and I headed Monday night to one of my favourite sois on Sukhumvit – Soi 8 – where I often overnight at the Promenade Hotel for a 1000 Baht with breakfast. And right opposite the dusty old hotel is the Det 5 Pub and Restaurant, replete with pool, great food, excellent service, outdoor and indoor dining tables and a genuinely hospitable ambience in what is already a very restful soi.
MUSIC INDUSTRY REDEFINED: End Of The Record Label January 30, 2012
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TULSA, OK: idefi developers are excited to announce the launch of a record label model they say will revolutionize the record industry. Years in the making, idefi destroys the antiquated model of the fat cat record label taking the lion’s share of artist earnings while controlling artistic content. (more…)
Hot Kiwis? January 26, 2012
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“I’m Down With…Breaks Co-Op
By Elton John
My favorite album at the moment is by a New Zealand three-piece called Breaks Co-Op. ‘Sound Inside’ is a chill-out disc that sounds a little like Crosby, Stills and Nash. It’s brilliant, wonderful. Since I bought it in the store, I’ve played it for so many people. I played it for the head of my record company today. I’m on Universal and Breaks Co-Op is on EMI, but he said it was probably one of the best records he’s heard all year. It just kills me that these albums come out and they don’t sell or don’t get the right promotion. Everyone I’ve given it to – from the Killers to the Scissor Sisters – have all freaked out.”
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