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Burbank to be roasted
Gary Burbank doesn’t like roasts but this one should be well done. Next year Burbank will be roasted to benefit Play It Forward his new nonprofit organization to provide financial help to local musicians in need.

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

1 1 Can’t Get You Out of my Head Kylie (Parlophone)

2 - Chain Reaction/One for Sorrow Steps (Jive)

3 2 Hey Baby DJ Otzi (EMI)

4 - What Would You Do City High (Interscope)

5 - Thinking It Over Liberty (V2/Public Demand)

6 3 Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm (Dreamworks)

7 4 Mambo No. 5 Bob The Builder (BBC Music)

8 - Family Affair Mary J Blige (MCA)

9 - I Want Love Elton John (Mercury)

10 5 Luv Me Luv Me Shaggy (MCA)

The Summer School has been in progress since 1953 but has, under Gavin Henderson’s direction, become a real radical influence on contemporary British music, with guest tutors setting up initiatives all over the place. Elvis Costello’s recent “Meltdown” season at the South Bank had its roots here, as does Keith Tippett’s Rare Music Club. Artists leading courses this summer include Tom Ades, Woolrich, Joanna MacGregor, the Brindisi and Brodsky Quartets, and Louis Andriessen, who directs the advanced composition course. There is also a daily programme of concerts in the Great Hall, making this month in the country one of the busiest music calendars of the year.

Saturday’s opening concert by the Consort of Musicke was preceded by Henderson’s headmasterly address in which, like John Gielgud in Forty Years On, he wandered through a mazy peroration, introducing the staff, reading out a list of house-parents and issuing stern warnings on the need for croquet equipment to be signed out before use. The Consort’s programme, “From Dusk to Dawn”, began with some good old-fashioned “Carry On Henry”-style eye-rolling on a ditty beseeching one to come to bed. Although leader Anthony Rooley promised us more risque stuff to come, it was too “hey nonny no” to cause offence.

The following night featured the avant-garde improvisation of Keith and Julie Tippett. Tippett’s short solo set was a gem, though he played so quietly that it sorely tested the mettle of his listeners, few of the early music types returning for the second half. The pay-off came when, after the opening tonal marks had honed our concentration, he then broadened out, repeating a baroque theme and a brief quote from “The Nearness of You” until we were immersed in a strange nursery world of powerful, half- sensed images, the effect enhanced by the gentle strumming of bells and chimes.

Later that night, Sheila Barnes and Adrian Hobbs completed the evening with a programme of songs by Poulenc, Debussy and Walton, the elegant lines drifting through the windows and out into the great courtyard, as students went off to cram their scores of the Salzburg Mass for the following day.

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The Beatles, of course, did do Sgt Pepper, which makes it even more galling that they, courtesy of George Martin (above) & Son, have been turned into a grandiose, garish, downright ghastly, cabaret turn.

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Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:46:15 GMT
The Most Annoying Christmas Songs Of All Time - Entertainment News Story - WGAL Lancaster
I enjoy Christmas as much as the next person but that doesn’t mean I love everything about the holidays. One of the least favorite Christmas activities is listening to bad Christmas music.

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

1 - Evanescence Bring Me To Life (Epic)

2 1 R Kelly Ignition Remix (Jive)

3 3 Busta Rhymes/Mariah Carey I Know What You Want (J)

4 2 S Club Say Goodbye… (Polydor)

5 - Electric Six Gay Bar (XL Recordings)

6 - Shania Twain Forever And For Always (Mercury)

7 7 Sean Paul Get Busy (Atlantic/VP)

Sundaze, (11)
The year 2000 saw the CD release of Time At Rest Devouring It’s Secret, a studio work of 35 minutes duration which once again connects the musical techniques of the minimalist project to an image from popular culture. …

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Viewers knew this because it was mentioned no fewer than a dozen times by host Diddy — formerly rapper Sean “Puffy” Combs, formerly Puff Daddy, formerly P. Diddy, but never much of a talent.

Once the year’s most entertaining music television extravaganza - - if never the least bit credible as an awards show — the Video Music Awards continued a slide that started several years ago, hitting a new low as a bloated, contrived, vapid and pointlessly self-congratulatory endurance fest.

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The canned and soulless nature of most of the performances was the exact opposite of edgy spontaneity. Rather than “anything can happen,” it was more like, “Something happen … please!”

While MTV pandered to local artists and hyped its Miami locale for the second year in a row — despite nearly being derailed by Hurricane Katrina — the show was dominated by Chicago artists, who provided some of the most notable performances of the night, as well as claiming several awards.

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GNR CD Release Set - Top Story of 07 (antiMUSIC)
[originally published 10/03/07](antiMusic) Could it be? After many false starts and rumored release dates it does look like it is finally going to happen. That’s right the new Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” has a release date.

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:28:22 GMT