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Daily Music Quiz: Band Breaks Up After Fan Attack

Published September 9th, 2009 by Karen
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Time for another round of music trivia! Today’s theme is broken guitars and band break-ups.

Read the question and leave your answer in the comments section (answers below–no peeking!).

Today’s Question:
On this day in 2008, the guitarist of a prominent British rock band was injured when a fan attacked him during a concert.

Can you name the band and the guitarist?
Bonus: Do you remember which song the band was playing during the attack?

HINT: A year later, he quit the band (although probably not because of this attack).

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Oasis Breaks Up…Again. Definitely, Maybe.

Published August 31st, 2009 by Karen
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A fight between Liam and Noel Gallagher, the ever-feuding brothers at the core of Oasis, caused the band to cancel its high-profile gig at Paris’s Rock-en-Seine Festival over the weekend. Shortly thereafter, news spread that guitarist Noel had officially parted ways with the band.

In an official statement posted on the band’s website, Noel wrote:

“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer…Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan.”

For his part, Liam twittered an apology to fans for canceling the band’s scheduled V Festival performance on Sunday.

While an official break-up of the band has not been confirmed, it is difficult to imagine this volatile band replacing one of its two central members. (C’mon, I dare you to name the bassist!–No Wiki allowed.)

Because the band has experienced in-fighting-releated hiatuses several times throughout its career, it is difficult to have a very strong reaction to news of the band’s purported split.

As in the past, odds are the Gallagher boys will patch things up in a few months and hit the stage once more-even if it’s only long enough to pad their bank accounts.

Are you bummed that Noel quit Oasis?
Do you think the band should continue with a new guitarist?
Has Oasis done anything worthwhile since What’s the Story Morning Glory?

MORE Break-up/Reunion News:
REUNION: Remember the ’90s? Cranberries Reunion Tour
NEW CD: New Alice in Chains CD, New Singer: Elton John?
TV: Jackson Family Reunion Reality Show May Air on A&E
TOUR: Mummies Reunion Tour 2009: Shows in NY, NJ, France and Italy
TOUR: Best Reunion Tour Ever: 2009 Gories, Oblivians Tour Dates Posted!

BELOW: Flashback to Oasis’s early days with the video for 1994’s “Supersonic”: Continue reading »

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Free mp3: Jarvis Cocker’s Latest is More Elvis, Less Blur

Published June 10th, 2009 by Karen

Further Complications
Single: "Angela"

Jarvis Cocker

2009

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Recommended if you like:
Elvis Costello, Pulp, Joe Jackson

Free MP3: Jarvis Cocker—“Angela”

As the leader of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker rose to the top of the Brit-pop heap after battling Blur and Oasis through the ’90s British invasion redux. In recent years, Pulp has been put on the shelf and the lanky singer with the acid tongue has ventured out on his own.

On the lead track from his latest album Further Complications,  Cocker’s eponymous ode to Angela (”She’s nearly 23/ making $4.15 an hour”) has less in common with Pulp’s ’90s Brit-pop showdown and more to do with the fuzzy pub-rock of a hungry young Elvis Costello. It’s not as cringe-inducingly clever as the Pulp classic “Common People,” but what is? Continue reading »

"haha, giving away cds by a different band would be a funny idea...they probably have bad taste in music though."
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Free Coldplay CD Giveaway, 2009 Coldplay Tour Dates, Tracklist

Published May 1st, 2009 by Karen

Above: Coldplay fans demonstrate the “coldwave.” We miss Zippos.

We’ll admit that Coldplay isn’t necessarily our favorite band (ahem), but we do admire the fact that the group is making an effort to give something back to its fans.

An announcement posted on the band’s website indicates that Coldplay will give away free CDs to at its 2009 concerts. The free disc, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, is a collection of live versions of some of the band’s songs.

 LeftRightLeftRightLeft tracklist
1. Glass of Water
2. 42
3. Clocks
4. Strawberry Swing
5. The Hardest Part/Postcards From Far Away
6. Viva La Vida
7. Death Will Never Conquer
8. Fix You
9. Death And All His Friends

For fans not able to fork over the $50+ dollars for concert tickets, the band hasn’t forgotten you: the disc will be available as a free download beginning May 15.

Wanna see Coldplay in concert?
2009 Coldplay Tour Dates, after the jump. Continue reading »

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Music Video Quiz: Mysteries, Gorillas and Brit-Pop?

Published April 27th, 2009 by Karen

It’s Monday again, so that means we’re dusting off another one of our favorite music videos to help you beat those Monday morning blahs.

Check out the clues, and see if you can guess what today’s video is, then tune in below and enjoy.

Today’s pick features:

1. A missing-person mystery.
2. Dancing food.
3. A gorilla guitarist.

Do you know what this odd-ball video is?
More info on the video, the band and upcoming tour dates , after the jump.

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Is Hitting a Member of Oasis Worth 14 years in Jail? Definitely, Maybe.

Published January 27th, 2009 by Karen

Flickr photo by Anirudh KoulLast year during an Oasis concert in Toronto an audience member, 47-year-old Daniel Sullivan, apparently ran onstage and knocked over Noel Gallagher, breaking a few of the famed Brit-pop guitarist’s ribs. The attack occurred just as the band was beginning to play its 1995 hit, “Morning Glory.”

See the whole video below (or skip to the 1:30 mark for the attack). We’ll try not to make a snarky comment about the way Noel’s brother, singer Liam Gallagher, limply pretends to try to hit the attacker—after the big security guys are already holding him down. Classy.

NME reports that authorities have increased the charges against Sullivan from assault to aggravated assault, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail. Continue reading »