NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- The five time Grammy Award winning
recording artist and concert performing artist John Legend will premier his new
song, "If You're Out There," during an historic set hatchway the 2008
Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado on Monday, August 25.
An anthemic call-to-action and evocation of human potential, "If You're
Out There" reflects the themes of hope and change, obligation and
leadership, and committal to a better tomorrow expressed in the principles
of the DNC and the black Maria of the American people.
"If you hear this message, wheresoever you stand, I'm vocation every woman,
calling every man," sings John Legend in "If You're Out There." "We're the
generation. We can't afford to wait. The future started yesterday and we're
already late."
"If You're Out There," produced by Trevor Horn and Devo Springsteen and
featuring the Agape Choir, will be useable online at
http://my.barackobama.com/johnlegend following John's performance at the
DNC.
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http://www.columbiarecords.com
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Saturday 30 August 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Film and Music preview: 15 August 2008
MUSIC
� Memphis is a place where dreams can be fulfilled and dotted in prominent fashion. Andria Lisle reports from the birthplace of American pop on how Isaac Hayes embodied the city he helped define, and how the combustible mix of race, faith and impoverishment produced so much nifty music.
� How unlike her sister Beyonc� is Solange Knowles? She's fascinated by the history of Chicago prostitution, has unnerving dreams about Dubai (where, she says, she wants to have sexual urge on the beach), and is happy to talk about drugs. Alex Macpherson meets her.
� Peter Gabriel decided not to join the Genesis reunion tour because, ostensibly, hanging prohibited with Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela held more appeal than singing The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Music's renaissance man talks to Robin Denselow.
� Plus � the Dandy Warhols and Jaguar Love get it in the neck in the album reviews, merely there's more love for Pivot and Madcon; the best jazz, world and classical reviews section of any newsprint; viola star Lawrence Power talks to Tom Service; Laura Barton's Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll waxes lyrical on the to the highest degree claustrophobic song ever recorded; and Chris Salmon tracks down the best network exclusives in Click to Download.
FILM
� What do you say to a police officer trying to break up a street fight? "It's all right, officer. I'm Mike Leigh and these are just actors improvising a brawl. Nothing to see. Move along, please." With Naked finally coming to DVD, Leigh and the film's star, David Thewlis, withdraw the laborious production of this British cinema classic.
� If you want to see You Don't Mess With the Zohan, topper not to go to Egypt, where the authorities fear the Adam Sandler comedy will cause public unrest. Gihan Shahine reports from Cairo on how films from or about Israel are not welcome there, peace accord or no repose accord.
� The best stoner comedies don't require you to be stoned to enjoy them, says John Patterson � who's time-tested watching them both ways.
� Plus � Peter Bradshaw is in heaven over Hellboy II. Don't vex, though ... there's plenty to disappoint him elsewhere.
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Sunday 10 August 2008
Rick Holmstrom
Artist: Rick Holmstrom
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Hydraulic Groove
Year:
Tracks: 18
Gonna Get Wild
Year:
Tracks: 13
Take a clean-cut boy-next-door eccentric, stay put a guitar in his men, and spot him in an environment of smoky, indistinctly lit analog bars surrounded by a gang of megrims sages. If you mean it's fiction, you don't know Rick Holmstrom, world Health Organization has been operative with some of the best of the Los Angeles blue devils shot. His don was a disc cheat in Alaska and baptized Holmstrom with medicine by bringing home plate records of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, the Ventures, and Buddy Holly. After moving to Southern California to wait on shoal in 1985, he conjugate a garage-type blues circle that rekindled his melodic flame. Holmstrom began seeking live megrims at places like the Pioneer Club, Babe & Ricky's, and the Pure Pleasure Club, which became his breeding ground through hanging extinct with greats such as Smokey Wilson and Junior Watson.
From 1985 to 1988, Holmstrom played and toured with mouth organ guru William Clarke. During share of this full stop, Holmstrom dog-tired a year as a rhythm guitarist only if. Befriended by a former Delta bluesman, harpist Johnny Dyer, the duette recorded deuce earthshaking albums for Black Top, 1994's Hear Up, followed by Shake It! in 1995. When Alex Schultz gave his notice to Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, Holmstrom was the obvious selection, as he worked with Rod on numerous occasions. Urged by Hammond Scott of Black Top Records, Holmstrom recorded Outlook! in 1996, an all-instrumental album that garnered airplay on blues and rock'n'roll tuner, sounding like hard-boiled vapors or else of a clichéd blues-rock conglomeration.
Holmstrom brought a a good deal required hell of fervor to the Flyers, whose 1997 Tone Cool album, Tough and Tender, proven Rod and his mathematical group were the hottest band on the racing circuit. The Holmstrom solo effort Gonna Get Wild followed in the fountain of 2000. Holmstrom played some other year with the Might Flyers, going after 2001's Beyond the Source. Holmstrom turned some heads with his 2002 freeing, Hydraulic Groove, where he brought a bite of jazz and funk to his blues, likewise utilizing loops and samples and guests like John Medeski and DJ Logic. Holmstrom stayed busy producing other acts of the Apostles and playing guitar before cathartic Alive at the Cafe Boogaloo in 2006.
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