Live4MusiC

BY MIKAEL WOOD

Rating: 6/10



Linkin Park's fourth studio album (and second collaboration with producer Rick Rubin) contains plenty of aggressively arty material that might surprise fans of the megapopular rap-rock outfit: "Wretches and Kings," for instance, chops up spoken-word sound bites in a Bomb Squad style, while "When They Come for Me" layers post-NIN dance-punk synths over a tribal drum groove. Still, the most unexpected track on the boldly conceived A Thousand Suns might be the disc's acoustic closer, "The Messenger," in which Chester Bennington flexes a tender camp-counselor croon.

 

(Week Starting 13th Sep)

Rock & Pop

• Robert Plant - Band of Joy

• Robyn - Body Talk Pt 2

• Phil Collins - Going Back

• Daughtry - Leave This Town (Tour Edition)

• Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me

• Weezer - Hurley

• Various Artists - Magic of David Foster & Friends

• Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

• Script - Science & Faith

• OST - Eat Pray Love

Classical & Jazz

• Mitsuko Uchida (PNO) - Schumann: Davidbundlertanze & Fantasie

• Charlie Green - A Friend Like You

Dance & Soul

• R Kelly - Epic

• Various Artists - Essential R&B: Best Hits Selection

Asian Pop

• Various Artists - 80s Bai Hua Qi Chang <百花齊唱>

Drummer Mike Portnoy, who has been working with Avenged Sevenfold since the death of drummer James "The Rev" Sullivan, has now issued the following announcement about parting ways with Dream Theater:

"I am about to write something I never imagined I'd ever write: After 25 years, I have decided to leave Dream Theater....the band I founded, led and truly loved for a quarter of a century. To many people this will come as a complete shock, and will also likely be misunderstood by some, but please believe me that it is not a hasty decision...it is something I have struggled with for the last year or so....

THEY were queuing overnight for tickets to a Korean Pop (K-pop) concert. But there were so many of them that the crowd almost got out of hand.

A woman fainted. Plants were trampled on. Some teenagers ran about anxiously. Shrieks and shouts were heard, and even the police and an ambulance were called in.

But queue numbers were soon handed out, and by morning, order was restored.

On Friday, some 3,000 K-pop fans descended on 313@Somerset.

They wanted tickets to Korean Pop Night 2010, a concert next month at which six Korean bands will perform.

The six bands performing in the four-hour long event at the Singapore Expo are: Girls' Generation (SNSD), Big Bang, F.T Island, SHINee, INFINITE and Dae Guk Nam Ah (D-NA).

The best tickets, costing $258 and $218 each, were sold yesterday at music store HMV, on the fourth storey of the mall.

Fans had been loitering around the mall since Wednesday night, eagerly waiting for signs of a queue forming.

By the time The New Paper got there at 11pm on Friday, a big crowd had already gathered outside the mall.

i walked the line, the debut single from krom was put on general release on vcd format in music stores across Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Friday, 3 September.

 

The single has also been released for free download online at the Mekong Sessions You Tube site via the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/themekongsessions?feature=mhum  

 

Built on a Kottkesque roll with Khmer+ English vocals and instrumentation, krom are the first band to debut on the newly launched Mekong Sessions label.

 

krom vocalist; Tata, a Cambodian woman with a disability expressed the desire for krom to act as a catalyst for more singers with a disability to gain greater employment opportunities in the entertainment business.  

 

krom have released little information regarding future material or performances only hinting that their next single; a wee boogie called “ prahok”  will be released in six months. 

 

“Elusive, Exclusive and Reclusive” is the band motto and try as we might we can do nothing to change that,” a spokesman close to krom stated on condition on anonymity yesterday.

 

Only Tata speaks to the media and she can be contacted on 012-494344

 

  

krom - the group:

tata: vocals

minko: guitar and vocals

ian white: guitar

jimi baeck: accordion

brian webster: drums

kim bunthan: khmer violin

 

band matriarch: the om

 

The single: i walked the line

minko: music + words

ian white: producer

photography: luke duggleby

video: ian white + Darren campbell

(Week Starting 6th September)

Rock & Pop

• Brandon Flowers - Flamingo

• James - Morning After

• The Like - Release Me

• Blackmore's Night - Autumn Sky

• Hurts - Happiness

• Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy

• Various Artists - Magic of David Foster & Friends

• Script - Science & Faith

Classical & Jazz

• Jerry Lee Lewis - Mean Old Man

• Beady Belle - At Welding Bridge

Dance & Soul

• Safri Duo - Greatest Hits

• Armin Van Buuren - Mirage

• Underworld - Barking

Asian Pop

• The Freshman 插班生 - <人生實驗課>

• Kara - Mister

Baybeats will always have a special place in our hearts because it is the first major music event Live4MusiC covered =) The experience is beyond words!

And that's why we're here once again this year! Logistically nothing much has changed. 3 great stages catering to different audiences namely: Chillout Stage for yea chillout....Arena for the more soothing full setup type bands....and my favourite, the Powerhouse for all out in your face music!

Day 1