VIDEOKILLER/NEW GOLD DREAMS - Dance to this and comb your hair like her...

VIDEOKILLER - (Never) Let me go: Human League vs. Heaven 17

VIDEOKILLER/NEW GOLD DREAMS - "White Elephant" brand new video by Ladytron is out! Merçi Mr. Kubrick...

"White Elephant" appears on Ladytron's forthcoming full length album, Gravity The Seducer, in stores September 12 (UK) / September 13 (US). Hear more music from Gravity The Seducer: http://snd.sc/kavzOy

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NEWS WAVE - Altro che spiaggia e sole, questo weekend tutti al Vintage Festival a Londra

Pazzi, altro che spiagge affollate, creme solari e beach-volley...Questo weekend prendete il primo volo per Londra a celebrare musica, moda, cultura e design degli anni '80 (ma non solo). Tra gli artisti eighties-wave presenti: Adam Ant, Thomas Dolby, Alan Wilder (ex Depeche Mode), Mirrors...

Vintage Festival 2011 will be taking place over the Friday 29th until Sunday 31st July at a new home at London's Southbank Centre. The 21 acre South Bank site will be transformed into a Vintage wonderland.All the wonderful clubs, bands, fashions, art, and design, film, shops, vintage retailers, dance lessons, makeovers, workshops that made Vintage 2010 so memorable will be there along with some cool new Thames boat party surprises.This annual family friendly music and fashion led celebration of creative British cool from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s. The festival will feature music, fashion, art and design, film, comedy, burlesque, and food.

Line-upAdam Ant, Thomas Dolby, Robin Gibb, Percy Sledge, Sandie Shaw, Alan Wilder, Mirrors, Booker T., David McAlmont, The Jim Jones Revue, Andrej Havelka & His Melody Makers, John Miller Orchestra, The Jive Aces, Fargo, Trio Manouche, DC Fontana, Dr Robert, Chris Dale, Speed and Pid, George Power, Norman Jay, Terry Farley, Jay Strongman, Mike Pickering, Graeme Park, A Guy Called Gerald, Craig Charles, Jon Da Silva, Greg Wilson, Noel Watson, Sean Rowley, Ashley Beedle, Horse Meat Disco, Disco Bloodbath DJs, and many more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

TicketsTickets for Friday, Saturday or Sunday are priced at £60, with a day + Vintage revue show pass priced from £75. To buy tickets, click here.The festival will be housed in The Royal Festival Hall, The Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, The British Film Institute, the shops, restaurants and bars and the Thames Embankment itself.Vintage on the South Bank features an inspirational line-up of world renowned bands, DJs, collectors from each decade as well as current bands and brands inspired by Britain's rich creative heritage.

Vintage will feature a line-up of catwalk shows, hands on creative experiences with a gathering of over 200 of the finest purveyors of vintage clothing, accessories, and homewares in a Vintage Marketplace running for hundreds of metres along The Thames.Visitors can have their hair + make up done in a iconic style, can take part in fashion, design and art workshops and the best dressed get their chance to strut their stuff on the Vintage Catwalk.By night the whole of the Southbank complex will be transformed into a series of evocative set dressed venues, complimented by a flotilla of party boats, cruising The Thames on a summer evening specialising in genres from funk, to electro swing.The British Film Institute will also host three days of 20th century classic and iconic movies, Public Information films and documentaries.Vintage at Goodwood is the brainchild of designers Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway. The South Bank is this year also celebrating the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain.More information will be here when available.

TALK TALK - Remembering Bauhaus...Peter Murphy on Bauhaus, Dali's Car, his new solo album and his status as Godfather

Peter Murphy interviewed by "The Quietus"

For the last 30 years or so, goth has been the most durable of musical genres. Loved and ridiculed in equal measure, in its refusal to die it has come to resemble any number of vampire movies where the antagonist simply cannot be stopped despite all manner of stakes, garlic and crucifixes.
Yet bizarrely, as it came to mutate over the decades to cross-pollinate with any number of other genres – techno, industrial and metal have all felt the chill hand of goth resting on their shoulders – several of its key players have come to reject the genre like a parent disinheriting an errant child. The Sisters Of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch will flee from the word with the haste of a bloodsucker making its way back to its coffin before the first rays of the rising sun, while The Cure’s Robert Smith is probably too cuddly to qualify as one despite a following that suggests otherwise.
Not so Peter Murphy. The erstwhile Bauhaus vocalist – sharp of cheek and pouting of lip – is only to happy to admit to his part in goth’s formation. Combining sacrilegious and blasphemous subject matter with S&M imagery and a high sense of camp and drama, Bauhaus were one of the first bands to use punk as a launchpad to somewhere else. Their brief reign of terror lasted less than five years but the imprint they left behind is still visible to this very day.

Now based in Istanbul, Murphy has just released his ninth solo album entitled, er… Ninth. Soon to be touring the States, Murphy returns to Europe after the summer, just in time for those long evenings to start drawing in…

From your vantage point of a lifetime of experience, how do you view the younger version of yourself who was just starting out in Bauhaus?

Peter Murphy: Well, with all modesty, when I think back, when we started writing songs in that mobile classroom I knew that I’d made it already. I remember everything because I have an elephant’s memory, and my memories of our farewell show in ’83 [at Hammersmith Palais] are particularly vivid and quite personal, in a sense. Having burnt our fires around the world, I was burnt out, really.

Can you remember what the catalyst was that moved you into music?

PM: From early on, I would whistle. I was more vocal than intellectual at school. I remember always whistling on that dreary walk to school, and there was music everywhere in my Catholic school. But there was music at home, too - more vocal music in a sense, but what really grabbed me was when I watched cheesy television shows like The Golden Shot and they’d always have these visiting stars singing a song here and there. And I used to think, 'I can do that!' I don’t know where that came from, but when I was at a concert I always knew that I’d rather be onstage than being down in the audience. But there was pivotal moment when I was about 14, and we were driving home from seeing relatives. It was night time and I was nodding off on the back seat with my head in my arms, and I just shot up with a great sense of urgency and said, 'I’m going to be a singer!' And that was that. They just turned round and said, 'Right. Go back to sleep.'

How important was the high drama of Catholicism, such as Masses, to the development of Bauhaus stage act?

PM: Tangentially, [guitarist] Daniel Ash and I were the Catholics and the other two [bassist David J and drummer Kevin Haskins] were the miserable, selfish Church of England heathens. When we first started touring, Daniel and I would stay in a bed and breakfast and their parents got them hotels. It was really pathetic. Daniel and I brought the psychodrama to the band, and I would exorcise a lot of that repressed psychodrama that had been left over from Catholicism. Personally, I used to really enjoy Mass and the hymns and there was a great contemplation of the Anti-Christ. I really enjoyed it but I also wanted a shag, which is why I went into a band, I guess. My passion, really - which came out in the first album, In The Flat Field - was escaping the flat fields of the mundane; the escape from the working class ghetto of the 'jobs for life' mentally and its forced ignorance. That reflected in the Church’s idea of hierarchical supremacy where the priests would say, 'Listen to me. We mediate between you and God; you just get on with it.' There was a lot of that that came out in the music.

Download these from "Ninth":
Peter Murphy - Seesaw Sway by nettwerkmusicgroup
Peter Murphy - Never Fall Out by nettwerkmusicgroup

LIVE AND KICKING - Time goes by but we are always "passing strangers"...

NEW GOLD DREAMS - From Russia with love. Take a listen to The Tapeaters, i Junior Boys moscoviti

The Tapeaters, named after a naughty tape recorder, is a Russian electro pop / electro funk duo formed in 2009 by Vadim (vocals, gtr., synths ) and Dmitri (synths, talkbox). The Tapeaters’ sound is formed by the warmth of vintage synths, funky vibes, layered airy vocals and talkbox combined together.
The band first got noticed in september, 2009 after the release of their first EP ‘Keep on Dancing’. This record was a combination of 7 tracks with catchy melodies, bouncy groves and the atmosphere of a slightly melancholic happiness. The title track ‘Keep on dancing’ still remains the most listened to. Inspired by positive feedback The Tapeaters didn’t wait long and released their second EP ‘Watch your Step’ in november.
In 2010 The Tapeaters toured Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and played at the biggest russian music festival alongside The Horrors, Pantha Du Prince, Autokratz and many more. This experience proved that the band is great both on records and live. This was also the year when the collaboration between The Tapeaters and the Colombian design agency Monocromo began. The brilliant designers brought the band’s visual concept to a new level by working on the concept for the releases, their cover art for the releases and the website.
Later that year the band signed a record deal with a Boston based label OMG! Recordings. The first single ‘Oh My’ was released in august with remixes from Moscow producer Kimouts and Boston duo Nightriders, and was named in the 10 must hear indie-dance tracks on Beatport. It was followed by ‘Satellite’, that contained a dreamy funky original track and incredible remixes from Lifelike, Xinobi and Ghosts of Venice. Two weeks later The Tapeaters released their debut album ‘Visions’, consisting of 13 tracks.
The Tapeaters are working on their second LP.

The Tapeaters - Keep On Dancing (Real Altered) by The Tapeaters

NEWS WAVE - Here he is the new Steve Strange! Patrick Wolf shows his real...Visage

Let's find out the differences between the look of the 2009 Patrick Wolf's video "Hard Times" and old cult "Fade to grey" by Steve Strange's Visage...80's never die!

LET'S TOUR - Blow up again! I Blow Monkeys son più vivi che mai e sono al Guilfest di metà luglio!

Forse non tutti sanno che i Blow Monkeys si son riuniti (o riformati, che dir si voglia) nel 2008 fino a pubblicare un album a gennaio 2011...Qui trovate la loro biografia: http://www.theblowmonkeys.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=260. La notizia più recente è che parteciperanno al popolare Guilfest di Guilford (nel Surrey inglese), dal 15 al 17 luglio, con altre reunion-band quali gli Echo and the Bunnymen, Adam Ant, oltre ai sempreverdi Erasure. Se volete fare un salto (di Manica), qui il cartellone: http://www.guilfest.co.uk/index.php.
Di seguito l'hit che ha reso famosi i BM negli '80, "Digging Your Scene" e "Steppin' Down", tra gli ultimi sorprendenti single dei giorni nostri.

LET'S TOUR/OFF THE RECORDS - Don't you forget about them! Simple Minds on the summer tour plus live record...

Hurry up, boys&girls!!

The remaining Live CD recordings of Simple Minds at Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest, Hampton Court Palace and Cannock Chase Forest are selling out fast! For your chance to get these CDs, before they are all snapped up, follow the link below to the special Concert Live page. Click here for the Live CD'sClick here to listen to snippets of the songs right now.

Some tickets are still available for the shows below:

07/07/11 - St Peter at Sunset, Kestenholz, CH

09/07/11 - TW Classic Festival, Werchter, BE

09/07/11 - Rock Zottegem, Belgium, BE

10/07/11 - Festival Terres Blanches, Guerande, FR

16/07/11 - City Rocks, Inverness, Scotland, GB

19/07/11 - Honberger Festival, Festivalzelt in der Ruine, Tuttlingen, DE

21/07/11 - Zeltspektakel Festival, Winterbach, DE

23/07/11 - Burgtheater Dinslaken, Dinslaken, DE

26/07/11 - Dortmunder Music Festival, Westfalenhalle, DE

30/07/11 - INEC, Killarney, Ireland

06/08/11 - Rock the Rock Festival, Gibraltar, GB, Iberia

11/08/11 - Les nuits musicales de Ma�che, FR

12/08/11 - Festival du Chant de Marin, Paimpol, FR

13/08/11 - F�te du Bruit dans Landerneau, FR

18/08/11 - Belgrade Beer Fest, Belgrade, RS

Click Here to View Details on all Current Dates...Remember there are seven free downloads in the Members Area at Simpleminds.com right now...

OFF THE RECORDS - Erasure's Andy Bell selects 13 favourite records of his life

During the 1980s, Mute was a remarkable Janus of a record label, looking on one side towards the electronic experimentation in releases via Diamanda Galas, Einsturzende Neubauten, NON and Laibach, and on the other to the furthering of synthpop via Erasure and Depeche Mode. Erasure, though, were never mere two-dimensional synth chart toppers - instead, their history is full not only of sublime catchy one-off singles like 'Who Needs Love Like That?', 'Ship Of Fools' and 'Love To Hate You', but terrific albums (especially The Innocents, Wonderland and The Circus, and camp, theatrical stage performances that were a high water mark in 80s pop's fight against that decade's conservatism. It's no surprise, then, that Andy Bell's Baker's Dozen selection is a list of very classy pop stretching from post punk (Blondie, Talking Heads, Siouxie & The Banshees), electronic pioneers (The Human League, Japan, Yazoo), including Lene Lovich, Donna Summer, Kirsty MacColl and Kate Bush, before coming up to date with Ladytron and Miss Kittin & The Hacker. Hit the image below to explore Andy Bell's choices, and his reasons for the selections.

Blondie - Plastic Letters
Already their second studio album, they had scored hit singles with 'Denis Denis' (I first heard that on my Grandad's window cleaning round) and the sublime 'I'm Always Touched By Your (Presence Dear)', still one of my favourites to this very day. As a whole album, it sounds like a spy movie soundtrack with 'Contact In Red Square' and 'Kidnapper'. Highlights for me include 'I'm On E' and 'Love At The Pier'. The very definition of late 70s New York pop art and punk glamour; Deborah Harry, for me, will remain forever the Queen of New Wave.

Lene Lovich - Flex
I became an instant fan of Lene's after the quirky chart hits 'Lucky Number' and 'Say When', I quickly became a fan of the Stiff Label's Roster through Lene and Madness and Kirsty MacColl. This was her second studio album, completely bonkers but as soon as I heard ‘Bird Song’ on the radio I rushed out to buy the 12 inch and subsequently the EP 'You Can't Kill Me' and the album flex. 'Angels', the second single, reminds me of Del Shannon's 'Run Away' and I remember reading that the weird album cover was shot inside a vat at the Guinness factory; I suppose it could be described as a Buddhist album. We were later on to meet and collaborate with Lene on don't 'Kill The Animal's', a song for PETA.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
I had been a rather reluctant punk as a teenager, finding the whole movement too aggressive for a Peterborough gay boy, so this I suppose more commercial offering from Siouxsie was much more up my street - and consequently, as with all my favourite teen angst albums, I learnt all of the songs inside out and backwards. Siouxsie has an incredible voice and was one of my first live concerts, alongside Joe Jackson. We were later to bump into her at Sire Records in NYC but I was too nervous and shy too say 'Hi'.

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The likes of which I had never heard before - white soul boy funk - it was a great album for a party soundtrack and hash joints. I just love the mad percussion and pseudo African backing vocals, though I don't have a clue what Mr. Byrne is singing about.

The B-52s - The B-52s
Obviously we gravitate to those we love, and I suppose the B52's did all the groundwork for the campy disco rock a la Scissor Sisters that followed decades later. They are true originals and may have been the soundtrack to a John Water's movie. I lost count of the amount of times I danced to ‘Rock Lobster’ and tried to learn the who's who list of names on 52 Girls. The brilliant thing about being a pop musician is that you get to meet all of your teen idols. We toured with The B52's and I stayed in Woodstook at Kate Pierson's Lazy Meadow's Silver-line Caravan site, where I consequently felt the drums of an Indian pow wow coming up through the water of the river through my feet (which I often hear on the intro to ‘A Little Respect’ but it isn’t actually part of the music… spooky!).

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work Volume One
Part of a deluxe boxed set of Kate's work right up until Experiment IV, the woman is an absolute genius and I just love this collection of B-sides, Christmas singles etc. 'Under The Ivy' and 'The Empty Bullrin'’ just break my heart. I love Kate's vocals laid bare, often better than the finished studio versions - just piano and her. Also, please check out the bootleg Cathy's Home Demos: it's staggering. It’s worth the price simply for ‘December Will Be Magic Again’ and ‘Lord Of The Reedy River’ (which I didn't realise was a Donovan song). I am haunted by Kate's opening line "I fell In Love With a Swan", that's where the swan bike for 'Phantasmagorical Entertainment' came from and, of course, 'Ride A White Swan' by Mr Bolan.

Kirsty MacColl - Kite
The most undersung songwriting genius ever in British pop. I had the privilege of hanging out with Kirtsy on a number of occasions and I have to say, she was the bomb. We usually got into trouble somewhere along the line. She couldn't understand why she wasn't more popular and nether could I, but this album kinds of explains it really. Songs like '15 Minutes'… she kinda knew that pop would eat itself, and she was too talented and beautiful for the fickle superficial pop world. 'Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim' needs to be covered by a mega country artist. The backing vocals on 'Dancing In Limbo' are sublime and 'Le Foret De Mimosa' makes me cry.

Ladytron - 604
Sounds like a post Chernobyl Fallout album very similar musically to early Lene & Pet Shops. I love 'The Way That I Found You', 'Commodore Rock' and 'Playgirl'. I don't know what it is about them but I love her voice and dead pan delivery - there's a hint of 60's Lynne Redgrave from Smashing Time & loads of mid 80's references. Which leads me neatly to...

The Human League - Dare
What a fucking record! If you hadn't been introduced to synthesisers via Kraftwerk or Soft Cell, then this was the album that would do it. This was another that became the soundtrack to my teenage life. Knew it inside out and what a relief that boys could finally wear makeup. There's not one dud track on here and the non-singles are best, except 'Love Action', which is pure class. The League are the reason that electronic music has been kept alive.

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
I first heard 'Frank Sinatra' when Erasure where recording the album Erasure in 1994 at the Strongroom in Shoreditch East London, which has now become metrosexual electro Grand Central. I love her completely nonchalant don't give a fuck attitude on Hollywood Star, it kind of reminds me of my pre-Erasure work with Pierre Cope - very minimal. On 'Frank Sinatra' she sounds like a Russian Mafia gangster that would kill you stone dead. They're also brilliant live.

Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's
This is when I fell in love with the genius Mr. Clarke & Alison's amazing voice. I could see why they thought she was a black gospel singer in the Detroit/Chicago House clubs. 'I Before E Except After C' kinda fucks your head up, and it's very indicative of what it's like to work with Vince. 'Winter Kills' is bleak and heart bracingly sublime all at the same time.

Japan - Quiet Life
'Quiet Life' is one of the most beautiful tracks Giorgio Moroder ever created, and together with the voice of the uber-glamourous Dave Sylvian, is like heaven on a stick. The cover of 'All Tomorrow's Parties', dare I say, is better than the original.

Donna Summer - Once Upon A Time
Speaking of Giorgio Moroder, you have to give it to the guy. What a brilliant team, him and Donna. From the very opening 'Once Upon A Time’, this is a kind of a mini-musical and completely sums up the studio 54 NYC disco era in one fell swoop. This record could actually turn a straight man gay - especially the trilogy 'Now I Need You', 'Working The Midnight Shift' and 'Queen For A Day' It must have cost an absolute fortune to record with all the brass and string arrangements, but this is Donna at her absolute post 'I Feel Love' best. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall.

LET'S TOUR - I Duran Duran annullano il tour, problemi di voce per Le Bon

I Duran Duran hanno annunciato l’annullamento dell’imminente tour europeo, che sarebbe partito il 14 luglio da Dublino, a causa di problemi alla voce del cantante Simon Le Bon.

Sono state quindi cancellate anche le tre date previste in Italia:

22 luglio Piazzola sul Brenta
23 luglio Milano
24 luglio Margherita di Savoia

Sarà possibile richiedere il rimborso dei biglietti già acquistati entro il 30 agosto 2011, presso il punto vendita di acquisto. Per i biglietti acquistati online TicketOne manderà una e-mail con tutti i dettagli a tutti gli acquirenti.

I dottori reputano che i muscoli che controllano le corde vocali del cantante si siano danneggiate in occasione del concerto tenuto a Cannes i primi di maggio di quest’anno, causando la temporanea riduzione della sua estensione vocale.
Fisioterapia e un rigoroso programma medico permetteranno al cantante di tornare in piena forma velocemente, anche se è troppo presto per fare un’esatta previsione dei tempi di recupero.
La decisione anticipata di rimandare il tour europeo è stata presa per evitare di deludere i fan pochi giorni prima dei concerti.

VIDEOKILLER - "The Chaffeur" avec Sneaker Pimps of Chris Corner plus Simon Le Bon

OFF THE RECORDS - Gagaism revisited! Three for Lady "Judas": Hurts, Goldfrapp and now Röyksopp

Three for Gaga and Judas for all!
Goldfrapp and Hurts were the first ones to remix Lady Gaga's "Judas" song some weeks ago. More intimate and in slow motion that one by Goldfrapp, more "contro tempo" and didascalic that one by Hurts.
Now even Röyksopp have remixed the pre-last Lady Gaga single...it's the most down to the beat of the trio gone to the Lady's court. Take a listen to the "Röyksopp European Imbecile Remix" below! The track is available to download now in Part 2 of the "Judas (Remixes) EP".

Listen to the "Judas" remix by Royksopp

NEWS WAVE - The Queen is dead...or maybe not! NME celebrates 25 years of the astonishing The Smiths' album

The Smiths are on the cover of this week's NME, out on Wednesday (June 19), marking the 25th anniversary of 'The Queen Is Dead' coming out. Here we've compiled Morrissey's best quotes from over the years – click through the gallery to read his pearls of wisdom (and about how he wanted to assault comedian Vic Reeves).

The boy with the Thorn in his side video

NEW GOLD DREAMS/VIDEOKILLER - Spy-stories so '80s! Mirrors' "Into the heart" and Hurts' "Sunday"

LET'S TOUR/TALK TALK - Non c'è due senza tre...I Duran fanno tris di tappe in Italia e intanto raccontano moda e mode degli '80 su "Love Magazine"

Dopo l’annuncio di due date italiane, parte del loro attesissimo tour europeo, i Duran Duran hanno annunciato una terza tappa nel nostro paese: dopo Piazzola sul Brenta (22 luglio) e Milano (23 luglio) la band icona del pop proseguirà il tour estivo alle Saline di Margherita di Savoia, in provincia di Barletta (24 luglio).

Meanwhile John Taylor and Nick Rhodes confess their "careless memories" to "The Love Magazine"...watch and hear them here: http://www.thelovemagazine.co.uk/main.php.

OFF THE RECORDS/LET'S TOUR - Non solo Depeche! Da oggi in vendita anche il nuovo di Peter Murphy, ex Bauhaus, con relativo tour in USA

(ANSA) - ROMA, 7 GIU - Peter Murphy, storico cantante dei Bauhaus, band dark wave inglese, annuncia il suo ritorno con "Ninth", nono disco solista al debutto con l'etichetta Nettwerk Music Group e da oggi nei negozi. Dopo lo scioglimento dei Bauhaus nel 1983 Murphy intraprende la carriera solista, pubblicando dischi che lo hanno coronato come uno dei piu' grandi artisti della storia del rock, oltre a prestigiose collaborazioni tra cui quella con Trent Reznor dei Nine Inch Nails e Mick Karn, ex bassista dei Japan.

The day has come, 'Ninth' is finally here! Get your copy from ITUNES / AMAZON today!

This record is warmly recommended by Leo Grant.

Peter Murphy returns to the United States with special live appearances around the release of NINTH including rare in-store performances & signings!
Full list of live shows and in-stores performances:
Tues, June 7 New York, NY @ J&R Music World (in-store performance & signing)… RSVP
Wed, June 8 New York, NY @ The Delancy... Tickets / RSVP
Wed, June 15 San Diego, CA @ Casbah… Tickets / RSVP
Thur, June 16 Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba (in-store performance & signing)…INFO
Fri, June 17 Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet's… Tickets / RSVP
Thur, June 23 San Francisco, CA @ Amoeba (in-store performance & signing)…INFO
Fri, June 24 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill… Tickets / RSVP
Sat, June 25 Sacramento, CA @ Boardwalk…Tickets / RSVP
Sun, June 26 Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar... Tickets / RSVP
Wed, June 29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour… Tickets / RSVP

OFF THE RECORDS - Buy or die! Da oggi in vendita il nuovo Cd di remix dei Depeche Mode!

This week sees the release of the career-spanning "Remixes 2: 81-11" compilation. With format choices including a 1-CD, 3-CD, 6-LP vinyl box and digital editions, you have many ways to enjoy the new release from Depeche Mode.
For the US market, select US independent music retailers will be selling the 3-CD edition of "Remixes 2: 81-11" with a very special, very limited 12" single. The 12" (sticker from the front cover on the left) contains two remixes of "Personal Jesus" (Alex Metric Remix and the M.A.N. Remix), as well as not-on-CD remixes of "The Sun And The Rainfall" (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts) and "The Sinner In Me" (SixToes Remix). A full list of independent retailers is available on the Record Store Day web site, but not all of the retailers will be participating. As such, we advise you to call ahead, to make sure that your favorite indie retailer is participating in the event.

For now, we can tell you the following shops are participating: J & R, Manhattan, NYNewbury Comics - various locations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode IslandAmoeba Records, Hollywood, CA (and possibly other Amoeba locations)Fingerprints Records, Long Beach, CALou's Records, Encinitas, CAPlease check the Record Store Day web site for more details. As we hear more details, we will post them here as well.

Also, there are a number of exclusives for you to choose from when buying your deluxe digital version of the album. Here is a complete breakdown of the retailers and remixes available when buying the deluxe digital edition of "Remixes 2: 81-11":

iTunes
Master And Servant (RSS Remix)
In Chains (Myer vs Wilder Deconstruction)
Amazon - exclusive bonus tracks
Sister Of Night (Ida Engberg's Giving Voice To The Flame Remix)
Sweetest Perfection (Phil Kieran Remix)
HMV - exclusive bonus tracks
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
The Sinner In Me (SixToes Remix)
Spotify Premium - exclusive bonus tracks
Sister Of Night (Ida Engberg's Walking Through The Light Dub)
Sweetest Perfection (Phil Kieran Remix Dub)
Personal Jesus (Alex Metric Dub)

FRANCE FNAC - fnacmusic.com - exclusive bonus tracks
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
The Sinner In Me (SixToes Remix)
FRANCE Virginmega.com - exclusive bonus tracks
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
I Want It All (Roland M. Dill Lunar Dub Remix)
GERMANY Napster - exclusive bonus track
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
SWITZERLAND 20 min / Basepoint Media - exclusive bonus track
The Sinner In Me (SixToes Remix)
SWEDEN CDON - exclusive bonus track
The Sinner In Me (SixToes Remix)
NORWAY / SWEDEN / DENMARK WiMP / Aspiro - exclusive bonus track
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
AUSTRALIA Big Pond - exclusive bonus track
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
FINLAND Nokia - exclusive bonus track
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)
ITALY Net Music - exclusive bonus track
The Sun And The Rainfall (Black Light Odyssey's Further Excerpts)

Beatport exclusive tracks
Dream On (Bushwacka Tough Guy Dub)
Suffer Well (M83 Instrumental)
John The Revelator (UNKLE Dub)
In Chains (Tigerskin's No Sleep Alternative Remix)
Wrong (Trentemøller Club Remix Dub)
A Pain That I'm Used To (Jacques Lu Cont Dub)
Leave In Silence (Claro Intelecto Walk Away Remix)
I Want It All (Roland M. Dill Instrumental)
A Question Of Time (Joebot Presents 'Radio Face' Instrumental)
Personal Jesus (Sie Medway-Smith Remix Instrumental).

NEW GOLD DREAMS/VIDEOKILLER - "Hot mess" by Chromeo (feat. Elly Jackson of La Roux)

OFF THE RECORDS - Into the Bush again!

Roma (Adnkronos) - Dopo anni di silenzio discografico, Kate Bush è tornata con un nuovo progetto. In 'Director's Cut' l'artista reinterpreta e fa rivivere alcuni dei suoi brani preferiti, tratti da album come 'The Sensual World' (pubblicato nel 1989) e 'The Red Shoes' (pubblicato nel 1993). Ad anticipare queste nuove versioni da venerdi' sara' disponibile, in radio e in vendita negli store digitali, il primo singolo dell'album 'Deeper Understanding'. La tracklist di 'Director's Cut' comprende nuove interpretazioni (voci e batteria) e, in alcuni casi, nuove incisioni dei brani, un nuovo sound che non va ad intaccare la visione del brano originale: 'flower of the mountain' (una nuova versione del brano 'The Sensual World'), 'Song of Solomon', 'Deeper Understanding', 'lily', 'Red Shoes', 'This woman's work', 'moments of pleasure', 'Never be mine', 'Top of the city', 'And so is love', 'Rubberband girl'. "Da un po' di tempo sentivo la necessita' di rivisitare i brani dei due album sicura che in questo modo avrebbero potuto beneficiare di un soffio di nuova vita -dice la cantante- e' stato fatto molto lavoro sui due album originali riuscendo cosi' ad intessere sulla trama originale nuovi fili".

NEWS WAVE - Boy George parla italiano: l'11 giugno al Pineta e collaborazione con i nostrani Phunk Investigation

Il 10 giugno il Pineta by Visionnaire di Milano Marittima ospita una delle più celebri icone degli anni Ottanta: Boy George. L'artista si divide oggi tra vari progetti musicali e gira il mondo con concerti e party in discoteca. Da pochi mesi ha anche pubblicato un nuovo album, "Ordinary Alien". Salirà alla consolle del Pineta per un'esibizione che di certo, come è doveroso aspettarsi da lui, non sarà priva di sorprese. Nel frattempo l'ex cantante dei Culture Club, per chi se lo fosse perso, ha pubblicato con gli italiani Phunk Investigation il remix di "Generations of Love"...Più italiano di così, ragazzo Giorgio...

http://soundcloud.com/dafresh/phunk-investigation-vs-boy-george-generations-of-love-da-fresh-rmx-tiger-records

NEW GOLD DREAMS/VIDEOKILLER - "Synchronize" by Discodeine (feat. Jarvis Cocker)

Directed by jf julian, the official discodeine music video, feat. Jarvis Cocker. Discodeine is a French duo born in 2007 from the sick minds of Pilooski and Pentile. Music video produced by cyril couve de murvil @ WIZZ DESIGN PARIS shot in paris in fall 2010, director of photography: christophe graillot, editor: charlene gravel, art direction: lou andreas de clerck, set design: alain delgrange, stylist: aurelien stormy, make-up and hair: yves giorgi. feat. in the film upcoming french actors lola masselin, remi schapman and caroline de maigret. http://www.myspace.com/discodeine

TALK TALK - Simon Le Bon: "nel mondo che cambia, fare ancora il musicista è un privilegio"

(di Paolo Biamonte per l'Ansa)
ROMA, MAG. - Gli anni '80 sono lontani e tutto il tempo passato e' nei Duran Duran di oggi, quattro cinquantenni che portano con disinvoltura e evidenti segni di pancetta i segni di un'epoca diversa. Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes e John Taylor sono stati il simbolo di una stagione e oggi non hanno nessun rimpianto ne' provano a riproporre un modo d'essere che li ha fatti diventare dei miti pop. Pochi mesi fa e' uscito 'All You Need Now', il loro nuovo album: sostanzialmente fanno i musicisti, senza l'assillo di essere un mito pop. ''E' grande fare ancora questo lavoro, per noi non c'e' molta differenza nell'atteggiamento con cui affrontiamo la musica che resta una questione d'amore - racconta Simon Le Bon -. Attorno a noi il mondo e' cambiato: quando abbiamo cominciato registravamo i nostri provini sulle cassette, oggi persino il cd e' un oggetto superato, anche il mercato e' molto diverso. I nostri dischi dell'epoca d'oro vendevano in media 5-6 milioni di copie, due anni fa siamo arrivati al primo posto in America con una cifra infinitamente piu' bassa, ma questo non vuol dire molto perche' fare il musicista e' un po' come essere un attore, qualche volta il tuo lavoro viene preso meglio, altre volte peggio, ma quello che piu' conta e' potersi esibire per un pubblico e mai come oggi il mercato della musica live e' stato cosi' vitale''. I trent'anni di carriera alle spalle danno ai Duran Duran la consapevolezza di ''essere una fonte di ispirazione per le band della nuova generazione - dice Le Bon -: gruppi come Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chief hanno sonorita' e strutture musicali che si ispirano a noi, d'altra parte nella musica e' sempre stato cosi'. Anche oggi noi siamo appassionati ascoltatori di musica, mi piacciono molto i Gossip e adoro l'ultimo disco di P.J. Harvey''. Anche la neo principessa Kate piace alla band, cosi' come il nuovo primo ministro inglese Cameron, ''un uomo che non ha paura di dare brutte notizie e di prendere decisioni difficili, in una situazione finanziaria molto dura che, soprattutto nel nord dell'Inghilterra, si fa sentire molto''. Quando erano il massimo del divismo pop, i Duran Duran erano praticamente inavvicinabili, vivevano assediati dalle fan e giravano nei cellulari della polizia, un incubo per i giornalisti che dovevano incontrarli. Oggi sono molto disponibili, sorridenti, quattro signori che, tra alti e bassi, separazioni, progetti falliti, si sono rimessi insieme e si godono la vita del rocker senza troppi fronzoli, ben consapevoli che tutto sommato gli e' andata di lusso. ''Fare questo lavoro e' un privilegio - dice Le Bon -: nella vita le cose cambiano ma certamente se mi guardo indietro e penso a tutte le cose che abbiamo fatto mi rendo conto che da ragazzino neanche mi sognavo di raggiungere simili obiettivi. La musica e' il grande amore della nostra vita e non si puo' non ritenersi fortunati quando si pensa che per tanta gente i Duran Duran rappresentano una parte importante della loro vita''.

NEWS WAVE - Gli Spandau Ballet sono nati in un cesso di Berlino!

Gary and Martin Kemp recently took part in a photo shoot for a feature in the Italian version of Vogue. Below is basic translation of the piece that can also be viewed by clicking here* (please note, the page is in Italian). “We began when we were at school”, explains the leader of Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp, “as a post punk band, and we didn’t find our real path until ’79-‘80, when we started going to the Blitz. Malcolm McLaren was a great source of inspiration for me, but I wanted to sell a lot of records like my heroes. I come from a working class background and I wanted to become famous”. Authors of synth pop, then of more loved funk and therefore of powerful melodic genre ballads, they found the idea for their name written in a toilet in Berlin. They were the first London band (together with the Kemp brothers also Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and John Keeble) to embrace the pop ethic of the decade that was just beginning.

Notes for the clothing Martin and Gary were wearing – For Martin Kemp. Jacket and pants, Lanvin; cardigan Alexander McQueen; T-shirt Intimissimi. For Gary Kemp. Suit Lanvin; shirt Bagutta; tie John Varvatos. Fashion editor Rose Forde.

LET'S TOUR - Duran(o) ancora! La band di Simon Le Bon di nuovo in Italia il 22 e 23 luglio (Piazzola del Brenta e Milano)

La band icona del pop, i Duran Duran, ha annunciato che il tour europeo di quest’estate farà tappa anche in Italia, per due imperdibili concerti: il 22 luglio all’Anfiteatro Camerini di Piazzola sul Brenta (PD) e il 23 luglio all’Arena Civica di Milano, all’interno dell’ormai consolidato appuntamento con la musica dal vivo del capoluogo lombardo, il Milano Jazzin’ Festival. Il tour estivo in Europa segue e celebra la pubblicazione dell’ultimo acclamatissimo album, “All You need is Now”, pubblicato lo scorso marzo, e debuttato al numero 1 della classifica dei download in 15 paesi diversi quando è stato anticipato in esclusiva su iTunes in una versione “anteprima” con nove tracce. I biglietti per le due date italiane saranno in vendita, in esclusiva per gli iscritti al Fan Club ufficiale (www.duranduran.com), dalle 10:00 del 9 maggio; saranno poi disponibili anche per gli iscritti a Live Nation (www.livenation.it) dalle 10:00 dell’11 maggio. La vendita generale partirà alle 10:00 del 12 maggio, tramite il circuito TicketOne www.ticketone.it e nelle prevendite autorizzate. I due concerti italiani saranno la prima occasione di vedere la band dal vivo dall’ultimo tour europeo del 2008. E saranno ovviamente un’occasione imperdibile per sentire dal vivo i brani del nuovo album, oltre, naturalmente, ai grandi classici del loro immenso repertorio, che li ha consacrati come la band icona del pop made in UK. Il cantante e leader del gruppo, Simon Le Bon, ha detto: “Siamo molto contenti di tornare ad esibirci in Italia, durante questo tour europeo presenteremo dal vivo, per la prima volta, le canzoni del nostro nuovo album, e al momento ci stiamo divertendo moltissimo a provare lo spettacolo. Non vediamo l’ora di essere di nuovo on the road”. L’incredibile nuovo album dei Duran Duran, “All You need is Now”, è già stato definito un trionfo, sia dalla critica sia dai fan. Prodotto dal vincitore di Grammy Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen) e mixato da Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Madonna, Björk, No Doubt), tredicesimo album in studio della band, vanta collaborazioni con Ana Matronic dei Scissor Sisters e Kelis; mentre Owen Pallett degli Arcade Fire ha contribuito agli arrangiamenti. Nel corso della loro brillante carriera, i Duran Duran hanno venduto più di 80 milioni di dischi, con 30 numeri uno nella classifica inglese, 18 singoli al top della classifica americana e un seguito enorme in tutto il mondo. Hanno ottenuto cinque prestigiosi Lifetime Achievement Awards e altri riconoscimenti importanti, tra cui MTV Video Music Awards, Brit Awards, Ivor Novellos, Q Magazine e Spanish Ondas.

COSTO DEI BIGLIETTI PER PIAZZOLA SUL BRENTA
Poltronissima 50 euro + prevendita
Platea Numerata 40 euro + prevendita
Tribuna Numerata 32 euro + prevendita
Posto Unico 25 euro + prevendita

COSTO DEI BIGLIETTI PER MILANO
Posto a sedere 40 euro + prevendita
Posto in piedi 34 euro + prevendita

Per maggiori informazioni:
LIVE NATION ITALIA (02 53006501 – info@livenation.it – www.livenation.it)

Radio Partner ufficiale del tour italiano RDS (www.rds.it)

Sito ufficiale: www.duranduran.com

VIDEOKILLER/LIVE AND KICKING - L'addio degli Yazoo alle scene con "Don't go" al Festival della Mute sabato scorso

Ci hanno lasciati (per sempre, probabilmente) con "Don't go". Non a caso. Ecco il brano di chiusura del mini-concerto d'addio degli Yazoo al Festival della Mute di sabato scorso a Londra.

LIVE AND KICKING - Al Mute Festival arriva anche Dave Gahan e il "grissino" Alison Moyet dice addio agli Yazoo

Grande successo ieri sera per il Mute Festival a Londra. Tra i momenti imperdibili, l'addio degli Yazoo alle scene (con "Don't go" quale ultima canzone in scaletta del concerto...!), la sorprendente silhouette dimagrita all'inverosimile di Alison Moyet, il vestito rosso-shock di Vince Clarke, gli insulti ai Residents rei di una scaletta troppo lunga prima dei più attesi Erasure, i dj set di Martin Gore e Andrew Fletcher dei Depeche Mode raggiunti a sorpresa da Dave Gahan a bordo di una mega-limousine nera...A breve il resoconto di due giorni già indimenticabili...

LET'S TOUR - Se non potete andare a Londra sabato al Mute Festival, tutti a Gorizia: c'è Tony Hadley!

Roma - (Adnkronos) - Per molti e' semplicemente il cantante degli Spandau Ballet. Per altri e' una vera e propria icona pop, amata quasi quanto il gruppo rivale dei Duran Duran negli anni '80. Voce inconfondibile e riconoscibile anche a vent'anni di distanza, Tony Hadley approdera' sabato al Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Gorizia con la sua band. Dopo lo scioglimento degli Spandau Ballet nel 1988, Hadley ha continuato il suo percorso musicale, proponendo i grandi successi che hanno contraddistinto l'epoca del filone pop 'New Romantic' insieme ad alcune tra le piu' belle canzoni del gruppo e come solista. Da 'To cut a long short story', singolo di debutto degli Spandau, a 'Chant nr.1'; da 'True' e 'Gold', pezzi che proiettarono la band in testa alle classifiche europee, fino a 'Through the barricades' e 'Build me up', brani simbolo della carriera solistica di Hadley. In carriera, il cantante ha realizzato quattro progetti da solista: l'esordio 'The State of Play' (1992), l'album live 'Obsession' (1995, ristampato poi nel 2000 e 2001, quest'ultimo con il titolo 'Obsession Live'), il disco di cover e brani autografi 'Tony Hadley' (1997) e il doppio Cd swing jazz 'Passing Strangers' (2006).

LIVE AND KICKING - Anche Martin Gore e Andrew Fletcher dei Depeche al Mute Festival di Londra di sabato...

Mute announce brand new additions to the line up for Short Circuit presents Mute festival - 13 + 14 May 2011 - at London’s historic Roundhouse: Martin L. Gore (DJ set), Andy ‘Fletch’ Fletcher (DJ set) and Josh T. Pearson performing an exclusive set of covers of some of his favourite songs by Mute artists join recent additions to the 2 day festival: Richie Hawtin, Moby (DJ set), Maps and Polly Scattergood collaboration, Beth Jeans Houghton and a Dirty Electronics Workshop.
Tickets are available from www.roundhouse.org.uk/short-circuit / 0844 482 8008 and are priced as follows: Fri 13 May – £30 (6 pm – 1 am)Sat 14 May – £45 (12 pm – 12 am)Fri & Sat – £65 – limited tickets availableLimited Premium Ticket – SOLD OUT
All events are 14+, 16 and under should be accompanied by an adultMute's Short Circuit festival which runs from May 12th to 15th - and you will be too, after you read our preview with the ever-brilliant Liars - so we're pleased to discover that Anton Corbijn and Flood have been added to the line-up of talks and films, which will be looked after by this very website. The film maker will present 'Mute + Vision', a talk about his work with some of the label's artists including Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, while producer Flood will host a panel game all based round the art of recording. For more information, click here.

—SHORT CIRCUIT PRESENTS MUTE RUNNING ORDER—

FRIDAY 13TH MAY

MAIN SPACE
18.00 - 19.30 DJ RICHARD WARREN
19.30 - 20.30 LIVE RECOIL
20.30 – 20.50 DJ RICHARD WARREN
20.50 – 21.40 LIVE NITZER EBB
21.40 – 22.40 DJ MOBY
22.40 – 00.00 DJ RICHIE HAWTIN
STUDIO THEATRE
19.00 – 19.30 LIVE KOMPUTER
20.35 – 21.20 LIVE BALANESCU QUARTET
21.50 – 22.30 LIVE CARTER TUTTI WITH NIK VOID
23.00 – 23.45 LIVE NON
00.00 – 01.00 LIVE RICHARD H. KIRK
01.00 – 02.00 LIVE POLE
02.00 – 03.00 LIVE T.RAUMSCHMIERE
MADE IN CAMDEN
00.00 – 01.00 DJ DANIEL MILLER
01.00 – 02.00 DJ GUDRUN GUT
02.00 – 03.00 DJ BARBARA PREISINGER
TORQUILS BAR
22.00 – 23.00 LIVE THOMAS FEHLMANN
23.00 – 00.00 LIVE THOMAS BRINKMANN
CIRCLE BAR
INSTALLATIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY:
‘FLIES, GUYS AND CHOIRS’
FELIX’S MACHINES
MUTE SHOP
GROUND FLOOR FOYER –
SCHNEIDERS BEURO

SATURDAY 14TH MAY
MAIN SPACE
18.00 – 18.15 DJ DANNY BRIOTTET
18.15 - 19.00 LIVE LIARS
19.00 – 19.30 DJ DANNY BRIOTTET
19.30 - 20.30 LIVE THE RESIDENTS
20.30 – 20.50 DJ ANDY ‘FLETCH’ FLETCHER
20.50 – 21.50 LIVE ERASURE + SPECIAL GUESTS
21.50 – 22.20 DJ ANDY ‘FLETCH’ FLETCHER
22.20 - 23.00 LIVE LAIBACH
23.00 – 00.00 DJ MARTIN L. GORE
STUDIO THEATRE
19.10 – 19.40 LIVE MAPS + POLLY SCATTERGOOD
20.00 – 20.40 LIVE BIG DEAL
21.00 – 21.40 LIVE POPPY AND THE JEZEBELS
22.00 – 22.40 LIVE S.C.U.M.
23.00 – 23.40 LIVE JOSH T. PEARSON PLAYS MUTE SONGS
THE HUB
12.00 – 14.00 SOUND HALO
14.00 - 14.40 DJ IRMIN SCHMIDT AND KUMO PLAY THE SOUND OF CAN
14.40 – 15.00 LIVE LAND OBSERVATIONS (JAMES BROOKS)
15.00 – 15.30 DJ IRMIN SCHMIDT AND KUMO PLAY THE SOUND OF CAN
15.30 – 16.15 LIVE SIMON FISHER TURNER + MIRA CALIX
16.15 – 16.45 DJ IRMIN SCHMIDT AND KUMO PLAY THE SOUND OF CAN
16.45 – 17.30 LIVE PETER GREGSON
TORQUILS BAR – HOSTED BY ANDREW KING
14.00- 14.30 LIVE BETH JEANS HOUGHTON
15.00 – 15.30 LIVE SPECIAL GUESTS (TBC)
16.15 – 17.30 FLOOD DEMONSTRATES THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF RECORDING
(17:45 – 18:15 DIRTY ELECTRONICS PERFORMANCE IN CIRCLE BAR)
THE BOARDROOM
12.45– 13.45 ‘FAST FORWARD/PAUSE/REWIND’ – GARETH JONES TALK + Q&A
14.30 – 15.30 ‘AN INTRODUCTION IN TO THE SCIENCE OF MASTERING’ – STEFAN BETKE (AKA POLE) TALK
16.00 – 17.15 – ‘DO YOU LOVE ME LIKE I LOVE YOU: THE BOATMAN’S CALL’- FILM DIRECTED BY IAIN AND JANE + Q&A HOSTED BY KRIS NEEDS
17.45 - 19.10 ‘ON/OFF;MARK STEWART FROM POP GROUP TO MAFFIA’– FILM DIRECTED BY TONI SCHIFER
CIRCLE BAR
INSTALLATIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY:
‘FLIES, GUYS AND CHOIRS’
DIRTY ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP
FELIX’S MACHINES
MUTE SHOP
(17:45 – 18:15 DIRTY ELECTRONICS PERFORMANCE IN CIRCLE BAR)
GROUND FLOOR FOYER
SCHNEIDERS BEURO