Lymphatic Phlegm & other: July 2008

Bloc Party debuts track on BBC Radio One

New album due by the end of the year

NEW YORK -- Bloc Party premiered its new single, "Mercury," on Monday afternoon on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show. The track is a big departure from the band's skittish Britpop, incorporating cacophonous horns and percussion alongside disorienting sound effects.
According to a spokesperson, the song may or may not appear on Bloc Party's third album, which is expected before the end of the year via Atlantic. "Mercury" will be released as a single Aug. 11 in the U.K., with a U.S. release date to follow.
Frontman Kele Okereke told Lowe, "We are making the record I always wanted us to make, so we just can't wait for it to be done."
The new album is the follow-up to 2007's "A Weekend in the City," which has sold 146,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Davina recommends marriage counseling

'Big Brother' presenter Davina McCall has spoken openly about having marriage counseling, saying that she recommends it.
The 39-year-old star told Marie Claire magazine that she and husband Matthew Robertson sought professional help during a difficult patch in their marriage.
She said: "We had this stumbling block and every time we started talking about it, we'd have a row,"
"So we needed a mediator to say 'Hang on a minute, let Matthew talk. Right Davina, how do you feel?'."
"Afterwards we were like, 'Blimey. We've achieved in 90 minutes what we've been trying to talk about for 6 weeks'."
McCall said that she was so impressed with counseling that she has since recommended it to other people.
"It was the best thing we've done and I've recommended it to a lot of friends."
"I can't imagine ever being with anybody else now. I'm so ensconced with Matthew I don't know what I'd do without him. I'd be lost."
The couple have three children together, 7-year-old Holly, 4-year-old Tilly and 2-year-old Chester.

Annie Reveals Franz Ferdinand Collaboration

Annie has defended the right for pop artists to play at Glastonbury and other festivals.

The up-and-coming singer explained the likes of Girls Aloud have given chart acts the breakthrough they need to mix it with traditional rock heavyweights at the events.

“I write pop songs, but there’s a place for that here,” she said. “Girls Aloud, The Sugababes, they have done it and shown there is no need to stick people into categories.

“I have Franz Ferdinand playing on my album; there is definitely room for more crossovers.”

She also had dietary advice for festival-goers, stating that “pancakes are the way to go in the morning” in reference to a track she has written about breakfast.

Not exactly ground-breaking then, but Annie claims people need some light pop relief at Glasto. “It’s weird playing to people who don’t know my stuff,” she admitted. “But I’ll give them something to dance to, with no stress and no worries.”

Gigwise has all the Glastonbury news you need so keep checking back.

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Oscar Peterson with Harry Edison and Eddie Cleanhe

Artist: Oscar Peterson with Harry Edison and Eddie Cleanhe

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Oscar Peterson with Harry Edison and Eddie Vinson

Year: 1987
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Timbuktu

Artist: Timbuktu

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Oberoendeframkallande

Year: 2007
Tracks: 15

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Year: 2003
Tracks: 12

Timbuktu has earned a reputation as Sweden's most influential political hip-hop and tap crossing creative person, called by some "the rapper fifty-fifty your grandma knows." Born January 11, 1975, Jason Michael Robinson Diakite's African-American father and Swedish mother played out clock time living in both Sweden and Chile. His multiethnic and transnational upbringing open him to a wide variety show of melodic styles and influences. He began rapping in the early '90s, quickly becoming a fixture in the Copenhagen, Stockholm, and MalmÃ¶ live rap music scenes. Writing lyrics in Scanian and English, Timbuktu teamed up with a Danish rapper in the mid-'90s to form the multilingual yoke Excel. The partner off released unitary album, entitled Lustrous Lights Big City, earlier disbanding. Timbuktu's solo life history was initiated by the release of T2: Kontrakultur in 2000. Refusing to weewee down his lyrics for commercial success like so many of his American counterparts, Timbuktu chop-chop earned a reputation as a voice of political dissent and challenge. His confrontational lyrics and inclusion of musical influences like common people, megrims, reggae, and West African styles made the music both hard to categorise and wildly pop. An brutal chart presence and regular performance schedule over the track of several age made Timbuktu Norway and Sweden's most famous urban voice. By the 2007 sack of Oberoendeframkallande, Timbuktu had racked up foursome original album releases backed by his possess Juju Records.

Sugarland Delivers for the Fans

Love On The Inside Deluxe Fan Edition Available July 22
Regular Edition Available July 29

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 4 -- When Sugarland releases their
third album, Love On The Inside, July 22, it'll be all about the fans. Lead
members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush wanted to deliver more than the
average album to their loyal supporters. Together they created a Deluxe Fan
Edition that will include 17 tracks (12 regular and 5 bonus) in special
packaging with an expanded CD booklet, as well as access to download
exclusive music video and "behind the scenes making of the album" footage.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080604/CLW027 )

Love On The Inside Regular Edition will consist of 12 songs and a
regular CD booklet and hits stores a week later on July 29.

Track Listing:
1. All I Want To Do
2. It Happens
3. We Run
4. Joey
5. Love
6. Genevieve
7. Already Gone
8. Keep You
9. Take Me As I Am
10. What I'd Give
11. Steve Earle
12. Very Last Country Song

(Deluxe Fan Edition)
13. Fall Into Me
14. Operation: Working Vacation
15. Wishing
16. Life In A Northern Town (Live)
17. Come on Get Higher (Live)

For more information on Sugarland, contact
Jason Owen at 615.524.7563 or jason.owen@umusic.com or
Amber Williams at 615-524-7516 or amber.williams@umusic.com or
Log on to http://www.sugarlandmusic.com or http://www.umgnashville.com

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