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Donna Karan To Haiti, With Love

The haitian sun makes the tarmac at the port-au-prince runway feel like an oven on hight, and when Donna Karan touches ground, she is quickly off on a mission: to put on a show, an artisans’ exhibition in the center of the earthquake-damaged city. But as she waits at customs, she is obsessing over a metal bowl–specifically, its patina. Donna Karan to Haiti, with Love.

Sure, Donna Karanwill talk…

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Marilyn Manson's Most Shocking Pictures Yet

Marilyn Manson’s Most Shocking Pictures Yet

What a difference a few hours makes. Before Marilyn Manson appeared onstage at the London Brixton Academy, the sock-rocker managed to walk through the city virtually unnoticed in a rare sans make-up moment. Marilyn Manson was spotted leaving a London hotel without a trace of his trademark slap, contact lens, or outlandish clothes. Dressed in a sensible shirt and with a bit of colour in his…

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Lindsay Lohan In a Swimsuit Holidays With Handsome Male

She’s been getting a charge out of a mid year long occasion crosswise over Europe. And, unmistakably, Lindsay Lohan’s opportunity in the sun hints at no arriving at an end, as she demonstrated in Mykonos on Friday evening. The Hollywood star, 30, was seen having a great time on the prevalent Greek Island, where she displayed her figure close by nice looking male buddy Dennis Papageorgiou on Kalo…

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#Lindsay Lohan

Live Music Promoter

The life of a live music promoter seems pretty easy – poncing about with laminated Access All Areas passes, hobnobbing with bands and making plenty of money into the bargain. If only. Promoting gigs can be a logistical minefield and you’re going to have to be dedicated, hard-working and organized to pull it off without losing the shirt off your back. Start small. Virtually everyone who works at a…

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#Music Tips

Moogie Wonderland

For many musicians, vintage analogue synthesizers will always be sexier and more desirable than any guitar. Even if the machines have been surpassed technically, your basic analogue nerd will still love them for their retro-futuristic appeal and fat, classic sounds. The first bona fide synthesizers was built at RCA in America in 1955. It was the size of a house but it paved the way for pioneers…

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Lars Ulrich: 'The White Stripes Blew My Mind'

Lars Ulrich: ‘The White Stripes Blew My Mind’

Metallica are winding up to take their rock juggernaut back on the road. The band were one of the first ever to prevent pre-release leaks on the internet. Here, founder and drummer Lars Ulrich talks about closing down Napster, the troubles that almost split the band and about sharing a hip flash with The White Stripes: You have managed to keep a lid on ‘St Anger’ with nothing appearing online. As…

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#Metallica #The Datsuns #The White Stripes

Tour Of Duty

Life in a touring band may well throw up Class A opportunities for sexual encounters, drug consumption and a little rock’n’roll, but how do you get on the road in the first place? As boring as it sounds, the fastest road to rock piggery lies in proper preparation. The first step is organization. If you’re doing it yourself, it’ll be a case of sending out demos and hassling promoters. If you have…

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#The White Stripes

Making Music For Film And Television

While The Strokes and Stripes grab the rock’n’roll headlines, there are people making innovative, exciting music away from the media glare and earning a healthy wage too. There are the writers of music for film and television. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? You can do it in your own bedroom and you don’t have to write conventional tunes either, just some moody, atmospheric stuff. You’d be surprised.…

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#The Strokes #The White Stripes

Guns N'Roses LP Saga Takes Another Twist

Guns N’Roses LP Saga Takes Another Twist

The sage surrounding Guns N’Roses‘ long-awaited album ‘Chinese Democracy‘ has taken its most bizarre twist yet. A track, through to be set for inclusion on the long-threatened album, was allegedly played on the radio by an American baseball player. New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza, a guest on New York station Q104.3’s Friday Night Rocks With Eddi Trunk, persuaded the DJ to play a CD that had…

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#Guns N&039;Roses

Limp Bizkit, From Nu-Metal Titans To Cred-Free Flops

Limp Bizkit were the heavyweight champions of millennial rage. Fred Durst’s explosive cocktail of rap and metal, animosity and aggression, machismo and self-pity tapped into a huge and lucrative well of disaffected suburban anger across the globe. They were the gladiator kings of the Ugly Shit. The New Rude Dudes. They ruled. Of course, Limp Bizkit were never critical darlings, as the online…

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#Britney Spears #Limp Bizkit #Radiohead

Giving your band image the perfect look

Image is everything. As a means to convince people you’ve just beamed down from Mars, or just to make your band image look more like a ‘gang’, deciding how to look ‘on duty’ is absolutely crucial. From Elvis ‘quiff to the Kings Of Leon‘s extraordinary hairiness, looking cool has always been a key ingredient of great rock’n’roll. Like it or not, people are going to make judgements on your music…

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#Elvis Presley #Kings Of Leon #Limp Bizkit #Marilyn Manson #The White Stripes

Justin Hawkins: The Darkness Need New Material And Quick!

The Darkness have said if they don’t start work on their album soon they’ll be “shooting themselves in the foot”. Speaking on a recent trip to Ireland, singer Justin Hawkins said recording of the band’s follow-up to ‘Permission To Land‘ will start in earnest later this year, and the group are conscious of the pressure to give fans some new material as soon as possible. Only one new song was…

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#AC/DC #The Darkness

Is Thom Yorke (Radiohead) The New Mozart?

Radiohead are being dubbed modern-day Mozarts by highbrow classical artists who are ditching traditional pieces and covering the Oxford band’s songs. ‘The String Quartet Tribute To Radiohead‘ has released, and features the likes of ‘My Iron Lung‘ and ‘Idioteque‘, while the whole of ‘OK Computer‘ has also been recorded in a classical style. The recordings, made by Radiohead obsessives, are…

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#Brad Mehldau #Christopher O&039;Riley #Eric Gorfain #Radiohead

Analogue And Digital Recording Technology

If you believed everything Jack White said, you’d think digital recording was the root of all evil. His insistence on vintage equipment on the meteoric rise of the analogue-only Toe Rag studios has started debate on recording technology. Analog Recording StudioTraditional audio is analogue: from microphone through mixing desk to tape, sound waves are represented by electrical signals. At one end…

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#The White Stripes

Coldplay Hollywood Bowl

Coldplay Hollywood Bowl over America. In a matter of days, they played historic shows at the legendary Hollywood Bowl, as did The Beatles nearly 40 years ago, and the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver where U2 wowed America. They round off at New York’s Madison Square Garden, following the footsteps of bona fide giants like Bruce Springsteen. They are now, without question, the pre-eminent British…

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#Coldplay #Radiohead #The Beatles #U2

Skinnyman Council Estate Of Mind

Traditionally, the music that most accurately reflected the sound of Britain’s streets has been made by rock band, from The Beatles’ ‘Penny Lane’ to The Clash’ ‘London Calling’. It’s the only recently that the sound of the British inner city has begun to be reflected by people with beats: So Solid Crew, The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, even Goldie Lookin’ Chain. They are the Jams and Clashes of our…

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#Dizzee Rascal #Goldie Lookin Chain #London Calling #Penny Lane #Skinnyman #So Solid Crew #The Beatles #The Clash #The Libertines #The Streets

Secret Strokes Gig Amazing New York

The Strokes played a jaw-dropping secret gig in their hometown of New York last week – and only a few hundred lucky fans found out about the show. The Strokes are currently blazing a trail across North America supporting their album ‘Room On Fire‘. Now headed towards the end of the dates, last week the band were back home to record an appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. However, they had…

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#The Strokes

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