TAG: Flea

Aug22

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble “Bulletproof Brass” EP Preview

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble proudly present their new release titled “Bulletproof Brass,” a 6 song mini album showcasing this family band’s unrivaled musicianship and universal appeal.

Spring 2011 saw the group reform (like Voltron) in their native Chicago to record a selection of many new songs they have written over the past few years touring and recording. Mesmerizing melodies and pulsating rhythms that sound from another world are like a remedy or tonic to the listener in this digital age of over produced music. Bonafide, raw, and unadulterated; HBE’s music grips the listener and brings them on a trip to another world teaching the true value and meaning of music.

Bandleader Hudah explains:
“The EP ‘Bulletproof Brass’ is part of the next mission for HBE. The stage in our quest for completely …

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Jan25

Radiohead For Haiti @ Henry Fonda Music Box (Review) (Video)

Four days ago, Radiohead announced they’d be playing a show at the Henry Fonda Theatre—a venue with an official capacity of under 2,000—to help raise funds for relief efforts in Haiti. The tickets would be made available auction-style through Ticketmaster, with all the proceeds going to benefit Oxfam International. The minimum bid for a pair of tickets started off at $200, and by the time the auction closed, anything less than $1,000 had you coming up short. To say it was the hottest ticket in town would have been an understatement, and the stars were definitely out in full effect. (Ed. note: Apparently Wilmer Valderrama has quite the ticket stub collection, Charlize Theron likes her Grey Goose with a bit of cranberry, and Daniel Craig is way shorter than he looks.)

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Jan19

Thom Yorke’s ?????? Explained (Video)

Lots of folks are wondering about the six question marks next to Thom Yorke’s name on the Coachella poster. URB just got a text from Coachella head Paul T explaining that the ?????? at the end of Thom Yorke’s name is the official billing for his band, and was previously used for the shows he performed last fall at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. That band consisted of Flea, Nigel Godrich, Beck drummer Joey Waronker and David Byrne collaborator Joey Waronker. Coachella cannot confirm if the same players will make up Yorke’s Coachella band.

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Thom Yorke “Cymbal Rush” Live at The Echoplex 10-02-09

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Nov30

Gorillaz Next Album To Feature Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Mos Def

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Two years ago Damon Albarn told NME that Gorillaz wouldn’t make any more pop records. But you know better than to take Damon’s word on the future of his endeavors. In a recent interview with the Guardian he says his cartoon band’s next LP has a title (Plastic Beach, because “the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it’s come out of nature. We didn’t create plastic, nature created plastic.”) is “going really well.”

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