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Alex Chilton R.I.P.

Alex Chilton, the legendary singer, songwriter, and performer who created music with the Box Tops, Big Star, and as a solo artist, died today march 18th, 2010.
Cause of death has not been confirmed, but the Commercial Appeal reports that it is believed to be a heart attack. Chilton was 59.

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L7

L7 was formed by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner on shared electric guitar and shared vocals. A year previous, Gardner had performed backing vocals on the Black Flag song "Slip It In". The punk rock duo were soon joined by Jennifer Finch on bass guitar and Roy Koutsky on drums. Koutsky left shortly after and Demetra Plakas ("Dee" for short) became their permanent drummer.

The band's name derives from a 1950s slang phrase meaning "square," but is often mistaken for a reference to the sex position, "69". The slang phrase "L7" can be heard in the classic Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs song "Wooly Bully" ("Let's not be L7, come and learn to dance..."), in the Rick James song "Bustin' Out" ("L7- just a little too damn straight..."), and in the Paul McCartney song "C Moon" ("I could be L7 and I'll never get to heaven if I fill my head with glue").

In 1991, the band formed Rock for Choice, a Pro-Choice women's rights group which was supported by other prominent bands of that era, including Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and Rage Against the Machine. Rock for Choice still exists and organizes concerts today.

Their 1992 third album Bricks Are Heavy, produced by Butch Vig, was featured in Rolling Stone's May 1999 list of 'Essential recordings of the 1990s', and is widely considered their classic.

L7's fourth album, Hungry for Stink, was released in the summer of 1994 during their Lollapalooza tour, where they shared the stage with The Smashing Pumpkins and The Breeders, among others.

Jennifer Finch left the band during the recording of their next album, so Sparks and Greta Brinkman played bass on their fifth album The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum, after which Gail Greenwood, (formerly of the band Belly) became the bassist.

The band's most recent album, Slap-Happy, was released in 1999 and did not chart on either side of the Atlantic. To promote the record, on July 17, 1999, a plane flew over the crowd at the Lilith Fair at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., with a banner that read, "Bored? Tired? Try L7." The following day, a second airplane flew over the crowd at the Warped Tour at the Stone Pony lot in Asbury Park, N.J. This banner declared, "Warped needs more beaver...love, L7." Greenwood later left the band and was replaced by Janis Tanaka, formerly of the San Francisco band, Stone Fox. (Janis would later go on to play bass for the singer Pink. Gail Greenwood would later play with the singer Bif Naked.)

However, by 2001 the band was no longer touring. According to the band's website, "L7 are on an indefinite hiatus. We know that's vague, but that's just the way it is. The future of the band is a bit up in the air at the moment." L7 appears to be defunct for all practical purposes, as Donita Sparks is currently pursuing her own solo career, along with drummer Dee Plakas and two other guitarists in the band Donita Sparks and The Stellar Moments. Jennifer Finch is working in a punk-rock group called The Shocker.

The band gained a certain amount of notoriety for their performance at the 1992 Reading Festival, when Donita Sparks removed her used tampon on-stage and threw it into the crowd yelling "Eat my used tampon, fuckers!" in protest against the mud being thrown by the crowd. This has been referred to as one of the "most unsanitary pieces of rock memorabilia".

Albums
1988 - L7 (Epitaph Records)
1990 - Smell the Magic (Sub Pop)
1992 - Bricks Are Heavy (Slash Records)
1994 - Hungry for Stink (Slash Records)
1997 - The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum (Slash Records)
1999 - Slap-Happy (Wax Tadpole Records)

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland were an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. Between 1989 and 1995 the band recorded three studio albums, and were associated with grunge music. Members included Kat Bjelland (lead vocals and guitar), Lori Barbero (drums) and Michelle Leon (bass), who was replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992.

In its initial formation in 1987, in addition to Bjelland and Barbero, the band included Chris Holetz on bass and singer Cindy Russell.[1] After Holetz and Russell left, the band briefly had Courtney Love on bass, after which Michelle Leon joined as bassist.

The band achieved notoriety through Bjelland's "baby doll" image—sometimes referred to as the kinderwhore look—which contrasted dramatically with the raw power of her singing voice and her aggressive lyrics. Babes in Toyland released their first album, Spanking Machine in 1990 and toured Europe with Sonic Youth that fall.

The band's first major label album, Fontanelle, sold around 200,000 copies. The lead song on the album, "Bruise Violet," is said to be an attack on Courtney Love of Hole: "You see the stars through eyes lit up with lies/You got your stories all twisted up in mine." (Love is a former bandmate of Bjelland's.) However, in a recent interview Bjelland has denied this, saying instead that "Violet" was the name of a muse to both her and Courtney. The song's video was shown on Beavis and Butt-Head, where the band was described as "chicks" who are "cool."

The band was picked to take part in the 1993 Lollapalooza tour.



While the band was inspirational to many performers in the riot grrrl movement, they never participated directly.

The band was the subject of the 1994 book Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band by Neal Karlen, which dealt with the band's signing to Warner and the recording of Fontanelle. (Bjelland described the book as being "like cartoon caricatures of us," while Herman said that Karlen "would make a great fiction writer"--Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 18, 1994.) The band also appears in the 1992 documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke and was featured in the 1995 documentary Not Bad for a Girl.

On April 8, 1994, Babes in Toyland played a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence with 7 Year Bitch, and Jack Off Jill in Miami at the Cameo Theater, the same day lead-singer of American grunge rock band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, had been found dead in his Seattle home.

Babes were featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and were referenced in an episode of the sitcom Roseanne as well as an episode of Absolutely Fabulous.

The band split and reformed throughout the 1990s, losing their record label when Herman left the band in 1996. Dana Cochrane, formerly of the band Mickey Finn, played bass with the band on live gigs in 1996. Leon briefly rejoined for a short period in 1997. In 1998, the band was credited with the song Overtura: Astroantiquity/Attacatastrophy on the CD Songs of the Witchblade: A Soundtrack to the Comic Book, which Bjelland co-produced. Bjelland and Barbero played with a new bassist, Jessie Farmer, in 2000. But a year earlier, Bjelland had formed a new band, Katastrophy Wife, which seemed to replace Babes as her main vehicle. Babes in Toyland (with Farmer on bass) played a reunion show billed as "The Last Tour" on November 21, 2001—released as a live album called Minneapolism--and this seems to be the last official Babes activity; Bjelland played some shows in Europe in 2002 as Babes in Toyland with a new drummer and bassist from the British band Angelica, but stopped using the name after Barbero and Herman raised legal issues.

Albums and EPs
1989 - Spanking Machine (Twin Tone Records)
1990 - To Mother EP (Southern Records)
1992 - Fontanelle (Reprise Records)
1993 - Painkillers EP
1995 - Nemesisters

Geraldine Fibbers

The Geraldine Fibbers were an alt-country band founded in 1994 by Carla Bozulich.

Initially, band members included Bozulich, Daniel Keenan, Jessy Greene, William Tutton and Kevin Fitzgerald. While Bozulich had previously been known for noisy industrial music, The Geraldine Fibbers fused American roots music and blues-influenced punk.

In early 1996, Keenan and Greene departed, to be replaced by Nels Cline, the band shifting to a more guitar-rock sound.

The band later featured Julie Fowells, Jessica Moss, and Leyna Marika P. on violin.

Moss joined A Silver Mt. Zion in 2001. Cline joined Wilco in 2004.



Singles
* "Marmalade/Get Thee Gone (Live)" - 7" (1994, Hut/Virgin)
* "Dragon Lady" - CDS (1995, Hut/Virgin)
* "Dragon Lady/Birthday Boy" - 7" (1995, Sympathy For The Record Industry)
* "Fancy/They Suck" - 7" (1995, Big Jesus)
* "Marmalade" - Promo CDS (1995, Virgin)
* "House Is Falling (Remix)" - Promo CDS (1995, Virgin)
* "California Tuffy" - Promo CDS (1997, Virgin) -- 2 different versions exist
* "California Tuffy/Folks Like Me" - Promo 7" (1997, Virgin)

Albums & EPs
* "Get Thee Gone" - 10" EP (1994, Sympathy For The Record Industry)
* "The Geraldine Fibbers" - CDEP (1994, Hut)
* "The Geraldine Fibbers" - Promo CDEP (1995, Virgin) -- it doesn't have an actual title, sometimes you can see it listed as "G Fibbers" or "Bitter Honey"
* "Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home" - CD (1995, Virgin)
* "Live From the Bottom of the Hill" - Promo CD (1996, Virgin)
* "Butch" - CD (1997, Virgin)
* "Butch" - 2xLP (1997, Sympathy For The Record Industry)
* "What Part of Get Thee Gone Don't You Understand?" - CD (1997, Sympathy For The Record Industry)

Moscow Olympics

"quiet hearts for a quiet start..."

Great band from the Philippines!

Moscow Olympics released:

• Still 7'' EP (2007, Fraction Discs)
• Cut the World (2008, Lavender Recordings)
• the morning paper / Moscow Olympics split 7" single (2009, Lostmusic Records)
• beko_12 (2009, free single download from french label beko dsl)
  

BOYE osvojile "DORF“

Dokumentarac "Prvi pravi ženski zvuk“ autorke Brankice Drašković pobednik je Međunarodnog festivala dokumentarnog rock filma "DORF“.



Festival "DORF" održan je u Zagrebu, Rijeci i Vinkovcima od 4. do 7. marta. Pobednik festivala, „Prvi pravi ženski zvuk“, govori o kultnoj alternativnoj rok grupi „Boje“ iz Novog Sada koje su uspeh postigle već prvencom „Dosta dosta dosta“, ali su sa radom prestale 1997. godine. Osim glavne nagrade, ovaj dokumentarac najbolji je i po mišljenju publike u delu „DORF-a“ održanom u Rijeci.

Žiri festivala činili su Igor Mirković, Gordan Nuhanović i Petar Mitrić. U njihovoj odluci navodi se da je film nagrađen za „informativan i iscrpan prikaz društveno-sociološkog i kulturnog konteksta osamdesetih godina u kojem je ponikao jedan od prvih ženskih rok sastava u tadašnjoj državi.“

Posebnu nagradu žirija „DORF-a“ osvojio je film “Radio Apokaliptiko“ Marka Cvejića iz Slovenije za „dinamičnu i dokumentarno relevantnu priču o odnosu jedne male sredine prema fenomenu hevi metala i omladinskoj subkulturi.“ Peter Braatz iz Nemačke takođe je dobitnik posebnog priznanja „za ukupan dosadašnji rad i sjajne filmove koje je snimio.“





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Mark Linkous R.I.P.

Mark Linkous (1962 - 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best-known as leader of Sparklehorse. Linkous committed suicide with a gunshot to the heart outside a friend's house in Knoxville, Tennesee on March 6, 2010.



Linkous made his debut under the Sparklehorse name with the 1995 album vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, which yielded the minor hit "Someday I Will Treat You Good". He went on to release three more acclaimed records of fractured, experimental alt-blues: 1999's Good Morning Spider, 2001's It's a Wonderful Life, and 2006's Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, as well as the Danger Mouse/David Lynch all-star project Dark Night of the Soul and the Fennesz collaboration In the Fishtank. A voracious collaborator, Linkous also worked with PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Tom Waits, and many others.

Last year, Dark Night of the Soul was released as a book and a blank CD and leaked to the internet due to a legal battle between Danger Mouse and EMI. Earlier this week, it was announced that Dark Night of the Soul would finally receive physical release this summer.

Jónsi - Go Do

Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson

Jónsi (born April 23, 1975) is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his falsetto voice. Jónsi is blind in his right eye. He is also openly gay, and his boyfriend Alex Somers has done much of the graphic design for Sigur Rós. They also perform together as an art collaboration called Jónsi & Alex. They released their self-titled first book in November 2006, which was an embossed hardcover limited to 1000 copies, along with their first album, Riceboy Sleeps, in July 2009. Jónsi is also a vegetarian.

On December 1, 2009, Jónsi's official website, jonsi.com, was launched, in anticipation of his upcoming debut solo album, "Go," being released the week of April 5th, 2010.

In late-January 2010, Birgisson had announced that Sigur Rós was on "an indefinite hiatus," as the band had scrapped plans for a new album previously announced to be released in 2010, saying that "they were just rumors." The band has decided to take the year off, as several members of Sigur Ros recently had children, and as Jonsi's solo career has been developing.

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine are an alternative rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1983. The band's founding members are guitarist/singer Kevin Shields and drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. The lineup during the band's late 80s/early 90s heyday included singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe after the band settled in London.

As My Bloody Valentine's music progressed, its use of distortion, pitch bending, and digital reverb resulted in the sound that became known as shoegazing. My Bloody Valentine's 1991 critically-acclaimed album Loveless took two years to make mostly due to funding problems. Following Loveless, My Bloody Valentine became inactive, with Shields recording and shelving several albums' worth of follow-up material. In 2007, Shields announced that the band had reunited and were recording new material.

Discography

My Bloody Valentine discography

• Isn't Anything (1988)
• Loveless (1991)

Official website

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Sleep
Like a pillow
Down(ward)
And
(Where)
She won't care
Anyway (where)

Soft
As a pillow
Touch her there
Where she won't dare
Somewhere
Sleep
Like a (royal)
(Subject)

Think
That you grew
Stronger there
Speak
Your troubles
She's not scared

Soft like there's silk
Everywhere
Sleep
(Is a) pillow
Come

Where she won't dare
Anyway (where)
(Look)
In the mirror
She's not there
Where she won't care
Somewhere

My Bloody Valentine - Soon

Wake up
Don't fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah don't go there
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
Come back
Don't be
Afraid of me
Soon
That (I'll harm you)
Your eyes are blue
Blue jewels
Yeah yeah
Come back
Have faith
Someone like you
Can find the reason
Of what I did to you
Yeah yeah
Wake up
Don't fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah don't go there
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah