Music and movies

   
Artist: Commercial Breakup
   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:

   
 Global Player
   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11

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Artist: Chris Barber with Otillie Paterson
   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:

   
 Best Yet
   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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Artist: Ivan Ferreiro
   Genre(s): 
Latin
   

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Discography:

   
 Las Siete y Media
   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8

   
 Versiones Y Rarezas
   Year:    
Tracks: 23

   
 Dias azules
   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Spanish rocker Iván Ferreiro was long-familiar ahead embarking on his solo career. For 13 age ahead contact out on his possess he was the vocaliser and bandleader for the rock en español staple chemical group Los Piratas. Toward the end of 2003, Los Piratas split, and Ferreiro distinct to contract a break from professional music. For playfulness, he and his blood brother started playing a weekly gig at a pub in their hometown of Vigo. Without whatever promotion, the brothers’ shows were quickly well-attended. They played in the main covers of artists such as Los Planetas, Andrés Calamaro, and Alaska y Dinarama. They began adding in their have substantial, and it wasn’t long before on that point were sufficiency original tunes to disk an record album. Canciones Para el Tiempo y la Distancia (2005) generated enough buzz that the brothers Ferreiro presently toured throughout Spain, pickings on drummer Karlos Arancegui. In November of 2005, Ivan had the idea to tear a house in Buenos Aires for deuce weeks with a mathematical group of musician friends, and pass iI weeks writing entirely new material. The project produced a record entitled Las Siete y Media, which was released in October of 2006. The musicians involved took their new material on circuit starting in the latter months of that twelvemonth, playing all all over Spain and Latin America.

Kill Hannah [ tickets ] frontman Mat Devine has a rather unconventional way of saving bits and pieces of song ideas. Instead of running out and buying multiple notebooks, he graces his body with potential lyrics and thoughts. “I’ve already run out of space on my phone, voicemail and notebooks and paper and everything, so I just started writing all over my arms and hands and stuff,” Devine said during an interview with LiveDaily. “My arms are completely covered in notes and lyrics and stuff. In these little pockets we have off of tour, we write a lot. I’ve got this dry erase board where I organize the ideas and fragments of songs and the progress of the entire body of work. It’s getting out of control. I think I need to get a second one.”Fans can see his literal body of work when the band embarks on its 40-city Hope for the Hopeless Tour with The Medic Droid, Innerpartysystem and The White Tie Affair. Details are listed below. “This is definitely going to be our coolest headlining tour ever,” Devine said. “Everybody on this package has a lot of cool stuff going on right now. I just saw White Tie Affair’s video on MTV. Their new single is totally blowing up. Innerpartysystem is totally blowing up right now, too, in a slightly different scene, in a New York scene. We were just in England again and they were all over the press there, too. Every one of the support bands [is] kind of up and coming.”The name “Hope for the Hopeless” refers to the reciprocal support that fans and Kill Hannah give each other.”It’s kind of a slightly tongue-in-cheek, slightly ironic title right now, though, because things seem to be going so well,” Devine said. “But, truly, we have learned that, over the years, regardless of radio and regardless of press and financial success, our greatest equity is in our fanbase. They’re the ones who buoy us and keep us alive. We get so many letters and gestures from them. It kind of refers to this entire fanbase around the globe. If no one can afford therapy, they can go to our shows.”"Hope for the Hopeless is also the title of an EP that the band self-released to tide fans over between its 2006 Atlantic Records album, “Until There’s Nothing Left of Us,” and its forthcoming LP from its new label, Roadrunner Records.

   
Artist: Antimatter
   Genre(s): 
Darkwave
   Trip-Hop
   Electronic
   Gothic
   Ambient
   

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Discography:

   
 Planetary Confinement
   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9

   
 Unreleased 1998-2003
   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16

   
 The Last Laugh - Live At K13 (Live)
   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9

   
 The Last Laugh
   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9

   
 Lights Out
   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9

   
 Saviour
   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9

   
 Live In Dongen (Bootleg)
   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 17

   
 Live At Lille (Bootleg)
   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 1

   
 A Dream For The Blind-Acoustic Session EP
   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6

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Simon Jeffes

   
Artist: Michael Burks
   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:

   
 Make It Rain
   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12

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Born in Milwaukee in 1957, vapors guitar player Michael Burks began erudition his pawn at an early age — divine by his musical family (his father played basso and often performed aboard harmonica fable Sonny Boy Williamson II, while his gramps was a Delta-style bluesman from Camden, AR). By the age of five, he was playing on with his father, and picked up a thing or deuce from his parent’s book compendium — his fatherhood would often sacrifice his danton True Young boy incentive to teach songs by offering him a dollar mark for each strain he could successfully figure kayoed from beginning to close (a class later he made his execution debut in front of an consultation, when he joined a cousin’s set on microscope stage). In the other ’70s, Burks’ begetter moved his family line to Arkansas, and opened up the Bradley Ferry Country Club (a 300-seat jook house articulatio), as Burks was hired as the leader of the sign of the zodiac band, mount numerous blues and R&B greats that played the locus.

By the time the club closed in the mid-’80s, Burks briefly place his love of megrims on the backburner, as he supported himself by pickings a job as a mechanical technician for Lockheed Martin, although he unruffled managed to play clubs and regional festivals. In 1997, Burks issued his very first album, From the Inside Out, producing the total record himself, which immediately racked up impressive reviews from respective honored blues publications (Blue devils Access raved the debut was “the most impressive indie in recent memory,” while Living Blues named it one of “the best debut discs of the year”). 2001 saw the release of Burks’ debut recording for the Alligator judge, Make It Rain, produced in Memphis by Jim Gaines (Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan) and Bruce Iglauer (Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Collins, Johnny Winter).

   
Artist: Dust To Dust
   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:

   
 Dust To Dust
   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12

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INDU MEZU

   
Artist: Suv and Surge
   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:

   
 No Holding Back (The Remixes)
   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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Artist: Electrixx
   Genre(s): 
House
   Electronic
   Other
   

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Discography:

   
 Just A Freak EP-(SR002) Vinyl
   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4

   
 Cumshot (sr01)
   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 3

   
 Part One-(KM015)-PROPER– Vinyl
   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3

   
 Backstage Bitch (KM021) Vinyl
   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4

   
 Und Nochmal
   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Cornel Fugaru

Photo: Catrinel Bartolomeu
It could have been Thursday in Chelsea on Wednesday night in Murray Hill, as the crowds maneuvered through sidewalk drinkers in front of the Day-Glo graffitied windows of the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI). The RCI flew in three early-twenties graffiti artists to team up with Wooster Collective co-founders Sara and Marc Schiller and cover the gallery walls in brightly colored religious icons, serpents, spies, manimals, slogans, and symbols. Schiller, who spends his days collaborating with street artists, wanted to give these artists the opportunity to interact with New York. “As much as technology and the Web connect everything, you can’t replicate the experience of being together.”

The opening also merged street and multimedia art with screenings and interactive installations from Simultan, Romania’s largest video and media-arts festival. It’s still a relatively small festival, but Cristian Neagoe, the young new communications director largely responsible for bringing these artists here, says it’s easier to get an authentic experience that way. “Here it’s a bit more controlled,” he says. “An artist becomes trendy and the media latch on. In Romania they’re starting from scratch, nobody watches or gives a damn, and that way, they have the freedom to innovate.” —Catrinel Bartolomeu

Photo: Catrinel Bartolomeu