Hallo Musikfreunde,
nachfolgend eine bunte Ansammlung von Neuigkeiten unsere Labels/Künstler betreffend.
Wie immer mit Bitte um Weiterverbreitung.
Fragen beantworten wir natürlich auch immer gerne.
Mit freundlichem Gruß,
Jörg Timp / die Starkult Crew
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1. PEOPLE LIKE YOU Rec. (Vertrieb SPV)
Das meistverkaufte Album von PLY war nicht umsonst "Survival Of The
Sickest" von MAD SIN nun legt das Label mit der Majordebut Platte aus
dem Jahre 1998 "Sweet & Innocent? ...Loud & Dirty!" noch einen drauf!!
Mit anderen Worten: Das Album wird als LP/CD über PLY wieder
veröffentlicht. Als Bonus gibt es bei der Neuauflage noch (4)
unveröffentlichte Tracks (darunter auch den Ärzte Song "El Cativo" als
Remake plus (1) Videotrack "All this and More" auf der CD Version!!!
Ebenfalls über PLY wiederöffentlicht wird das gesamte VENEREA
Backprogramm bestehend aus:
"Shake Your Swollen Booty" CD
"Both Ends Burning" CD
"Loosing Weight-Gaining Ground"CD / LP (plus bonus pic 10")
Das "Loosing Weight-Gaining Ground" Vinyl wird es nur als streng
limitierte Auflage incl. der picture 10" "We shall Overcome" geben und
ist ab dem 17.02.03 erhältlich - wie es aussieht nur für kurze Zeit. "We
shall overcome" enthält 5 unveröffentlichte Tracks, die 1998 mit der
aktuellen Besetzung aufgenommen wurden. Die Weiterentwicklung seit ihrem
davor letzten Longplayer "Both Ends Burning", der heute schon als
Klassiker gilt, ist unüberhörbar. Nicht zuletzt Dank Anden, der als
zweiter Sänger VENEREA seither komplettiert, sind nun ganz neue Akzente
möglich.
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2. MAKE MY DAY Rec. - Website
...ist endlich online unter www.makemydayrecords.de
Endlich. Nach monatelanger Frickelei haben wir es jetzt geschafft, die
Webpage unseres Inhouse Labels online zu stellen. Die Seite enthält alle
wichtigen Infos über das Label und die Künstler. Natürlich werden wir
immer daran arbeiten und versuchen das Ganze zu optimieren.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn ihr uns verlinkt und vielleicht sogar das
Banner übernehmt.
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3. SOLOMON BURKE gewinnt GRAMMY
akt. Album - Don't Give Up On Me Fat Possum/Anti Vertrieb SPV
SB DEPARTS NEW YORK CITY WITH A GRAMMY IN HIS POCKET AND A '60 MINUTES'
PIECE UNDER HIS BELT
Long heralded as "The King Of Rock & Soul" and inducted into the Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, it wasn't until Sunday night that SOLOMON
BURKE was finally honored with his first Grammy award in a career that
has spanned six decades.
"I am extremely excited, grateful and proud to have received this
honor," Solomon said with Grammy in hand. "And it shows my children and
their children and their children that anything and everything is
possible in this life if you put your heart and soul into the effort."
The award, for Best Contemporary Blues Album, is just the icing on top
of a very tall cake of honors and accolades BISHOP BURKE (as he is often
called) has received for his album DON'T GIVE UP ON ME on Fat
Possum/Anti-. BURKE is also up for four W.C. Handy Blues Awards,
including Blues Album of the Year and Blues Entertainer of the Year,
while the previously unreleased Bob Dylan composition "Stepchild," given
to BURKE for this album, is nominated for Blues Song of the Year.
DON'T GIVE UP ON ME - which also features contributions from the likes
of Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Brian Wilson and Van Morrison and produced
by Joe Henry- has landed BURKE on countless critics' best-of lists,
including #1 Album of the Year and #1 Blues Album of the Year in
England's Mojo, #12 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll, and "top
ten" recognition from critics for The New York Times, Entertainment
Weekly, and The New Yorker.
With high praise from such far-ranging sources as Fortune (which
asserted, "This is more than a comeback album. This is music that can
save your life.") and Maxim (whose five star review declared, "An
instant classic. Burke could shake heaven and earth just by singing the
tax codes."), it's no wonder that Lesley Stahl from 60 Minutes spent the
week prior to the Grammys with SOLOMON BURKE, interviewing and filming
the legendary father of 21 for an upcoming story on his life and
colorful careers as a soul legend, preacher, and mortician. (Stay tuned
for airdate.)
Since Don't Give Up On Me was released last summer, times have been
busy for the newly crowned Grammy winner. The regal BURKE has twice
opened for The Rolling Stones (at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles and
The Joint in Las Vegas), and once for the Pope (at the Epiphany concert
at St. Chiara's Church in Italy). He returned to his native
Philadelphia, where the mayor declared July 19, 2002 "Solomon Burke
Day," and has turned in several rousing television performances
including
the Late Show W/David Letterman (twice), the Tonight Show W/Jay Leno and
the Wayne Brady Show.
Grateful for both his lasting success and his latest recognition,
SOLOMON BURKE continues his current run with a new single, "None Of Us
Are Free" (featuring fellow Grammy winners the Blind Boys of Alabama),
and as part of the upcoming Martin Scorsese-produced feature film
"Salute To The Blues" recently filmed at Radio City Music Hall in New
York.
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4. THE WEAKERTHANS sign to EPITAPH
Epitaph is extremely proud to announce the signing of The Weakerthans!
The band will be putting out a new record titled "Reconstruction Site"
this fall on Epitaph and needless to say, this is amazing news for us.
We have a press release with a full statement from the band members at
the link below; I recommend you check this thing out because they say
some pretty amazing things about our label!
www.epitaph.com/news/article.php?id=445&Length=1
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5. DJ MUGGS ALBUM STREAM
In-order to give you all an idea of what the record is all about, we are
streaming the entire thing via the Internet. ANTI has created a "Dust"
E-Player that contains the entire record in streaming format along with
all of the pertinent information about the release. Simply click the
link below to launch the E-Player to enjoy the record.
www.hyfntrak.com/muggs/epitaph
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6. F-MINUS ALBUM STREAM
The new F-Minus album, "Wake Up Screaming" comes out on March 25th and
Epitaph has it available for streaming right now! This album is
thirty-eight minutes of unbridled punk rock fury, so hit the link below
and check this thing out.
www.epitaph.com/news/article.php?id=463
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7. BLACK KEYS ALBUM STREAM
Although this band is on one of our other labels, Fat Possum, we (the
people from Epitaph) thought that a lot of you would really dig this
album; so, we also have it available for streaming! If you like
raspy-guitar-driven-blues-rock, then you'll love this album! Hit the
link below and check it out for yourself.
www.epitaph.com/news/article.php?id=466
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8. MATCHBOOK ROMANCE ALBUM STREAM
The band is streaming their debut album, the "West For Wishing" EP on
their newly designed web site! Just click the link below and checkout
this killer new record that is due out on April 8th.
www.matchbookromance.com
You can also get an MP3 for the song "The Greatest Fall (Of All Time)"
on the "West For Wishing" album page.
www.epitaph.com/bands/index.php?id=306
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9. DANIEL LANOIS declares Producing Moratorium
Daniel Lanois, known for his production work for such artists as Bob
Dylan and U2, is "not producing anything for about a year."
The artist/producer made the declaration yesterday (March 13) in
response to a question posed during his keynote address at the South By
Southwest (SXSW) music conference in Austin, Texas. "I want to come back
to it fresh," he added.
The Canadian native opened the session with a stream-of-conscience
review of his career, from the basement studio he started in his
mother's home to his work with some of the biggest names in music,
including Dylan, U2, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Emmylou Harris.
Referring to himself in the third person and often calling himself
"little Danny Lanois," he described the process that has driven him to
bring out the best in himself and others as "soul mining."
Currently, he is focused on his own career, which will resume with the
April 22 release of "Shine," his first album for Epitaph's Anti- label.
When making the decision to sign with the imprint, he said he turned to
Anti artist Tom Waits. "I called up Tom and asked, 'What do you think of
these geezers?' He said, 'That's the best treatment I've ever had.'"
Sitting at a pedal steel guitar, Lanois played "Transmitter," an
instrumental that appears on the new set. "I try to play it every day,"
he said of the instrument, which he began playing at the age of 9, "to
remain grounded." Later he performed the album's "Sometimes" as an
example of what he felt was a strongly written song. "What never seems
to go out of fashion is a song that rings true somehow."
When forced to name the best album he's ever produced, Lanois chose
Dylan's 2000 Columbia set "Time Out of Mind," but said, "I'm proud of
all of them, and it's not fair to simply pick Bob's. More importantly,
Bob write songs from an interesting perspective."
"I work purely by invitation and [I] fly by the seat of my pants," he
said, describing his production style. "Believing that somebody has a
lot to offer is an important part of my criteria."
In closing, Lanois offered encouragement to the unsigned and
up-and-coming artists that attend SXSW to further their careers. "You
hear a lot about the state of the music industry," he remarked. "At any
given moment there's a new window of opportunity. It's up to the
innovators to find it."
Barry A. Jeckell, Austin, Texas, Billboard online, Edited by Jonathan
Cohen / March 14, 2003, 4:30PM
www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1838746
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10. WEST COAST PUNK INVASION
Die WEST COAST PUNK INVASION startet Anfang April durch Europa. Mit
dabei sind US BOMBS, AGENT ORANGE, ONE MAN ARMY und DISCONTENT. Die
Tourdaten findet Ihr auf der offiziellen Seite zur Tour:
www.westcoastpunkinvasion.com
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11. MP3- UND GOODIE-LISTE
Schon seit längerer Zeit befindet sich auf unserer Homepage die Rubrik "MP3s".
Mittlerweile sind dort die
Links zu zahlreichen freigegebenen MP3s, Streams, E-Cards oder Videos
gelistet. Wir bemühen uns um regelmäßige und aktuelle Updates.
In den nächsten Tagen findet Ihr dort u.a. neues Material von: DEFIANCE,
EPITAPH, WOLVERINE, MAKE MY DAY oder PEOPLE LIKE YOU!!!
===============Kontakt Starkult===============
STARKULT PROMOTION
Merowingerstr. 57
40225 Düsseldorf
Zentrale - Assistenz Printpromo - Lisa Schmees
0211 - 30 21 17 - 0
mailto: lisa@starkult.de
Printpromo - Eike Schmale
0211 - 30 21 17 -11
mailto: eike@starkult.de
Radio- / Webpromo - Alex Schröder
0211 - 30 21 17 -12
mailto: alex@starkult.de
Assistenz Radio- / Webpromo - Jan Stommel
0211 - 30 21 17 -13
mailto: jan@starkult.de
Alle Promobereiche / Geschäftsführung - Jörg Timp
0211 - 30 21 17 -10
mailto: jörg@starkult.de
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