I took a trip to Kilburn to the Queens Arms pub , which has recently become a centre for Kosovars and Albanians in London . There, I met Baki and Ladi who drew their maps of Kosovo and Albania for me. (Things were a bit complicated: all these guys were Albanian, some of them from Kosovo. So I asked Baki from Kosovo (who is Albanian) to draw Kosovo, [...]
Following Monday's show at The Deaf Institute, Manchester Aid to Kosovo are set to take over the Union Chapel this evening. Ten years after they released their first compilation album to raise money to help the war-torn country of Kosovo, MAK are still hard at work: aiming to bring aid, education and help to a poverty stricken country that still find them selves reeling from the turbulent civil war. Always using Manchester's vibrant music scene as their inspiration, the charity's latest album ten features the likes of Elbow , Cherry Ghost and [...]
Early in 2001, the release of MAK's (Manchester Aid to Kosovo) compilation, 'Cohesion', gave many music fans outside of this rainy Northern city the first chance to hear the then little known group Elbow. 10 years on and the follow up compilation '102 sees the now familiar voices of Guy Garvey and Jimi Goodwin surrounded by a new group of emerging Manchester artists. Manchester Music has funded much of the work of MAK (approximately a third of it's total income) enabling it to create the 22 acre Manchester Peace Park in NE Kosovo at the request of children medically evacuated to [...]
You know, all things considered, I'd say America dodged a bullet because at least our head of state is only a non-America, socialist, nazi, communist. Kosovo 's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime . Hashim Thaçi is identified as the boss of a network that began operating criminal rackets in the runup to the 1998-99 Kosovo war, and has held powerful sway over the country's [...]
No, he really does claim that his actions saved all of us from burning to death under a hail of nuclear weapons. James Blunt claims a US general had ordered him and his troops to seize an airfield in Pristina that had already been occupied by Russian troop : "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there. "The soldiers directly behind me were from the Parachute Regiment, so they're obviously game for the fight. "The direct command [that] came in from Gen [...]
My Friend Wallis Vancouver, Canada Crystal Dorval I started My Friend Wallis as a recording side project to another band I used to play in called Vincat. Things fizzled out with that so I ended up adopting My Friend Wallis as my main brain child. I released my first EP "When The Blue Turned Yellow" in June 2009 and the release party was my first show and basically the start of the band. The [...]
Prime notizie sull'edizione 2010 dell' Eurofestival , con la macchina organizzativa norvegese che si è messa in moto subito dopo la vittoria di Alexander Rybak sul palco di Mosca ( qui la sua canzone). Sarà la Telenor Arena, di Baerum, sobborgo di Oslo , ad ospitare la rassegna, programmata per il 25, 27 e 29 maggio 2010. Sono già 18 le nazioni che hanno confermato la loro adesione: oltre alla Norvegia, paese organizzatore campione in carica, hanno già fatto sapere che ci saranno tre delle quattro big [...]
(Earthworms and Fresh Heir are currently touring around air force bases in England and Europe. Mathias from Earthworms is keeping a diary for us while he's away. Read on below for the third installme... Continue reading "Earthworms European Tour Diary, Part Four" >
(Earthworms and Fresh Heir are currently touring around air force bases in England and Europe. Mathias from Earthworms is keeping a diary for us while he's away. Read on below for the third installmen... Continue reading "Earthworms European Tour Diary, Part Three: Kosovo" >
Speaking of bands traveling overseas: Starting April 9, Earthworms and Fresh Heir will be embarking on a tour of U.S. military bases in Europe. The trek will take them to bases in Germany, the Netherl... Continue reading "Earthworms and Fresh Heir To Tour European Military Bases" >
We've decided that in September we should totally just put together a party (not hard) where all of the DJs are only allowed to play remixes of "I Kissed A Girl" or "American Boy" or "Love In This Club" . What do you guys all think? We mean, what's more important than rekindling your love of a summer banger by listening to every single goddamn iteration of it? That's right. Nothing. What other bangers would you want to hear all of the remixes of from this summer? Oh yeah, [...]
Kosovo is a trio of young lads out of Austin, Texas and they create a ethereal, minimalistic, electronic sound that has more layers than your favorite Jello salad. Their debut, Pascal EP, has yet to receive a proper release date although their myspace page is still claiming it will be released sometime in 2007 with a follow up LP to come in 2008. {I'm not sure if you've caught that their myspace is apparently living in the past, but it is}. Although I'm not entirely sure when their EP will see the light of day, whether or [...]
Time to clean out the inbox and load up the iPod...today's 8-track is a sampling of some of the best tunes and new band discoveries that have made their way into RFC HQ in the past month or so. 1. Mothfight - "Hopscotch" [Avant-garde kids music] 2. The Octopus Project - "I Saw The Bright Shinies" [Fun with Theramins] 3. [...]
In my usual WAB mood I stumbled across the new Rocking The Daisies festival website. The annual Cape spring festival has garnered quite a following, from what I gather, and I am sure that this year will be no exception. It is being held at the Cloof Wine Estate in Darling so if the rain that plagued last years festival holds off you should have a picturesque event on your hands. Band line up is a mish mash of Cape Town favourites and those deemed [...]
Gryphon wrote me recently about his band Kosovo and he described their music as "hybrid, genre-defying downtempo with a strong pop sensibility". I can back that description. I first put on the song "A Terraformed Existance" last week during one of my late night, after work quick computer sessions where I literally tried to check up on all my laundry list of things to do on the computer each day before falling asleep. With as much as I've been working lately, it's almost become a game to see if I can pull it off. That night [...]
Ran across this band recently and immediately grabbed onto the songs. Comforting electro-pop tracks, easy-to-digest, and beautiful. Here's their bio: Formed in early 2006, Kosovo is a 3-piece outfit from Austin, TX who combine live instrumentation with electronic production techniques to create hybrid, genre-defying downtempo with a strong pop sensibility. With influences that range from ambient and electro to all flavors of modern electronica, their organic-yet-restrained sound makes you wonder where the man ends and the machine begins. Their instrumental Pascal EP will be self-released in 2007, [...]
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