Congratulations to Barsuk Records on their 15th Anniversary! The independent record label based in Seattle, WA is celebrating this incredible milestone by holding a four-day party at some of the best music venues thoughout the city: Showbox at the Market, Neptune Theatre, Neumos/Barboza and The Tractor Tavern. From November 7-10, ...

Ray Manzarek A través de la cuenta oficial en Facebook de The Doors , se anunció la lamentable muerte de Ray Manzarek , quien estuviera detrás de los teclados de la banda desde 1965 hasta 1973. A sus 74 años de edad, el músico y compositor murió esta mañana en la clínica Romed de Alemania tras una larga batalla contra el cáncer hepático. El texto publicado en Facebook pueden leerlo aquí . Q.E.P.D.
SPOT Festival 2013 - Day 1 - countless shows and a great time! You know that feeling when you're confronted with a delicious and overflowing buffet of food and you stuff yourself? SPOT festival is like that, but with music. There are over 120 official acts to choose from and countless off-SPOT showcases, bands play The post SPOT Festival 2013 - A Look Back appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

It's always great when SCIENCE validates our lifestyle choices. Some genius scientists in Italy (duh), did a study on the pizza eating habits of 3,000 people with cancer and 5,000 without, and discovered that the people who did not have cancer also ate more pizza. It probably has something to do with the fact pizza has tomato sauce, and the lycopene in tomatoes has been known to prevent certain types of cancer. As per the BBC via the Washington Times : “We knew that tomato sauce could offer protection [...]

back in the good ol' 20th Century, people like me would use a fancy contraption called a cassette player to listen to music. it was the kind of device that didn't have a perfect sound or a digital screen. sometimes the sound may have even been a little wobbly and had a hisssssss. but cassettes were so much more convenient than those huge vinyl records. plus you could play them in your car! wow! the 1980's wouldn't have been the same without that cassette player in the car. sometimes, back in the 1990's, i used to buy [...]

Photo by G. School of Seven Bells (Benjamin Curtis on the left) Alejandra Deheza from School of Seven Bells recently announced that her band mate Benjamin Curtis is suffering from lymphoma. The good news is that since it was detected early, his condition is treatable. The bad news is that since the healthcare system in the USA is so backwards, medical bills can be financially crippling. Benjamin Curtis has launched Support Benjamin Curtis Dot Com (Link will open in a new window) so if you [...]
"Don't give up... don't ever give up." Twenty years ago today, legendary North Carolina State coach and ESPN personality Jim Valvano delivered one of the most legendary speeches the sporting [...] The post 20 Years Ago Today: Jimmy Valvano's ESPYs Speech appeared first on The Smoking Section .

Pauline Boty on her bed in 1963. At 2.00pm on Monday, 8 July 1968, and nine days before the world premiere, three of the Beatles arrived at a press-screening of Yellow Submarine. It was at the 102-seat cinema situated inside Bowater House in Knightsbridge, a massive post-war office block that was distinctly ‘carbuncular’ in appearance. It had been built a decade before in 1958 by the developer Harold Samuel for the Bowater-Scott Corporation the world's largest newsprint company, and the building completely dominated the adjacent Scotch Corner junction. John Lennon was the Beatle [...]
Posted in news Sad news coming from Rebecca Krebs about her husband, musician Pete Krebs (ex-Hazel) ... This is a humbling plea for help from our community. As many of you know, Pete had Hodgkin's Lymphoma in his early 20s, and through radiation and removal of some lymph nodes, he beat it. However, Pete has now been diagnosed with another type of cancer known as dismoplastic melanoma. The oncologist tells us that this is a rare form of cancer and that there is no cure [...]
Stuart Scott doesn't know this, nor should he. We've never shook hands. He's never signed an autograph for me. The closest we've ever come to meeting is his role on [...] The post Praying For A Childhood Hero appeared first on The Smoking Section .

The Ataris will be heading to Europe for a tour in the spring. They will be accompanied by Switzerland's Cancer on the tour.

It's no secret I think remixes is a really cool thing. It's just so different from my own acoustic style and it's always so interesting to hear how other people interpret my music. So this year I asked Sami Sirviö , guitarrist in Swedish rock band Kent to make a remix of my new Christmas single and he said yes. If you're Swedish you probably don't need me to introduce Sami to you, since Kent is one of Sweden's biggest rock bands, but for the rest of you Sami is probably the next Nobel Prize winner (at [...]

Sofia Talvik's Xmas Calendar, window 9 It's no secret I think remixes is a really cool thing. It's just so different from my own acoustic style and it's always so interesting to hear how other people interpret my music. So this year I asked Sami Sirviö , guitarrist in Swedish rock band Kent to make a remix of my new Christmas single and he said yes. If you're Swedish you probably don't need me to introduce Sami to you, since Kent is one of Sweden's biggest rock bands, but for the [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , News Today, Oh Boy! Noam Galai, AOL Goth cabaret singer Amanda Palmer has announce she is cancelling her 2013 touring commitments to be with her "best friend" C. Anthony Martignetti, who is battling cancer. Palmer has spoke often about Martignetti and her relationship with him and even penned an introduction for his book of short stories. In a lengthy post [...]

Do you like your music tight and loud, with a frontman that sounds like he's spitting and sweating all over the place, just on the edge of crazy? If you do, Oakland's Big Long Now may be just the band for you. Formed by three New Hampshire natives, Big Long Now has been playing together as a trio for a little over year, but bassist Jimmy Ryan and drummer Matty O'Reilly were childhood friends that had been in bands with each other for several years prior. "Jimmy and Matty's long history [...]

Vi er til familiefest på Teater Grob. Dokumentarfilmfestivalen CPH:DOX har gjort lidt af et gravearbejde (og promoveringsarbejde - koncerten var nemlig udsolgt) og kurateret intet mindre end fire debutkoncerter denne fredag. Men til trods for debutant-prædikatet er der ingenlunde tale om ukendte ansigter. Ligesom til den årlige familiefest er personerne på scenen sært genkendelige. Og så er der en sammenhæng mellem de forskellige bands musik. 'Fremmedgørende' var der ord, som oftest havnede i notesblokken, Vi lægger ud med Hetz . Duoen består af Malthe Fischer og Kristian Olsen, som tidligere har udvist deres store kærlighed [...]

I like these tracks a lot, recorded for the show that has consistently does goth proud. I'm going to sell my DVD player and buy this. HEre is the label blurb: "The Part Time Punks Radio Sessions 123 by HTRK and Tropic of Cancer holds six sublime songs of desire. Comparable to a fly-on-a-wall Peel Sessions, the critically acclaimed Part Time Punks radio show is the sound of the LA underground, run by local icon Michael Stock. The limited split captures both bands live at the radio headquarters during HTRK’s first 2011 tour [...]

I like these tracks a lot, recorded for the show that has consistently does goth proud. I'm going to sell my DVD player and buy this. HEre is the label blurb: "The Part Time Punks Radio Sessions 123 by HTRK and Tropic of Cancer holds six sublime songs of desire. Comparable to a fly-on-a-wall Peel Sessions, the critically acclaimed Part Time Punks radio show is the sound of the LA underground, run by local icon Michael Stock. The limited split captures both bands live at the radio headquarters during HTRK’s first 2011 tour [...]