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Live Earth: London full coverage

[tag]Live Earth[/tag] London, the biggest concerts in terms of names in my opinion, started a mid-day at the fabulous Wembley Stadium.The Festival’s openers were a group of all stars drummers, composed by the likes of Taylor Hawkins from the [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag], Chad Smith from [tag]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/tag] and Roger Taylor from [tag]Queen[/tag] all backed up by a orchestra of drummers titled SOS Allstars. Their performance was overwhelming, with extraordinary drumming, while images and clips…

Live Earth debuts in Sydney

As we promised, we’re gonna cover the immense [tag]Live Earth[/tag] Festival. With 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world’s top musicians, Live Earth will engage, connect, and inspire individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis. Our first stop is Sydney were the gigs began at 10:30 AM at the Aussie Stadium in Moore Park, where a aboriginal group launched the event…

Live Earth with its ninth gig

[tag]Live Earth[/tag] officials have added, on the last stretch, the ninth and last concert in the series of events set to promote the global awareness to global warming. This last gig will take place in the US capital Washington DC in the National Mall, positioned in very close proximity to the US Capitol. The headliners for this Live Earth leg are country stars Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood. DC will join London, Sydney, Rio de…

Velvet Revolver: ‘Libertad’

Artist name: Velvet Revolver Album name: Libertad Label: RCA Records Gender: Hard Rock Release date: July 3, 2007 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: http://www.velvetrevolver.com/ If [tag]Velvet Revolver[/tag] never made it to its second album, i would be any thing but surprised. I mean face it when you have such a conglomeration of stars and egos from the ’80 hard rock times, featuring ex-members of Guns N’ Roses and fronted by arguably the biggest ego of the grunge…

Concert for Diana

Yesterday, 1st of July, a memorial concert for the late Wales Princess Diana took place at the fabulous Wembley Stadium, where international stars paid tribute to the diva by performing live in front of over 63.000 people. The show was kicked off by pop icon [tag]Elton John[/tag], who performed “Your Song” in front of giant black-white photographs of Diana taken by Mario Testino . After which Duran Duran, Diana’s all time favorite band began their…

Editors: ‘An End Has A Start’

Artist name: Editors Album name: An End Has A Start Label: Kitchenware Records Gender: Indie/Rock Release date: June 25, 2007 ZMErating: 7/10 Website: http://www.editorsofficial.com/ [tag]Editors[/tag] stormed the rock charts in early 2005 with their platinum debut album “The Back Room”. It was such a stunning first album, critic acclaimed world wide, but what of their second installment ‘An End Has A Start’? It’s always hard for any band to out due them selfs, after a…

Art Brut: ‘It’s a Bit Complicated’

Artist name: Art Brut Album name: It’s a Bit Complicated Label: Mute Records Gender: Alternative Rock Release date: June 19, 2007 ZMErating: 7/10 Website: http://www.artbrut.org.uk/ [tag]Art Brut[/tag] came like a breath of fresh air on their debut in 2005, with “Bang Bang Rock & Roll”; inspiring a sense of exuberance in the pool of over serious indie bands. The sound of their debut LP was like nothing heard before, with catchy, fun lyrics (although not…

Ryan Adams: ‘Easy Tiger’

Artist name: Ryan Adams Album name: Easy Tiger Label: Lost Highway Records Gender: Alternative Country Release date: June 26, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.ryan-adams.com/ A lot of things can be said about [tag]Ryan Adams[/tag], yes he is/was a drunk, coke-head, he himself confessed that he’s very much amazed of still being alive, but one thing can not be denied, he is a great songwriter.

Artmania 2007 1 background and last year

This is a relatively unknown festival in [tag]Sibiu[/tag]. Sibiu is an European cultural capital in Romania. [tag]Transylvania[/tag] is close to the city; this influences the architecture which has a medieval genuine style. It is very goth like city and for those of you who have not visited it yet the city would probably be a pleasant surprise. The festival started in 2006 when H.I.M., Amorphis, Silentium made the crowd wild. There were also some great…

Artmania 2007 2 with local acts and Anathema

So this gets us to this year. The bands were Anathema, Within Temptation, My Dying Bride, The Gathering and other local bands. The local bands were not bad. It was nice to notice that people who were foreign liked them. Maybe romanian rock has a chance; this is a step in that way and quality music is welcome. The first day began with Anathema and local bands like Cargo, Celelalte Cuvinte, Altar. The crows was…