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    Coachella Festival To Be Webcasted for All Three Days - 4/27 - 4/30

    Organizers of Coachella, the popular annual music festival in the desert east of San Diego, have synced up with a large telephone company to provide live, continuous webcast from Coachella Central featuring some of the most talented and popular artists in indie and alternative music.

    Coachella has become in recent years the indie rock scene's answer to Lollapoloza, and indie fans come from across the globe to attend the festival.

    Three-day passes for this year's event sold out in a matter of days and single day passes for the weekend sold out almost as quickly. Camp site passes are also sold out, but of course, there are many tickets still for sale on eBay.

    For all of the indie rock fans who cannot make it to the festival, the webcast should help fill in some of the gap, even though it is nothing like being there - of course.

    Let's just hope that the technicians and other folks have the server load capacity to allow tens of thousands, maybe hundreds, of thousand of fans around the world hear great indie and alternative artists like:




    The Arcade Fire

    Rage Against The Machine


    Bjork


    Arctic Monkeys


    Interpol


    Sonic Youth


    Red Hot Chilli Peppers


    The Kooks


    Tapes n Tapes


    !!!


    Rufus Wainwright


    Air


    Blonde Redhead


    New Pornographers


    The Decemberists





    See the entire line-up of artists scheduled to play at Coachella




    While some fans, like me, would like Coachella to lighten up a little more like the Burning Man festival, it seems unlikely to happen.



    In fact, there is a direct contradiction of course with the idealism of what indie music should be and the fact the Coachella is a very capitalistic, corporate sponsored and highly secured event.



    The latter being the most annoying to fans nowadays, but since the Woodstock reunion disaster in 1998, 9/11 and the Virginia Tech shootings, fans who already have their tickets to Coachella (they are still also available on eBay, but of course, you'll pay more), their campsite passes or area accommodations (there are basically no motel or hotel rooms available for the festival weekend in the area with a few exceptions of rooms going for $500 and up a night at two and three-star accommodations).

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    Blur's Drummer Dave Rowntree Announces Candidacy for Labour Party, Video Interview

    Dave Rowntree, the drummer for the long-time UK indie revivalist group Blur, told The UK Independent that he plans to run for his local council as a Labour candidate in Marylebone.

    "I've been a long-standing member of the Labour party and active in local politics for a while," Rowntree said. (See video below)

    "I'm a Westminster resident and in my experience of living here, it all looks lovely - there are hanging baskets everywhere - but you only need to scratch beneath the surface and see that there's a lot of deprivation and a lot of inequality around. I think someone needs to do something about it."



    Despite his notoriety, Rowntree will have to campaign hard for the position because the Marylebone ward is traditionally conservative.

    One fan - Lovelyrita - wrote on the band's official message board: "I'm sure Damon [Damon Albarn, songwriter/founding member and singer] has always known Dave's labour convictions, so I don't think that can be a problem between them.

    The problem for us, though is that if Dave is elected, well, I don't think it's very appropiated [sic] for a politician to play music in a band... even if that band is Blur. That's my opinion, at least. So, let's hope he doesn't get elected... sorry, Dave."



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    Arctic Monkeys Live Show on BBC Radio 1 April 16

    The red-hot indie rock outfit, Arctic Monkeys, are not melting polar caps but they are gaining gaggles of new fans around the world.

    Next week, the Arctic Monkeys will perform on
    Radio 1's Live Lounge on Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. (London time; so 3 a.m. PST).

    Later that day, at 1pm, Radio 1 deejay Zane Lowe will present the Arctic Monkeys' London Astoria show and a band interview.

    If you miss out, chances are the programs will be re-run or archived, but no guarantees.

    Stay tuned to IRC for more information and updates by subscribing to the IRC feed.

    Arctic Monkey Links:

    - Arctic Monkey Win Two Brit Awards
    - Arctic Monkeys Edged Out By The Killers for MTV Award
    - Arctic Monkeys Official homepage



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    Shortlist Music Prize Longlist Nominees Include Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Neil Young, Tom Waits, The Stills and Wolfmother

    The Shortlist Organization will release their official "shortlist" of nominees for the sixth annual Shortlist Music Prize in a couple of weeks, narrowing the "longlist" of 61 albums of 2006 down to the Top Ten.

    The Shortlist Music Prize is considered one of the highest honors in the independent and alternative rock music profession. Last year's winner,
    Sufjan Stevens, has taken the music world by storm, releasing one compilation of amazing music after another.


    Stevens' 2005 album Illinoise is full of soft melodies, inspirational spurts of engery, lyrical intrigue and is easily one of the classic albums of the past decade.

    Earlier this month, TSO released the long list of 61 nominees featuring a compendium of the best indie and alternative music of the past year, including artists such as like Snow Patrol,
    Arcade Fire, Mates of State, Band of Horses, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, and many more. (See below for the complete list)

    The 61 nominees were selected by a panel of nine indie rock artists and journalists, including Sufjan Stevens, Franz Ferdinand, Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips, Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers, members of Panic at the Disco, Reverend Moose, editor-in-chief of CMJ New Music Report, and a Rolling Stone magazine rock critic.

    To qualify for nomination artists' albums must be released in the U.S. in the past year and not have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Panelists are also looking for artists who embrace and push the envelope of the indie rock spirit of "creative and adventurous" music.

    "This year's listmakers have created a streetwise playlist of state-of-the art rock, dance and hip hop," Shortlist creative director Greg Spotts said.

    Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody told Top40-Charts.com that this year's Long List "looks like my own iPod." He says the melancholy "Begin to Hope" by Regina Spektor is "a gorgeous record which is simple and devastating in equal measure."

    Lightbody also elegantly describes two of his favorite artists - both IRC Featured Artists - praising North Carolina's Band of Horses' Everything All the Time as "sublime, blissed out elegance" and Beirut's Gulag Orskestar as "sweeping swooning carnival" of songs, and the couple duo Mates of States Bring It Back as "twisted, warped pop."

    Subscribe to this feed and watch for the Top Ten, and ultimately a full profile of the winner. The winner will be announced sometime in May.

    The 61 nominees include artists from 45 different record labels and ten countries as selected by Sufjan Stevens (and based on his taste in music, you might want to check out some of these albums if you haven't already):

    Against Me - Americans Abroad Live in London
    And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - So Divided

    Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
    Beck - The Information
    Beirut – Gulag Orskestar
    Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

    Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
    Cat Power – The Greatest
    Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back
    CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
    Cursive - Happy Hollow
    Dabrye - Two/Three
    Danielson - Ships
    Dead Heart Bloom - Dead Heart Bloom
    Editors - The Back Room
    Field Music – Field Music
    Forgive Durden - Wonderland
    Girl Talk - Night Ripper
    Hot Chip - The Warning
    Howling Bells - Howling Bells
    Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
    Joanna Newsom - Ys
    Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake + William Parker – Palm of Soul
    Kimya Dawson - Remember that I Love You
    Liars - Drum's Not Dead
    Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song
    Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
    Mates of State - Bring It Back
    Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
    Mew - And the Glass Hand Kites
    Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
    Mohair - Small Talk
    Mute Math - Mutemath
    Neil Young – Living With War
    OOIOO - Taiga
    Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
    Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
    Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
    Roots - Game Theory
    Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
    Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
    Skream - Skream
    Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
    Teddybears - Soft Machine
    The Blow - Paper Television
    The Bronx - The Bronx
    The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
    The Gossip – Standing In the Way of Control
    The Hush Sound – Like Vines
    The Knife -
    Silent Shout
    The Stills - Without Feathers
    The Strokes – First Impression of Earth
    The Velvet Teen – Cum Laude
    The Weepies - Say I am You
    Tom Waits - Orphans
    TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
    Vaux - Beyond Virtue Beyond Vice
    We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor
    Wolfmother - Wolfmother
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

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    This is a list of albums I am listening to lately and loving! This will be regularly updated; strongly recommend getting these albums.

    The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
    Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
    Akron Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free
    Odawas - The Blue Depths
    Fleet Foxes - s/t debut 2008
    Sing Fin Bous - Clangour
    The Uglysuit - self-titled debut
    Vampire Hands - Me & You Cherry Red/Cuz It's a Beach Funeral
    Marching Band - Spark Large
    The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
    Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
    Klum - We Carelessly Turned Amazingly Into Nothing
    Downdime - Knowing Too Much
    Melpo Mene - Bring The Lions Out
    Loney Dear - Dear John
    The Lonely Forest - We Sing The Body Electric



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