Monday, July 31, 2006
The essential summer mix
The Guardian
29 Jul 2006
Herbert Ypma, Hip Hotels Beach & Orient compilations I can still remember the songs I was playing on a crappy tape player when as a completely free, totally irresponsible surfer I was touring around Europe in my Volkswagen Combi van 30 years... read more...
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Mama poised to launch hostile bid for Sanctuary
ANDREW MURRAY-WATSON
Business
23 Jul 2006
SANCTUARY, the troubled music group, is set to receive an unsolicited takeover approach from Mama, its little-known Aim-listed rival. Mama is expected to release a statement to the Stock Exchange tomorrow saying it is seeking talks with the board of... read more...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
We need a look at native fishing (Vancouver Sun, 18 Jul 2006, Page A11)
BY DENNIS BROWN
Vancouver Sun
18 Jul 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pledge to investigate racially- based commercial fisheries through a judicial inquiry has a sparked outrage from native politicians. As usual, proponents of the native- only commercial fishery will denounce as a racist... read more...
Friday, July 14, 2006
Lyrical compositions and worldly themes
KAIJA SAARIAHO
The Wall Street Journal Europe
14 Jul 2006
THE WORKS of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho are well known for her sensuous, descriptive and lyrical writing. Her compositions, though often complicated and multilayered, are at the same time very accessible for the listener. Her international... read more...
Rossini to Purcell, the summer shows at Aix
The Wall Street Journal Europe
14 Jul 2006
Aix-en-Provence n opera It’s a vintage year at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, offering a merry romp with Rossini, a lively if erratic new look at Mozart, and a practically perfect little gem with Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”—all in addition to the... read more...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Feel-Bad Album of the Summer
By J. Freedom du Lac
The Washington Post
12 Jul 2006
I f misery really does love company, then Thom Yorke never got the memo. Either that or he simply couldn’t read it through the cloud of anxiety that seems to have enveloped him during the making of his melancholy new album, “The Eraser.” Recorded... read more...
Friday, July 07, 2006
ToomuchMozart? Try the music of angels
The Herald Section 2
05 Jul 2006
SCHUMANN used to be dismissed – sometimes still is – as one of the casualties of musical history. A master of small forms, with a penchant for poetic songs and piano pieces, he was the victim of his ambitions to compose symphonies, concertos, operas... read more...
Themetalheads havetakenover
BY JOEL MCCONVEY
National Post
06 Jul 2006
In the 1980s, heavy metal was the musicyou didn’t wantyour kids to listen to. The genre’s army of longhairednogoodniks, flirtations with Satanism and disdain for melody sent many a parent scurrying to confiscate their son’s record collection, and it... read more...
Monday, July 03, 2006
Fallen Fallenidol idol
Daily Mail Weekend Magazine
01 Jul 2006
Nearly ten years ago, Michael Hutchence, the enigmatic lead singer of the Australian rock band INXS, died. His death — under bizarre circumstances — was shocking enough, but the tragedy didn’t end there, as three years later his still-grieving partner,... read more...
