Archive for 200808

Opsound: Free Love, Free Music

August 26th, 2008 – 2127 BRAVO
Filed as: Despatches

Opsound describes itself as a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.
Anyone is encouraged to [...]


FRATELLO METALLO

August 20th, 2008 – 2038 BRAVO
Filed as: Despatches

 
Dressed in his traditional brown robe, sandals and twirling the rope around his waist, 62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.
 But as guitarists around him grind out heavy notes, the long-white-bearded Capuchin, a former missionary in Ivory Coast, has no qualms bobbing his head and shouting lyrics about alcohol, sex, tobacco [...]


Slipknot

August 18th, 2008 – 2323 BRAVO
Filed as: Despatches, Scandals

Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Slipknot’s current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. They are recognized as one of the pioneering bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.

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Soul icon Isaac Hayes dies at 65

August 11th, 2008 – 2204 BRAVO
Filed as: Despatches

US singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes has died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 65.
Police were called after his wife found him unconscious next to a moving treadmill. He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Hayes, a flamboyant, deep-voiced performer, won an Oscar for the 1971 hit Theme From Shaft.
He was [...]


FAERGHAIL

August 6th, 2008 – 2008 BRAVO
Filed as: Despatches

Faerghail was formed in the summer of 1995 by Kai Lehtinen (guitars), Petri Moisio (bass) and Tomi Kangassalo (drums) in order to play somekind of melodic metal. In the autumn of 1995 Jussi Ranta and Tuomas Murtojärvi joined the band as session members and with this line-up Faerghail recorded the first demo tape titled “In [...]


O

August 2nd, 2008 – 1948 BRAVO
Filed as: Despatches

O is nothing but a heap of skin sewed into this carnal blank totality called existence and a symbol of the vanity of emptiness. When we became to be is as much irrelevant as who we are because we are all just prisoners of our time condemned to this momentary life. But as we are, [...]