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| I made a musique[machine]group at Last.fm, feel free to join. |
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| This year Belgium's avantgarde mavericks celebrate the tenth anniversary of the annual (K-RAA-K)³ Festival. This year another daring program is compiled with artists like Marshall Allen, Bardo Pond, Cherry Blossoms as well as local funeral folk hero Hellvete. As usual also several films will be shown, like Luc Ferrari Devant Sa Tautologie. Take note this year it will not be in Hasselt, but in the country's capital Brussels. Tickets for the event on March 1st (starts at 2 p.m.) are € 22,-. |
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| Roberto Opalio's(one half of My Cat is an Alien) solo art exhibition, 'Frammenti Cosmici', will open on October 19th at Zuni art space in Ferrara, Italy. The gallery will show new Roberto's SPACE-ART paintings, drawings, installations, photos, art-edition records, and videos. On the occasion of the opening the artist will make a special soloist audio visual live performance. Friday October 19th / Sunday November 11th 2007 Roberto Opalio - FRAMMENTI COSMICI - curated by Silvia Meneghini Zuni - Ferrara (IT) OPENING LIVE PERFORMANCE Friday October 19th, h.19:00 http://www.zuni.it |
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| Benni Hemm Hemm Icelandic popsters - a cross between sufjan stevens and sigur ros will be playing two London dates Sunday may 20th Bardens Bodudoir, 38 - 44 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XJ Monday May 21st Catchtech 22 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DA £5 on the door |
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| Thanks to our server being hijacked by spammers we had to take off our contactforms, we have to search for a different method that is less easy to abuse. We can be reached at questions[at]musiquemachine[dot]com |
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| Tom Waits will release a CD called Orphans, due out for 21 November. The three CD's called Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards will contain coversongs and material made for film and theaterproductions, 'rough and tender tunes', according to Waits. |
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| First Lord Petrus decided to resurrect Carnivore, now I hear the Crumbsuckers will reunite for a Life Of Dreams, 20th Anniversary Show. |
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| Anathema have decided (or were forced by circumstances) to try it without a recordcompany. They offer a song called Everything for download and ask to donate in return, to pay for the recordings of more music, which will be offered for download in the future. |
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| Primus-bassplayer Les Claypool did his version of the classic rockumentary Spinal Tap called Electric Apricot. |
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| Legendary surrealist experimental act Nurse With Wound have announced their first live dates in over twenty years to take place at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on 16th & 17th June. Tickets for this event are on sale at www.musichallsf.com. Although previous dates in the US have been cancelled there are high hopes that these ones will go the distance. |
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| Scott Walker has finished recording the followup to his album Tilt from 1995. It's called The Drift and will be released by 4AD in March. |
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| Not to ruin anyone's holidays, but free improv pioneer Derek Bailey has passed away December 25th. He had been diagnosed with a sclerosis apparently in March 2004, when he stopped playing in Barcelona. The carpal tunnel syndrome was just the first manifestation of the degenerative illness. |
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| Uffe Cederlund has parted ways with Entombed, according to the band's official statement the split with the guitarist has been amicable and will be definite. Entombed will continue as a four-piece. |
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| While many were still waiting for the new Praxis, Buckethead also announced his new solo-album Enter The Chicken which will be released on Serjical Strike, the label run by System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian. Serj will contribute to both albums. In the meanwhile Buckethead keeps on releasing Cornbugs with his buddy Choptop: Skeleton Farm can be pre-ordered already. The whereabouts of the Secret Recipe DVD remains, well... a secret. |
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| Antony and the Johnsons have won the UKs prestigous Mercury music award for their album I am a bird now. Anthony picks up a cheque for £20,000 and said on picking up the award “I think they must have made a mistake, It's kind of like a crazy contest between an orange and a spaceship and a potted plant and a spoon - which one do you like better?" Well done Antony. |
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| Blues great R.L. Burnside has died in a Memphis hospital at the age of 78. |
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| On 22nd August 2005 French avant-garde composer Luc Ferrari passed away. He was a seminal member of the French school of Musique Concrete and pioneered many of the sound art and field recording techniques that are in use in today’s modern music. His album Cellule 75 is reviewed here at MM. |
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| VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour passed away Friday night (August 26) at approximately 11:45 p.m. due to complications from advanced colon cancer — so advanced that the disease had spread to his liver. D'Amour slipped into a coma Thursday night and died less than 24 hours later in the palliative care unit of a Montreal hospital, surrounded by family and friends. He was 45 years old. |
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| Sad news: Robert Moog died at 71, only a few months after brain cancer was diagnosed. |
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| Preceding the release of Dengue Fever's second full-length album Escape From Dragon House a 'digi EP' is made available through iTunes. |
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| It's old news, but the official site seemed rather dead, but that turned out quite deceptive as I just found out that it has been reported in March already that New Kingdom is in fact alive! Now that's some great news! |
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| Rumoured for quite some time, but now it seems official: country 'n' eastern heroes Farmers Market signed to Ipecac who will release their fourth album. |
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| Noiserockers Harvey Milk are back together to record an album and do a US tour with Khanate. The latter will release a 12"/MCD shortly and there's even talk about a new album later this year. In the meanwhile guitarist O'Malley has been busy recording Sunn0)))'s Black1 which will include Malefic's (Xasthur) vocals recorded from the casket. |
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| Check this friends, Blabbermouth is reporting: Daniel Cardoso (ex-Sirius) and Kristoffer G. Rygg (Ulver, ex-Arcturus), plus a few "noble assistants", have been writing music and conspiring theories for Sindrome, a heavy rock project "with experimental edges, alternative feeling and a strong visual cinematic component", according to a press release. The group's debut album, A Killer View, is currently in its final recording stages and is expected to be debuted this fall. Label negotiations are already in process, but the band will wait for the end of the recording process to officially ink a record deal. According to the press release, A Killer View "explores and exposes mind distortion, insanity, perversion, dementia, the motivations and visions of a serial killer, and the patterns of the mind". A small trailer can already be seen and heard at the official website. |
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| Tuvan rockers Yat Kha recorded some of their favourite songs like Motörhead's Orgasmatron and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart for an album called Re-Covers, to be released in June. The two aforementioned tracks can be heard already at their site. |
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| Drummer extraordinaire Terry Bozzio (Zappa, Vai, UK, Missing Persons, among others) will surely 'turn heads and excite people' when he'll take Dave Lombardo's seat in Fantômas on the upcoming tour. I presume Lombardo this time really had his hands full with the Slayer-festivaldates. |
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| Boris classic Feedbacker -picked by yours truly as the best album of 2003- is at long last made available worldwide through Conspiracy Records. Don't miss this incredible album, that we reviewed here. |
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| Håkon Gebhardt has left Motorpsycho. Hans Magnus 'Snah' Ryan and Bent Sæther intend on continuing with the band after the harmonious split with Håkon. |
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| Dave Lombardo might be back in Slayer, that doesn't stop him working Fantômas and several other projects like the upcoming CD with DJ Spooky of which you can find samples here. |
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| The entire new Queens Of The Stone Age album, Lullabies to Paralyze, is available for streaming at the band's MySpace.com page. |
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| The final release of Brian Wilson's legendary SMiLE album will be followed up by a DVD on May 24th. |
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| Exotica-master Martin Denny passed peacefully at 9 p.m. last night, at his Hawaii-Kai residence, five weeks short of his 94th birthday. |
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| John Zorn has opened a venue in New York, each month will be curated by a musician, reedplayer Ned Rothenberg will kick off in April. Of course there will be a new CD-series on Tzadik which should render the money to keep the place open, as 100% of the revenue will go to the performers and there are no refreshments for sale at the shows. |
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| A group of San Fransiscan funk alumni have formed Top Rockerz. The 'breakbeat band' features members of Ben Wa and Limbomaniacs. |
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| After being hacked recently by Islamic fundementalists we're now moved to a new server. The site was unreachable for a day or so. Our apologies to everyone who were wondering what happened this time. |
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| Finally Sunn0)))'s legendary debut The GrimmRobe Demos has been reissued by Southern Lord. On vinyl and CD and of course with bonustracks. |
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| Best wishes for 2005 from the m[m]-team! |
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| The official Depeche Mode website reports that the band will start recording a new album in early January under the guidance of producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Elbow, Echobelly). No tentative schedule announced so far. The Mode's last album, Exciter, was released in 2001. |
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| The news from the natural disaster in Asia is bad enough, but apart from the astonishing amount of locals, among the tourists was Mieszko Talarczyk, member of Swedish grind-gods Nasum and producer. His girlfriend has survived but is badly injured and hospitalised, Mieszko is still missing. |
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| Legendary technical doomband Confessor have rejoined and recorded a demo EP of which you now also can download a full track named Sour Times. The EP is also for sale at the site. |
