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Competitors engage in 'Hero' worship at Hard Rock

Video game dorks and rock stars never had much in common. But that may be changing.

Last night Salt Lake City�s Eric Miller parlayed his talent for joy-stick jockeying into a full-on rock candy star experience, playing �Sweet Emotion� center stage at Boston�s Hard Rock Cafe and hobnobbing with Aerosmith�s Steven Tyler.

Looking more like meditating monks than guitar shredders, Miller and leash other regional winners competed in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Rocks the Hard Rock Finals before a herd of a couple hundred.

If you�re non a �Guitar Hero� partisan, the game allows players simulate the real thing using a guitar-shaped restrainer with rankle buttons that corresponded to notes that scroll on the screen door. It�s difficult, pretty addictive and massively popular.

�I thought it was kinda obtuse the low time I saw it,� aforesaid Miller, after besting Orlando�s Joe Ostrom during final tune �Love in an Elevator.� �I didn�t even want to try it, but a friend told me it had (Ozzy Osbourne�s) �Bark at the Moon� in it, so I gave it a try.�

As hotshot, Miller took home a custom �Guitar Hero�/Hard Rock Cafe Red Wing motorcycle, which Tyler was nice enough to sign for him. Not bad for a 24-year-old plastic guitar slinger.

�I came here mentation I�d lose,� he said. �I was simply in for the unblock trip to Boston.�

Helping to blur the line 'tween real and simulated rock, both Miller and Ostrom play medicine and say there�s an overlap in the coordination used in the tV game and actual guitar.

�I�m a keyboard player with a grade in music,� Ostrom said. �There�s definitely a link betwixt the two.�

It was easy to believe the iI guys, observation them john Rock out on the big screen TVs. Then Tyler and Joey Kramer took the stage with a few friends, and short the game was dwarfed as the band plowed into some loud, dirty, hard-thumping Aerosmith classics.

Comfortable in the Hard Rock�s intimate Cavern Club room, Tyler led the ad hoc group through early, game tunes including �Walkin� The Dog� and �Last Child.�

Both the Guitar Hero finals and the Tyler/Kramer performance were part of a charity outcome held by Boston for Africa 2008, which benefited organizations functional to end the cycle of war and impoverishment in many African nations. In addition to deuce Bad Boys of Boston, former Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff �Skunk� Baxter and Dropkick Murphys leader Ken Casey pitched in.

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Kid Rock set for VMA appearance

Scheduled to perform 'All Summer Long'




Kid Rock is returning to the MTV Video Music Awards for another public presentation -- and this time it doesn't involve a fist competitiveness with Tommy Lee.

The rough rocker is slated to perform "All Summer Long" from his latest record album, "Rock 'N Roll Jesus." Though it was released nearly a year agone, it has surged on the Billboard 200, where it is No. 4 this week.

Last year, Kid Rock wasn't a performing artist, but he was involved in one of the ceremony's most-talked-about moments when scuffled with Tommy Lee while they were sitting in the audience. Both were at one clip married to Pamela Anderson, who was also in attendance.

The combat was non shown on camera only provided fodder for jokes from the likes of Diddy and Jamie Foxx.

Rock is the third act confirmed for the VMAs, set for Sept. 7 in Los Angeles. Other performers are Lil Wayne and the Jonas Brothers, though in that respect is a possibility that Britney Spears, whose blear kickoff carrying out at last year's VMAs became ane of 2007's most-talked-about moments, may fall in them.

Born Ruffians, Red Yellow and Blue Album Review

Album review of Red Yellow and Blue by Born Ruffians.

Canadian trio Born Ruffians are part of the impish guitar twirling vanguard at the once all-techno label Warp, alongside amongst others math rockers Battles and new-folk troubadors Grizzly Bear. To those with long memories it must seem like things have finally come full circle; whilst The Klaxons won a Mercury for crossing post punk with the gurgling proto rave that Warp helped james Usher into the mainstream, the arch contrarians are now signing the kind of outfit that flamboyantly sum up their sound in three words - guitar, bass, drums.

Equal parts in thrall to Animal Collective and Pavement, this is the sound of three guys messing around in the upper keys and doing whatever the hell they like. It's also blissfully unaware of conventions; with the left swirl of harmonica, brittle, almost harmonies, choppy opinion and song titles like Foxes Mate for Life it could easily collapse under it's own pretension, but even the yodelling (!) of the excellent In A Mirror is seemingly there simply because it fits.

Given their patrons however, you're always expecting a sting in the tail from Red, Yellow and Blue. There are beguiling moments, most notably the crying chug of Barnacle Goose and the Futureheads soundalike Humming Bird, but vocaliser Luke Lalonde never quite manages to overlay his personality onto proceedings and after a while the anorexic guitars begin to grate. Vampire Weekend and especially MGMT are teleporting the literary genre formerly known as indie to places hardly imagined, which only serves to underline that those leftfield behind - like Born Ruffians - are existence left in a mordant hole.

6/10

Andy Peterson

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Les Ogres De Barback and les hurlements d'leo

   
Artist: Les Ogres De Barback and les hurlements d'leo

   Genre(s): 
Vocal
   

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 Un Air Deux Familles

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12

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Wanted

Cassandra Wilson, Loverly

Cassandra Wilson is best known for singing originals and unusual covers, but standards are where she started. Loverly was produced in a rented house in her Mississippi hometown, with assembled invited musician friends who got down to the business of recording then and there.

It’s impressive to hear the class and character Cassandra has injected into these 20th century songs. With the help of Yoruba percussionist Lekan Babalola she knits West African rhythms into stripped-down arrangements, featuring Lonnie Plaxico (bass), Jason Moran (piano) and Herlin Riley (drums).

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most is a true eye-opener. Cassandra's voice is so deep and resonant it's tangible, and she tells her story of loneliness backed only by Marvin Sewell's silvery acoustic guitar. He reappears playing ethereal slide guitar on Black Orpheus, supported by Cuban-sounding percussion and piano, under Cassandra's whispered, desolate vocals.

The Very Thought of You, a sublime duet with guest bassist Reginald Veal, features a rhythmic solo and sinuous vocals, but Wouldn’t It Be Loverly is a strange choice. It's polished off skilfully enough, but lacks the spark of originality of other songs on the album.

It is the up-tempo tracks that succeed in turning sparks to flame here. A traddish version of Lover Come Back To Me smears Cassandra's mellifluous vocals across Jason Moran’s wild piano playing and Arere, the only original on the album, is a frenetic fusion of unstoppable, cascading rhythms. On Caravan too, hectic percussion tumbles over jumbled piano and guitar, with Cassandra's voice at the other side of the room one moment and eerily close the next.

The Mississippi house feels so much a part of this recording that it deserves to be credited on the sleeve. Cassandra sounds as though she heads to the kitchen in Caravan, then pops out of the bathroom in The Very Thought of You, before looming up close and husky. The occasional word with the band, a slightly off-key entry to a chorus and the laugh that follows it are all left in the mix, making this recording so relaxed and personal that it feels like a live set in your own living room. And wouldn’t that be loverly?

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Vienna State Opera says conductor Seiji Ozawa out with back injury

VIENNA, Austria - The Vienna State Opera says music director Seiji Ozawa is out for five weeks with a back injury.

The prestigious opera house says Ozawa has cancelled all of his June dates there, as well as a concert that he had planned to conduct Thursday evening at Vienna's Musikverein. The opera house issued a statement Monday saying only that Ozawa needed rest after suffering an injury to a vertebra in his back.

It said conductor Andris Nelsons of Germany's Herford Philharmonic would fill in for Ozawa.

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