Tuesday, February 28, 2012

pretty mery k e.g. Bielefeld and Münster

So, I can well imagine, spend time with the music of "pretty mery k" from Dresden / Hamburg, a beautiful evening. So I got the dates "31.03. Bielefeld-verve "and" 07.03. Münster-particle accelerators and "once flagged. I hope you can do something with it. A hearing impression, I hereby:

More on: http://soundcloud.com/merykilic

The tour dates are full of indie pop band it below:

28.02. Dresden-Societätstheater (RELEASE CONCERT)
29.02. Hildesheim Club VEB
01.03. Hall-Brohmer
02.03. in Leipzig, Horns Erben
03.03. studies in Eberswalde-Club
04.03. private club in Berlin
07.03. Münster-particle accelerators and
08.03. Prince Willy, Kiel
09.03. Blue Angel in Lübeck
10.03. in Hamburg, Grüner Jäger
29.03. Bochum-Ebstein
30.03. Free theater in Düsseldorf forum / Friday Club
31.03. Bielefeld-Verve
01.04. Cologne Theatre of Living Community
02.04. tba
03.04. Stuttgart-Zwölfzehn
04.04. in Strasbourg (F) - Mudd Club
05.04. Freiburg-White Rabbit
06.04. Mannheim-Mohawk
07.04. in farm-art department store

Monday, February 27, 2012

BRAD, the band Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam), will debut album in April

BRAD, the band that make Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam), Shawn Smith, Regan Hagar (Malfunkshun) and Keith Lowe (Fiona Apple), is back in action. In fact it has been the same, through the label Razor & Tie, who has been commissioned to announce the release of "United We Stand", fifth studio album the band will go on sale officially on 24 April 2012.

"After 20 years together, the camaraderie of Brad remains intact. I can not be more excited to release something, "- commented the guitarist from Seattle. "We have been a year and a half working on the creation of" United We Stand. "On this album we went through all the stops, we approach all types of rhythms and riffs all explosives. We are in this "bad boy" - referring to the group - for people that takes us along in a while. So be prepared. "

One project that began around 1992 as merely casual has run lasting more than 98% of the bands that prevail in the international arena. Besides the good vibes that still remain between Gossard, Shawn and the other members, it is curious that members of Brad have managed to produce a LP in a matter of a couple of years. We recall that to record "Best Friends?" Americans took eight long years so it is the less surprising to see how they have reduced both the production time.

Do you want to hear what new Brad? Who of you wear following this Stone Gossard side project?

Thursday, February 23, 2012

ODD FUTURE TALK - Unreleased Vol.4 FREE MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD

"The wait is finally over. For the past two months, TascamVillain, itzmurda, BlackJesusKTA alsweatshirt, Keith sweatshirt and-GJ-have all been hard at work striving to deliver a worthy follow-up to Unreleased Volume 3 It was not easy , nor was it an overnight success.
But in result of our combined Effort, dedication and some help from Skoolie Three Hundred and the Creative Bunch collective, we feel we've been able to meet that goal. CBFR OFT and are proud to present to you all, the latest installment in our series Unreleased. Make sure to download Mushroom Jack's debut album, OneUp.
So, be on the lookout for Skoolie's upcoming album "Flight 91," which will feature an appearance from Jasper Dolphin. "

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wave Doodle for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Before now little more than a week the search giant Google has unveiled its Graphics for Valentine's Day. Today, the search engine presents a wave-Doodle in honor of the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. On display here is a wave that meanders emblematic of the individual letters of the Google logo. But let us proceed to the compulsory introduction of the biography.
155th Birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Google Doodle the 155th Birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Heinrich Hertz was born on 22 Born in Hamburg in February 1857 as the first of five children of Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, lawyers and Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, the daughter of a doctor's garrison. In 1886 he married Elizabeth Doll with whom he had two daughters.

Hertz graduated from school in Hamburg, after which he then applied in a design office in Frankfurt am Main to study engineering. Later he began after a year of military service at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to study mathematics and physics. But shortly thereafter he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Hertz died at a young age after two years of suffering from Wegener's granulomatosis with only 36 years (1 January 1894 in Bonn).

Monday, February 20, 2012

Last-minute panel: the woolly Pappnase.

Party posters and invitations to every corner ball, masked contemporaries inclined costumes, streamers and confetti - which can not be to everyone's heart beat faster. Those who still bow to peer pressure, and visit one of these festivals must we suggest this simple but effective costumes: The Pappnase!
Worked on the original designs women's version, of course - has the advantage that it is not the olfactory organ in the Rose Monday parade abfriert. It is made ​​quickly, and very flattering on top of that woolly-soft.
How are you, Hermione shows you here:

Basically dressing makes fun of dipping into past times and the imagination can run wild when putting together a costume, take on different roles and pranks. If that is associated with Carnival but it is too colorful for some way one can devote more tranquil side of the costume: Until the end of February shows the Bavarian State Library exhibition Masquerade - clothing and disguise in the 19th Century with numerous motifs from old fashion magazines and costume books.

Bavarian State Library,
Floor area to the reading room music, maps and images, 1 floor
Ludwigstr. 16, 80539 Munich
U3/U6, bus 154, get off at University

Thursday, February 16, 2012

A German lesson of the unusual nature

Lecture: "girl thing! Women in the neo-Nazi scene "

In the Munich Literature House goes to the journalist Andrea Röpkeden the actual reasons of membership of young women at the NPD. With her ​​book "girl thing" and the movie "Brown comrade" it gives a look behind the scenes of an extreme right-wing parallel world, playing in more and more young women are very supportive. In the reading and subsequent discussion with Dr. Hans-Jochen Vogel as well as a dropout from the neo-Nazi scene, insiders will present the NPD DEFINITIONS scene for the audience, so that light is brought into the darkness of various terms and their meanings.

Chair: Amelie Fried.

On Thursday, Feburary 16 at 20:00 clock in the Munich Literature House

15.-/erm cards to. 10 - €

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Free and very good: The Darcy's covers album "Aja" by Steely Dan

Steely Dan - Aja (cover) include Steely Dan, the one or other of my readers know, one of my favorite bands. Their blend of rock, pop, funk, R & B and jazz in the seventies was a fairly own story. The seven studio albums, the first and most important phase of 1972-80 Band Can not Buy a Thrill (1972), Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974), Katy Lied (1975), The Royal Scam (1976), Aja ( 1977) and Gaucho (1980) are among the best (and best produced) albums of the decade and still sound absolutely perfect. And even though Steely Dan was in some ways deeply rooted in the musical culture of the 1970s, their music sounds absolutely timeless, even after over 30 years.

Among these seven great albums stands the six-album Aja (pronounced like English "Asia")) out again. Seven perfect songs, perfectly arranged and produced, recorded by some of the best musicians who were active at that time (including Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Steve Gadd, Jim Keltner and Wayne Shorter). Can you Sun covers a stroke of genius? Can we ever in a reasonable manner or you are not automatically the ridicule and the wild protests award of the fans?

Aja interpreted by The DarcysNun, the Canadian band The Darcys has done just that: You have covered the entire album in which they are the seven songs on the album (1st Black Cow, Aja 2nd, 3rd Deacon Blues, Peg 4th, 5 . Home at Last, 6 I Got the News, 7 Josie) entjazzt, entfunkt, entpopt and they have put into a contemporary rock sound image. Without the groove, the rhythm section with strong jazz irresistible appeal of the original and at the same time without really add much to the arrangements they have illuminated the rock classics from scratch. The result is surprising: surprisingly good and surprisingly dark and moody, almost a little as if Radiohead would be dealt with in the depths of Canadian winter Steely Dan. Instead of trying to Steely Dan.Sound-copy (and thus fail to grandiose, The Darcys have gained from the album is a page that would have hardly have expected someone to the songs.

On the website there is also the same way, highly recommended debut album with the Darcy's own compositions, also as a free download. Who wants to support the band can also order the lossless audio files, or the respective outputs of the two vinyl albums. In Porto CDs much cheaper but there are not (yet).

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

It rocked!

And how! Because the guys at Marsh Melones have properly on the box. Last Saturday, they have also proved. With plenty of good humor, they have been heated in the public works powerfully. For die-hard hardcore fans stood at the football game Saturday night live music on the program. You are well aware, as the stage is set to rock. Even small deposits show brought the audience to run around. Not only with good music, the band scored their fans, but also with very good sense of humor and sympathy.

They were supported by the Munich-based hardcore bands Skies Collapse, Gravity Lost and Pathways.

Describes the evening with a short sentence:

With best friends to be here and party just right!
- Vocals, Kle.

Awesome!
- Guitar + programming, Jan.

I love glow sticks.
- Guitar, Chris.

I

The best and finest release ever offered!
- Drums, Flo.

Better than I thought.
- Bass + vocals, Bini.

Hot party with light effects like Star Wars!
- Producers of "smile and the" Aaron.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Bondage Fairies - Nintendo Wonderland

Honestly, I do not know why I have the Swedish band Bondage Fairies ignored for so many years. Probably because they are closer to the beginning of their career, the self-ascribed style "Nintendo-death-punk" still some way stood as her latest disc, "Bondage Fairies" where they sound more pop than ever and in the Bermuda Triangle wave: globe move Melody Club and Blink 182. Snappy, melodic, fun electro pop with guitars that offer us the guys there. Extremely entertaining and for me ever an early highlight 2012th The video for "1-0" was the way in Hamburg, among others in evil and dangerous, shot.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Career Fair Stuzubi in the event arena in Olympic Park

The Career Fair takes place in the event Stuzubi arena in the Olympic Park in Munich instead of finishing high school and still not quite sure how we go from here now? Study? Or training? Or even both at once? Many students of high school classes until the very end, not for what you should opt for the school. At this point provides the career fair Stuzubi, under the motto "a student or trainee soon" support. On Saturday 04/02/2012 Stuzubi the place for the sixth time in the event arena in Olympic Park in Munich.

Exhibitors are renowned universities like the University of Munich, Augsburg and Munich universities, colleges and various companies (includes Siemens, Audi, EADS, German Bank, Munich Re and the City of Munich).

The expanding career fair Stuzubi added since 2007, both career-Magazine "abiQ" and "5vor12 - Time to Apply". The Stuzubi offers high school graduates and technical school graduates the opportunity to spot potential employers and / or university studies on representatives to inform academic studies or vocational training.

Find out about the many professional and academic opportunities that opens up your degree and establish important contacts that could affect your future crucial!

Visit also the Stuzubi on 02.04.2012 in the event arena in Olympic Park in Munich. The team from Munich blog expresses to all who are in search of new perspectives fingers crossed!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Star Legends - The show of the megastars at the Deutsches Theater

The German Theatre Munich presents StarlegendenAm 08th on 02.09.2012 and is in the Deutsches Theater in Munich two ideas the chance to experience real star legends live. For "Star Legends - The show of the mega-stars" the greatest hits together of Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong together on one stage. It is "the authenticity of the copies [...] amazing," says the Times. And the Berliner Kurier praised the show and raves about her in glowing terms as "absolute heaven". It supports the four legends of show business from the Munich Swinging Jazz Ensemble Big Band. The event is presented by the moderator Patricia Leeb.

The unique guest appearance 'Star Legends "brings not only four of the biggest names in music history to the stage, but it also creates a" vision of a perfect illusion. " This means the world - and have to be right, for the four doubles on perfect facial expressions, gestures and singing or playing the trumpet. When sung "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend", you'd think actually, Marilyn Monroe would be in person on stage. The same feeling one has also to Sinatra, Martin and Armstrong. Their most famous hits each, "My Way," "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes" and "Wonderful World" at this show may not be missing.

Such a startling illusion would be without the doppelganger of course not possible, so we want to introduce them individually.
Marilyn Monroe - Suzie Kennedy

Suzie Kennedy as Marilyn Monroe in the show Star Legend blonde, sexy, full of radiant charm and that men's hearts beguiling shot Navivität - that was Marilyn Monroe for your generation to dream woman, and like no other star of that glamorous era, it is still true today. Marilyn lives in our memories and is once again on the stage magic of Suzie Kennedy. The British actress and singer already slipped on many big stages around the world to the enchanting 'skin' of Monroe, and confirmed the enthusiasm of the audience: Suzie Kennedy may allow what few fans of Marilyn: The idol again embody our dreams. Not only looks and voice are almost identical, there is this unmistakable aura that brings us back to the idol. Kennedy already doubled as Marilyn Monroe for movies, TV shows and TV commercials. Among other things, she starred in the comedy film "Me and Marilyn."
Louis Armstrong - Shenton Dixon

Shenton Dixon comes from the English Midlands, in Leicester and grew up as the eldest of five children in a strict religious family, but also musical. In 1989, he offers to Rob Bettison, director of the Buddy Holly Story, a permanent position in the musical team of London's Apollo Theatre. The producers are so impressed by his performance that they extend Shentons part in the musical with Paul Shenton and jury, then music director, among other things, to bring out the song "Gonna Party On." During his time at the Buddy Holly Story Shenton developed a penchant for imitating various soul legends and is now in the UK as the first choice when it comes to doublen by Stevie Wonder, George Benson and Barry White. In addition, he makes a name for himself with the show "The King Is Black", a tribute to Elvis Presley. Finally, he specializes in the role of Louis Armstrong and enters into the 'skin' even Agatha Christie's thriller film "At Bertram's Hotel" on.
Dean Martin - Andy Dimino

He is the entertainer in the blood, just like his idol. Since his childhood, Andy Dimino is on stage and honored the legendary Dean Martin, whose shows he watched on television as a boy already secretly at night. Shortly after leaving school he moved to the artist in the capital of entertainment to Las Vegas. He worked not only as an entertainer and singer, but also earned his living as an actor. He appeared in TV commercials and turned, among other things with Jay Leno, with Kenny Rogers. But soon he was in Las Vegas, the role of his life, the depiction of the charismatic Dean Martin. For five years he worked for one to get perfect to Martin on the stage. In many shows, including "The Tribute to Frank, Sammy, Joey and Dean" He was a member of the legendary Pack'auf 'advice. A particularly moving moment in his career was a performance at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, as Gail Martin Downey, daughter of Dean Martin, and sat in the audience cheered him after his appearance.
Frank Sinatra - Christoph Schobesberger

From 1964 to 1968 was Schobesberger member of the Vienna Boys Choir before 1972 he studied voice at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, recorded, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. At the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar Christoph received his acting training Schobesberger. After his training was initially hired Schobesberger including the National Theatre in Vienna, the Duesseldorf Chamber of play, the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich and the theaters of the West in Berlin, before he got more film and television engagements in Germany. He gained fame in particular in the role of Dr. Stein in the upper Arzts Sat.1 series "Judging Stefanie". His musical side he showed in evening concerts and readings about Frank Sinatra and George Gershwin, Mozart and Johann Strauss in programs, as well as in his own solo programs.

Come and visit "Star Legends - The show of superstars" on 08 09.02.2012 and the Deutsches Theater in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

International Crafts Fair at the New Munich Trade Fair

The IHM is 2012 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre stattWas a hip restaurant with no individual timber top tables of joiners that? As architecturally notable office building with no windows were custom-designed look of glasses? At the International Fair of 14 to 20 March 2012 will be "planned + designed" examples of successful cooperation between craftsmen and architects / interior designers with the first prize - and honored with an exhibition.

The prize is awarded by the Society for craft fairs GHM Ltd., for more than 60 years, organizer of the International Trade Fair. The competition is supported by the Chamber of Trade for Munich and Upper Bavaria, the Bavarian of Crafts and the Confederation of German Trade and the Bavarian Chamber of Architects and the Association of German Interior Architects (BDIA).

"The award aims to promote the excellent combination of craftsmen and designers and honor," said Dieter Dohr, CEO of GHM. "At the same time, the price move, the team work of craftsmen and architect more into the public spotlight. Only a successful collaboration in planning, coordination and construction leads to real excellence. "

The award ceremony will take place on Thursday 15 March 2012, during the evening of the event 'Craft & Design "at the International Trade Fair. The winning projects are also presented during the exhibition period on a separate area in Hall A1.

The international trade fair is the largest exhibition of crafts in Germany. It exists since 1949 and is held every year in March at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. More than 1,000 exhibitors from some 60 trades provide households, businesses and public authorities a comprehensive view of performance, quality and innovation of the craft. The exhibition includes a plurality of power supply and special shows where artisans from many countries, current issues, new products and outstanding work-lowing. For more information, visit www.ihm.de.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Mozart, Vivaldi and the more melodic Romantics - Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky - can be called "right-siders."

Coliseum, Barbican, London

Courtesy of a premium 0871 phone number, I heard the entire first movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto last week when trying to buy a mattress. After enjoying the well played cadenza and the rousing recapitulation, I put the phone down, Malthus Abandoning the costly purchase but having spent a good few pounds anyway on hearing a tinny reproduction of the work I have at least three versions of one CD.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that this noble work is one of the most popular "on hold" hook and choices to soothe the impatient caller - especially, you might say, if they happen to be a music critic and pathologically incapable of leaving Therefore before the end. Conversely, there's a Particular brand of Latin drumming Which high-street banks are said to favor specifically to steer customers grumbling off the phone and online fast. Beware.

Cognitive neuroscientists know enough about how the brain works to give some inkling as to why we respond to music as we do. Given my own gullibility phone, followed by an extreme but unexpected response to ENO's astonishing revival of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, I was struck anew by the oddities and habits of our listening. Broadly - and experts will yelp at the generalization - the right hemisphere, concerned with spatial awareness and emotions, is stimulated by concordant, tuneful sounds, or repetitions with subtle variants. That translates as the harmonious intervals of thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths, or the familiar structures of a baroque concerto or a classical symphony.

So Mozart, Vivaldi and the more melodic Romantics - Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky - can be called "right-siders." These are the favored composers for music in shops, hotel lobbies and more recently at bus shelters and tube stations ("Music to deter yobs with", as the playlist might define it). On a quite different but equally experimental basis, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment chose right-side trading and Purcell, plus pork scratchings, for their east London pub crawl last week.

The left hemisphere - associated with language, mathematics and reasoning - responds to instead dissonances and asymmetry, to Schoenberg or Boulez. Scientists have suggested that learning music may sharpen your "left" skills. It may in part explain why tricky music Tends to be enjoyed mainly by those with greater musical expertise. It's not just the shock of the new. Other kinds of modern music reach wide audiences: think of John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Influenced by the intuitions and spirituality of Eastern music, and using repetition as a key tool, they speak to the brain's other side: the crucible of religious, sensual, emotional feelings.

Some years ago a neuro-scientist (Dr Steven Brown, now based in Canada) Carried out brain scans Which matched this division: well defined blobs showed on the left side, switching to the right when charmed by the reassurance of Rossini. Instead another work, Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs stirring showed, in evenly balanced response, as if the gusts of Romanticism had been tempered by the use of words.

Crass though these generalizations may be, they all helped when thinking about Der Rosenkavalier. David McVicar's overblown production, first seen at Scottish Opera in 2006 and ENO in 2008, has struck me variously as clotted, and cloying. Whether because of the superb singers - previous casts have been good, too - or because of some weird goings on deep in my limbic system, the first-night performance was overwhelming. I'm talking gibbering wreck.

The opening bars crash like an enormous breaking wave, propelling you violently into the hot intimacy of the Marschallin's bedroom. She has been delighting in the pleasures of her young lover, Octavian (Sarah Connolly). Amanda Roocroft's Marschallin, confronting the end of youth - as well she might, she's about 28 - was wonderfully magnanimous in pointing towards Octavian offered by the fresh love of Sophie Faninal (a bewitching, spirited Sophie Bevan). All three explored the full intelligence of Hofmannstahl's libretto wise, Which culminates in the celebrated last-act trio. Edward Gardner, conducting, chose a brisk tempo and expedited the entire opera at top speed while breastfeeding Allowing the music to breathe.

It was not played as comedy. John Tomlinson's Ochs, lampooned the bachelor who can not be so grotesque, was dark and disturbing. Equally, Andrew Shore's Faninal, the rich parvenu trying to marry off his beloved daughter, was credible in his shame when all goes wrong. The inquisitive footmen and nasty troublemakers Valzacchi Annina and reminded one of the difficulty of attempting any private life in a household full of staff: a downside of wealth. Yes there were vocal frailties, but the vigor of Gardner's reading, the magnificence of the orchestra and the subtle anguish of the drama make this a must see.

The union of spirituality and finely wrought argument in the music of Jonathan Harvey (b 1939) could therefore be said to appeal equally to head and heart. His deep interest in Buddhism matched with a brilliant use of electronics, developed at Boulez's IRCAM Parisian research institute in the 1980s, makes his a singular, distinctive voice in contemporary music. The Barbican's Total Immersion weekend included the UK premiere of Wagner Dream, opera in Wagner's own exploring fascination with Buddhism and to dream imagined at the end of his life. Clangorous, glistening electronics swirled around the orchestral ensemble, set all against Jean-Claude Carrière's often incantatory text. Distant Wagnerian harmonies are fractured, and splayed as reimagined through to aural prism.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins played beautifully, with a cast led by committed Claire Booth, Simon Bailey and Nicholas Le Prevost as the actor Wagner. One hearing was only a first step towards understanding. Fortunately WNO is staging it in 2013. As Harvey once remarked, he has the feeling that "there's some new type of music hovering above the horizon, which i can very fleetingly glimpse now and then, and Which does not seem like a change of consciousness." He is too modest to say it is the very music he himself has come to write.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

X Factor winner David Pepper live in the backstage hall

David Pepper may come as part of his first trip to Munich German Chand wait, his great love, the music, to make a career. David Pepper, winner of the X-Factor Season In 2011, shortly before his first tour of Germany, during which he will be on 09.02.2012 in Munich, more precisely in the backstage hall, make a stop. The police officer is on leave has been on X Factor with his sensitive voice, true feeling and a unique style captured the hearts of viewers and has firmly established itself against top-class competition - even though David talent shows actually more skeptical about.

The 29-year-old Duisburg authenticity is sacred, and when he was alerted because of a few YouTube videos on the show, he asked himself seriously whether he was the guy for it at all. Fortunately, he has tried it yet! That this experiment would end in a triumph, he would not even have imagined in his wildest moments. With its understated, serious kind and correct amount of talent convinced David not only mentor Till Bronner, but also the jury and the spectators.

Meanwhile, David has got a bit of distance from the show and reflects: "The nice thing is that Till and I were always the same view: the experience at X Factor are very intense - it is important to preserve its essence here. I think that's what I did. "Presumably, the fact that David has done for years even before the show with his band Inpaticular music, the anchor to which his character can align again. "Music is being made not because of a TV show. It can be a great springboard, but not the goal. I enjoy the media attention, but I remain of David, which I also had previously. "

At X Factor anthems from Coldplay, David on The Police to Adele made her own. His stated goal to bring to the public without excessive low-key emotions close, succeeded him weeks to week. "I admire artists like Damien Rice and William Fitzsimmons, who has made a whole album about breakups. The others may find one side, but I like something. Impresses me personally much more to be as technically savvy. "

After his victory in the final, David Pepper now pleased to continue to make music and to carry them into the world. One of the stops on this trip is his concert on 09.02.2012 in the Backstage in Munich.