YOGYAKARTA- A Mild Live Soundrenaline 2008, event musik terbesar di Tanah Air, membuat gebrakan baru dengan mengambil tempat di kompleks Candi Prambanan. Tak tanggung-tanggung, 42 grup band dari dalam dan luar negeri bakal unjuk kebolehan sepanjang Minggu (10/8), siang hingga malam.
Di antara band yang tampil adalah Ungu, Nidji, Peterpan, Sheila on 7, Cokelat, 3 Di va, Samsons, GIGI, Bunga Citra Lestari, dan Jikustik. Selain mereka, ada Club 80'S, D'Masif, Audy, Java Jive, J-Rock, Cangcutter, Letto, PAS, Naif, Afgan, Matta, Mulan Jameela, Dewi-Dewi, Naff, serta Andra & The Backbone. Sedangkan grup luar negeri antara lain Skid Row, Crowned King, Dearest, dan Saw Losser,
Area candi akan dikonsep berbeda, dan membahana dengan dukungan sound system 400.000 watt, dan lightning 450.000 watt. Disediakan juga empat panggung dengan layar raksasa.
Yang unik, event ini juga diisi camping semalam bersama sejumlah artis pengisi acara. Tonny Darrusman, selaku Branch Manager A Mild dalam jumpa pers di Quality Hotel, Sabtu (9/8) mengatakan, artis dan 500 fans yang terpilih akan bermalam bersama.
(Lukas Adi Prasetya)
Minggu, 10 Agustus 2008
Baron' Soulmates Band Emoh Disamakan GIGI
JAKARTA -- Baron' Soulmates Band, grup yang dibentuk Aria Baron Suprayogi (Baron), mantan personel dan pendiri grup Band GIGI, merilis album terbarunya, Flying High. Album tersebut, kata Baron, mengusung genre musik pop modern rock. "Gua pilih hits yang lebih nge'rock (Sumpah Mati-Red) di album ini. Karena, kata produser gua, kalau yang slow kasihan image guenya," tutur di sela peluncuran albumnya tersebut di Pisa Cafe Menteng, Jakarta Pusat, Jumat (8/8). Diakui musisi yang pernah kuliah S2 di New York of Institute Technologi itu, warna musik yang disodorkan di album barunya tersebut memang bukan sesuatu yang baru, namun ia berharap bisa memberikan kesegaran dalam menambah khazanah musik Tanah Air. Ia juga tak menampik hasratnya untuk kembali mengusung rock, lebih karena pasar mulai dinina-bobokan dengan musik yang mendayu-dayu. "Kalau dilihat dari kaum marjinal, kaum buruh sekarang sudah kembali dengerin musik dangdut lagi. Nah, kita ingin memberikan penyegaran lagi," terangnya.Ia pun optimis album pertamanya ini bakal diterima pasar. "Kalau dibandingkan dengan GIGI yang sekarang, jelas beda, tapi kalau GIGI yang dulu masih ada sedikit kesamaan dalam warna musik," papar Baron disinggung soal adanya pengaruh GIGI dalam albumnya tersebut. Dalam kesempatan itu, Baron juga sesumbar bahwa Baron' Soulmate Band, band yang dirintisnya sejak setahun ke belakang itu bersama Ary dan Jimmy, akan menjadi pelabuhannya terakhir. "Gue nggak mungkin keluar karena band ini pakai nama gue," ucapnya. (C-06).
Album Perpisahan Peterpan
Akhirnya sampai juga Peterpan di ujung usia. Setelah berkarya selama delapan tahun, band asal Bandung ini akhirnya memutuskan untuk nggak lanjut.
Bubar?
Nggak juga. Band yang sekarang diperkuat Ariel (vokal), Lukman (gitar), Ukie (gitar), dan Reza (drum) memilih untuk berhenti menggunakan nama Peterpan. Di album selanjutnya, mereka bakal menggunakan nama baru.
Sebagai kado perpisahan, album The Best bertajuk Sebuah Nama, Sebuah Cerita dilepas ke pasaran. Album inilah yang di-launch di Kafe XXI, Jl. Thamrin, Jakpus, Jumat (8/8) sore.
Album ini jadi spesial karena berisikan 22 lagu. Total 4 lagu baru, termasuk sebuah cover version lagu Chrisye termuat di sana. Sisanya, 18 lagu lama yang sempat jadi hit di banyak radio di seluruh Indonesia.
"Album ini spesial kami buat untuk Sahabat Peterpan di seluruh Indonesia. Desainnya pun spesial dengan harga yang nggak mahal. Semoga bisa jadi kenang-kenangan manis buat semuanya," bilang Ariel, sambil tersenyum.
Lantas, ke depannya gimana, Riel? Apa bakal berubah total?
"Kami nggak janji. Karena kami sebenarnya udah punya warna khas yang dikenali. Ini berkah sekaligus kutukan. Jadi, kalo harus berubah total ya susah juga," bilang cowok bernama lengkap Nazriel Irham itu, serius.
Di acara ini, Peterpan sempat manggung juga memamerkan lagu-lagu barunya. Selain itu, mereka juga mengumumkan rencana mereka untuk menggelar world tour yang bakal berlangsung di paruh akhir 2008 sampai paruh awal 2009. Denger-denger sih, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, dan beberapa kota di Amrik bakal jadi tujuan.
Sukses terus deh, jack!(ryo)
Bubar?
Nggak juga. Band yang sekarang diperkuat Ariel (vokal), Lukman (gitar), Ukie (gitar), dan Reza (drum) memilih untuk berhenti menggunakan nama Peterpan. Di album selanjutnya, mereka bakal menggunakan nama baru.
Sebagai kado perpisahan, album The Best bertajuk Sebuah Nama, Sebuah Cerita dilepas ke pasaran. Album inilah yang di-launch di Kafe XXI, Jl. Thamrin, Jakpus, Jumat (8/8) sore.
Album ini jadi spesial karena berisikan 22 lagu. Total 4 lagu baru, termasuk sebuah cover version lagu Chrisye termuat di sana. Sisanya, 18 lagu lama yang sempat jadi hit di banyak radio di seluruh Indonesia.
"Album ini spesial kami buat untuk Sahabat Peterpan di seluruh Indonesia. Desainnya pun spesial dengan harga yang nggak mahal. Semoga bisa jadi kenang-kenangan manis buat semuanya," bilang Ariel, sambil tersenyum.
Lantas, ke depannya gimana, Riel? Apa bakal berubah total?
"Kami nggak janji. Karena kami sebenarnya udah punya warna khas yang dikenali. Ini berkah sekaligus kutukan. Jadi, kalo harus berubah total ya susah juga," bilang cowok bernama lengkap Nazriel Irham itu, serius.
Di acara ini, Peterpan sempat manggung juga memamerkan lagu-lagu barunya. Selain itu, mereka juga mengumumkan rencana mereka untuk menggelar world tour yang bakal berlangsung di paruh akhir 2008 sampai paruh awal 2009. Denger-denger sih, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, dan beberapa kota di Amrik bakal jadi tujuan.
Sukses terus deh, jack!(ryo)
Candil Undur Diri dari Seurieus?
JAKARTA- Vokalis Seurieus, Dian Dipa Chandra atau lebih akrab disapa Candil, dikabarkan berniat mengundurkan diri dari band yang telah membesarkan namanya itu. Disebut-sebut, kesibukannya di dunia akting yang kini tengah dijajalnya menjadi alasan ia memilih undur diri. Ia pun dikabarkan tengah dipersiapkan pihak Musica untuk berkarier solo. Benarkah kabar itu? Pihak Seurieus menampik kabar tersebut. Menurut Ridan, manajer grup yang dibentuk akhir 1994 itu, kabar tesebut tidaklah benar. "Sampai saat ini Seurieus masih dalam formasi selama ini. Seurieus masih baik-baik saja, bahkan masih melakukan promosi album terbaru mereka, Serdadu Rock" katanya.Meski demikian, Ridan tak menampik bahwa Candil belakangan ini, selain sibuk dengan promosi album baru itu, juga asyik dengan kegiatannya di dunia akting. "Mungkin karena Candil sering terlibat syuting dengan sejumlah rumah produksi, jadi terkesan ia tidak bersama-sama lagi," urainya sembari menambahkan bahwa Candil akan menjalani syuting film layar lebar yang lain lagi. (C-01)
Sheila Marcia Tertangkap Basah Pesta Shabu
Jakarta Satu lagi artis ibukota tertangkap basah sedang berpesta narkoba. Bintang sinetron dan film Sheila Marcia Kamis lalu (7/8/2008) tertangkap basah bersama rekan laki-lakinya lagi pesta Shabu."Sheila Marcia sudah kita jadikan tersangka dalam kasus ini," jawab Kapolsek Penjaringan Kompol Asep Adisaputra saat ditanya oleh detikhot soal kasus tertangkapnya Shelia Marcia lewat telefon selularnya Sabtu Malam (9/8/2008).Menurut Kompol Asep Adisaputra, Sheila Marcia tertangkap bersama satu rekan prianya di salah satu kondominium di Pluit, Jakarta Utara.Bintang Film 'Kereta Hantu Manggarai' itu tampaknya harus mengurungkan niatnya untuk untuk dapat segera menikah dengan Roger Danuarta karena ia harus mendapat ganjaran hukum atas ulahnya itu.
Sheila Marcia tertangkap bersama dua teman perempuan dan satu laki-laki ketika sedang berpesta shabu. Walau identitas teman Sheila tersebut masih dirahasiakan, polisi memastikan Roger Danuarta tak terlibat dalam penangkapan itu."Roger nggak ada di situ, yang ada kan AY. Dari inisialnya aja udah beda," ucap Kapolsek Penjaringan Kompol Asep Adisaputra saat ditanya keterlibatan Roger Danuarta oleh detikhot lewat telepon selulernya Sabtu Malam (9/8/2008).Ketika terjadi penangkapan bintang film 'Hantu Jeruk Purut' itu sedang pesta shabu bersama teman laki-lakinya yang berinisial AY dan dua teman perempuannya. AY tak lain adalah pemilik dari apartemen yang menjadi venue pesta barang haram tersebut.Menurut keterangan Kapolsek penjaringan,Kompol Asep Adisaputra, ketika ditemui di Polsek Penjaringan, Sabtu (9/8/2008) malam, terdapat sepuluh orang yang diciduk dalam pesta shabu di apartemen golden sky pluit tersebut. Namun hanya enam yang menjadi tersangka salah satunya termasuk Sheila Marcia. Dalam penggerebekan tersebut polisi menemukan total 6 gram shabu. Dari tangan Sheila Marcia, polisi mengamankan paket shabu seberat 0,2 gram. Dimanakah keberadaan Roger saat itu?
Apartemen Golden Sky, Pluit yang menjadi lokasi penangkapan Sheila Marcia ternyata sudah menjadi incaran polisi. Polisi menggerebek tempat tersebut atas informasi masyarakat. "Kita mengungkap dari masyarakat, setelah diadakan penyelidikan beberapa tempat yang kami curigai. Tempat tersebut adalah apartemen dan kos-kosan," ujar Kapolsek Penjaringan, Asep Adisaputra kepada wartawan di Polsek Penjaringan, Sabtu (9/8/2008). Dalam penggerebekan, Kamis (7/8/2008) sekitar pukul 21.00 tersebut polisi mengamankan sepuluh orang. Tapi setelah pemeriksaan lebih lanjut, hanya enam yang dijadikan tersangka.Barang bukti 6 gram shabu tidak semua berasal dari tempat Sheila dan AY. Barang bukti 6 gram shabu adalah gabungan dari penangkapan di satu tempat lainnya di apartemen yang sama. Polisi mengaku sudah menghubungi keluarga dan kerabat aktris yang kerap berpakaian seksi itu. Tapi hingga kini belum terlihat ada pihak keluarga atau kerabat yang menjenguk di Polres Penjaringan.
Artis muda Sheila Marcia mengaku menyesal telah mengkonsumsi narkoba jenis Shabu. Hal ini ia uangkapkan kepada Rolf, keluarga ayah Sheila.Rolf datang seorang diri untuk lihat keadaan dara kelahiran 3 September 1989 itu. Sekitar 5 menit Rolf masuk kedalam sel tahanan menemui Sheila. Ia pun mengaku sekalian mengambil pakaian kotor keponakannya itu."Sekarang kondisinya sehat, nggak apa-apa. Udah Stabil, nggak batuk-batuk lagi. Dia mengungkapkan penyesalannya. Saya belum bisa ngomong banyak sama dia," ujar Rolf sesaat setelah melihat keadaan Sheila di sel tahanan wanita Polres Jakarta Utara, Minggu (10/8/2008).Orangtua bintang 'Kereta Hantu Manggarai' itu yang berencana datang menjenguk hari ini ternyata batal. Alasannya, keluarga Sheila saai ini masih menetap di Pulau Dewata, Bali. "Pesawatnya susah," lanjut Rolf.Kalau tak ada halangan, katanya, esok mereka akan menjenguk anaknya. Mengenai waktunya, Rolf belum bisa ditentukan. "Mungkin besok, pasti," ungkapnya.
Sheila Marcia tertangkap bersama dua teman perempuan dan satu laki-laki ketika sedang berpesta shabu. Walau identitas teman Sheila tersebut masih dirahasiakan, polisi memastikan Roger Danuarta tak terlibat dalam penangkapan itu."Roger nggak ada di situ, yang ada kan AY. Dari inisialnya aja udah beda," ucap Kapolsek Penjaringan Kompol Asep Adisaputra saat ditanya keterlibatan Roger Danuarta oleh detikhot lewat telepon selulernya Sabtu Malam (9/8/2008).Ketika terjadi penangkapan bintang film 'Hantu Jeruk Purut' itu sedang pesta shabu bersama teman laki-lakinya yang berinisial AY dan dua teman perempuannya. AY tak lain adalah pemilik dari apartemen yang menjadi venue pesta barang haram tersebut.Menurut keterangan Kapolsek penjaringan,Kompol Asep Adisaputra, ketika ditemui di Polsek Penjaringan, Sabtu (9/8/2008) malam, terdapat sepuluh orang yang diciduk dalam pesta shabu di apartemen golden sky pluit tersebut. Namun hanya enam yang menjadi tersangka salah satunya termasuk Sheila Marcia. Dalam penggerebekan tersebut polisi menemukan total 6 gram shabu. Dari tangan Sheila Marcia, polisi mengamankan paket shabu seberat 0,2 gram. Dimanakah keberadaan Roger saat itu?
Apartemen Golden Sky, Pluit yang menjadi lokasi penangkapan Sheila Marcia ternyata sudah menjadi incaran polisi. Polisi menggerebek tempat tersebut atas informasi masyarakat. "Kita mengungkap dari masyarakat, setelah diadakan penyelidikan beberapa tempat yang kami curigai. Tempat tersebut adalah apartemen dan kos-kosan," ujar Kapolsek Penjaringan, Asep Adisaputra kepada wartawan di Polsek Penjaringan, Sabtu (9/8/2008). Dalam penggerebekan, Kamis (7/8/2008) sekitar pukul 21.00 tersebut polisi mengamankan sepuluh orang. Tapi setelah pemeriksaan lebih lanjut, hanya enam yang dijadikan tersangka.Barang bukti 6 gram shabu tidak semua berasal dari tempat Sheila dan AY. Barang bukti 6 gram shabu adalah gabungan dari penangkapan di satu tempat lainnya di apartemen yang sama. Polisi mengaku sudah menghubungi keluarga dan kerabat aktris yang kerap berpakaian seksi itu. Tapi hingga kini belum terlihat ada pihak keluarga atau kerabat yang menjenguk di Polres Penjaringan.
Artis muda Sheila Marcia mengaku menyesal telah mengkonsumsi narkoba jenis Shabu. Hal ini ia uangkapkan kepada Rolf, keluarga ayah Sheila.Rolf datang seorang diri untuk lihat keadaan dara kelahiran 3 September 1989 itu. Sekitar 5 menit Rolf masuk kedalam sel tahanan menemui Sheila. Ia pun mengaku sekalian mengambil pakaian kotor keponakannya itu."Sekarang kondisinya sehat, nggak apa-apa. Udah Stabil, nggak batuk-batuk lagi. Dia mengungkapkan penyesalannya. Saya belum bisa ngomong banyak sama dia," ujar Rolf sesaat setelah melihat keadaan Sheila di sel tahanan wanita Polres Jakarta Utara, Minggu (10/8/2008).Orangtua bintang 'Kereta Hantu Manggarai' itu yang berencana datang menjenguk hari ini ternyata batal. Alasannya, keluarga Sheila saai ini masih menetap di Pulau Dewata, Bali. "Pesawatnya susah," lanjut Rolf.Kalau tak ada halangan, katanya, esok mereka akan menjenguk anaknya. Mengenai waktunya, Rolf belum bisa ditentukan. "Mungkin besok, pasti," ungkapnya.
Metallica's James Hetfield Says New Bassist 'Has Already Contributed More' Than Jason Newsted Did
Death Magnetic will be band's first LP to feature 'new' bassist Rob Trujillo.
By Chris Harris, with additional reporting by Todd Brown
Even though he's been in the band going on five years, the talents of bassist Robert Trujillo will be featured on a Metallica album for the first time on their forthcoming LP Death Magnetic, which lands in stores September 12 and features "The Day That Never Comes" as its first single.
Before replacing erstwhile bassist Jason Newsted in 2003, Trujillo played with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne. Trujillo, as you might imagine, couldn't wait to contribute to Metallica's newest material, after spending years on the road with the band, playing bass lines someone else came up with. And he's proud of what Metallica were able to accomplish on Death Magnetic.
"I feel there's a lot of life to the tracks and a real solid groove — things feel tight," Trujillo told MTV News last week. "It's a lot of fun — the material is very dynamic, and we can't wait to present it to the world. It's been a great journey.
"Connecting with them onstage was the first phase of the journey, and then being able to create with them has been a great experience," the bassist added. "It was the best school of song-arranging in metal and rock you can ever imagine. It was a wonderful experience. ... There's nothing like it."
But what was it like for frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, who've been the driving force behind the band for more than two decades? Hetfield summed it up best: "In the studio — and no offense towards Jason — but Rob has already contributed more to this record than Jason did in 14 years."
A rather bold statement, but one that Ulrich echoed: "It's difficult to praise Rob without insinuating that there was something not great about his predecessor, and I've got nothing but respect and love for Jason. But Rob, he's been with us five years now, and it's completely effortless. ... It's never felt this complete."
But the admiration didn't end there. Guitarist Kirk Hammett, who was absent for much of the time Metallica were in the studio following the births of his sons, Angel and Vincenzo, said it feels as though Trujillo has been in the band since its inception.
"Sometimes I look over at him, and he's playing his bass onstage, and it feels like he's always been there — his chemistry, his personality, it just all fits in really, really well," Hammett said. "He's a godsend."
But according to Hetfield, much of the reason why, in his opinion, Newsted didn't contribute all that much to Metallica's previous efforts was that he wasn't always permitted to.
"A lot of it did have to do with our fear of losing some kind of control, no doubt about that," he said. "But Rob has slipped in somehow easier. He has this respect about him. ... We didn't have to haze the fan out of him, or toughen him up somehow."
For Ulrich, Trujillo played several roles in the studio. Not only did he contribute to the material creatively, he acted as the perfect conduit between the drummer and Hetfield and, in the absence of Hammett, stepped up fearlessly, bringing his own fresh ideas to the table — and many of those ideas made it onto Death Magnetic.
"It's effortless," Ulrich said of working with Trujillo. "He is very gifted, very fast, and he kind of just fits in. He's such a gifted musician, and Rob spent a lot of time being the third wheel in the Lars/James songwriting [process], and he just adapted to it super quickly and was great to bounce ideas off of and to come up with a great suggestion when me or James would get stuck. He was right in there with us. It's been incredibly positive to have him around — in the creative process, the way we all connect with each other and the way we connect with our fans."
Being the newest member of Metallica and, more importantly, a fan that became part of the fold, Trujillo's got a unique perspective on the new album, which he compared to a piece of fine art.
"When you listen to this body of work from start to finish, it's like a really cool painting," he said. "There's a lot of dynamics in it, the lyrics definitely have depth, and James really put a lot into them. It's just like looking at a beautiful work of art, and it's taken some time, but man, is it worth it."
By Chris Harris, with additional reporting by Todd Brown
Even though he's been in the band going on five years, the talents of bassist Robert Trujillo will be featured on a Metallica album for the first time on their forthcoming LP Death Magnetic, which lands in stores September 12 and features "The Day That Never Comes" as its first single.
Before replacing erstwhile bassist Jason Newsted in 2003, Trujillo played with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne. Trujillo, as you might imagine, couldn't wait to contribute to Metallica's newest material, after spending years on the road with the band, playing bass lines someone else came up with. And he's proud of what Metallica were able to accomplish on Death Magnetic.
"I feel there's a lot of life to the tracks and a real solid groove — things feel tight," Trujillo told MTV News last week. "It's a lot of fun — the material is very dynamic, and we can't wait to present it to the world. It's been a great journey.
"Connecting with them onstage was the first phase of the journey, and then being able to create with them has been a great experience," the bassist added. "It was the best school of song-arranging in metal and rock you can ever imagine. It was a wonderful experience. ... There's nothing like it."
But what was it like for frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, who've been the driving force behind the band for more than two decades? Hetfield summed it up best: "In the studio — and no offense towards Jason — but Rob has already contributed more to this record than Jason did in 14 years."
A rather bold statement, but one that Ulrich echoed: "It's difficult to praise Rob without insinuating that there was something not great about his predecessor, and I've got nothing but respect and love for Jason. But Rob, he's been with us five years now, and it's completely effortless. ... It's never felt this complete."
But the admiration didn't end there. Guitarist Kirk Hammett, who was absent for much of the time Metallica were in the studio following the births of his sons, Angel and Vincenzo, said it feels as though Trujillo has been in the band since its inception.
"Sometimes I look over at him, and he's playing his bass onstage, and it feels like he's always been there — his chemistry, his personality, it just all fits in really, really well," Hammett said. "He's a godsend."
But according to Hetfield, much of the reason why, in his opinion, Newsted didn't contribute all that much to Metallica's previous efforts was that he wasn't always permitted to.
"A lot of it did have to do with our fear of losing some kind of control, no doubt about that," he said. "But Rob has slipped in somehow easier. He has this respect about him. ... We didn't have to haze the fan out of him, or toughen him up somehow."
For Ulrich, Trujillo played several roles in the studio. Not only did he contribute to the material creatively, he acted as the perfect conduit between the drummer and Hetfield and, in the absence of Hammett, stepped up fearlessly, bringing his own fresh ideas to the table — and many of those ideas made it onto Death Magnetic.
"It's effortless," Ulrich said of working with Trujillo. "He is very gifted, very fast, and he kind of just fits in. He's such a gifted musician, and Rob spent a lot of time being the third wheel in the Lars/James songwriting [process], and he just adapted to it super quickly and was great to bounce ideas off of and to come up with a great suggestion when me or James would get stuck. He was right in there with us. It's been incredibly positive to have him around — in the creative process, the way we all connect with each other and the way we connect with our fans."
Being the newest member of Metallica and, more importantly, a fan that became part of the fold, Trujillo's got a unique perspective on the new album, which he compared to a piece of fine art.
"When you listen to this body of work from start to finish, it's like a really cool painting," he said. "There's a lot of dynamics in it, the lyrics definitely have depth, and James really put a lot into them. It's just like looking at a beautiful work of art, and it's taken some time, but man, is it worth it."
AC/DC: Still Going Strong, 2003, In The Loder Files
The original monsters of rock were still at it — and still are.
By Kurt Loder
Where do old interviews go to die? Since 1988 they've gone into the MTV News vault, but we've been exhuming them to bring you these classic natterings. Here's the latest in the series, which runs every Tuesday.
By the time AC/DC was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 (along with the Police, the Clash, and Elvis Costello), the Australian band had been together for 30 years, and — remarkably for a riff-based hard-rock act — was still going strong.
Founded by sibling guitarists Malcolm and Angus Young, and fronted from very early on by reprobate singer Bon Scott, the group traced its lineage back into the 1960s, when the Youngs' older brother and future producer, George Young, was a member of the Easybeats (whose 1966 world hit "Friday on My Mind" remains a garage-rock staple). AC/DC broke through in the mid-'70s with a sound that was pure guitar assault, propelling songs that addressed the most primal rock-and-roll interests ("Big Balls," "Love at First Feel"). And that classic sound never changed, even after Scott died of alcohol poisoning in 1980 and was replaced by English bellower Brian Johnson.
Angus, Malcolm and Brian turned up in the MTV studios in August of 2003 — not quite so crazy after all those years (they were then hovering around 50), but still funny and wryly self-deprecating. I forget why they were in town; it must have been for a show, because AC/DC hadn't released a new album since 2000's Stiff Upper Lip — and in fact, still hasn't. That'll be changing soon, though. The band is reported to have a long-in-the-making new record ready to roll out in October, along with a world tour. Always shrewdly marketed, the group must realize that the commercial environment has changed radically in the eight years since its last release. Thus the lack of a traditional label. Instead, the new album — still untitled — will be coming out exclusively through Wal-Mart. Let there be rock, as the band once put it — by any means necessary.
By Kurt Loder
Where do old interviews go to die? Since 1988 they've gone into the MTV News vault, but we've been exhuming them to bring you these classic natterings. Here's the latest in the series, which runs every Tuesday.
By the time AC/DC was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 (along with the Police, the Clash, and Elvis Costello), the Australian band had been together for 30 years, and — remarkably for a riff-based hard-rock act — was still going strong.
Founded by sibling guitarists Malcolm and Angus Young, and fronted from very early on by reprobate singer Bon Scott, the group traced its lineage back into the 1960s, when the Youngs' older brother and future producer, George Young, was a member of the Easybeats (whose 1966 world hit "Friday on My Mind" remains a garage-rock staple). AC/DC broke through in the mid-'70s with a sound that was pure guitar assault, propelling songs that addressed the most primal rock-and-roll interests ("Big Balls," "Love at First Feel"). And that classic sound never changed, even after Scott died of alcohol poisoning in 1980 and was replaced by English bellower Brian Johnson.
Angus, Malcolm and Brian turned up in the MTV studios in August of 2003 — not quite so crazy after all those years (they were then hovering around 50), but still funny and wryly self-deprecating. I forget why they were in town; it must have been for a show, because AC/DC hadn't released a new album since 2000's Stiff Upper Lip — and in fact, still hasn't. That'll be changing soon, though. The band is reported to have a long-in-the-making new record ready to roll out in October, along with a world tour. Always shrewdly marketed, the group must realize that the commercial environment has changed radically in the eight years since its last release. Thus the lack of a traditional label. Instead, the new album — still untitled — will be coming out exclusively through Wal-Mart. Let there be rock, as the band once put it — by any means necessary.
Metallica Tackle Forgiveness, Resentment In 'The Day That Never Comes' Clipmusi
Frontman James Hetfield cautions video is not a political statement.
By Chris Harris, with additional reporting by Todd Brown
It's a sun-drenched Thursday afternoon in Acton, California, which is about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles, and the air's nothing if not arid.
Here, we find the members of Metallica — frontman James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. They're all milling about, wearing shades, waiting. All of a sudden, a Hummer painted in desert camouflage and topped with a .50-caliber machine gun rolls by.
The vehicle's carrying a group of what look like U.S. soldiers across the dusty terrain when, out of nowhere, there's an awesome blast. One of the soldiers is wounded; he's bleeding. Another soldier rushes to his aid, with a medic kit in hand, and starts tending to his wounds. Minutes later, a helicopter approaches, and the bloody soldier is flown to safety and into the capable hands of a military medical team.
Of course, this isn't Iraq. It isn't Afghanistan. It's the set of Metallica's video for their track "The Day That Never Comes," the first single from Death Magnetic, the band's first studio effort since 2003's St. Anger (due in stores this September).
But don't let the war-time theme of the video fool you. According to Hetfield, the clip won't be making any lofty political statements about the war in Iraq. Instead, it's a statement on humanity, helmed by acclaimed Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking. Hetfield said that when he was writing the song's lyrics, he never envisioned the video would look anything like this.
"That's the beauty, I think, of writing vague but powerful lyrics — that someone like a movie director can interpret it in his own way and obviously, someone creative is able to take the metaphors and apply them to whatever he needs in his own life," the frontman explained. "The main [theme of the video] is the human element of forgiveness and someone doing you wrong, you feeling resentment and you being able to see through that in the next situation that might be similar and not take your rage or resentment out on the next person and basically keep spreading the disease of that through life."
The video's next scene involves the same soldier who assisted his wounded comrade in the previous scene. A group of soldiers pulls up alongside a broken-down car and spots a man in a djellabah, holding a set of jumper cables. The soldier approaches slowly — with gun drawn — fearing the car may contain a suicide bomber, and his crosshairs become fixed on the suspicious man's head. With anger and resentment in his eyes, the soldier debates whether to pull the trigger. Ultimately, he lowers his gun and assists the harmless civilian so that he can make his way home.
"The one thing that I wasn't keen on here was Metallica plugging into a modern war or a current event [that] might be construed as some sort of political statement on our part," Hetfield said. "There are so many celebrities that soapbox their opinions, and people believe it's more valid because they're popular. For us, people are people — you should all have your own opinion. We are hopefully putting the human element in what is an unfortunate part of life. There are people over there dealing with situations like this, and we're showing the human part of being there.
"It's the forgiveness part — that is key," he continued. "Metallica has never plugged into any current event visually, but this one is kind of a hotbed. People have very high opinions about this war, and we're trying to cut through all of that. The politics and the religion tend to separate people, and what we're trying to do is bring it together with the common thread of resentment and forgiveness."
Ulrich said that a father-son relationship inspired the song's lyrics but that the band didn't want the true meaning behind the track to bleed into its visual component.
"It's a story about human beings who don't know each other, in a particularly tense situation," Ulrich explained. "It could be a contemporary war setting, but it's really about forgiveness and redemption and understanding what goes on in people's minds. We really feel that this was such a beautiful and epic way to treat the song in something that was really radically different than the specificity of the lyrics."
"Ultimately, the concept of the video deals with humanity and the relationships between human beings and how your basic sense of humanity can override any sort of politicized situation," Hammett added. "It's about being compassionate and humanistic in that sort of situation. So you could call it a microcosm of what's happening in the world today."
By Chris Harris, with additional reporting by Todd Brown
It's a sun-drenched Thursday afternoon in Acton, California, which is about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles, and the air's nothing if not arid.
Here, we find the members of Metallica — frontman James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. They're all milling about, wearing shades, waiting. All of a sudden, a Hummer painted in desert camouflage and topped with a .50-caliber machine gun rolls by.
The vehicle's carrying a group of what look like U.S. soldiers across the dusty terrain when, out of nowhere, there's an awesome blast. One of the soldiers is wounded; he's bleeding. Another soldier rushes to his aid, with a medic kit in hand, and starts tending to his wounds. Minutes later, a helicopter approaches, and the bloody soldier is flown to safety and into the capable hands of a military medical team.
Of course, this isn't Iraq. It isn't Afghanistan. It's the set of Metallica's video for their track "The Day That Never Comes," the first single from Death Magnetic, the band's first studio effort since 2003's St. Anger (due in stores this September).
But don't let the war-time theme of the video fool you. According to Hetfield, the clip won't be making any lofty political statements about the war in Iraq. Instead, it's a statement on humanity, helmed by acclaimed Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking. Hetfield said that when he was writing the song's lyrics, he never envisioned the video would look anything like this.
"That's the beauty, I think, of writing vague but powerful lyrics — that someone like a movie director can interpret it in his own way and obviously, someone creative is able to take the metaphors and apply them to whatever he needs in his own life," the frontman explained. "The main [theme of the video] is the human element of forgiveness and someone doing you wrong, you feeling resentment and you being able to see through that in the next situation that might be similar and not take your rage or resentment out on the next person and basically keep spreading the disease of that through life."
The video's next scene involves the same soldier who assisted his wounded comrade in the previous scene. A group of soldiers pulls up alongside a broken-down car and spots a man in a djellabah, holding a set of jumper cables. The soldier approaches slowly — with gun drawn — fearing the car may contain a suicide bomber, and his crosshairs become fixed on the suspicious man's head. With anger and resentment in his eyes, the soldier debates whether to pull the trigger. Ultimately, he lowers his gun and assists the harmless civilian so that he can make his way home.
"The one thing that I wasn't keen on here was Metallica plugging into a modern war or a current event [that] might be construed as some sort of political statement on our part," Hetfield said. "There are so many celebrities that soapbox their opinions, and people believe it's more valid because they're popular. For us, people are people — you should all have your own opinion. We are hopefully putting the human element in what is an unfortunate part of life. There are people over there dealing with situations like this, and we're showing the human part of being there.
"It's the forgiveness part — that is key," he continued. "Metallica has never plugged into any current event visually, but this one is kind of a hotbed. People have very high opinions about this war, and we're trying to cut through all of that. The politics and the religion tend to separate people, and what we're trying to do is bring it together with the common thread of resentment and forgiveness."
Ulrich said that a father-son relationship inspired the song's lyrics but that the band didn't want the true meaning behind the track to bleed into its visual component.
"It's a story about human beings who don't know each other, in a particularly tense situation," Ulrich explained. "It could be a contemporary war setting, but it's really about forgiveness and redemption and understanding what goes on in people's minds. We really feel that this was such a beautiful and epic way to treat the song in something that was really radically different than the specificity of the lyrics."
"Ultimately, the concept of the video deals with humanity and the relationships between human beings and how your basic sense of humanity can override any sort of politicized situation," Hammett added. "It's about being compassionate and humanistic in that sort of situation. So you could call it a microcosm of what's happening in the world today."
Rage Against The Machine's Lollapalooza Set Turns Ugly; Lupe Fiasco, Ting Tings, Wilco Play Day Two
RATM ask crowd to stop pushing, as fans without tickets add to chaos by hopping fence.
By James Montgomery, Gil Kaufman and John Norris
CHICAGO — There were busted barricades, bruised bodies and backflips on Saturday at Lollapalooza, though only two of those things occurred during Rage Against the Machine's set.
The agit-rock icons capped off the festival's second day with an incendiary, pummeling display of power that proved that they're still at the top of their game — though it probably wasn't Zack de la Rocha's screeds or Tom Morello's fret-bending guitarwork that people were talking about after the set. Instead, it was the ugly turn the night took shortly after RATM began their set.
The reunited group opened with a trio of their bombastic best, including "Testify" and "Bulls on Parade," setting off multiple circle pits in the crowd and sending a stream of bodies — which appeared to be equally comprised of crowd-surfers and panicked fans trying to escape the crush — over the barricade in front of the stage. By the third song, there was a steady, at times frenzied, rush by hundreds of fanson the east side of the stage attempting to leave the area. The relentless fury of the music, combined with the sense of chaos in the crowd, made for some tense moments. Concertgoers trying to go up a set of cement steps were pushed backwards or blocked from exiting as a bull rush of male fans barreled down the steps, knocking people over like dominoes.
The crowd surge got so bad that De la Rocha stopped the show on three separate occasions, pleading with fans to take a step back to avoid crushing the audience members up front, then introducing fist-pumping songs such as "Bullet in the Head." At another point during the set, Lollapalooza's head of security conferred with the members of the band and their team at the front of the stage.
There was also at least one reported security breach of the venue's perimeter fence, according to both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, resulting in an unknown number of fans without tickets rushing into the park and reportedly injuring some security personnel in the process. Spokespeople for the festival could not be reached for comment at press time, and a Chicago Police Department spokesperson said that officials had not received calls for help from the festival, despite multiple reports that police on horseback had responded to the fence breach.
Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said that as of 12:30 a.m. Sunday (August 3) his department had not received any calls for assistance from the private firm handling emergency services for the festival; MTV News is attempting to reach that firm. It was unknown at press time how many injuries occurred during the show, but an MTV reporter near the front of the stage witnessed at least a dozen dazed, limping and panicked fans being escorted to the medical tent, including one who was taken out on a backboard.
(Check out our Friday Lollapalooza recap here.)
It was an ugly and unfortunate end to what had been an otherwise idyllic day in Grant Park. The weather cooperated (sunny and breezy, not nearly as brain-melting as had been advertised), and the musical moments shone bright. The Ting Tings bleeped and shimmied in the early afternoon sun, MGMT were their usual psychedelic selves, and Explosions in the Sky coaxed grandeur out of their guitar pedals. Tyke rockers the Tiny Masters of Today blasted away on the Kidzapalooza stage (even working a protest song, "Bushy," into their set), Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings ground out an hour of pulse-quickening R&B, and Wilco jammed through a good-natured 90 minutes that took place at the same time all the Rage chaos was unfurling.
But the early part of Saturday belonged to Chicago's own Lupe Fiasco, who made a major statement on his third trip to Lollapalooza and emerged as a conquering hero, stepping way outside the shadow of mentor Kanye West, who closes Lolla on Sunday night. And he did it from the get-go.
Taking the stage to the theme from "Rocky" — performed by a fabulously funky nine-piece backing band that included bass, guitar, drums, DJ, three horns, backup singer, hype man and keyboard player - Lupe bobbed and weaved like a prize fighter but dressed like a futuristic Space Gentleman (in impeccable white and silver, down to his shining high-tops). He dropped to the floor to rip through some one-armed push-ups, sprang back to his feet, threw himself into an impressive backflip and welcomed the huge crowd to "Lupepalooza."
And he didn't let up from there. The band turned the normally lazy tempo of "Kick, Push" into an old '70s funk jam as Fiasco ran from one end of the stage to the other, stalking it with a super-sized confidence that surpassed the swagger he displayed at Lolla last year.
The ensemble was later augmented by a children's gospel choir, and during "Hip Hop Saved My Life," Fiasco copped a sly smile as he waved his hand in the air and thousands of converts followed suit. This was a man becoming, well, the man.
It was epic, it was grandiose, and it was all anyone could talk about ... until Rage, of course. Your move, Kanye.
By James Montgomery, Gil Kaufman and John Norris
CHICAGO — There were busted barricades, bruised bodies and backflips on Saturday at Lollapalooza, though only two of those things occurred during Rage Against the Machine's set.
The agit-rock icons capped off the festival's second day with an incendiary, pummeling display of power that proved that they're still at the top of their game — though it probably wasn't Zack de la Rocha's screeds or Tom Morello's fret-bending guitarwork that people were talking about after the set. Instead, it was the ugly turn the night took shortly after RATM began their set.
The reunited group opened with a trio of their bombastic best, including "Testify" and "Bulls on Parade," setting off multiple circle pits in the crowd and sending a stream of bodies — which appeared to be equally comprised of crowd-surfers and panicked fans trying to escape the crush — over the barricade in front of the stage. By the third song, there was a steady, at times frenzied, rush by hundreds of fanson the east side of the stage attempting to leave the area. The relentless fury of the music, combined with the sense of chaos in the crowd, made for some tense moments. Concertgoers trying to go up a set of cement steps were pushed backwards or blocked from exiting as a bull rush of male fans barreled down the steps, knocking people over like dominoes.
The crowd surge got so bad that De la Rocha stopped the show on three separate occasions, pleading with fans to take a step back to avoid crushing the audience members up front, then introducing fist-pumping songs such as "Bullet in the Head." At another point during the set, Lollapalooza's head of security conferred with the members of the band and their team at the front of the stage.
There was also at least one reported security breach of the venue's perimeter fence, according to both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, resulting in an unknown number of fans without tickets rushing into the park and reportedly injuring some security personnel in the process. Spokespeople for the festival could not be reached for comment at press time, and a Chicago Police Department spokesperson said that officials had not received calls for help from the festival, despite multiple reports that police on horseback had responded to the fence breach.
Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said that as of 12:30 a.m. Sunday (August 3) his department had not received any calls for assistance from the private firm handling emergency services for the festival; MTV News is attempting to reach that firm. It was unknown at press time how many injuries occurred during the show, but an MTV reporter near the front of the stage witnessed at least a dozen dazed, limping and panicked fans being escorted to the medical tent, including one who was taken out on a backboard.
(Check out our Friday Lollapalooza recap here.)
It was an ugly and unfortunate end to what had been an otherwise idyllic day in Grant Park. The weather cooperated (sunny and breezy, not nearly as brain-melting as had been advertised), and the musical moments shone bright. The Ting Tings bleeped and shimmied in the early afternoon sun, MGMT were their usual psychedelic selves, and Explosions in the Sky coaxed grandeur out of their guitar pedals. Tyke rockers the Tiny Masters of Today blasted away on the Kidzapalooza stage (even working a protest song, "Bushy," into their set), Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings ground out an hour of pulse-quickening R&B, and Wilco jammed through a good-natured 90 minutes that took place at the same time all the Rage chaos was unfurling.
But the early part of Saturday belonged to Chicago's own Lupe Fiasco, who made a major statement on his third trip to Lollapalooza and emerged as a conquering hero, stepping way outside the shadow of mentor Kanye West, who closes Lolla on Sunday night. And he did it from the get-go.
Taking the stage to the theme from "Rocky" — performed by a fabulously funky nine-piece backing band that included bass, guitar, drums, DJ, three horns, backup singer, hype man and keyboard player - Lupe bobbed and weaved like a prize fighter but dressed like a futuristic Space Gentleman (in impeccable white and silver, down to his shining high-tops). He dropped to the floor to rip through some one-armed push-ups, sprang back to his feet, threw himself into an impressive backflip and welcomed the huge crowd to "Lupepalooza."
And he didn't let up from there. The band turned the normally lazy tempo of "Kick, Push" into an old '70s funk jam as Fiasco ran from one end of the stage to the other, stalking it with a super-sized confidence that surpassed the swagger he displayed at Lolla last year.
The ensemble was later augmented by a children's gospel choir, and during "Hip Hop Saved My Life," Fiasco copped a sly smile as he waved his hand in the air and thousands of converts followed suit. This was a man becoming, well, the man.
It was epic, it was grandiose, and it was all anyone could talk about ... until Rage, of course. Your move, Kanye.
Sabtu, 02 Agustus 2008
Radiohead Soothe Lollapalooza Crowd After Frenetic First Day Of CSS, Black Lips, Cool Kids
Brit rockers close Friday with a light show that feels like a digital rain shower.
By Gil Kaufman and John Norris
CHICAGO — There are basically two ways to close out the first night of Lollapalooza. You can blast off in a glowing, thumping spaceship like Daft Punk did last year, or you can get all moody and sedate like Interpol did.
Then there's Radiohead. The most anticipated act of the 2008 festival's maiden night, as usual, dug its own path, teasing the sold-out crowd of 75,000 with a mixture of pastoral ambiance and slashing guitars accompanied by a light show that felt like a digital rain shower conjured to replace the threatened storms that never materialized.
After a steamy day that yo-yoed from the Beatles-rave-up-inspired blitz of the Black Lips to Duffy's throwback Welsh Motown soul, CSS' Brazilian dance explosion, the Raconteurs' roach-clip rock, the tangled guitar excursions of Stephen Malkmus and Gogol Bordello's unhinged Gypsy punk, Radiohead's set was the perfect capper for a weary, glassy-eyed crowd who needed a bit of a soft landing.
Drawing from nearly every album in their catalog, Radiohead played a two-hour set underneath a forest of aluminum lighting tubes hanging down over their heads and flashing different LED patterns that morphed from a giant stereo equalizer during "All I Need" to a blizzard of radioactive green snowflakes for "The Gloaming."
Even if you couldn't actually see the waves of heat coming off the tightly packed crowd, which stretched as far as the eye could see, you could feel the intense warmth as you waded through it. And, at times, the band's sound approximated a kind of hothouse mirage, as wave pulses of sound on songs like the neo-Victorian "No Surprises" acted as a kind of audio brain massage for weary fans, many of whom spent the day searching for a nice shady spot to rest their thumping heads. But for every soothing track, there was a squall of feedback and a psychedelic test pattern of lights like the one that rained down during an encore of "Paranoid Android." As a cool, relieving breeze blew in unexpectedly during the closing tune, "Idioteque," you almost had to wonder if Thom Yorke and crew's timing was a bit too perfect, as he sang "ice age coming" and icy blue dots of light trickled down from the lighting rig.
The day started off with a man who is all about consciousness, education and nonviolence: Somali singer, MC and musician K'naan. Sporting a '70s-looking print shirt and vest and backed by a band of his countrymen, K'naan, while acknowledging he's not really an early morning person (it was before noon), offered a message of peace from a land that hasn't known a lot of it. He exhorted the ever-growing crowd, many of whom it seemed were discovering him for the first time to sing along with him: "When I get older, I will be stronger/ They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag."
On the other hand, from the cerebral to the ... visceral. A half-hour and 50 yards away, on the AT&T stage, it was "And, do you really want to hold my dirty hands?" "Good morning!" said Jared Swilley, lead singer of Atlanta gutter flower punks the Black Lips, who ripped through an hour of songs that are as fun on the hundredth listen as the first: "Buried Alive," "O Katrina," "Bad Kids" and "Hippie Hippie Hooray."
CSS put on one of the most entertaining sets of all of Lolla day one. It was a full-on dance party, with silver balloons flying and singer Lovefoxx jumping rope with her mic cord in her Sao Paulo-meets-Björk getup festooned with flowers. The four women and two men in the band were joined by their dancer friend in Day-Glo for "Left Behind" and taught the audience a backward hand wave to go along with the song. Then came "Off The Hook," "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" and "Rat Is Dead."
Hands in the air were called for further down the park too, as Chicago's own Cool Kids ripped through an hour of party-hearty hip hop. Watching the Windy City fellas on a stage with Lake Michigan in the background was quite a sight, as they played tunes from their new album, The Bake Sale, including "Black Mags" and the good-time rhymes of "Bassment Party." The Kids did their city proud and ended Friday on a good note as the giant amoeba of a crowd began its mass exodus toward the south stage to check out Radiohead.
By Gil Kaufman and John Norris
CHICAGO — There are basically two ways to close out the first night of Lollapalooza. You can blast off in a glowing, thumping spaceship like Daft Punk did last year, or you can get all moody and sedate like Interpol did.
Then there's Radiohead. The most anticipated act of the 2008 festival's maiden night, as usual, dug its own path, teasing the sold-out crowd of 75,000 with a mixture of pastoral ambiance and slashing guitars accompanied by a light show that felt like a digital rain shower conjured to replace the threatened storms that never materialized.
After a steamy day that yo-yoed from the Beatles-rave-up-inspired blitz of the Black Lips to Duffy's throwback Welsh Motown soul, CSS' Brazilian dance explosion, the Raconteurs' roach-clip rock, the tangled guitar excursions of Stephen Malkmus and Gogol Bordello's unhinged Gypsy punk, Radiohead's set was the perfect capper for a weary, glassy-eyed crowd who needed a bit of a soft landing.
Drawing from nearly every album in their catalog, Radiohead played a two-hour set underneath a forest of aluminum lighting tubes hanging down over their heads and flashing different LED patterns that morphed from a giant stereo equalizer during "All I Need" to a blizzard of radioactive green snowflakes for "The Gloaming."
Even if you couldn't actually see the waves of heat coming off the tightly packed crowd, which stretched as far as the eye could see, you could feel the intense warmth as you waded through it. And, at times, the band's sound approximated a kind of hothouse mirage, as wave pulses of sound on songs like the neo-Victorian "No Surprises" acted as a kind of audio brain massage for weary fans, many of whom spent the day searching for a nice shady spot to rest their thumping heads. But for every soothing track, there was a squall of feedback and a psychedelic test pattern of lights like the one that rained down during an encore of "Paranoid Android." As a cool, relieving breeze blew in unexpectedly during the closing tune, "Idioteque," you almost had to wonder if Thom Yorke and crew's timing was a bit too perfect, as he sang "ice age coming" and icy blue dots of light trickled down from the lighting rig.
The day started off with a man who is all about consciousness, education and nonviolence: Somali singer, MC and musician K'naan. Sporting a '70s-looking print shirt and vest and backed by a band of his countrymen, K'naan, while acknowledging he's not really an early morning person (it was before noon), offered a message of peace from a land that hasn't known a lot of it. He exhorted the ever-growing crowd, many of whom it seemed were discovering him for the first time to sing along with him: "When I get older, I will be stronger/ They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag."
On the other hand, from the cerebral to the ... visceral. A half-hour and 50 yards away, on the AT&T stage, it was "And, do you really want to hold my dirty hands?" "Good morning!" said Jared Swilley, lead singer of Atlanta gutter flower punks the Black Lips, who ripped through an hour of songs that are as fun on the hundredth listen as the first: "Buried Alive," "O Katrina," "Bad Kids" and "Hippie Hippie Hooray."
CSS put on one of the most entertaining sets of all of Lolla day one. It was a full-on dance party, with silver balloons flying and singer Lovefoxx jumping rope with her mic cord in her Sao Paulo-meets-Björk getup festooned with flowers. The four women and two men in the band were joined by their dancer friend in Day-Glo for "Left Behind" and taught the audience a backward hand wave to go along with the song. Then came "Off The Hook," "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" and "Rat Is Dead."
Hands in the air were called for further down the park too, as Chicago's own Cool Kids ripped through an hour of party-hearty hip hop. Watching the Windy City fellas on a stage with Lake Michigan in the background was quite a sight, as they played tunes from their new album, The Bake Sale, including "Black Mags" and the good-time rhymes of "Bassment Party." The Kids did their city proud and ended Friday on a good note as the giant amoeba of a crowd began its mass exodus toward the south stage to check out Radiohead.
The Titans: Melayang Lagi
Saat mendengarkan trek pertama album ini, langsung timbul prasangka kalo band ini berusaha memaksimalkan peran Imot di synthesizer. Ternyata dugaan itu benar. Imot memang lebih berperan. Membuat lagu-lagu di album ini jadi lebih berwarna dan punya karakter sendiri.
Ini penting. Mengingat The Titans bermain di jalur pasaran. Dengan sentuhan Imot, notasi yang sebenarnya nyaris senada dengan band pop lainnya jadi terasa beda. Lantas, bagaimana materinya?
Jujur aja nih, kok sepertinya lebih kuat album pertama, ya? Ada sih beberapa lagu yang menjanjikan. Menangis (Jauh Darimu) boleh dianggap salah satunya. Lantas, ada Dapatkah Waktu, Lepas Semua, dan Untukmu yang cenderung straight. Tapi, kurang menohok kayak hit album sebelumnya. (ryo)
Ini penting. Mengingat The Titans bermain di jalur pasaran. Dengan sentuhan Imot, notasi yang sebenarnya nyaris senada dengan band pop lainnya jadi terasa beda. Lantas, bagaimana materinya?
Jujur aja nih, kok sepertinya lebih kuat album pertama, ya? Ada sih beberapa lagu yang menjanjikan. Menangis (Jauh Darimu) boleh dianggap salah satunya. Lantas, ada Dapatkah Waktu, Lepas Semua, dan Untukmu yang cenderung straight. Tapi, kurang menohok kayak hit album sebelumnya. (ryo)
Bunga Citra Lestari: Tentang Kamu
Kalo dibanding dengan sampul album perdana BCL, sampul album ini terkesan murah. Kurang lux. Tapi, esensi dari album adalah musiknya. Jadi, lupain aja soal cover dan langsung mengulik musik.
Ternyata, BCL masih pintar dalam memilih lagu. Tentang Kamu bikinan Dewiq yang dijadikan gacoan masih mampu membuat pendengar terbius. Begitupun Kecewa, Aku dan Dirimu, dan Tak Mungkin. Semuanya adalah lagu balada yang potensial dicintai masyarakat Indonesia.
Tapi, lagu-lagu itu nggak cukup buat seorang BCL yang sempat bikin heboh lewat album perdana. Perlu ada sentuhan lainnya.
BCL pun sepertinya tahu. Makanya, dia mencoba untuk menyanyikan nomer swing di lagu Luillicious yang sebenernya rada gagal. Untung ada lagu Pernah Muda yang cukup unik. Sehingga BCL sukses menghadirkan sesuatu yang lumayan menyegarkan di abum in.
Worth to buy! Apalagi harganya cuma 30 ribu perak! (ryo)
Ternyata, BCL masih pintar dalam memilih lagu. Tentang Kamu bikinan Dewiq yang dijadikan gacoan masih mampu membuat pendengar terbius. Begitupun Kecewa, Aku dan Dirimu, dan Tak Mungkin. Semuanya adalah lagu balada yang potensial dicintai masyarakat Indonesia.
Tapi, lagu-lagu itu nggak cukup buat seorang BCL yang sempat bikin heboh lewat album perdana. Perlu ada sentuhan lainnya.
BCL pun sepertinya tahu. Makanya, dia mencoba untuk menyanyikan nomer swing di lagu Luillicious yang sebenernya rada gagal. Untung ada lagu Pernah Muda yang cukup unik. Sehingga BCL sukses menghadirkan sesuatu yang lumayan menyegarkan di abum in.
Worth to buy! Apalagi harganya cuma 30 ribu perak! (ryo)
Ahmad Dhani Mencari Penyanyi Rock-Ndut by KRISTIANTO PURNOMO
Ahmad Dhani, salah satu juri Kompetisi Sprite D’Plong Sensasi Rock’n’dut 2008 mengatakan, sulit mencari penyanyi yang mampu memadukan irama rock dan dangdut sekaligus sehingga kompetisi perdaduan rock dan dangdut merupakan sebuah tantangan untuk mencari penyanyi muda yang berbakat.
"Tak banyak yang bisa rock dan dangdut sekaligus. Dangdut hanya bisa dibawakan oleh orang yang benar-benar mampu menyanyi, apalagi ditambah dengan sentuhan rock pasti tidak akan mudah," katanya yang menggelar jumpa pers bersama Mulan Jamella, di Santika Hotel Cirebon, Sabtu sore.
Ia menilai, dangdut mempunyai tehnik yang lebih sulit dibandingkan menyanyi pop, sehingga banyak penyanyi yang beralasan tidak suka dangdut padahal sebenarnya mereka tidak mampu membawakannya.
Menurut Dhani, pada kompetisi Rock’n’dut tahun 2007 lalu sebenarnya banyak peserta yang berbakat yang jika dipoles lagi akan bisa menjadi penyanyi terkenal, namun karena ada dua juri selain dirinya akhirnya yang berbakat itu tidak lolos seleksi selanjutnya.
Terkait kurang dikenalnya finalis kompetisi Sprite D’Plong, Dani menjelaskan, sangat dimaklumi karena kompetisi itu hanya sekali ditayangkan di televisi saat Grand Final, sementara finalis ajang kompetisi lain yang ditayangkan hampir tiap hari juga banyak tidak langsung bisa menjadi bintang.
Ke depan, Dhani mengusulkan, agar tahun depan Sprite menjadi sponsor Republik Cinta Source Talent sehingga makin banyak potensi muda yang terjaring dan tidak terpaku pada kriteria rock dan dangdut. "Ini usulan saya pada manajemen supaya lebih banyak menjaring peserta," katanya.
Sementara Weitarsa Hendarto, Merketing Manager Flavor PT Coca-cola Indonesia, empat finalis tahun 2006 diberi kesempatan untuk membuat video klip dan dan album setelah sebelumnya dikarantina untuk menambah kemampuan vokal dan tari. "Abel Baraba pemenang Sprite D’Plong tahun 2007 pernah masuk di KDI dan di beberapa acara tevelisi, dan kita berharap mereka bisa terus mencari popularitas menjadi bintang," katanya yang hadir pada acar jumpa pers itu.
Terkait pengambilan kompetisi jenis rock dan dangdut, Wietarsa mengatakan, musik rock dan dangdut mencerminkan jiwa yang dinamis dan energik, apa adanya dan tanpa pura-pura, membuat diri bersemangat dan memberikan perasan plong. "Semua itu sejalan dengan spirit Sprite," katanya.
Sabtu malam ini bertempat di Lapangan Arhanudse Cirebon, enam orang semifinalis Kompetisi Sprite D’Plong Sensasi Rock’n’dut 2008 dari wilayah Jawa Barat akan berkompetisi untuk meraih juara pertama yang akan mewakili wilayah Jawa Barat dalam Grand Final yang akan diselenggarakan di Jakarta, akhir Agustus 2008.
Keenam finalis itu Reza (24) dan Dedi KP (22), semifinalis dari Cirebon, Haikal MH (25) dan Argi G (23) semifinalis dari Bandung, Shinta NW (28) dan Sendi (22) semifinalis Tasikmalaya.
Weitarsa mengungkapkan, persaingan tahun ini lebih ketat karena peserta audisi mencapai 3.200 orang yang berasal dari 18 kota di Jawa dan Sumatera, sementara tahun sebelumnya hanya 2.320 peserta dari 15 kota di Jawa dan Sumatera. (ANT)
"Tak banyak yang bisa rock dan dangdut sekaligus. Dangdut hanya bisa dibawakan oleh orang yang benar-benar mampu menyanyi, apalagi ditambah dengan sentuhan rock pasti tidak akan mudah," katanya yang menggelar jumpa pers bersama Mulan Jamella, di Santika Hotel Cirebon, Sabtu sore.
Ia menilai, dangdut mempunyai tehnik yang lebih sulit dibandingkan menyanyi pop, sehingga banyak penyanyi yang beralasan tidak suka dangdut padahal sebenarnya mereka tidak mampu membawakannya.
Menurut Dhani, pada kompetisi Rock’n’dut tahun 2007 lalu sebenarnya banyak peserta yang berbakat yang jika dipoles lagi akan bisa menjadi penyanyi terkenal, namun karena ada dua juri selain dirinya akhirnya yang berbakat itu tidak lolos seleksi selanjutnya.
Terkait kurang dikenalnya finalis kompetisi Sprite D’Plong, Dani menjelaskan, sangat dimaklumi karena kompetisi itu hanya sekali ditayangkan di televisi saat Grand Final, sementara finalis ajang kompetisi lain yang ditayangkan hampir tiap hari juga banyak tidak langsung bisa menjadi bintang.
Ke depan, Dhani mengusulkan, agar tahun depan Sprite menjadi sponsor Republik Cinta Source Talent sehingga makin banyak potensi muda yang terjaring dan tidak terpaku pada kriteria rock dan dangdut. "Ini usulan saya pada manajemen supaya lebih banyak menjaring peserta," katanya.
Sementara Weitarsa Hendarto, Merketing Manager Flavor PT Coca-cola Indonesia, empat finalis tahun 2006 diberi kesempatan untuk membuat video klip dan dan album setelah sebelumnya dikarantina untuk menambah kemampuan vokal dan tari. "Abel Baraba pemenang Sprite D’Plong tahun 2007 pernah masuk di KDI dan di beberapa acara tevelisi, dan kita berharap mereka bisa terus mencari popularitas menjadi bintang," katanya yang hadir pada acar jumpa pers itu.
Terkait pengambilan kompetisi jenis rock dan dangdut, Wietarsa mengatakan, musik rock dan dangdut mencerminkan jiwa yang dinamis dan energik, apa adanya dan tanpa pura-pura, membuat diri bersemangat dan memberikan perasan plong. "Semua itu sejalan dengan spirit Sprite," katanya.
Sabtu malam ini bertempat di Lapangan Arhanudse Cirebon, enam orang semifinalis Kompetisi Sprite D’Plong Sensasi Rock’n’dut 2008 dari wilayah Jawa Barat akan berkompetisi untuk meraih juara pertama yang akan mewakili wilayah Jawa Barat dalam Grand Final yang akan diselenggarakan di Jakarta, akhir Agustus 2008.
Keenam finalis itu Reza (24) dan Dedi KP (22), semifinalis dari Cirebon, Haikal MH (25) dan Argi G (23) semifinalis dari Bandung, Shinta NW (28) dan Sendi (22) semifinalis Tasikmalaya.
Weitarsa mengungkapkan, persaingan tahun ini lebih ketat karena peserta audisi mencapai 3.200 orang yang berasal dari 18 kota di Jawa dan Sumatera, sementara tahun sebelumnya hanya 2.320 peserta dari 15 kota di Jawa dan Sumatera. (ANT)
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