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October 25, 2006 — Jimi Hendrix died more than 35 years ago, without a will and with a year left on his Yameta agreement. There has been no A-list film on his life and music in spite of the fact that he has been recognized as one of the greatest musician/guitarists of all […]

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October 25, 2006 - Elvier von Lear of DragonSlayer Films LLC and Lawrence Miller of Purple Haze Records Ltd explained to Raymond Millien of Ocean Tomo why the Michael Frank Jeffery Estate does not own the rights of Jimi Hendrix, as claimed by Ed Chalpin, the Administrator of the Estate.Raymond Millien of Ocean […]

The Reading festival is taking place over the Bank Holiday weekend - Friday August 25 - Sunday the 27th and this looks like one of the best festivals of the year. Like the V Festival, there are two locations with most of the acts playing both in Reading and Leeds over the weekend which makes […]

Artist: Patrick Yandall
Title: Samoa Soul
Genre: Instrumental Jazz
Label: Zangi Records
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Patrick Yandall continues to improve with each successive release. Samoa Soul is his seventh album. Yandall is talented in many ways musically however his instinct for applying the rudiments of jazz outweighs everything else. That is the one most important aspect of […]

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London, England–August 14, 2006–UK based Sue Merchant is a product of her environment. While living in the South West of England, she received plenty of exposure to music and poetry through her father. That turned out to be a good influence as a lifetime of love for the arts found its place […]

Nick Oliveri, bass player from Queens Of The Stone Age has formed a new band, Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator. They’re coming to a town near you in support of their debut single, ‘I Never Sleep’, and album ‘Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails’.
The tour schedule for their upcoming shows in the UK and Europe is […]

Good news for all you Dropkick Murphys fans - their song ‘I’m Shipping Up To Boston’ will be featured in Martin Scorsese’s new movie ‘The Departed’ which stars fellow Boston boys Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. The film is due to be released in cinemas in October so fingers crossed the Red Sox make […]

Sometimes you just can’t predict these things, but unfortunately the unexpected and usually inevitable does happen: when one of the best local bands calls it a day. I say local band because Suitable Case For Treatment has been gigging here in Oxford for the last three years or so and then eventually they […]

The Lovebox Weekender festival was this past weekend and we were there, experiencing the current sounds of today’s hip and trendy. The main reason we went was to see the Guillemots perform, which we did and they were great as always.

Guillemots performing at Lovebox Weekender Festival We were there all day on Sunday […]

“In the morning, you know he won’t remember a thing…in the morning you know it’s gonna be alright”.I can’t get the song out of my head. You know what I do when this happens? If I’m no where near a radio I try to hear (in my head) two different songs […]

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DEBUT ALBUM FROM KEZIA
Kezia is 23 years old and from London. Only eighteen months ago she decided to enter the music industry with only her journal of lyrics and thoughts and of course her burning ambition.
From the very start she refused to have a manager knowing very well that a lot of young […]

Featured music on Band Weblogs Podcast Show #21 is by Smilex (Oxford, England), Dave Tommo (Oxford, England) and A Beggar’s Opera (Reading, England).
Jenny and Dave talk about the World Cup, the Ronaldos and commentators Mick McCarthy and John Motson. They also discuss their experience at the BBC Studios in London watching Top of the Pops […]

If you’re in England and you haven’t seen The Hellset Orchestra yet…well..what are you waiting for?! They are one of the best live bands out there and I highly recommend that you try to make at least one of these dates hot off the press, from the Hellset Orchestra themselves:
“We shall be embarking on […]

This just in: Paul Weller has announced his winter tour dates.”Paul is to follow his summer festival appearances with an ‘intimate’ winter tour of the UK and Ireland.The full list of dates is as follows:
Dublin Olympia (November 17/18)
Newcastle City Hall (November 20/21)
Sheffield Octagon (November 23)
Glasgow Barrowlands (November 24/25)
Manchester Apollo (November 27/28)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall […]