Monday, May 29, 2006

Happy Memorial Day Everybody

Today is kind of a light day in Culture City expect if you going to the beach or to Downtown or just tired depending on the time you read this blog today.

Since this is a day to honored our fallen, and there is it a holiday that is no Culture city news in the underground today.

So I will used this time to reveal My trushed sourced I used in this blog time after time for this blog which is almost reaching it one month mark.(it techlly started on Sunday night may 7, but the 1st full report was on May 8)

Now the 1st rule in this blog was to filter out the underreported from the overreported so I go to the basic sights like:



Yahoo News Entertainment section: I very good to a point but they have all the news away from the big screen or the TV Tube I very O.K, you find good story here and there

since most of the stuff on the top of the Blog is local and up to date I do check the news sight of the local newspapers in town.

Like
The Detroit News, and the Detroit Free Press it have today paper on-line but also have a breaking News Section in the the front of both web sight, But I like the Free Press a little more better because it put the update info in a box so you see what going on before you see it on the 5 PM News and from time to time it will have a breaking culture News Story.

Not to knock on the News it do put the breaking news on top of the sight but it look like the rest of to day paper.

Also if there some thing that in miss from other web sight there always the very good
MotorCityRocks.com it always on top of things in Detroit rock city always on top of the scence next to me like who playing where and have very good links to other good music sight

also I will rave about a good story in the
Metrotimes Detroit Long Time alt. Weekly they report on what is going down the Detroit Media Might have miss and a look at the Detroit arts scene and also have good listing with great ads to see who coming soon to the Detroit area.

and some time I will glaze at the real Detroit weekly (The Metrotimes Elive Nemise) I OK weekly but they have too much Club ads with girls you don't want to date and some of the artice are some time too short, But they do list the DMRC Top 10.

Now Outsider of the 313 there always good music web sight:
MTV News have a decest web sight, but they always report on the the overhype and who clicking on MTV when there not airing crap programming.

There are some better websight then MTV News

And here are some I like so much

1st there is
pitchforkmedia.com it take a look at at the Indie scene from top to bottom with a very good and detail news section, every reviews of singles, Alublum, Live Review and freather it the 1st sight I go to see who on tour and who coming to Detroit in the Near future and also see who about to put out a new C.D., That the massed want to mark on their calderen when it come out.(Best time to view after 5PM)

also good is
stereogum.com, you can say it a almost live what happened in the from photo of live gig to song from new stuff on MP3 to a little blast in between, The sight is very good.

And don't forget the Magitzine webb sight like
CMJ, Rolling Stone, Spin, and alternative Press.

There also a very good sourced for info as well.

And don't forget the one and only UK magitzine the
New Music Express (A.K.A. the N.M.E.)there web sight have been up and running for the last ten years and the have the latest video and preview of upcoming C.D. and have cover the Summer time UK festivals scence like now other and it also have there own awards show.

And also a good souced as well is Canada
Chart magazine it a good site but also see what going on with Canada Bands with there Dailt alternative Music News which always a good read.

Also a good sight is
CBC Radio 3, The sight have have a in-line stream of the latest Canadian Indie artist, and very well put together podcast hosted by Grant Lawrence (Who also a ex- Member of the Smugglers), A running blog on the latest on what going on in Canada indie scene, and see who going to be on there Sirius radio Station(Ch.94) and radio show (Saturday 7:30PM-4AM) and a good collection of past concert and section and a lot of profiled of Canada Bands, and also let you create you own playlist it you like the Band or song you like, it a very well put together sight.

also don't for get other good station that also on the web like
kcrw.com which have one of the best show the net or On-Air in the country. Morning Becomes Eclectic hosted by the one and only Nic Harcourt, it also have a very good live music from time to time they are all archive in real audio and Windows Media and is always have video to the live set.

also have good live music if you don't have 45 minutes to spear, Seattle
kexp.org have always a live set from band that fit the mode of the station Motto "Where the Music Matters" and as with kcrw.com it archive as well.

Also good is Riff 2, WRIF-FM HD radio station which you only can get if you have a HD Radio but if you don't have a HD Radio you can hear it on-line at
riff2.com, The station Have a good mix of music like Indie rock, Rap and heavy Melta rock also it have show like Detroit Local 101 looking at Local Music, a video game show, a goth show, and more.

and as always there always bbc on-line (
www.bbc.co.uk) all there station is on-line like Radio one which have good shows at night like Lamacq Live, Zane Lowe, and the One Music Program(Tuesday to Thursday 6-8PM) and dance music like house and techno from the like of Judge Jules, Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Annie Nightingale(Who by the way was the 1st female UK Radio UK), Radio two also play good music from today to luck song from a long time ago, Good DJ include Terry Wogan and the one and only Suzi Quatro and her show Rocking with Suqi Q, and the alway fun is 6 music where they always play new music and old classic and live set and don't for get all three station all have very good Documentary on music and other things.

and there always to see if the gig is a go ther
www.ticketmaster.com I will always to tell you if a gig a go or not and it will tell you how much to get in.

ANd on more thing I you like the bands and there nice tunes and sounds you can always go to
myspace.com Music site and join the fan club for free and they also have good tunes on there page.

So that are some of the sourced I used for my blog sight every day so the avg. music fan can be better in from before MTV sit on it for a week and a half.

That it for this down day post

before I go there two passing in music that happened last week

Ska and reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker died Wednesday, May 24 of a heart attack at his home in Surrey, England. Dekker, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, had a string of hits both in his home country and in the UK. His most well known singles included "Israelites," "Rudie Got Soul" and "007 (Shanty Town)." Many of his songs were about rudeboy culture, glamorizing the lifestyle for the growing mod subculture in 1960s England. Dekker is credited for bringing world attention to Jamaica's ska and reggae movements, as well as paving the way for artists like Bob Marley. Dekker continued to record into the '70s, though the singer declared bankruptsy in the '80s when Two Tone ska fans dwindled. A re-release of "Israelites" and a full touring schedule up until his death kept Dekker busy. (cmj.com)

and

Ian Copeland, a rock music agent and entrepreneur who represented The Police, R.E.M., Adam Ant, The Go-GoÂ’s and other seminal rock groups that emerged in the 1970s and 1980Â’s New Wave and punk scenes, has died. He was 57.

Copeland died Tuesday of melanoma, said Amy Grey, a family spokeswoman.

Copeland was one of three brothers in the family who became prominent figures in the music industry. Younger brother Stewart was the drummer for The Police. Older sibling Miles founded record label International Records Syndicate.

In the mid-1970s, Copeland moved to Macon, Ga., where he worked for an agency booking tours for several Southern rock groups, including Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band.

Word of LondonÂ’s emerging punk rock scene excited Copeland, who sought to get the agency he was working for to bring the raw new British bands to U.S. venues.
It didnÂ’t work. But when his brother Miles signed the British band Squeeze, the two siblings arranged for the band to tour small clubs in the U.S. They used the same strategy to promote other bands, including The Police and the B-52s.

They will both be miss by all

Now if you know a very good blog sight that feather music or anything that is trushed, Please do fire off a E-Mail at
Culturecitynewstips@yahoo.com

That it have a good rest of you day and yes 92 tied a record today
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK1

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