Bloc Party beats sophomore slump

The good thing is that their site has individual blogs from Kele Okereke, Matt Tong, Russell Lissack and Gordon Moakes; the four members of the band. The bad thing is that you can learn little about the band’s activities during 2007 because, of the four, only Moakes has updated his diary since summer 2006. That does not mean that things are not going the good way for the band. Since they made it big with…

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Live Earth: London full coverage

[tag]Live Earth[/tag] London, the biggest concerts in terms of names in my opinion, started a mid-day at the fabulous Wembley Stadium.The Festival’s openers were a group of all stars drummers, composed by the likes of Taylor Hawkins from the [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag], Chad Smith from [tag]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/tag] and Roger Taylor from [tag]Queen[/tag] all backed up by a orchestra of drummers titled SOS Allstars. Their performance was overwhelming, with extraordinary drumming, while images and clips…

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Live Earth debuts in Sydney

As we promised, we’re gonna cover the immense [tag]Live Earth[/tag] Festival. With 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world’s top musicians, Live Earth will engage, connect, and inspire individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis. Our first stop is Sydney were the gigs began at 10:30 AM at the Aussie Stadium in Moore Park, where a aboriginal group launched the event…

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Live Earth with its ninth gig

[tag]Live Earth[/tag] officials have added, on the last stretch, the ninth and last concert in the series of events set to promote the global awareness to global warming. This last gig will take place in the US capital Washington DC in the National Mall, positioned in very close proximity to the US Capitol. The headliners for this Live Earth leg are country stars Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood. DC will join London, Sydney, Rio de…

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Live Earth Rio may not take place

It seems that the Rio de Janeiro concert, part of the ample [tag]Live Earth[/tag] Festival set rock the world at 07.07.2007, is in serious jeopardy of not taking place, for security reasons. Brazilian officials claim they do not have enough police staff to ensure safety for the swarms of people expected to take part at the hugh concert at the Copacabana Beach and that they have to cancel the event. Live Earth officials, however, are…

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Kelly Clarkson cancels her summer tour

After firing her manager Jeff Kwatinetz just a few days ago, [tag]Kelly Clarkson[/tag] succeeds to surprise us by making yet another bold move: she cancels her summer tour( for now at least), due to low ticket sales. The pop/rock star was set to play in 35-date tours, from July 11 to September 26, the only official summer concert that the artist will play at is July 7 [tag]Live Earth[/tag] concert at Giants Stadium in New…

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Tickets soon to be on sale for Download Festival ’08

This weekend, between 08-10 June 2007, the ’07 Download Festival was held in the traditional location of Donington Park, where as usual there was some hard rocking. Some great bands played this year and really gave an outstanding performance, to name a few [tag]Iron Maiden[/tag], [tag] Linkin Park[/tag], [tag]My Chemical Romance[/tag], [tag]Marlyn Manson[/tag], [tag]Mastodon[/tag] (God do they surely know to pack some racket ! ) and a lot of great artists.

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George Michael makes history again

Yesterday night ex-Wham! pop star [tag]George Michael[/tag] entered the history books after performing the first ever concert in the new Wembley Stadium, after a seven years period since the last concert took place there, before it was demolished and rebuilt. The pop star gave an extraordinary performance, worthy of a debut of this fashion, singing tracks from his Wham! days and also from his solo carrier, at the end of which he received a great…

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Linkin Park Headlines Live Earth Japan

[tag]Linkin Park[/tag] has announced its participation at the grand [tag]Live Earth[/tag] affair, which will reunite all the major artists of the world in a seven-continent tour. Live Earth is designed to promote awareness of the threat of global warming to our planet, bringing together more than 100 of the world’s top music acts to engage an audience of over two billion people with solutions to the climate crisis. So Linkin Park will be joining Madonna,…

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