E você,

já comprou o Bogary, o cd novo do Cascadura? É o quarto (e ótimo) disco da banda, que saiu encartado na revista outracoisa deste mês, com matéria de Luiz Cesar Pimentel. Só R$ 14,90, não tem desculpa.

Hora do Rock

O programa de hoje dá seqüência à série de especiais sobre a história do rock, com a new wave (Blondie, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello), o pós punk inglês (Joy Division, Cure, Bauhaus, Smiths, Echo and The Bunnymen), a cena Madchester (Happy Mondays, Stone Roses) e o college rock (Sonic Youth, R.E.M).

Para ouvir: quinta-feira, 21h, na Globo FM (90,1 em Salvador)
Ou no podcast, onde estão disponíveis também os programas antigos:

O set da semana passada foi:

Cream – I Feel Free
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Fire
Led Zeppelin – Good Times, Bad Times
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Lou Reed – Hangin’ ‘Round
David Bowie – Man Who Sold The World
Patti Smith – Free Money
New York Dolls – Don’t Start Me Talking
Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers – I Wanna Be Loved
The Dictators – California Sun
Television – See No Evil
Richard Hell and The Voidoids – Black Generation
Ramones – 53rd and 3rd
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The U.K.
The Clash – Career Opportunities
Siouxie and The Banshees – Mirage

Para participar do chat que rola na hora do programa: gabrielamra@hotmail.com, ou miwkyta@hotmail.com

Hora do Rock

O programa desta quinta-feira dá seqüência à série de especiais sobre a história do rock, com A New Wave, o pós punk inglês, a cena Madchester e a College Rock.

Para ouvir: quinta-feira, 21h, na Globo FM (90,1 em Salvador)
Ou no podcast, onde estão disponíveis também os programas antigos:

O set da semana passada foi:

Cream – I Feel Free
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Fire
Led Zeppelin – Good Times, Bad Times
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Lou Reed – Hangin’ ‘Round
David Bowie – Man Who Sold The World
Patti Smith – Free Money
New York Dolls – Don’t Start Me Talking
Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers – I Wanna Be Loved
The Dictators – California Sun
Television – See No Evil
Richard Hell and The Voidoids – Black Generation
Ramones – 53rd and 3rd
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The U.K.
The Clash – Career Opportunities
Siouxie and The Banshees – Mirage

Para participar do chat que rola na hora do programa: gabrielamra@hotmail.com, ou miwkyta@hotmail.com

Hora do Rock

O programa de hoje dá seqüência à série de especiais sobre a história do rock, desta vez com os mestres da guitarra (Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin), o som de Detroit (MC5, Stooges), o pré punk americano (New York Dolls, Dictators, Johnny Thunders and The Heartbkreakers, Riched Hell, Ramones), e o punk inglês.

Para ouvir: quinta-feira, 21h, na Globo FM (90,1 em Salvador)
Pela net: http://www.gfm.com.br/ (se já estiver funcionando), ou no podcast do Hora do Rock, onde estão disponíveis os dois últimos programas.

O set da semana passada foi:

Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock
Bo Diddley – Hey Bo Diddley
Little Richard – Slipin’ and Slidin’
Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
Jerry Lee Lewis – Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Elvis Presley - That’s All Right Mama
The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Rolling Stones – Time In On My Side
The Who – My Generation
Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
Beach Boys – God Only Knows
Love – A House Is Not a Motel
The Doors – You’re Lost Little Girl
Syd Barrett – Dominoes

Para participar do char que rola na hora do programa: gabrielamra@hotmail.com, ou miwkyta@hotmail.com

Música boa no rádio no final de semana

Nos especiais A História do Rock produzidos por Luciano "elCabong" Matos para a A Tarde FM. Se eu fosse você, não perderia os programas de amanhã e domingo por nada:

- Sábado, às 17h, os anos 60, com Beatles, Rolling Stones, psicodelia, Velvet Underground, Love, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, etc.

- Domingo, também às 17h, é a vez da história do rock baiano, desde Raulzito e seus Panteras, passando por Edy Star , Camisa de Vênus, Treblinka, brincando de deus, etc

brincando de deus tocando no rádio em Salvador? Preciso testemunhar isso.

Para ouvir: A Tarde FM, 103.9 (Salvador), ou www.104fm.com.br (esse deve funcionar).

Hora do Rock

13 de julho (hoje) é o Dia Mundial do Rock. O programa homenageia a passagem da data com uma série de especiais que vão tentar contar a história do gênero (!). Este primeiro terá os negros pioneiros (Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Clittle Richard), os brancos que estouraram (Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis), a British Invasion, o folk e o som da costa oeste americana. Vai rolar também uma pequena homenagem ao genial Syd Barrett, morto na última sexta-feira.

Para ouvir: quinta-feira, 21h, na Globo FM (90,1 em Salvador)

Pela net: www.gfm.com.br (se já estiver funcionando), ou no podcast do Hora do Rock, onde está disponível também o programa da semana passada, somente com músicas do Velvet Underground.

O set da semana passada foi:

All Tomorrow's Parties
I'm Waiting For The Man
There She Goes Again
I'll Be Your Mirror
Sunday Morning
Femme Fatale
White Light, White Heat
Pale Blue Eyes
Jesus
Begining To See The Light
Sweet Jane
Sweet Nuthin'
Who Loves The Sun

Para participar do chat no MSN que rola na hora do programa: gabrielamra@hotmail.com ou miwkyta@hotmail.com.

Podcast do Hora do Rock no ar!

Estréia com esse programa em homenagem ao Velvet.

E agora, com um link decente.

Hype é tudo

A revista Q pregou uma bela peça em Alan McGee. É gigante, eu sei, mas é interessante.

Para facilitar sua vida, um resumo: a revista Q inventou uma banda indie chamada Hope Against Hope, botou um moleque e duas meninas com um visual bacana nas fotos de divulgação e criou um perfil no MySpace. Adicionou "amigos" como Editors, CBGB e Dirty Pretty Things e atraiu a atenção do idealizador do selo Creation, distribuidor das bandas shoegazers mais queridas dos indies (My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive) e, posteriormente, descobridor do Oasis, Alan McGee - que chamou a banda para tocar. Só que as músicas foram, na verdade, compostas e tocadas por um bigodudo feio e sem nenhuma cara de mid-20's. O resto você lê ai, que eu não vou entregar tudo assim, de mão beijada.


The Creation myth
The cyber band that fooled Alan McGee is part of a wider worry
Pete Paphides

A mere telephone receiver simply can’t do justice to Alan McGee when the former Creation supremo has the wind in his sails. “They call that ascam? Do me a favour. Let me tell you what a f***ing scam is. A scam is selling your record label for £30 million to Sony (as McGee did when he sold Creation). When I pull off a scam, I walk away millions of pounds richer.”
Of course, the sequence of events that led to McGee being “scammed” by a fake band on MySpace is now a matter of public record. Matt Allen, a writer for Q magazine, set up a page on the online community site (owned by News Corporation, the parent company of The Times) for a London-based trio called Hope Against Hope. What purported to be the band, though ,was in fact a picture of the magazine’s photogenic work-experience boy and his two mates. And the music playing on the site was actually written and performed by a bearded thirty something songwriter named Howl Griff.
Nevertheless, by contacting bands such as Editors and Dirty Pretty Things (when McGee manages) and accepting them as their “friends”, Hope Against Hope built a profile of fashionable allies. Within weeks, an impressed McGee offered them a gig at his Death Disco club night. Some result for a band that didn’t exist.
This week, then, we have mostly learnt that contriving a grass-roots buzz through MySpace is actually a cinch.
But how naive has McGee really been? He was, after all, just doing his job. When I tell Allen that McGee thinks the magazine has tried to stitch him up, he seems deflated. “That was not the objective. We just wanted to see if the technology harnessed by MySpace was as effective a marketing tool for unsigned bands as it’s supposed to be.”
That being the case, you wonder why Q left it so late to test the hypothesis. When the article finally hits the newsstands Sandi Thom’s I Wish I was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in my Hair) will have already spent a month in the top five — the eventual result of the increasingly popular “virtual concerts” she played earlier this year. The “mature” Los Angeles combo Orson were an American MySpace phenomenon months before No Tomorrow propelled them to the top of the UK charts in March. Artists who, because of their age, looks or sensibility, would normally struggle to wrest a contract out of an A&R man are now amassing fan bases that the industry can’t ignore.
I put it to McGee that if he liked Hope Against Hope’s songs he should have held his nerve and let Griff play at his club. After all, the scam set out to prove that if a band pass as likely-looking contenders, then doors start to open for them. He dismisses the idea out of hand.
“I hope he isn’t upset,” says Griff later. “It’s not like I wrote those songs as a joke.”
Though Griff says the experience has been “broadly positive”, a nagging doubt remains — one that the Hope Against Hope episode has magnified. If you don’t look the part, can any amount of talent get you into the musicindustry? Griff’s real MySpace site has more “friends” than that of Hope Against Hope, but he has yet to generate the kind of buzz that Q’sfictional band achieved merely by briefly playing the game.
“What it shows,” says Allen, “is the amount of trust that exists on sites like MySpace, MyNME and bebo. You can reinvent yourself, reinvent your own story and people take you at your word. I don’t know that that’s such a bad thing if the music stands up.”
Subtract cyberspace from the equation and it’s not such a new thing either. Made-up bands have, in fact, been part of pop mythology for decades. Milli Vanilli famously had to return a Grammy when they confessed that they hadn’t sung on their records. The Archies were invented by the Monkees’ executive producer Don Kirshner in a fit of pique after his group deemed Sugar Sugar too awful to record.
One presumably quiet week in 1970, Simon Napier-Bell, the manager of the Yardbirds and Marc Bolan, hatched a ruse to see how much money he could extract from a major label for a band that didn’t exist. Falling into line with the suedehead/hooligan chic of the day, Napier-Bell and his business partner Ray Singer roped in three likely-looking young men to front Borstal and landed a deal with RCA.
Napier-Bell and Singer then set about getting some songs written and performed by a variety of established musicians. The resulting album, Straight out of Borstal, has become a prized artefact among DJs, thanks to its sought-after drum breaks.
Often, bands that are a mere idea set off a feeding frenzy, and hurriedly have to satisfy it by making up a few songs. The Britpop coat hangers Menswear formed in a Camden pub before intense media interest forced them to write some songs. On reflection, they would have been better off getting someone uglier but more talented to do the tricky bit for them.
It’s an ineluctable reality of pop that some perfectly good, possibly ugly, singer-songwriters don’t have enough of what the A&R manager of one major label calls “a story” — some defining feature that makes record buyers want to associate with them — to justify a label’s investment.
There’s no point in blaming A&R men for this state of affairs. It has probably always been like this. But at the same time, good music is surely good music. Are punters really so unforgiving if your face doesn’t fit? I ask my A&R man if he might spare some time to listen to some rather Zeitgeistig suburban new wave tunes I recently discovered on a band’s MySpace site. I’ve already played them to a few people: three teenage relatives, as well as Sounds’ work-experience indie kids – Jamie and Tom, both aged 14. The response has been positive. But what does the man from the record label think? He’s impressed too. “It’s right up my street,” he avers. Then, he breaks into a smile. He’s already been on the band’s MySpace site and noticed it doesn’t have a picture. “So what’s the catch?” As he suspected, there is kind of a catch. The songs uploaded by Dog Remover (not their real name) on to their MySpace site are newly recorded 1978 compositions by a 52-year-old Glaswegian who fears that revealing his real identity might diminish the buzz surrounding them.
He might have a point, too. When I tell the A&R man the story, his response is nothing if not frank. “At the moment, that makes it a hard thing to get behind, obviously.”
Not enough of a “story”? Tom and Jamie aren’t so sure about that: “He’s 52? Wow! That’s so cool. I’d check his band out.”
“Is that what they said?” ponders the A&R man. “Well, that’s encouraging. MySpace has obviously served him well, but the virtual world can only help you so much. At some point this guy is going to have to declare himself. If he does that and then starts to pack out venues, that might become the story.”

Links:
www.myspace.com/howlgriff
www.myspace.com/hopeagainsthoperock

Matéria Times: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-2238042,00.html

Matéria The Independent: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article1090387.ece

Hora do Rock

Com todo orgulho do mundo, eu divulgo a programação do Hora do Rock de amanhã: especial The Velvet Underground. O mês de julho marca os 40 anos do lançamento do primeiro single da banda, All Tomorrow's Parties, e o Hora do Rock presta uma homenagem ao Velvet com uma hora inteira dedicada ao grupo. Apesar de o single ser de 66, o primeiro disco do Velvet, o The Velvet Undeground and Nico, só saiu em março de 67.
Inicialmente, o lançamento foi adiado por problemas com a capa idealizada por Andy Warhol (a impressão da peelable banana), e pela má vontade da gravadora, a MGM. Quando o disco finalmente foi lançado, um superstar de Warhol, Eric Emmerson, ameaçou processar a MGM por uso não autorizado de imagem. Na contracapa do disco, havia um frame de um filme de Warhol que registrava uma apresentação do Exploding Plastic Inevitable com o Velvet tocando, e ele aparecia.
Emmerson tinha sido preso por porte de drogas e precisava fazer uma grana. Resultado? O disco foi recolhido, e relançado na mesma época em que do Sargent Peppers - e ai ficou difícil competir.

Essas e outras histórias sobre o Velvet Underground também serão contadas no programa, que vai apresentar músicas de todos os quatro discos oficiais (embora com maior ênfase no primeiro, obviamente): The Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground e Loaded.

Para ouvir: toda quinta, às 21h, na Globo FM (90,1). Como o site da rádio não anda colaborando com as pessoas que tentam ouvir online, antes do programa eu posto o link do podcast, que estará disponível amanhã no horário do Hora do Rock.

O set da semana passada foi:

Pipettes – Why Did You Stay?
The Caesars – Jerk It Out
She Wants Revenge – I Don’t Want To Fall In Love
Maxïmo Park – Once a Glimpse
Hard Fi – Gotta Reason
Futureheads – Worry About It Later
Guillemots – Made Up Lovesong #43
Arcade Fire – Crown of Love
Razorlight – Golden Touch
Editors – Munich
Primal Scream – Country Girl
Happy Mondays – God’s Cop
Soup Dragons – Dream On

Hora do Rock no Orkut: http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=6910684

Para participar do chat no MSN que rola na hora do programa: gabrielamra@hotmail.com ou miwkyta@hotmail.com.

AVISO: Não sei se vai ter chat pq Miwky não vai poder participar e eu sempre me atraso.