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April 1st, 2010 | 
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Always looking to help both their fans and the less fortunate, Dropkick Murphys are holding a charity auction in which the winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Dublin, Ireland to see the Celtic punk band perform on April 22.
Tickets are going for only $2 each and will benefit the Claddagh Fund, the non-profit organization started by bassist/singer Ken Casey that benefits a variety of causes, mainly ones involving children, veterans and substance abuse. The proceeds from this auction will go to the Belvedere Youth Club, a children’s center in Dublin, Ireland, and will fund a weekend trip for inner-city youth to the countryside.
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What happens when the Rhinestone Cowboy meets the inventor of the puke bucket? Listeners will find out later this year when Glen Campbell releases his final studio album, ‘Ghost on the Canvas.’ According to Billboard, the new disc will feature collaborations with former Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard and onetime Replacements mouthpiece Paul Westerberg, who wrote the title track. Crooner Chris Isaak and Jakob Dylan have also signed on for Campbell’s upcoming studio swansong.
“It’s not your mother’s Glen Campbell,” producer Julian Raymond told Billboard. “He’s playing guitar better than ever, singing and writing better than ever. It’s really going to be a great final statement from him.” ‘Ghost on the Canvas’ is the follow-up to Campbell’s 2008 covers disc, ‘Meet Glen Campbell,’ which featured his taken on tunes by Green Day, the Replacements, U2, the Foo Fighters and the Velvet Underground.
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A good four decades after John Lennon told journalist Maureen Cleave the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” a UK academic has said that music has replaced religion as the object of the public’s devotion.
Dr Clive Marsh of the University of Leicester, who has studied the relationship between religion and popular culture for the last 15 years, believes that regularly listening to music, watching films and “devoted” viewings of DVD box sets has usurped religion as an outlet for public worship. He describes such activities as the “spiritual disciplines” of the day.
He told the Daily Telegraph, “You see lots of people listening to their iPods seemingly caught up in their own private worlds. I am interested in the ways in which people consume music — what are they doing with it?”
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U2‘s historic Rose Bowl performance, which set an attendance record last fall when the band played for nearly 100,000 fans, will be released on DVD this year, according to the Los Angeles Times. While specifics on the project are unclear, video for the show, which was streamed online via YouTube, should be in ample supply.
“The band are still working on the content of the DVD,” the post continues, revealing little else. Thankfully, the L.A. Times posted a setlist from the show, which was long on material from U2′s latest effort, ‘No Line on the Horizon’ while digging deep into its songbook for 1984′s “The Unforgettable Fire’ and serving up tunes from its 30-year career.
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U2‘s the Edge is fighting a campaign in California to prevent him building a five-home development.
He plans to build on 156 acres of land that he purchased for $9.6m (£6.4m) and claims the houses will not intrude on the landscape of Malibu’s exclusive Sierra Canyon district, reported Ireland Online. The area’s temporary mayor, Jefferson Wagner, meanwhile, insists the development is out of character for this part of California.
“This is not what Malibu is about,” he said. “These kinds of places are ego run riot.” The Irish guitarist must now put his case to the Californian Coastal Commission that meets in June to gain approval. The Edge remains hopeful he can win over local residents opposed to his plan.
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Say what you will about Editors, but you can’t call them boring. Despite considerable success with their first two records, on their latest release, ‘In This Light and on This Evening,’ dropped their wiry guitar pop in favour of raw anthemic synth rock. It’s a striking aesthetic transformation, one that has surprised both fans and critics alike.
“This album is definitely the most challenging, left-field record that we’ve made,” lead singer Tom Smith tells Spinner.
The band’s dark currents are still present, but organic instruments are mostly swapped for minor-key synthesizers and stark electronics. According to drummer Ed Lay, the change came from a desire to avoid coming across as stale.
“It all started when we decided to go back into the rehearsal room to plan for the record and we found ourselves coming up with a lot of stuff that was sounding very similar to what we had done previously,” he explains. “It was just sounding a bit tired. We didn’t want to do the same thing all over again, so we knew we had to change things up.”
Despite having once tongue-kissed Bono for a Rolling Stone cover shoot, Liam Gallagher certainly doesn’t mind picking on U2 in order to get publicity. The singer — whose first post-Oasis project isn’t even out yet — suggests that Bono and the boys pay people to come to their shows.
“With all the money they’ve made, they just bought a load of people and every time they do a gig they get a shovel and pile them into their gigs to make them look good,” the voice behind ‘Wonderwall’ told Contact Music.
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It’s a cold SXSW this year. Despite the unexpected Texas chill, Los Angeles’ emerging four-piece Carney, led by brothers Reeve and Zane Carney, brought the heat with their blues-inspired electric guitar riffs at Rusty Spurs Thursday evening. Word of mouth spreads quick at SXSW, and two days into the fest, Carney’s name was falling off the lips as an act who wasn’t failing to impress despite their low profile.
But you better check them out quick. Come August, frontman Reeve Carney heads to Broadway to star as Spider-man in the U2-scored musical. Despite having already started his wire training for the theater-bound, air-defying stunts of Spidey, Reeve and his band plan to release their debut, ‘Mr. Green Vol. 1,’ this May and tour extensively before he heads off to the Big Apple.
While U2 still hasn’t released their promised follow-up to ‘No Line on the Horizon,’ the band has something to hold fans over, as they’ve released a new album of remixed tracks called ‘Artificial Horizon.’
The triple-vinyl album features 13 songs remixed by some of today’s top DJs and producers, including Influx, Justice and Hot Chip. Even Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor makes an appearance with a new version of ‘Vertigo.’ The collector’s set is similar to 1995′s ‘Melon: Remixes for Propaganda,’ which was a fan club exclusive.
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Controversial rapper Snoop Dogg is being lined up by Glastonbury organisers for this year’s 40th anniversary festival, according to a report in the Sun newspaper on Tuesday (March 16).
The rapper, who has been banned from entering the UK by immigration authorities since an altercation involving his entourage at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2006, has recently been allowed to reapply for a visa.
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis is reported to have said his daughter Emily — who books many of the acts for the Somerset bash is keen to get Snoop — saying, “She’s a bright girl and she is very keen on Snoop Dogg doing the show, so we want him.”