News featuring Joe
The following news stories mention Joe. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated less than 6 hours ago.
’13 May 16 Thu
Thursday 16th May
“Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa: Seesaw – review”
(Provogue Records)
Joe Bonamassa is a guitar hero and blues-rocker with impressively eclectic taste. A one-time child prodigy who opened for his admirer BB King when he was just 12, he has developed an interest in blues-related music of every kind, and this second collaboration with the versatile Californian singer Beth Hart is remarkable for its bravery. There are covers of songs made famous by anyone from Billie Holiday to Tina Turner, Buddy Miles or Slackwax. The mood constantly changes, from a brash and brassy Them There Eyes, recorded by Holiday in the Thirties, to an efficiently rocked-up Nutbush City Limits, or fine bluesy vocals and guitar work on I Love You Know More Than You'll Ever Know. Then there's a slinky reworking of an Etta James song, and even a daring, brooding and angry treatment of Strange Fruit. Hart is no Nina Simone, but this is no embarrassment.
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“The hot bands of the summer – according to the labels”
Festival season is here, but forget the big names, there are some thrilling smaller acts to be seen. Six labels reveal theirs
Heavenly Recordings
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“Beyoncé and Joe McElderry: that duet in full”
Witness the moment the singer got together with X Factor's Joe McElderry – if only for a brief, but beautiful, moment
The joy of the more intimate moments on Beyoncé's current world tour – when she appears on a stage in the middle of the arena, and holds her microphone down to fans so they can sing along – is tempered somewhat by the knowledge that the area surrounding this B-stage is usually reserved for fans who have paid top whack for upgraded tickets, but one incident during a recent Manchester show was genuinely thrilling.
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“LA's 1980s psychedelic explosion”
Think of LA in the 1980s, and you think of hair metal. But elsewhere, the Bangles, the Dream Syndicate and a handful of others were reviving the 1960s and briefly becoming rock's hottest scene. Here's the story in the musicians' own words
Some music scenes pass into legend – Memphis in 1955/56, San Francisco and London in 1966/67, New York in 1976/77. Many more, though, fade from memory – like the Paisley Underground. Back in the early 80s, Los Angeles saw a sudden spurt of young bands all influenced by the psychedelia of the late 60s, and all taking different elements of it. The result was bands that all sounded different, but all of a piece – from the intense, droning, tough Velvetsy rock of the Dream Syndicate, to the sunshiney Beatles pop of the Bangles, to the Byrds-indebted Long Ryders.
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’13 May 14 Tue
Tuesday 14th May
“Emergency landing over Whitney song”
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an unexpected landing when a female passenger refused to stop singing Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You
It may not have been the most dangerous emergency landing in aviation history, but it has to go down as one of most bizarre. An American Airlines flight was forced to make an unexpected descent when a female passenger refused to stop singing Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.
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’13 May 13 Mon
Monday 13th May
“Dirty Projectors – “The Socialites (AlunaGeorge Remix)””
Today, the Dirty Projectors release a new 12″ single, one where various different producers remix “The Socialites,” a song from their 2012 album Swing Lo Magellan. Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard contributed one remix, and we already posted that. The great young London electro-soul duo AlunaGeorge also offer their own remix, one that pairs Amber Coffman’s [...]
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“Explorers – New Band Up North #26”
Each week, Emily Brinnand digs through the sounds of the North, picking one artist or band she thinks you should note
Jeremy Dennis and Robert Bannister are quietly cooking up 80s-tinged electro-alt pop that oozes romance and nostalgia. Gorgeous, carefree melodies take you to a world of daydreamers with their head in the clouds. Yet, their vibrant pop gets you up and dancing too.
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“John Lennon wanted to return to the UK before he was shot, says singer's friend”
Joe Flannery claims The Beatles singer thought he was 'cursed' in new book
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’13 May 11 Sat
Saturday 11th May
“Eurovision's spiritual home rolls out the pink carpet for week of kitsch, camp fun”
100,000 fans expected in Malmö, the Swedish city hosting the contest, ready to party to the local soundtrack of schlager music
As Joe Nilsson, owner of the leading gay club in the Swedish city of Malmö, watched the raven-haired Swedish pop diva Loreen sweep to victory in last year's Eurovision song contest, he already knew what he was going to do.
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“Adam Buxton: 'I was called a smarmy, greased-up dwarf'”
Adam Buxton's solo show Bug pokes fun at the casual brutality of online discourse
"It's a steep curve in the net age," says comedian Adam Buxton, "learning to deal with a new type of casual, brutal criticism from people you've never met." He remembers, with a queasy smile, somebody once describing him as "a smarmy little greased-up dwarf". But the 43-year-old is better placed to deal with internet obnoxiousness than most. For several years, he has staged a live comedy show called Bug that makes great play of the awful things people say to one another online. "Kids, mostly, pushing each other's buttons," as Buxton thinks of it, "saying the unsayable, screwing around with how social interaction works."
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