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    Dont Try This At Home
    Wiederveröffentlichung des 1991er-Albums des englischen Songwriters, mit 14 Bonustracks. Nach dem ersten Teil seiner Werkschau, die im Frühjahr 2006 startete, setzt Billy Bragg die Wiederveröffentlichung seines Werks mit Alben der Jahre 1988 bis 2002 fort. Die vier Doppel-CDs sind erneut Teil eines Box-Sets, aber auch einzeln erhältlich. Das von der Kritik hoch gelobte "Don't Try This At Home" erschien erstmalig 1991 und erreichte Platz acht der englischen Charts. Prominente Gäste wie Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Michael Stipe und Peter Buck (R.E.M.) wirkten bei den Aufnahmen zum Album mit. Die zweite CD enthält 14 Bonus-Tracks mit Demos und teils unveröffentlichtem Material.
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    Crash Site
    Summer's gone the moment a cool breeze blows off the ocean at sunset, chilling you to the bone. Summer's gone when pale gold leaves skitter down the road under the ever-waning warmth of the September sun, when shy fireflies dim in the encroaching autumn dusk. If you're talking music, 'Summer's Gone' is also the dynamic first single off Crash Site, one of the year's more exciting, auspicious solo debuts from a gifted, young singer-songwriter, Benjamin Wagner. Entertainment Weekly dubbed Wagner a 'fuzz-guitar blast' after catching one of the his many New York gigs, but voluptuous bursts of distortions and exuberant, jangling melodies are only half the equation. Like David Gray, Paul Westerberg, or Pete Yorn, Wagner knows how to churn up sultry, raucous, sing-a-long melodies. But he just as adeptly takes a more haunted, contemplative twist with tracks that are as dusky and cool as, say, the autumnal equinox. On Crash Site, Wagner's reedy vocals brazenly tumble through rave-ups like 'Down,' the tumultuous beauty of 'Summer's Gone' and the breathtaking -- and heartbreaking -- 'Dear Elizabeth.' Mixed and produced by Steve Feldman (Queens of the Stone Age, Splender), Crash Site is Wagner's 8-song road trip through the streets of New York, confounded and bemused by life, love and long-term plans. 'I tackle some personal stuff in this record,' Wagner admits from his Hell's Kitchen, New York apartment. 'I've always just picked up my guitar to work out whatever's going on.' Wagner's been working the New York club scene for several years and has garnered enough of a fan base to release several EP's. The limited edition, fan-only 1999 acoustic release Legend of the Evening Star, a compilation of unreleased demos and rarities, prompted R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe to dub Wagner 'a future superstar'. Other releases include 1999's rowdy Deluxe EP, recorded with Travis Pickle's Pete Min, and 1996's Out of Your Head. 'My father worked for the EPA, so I moved around like the stereotypical army 'brat',' Wagner says. Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Wagner lived in Washington D.C., Indianapolis, and Chicago, before his tenth birthday. After his parents divorce, Wagner, his brother and mother moved to Philadelphia. Growing up in the 80s, he vividly recalls getting his first transistor radio and listening, transfixed, to top forty radio stations in Chicago and Philly, loving everything from Hall and Oates to Phil Collins. But like James Joyce's Stephen Daedalus, Wagner finally had his defining, life-changing musical epiphany. 'My big brother brought R.E.M.'s Reckoning home from college which immediately woke me up and snapped me out of my Phil Collins stupor,' Wagner laughs. 'Hearing 'So. Central Rain' for the first time changed everything.' Reveling in bands like the Replacements and the Pixies (Wagner does a 'twisted' cover of the Pixies' 'Here Comes Your Man'), the young songwriter strapped on a Martin acoustic and began playing in bands in high school and later, at Syracuse University. There, Wagner fronted the funky -- and popular -- local alt. Pop band Smoky Junglefrog, opening for majors like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Samples and Dada. Following the bands' demise, Wagner moved to New York City and began playing a wide array of clubs like the Mercury Lounge, Arlene Grocery and Brownie's. Crash Site not only heralds the arrival of autumn, but the arrival of a singer/songwriter who writes beautiful melodies with a lyrical dexterity, honesty and insight that's sorely missing from much of today's contemporary pop-rock.
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    Potions
    Gerard Starkie is one of the finest singers in England. That might sound like pure rhetoric but the evidence has long been evident from the two magnificent albums that Starkie recorded with his former band, Witness. Those records Before the Calm in 1999 and Under a Sun in 2001 received the most extraordinary critical applause, some of which was especially reserved for Starkies own performances. The Times newspaper, for instance, claimed that Starkies vocals are imbued with that nebulous quality of soul fragile, sensitive and exuding a dignified stoicism doubtless born of experience while Q magazines review of Under a Sun stated that almost overburdened by yearning melodies, chief Witness Gerard Starkie sings about lifes travails in aching tones reminiscent of REMs Michael Stipe. Witness were always a band that was meant to be. Even back in 1999 Uncut magazine was claiming that this time next year Witness will be a leading contender for best album of the year. Frustratingly, things didn't work out that way. Formed in Wigan during April 1997, the band moved to Bristol following the release of Before the Calm three years later. In addition to formidable reviews, the album also found favour with the public on the back of a rising live reputation for the band, Before the Calm made the UK charts in the summer of 1999. It was after the release of the second Witness album, however, that the band quit Island Records. Despite phenomenal reviews, the album stubbornly refused to realise it's heightened commercial expectations. By the start of 2004 the band decided on a different direction, with Gerard Starkie now working as a solo artist. 'The band didn't split acrimoniously and there were no bust ups. Dylan Keeton (bass) is still heavily involved in what I'm doing now. Going solo doesn't mean I'll be playing with a bass drum strapped to my back and cymbals on my knees', says Starkie. 'Witness used to work democratically. It's a much more single-minded process now. Obviously that's going to have an effect', he says. 'I've also been working songs on a computer rather than just an acoustic guitar and again, that alters the flavour but, at the end of the day, it's still me writing the songs, so don't expect a hip hop album.'
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    Stadt als Beute
    Inhalt Drei Personen, ein Theaterstück und die große Stadt. Marlon, Lizzy und Ohboy proben in einem Hinterhoftheater unter der Regie von René Pollesch ein Stück. Doch die Arbeit ist zäh und die Premiere rückt näher. Marlon, frisch in der Stadt, findet sich weder in seiner neuen Heimat, noch in seinem Text zurecht. Lizzy landet nach einer Probe in einem Stripschuppen und erlebt eine verhängnisvolle Nacht. Derweil schlägt sich Ohboy mit Minderwertigkeitsgefühlen herum und lässt sich durch die Straßen treiben. Kritik René Polleschs gleichnamiges Theaterstück, filmisch umgesetzt in drei Episoden. Die Regie der einzelnen Teile übernahmen Irene von Alberti (""Paul Bowles - Halbmond""), Miriam Dehne (""99 Euro Films"") bzw. Esther Gronenborn (""alaska.de"") - mit vielschichtigem, entdeckenswertem Ergebnis. In den Hauptrollen überzeugen Richard Kropf, Inga Busch sowie David Scheller, an ihrer Seite agieren Jungstars wie Stipe Erceg (""Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"") und Julia Hummer (""Eierdiebe""). Für junge und jung gebliebene ""Kunst""-Fans. Quelle: VideoWoche
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