ABORT Recommends….HIGH SOCIETY: A Pot Boiler
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: ABORT Recommends..., News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
HIGH SOCIETY: A POT BOILER (Full-Length Trailer)
ABORT is Proud To Sponsor: SIN CITY, Jan. 10, 2009, Club 23 W. Vancouver BC
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: ABORT Presents:, The Cutting Edge, News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
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iTunes Dumps DRM, Adds Variable Pricing
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
(Source - Billboard)
At the MacWorld conference today (Jan. 6) in San Francisco, Apple Inc. confirmed reports that all four majors were now onboard to deliver DRM-free music through the iTunes Music Store.
The company will also embrace a variable pricing model starting in April; the price points are listed as 69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29. The company said more songs will be priced at 69 cents than $1.29.
iTunes began offering 8 million of its 10 million songs in a DRM-free format, today, and the remaining two million songs offered will be offered DRM-free by the end of March.
Additionally, iPhone 3G users can now preview and purchase music from iTunes over the phone’s built-in 3G network.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE, A VANCITY THEATRE EXCLUSIVE - ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day 
Roman Polanski, the Polish-born director of such modern American classics as Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown , survived the Holocaust that killed most of his family, endured authoritarian Communist rule and faced the murder of his pregnant wife Sharon Tate. It was the American media (at its most reckless and sensationalistic) and a judicial nightmare worthy of Kafka that almost destroyed him.
Marina Zenovich’s documentary on Polanski’s indictment on six felony charges (including statutory rape) over his notorious “relationship” with 13-year-old Samantha Gailey doesn’t flinch from Polanski’s abhorrent actions. The excerpts of police interview transcripts with Polanski and Gailey are disturbing. But behind the headlines was a media-hog judge more interested in public relations than justice, one whose abuse of power appalled both the defense lawyer and the prosecuting attorney.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Runs From January 16-20, 2009 at the Vancity Theatre
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ABORT Recommends…The Third Annual Hastings St. Indie Recording Sessions
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: KauseZ, Made In Canada, News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
February 6, 2009 from 4:00pm to 8:30pm at Ray-Cam Co-Op Centre - 920 East Hastings Street
The Hastings Street Media Lab presents the Third Annual Hastings St. Indie Recording Sessions featuring musical performances from bands and individual performers aged 13-19 years old. This All Ages show allows performers to present their material to a live audience. Performers can receive a number of prizes including Canucks Tickets, one of five computers, a full day in a professional recording studio with an engineer. 8-10 performances will be selected to participate.
Go to vancouveryouthradio.com to see video clips of previous events and to fill out the
online application form.
Prospective Performers may apply on line email: indierecording@vancouveryouthradio.com.
The Indie Recording Sessions are produced by the Hastings St Media Lab an independent, not for profit organization that provides opportunities in media arts and performance to Inner City Youth in Vancouver.
RoadTrip: Origin w/ 3 Inches of Butt (sorry…we meant Blood) Hell’s Kitchen, Tacoma, WA
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: Road Trip, News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day 
F.U.T.P.T - Rip Gets Ripped
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: Filling Up The Pisstank™ by E.S. Day
(Source - AP)
LITCHFIELD, Conn. - Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges in Connecticut, nearly two years after being fined and losing his license for similar charges in New York.
The 77-year-old Salisbury resident appeared in Bantam Superior Court on Monday. He pleaded not guilty to illegal operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane.
State police say a trooper stopped Torn on Dec. 14 on Route 44 shortly after he had left the White Hart Inn in Salisbury, a town of about 4,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state that borders New York and Massachusetts.
Police say Torn was driving in the breakdown lane in his 1994 Subaru with a Christmas tree tied to the top.
He failed part of a field sobriety exam, then gave up after saying the ground wasn’t level enough, state police said. He also refused to take a breathalyzer test and used profanity while in the trooper’s cruiser, police said.
Torn, who won an Emmy for his role on “The Larry Sanders Show,” is set to return to court Jan. 28.
Stooges guitarist/co-founder Ron Asheton Dead at 60
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: R.I.P., News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
(Source - Billboard)
Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead this morning (Jan. 6) at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., according to local police. He was 60.
Ann Arbor Detective Bill Stanford tells Billboard.com that police were called to Asheton’s house early this morning by Dara Hytinen, his personal assistant, who had not been able to reach him for several days.
Hytinen let officers into the house with her key and Asheton’s body was found in his bedroom. Stanford said he “looked fairly peaceful” and that there was no sign of foul play or drug use. Asheton, who had likely been dead since New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, had high blood pressure but no other major medical problems.
Asheton’s body was taken to the University of Michigan medical center, where an autopsy was to be conducted this afternoon. Stanford said a cause of death likely won’t be determined until toxicology reports are complete, which should take about a month.
Asheton and his drummer brother Scott formed the Stooges with Iggy Pop in Ann Arbor in 1967. Amid a music scene that also reared acts like Bob Seger and the MC5, the Stooges stood out for their reckless abandon, theatrics and pummeling style, a clear precursor for punk and alternative rock.
COMING SOON:George A. Romero’s…Of The Dead
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
“Never Go Against The Artist”: The Godfather Posters (The Alamo Drafthouse)
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: Visuals - Art/Tattoos/Reader Submissons by E.S. Day
(Source - SlashFilm)
To help promote The Alamo Drafthouse’s screening of The Godfather this month, the best theater ever has commissioned three poster prints for the film. Check them out after the jump.
The dynamic duo of Billy Perkins and Jeff Kleinsmith have gone head to head with a Impressionistic vs. Realistic poster set. Billy’s measures 18×36, 4 color with a deep brown metallic copper background, is signed and numbered by the artist, and is printed by D and L out of Seattle.
ABORT Recommends…DESTRUCTION, March 19, 2009, Vancouver
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: ABORT Recommends..., News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
WTF?: 2 Whiny Artists…1 One Whiny Album. Jay-Z and Radiohead are: JAYDIOHEAD - FREE DOWNLOAD
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: WTF? by E.S. Day
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COMING SOON: TYRANNOSAURUS REX
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
Donovan, Jamie Cullum, Paolo Nutini, Groove Armada, Bomb Squad among the Highlights at MIDEM 2009
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
MIDEM will host a growing list of industry talent for the 2009 edition, which runs in Cannes from 18-21 January. Concerts include folk legend Donovan, who will perform a unique acoustic session and will also participate in the Pschent evening along with Groove Armada. MIDEM’s British event will feature special guests Paolo Nutini, Jamie Cullum, Seth Lakeman and Patrick Wolf. The electro night will feature Public Enemy producers Bomb Squad, Detroit Grand Pubahs and French act Benjamin Diamond.
The 43rd MIDEM will also pay tribute to the industry’s most exceptional personalities and artists. Charles Aznavour will receive a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for a career studded with over 800 songs and sales of 100 million albums. The great Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi will also be honoured for his career at the 5th edition of the MIDEM Classical Awards. The founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis, will also receive a “Green World Award” in recognition of his work for the environment.
MidemNet will be celebrating its tenth anniversary, providing an opportunity for the international forum dedicated to music technology and new economic models to take a look back over the past decade with two of its key players: Eric Nicoli, former President of the EMI Group and current Chairman of VUE Entertainment and R&R music, and Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com and now CEO of MP3Tunes.
Creating value through the artist/fan relationship will be the central theme of the 10th edition of MidemNet, which will welcome experts like David Eun, who oversees Google’s content strategy; Courtney Holt, the brand new President of MySpace Music; Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), BlackBerry®; J.Y. Park, leading producer of a raft of Asian superstars including Rain, Wonder Girls and Jacky Cheung and President of JYP Entertainment; and Dr. Tero Ojanperä, EVP, Entertainment & Communities at Nokia.
This year’s MIDEM conferences will bring together around 200 key decision-makers to talk about the industry’s different areas of expansion such as live performance; independents; managers; images and brands; artist development; and for the first time this year, publishers, with a special dedicated event – the International Publishing Summit. MIDEM will also be welcoming Brian Message, co-manager of Radiohead, Faithless & Kate Nash and Steering Committee Member of the Featured Artist Coalition; Jay Marciano, President of Madison Square Garden Entertainment; André de Raaff, CEO of publishing company Imagem Music; Ralph Peer II, CEO and Chairman of peermusic; Michael Eaton, Business Manager for Eric Clapton; Bruce Flohr, Executive, Red Light Management/Partner, ATO Records; Simon Raymonde, Managing Director of Bella Union and former member of the Cocteau Twins; Ben Watt, Founder and Owner of Buzzin’ Fly Records and Strange Feeling Records and former member of Everything But The Girl.
JIM JONES CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING JAY-Z ASSOCIATE
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day 
“Peek-A-Boo I’m Comin’ For You”
(Source -SOHH)
On Monday January 5, 2009 Dipset Capo Jim Jones appeared at the 18th Precinct in New York City to speak to the police about an alleged physical altercation that took place on Christmas Eve. As a result of the meeting, Jones has been slapped with a misdemeanor assault charge and a court appearance has been scheduled for February 4th.
As SOHH.com’s Gyant Scoop blog previously reported early rumors said Jim Jones got into an altercation with the brother of Ty-Ty Smitha long-time Jay-Z associate. Jones has had a very public beef with Jay-Z
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal: 30 Years Later
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: Commentary/Editorial, News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
This year sees the 30th anniversary of one of our most thoroughly titled musical genres: the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, abbreviated to NWOBHM, and pronounced “nuh-wobbum”. It’s a realm of rapid-fire riffs and heroic declarations about motorbikes, the Charge of the Light Brigade and sticking it to the boss. It’s also a place of much bathos and human fallibility. One NWOBHM group toured in a van bearing the trademark of its previous owner: Sid Cummings - Tripe Dealer. Another band’s drummer played inside a cage while wearing what was often referred to as a “rapist mask”. He called himself Thunderstick, though his parents knew him better as Barry Purkis.
NWOBHM was not solely the preserve of bathos. Two of its leading lights, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, went on to become among the biggest groups in the world, forging long-lasting careers. But they do not, perhaps, represent the British metal scene in its truest light. Def Leppard’s transatlantic inclinations soon removed them from the scene that spawned them (and from the affections of hardcore metalheads back home), while Maiden became the international gold standard for metal.
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal centres on the hordes of bands who never quite eclipsed the thing that spawned them. They came pouring in from the provinces - bands such as Saxon (from Barnsley), Sledgehammer (Slough) and the Tygers of Pan Tang (Whitley Bay). And the club that became the unofficial HQ of NWOBHM was perhaps the least glamorous centre of any scene. Where the British R&B boom of the 60s had the Marquee and New York punk had CBGBs, NWOBHM had a room attached to the Prince of Wales pub in the north-west London suburb of Kingsbury, where the Soundhouse club would see fans playing along to favourite songs on hardboard cutout guitars - a trend begun by a wedding photographer called Robin Yeatman. So influential was the Soundhouse that Iron Maiden’s first release was called The Soundhouse Tapes.
ABORT Recommends…(hed) P.E. w/ Guests
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: ABORT Recommends... by E.S. Day
PRE ORDER THE NEW ALBUM NOW!
READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH (HED) P.E. IN ISSUE 8 of ABORT
TOUR DATES AND MORE VISIT:
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La Coka Nostra Launches Video For “I’m An American” Featuring Cypress Hill’s B-Real
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. DayLa Coka Nostra Consists of Everlast, DannyBoy, DJ Lethal, Ill Bill, Slaine and Big Left
La Coka Nostra have released the video for the track “I’m An American” online at the following location http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3qU821mlqM . The video was directed by La Coka Nostra’s own Danny Boy O’Connor and features a guest appearance by Cypress Hill’s B-Real.
“I just wanted to create something different than what I have been seeing in hip-hop lately,” commented Danny Boy. “I like the graphic novel look and decided to produce and direct my own for LCN-DB.”
Founded on a new breed of rappers, but further injecting the mix with iconic veterans of the game the result is La Coka Nostra. Composed of members Ill Bill, Slaine, Everlast, Danny Boy, Dj Lethal and Big Left, La Coka Nostra is a breath of fresh air in these days of contrived airbrushed rap music.
La Coka Nostra will release their upcoming debut “A Brand You Can Trust” through Suburban Noize Records in early 2009 packed with collaborations by Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Bun B, Psycho Realm, Q-Unique, Immortal Technique and the Alchemist. The group will embark on the Bring Tha Noize Tour alongside Kottonmouth Kings, Blaze Ya’ Dead Homie, Big B, Potluck and Short Dawg beginning in late February through early April.
ABORT TV: Ill Bill Commercial from ABORT TV on Vimeo.
Debut Album “A Brand You Can Trust” In Stores Early 2009 and Touring Alongside Kottonmouth Kings On Bring Tha Noize Tour
(Get Your Goth On!)UNDERWORLD: Rise of the Lycans -Jan.23/2009
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
R.I.P. - “Commissioner Gordon” Pat Hingle Dead at 84
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: R.I.P., News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
(Source and Photo-AP)
Pat Hingle, a veteran actor whose career included a recurring role as Commissioner Gordon in several Batman movies in the 1990s, has died after battling blood cancer. He was 84. Hingle’s career in movies and TV spanned six decades, and he was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1958.
Hingle’s last movie was Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was released in 2006.
Let’s Get Wacked!: WACKEN FESTIVAL 2009, Germany - 20th Anniversary!
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: Road Trip, News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day 
2009 LINE-UP:
Amon Amarth
Axel Rudi Pell
BfmV
Callejon
Cathedral
Dragonforce
Einherjer
Epica
GWAR
Hammerfall
In Extremo
In Flames
Kampfar
Korpiklaani
Machine Head
Motörhead
Napalm Death
Nevermore
Tristania
Volbeat
Walls of Jericho
INFO/TICKETS:
R.I.P - Robert Ward (Ohio Players) Dies at 70
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: R.I.P., News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
(Source -AP)
Robert Ward, a Georgia blues musician who played with some of Motown’s biggest artists, died Dec. 25. He was 70.
His wife, Roberta, told the Telegraph of Macon that her husband died at his home in Dry Branch in central Georgia. She said her husband had suffered a stroke in 2001 and never fully recovered.
Ward, a Georgia native, moved to Ohio and founded the Ohio Untouchables, which later became the Ohio Players. However, Ward left the group well before its biggest successes in the mid-1970s, when it scored No. 1 hits with “Fire” and “Love Rollercoaster.”
In the 1970s, he moved to Detroit where he performed with the Temptations, Wilson Pickett and other Motown artists.
The vocalist and guitarist recorded multiple albums over his career, starting in 1991 with “Fear No Evil.” His last album, “New Role Soul,” was released in 2000.
“Disconnected ” Art Show - Jan. 31/09 Box Studios, Vancouver
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
1622 Franklin Street, Vancouver, BC
R.I.P. - Seattle Rapper 29-E Shot and Killed
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: R.I.P., News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
(Source - SOHH)
Local up-and-coming rapper 29-E was fatally shot this morning (January 4) and two additional artists have suffered gun wounds after a concert shooting in Washington.
Accoridng to Seattlest, around 12:30 a.m. a dispute took place at Seattle’s Chop Suey venue when someone opened the club’s side door and began to unload gun shots at artists and show attenders inside a hallway.
Three individuals were shot, including 29-E who was fatally wounded, and rushed to Harborview hospital.
The show’s host, 1st Black Prez, received a bullet wound to his chest and is currently in critical condition as he undergoes surgery. Black Senate’s Trama reportedly is suffering from less serious wounds.
As of now, two suspects have been taken in by police for questioning and club promoters were allegedly made aware of a high possibility of gang violence likely to errupt at the show and were urged to cancel.
Chop Suey, located a few blocks from Seattle University, is renowned as one of the city’s most diverse venues featuring a fusion of hip-hop, R&B, rock, eletronic and indie music.
RoadTrip: D.O.A. Tours China!
January 5th, 2009 Filed under: Made In Canada, Road Trip, News/Calendar/Industry by E.S. Day
Canada’s legendary punks D.O.A. leave January 7th for their first ever tour of China. It should be a real eye opener for the band and their fans. They will be recording the shows and videotaping their trip for a live DVD/Documentary.
Here are the D.O.A. China dates:
Jan. 9 Mao Live House, Beijing
Jan. 10 Vox, Wuhan
Jan. 11 Yuyintang, Shanghai
Jan. 12 Castle Bar, Nanjing
Jan. 13 D-22, Beijing
The Spores - “News, Weather and Spores”
Sudden Death is proud to announce the release The Spores album “News, Weather and Spores”. The Spores were an integral part of Vancouver’s second wave of punk rock. This legendary group existed from 1983-88, but they never released an album. The Spores lead singer Danny Nowak has carefully assembled the best tracks of all the recordings the band ever made. News, Weather and Spores has 20 listed tracks, two videos, and some secret stuff you will have to dig for.
You can buy the The Spores album at www.suddendeath.com for $10.00 and don’t forget that you can buy any second CD for an additional $5.00.
D.O.A. tours the great Pacific Northwest!
D.O.A. Cascadia Dates:
Jan. 29 Oak Harbor Tavern, Oak Harbor, WA
Jan. 30 El Corazon, Seattle, WA
Jan. 31 The Satyricon, Portland, OR
Upcoming: D.O.A. tours California, Arizona, Nevada and Oregon, Feb. 19 to Feb. 28 (Venues and dates TBA)
