Old Music Time

Every generation has it’s own soundtrack. The Silent Generation (people born in the ’20s and ’30s) had big band and swing. Baby Boomers (born in the ’40s and ’50s) had rock and soul. Generation X (born in the ’60s and ’70s) had grunge and hip-hop. On this edition of All Songs Considered, we look back at the defining music of those generations and ask what the soundtrack is for the current generation, Generation Y (or Millennials). Bob Boilen talks with Carrie Brownstein (Monitor Mix blogger and former guitarist for Sleater-Kinney), Stephen Thompson (editor for NPR’s Song of the Day), and Amy Phillips (senior editor with Pitchforkmedia.com) about the most memorable music of the past 40 years.

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Formed by erstwhile Simian front man Simon Lord and former Wiseguy Theo Keating, The Black Ghosts have been steadily establishing their unique vision of black hearted beats and eldritch tales with a series of superlative club cuts and their lauded ‘Mixtape’ compilation which recently gained high praise from all quarters, including Compilation of the Month accolades in Mixmag and DJ Magazine. Now with the advent of their eponymous debut artist album on July 7th the pair are about to reveal the underbelly of their ethereal electronic soul. Built from the foundations of their pointedly pure dance floor approach, the Black Ghosts add in a host of new elements with Simon’s disquieting lyrical narrative coating Theo’s Machiavellian pop progressions, creating a set that slips effortlessly between visceral electro noir and psychotic torch songs.

Accompanied by a series of bespoke films, one for each track of the album and a some truly striking artwork that evokes the very spirit of The Black Ghosts, Simon Lord and Theo Keating’s debut outing is an all-consuming affirmation of their ghetto-gothic aesthetic.

Mumford & Sons release their debut EP, “Lend Me Your Eyes“, on 7th July through Chess Club Recordings.

It is the presence, the joy and the unbelievable talent of Mumford & Sons that stops people in their step. They represent a youthful spirit and communicate it with an intensity and integrity wise beyond their years.

Signed to A&M Records in the US in the late eighties, Denise Lopez is an artist who is better remembered for her spectacular vocal range than her US chart success, despite an impressive discography which includes two solo albums to proudly boast of. In 1990 her infectious single “Don’t You Wanna Be Mine” peaked at #86 on the Billboard Dance Chart, with the awesome remix from talented production duo Robert Clivillés and (the late) David Cole (better known to most as C&C Music Factory) almost going unnoticed.

Paul McCartney is to perform to 36,000 in Liverpool this evening as part of the city’s European Capital of Culture celebrations.

The concert at Anfield football stadium, home of Premier League club Liverpool, will receive support from the Kaiser Chiefs and the Zutons.

Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl is also expected to make an appearance. However, the McCartney told the Liverpool Echo former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr would not be taking part, saying “that was never going to be on the cards”.

The concert will raise money for the charity McCartney set up - Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (Lipa) – and the Nordoff-Robbins music charity.

McCartney told the BBC: “About 12 years ago when we were looking to start Lipa, Liverpool was a bit on its knees - it was not in good shape at all.

“But now there’s quite a resurgence.”

He promised to play all his hits, and said he would also throw in a few surprises.

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George Sampson, a 14-year-old breakdancer, has won Britain’s Got Talent, netting himself a place on the Royal Variety Performance and £100,000.

Viewers voted Sampson the winner after his Singing in the Rain dance routine, which featured a shower on stage.

Warrington-born Sampson revealed he had changed the music an hour before the curtain went up. He had been set to perform to a Bee Gees track, but changed his mind and repeated the routine that had got him into the final.

After being announced the winner following the phone vote, Sampson said: “I’m speechless. Wow. Just thanks so much everybody.”

Dance act Signature came second, while hot favourites 12-year-old opera singer Faryl Smith and all-girl string quartet Escala failed to make the last three.

Faryl Smith is still set to become a star, however, and Simon Cowell told the Sunday Mirror that the show has uncovered “an absolutely massive singing talent”.

The ten finalists also included 13-year-old opera singer Andrew Johnston who made it into third place.

The final went head to head with the BBC’s reality contest I’d Do Anything, in which Jodie Prenger won the role of Nancy in the West End musical Oliver!

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Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony refuse to hire a nanny to look after their twins.

Marc insists Jennifer prefers to care for three-month-old Max and Emme herself, but he is expected to help out as much as possible.

He revealed: “She expects me to help and she makes no bones about it. I get the late shift! I usually get from 10pm onwards because we don’t have a nanny. From 10pm to 8am, that’s my shift. It’s just us man. We’re figuring it out and having a great time.”

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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia’s highest-selling act. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States.

Following her separation from Mottola in 1997 Carey introduced elements of hip hop into her album work. Her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia in 2001, and she was dropped by Virgin Records the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002, Carey signed with Island Records, and after a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the forefront of pop music in 2005.

Carey was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards. She has recorded the most number-one singles—eighteen—for a solo artist in the United States, where, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the third best-selling female recording artist. In addition to her commercial accomplishments, Carey has earned five Grammy Awards, and is well-known for her vocal range, power, melismatic style, and use of the whistle register.

From now on she is considered to only dream the Careys and Lopez of ‘ this world as “Queen OF Rock’n'Roll”, which brings an erotism regardless of its advanced age on the stage, about that can. 19 it sings 88 in the Maracana stadium in ¦Rio¦ before 180.000 spectators - never an individual musician of more listeners had.

S to say more chwer, on which this phaenomenale success is based, where it exceeds the many gestylten Pueppchen, the reliability apparently unaffected by all Showbiz is nevertheless, those on life experience is based. One buys it from it simply, if she sings from failed love and that the “Nutbush town center of limit” really experienced her. Therefore it is to be also welcomed that Tina Turner wants first only from the large stages transfers, before she withdraws herself at the beginning of the new millenium from the public.

2005 Tina a short appearance has with the anniversary celebration of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen one and receives for it the fairy taleful fee from one million US dollar. In May 2007 it completes a complete concert in the nature-historical museum of London for the first time after seven years again and lets thereby be reminiscent that it is ready, further appearances to give. With the appearance she collects donations for ill and handicapped children and sings thereby for businessmen and prominent one, the more than 15,000 Pound for a ticket pays.

Tina can imagine still more frequently such charity appearances: “With the age becomes one points. I could be old 90 or 100 years, but I will be able to still say, ‘ I habs drauf!’ “So Tina Turner could become the first great-grandmother of the “Rock’n'Roll”

Each grandmother was also times young. Tina Turner, which was born as an Anna Mae Bullock 1939 in rural groove the Bush, threshing floor lake, became acquainted with the eight years older Ike Turner after a unfortunate youth 16-jaehrig. That took up it as a singer to its volume and as the two 1962 married had it already son and with “A Fool to Love” the first hit in the Charts.

Center of the sixties are Ike & Tina Turner of star and deny with “The Ike and Tina Turner revue” annually to the 270 concerts. In the review however Tina Turner describes this time as hell on ground connection. Now, since she is so famous, one listens to her, and so Ike Turner becomes as jealous, violent and alcohol-dependent Scheusal, which suppressed or used the talent of its wife, music history enter.

“River Deep Mountain High” is 1966 the first independent going attempt of Tina Turner. But the mad Song floppte: “too black for the Pop pop-Radiosender and too much Pop for the black transmitters”. In the subsequent years the musical influence of the Rolling Stones on the Ike & Tina Turner volume strengthens. The internal-family tensions will ever more badly and than Tina 1968 finally the divorce submits, can it of itself say: “nobody had a life like I - not even Joan Collins”.

Their first solo albums floppen, and only as Tina Turner of the Rhythm’n'Blues off and the Rock’n'Roll turns, adjusts themselves completely large success. After a route again with the Stones an old aluminium Green hit, “Let’s Stay Together” is their first charter-follows.1984 published it “private Dancer”, the first single uncoupling “What’s Love Got ton of DO With It?” became Tina Turners first NR.1 hit.