From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V3 #313 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Saturday, November 25 2000 Volume 03 : Number 313 Today's Subjects: ----------------- HEADS UP: get emm in your living room [rannie ] Re: HEADS UP: get emm in your living room [torontofumblers] [Zelie519@aol] article ["Andrea" ] Emm in Calgary Sun [Paul Schreiber ] NEC: Radiohead, De La Guarda ["mark'eee" ] ..stuff! ["spark" ] Re: Albums this year [Piggio@aol.com] Re: Albums this year ["Shannon" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 02:03:11 -0500 From: rannie Subject: HEADS UP: get emm in your living room The Dead Daisy team is preparing for Emm's first Living Rooms Across America tour, planned for January. If anyone is interested in hosting a random display of pop and mischief in their living room (or mobile home), please write to Joni Daniels at jdaniels@sympatico.ca We are currently looking for hosts in the following cities: Chicago, IL St. Louis, MO Tulsa, OK Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX Austin, TX Phoenix, AZ Tucson, AZ San Diego, CA Tell your friends! Tell your Grandparents! hope to see you all soon **************************************************** Rannie Turingan Toronto, Ontario, Canada ICQ:3857207 AIM:ranzTO http://www.rannieturingan.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:47:22 EST From: Zelie519@aol.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP: get emm in your living room [torontofumblers] Why not Cleveland, Ohio!?!?!?!?!? :-( We drive ALL the way from Cleveland to see her in London, Ontario... can't she come see us here?? LOL!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:36:06 -0500 From: "Andrea" Subject: article another boring article on emm we've seemed to have read before. emm content nonetheless...http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/nov24_fryner-sun.html Take care, Andrea http://home.istar.ca/~andyc/me/portfolio ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:58:17 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Emm in Calgary Sun http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/nov24_fryner-sun.html New life for Emm Gryner By MIKE BELL -- Calgary Sun Most people would consider it a monumental setback when, after the release of one well-received record and universally lauded appearances on the Lilith Fair tour, they lose their major-label recording deal and find themselves back in the indie ranks at the age of 25. But I guess that pill is a whole lot easier to swallow when you find yourself with the consolation prize of touring and recording with David Bowie as his backup singer. That's the position talented Canadian singer-songwriter Emm Gryner found herself in this year after the merger between Universal Music and Polygram left her without support, and "being in the right place at the right time" hooked her up with the man she jokingly calls Daddy Stardust. Then again, ask Gryner about the amazing year she's been through and she virtually shrugs it off. "It's weird in a way, but major things will happen to me and I just don't get fazed," she says from her Toronto home. "I have a line in one of my songs which is 'Brave or blinded, not sure which am I,' and sometimes I really think that's what I do -- I just put it on autopilot...." Whatever Gryner is or isn't doing, it's working and it's keeping her busy. The artist is now back to releasing her own intelligent Tori Amos-like pop music, including her latest collection of rarities and previously unreleased material called Dead Relatives, on the small label she established herself before the major deal, Dead Daisy Records. And when she's not appearing with Bowie (like now, while he's spending time with his new daughter) at Wembley Stadium or the Glastonbury Festival or on The Late Show With David Letterman, she still has the freedom to enchant somewhat more intimate audiences as a solo performer. Calgarians will get a chance to see her when she performs with Ron Sexsmith this afternoon at the U of C's Blue Banana Lounge and tonight at the Engineered Air Theatre. "It's been totally an amazing double life, going between the Bowie tour and my own stuff," she says. And as to what the lasting effects on her and her music of rubbing elbows with pop's great chameleon, Gryner says it's too early to tell. "I think it's impossible to be around him and play his music and get inside of it and not come out of it a little different," she says. "But until I actually put out a new record and let my new songs settle, I'm not quite sure what the difference is." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: "mark'eee" Subject: NEC: Radiohead, De La Guarda If you're in nyc, go see "De La Guarda" http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/villa.htm - ----------------------- i assume this is from NME: Radiohead plan to release their follow-up to 'KID A' in March or April, 2001, preceded by a single. Speaking exclusively to NME.com last week, bassist Colin Greenwood said the band were already recording more new material, but that they planned to take Christmas off. Of the new, as yet untitled album, Greenwood said: "We've got to sort it out! But we're very happy about it, really excited. "(It'll be out in) March/April time maybe. We don't know yet but we want it to come out then. We've got enough music." He explained that some of the songs destined for the new album had emerged during recording sessions for 'Kid A', but that most were completely new. "This is really more things again," he continued: "(We're) keeping it going, y'know, not be like a boring rock band and do an album every two years." He also said he was "very happy" about the success of 'Kid A' in the US - but said the band felt partly to blame about the mixed critical reaction in UK press in that they should have sent promos copies of the album out earlier to let journalists "live" with the album. "I think the one serious regret we have is that we didn't give the record to journalists a longer time away from the release - I think a lot of people are into it now they've lived with it for a while, because it's a great record." - ---------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:05:19 -0600 From: "spark" Subject: ..stuff! Hey people... Hmm no one has any suggestions for a title for my site? Is there actually any interest in an Emm audio/video site? I have the content! And I'm sure there's more that I can get after my site is established... *wondering* - - Ian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:25:25 EST From: Piggio@aol.com Subject: Re: Albums this year Ah, one of my favorite times of year. The time when we all put our two cents in about the best albums of the year. I love seeing the way all of you speak so passionately about the music that has inspired you this year. Often times we all list many of the same albums. Every now and again, someone slips something in that surprises us. Maybe its something we've never heard of ourselves, maybe its something that surprises us a little bit. That is the beauty of it all... everyone on this list has such amazing taste in music and it is so refreshing in this day and age of manufactured power pop and singles driven radio that there are so many people out there who really believe in good solid songwriting and the power of emotion in music. With that thought in mind, I give you my Top Ten CD's of 2000 (bear in mind, there is still a month left so a dark horse could emerge and enter the Top Ten before the year is out)... TOP TEN of 2000 Honorable mentions: Radiohead, "kid A", Amy Correia, "Carnival Love", Damhnait Doyle, "Hyperdramatic", The Catherine Wheel, "Wishville", Nina Gordon, "Tonight and the rest of my life", Smashing Pumpkins, "Machina: machines of God", A Perfect Circle "Mer de Noms" 10. Nelly Furtado, "Whoa Nelly" -- A late year entry... This one really surprised me. Alot of different styles on this album; she's obviously influenced by artists from many different genres. A lot of songs on here are musically not what I would normally listen to, but something about some of these songs just grab me. Several very danceable songs here -- if I danced, that is... 9. Cure - "Bloodflowers" - Their best since Disintegration, in my opinion. If it was still 1992 and I was still in my dark depressed stage, this would have found more spins in my CD player and probably been in my Top 3. 8. Yo La Tengo, "And then nothing turned itself inside out" - One of the best bands you have never heard of. Simple as that. Their CD, "Painful" ranks in my Top Ten or Fifteen of all time. 7. U2 - "All that you can't leave behind" - Their best since "Achtung Baby". Nice to hear them back to basics. Still not the political force (in my opinion) that they were back in the 80's, but a very important band nonetheless. 6. Kendall Payne, "Jordan's Sister" - technically 1999 but I bought it in 2000 and this had a profound impact on me. So beautifully written. Some great songs here. 5. Starling - "Sustainer" - Solid pop hooks, very upbeat. Just a fun CD. The anti-"Bloodflowers" for this Top Ten 4. Leona Naess - "Comatised" - Very solid debut. Powerful live performer. "Charm Attack" is such a fun song. 3. Sarah Harmer - "You were here" - Best folk CD I have heard in some time. She is an amazing songwriter, and these are some beautifully written songs. Very eloquent. "Basement Apartment", "Weakened State", "Lode Star" and "Coffee Stain" are some of my favorite songs of the year. 2. Emm Gryner, "Dead Relatives" - Any CD Emm releases automatically makes my Top Five. The best female songwriter out there in my opinion. I don't know of anyone who sings with more conviction. She gets more emotion into every note she sings than anyone I know. You feel her pain on her sad songs, and her jublilation on her triumphant songs. She is amazing, simply put. And one of the nicest people I've met. 1. The Twilight Singers - "Twilight as performed by the Twight Singers" - Hands down the best album I have heard all year; this one may have entered my Top Five of All Time... its THAT good. Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs) is the male equivalent of Emm in my opinion. He is so soulful. He writes albums, not songs. His three best CD's in my opinion ("Gentlemen", "Black Love" w/the Afghan Whigs and "Twilight") are flawless albums with songs, that when sewn together, tell amazing stories of love, jealousy, anguish, guile, revenge, and ultimately, redemption. He often writes the first and last songs of the albums first as bookends. It helps him define what the record is going to be: There is a sense that he has to get from here to there -- there is a self discovery thing going on. The songs share certain things, whether it is a similar lyric or a musical phrase. If you listen to the album on repeat, the last song bleeds into the first... its a full circle trip. Many of the songs on this album are very simplistic, but the songwriting is so tight, the vocals are incredible (many three part harmonies (the band includes Howlin' Maggie's Harold Chichester and Shawn Smith of Satchel/Pigeonhed/Brad fames)), and the production is flawless. The CD was produced and mixed by Brit dance-maestros Fila Brazila, who have worked with the likes of Radiohead, the Orb, and Busta Rhymes. Dulli says that he wanted "the overall vibe of the record" to be "a record-as-aphrodisiac vibe like Chet Baker Sings, Roxy Music's Avalon, or Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. It's like you put on any of those records and...well, you know what's going to happen next. I wanted this record to be right up there in that pantheon." And so it is... this is a very sexy, very emotional album. This is an astounding CD. If you haven't already picked it up, go find it NOW. That is my Top Ten for 2000. What do YOURS look like? Rob "Twilight: a world between day and night... the space between love and hate...the grey area...be it in respect to your relationship with others or--more importantly--the relationship you have with yourself." - -Greg Dulli, explaining the concept behind his latest masterpiece ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:48:51 -0500 From: "Shannon" Subject: Re: Albums this year hey kids > 3. Sarah Harmer - "You were here" - Best folk CD I have heard in some time. > She is an amazing songwriter, and these are some beautifully written songs. > Very eloquent. "Basement Apartment", "Weakened State", "Lode Star" and > "Coffee Stain" are some of my favorite songs of the year. Ok I have to admit I haven't bought this album yet, even after lots of praise, but I did get a song or two off of Napster and I do plan on buying it. But the reason I am posting is because I was at Best Buy today and they have a *huge* display promoting Sarah Harmer's album. :) Yay... 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