Listen to "Best Of Kokua Festival" by Jack Johnson & Friends

The Kokua Festival is considered one of the festivals involved with the environment worldwide. Great merit of this is what Jack Johnson, singer-songwriter who has spent years in charge of this event located in Hawaii and has managed to confirm names of friends and acquaintances of the sector as Ben Harper, Ziggy Marley, Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson and Eddie Vedder. Jack, in order to celebrate the six years that the festival was held, has just released an album entitled "Best Of Kokua Festival" which compiles the best tracks live Jack Johnson and his friends have played in the Kokua.

The entire disk so you can listen to on a temporary basis through the web music.aol.com. What great way to start the week, right? Do not miss especially live performance of "Breakdown" (with Jake Shimabukuro), 'Better Together' (with Paula Fuga) and 'Constellations', with the ubiquitous Eddie Vedder and Kawika Kahiapo.

Black Box Revelation - Sealed With Thorns

On Easter burned the old city center thanks to a great concert that marked stunning Black Box Revelation to mark the first anniversary of the Music Hall room. The Belgian duo went to Barcelona (and Madrid) to present a "My Perception" left us in just three or four tracks a very good taste. One of the themes that we emphasize on that disk, regardless of 'Shadowman', 'Madhouse' or single 'My Perception "(great song if ever there) is' Sealed With Thorns', cut with the performance that is closed Barna and represents the climax of the whole career of this young garage rock band born in Dilbeek.

Complexity and stridency play each other on an issue that comes to represent a new step in the sound they have created for years Jan and Dries. As long as you enjoy it as best they deserve here we leave the studio version (colossal, one of the best we've heard in recent months) and direct place in Brussels Roland, one of the leading Belgian rocker world.

Hannah Cohen - Child Bride (2012)

Vogue Spinner. In the purest image to sound more sinuous. This is the change that has lived in recent years the photographer and model Hannah Cohen, who, influenced by the environment of the Village Vanguard New York, decided to leave the fashion magazines to focus on a new role as singer. That transformation, driven largely by Thomas Bartlett (Antony & The Johnsons, The National), promoted the creation of cutting a debut album that contains a fine folk jazz flavor.

"Child Bride" is the name of this LP of ten themes of life in which we discover the pros and cons of the proposal of this beautiful musical soloist. It is undeniable that the protected note Doveman has a great voice can be modulated nicely on tracks like 'Do not Say "or" Carry You Under' without doubt the best of the compact. However, "Child Bride" sin of being a little too ambitious album, with a proposal so absorbed in not wanting to complicate their production in the end the listener is left with the feeling of staying with his half-listening. The background of the cuts is interesting. And the vocal ability of the artist is amorous. But we want more, need more. Give us the next, Hannah.

Dave Grohl Jack Black coaches in the video for 'To Be The Best'

Less than half an hour was on the verge of going to sleep. I was beginning to close the session when suddenly I saw Foo Fighters had shared a video clip via Facebook Tenacious D in which he makes a funny cameo teacher Dave Grohl.

Val Kilmer (in the style of "In the Line of Fire"), Maria Menounos and the actual singer of Foo Fighters are the actors who share the limelight in 'To Be The Best' with the two crazy costumes by Tenacious D. The video is fun and the end acojonantemente, the style of "Rocky" reminds us again why we venerate the former drummer of Nirvana.You are great Dave!

The White Stripes: Under the lights of New Zealand

Jack White may be saying over and over again that The White Stripes are not back together, but that does not mean that the pale guitarist not want to continue taking advantage of the goose that lays golden eggs. In fact, reviewing the web Exclaim.ca, we proved that the duo will release this month of April, and on Third Man Records, a new live DVD entitled 'Under New Zealand Lights'.

The material on this album was recorded in two different dates: one took place in the King's Arms in Auckland in 2000, while the other happened in the Freeman's Bay Primary School in 2003. Apparently the only way to get this DVD goes by subscribing to the website of Third Man Records and gain a "vault" made ​​up this DVD, a vinyl Karen Elson ("Eclipse") and a 7 "containing Raconteurs two unreleased tracks from the Lonely Sessions. If you are a staunch fan of The White Stripes, do not hesitate: You have time until 30 to order this juicy pack.

We recruit for "PICTURE"

Recently I had written about it already in my other blog, but I want the theme PICTURE "newspaper" but also raise again briefly on the agenda, including also because of the great clips for the blog image.

Surely everyone has ever been upset that this or did that "celebrity" lent his face and name for the BILD "newspaper" advertising - I've at least here in the blog echauffiert ever, in an open letter to JB Kerner. Nevertheless, it appears the urge to have their picture taken in connection with this hand, resting on their laurels - so I launched an initiative such as Who advertises picture for extremely useful in my opinion:

We do not know why you do it. But we know who does! Who advertises for IMAGE?

Why is it bad to promote the "Bild" newspaper? Advertising for the "Bild" newspaper is not like any shoe, soup or car ads, but also a statement that one's fraternization with the "Bild" newspaper is worth more than those people whose fates the "image "Newspaper sold daily headlines.
Picture blog for several years, researched stories behind the "Bild" newspaper, and shows how they both (sometimes innocently) researched plain bad mood makes targeted against human and political groups incited and destroyed the lives of human beings for the purpose of headlines.
To promote the "Bild" newspaper means to consent to these methods and to strengthen with his name. See also: Open letter from Judith Holofernes of We are heroes.

Celebrities say in the commercials for the most part bad about IMAGE. Is not that right?

One of the many insidious tricks of the marketing agency. The advertising figures are told they may say about the critical FIG. This seems a compelling argument to be, but still leads to the fact that it advertises the matter.
IMAGE has always tried to look like an uncomfortable sheet to give, before the celebrities have to be afraid, because even the "inconvenient truths" writing. Celebrities express themselves so (perhaps unknowingly) in the spirit of the leaf and give additional PICTURE the noble, moral, paint, allow some criticism.

But the money is GE-spen-det.

Another insidious trick of the marketing agency to build a bridge celebrities to advertise IMAGE (obviously there are fortunately still the necessity of having to build this bridge).

And there is another way, Judith Holofernes show of We are heroes, and to view blog Anke Engelke and Jim Carrey.

Exhibit "Figurative Painting" at the Gallery Stephen Stumpf

Susannah Martin - Study for AmazonDie Galerie Stephan Stumpf presented in Munich from 05.04. 6/5/2012 to their annual group exhibition entitled "Figurative Painting". At 04.04. takes place as a prelude 18 to 22 clock knew. On display are works by early May from the artists Anton Hoeger, Astrid Koehler, Frank Krueger, Flin, Stefan Heide and Susannah Martin. The artist roster to the gallery owner Stephen Stumpf at this exhibition shows a selection of his latest work.

Gallery owner Stephen Stumpf passion about the subject: "My greatest passion is the figurative paintings, which excels through craftsmanship and creative implying Könnertum of content."

Come and visit the exhibition "Decorative Painting" in the period from 05.04. until 05.06.2012 at the gallery in Munich Stephan Stumpf. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.