Collectorz.com Connect Blog

So here it is!! My first blog for the Music Collector Connect site. In my first weeks here at the office I Mainly worked on the movie database, but this week we launched a new Music admin, so from now on my main job is working on the Music database.

The lyric keeps popping up in my mind every time I think of Madonna’s new album Hard Candy.
It must be the Candy word that triggers it, or it’s just my candy graving in general what causes it.

Yes it is London Calling. A festival that takes place twice a year with new and upcoming britpop bands from the UK or elsewhere. Bands like Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Editors played the festival in earlier editions so it proves to have a nose for a next generation of exciting bands that will dominate the charts in the future. So what would this edition bring us?

Danko Jones is a hard rocking man. His live performances are known for its energy and amount of songs that he fires up. He was playing in Paradiso with not one but two support acts: Die Mannequin and El Guapo Stunt Team. They proved to be just as hard rocking.

The Black Crowes are heavily inspired by the old 70s rock bands. And they never had the urge to change that. Their new album ‘Warpaint‘ sounds very similar to their first album ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’ back in 1990. Now they are touring again to support the new album. What do they sound like live after 20 years?

H.A.A.R.P. stands for “High frequency Active Auroral Research Program” and is a US research program that investigates to control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems. Some people however believe it enables control over the weather and can be used as a very deadly weapon and will be used by a small elite club to install a New World Order in the future. It’s also the name of the Muse live album that was released a few weeks ago.

We didn’t hear from them for ten years but suddenly there was a new album ‘Pajama Day’ and new gigs: Claw Boys Claw is back! Peter te Bos, the lead singer of the band, is well into his 50s so what could we expect? A vague shadow of what they used to be? A dutch version of Mick Jagger in tights and his Stones?

While processing music submissions today, I came upon one collector who had submitted his complete Jimi Hendrix collection, including really nice front and back covers. One of the albums was Kiss The Sky, which immediately put a big smile on my face.

The RZA, ‘leader’ of the mighty Wu-Tang Clan who changed hiphop in ‘93, and Shavo Odadjian, the bassist for the metal band System of a Down, combined forces in 2005 and mentioned doing a album together. Now, in 2008, together they are called Achozen and the first studio album is said to be released in July.

Yes Josh we care for you and your band. Josh Homme, the frontman of Queens Of The Stone Age, appearently needed some love from his audience and asked if we cared for him.