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Dave Lamb (out of Brown Bird, not Come Dine With Me) is dangerously anaemic. Which would be bad, but for a jobbing band in a country without adequate healthcare for its citizenry, is a bit of a nightmare.Brown Bird are asking for your help:On Friday night, May 10th, Dave was admitted to a hospital in Houston, TX with complaints of fatigue and shortness of breath. After an initial blood test, we were told he was severely anemic, with dangerously low red blood cell levels. Dave had been fighting and been treated for flu-like symptoms for the past six weeks, but until now we were unaware of the seriousness of his condition. Since admittance into the hospital, he has had several blood transfusions, which he is responding to well, and has undergone several tests to determine what is causing his illness. As of yet we still do not have a diagnosis, but are maintaining optimism.We will be able to fly home on Saturday to pursue treatment in RI, and will be canceling a large percentage of shows until Dave is well enough to get back on the road. For us, canceling shows means not only disappointing our fans and missing out on what we enjoy most, but also going without income. Since the 10th we’ve already accrued over $29,000 in medical expenses and losses, and will be faced with ongoing expenses once we’re home. We love being full-time musicians, but it can be a financially challenging lifestyle, and without health insurance or day jobs to fall back on, our situation is dire.We humbly ask you to help us out in any way you can. We set up this fundraiser to help us pay for the medical expenses we've already accrued, and for the projected cost of treatments. There are unknowns ahead of us and the possibility for needing more is very real, but we promise to keep you updated and are eternally grateful to the support our friends, family and fans already give us. There's nothing we want more than to be back on the road, and with your help, we could be back out there very soon.Here's Brown Bird on WBUR a year or so back:If you don't want to donate directly, you could consider buying the album Fits Of Reason. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

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Mirage – Let’s Kiss [mp3 SoundCloud] Forget the Daft Punk hype, one of the most important albums of 2013 is out now. Italians Do It Better has finally released their long awaited After Dark 2 compilation. Get the full thing on iTunes, physical copies “are on the way” Here is the full tracklist, and make sure to check the After Dark 2 European tour in a city near you (even if Glass Candy had to postpone the dates in Warsaw, Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Get well soon Ida!) 01 Glass Candy: Warm in the Winter 02 Desire: Tears From Heaven 03 Mirage: Let’s Kiss 04 Appaloosa: Fill the Blanks 05 Chromatics: Looking For Love 06 SYMMETRY: Heart of Darkness 07 Chromatics: Camera 08 Twisted Wires: Half Lives 09 Glass Candy: The Possessed 10 Chromatics: Cherry 11 Glass Candy: Beautiful Object 12 Farah: Into Eternity 13 Appaloosa: Intimate 14 Mike Simonetti: The Magician 15 Glass Candy: Redheads Feel More Pain

Four Tet, aka Kieran Hebden, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of his benchmark 2003 album Rounds with a special reissue on Domino on May 13. In addition to the album material, it’ll include a second disc of a live set from Copenhagen recorded at the time of the original release. For his solo projects, Fridge‘s Kieran Hebden is a lo-fi experimentalist who, had he been recording 15 years ago, would’ve been cranking out songs on a four-track recorder instead of a laptop. As demonstrated on his third record, Rounds, he’s one of the few musicians capturing all the promise inherent in computer science — being able to summon, manipulate, and mix any sound imaginable. The record offers something to nearly every audience that could approach it, with a bit… 320 kbps | 274 MB | UL | CL | MC ** FLAC …of a groove for electronic fans, an obtuse sense of music-making for experimentalists, and a dreamy melodicism sure to endear it to indie-pop fans. The opener, “Hands,” is especially breathtaking; it begins with a few seconds of drum samples, surgically inserted and ill-timed, but opens into a warm, melodic production with a simple frame-kit beat outlining Hebden’s guitar-and-keyboard atmospherics. “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth” features a music-box melody playing against softly shaded backmasked guitar and a subdued, grating percussion line reminiscent of an iron lung. The nine-minute “Unspoken” alternates guitar and piano playing the same beatific melody, over another simple beat and tambourine claps. Though Rounds is experimental by nature, Kieran Hebden’s gift for melody and emotional shading allows his records to be enjoyed by an audience wider than merely experimental listeners. CD1: Original Album 01. Hands 02. She Moves She 03. First Thing 04. My Angel Rocks Back And Forth 05. Spirit Fingers 06. Unspoken 07. Chia 08. As Serious As Your Life 09. And They All Look Broken Hearted 10. Slow Jam CD2: Live In Copenhagen 01. She Moves She 02. Everything Is Alright 03. Spirit Fingers 04. Glue Of The World 05. My Angel Rocks Back And Forth 06. As Serious As Your Life 07. Hands, No More Mosquitos, Calamine, Tangle

At last. Someone's suggesting that maybe The Rolling Stones glory days are behind them by quite a distance:“I think there’s a point when you’ve got to say, ‘Enough’s enough’. I just think they’re old, they’re old f*rts. I just think they ain’t rock ’n’ roll any more."It's a good point - although arguably they might very well be rock and roll, and it's just rock that has got old and slow and tired.Tell us, Gordon, who is this young buck calling for the old guard to roll over and let the kids through?POP loudmouth PETE WATERMAN has blasted THE ROLLING STONES as “old f*rts” who are too ancient to tour.Oh, yes. Young Pete Waterman.Gordon Smart, of course, is not going to entertain the idea that once creaky old figureheads who've lost their vim should not be allowed to hang around making vast sums of money for subpar performances. Not with his boss.So he sets about taking apart Waterman's grasp of facts:The former Pop Idol judge, who managed RICK ASTLEY, ranted: “I’m 66 and I wouldn’t go and play. They’re 76. Them at Glastonbury – not for me."Gordon presses his big red button.Pete needs to get his facts straight. None of the Stones are near 76.Charlie Watts will be 72 by the time Glastonbury starts, which is fairly near 76. But, to be fair, Ronnie Wood is actually younger than Pete Waterman.What else you got, Pete?“You wouldn’t see ANDY WILLIAMS at Glastonbury, would ya?”Gordon, I see you have an objection.And you’re unlikely to see Andy at Glasto – he died last year.That's a good point, but unfortunately it's the wrong point. Andy Williams was supposed to play Glastonbury in 2010 - when he was 82, and thus older than any of the current Rolling Stones by a good decade - but (presumably due to his failing health) never made it.And also: seeing Andy Williams play would have been more exciting and vital than the Stones' tax-balanced schtick, surely? -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

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