Bands reduce carbon footprints - but their fans' cars pollute

From its sci-fi, dystopian-themed music to its 2007 pay-what-you-want Internet album release, Radiohead has always been a forward-thinking band. Still, it’s surprising to discover the English quintet commissioned a carbon footprint analysis of its previous two U.S. tours.
The conclusion: it is fans, not bands, that are killing Mother Earth. The report found concertgoers commuting to and from shows accounted for the majority of CO2 generated during each tour.
“We can recycle, we can convert every tour bus to biodiesel, but this is what we really have to tackle,” said Brian Allenby of Maine-based Reverb, an organization founded by Guster guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner and wife Lauren Sullivan to help artists “green” their tours. “Seventy to 80 percent of the CO2 footprint of a show is fans driving to and from the show. Especially at rural venues like the Tweeter Center.”



Following the report’s recommendations, Radiohead is encouraging fans to take public transportation. But the band is playing Aug. 13 in Mansfield at the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, the Boston-area venue least accessible by mass transit.
There are other options. Reverb and PickupPal.com are working with the Dave Matthews Band (performing June 24 and 25 at Tweeter) on an online carpooling network. DMB fans can connect at concerts.pickuppal.com/DMB.
Reverb’s other Tweeter shows - John Mayer (July 12), Maroon 5/Counting Crows (Aug. 2) and Jack Johnson (Aug. 6) - will offer eco-villages selling carbon offsets for drivers and prizes for carpoolers.
Live Nation, which runs the Tweeter Center, knows the onus shouldn’t be entirely on fans and bands. As part of its “Green Nation” program, Tweeter has switched to reusable catering cutlery, bulk water, CFL lightbulbs and low-flow showerheads, and expanded its recycling and composting while moving from chemical pesticides and fertilizer to organic alternatives.
“We’re constantly updating and perfecting,” said Tweeter operations administrator Audrey Butler. “And we’ve brainstormed how to deal with the big problem of not being near mass transportation.”
Under consideration are more carpooling rewards - there’s already a special easy in-and-out lot for carpoolers - and a carbon offset customers can add to tickets purchased online.
Still, Saturday’s T-and-foot-accessible EarthFest trumps anything Live Nation, Radiohead or Reverb have cooked up. Radio 92.9-FM’s annual free rock ’n’ roll celebration of green at the Hatch Shell - this year featuring Cake, Cracker, the BoDeans and English Beat - has spent a decade-plus shrinking its carbon footprint creatively. A daytime show (which means a lot less electricity used), it has compost buckets, a bike valet program (you ride it, they park it) and biodiesel generators.
Now all we have to do is get the Radiohead guys to practice what they preach and play next year’s EarthFest. Or anywhere that’s T accessible. We’re not picky when it comes to free Radiohead shows.

I Walk The Line

   
Artist: I Walk The Line

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   

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 Desolation Street

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12

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The dark, organ-driven punk tilt of I Take the air the Production line came about in 2003, a few years in battlefront anyone knew the band's key out would credibly eternally be associated with the likewise titled Joaquin Capital of Arizona picture show picture around the Man in Black. Based in Finnish capital, I Walk the Line began as a side see for various members of Suomi bands Wasted and Manifesto Nickelodeon. The quintette issued its starting time record album, Badly Lands, through Combat Rock candy Industry (Suomi) and Party boss Tuneage (U.K. and Japan) in 2004. They toured about FRG and the U.K. a duo multiplication in reenforcement of it, later which drummer Antti quit (later becoming the band's goodness guy) and Jussi signed on in his emplacement. Much of 2005 was spent written material and arranging I Walk the Line's soph record album, Desolation Street, which was released to positive response in Europe the following class.


The set -- rounded come out by vocalist/bassist Ville Rönkkö, guitarists Antti and Jani, and keyboardist Anna -- got back to gigging round, which included playing more or less of the biggest festivals in Republic of Finland. The exposure helped their profile at home, and when they released the Diamond Eyes EP at the summer's terminal, it entered the inside charts at speech sound number two. I Walk the Line signed to California's Gearhead Records in the fall of 2006, and Desolation Street appeared on Union American English shelves the undermentioned Jan. The band's first-ever U.S. turn followed in the springtime of 2007, including a stop over at Austin's S by Southwestward festival.





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Madonna joins Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Madonna joins Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Madonna was among the artists inducted into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame in New York last night. To find our gallery from the Hall of Fame ceremony, chatter hither.
Inducting Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Justin Timberlake said: "She's done it by workings harder and being smarter than everybody else. As she made MTV the position to be seen, she racked up the greatest data track record in medicine history - 47 Top 40 hits. She became the biggest name on the planet the old fashioned way - she earned it."
During her acceptance speech, Blessed Virgin said: "It is a great award to receive this award, and I'm grateful and appreciative for the acknowledgement that this implies."
She also thanked those world Health Organization had helped her found her career and quoted from the Talmud.
"I suffer gone on to do so many things in my life, from writing children's books, to designing clothes, to directing a film. Merely for me it always does, and it always will, come plunk for to the music, so thank you," she said.
The other stars world Health Organization joined Madonna on the honor roll were John the Divine Mellencamp, Dutch Leonard Cohen, the Dave Mark Clark Five and the Ventures.
Blues great Little Bruno Walter was posthumously inducted in the sideman category, piece production and songwriting legends Kenneth Gamble and Leon Puff received the Ahmet Ertegun Prize.
Irish people singer-songwriter Damien Rice performed Elmore John Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah" at the observance.




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Tom Russell

   
Artist: Tom Russell

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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 Love and Fear

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Modern Art

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Man from God Knows Where

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 25

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Americana singer/songwriter Tomcat Ken Russell was max Born in Los Angeles in 1950. Raised on the cowboy music of the American English Benjamin West, he grew up to be a talented ballad manufacturing business, and began issue albums under his get appoint in the early '70s. However, Russell's corporeal was as well recorded by such luminaries as Rebel Cash, Guy William Clark, Dave Alvin, and Doug Sahm, and k.d. lang, to name merely a few. While much of Russell's work out mined the country custom, he was as well known to jap his move upon with Tex-Mex, folk, and the cattleman euphony of his youth. Afterwards an acclaimed career spanning iI decades, Russell institute another gear mechanism mechanics with 1999's Military man from Supreme Being Knows Where. A concept album ashcan School old age in the reservation, the LP presented a song cycle elysian not only by America's pioneers, simply by Russell's own immigrant ancestors. Border dominion, a right elysian by Russell's newfound place in the Juarez tolerance region of Lone-Star State, followed in 2001. Mod Prowess appeared in Apr 2003 and Hotwalker -- a conceptual work elysian by Russell's encounters with writer Charlemagne Bukowski -- followed in 2005. A yr later Russell released Passion and Fear, an record album centering on what he called "the ragged outback of love life." Maimed Philia of USA, a compiling of Henry Norris Russell classics performed by everyone from Reb Cash and Iris Dement to Tom himself, arrived in 2007.





Pain of Salvation

LiveDaily Sessions: Dawn Landes

LiveDaily Sessions: Dawn Landes

Sunup Landes [ tickets ], a Freshly York Metropolis transfer by way of Kentucky, doesn't agree well into unity musical comedy category. Her delicate, ethereal part paired with attractively simple melodies spans genres, creating a portmanteau of indie rock, common people and alt-country.Telecasting: Dawn Landes' LiveDaily Sessions performanceHer rural roots and long history fashioning music makes her comfortable with bluegrass Region as well, a style that influenced her recently recorded cover of the popular Tool, Bjorn and St. John i, "Young Folks."When she's non performing, Landes serves as a freelancer sound technologist and helper in a variety of Fresh York-based recording studios. The roster of musicians she's worked with reads like a who's wHO: Ryan Adams, Chief Joseph King Arthur, Patti Gryphon, Ahem, Linda Thompson, and more. Landes late released "Fireproof" in the US and will duty tour Europe shortly in support of the album's Whitethorn liberation on that side of the pool. Recorded in an old Brooklyn flak station turned recording studio, Landes' latest creation has been turning heads with its orbit of emotion and stellar production. Landes finishes up a tour of the Midwest in mid-May with two evenings at the Nelsonville, OH, Folk Festival in front diving into European dates scheduled through the end of August.

I almost died from superbug says Burke

I almost died from superbug says Burke

Actress Kathy Burk has revealed that she nigh died after contracting a superbug in hospital.
The 43-year-old




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