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It’s that time of year. The time of the Best Of list. In this week’s Top 5 Music Countdown, we’re revealing the best albums of 2009, IHHO (In Heather’s Humble Opinion), NATCH.

5. Miike Snow
“Miike Snow”

Swedish + existential & metaphysical lyrics. Gotta have my synths!

4. Fever Ray
“Fever Ray”

Creepy vocals + dense electronica = just like I like it.

3. The Dead Weather
“Horehound”

Electric rock and funky backbeats. No bias here. This album/collaboration is one of the best from this year.

2. The xx
“xx”

Minimal and sexy. Pretty much how I live, nutshelled.

1. Florence + the Machine
“Lungs”

Gothic vocals + gorgeous instrumentation. Florence (speaking about her music) says: “I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe.”

Happy New Year!!!

Good day friends. Normally on Wed. we start the music lineup with an episode of the MeVIO Underground, our live acoustic music show. Today is slightly different. We have some bills to pay so I start the channel off with a Nutrisystem host endorsement. If you need to lose weight, give it a try. Some of the nerds here at MeVIO are on Nutrisystem and it seems to be working for them. And we can save you some money on it too if you go to nutrisystem.com/mvmusic
Next up I pay tribute to Mick Cocks, guitarist for Rose Tattoo who passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was a great guitarist and I’ve never heard a bad word spoken of him. If you are not familiar with the pure rock n roll greatness that is Rose Tattoo, do yourself a favor and get their entire catalog. They are the real thing, friends. I play the video for Black Eyed Bruiser on the tribute as well.
After that, we have The Dollyrots in studio for a fantastic acoustic set that includes 2 new songs, so I guess that qualifies as an exclusive. They were really nice people and play some of the catchiest punk rock you will ever hear. They came down while they were in San Francisco during a west coast tour. They also did an interview with Jackie and Martina while they were here. That will be posted on MeVIO soon.
All that and much more stuff on MeVIO Music today including some Rock News from my friend Share at Rock n Roll TV and a bunch of Holiday Gift Guides.

You can watch it all right here. Just hit play on the video player at the top of this post.

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Mick Cocks

One of the founding members of Australian rock band Rose Tattoo, guitarist Mick Cocks, has died.

Cocks was suffering from liver cancer and passed away in a Sydney hospital.

Guitarist Pete Wells, who died in March 2006 from prostate cancer, formed Rose Tattoo in 1976, joining forces with Cocks, Angry Anderson, Ian Rilen and Dallas Royal.

Rilen and Wells died in 2006 and fellow band member Lobby Loyde passed away in 2007.

“Mick got ill about a year ago and it was looking pretty good for a while but he got very ill,” Rose Tattoo manager Stephen White told Fairfax radio.

“It is devastating. You know, what can you say though.”

A brief statement on the band’s website confirmed Cocks’s death.

“We’re very sad to announce that Rose Tattoo founding member and guitarist Mick Cocks lost his battle against liver cancer and passed away today, on December 22,” the statement read.

Rose Tattoo, which enjoyed significant international success with its brand of slide-guitar driven rock, is well known for hits such as We Can’t Be Beaten, Scarred for Life, Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaw and Bad Boy for Love.

Heavily tattooed and never backwards in coming forwards, Rose Tattoo toured extensively and often attracted controversial publicity, including after releasing the single Realise Legalise campaigning for the legalisation of marijuana.

Cocks left the band after three years in 1979 and went on to create his own solo projects, including his Doomfoxx rock band.

Rose Tattoo meanwhile underwent further personnel changes and continued to tour for over 20 years with varying degrees of success, including regularly opening gigs for Guns N’ Roses.

Fairfax Radio Network reported that Cocks died surrounded by his family.

His death comes just months after some of Australia’s best-loved rockers joined forces to put on a benefit gig for the stricken performer.

Rose Tattoo, Jimmy Barnes, You Am I, Ian Moss and The Screaming Jets played at the Enmore Theatre in July to raise money for Cocks

Related Posts:

Pete Wells interviewed  on The Rock and Roll Geek Show

Angry Anderson interviewed on The Rock and Roll Geek Show

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It’s another week here on MeVIO Music and we have a holiday filled lineup. To start things off, Martina and Jackie, our 2 favorite juvenile delinquents, have another episode of Music Video Reform School where they take the piss out of a couple of music videos. This week they take on 2 Christmas videos, This Christmas, by Chris Brown and Last Christmas from Wham!

Then we take Xmas to the beach with Christmas in Malibu from the Rad Dudes, featuring my friend Joe Klein in the role of Santa.

Also, we show a lot of holiday gift suggestions for your shopping list.

Finally, we have one of my favorite new videos on MeVIO Music, Farewell Rocketship from Children Collide.

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I had a lunch meeting with Rod Weinberg, one of the authors of a great book I’m reading called Rock Roadie. The lunch was at a place in SOHO called The Groucho Club. This apparently is a private club for people who work in British TV and radio. Phil dropped me off at the train station and pointed me in the direction of Charing Cross station and sent me on my way.
I recorded a Driving With Butler once I got on the train. Hopefully it will turn out ok. There don’t seem to be as many freaks in London as in SF but SOHO was pretty fun to walk around in. I got off the train ok but immediately got lost. Once I pulled up the google maps on the ridiculously priced AT&T data plan ($60 a month for 50 mb) I found my way to the Groucho Club pretty easily.
I was about 40 minutes early so I walked around the neighborhood for a while. There were tons of licensed sex shops everywhere as well as strip clubs. I didn’t go into any strip clubs but next door to one was a peep show place where you drop £2 on the slot and watch a totally nude girl stand there behind a 9 inch window for 1 minute. There were a total of like 4 booths, 2 booths per “dancer”. Both dancers looked ok and completely disinterested. I spent a total of 4 £2 coins and then headed to the Groucho Club to meet Rod Weinberg. He was a really nice portly gentleman who looked a little like Santa Claus. We had a nice lunch. I had smoked trout over green beans with an appetizer that had shrimp in the name but looked like cat food. It was actually pretty good but as it was going down I felt an immodium moment coming on. Luckily I had one left on me but still had to excuse myself to make a mad dash to the bathroom with no paper towels. (only hand driers.). Back to Rod, once the emergency was over, we had a great chat about the book and his knowledge of rock history. He was older than me so it was quite an educational lunch. Among other things, he told me in great detail how Hendrix really died. I’m not a huge Hendrix fan but it was still quite fascinating.
It was a 2:00 load in at the Garage, so I needed to get going.
(note: I’m now finishing this post after about 12 beers so please pardon the miss spellings and bad grammar)
Rod gave me a ride in his jaguar to the train station where I headed to the club. I got there about 3 pm and they were still setting up so I went to the Famous Cock pub with Phil and hung out with a bunch of Ginger fans who were drinking before the show. Also there was Nigel Mogg and a couple of RnR Geek friends

So I arrived in London pretty well rested. I took a sleeping pill on the plane, had a beer with my new Indian friend and then passed out. I got into London around 9:30 am, got my bass and made it through customs with no problems. I was greeted by Alex (sleazyrocknroll), who drove me through the snow straight to rehearsals at Bush Studios. When I got there, I was greeted by Ginger, Gav, Scott Sorry, Victoria (one of the guest singers), Duncan (Wildhearts guitar tech) and a guy named Rev from Towers of London.

Scott left shortly after, leaving me as the only bass player of the day. Fine with me. The more songs I got to play the better. Other musicians that showed up were Denzel(a fantastic drummer), Willie Dowling, Olga from the Toy Dolls, Chris McCormick from 3 Colors Red,Nathan from Snow Patrol and a beautiful female singer named Harry. I could not believe I was surrounded by so much amazing talent in one room.
After about 4 fun filled hours of rock, we headed down to the corner pub where, while I waited for Phil to come by to take me on the train, I showered everyone there with fanboy questions.
After Phil showed up we headed on the train to his place out in Beckenham, former home town of Bowie, Peter Frampton, Billy Idol. Phil’s family is really sweet and kind. They gave me my own attic suite comlete with a Christmas tree.
I slept pretty well but kept waking up with thoughts of my day ahead of me.

Today I head over to London, England to play 7 songs at Ginger’s birthday show. I’m typing this post on my phone from my plane seat so pardon the typos.
I chose to do some songs that I’d never played before to make the gig a little more interesting. One of those is a Clam Abuse song, which as far as I can tell, has no bass guitar but is one of my favorite songs in Ginger’s catalog. I learned it in standard tuning in the key of b. That seemed to me to be right cause it sounded like it had an open e in the song. To be safe I asked my friend Alex Kane, who is playing the song as well, what key it was in. I asked him weeks ago but he said he didn’t remember. Well I finally heard back from him this morning that the song was played in a totally different key then sped up on tape. Huh? So this meant I had to sit down and re-learn the song this morning 30 minutes before I had to leave for the airport. I think I have it pretty much figured out in the different key but just to be safe, I learned it in 3 different keys so I don’t come off as an idiot at the gig. According to the rehearsal schedule I saw, they are rehearsing this song today without me. I don’t arrive till Wed morning and head straight to rehearsals after I clear customs. Hopefully I can sit down with Alex before the gig and run through that song once.
I’m being picked up at the airport Byatt different Alex(the guy who makes my RnR Geek clothing line and Bathroom Wall Ts) and Phil (who does the Paranoid Squirrel podcast), two guys I’ve only met online in the rnr geek forums They also organized the Throw Michael On A Plane fundraiser that made this trip possible.
This promises to be quite an adventure. I’m gonna try to do as many short update podcasts as I can while I’m here. I didn’t bring my portable podcast setup but did bring the XtremeMac Micromemo and my Kodak Zi8 video camera with my wireless setup.

The waitress is here with my Heinekin now so Im gonna sign off for now, friends.

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“I’ve been magnetic since I was a baby!”

All of us have been playing music since we were youths. We have played
with many-a-band, but when the four of us started playing
rough&roll together is when shit got for real.

“Sometimes you go to sleep in your makeup!”

Justin wears makeup and high heels because he likes to. Cole, Dan and Stevy don’t. It’s all gonna be ok.

“RockNRoll Never Looked So Beautiful”

People
call us a glam band because of our Hollywood good looks and Justin’s
kunt style, but really we just play good ol’ rockNroll with hints of
the futuristic.

“I can’t pay my rent but I’m fucking gorgeous!”

Our mission is to bring fun, glamour, sex, filth and the party back to
music. And we take that very seriously. We miss rent, collect cans, and
sleep on couches all over the world just to bring you
roughNroll-glamour-times.

“Sometimes I cry because it makes my eyes look bluer…”

Justin loves Andy Warhol and AC/DC

Stevy loves Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Stan Brakhage

Cole loves Belladonna and Jay Z

Dan loves Shudder To Think and Hemingway

“This is how I-I-I made me!”

Yes the fabulous Kate Moss comes to see us play in London. Thank you
Kate. Yes the brilliant Tony Visconti Executive Produced our record and
said “I have been waiting for this band for 20 years!”. Thank you Tony.
Yes the powerful Perez Hilton thinks we are “The Next Big Thing”. Thank
you Perez. Yes the genius music mogul Alan McGee said “SPW is the most
important band in America!”. Thank you Alan. Yes we are name dropping.
Thank you name dropping.

“Mix diamonds into my ashes…”

Justin has a gorgeous line of high-end jewelry called “fetty”. It sells
at Barneys COOPs across the country. And over 70,000 pieces of Precious
Weapons jewelry designed by Justin have sold at Urban Outfitters and
Hot Topic. maybe yall should get you some? yes. To see Fetty Diamond
Jewelry at Barneys New York CLICK HERE for FETTY!

“Sometimes I bleed because red is a good color on me!”

You vamp people even looking at our myspace page means a lot to us.
Comment us! You WILL almost always get a comment back from a band
member who is truly interested in your life, no matter how strange,
fabulous, or boring it may be.

“We Love You, still.”

We hope you all get laid. RoughNRoll Vamps!

Event Producers, Noise Pop Industries, have announced the dates of the West Coast’s premiere celebration of independent music, film and art – Noise Pop 2009. The 18th annual Noise Pop Festival will take place February 23rd through March 1, 2009 at venues throughout San Francisco, CA.

Early artist confirmations include Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines & Foreign Born.  More shows will be announced in the coming weeks along with films, art shows, and more.

Industry Noise will take place on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Noise Pop’s mini-conference discusses independent music, technology, and the changing industry.  Musicians, independent labels, music bloggers, managers, and others involved in music shouldn’t miss this event.  Attendees can meet industry pros, listen to influential speakers, advance their artistic and business ventures, and learn more about current possibilities and opportunities. In addition to panels and speakers, there are small discussion groups and individual mentoring. Panelists and Keynote speakers will be announced soon.  Industry Noise Badges go onsale on Wednesday, December 9th for $65 or $50 along with the purchase of a full festival badge.

Noise Pop Festival Badges go onsale Wednesday Dec 9th at Noon for $150.  A limited number of badges include access to the Magnetic Fields show at the Fox Theater on Saturday February 27th, or the Herbst Theater on Monday March 1, 2010.  Tickets to individual shows go onsale Saturday December 12, 2010.  Noise Pop Festival news updates will also be featured on Noisepop.com

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