Artist: Brocas Helm: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Discography: Defender Of The Crown Year: 2004 Tracks: 15 Even though they came into creation at around the same time and shoes (1982, the Bay Area) as the stop number alloy style, San Francisco originals Brocas Helm shared out alone a few thrash-like tendencies with neighbors Exodus, Metallica, et al. Instead, like similarly unmarked contemporaries such as Manilla Road and Warlord, Brocas Helm members Bobbie Wright (guitars/vocals), Jim Schumacher (basso) and Jack Hays (drums) blazed a less popular chase closer to traditional metal powers like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and, of class, Black Sabbath, earlier them. This purist's philosophy cursorily translated into a contract with Germany's Steamhammer german mark, which released Brocas Helm's medieval-minded debut album, Into Battle, in 1984, just to little critical spat. Fact is, stripe and label were separated by also heavy a distance to work together in effect, and the demos that would suit Brocas Helm's, arcsecond album, Black Death, would languish unreleased for tight four-spot days before at long last coming to light in 1989 -- and then via the band's possess Gargoyle imprint. By then, the mathematical group (now augmented by s guitar participant Tom "T-Bone" Behney) had get a rightfully subway enterprise, and would issue aught only demos (1994's "Ghost Story," 1997's "Clock time of the Dark") until giving up their struggle at last in the later รข€˜90's. Brocas Helm's retirement was passing, however, and when Greek promoters invited them to term of enlistment that metal-mad state, they eagerly reformed and issued a individual entitled "Blood machine" to cooccur with their live dates. Perhaps regular more surprisingly, 2004 eventually saw the release of a third Brocas Helm L.P. entitled Defender of the Crown. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008
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Artist: Randy Crawford: mp3 download Genre(s): Dance R&B: Soul Pop Rock Other Discography: The Ultimate Collection Year: 2005 Tracks: 38 Play Mode Year: 2001 Tracks: 13 Don't Say It's Over Year: 1999 Tracks: 10 Abstract Emotions Year: 1999 Tracks: 10 The Very Best of Randy Crawford Year: 1998 Tracks: 17 Naked and True Year: 1995 Tracks: 11 Raw Silk Year: 1994 Tracks: 10 Now We May Begin Year: 1994 Tracks: 8 Through the Eyes of Love Year: 1992 Tracks: 12 Rich and Poor Year: 1989 Tracks: 11 Secret Combination Year: 1988 Tracks: 10 Every Kind of Mood: Randy, Randi, Randee Year: Tracks: 15 Randy Crawford's initial ill fame came from her fiery vocal on "Street Life," a 1979 birdsong co-ordinated her with the Crusaders that was included on the soundtrack for Burt Reynolds' film Sharky's Machine. Crawford was natural in Macon and grew up in Cincinnati; she worked in clubs as a teenager, accompanied by her founder. Crawford was lead singer in a group that included bassist Bootsy Collins onward touring as George Benson's opening act in 1972. Cannonball Adderley invited her to babble on his LP Big Man. Crawford recorded "Don't Get Caught in Love's Triangle," a birdsong produced by Johnny Bristol, during a curt stay on the mark. She currently moved to Warner Bros., and subsequently "Street Life," recorded and toured Europe with the Crusaders. Crawford was tabbed Most Outstanding Performer at the 1980 Tokyo Music Festival. She remained with Warner Bros. through the '80s and early '90s, but was unable to score either a big R&B reach or major crossover smash, contempt having 1 of the most readily identifiable voices and distinctive approaches of whatsoever contemporary distaff vocaliser. She's been more successful abroad, peculiarly in England, where such singles as "Knock on Heaven's Door," "Showery Night in Georgia," and "Last Night at Danceland" have gotten universal hail. |
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Kaiser Chiefs plan limited US shows
The band will play a show each in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to preview material from the Mark Ronson-produced 'Off With Their Heads', which will be released October 14 in the US.
According to the band, a full tour is in the kit and boodle for early 2009.
The dates are:
Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theater (November 11)
Chicago, IL Park West (13)
New York, NY Webster Hall (15)
--By our New York staff.
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Kiera has no problem with nude scenes
Keira Knightley has no problem going nude in front of the camera.
The 23-year-old actress was happy to whip her bra off during a sex scene with Cillian Murphy in ‘The Edge of Love'.
She said: "It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they've got bras on. So when asked I said, ‘alright then'."
This isn't the first time Keira has stripped off in a movie. The British star previously filmed steamy scenes for ‘Domino' and ‘Atonement'.
While the actress is happy to bare her flesh on the big screen, she is terrified of singing in front of the cameras.
Keira, who has previously spoken about her reluctance to sing in ‘The Edge of Love', is set to receive singing lessons for the role of Eliza Doolittle in the remake of ‘My Fair Lady'.
The actress is determined her vocal abilities will be in tip-top shape when she belts out the movie's classic songs, including ‘The Rain In Spain' and ‘Wouldn't It Be Loverly?'.
My ‘Fair Lady' is due to start shooting in 2010.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
Cbs - Cbs Turns Dotspottercom Into Theinsidercom
CBS has taken over the celebrity website Dotspotter.com and will rebrand it with
the name of its syndicated celebrity show The Insider. TheInsider.com borrows
the look and feel of Dotspotter.com but lacks the no-holds-barred attitude of rival
celebrity blogs like TMZ.com and PerezHilton.com. CBS reportedly paid $10 million for
the website last October, saying at the time that its model would not be the successful
gossip sites but rather its own CBSSports.com.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Boy George to perform for NYC Sanitation Dept.
The show will take place on August 17, when the singer will perform for over 5,000 NYC Sanitation workers and their families at a picnic with entertainment taking place at the Department of Sanitation training facility in Brooklyn.
Boy George recently announced his first US tour in over ten years. The former Culture Club frontman-turned-solo artist made headlines in the US in 2006 when he was sentenced to garbage duty after a judge charged him with wasting police time for falsely reporting a burglary in his New York apartment.
The singer was permitted to carry out garbage duty in the grounds of the city�??s Sanitation Department due to the level of media interest in his community service.
--By our New York staff.
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
Sex and the City star for the IFTAs
Corbett, who played Aidan in 'Sex and the City', will present an award with his partner Bo Derek at the Gaiety Theatre on 17 February.
Irish-American actress and two-time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell ('Dances with Wolves', 'Passion Fish') will also present an award at the ceremony while 'Entourage' star Kevin Dillon, whose grandparents are Irish, is the other new name confirmed for the Ryan Tubridy-hosted awards show.
Among the other guests already already announced are Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, David Kelly, Liam Cunningham, last year's Best Supporting TV Actress winner Ruth Bradley and 'In America' star Sarah Bolger.
Friday, 6 June 2008
Meet The Big Brother 9 Housemates!
Despite waning interest, Channel 4 have insisted on inflicting Davina McCall and some fresh wannabes upon viewers over the duration of the summer.
So what does Big Brother have in store for this year? The sun might be shining but Big Brother 9 will be no summer holiday. If housemates think they can idle away the summer in the garden, they will be sorely mistaken.
The house features a jail and any disobeying housemates will be punished. If they still continue to misbehave, the unsuspecting rule-breaker will be place in solitary confinement.
To see who is taking part in this year’s reality show click here.
Acts lined up for iTunes fest
LONDON -- The iTunes Festival: London returns this year, with the likes of James Blunt, Feeder, N.E.R.D., Pendulum and Chaka Khan confirmed to perform through July.
The 1,000-capacity Koko venue in Camden, north London, will host the free performances from July 1, for which tickets will be distributed by way of competitions on the iTunes Live Web site.
Sixty gigs will roll out across 31 evenings, with more acts yet to be confirmed.
The online music retailer will capture the gigs, and sell them on all its 22 iTunes stores worldwide.
Last year's inaugural event was held at the smaller, 350-capacity I.C.A. venue in central London. Oliver Schusser, director of iTunes Europe, recent said the 2007 edition "succeeded all my expectations."
Dragon Force
Artist: Dragon Force
Genre(s):
Metal: Power
Discography:
Sonic Firestorm
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Valley of the Damned
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
U.K. mightiness metallic element sestet Dragonforce formed in 1999 about the twin-guitar assault of Herman Li and Sam Totman, keyboard player Vadim Pruzhanov, and the powerful vocals of ZP Theart -- drummer David Mackintosh and bass voice player Adrian Lambert joined by and by. Dragonforce had already toured with the likes of Halford and Stratovarius in front the waiver of their debut, 2003's Valley of the Damned. The success of that record establish the melodic bikers a worldwide consultation, resulting in a train of sold-out concerts in Asia and Europe. The group's sophomore campaign, Sonic Firestorm, was released in 2004, followed by Cold Rampage in 2006.
Spears' family claim Dr Phil betrayed them
The therapist went to see Spears, at the request of her family, while she was in hospital last week after being admitted for evaluation following a custody dispute at her home.
Lou Taylor, a spokesperson for the Spears family, told NBC's 'Today' that Spears' parents had asked McGraw to visit her as a private favour.
Taylor said: "The family basically extended an invitation of trust as a resource to support them, not to make a public statement."
She also claimed that McGraw's intervention had damaged Spears' relationships with her mother Lynne and her younger sister Jamie Lynn.
Taylor said that the family "were looking for support here, not to add to the trouble that is already upon them".
After his visit to the singer, McGraw issued a statement saying that Spears was "in dire need of medical and psychological intervention".
Speaking on 'Entertainment Tonight', the television therapist said: "Somebody needs to step up and provide a vector to get this young woman into some quality care."
Yesterday, various news reports suggested that Spears' new boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, was trying to sell semi-nude pictures of her to tabloid publications.
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Loscil
Artist: Loscil
Genre(s):
Electronic
Ambient
Discography:
First Narrows
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Submers
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Triple Point
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
The heavily computerized music of Loscil is courtesy of a single man -- Scott Morgan. Influenced by the likes of Cluster, Henry Mancini, and Gavin Bryars, the Vancouver-based player uses samplers, synthesizers, reckoner computer programing, and other personal effects to create a highly original heavy. A self-released album, A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies, caught the capitulum of the Chicago independent tag Kranky, world Health Organization in turn sign-language Morgan's project and issued Triple Point in October of 2001. The album featured six tracks previously issued on Thermodynamic Tendencies, as well as four-spot new tracks. Submers, Morgan's second official Loscil album, followed the following year. In addition to his Loscil duties, Morgan likewise drums for Vancouver alt-rockers Destroyer, has designed music for films, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and websites, and wrote music to accompany films at the Barcelona Off-Line Flash Film Festival in May 2001.
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Coldplay's Viva La Vida: Everything To Everyone, In Bigger Than The Sound
On The Record: Coldplay Get Massively Minimal on Viva la Vida
Given everything contained within, it's fitting that Coldplay decided to saddle their new album with two seemingly disparate titles (it's called Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, in case you weren't aware). Because if anything, it's the most bipolar thing they've ever done.
Lyrically, it's obsessed with the duality of, well, everything, full of ruminations on life and death, corporeal pleasure and spiritual anguish, the emptiness of wealth and the reverence of poverty (all sung by a millionaire rock star with an Academy Award-winning wife, of course). Musically, it's Sagrada Familia-massive and quark-microscopic, all strings and church bells one moment, tiny tack piano and shimmery joules of synthesizer the next (and surprisingly organic for an album produced by an electronic legend like Brian Eno). And thematically, it's hyper-focused on both the celebration of living and the bloody business of revolution, two yin/yang ideals that sort of make sense as one unified concept when you think about it long enough. In keeping with that (non) ideal, the album takes its title from a sunny Frida Kahlo painting, yet features an overwrought Eugène Delacroix work on the cover.
Basically, there are about 15 albums buried somewhere within Viva, each about wildly different things, and each of varying degrees of quality. And this is not necessarily a bad thing, though it does make "reviewing" it in any real context next to impossible.
So rather than attempt to do just that, perhaps the best approach is to consider the album in a vacuum, completely devoid of any context whatsoever. This isn't a review of Viva la Vida, since: A) to review is to contextualize, and an album of this scope, depth and breadth can't really fit into any single set of conditions; and B) since when would any Coldplay fan be swayed by a review anyhow?
(In other Coldplay news, read about our reporter's sorta-lunch with Chris Martin before the MTV Movie Awards.)
So here's what's good about the album: It opens and closes with a single piece of music, a pretty and shiny bit of bookend-ry the band co-wrote with electronic artist Jon Hopkins. It is worldly and mature without being overly so. From Martin's decidedly lower singing range to Jonny Buckland's churchly and majestic guitar work, Viva sounds very much like a band stretching its legs, having earned the right to do so, yet in a testament to Coldplay themselves (or perhaps Eno), there's also a level of self-awareness that only comes with the realization that most records that feature a band "stretching its legs" are terrible.
The songs display scope and execution, whether it's the Bolero guitars below "Cemeteries of London," the stomping build of "42," or the twisting, R&B middle of "Violet Hill." And there are three tracks on the record that effortlessly combine two songs into one: "Lovers in Japan/ Reign of Love" starts off with a spacey player piano and morphs into a dainty minuet; "Yes/ Chinese Sleep Chant" begins with swoony strings, switches into a horny take on a Spiritualized jam and concludes with Martin's voice trapped behind a wall of ice; and "Death and All His Friends/ The Escapist" closes the record with pretty pianos, a big, pounding exercise in drums and finally the same spacey bit that opened the album, this time with Martin singing, "And in the end/ We lie awake and we dream of making an escape."
And since we're on the subject, Martin writes with both an alarming openness and a disarming obtuseness on the record. In the case of the former, "Lost!" sees him keening, "Just because I'm losing doesn't mean I'm lost"; "Yes" has him singing, "When it started we had high hopes/ Now my back's on the ropes" in one bit, then "It's not easy when she turns you on" in another; and "Violet Hill" features him pleading, "If you love me/ Won't you let me know." In the case of the latter, there's "Viva La Vida," which seems to be sung from the perspective of deposed French monarch Charles X; "Death and All His Friends" has him begging, "So come over, just be patient, and don't worry" to no one in particular; and "42" is full of mentions of ghosts denied entry to heaven and "those who are dead ... living in my head." (I told you dude was bipolar!)
As for the bad, well, it's basically all the same stuff that's good about the album. There's an awful lot of ground to cover — Viva really, truly sounds like a band trying to be all things to all people — but when you're a band as massive as Coldplay, that's just covering your bases since, you know, "all people" is your core demographic.
And to that point, everything I just wrote is null and void. Who's going to like Coldplay's new record? Everyone who liked their previous records, which is to say pretty much everyone on the planet. Blog snobs? Check (they'll begrudgingly admit to liking Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head). Sorority girls? Yep (huge fans of "Fix You," think Chris Martin is hot). Business guys who love to cut loose on the weekend? Count them in (saw band at rock-radio fest, own iPod because of "Viva la Vida" commercial). The Coldplay army is massive and loyal. They will follow you to the ends of the earth. And buy, buy, buy — no matter what.
And you get the feeling that's also why Viva is so, well, everything. Happy, sad, cavernous, claustrophobic, beautiful, depraved ... it all depends on which version you're hearing this time around. Is the record great? Yeah, parts of it. Is it better than X&Y? Definitely. Rush of Blood? Maybe, but probably not. Then again, you might disagree. Long live life, indeed. But also, let's hear it for death. Depends which part of the demo you're in.
David Cook-Gate: The Fall Out, or 'Letters, I Get Lots of Angry Letters'
If you ever want to get positively leveled by e-mails that question both your sexuality and your patriotism, all you've got to do is pen a column that pokes fun at "American Idol" champ David Cook and certain segments of the U.S. population. That's what happened to me in the wake of last week's Bigger Than the Sound, and I'd like to share a few of the best with you here. It's pretty safe to say that I broke the Internet in Texas and Alabama. [Editor's note: We're not losing our touch. We've just left these e-mails unedited so you can fully enjoy them.]
"Your attempt to bash anything not far Left using trash/spin in article about 'American Idol' young man,,,,,,(David Cook)^ an innocent hard working *talented young man & his career to do it,,, nauseated me to no end!!!
"How f'n dare u?? Pissed me off to no end,, at the level evil (YES evil is what I read in to that article) will go to spread hate in the atmosphere in a sad attempt to DICTATE their ideology......
"YOU WERE RIGHT on one not so well hidden fear, in that AMERICA for the most part is Center Right, Politically... More traditionalists,, &WE ARE SLEEPING Giants,, in numbers, so:
"Be careful how often & how deep u insult & bash the lot of us... Heard of 'jump the shark?' YOU LEFTIES HAVE Done it, or getting pretty close to it! Maybe your side doesn't deserve to ever get serious power anymore.. I think I'll write a few checks to McCain & Republicans,, ty for reminding me.."
-Anonymous, submitted in purple, italicized comic sans
"You think you are a satirist, but you are just an extremely poor writer. Those who have posted on the website have made all of the relevant arguments against your inane and offensive column. All I can add is 'ditto' to them all. You should be fired, or maybe arrested, for impersonating a columnist. You have managed to offend every person in America including those living in NYC who are not you. I can't imagine that any of them would want to claim you as their representative. What drek!"
- Anonymous
"James Montgomery (a.k.a. all that is wrong with music journalism today, or perhaps Josiah Leming in disguise) -
"It's easy to poke a finger at the Red States, because they think George Bush is always right, they watch Nascar, they think Country music is an acceptable form of entertainment - who with a brain wouldn't find that all ridiculous? However, the fact that 'mainstream America' likes Nickelback is not one of those examples that lends itself to a 'red state theory' of any type. I actually DO listen to (alt) rock radio. I do not listen to Nickelback, and my station would never play it.
"However, the enjoyment of the processed garbage that I believe Nickelback to be is no different than purposely downloading 'No Air' by Jordin Sparks or that horrifying 'Bleeding Love' by Leona Lewis. Top 40 is filled with music that makes my soul die, but if it makes other people FEEL something, should I be ready to dismiss that feeling as ridiculous? Are you ready to impose YOUR views on society, trying to sway a person with a mind all their own, who happens to enjoy rocking out to Chad Kroeger with the windows of their Honda Civic rolled all the way down, with the idea that what they enjoy is SHAMEFUL? You bully people into agreeing with your opinion using 'coolness' and making people feel embarrassed about something they genuinely enjoy. There is more than one thing wrong with 'America,' and you are one of those things, d-----bag. Right up there with Dick Cheney. Figure it out ..."
- Signed, someone who just MUST be a creepy middle-aged lady who wants to throw her underpants at David Cook, who also happens to be so unhip that she doesn't realize that Josiah Leming is the second coming of Bob Dylan. HOW HAS SHE NOT SLIT HER WRISTS, YET?
Any more? BTTS@MTVStaff.com.
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