Friday, 27 June 2008

Neuroactive featuring The Nine

Neuroactive featuring The Nine   
Artist: Neuroactive featuring The Nine

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   



Discography:


Visualise Mixes   
 Visualise Mixes

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7




 





Tibetan Meditation

Monday, 23 June 2008

Schindler Autograph Up For Auction

The last remaining autographed photo of holocaust hero OSKAR SCHINDLER is to be sold at auction.

The German industrialist, made famous in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List, was responsible for saving 1,400 Jews from death during World War II.

Schindler signed the photo in 1949 before giving it to a family he had taken in during the war. It currently belongs to Sholamit Vesengred, the son of two Holocaust survivors, who hopes to attract bids of up to $150,000 (GBP75,000) when the picture goes under the hammer later this year (08).

And he has revealed he plans to get in contact with actor Liam Neeson - who played Schindler in the 1993 film - in the hope he'll join bidders and bump up the price.




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Monday, 16 June 2008

Doug Burr, On Promenade Album Review

Doug Burr

On Promenade

Velvet Blue

Album Review




Doug Burr is a singer-songwriter in the Springsteen style - songs come out fully formed and ready for some full band attention, but with an intimacy that engages deeply. From Denton, Texas, (home of Centro-matic) Burr's voice and style is closer to Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, but it is hard to overstate how lush and gorgeous this man's songs are - there isn't an attempt to overemote, no odd falsetto. Instead, like the early Lyle Lovett albums (think If I Had A Boat), these songs seem like classics, destined for endless covers by less talented writers.



Songs like How Can The Lark and Should've Known lick deliciously at dark places - Nick Cave with a gentle touch. Burr relies on great songs, not on gimmicks, and pulls on literate wit and poetry to generate the intimate ache that drives the record. There is clearly something in the water in Denton - that town has produced two of the best records of the past 12 months.



Rating 9/10



Mike Rea




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Sunday, 8 June 2008

Goya, Francis

Goya, Francis   
Artist: Goya, Francis

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   



Discography:


Plays His Favorite Hits Vol 2   
 Plays His Favorite Hits Vol 2

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 16


The Best   
 The Best

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 23


Plays His Favorite Hits Vol 1   
 Plays His Favorite Hits Vol 1

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 16


This is Francis Goya   
 This is Francis Goya

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 18




 






Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)

Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)   
Artist: Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   



Discography:


Captivating Melodies of Sitar   
 Captivating Melodies of Sitar

   Year:    
Tracks: 2




 





Sex Pistol Accused of Firing Fist at Woman's Face

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying   
Artist: As I Lay Dying

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal
   Metal: Death,Black
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   



Discography:


An Ocean Between Us (demo)   
 An Ocean Between Us (demo)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4


An Ocean Between Us   
 An Ocean Between Us

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


A Long March: The First Recordings   
 A Long March: The First Recordings

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 22


Shadows Are Security   
 Shadows Are Security

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


Charlotte   
 Charlotte

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


Frail Words Collapse   
 Frail Words Collapse

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


Beneath the Encasing of Ashes   
 Beneath the Encasing of Ashes

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12




As I Lay Dying is a California metal-hardcore crossover band from San Diego, CA. The mathematical group formed as a triad in 2001 with vocaliser Tim Lambesis, drummer Jordan Mancino, and guitar player Evan White, and curtly thereafter released At a lower place the Encasing of Ashes. A split CD with the American Tragedy followed the future class. In 2003 the band gestural with Metal Blade and released Delicate Words Collapse. After the album's release, White left hand the band and the unexpended core of the grouping, Lambesis and Mancino, drafted deuce guitarist to put back him, Phil Sgrosso and Nick Hipa, and too landed a basso actor in Clint Norris. The fresh lineup recorded Shadows Are Security, released in 2005. As I Lay Dying future issued A Long March: The First Recordings in May 2006, which included their 2001 out of print debut, on with two versions of their songs from the 2002 American Tragedy split. The band then spent that summertime on the Sounds of the Underground metal-hardcore tour of duty aboard acts like In Flames, GWAR, Trivium, and Cannibal Corpse. Soon afterward, Clint Norris left hand to pursue life as a family man and Josh Gilbert replaced him on basso. With the addition of Gilbert's vocal harmonies, the band's good became more than melodic, and in August 2007, the mathematical group released their fourth record album, An Ocean Between Us.





Rakim

Spike TV's 2nd Annual Guys Choice Awards: Photos

Melanie Brown at Spike TV's 2nd Annual Guys Choice Awards Culver City, CA, on Friday, May 30, 2008. Photo Credit: David Gabber / PR Photos

May 31, 2008 () - Spike TV's 2nd Annual Guys Choice Awards at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, on Friday, May 30, 2008, paid homage to the best in guydom.

The event aimed to settle the most hotly debated rivalries this year from the world of sports, comedy, film, internet and more, with categories such as Sexiest Siren (Avril Lavigne vs. Rihanna), Hottest Eva (Eva Longoria vs. Eva Mendes) and Luckiest Bastard (Brian Austin Green (Megan Fox) vs. Rhys Ifans (Sienna Miller)).

It included a performance by Disturbed, and appearances by Chuck Liddell, Harrison Ford, Marisa Miller, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Hathaway, Steve Carell, Kim Kardashian, LeBron James, Eva Mendes, Tila Tequila, Snoop Dogg, and Jeremy Piven, among others.

Matt Damon netted two of the night's top honors as he was voted Guy of the Year by Spike TV viewers, and his portrayal of Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum earned him Best Ass Kicker bragging rights.

Box office smash hit Iron Man garnered the Guy Movie of the Year honor. Star Robert Downey, Jr. and director Jon Favreau were on hand to receive the award.




Playboy editor-in-chief and chief creative officer and American icon, Hugh Hefner, was given the first ever Alpha Male Award for his pioneering vision and ground-breaking achievements that forever changed the face of entertainment for men.

The show also honored one of the most successful comedies of all time - There's Something About Mary. It was inducted into the Guy Movie Hall of Fame, with Bobby and Peter Farrelly, as well as castmembers Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Lin Shaye and Markie Post on hand to accept the honor. Diaz was also there to receive the Decade of Hotness award.

In addition, fresh off winning Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning took home two awards, Most Unstoppable Jock and sharing Badass DNA with his brother Peyton.

In addition to honoring the sexiest women and coolest guys from the past year, the show featured unforgettable tributes to legendary entertainers, rockers and babes, as well as edgy stand-up comedy and ground breaking musical performances.

Paul Hanson

Paul Hanson   
Artist: Paul Hanson

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   



Discography:


Astro Boy Blues   
 Astro Boy Blues

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 8


The Visitor   
 The Visitor

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10




 






Barcode

Barcode   
Artist: Barcode

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Showdown   
 Showdown

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16




One of the top exponents of European hard-core, Denmark's Barcode first formed in 1995, and experience had only mysteriously named guitar player Panter as a invariant presence. Co-founding vocalizer Greg Fastrup and second guitar player Kenneth Madsen were dispensed with concisely subsequently the band's 1997 debut, Toilsome Jet Super Flash (overseen by top metal producer Tommy Hansen -- Helloween, Pretty Maids, etc.), and respectively replaced by Butch and Hatesphere phallus Jacob "Dr. J" Bredahl. Ensuing Barcode albums take included 1999's Beerserk, 2000's Aarhus Oedelaegger Julen rip 7", 2002's simply named Hard-core, and 2005's Face-off, as well as legion compilation appearances -- all of them dealing in only the near authentic and utter hard-core.





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Katie Melua

Katie Melua   
Artist: Katie Melua

   Genre(s): 
Vocal
   Rock
   Pop
   



Discography:


Pictures   
 Pictures

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


Piece by Piece   
 Piece by Piece

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


Call Off The Search   
 Call Off The Search

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10




Plucked from music school abstruseness by songwriter/producer Mike Batt, Katie Melua byword her debut bolt up the U.K. charts upon its press release there in late 2003. Melua was born in Soviet Georgia in 1984. Eventually, she and her family line stirred to Belfast, Ireland, and eventually to London, where Melua entered the B.R.I.T. School for the Performing Arts & Technology. The track record industry-funded school had a habit of graduating talented playacting artists (Floetry, for illustration), and Melua became its next success when a 2003 showcase caught the attention of Batt, who'd been looking for for a vocalizer capable in both malarky and blues styles. Call Off the Search was issued in the U.K. in November 2003 through Batt's Dramatico Records embossment. A comfortable, highly neat blend of malarky vocals, pop style, and adult modern-day shake, the record album featured deuce cuts penned by Melua (including a testimonial to matchless of her biggest influences, Eva Cassidy), as intimately as covers of material from John Mayall, Randy Newman, and the James Shelton definitive "Lilac Wine." The single "Nearest Thing to Crazy" hit number one in December, and by January of the following year, Call Off the Search had gone platinum (three hundred,000 units in the U.K.). Gigs in Europe followed, and in May 2004 Melua made her fashion to the U.S. for a round of nightspot dates load-bearing the album's domestic release. She achieved regular greater success with her 2005 follow-up, Spell by Piece, a wise blend of worldbeat and jazz-pop that topped both the outside and British charts in front mount its sights on the U.S. securities industry in 2006.





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Bassey Discharged From Hospital

Latest: Dame Shirley Bassey has been released from hospital, just days after undergoing an emergency stomach operation. The 71-year-old Welsh star was admitted to a hospital in Monaco, France - where she now resides - with abdominal pains last week (ends23May08). But Bassey's spokesman Paul Carey says she is now at home "resting up and on the road to a full recovery". The Big Spender hitmaker is expected to be back to full health in time for her performance at the former South African president Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert in London on 27th June .


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