Tuesday 24 June 2008
Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall
Artist: Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Live at the Half Note
Year: 1990
Tracks: 5
 
Sunday 22 June 2008
Incredible Hulk
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Saturday 21 June 2008
Helalyn Flowers
Artist: Helalyn Flowers
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Helalyn Flowers
Year: 2006
Tracks: 6
 
Lakshminarayana Shankar
Joan Rivers booted from British TV over curse word
Joan Rivers' salty tongue got her booted from a British daytime talk show in the middle of its live broadcast.
Rivers used two expletives while talking about Russell Crowe as a guest host on the live gab-fest "Loose Women." She was asked to leave during a commercial break.
The 75-year old comedian said in a statement Tuesday she was sorry for the swearing, and assumed that a censor would be able to "bleep" the words out.
Then she cracked wise, saying the incident reminded her of her wedding night - because she was asked to leave in the middle of that, too.
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Silent Voices
Artist: Silent Voices
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Building Up The Apathy
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Silent Voices is a instead ironic name for the Finnish band profiled here; truth be told, their medicine is far from quiet, subtle, or understated. Aggression and forcefulness -- not silence or reticence -- ar among the main ingredients of Silent Voices, wHO are share of the power metal resurgence motility that has enjoyed an enthusiastic cult following in Western Europe in the '90s and 2000s. Silent Voices thrive on the hard and the heavy, which isn't to say that they favour disturbance for the interest of noise or viciousness for the sake of barbarity (as is ofttimes the case in metalcore, end metal/black metal and grindcore). For all their tawdriness, Silent Voices ar actually quite melodic and musical -- sure in the way that headbangers like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Ronnie James Dio were melodic and musical back in the '70s and '80s. And Silent Voices, care other European power alloy revival acts that emerged in the '90s, ar a stylistic reversion to metal's pre-'90s, pre-Nevermind era; they are retro and all unapologetic about it. But piece office alloy is Silent Voices' primary counsel, the Scandinavians give birth too been influenced by '80s thrash metal as intimately as progressive rock -- and they bring an interesting variety show of influences to the table. Silent Voices give birth been greatly influenced by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Queensrÿche -- bands that ar considered substantive hearing in the power metallic element revival meeting movement -- simply they take likewise been affected by Rush, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Kansas on the progressive rock side and Metallica, Megadeth, and Venom on the thrash side. (Some metal historians have argued that if Motörhead were the start mosh metal/speed alloy banding, Venom were the sec.) Like the immense majority of Scandinavian metal bands, Silent Voices give birth opted to write in English entirely despite orgasm from a country in which English is non the elemental or official language.Silent Voices was formed in Kokkola, Finland in 1995, when guitar player Timo Kauppinen and bassist Pasi Kauppinen formed an alliance with keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg and drummer Jukka-Pekka Koivisto; a few long time later (after Silent Voices had recorded and circulated some demos), Michael Henneken was leased as the band's full-time lead vocalizer. Silent Voices' first base official release after Henneken's arrival was an EP titled Memory and the Frame, which they recorded in 1998 and released themselves. The following thing they put out was the single "You Got It/Human Cradle Grave," which Low Frequency Records (a Finnish alloy label based in Vantaa) ended up organism included on a few compilations. In 2001, Silent Voices signed with Low Frequency, which has a licensing deal with the Phoenix, AZ-based Crash Music and released the band's first base full-length record album, Chapters of Tragedy, in 2002. The following class, Silent Voices recorded their irregular full-length album, Goddamn, in Helsinki; the album was released by Low Frequency in Europe in June 2004 before organism released by Crash Music in the United States in September 2004.
Daniele Mondello and Express Viviana
Artist: Daniele Mondello and Express Viviana
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Infinity
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
 
Oh no! YouTube's 'Fred' is both shrill and a shill
(image from fredonzipit.com)
At the suggestion of commenter Mark, I took a second look at the YouTube phenomenon called "Fred" to see if he was really a lone teenage filmmaker. Or if he was the front boy for some cloaked entity bent Pied Piper-like on hypnotizing millions of children with "entertaining content," only to lure them into some commercial trap. You know, like TV.
Well I admit it hadn't occurred to me that these Fred videos would need corporate backing to be produced. They sort of seem like, I don't know, a hyperactive 12-year-old kid made them. But call me a fool, because a link in Fred's description box sends viewers to a flashy, expensive-looking website called fredonzipit.com. ZipIt, it turns out, is a handheld instant-messaging device -- presumably to allow kids to IM each other from the comfort of their living room couch, kitchen table, desk at school, or anywhere else. Because God forbid we should teach our kids that it's OK to go 90 seconds without filling in koolguyT0mmy94 or s1st3rSarah on your activities over the last 90 seconds, and go read a book instead.
So yes, I'm waiting for a call-back from Zipit themselves, but I think we can go ahead and call this another viral marketing ploy. And no point distinguishing ZipIt from the legion of other tchotchke peddlers that have been selling kids stuff they don't need since Moses was a tween. Kids are such a big part of the YouTube demographic that this had to happen eventually. It's just ... really with the chipmunk voice?
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El Chapo de Sinaloa
Artist: El Chapo de Sinaloa
Genre(s):
Other
Folk
Discography:
15 Grandes Exitos Con Acordeon
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Tu, Yo y la Luna
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Fantasia Loca
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
El Chapo, as he is commonly known to Mexican euphony fans, was born Ernesto Pérez in Badiraguato, in the province of Sinaloa, a musically vibrant region. Pérez recalls that "just now around every kid my eld dreamt of one day beingness in a circle." Hoping to sing and toy clarinet, Pérez spent most of his time out of schooling practicing and writing euphony. The hands of his family were by and large cowboys, causation Pérez to honey everything around caballo civilisation. His dreams shortly changed from musician to vocalizing cowpuncher. His prayers were at least in part answered at the age of 11 when he began performing clarinet with a local conjunto. Finding opportunities as a clarinettist slightly limited, Pérez picked up the galvanic bass and began playing with a act of local bands. Pérez started playing for recording roger Sessions with small companies, and by the age of 15 he could be heard on more than than 20 professional recordings. It was through his work in recording that Pérez distinct to take stairs toward a solo life history. It was not long earlier this already veteran musician was able to succeed the public's favor. Released in 2004, Tu, Yo y la Luna remained on Billboard's Regional Mexican and Top Latin Albums charts for deuce days, and former releases have done similarly easily. El Chapo de Sinaloa is oftentimes referred to as "El Numero Uno de Jaripeo," mayhap fulfilling his singing puncher dreams.
Poor 'deserve more'
Anne Heche pays the price in divorce settlement
LOS ANGELES - Anne Heche's five-year marriage to Coleman Laffoon is officially over, but not without a pinch to her pocketbook.
A judge ruled that Heche must pay $275,000 to her ex-husband, along with monthly child-support payments of $3,700 for the care of their 6-year-old son, Homer, according to court documents released Friday.
Heche will also have to pay 75 per cent of Homer's private-school tuition. The couple agreed to split the cost of any "agreed upon extracurricular activities" for their son.
Heche, 39, and Laffoon, 34, were married Sept. 1, 2001. He filed for divorce on Feb. 2, citing irreconcilable differences.
Heche starred in TV's "Men in Trees." She and Laffoon, a cameraman, met while working on a documentary about Ellen DeGeneres - with whom Heche was romantically linked for three years.
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Dennis DeYoung
Artist: Dennis DeYoung
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
10 on Broadway
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Boomchild
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
Desert Moon
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Soundstage (Audio Only)
Year:
Tracks: 13
The keyboardist/vocalist of Chicago-based arena rock dance orchestra, Styx, Dennis DeYoung continues to crop a successful solo life history. Recording on his have as other as 1984, DeYoung produced four impressive solo albums -- Desert Moon, Back to the World, and Boomchild in front reuniting briefly with his other bandmates in 1990.
The reunification proven to be brief, however, and Styx disbanded a arcsecond time before long after releasing an album, Boundary of the Century. DeYoung used the opportunity to record his fourth solo album, 10 on Broadway, which historied the influence of such composers as George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tim Rice.
Although he returned to Styx when they reunited over again in 1996, and played on their first studio album in ashcan School long time, Return to Paradise, a serious viral ill that made him tender to light, caused him to bow out of a national circuit. By the time that he recuperated, Styx had replaced him with a new singer, Lawrence Gowan. Attempting to eugene Sue all over the use of the band's constitute, DeYoung settled verboten of courtyard in late 2001. Forced to bank on his possess talents, DeYoung wasted no time. He composed and recorded a musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, Hunchback of Notre Dame, played Pontius Pilate in a touring production of Christ Christ Superstar, and re-recorded the Styx hit, "The Grand Illusion" for Siegfried and Roy's IMEX picture show. Tracks from his low iII solo albums were compiled and released in 1999 as Ultimate Collection.