Benji Madden: 'I Should Run America' & other: 2008

Thursday, 7 August 2008

�Man vs. Wild� Survives Scandal, Provides More Savagery

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Friday, 27 June 2008

Battlelore

Artist: Battlelore

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Metal

Discography:

Third Age Of The Sun

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Sword's Song

Year: 2003
Tracks: 12

Where The Shadows Lie

Year: 2002
Tracks: 9

Founded in 1999 by Jyri Vahvanen and Mika Kokkola, Finnish leaden metallic element ensemble Battlelore blend the epic sounds of power, peasant, and death metal with mental imagery from author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. Formed in the city of Lappeenranta, the grouping, whose members changed about frequently, released deuce demos (Warrior's Tale and Dark Fantasy) before securing a record deal with Napalm in 2001. The resulting Where the Shadows Lie was released the following year. Sword's Song arrived in 2003, followed by One-third Age of the Sun in 2005. Evernight arrived in early 2007.

Monday, 23 June 2008

Dave Specter with Bill Smith

Artist: Dave Specter with Bill Smith

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Bluebird Blues with Ronnie Ear

Year:
Tracks: 10

Slide Hampton and Big Band

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Intervalle Bizzare

Artist: Intervalle Bizzare

   Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black

Discography:

Czech Assault (Split With Imperial Foeticide and Negligent Collateral Collapse and Contrastic and Fl

Year: 2002
Tracks: 5

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

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Jeff Archuleta, the father of American Idol top-three finalist David Archuleta,
has been banned from attending rehearsals, published reports said Friday, citing
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Nuno Bettencourt

Artist: Nuno Bettencourt

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Best Of Nuno

Year: 2003
Tracks: 17

Guitar virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt made his describe with the eclectic pop-metal outfit Extreme during the tiptop of the guitar-shredder era, and embarked on a solo career after the band's breakup. As a soloist, Bettencourt's most immediately recognizable influence was Eddie Van Halen, only as a ballad maker, he mightiness draw from Queen, the Beatles, Prince, and anything in between. The youngest of ten-spot children in a musical mob, Bettencourt was innate Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt in the townsfolk of Praia da Vitoria, on the island of Terceira in the Azores (an archipelago governed by Portugal) on September 20, 1966. His family stirred to Boston when he was four-spot and he began playing music as a adolescent, trying out drums, sea bass, and keyboards, just settling on guitar. Bettencourt played in several area bands, sometimes with his brothers, and joined Extreme in 1985; after comme il faut quite a popular topically, the radical signed with A&M and released their debut album in 1989. Three more albums followed, asset a number one pop single in the acoustic ballad "More Than Words," before the band called it quits in 1996. In addition, Bettencourt produced and guested on the second album by Australian operose rockers Baby Animals in 1993; the undermentioned year, he marital the group's principal vocalist, Suze DeMarchi.

Bettencourt had been rumored to take in a solo project in the full treatment for some time, and after Extreme's death, he threw himself into the idea in businesslike. In fact, he played all the instruments on his 1997 solo debut, Schizophonic (released by longtime label A&M). While the record album did take the alternative stone revolution into account, it failed to sell very comfortably; feeling constrained, Bettencourt left hand A&M and in 1998 put together a permanent mount unit featuring nephew Donovan Bettencourt (who'd played on the encouraging enlistment for Schizophonic) on bass and late Extreme bandmate Mike Mangini on drums. Mangini didn't stay long, however, and was replaced by Jeff Consi in January 1999. Bettencourt dubbed the group the Mourning Widows, and they signed with Polydor's Japanese variance; their debut, Mourning Widows, was released overseas in 1998, blend surd stone and funk-rock with bits of alternative and psychedelia. The followup, Furnished Souls for Rent, was released in 2000. Bettencourt took 2 age to follow up Furnished Souls for Rent with a ego highborn debut from his new grouping, Population One.

Korozy

Artist: Korozy

   Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black

Discography:

From The Cradle To The Grave

Year: 2000
Tracks: 10

Moritz Bleibtreu working in Akin's 'Kitchen'

The Ting Tings - The Ting Tings Top Uk Album Chart

British pop duo THE TING TINGS have seen their debut LP shoot to the top of the U.K. album charts.

The dance act's We Started Nothing LP debuted at the top of Britain's album chart on Sunday (25May08), knocking U.S. crooner Neil Diamond's Home Before Dark to the number two position.

Welsh soul sensation Duffy still hangs in the top five, with her Rockferry album sitting at number three, while German techno band Scooter are at four with Jumping All Over the World, and Australian drum and bass group Pendulum are at five with In Silico.

In the U.K. singles chart, The Ting Tings missed out on a chart double after their single That's Not My Name - last week's (18May08) number one - was knocked from the top spot by Rhianna's Take A Bow. The Ting Tings's song is now in second place.

Madonna and Justin Timberlake's collaboration 4 minutes falls another place to number three, with will.i.am and Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole's Heartbreaker and Sam Sparro's Black + Gold at four and five respectively.

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Tj Rehmi

Artist: Tj Rehmi

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Invisible Rain

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Mera Therapy

Year:
Tracks: 12

The world's music has been blended into the unique guitar playing of T.J. Rehmi. A self-taught jazz/blues guitarist world Health Organization learned to play tunes by Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, and Santana by pinna, Rehmi has gone on to play a wide spectrum of euphony. An active participant in England's Asian Underground, he has played Indian classical music, Indo-Jazz nuclear fusion, bhangra music, reggae, and African music. As a session histrion, he was one of the number one musicians to use reggae bass lines to bhangra music. While he has corporate technological wizardry, including sampling and sequencing, Rehmi has balanced electronic gadgetry with organic instrumentation. His sound remains frozen in the traditional basso and drums structure. A native of Birmingham, England, Rehmi is the son of Asian immigrants. While he was initially drawn to western john Rock, he more and more veered towards worldly concern music. He played with a series of local jazz-funk and reggae bands in the late '70s and with several bhangra bands in the eighties and early '90s. A turning point in his melodious development came when he met nothingness saxophonist Andy Hamilton, wHO took him under his wing and taught him to read music. Rehmi later on studied Indian graeco-Roman music and Indo-Jazz nuclear fusion reaction with composer John Mayer. He further sharpened his skills piece attending the Conservatory in Birmingham.

Pirates Of The Caribbean - Bioshock Game To Be Made Into Movie

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN filmmaker GORE VERBINSKI is set to direct the silver screen adaptation of the hit video game BIOSHOCK, according to reports.

Universal Studios has signed a deal with the game's publisher, Take-Two Interactive - believed to be the biggest video game-to-cinema contract since Fox and Universal's 2005 negotiations with Microsoft for the now-aborted Halo movie, reports Variety.

BioShock, set in a nearly-deserted underwater city, has sold more than 2 million units worldwide.

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