Artist: Stud
Genre(s):
Industrial
Breakbeat
Discography:
Greetings, Fatherland
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
I Saw The Future
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Stud
Artist: Stud
Genre(s):
Industrial
Breakbeat
Discography:
Greetings, Fatherland
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
I Saw The Future
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Kiyoshi Yoshida
Artist: Kiyoshi Yoshida
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Long Way To Japan
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Alec Empire
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Sentenced
Artist: Sentenced
Genre(s):
Metal: Gothic
Metal
Rock
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
The Funeral Album
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Ever-Frost
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
The Cold White Light
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
No One There
Year: 2002
Tracks: 2
Cold White Light
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Live In Paris (La Loco)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Crimson
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Killing Me Killing You
Year: 1999
Tracks: 2
Frozen
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Story - A Recollection (Story - Greatest Kills) (Best Of, Compilation)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Greatest Kills
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Down
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Love and Death
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Amok
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
The Trooper
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
North From Here
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Shadows Of The Past
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Live Tracks
Year:
Tracks: 2
The Finnish heavy metal dance band Sentenced released its debut record album, Shadows of the Past, in the early '90s on a little French judge; dissatisfied with their moderately commonplace black-metal good, they hired bassist/vocalist Taneli Jarva to allow more than originality for 1992's Second Earl of Guilford From Here. The criminal record was more than melodic and technically competent and got the band noticed in Sweden; it was followed in 1993 by a four-song EP, The Trooper, the title tune a cover of Iron Maiden's classic. This marked the beginning of a shift toward an even more musical, British metal-influenced style, fleshed out on 1995's Amok and the extra EP Erotic love and Death. Jarva left the band at this point, going away guitarist Miika Tenkula and raw vocalist Ville Laihiala as the musical focus of Sentenced. 1997's Down was the outset exertion by this revamped lineup; it was followed in 1998 by Chronicle: A Recollection, a best-of compilation. The group returned in early 2000 with Crimson and once more in 2002 with The Cold White Light.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Matrix
Artist: Matrix
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Sleepwalk
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
New Identity (NIR12001)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 2
Jamie Quinn is the owner of Metro Records and a frequent recording mate of his chum Matt (aka Optical). The duet debuted on the first two Metro releases, Matrix's "Double Vision" and Optical's "Burnished," and likewise worked together on singles for Positiva and Metalheadz. Solo Matrix tracks throw appeared on Ruff Element, New Identity and Prototype as well. Quinn was the natural pick to mix in the Subway Level 01 assembling in 1999, and he released an album debut (Sleepwalk) the following year.
Footloose - Bacon Returns To Stage With Family Concert
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Jennifer Hudson Tunes Up for Record Release
Effie is finally getting her turn in the spotlight.
Jennifer Hudson, onetime American Idol castoff turned bankable (and Oscar-winning) star in her own right, has finally announced a...
Lily Allen makes light of topless photos
The Smile singer, who was attending a party to celebrate the pending release of the film How To Lose Friends and Alienate People in Cannes, was asked if she minded the topless photographs.
To which she responded, “No, it’s my body.”
She joked: “I heard I was a Page Three girl today.”
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Obituary: Wilfred Middlebrooks
The role of bass players in mainstream jazz is not to attract attention but to support and sustain. This was never better demonstrated than when Wilfred Middlebrooks, who has died aged 74, helped Ella Fitzgerald busk her way through a version of Mack the Knife that gained her a Grammy award. The album in question was Ella in Berlin, a live recording made before an audience of 12,000 people in 1960, and Ella's selection of the song was both spontaneous and seemingly ill-advised, according to Middlebrooks. "My heart sank," he said later. "I knew Ella didn't know the tune and nor did I." Despite several impromptu changes of key and a sense that, "Ella was about as lost as she can get and I was hanging on by a fingernail," her freewheeling performance - described as "hilariously inventive" by one critic - is still talked about today.
Middlebrooks was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of a bassist who played semi-professionally and a pianist mother. After early piano lessons, he began to dabble with the bass when only 12, encouraged by his grandmother, his obvious promise furthered by lessons with the principal bassist of the Chattanooga Symphony.
Overcome by wanderlust, the 15-year old Middlebrooks left home without a word, his father's bass in tow, to play with a touring carnival show. "First he knew was when I sent a card from San Antonio, Texas. He was going to come after me but I travelled too fast," Middlebrooks told me in 1961, adding that he was about to return the bass to his father after a lapse of a dozen years. The show travelled around the southern states and the young bassist said he learned a lot from his fellow musicians, including the veteran New Orleans trumpeter Punch Miller. He also fathered a couple of children while on the road but made sure, he told me, to stay in touch as they grew up.
When the show stopped off in New York in 1950, Middlebrooks moved over to ex-Basie saxophonist Tab Smith's swing combo, then very popular on the African-American club circuit. Smith toured extensively, the band's recordings revealing Middlebrooks's sturdy line and strong swing feeling. Drafted into the US Army in 1953 and stationed at Camp Stewart, Georgia, he played tuba in the marching band and string bass in the unit dance orchestra. Briefly back with Smith after being demobbed, he opted to settle in California and immediately began to get work with the city's best modern jazz outfits. His main employer was the distinguished reedman Buddy Collette, but Middlebrooks also performed in clubs and on record with instrumentalists like Frank Rosolino, Plas Johnson and Bill Holman.
After Fitzgerald's manager Norman Granz invited him, in 1958, to join her accompanying band, Middlebrooks stayed on the road with the singer for the next five years. Never free for long, they toured endlessly, including four visits to Britain, often in tandem with Jazz at the Philharmonic, Granz's other concert package. There was a slew of Fitzgerald albums, featuring her quartet led by alternating pianists Paul Smith and Lou Levy with Middlebrooks invariably on hand, until he felt he had to call it a day. "Ella simply wore people out," he said. "I was a young cat so I hung in there longer than most, but Ella even wore me out in the end."
Back in Los Angeles, Middlebrooks joined reeds innovator Eric Dolphy's band at Club Oasis, also playing for 13 years with pianist Smith at the Velvet Turtle in Redondo Beach, and recording frequently. He appeared on screen in the 1977 movie New York, New York, cast as - what else? - a bass player. When his jazz work dwindled, Middlebrooks entered the US Postal Service, a haven for many jazz musicians. After retiring in 1991, he resumed freelance playing, often returning to Chattanooga to teach children free at the city's African-American Museum.
Lauded for his "impeccable intonation, sensitivity and sympathetic nature", Middlebrooks is survived by his second wife Ernestine and three children from an earlier marriage.
· Wilfred Roland "Walkin' Willie" Middlebrooks, jazz bassist, born July 17 1933; died March 13 2008
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Madonna joins Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Madonna was among the artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York last night. To see our gallery from the Hall of Fame ceremony, click here.
Inducting Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Justin Timberlake said: "She's done it by working harder and being smarter than everybody else. As she made MTV the place to be seen, she racked up the greatest track record in music history - 47 Top 40 hits. She became the biggest name on the planet the old-fashioned way - she earned it."
During her acceptance speech, Madonna said: "It is a great honour to receive this award, and I'm grateful and appreciative for the acknowledgement that this implies."
She also thanked those who had helped her launch her career and quoted from the Talmud.
"I have gone on to do so many things in my life, from writing children's books, to designing clothes, to directing a film. But for me it always does, and it always will, come back to the music, so thank you," she said.
The other stars who joined Madonna on the honour roll were John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five and the Ventures.
Blues great Little Walter was posthumously inducted in the sideman category, while production and songwriting legends Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice performed Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah" at the ceremony.
Inducting Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Justin Timberlake said: "She's done it by working harder and being smarter than everybody else. As she made MTV the place to be seen, she racked up the greatest track record in music history - 47 Top 40 hits. She became the biggest name on the planet the old-fashioned way - she earned it."
During her acceptance speech, Madonna said: "It is a great honour to receive this award, and I'm grateful and appreciative for the acknowledgement that this implies."
She also thanked those who had helped her launch her career and quoted from the Talmud.
"I have gone on to do so many things in my life, from writing children's books, to designing clothes, to directing a film. But for me it always does, and it always will, come back to the music, so thank you," she said.
The other stars who joined Madonna on the honour roll were John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five and the Ventures.
Blues great Little Walter was posthumously inducted in the sideman category, while production and songwriting legends Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice performed Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah" at the ceremony.
Brett Ratner - Ratner Plans Video Game Movies
Filmmaker BRETT RATNER is planning to make a string of video-game inspired movies, after signing a deal with developer Activision.
The Rush Hour director's new company, Brett Ratner Brands, has created commercials for new Activision game Guitar Hero, which aired on U.S. TV during the finale of reality TV hit American Idol on Wednesday (21May08).
And he is hoping to use his relationship with the company to take a slew of computer games to Hollywood.
Ratner tells industry publication Variety, "The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now. I will be doing movies that come from videogames, (now) I have access to the Activision brain."
Activision is the company behind the Quake, Doom and Call of Duty video game series.
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Ben Affleck - Affleck Garner Sign Up To Help School
Hollywood couple BEN AFFLECK and JENNIFER GARNER are to serve as honorary hosts at a September gala aimed at raising funds for the actress' hometown university in West Virginia.
Officials at the University of Charleston hope people will flock to see the Daredevil stars and help them to raise cash for a new athletics complex, which will house the school's basketball and volleyball programmes.
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McConaughey not interested in marriage
Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has revealed he has no plans to marry his pregnant girlfriend, Camila Alves.
McConaughey, who is expecting his first child with the Brazilian model, believes he does not need to be a husband to make a good father.
In an interview with The Independent newspaper, the 38-year-old star of 'Failure to Launch' said: "My parents were divorced twice and married three times to each other.
"I believe in the institution of marriage, but I don't feel you have to marry. A kid just needs a mum and a dad."
McConaughey, who famously lives in a trailer on the beach, also revealed he plans for his child to live there too.
He said: "Probably my living in a trailer sounds like I'm just a wanderlust vagabond, but part of it is because I know where my stuff is and how I like it, and there's not enough square footage to have too many places to get lost.
"My child will spend some nights in the trailer. He's going to have culture and travel, but that's one of the great benefits of my business."
McConaughey, who is expecting his first child with the Brazilian model, believes he does not need to be a husband to make a good father.
In an interview with The Independent newspaper, the 38-year-old star of 'Failure to Launch' said: "My parents were divorced twice and married three times to each other.
"I believe in the institution of marriage, but I don't feel you have to marry. A kid just needs a mum and a dad."
McConaughey, who famously lives in a trailer on the beach, also revealed he plans for his child to live there too.
He said: "Probably my living in a trailer sounds like I'm just a wanderlust vagabond, but part of it is because I know where my stuff is and how I like it, and there's not enough square footage to have too many places to get lost.
"My child will spend some nights in the trailer. He's going to have culture and travel, but that's one of the great benefits of my business."
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