Maps and Diagrams

   
Artist: Maps and Diagrams

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Tactile Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8

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Gorgoroth

Sean Combs - Diddy Denies Name Change And Tells Kids To Vote

Hip-hop superstar SEAN COMBS is still just DIDDY, despite claiming in a rap cameo that he has changed his name back to PUFF DADDY.

The star, whose aliases have also included P Diddy, Sean Combs and Sean John, sent the music media into a spin when he announced he was returning to his original moniker during a spot on O'Neal MCKnight's new single Check Your Coat.

He raps, "They call me Puff Daddy... He's back. Yeah you heard me right - I said Puff Daddy."

But the star insists he's still known as Diddy, and is so keen to quash speculation, he has posted a video online insisting his name is the same.

He says, "Your boy has not changed his name. I did not change my name. But if I did, I have the right to call myself anything I want."

He also asks the media to stop speculating about his name, and start encouraging people to vote in the forthcoming U.S. presidential election.

Combs continues, "I want to stress and ask people in power; the bloggers and the outlets, let's utilise our time for something more important, than if I'm changing my name.

"There are millions of Americans who aren't registered to vote. Let's get these guys to vote on my birthday, November 4th. That's my birthday present from you guys."

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Joe Harriott and John Mayer Double Quintet

   
Artist: Joe Harriott and John Mayer Double Quintet

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Indo-Jazz Fusions

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 9

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Pretty Ricky: Get Ready For Joy, In Bigger Than The Sound

Dead Meadow

   
Artist: Dead Meadow

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Feathers

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Shivering King and Others

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Howls from the Hills

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Dead Meadow

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Wing Ding

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Dead Meadow's singular marriage of Sabbath riffs, languorous layers of guitars bull blissfulness, and vocalist Jason Simon's high-pitched melodic croon sustain wond over both psychedelic pop/rock and stoner-rock fans likewise. Although the band's members met patch attending all-ages punk shows in and around Washington D.C.'s punk/indie scene, the trio's sound draws more than of their sound from such classic rock legends as Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. The trio formed in the diminish of 1998 out the ashes of local indie rock bands The Impossible Five and Coulour by singer-guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille, and drummer Mark Laughlin. The three members pose out to fuse their love of early 70's difficult rock and 60's psychedelia with their love of fantasy and horror writers J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft.


They released their six-song debut album in 1999 on Fugazi bassist Joe Lally's Tolotta Records and a joint vinyl release on D.C. indie label Planaria Records. Then in 2001 the band released its arcsecond and third albums, Howls from The Hills and Dead Meadow, on Tollotta Records. In a sanely inadequate period the D.C. trio received offers to tour of duty with everyone from local D.C. flower people The Make-Up to seedy psychedelic bikers Brian Jonestown Massacre; eventually, they landed the opening slot for high profile indie veterans Guided by Voices. The mathematical group was besides invited to record live for long clip newspaper clipping edge British wireless personality John Peel for BBC Radio One. Got Live If You Want It! arrived in 2002; that year, the ring missed Laughlin and found a unexampled drummer in Stephen McCarty. The band touched to Matador for 2003's breakthrough Shivering King and Others. Cory Shane coupled the ring in meter for 2005's Feathers.

Coolio Blames 'racism' For Club Denial Which Led To Arrest

Rapper COOLIO blames his arrest on Tuesday (10Jun08) on the "racist" doormen at Hollywood's One Sunset venue - insisting he wouldn't have been caught by police if he had been let into the club.
The Gangsta's Paradise hitmaker - real name Artis Leon Ivey, Jr. - was pulled over by cops in the early hours of Tuesday for a minor traffic violation, just moments after he had been denied entry to One Sunset.
However, when officers ran a background check on Coolio and his 1996 Hummer, they realised there was a warrant out for his arrest and he was taken into custody for driving on a suspended licence.
But the hip-hop star, 44, who was released from jail hours later, also claims the arrest was a big mix-up - because he'd only recently gotten his driving licence back.
And he is convinced he is innocent - claiming the warrant, which was issued in San Bernadino, California is a "mistake".
He tells website TMZ.com, "That's life (not being let into the club). I think it's 'cos I'm too dark. I know quite a few people that didn't get into One Sunset.
If I'd been let in, maybe I wouldn't have gone to jail. So I'm pissed off about that. But it is what it is. Black people gotta go through a lot of adversity, so I'm used to it. I'm from Compton."
"I had a warrant I didn't even know I had. I just got my licence back a few days ago, so how the hell I got a warrant from 2001? But this from San Bernadino; they make a few mistakes out there..."

Stamatis Spanoudakis

   
Artist: Stamatis Spanoudakis

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Nifes

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Brides

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Stamatis Spanoudakis - Kommati Apo Tin Psihi Mou (2003)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Kommati Apo Tin Psihi Mou

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Kai To Xeres Cd1

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Gia Tin Smyrni

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 Marble King Marmaromenos Vasilhas

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 To Dakry Tou Ioanni

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


   
 W Glyky Mou Ear

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 6


   
 The Holy Hour Earini Ora

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Thalassa

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Moments Gone 3 Horis Logia 3

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


   
 Moments Gone 2 Horis Logia 2 Eimai Zontanos Epidi Se Agapisa

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Moments Gone 1 Horis Logia 1 I Stigmi Pou Pernaei Kai Hanetai

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Alexandros

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Wide Awake City

Arch Enemy Revive Early Material With A Twist; Carcass Aim For U.S. Tour; Plus Disturbed, Gojira & More News That Rules, In Metal File

Last fall, Michael Amott, guitarist for Swedish melodic death-metallers Arch Enemy, confirmed in an interview with Metal File that Carcass, the legendary British grindcore band he played in during the early '90s, would be re-forming for a spate of live gigs. But while the band has booked a ton of festival appearances overseas, Carcass have yet to announce a single U.S. date.

The File spoke to Arch Enemy frontwoman Angela Gossow (and Ammott's fiancee) last week, just before the band played the final date on the sold-out Tyranny and Bloodshred Tour, with support acts Dark Tranquillity, Divine Heresy and Firewind. Gossow told us that while nothing has been made official, "there is something in the works for the States."

According to Gossow, Carcass have been approached about a possible U.S. headlining run, but the right offer hasn't come to the table yet. "There's obviously huge interest in a Carcass tour," she said. "I'm sure you guys will get it, but nothing has been confirmed or anything."

Gossow and Amott have been engaged "forever," but she says they haven't "found the time to get married yet." If the tour does come to fruition, Gossow said her fiance's life is going to get more hectic than it already is. The guitarist will be pulling double duty with both Arch Enemy and Carcass, because, at the moment, both bands have impossibly full plates.

Arch Enemy, who continue to tour in support of last year's Rise of the Tyrant, have already started working on material for the follow-up, Gossow said. And just six months ago, they hit the studio to re-record some of the band's earliest material.

"We started re-recording the old stuff because, for most people, Arch Enemy started to exist with [2001's] Wages of Sin, because the band got big after I joined," she explained. "Obviously, the band released three albums before that (1996's Black Earth, 1998's Stigmata and 1999's Burning Bridges), and we've been trying on and off to play old songs live. Most of the time, we just get this stare from the crowd, and people think it's a new song or a demo. A lot of young kids haven't heard these tracks, so we just figured we'd re-record them, give them new exposure, and it's going to give us the chance to play them live.

"These songs are 10 years old at this point, and it's going to sound killer," she continued. "Razor-sharp sound — and we'll up the production. The songs will have a little bit of a twist to them; they're going to sound new, even though they're old."

Arch Enemy plan to issue the re-recorded cuts in early 2009, after the release of their forthcoming live DVD, which was shot in Japan in March at a sold-out gig before an audience of 2,500. The footage was captured with 10 cameras, and the DVD will feature tons of backstage footage and interviews, Gossow said.

"We had the Fuji [Pacific] crew doing this, because the boss of Fuji is a huge fan," she said, with a laugh. "Basically, they did it for free, and brought in a crane. You'd never know this guy would like our band, but there are a lot of metal fans out there, and you would never know it, because they look so official, and they're wearing suits. But we're like a metal factory, at the moment. It's so great, because we actually have the motivation and we're just really hungry right now."

The rest of the week's metal news:

The growing beef between Disturbed and the Dillinger Escape Plan got even more interesting this week. It all started when DEP guitarist Ben Weinman claimed in an interview that he'd watched Disturbed practice all their onstage moves during a sound check. Guitarist Dan Donegan fired back, claiming DEP had no idea what it takes to put on as massive a show as Disturbed put on, dismissing the remarks as jealousy. Dillinger fired back on June 2 in a post on their MySpace page, saying Donegan has "little-peen complex" and slamming the band for "sucking." Disturbed frontman David Draiman later said in a radio interview that he respects Dillinger, but that he doesn't "understand what the hell they think they saw with us. ...This is what the big boys do who play stadium shows — they want to worry about how the lights look that they spend so much money on." ...

DragonForce have dubbed their forthcoming LP, which hits stores August 26, Ultra Beatdown. The disc will feature eight tracks, including "The Fire Still Burns," "Heartbreak Armageddon" and "The Warrior Inside." ...

What has drummer David Silveria been up to since taking a "hiatus" from Korn? Starting a new band, that's what. A MySpace page for Satellite Syndrome popped up earlier this week — and has since been pulled down — which stated the band should be releasing its debut album early next year. The group is currently in the studio, recording material for that effort. ...

French progressive-extreme metallers Gojira will issue The Way of All Flesh on October 14. The LP is in the process of being tracked in Los Angeles with producer and ex-Machine Head guitarist Logan Mader. ...

Eerik Purdon has parted ways with Omnium Gatherum. It isn't the first time the bassist has split, and the band still isn't sure why he bolted. "We ain't got a clue really what the hell happened here," the band said in a statement. Omnium are currently on the hunt for a replacement. The band's forthcoming album, The Redshift, will feature 11 tracks, including "Chameleon Skin," "Shapes and Shades," and "Song for December." ...

Walls of Jericho have set The American Dream as the title of their new album, which lands in stores this summer. In other album news, Motörhead will release their next record, Motörize, before the end of the year. ...

Arsis have parted ways with drummer Darren Cesca, and they've already replaced him with Alex Tomlin. Cesca's departure, the band claimed, was due to "differences in personalities and an overall difference in direction."






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Rod Stewart - Rod Stewart Struggling To Expand Family

ROD STEWART has said that the fact that he is not as young as he once was may be compromising his attempts to expand his family with model wife Penny Lancaster.

The 63-year-old was known for his womanising in his heyday, but admits that his age may be slowing him down in the bedroom, reports showbiz Spy.

"Trust me, I am trying my very hardest to have another child. But I am not quite Superman like I used to be. I am in my 60s now."

However, Lancaster disagreed, saying: "He's lying, he is Superman."

The couple already have a two-year-old son, Alastair Wallace, but have are keen to give him a brother or sister in the near future.

It seems that Rod may be needing a little help onstage too, as it was recently reported that the Maggie May superstar now demands an oxygen mask as part of his rider.




17/06/2008 14:49:02

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Enchantment

   
Artist: Enchantment

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Dance The Marble Naked

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 8

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Their music is soulful, suave, romantic, and musical. Their lyrics are warm, warm, loving, and understanding. And they present a sound that is distinctively their possess, conveyance of title stories of reality and phantasy, with the ultimate message organism love. The golden sound of Enchantment was formed in 1967 at Pershing High School in Detroit. Two long time later, the multi-talented group, which consists of Emanuel "E.J." Johnson, Joe Thomas, Dave Banks, Ed "Paddy" Clanton, and Bobby Green, obtained their first recording get, in addition to D dollars, by taking number one seat in a talent contest sponsored by a local receiving set station (WCHB).


In 1970, Enchantment coupled forces with Artists International, a talent growing agency for gumptious artists (founded by notable manager Dick Scott). While with Artists International, Enchantment actually began to perfect their craft, concentrating on leg presence, choreography, and expanding their theatrical talents by playacting in numerous musical plays about the city. Enchantment became acquainted with their producer-to-be, Michael Stokes, in 1973 spell performing at a local club (Level One). Through this union, they recorded a moving-picture show score on Polydor Records in 1974 entitled Deliver Us From Evil, which was released in 1975.


By 1976, Enchantment had signed with the Roadshow label and recorded their self-entitled debut album. The commencement exclusive to ride the charts for the fledgeling chemical group was "Come in On and Ride." Later that twelvemonth, the charismatic showmen received national herald with the release of their indorsement individual, "Gloria." Written and staged by dynamic lead isaac M. Singer E.J. Johnson, "Gloria" became a blast, and was one of the most popular songs of 1976-1977. They followed it up with some other smash hit, "Sunshine," from the same record album.


The self-possessed group entered the studio in the descend of 1977, and recorded their second record album, Erst Upon a Dream. Their third back-to-back number unitary single, "It's You That I Need," reigned for a satisfying four-spot weeks. It was followed by "If You're Ready (Here It Comes)," too a Top Ten single.


Enthrallment continued their hit-making shipway with a twine of soul-stirring hits: "Where Do We Go From Here," "Always More," "Present moment of Weakness," "Enchanted Lady," and many others, influencing such artists as After 7, Johnny Gill, and Warren G, to name a few.


Since 1976, the sound of Enchantment has had an unceasing affect on all wHO possess had the pleasure of hearing to their great music, and contrary to rumors, the group never disbanded. Enchantment's length of service is attributed to their animation and the dedication they get for their craft. The mathematical group continues to impressively demonstrate their quality golden sound at concerts and events around the country.