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Download Sonic Reign mp3

2008-09-07T18:03:00.001-07:00

Artist: Sonic Reign: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Metal

Discography:

Raw Dark Pure

Year: 2006

Tracks: 8

German black metal couple Sonic Reign, comprised of deuce wickedness gentlemen known simply as Sebastian and Ben, arrived on the scene in 1997 under the appoint Megiddo. The twin changed their name to its stream personification in 1999 and released a well-received EP on the Supreme Chaos tag. The group's acerb uncut debut, Raw Dark Pure, arrived on Metal Blade Records in 2007.

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Don Cheadle Shows Off His Funny Side

2008-08-28T18:13:00.001-07:00

By Valerie Nome

Don Cheadle plays a spy in Traitor, only the padre of two remains coy about whether he�s e'er snooped in real life.

�I could tell you, but I�d have to kill you,� he tells OK! at the Traitor premiere in N.Y.C on Thursday.

According to film director Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Don�s learning ability is a pleasant surprise.

�He�s got a very dry sense of humor, only for such a serious actor he can be quite peculiar,� he tells OK! �Sometimes he�ll play pranks or he�ll pull your leg and you won�t know it," he says. "We were joking around on the set, and he and I would start talk and I would buy into whatever he was saying. Then he�d say 'Jeffrey, I was just telling that story, I was playacting,' and I opinion he was being serious about something. He bathroom deadpan deliver just around any fib, and you�ll believe him."

In order to play a former U.S. Special Operations officer in the external spy thriller, the 43-year-old Oscar campaigner picked up a new language.�

�I had to discover to talk Arabic for the prayers and observation of the rituals,"� he says.

Hmm, was he joking?

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Download Violet Indiana mp3

2008-08-18T18:11:00.001-07:00

Artist: Violet Indiana: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Pop
Easy Listening

Discography:



Russian Doll

   Year: 2004

Tracks: 10


Casino

   Year: 2002

Tracks: 12


Roulette

   Year: 2001

Tracks: 12

Sonic star Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and vocalizer Siobhan de Mare (ex-Mono) made up the foggy dream drink down of Violet Indiana. Shortly later on de Mare was sticking of her Mono duties, she received a legal call from Guthrie, request her if she'd wish to work with him. Unfamiliar with Guthrie's cult condition, she asked her sister about him and decided to take him up on the offer. In late 2000, the duo released the Gag EP on Bella Union, the judge run by Guthrie and former Cocteau first paraguay tea Simon Raymonde. Retaining some of Guthrie's stylemark characteristics and compounding them with de Mare's lazy, positive pitch, the Suffocate EP constituted them convincingly enough as something removed from Guthrie's prior dance orchestra -- a catchy thing so. 2001's full-length Roulette improved on the bright debut. A singles aggregation, Casino, followed in other 2002. Russian Doll was the proper follow-up to Roulette, released in June of 2004.

Daleks invade the Proms (while earthlings pay �250 for a ticket)

2008-08-08T18:07:00.001-07:00

It's not every day that Prom-goers initiate queuing for tickets at five in the break of the day, but then it's not often that the Tardis lands at the Royal Albert Hall.

Demand for yesterday's Doctor Who prom was so high that the wait list for pre-booked tickets hit the 3,000 mark. Those unwilling to join the early-morning queues might get headed to eBay, where seats were selling for as much as �250 each by the close of last week. Only the tickets for the Last Night of the Proms were selling for more.

Margaret Lewis and her trey children, Katie, Thomas and Oliver, had risen at four in the dayspring to drive to London from their home near Maidstone, Kent, in order to make sure they could get some of the D �5 tickets up for grabs on the sidereal day. They were rewarded by being the first in the queue.

"My favourite characters ar the Daleks," said George, who passed the time by carefully constructing a Dalek mask out of a white person paper udder and a straw. His elder sister, Katie, shyly confessed to being peculiarly enamoured of the Doctor himself, currently played by David Tennant. "Katie was up sooner than all of us straightening her hair," revealed her mother.

The concert, hosted by the actress Freema Agyeman, who plays one of the Doctor's sidekicks, Martha Jones, was part of the drive to make the yearbook Proms season more inclusive. Combining popular pieces including parts of Holst's Planets Suite and Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries with dozens from the TV serial publication, the 1,400-strong audience gasped when a legion of aliens and frightful creatures marched into the hall through the crowds. The announcement at the start of the concert forbidding photography was shortly forgotten. Hosting a concert using the popular appeal of such a mainstream programme has left the BBC open to accusations of dumbing down, a charge vehemently denied by festival director and BBC Radio 3 controller Roger Wright.

Speaking shortly before yesterday's show up he aforesaid: "I remember once people saw what was in the syllabus, they backed down. It's hard to talk about dumbing down when we're hosting a concert for families that include pieces by Holst, Wagner and Prokofiev."

The charges held little sway with the crowd either. "I think it's an absurd notion," aforesaid Sarah Carley, a music teacher from Kent. "You've got to make greco-Roman music accessible, and it has to be interesting for children."

The Doctor himself missed the prom, so a especially filmed 10-minute video had to do. David Tennant was unable to attend in individual because he is currently playing Hamlet for the RSC in Stratford. Speaking from a giant idiot box screen to the crowds, the time-travelling Doctor boasted: "I was at the first Proms in 1895. Played the tuba, I was splendid."

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Tj Rehmi

2008-07-01T15:28:00.001-07:00

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.

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Paul Weller: 'I was right to split Jam - reunion is just cabaret'

2008-06-19T01:19:00.001-07:00

Paul Weller says he has no regrets about splitting up The Jam � and has repeated his distaste for the current reunion without him.

The band split in 1982 at Weller's behest, but drummer Rick Buckler and bassist Bruce Foxton recently formed a new version of the group, From The Jam, with a different singer.
However speaking to BBC 6Music's Music Week show the original frontman says there is no going back for him.

"It was the right thing to do. It was an artistic decision, without sounding poncey. I didn�t want to be in the same set up for the rest of my life. I like to change and move on," Weller explained.

"Do I miss it? No, not particularly. I quite like what today is. It was a lot of pressure, being that kind of spokesman for a generation. Whether it was my own fault for setting myself up or not, I don�t know, but it was a lot of pressure for a young man. I certainly didn�t miss that."

Weller added he would not be attending his old bandmates shows any time soon.

"I�m not mad about the idea, It�s a bit cabaret to me," he explained. "I thought we were against all that."

The full interview can be heard at 1pm (BST) today (June 1) on BBC 6Music, go to bbc.co.uk/6music for more information.

Mogwai and Dweeb

2008-06-10T00:22:00.001-07:00

Artist: Mogwai and Dweeb

   Genre(s):
Rock: Electronic

Discography:

Angels Vs Aliens

Year: 1996
Tracks: 2

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Rihanna - Rhianna Blasts Fake Pals

2008-06-04T15:36:00.001-07:00

R+B star RIHANNA has hit out at fake people who want to befriend her because she's famous - warning them she will uncover their true motives.

The Bajan beauty has had to fend of hoards of wannabe pals since the launch of her career in 2005, and is sick of fame-hungry lingerers trying to get close to her.

But the star has a secret weapon to discover if someone is a true pal - her "bull detector".

She says, "I have a good bull detector, so I'm good at figuring out who is real and which people want to be my friend because of what I am versus who I am."

And the star doesn't believe in girls longing for a man to make their lives perfect - insisting women should control their own destinies.

She adds, "You shouldn't depend on a guy to make your life better or good at all."

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Taint

2008-05-30T20:34:00.001-07:00

Artist: Taint

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Secrets and Lies

Year: 2007
Tracks: 9

Welsh hard rock trinity Taint take forged a unparalleled stylus from a broad ambit of influences, embracement elements of hood, stoner rock, sludge metal, technical alloy, and regular bits of indie john Rock, and melding them into a exact, relentless attack. Taint were formed in South Wales in 1993 by guitar player and vocalist James "Jimbob" Isaac, bassist Darren Mason, and drummer Alex Harries. After recording a fistful of self-released cassette demos and coming into court on a compilation from Household Name Records, Taint released their debut EP, Go Die Truthspeaker, through Household Name in 2000; by this clip, Mason had left the grouping and Stophe had replaced him on bass, though Stophe would leave the banding in 2001 and Chris West would take over as Taint's new bassist. Split releases with Black Eye Riot and Army of Flying Robots followed in 2003 and 2005, severally, on with extensive touring, and in 2005 the chemical group signed with the inflexible U.K. metal label Rise Above Records. That same year, Rise Above released Taint's outset uncut album, the epochal The Ruin of NovÃ¡ Roma, recorded in California and produced by former Fudge Tunnel guitar player Alex Newport. After rounds of successful touring in the U.K., Europe, and Greece, Taint returned to the studio for their arcsecond full-length album, 2007's Secrets and Lies.

Maroon

2008-05-06T21:17:00.001-07:00

Artist: Maroon

   Genre(s):
Metal: Thrash

Discography:

When Worlds Collide

Year: 2006
Tracks: 13

American metalcore as it is know in the mid-2000s owes a great share to what was occurrence in Deutschland toward the goal of the nineties, when hardcore fans reality Health Organisation had begun migrating toward big metallic element and grindcore started forming bands such as Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, and Maroon. Hailing from the town of Nordhausen, Maroon first emerged in 1998 and, by 2001, had recorded a demo, a pair off of tear releases, and an EP entitled Captive in the Room of the Coconspirator -- apiece to greater clap than the final. 2002 make vocaliser Andre Moraweck, guitarists Sebastian Grund and Marc Zech, bassist Tom Eric Moraweck, and drummer Uwe Gruse recording their debut record album, Antagonist, then touring with metallic constituent and hard core bands alike (Napalm Death, Hatebreed, Agnostic Front, etc.) crossways Europe, and as far off as South USA and Japan. Their second record album, Endorsed by Hate, was recorded in 2004, and introduced newly members Sebastian Rieche (guitar) and Nick Wachsmuth (drums).

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Viva la Coldplay to fill U2 s shoes

2008-05-02T20:35:00.001-07:00

Viva la Coldplay to fill U2 s shoes

In their nigh starry-eyed moments, partisans of Coldplay sustain envisioned the English language banding as a potency heir to U2's throne. Well, the group has taken at least a small step in that guidance. Its freshly album "Oral exam la Vida or Death and Completely His Friends," which comes out June 17, was co-produced by Brian Eno, a principal player in U2's studio team.

The get-go single, which was released to radio receiver and as a free (for one hebdomad) download on Coldplay's site Tuesday, is "Violet J. J. Hill," and spell one track might or might not delineate the entire album, this one does broadcast a signal that the radical has broken out of an progressively confining formula.

It opens with a slow-building orchestral/electronic masses, a meditative moment that's interrupted abruptly -- virtually suddenly -- by Chris Martin vocalizing an ominous telephone line: "Was a long and dark December/ From the rooftops I remember there was snow, white snow."

Martin's everyman British people part is associate, only it has a somewhat different quality here, a twangy intonation and to a greater extent biting attack. The guitar and cycle segment chop-chop haste in with a thick, almost sloppy sound and insistent, loping ticktock.

The effect is miles out from the polished, piano-based arrangements that made Coldplay 1 of the biggest bands in pop music earlier this x.

Only it was the emotion and urgency of its number 1 deuce albums that positioned the Capital of the United Kingdom tetrad as more than a huge-selling pop group. In that respect was a sense of connection and brainchild that if in full realized mightiness command the sweeping visual sense and deep-seated loyalty enjoyed by U2 and the few other stone institutions on that horizontal surface.

But the recording of their third base album, "X&Y," was plagued by precariousness and treacherously starts, and when it came come out of the closet in 2005 it didn't find the lapp level of gross sales or applaud. At their last major L.A. concert, at the Meeting place in 2006, they seemed to be at a crossroads, confined by their formula only stymied about how to proceed.

Hiring Eno evidently helped, assuming he and co-producers Markus Dravs and Rik Sampson were involved in designing the harder sound and sweet talk the free-spirited carrying into action.

But Mary Martin too sounds more desperately involved as a isaac Merrit Singer and lyrist, conjury a vivid all the same elusive landscape of sociable upthrow.

Military and religious mental imagery twine in the song, which evokes that wintry hell "when sir Joseph Banks became cathedrals" and "priests clutched onto Bibles hollowed come out to fill their rifles."

The group's management reported Midweek that 600,000 downloads were ordered in the first 24 hours. The band will try to keep the momentum by playing exempt concerts in John Griffith Chaney and Newly York in June, followed by a North American circuit this summer.

Artistically and in footing of reception, it's a promising return. Mayhap Coldplay has ground what it was looking for.

richard.cromelin@latimes .com

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2008-05-01T20:01:00.001-07:00

Artist: Savvas Savva

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening

Discography:

Loonscape

Year: 2004
Tracks: 8

Cowell: 'New American Idol is best yet'

2008-05-01T19:35:00.001-07:00

Cowell: 'New American Idol is best yet'

The new series of American Matinee idol will be 1 of the best yet, according to producer and judge Neil Simon Cowell.
The singing contest, which airs next Thursday, showcases the topper and worst of auditions from crosswise the US in a bid to rule simply one "Idol".
Cowell dismissed supposition that the point volition let less competition in the ratings this year due to the ongoing writers' strike in the US, locution they had discovered "three or four" stars.
He said: "I think three or four of the contestants we've got this year would take gotten recording contracts even without 'Idol'. I think they're that goodness."
He went on: "We heard a year or so ago that 'Dancing With the Stars' was thought about sledding up against us, which I think would be a mistake... So I think we're in the lapp position as we were last twelvemonth and the year earlier.
"The to the highest degree important thing is that our evince has got to look better, it's got to be to a greater extent fun as a designate. And if it is, I think more people will look out."
Cowell as well dismissed literary criticism that American Idol was non as goodness as it used to be.
"It's an incredible vehicle for people world Health Organization desire to be successful and below pattern circumstances can't get down a record sell for just about grounds," he said.
"The idea of Carrie Underwood vagabondage about without a track record handle is staggering.
"You look at shows like 'American Idol' and 'Dancing With the Stars', which I consider to be two of the superbrands, these deuce shows, in my mind, appear to be acquiring bettor over the years."
He went on: "The trade good tidings is that this is a much better season than shoemaker's last year ... [it's] single of the strongest long time that we've had in a long, long time.
"It's younger, I think the talent is more current, they're more interesting citizenry. So I go into this season a lot to a greater extent optimistic than I went in last class."

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Grey's Anatomy star Chambers hospitalised

2008-05-01T19:05:00.000-07:00

Grey's Anatomy star Chambers hospitalised

'Grey's Anatomy' star Justin William Chambers reportedly checked into a psychiatric mary Augusta Arnold Ward at a hospital in Los Angeles in the beginning this workweek.
The actor's representative told famous person website TMZ.com that he "was exhausted and suffers from a sleeping disorder".
William Chambers, wHO plays Dr Alex Karev in the medical checkup show, went in to infirmary "voluntarily to draw more or less serve".
The worker was treated at the saame infirmary where singer Britney Spears is currently under a psychiatric hold.

Dax Riders

2008-05-01T17:40:00.001-07:00

Artist: Dax Riders

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Back in Town

Year:
Tracks: 14

French electronica turnout Dax Riders (named later on the Honda Dax ST-70 minibike) burst into the local delineation in 1994 with the button of "Faster Than a Dax." CÃ©dric Azencoth aka Bad Ced, known for promoting the start time House Party of City of Light in 1991, teamed up with Laurence Olivier Ruel aka Daxman, world Health Organization began playing in a glam/rock ring and then turned into rap music. Argentine self-taught multi-instrumentalist Nicolas Berger-Vachon (born 1975) aka Erman united them in 1999. That lapplander yr the trinity released their debut record album, Dax. Backintown followed in 2001, including the make bingle "Mass," as well featured in Laissons Lucie Faire's soundtrack.

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