Sunday, 24 August 2008
New Kids reveal first UK show in 15 years
The reformed American boyband will perform at HMV Oxford Circus on Monday, September 8 at 1pm.
Jordan, Joey, Jonathan, Donnie and Danny will trifle three songs and sign copies for their new LP The Block at the in store event.
New Kids On The Block sold over 70 million albums during the '80s and early '90s. Their hits included 'Step By Step', 'Cover Girl' and 'You Got It (The Right Stuff)'.
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Siebenburgen
Artist: Siebenburgen
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Other
Metal
Discography:
Darker Designs and Images Digipak
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Darker Designs and Images
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Plagued Be Thy Angel
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Delictum
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Grimjaur
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Loreia
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
 
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Lykke Li, Youth Novels
Having wanted to release album before her 20th birthday, this Swedish singer/songwriter managed to realise her ambitions shortly afterwards, at the tender age of 22. Lykke Li Zachrisson may have already come to your attention through MySpace or an entrancing appearance on Jools Holland’s Later... TV show earlier this year, and this solid debut album lives up to the promising groundwork.
Lykke Li sings her catchy pop confections in a breathy, girlish voice that falls somewhere between her angst-filled compatriot Stina Nordenstam on effective anti-depressants and the candy-flavoured bleat of Altered Images' Clare Grogan.
Her youthful optimism and vulnerability are offset by mentor, producer and co-writer Björn Yttling’s sparse, minimalist arrangements of piano, keyboard drones, rippling acoustic guitar, inventive percussion and electronica. The occasional use of atmospheric trumpet and sax also suggests the influence of Norwegian nu jazzers like Nils Petter Molvaer.
If there’s a potentially for a major hit on the album, it has to be the metronomic, infectiously hummable single Little Bit – a great new example of the emotional conflict which 10cc and Smokey Robinson lyrically documented so well.
Although it’s more of a grandiose ballad, the pulsing, hypnotic Tonight has an equally catchy chorus. And while Everybody But Me convincingly plumbs the depths of adolescent insecurity, the deadpan, robotic delivery on Complaint Department shows Lykke has a sense of humour, as well as a love of vintage electro, something that's also apparent on Breaking It Up.
OK, so I'm Good, I'm Gone appears to borrow a substantially from Allen Toussaint's Working In A Coalmine, and some might find the little-girl-lost vocal mannerisms and melodrama of Time Flies a little overdone. But overall, the standard of song writing is high, the sequencing instills a sense of emotional narrative, and Yttling’s imaginatively varied settings furnish a stylish and engaging showcase for this novel youth.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008
Nadja
Artist: Nadja
Genre(s):
Indie
Rock
Ambient
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Thaumogenesis
Year: 2007
Tracks: 1
Corrasion
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
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Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Trembled
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Truth Becomes Death
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Bodycage
Year: 2005
Tracks: 5
I Have Tasted The Fire Inside Your Mouth [EP]
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Touched
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
 
Friday, 6 June 2008
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Heather Mills - Mills Broken Promises To Disabled Woman
HEATHER MILLS has reneged on a promise to donate $20,000 (GBP10,000) to a disabled Russian woman to pay for a pair of artificial legs.
In 2004, Mills - the ex-wife of former Beatle Sir Paul MCCartney - told mother-of-one Maria Rybkina she would help to fund the cost of the prosthetics after losing her legs in a tragic train accident.
But Mills, who lost her own leg in a motorcycle accident in 2003, has failed to honour her promise - forcing the 28-year-old to take to the streets of Moscow to beg for money.
Rybkina can now walk again thanks to the fundraising efforts of British couple Robin and Inna Barratt - but the Barratts are furious with Mills' false promises.
Recalling a phone call they received from Mills herself after they wrote in to the Heather Mills Health Trust, a charity for amputees, Robin says, "She said brightly, 'Hello, this is Heather Mills-MCCartney.' We spoke for a long time.
"Heather said she would personally get Maria some really good artificial legs, which would cost around GBP5,000 ($10,000), and cosmesis - the silicone cosmetic covering - which would be another GBP5,000.
"She promised she would also provide all the medical support needed to get her walking again. She told us that because her charity only helped victims of landmines, she would support Maria from her own personal finances."
But Mills' vows failed to materialise, and the Barratts made up the cash needed for Rybkina's prosthetics by donating $4,000 (GBP2,000) of their own money, as well as holding various fundraisers.
Robin adds: "Heather rang us and emailed us repeatedly with promises to pay for Maria's legs. But every single promise she made fell flat. In the end, she never did anything at all.
"At first we thought she was a really sincere person. But all her big promises came to nothing. It was shocking behaviour."
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Thursday, 22 May 2008
Young Jeezy
Artist: Young Jeezy
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Young Jeezy Presents U.S.D.A.-Cold Summer: The Authentic Mixtape
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
You Can't Ban the Snowman
Year: 2006
Tracks: 27
Trap Star
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102
Year: 2006
Tracks: 16
Street Money
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Kochece Presents Welcome To The Tundra
Year: 2006
Tracks: 26
Trap or Die
Year: 2005
Tracks: 27
Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Year: 2005
Tracks: 19
Come Shop Wit Me
Year: 2003
Tracks: 26
Snowstorm Pt.2 (Mixtape)
Year:
Tracks: 33
Atlanta-based Young Jeezy in the beginning plotted on having a screen background histrionics character in the music industry -- as a man of personal business, not as a rapper. Days in forepart qualification his first gear Def Block album -- Let's Get It: Punk Motivation 101, released in July 2005 -- he dress up Corporate Thugz Amusement and promoted John Cash Money releases. From at that station, he ramate proscribed as a label party boss and creative person in his have right, releasing albums and mixtapes. Come Shop wit' Me, his independently distributed debut from 2003, allegedly sold to a greater extent than 50,000 copies. As a appendage of Boyz N da Lens hood, he was behind a self-titled album (released only weeks in front Let's Catch It) that debuted in the Top Tenner of the Hoarding album chart. Driven by the strike "Soul Survivor," Let's Catch It: Toughie Need 101 finally did even bettor, barbarian at the figure two shoes in the Top 200. The Inspiration: Hoodlum Motivation 102 followed in late 2006, and by that point, Jeezy had suit one of the about large MCs.
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