Artist: Paolo Di Cioccio
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
Logos
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Monday 23 June 2008
Monday 16 June 2008
Elegacy
Artist: Elegacy
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Impressions
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Boy George to perform for NYC Sanitation Dept.
Sunday 8 June 2008
Smashing Pumpkins frontman adds to Bo Diddley tributes
Billy Corgan has added to the heartfelt tributes to Bo Diddley, the legendary guitarist who died yesterday (June 2) after suffering heart failure.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman said that Diddley was "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, and an underrated songwriter."
Corgan added: "His influence can still be heard everywhere. I just bought an old Bo Diddley 45 at a record shop today before I heard of his passing. He was an American original.�?�
Corgan joined the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Slash, The Grateful Dead and Albert Hammond Jr in paying tribute to Diddley.
Check out Bo Diddley's greatest video moments on the NME Office Blog now.
For more on Bo Diddley and a biography visit Bo-diddley.com or check out Bo Diddley's Wikipedia entry.
Bo Diddley was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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The Smashing Pumpkins frontman said that Diddley was "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, and an underrated songwriter."
Corgan added: "His influence can still be heard everywhere. I just bought an old Bo Diddley 45 at a record shop today before I heard of his passing. He was an American original.�?�
Corgan joined the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Slash, The Grateful Dead and Albert Hammond Jr in paying tribute to Diddley.
Check out Bo Diddley's greatest video moments on the NME Office Blog now.
For more on Bo Diddley and a biography visit Bo-diddley.com or check out Bo Diddley's Wikipedia entry.
Bo Diddley was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
Saturday 7 June 2008
Supermodel Agyness Deyn to launch her own band
Supermodel Agyness Deyn has told NME.COM that her collaboration with Five O'Clock Heroes has inspired her to form her own band.
The track 'Who' which is out on June 23 sees Deyn duetting with frontman Antony Ellis.
She said: "Basically I've been friends with Antony for years and years. He�??s like my older brother. He was the first person that got me into playing the guitar, he was with me when we bought my first guitar and he's encouraged me to get into music more."
The star added that she has now formed her own band Gene Jacket, and that they are now working on tracks together.
�??We�??ve got three or four songs, we wrote a really cool song at Coachella actually which was exciting." Deyn enthused. "It's called 'Hotel', well we originally wrote and recorded it in Japan, then added bits at the festival. It sounds like The Vaselines, , maybelike Animal Collective. Just sounds, experimenting with stuff."
To read the full interview with Deyn pick up the new issue of NME on UK newsstands nationwide from Wednesday (May 14).
--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.
The track 'Who' which is out on June 23 sees Deyn duetting with frontman Antony Ellis.
She said: "Basically I've been friends with Antony for years and years. He�??s like my older brother. He was the first person that got me into playing the guitar, he was with me when we bought my first guitar and he's encouraged me to get into music more."
The star added that she has now formed her own band Gene Jacket, and that they are now working on tracks together.
�??We�??ve got three or four songs, we wrote a really cool song at Coachella actually which was exciting." Deyn enthused. "It's called 'Hotel', well we originally wrote and recorded it in Japan, then added bits at the festival. It sounds like The Vaselines, , maybelike Animal Collective. Just sounds, experimenting with stuff."
To read the full interview with Deyn pick up the new issue of NME on UK newsstands nationwide from Wednesday (May 14).
--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.
Sharon Osbourne - Sharon Osbourne Quits X Factor After Four Years
Sharon Osbourne has pulled out of the X-Factor shortly before filming on the new series was due to begin.
The 55-year-old had been due to sit alongside Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Dannii Minogue at the first round of London auditions on June 12th.
ITV1 bosses will now be forced to search for a fourth judge after confirming Osbourne's exit in a statement on the network's website.
It said: "Sharon Osbourne has decided to leave The X Factor after four fantastic years.
"ITV thanks her for her immense contribution to the show and for all her humour, compassion and energy.
"She has been a tremendous judge and mentor on the programme but we respect her wish to leave and wish her the very best with her future projects."
Osbourne sensationally walked out of the ITV talent show last year after being forced to choose between two of her three acts.
She appeared on Paul O'Grady's talk show shortly after storming out and said she had made a "mistake", and wanted to come back to the judging panel, and returned to the show shortly after clear-the-air talks.
06/06/2008 15:39:55
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Tab Benoit
Artist: Tab Benoit
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Fever for the Bayou
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Wetlands
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Standing on the Bank
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Live: Swampland Jam
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Guitarist, isaac Bashevis Singer, and songster Tab Benoit makes his home good New Orleans in Houma, LA. Born November 17, 1967, he's one of a handful of bright rising stars on the modern blues scene. For nearly of the nineties, he's been operative each of his records the honest-to-god fashioned way, by playing anyplace and everyplace he and his band can buoy play. Unlike so many others earlier him, Benoit understands that blues is not a mass medium in favour with 50,000-watt commercial rock radio stations, so as a aftermath, he's worked each of his releases with as many shows as he can buoy maybe play. Since the outlet of his first album for Justice, Benoit has taken his brand of Cajun-influenced blues all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Prissy and Warm, his debut album for Houston-based Justice Records, prompted some critics to say he's redolent, at times, of trey blues guitar gods: Albert King, Albert Collins, and Jimi Hendrix.
Although the untiring, modest guitar player scoffs at those comparisons, and doesn't think he sounds like them (and doesn't adjudicate to sound like them), Benoit doesn't seem to be i who's easily lED into playing rock & roll in favor of his down-home portmanteau word of swamp blues and east Texas guitar-driven blues. Talk to Tab at one of his shows, and he'll recount you around his desire to "appease the course," and not body of water down pat his blue devils by playing items that could be taken as "alternative" rock. Despite the screaming guitar licks he coaxes from his Telecaster and his powerful songwriting and singing abilities, Benoit's mellow, down-to-earth personality offstage is the exact opposite of his alive shows.
Benoit's releases include Skillful and Warm (1992), What I Live For (1994), Standing on the Bank (1995), and Live: Swampland Jam (1997), all recorded for Vanguard. Benoit then stirred over to the Telarc label for These Blues Are All Mine (1999), Whisky Store (2002, with Jimmy Thackery), Wetlands (2002), and The Sea Saint Sessions (2003). In 2004, Benoit released Whisky Store Live, recorded with Jimmy Thackery on the supporting tour for Whisky Store. 2005 saw the waiver of Fever for the Bayou on the Telarc label. 2005 likewise power saw Voice of the Wetlands come out on Rykodisc. Another record album from Telarc, Comrade to the Blues, appeared in 2006. Power of the Pontchartrain followed in 2007.
Considering that many of Benoit's records feature surpassed the 50,000 cross, he's good on his style to a career that could equal the kind of popularity the late Stevie Ray Vaughan enjoyed in the late '80s.
Kelsey Grammer Released from Hospital
Less than one week after award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer suffered a mild heart attack, OK! has learned that the Frasier star has been released from the hospital and is resting comfortably at his home in Maui.
In a� statement released to OK!, the 53-year-old thespian said he, "wishes to thank those who phoned, emailed, or wrote expressions of concern."
On May 31, Kelsey was paddle boating in Hawaii with his wife Camille when he began to feel the first symptoms of something wrong. After visiting a local hospital, it was determined that he had suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital's care.
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David Cook sizzles on pop chart
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Newly crowned "American Idol"
champion David Cook took over America's Hot 100 singles chart
on Thursday, sending a record-breaking 11 new titles into the
tally a week after he won the top-rated TV talent show.
The old mark was set by teen idol Miley Cyrus (as her
Disney Channel character Hannah Montana), who placed six new
titles on Billboard magazine's flagship pop singles chart in
November 2006.
The Beatles hold the all-time record for songs charted in a
single week, with 14, during the height of Beatlemania in 1964.
But while the Fab Four owned the top five songs that week,
Cook's best showing was a No. 3 start for his original
recording of "The Time of My Life." The first single from his
upcoming debut album sold 236,000 downloads, Billboard said.
His other entries included another new song "Dream Big" at
No. 15, and covers of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm
Looking For," at No. 22, and Collective Soul's "The World I
Know," at No. 28.
Cook, 25, who hails from Blue Springs, Missouri, is
preparing to start recording a debut album that is due for
release in the fall, according to his new label, RCA Records.
"Idol" runner-up David Archuleta, 17, who had been favored
to win the Fox network competition, landed three songs on the
chart, led by his cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" at No. 36.
Fox's "American Idol" and Beatlemania share some
characteristics, but observers who mention manufactured singing
stars in the same breath as the biggest pop band ever
inevitably invite snorts of derision.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Newly crowned "American Idol"
champion David Cook took over America's Hot 100 singles chart
on Thursday, sending a record-breaking 11 new titles into the
tally a week after he won the top-rated TV talent show.
The old mark was set by teen idol Miley Cyrus (as her
Disney Channel character Hannah Montana), who placed six new
titles on Billboard magazine's flagship pop singles chart in
November 2006.
The Beatles hold the all-time record for songs charted in a
single week, with 14, during the height of Beatlemania in 1964.
But while the Fab Four owned the top five songs that week,
Cook's best showing was a No. 3 start for his original
recording of "The Time of My Life." The first single from his
upcoming debut album sold 236,000 downloads, Billboard said.
His other entries included another new song "Dream Big" at
No. 15, and covers of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm
Looking For," at No. 22, and Collective Soul's "The World I
Know," at No. 28.
Cook, 25, who hails from Blue Springs, Missouri, is
preparing to start recording a debut album that is due for
release in the fall, according to his new label, RCA Records.
"Idol" runner-up David Archuleta, 17, who had been favored
to win the Fox network competition, landed three songs on the
chart, led by his cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" at No. 36.
Fox's "American Idol" and Beatlemania share some
characteristics, but observers who mention manufactured singing
stars in the same breath as the biggest pop band ever
inevitably invite snorts of derision.
Man who took Lost star hostage pleads guilty
The man who took 'Lost' star Josh Holloway and his wife hostage faces up to 30 years in jail.
Ruben Royce, 23, broke into to the couple's Hawaiian home in October 2005 and threatened them before making off with their wallets and car.
Royce pleaded guilty to 33 criminal charges in a Honolulu court, including three other robberies, as part of a prosecution bargain that could see him sentenced to up to 30 years behind bars.
He was convicted last month of another robbery, as well as charges including reckless endangerment and firearms violations. Royce said he had no idea at the time that Holloway, who plays Sawyer in the series, was famous.
"Basically, he was driving around looking for fancy cars, nice homes and picked certain ones for home invasion," said prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado.
He said Holloway and his wife had been frightened by Royce.
"They thought they were going to get killed," Arrisgado said. "This guy was very vicious and had no hesitation in pointing the gun in their face."
Royce will be sentenced on 29 April.
Ruben Royce, 23, broke into to the couple's Hawaiian home in October 2005 and threatened them before making off with their wallets and car.
Royce pleaded guilty to 33 criminal charges in a Honolulu court, including three other robberies, as part of a prosecution bargain that could see him sentenced to up to 30 years behind bars.
He was convicted last month of another robbery, as well as charges including reckless endangerment and firearms violations. Royce said he had no idea at the time that Holloway, who plays Sawyer in the series, was famous.
"Basically, he was driving around looking for fancy cars, nice homes and picked certain ones for home invasion," said prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado.
He said Holloway and his wife had been frightened by Royce.
"They thought they were going to get killed," Arrisgado said. "This guy was very vicious and had no hesitation in pointing the gun in their face."
Royce will be sentenced on 29 April.
Remy Ma - Remy Ma Gets Eight-year Prison Sentence For Shooting
Rapper REMY MA has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a woman outside of a New York nightclub last year (07).
The 26-year-old hip-hop star - real name Reminisce Smith - was convicted in March (08) of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion for shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph in the abdomen, and has been awaiting sentencing at Rikers Island prison in New York.
Smith, who faced up to 25 years behind bars, wept as her sentence was read.
Her lawyers maintain the shooting was an "accident" and are planning to appeal the verdict.
The sentence follows a cancelled prison wedding ceremony on Tuesday (13May08) with her long-term partner, rapper Papoose - real name Shamele MACkie. According to reports, MACkie tried to smuggle in a handcuff key to break his bride free and was told he couldn't return to visit the star for another six months.
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