Artist: Pt. Shivkumar Sharma
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Vibrant Music For Reiki
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Monday 30 June 2008
Pt. Shivkumar Sharma
Artist: Pt. Shivkumar Sharma
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Vibrant Music For Reiki
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Museums Art Houses Taste Ashes Of Universal Fire
The fire that raged through a city-block-sized area at Universal Studios over the
weekend destroyed prints of classic movies that had reportedly been scheduled to
be screened at museums, festivals and art houses in the near future. Today's (Wednesday)
Los Angeles Times reported that striking a new print from a negative -- the negatives
were stored at a separate location -- could cost $5,000 and take months to produce.
It did not explain why the classic films required such a long processing time; con
ventional film prints can be -- and sometimes are -- struck off by laboratories virtually
overnight. On Monday, the studio sent email messages to several theaters that had
scheduled screenings of some of the films, saying that because of the fire, "we wi
ll be unable to honor any film bookings of prints that were set to ship from here."
Published reports indicated, however, that the studio may have duplicate prints stored
at other locations.
04/06/2008
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Tuesday 17 June 2008
Velcra
Artist: Velcra
Genre(s):
Industrial
Rock
Discography:
Hadal
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Between Force and Fate
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Kisha Griffin
Artist: Kisha Griffin
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
My Life
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
'Tokyo!' heads to North America
MoskovSKAya
Artist: MoskovSKAya
Genre(s):
Ska
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
No One Will Get Here Out Alive
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
The Edge Of A New Era
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Mother's Son
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
No One Will Get Here Out
Year:
Tracks: 9
Sex And The City - Ladies Day Returns To Theaters
Even the box office estimates for the opening weekend of Warner Bros.' Sex and
the City turned out to be too conservative as the film earned a million and a
half dollars more on Sunday than studio executives had reckoned. The film took in
a total of $56.9 million for the weekend, substantially ahead of Paramount's Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which brought in $44.8 million in
its second week, pushing its gross past the $200-million mark to $215.6 million.
The No. 3 film, Universal's horror flick The Strangers, also performed better
than expected with $21 million -- more than what the film cost to produce. In fourth
place, Iron Man appeared to have legs of steel, as it brought in another $13.5
million after five weeks. Rounding out the top five, Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian added $12.7 million to its gross in its third week.
The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media
by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):
1. Sex
and the City: The Movie, Warner Bros, $56,848,056, (New); 2. Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Paramount, $44,754,615, 2 Wks. ($215,635,899);
3. The Strangers, Universal, $20,997,985, (New); 4. Iron Man, Paramount,
$13,541,264, 5 Wks. ($276,166,336); 5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Disne
y, $12,704,545, 3 Wks. ($115,362,725); 6. What Happens in Vegas, 20th Century
Fox, $6,681,097, 4 Wks. ($65,904,971); 7. Speed Racer, Warner Bros., $2,259,031,
4 Wks. ($40,677,371); 8. Baby Mama, Universal, $2,194,320, 6 Wks. ($56,117,8
05); 9. Made of Honor, Sony, $1,913,035, 5 Wks. ($42,878,354); 10. Forgetting
Sarah Marshall, Universal, $1,059,840, 7 Wks. ($60,485,980).
03/06/2008
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Gutter Twins map summer 'Saturnalia' trek
Indie-rock duo The Gutter Twins [ tickets ] have lined up a slate of North American headlining dates this summer behind their debut album, "Saturnalia."The pair--Mark Lanegan (formerly of Screaming Trees) and Greg Dulli (co-founder of The Afghan Whigs)--will kick off the run June 28 in Calgary, Alberta, the first of 11 cities the outfit will hit during the trek, which runs through an Aug. 2 slot at Chicago's Lollapalooza. Details are below.Following the US stretch, the duo heads across the ocean for a lengthy European outing. The full overseas schedule is posted at the Twins' MySpacepage.Dulli and Lanegan are touring behind their debut for Sub Pop, "Saturnalia," which hit stores in March. Both performers released albums for the label in the '90s with their former acts.The pair has worked on several projects together in the past, primarily involving Lanegan's guest appearances--in both the recording studio and on tour--with Dulli's current main project, The Twilight Singers.Since the breakup of Screaming Trees, Lanegan has released several solo albums, including his recent collaboration with Isobel Campbell ("Ballad of the Broken Seas," which was shortlisted for the British Mercury Prize in 2006), along with his vocal work for Queens of the Stone Age and Soulsavers.Dulli and the other members of The Afghan Whigs briefly reunited in 2006 to record a pair of new tracks ("I'm A Soldier" and "Magazine") for a Rhino best-of album, "Unbreakable (A Retrospective," which surfaced last June.
My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
With a title like Evil Urges and the somewhat macabre cover image of an eye in a box, the uninitiated would be forgiven for thinking that Kentucky's My Morning Jacket have morphed into a mediocre metal band. Judge not a book by its cover, nor an album by its artwork. After the psychedelic rock offerings of 2003's It Still Moves and 2001's At Dawn, the band’s fifth release has stepped away from the reverb-heavy noisemaking which originally garnered them widespread critical acclaim. The sound has since been adopted by a whole slew of imitators, including Band Of Horses and Fleet Foxes, but My Morning Jacket are now concentrating on using a more eclectic range of instrumentation. However fans should fear not; the signature duelling guitars are most definitely back.
With elements of country, rock, prog, pop, and indeed a good mix of other genres, the album is unrelenting in its diversity of sounds. Slow burner Evil Urges sports Kid A style guitar lines, sparse and wide and peppered with electronic whirrs, while Highly Suspicious has pure pop sensibilities; sounding more than a little like Prince, with singer Jim James descending into falsetto territory. In terms of variety, this album is about as widely based as they come.
Complimenting this, the band tip their hats to their roots and with I'm Amazed, which is complete country rock, so much so in fact, it could almost be the work of an artist like Garth Brooks.
Evil Urges is a curious package. You are treated to a veritable feast of different musical styles and genres, but often feel a little perplexed by the fare on offer. The sheer amount of choice is befuddling, but somehow, in a strange way, it all works. And it works well.
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Zutons: 'A Fight Prompted Amy Winehouse To Cover Valerie'
The Zutons frontman Dave McCabe said a fight he once had with Amy Winehouse prompted the singer to cover the bands song 'Valerie'.
Winehouse's cover of the song appeared on Mark Ronson's 'Versions' album last year and has become a frequent number in her set.
Speaking about Winehouse's cover, McCabe said that he had a “little spat” with the singer in London, which ended when Winehouse told him to “fuck off”.
However, McCabe said that the singer apologised when they met later in the year.
“She didn't know I was in a band and the next time we saw each other we said sorry,” he said.
"She told me on Jools Holland's Hootenanny (2006 TV show) that she really liked 'Valerie' and when we played it, I remember her looking at me and smiling.
"Since then she covered the song. And I don't know if she would have done that if we hadn't had that argument."
Which version of the song do you prefer – The Zutons or Amy Winehouse's? Let us know by posting a comment below. If you sign up, your comments will be approved automatically.
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Henry Mancini and His Orchestra
Artist: Henry Mancini and His Orchestra
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Classical
Discography:
The Pink Panther and Other Hits
Year: 1992
Tracks: 21
Pink Panther And Other Hits
Year: 1992
Tracks: 21
O'Neal Gets Candid About Drug Problems On Street Corner
Bathory
Artist: Bathory
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal
Metal: Death,Black
Metal: Thrash
Other
Discography:
Nordland II
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Nordland I
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Destroyer Of Worlds
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Jubileum Volumne III
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Requiem
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Octagon
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Jubileum II
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Jubileum I
Year: 1992
Tracks: 15
Twilight Of The Gods
Year: 1991
Tracks: 7
Hammerheart
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
Blood Fire Death
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Under The Sign Of TheBlackMark
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Under The Sign Of Black Mark
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
The Return
Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
Demo ('83-'84)
Year: 1984
Tracks: 6
Bathory
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
In a musical kingdom where scale of influence has small to do with commercial success, few originators of the extreme alloy humanities kindle as deep a sentience of mystery, or prod such quiet, respectful tones of admiration, as Sweden's Bathory. Essentially a one-person operation helmed by the secret Quorthon, Bathory's development from the rawest form of embryonic contraband metal, to jactitate, destruction, and back to its self-devised Viking-themed black alloy, has mirrored and regularly defined the genre's selfsame development. Indeed, along with Switzerland's Celtic Frost, Germany's Kreator, and Denmark's Mercyful Fate, they easy qualify as one the most important European utmost alloy acts of the Apostles of the '80s and '90s. The Swedish-born multi-instrumentalist Quorthon (too known as Black Spade and/or Ace Shoot, although his real name, Thomas Forsberg, is motionless the subject of argue) formed Bathory in 1983 with sidemen Hanoi (bass) and Vans (drums). These 2 would presently be ejected, however, scarcely as before long as they'd completed work on deuce of the charles Herbert Best tracks heard on 1984's now ill-famed Scandinavian Metal Attack digest. Influenced by every form of amphetamine metallic element known to piece at the time (which, avowedly, wasn't a good deal), Bathory shortly staked a claim as Scandinavia's do to Motörhead and Venom (from whose vocal "Countess Bathory" they attained their name). And, like Venom's early work, Bathory overly were challenged by the out-and-out primitive recording conditions of Heavenshore Studios (really a reborn cable car garage and memory board space) -- limitations which inadvertently put the rough, sturdy template that was afterward carefully scrutinized and accepted as gospel by generations of black-market metal-metal musicians. In fact, 1984's eponymous debut and its like-minded successor, 1985's The Return were so unaccessible, so unprecedented in their harsh anti-commercialism, as to be ahead of their time, cutting a recess all their possess inside this quickly developing subgenre. Interestingly, the additional oddity that Bathory seldom performed live (and never, subsequently 1985), and that these transcription provided well-nigh no selective information about its constituents (which, away from independent human race Quorthon, briefly included versatile anonymous bassists and drummers exit by the monikers Kothaar and Vvornth) only added to their cult-like mystique all over time. Not even this promising start was enough to keep up Bathory's momentum within such special stylistic boundaries, however, and, after draining the possibilities of rudimentary disastrous metal with his first two efforts, Quorthon realized that a creative cosmetic surgery was necessary. Sure enough, over the course of their third and fourth albums, 1987's transitional Under the Sign: The Sign of the Black Mark and 1988's watershed Blood Fire Death, Bathory re-focused its interests -- away from john Rock & roll-based arrangements and towards a more purely European aesthetical. Gradually incorporating symphonic elements raddled from classical music into its black and death metallic element base, by the time of Blood line Fire Death Quorthon had abandoned nigh of the rote Satanic/Christian-bashing lyrics of yore, and embraced the hedonist themes and Viking mythology of his ancestors. This anthemic coming culminated in what many view to be Bathory's finest hour, 1990's landmark concept piece of music Hammerheart. Part quantum leap, part continuation of Blood Fire Death's sketches, the album in no way recalled Bathory's humble origins, and provided the original for 1991's nearly-as-revered Gloam of the Gods, to boot. Confirming the shock of this vision, these ternion works helped fire up a tide of patriotism through music for innumerous Scandinavian youths, world Health Organization afterward began celebrating their pre-Catholicism cultural heritage. Sadly, spell commendable for encouraging a self-contained and highly imaginative local scene (featuring Mayhem, Emperor, Darkthrone et al.), this front as well sowed the seeds for future acts of hateful vandalism (as ghoulish as they were absurd) and in a flash murder at the custody of a diminished extreme contingent. Ironically, Quorthon himself had by now fully grown tire of the stereotypes and artistic trappings of the revolution he'd helped startle. Feeling uninspired to write any unexampled music in that vein, he short announced Bathory's demise and fatigued the following deuce years compilation the Jubileum, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3 collections. When his desire to frame finally did return, the music he came up with was so unlike anything ever released under the Bathory streamer, that he chose to set up out 1994's but named Record album under the Quorthon cognomen instead. Filled with astonishingly square alternate rock'n'roll, the record however revitalized Quorthon's interest in large metallic element, and a unexampled Bathory L.P, Requiem (released later that year), saw a return to the simple, brutal mosh metal of yesteryear. Subsequent Bathory efforts step by step upped the ante once over again, as yearner songs and more building complex death, disastrous, and level industrial metal elements were conservatively added to the unify for 1995's Octagon. In turn, 1996's ultra-doomy, Conan the Barbarian-inspired Stemma on Ice marked a return to the Viking alloy style, and offered a retooled solicitation of antecedently deserted sessions from seven-spot years in the beginning. But, besides proving that this epical way was back up in his plans, the album's superlative reward crataegus oxycantha have lain in the extensive lining notes penned by Quorthon. These not only explained the long overdue album's vent, just as well revealed a significant amount of information around Bathory's until then identical murky history -- almost to the point of disconcerting sr. fans' long-held theories and expectations of their hero, ironically sufficiency. 1997's second Quorthon congeal, the doubled magnetic disk Whiteness of Essence, arrived side by side, and once again served as a depository for non-Bathory-like ideas; and the third installment of the Jubileum 'best of' series arrived a class by and by to close withal some other chapter, and signal some other extended layoff. Inevitably, however, Quorthon resurrected Bathory once once again in 2001; his fresh record album Guided missile destroyer of Worlds inaugurating a new form at first characterized by a more than streamlined, rock-oriented approach, spell striking a mature balance with the deluxe background of whole works past. But those Viking inclinations were erst over again brought to the fore on the subsequent, twin-album project Nordland, part one of which was released in recent 2002, and portion iI arriving in 2003. Unfortunately, this return to both the style and variant of onetime glory would bear witness to be Bathory's swan song, when, with a number of as-yet-unreleased demos already under his belt ammunition, Thomas Forsberg -- the living sinister metal fable known as Quorthon -- was found drained in his Stockholm flat on June 7, 2004, on the face of it a victim of mettle failure. With his end, so dies Bathory, although thither is no dubiousness that his career-long record pronounce Black Mark (owned and operated by Quorthon's father) will eventually bring out whatsoever unreleased Bathory material which may noneffervescent lie in their vaults.
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