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Ben Kweller

   
Artist: Ben Kweller

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 On My Way

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11

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A portion of kids ar raised in melodic families, simply few had the entry to music that Ben Kweller had. Nils Lofgren was one of Kweller's father's buddies during Lofgren's years with Bruce Springsteen. Young Kweller, non even honest-to-goodness sufficiency for kindergarten at the time, would stress to be like the celebrated guitar player when he picked up his own toy version of the instrument. He played the pianoforte since his identical early childhood and by the long time of vIII had gradatory from toy dog guitars and simply tapping the ivories to composition his possess tunes. The undermentioned year, he received a nod of boost from Billboard mag when it conferred an honorable reference on the youthfulness for his entranceway into its annual songwriters rivalry. By the time he hit his stripling years, Kweller was complete on the guitar and as well played the drums. As many teenagers do, he pulled together a band, which he dubbed Mirage. He followed up with groups named Green Eggs & Ham and Foxglove.


In 1993, with Bryan Blur on bass and John Kent on drums, Kweller established Radish. The grouping made its german mark on the local Dallas panorama, non far from Greenville, TX, where Kweller was raised. In 1994, the musical wunderkind and his outfit pose out the EP Hello through Practice Amp Records. That same year, the tag released the album Dizzy. Roger Greenawalt, a producer, stepped into the image in 1995. He lED Radish through the production of a demo that lED to the inking of a sign with Mercury during the summertime of 1996. The judge released Restraining Bolt the undermentioned springtime, and Kweller lED Radish through European and American tours and newmarket on late-night telecasting talk shows, including The Conan O'Brian Show and Late Night With David Letterman. When Radish disbanded in 1999, Kweller headed due east, in the spring, to Guilford, CT, where he stayed only a short time in front relocating to Brooklyn, NY, the undermentioned November. Not yet 20 age honest-to-goodness, he sign with Island Records as a solo creative person. He spent clip touring with such artists as Juliana Hatfield, Guster, Kristin Hersh, and Evan Dando. He besides collaborated with Ben Folds and Ben Lee for a series of dates down under in 2003 and appeared on Folds' limited edition EP The Bens. Kweller's sophomore endeavour, the often more muted On My Way, followed in spring 2004. Two long time by and by, he returned with his self-titled tierce album, on which he played all the instruments.

Simon Wickham-Smith and Richard Youngs

   
Artist: Simon Wickham-Smith and Richard Youngs

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Metallic Sonatas

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 15

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Amy Winehouse writing “suicidal music”

Troubled Amy Winehouse has almost become a recluse since contracting a contagious skin condition — and friends are terrified about the singer’s negative state of mind.

The ‘Rehab’ star, 24, is feeling so low that she has been writing sinister song lyrics about death; and they are so dark — they’re being described as “suicidal music”.

A source said: “Her next album is darker than ever. Amy�s got low self-esteem anyway but her skin has made her want to hide away from the rest of the world. And we have started noticing more and more cuts on her arms.

“Her problems are pushing her over the edge and she�s turning into a depressed recluse. It�s not good for her to stay in so much.

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Tim McGraw

   
Artist: Tim McGraw

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Country
   

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Discography:


   
 Let It Go

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Greatest Hits Vol. 2

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


   
 Place in the Sun

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 Everywhere

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Not a Moment Too Soon

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Tim McGraw and The Dancehall Doctors

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Set This Circus Down

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Live Like You Were Dying

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 All I Want

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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When Tim McGraw debuted in the early '90s, few would ingest predicted that he would finally take over Garth Brooks' position as the most popular male singer in land music. Yet that's precisely what he did, thanks to a twine of multi-platinum albums, a high profile marriage to swain maven Faith Hill, and Brooks' own inevitable decline. His sound epitomized the breed of commercial-grade area that dominated his earned run average: updated whitey tonk and Southern-fried country-rock on the uptempo tunes, well-polished, adult contemporary-tinged pop on the ballads. Helped out early in his vocation by respective freshness items, McGraw plainly wounding up cranking out hookier hits on a more consistent basis than whatever of his peers. By the late '90s, he was non only a star among body politic fans, only a mainstream fame with a large female following.


Samuel Timothy McGraw was natural in Delhi, LA, on May 1, 1967. Though he didn't bang it until long time later, his father was baseball player Tug McGraw, a star ministration twirler for the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets who'd had a brief liaison with McGraw's mother. He was raised mostly in the little township of Start, LA, near Monroe, and grew up listening to a variety of music: area, pop, rock, and R&B. He attended Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball learning, studying sports medicine, and it was merely then that he started acting guitar to play along his singing. He played the local nightclub circumference and dropped out of school in 1989, heading to Nashville on the same day his submarine sandwich Keith Whitley passed away. He american ginseng in Nashville clubs for a couple of long time and landed a deal with Curb in 1992. His debut single, the minor hit "Welcome to the Club," was released subsequently that year, and his self-titled debut album appeared in 1993 merely failed to level create the charts.


McGraw's fortunes changed with the tip individual from his 1994 sophomore travail, Not a Moment Too Soon. "Indian Outlaw" was embraced as a lighthearted, old fashioned novelty song by fans merely was hard criticized for what some regarded as arch caricatures of Native Americans. Despite some radio stations' refusal to atmosphere the song, it reached the land Top Ten and even crossed over to the pop Top 20. All the publicity helped transport McGraw's following single, the lay "Don't Take the Girl," all the room to the top of the area charts; it to a fault made the pop Top 20. The album kept spinning off hits: "Grim on the Farm" hit number deuce, the deed caterpillar tread went to number one in 1995, and the novelty tune "Refried Dreams" also reached the Top Five. Not a Moment Too Soon was a genuine blockbuster hit, finally marketing over five-spot million copies and topping both the country and pop album charts; it was likewise the best-selling country album of the year.


McGraw's follow-up, 1995's All I Want, straightaway consolidated his stardom with the number i smash "I Like It, I Love It." The record album topped the rural area charts, reached the pop Top Five, and sold over two million copies. Once over again, it functioned as a strike manufactory thanks to the number two "Can't Be Really Gone," the number one "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart," and the Top Five "All I Want Is a Life" and "Perchance We Should Just Sleep on It." Over 1996, McGraw supported the record album with an extensive go, accompanied by opening act Faith Hill. In October, later the circuit was over, McGraw and Hill married, in a matrimony of rural area star power that john Drew mess of attention from mainstream media. It doubtless helped McGraw's next record album, 1997's Everyplace, become another crossover bang up; it topped the state charts, fell one pip inadequate of doing the same on the pop side, and sold four zillion copies. The lead exclusive was a McGraw-Hill duet called "It's Your Love," which non only hit number one state, simply made the pop Top Ten. Three more than singles from the album -- "All over," "Where the Green Grass Grows," and "Hardly to See You Smile" -- strike number one, and two others -- "One of These Days" and "For a Little While" -- reached number 2. Meanwhile, "Hardly to Hear You Say That You Love Me," some other husband-and-wife duo from Hill's 1998 record album Religious belief, climbed into the Top Five.


With the multi-platinum success of All over, McGraw was poised to take over Brooks' crapper as the martin Luther King Jr. of contemporary country, a changeover that only if accelerated when Brooks befuddled his fans with the Chris Gaines send off. McGraw, meanwhile, simply kept topping the charts. His next record album, 1999's triple-platinum A Place in the Sun, strike number one country and pop, and four of its singles also hit number one: "Delight Remember Me" (which featured Patty Loveless), "Something Like That," "My Best Friend," and "My Next Thirty Years." 2000 brought McGraw's first-class honours degree Superlative Hits digest, a best-selling smash, and another Top Ten duet from Hill's Breathe record album, "Let's Make Love." The song later on won McGraw his first-class honours degree Grammy, for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. Also in 2000, McGraw had a brush with the police force when he and tourmate Kenny Chesney got involved in a scuffle with law officers, afterwards Chesney attempted to ride one of the officers' horses; McGraw was later cleared of ravishment charges and exhausted the rest of 2000 on a second tour with Hill.


Released in 2001, Set This Circus Down (number one rural area, number two down) unbroken McGraw's strike run sledding into the novel millennium, giving him four-spot more number ones -- "Adult Men Don't Cry," "Furious All the Time," "The Cowboy in Me," and "Unbroken" -- simply like that. In 2002, his duet with protégée Jo Dee Messina, "Bring on the Rain," too went to number one. For the followup record album, McGraw defied country normal by ingress the studio apartment not with academic term musicians, simply with his road band, the Dancehall Doctors, a whole that had been together since 1996 (with some members around level before that). Tim McGraw was released in late 2002 and produced Top Ten hits in "Red Rag Top" and "She's My Kind of Rain"; it besides featured a startlingly faithful cover of Elton John's "Bantam Dancer." McGraw unbroken the formula the same on 2004's chart-topping Live Like You Were Dying, utilizing his road band, as intimately as co-mixing/producing the track record himsef. Let It Go followed in 2007.

Doro and Warlock

   
Artist: Doro and Warlock

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   

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Discography:


   
 Rare Diamond

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 14

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Immortal Technique

Super-Coldplay base-their-show-on-Poppins, how precocious

A SPOONFUL of MARY POPPINS is all that’s needed to help COLDPLAY’s
live shows go down a storm, according to CHRIS MARTIN and Co.

For the brolly-wielding supernanny is the secret inspiration for the band’s
spectacular concerts, I can reveal.

Before I caught up with the lads at London's Brixton Academy last night, I got
to witness the final rehearsal at Wembley for their Viva La Vida tour, the
UK leg of which kicks off in December.

And it was there that I caught a glimpse of some of the magic dust that Chris, JONNY
BUCKLAND, GUY BERRYMAN and WILL CHAMPION plan to sprinkle
on their superb set.

The show will be incredible, but frontman Chris reckons it still isn’t
a patch on MUSE.



Chris – who we’ve mocked up as the brolly-wielding nanny–
told me: “We grew up with Mary Poppins and all those sorts of
things.

“We love making big shows up and trying to work out what lights
will look cool. We get very nerdy about it because we can’t
believe we’re allowed to do it.
“But we will never get as extreme as Muse. We’ll let them
do the biggest thing and then think, ‘OK, how did they do it?’ Brolly good ... Chris Martin
“We have always been a step behind Muse. They’re so great
live.”

Coldplay – who performed at Brixton last night and begin the UK leg
of their tour in December – have splashed out £900k on six
giant video orbs dangling from the ceiling. And the band will play at
different positions all round the venues.

One highlight will be a different version of their first massive hit, Yellow,
which the lads play as if they are busking in a Tube station. Chris added: “I
think our concert will be really cool and a good balance between old and
new. Because that’s the danger at this point – to not
play Yellow.

“When people say we have moved on and shouldn’t play old
hits like Yellow, I laugh.

“It’s like growing your hair and then wearing a hat. What’s
the point of growing it? That’s how I feel about hits.”
CreakyWhen Chris grows his hair long, I sometimes do wish he would wear a hat.
Does that mean I don’t like Yellow?
Meanwhile, Coldplay have been accused of pinching the melody of Viva La Vida’s
title track from US indie band CREAKY BOARDS.




In an online video posting, Boards’ frontman ANDREW HOEPFNER claims
he wrote his “strikingly similar song” more than a year
before Coldplay released their track.

He later claims Chris saw Creaky Boards performing the song live in New York
in October 2007, adding “We were flattered when we thought we
spotted Chris in the crowd.”

A Coldplay spokesman dismissed the accusation and stressed Viva La Vida was
written and demoed in March 2007.

He added Chris has never attended a Creaky Bones show and was recording in
London when the footage was filmed.
Judge for yourself by clicking on the video above.

Kimya Dawson

   
Artist: Kimya Dawson

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Hidden Vagenda

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14

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Singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is best known as parting of the New York City anti-folk outfit the Moldy Peaches. In 2002, Dawson released her debut solo album, I'm Sorry That Sometimes I'm Mean, a collection of superfluous tunes song dynasty to an acoustic guitar and Dawson's voice, which breaks with suffer over tales of abuse and yearning.


The 30-year-old ballad maker was innate and raised in Bedford Hills, NY, where her parents run a day care midpoint from their home. Dawson and mate Moldy Peach Adam Green met in 1995 at a disc depot in Mt. Kisco, NY, where she worked. For the following four eld, Dawson stirred back and forth 'tween New York and Washington, only she and Green had become friends and began authorship songs together. In 1999, Green followed Dawson to Washington, where they formed the Moldy Peaches. After a year, Green returned to New York, with Dawson following later. Eventually, the Moldy Peaches -- Dawson, Green, drummer Strictly Beats, bassist Steve Mertens, and guitarists Jack Dishel and Toby Goodshank -- began playing the anti-folk circuit.


In 2001, they released their self-titled debut to critical spat. All the songs were co-written and song by Dawson and Green. The band toured in the States as well as Europe. Dawson contributed championship vocals to Ben Kweller's 2002 debut solo album, Sha, Sha. Later that same year, the Moldy Peaches began a hiatus of indefinite length when both Dawson and Green's (James Abraham Garfield) solo albums were released. I'm Sorry That Sometimes I'm Mean was well received by critics and Dawson embarked on a tour of Europe and the United States. In 2004, Dawson released deuce more albums of material culled from her bedchamber roger Sessions: Knock-Knock Who? and My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess. Later that year, Secret Vagenda arrived on K Records. Dawson resurfaced in 2006 with the Kimya Dawson/Matty Pop Chart EP and Remember That I Love You full-length.

Connie Talbot

   
Artist: Connie Talbot

   Genre(s): 
Easy Listening
   

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Discography:


   
 Over The Rainbow

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12

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What is it with Britain and cute kids? The music manufacture from time to time throws up novelties whether they be tattle animals, alive puppets, or cunning children, and especially in the days of realness TV gift shows, which ar open to all eld groups, unitary can require to find contest from a very, selfsame young person wHO just happens to have that ahhh factor, whether or non they can actually talk. And to the highest degree of the time, it seems cruel if the judges criticise in any way, so they don't. Such was the eccentric with Connie Talbot, a six-year-old wHO appeared on, was the deary to win, and finally ruined as second best to Paul Potts on the 2007 series of Britain's Got Talent, an all-comers gift depict where jugglers competed with dancers and singers, and gory body part mutilation was also on the bill.


She was born in Walsall in the midlands of Britain on November 20, 2000, to Sharon and Gavin Talbot and entered the gift depict Britain's Got Talent only for a house day verboten, only melted the hearts of the book of Judges and the voting public with her virtuous, cherubic renditions of the songs "Over the Rainbow" and "Ben," and disdain performances that were non whole unflawed, cypher dared pronounce a word against her, and with the cunning fry factor on her side, she was installed as one of the favorites to deliver the goods simply eventually terminated up as the runner-up to Potts, the opera isaac Merrit Singer.


Signing to Simon Cowell's Sony BMG judge, she was dropped before whatever product could be released, the bosses at the track record company disagreeing with Cowell that Talbot was very much overly pres Young to be embarking on a recording life history, and as a record label they did non want to soak the girl of her devoid childhood. Perhaps they likewise saw that having such a young child on the books is no guarantee to long-run winner, and apart from one album that may or may non be profitable, it was non where they saw themselves positioned in the mart.


A children's division of Rhythm Riders called Rainbow Records was set up specifically for Talbot, wHO saw no such problems in having such a thomas Young baby signed to a transcription contract, and by November the record album Over the Rainbow was ready for dismission. Hyped to the point where it was considered a possibility for the Christmas number one of 2007, the record album disappointingly crashed into the chart at number 35 and was already almost out of the chart earlier Christmas hebdomad, and the single "T. H. White Christmas" failed to chart at all.

Madonna opening girls' school in Malawi

Multimillion-dollar project in the works





LILONGWE, Malawi -- Madonna plans to start building a multimillion-dollar girls' school in Malawi for underprivileged children this year, her local lawyer said on Wednesday.
"A task force of four prominent Malawians has already been formed to head the project which will be on the scale of what Oprah Winfrey has in South Africa," Madonna's lawyer Alan Chinula said.
"It is a multimillion-dollar project, and we will get the real costs in the next two weeks."
Billionaire U.S. television magnate Winfrey has built a $40 million all-girl leadership academy in South Africa which boasts state-of-the-art facilities including laboratories, a yoga studio and beauty salon.
Malawi's High Court is expected to approve Madonna's bid to adopt two-year-old Malawian David Banda on Thursday. Malawi's government and David's father -- his only surviving parent -- have endorsed the adoption.
Madonna will not attend the final court ruling on her adoption bid because she is busy with other engagements, Chinula said Tuesday.
The adoption has been controversial, with critics accusing the government of skirting laws that ban non-residents from adopting children in Malawi, which has been ravaged by an AIDS epidemic that has produced more than one million orphans.