Madonna opening girls' school in Malawi & other

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Disturb

Artist: Disturb

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

The Worst Is To Come

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Beck Brings On "Modern Guilt"

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Are You a Saturday Night Fever Fan?

Send GMA your video tribute to the iconic '70s film, which came out 30 years ago

Saturday, 21 June 2008

Ben Kweller

Artist: Ben Kweller

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

On My Way

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

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

Discography:

Metallic Sonatas

Year: 1998
Tracks: 15

Friday, 20 June 2008

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

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

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 protÃ©gÃ©e 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.