George Thorogood and The Destroyers & other: June 2008

Monday 30 June 2008

Main Concept

Artist: Main Concept

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Equilibrium

Year: 2005
Tracks: 16

Peter Gabriel

Artist: Peter Gabriel

   Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Soundtrack
   Rock

Discography:

Hit (CD 2)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 14

Hit (CD 1)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 15

Up

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats

Year: 2002
Tracks: 15

Long Walk Home (The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 15

Long Walk Home

Year: 2002
Tracks: 15

Birdy

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

OVO: The Millenium Show

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

OVO: Millennium Show

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Ovo: Millennium +1 (Ltd Edition)

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

OVO

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Secret World Live (CD 2)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 5

Secret World Live (CD 1)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 10

Secret World Live

Year: 1994
Tracks: 10

Us

Year: 1992
Tracks: 10

[1989] Passion Music for The Last Temptation Of Christ

Year: 1989
Tracks: 21

Passion - Music for the Last Temptation of Christ

Year: 1989
Tracks: 21

Passion

Year: 1989
Tracks: 21

SO (Remastered 2002)

Year: 1986
Tracks: 9

So

Year: 1986
Tracks: 9

Plays Live (CD 2)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 8

Plays Live (CD 1)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 8

Plays Live

Year: 1983
Tracks: 8

Security

Year: 1982
Tracks: 8

Peter Gabriel IV Security

Year: 1982
Tracks: 8

Peter Gabriel 4

Year: 1982
Tracks: 8

Deutsches Album

Year: 1982
Tracks: 8

The 3rd Studio Album

Year: 1980
Tracks: 10

Peter Gabriel III

Year: 1980
Tracks: 10

Ein Deutsches Album

Year: 1980
Tracks: 9

The 2nd Studio Album

Year: 1978
Tracks: 11

Peter Gabriel II

Year: 1978
Tracks: 11

Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch

Year: 1978
Tracks: 11

Peter Gabriel - Ii - Scratch

Year: 1978
Tracks: 11

Peter Gabriel 1: Car

Year: 1977
Tracks: 9

Peter Gabriel 1

Year: 1977
Tracks: 9

As the drawing card of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock candy to new levels of theatricality. In his solo career, Gabriel was no less ambitious, merely he was more subtle in his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began exploring darker, more than cerebral soil, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. The track record, as well as its deuce similarly highborn successors, accomplished Gabriel as a critically acclaimed cult artist, and with 1982's Security, he began to go into the mainstream; "Seismic disturbance the Monkey" became his first Top 40 strike, pavement the way for his multi-platinum breakthrough So in 1986. Accompanied by a series of groundbreaking videos and the act peerless single "Maul," So became a multi-platinum hit, and Gabriel became an external star. Instead of capitalizing on his sudden success, he began to explore other interests, including transcription soundtracks and operative his society Real World. By the prison term he returned to pop with 1992's Us, his mass audience had washy aside and he spent the residuum of the '90s working on multimedia system projects for Real World.

Following his departure from Genesis in 1976, Peter Gabriel began work on the first of trey back-to-back eponymously highborn albums; each record was named Saint Peter the Apostle Gabriel, he aforesaid, as if they were editions of the same magazine. In 1977, his first solo album appeared and became a soften success due to the single "Solsbury Hill." Another self-titled track record followed in 1978, so far received relatively weaker reviews. Gabriel's third eponymous album was his artistic breakthrough. Produced by Steve Lillywhite and released in 1980, the album established Gabriel as one of rock's most ambitious, innovational musicians, as good as one of its well-nigh political -- "Biko," a vocal around a murdered antiapartheid militant, became one of the biggest protest anthems of the '80s. "Games Without Frontiers," with its eery chorus, intimately reached the Top 40.

In 1982, Gabriel released Surety, which was an even bigger success, earning positive reviews and sledding gold on the forcefulness of the startling video for "Shock the Monkey." Just as his solo career was pickings off, Gabriel participated in a round Genesis reunification in order to finance his WOMAD -- World of Music, Arts and Dance -- Festival. WOMAD was intentional to bring versatile world musics and impost to a Western consultation, and it presently sour into an yearly event, and a live forked album was released that yr to record the outcome. As Gabriel worked on his fifth album, he contributed the soundtrack to Alan Parker's 1984 plastic film Birdy. His score was highly praised and it north Korean won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes that year. After innovation Real World, Inc. -- a tummy devoted to development bridges betwixt engineering science and multi-ethnic humanistic discipline -- in 1985, he realised his twenty percent album, So.

Released in 1986, So became Gabriel's commercial breakthrough, largely because his Stax court "Sledge" was blessed with an innovative video that combined stop-action vitality with live military action. So climbed to figure 2 as "Maul" make number one, with "Braggy Time" -- featuring a video very alike to "Maul" -- stretch the Top Ten and "In Your Eyes" hitting the Top 30. As So was horseback riding high on the American and British charts, Gabriel co-headlined the showtime benefit tour for Amnesty International in 1986 with Sting and U2. Another Amnesty International Tour followed in 1988, and the following year, Gabriel released Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ, a solicitation of instrumentals used in Martin Scorsese's cinema. Passion was the furthest Gabriel delved into worldbeat, and the album was widely acclaimed, victorious the Grammy Award in 1989 for Best New Age Performance. In 1990, he released the hits compilation Shaking the Tree.

Gabriel laboured long on the pop music follow-up to So, finally releasing Us in the saltation of 1992. During the recording of Us, Gabriel went through a number of personal upheavals, including a afflictive disunite, and those tensions manifested themselves on Us, a much darker record than So. For diverse reasons, non the least of which was the fact that it was released half a dozen years after its forerunner, Us wasn't as commercially successful as So, disdain cocksure reviews. Only one single, the "Maul" knockoff "Steam," reached the Top 40, and the album stalled at pt gross sales. In 1993, Gabriel embarked on the near ambitious WOMAD duty tour to appointment, touring the United States with a roll including Crowded House, James, and SinÃ©ad O'Connor, with whom he had an on-off romantic relationship. The following year, he released the double-disc Mysterious World Live, which went amber. Later in 1994, he released the CD-ROM Xplora, one of many projects he developed with Real World. For the next 3 age, Gabriel concentrated on developing more multimedia projects for the company.

Paul McCartney offers to produce the next Wombats album

Sunday 29 June 2008

BIG BROTHER: Dennis Facing Boot Over Fight Drama?

Dennis fears he's about to become the second housemate - after Alex - to get the Big Brother chop over aggressive behaviour.

Last night E4 suspended their live coverage when Dennis got in a booze-fuelled fight with Mohamed, Rex and Darnell – over a smudged painting.

Earlier in the evening Rex had sabotaged Jen's task-winning portrait of Stuart - prompting Jen burst into tears.
Dennis attempted to comfort Jen & hit out at Rex for his ill-judged joke.

Things spiralled out of control when Mo stepped in to defend Rex and call Jen an “attention seeker.”
As Dennis explained to the other housemates later, "If a woman is sitting breaking her heart no-one should be arguing.
"Mo got up in my face and said 'Don't tell me to shut up' and that's when I spat at him in his face."
"If I'm removed, I'm removed...everyone's gonna get pulled in one by one tomorrow."

After suspending the live coverage, Big Brother divided the housemates into two groups and sent them to separate bedrooms.
Producers will decide Dennis's fate today.

Saturday 28 June 2008

Brad White and Pierre Grill

Artist: Brad White and Pierre Grill

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Isle Of Dreams

Year: 1996
Tracks: 12

Voyage

Year: 1994
Tracks: 13

Charlatans to play Sundae On The Common

R. Kelly's Biggest Fans -- Who Came To Every Day Of Singer's Trial -- 'Never Had Any Doubt They Would Find Him Not Guilty'

Every day, two young women waited for R. Kelly.

They waited in the morning outside the courthouse to see him make his entrance. They then went and got the equivalent of a backstage pass, so they could be spectators inside the courtroom, in the back rows allotted for the public. During the lunch break, they ran over to nearby Douglas Park to see him go to his tour bus for a private meal, away from prying eyes.

At the end of the day, they tried to run out of the building before he did, so they could have a final goodbye. They shouted, "I love you!" and he smiled and waved back. And they cussed out any reporter they thought had done Kelly wrong, on his behalf. One of them commuted 40 miles (by train and then by bus) for this. The other skipped school and left her 2-year-old son with her mother. These young women — 18-year-old Jerhonda Johnson and 23-year-old Keyonia Jones — are the superfans. They are the most unwavering in their dedication to the star, even though he stood accused of taking advantage of a girl not much different from themselves.

So when the verdict came down on Friday, Johnson and Jones felt like they were vindicated too.

"From the beginning, I thought he was innocent," Jones said. "I never had any doubt they would find him not guilty. And when they read the verdict, I wanted to scream, but I didn't. I had to control my happiness until I got outside."

"Even though my eyes were watering, I didn't let the tears fall down," Johnson said. "They did after a little bit."

Jones is a criminal-justice student at Harold Washington College, and though her next semester started while the trial was in progress, she decided being in Kelly's courtroom was a better classroom than her school could have provided. "It was my first real trial that I saw that wasn't on television or scripted," she said. "I was like, 'Oh, it's like this.' It helped a lot for my major, and it made me think about going to law school."

So even though Jones is such a dedicated fan that she named her 2-year-old son Robert (and plans to name any future ones Sylvester and then Kelly, to flesh out his full name), she tried to put herself into the mindset of the jury and consider all the evidence. "Going into it, I felt he was innocent," she said. "But then I thought, 'Lemme put aside R. Kelly and just listen to what they got to say.' " With as open a mind as she could muster, Jones watched the tape. She looked for the mole on his back. She listened to Sparkle testify. But then Jones concluded, "All she wanted was money. And all the other ladies [such as witness Lisa Van Allen] wanted money."

"The state had some bad witnesses," Johnson said. "They didn't have any of her immediate family, so I was like, 'They didn't prove the case.' "

The jury might have thought it was Kelly on the tape, but these two were not convinced. "I say it wasn't him," Johnson said. "It wasn't R. Kelly at all. In 1998, 1999, he did not look like that. Yeah, he was bald, he had a nice body, but he did not have a gut, and he had one on the tape. He had a six-pack and everything back then. He was sexy. I mean, he still is, but the man on the tape was so different."

And though these young women would kill for Kelly to talk to them, they didn't want him to do it from the witness stand. "I thought it would be the dumbest thing for him to do, to testify," Jones said. "Because then they'd be able to use his past against him, and they would probably convict him."

By "his past," is Jones referring to the other underage girls who previously sued him? "Yes, and the whole thing about him supposedly marrying Aaliyah when she was underage," Jones said. She doesn't believe the marriage happened — you could show her the marriage license, and she still wouldn't believe it. You could have it on tape, so to speak, and she still would be his biggest fan, as would her friend.

"There is nothing that he could ever do to make me doubt him," Jones said. "Nothing."

"They can't call him a pedophile anymore," Johnson said. "They can't say he likes little girls. They don't have proof of that. Because he's innocent now. He's free."

Find a review of the major players in the R. Kelly trial here. For full coverage of the case, read the R. Kelly Reports and check out this complete timeline of the events surrounding the trial.

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Ellen

Artist: Ellen

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Holiday From Love

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Kimora Lee Simmons - Lee Simmons Granted Sole Custody Of Kids

LATEST: Model and fashion designer KIMORA LEE SIMMONS has been handed sole custody of her two children with estranged husband RUSSELL SIMMONS.

The estranged couple split in 2006 after eight years' of marriage, but Lee Simmons only filed for divorce earlier this year (Mar08), citing irreconcilable differences.

Def Jam Records co-founder Simmons challenged his ex's petition for sole custody of Ming, eight, and Aoki, five - and in May (08), filed papers seeking joint physical and legal custody of their daughters.

But Lee Simmons has reportedly won the custody battle, according to The Insider news show.

Legal papers obtained by the programme state that Simmons is entitled to have the two young girls for one week out of every eight. He will get to spend extra time with them for summer vacations and holidays.

Lee Simmons has been granted the legal authority to make all decisions in relation to their kids' health, education and welfare.

In addition, the model will receive the $480,000 (GBP240,000)-a-year in child support as per her request. Simmons is expected to continue paying the sum until 2019 for Ming Lee, and 2022 for Aoki.

But that's not all - Simmons has also been ordered to provide a car worth at least $60,000 (GBP30,000) for the use and benefit of his children, and the vehicle must be replaced every two years.

However, in an open letter to various media outlets, Simmons has insisted he is happy with the arrangements because they are in the best interests of their kids - and he claims there is no bitterness between him and his estranged wife.

He says, "I want to say Kimora is a excellent mother and is doing a great job with them... Regarding the money, my kids live a tremendous life. They do have lots of security, nannies, educators, special programs, travel, chefs, on and on. Their mother manages all of those luxuries and I'm happy to provide for that."

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Swizz Beatz Addresses Alicia Keys Rumors, Reveals Michael Jackson Tour Deal

So cool, so nonchalant — even his most extravagant endeavors seem like just regular work to Swizz Beatz.

"I'm working on this new Michael Jackson sh--," Swizz said in as calm a manner as he did when speaking to his new manager, Chaka Zulu, about which Los Angeles restaurant they should dine at. "I'm probably gonna be producing his tour and everything. I'm designing planes for Gulf Stream and everything. They called me. I'm around different people. I'm around billionaires. I'm around people like that."

The producer said his professional life is going so well that he didn't have time to be bothered by all the rumors about his personal life. A few months ago, he and his wife, Mashonda, announced they were splitting.

"Everybody can have their fun right now talking that dumb sh-- about my divorce and all that," he said. "I'mma give them something to talk about. People get divorced every f---in' day. They need to worry about more serious things."

The big rumor in the tabloids is that Swizz and his wife broke up over the proverbial "other woman." What made the story so sensational was that the alleged mistress in this case was Grammy winner Alicia Keys. Swizz dismissed it.

"It ain't even bad," he said, more agitated. "My divorce, it ain't nothing bad. It's just us moving on. Me and Shonda are super good. It is what it is. [The press] are nine months late on the situation. It's a headache to me. We been separated nine or 10 months already."

Swizz's ire was raised in particular by recent headlines on the front pages of Hip Hop Weekly and MediaTakeout.com.

"That sh-- just looks like drama," he said. "They got another big name involved. No, I'm not doing [any] f---ing interviews. Only thing I'm commenting on is music-related. I don't comment on my personal life. Why start now? You start commenting on that sh--, then they start twisting it out. I'm not gonna speak about nothing. They [gave Mashonda] two pages in Hip Hop Weekly. She didn't even say nothing about Alicia. They blew it up on MediaTakeout.com. They flipped that into some other sh--.

"I'm not hiding anything," he added. "I can see if I was hiding something. I'm a grown man. Nobody is living no perfect life. Mashonda has a single coming out that I funded, photo shoots that I funded. We made our statement that we're still working together. They didn't wanna believe it. I said I would be continuing to support her career. Nobody wants to look at that sh--. They wanna look at 'Alicia Keys.' That sh-- is ignorant."

Later, Swizz did admit to hooking up with Alicia Keys, albeit in the musical sense. He produced a remix of her "Teenage Love Affair."

"The Alicia Keys remix is with LL Cool J," he explained. "I used the Slick Rick 'Teenage Love' on it. Then I had your man LL do the old-school 'When I'm alone in my room, sometimes I stare at the wall.' ... He used that flow. I got a couple of joints on the new T.I. album. Couple of joints on the new Ludacris. Couple of joints with Young Jeezy. Just working, man."

One of the T.I. songs is called "Louie Rag." "All right, OK, I don't dance, no way," Swizz raps on the record. "I just take my Louie rag and wave it around in the air/ I take my Gucci rag and throw it around in the air."

When asked about Tip's description of the song as the new "Bring 'Em Out," Swizz said, "I wouldn't put it under that much pressure," with a grin. "I like it. It works."

Swizzy is also behind the new G-Unit record "Get Down" and is in the lab working on some brand-new Jay-Z songs. "I gave him the out-of-control Swizz," Beatz said of the tracks. "You'll see. Out of control! F--- — spazzin', out of control!"

Swizz's new album is called Life After the Party and should be out sometime in October. The lead cut is "Where the Cash At." He already finished a video and is working on a remix. Swizz's artist Cassidy is working on a new LP as well, and there's a strong chance he'll be leaving J Records for another recording home.

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To Rococo Rot

Artist: To Rococo Rot

   Genre(s):
Other
   Industrial

Discography:

Hotel Morgen

Year: 2004
Tracks: 14

Cosimo

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Kolner Brett

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

To Rococo Rot is a mostly Berlin-based post-rock trio whose combination of electronic and acoustic elements places them in close propinquity to American groups such as Tortoise, Trans Am, and Rome, as comfortably as European artists Circle, Stereolab, and Fridge. Composed of bassist Stefan Schneider (besides of similar-sounding Dusseldorf mathematical group Kreidler) and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, personal effects), To Rococo Rot were in the first place among a modern breed of German electronic experimentalists working more often within the circumstance of hauptkunst digital graphics and multimedia installation (prior to encounter Schneider the Lippoks were slow a contrive of this form called Ornament und Verbrechen). With TRR, however, the group take described their act upon as an overt attempt to reconnect the art school proclivities of melodious experimentalism with the approachability and "use-value" of pop, a goal understandably evident both in their name and their recorded output to date. The group's debut arrived in 1996 in the form of an ungentle film phonograph recording (after reissued on CD by Kitty Yo), with the more than widely distributed Veiculo (released by UK indie City Slang) appearing the following twelvemonth. Embraced by rock and electronica audiences alike, the group experience (like Tortoise et al) already begun to roleplay an important, transitional office in eating away some of the barriers that let typically separated the deuce (particularly in the U.S.). Working long, mesmerizing grooves augmented by eccentric, often subtly interlinking electronics and sample sequences, TRR besides owe a clear debt to '60s Krautrock groups such as Neu!, Can, and Amon Duul, among others, and in some respects are reorienting the abstract deconstructions of man/machine those groups outset sketched. In 1997, the mathematical group recorded an album's worth of material with producer David Moufang (Deep Space Network, Source Records). Following a go to Mute Records, the ring released The Amateur View in 1999, Music Is a Hungry Ghost in 2001, and Hotel Morgen in 2004. Ronald Lippok has besides gained praise for his work in Tarwater.

Dion effort is 'worst ever cover version'

Celine Dion's version of an AC/DC track has been named the world's worst cover song by music professionals.

A panel at Total Guitar magazine described the effort, played at a concert in Las Vegas, as a "musical offence".

Second on the list was Girls Aloud and Sugababes' cover of 'Walk This Way', originally by Run DMC and Aerosmith, while Westlife came third with their version of Extreme's 'More Than Words'.

The panel's favourite cover was the Jimi Hendrix interpretation of Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower'. The Beatles' 'Twist And Shout', originally from rock 'n' roll band The Top Notes, came second and Guns N' Roses were third with Wings' 'Live And Let Die'.

Total Guitar editor Stephen Lawson said the Dion song was "sacrilege", adding: "The best covers are unlikely choices and they do something radical.

"It's good to see that Hendrix still is number one. The first time you hear 'All Along The Watchtower', with that heavy vibe, it sounds like it's from another planet."

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