Friday, 27 June 2008

DJ Tocadisco

DJ Tocadisco   
Artist: DJ Tocadisco

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   



Discography:


Nobody Likes   
 Nobody Likes

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2




 






Tuesday, 24 June 2008

One Man Army And the Undead Quartet

One Man Army And the Undead Quartet   
Artist: One Man Army And the Undead Quartet

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Thrash
   



Discography:


21st Century Killing Machine (Ltd. Edition)   
 21st Century Killing Machine (Ltd. Edition)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12




No doubtfulness inspired by his initial ouster from Swedish speed-deathsters the Crown to score way for At the Gates caption Tomas Lindberg, only to be sheepishly asked back to whistle on their last album, vocalist Johan Lindstrand vented his frustrations with a new project ably named One Man Army and the Undead Quartet (not to be confused with San Francisco tinder rock band One Man Army). Joining forces with guitarist/bassist Valle Adzic (his partner in another band named Impious) and lead guitarist Mikael Lagerblad, Lindstrand recorded a six-song demonstration that light-emitting diode to interest from Nuclear Blast Records. A narrow was punctually signed and rhythm guitar player Pekka Kiviaho and drummer Marek Dobrowolski were then added to the lineup as roger Sessions began for the band's debut album, 21st Century Killing Machine, released in 2006 and self-praise a very appetizing mix of modern death and thresh metallic element. New bassist Robert Axelsson was tapped to supervene upon a departing Adzic short thereafter.






Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Angelina Jolie: 'I Feared Kids With Brad Pitt Would Ruin Our Relationship'

Angelina Jolie was worried that having a large amount of children would ruin her relationship with partner Brad Pitt.

Jolie already had one adopted son, six-year-old Maddox, when she started dating Pitt in 2005, and the couple went on to adopt Pax, four, Zahara, two, and have their biological two-year-old Shiloh. They are also currently expecting twins.

But Jolie admits that she was initially hesitant to expand her family with Pitt, because she feared the stresses of more children would put a major strain on their relationship.

She tells Heat: "You always wonder how having a lot of children in a fairly short space of time is going to affect your life together.

"You have less time together, you're always busy, you're often very tired in the evenings. So it's something that you either learn or adapt to, or you're going to be in trouble as a couple."

So the actress was delighted when, after expanding their brood, they continued to maintain a healthy partnership.

She adds: "We both grew into our role as parents and that eased a lot of my anxiety. What surprised me is how naturally Brad welcomed the responsibilities of being a father."

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Nailbomb

Nailbomb   
Artist: Nailbomb

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Metal: Industrial
   



Discography:


Proud Commit Comercial Suicide   
 Proud Commit Comercial Suicide

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


Point Blank   
 Point Blank

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13




Nailbomb was a brief contrive between ex-Sepultura singer/guitarist Max Cavalera and ex-Fudge Tunnel singer/guitarist Alex Newport. Although both of the bandmembers' full-time bands specialized in extreme metal sounds, Nailbomb somehow found a elbow room to create even more dense and harsh metallic sounds (it too proves to be more repetitive, with the odd sample and brake drum machine detected here and in that respect). In addition to the duo, most of Cavalera's then-bandmates from Sepultura (guitar player Andreas Kisser and drummer Igor Cavalera) and Fear Factory guitar player Dino Cazares made particular guest appearances on Nailbomb's debut recording for Roadrunner Records, 1994's Point Blank, patch the group's last release, 1995's Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, featured appearances from former Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro, Biohazard bassist Evan Seinfeld, and Front Line Assembly/Fear Factory keyboardist Rhys Fulber. Since their soph release, little has been heard from Nailbomb, as Cavalera returned back to Sepultura (later going away the chemical group to form Soulfly) and Newport began producing other hard rock candy artists (including At the Drive-In, Samiam, and Will Haven, among others).





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Saturday, 31 May 2008

EVERCLEAR

The Vegas Years (Capitol): B

There’s plenty of fun-loving spirit in Everclear’s remakes of artists as disparate as Hall & Oates, Woody Guthrie and Yaz. Culled from live and studio performances by both the old and new Everclear lineups, “The Vegas Years” chronicles the band’s raggedy grunge beginnings (a version of Tom Petty’s “American Girl” recorded before the trio’s Capitol debut) all the way up to its 2007 tour as a quintet. Central figure Art Alexis’ quirky humor is apparent in fantastic renditions of the TV themes “Land of the Lost” and “Speed Racer,” but Neil Young’s “Pocahontas” suffers with an inappropriate surf-style treatment. Download: “Our Lips Are Sealed.”

Thursday, 29 May 2008

Music highlights for Thurs., April 10

Southwest Louisiana roots rock and Cajun band The Bluerunners does the late set at d.b.a. It's Zydeco Night with Rosie Ledet at the Mid-City Lanes. Catch trumpeter Charlie Miller & the Bif Bam Boom Band at Snug Harbor. Hear...

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk   
Artist: Thelonious Monk

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   



Discography:


Suddenly   
 Suddenly

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


Underground   
 Underground

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


Striaght, No Charser   
 Striaght, No Charser

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9


Monk Alone (Cd 2)   
 Monk Alone (Cd 2)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 19


Monk Alone (Cd 1)   
 Monk Alone (Cd 1)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 18


Piano Solo   
 Piano Solo

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


Ronnie Mathews - Shades Of Monk   
 Ronnie Mathews - Shades Of Monk

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4


Bebop and Beyond plays Thelonious Monk   
 Bebop and Beyond plays Thelonious Monk

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


Monk's Music   
 Monk's Music

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 8


Kronos Quartet - Monk Suite   
 Kronos Quartet - Monk Suite

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 9


Monk's Classic Recordings   
 Monk's Classic Recordings

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 12


Monk's  Blues   
 Monk's Blues

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 5


Monk   
 Monk

   Year: 1965   
Tracks: 7


Monk In Tokyo   
 Monk In Tokyo

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 10


Criss-Cross   
 Criss-Cross

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 12


April In Paris   
 April In Paris

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 6


Pianology (with Bud Powell)   
 Pianology (with Bud Powell)

   Year: 1961   
Tracks: 11


Thelonious Monk and The Jazz Giants   
 Thelonious Monk and The Jazz Giants

   Year: 1959   
Tracks: 9


Thelonious In Action   
 Thelonious In Action

   Year: 1958   
Tracks: 10


Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers W   
 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers W

   Year: 1958   
Tracks: 9


Mulligan Meets Monk   
 Mulligan Meets Monk

   Year: 1957   
Tracks: 9


Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk   
 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

   Year: 1957   
Tracks: 6


The Unique   
 The Unique

   Year: 1956   
Tracks: 7


Plays Duke Ellington   
 Plays Duke Ellington

   Year: 1955   
Tracks: 8


Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2   
 Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2

   Year: 1952   
Tracks: 18


Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1   
 Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1

   Year: 1947   
Tracks: 21


Ken Burns Jazz Series: Thelonious Monk   
 Ken Burns Jazz Series: Thelonious Monk

   Year:    
Tracks: 14




The most significant jazz musicians are the ones world Health Organization are successful in creating their possess original populace of music with its have rules, logic, and surprises. Thelonious Monk, wHO was criticized by observers world Health Organization failed to listen to his music on its have footing, suffered through a decade of negligence earlier he was suddenly acclaimed as a genius; his medicine had not changed unmatched bit in the interim. In fact, one of the more remarkable aspects of Monk's music was that it was amply formed by 1947 and he saw no motive to change his playing or compositional style in the slightest during the future 25 eld.


Thelonious Monk grew up in New York, started playing piano when he was around basketball team, and had his first job touring as an accompanist to an evangelist. He was elysian by the Harlem pace pianists (James P. Johnson was a neighbour) and vestiges of that idiomatic expression can be heard in his by and by unaccompanied solos. However, when he was playing in the sign stripe of Minton's Playhouse during 1940-1943, Monk was trenchant for his possess individual stylus. Private recordings from the period find oneself him sometimes resembling Teddy Wilson only starting to use more advanced rhythms and harmonies. He worked with Lucky Millinder a bit in 1942 and was with the Cootie Williams Orchestra briefly in 1944 (Bernard Arthur Owen Williams recorded Monk's "Epistrophy" in 1942 and in 1944 was the first-class honours degree to criminal record "'Round Midnight"), only it was when he became Coleman Hawkins' veritable pianist that Monk was ab initio noticed. He cut a few titles with Hawkins (his transcription debut) and, although some of Hawkins' fans complained around the type pianist, the vet tenor could sense the pianist's greatness.


The 1945-1954 period was very difficult for Thelonious Monk. Because he left a fortune of space in his rhythmical solos and had an strange technique, many people idea that he was an subscript pianist. His compositions were so advanced that the lazier bebop players (although not Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker) false that he was crazy. And Thelonious Monk's diagnose, show (he liked fishy hats), and personality (an once in a while uncommunicative invaginate) helped to brand him as some kind of testis. Fortunately, Alfred Lion of Blue Note believed in him and recorded Monk extensively during 1947-1948 and 1951-1952. He also recorded for Prestige during 1952-1954, had a solo set for Vogue in 1954 during a visit to Paris, and appeared on a Verve date with Bird and Diz. But work was identical sporadic during this geological era and Monk had to struggle to have ends gather.


His fortunes slow began to improve. In 1955, he signed with Riverside and producer Orrin Keepnews persuaded him to record an album of Duke Ellington tunes and one of standards so his music would appear to be more than accessible to the medium malarky fan. In 1956 came the greco-Roman Brilliant Corners album, just it was the following year when the site for good changed. Monk was set-aside into the Five Spot for a long booking and he used a quartette that featured strain saxophonist John Coltrane. Finally, the critics and then the jazz public recognised Thelonious Monk's greatness during this important gig. The fact that he was unique was a disadvantage a few days before when all modern jazz pianists were expected to good like Bud Powell (world Health Organization was ironically a close friend), simply by 1957 the nothingness public was looking for a new access. Suddenly, Monk was a renown and his status would not change for the remainder of his life history. In 1958, his quadruplet featured the tenor of Johnny Griffin (world Health Organization was tied more compatible than Coltrane), in 1959 he appeared with an orchestra at Town Hall (with arrangements by Hall Overton), in 1962 he signed with Columbia and deuce years after was on the extend of Time. A endorsement orchestra concert in 1963 was regular better than the first and Monk toured forever throughout the sixties with his quartette which featured the dependable tenor of Charlie Rouse. He played with the Giants of Jazz during 1971-1972, just then in 1973 all of a sudden retired. Monk was suffering from mental malady and, other than a few special appearances during the mid-'70s, he lived the rest of his life-time in privacy. After his demise it seemed as if everyone was doing Thelonious Monk tributes. There were so many versions of "'Round Midnight" that it was much a pop arrive at! But despite the posthumous hail and attempts by pianists ranging from Marcus Roberts to Tommy Flanagan to recreate his style, at that place was no replenishment for the original.


Some of Thelonious Monk's songs became standards early on, almost notably "'Round Midnight," "Straight No Chaser," "52nd Street Theme," and "Profane Monk." Many of his other compositions have by now been figured out by other malarky musicians and are once in a while performed including "Ruby My Dear," "Well You Needn't," "Off Minor," "In Walked Bud," "Misterioso," "Epistrophy," "I Mean You," "Four-spot in One," "Criss Cross," "Ask Me Now," "Lilliputian Rootie Tootie," "Monk's Dream," "Bemsha Swing," "Think of One," "Friday the 13th," "Hackensack," "Nutty," "Brilliant Corners," "Evenfall With Nellie" (scripted for his strong and supportive married woman), "Evidence," and "Rhythm-a-Ning," Virtually all of Monk's recordings (for Blue Note, Prestige, Vogue, Riverside, Columbia, and Black Lion) have been reissued and among his sidemen through the years were Idrees Sulieman, Art Blakey, Milt Jackson, Lou Donaldson, Lucky Thompson, Max Roach, Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Wilbur Ware, Shadow Wilson, Johnny Griffin, Donald Byrd, Phil Woods, Thad Jones, and Charlie Rouse. His logos Thelonious Monk, Jr. (T.S. Monk) has helped keep the voiceless federal Bureau of Prisons tradition animated with his fivesome and has headed the Thelonious Monk Institute, whose annual competitions succeed in advertising talented young players.