Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice & other: June 2008

Monday 30 June 2008

Dirty Pretty Things, Kelly Rowland and 5 O'Clock Heroes join T4 On The Beach

More acts have been added to this year's T4 On The Beach.

The one-day festival, taking place at Weston-Super-Mare on July 20, had already announced acts including: Adele, Sam Sparro, The Pigeon Detectives, Lightspeed Champion, The Hoosiers, Scouting for Girls, Robyn and The Feeling.

They will now be joined by Kelly Rowland, Ne-Yo, Dirty Pretty Things and Five O'Clock Heroes, whose set will see supermodel Agyness Deyn joining them onstage too.

There are still more acts to be announced.

Tickets for the event are now sold out.

Wednesday 25 June 2008

JOURNEY's 'REVELATION' Sells More Than 104,000 Units in Debut Week

Three-Disc CD/DVD Package Exclusively Available at Wal-Mart Stores

BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JOURNEY's new
three-disc CD/DVD package REVELATION has sold more than 104,000 copies in
its debut week according to Wal-Mart Stores, marking the band's biggest
first week's sales since 1996's TRIAL BY FIRE. Released June 3, REVELATION
is being sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club in North America,
Walmart.com and Samsclub.com, and Journey's official website,
Journeymusic.com. REVELATION's first week's sales marks a 1400% increase
over the band's 2005 first week's sales of GENERATIONS.

"We are thrilled with the early success of Journey's 'Revelation' music
project, and clearly our customer is excited about it too," said Jeff Maas,
Divisional Merchandise Manager, Entertainment, Wal-Mart, U.S. "We believe
that if we continue to find innovative products, priced to showcase their
value, our customers will show their excitement by purchasing the product.
Journey has been great to work with and clearly this reflects a win for
them and for our customer."

The first disc consists of 11 new songs, the second is filled with 11
re-recorded classics, and the third is a live, in-concert DVD. All of the
music on REVELATION was produced by Kevin Shirley (who previously worked
with JOURNEY on their Platinum-certified TRIAL BY FIRE album).

REVELATION marks a new chapter in the legendary career of
multi-Platinum rockers JOURNEY, thanks to two singles at Rock and AC radio
("Never Walk Away" and "After All These Years") and rave reviews, including
the New York Times who hailed: "...the band seems to have taken rock
vitamins: it feels alive."

JOURNEY -- Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory
(bass), Deen Castronovo (drums) and Arnel Pineda (vocals) -- is currently
on a European tour through June 28. They'll start a massive summer U.S.
tour with special guests Heart and Cheap Trick on July 9 in Denver, CO.

For more information on Journey, visit http://www.journeymusic.com.

About Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT)

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates Wal-Mart discount stores, Supercenters,
Neighborhood Markets and Sam's Club locations in the United States. The
company operates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and
the United Kingdom. Wal-Mart serves more than 176 million customers weekly
in 14 markets. The company's securities are listed on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol WMT. For more information:
http://www.walmartfacts.com.

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Wednesday 18 June 2008

Glenn Frey

Artist: Glenn Frey

   Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

Glenn Frey Live

Year: 2002
Tracks: 14

Strange Weather

Year: 1992
Tracks: 15

Soul Searchin'

Year: 1988
Tracks: 10

Glenn Frey is best known as unmatched of the deuce most democratic and longest tenured members (along with Don Henley) of the Eagles, and as an intermittently successful solo artist in the decades since that dance band ceased beingness a full-time working mathematical group. Although associated closely with the Eagles' brand of Southern California-spawned laid-back country-rock, Frey's origins were a long fashion away from either the place or the music that his knead came to epitomize. He was natural in Detroit in 1948, and grew up in Royal Oak, MI. Music was just one of many interests that drove him during childhood -- a precocious young person, he was an zealous reader and, despite his relatively small stature, a serious jock in simple and junior high school. He too took pianoforte lessons from age basketball team -- at the pressure of his parents -- until hardly earlier his stripling years. His interests in high school included such advanced and gonzo subjects for the time as the ketubim of Jack Kerouac and the films and effigy of role player James Dean, world Health Organization died when Frey was septenary long time old; they reflected a rebellious and strong-growing nature that as well manifested itself in an attracter to rock'n'roll & roll. The euphony had add up on during Frey's childhood -- he was vII when "Rock'n'roll Around the Clock" shot to number one on the charts, and eight when Elvis Presley became a national phenomenon. In contrast to his future bandmate Timothy B. Schmit, Frey was ne'er a would-be folkie, but jumped right into rock & roll, especially later on he saw -- at eld 16 -- how girls reacted to rock candy stars on stage.He took up the guitar in earnest after visual perception the Beatles perform in 1964, and passed through several amateur and semiprofessional Detroit-based bands in his late teens, including the Mushrooms, wHO became a major local attraction on the local television demo Erithacus rubecola Seymour's Swinging Time, and appeared on a regular basis at a teen club called The Hideout, as easily as cutting a single, "Such a Lovely Child," for Hideout Records (produced by a somewhat elder, more than advanced local rocker named Bob Seger). The Mushrooms rip before long later, and Frey united the folk-rock group the Four of Us; he later formed 2 more Detroit teen bands, the Subterraneans and the Heavy Metal Kids. Frey attended college somewhat reluctantly, preferring to dedicate most of his vigour to playing music, chasing girls, and smoking marijuana -- in the path of his early vocation, he did oversee to sit down in on a couple of sessions with Seger, and at age 19 played acoustic guitar and american ginseng backup on "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" from the latter's Capitol Records debut in 1968.Freyr eventually decided, even so, that Detroit wasn't the place for him to set in motion a serious life history in rock music and headed western United States to California. He was fortunate sufficiency to make middleman with John David Souther, a fellow Detroit graft wHO was already a hopeful practitioner of what would presently be known as country-rock. He was geological dating Frey's girlfriend's sister, and he before long showed Frey how to play and sing country euphony, which was increasingly qualification itself felt in the rock music approaching out of the Golden State. The deuce tested composing as a team, even landing a publication contract that helped keep them expiration during those lean late-'60s long time, ripping 90 dollars a calendar week between them -- the publication deal fell apart through their unfitness to write the kind of commercial material that was existence sought, just in the track of piece of writing together, they besides developed a tenacious sound that before long became very attractive, and something they could construct on. Thus was born Longbranch Pennywhistle, a country-rock grouping whose timing was a little premature on a commercial stage simply non to a fault before long to be signed to Amos Records, a small Los Angeles-based label. The group's self-titled record album, which included Doug Kershaw, as easily as Ry Cooder and the famous L.A. sessionmen James Burton on guitar, Larry Knechtel on pianoforte, and Joe Osborn on basso, ne'er got the publicity it would have interpreted to make it a success. Souther and Frey kept making the rounds of the folks clubs in the city and the encompassing area, ford paths with the likes of Jackson Browne -- and then an ex-member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with some capital songs to his acknowledgment as a composer -- and Linda Ronstadt. Eventually, Frey, Souther, and Browne concluded up sharing a house together, and the iI of them panax quinquefolius on Browne's demo of "Jamaica Say You Will." Browne was already being managed by David Geffen, wHO, at Browne's spurring, also became Frey's informal euphony business sector advisor. Meanwhile, he and Souther were forced to disband their have radical in holy Order to have taboo of the contract with Amos Records, which seemed like a dead end, and both exhausted a fair amount of time just about The Troubadour, the clubhouse that established the folk-rock mecca for the West Coast. Frey cherished to adjudicate and form a new group, but was persuaded instead to think leaving on the road mount Linda Ronstadt, world Health Organization was some to circuit in livelihood of the dismissal of her debut Asylum Records album, Silk Purse. Frey as well met Don Henley, world Health Organization was in a band called Shiloh -- which was as well signed to Amos Records and as well acquiring nowhere fast -- and persuaded him, in the course of their mutual commiserations, to link the band working slow Ronstadt. The ranks of the set, formed in the summer of 1971, finally came to include Frey and Henley, and Randy Meisner, who'd latterly played with Rick Nelson onstage and on the Rudy the Fifth album, and ex-Flying Burrito Brothers member Bernie Leadon. Within a short time, however, they'd made plans to separate themselves from Ronstadt and go turned on their have. After a cold sense of hearing -- with no advance demonstration tape -- in front of Geffen, they had a handler and, after getting Frey out of his contract with Amos Records, they went to Colorado for some time off. There they worked out world Health Organization they were and what their sound would be, picked up their number 1 producer, Glyn Johns, took on the list the Eagles, and were gestural to Geffen's newly formed Asylum Records.Although all foursome members of the Eagles composed songs and sang, Frey and Henley quick emerged as the iI with the to the highest degree commercial musical ears, Frey as coauthor (with Jackson Browne) and spark advance singer on their first unmarried, "Accept It Easy," which reached number 12 on the charts in the summer of 1972, and Henley as coauthor (with Leadon) of "Witchy Woman," which got to number nine-spot that fall. Although the chemical group had succeeded in attracting broadly speaking friendly press attention and sensibly good gross revenue, with one and only Top Ten unmarried and a debut album that peaked at number 22 in a seven-week run on the charts, Frey and Henley between them distinct that this was non enough, and that their adjacent album would throw to be something more than only a body of good tunes and a couple of AM-friendly cuts -- between them, they turned what became Desperate criminal into a very ambitious (for the time) thematic-based concept album, which was something comparatively unusual in country-rock. Frey and Henley as well co-wrote the title racecourse, which was perhaps the finest album track in the group's history (although it's arguable that every track on Desperate criminal that didn't build it onto a 45 fits into that category). Although the construct caught Leadon and Meisner by surprise, especially as songwriters, they rapidly came aboard and Desperado concluded up being one of the finest records of all time to come out of the '70s country-rock picture.And it was a measure of the oneness that the band static felt at this time that, when Desperado stalled on the charts just outside of the Top 40 and neither of its iI singles did wagerer than number 59 -- mostly outstanding to disorganization of Asylum Records at the time, which was beingness sold and integrated with Elektra Records -- all of the members took this as a professional affront. Frey's singing too improved markedly betwixt the first deuce albums, and he was now efficaciously, with Henley, the one of deuce coequal focal points in the band. By the time of their third base album, a fifth Eagle had joined in the guise of Don Felder, whose guitar heavy hardened up the band's boilersuit sound, and especially their harder tilt & roll side. By the time he coupled, for the On the Border album, which marked a commercial comeback, peaking at number 17, the band had split into two divisions, with Frey and Henley more or less the stable core, piece Leadon -- world Health Organization wasn't exclusively felicitous all over Felder's guitar organism added to their sound, when he cherished to play more straight-ahead electric guitar -- and Meisner seemed to be division of a less cohesive unit just now outside of that core. By the time they toured in support of their quartern album, One of These Nights, Leadon was on his way out, to be replaced by Joe Walsh, and Meisner followed out the door on the Hotel California term of enlistment. By that time, Frey and Henley (in coordination with their coach, Irving Azoff, a protÃ©gÃ© of Geffen's who'd interpreted the latter's place when he became too pumped-up up in running his track record label), as co-authors of the string of murder singles that included "One of These Nights," "Lyin' Eyes," "Take It to the Limit," "Hotel California," "New Kid in Town," "Life in the Fast Lane," "The Long Run," "I Can't Tell You Why," and "Heartbreak Tonight," and one or the other of them on lead-in vocals for all just two of those songs, were more than or less running things. Walsh, Felder, and new member Timothy B. Schmit stayed along for the ride that continued through 1982, when Frey and Henley, in connective with the others -- all of whom were now put up financially better than they e'er could cause dreamed, following a string of arena and stadium-scale tours, murder singles, and trio more than multi-million-selling albums -- put the chemical group on hiatus. What's more, the Eagles' catalog continued to sell for decades after, on LP and CD, in multiple editions of the latter.Frey began a solo calling in 1982 with No Fun Aloud, notching a partner off of Top 40 hits with "I Found Somebody" and "The One You Love." He too embarked on an unexpected playacting career in the awaken of 1984's The Allnighter, which spawned the pip "Smuggler's Blues," a song that subsequently elysian an episode of the strike TV series Miami Vice on which Frey guest asterisked; his playacting work later continued in an extended guest function on the acclaimed Wiseguy as well as a leading turn in 1993's South of Sunset, which as a issue of its premier episode's 6.1 Nielsen rating -- believed to be the last fall debut in major web history -- was canceled afterwards just one instalment.Frey's solo musical career reached its acme in 1985 with the Top Ten smash "The Heat Is On," a single from the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy funniness Beverly Hills Cop. Frey's donation to the Miami Vice soundtrack, "You Belong to the City," was besides a megahit, narrowly wanting the spinning top of the charts. However, his next solo LP, Soulfulness Searchin', did non follow until 1988, notching only ane Top 40 entry, "Straight Love"; Unusual Weather, issued four years by and by, missed the charts all told. After issue John Glenn Frey Live in 1993, he coupled the reunited Eagles on their phenomenally successful Hell Freezes Over circuit, with a live album of the same name reaching number one a year later. Since and then, his releases get consisted of compilations of sooner solo work. In the late '90s, Frey co-founded his own label, Mission Records, with attorney Peter Lopez.

Sunday 8 June 2008

Mike and Rich

Artist: Mike and Rich

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Electronic

Discography:

Expert Knob Twiddlers

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Monday 2 June 2008

Asturias

Artist: Asturias

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Circle In The Forest

Year: 1995
Tracks: 5

Brilliant Streams

Year: 1990
Tracks: 4

Heroes Del Silencio

Artist: Heroes Del Silencio

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Pop
   Latin
   Other

Discography:

El Ruido Y La Furia

Year: 2005
Tracks: 11

Rarezas

Year: 1998
Tracks: 14

Parasiempre

Year: 1996
Tracks: 19

Basico 96

Year: 1996
Tracks: 12

Avalancha

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

El Espiritu Del Vino

Year: 1993
Tracks: 17

Sendo

Year:
Tracks: 8

Senderos De Traicion

Year:
Tracks: 11

Primeros tiempos

Year:
Tracks: 18

Karaoke

Year:
Tracks: 20

Heroes Del Silencio

Year:
Tracks: 2

En directo

Year:
Tracks: 5

El Mar No Cesa

Year:
Tracks: 13

The "Rock en Espanol" dance band Heroes del Silencio was formed in Zaragoza, Spain during the mid-'80s. Comprised of singer/guitarist Enrique Bunbury, lead guitarist Juan Valdivia, second guitarist Alan Boguslavsky, bassist Joaquin Cardiel and drummer Pedro Andreu, Heroes del Silencio quickly gained a ardent local following; among their fans was Ole Ole member Gustava Montesano, wHO helped the group succeed a contract with EMI. In late 1987 they issued their debut EP, Heroes de Legenda; it was well standard by both critics and audiences, and their 1989 uncut exploit El Mar No Cesa went platinum inside weeks of its button. 1990's Senderos de Traicion immediately topped the Spanish charts, and in 1991 Heroes del Silencio appeared at the "Rock Against Racism" festival in Berlin, resulting in tremendous popularity throughout Germany as well. 1993's El Espiritu del Vino was some other smash, and in 1995 the group travelled to Los Angeles to record Avalancha with noted producer Bob Ezrin. The double hot LP Para Siempre followed in 1996, and in 1998 Heroes del Silencio returned with Rarezas, a aggregation of rare and unreleased tracks.

Gwen Stefani and Eve

Artist: Gwen Stefani and Eve

   Genre(s):
Retro

Discography:

Rich Girl

Year:
Tracks: 4

Arcturus

Jamie Theakston becomes a father

Television presenter and radio DJ Jamie Theakston has become a father for the first time.
It was announced at the weekend that the star's wife Sophie had given birth to a baby boy.
The child, who will be named Sidney, reportedly weighed 8lb 6oz.
The couple married in September of last year.

Alex Chilton

Artist: Alex Chilton

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Alex Chilton's Lost Decade (CD1)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 8

In a business enterprise that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton has managed to live for three decades with a treble career as intimately -- his early recordings with the Box Tops, the trey albums he did with Big Star in the mid-'70s and the surge of cool, but chaotic, solo albums he's recorded since then. To some, he's a classic hit-maker from the '60s. To others, he's a genius British-style pop musician and songster. To so far some other audience, he's a unredeemed and desperate artist world Health Organization spent several years battling the bottle, delivering anarchistic records and performances spell thumbing his nose at all pretenses of stardom, a way-out iconoclast whose influence has spawned the likes of the Replacements and Teenage Fanclub.

For a guy wHO grew up in and around Memphis, in that respect isn't anything remotely Southern about Alex Chilton. Although amply aware of his environment and in tune spiritually with its most lunatic fringe aspects, Alex Chilton's South has more to do with cultured Southern intellectualisms than rednecks.

Chilton started playing music in local Memphis senior high combos, alternating between basso and rhythm guitar with a err vocal thrown in, at last working himself up to professional status with a mathematical group called the DeVilles. After acquiring a coach with recording connections trussed to Memphis hitmakers Chips Moman and Dan Penn, Alex and the radical -- new renamed the Box Tops -- recorded "The Letter," a record book that sounded White enough to go number one on the pop charts and yet Black enough to data track on R&B stations, also. Chilton was still in his teens, simply armed with a strong innovation of how crop up and R&B vocals should be handled. With the hand of vocal coach Dan Penn firmly in piazza, the hits unbroken advent, with "Cry like a Baby," "Psyche Deep" and "Sweet-smelling Cream Ladies" all showing visible graph action. The Box Tops were stars by AM wireless singles standards, simply tours in general opened Chilton's eyes to the world and what it had to volunteer. And what that globe seemed to offer to Alex was a portion more artistic exemption than he had as token drawing card of the Box Tops.

After a few errant solo roger Sessions, Chilton found himself in Big Star with singer/guitarist Chris Bell. Their blending of ethereal harmonies, kinky lyrics and Beatlesque song dynasty structure appeared to be radio-friendly, simply distribution for their label, Ardent Records, spelled disaster. With Bell gone and the label literally dangling on by a wander, Chilton went into the studio with producer Jim Dickinson and attempted to set together the third base Big Star album. These roger Huntington Sessions, now known as Sister Lovers, ar legendary in some living quarters. So much has been read into this recording, primarily the myth that Chilton became a pop creative person world Health Organization, in the face of critical succeeder but commercial apathy, suddenly rebelled against the system and became a "fated creative person on a collision course to Hell." Chilton himself dismisses all such romantic notions: "I mean that to say that it's a fairly druggy form of album that is the work of a disconnected person trying to find himself or find his creative direction is a honest statement about the thing."

Around 1976, Chilton started producing a wild cross section of solo outings for several strange and American independent labels, all featuring his love for isolated material, barbwire guitar playing, howling feedback and bands world Health Organization sounded barely familiar with the substantial. Plugging into the bohemian punk rock scenery of New York City, Chilton's lawless advance and attitude match the scene like a baseball mitt. In plus to his gigging and playing agenda, Alex besides produced the debut session by the Cramps, serving to realm their deal with I.R.S. Records. Chilton was getting legendary enough to end up having a song by the Replacements named after him. Through the late '80s into the early '90s, Alex split his time between recording, gigging overseas plugging his a la mode release and playing oldies shows in the U.S., reprising his older Box Tops hits. In the early '90s, Chilton -- resettled to New Orleans, his demons behind him -- began releasing a series of excellent solo albums on the new revived Ardent label and level participated in a couple of Big Star "reunions."

Pangea Day joins audiences around the world

There was a message in the drumbeats. The final moments of the first international Pangea Day event on Saturday were big on symbolism, as seven drummers of varied cultures were linked via satellite from Stage 15 at Sony Studios to an international drum circle scattered across the planet.

There were drummers from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America and elsewhere, all beating as one during a worldwide broadcast designed to encourage peace and understanding. Pangea Day was a four-hour program of short films, live music and brief messages of hope, humor and sadness, named for the prehistoric super-continent.

"By sharing stories, we have begun the process of turning strangers into friends," filmmaker Jehane Noujaim told the U.S. studio audience in Culver City on the same soundstage where Dorothy and Toto once danced down the Yellow Brick Road. Noujaim had conceived of the idea of a multinational film festival broadcast, and it was supported through a prize from the annual TED Conference, a gathering of creative thinkers in science and culture.

The emphasis was on storytelling. The first film, "The Ball" from Mozambique, was a lighthearted short piece about African children building a soccer ball out of an inflated condom and yarn, while making a subtle message about sexually transmitted disease. It was followed by a film from Los Angeles, "A Thousand Words" by Ted Chung, which suggested the power of snapshots discovered on a found digital camera. Other films offered vivid scenes of sadness and contemplation, of joy and tragedy: a lonely French woman on the Metro, children at a Chad refugee camp. In "Walleyball" by Brent Hoff, Mexicans and Americans played an international game of volleyball by using the border fence as a net.

Worldwide

Sitting in the Culver City audience was film producer Lawrence Bender, whose "An Inconvenient Truth" had its own global reach.

"It sounds a little airy-fairy, but the world is such a tough place right now," said Bender, a TED Conference regular and a Pangea Day advisor. "We kind of need something like this event."

The program was broadcast in seven languages. The live audience at Sony was about 1,200, joining crowds of 2,000 each in London, Rio de Janeiro, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Mumbai, India, and Kigali, Rwanda, with smaller gatherings in other cities. At Sony, there were big video screens and a news ticker that listed a roll call of the cities and small towns participating (Each of the films and a one-hour highlight show was put up on the web at pangeaday.org right after the broadcast.)

Actress and Pangea presenter Cameron Diaz, in her dressing room after presenting an animated, environmentally themed short, said she hoped the event's message would spread.

"Hopefully, all the people watching from different locations will see how they're connected," she said. "We're not separate. There's nothing that happens on this planet that doesn't affect all of us. Our choices every day will affect somebody on the other side of the world."

A communal feeling was the goal. In Los Angeles, hosts asked audience members to shake the hand of the person next to them. Among the presenters was Queen Noor of Jordan, who said, "We must learn from each other's stories."

Among the most surprising and uplifting films was about the "laughter clubs" of India, headed by Dr. Madan Kataria, who hopes to establish 1 million of these clubs across the world. On Saturday, he and actress Goldie Hawn led the audience in several moments of roaring laughter across the planet. "When you laugh, you change," Kataria told the crowd. "And when you change, the whole world changes around you."

The central focus of the broadcast was the power of film to communicate beyond borders and misunderstanding, but live music also played a meaningful role.

In Brazil, musician and activist Gilberto Gil stood alone with a guitar, as many on Stage 15 and elsewhere clapped and sang along. Rokia Traore of Mali performed her gentle, lilting vocals from London, accompanied by cascading harp melodies.

In harmony

At Sony, there was the modern riff-rock of Hypernova, a Los Angeles-based act of Iranian rockers. And later, Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart led a large band through a pair of songs. He was joined by hip-hop singer Nadirah X, whose urgent words of dissatisfaction were set against Stewart's guitar and a string section.

When it was finally over, Noujaim looked ecstatic and a little drained as she hugged friends and collaborators. TED curator and key Pangea organizer Chris Anderson admitted to tears as he watched the worldwide drum circle. World peace was still out of reach, but they expected to be back with another Pangea Day in two more years.

Vidna Obmana and Alio Die

Artist: Vidna Obmana and Alio Die

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:

Echo Passage

Year: 2000
Tracks: 1

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants