Mord

   
Artist: Mord

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Morde

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6

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Mord is Norwegian for "mutilate," and the call chosen by Nordra for the macabre, misanthropical black metallic element band he founded in 1999. After recording a couple of demos in 2001 and 2003 as a one-man-band, Nordra welcomed Polish drummer Necrolucas in front demo number trey, "Unholy Inquisition," which gained many supporters among fans of Carpathian Forest, Darkthrone, and Impaled Nazarene (thanks in no small part to an excellent cover of Darkthrone's "Hostelry I De Dype Skogers Favn"). It too john Drew the attention of America's Southern Lord mark, through whom Mord unleashed their full-length debut, coroneted Christendom Perished, in March 2006.

U2 Won't Be Doing A Radiohead For New Album

U2 manager Paul McGuinness says the "honesty box" method Radiohead used for the initial release of their album In Rainbows, wasn't entirely successful.

Talking to BBC 6 Music, McGuinness says his band would embrace "whatever technology is available", but added letting fans to pay what they thought the music was worth, is not the way forward.

"Even though it was available on their own website for no money at all, if that was what you preferred to pay - 60 to 70 per cent of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway even though it was available for free," says McGuinness.

"There will be events around the release of the album but for U2 physical sales are still an enormous part of our business and we still sell a lot of actual CDs. We will obviously work with whatever technology is available to make the release of the new record as interesting as possible."

U2 are still working on their next studio album, which is currently aimed at an October release. The band will also be re-releasing three of their older albums with bonus material next month - more details can be found at this article.

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Balls

   
Artist: Balls

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Skinny Dipping

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Drunkfish

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10

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Although in that respect was a good handle of talent involved in Balls, non practically of it translated into recorded production, as they issued just one quite dull tough rock single, "Fight for My Country"/"Janie Slow Down" (1971). At several times the mathematical group featured Denny Laine, Trevor Burton, Steve Gibbons, Alan White, and Jackie Lomax: all names that make at least some recognition among fans of sixties and seventies British stone. They were proof, however, on a very minor league stratum, that supergroup assemblages of talent don't always, or much, lead to superduper results.


Balls began in February 1969, when Trevor Burton left wing the Move (where he had played bass) to bring together fella Birmingham band the Uglys, taking over on guitar sort of than bass voice. Changing their name to Balls, they went to a cottage in Fordingbridge to get it together in the land, in the fashion popularized by Traffic. Original Moody Blues pb vocalist Denny Laine came in on guitar and vocals during the summer (though Steve Gibbons was seemingly the to the highest degree prominent singer). However, they regrouped as a quartette in the summer of 1970, retaining Laine and Burton and adding Lomax and future Yes drummer Alan White. Lomax left wing after a calendar week, and Gibbon rejoined. Nothing must sustain been seriously jelling, because they stony-broke up in February 1971, although ex-Spooky Tooth drummer Mike Kellie came in exactly before the split.


That's the episode reported in Pete Frame's Family Trees book, anyway. It's too been written that White in reality left at the end of 1969, with Kellie coming in substantially to begin with, and that Lomax was never actually in the band. Additionally, Laine and Burton were besides in Airforce for parts of 1970, and played as an acoustic duo during some of that year.


It's all quite an a concern to sort out considering that precisely the one single was released. "Fight for My Country," by Burton, had a bit of the Move's combination of pastoral folks and stumpy hard rock, though it wasn't a majuscule tune. Laine and White wrote "Janie Slow Down," a footer hard stone figure with a snatch of a boogie-woogie find. Melody Maker reported in 1970 that Balls had through with 12 tracks for an album, which didn't appear (and they were non gestural to a label at the clock time in any event); it's also been speculated that Ric Grech appeared on some of those cuts. Both sides of the Balls individual are on the Move corn liquor Family Tree.





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Beckham gets new six-inch tattoo of Posh

David Beckham has pledged his love to wife Victoria by spending over €3,300 on a new tattoo.
The footballer's new design shows the Spice Girl posing as a naked angel - a copy of his favourite photo of his wife from a Brigitte Bardot-inspired shoot for Pop magazine almost four years ago.
The tattoo, inked onto his left arm, is Beckham's 11th. He already boasts designs bearing his wife and three sons' names.
A source close to the couple told the Mirror newspaper: "They are both thrilled with the result. It's been beautifully done. Victoria was flattered."
Beckham showed off his new tattoo during his visit to Brazil.  The footballer is in the country to launch his third soccer academy.

Tommy Boy Entertainment Signs OurStage Breakout Artist PLUSHGUN

A&R Execs Using OurStage to Crowd-Source Talent Scouting

BOSTON and NEW YORK, June 4 -- OurStage
(http://www.OurStage.com), a pioneering website enabling music fans to help
discover and evaluate emerging musical talent, has spawned it's first
"Artist to Watch" label signing: Plushgun, an OurStage favorite who, based
in part on their site ranking, has just been signed to Tommy Boy
Entertainment.

"At OurStage, our mission is to help talented artists achieve critical
exposure by solving the greatest challenge on the Internet today: sorting
quality content from the sea of mediocrity online," Ben Campbell, CEO of
OurStage, said. "OurStage does this by providing a game-free platform
allowing fans to experience music and drive the best to the top."

The site, which is free for artists and fans, awards top-performing
artists with significant career-building exposure and support via
partnerships with a broad assortment of music industry leaders, including
AOL Music, Bonnaroo, Virgin Festival, Bumbershoot, CMJ, PLUG Awards, Paste
Magazine, Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, Noise Pop, Gen Art, Relix, and
many others. Now OurStage is helping artists achieve that coveted golden
ring: a record deal.

The first is Plushgun, a band that has consistently ranked in the Top
10 on OurStage for most of the past year. Unapologetically poppy, the band,
which has been compared to the Postal Service (among others), ranked in the
OurStage Top 10 for five months in 2007 before hitting #1 on OurStage's
Alternative Rock channel in January 2008. With the release of their
self-titled EP in October 2007, the band garnered particular attention for
their song "Just Impolite" -- a dance-y, accessible track about dying
romances -- which was featured on artist-friendly outlets like MySpace. The
band also recently garnered an AOL video feature about their trip to SXSW,
courtesy of OurStage.

"With so much bogus manipulation going on regarding social networking
sites today, we look for signs of sincere growth in many areas," explains
Mike Worthington of Tommy Boy Entertainment, who first discovered Plushgun
and then reached out to the band through social networking sites, inviting
himself to their shows. "I was following the band online, and their chart
ranking over an extended period on OurStage convinced us that the support
and demand for this band was real and tangible."

Because of their high-ranking on the site, OurStage provided Plushgun
with an array of promotional and "artist development" support, including
features in URB and Relix, a spot on Relix CD sampler, mentor sessions with
manager Scott Booker and publicist Ken Weinstein as part of OurStage's
"Artist Access" program and showcase spots at CMJ (2007) and SXSW (2008).

"When OurStage sent Plushgun to SXSW, they gave me the opportunity to
see the band live, which sealed the deal on our end," adds Rosie Lopez,
Vice President of Tommy Boy Entertainment, alluding to the promotional
support OurStage offers bands beyond their web offering. Now that Tommy Boy
has signed Plushgun, OurStage and Tommy Boy will continue to work together
to promote the band. "In order to build a real success story you have to be
willing to invest in the development of an artist's career and we're
thrilled that there's finally someone out there that shares our passion and
commitment and can step up as a partner when the talent is there," adds
Lopez.

"Tommy Boy is a legendary record label that has always taken chances
when it comes to new artists, ranging from Afrika Bambaata and De La Soul
to RuPaul and Fannypack," said Campbell. "With the internet permanently
changing the way music is discovered and distributed, we are excited not
only to support talented emerging artists, but to work with creative
partners like Tommy Boy that can help us deliver this music to the fans."

A&R execs at Tommy Boy Entertainment aren't the only one using the
OurStage platform to "crowd-source" part of their talent scouting process.
This year OurStage is partnered with several of the nation's top music
festivals, including Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, JVC Jazz Festival
Newport, Bumbershoot and Noise Pop, who are using OurStage to help fill out
their line-ups by tapping into the site's fan-driven music filters to
identify the best emerging talent within the styles of music these
festivals represent. And AOL Music, the web's top ranked music site in both
total page views and unique visitors, has chosen OurStage to be its
exclusive source for providing independently released music content,
including artist interviews, downloads, and audio and video streams for
distribution on AOL Music.



Get two free Plushgun downloads here:
http://www.OurStage.com/go/plushguntommyboy

For more information on OurStage, contact Girlie Action:
Felice Ecker 212-989-2222, x110 felice@girlie.com
Debbie Pressman 212-989-2222, x120 debbie@girlie.com
About OurStage, Inc.

OurStage is a pioneering web platform dedicated to new music and new
artist discovery. On OurStage, artists, fans, & industry professionals all
come together - to discover, judge, & enjoy the best new music and the best
new artists online - as ranked by the fans - in the company's proprietary,
game-proof judging engine. Visitors are able to discover top ranked,
already sorted, music without having to hunt through hundreds of songs to
find the quality. Top-ranked artists receive significant career-building
promotion and support from established artists, industry professionals, and
a broad assortment of partners, including AOL Music, Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot,
PLUG Awards, Newport Folk Festival, JVC Jazz Festival Newport, Paste
Magazine, CMJ, Noise Pop, and many others. Founded in 2007, OurStage
delivers music and related content to over 1.5 million fans in 140
countries each month - and has attracted over 45,000 artist-members and
hundreds of thousands of registered Fans in its short history.

About Tommy Boy Entertainment

Originally conceived and started by Tom Silverman in his cramped New
York City apartment in early 1981, Tommy Boy Entertainment is widely
recognized for its significant contribution to the development of hip hop
music, dance music, and electronica. Starting with Afrika Bambaataa's
"Planet Rock", and including De La Soul, Digital Underground, Naughty By
Nature, Prince Paul, Queen Latifah, House Of Pain, Everlast, Information
Society, RuPaul, Fannypack, Bob Sinclar and Danny Tenaglia, Tommy Boy has
always stayed one step ahead of its imitators. With a diverse history and a
proud tradition of innovations and of being "first", Tommy Boy remains
committed to finding and supporting groundbreaking new music and culture.




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Jessica Alba - Fascinating Fact 5299

JESSICA ALBA has launched a staring competition on a social networking website. The actress has posted a video clip of her staring into the camera on Ibeatyou.com and challenged other members to top her time of two minutes.

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BRUCE WILLIS' DIE HARD character JOHN MCCLANE has been voted top film cop of all time by online DVD rental service Lovefilm, beating CLINT EASTWOOD'S HARRY CALLAHAN in DIRTY HARRY and EDDIE MURPHY's AXEL FOLEY in the BEVERLY HILLS COP franchise.

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Supreme NTM

   
Artist: Supreme NTM

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   funk
   

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Discography:


   
 Supreme NTM (Best Of)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 22


   
 Paris Sous les Bombes

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 17


   
 Authentik

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 15

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The high-pressure, oftentimes polemical French rap music grouping Supreme NTM was formed in 1989 by Dee Nasty, Joeystarr, and Koolshen with their DJ, Détonateur S. They debuted one year later on with a caterpillar track on the compilation Rapattitude and their low single, "Le Monde de Demain." Authentik, the Supreme NTM debut full-length, appeared in 1991, and the grouping made their American live debut later on that year. The album was followed 2 age later by 1993... J'appuis Sur la Gâchette, which brought them to the attention of the French gendarmes (a la NWA and Ice-T/Body Count) with a song dynasty named "Police force." The group's third record album, 1995's Paris Sous Les Bombes, became their nearly successful, just as well earned them a fresh bout of arguing. The song dynasty "Plus Jamais Ça" was an anti-National Front (the fascist/anti-immigrant motion lED by Jean Marie Le Pen) broadside that got Supreme NTM six-month prison house sentences for playing it at a concert in a city in southern France with a just-elected National Front city manager (sunglasses of Public Enemy). Suprême NTM followed in 1998, eclipsing its precursor in gross sales and earning raves for its comprehension of a new generation of French rappers (like Lord Kossity).

Sarah Greene is voted off Dancing on Ice

Television presenter Sarah Greene has become the first celebrity to be voted out of 'Dancing on Ice'.
She was placed in the bottom two alongside Irish singer Samantha Mumba as a result of the public vote last night.
Following a skate-off, the judges decided to save Mumba.
Greene said: "It is a fantastic sport. I can't wait to meet my friends down at Slough ice rink and carry on skating without the pressure."

Famed Publicist Warren Cowan Dies At 87

Warren Cowan, whose Rogers and Cowan public relations company has represented many of Hollywood's leading luminaries and the music industry's best-selling recording artists over more than a half century, died Wednesday of cancer at age 87. His clients included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Sylvester Stallone, Ronald Reagan, The Doors, Elton John, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael Jackson.


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Juno star drops out of Rami horror movie

Actress Ellen Page has pulled out of Sam Raimi's new horror movie 'Drag Me To Hell'.
The 'Juno' star had agreed to play the lead role in the film, however scheduling conflicts have now forced her to withdraw.
Shooting was due to get underway on March 17 in a bid to wrap before the possible Screen Actors Guild strike on June 30, but was then delayed.
However, the new date clashed with Page's forthcoming roles in psychological thriller 'Peacock' and Drew Barrymore's directorial debut 'Whip It!'
A statement from producers Ghost House Pictures and financier Mandate Pictures, read: "We were racing to start production so that we could accommodate Ellen's schedule.
"But like so many other productions trying to start before the potential SAG strike date, this one needed more time and we had to push back the start of production."