Slutmachine

   
Artist: Slutmachine

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Weight 7Lbs 4 Ozs Lenght 21 In

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 4

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Radiohead, Victoria Park, London

The last time Radiohead set up shop in Victoria Park and prayed for good weather was back in 2000. Then, they were just weeks away from releasing Kid A, the album that saw them cast aside their position as Britain's greatest rock band in favour of willful and inconsistent experimentation.

Now, however, the band are stuck between their trail-blazing present and an inconvenient reminder of past glories. In Rainbows, released last October, is their most accessible record since the seminal OK Computer, but it's a Best Of package that's nestling in the upper echelons of the album charts.

In Rainbows represents the backbone of their set for this huge show. Kicking off with 15 Steps, they dive into the warmth and tenderness of Nude, which quickly bleeds into the aggressive antagonism of Bodysnatchers. It seems the emotion that the album rejoices in has had a marked effect on Thom Yorke. "I love you too, darling," he tells one vocal fan, before leading fans in a chant of "Free Tibet," and adopting a comedy cockney accent in his intro to "bitchin' number" Bangers and Mash.

But while Yorke's barriers may be down tonight, Radiohead have never felt so distant. The sound is perfect, and each layer of their intricately crafted songs shimmers. But the setlist doesn't fit the vastness of this gig. Videotape, which sees Yorke swapping from guitar to piano, How to Disappear Completely, and Climbing Up the Walls are songs to have a one-to-one relationship with, not to be shared with 20,000 strangers.

When Just, from breakthrough album The Bends, comes along, people react to it with the fevered desperation of a dog that's been locked in a kennel for a week, howling, jumping and dancing with glee. Kid A's The National Anthem enlivens the downbeat mood, its spooky synths and club beats working in tandem with a dazzling lightshow.

Yorke jolts and shakes violently, feeling his way through the truculent sound of The Gloaming, every inch the unquiet spirit his voice suggests. Colin Greenwood's nonchalant bass grinds next to his brother's vengeful guitar in the superb There There. But Jonny Greenwood is a still, bashful presence as he weaves delicate acoustic guitar through the translucent longing of All I Need, his chest turned away from the crowd and into Yorke's shoulder.

Pyramid Song and Planet Telex at last give the crowd a chance to sing. Yorke encourages them to join in, claiming that he always forgets the words, but following a sublime rendition of The Tourist, Radiohead disappear, as belligerent but beautiful as ever.


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Rep: Lindsay Lohan Not Sick

Lindsay Lohan has denied being admitted to a Los Angeles hospital on Thursday (May 29) after becoming ill on a flight from New York, with her rep stating she was visiting a friend.

TMZ reports that Lohan was felling discomfort in her chest during the flight and was taken to hospital where she spent over two hours in the emergency room.

However, Lohan's rep tells Usmagazine that even though the actress was spotted leaving Century City Hospital with her gal pal Samantha Ronson, there was no health issue.

"There is no drama," her rep explained.  "Lindsay and Samantha went to the hospital last night to visit a sick friend.  Lindsay is fine.  She is currently working and on set of her new film Labor Pains."

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Singer-songwriter Jewel Kilcher releases her first country album

"Perfectly Clear," singer-songwriter Jewel Kilcher's move into country music won't seem as surprising as that of, say, Bon Jovi. After all, she grew up in rural Alaska, she's an avid horsewoman with a long-running relationship with a rodeo star and early hits "Who Will Save Your Soul?" and "You Were Meant for Me" have more in common with recent country hits than with current pop music.

Jewel takes the reassignment seriously. She co-produced the album with John Rich of Big & Rich, wrote or co-wrote all but one of the 11 tracks, and will tour this summer with country star Brad Paisley.

Country fans have already welcomed her, too: Her first single, "Stronger Woman," shot into the top 15 of the country radio charts.

The strength of "Perfectly Clear," as with many contemporary country singers, comes from Jewel singing her own words. The best songs - "I Do," "Everything Reminds Me of You," "Til It Feels Like Cheating" - have a distinct and believable point of view, and the arrangements merge modern Nashville gloss with an acoustic base that works with Jewel's idiosyncratic, breathy voice. Also, her typical lyrical slant - taking a positive yet earthy look at everyday life - fits country music as snugly as two Lego blocks locking together.

Nothing on "Perfectly Clear" will separate Jewel from the pack as markedly as her first pop singles a dozen years ago. But her new album suggests her shift to country music could benefit both singer and genre.

Check this out: On "Anything But You," Jewel sings a barroom weeper over a crying steel guitar that updates classic country music more effectively than most current country singers could. It should erase any doubt whether she belongs in Nashville.

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"Perfectly Clear"

Jewel (Valory/Big Machine)

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Clay Walker

   
Artist: Clay Walker

   Genre(s): 
Country
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Fall

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 A Few Questions

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Live Laugh Love

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Rumor Has It

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 If I Could Make a Living

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 Hypnotize the Moon

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 Clay Walker

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11

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With his first 2 singles reach number unrivaled upon their release, Clay Walker directly effected himself as a commercial success. Unlike most of his new country coevals of the mid-'90s, he was able to support that success over a couple of age, wrenching up no less than 5 numeral one singles in the first three age of his calling.


Alice Walker (born August 19, 1969) was born and embossed on a farm in Beaumont, TX, the hometown of George Jones. He hide in love with country music at an early age, when his padre gave him a guitar when he was exclusively nine age older. After he calibrated from high school, Walker pursued a musical career full-time, playing concerts across the South, the Midwest, and Canada. For over 3 eld, he toured and went to school, taking courses about the music patronage. During this time, he acted as his have director. Eventually, he became the house isaac M. Singer at the Neon Armadillo measure in Beaumont. While playacting at the society, manufacturer James Stroud heard Walker and offered to work with the isaac M. Singer. Stroud helped Walker procure a contract with Giant Records, and the pair began working on the vocalist's debut album.


"What's It to You" became a numeral unitary bump off upon its release in August of 1993, with "Live Until I Die" following it into the pole side subsequently that same twelvemonth. Both singles were featured on his debut album, Henry Clay Walker, which was released in the fall of 1993. "Where Do I Fit in the Picture," the tierce single from the album, became a number 11 hit in former 1994. "Edward Douglas White Jr. Palace" was a fizzle, weakness to crack the Top 40, but "Dreaming with My Eyes Open" became his tierce number one tally in the summertime of 1994, portion build his debut record a pt album. If I Could Make a Living was not quite a as successful as his debut, yet it smooth yielded the number one title runway. Mesmerise the Moon, Walker's tierce record album, appeared in the fall of 1995, preceded by the number 2 undivided "WHO Needs You Baby." He followed with Self Portrait in 1996 and Hearsay Has It in 1997. A Superlative Hits collection appeared in 1998 and a new album, Hot, Laugh, Love, was released in 1999. Enjoin No More followed iI age subsequently, with A Few Questions arriving in 2003 and Fall in 2007.





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Simon Cowell slams Britney Spears

Simon Cowell slams Britney Spears

'X Factor' judge Paul Simon Cowell has hit out at pop isaac Merrit Singer Britney Spears, expression that she only has herself to find fault for her holocene troubles.
Cowell said of Spears: "I think she's manipulated the unit thing, like wave a gestation screen at the cameras."
"I've heard she won't leave the menage until there ar enough photographers on that point," he said.
"Even or so of the biggest celebrities in the world get by to have a quiet life. Face at Uncle Tom Tom Hanks, no one bothers him. So it is possible.
He too slated Spears' last record album 'Blackout', saying: "I hated Britney's finish album."
"That vocal 'Gimme More' sounded wish a ringtone - it reminded me of that terribly 'Crazy Frog' song dynasty. Verbalize trash. She could well have had her last No.1. And sure enough her last meaningful one."




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Luiz Bonfa

   
Artist: Luiz Bonfa

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Jazz Samba Encore!

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 11

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Although overshadowed by the towering figure of Antonio Carlos Jobim and to a lesser extent by Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfa was right there at the nascence of bossa nova as well. In fact, at least deuce of his songs, the haunting "Manha de Carnaval" and equally reminiscent "Arere de Orpheus," swept the populace at least three years earlier Jobim's songs began to make a worldwide impact, paving the way of life for the first Brazilian wave. In addition, Bonfa cultivated a delicate, precise classical guitar style, though more attuned to the traditional samba musical rhythm than the Gilberto/Jobim bossa nova swing. Born nigh the bay of Guanabara in Rio -- his father was an Italian immigrant -- Bonfa took up the guitar at eleven and studied classical guitar with the Uruguayan master copy Isaias Savio. He began to make for Rio's clubs as a isaac M. Singer with the Quitandinha Serenaders, and by 1946, he was appearing on Brazil's Radio Nacional. By 1957, Bonfa was beginning to split his time 'tween New York City and Rio, touring the U.S. with isaac M. Singer Mary Martin, as well as writing and transcription Brazilian flick lots. The turning point in his vocation came in 1959 when film director Marcel Camus asked Bonfa to contribute some songs to his celluloid edition of the wreak Orfeo do Carnaval (to be renamed Bleak Orpheus on the screen). The manager primitively spurned "Manha de Carnaval" as the film's main motif, just after coming up with what he felt was an inferior secondment attempt, Bonfa fought for his showtime tune and got his direction, and "Manha de Carnaval" became a worldwide pop/jazz/folk standard. In the late '50s and '60s, Bonfa began recording several albums for the American grocery store on EMI Odeon (Capitol), Dot, Atlantic, Cook, Philips, Epic and Verve, and he and his songs appeared prominently on the Jazz Samba Encore album with Jobim and Stan Getz. His songwriting skills were in demand in the nigh irregular places; for example, he wrote the mushy "Most in Love" for Elvis Presley (included in the forgettable 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little). Bonfa's profile in America virtually disappeared later on the sixties, although he continued to term of enlistment and pen, eventually press cutting over 50 albums. But he resurfaced in U.S. CD shops afterwards a 15-year crack in 1989 with Nonstop to Brazil for Chesky, followed by the ravishing The Bonfa Magic in 1991 (released domestically on Milestone) and 1993's Moods on GSP. Also, the original soundtrack for Black Orpheus is useable on a Verve CD, a firsthand shot of Bonfa and Jobim lighting the fuse for the cosmopolitan Brazilian music explosion. On January 12, 2001, Luiz Bonfa died of cancer in Rio de Janeiro.