Artist: Mondo Ray
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Black Mirror Boy
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Friday, 27 June 2008
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Budget Slashed At Bangkok Film Festival
The Bangkok Film Festival, which for a time seemed destined to become the
Cannes festival of Asia, will apparently become a shadow of its former self.
The Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand and the Thai
Directors' Association announced that they plan to keep the festival alive this
year with an event to take place during the week of Sept. 23-30 that has a
budget of just $750,000. The last Bangkok Film Festival held before the 2006
coup d'etat had a budget of $5 million, while last year's, a drastically scaled
back version presented by Thailand's Tourism Authority, was budgeted at $2
million. �
16/06/2008
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Friday, 13 June 2008
Girls Aloud - Cole Confirmed As Osbourne Replacement On X Factor
GIRLS ALOUD star CHERYL COLE has been signed as the new judge of hit U.K. TV talent show THE X FACTOR - taking over from disgruntled star SHARON OSBOURNE.
The pop beauty, who scored a chart hit with Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am on his track Heartbreaker last month (May08), will join the judging panel of the programme when it airs on Britain's ITV1 channel later in the year (Sept08).
Cole will join music mogul Simon Cowell, pop manager Louis Walsh and singer Dannii Minogue on the hit show.
Rock matriarch Osbourne quit earlier last week (06Jun08) amid speculation of a longterm rift with Minogue - sister of pop superstar Kylie Minogue - and reports TV bosses had refused her demands for a pay rise.
Osbourne went on to admit she had indeed asked for a "ridiculous" amount of money before resigning from the show after four years as a judge.
And the 55-year-old has given her blessing to her replacement, telling British radio station Radio One, "I've heard they're asking Cheryl from Girls Aloud, who I love. I'd like to see Cheryl."
Cole is ecstatic about her new role: "It's a massive honour to be following in the footsteps of Sharon Osbourne."
However, the pop star has denied the move will mean her days with Girls Aloud are numbered, adding, "The rest of the girls have said they're right behind me. So whilst we get started on the next album, it will be brilliant to be a judge on The X Factor."
Cole beat former Spice Girl Mel B and Welsh classical singer-turned-chatshow host Charlotte Church to land the job.
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
Gov't Mule and Leslie West
Artist: Gov't Mule and Leslie West
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Album
Year:
Tracks: 12
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Saturday, 7 June 2008
Tal Bachman
Artist: Tal Bachman
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Staring Down The Sun
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
As the boy of Guess Who/BTO guitar player Randy Bachman, Canadian-born pop out singer/songwriter Tal Bachman was elevated in a musical surroundings, fascinating the comprehensiveness of his father's enormous record collection and commandment himself to play guitar. As a teen he increasingly lost interest in music, however, and rather went on to cogitation political philosophy at a little university in Utah; at that place Bachman grew to accept his destiny as a performer, however, and before long renounce school, returning to his native Vancouver in 1995 to begin writing songs. His self-titled debut followed on Columbia in 1999, and he scored a smash hit with "She's So High."
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Sound Tribe Sector 9
Artist: Sound Tribe Sector 9
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Artifact
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Founded in Georgia in the late '90s, Sound Tribe Sector 9 chop-chop tasteful a style of dub-influenced, breakbeat-infused psychedelic medicine with a profound emphasis on chemical group extemporisation, like to the work of jam dance band peers such as the Disco Biscuits, Lake Trout, and the New Deal.
Sound Tribe Sector 9's debut effort, Interplanetary Escape Vehicle (1998), was recorded shortly after the group's formation and provides only skimp hints of what the sound the band would develop, rather focussing on more or less generic instrumental funk and jazz grooves. With the add-on of percussionist Jeffree Lerner in 1999, the band's sound solidified into a powerfully original, highly danceable tapestry. Through changeless touring, the chemical group began to work up a large following among crush band fans. Two more releases -- Live (1999) and Offered Schematics Suggesting Peace (2000) -- captured both the band's developing sound and their increasing pursuit in Mayan mysticism and refinement. The former accurately attested the surefooted tone of the band's unappeasable live performances, spell the latter secondhand parallel tape loops, a blend of unrecorded and studio tracks, and wide enjoyment of invitee flutist Kofi Burbridge to create a more than subtle mix. With a regard for spirituality, equivalence, and a liberation of musical egos, the band eschews solos in favor of small, insistent parts that add together into a musical image that is at once monotone and texturally deep. The band resettled to Northern California in previous 2000.
Train
Artist: Train
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
For Me, It's You
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
My Private Nation
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Drops of Jupiter
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Train
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
What started as iI guys with strong voices and unmatched guitar became San Francisco's Train by 1994. It was in late 1993 that Patrick Monahan left Erie, PA, and met up with the Los Angeles stria the Apostles. Lead singer/guitarist Rob Hotchkiss and mate guitarist Jim Stafford had essentially disbanded by this clock time, but the prospect encounter with Patrick Monahan proved uncaused, as Hotchkiss lengthened an invitation to the crooning Monahan to become a two-man ring. After making thoroughgoing appearances in subdued coffeehouses, they distinct to var. a entire band and enlisted erstwhile Apostles members Stafford and bassist Charlie Colin. Colin brought along his beneficial friend, drummer Scott Underwood, and Train were on their direction.
Coach settled in San Francisco to develop their heavy in a relaxed, laid-back air. In an unconvincing scenario, executives from Columbia Records verbalized an interest and, in a passably conjunctive strategy, farmed the fledgling band out to the bush league -- in this example, Aware Records -- where they could grow course and unhurriedly. In 1997, they went on term of enlistment, porta for the likes of Blues Traveler, Barenaked Ladies, and Counting Crows. Train knew they had arrived when they sold out a performance at San Francisco's prestigious Fillmore locus. Their completed debut album was released the following yr. Drops of Jupiter followed triad years later, becoming a atomic number 78 hit on the back of its single of the same describe. My Private Nation followed in 2003. Though reception was initially weak, the single "Get to Me" finally caught fire, and Train had their up-to-the-minute Billboard graph stumble. A holdover live album appeared in 2004 spell the band returned to the studio to track record My Private Nation's reexamination. The single "Taxi" proclaimed the band's render in late 2005, and the Top Ten uncut For Me It's You followed early the next twelvemonth.
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