Artist: The Galactic Brain
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Mutant Remixes (promo)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Thursday, 26 June 2008
The Galactic Brain
Artist: The Galactic Brain
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Mutant Remixes (promo)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Average iPod has 842 illegal tracks
The average young person's MP3 player carries more than 800 illegal tracks, a survey has found.
Research undertaken at the University of Hertfordshire showed that half of 14 to 24-year-olds share their digital music collection, allowing others to freely copy over tracks.
The average MP3 player contains 1,770 songs, with 842 of those being obtained illegally.
Fergal Sharkey, ex-Undertones lead singer and chief executive of British Music Rights, told The Times: "I was one of those people who went around the back of the bike shed with songs I had taped off the radio the night before. But this totally dwarfs that, and anything we expected."
Sharkey added that making paid-for, monthly subscription services more readily available would help reduce music piracy.
"The positive message is that 80% of downloaders said they would pay for a legal subscription-based service, and they told us they would be willing to pay more than a few pounds a month," he said.
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Research undertaken at the University of Hertfordshire showed that half of 14 to 24-year-olds share their digital music collection, allowing others to freely copy over tracks.
The average MP3 player contains 1,770 songs, with 842 of those being obtained illegally.
Fergal Sharkey, ex-Undertones lead singer and chief executive of British Music Rights, told The Times: "I was one of those people who went around the back of the bike shed with songs I had taped off the radio the night before. But this totally dwarfs that, and anything we expected."
Sharkey added that making paid-for, monthly subscription services more readily available would help reduce music piracy.
"The positive message is that 80% of downloaders said they would pay for a legal subscription-based service, and they told us they would be willing to pay more than a few pounds a month," he said.
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Are You a Saturday Night Fever Fan?
Send GMA your video tribute to the iconic '70s film, which came out 30 years ago
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Attrition
Artist: Attrition
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Gothic
Discography:
The Attrition of Reason
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Ephemera
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
3 Arms and A Dead Cert
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
At The Fifthieth Gate
Year: 1989
Tracks: 19
Martin Bowes founded the darkwave/industrial ambience of Attrition in his native England during the early '80s, well earlier the celestial mystery of fellow goth rock candy artists such as Lycia, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Covenant. They've released over ten albums independently, only formed a relationship with Projekt in 1989 when the label released the retrospective Recollection '84-'89 and introduced Attrition to the States for the first clock time. Five days afterward, Projekt fall through and Black Tape for a Blue Girl frontman Sam Rosenthal and Bowes reissued Attrition's plunk for catalogue as well. In 1997, the ring hooked up with opera isaac Bashevis Singer Frank Dematteis to write an record album of classical imaging entitled Etude. Tours of the U.S. followed, and in 1999, Attrition returned to its electro-industrial roots to release The Jeopardy Maze.
Goo Goo Dolls
Artist: Goo Goo Dolls
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Discography:
Dizzy Up The Girl
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
A Boy Named Goo
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Early in their life history, Buffalo natives the Goo Goo Dolls were often discharged by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, the isthmus refined and mainstreamed their legal sufficiency to become of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the '90s, selling millions of records to audiences mostly unfamiliar with their inspirations. That's no criticize on the isthmus, either -- their music just improved in craft and approachability as the eld progressed, and radio happened to be receptive to what a ten earlier would sustain been considered collegial top executive toss off. Thus, the band landed two huge hits with the acoustic ballads "Discover" and "Iris."
The Goo Goo Dolls were formed in Buffalo, NY, in 1985 by guitarist/vocalist Johnny Rzeznik, bassist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska, ab initio under the diagnose the Sex Maggots (the new diagnose was chosen from an ad in True Detective cartridge clip at the behest of a local lodge owner). Originally a cover isthmus with a taste for power pop and definitive rock & roll, the group presently began piece of writing its own songs. Their early sound recalled the Replacements' origins as a bratty tinder banding (circa Drab Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash) -- musical, snot-nosed, and a little bit thrashy. That sound was the reasonableness the banding attracted the interest of the heavy metallic element label Metal Blade, which issued their debut album in 1987 (known either as The Goo Goo Dolls or First Release). 1989's Jed continued in a similar vein; the college radio breakthrough came with 1990's Hold Me Up, a Replacements-ish power pop record.
1993's Maven Car Wash was the Goo Goo Dolls' artistic find; though it did aught to squelch the Replacements comparisons, it was a finely crafted pop/rock platter, and its lead single, "We Are the Normal," was co-written with Replacements leader Paul Westerberg himself. Still, Mavin Car Wash wasn't the commercial force the banding hoped it would be, especially in light of the success of similar bands like the Gin Blossoms. That all changed with 1995's A Boy Named Goo, when an L.A. rock station put the acoustic-driven lay "Nominate" into heavy rotation. It was finally released as a single countrywide, and went Top Five late in the year; pt gross revenue for the album followed close behind. Unfortunately, drummer Tutuska was no yearner around to enjoy the band's succeeder; prior to the album's outlet, he'd been pillaged and replaced by drummer Mike Malinin.
Disgruntled with the royal family rates in their Metal Blade contract, the banding waged a legal battle that wound up allowing them to jump-start to parent ship's company Warner Brothers. Somewhat drained, Rzeznik and the band shook off a vitrine of writer's block to add the ballad "Iris" to the soundtrack of the 1998 Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan latinian language Urban center of Angels. Appearing that April, the song was a monster smash, although it was never released as a single (so its official Top Ten pop chart status doesn't convey how popular it was); for a better indicator, "Iris" spent nearly a yr on Billboard's airplay charts, including an amazing 18 weeks at number one, and was nominative for three Grammys. The band's following album, Dizzy Up the Girl, was released in September, during the midsection of "Flag"'s marathon airplay run, and sold over trey million copies. Its clean, refined good completed the Goo Goo Dolls' transformation into mainstream pop/rockers world Health Organization happened to have alternate roots. Further hits from the record followed o'er the following year, including "Swoop," "Dizzy," and the Grammy-nominated "Bootleg Balloon," and the band toured heavily in support. The Goo Goo Dolls revamped their sound for 2001's life history retrospective, Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce. A year later, the trio strike the charts with "Here Is Gone" from their one-seventh studio album, Gutterflower. The CD/DVD combo Live in Buffalo: July 4, 2004 helped fans suffer the prospicient wait for the band's adjacent studio album, Permit Love In, which didn't appear until 2006.
Olsen Refuses To Discuss Ledger
Actress Mary-kate Olsen is determined to stay out of the controversy surrounding Heath Ledger's death - by refusing to comment on her involvement in the incident. The Weeds star became linked to the actor's death after it was reported the masseuse who discovered Ledger's dead body in his New York apartment in January had phoned Olsen in California a number of times before contacting emergency services. The New York Police Department eventually decided not to question the 21-year-old, and as a result, Olsen has never explained the nature of her relationship with the Australian actor. And in the July issue of Elle magazine, Olsen continues her reign of silence regarding the late star. When asked about Ledger, Olsen replied: "I'm not going to comment on that, I won't give you a word about that in the nicest way possible. Let's move on." Toxicology results released in February revealed Ledger, 28, was killed by an accidental overdose of prescribed medications.
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Flying Saucer Attack
Artist: Flying Saucer Attack
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Electronic
Discography:
Mirror
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
New Lands
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Rural Psychedelia
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Further
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Formed in Bristol, England in 1993, the elusive avant-noise jut Flying Saucer Attack mainly comprised the duet of singers/guitarists David Pearce and Rachel Brook, refugees from the chemical group Lynda's Strange Vacation world Health Organization formed FSA as an exit for their interest in home-recording experimentation. Drawing influence from Krautrock, folk, and dream pop, they arcuate with the undivided "Soaring High," followed by an eponymously-titled 1993 debut LP which interred the group's narcoleptic vocals and unstructured songs under heavy, organic sheets of feedback.
Later on 1994's Distance, a collection of atmospheric singles and unreleased material, FSA emerged in 1995 with Further, a signally remindful work which transported the group's hypnotic guitar wash into a unambiguously pastoral scope. Chorus, another singles digest, followed later in the year, and with it came a declaration of the conclusion of the group's initial form, context the stage for Flying Saucer Attack's continued evolution as one of the decade's most modern and ambitious groups. 1997's New Lands was the first yield of this new FSA, forthwith a Pearce solo jut exploring the possibilities of sampling; Brook, meanwhile, focused on her side radical Movietone, a similarly blissed-out digression into wakeless. FSA followed up New Lands tercet long time later with Mirror
Mel B: The Black Hannah Montana?
Donald Trump's Hair -- Tangerine Dream
While in Britain on Monday, Donald Trump's cotton candy, orange glow helmet mess got a blow out!
Somebody get this buffoon a hair apprentice quick.
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Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson split
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson have split, less than two months after rekindling their romance in Miami.
The on-again, off-again couple — who began dating in September 2006 — were last week rumored to be engaged, after Hudson was snapped wearing a Tiffany & Co. ring both on-and-off set of her film Bride Wars, which she’s filming in Boston. It turned out, however, the ring was a prop.
“It was a pretty bad breakup,” says a Wilson pal. “Owen said it was a tough one. He definitely doesn’t want to dwell on it. He wants to put it behind him.”
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