David Beckham - Fascinating Fact 5471 & other: 2008

Wednesday 10 September 2008

Disc Makers a local player in CD industry

Call it another sign that Boston remains matchless of America�s great music cities: Disc Makers, a major producer of independent CDs, just opened a branch in Cambridge.

To make sure its presence is noted, Disc Makers is not located in a tucked-away office staff space, simply where people can go out it, videlicet, a stock in Central Square at 36 Prospect St.

�Boston is one of our biggest markets,� said gross revenue supervisor Ted Deacon. �By opening a storefront, we�ll be easy to discover and we�ll make it clear we�re a leader of the industry.�

Berklee College of Music is 1 notable client. And the large number of local rockers, folkies and jazz players makes Boston a perfect spot for the 10th positioning in the United States for Disc Makers, a New Jersey-based firm that started out in 1946 as Vinyl Makers.

To observe the store�s opening, the company will host a show at the Middle East on Thursday with five Boston bands. All are satisfied Disc Makers customers: Jackelope, To the Masquerade, Static of the Gods, Black Betty & the Bad Habits and Deftchild.

Disc Makers is one of the few CD manufacturers to operate its own production plant, so it can design, photographic print, package, master and push CDs entirely at its headquarters in Pennsauken, N.J. Among its competition, only Oasis presses discs itself.

Disc Makers� dim-witted Cambridge shopfront will do nothing simply take orders for its New Jersey plant (Disc Makers� local competition, Nimbit, meanwhile, offers full album design at its Framingham headquarters). The cost of manufacturing CDs has become increasingly affordable. A band can order 1,000 CDs with a wide-eyed jewel-box and a single-page insert for just $.89 per copy. Disc Makers buns also plan your CD package, with prices ranging from $290 to $690. Only motivation a few copies for friends? A short order of 25 CDs can be done in 5 days for $3.14 per disc.

And Disc Makers isn�t only about fashioning discs. Want to publicise your band with T-shirts, hats, postcards or stickers? Disc Makers is at your armed service. An rules of order of 24 black-and-white T-shirts is a mere $99.

The commercial music industry may be in free fall but, despite the regular, long-term refuse in CD sales, independent artists stay ever hopeful. Disc Makers� CD gross revenue are up 11 percentage in 2008; its DVD replication gross sales have jumped a banging 22 percent.

After 60 geezerhood as a family business sector, owner Morris Ballen sold Disc Makers to the Corinthian Capital Group in 2006. Last month, Disc Makers bought CD Baby, an online music store that sells CDs by some 240,000 sovereign musicians.

The CD manufacturing business has been booming with one exception: Nearly every musician at once owns a computer capable of combustion CDs, so small orders plummeted a few long time ago. Yet Disc Makers hasn�t minded up totally on the short-run market.

�We plan on bringing a duplication machine into the Cambridge authority,� aforesaid Deacon, �so musicians seat just dash in and get a few CDs made while they wait.�

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Thursday 21 August 2008

Mp3 music: Glitter Band

Artist: Glitter Band: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Other

Glitter Band's discography:

Angel Face

Year: 1993

Tracks: 10

Named for their associations with glam god Gary Glitter, the Glitter Band originally came together in 1972, next Glitter's possess find with the stumble "Tilt and Roll." With his first major concert turn looming, Glitter and producer coconspirator Mike Leander required a full-time support band, one which would -- though they could never birth dreamed it at the time -- at long last get nigh as successful, and sure sufficiency as well-known, as Gary Glitter himself. Although the band was not physically submit on any of Glitter's possess hits (according to the vocalist, Mike Leander alone played every instrument himself), the Glitter Band not only when attended Glitter on each of his tours and telecasting appearances, they as well racked up seven hits of their possess, six of them as intimately making the Top Ten. Even more impressively, part the band's original sound was indeed firmly cut in the fashion of their namesake, by the end of their career, the grouping had developed into a altogether original and dead fascinating playact in their possess right.

The Glittermen, as the grouping was originally known, was reinforced around an idea which Glitter and Leander had first experimented with during the mid-'60s, a sprawl jazz band whose levelheaded and visuals were based upon a unique (for British acts) congress of Racial Equality of two drummers and deuce saxophonists. Their selection of bandleader, also, reached plump for to that in the first place eRA -- baritone horn adolphe Sax player John Rossall had antecedently played with Leander's possess eponymous Show Band and alongside Glitter in the subsequent Boston International.

The conclusion to plunge the Glitter Band as a recording act in their own right was made in late 1973. Written by John Rossall and Gerry Shepherd, their debut single, "Holy man Face," was an obvious close relation of the parent Glitter sound, a pounding, stomping number which raced to phone number four in Britain in March, 1974, merely it was emphatically demoniac of a appeal all of its possess. It was followed by "Simply for You" and "Let's Get Together Again," both of which unbroken the grouping in the Top Ten, patch their debut album, Hey, reached phone number 13 and that despite being comprised of slight more than than reprises of the hits.

Grounds that the Glitter Band were capable of meeting greater challenges than the Glitter sound unremarkably offered was delivered in early 1975 by their one-fourth single, the diffused john Rock lay "So long My Love." An absolute departure, "Good day My Love" climbed to number deuce, piece the group's abilities as songwriters received some other encourage when labelmates Hello scored a European dispatch with a overlay of the Glitter Band's own "Game's Up." (How-do-you-do besides scored with another Heygeological era staple, a cover of the Exciters' "Tell Him.")

Buoyed by the massive success of "Cheerio My Love," the Glitter Band selected another mild rock 'n' roll musician for their adjacent single, "The Tears I Cried," following through over the side by side 12 months with the likewise styled "Love life in the Sun" and "People Like You, People Like Me." Two further albums, Rock'n'Roll Dudes and Listen to the Band, were equally brave, with the group's aspiration today so pronounced that they even brushed away the first signs that their before indomitability was crack: the chart failure of the singles "Alone Again" and "Don't Make Promises."

In 1976, with Gary Glitter having announced his retirement, the Glitter Band cut their last sonic golf links with the old sound. With John Rossall having depart for a solo calling, the unexpended members signed with CBS and, shortening their name to the G Band, adjust to work on on their most ambitious ingathering nevertheless, Genus Paris Match. An absolutely un-Glitter-like determine, it was characterized by a genuinely barefaced cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." Unfortunately, though the banding had stirred on, their fans hadn't -- so, as one waggle later put it, in changing their call, they had unbroken the "G," simply the fans treasured the "litter." In late 1977, the radical transferred to Epic for one last single, a cover up of the Bee Gees' "Gotta Get a Message to You," but by 1978, the banding had all merely sundered. 1979 saw Shepherd and Phipps radio link with former Sparks/Jet keyboard instrumentalist Peter Oxendale for the album Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, credited to Shepherd/Oxendale and released in the U.S. only.

The Glitter Band regrouped under their previous name in 1980, close to the same fourth dimension as Gary Glitter himself moved back into focus. In 1981, the group released a new single, "Until the Next Time," maintaining a regular flow of further releases through and through the adjacent five-spot years. A modern album, recorded bouncy at the London Marquee Club, appeared in 1985, while a succession of hits collections (several featuring freshly re-recorded material) unbroken their cite awake on the record shelves.

There are two Glitter Band's in cognitive operation, unrivaled featuring Shepherd, the early -- Glitz Blitz/Glitter Band, fronted by Phipps.

Monday 11 August 2008

Angel

Artist: Angel

   Genre(s):
Other
   Pop

Discography:

A Woman's Diary: Chapter I

Year: 2005
Tracks: 12

Welcome To The Soul Asylum

Year: 1993
Tracks: 10

Angel was a '70s heavy metal band based on the East Coast featuring isaac Bashevis Singer Frank DiMino, guitar player Punky Meadows, and keyboard thespian Gregg Giuffria. They had their biggest success in 1978 with the album E. B. White Hot, which featured their Top 50 track of "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore." The mathematical chemical group stone-broke up later the liberation of Tin You Feel It, merely had their work repackaged in several different collections.

Evan Parker and Keith Rowe

Wednesday 6 August 2008

Starship Troopers - 8/5/2008

Move over, John Waters. There’s a new martin Luther King of schlock in town, and he’s got a much bigger budget.

The recent video release of last year’s Starship Troopers reveals a superior at work, comfortably at home in his truest of elements: cheesy action films. Paul Verhoeven is the master in head, the director of such fare as RoboCop and Basic Instinct—his last-place really successful film, in 1992. With a $95 million budget, Troopers eventually grossed a little o'er half that domestically, but it has done well enough abroad to control that, like Schwarzenegger in Verhoeven’s Total Recall, he’ll be back.

Watching Troopers is a much different experience than watching, order, Aliens. While both are oriented some the in large quantities slaughter of an stranger race (giant bugs this time), Aliens treats its plot with complete distressfulness. Troopers is a bit more underhand, feeding you a extra effects extravaganza (which include, in all honesty, some of the best I’ve ever seen) with one hand, and slapping you with the leather boxing glove of history with the other. In fact, what makes Troopers—and the holy Writ it’s based on, I’m told—so gratifying is its ode to fascism. Whether it’s Neil Patrick Harris in a fully-buttoned, black leather S.S. trench coat or the “I’m doing my part!” propagandist chants, the court is conspicuous. And, it’s an incredibly entertaining look into what must have been going through the minds of whitney Moore Young Jr. Nazi recruits.

If this isn’t sufficiency to interest you, Verhoeven doesn’t pull whatever stops with the total tilt cheesefest. The cast of the likes of the whiter-than-white Harris, Meyer, Richards, and Van Dien as Argentinians is the first tip-off that you’re in for a screamer of a time. But wait, there’s more! Troopers has sadistic drill sergeants, co-ed grouping showers, and some of the richest dialogue in cinema. One of the best lines comes from Muldoon’s Zander, directed at the bugs, when he screams “One day somebody like me is gonna kill you and your whole FUCKIN' RACE!”

So cut Paul some slack and check out Starship Troopers. Throw in Showgirls for a really tasty double feature. After all, it’s going to take some solid telecasting rental revenues to make sure Verhoeven gets backing for another big-budget free-for-all.

And hey... I’m doing my part!

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Tuesday 24 June 2008

Oasis exclusive: new album and single details announced

Oasis will release their next studio album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', on October 6 on their Big Brother label.

The album will be preceded by a single, 'The Shock Of The Lightning', on September 29.

The LP, which will be the band's seventh studio effort, was produced by Dave Sardy, who also worked on Oasis' last album, 2005's 'Don't Believe The Truth'. It was recorded in London's Abbey Road and mixed in Los Angeles.

Comeback single 'The Shock Of The Lightning' was written by Noel Gallagher and features his brother, Liam Gallagher, on lead vocals.

Speaking about the album Noel Gallagher said: "I wanted to write music that had a groove; not songs that followed that traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight.

"I wanted a sound that was more hypnotic; more driving. Songs that would draw you in, in a different way. Songs that you would maybe have to connect to � to feel."

Of 'The Shock Of The Lightning', Gallagher added: "If 'The Shock Of The Lightning' sounds instant and compelling to you, it's because it was written dead fast. And recorded dead fast.

"'The Shock of The Lightning' basically is the demo. And it has retained its energy. And there�s a lot to be said for that, I think. The first time you record something is always the best."

Monday 23 June 2008

NBC's Brokaw picked to moderate "Meet the Press"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NBC News picked veteran Tom Brokaw to moderate "Meet the Press" through the 2008 U.S. election season, NBC News President Steve Capus said on Sunday.

Tim Russert, the longtime host of the Sunday morning news program who was known for his interviews of leading U.S. political figures, died of a heart attack on June 13. He was also the television network's Washington bureau chief.

Brokaw, 68, a well-known and respected figure in U.S. broadcast journalism, stepped down as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" in 2004 after 21 years.

"To have someone of Tom's stature step up and dedicate himself to ensuring its ongoing success is not only a testament to his loyalty to Tim, but his enduring commitment to NBC News and our viewers," Capus said in a statement.

(Reporting by Nancy Waitz)

Sunday 22 June 2008

Grand Alchemist

Artist: Grand Alchemist

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Intervening Coma-Celebration

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

Cybotron

Artist: Cybotron

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Electronic: Progressive

Discography:

Cosmic Raindance

Year: 1996
Tracks: 4

The Roots Of Techno

Year: 1994
Tracks: 13

Implosion

Year: 1980
Tracks: 7

Colossus

Year: 1978
Tracks: 6

Clear Light Of Jupiter

Year: 1976
Tracks: 5

Stimmhorn

Gein

Artist: Gein

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

We Don't Know / Simon

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Hate and Father Of Lies

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Rapper Warren G Arrested Over Drugs Possession

No 332: Little Boots

Hometown: Blackpool.

The lineup: Victoria Hesketh (vocals).

The background: It's not just rock music that's got one eye on the past, recycling old riffs or using it for inspiration to create something new. There are landmark tracks in dance music, too, that DJs or producers find it hard to get over; for every Get It On and I Feel Love. The oscillating pulse that throbbed throughout the first single by Hesketh alias Little Boots, Stuck On Repeat, was so redolent of Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's 1977 sonic breakthrough it made Oasis look, well, original. It was still good, though - somehow a formerly futuristic sequencer pulse sounds better, less in hock to the past, than a hoary guitar riff to these ears. Anyway, the latest release by the girl being hailed in some parts as this year's disco queen, Meddle - actually her debut single proper because Stuck On Repeat was a white-label club release only - doesn't use a stock electronic rhythm as the basis for her vocal flights. It's more of a song, with a jerky beat that's a bit Timbaland, only with the tacky hookiness of a trash hit like Mickey by Toni Basil. The lyric is what really sticks, though, one of those man-bashing, I-will-survive affairs that certain people - gay men, women - feel an affinity for, despite or maybe because of its trite observations (something about being a "mixed-up girl in a mixed-up world") about L.U.V. It's TK Maxx techno, basically, but, like the work of Xenomania and Richard X, confirms suburban Britain's penchant for metallic electronica and is ideally suited to handbag house-congregating at your local danceteria, notwithstanding the bit in the middle that sounds like a Gregorian chant.

And, like Stuck On Repeat, it's been produced by Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, one of those brainy types with the common touch. Weirdly, Greg Kurstin of US jazz-pop group The Bird and the Bee is lined up to produce the debut album by Little Boots, a part-time DJ and former member of sometime Fierce Panda electroclash-ers Dead Disco who shares a nickname with Caligula (the third ruler of the Roman Empire, debauched despot fans). That makes a sort of sense: Hesketh's vocals are way upfront in the mix, and she has a clear, plummy way of enunciating that should appeal to the "wow, amazin' voice!" brigade (one of her songs, Hands, is a piano ballad), although on a track like Magic she veers more towards the blank, glassy, sighing approach to non-singing favoured by Kylie. At the moment, she's big in the blogosphere and performing in hipster London dives like 93 Feet East and Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, but she's doing a DJ set at Glastonbury on the BBC Introducing Stage and there's an appearance to follow at Creamfields in Liverpool, so with a cross of the fingers she'll cross over faster than you can sashay across the dancefloor like Travolta in a white suit.

The buzz: "Beautiful and thrilling."

The truth: She's a future-disco diva, but her ballad-pop roots are showing.

Most likely to: Do a Robyn

Least likely to: Be turned into a bootleg with Pink Floyd's Meddle. Although now that we mention it...

What to buy: Meddle is released by 50 Bones on August 4.

File next to: Goldfrapp, Donna Summer, Sugababes, Robyn.

Links: www.myspace.com/littlebootsmusic

Tomorrow's new band: Tinchy Stryder.

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Angelina Jolie - The Things They Say 8576

"BRAD is the hardest person to shop for. He has impeccable design taste and whenever he sees something he likes, he buys it for himself." ANGELINA JOLIE admits she never knows what to buy partner BRAD PITT for Father's Day.

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KISS to replace band members through new reality show

Roumours are raging in Europe of Kiss-themed clone reality show echoing the UK's 'X Factor' after an interview the band did in Norway.

The interview, which is a small segment of an hour long Kiss special airing on Norway�s NRK channel on September 1 around the release of the 'Kissology' box set in Europe, sees vocalists Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley disagreeing on whether there will be a Kiss reality show for bands.

On the footage the interviewer asks: "At some point will we see a Kiss idol like 'American idol'?"

Simmons replies: The answer is yes... the deal has just been signed."

The clip then cuts to Stanley saying: "There is no signed deal it's you know again it's when we're both asked the same question sometimes you get different answers."

This contradiction now seems to have been cleared up - kind of.

A statement from Stanley released on the Kiss Kissonline.com said: "A Kiss clone reality show? First of all, contrary to what was said by anyone, there is no signed deal. Secondly, if we were to do a 'Kiss II', and I don't rule that out, it would be in addition to, and never in place of Kiss. If we were to do it, I know it would be done in a groundbreaking way and would be tremendously entertaining."

Stanley added that the band aren't planning on stopping anytime soon though.

He said: "Kiss has always defined itself by the rules we break, so what's the big surprise? We are in the middle of our biggest and most successful tour of Europe ever, playing to over a half million people, and neither Kiss or I have any plans to stop afterwards."

Watch the footage in full at nrk.no.

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