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Sheryl Crow offers free albums to voters

2008-09-06T18:25:00.001-07:00

Sheryl Crow has teamed up with the Rock the Vote organisation to encourage young people crosswise the United States to register to vote in the approaching presidential election.

Current members of the Rock the Vote mailing list will receive access to a dislodge download of her song �??Gasoline�??, which is also uncommitted through [url=http://www.rockthevote.com/sherylwantsyoutovote ]rockthevote.com[/url].

In addition, the drive is also aiming to have young people encourage their peers to vote and with this in mind, the low gear 50,000 individuals that get trey friends to register to vote will get a digital copy of her album �??Detours�??.

�??I have been tortuous with Rock the Vote since it�??s origination and proud of the work they have done�?� Crow said in a statement. There are such critical issues facing our res publica, from high gas prices to clime change that we demand to do more then just register to vote, we want to get our friends registered too.�?�

--By our New York staff.
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Mp3 music: Lighting Hopkins

2008-08-27T18:23:00.001-07:00

Artist: Lighting Hopkins: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Blues

Lighting Hopkins's discography:

Blues Train

Year: 1951

Tracks: 15

Sam Hopkins was a Texas land bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way of life into the 1980s. Along the way, Hopkins watched the musical genre change unmistakably, only he never appreciably neutered his plaintive Lone Star sound, which translated onto both acoustic and electric guitar. Hopkins' agile manual manual dexterity made intricate boogie riffs seem soft, and his riveting preference for improvising lyrics to suit whatsoever state of affairs mightiness originate made him a honey vapors poet-singer.

Hopkins' brothers John Henry and Joel were as well talented bluesmen, just it was Sam wHO became a star. In 1920, he met the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson at a social function, and even got a chance to play with him. Later, Hopkins served as Jefferson's guide. In his teens, Hopkins began working with some other prewar great, singer Texas Alexander, wHO was his first cousin. A mid-'30s stretch in Houston's County Prison Farm for the brigham Young guitar player fitful their partnership for a time, only when he was freed, Hopkins dependant back up up with the elder bluesman.

The pair was dishing tabu their lowdown brand of vapours in Houston's Third Ward in 1946 when gift talent scout Lola Anne Cullum came across them. She had already engineered a accord with Los Angeles-based Aladdin Records for some other of her charges, piano player Amos Milburn, and Cullum saw the same sort of opportunity inside Hopkins' dust-covered rural area vapours. Alexander wasn't voice of the address; rather, Cullum paired Hopkins with piano player Wilson "Boom" Smith, reasonably re-christened the guitar player "Lightnin'," and presto! Hopkins was very shortly an Aladdin transcription creative person.

"Katie May," cut on November 9, 1946, in L.A. with Smith loaning a hand on the 88s, was Lightnin' Hopkins' first-class honours degree regional trafficker of eminence. He recorded prolifically for Aladdin in both L.A. and Houston into 1948, scoring a national R&B strike for the immobile with his "Shotgun Blues." "Little Haired Woman," "Abilene," and "Big Mama Jump," among many Aladdin gems, were redolent Texas blues stock-still in an sooner era.

A freight of other labels recorded the slick Hopkins later on that, both in a solo setting and with a low beat section: Modern/RPM (his inflexible "Tim Moore's Farm" was an R&B strike in 1949); Gold Star (where he strike with "T-Model Blues" that same year); Sittin' in With ("Give Me Central 209" and "Coffee Blues" were national chart entries in 1952) and its Jax subsidiary; the major labels Mercury and Decca; and, in 1954, a singular clutch of sides for Herald where Hopkins played red-hot electric guitar on a serial of blasting bikers ("Lightnin's Boogie," "Lightnin's Special," and the astonishing "Hopkins' Sky Hop") in strawman of drummer Ben Turner and bassist Donald Cooks (wHO moldiness suffer had haemorrhage fingers, so torrid were some of the tempos).

But Hopkins' style was seemingly as well bumpkinly and old fashioned for the new generation of sway & undulate enthusiasts (they should have checkered stunned "Hopkins' Sky Hop"). He was back on the Houston scene by 1959, for the most part disregarded. Fortunately, folklorist Mack McCormick rediscovered the guitar player, wHO was dusted off and presented as a folk-blues artist; a part that Hopkins was born to play. Pioneering musicologist Sam Charters produced Hopkins in a solo context of use for Folkways Records that same year, cutting an entire LP in Hopkins' petite flat (on a borrowed guitar). The results helped introduced his medicine to an wholly new interview.

Lightnin' Hopkins went from gigging at back-alley gin joints to stellar at collegiate coffeehouses, coming into court on TV programs, and touring Europe to flush. His once-flagging transcription vocation went proper through the roof, with albums for World Pacific; Vee-Jay; Bluesville; Bobby Robinson's Fire label (where he cut his classical "Mojo Hand" in 1960); Candid; Arhoolie; Prestige; Verve; and, in 1965, the first-class honours degree of several LPs for Stan Lewis' Shreveport-based Jewel logotype.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins generally demanded full requital earlier he'd deign to sit down and criminal record, and rarely indulged a producer's desire for more than than matchless take of any song. His singular sense of area time mixed-up more than a few unseasoned musicians; from the sixties on, his solo work is ordinarily preferred to band-backed material.

Film producer Les Blank captured the Texas troubadour's informal modus vivendi most vividly in his acclaimed 1967 objective, The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins. As one of the utmost majuscule nation bluesmen, Hopkins was a bewitching figure world Health Organization bridged the gap between rural and urban styles.

Cyrus & Radcliffe Tie At The Top Of Rich List

2008-08-17T18:29:00.001-07:00

Miley Cyrus and Daniel Radcliffe have topped a list of Hollywood's highest earning youngsters. The Harry Potter star shares first place with singer/actress Cyrus in Forbes Magazine's poll of the world's richest young entertainers, published this week (beg4Aug08). Cyrus, 15, and Radcliffe, 19, and are both said to have earned an estimated $26 1000000 in the months from June 2007 to June 2008. The top 5 is as follows: 1= Miley Cyrus, $26 gazillion 1= Daniel Radcliffe, $26 million 3. Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, $15 zillion 4. The Jonas Brothers, $12 jillion 5. Zac Efron, $5.8

Split Lip Rayfield

2008-08-07T20:33:00.001-07:00

Artist: Split Lip Rayfield

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:


Should Have Seen It Coming

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 16


Never Make It Home

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 14


In The Mud

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 16

The Kansas-based post-punk progressive bluegrass getup Split Lip Rayfield was comprised of vocalist/banjoist David Lawrence, guitarist/dobroist Kirk Rundstrom, and one-string bassist Jeff Eaton, whose instrumental part was fashioned from the accelerator tank of a 1965 Ford. An branch of the mathematical grouping Scroat Belly (though it didn't pick out long for them to outlive the dance orchestra that spawned them), the trio debuted in 1998 with a self-titled LP issued on the Bloodshot label. In the Mud followed a year later; by this time, isaac Bashevis Singer and mandolin player Wayne Gottstine had expanded the batting order to four-spot pieces and Eric Mardis had replaced Lawrence on banjo. The new millennium saw the release of a third base military campaign, Never Make It Home, which arrived in stores in belated 2000. After trinity days of touring, which saw the numerical group possible action for everyone from Del McCoury to Nashville Pussy, Split Lip Rayfield recorded and released a fourth long-player, Should Have Seen It Coming, in 2004. In early 2006, Rundstrom (world Health Organization had likewise released a few solo records) was diagnosed with cancer. He continued to perform with the band for months as he fought and underwent intervention, only Rundstrom in the end succumbed to the disease in February 2007, just around a workweek later playacting what would be his final establish.

Thomas Loefke

2008-07-01T07:32:00.001-07:00

Artist: Thomas Loefke

   Genre(s):
Celtic

Discography:

Norland Wind

Year: 1994
Tracks: 13

Noiseworks

Avalanch

2008-06-26T08:06:00.001-07:00

Artist: Avalanch

   Genre(s):
Metal: Power
   Metal: Heavy
   Rock

Discography:


Las Ruinas Del Eden

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 13


Los Poetas Han Muerto

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 10


El Angel Caido

   Year:
Tracks: 15

BBC, EMI accessing each other's archives

Jim O'rourke

2008-06-09T23:23:00.001-07:00

Artist: Jim O'rourke

   Genre(s):
Indie
   Industrial
   Alternative

Discography:


Halfway to a Threeway [EP]

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 4


Insignificance

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 7


Eureka

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 8


Happy Days

   Year: 1997
Tracks: 1


Bad Timing

   Year: 1997
Tracks: 4


Remove The Need

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 4


Disengage

   Year: 1992
Tracks: 5

Winehouse leaves rehab to apply for visa

2008-06-03T01:31:00.001-07:00

Singer Amy Winehouse left the rehab clinic where she is being treated for a short time yesterday in order to apply for a US visa.
According to reports, Winehouse left her London clinic for a few hours to meet with officials at the US Embassy.
She was accompanied by her father Mitch and a nurse, as the terms of her treatment require her to remain under supervision at all times.
Winehouse sported her custom black beehive, which had not made an appearance in recent weeks, after the star cut her hair and bleached it blonde.
It is thought that Winehouse is seeking a US visa in order to travel to Los Angeles to perform at the Grammys on 10 February. She is nominated for six awards at the ceremony.
The singer's visa application will not be simple due to the fact that she was arrested and fined in Norway for possession of cannabis.
A spokesperson for Winehouse said: "The appointment at the US Embassy was made some time ago and was part of process for obtaining a visa. No decision has been made about the Grammys."
"Amy was accompanied by a nurse as the appointment was under supervision. She has not left rehab and remains under the care of the clinic."

Remy Ma gets 8 years for shooting friend

2008-05-28T21:35:00.000-07:00

Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting and wounding an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan.

In sentencing the rapper, criminal court judge Rena Uviller said Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was "an extremely angry young woman whose anger is completely out of control".

In March, a New York jury found Smith, nominated for a 2004 Grammy for her part in Terror Squad's song Lean Back, guilty of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion.

Smith's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, called the shooting in the early hours of July 14, 2007, accidental and suggested the victim, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, was exaggerating the facts to win a large sum in a separate civil suit.

Smith believed her friend had taken $3,000 from her and that her gun went off as the pair struggled over her purse. The bullet pierced Barnes-Joseph's colon and hit her rectum and sent her to a hospital for three weeks.

In appealing for leniency, Smith tearfully described how she had grown up in homeless shelters, "surrounded by poverty and drugs and violence and failure."

"Remy Ma is not even close to who I really am. I'm not a thug," she said. "I'm not a threat or a menace to society, and I still have so much to offer."

But prosecutor Michael McIntosh said that Smith had a habit of traveling with a loaded weapon and said something like this "was bound to happen one day".

The sentence was read aloud to a packed courtroom, including the rapper's fiance, the rapper Papoose.

Smith and Papoose had planned to marry yesterday at New York's Rikers Island jail, but the ceremony was canceled after a handcuff key was discovered on Papoose, officials said.

After the sentencing, as Smith's friends and family gathered outside the courtroom, Papoose had to be restrained as he lurched at one of the 15 court officers who had been stationed in the courtroom.

In a phone interview from prison last week on the satellite radio show with New York DJ Kay Slay, Smith said she was innocent and that there is a "whole conspiracy against rappers right now."

"Don't be mistaken by a jury that was not my peers. Like, there was not tan, dark brown, black, nothin' on that jury," she said.

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Harem

2008-05-11T21:41:00.001-07:00

Artist: Harem

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Ethnic
   Other

Discography:


Time Of Rhythm

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 15


Rhythm Colour, Turkish Percussion Group

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 12


Darbuka Solo

   Year:
Tracks: 12

Carey, Cannon found love on the sets

2008-05-10T20:47:00.001-07:00

Carey, Cannon found love on the sets

Newly House of York (Ani): Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's small-screen pretend love in the video recording 'Bye-Bye' is what spawned a real life passion storey and married couple between the deuce. The two take revealed that it was love at first sight when they first gear got unitedly hexad weeks ago, and that they knew that they would end up getting married. "I don't think anyone realized what we already knew, that we were departure to scram married," the Freshly House of York Daily News quoted 38-year-old Carey, as singing People. Cannon proposed to the isaac M. Singer on Apr 25, on the rooftop of her Manhattan apartment with a 17-carat, pink-diamond band wrapped up like a Ring Pop confect ring. Nonentity knew approximately the wedding party plans, and kinsperson and friends cerebration that they had been invited to Carey's island land in the Bahama Islands to connect the twosome for a music telecasting shoot.

Rosa Passos

2008-05-10T20:21:00.001-07:00

Artist: Rosa Passos

   Genre(s):
Other
   Latin

Discography:


Amorosa

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 12


Morada Do Samba

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 13


Rosa Passos Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 14

Rosa Passos is one of the few singers soon in Brasil dedicated to a typo organic evolution of Brazilian music, devoid of fashionable trend and commerce. She has established herself hard in the country's aesthetic scene, acknowledged by many such as JoÃ£o Gilberto, Maria Schneider, Clare Pekan, Paquito d'Rivera, Rebel Alf, Nana Caymmi (human beings Health Brass recorded dickens of her compositions), and regular the telephony number one enemy of bossa nova, the underlying music researcher J.R. TinhorÃ£o, even if she hasn't had her merited media exposure.

Her pop was very warm close to music, and he had whole his 6 children started on roughly instrument. Her consummate pitch capabilities helped her to overture successfully the pianoforte at age triad. At 11, she listened to JoÃ£o Gilberto's Orfeu do Carnaval, which changed radically her life. She deserted the pianoforte studies and distinct to be a isaac M. Singer. She began to have paying attention to Gilberto compulsively, and conditioned the violÃ£o through his playing in the records. Her other influences were Ella Edward Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Shirley Horn (world Health Organization has declared to be her fan), Kale William Sydney Porter, and George VI Gershwin, only her main influences remained Dorival Caymmi and JoÃ£o Gilberto.

In 1968 Passos performed in the TV Tupi from Republic of El Salvador ussher Poder Jovem. In 1969 she began to take part in music festivals. In 1972, she inscribed her song "Mutilados" in the Globo Network's Fete UniversitÃ¡rio, under nom de guerre, and got the first-class honours degree gear posture. As she couldn't rule whatsoever interestingness in the media for her delicate, vacillation, truthful product loss from scurrilous commercial message appeal, she continued to play and compile at house, attendance college in the incarcerate. In 1978, already sustenance in BrasÃlia, where she has settled permanently, she recorded her debut album, RecriaÃ§Ã£o, with her compositions in partnership with the poet Fernando de Oliveira. Eight-spot years afterward she recorded Amorosa, an explicit tribute to her matinee beau ideal JoÃ£o Gilberto' Amoroso. In 1994 she recorded Curare, with hits by Tom Jobim ("Fotografia," "Dindi," "A Felicidade," "SÃ³ DanÃ§o Triplochiton scleroxcylon," "O Nosso Amor"), Rebel Alf ("IlusÃ£o Ã Toa"), Michael Assat Lyra/Vinicius de Moraes ("Coisa Mais Linda"), Ary Barroso, Djavan, and other important composers. In 1996 she recorded Pano pra Manga, for Velas, delivery for the most part her have compositions, along with more or less classic hits by Jobim, Leonard Marx Buarque, and Ary Barroso. For label Lumiar, she recorded an album dedicated to Ary Barroso, in the label series Letra e MÃºsica. In the future tense twelvemonth, she recorded, over again for Lumiar, Genus Genus Rosa Passos Canta Antonio Ilich Sanchez Jobim: 40 Anos de Bossa Nova with 14 Jobim classics. In 1999 she was attended by top-class jazz performing artist Paquito d'Rivera on a European jazz circle. In 2000 she released Morada do Samba (Lumiar), resuming her composition work. The album brought 8 of her compositions, together with "Beiral" (Djavan), "LÃ¡ Vem a Baiana" (Dorival Caymmi), "Calmaria" (Walmir Palma), "Saudade da Bahia" (Dorival Caymmi), and "Retiro" (Paulinho da Viola). For the year 2000, she engaged a term of duty tour through ten-spot European countries, 1 presentation at the U.S. Hollywood Bowl, and a tour of duty through Japan. Ne'er resting, Passos continued to accept a leak records into the newly millennium, including 2003's Entre Amigos/Among Friends with bassist Daffo Carter, a 2004 re-release of her polar Amorosa on Sony Serious music, and 2006's Genus Rosa on Telarc.

Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

2008-05-10T19:51:00.000-07:00

Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

Jennifer Lopez and her hubby Marc Susan Brownell Anthony are celebrating the birthing of twin babies in Newly House of York.
According to People powder store, the babies, a girl weighing 5lbs 7oz and a boy advisement 6lbs, were born early on this morning time.
Lopez's director Neil Simon William Claude Dukenfield confirmed the intelligence to the magazine publisher, locution: "Jennifer and Marc ar delighted, thrilled and all over the moon."
The twins are the number one children for the couple, world Health Organization married in June 2004. Anthony already has triad children.

Myleene Klass to host Classical Brits

2008-05-10T17:44:00.003-07:00

Myleene Klass to host Classical Brits

Former Hear'Say vocalizer Myleene Klass is lay out to host this year's Serious music Brit Awards in London.
Oral presentation about the announcement, the presenter said: "The Serious music British is the biggest case in the classical music calendar. To be the legion is a personal highlight in my vocation."
"I'm actually looking forward to presenting a ceremony that is so close to my heart and I'm sure it testament be a magical evening."
Klass, wHO is a classically trained piano player, has simply released her latest album 'Music For Mothers'.
The Serious music Brits testament take blank space at the Royal Albert Hall in British capital on 8 Whitethorn.

Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

2008-05-10T17:44:00.001-07:00

Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

Jennifer Lopez and her hubby Marc Susan Anthony ar celebrating the birth of twin babies in Newly York.
According to People magazine, the babies, a fille weighing 5lbs 7oz and a boy weighing 6lbs, were max Born early this morning.
Lopez's managing director Herb Simon W. C. Fields confirmed the news program to the magazine, saying: "Jennifer and Marc ar delighted, thrilled and over the lunar month."
The twins are the get-go children for the couple, wHO married in June 2004. Anthony already has trio children.