Nu Moon

   
Artist: Nu Moon

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 SB / Noomoon

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2


   
 Dark Matter Sakhmet

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2

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Aerosmith star was in rehab over foot

Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler has explained that he checked into a rehab centre in order to give himself time to recover from painful foot surgery.
In a statement, the rocker said: "The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time."
"The 'foot repair' pain was intense, greater than I'd anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic."
"I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet."
He also dismissed speculation that he would no longer be performing with Aerosmith, saying: "Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There's a new album to record, then another tour."

Sparks

   
Artist: Sparks

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   New Age
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Sparks

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Big Beat

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Lil' Beethoven

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Balls

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 No. 1 in Heaven

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 6


   
 Angst in My Pants

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Whomp That Sucker

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Terminal Jive

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Plagiarism

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 19


   
 In Outer Space

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Propaganda

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13


   
 Kimono My House

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 Indiscreet

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16


   
 Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Heaven Collection

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 18


   
 The Best of Sparks: Music That You Can Dance To

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 8


   
 Interior Design

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 15


   
 Just Got Back From Heaven

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


   
 Halfnelson

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 11

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Sparks were a vehicle for the skew pop smarts and smart aleck wordplay of brothers Daffo and Bill Russell Mael, Los Angeles natives globe Health Organization exhausted their puerility moulding loretta Young men's elbow room wearing wearing apparel for ring armour orderliness catalogs. While attending UCLA in 1970, the Maels formed their first group, Halfnelson, which featured songster Bokkos on keyboards and Bill Russell as idle words isaac Merrit Singer; the ring was rounded come out of the closet by another geminate of brothers, guitarist Earle and bassist Jim Mankey, and drummer Harley Feinstein.


Halfnelson before long came to the care of Todd Rundgren, world Wellness Formation helped land the group a press with Bearsville and produced their self-titled 1971 debut. Their exit, facetiously artwork pop failed to incur an audience, however, and their managing director successfully convinced the Maels to change the group's appoint. Subsequently becoming Sparks, they near reached the Hot ace C with the unmarried "Wonder Little girl," and 1972's sublimely gonzo A Woofer in Tweeter's Article of clothing cemented the band's religious cult condition, marking some other near-hit with "Brigham Young woman from FRG."


Piece touring the U.K., Sparks were warm received by the British music iron out, and at last, the Mael brothers relocated to London, going the stay of the band slow; Earle Mankey afterward became a noted manufacturing business, piece Jim later coupled Concrete Blond. In motivation of a new financial support unit, the Maels placed an ad in Strain Lord, and with guitarist Edgar Douglas Adrian Fisherman, bassist Dean Martin Gordon, and drummer Gregory John Norman "Dinkey" Diamond hard in position, they recorded 1974's glam-bubblegum piece of medicine Kimono My House, which reached the Upside Five of the U.K. album charts and spawned deuce major Brits hits, "This Town Ain't Big Sufficiency for the Both of Us" and "Amateur Hour."


With newly guitar player Trevor White and bassist Ian Lionel Hampton, Sparks returned afterwards that year with Propaganda, roughly other U.K. smash that scored with the hits "Ne'er Turn over Your Back on Mother Globe" and "Something for the Girl with Everything." Overblown production from Tony Luchino Visconti derailed 1975's Indiscreet, all the same, and when the record fared less successfully than its predecessors, the Maels returned to the U.S., where they recruited Tuff Darts guitarist Jeff Salen, sometime Milk River & Cookies bassist Sal Maida, and drummer Hilly Michaels for 1976's Great Beat.


By 1977's ironic Introducing Sparks, recorded with a series of Los Angeles school term players, the Mael brothers were treading water, so they enlisted disco manufacturer Giorgio Moroder to helm 1979's synth-powered dance-pop confection No. 1 in Heaven, which spurred the grouping to renewed success in England on the specialisation of the strike singles "The Number One Vocal in Heaven," "Trembling the Clock," and "Tryouts for the Man Airstream." Moroder's brother Harold Faltermeyer took the production reins for the immediate follow-up, End Jive, which scored a monumental Daniel Chester French gather with "When I'm with You."


Sparks leftfield discotheque music in the sprinkle with 1981's Cuff That Chump, recorded in Muenchen with a unexampled support band comprised of guitar player Dock Haag, bassist Leslie Bohem, and drummer Jacques Louis David Kendrick (wHO as well played in concert as the Glimmer Spires). Later on 1982's Angst in My Knickers, they recorded 1983's Sparks in Outer Space; the marvelous "Chill Places," a span with the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin, about reached the U.S. Pinnacle 40, and was the band's biggest derive.


The disastrous 1984 LP Pulling Rabbits Come out of a Hat derailed whatsoever chart momentum the band had collected at home, however, and after 1986's self-explanatory Euphony That You Butt Dance To, Sparks -- once once more reduced to the core couple of Ron and Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell -- recorded 1988's Interior Design, which was followed by a recollective reprieve. Outside of composition the music for a celluloid by Hong Kong activity professional Tsui Harken, Sparks remained still until Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins, released in 1994. Plagiarism followed quaternary age later. With 2000's Balls, the lot ushered in a to a greater extent than productive earned range average, purgative Lil' Beethoven in 2002 and Hullo Danton True Young Lovers in 2006.

Jo O'Meara reveals she is pregnant

Jo O'Meara reveals she is pregnant

Former S Club 7 and 'Celebrity Big Brother' star Jo O'Meara has announced that she is pregnant.
The pop singer, world Health Organization was accused of bullying while in the 'Celebrity Big Brother' sign of the zodiac last year, told The Sun that her first gear baby is due in April.
O'Meara said: "It wasn't planned, simply it was a very nice surprise."
She continued: "I'm nervous at the idea of a little person career me mum, merely it's a really happy way to start 2008."
She added: "This feels wish a freshly begin to me - newly year, new baby, newly role. I'm grateful for that."

'Radiohead: The Best Of' DVD to be Released June 3 by Capitol/EMI

'Radiohead: The Best Of' DVD to be Released June 3 by Capitol/EMI

Companion To 'Radiohead: Best Of' CD, Special Edition 2-CD, Quadruple Vinyl
LP & Digital Releases Features 21 Videos, Including 9 Making DVD Release
Debuts

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 15 -- Parlophone Records and
Capitol Records have announced that the much anticipated CD, 2-CD,
quadruple vinyl LP and digital release, Radiohead: The Best Of will also be
available June 3 as a DVD video collection. The collection's details are
announced today. 21 videos are featured on the new Radiohead: The Best Of
DVD, including "Just," "Street Spirit," "Karma Police," "Paranoid Android,"
"No Surprises," "Knives Out," "Pyramid Song" and "There There." The DVD
also includes the more experimental visuals created for Radiohead songs not
released as singles, and nine videos make their DVD release debuts on the
new collection.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080415/LATU106)

The story of Radiohead is not solely about the band's extraordinary
music. Radiohead has also made some of the greatest music videos of all
time. Working with music video's most innovative directors, including
Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, Jamie Thraves, Shynola, Jake Scott, Sophie
Muller, Grant Gee, and others, the band's commitment to visual creativity
has resulted in some of the most memorable, groundbreaking and influential
music videos in the history of the medium.

Radiohead: The Best Of documents the band's huge contribution to music
video as an artform. The DVD features Radiohead's earliest videos,
including "Creep," which helped to propel the band's first single into a
massive hit in the U.S., as well as "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Pop Is
Dead."

Two different videos made for "High And Dry," the band's first single
from The Bends, are included, and the glossy production for "Fake Plastic
Trees," directed by Jake Scott (son of Ridley) when the band was still
arguably better-known in the States than in the U.K.

Also included is the run of great videos which began when Radiohead
chose to work with young English director Jamie Thraves, who had little to
his credit other than several acclaimed film school shorts. The result was
the band's first all-time classic video, for "Just." The genius of "Just"
lies in its unforgettable final twist, and the video broke new ground in
the way it subtly fused narrative with the band's performance. Thraves, who
has since directed more acclaimed videos, including Coldplay's "The
Scientist," and movies (The Lowdown and the forthcoming Cry Of The Owl),
also edited two other versions -- one all-narrative, another
all-performance -- in case it didn't work. "Just" has won awards and has
been named in numerous best ever videos polls -- and it was recently
parodied in the recent video for Mark Ronson's cover version.

Radiohead's next video would also win 'greatest ever' acclaim. For
"Street Spirit," the band teamed with top music video and commercials
director Jonathan Glazer. His work includes the video for Jamiroquai's
"Virtual Insanity," the Guinness "Surfer" commercial (voted the best ad of
all time) and he would then go on to direct movies like Sexy Beast.
Glazer's rigorous approach and intensity gelled with Thom Yorke, and the
result was a mesmerizing and groundbreaking video. Glazer captured the
hypnotic beauty of "Street Spirit" in his understated use of special
effects and, in particular, high-speed photography. The still-astonishing
trailer park-set video became a big award-winner, including Best Video of
1996 at British music video award show The CADS. Glazer later revealed that
Thom Yorke encouraged him to simplify his ideas for the video until the
slow motion footage became the backbone of the piece.

Radiohead and Glazer worked together again two years later on the video
for "Karma Police." With the director preparing to shoot his first movie,
the result was suitably cinematic: it's shot from the viewpoint of a
Cadillac driver bearing down on a man staggering down a road, with Thom
Yorke in the car's back seat. Something bad is going to happen, but there's
a scorching twist in the tale. As with "Street Spirit," the perfectionist
Glazer insisted on re-shoots before being satisfied with the results.

In between the two Glazer videos came an inspired departure for the
accompaniment to the hugely anticipated first single from third Radiohead
album OK Computer, "Paranoid Android." Instead of commissioning an
established video director, the band invited Swedish animator Magnus
Carlsson to make a surreal animated adventure featuring his cartoon slacker
character Robin.

The band became enthusiastic patrons of a new wave of groundbreaking
animation. Radiohead's experimental album Kid A produced no singles or
videos, but instead, 10-to 40-second animated 'blipverts' -- many created
by Shynola, a four-man group of computer animators not long out of film
school. When Radiohead released the more accessible Amnesiac, Shynola
directed the video for "Pyramid Song," a superb ultimately devastating
animation: a diver plunges into the sea from a concrete island to reveal a
city, his home, submerged below.

Radiohead subsequently collaborated with pioneering CGI artists Johnny
Hardstaff, who was given the freedom to make a single video for two tracks,
"Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors" and "Like Spinning Plates" (retitled "Push
Pulk/Spinning Plates"), and Alex Rutterford, who created a
computer-generated Thom Yorke for the promo for "Go To Sleep."

Radiohead has often given talented directors a crucial career
opportunity to prove themselves, with often stunning results. Some of the
work has challenged viewers' expectations of one of the world's biggest
bands, including Ed Holdsworth's hypnotic collection of urban landscapes
for "Sit Down Stand Up." But the band has also given established directors
the chance to express themselves in a different way.

Legendary video director Michel Gondry had just made his first movie
when he directed the video for "Knives Out," a characteristically
awe-inspiring, one-shot video tracking the breakdown of a relationship,
including a human version of the board game Operation. And the beautiful,
ghostly feel of "I Might Be Wrong" was created by Sophie Muller, more
generally found directing videos for the likes of Gwen Stefani and Beyonce,
shooting Thom and Jonny Greenwood on a no-lens pinhole camera.

While Radiohead's later videos may have tended toward the leftfield,
the video for "There There," the first single from Hail To The Thief,
directed by Bristol-based animation director Chris Hopewell, was arguably
the band's most popular and widely-seen video for years when it arrived in
2003. Part-Bagpuss, part-Brothers Grimm, it won the MTV Video Music Award
for Best Art Directed Video that year.

Radiohead has encouraged directors to interpret their music in a
singular fashion, and Thom Yorke in particular has been prepared to go to
great lengths to realise a great concept, as demonstrated with "No
Surprises," the final video from OK Computer. Director Grant Gee, who was
working with the band on their acclaimed documentary Meeting People Is
Easy, persuaded Thom into a helmet that fills up with water. It's an
unforgettable (and potentially very dangerous) one-shot video as the viewer
watches Thom hold his breath.

The new Radiohead: The Best Of DVD shows that Radiohead's music videos
have mirrored the band's inspired musical progression with rare and
extraordinary visual achievement.


Radiohead: The Best Of (DVD)
1. Creep (directed by Brett Turnbull)
2. Anyone Can Play Guitar (directed by Dwight Clarke)
3. Pop Is Dead (directed by Dwight Clarke)
4. Stop Whispering (directed by Jeff Plansker)
5. My Iron Lung (directed by Brett Turnbull)
6. High and Dry (UK version) (directed by David Mould)
7. High and Dry (US version) (directed by Paul Cunningham)
8. Fake Plastic Trees (directed by Jake Scott)
9. Just (directed by Jamie Thraves)
10. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (directed by Jonathan Glazer)
11. Paranoid Android (directed by Magnus Carlsson)
12. Karma Police (directed by Jonathan Glazer)
13. No Surprises (directed by Grant Gee)
14. Pyramid Song (directed by Shynola)
15. Knives Out (directed by Michel Gondry)
16. I Might Be Wrong (directed by Sophie Muller)
17. Push Pulk / Spinning Plates (directed by Johnny Hardstaff)
18. There There (directed by Chris Hopewell)
19. Go To Sleep (directed by Alex Rutterford)
20. Sit Down Stand Up (directed by Ed Holdsworth)
21. 2+2=5 (Live at Belfort Festival) (directed by Fabien Raymond)

Radiohead: The Best Of will be available in the following formats and
configurations:


-- a 1CD collection featuring 17 tracks
-- a Special Edition 2CD, adding 13 tracks
-- a 4-piece vinyl set with 29 tracks
-- 17-track & 30-track digital downloads
-- a DVD featuring 21 videos

All formats will be available for purchase from
http://www.radioheadstore.com.







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Sopranos duo on awards shortlist

Sopranos duo on awards shortlist

'The Sopranos' stars James River Gandolfini and Edie Falco are among the nominees in the TV categories for the Screen Actors Social club Awards in the US.
Gandolfini is nominated in the Best Histrion in a Dramatic event Series category on with Michael C Residence hall ('Dexter'), Jon Hamm ('Mad Men'), Hugh Laurie ('House') and Epistle of James Spader ('Boston Legal').
Genus Falco is joined on the Topper Actress in a Drama Series shortlist by John Herschel Glenn Jr. Close ('Damages'), Sallying forth Field ('Brothers & Sisters'), Holly Hunting watch ('Saving Grace') and Kyra Sedgwick ('The Closer').
The nominees for Best Actor in a Comedy Series ar: Alec Baldwin ('30 Rock'), Steve Carell ('The Office'), Ricky Gervais ('Extras'), Jeremy Piven ('Entourage') and Tony Shalhoub ('Monk').
'Ugly Betty' stars US Ferrera and Vanessa Roger Williams are both nominated for Charles Herbert Best Actress in a Comedy Series and are joined by Christina Applegate ('Samantha World Health Organization?'), Tina Fey ('30 Rock') and Mary-Louise Dorothy Rothschild Parker ('Weeds').
The casts of 'Boston Legal', 'The Closer', 'Grey's Anatomy', 'Mad Men' and 'The Sopranos' ar altogether nominated in the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series category.
The stars of '30 Rock', 'Desperate Housewives', 'Entourage', 'The Office' and 'Ugly Betty' ar wholly nominated in the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series class.

Meet: Mean Creek

Meet: Mean Creek

The banding: Chris Keene (vocals, guitar), Aurore Ounjian (vocals, guitar, mouth harp), Lusterlessness Sisto, (bass), Ken Marcou (drums)
The sound: Mean Creek’s soothing folks harmonies inject forth emotional sparks when weaving among distorted guitars and activist drumming.
“It’s creative and interesting, merely still rocks out,” Marcou says. “That’s what I look for in a band.”



The storey: Watertown-based Mean Creek started quatern old age ago as a folk twosome of puerility friends Keene and Ounjian, wHO played under the sobriquet Chris and Aurore. Last year they decided to spread out their number and their sound by adding a calendar method of birth control section.
“It’s a band today,” Sisto says. “Everyone adds an rival total of awesomeness.”
The influences: “Influences make you want to work music,” Sisto says, “non make music that sounds precisely like something else.”
The bassist, world Health Organization is a big fan of Nirvana and Wilco, picked up a guitar in arcsecond grade. The first song he ever learned: Nirvana’s “About a Girl.”
“We totally really love Heaven,” Keene says. Only Intend Creek’s music is non a modern grunge-fest.
Marcou says he is perfectly exquisitely with never listening to a Promised land CD ever again. He’s got the Nirvana catalogue ingrained in his brain. The Beatles, too.
Mean Creek also cites Radiohead, the Doves, R.E.M., the Gin Blossoms and Wilco as faves.
“If it weren’t for them (Sisto and Marcou), we’d be playing whole mid-’90s rock candy,” Ounjian says.
The local hangout: You’re likely to run into members of Signify Creek at the Silhouette in Allston. Ounjian says she’s drawn to the local haunt for its free zea mays everta!
The mascot: Mean Creek has grown queerly fond of the mouse inhabiting its Allston pattern space.
“He’s getting bold face,” Keene says to Marcou. “He in reality picked up your sticks and started playing.”
“I induce to let in, everything he played was a little cheesy,” adds Sisto.
The indicate: Mean Brook plays Mon with Destroyer and Colossal Yes at the Midsection East Downstairs, Cambridge.







Rodney Atkins