Monday, 30 June 2008

Tool Star Recovering From Hand Surgery Following Sea Attack


TOOL drummer DANNY CAREY is recovering from hand surgery after he was attacked by "an unruly marine" creature while on vacation.

The rocker was holidaying on Hawaii recently when he was injured during a swimming session.

In a post on Tool's official website, the band reveals the creature was "a hazard, venomous and dangerous," adding, "This aquatic critter was most likely a sea urchin or a scorpion fish."

The post is accompanied by a photo of Carey's scarred hand.





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Kay D. Smith   
Artist: Kay D. Smith

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   



Discography:


The Mental Core-(Composure14)   
 The Mental Core-(Composure14)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


Tool Adjuster Vinyl   
 Tool Adjuster Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


My Drugs Vinyl   
 My Drugs Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Composure 06 Vinyl   
 Composure 06 Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
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Clubliner 3 EP Vinyl   
 Clubliner 3 EP Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 4


Clubliner 2 Vinyl   
 Clubliner 2 Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Bretthaus Vinyl   
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   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Battlefield Brain (CR12039)   
 Battlefield Brain (CR12039)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Psychodrill   
 Psychodrill

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


Meine Reise   
 Meine Reise

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


Composure 03   
 Composure 03

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


Clubliner 1 E.P Vinyl   
 Clubliner 1 E.P Vinyl

   Year: 2002   
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Alternative Memory   
 Alternative Memory

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4




 






Divine Heresy

Divine Heresy   
Artist: Divine Heresy

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Bleed the Fifth!   
 Bleed the Fifth!

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10




Even if he had retired from public life to raise goats in North Dakota, guitarist Dino Cazares' heavy alloy bequest would throw been indefinitely perpetuated thanks to his groundbreaking ceremony turn in the nineties with Fear Factory, one of the number 1 bands that successfully soldered industrial elements to metal, piece introducing the synchronised habit of both gruesomely growled vocals and melodic singing that became so popular in the 2000s. All the while, Cazares was of course simultaneously involved with the controversial Latino death alloy gang Brujeria and, afterwards, their stillborn offshoot, Asesino, only after laying relatively low for several long time, the guitar player would embark on his first-class honours degree significant post-Fear Factory project via a brand new dance orchestra named Divine Heresy. Teaming up with singer Tommy "Vext" Cummings, bassist Joe Payne (ex-Nile, world Health Organization replaced early member Risha Eryavec), and drummer Tim Yeung (ex-Vital Remains, Hate Eternal, All That Remains, etc.), Cazares released Divine Heresy's debut album, Bleed the Fifth, in 2007.






Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+Start

Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+Start   
Artist: Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+Start

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   



Discography:


And The Battle Is Won   
 And The Battle Is Won

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10




 






Lil Flip and Sqad-Up

Lil Flip and Sqad-Up   
Artist: Lil Flip and Sqad-Up

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   



Discography:


Don't Throw Rocks At The Thron   
 Don't Throw Rocks At The Thron

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 22




 





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Babyshambles: 'Boris Johnson won't be Mayor Of London for long'

Babyshambles Drew McConnell is taking on London Mayor Boris Johnson.

The bassist had harsh words for the new incumbent after he dropped an anti-racist component from the annual Rise Festival.

The event had previously being organised in conjunction by former mayor Ken Livingstone, the National Assembly Against Racism and trade unions.

Speaking about Johnson apparent dropping of the anti-racism element, McConnell declared: "Boris Johnson may try to strip the Rise Festival of its anti-racism message, but its very essence always has and always will be anti-racist.

"That Johnson has such authority is horribly wrong and we as Londoners are taking note. He won't be Mayor for long."

My Morning Jacket, Wainwright benefit from oversharing

Oversharing is the latest indulgence embraced by one generation and worrying another. Teens and twentysomethings raised by the Internet have no locks on their hearts and bedrooms. This drives baby boomers, who'd previously owned the market on narcissism, into a fitful frenzy. Kids dropping their own names instead of dropping acid? How wrong.

One aspect of our national character might, however, benefit from all this self-absorption: It could be making us a nation of artists. Oversharing, after all, is often the soul of creative expression. In the performing arts, the willingness to violate propriety and open up the self can make the difference between an admirable effort and one that blows people away.

Two new pop releases illustrate the benefits of well-wrought oversharing. "Evil Urges" is the fifth studio album from the Kentucky-bred rock band My Morning Jacket. "I Know You're Married but I've Got Feelings Too" is the second from the Canadian American singer-songwriter http://http:\marthawainwright.com. On the surface, these albums have little in common. But they both risk an emotional and sonic forcefulness that doesn't quite fit in with the well-managed poses many pop stars strike today. And they're both fantastic.

Soulful hospitality

My Morning Jacket has been moving steadily toward its big moment since releasing its first album, "The Tennessee Fire," in 1999. Pegged early on as hippie Southern jammers, MMJ gradually showed its mastery of influences ranging from classic R&B to Pink Floyd. The group got pegged again, this time as "the American Radiohead," as its reputation for transcendent live shows began rivaling that of the English artistes.

But while Radiohead's expansiveness always has had a stern undercurrent -- they worked for it, it means something -- MMJ's vibe is warm and loose. It's always a pleasure to hear bandleader Jim James find new ways to turn his trilling tenor into a roar, and though he wrote the songs and is always firmly at the helm on their execution, his compositional approach is based on allowing his mates to stretch out.

This effusiveness makes MMJ utterly lovable. The band overshares, not in a confessional sense, but in the way bands have since Led Zeppelin first trolled the Earth: by claiming a huge space with its sound and reimagining the world within it. Most groups seek to dominate within these imaginary worlds -- think of Zep's "Kashmir" or Metallica's "Enter Sandman" -- but MMJ's encroachment is gentler: a welcome embrace.

What's been missing in MMJ's sound, until now, is a strong sense of personal expressiveness. James has said in recent interviews that he's not always quite sure of his own identity, and that vagueness has shown in his songwriting. But on "Evil Urges," James remedies that. He leads the band firmly into the album's songs, making sure each solidifies into a strong statement rather than just billowing around in a cloud of influences. In these settings, his philosophical musings become more grounded; they seem to come from the flesh, not just a disembodied, blissed-out mind.

"I need a human right by my side," James sings on the album's second track, and among other things, "Evil Urges" is a chronicle of that aspiration. James puts on various costumes -- the soul brother, the country crooner, the indie brat -- to find himself and connect with others. Playing around with pop styles becomes a metaphor for the search for human connection. The band has fun figuring out what each offers, turning silly on the funk breakdown "Highly Suspicious," seductive on the countrypolitan "Librarian" and plain sweet on the yacht-rocking "Thank You Too!"

James' lyrical expressions of fulfilled or disappointed longing combine with the extroverted song structures on "Evil Urges" to make this a sexy bunch of songs, even when the desire expressed is for an unnamed god or for humanity as a whole. (That hot bespectacled bookworm does get her due.) Already beloved by a growing cult, MMJ reaches out in a different way here, becoming more accessible without shrinking its ambitions.

A woman in full

My Morning Jacket's oversharing happens on a major scale, as the band offers up its magnanimous sound as a source of inspiration and a way into love. Martha Wainwright is more traditional in her methods of self-exposure, though she's never hackneyed. The daughter of two famoussinger-songwriters and the sister of another, Wainwright has spent much time struggling to figure out how to best stand her own ground. Now she's not only found her place, she's set it ablaze.

On "I Know You're Married but I've Got Feelings Too," her second solo album on the Zoe/Rounder label, Wainwright dares to do what far too few artists can in today's waxed-and-Spanxed cultural climate. She gives ferocious, tender voice to female desire, conjuring scenes and dreams that don't fit within the tightly managed image of femininity so dominant today.

Wainwright's voice can be as big as a lioness' roar or as close as a kiss on the neck, and she uses it fearlessly in musical arrangements that are both pop-wise and delightfully strange. Produced by Wainwright's bassist and new groom, Brad Albetta, "I Know You're Married," like "Evil Urges," doesn't fit easily into one category. It's too audacious to classify as adult contemporary, too sophisticated for indie, too enamored of cabaret to be country, too loud to be soft rock.

Bold contradiction is the existential state that the 32-year-old Wainwright now unapologetically claims, putting aside years of occasional brilliance marred by a seeming fear of overdoing it. At the edge of too much, she uncovers the meaningful stories of women's lives. Starting with the album title, which acknowledges -- no, celebrates -- petulant and deeply inappropriate yearnings (and, even better, comes from a song called "Bleeding All Over You"), Wainwright makes a stand for not hiding. Though her lyrics can be poetic, she's not crafting bon mots over cosmopolitans. She's searching for the best way to tackle feelings and situations that would be easier to dodge.

Fear of death, inspired by her own mother's cancer scare; bafflement at a friend's suicide; lovers killed in each other's arms and others sneaking out for a tryst in a hotel: This is not the stuff of lighthearted pop. But "I Know You're Married" is a pop album. It's full of delicious melodies, bold arrangements and expert musicianship. Famous pals Pete Townshend and Donald Fagen and family members Rufus Wainwright and Kate and Anna McGarrigle offer support. It's Martha, though, who owns these songs, every lovely and raw note.

Risky and immediate, Wainwright's music reminds us that self-exposure and exhibitionism are different things. Some might think she's oversharing. In fact, she is simply sharing -- finding a way, through the struggle of music-making, to communicate honestly.

That's not so common in these overscripted times. I guess you'd call it drama in real life.

ann.powers@latimes.com

Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan and George Shearing

Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan and George Shearing   
Artist: Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan and George Shearing

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   



Discography:


The Classic Concert Live   
 The Classic Concert Live

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13




 






St. Vincent

St. Vincent   
Artist: St. Vincent

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   



Discography:


Marry Me   
 Marry Me

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11




 





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Andres Roca

Andres Roca   
Artist: Andres Roca

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   



Discography:


Whispers In The Night   
 Whispers In The Night

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 6




 






Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar   
Artist: Ananda Shankar

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock
   Ethnic
   



Discography:


Sa-Re-Ga Machan   
 Sa-Re-Ga Machan

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 10


Snow Flower   
 Snow Flower

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 8


Ananda Shankar   
 Ananda Shankar

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 8


Melodies from India   
 Melodies from India

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 18


Walking On - The Ananda Shan..   
 Walking On - The Ananda Shan..

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


Walking On   
 Walking On

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




Ananda Shankar, nephew of world-famous sitar player, Ravi Shankar, never quite matched the success of his uncle, only made a important impact in the '70s psychedelic resistance scene by combination Western electronics and Indian music to create instrumental jams and moody soundtracks.The boy of famed classical dancers caught the entertainment industry bug in the late '60s and traveled to Los Angeles, where he played with rock musicians (including Jimi Hendrix) at the elevation of the psychedelic movement. At long time 27, he sign-language a apportion with Reprise Records world Health Organization released his debut self-titled album; a coalition cult classic that combined Hindustani music with psych-rock and included sitar-heavy versions of "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Light My Fire." After inadequate Stateside record gross sales, Shankar returned to India and began constructing 1975's Ananda Shankar and His Music, a blend of savage funk beats, keyboards, and traditional Indian instruments. From 1978 to 1981, he recorded cinque conceptual records: Republic of India Remembers Elvis (Indian versions of Elvis standards), A Musical Discovery of India (an enterprise financed by the Indian tourist board), Missing You (a dedication to his parents), the space-themed 2001, and the jungle safari-tinged Sá-Re-Gá Machán. In the mid-'90s, a new generation of DJs and musicians plant an abundance of samples in his discography, and when Blue Note released the 1996 compilation album Risque Juice, Vol. 1 which featured two of his dance tracks, "Streets of Calcutta" and "Terpsichore Drums," a reawakened interest in his music light-emitting diode to a tour-slot in Peter Gabriel's Womad festival and some other aboard Asian turntablist DJ State of Bengal. This collaboration resulted in 2000s Walking On, featuring Shankar's sitar virtuosity motley with bachelor launchpad breakbeats and trip-hop. Sadly, he never byword the sack of the album, due to a sudden nub attack at eld 56. In 2007, Fallout Records reissued Ananda Shankar and His Music, with Sá-Re-Gá Machán with India Remembers Elvis tacked on as bonus tracks.