The Kooks have proclaimed a very special New York establish to claim place the day before their September 10 headlining performance at Summerstage in Central Park.
The band volition invite fans in an open-top bus which testament take them on a sightseeing go around the Big Apple, before dropping the band and passengers off at the Apple Store in Soho, where they testament perform a free acoustic set.
Fans posterior enter the competition via The Kooks' website.
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Corciolli
Artist: Corciolli
Genre(s):
New Age
Ambient
Ethnic
Discography:
Nascimento
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Unio Celestia
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Tocando A Alma
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
The Tranquility Of The Sounds Of Nature
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
The Protection Of Angels
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
The Music Of The Celts
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
The Movements Of The Sea
Year: 2001
Tracks: 5
The Balance Of The Yoga
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Terapia dos Aromas, A
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Reiki
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Music of the Shamans
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Healing colors: Hromoterapiya
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Harmony Of Feng Shui, The
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Art Of Seduction
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Anjos
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
A Tranquilidade Dos Sons Da Natureza
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
A Cura Atraves das Cores
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
A Cura Atraves das Cores
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
All That Binds Us
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Unio Mystica
Year:
Tracks: 7
Musica Anti-Stress
Year:
Tracks: 9
Exotique
Year:
Tracks: 8
From his early teens, he was concerned in music. At the historic period of 15, he started acting the piano and subsequently on studied classical and pop medicine, harmony and temporary expedient, and besides participated in many bands and solo projects and sour to Jazz music as well as the typical South American styles such as Bossa Nova.
After buying his first gear syhth (a Roland Juno-106), he played in several festivals with unnumberable rock and implemental alternative bands of São Paulo (Brazil) such as Banda Azo and Celso Pixinga. With the band EspÃrito Cigano, he played several shows all over Brazil. After octonary months, he left it in order to dedicate himself wholly to its first gear solo album. After graduating in architecture, he founded the Brazilian phonograph recording company Azul Music in 1993 and released his first solo album ll That Binds. By this label, Corciolli owns the Sharp Award and the Internacional Award Design with the CD Girassol, from d Ribeiro Lima.
He also produced compilations for several Brazilian magazines such as Isto É, Planeta, Planeta Nova Era, AudioNews, among others. In 1996 he performed at Memorial da América Latina and recorded an album with the Tibetan Monks of Gaden Shartse, uniting sacred chants from the Buddhist traditions and western music.
His first gear acquittance on the Oreade label, Unio Mystica, was the branch of a selfsame special contrive, introducing newfangled techniques in recording and artistic conceptions, the union of sonorous atmospheres with his piano and keyboards, the vocal attributes of soprano Adriana Mezzadri together with Gregorian and Arab chants. This album received the Blessing of Pope John Paul II in 1997 and sticking out him in the European market place. He too took region in a compilation called The Healing, with Vangelis, Kitaro and Enigma, among others. Besides this compilation, he as well participated in others as Sacred World, with Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer, Era, Sarah Brightman, Jon & Vangelis; Celtic Mysterie; Mystera 7; The Healing 3, with Yossou N´Dour, Clannad, Andreas Vollenweider and Dead Can Dance. Also, his Tudo Azul series were released at Ucrania and Russia, marketing thousands of copies.
Praised by many Brazilian reviewers for his compositions, arrangements and recordings, Corciolli is considered to be matchless of the near singular Brazilian artists in his genre. He defines his preocupation, as an artist, to reedem an marrow lost in the music, something that wake up the feelings of the listeners, transporting then to its interior earth, by a full music and enthralling sound universes. His music prepares people for a new scruples.
New Data Highlight Positive Results Of Namenda(R) (memantine HCl) Once-Daily Extended-Release Formulation
�Forest Laboratories, Inc.
(NYSE: FRX) presented positive Phase III information of a once-daily
extended-release formulation of Namenda(R) (memantine HCl) at the 2008
Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease
(ICAD). The report evaluated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of an
innovative, proprietorship, 28 mg once-daily extended-release formulation of
Namenda compared to placebo in outpatients with moderate to severe
Alzheimer's disease already existence treated with a cholinesterase inhibitor
(donepezil, galantamine or rivastigmine).
In the study, patients treated with once-daily extended-release Namenda
experienced substantial improvements in cognitive performance and worldwide
clinical condition compared to those receiving placebo. Patients treated with
once-daily extended-release Namenda also experienced significant
improvements in verbal smoothness and behavioral symptoms as compared to
placebo. The results build on preliminary findings announced by Forest in
February.
"While there is no cure or existing handling to keep Alzheimer's
disease, there are currently-available FDA-approved treatments, such as
combination therapy with memantine and a cholinesterase inhibitor, which
can alleviate symptoms by providing cognitive, functional, and behavioral
benefits," said George Grossberg, MD, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at
Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and the lead investigator world Health Organization
presented the data. "These findings reinforce the
(NYSE: FRX) presented positive Phase III information of a once-daily
extended-release formulation of Namenda(R) (memantine HCl) at the 2008
Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease
(ICAD). The report evaluated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of an
innovative, proprietorship, 28 mg once-daily extended-release formulation of
Namenda compared to placebo in outpatients with moderate to severe
Alzheimer's disease already existence treated with a cholinesterase inhibitor
(donepezil, galantamine or rivastigmine).
In the study, patients treated with once-daily extended-release Namenda
experienced substantial improvements in cognitive performance and worldwide
clinical condition compared to those receiving placebo. Patients treated with
once-daily extended-release Namenda also experienced significant
improvements in verbal smoothness and behavioral symptoms as compared to
placebo. The results build on preliminary findings announced by Forest in
February.
"While there is no cure or existing handling to keep Alzheimer's
disease, there are currently-available FDA-approved treatments, such as
combination therapy with memantine and a cholinesterase inhibitor, which
can alleviate symptoms by providing cognitive, functional, and behavioral
benefits," said George Grossberg, MD, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at
Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and the lead investigator world Health Organization
presented the data. "These findings reinforce the
Space Tribe and Friends
Artist: Space Tribe and Friends
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Kaleidescopic Vision
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Friday, 11 July 2008
Vengeance Rising
Artist: Vengeance Rising
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Released Upon The Earth
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Once Dead
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Human Sacrifice
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Destruction Comes
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Vengeance Rising has one of the most entertaining and freaky stories in the land of heavy alloy. Formed in 1987 by singer Roger Martinez, guitarists Larry Farkes and Doug Theime, bassist Roger Dale Martin, and drummer Glenn Mancaruso, the ring was a Christian variation on the emerging death metal scene. This lineup produced two albums that were brobdingnagian successes in the globe of Christian music, fashioning them ane of the few bands in the literary genre to cross over into the secular euphony scene. They played both religious and non-religious festivals and tried and true to feast their message as far as possible. Martinez became very involved in the modus vivendi, producing video tapes about Christianity and forming alliances with other big-name Christian leadership. Unfortunately, when they chequered their bank account statement after the Once Dead tour, they discovered that they had mismanaged their funds and were hopelessly in debt. Everyone simply Martinez bailed and formed Die Happy, and he scrambled to form some other lineup. He establish drummer Chris Hyde and guitarist Derek Sean and continued forrad with himself on bass. Despite cathartic two more than albums and marketing a respectable sum of copies, he was nowhere close to clearing his fiscal woes and the band fell apart in the early 90s. Struggling with his faith and the striving of his position, he vehemently broke from the religious environment he had encircled himself with and began the second half of his life history by announcing his godlessness. He began to seduce tapes counteracting the tapes he made during his Christian career, and re-formed Vengeance Rising with a new lineup and a unquestionably angrier message. He formed a site that renounced his late output signal and posted articles most Christian leaders that were aimed at making them look dopey. His former associates in the religious existence were outraged and his name became synonymous with "falling from grace," something Martinez reveled in and emphatic. He released the Satanic Realms of Blasthemy on Halloween of 2000, piece he continued his efforts through a hilarious and middling worrisome question in the magazine Mean, where he provided a counterpoint to the opinions of Christian leader Bob Larson. When the tragical terrorist hijackings of 2001 happened, Martinez offered a release record album from his situation for military personal only to further the sanctum war he invariably talked about. Providing endlessly entertaining fodder for interviews, Martinez managed to re-create his possess calling in such a unique manner that his tale continues to be interesting years after the most substantial part of his melodious life history.
R. Kelly Fan Who Yelled At Jury Released From Jail After 34 Days
An R. Kelly fan who yelled "Free R. Kelly!" at the jury druing the singer's child pornography case was released from jail yesterday (June 25) after thirty four days.
Debra Triplett, 48, was jailed on a contempt of court charge in May for screaming her support for Kelly at the jury as they stepped off a courthouse elevator.
Triplett remained in jail until Wednesday because she was unable to post the $5,000 cash bail imposed on her by the judge.
Upon her release, Triplett told The Chicago Tribune that she felt that Kelly should have paid her bail.
"For sure he should have stepped up," Triplett said. "R. Kelly, you should have stepped up!"
Kelly was acquitted on all 14 counts in his child pornography case by the aforementioned Chicago jury on June 13th.
Debra Triplett, 48, was jailed on a contempt of court charge in May for screaming her support for Kelly at the jury as they stepped off a courthouse elevator.
Triplett remained in jail until Wednesday because she was unable to post the $5,000 cash bail imposed on her by the judge.
Upon her release, Triplett told The Chicago Tribune that she felt that Kelly should have paid her bail.
"For sure he should have stepped up," Triplett said. "R. Kelly, you should have stepped up!"
Kelly was acquitted on all 14 counts in his child pornography case by the aforementioned Chicago jury on June 13th.
Bo Diddley
Artist: Bo Diddley
Genre(s):
Rock
Jazz
R&B: Soul
Retro
Blues
Discography:
Bo Diddley Rides Again-Bo Diddley in the Spotlight
Year: 2002
Tracks: 24
His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
A Man Amongst Men
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Gold Collection
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
The Chess Box
Year: 1990
Tracks: 45
Go Bo Diddley
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
The 20th Anniversary Of Rock 'N' Roll
Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
500% More Man
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
Bo Diddley
Year: 1963
Tracks: 11
Signifying Blues
Year:
Tracks: 14
Rare and Well Done
Year:
Tracks: 16
Collection (Boogie Woogie)
Year:
Tracks: 2
Bo's Guitar
Year:
Tracks: 1
Bo Diddley and Muddy Watters
Year:
Tracks: 14
He only had a few hits in the fifties and early '60s, only as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't pass judgment an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early bikers. The Bo Diddley beat -- bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp -- is nonpareil of rock & roll's basics rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knock-offs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmical attack and large, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His stylemark nonnatural vibrating, blurred guitar style did much to extend the instrument's office and chain. But even more authoritative, Bo's bounce was playfulness and overwhelmingly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized stone & roll at its most humorously off-the-wall and devil-may-care.
Earlier pickings up blue devils and R&B, Diddley had actually studied classical violin, only shifted gears after hearing John Lee Hooker. In the early '50s, he began acting with his longtime partner, maraca instrumentalist Jerome Green, to catch what Bo's called "that consignment groom reasoned." Billy Boy Arnold, a fine vapours harmonica player and isaac Bashevis Singer in his have right, was too playing with Diddley when the guitar player got a consider with Chess in the mid-'50s (after being turned down by match Chicago label Vee-Jay). His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I'm a Man" (1955), was a double-sided ogre. The A-side was squiffy with futurist waves of tremolo guitar, set to an ageless greenhouse rhyme; the flip was a bump-and-grind, harmonica-driven mix, based about a annihilating blues riffian. But the solvent was non exactly vapours, or even straight R&B, but a new kind of guitar-based rock & roll, wet in the blue devils and R&B, but undischarged allegiance to neither.
Diddlyshit was never a top vender on the order of his Chess rival Chuck Berry, but o'er the succeeding half-dozen or so old age, he'd grow a catalog of classics that rival Berry's in timbre. "You Don't Love Me," "Diddly-shit Daddy," "Pretty Thing," "Diddy Wah Diddy," "World Health Organization Do You Love?," "Mona," "Road Runner," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" -- all ar stone-cold standards of early, riff-driven stone & roll at its funkiest. Oddly enough, his merely Top 20 pop come to was an atypical, laughable backward and forward hip-hop between him and Jerome Green, "Say Man," that came about nearly by accident as the pair were casual roughly in the studio.
As a live performer, Diddley was electric, using his trademark square guitars and deformed amplification to produce new sounds that awaited the innovations of '60s guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. In Great Britain, he was venerable as a giant on the order of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. The Rolling Stones in particular borrowed a mint from Bo's rhythms and attitude in their early days, although they only officially covered a couple of his tunes, "Anglesea" and "I'm Alright." Other British R&B groups like the Yardbirds, Animals, and Pretty Things as well covered Diddley standards in their early years. Buddy Holly covered "Bo Diddley" and put-upon a modified Bo Diddley beat on "Non Fade Away"; when the Stones gave the song the full-on Bo treatment (complete with shaking maracas), the solvent was their number one full-grown British attain.
The British Invasion helped increase the public's sentience of Diddley's importance, and of all time since then he's been a popular live act as. Sadly, though, his life history as a recording artist -- in commercial and artistic price -- was over by the metre the Beatles and Stones attain America. He'd record with on-going and declining frequency, but later 1963, he'd never write or record whatever original material on par with his early classics. Whether he'd fagged his muse, or just felt he could sea-coast on his honor, is unvoiced to order. But he remains a life-sustaining function of the corporate stone & roll consciousness, occasionally reaching wider visibility via a 1979 term of enlistment with the Clash, a cameo character in the film Trading Places, a late-'80s go with Ronnie Wood, and a 1989 television commercial for sports place with headliner jock Bo Jackson.
Lyfe Jennings Reveals ?Baby I?m A Star? Tour and HIV/Aids Campaign
R&B singer/songwriter Lyfe Jennings kicked off the first concert of his summer tour over the weekend. Billed as the ?Baby I?m A Star? Tour, the ov...
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