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Saturday, 9 August 2008

Why?

Artist: Why?

   Genre(s):
Experimental
   Indie

Discography:

Rubber Traits

Year: 2006
Tracks: 4

Elephant Eye Lash

Year: 2005
Tracks: 12

Oaklandazulasylum

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Mark Morrison

Artist: Mark Morrison

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Return Of The Mack

Year: 1997
Tracks: 6

Mark Morrison was one of the to the highest degree successful British urban R&B singers of the mid-'90s. His discovery undivided, "Refund of the Mack," became a Top Ten bump off across Europe in 1996, and open the U.S. market for him the undermentioned year. Although he became a commercial success nearly overnight, his career was plagued by run-ins with the practice of law that prevented him from consolidating his position as a star.

Ironically, if it wasn't for poky, Morrison wouldn't get chased a career in music in all. He distinct to go a singer in 1995 piece serving a three-month sentence for causation an incident at a club. Following his acquittance, he entered the studio with a production squad. In the accrue of 1995, he released "Crazy," which became a order darling and a Top 20 bump off in Britain. It was followed in the spring of 1996 by "Return of the Mack," which became a smash make, outgo 2 weeks at number one on the U.K. charts; he became the first blackened male solo artist to reach out number ane in the '90s. Morrison's debut record album, too coroneted Reelect of the Mack, followed and sickly at number four-spot. "Let's Get Down," his one-third undivided, reached the Top 40 that summer.

Although his calling was departure intimately, Morrison was constantly in problem with the law, culminating in an catch for nerve-racking to bring a stun gun onto a airplane. He was convicted and sent to clink in early 1997. Around the like time, he received quadruplet Brit Award nominations (he didn't advance whatever), and "Refund of the Mack" began to climb its way to number 2 on the American charts.

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Unsigned band become first to play gigs on Facebook

Pop star wannabes hoping to follow in the footsteps of internet-spawned music sensations such as Lily Allen, the Arctic Monkeys and Kate Nash have been given a new window of opportunity by an enterprising London rock outfit.

The unsigned band RedBoxBlue have just completed a world first by broadcasting live gigs on the popular social networking site Facebook, finishing a five-night online residency yesterday, which attracted thousands of curious listeners.

Following their inaugural gigs, the rock-pop six- piece led by the singer songwriter Jonathan Haselden is about to secure a record label deal – a step the band believe is essential to make any headway in the music industry.

Haselden, 26, who lives in Wimbledon, south-west London, said that more than 10,000 people had watched their Facebook shows and that labels from countries as far away as Australia had been calling to speak to them. "It's been really, really successful," he said. "Bands have already starting contacting us asking how they can do the same thing – it looks like it is going to change Facebook quite quickly.

"On each gig we were getting around 2,000 people watching which from our point of view, as an unsigned band, that is fantastic. In comparison when we go out and play live in London we'd usually get a couple of hundred fans at a show.

"It was harder than I thought it would be to put this gig on, but we have had a really great response and are really proud of how it has gone."

Until now, MySpace has been the social networking website of choice for singers and bands, but RedBoxBlue's initiative could see a shift in the balance of power with other musicians lining up to promote themselves on Facebook.

To get the show online the band had to get permission from the website in the UK and have an entirely new programme developed for the site that would allow the gig to be streamed live. The application which Facebook users had to load on to their page was developed by the specialist American social networking technology company KyteTV.

Haselden said: "Some people didn't believe we were actually performing live, so to prove it we answered questions during that the shows that people had come online and asked us through Facebook.

"There have been online gigs before of course and you can do it through MySpace, but we thought doing it through Facebook would better target our fan base, which is generally 18-to 35-year-olds.

"MySpace generally has a little younger audience and is definitely more geared up for music and for fans to interact. Facebook has a long way to go, but is really useful for attracting new fans because of its strong networking element.

"If one person added the application to watch our gig, all their friends could see, and then they might also come and have a look at our profile or watch one of the shows which stayed on the site after we'd finished performing."

Haselden, who has been playing guitar since the age of 11 and has been in bands for nine years, fronts RedBoxBlue along with the drummer, Tom Marrow, the keyboardist, Sam Harrop, the bassist, Dominic Gianetta, and the guitarists, Rob Bohner and Tino Simpson, who also sing.

The band's musical influences are distinctly rock and include Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Oasis.

Haselden has experience of online firsts. In 2006, he sold a lyric from one of his tracks for more than £11,000 on eBay after placing the song online in a desperate bid to get noticed.

He said: "When I sold that line I got good coverage and at that point I got the band together, it all kick-started from there. I don't have any more online stunts planned at the moment, but watch this space."

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Monday, 16 June 2008

McCartney's Homecoming A Hit With Fans

Sir Paul McCartney thrilled 36,000 music fans on Sunday night after playing a sensational homecoming gig in his native Liverpool, England. The former Beatle headlined the show at Liverpool's Anfield stadium to celebrate the English city being crowned as the European Capital of Culture for 2008. McCartney kicked off the show singing Chan Romero's Hippy Hippy Shake to the ecstatic crowd before jaunting into a mixed musical set, including songs from his days with the Beatles as well as his solo work. And the singer was happy to be back performing in his hometown: "I was born just down the road and I lived not far from here. Every time I come back to Liverpool all the memories come flooding back." McCartney was joined onstage by Foo Fighters rocker Dave Grohl, who played guitar while the former Beatle sang a Wings track. The evening also attracted McCartney's former bandmate John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, who watched his set from the audience. Other bands to take part in the celebration included fellow Liverpudlian musicians The Zutons, who originally wrote and recorded Amy Winehouse's track Valerie, and British rockers Kaiser Chiefs.

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Friday, 6 June 2008

Ford denies wedding rumours

Harrison Ford has blasted rumours he is planning to marry longtime girlfriend Calista Flockhart this summer, imdb.com reports. Some have suggested the pair, who have dated since 2002, will make their union formal as soon as Ford finishes promotional duties on the new Indiana Jones movie. But a representative for the 65-year-old insists marriage reports are �tabloid rumour and nothing more.�

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