Shaq's Had His Fill of Kobe & other: June 2008

Monday 30 June 2008

Crack In The USSR

So you're a Russian billionaire looking for the perfect musical accompaniment to your sophisticated art gallery opening? A string quartet, perhaps?

Or a recovering crack addict who appeared at her last show an hour late, covered in bruises and bandages with a highly contagious condition that makes the skin fall off her face.

Oligarch Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend Daria Zhukova have gone for the latter, and booked Amy Winehouse to entertain their uber rich friends, celebrities and art-world bigwigs at the gala opening of their new Moscow gallery tonight.

Amy, who is struggling to beat an addiction to crack cocaine, is due to play to 300 guests at the couple's brand new Center for Contemporary Culture just outside the city.

Amy, 24, made a disappointing comeback show in Portugal last month, after calling off an arena tour, getting on stage an hour late, then admitting she should have canceled the show before stumbling through a severely shortened set.

There was speculation that the nasty looking bruise on her neck was a love bite from her husband, Blake Fielder Civil, who she had visited in prison shortly before flying to the show.�

See Also

Train Kept A-Rollin'

Artist: Train Kept A-Rollin'

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 Disc 9

Year: 2003
Tracks: 36

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 Disc 8

Year: 2003
Tracks: 35

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 Disc 7

Year: 2003
Tracks: 38

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 (6 of 9)

Year: 1964
Tracks: 28

Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood: The Complete Recordings 1955-1964 (1 of 9)

Year: 1964
Tracks: 32

Sunday 29 June 2008

Fat Freddy's Drop

Artist: Fat Freddy's Drop

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening
   Drum & Bass
   funk
   Reggae
   Techno
   Industrial

Discography:

Live at the Matterhorn

Year: 2006
Tracks: 4

Kartel Music (KART011)

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Friendly Beats

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Cay's Crays Remixes Pt. 2

Year: 2006
Tracks: 3

Based on a True Story

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Live in Paris

Year: 2005
Tracks: 4

Hope for a generation EP

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Sonar Kollektiv

Year: 2002
Tracks: 1

SK084

Year:
Tracks: 2

Sierra Maestra

Artist: Sierra Maestra

   Genre(s):
Latin

Discography:

Dundunbanza

Year: 1994
Tracks: 9

Havana-based radical Sierra Maestra is i of the foremost bands playacting the Cuban word style, which enjoyed its height of popularity in the '20s and '30s. Though word experienced significant revival and renewed international interest thanks to the late-'90s Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, Sierra Maestra gave the music a new rent on life as other as the late '70s. Headed by Juan d'Marcos GonzÃ¡lez, the nine-piece rig came in concert in 1976 for a performance at the University of Havana, the musicians' alma mater. Utilizing traditional instrumentation including tres, guitar, bongo, guiro, trumpet, and voice, united by congas, maracas, and galvanic base, the musicians named their mathematical group subsequently the mountain range where word was innate. Band loss leader GonzÃ¡lez was joined by Daniel Ramos Alayo (trumpet), Carlos GonzÃ¡lez (tragelaphus eurycerus), Carlos Pisseaux (guiro), Alberto ValdÃ©s (maracas and voice), Luis BÃ¡rgaza (voice), JosÃ© Antonio RodrÃguez (guitar and voice), Eduardo Himely (sea bass and conga), and Alejandro SuÃ¡rez (clave and voice). Through regular performance and tV appearances, Sierra Maestra became a national front-runner, victorious national awards in their kickoff troika long time in military operation. The band's debut recording, Sierra Maestra LlegÃ³ yardbird el Guanajo Relleno, earned silver status in the yr of its release, 1981. Popular critical reception and widespread popularity open doors for international touring in the early '80s. Following their sophomore departure, Y Son AsÃ (1982), Sierra Maestra toured all over Europe, appearing at significant festivals in Sweden, France, Germany, and Spain. Starting with their 1994 release Dundunbanza!, Sierra Maestra's recordings presently became available to international audiences. Their discography grew importantly throughout the '90s and 2000s, including better than a xII titles by 2006's Boy: Soul of a Nation. The musicians' commitment to the repertory of artists such as Arsenio RodrÃguez and the compositions of their have members earned them a reputation as both artful custodians of a tradition and vivid innovators as well.

Crazy Fan to Beckham: Let's Hug It Out

Bugz In The Attic

Artist: Bugz In The Attic

   Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
   Trance

Discography:

Back in the Doghouse

Year: 2006
Tracks: 16

Fabriclive.12

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Present Family Factory

Year:
Tracks: 4

Bugz in the Attic is an all-star broken thump gang of DJs and producers based in West London -- a corporate that includes (merely isn't special to) Afronaught, Seiji, Daz-I-Kue, Kaidi Tatham, Mark Force, and Alex Phountzi. Whether lonely, together, or involved in their many sliver projects and one-offs, the members of Bugz in the Attic have likely played a role in well all over half (if non a higher portion) of the releases that can be categorised as broken beat. The group has besides run its possess Co-Op club night and the Bitasweet label as well, which has been an electrical outlet for some of their involvements and interests, including the Phuturistic Dancin' anthologies, Seiji's Remixes compilation, and Dego McFarlane's releases as Cousin Cockroach. In late 2003, they made their contribution to the Fabriclive serial of mix discs.

The Love Guru - 6/20/2008

Jonathan Livingstone

Artist: Jonathan Livingstone

   Genre(s):
Retro

Discography:

Mistiq suite

Year:
Tracks: 7

Chesterfield Kings

Artist: Chesterfield Kings

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

The Mindbending Sounds of the Chesterfield Kings

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

I Ain't No Miracle Worker (7'')

Year: 1979
Tracks: 2

Upstate New York's Chesterfield Kings landed upon the ontogenesis punk/new undulation scene in the former '70s with an improbably raw '60s rhythm & megrims intelligent that borrowed hard from pre-1966 Rolling Stones. The chemical group, so different any other metro sensations of the period, arguably kickstarted the entire '80s service department careen revitalisation, which flourished in modest circles until the last of the decade.

After releasing two scene-defining LPs, Here Are the Chesterfield Kings and Stop!, the combo changed its card and sound. With only isaac Bashevis Singer Greg Prevost and bassist Andy Babiuk unexpended from the Kings' 1979 incarnation, the band rescinded its assure ne'er to sound like anything from rock's post-1966 history, and began to generate a '70s Rolling Stones/Flamin' Groovies hard stone image and sheen, which culminated in its 1994 LP, Let's Go Get Stoned, a sendup/tribute of postBackwash Rolling Stones. Still, the Kings have ne'er drifted overly far from their garage band roots, and the group's subsequent albums, which include Don't Open Til Doomsday (1997), Where the Action Is (1999), The Mindbending Sounds of the Chesterfield Kings (2003), and Psychedelic Sunrise (2007), have all been cut from the same framework.

Mephista

Artist: Mephista

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening

Discography:

Entomological Reflections

Year: 2004
Tracks: 15

Amy Winehouse 'does not have emphysema'

Amy Winehouse's spokesperson has said that the singer has not been diagnosed as suffering from lung disease emphysema, despite her father Mitch Winehouse saying she had.

The spokesperson told Associated Press that Winehouse's condition was not serious, and that she had in fact been told she had early signs that could lead to her suffering from the lung disease in the future.

He went on to say that Mitch Winehouse had "muddied the water" because he is "not a medical man".

He also said that Winehouse was rehearsing for her scheduled performances at both the Nelson Mandela tribute concert set for Friday (June 26) and her appearance at Glastonbury on Saturday (June 27).