Masstishaddhu

   
Artist: Masstishaddhu

   Genre(s): 
Folk: Neo-Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Shekinah

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2

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Feist and Death Cab man team up for charity album

Feist and Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard are reportedly teaming up to record a song together for the forthcoming 'Red Hot' charity album, which benefits AIDS research.

The duo will join several artists including David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Sharon Jones, Dirty Projectors and The National, who are contributing the latest instalment of the 'Red Hot' charity compilation.

Byrne, who has contributed to several 'Red Hot' compilations over the years, is collaborating with Dirty Projectors for two songs on the album.

In a posting on his website, Byrne wrote, "I�d been told more than once that we should all work together, and it seems the suggestion was fated to be realised."

Byrne said of one of the songs: "The tune is as oddly structured as any of their pieces, but you sort of don�t notice because it is really catchy and it all flows as if nothing untoward is going on whatsoever."

The as-yet-untitled album is set to be released in the autumn or in early 2009, reports Billboard.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Gorerotted

   
Artist: Gorerotted

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 A New Dawn Of The Dead

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 A New Dawn For The Dead

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9

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Gorerotted off heads in the England for its lewd, extreme expressive style of panel alloy. Influenced by genre-defining bands such as Carcass and Macabre, Gorerotted built its reputation in the alloy resistance with its 1998 demonstration, Her Gash Did I Slash, ahead unleashing its much-discussed debut, Mutilated in Minutes, which Relapse released in 2002. The European alloy press championed the album, with Terrorizer cartridge holder naming it the one-seventh best "gore" album of all time. In summation to the press funding, Gorerotted appeared at numerous European alloy festivals, including such prestigious ones as Fuck the Commerce, Obscene Extreme, and the X-Treme Justice Festival.

Michelle Williams - Williams Returns To Red-carpet At Cannes

Actress MICHELLE WILLIAMS impressed film fans by making a last minute appearance at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday (22May08) - treading her first red-carpet since the death of former partner HEATH LEDGER.

The star dazzled hordes of photographers as she made her way down the French festival's red-carpet to promote her latest movie Wendy And Lucy.

Williams has kept a low profile since the tragic passing of Ledger - the father of William's two-year-old daughter Matilda - who died from an accidental drugs overdose in his New York apartment earlier this year (Jan08).

The former Dawson's Creek star reached out the world's media in the months after Ledger's death, pleading for privacy for herself and her daughter, saying, "My heart is broken. Please respect our need to grieve privately."

But the star decided it was time to return into the public spotlight, making a last minute long-haul flight from New York to attend the renowned festival.

A representative for Wendy And Lucy explains, ""It was decided on Monday night that she could come to Cannes, and she got on the next plane to arrive just in time to get dressed and come to our premiere."

According the People.com, Williams will stay in Cannes to promote another project, Synecdoche, New York, before returning to the U.S. to continue shooting a Martin Scorcese movie.

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John Matthias, Stories From The Watercooler

Although he sounds like neither, it's quite revealing to learn that John Matthias is an associate of both Thom Yorke and Matthew Herbert, the former of whom he met at Exeter University before later contributing violin to Radiohead's The Bends, whilst the latter collaborated on Matthias'debut LP, Smalltown, Shining on Herbert's Lifelike label. For what this singer-songwriter shares with both is a despair with the intellectual debasement of Western society, something Yorke communicated in the The Eraser's dense electronica and Herbert with his creative use of samples on albums like Plat Du Jour.

Yet what Matthias conveys in electronically-tinged folk-rock feels more sad and reflective than seething or abstract. In terms of lyrical themes, Stockwell Road takes a similar approach to Yorke's Harrowdown Hill, focusing upon a real-life news story – in this case the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes – as part of a wider picture questioning the morality of the 'War On Terror'. But it's also a touchingly personal song as well, made more so by the simplicity of the sparse piano over which Matthias sings about walking the innocent man's steps every morning.

It's also more affecting than the other most overtly political song One Sunny Morning In The No-Fly Zone, where some of the imagery about bombs and Britney Spears is a little heavy-handed. Indeed, its Matthias' lightness of touch that makes for the album's most memorable moments, for he's far better at plaintive acoustic ballads like Evermore than he is at rockier tracks such as Blind Lead The Blind. Like Tuung, Matthias might colour his music with slight electronic shades, provided in here by album producers Coldcut, yet his songs are firmly in the folk story-telling tradition even when they're about resolutely contemporary concerns, be it the man determined to drive out a trendy Londoner in King Of A Small Town or the credit crunch in Viper’s Nest. But perhaps the song that says the most about Songs From The Watercooler is Stocktaking, being a beautifully melodic yet understated tune about a busker who, just like this album, doesn’t really fit in anywhere.


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Mood II Swing Feat Tara J

   
Artist: Mood II Swing Feat Tara J

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Passing Time (SR12635D)-WEB

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4

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Naksi and Brunner feat. Marcie

Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards

Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards

Freshly House of York -- Eric Avery testament rejoin his former bandmates in Jane's
Addiction for the number one meter since 1991 at the U.S. NME Awards, to
be held Apr 23 at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre.

At the event, Jane's Addiction testament be presented with the Godlike
Wizardry Laurels and represent three songs with its master batting order of
Avery, frontman Perry James Thomas Farrell, guitar player Dave Navarro and drummer
Stephen Perkins.

Avery was replaced by Flea when the stria reunited in 1997, and
after by Martyn LeNoble and Chris Chaney as Jane's continued to
go and record a newly studio record album, 2003's "Strays."

"I've chosen to eliminate the prospects of reuniting in the past for
personal and philosophical reasons. I give always considered
reunions to be a way to score a quick one dollar bill, and it sells short my
own experience of it the start time around," Avery said in a
instruction. "The intellect I started to even reckon this is because
it's observance the past rather of trying to recreate it."

Avery late released his first-class honours degree solo record album, "Help Wanted," via
Dangerbird Records.










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