Download Cronian mp3

Artist: Cronian: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Metal     Discography:      Terra    Year: 2006    Tracks: 9 Norwegian avant alloy pair Cronian sprung from the imaginativeness of black metallic element regulars Andreas Hedlund (aka Vintersong, here code-named Mr. V) and Borknagar's Øystein G. Brun, both of whom channeled their multi-instrumental abilities and innate familiarity with Scandinavian hypothermia into the symphonically decorated progressive metallic element of their 2006 collaborationism, Terra.

'American Idol' getting 'more girl power'

Kara DioGuardi joining Fox show as fourth judge





Simon, Paula, Randy and ... Kara?

Continuing to make good on its promise to shake up "American Idol" adjacent season, Fox announced Monday that songwriter/music producer Kara DioGuardi has joined the reality hit as a fourth judge.

"We are turn the heat up on 'Idol' this year and are thrilled to welcome Kara to the judges' table," creator and executive producer Simon Fuller said. "She is a smart, sassy lady and 1 of America's most successful songwriters. We know she will get a raw level of energy and excitement to the show."

On a conference call with reporters Monday, DioGuardi aforementioned she will look for "artistry, not just karaoke" when judgement "Idol" contestants.

"What makes an creative person is individual who's singular; when their song comes on the radio I know precisely who it is," she said. "It's not about vocal acrobatics."

Fox and "Idol" producers have promised to shake up "Idol" for its approaching eighth season after this year's slight ratings reduction. Longtime executive producer Nigel Lythgoe exited the show this calendar month.

Fox has assured that any changes would not involve removing one of the trinity original book of Judges, but adding a fourth judge allows Fox to potentially stimulate cuts should DioGuardi prove popular.

Abdul was quoted Monday as organism "concerned" around the employ. DioGuardi told reporters Abdul's comment was understandable: "She's just brooding what could or could not materialise like anybody would."

"For the past seven-spot seasons, Paula has had to die hard the see of beingness the just woman at the judges' table," Fox president of alternative Mike Darnell aforesaid. "With Kara by her side, Paula finally has some backup, and now there is going to be a lot more girl force on the show."

The Grammy-nominated DioGuardi has composed songs for Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Santana and Pink, and she's worked with such adolescent artists as the Jonas Brothers and Hillary Duff. With "Idol" viewers maturation older every season, she could bring a more than teen-market position to the table.

Executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz far-famed that producers originally intended for the show to have little Joe judges, a format adopted by the show's U.K. forebear "Pop Idol."

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood is one of those rare studio apartment system movies that started out as a even genre film and somehow surpassed itself, feeding off a creative energy that generated its own wholesale artistry. It blurs the line of categories to include all types and styles: a swashbuckling action-adventure; a romanticist fairy story full of yearning looks and pellucid eyes; a sight-gag comedy with spruce derring-do and hilarious costumes. Coming

Dennis Wilson

   
Artist: Dennis Wilson

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Bamboo (unreleased second album)

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 17


   
 Pacific Ocean Blue

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 12

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Backstage Secrets of 'Dancing Stars'

RZA on Chess, His New Album, and His Favorite Broccoli Recipes

Photo: Marc Morrison / Retna
The RZA returns! And talks to us! After recently launching his online chess site WuChess (and getting stomped by New York Times chess editor Dylan McClain in the process), hip-hop’s alpha nerd has revived his beloved Bobby Digital character for Digi Snacks, his weirdest and most jubilant record yet. The rapper who masterminded Wu-Tang and (arguably) out-funnied "Ghostbustin'-ass" Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes sat down with a super-psyched Vulture to talk chess, vegetarian cuisine, and his thoughts on Lil Wayne. Bong bong!

I’ve never played a real game of chess in my life. How quickly would you beat me?
You’ve never played in your life?! I’ll beat you in four moves, probably. A simple fuckin’ fool’s mate.

Damn. How long did it take you to develop your skills as a chess player?
Well, I’m still developing. It took me at least two and half years of fucking intense study. I was cool as a regular player coming up as a kid, but there’s a lot of fucking things about chess that I didn’t even know about until recently. They say it’s gonna take about five to seven years for me to get to where I want to be, and I’m almost three years in. But I want to get to that master level so I’ve got another five years to go, baby.



What do you say to the people who are disappointed to have to pay a subscription fee for WuChess?
They definitely shouldn’t be bummed about that. $40 a year? That ain’t shit. You pay more for a phone call. So to be part of a chess community and to know that we’re giving 20 percent of the proceeds and giving that shit to charity to help kids in communities learn chess and build up their mental powers — that’s a small price to pay. That’s not even the price of a good meal, yo.

The new album’s called Digi Snacks. What exactly is a “digi snack,” anyway?
A digi snack is something you eat to make your day feel happy.

Speaking of snacks, are you still making your famous RZA burgers?
You mean the ones with the waffles, right? Yeah I’m definitely still making those. Those are the shit.

What other vegetarian dishes are you working on?
I’ve been really big on broccoli lately, man. Nah mean? There's a couple of ways to make it. You can sauté it with butter and olive oil together. Or I like to soak it rosemary oil and then lightly fry it. Put that shit over some rice … that shit is tasty, my nigga.

So it’s been ten years since Bobby Digital. Do you feel like hip-hop needs you right now?
Really I’m just having fun right now, yo. Just put some more lyrics out there in the world, some more beats, have fun. You know, the 8 Diagrams campaign was kind of sour, so I kind of wanted to rebound against that and shit, do something else with hip-hop. Not that the album wasn’t dope; I mean that campaign itself, the participation. We didn’t go around, talk to people, do interviews. There was just a lot of shit about hip-hop that wasn’t looked out for by the group.

So Digi Snacks is just an album of having fun. I’m trying to reintroduce Bobby Digital back into the world through more than one medium. We plan on making a comic book, a feature film, a video game. So this helps to relaunch the character back to fans and get them back in the system.

Are you cool with the Wu-Tang members after all the drama surrounding 8 Diagrams?
Yeah, everything’s pretty balanced and shit.

What can you tell us about the guest appearances on the record?
I kept it to my family, meaning the brothers that’s around me a lot. We got Rugged Monk from the Black Knights. He came off jail about two years ago, and I just kept him around me. He’s a good brother. We got Thea, the girl who’s singing from out of Holland. A beautiful singer, she’s got like, an Erykah Badu–Billie Holiday voice, nah mean? She’s a clean-cut girl so she doesn’t need to be around all the vulgarity and sex that we talk about, but she came in and helped me out and had fun with it. I had John Frusciante coming in to play guitar on a couple of tracks for me. I had George Clinton and El DeBarge come in. They did a hook for my song “Up Again.” The only Wu-Tang member on the album is Inspectah Deck.

What kind of music do you listen to while you’re making records?
A little bit of everything. I listen to funk, old soul. I got an open-minded ear towards music and shit. I listen to classical, all that shit. Recently, I’m listening to the Lil Wayne album.

Some people are calling him one of the greatest of all time. Do you buy into that?
Well, from the South, you can definitely say that. Wayne is definitely one of the top five MCs to ever come out of the South. But when it comes to MCs over the years, you still got motherfuckers like Lord Finesse! And I ain’t even mention the Wu niggas yet. Nah mean? I don’t know who can burn Ghost and Rae, really. Who can fuck with the GZA? But I really did appreciate the album. I think right now, from the music I’ve been hearing, the Wayne album and Digi Snacks are the two hottest albums of the summer. —Joe Colly

Amy Fleming meets the Kills

The Balls Pond Road in Dalston isn't one of London's most salubrious hang-outs - a dusty, unkempt bus route lined with bathroom shops, builders' merchants and the odd newsagent. And yet Jamie Hince - boyfriend and reported fiance of Kate Moss - and Alison Mosshart, who together form the rock band The Kills, look right at home draped over the sofas of a deserted pub on the street. This is their neighbourhood - they can often be spotted riding the buses - and after months on the road promoting their third album, Midnight Boom, they're happy to scrape a few days at home.

Hince, who, if it wasn't for his estuary English, would be a dead ringer for Lou Reed circa the Velvet Underground, forewarns me that he had no sleep last night. "We played a gig in Paris, got in around 5am and there was no electricity in my hotel room. But I needed to charge my phone," he says as if that were a perfectly reasonable explanation. Mosshart, on the other hand, who appears messed up and edgy when performing, is fresh-faced and smiling broadly.

Until last year, being a Kills fan was meaningless to all but a small group in the know. However, since Hince started dating one of the planet's most photographed women, the band has become tabloid fodder - "cartoons", as Hince says. "It's pretty much all lies," he adds of the stories about him. "I'm engaged, I'm married, I'm divorced, I hate [the Mighty Boosh comedian] Noel Fielding - where the fuck has that come from? I bought Kate a Fabergé egg, I wrote a song for her and put it in a frame and gave it to her for her birthday, we danced on Jim Morrison's grave, we had a massive orgy at the Dorchester and the soundtrack was No Wow [the Kills' second album] ..."

"All the members of the Kills were really angry," adds Mosshart.

"Yeah, like the whole band was really pissed off with me because I was spending too much time with Kate," says Hince, riled because whoever wrote this must have been unaware that the Kills has only two members. Adding insult to injury, the Sun's gossip columnist has started referring to Moss and Hince as "Mince".

Formed in 2000 after months of sending unfinished songs to each other across the Atlantic (Mosshart is from Florida and Hince is a Londoner, although originally from Berkshire), the Kills were part of the same garage rock movement as the White Stripes, the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The band signed to indie label Domino, home to Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys. Their songs, in which the pair act out violent lovers' tiffs and seedy scenes that evoke Warhol-era New York, are constructed around a drum machine, Hince's fractious guitar riffs and Mosshart's yowling of phrases such as "I hate, the way you love". Peppered with scratchy samples of telephone dialling tones and coughing fits, their work provides "a snapshot of an experience", says Hince.

Midnight Boom is a mild departure, featuring hip-hop-inspired beats. Is it important to them that people dance to their music? "People have never really danced at a Kills show," says Hince. "They just stare at us," says Alison. "I get the feeling," Hince adds, "that watching us, people are sort of, uh, holding their breath a bit, crossing their fingers, like [they're witnessing] someone running down a hill, you know, trying not to fall over. We just ... " " ... hang in by a thread," Mosshart finishes his sentence, laughing.

And has the mainstream coverage brought new audiences? "I don't know," says Hince. "We've got lots more people. We're playing, at least in America, noticeably bigger venues. On a good day I like to think it's about the fact that we made a great record but it might be something more cynical and stupid." Has it detracted from the music? Hince sighs. "I don't know, does it take away some cred? That's for other people to decide - I never afforded myself any cred anyway. If anyone else has, then it's up to them to take it away or do whatever they want."

The Kills's three albums have received mixed reviews (the Guardian panned Midnight Boom). All cheekbones and snake hips, they have often been dismissed as a "fashion band" - the kind of people who wear sunglasses indoors. Their critics accuse them of being all style and no substance. "I still prefer that over all substance and no style," quips Hince. I point out that Mosshart was, just a moment ago, wearing her RayBans inside the pub. "It was sunny," she says, "I needed to see your eyes." This is, in fairness, true.

"I still don't understand what 'too cool for school' [a stock Kills criticism] means. That presupposes that the aim is to be not cool enough for school," says Hince, 38. "We're too old for school," says Mosshart, 29, with an air of finality.

The pair use stage names - Hotel and VV - which add to the impression that they are an art-rock version of Spinal Tap. "We were scraping together songs in my bedroom," says Hince, shuffling his cigarette packet. "I was on the dole ... we were drunk and thought it was an empty gesture because no one would ever hear our band. Now, six years later ... "

"I was like: you have one second to name me," says Mosshart.

"We were trying to outdo each other with stupid names," say Hince.

In fact, they are both impressively well read. Midnight Boom is a reference from Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans. "I've just finished three Richard Brautigan books," says Mosshart. "Jefferson [Hack, the magazine editor, who has a daughter with Kate Moss and also used to date Mosshart] gave me a Brautigan book. And I was just re-reading some Truman Capote short stories. I'm also reading a Captain Beefheart biography."

"I've got that," says Hince.

"I know you do but I can't find it because our house is so messy," says Mosshart.

They refer to their nearby home as "Red Meat Heart". I picture it full of ancient synthesisers, wires everywhere. "There's lots of gear in there," says Mosshart, "but it's more where we have our bedrooms, and do our art - drawing, painting, collage, photography."

If they weren't in the Kills, what would they be doing? They look bemused. "One thing I don't do enough of now is paint, so I'd paint more," offers Mosshart. "I always wanted to be a playwright," says Hince. "That's what I did my degree in. When I graduated I wrote a couple of plays which were on at Edinburgh Fringe festival but I got sidetracked - I was in a band and we got signed." It takes some pressing for Hince to divulge details about the plays. "One was called Danish," he says sheepishly, "but it was kind of a modern interpretation of ... oh, I can't say ... well, it was loosely based around Hamlet but it was written in cockney rhyming slang."

I leave Hince and Mosshart discussing where they intend to go for dinner and how they plan to spend an upcoming week off - Mosshart at a wedding back in Florida while Hince is heading to Istanbul for a "bit of sun. My bird's working out there, so I'll wander around the markets and then we'll have the rest of the week off."

Before then, Hince will also fit in Moss's daughter Lila's school sports day, and both Kills are looking forward to viewing a new exhibition by Moss's former boyfriend, artist Jake Chapman and his brother Dinos. I ask Hince if there's any truth in reports that the Chapmans are devising some artwork for Moss and Hince's September wedding, forgetting momentarily that he earlier denied being engaged. "Ah, but was it a double bluff though? Am I? Ooh, ooh," he says, hooting at the ridiculousness of it all.

· The Kills' new single, Last Day of Magic, is out now. They play Glastonbury on Friday and The Mighty Boosh festival July 5.


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Mathias Schaffhaeuser

   
Artist: Mathias Schaffhaeuser

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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 Love and Business

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10

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El-P collaborator dies

Last Of The Famous

   
Artist: Last Of The Famous

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 The Music Or The Misery

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13

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Jay-Z: 'glastonbury Row Is Ridiculous'

Rap superstar JAY-Z has defended his controversial forthcoming appearance at legendary U.K. music festival Glastonbury - branding the furore around his headlining slot "ridiculous".
Festival organisers' decision to book the hip-hop mogul as a headliner for the festival later this month (27-29Jun08) has been widely criticised - with Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher insisting he was a "wrong" choice for the event.
But the rapper - real name Shawn Carter - is adamant that hip-hop does, in fact, have a place at the annual British rock n' roll event.
He tells BBC Radio One, "It's ridiculous, if we don't embrace what is new, how do we progress?
"I've never actually experienced anything like that before. It's 2008, what is that about? That's such old school thinking, that's not even how the world thinks anymore. So I was really taken aback (by the criticism)."

Larry Kucharz

   
Artist: Larry Kucharz

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Ambient Red Washes

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Cybercoralcolors

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Ambient Blue Washes

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6


   
 Computerchoral Green Prints

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Digichoral Blue Portraits

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 Unit 25: Dark Red

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


   
 Electrochoral Dreams

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Harmonic Luminosity

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 9

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Larry Kucharz is an electronic composer and media artist wHO writes in both minimalist and ghostlike ambient styles. He was born in 1946 in Chicago, where he was raised. He studied pianissimo and hypothesis at the Chicago and American Conservatories of Music and took his doctor's degree at Northwestern University. He stirred to New York in 1975, where he was an active minimalist composer, filmmaker, and media creative person.


His favored tool is the Fairlight Music Computer. Kucharz tends to compose with few tonic colours, which emphasizes the unlittered melodic or rhythmic structures and interplays. He has released trey albums on the International Audiochrome label.

Download Festival fans give their verdict

Download Festival fans have been giving their verdict on this year's three day bash.

Fans have expressed a mixed reaction over the Castle Donington event which this year was headlined by Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets.

Many hailed the the festival as a huge success with some singling out Kiss as the main draw.

Alex Gladwin, 13, from Hull said: �I think Download is a brilliant festival. It's my first time here and I really enjoyed it. The vibe is here is really really good. Kiss were the best band by a mile. They were the band I came to see.�

Ujay Chan, 23, agreed saying that along with Kiss' show was a massive highlight. He was also impressed with the good range of groups on this year's line up.

He said: "There's been a great variety of bands this year than last year's line-up because you've got really heavy stuff and it's balanced out with the general melodic stuff like Lostprophets for other people. I saw Kiss on Friday night and that was very old school - like Judas Priest too, lots of old stuff which is good."

Leah Jackson, 22, however came down to the festival especially to see yesterday's main stage act Incubus.

She said: "I saw Incubus and I loved them, I'm a Brandon fan so yes that's definitely been one of the highlights."

Other fans though tended to avoid the headline acts and tended to opt for some of the smaller bands.

"Zebrahead and Skindred were the best bands," said Darrell Greest, 19, from Gosport. "They were the highlight for me because they got the crowd moving. It was just amazing.�

However, he also said he was disappointed that the site had been altered this year and there weren't more heavyweight acts on the bill.

"It's pretty good but the campsite is too far away," he said. "It�s a mile walk before you even get in. Last year was better because there were more bands I wanted to see."

Kate Rouse, 18, from Coventry shared a similar view. She said: �It's been good this year but last year was better because there were a lot more decent bands and it was organised better as well.

"As for the bands Bullet For My Valentine were the best band for me, they were really good live and they got the crowd going."

Keep up with this weekend's (June 13-15) festival action as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Isle Of Wight Festival page and NME.COM's Download Festival page for live coverage from both sites.

Blunt is critical of Spears' media treatment

Singer James Blunt has hit out at the media for reporting on Britney Spears' personal life and habits rather than her music.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Blunt described Spears as a "phenomenal artist", before criticising the media for reporting on the fact that she was photographed wearing no underwear.
"I think when you put the emphasis on her knickers and not on her talent, you lose perspective," he said.
"It really detracts, as a whole, from things that are really important, like global warming and war."
"Sending paparazzi to investigate things like this is useless. We're better than that; we have the power to teach and educate. Let's spend our time on that."

LiveDaily Song of the Day: Danger Radio - "Broken Man"

Today's Song of the Day is by Danger Radio [ tickets ]. The group's featured cut is "Broken Man," a track from their impending July release, "Used and Abused."

Ellen

   
Artist: Ellen

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Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Holiday From Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Father: Winehouse suffers lung, heart ailments

LONDON —

Amy Winehouse's father says his daughter has lung damage from smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes.

Mitch Winehouse told the Sunday Mirror newspaper Amy has early stage emphysema and has been warned that she will have to wear an oxygen mask unless she stops smoking drugs. Mitch Winehouse said Amy also had an irregular heartbeat, in an interview published Sunday.

Winehouse collapsed at her north London home Monday after signing autographs for a group of fans and was taken for tests at a London hospital. She has remained under observation.

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