Mp3 music: Super Fury Animals

Artist: Super Fury Animals: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Pop     Super Fury Animals's discography:      Guerrilla    Year: 1999    Tracks: 14 Super Furry Animals were ane of the first-class mail honours degree post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres -- including power crop up, punk rock, techno, and progressive stone -- creating a shimmering, melodious, smart, and willfully artsy sway & seethe. As one of the leading bands of the mid-'90s Welsh motion, they were already labeled as outsiders by their course to sing intact songs in their native natural language, just their selfsame approaching was unique, good of both notion and left wing political activism. What define them aside from their associate Welsh bands were their infectious melodic sensibilities and their wildly irreverent mental attitude, which peers like Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, 60 Ft. Dolls, and Catatonia lacked. Super Furry Animals' 1996 debut album, Fuzzy Logic, became a major English hit, charting in the Top 40 and placing in the Top Ten of many year-end critics' polls. Formed in Cardiff, Wales, in 1993, Super Furry Animals were comprised of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw "Bunf" Bunford (guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass part), Cian Ciárán (keyboards, electronics), and Dafydd Ieuan (drums). All five members had played in bands throughout their teens prior to forming the group, most notably Rhys, wHO had previously played in a jangle pop band named Emily that was in short signed to Creation, as well as a Welsh noise rock band called Ffa Coffi Pawb. Following the looseness of Ffa Coffi Pawb, Rhys played in a threesome with Pryce and Ieuan, which eventually evolved into Super Furry Animals. Initially, the group was a techno outfit, in time they speedily evolved into a neo-psychedelic and progressive pop getup. After iI long time or writing and touring, the stripe sign with the Cardiff-based independent tag Ankst and released their debut EP, Lianfairpwllgywgyllgoger Chwymdrobwlltysiliogoygoyocynygofod (In Space), which was song exclusively in Welsh. It was followed inside a few months by another EP, Moog Droog, which was likewise sung in Welsh. Both EPs were produced by Gorwel Owen. By the end of 1995, Super Furry Animals had gained a unassailable, cross-generational fan base in Wales spell assembly a potent cult following in Britain, which light-emitting diode to a six-album record sign with Creation Records. Prior to sign language with Creation, the banding had distinct to whistle the majority of their songs in English, in order to reach a wider audience. Super Furry Animals and Owen produced the group's debut album, which was preceded by deuce singles in the leaping of 1996 -- "Hometown Unicorn" and "God! Show Me Magic" -- which became curb hits. Muzzy Logic, the band's debut album, was released in the U.K. in June 1996 to uniformly excellent reviews. Within a few months, SFA had go unmatchable of the hippest bands in British independent music, with respective of the group's lyric touchstones -- almost notably the notorious Welsh locoweed runner Howard Marks, world Health Organization appeared on the shroud of Blurry Logic -- having go pop culture references. Super Furry Animals likewise became ill-famed during the summer of 1996 for attendance all of the pop music festivals in a mammoth storage tank. "Something 4 the Weekend" and "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" became hit singles in the summer and fall of 1996. The latter single was scheduled to possess a B-side called "The Man Don't Give a Fuck," which was built on a sample distribution of Steely Dan's "Showbiz Kids," only Donald Fagen refused to give the group license to habit the recording. By November, he relented and "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" was released as a limited edition single in early December, and it reached number 22 on the U.K. charts. Super Furry Animals entered the studios in January 1997 to record their indorsement album, Radiator, which was released in August 1997. Insurgent followed two years afterward, and in mid-2000 the band resurfaced with Mwng. Cameos by John Cale and Paul McCartney were featured on the challenging 2001 album Rings Around the World, patch 2003's Phantom Power was a looser thing. The compiling Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 and the young album Love Kraft were both released in 2005. The grouping sign-language with the Rough Trade mark in 2006 and released the addictive pop record album Hey Venus! in 2007.

Patients Get Dropped From Massachusetts Insurance Rolls

We noted last week that the universal health-coverage program in Massachusetts has helped grow the number of insured there. But the program has also hit a bureaucratic snag, the Boston Globe reports: Tens of thousands of patients have had their coverage terminated, in some cases because of errors by the patients or the state government.

Lots of those affected appear to be participants in Commonwealth Care, which covers people who don�t have access to employer-sponsored health coverage and earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. Those folks have to renew their insurance annually and tell the state every time they change jobs.

In some cases, patients have messed up filling out forms, patient advocates say. In others, the state has sent people�s mail to the wrong place. In still others, the state has misinterpreted information on the forms and mistakenly bounced people out of the program.

An example: The Globe examined the case of a patient whose employer was deducting money from her paycheck to send to Commonwealth Care � but the employer was getting the premium bill on the day it was due. Even though the bill was being paid, the patient was marked as delinquent and was bumped from coverage for four months.

Melissa Boudreault, director of Commonwealth Care, told the Globe there have been fewer than 100 wrongful terminations brought to the attention of the state agency that regulates the program. She noted that the state is overhauling the computer system that runs Commonwealth Care and the state�s Medicaid program, which should help with the issue. A spokeswoman for the state Medicaid program said the state is working to refine its mailing system and develop a reminder system and simpler renewal paperwork.

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�Eddie Loves You So� (Stax): A-

For his first addition to the Stax catalog in 34 old age, Floyd turned not to Memphis simply to Boston. Working with local producers Ducky Carlisle and Michael Dinallo, Floyd revisits songs he wrote for himself and others at the legendary phonograph recording label that was revived last year. The 73-year-old Floyd sounds astonishingly loose and soulful, as if still in his �Knock on Wood� heyday. Backed by Carlisle (drums), Dinallo (guitar) and other local artists, Floyd�s pleading voice recaptures the r & b magic that made Stax a soul institution and him part of its groundwork. Download: �Since You�ve Been Gone.�

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Gino and Geno

   
Artist: Gino and Geno

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Canto Bebo E Choro

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14


   
 Ao Vivo (cd2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Ao Vivo (cd1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Agora E So Alegria

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14

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Minogue and Martinez back together?

Princess Superstar and Alexander Technique

   
Artist: Princess Superstar and Alexander Technique

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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 Djs Are Not Rockstars

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Ian Brown

   
Artist: Ian Brown

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The World Is Yours

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 24


   
 Remixes Of The Spheres (Ichinisan)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Remixes Of The Spheres

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Music Of The Spheres

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


   
 Unfinished Monkey Business

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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The frontman for one of the most revered British bands of the eighties and '90s, Ian Brown symbolized the self-important cocksureness of his mouthpiece, the Stone Roses. Although the chemical group released nonpareil of the trinity or four most influential records of the ten in 1989 (their debut, at that), they lento imploded during the early '90s and released only one more than album earlier splitting up. Guitarist/songwriter John Squire formed a new band, Seahorses, while bassist Mani (Gary Mounfield) joined Primal Scream. Brown inaugurated his post-Stone Roses vocation with a 1998 solo LP, Unfinished Monkey Business. The album was recorded with the serve of ex-Roses replacement guitar player Aziz Ibrahim, only spotlighted a more emotionally divers coming to music-making than expected. The excellent follow-up, Aureate Greats, arrived in the States in early 2000, and Music of the Spheres followed one class after. In 2003, Brown contributed a volume in the Under the Influence series and had a cameo in the third Harry Potter pic, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The side by side class Brown released Solarized, his most varied and politically charged record to date. He worked with hip-hop producer Emile and an alternative supergroup (featuring Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Paul Ryder) for 2007's The World Is Yours.

Nailbomb

   
Artist: Nailbomb

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Metal: Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Proud Commit Comercial Suicide

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 Point Blank

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13

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Nailbomb was a brief contrive between ex-Sepultura singer/guitarist Max Cavalera and ex-Fudge Tunnel singer/guitarist Alex Newport. Although both of the bandmembers' full-time bands specialized in extreme metal sounds, Nailbomb somehow found a elbow room to create even more dense and harsh metallic sounds (it too proves to be more repetitive, with the odd sample and brake drum machine detected here and in that respect). In addition to the duo, most of Cavalera's then-bandmates from Sepultura (guitar player Andreas Kisser and drummer Igor Cavalera) and Fear Factory guitar player Dino Cazares made particular guest appearances on Nailbomb's debut recording for Roadrunner Records, 1994's Point Blank, patch the group's last release, 1995's Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, featured appearances from former Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro, Biohazard bassist Evan Seinfeld, and Front Line Assembly/Fear Factory keyboardist Rhys Fulber. Since their soph release, little has been heard from Nailbomb, as Cavalera returned back to Sepultura (later going away the chemical group to form Soulfly) and Newport began producing other hard rock candy artists (including At the Drive-In, Samiam, and Will Haven, among others).

Memoir coming from Madonna's brother

NEW YORK — The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by Simon & Schuster with a first printing of 350,000, the publisher said Wednesday.

The publisher had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, asking bookstores to order copies without identifying the author or contents.

Persuading stores to make "blind" orders has been tried before. In 2006, William Morrow offered a mysterious tell-all that turned out to be by Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, who had already written about her. Retailers were angered, and the book sold poorly.

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Brown Boy

   
Artist: Brown Boy

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Chicano Rap Riderz

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16

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Even though Latin tap music did non pull together a great deal interior attention up until the 2000s (with some exceptions like Cypress Hill and Big Punisher), America's Southwest e'er has seen a number of Latino/a rappers, like California's Brown Boy, contend for wireless airplay with widely known artists. Brown Boy's "Elvis" slow jam topped many wireless outlets' favourite playlists and appeared on Billboard's Top Rhythmic 40 in 2006. Hailing from Blythe, CA, Brown Boy earned his refer from his baby-faced look and Chicano pridefulness. Although his superlative influence was alternative hip-hop radical Lighter Shade of Brown, Brown Boy's number 1 deuce albums, Change the Game and Represent the Brown, were filled with hardcore Chicano raps. However, the positive responses received from the radio-friendly single "Succeeding 2 U" of the latter record album positive him to be more than of himself in his medicine. In August 2005, he released the Livin' Shady album, which contained "Superman," on Aries Music, distributed via EMI Latin. Still palmy from the exposure of Livin' Shady, he released Chicano Rap Riderz in July 2006.

Kim Larsen and Kjukken

   
Artist: Kim Larsen and Kjukken

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 glemmebogen Jul Notar

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Glemmebogen Jul and Nytar

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Starsailor recruits Ron Wood for album

Stones guitarist plays on track 'All the Plans We Made'





DETROIT -- The return of original producer Steve Osborne and a guest appearance by a Rolling Stone highlight Starsailor's upcoming fourth album.
Tentatively titled "All the Plans," the album features Stones guitarist Ron Wood on the track "All the Plans We Made," Starsailor frontman James Walsh said. "We kept asking him if he'd be up for playing some guitar on the record, and at the time he was busy promoting the film ('Shine a Light'). So there were a couple of months there where he just wasn't available to do it.
"Then I got a call about half past 6 one evening from his son Jesse saying, 'My dad really wants to do this now. Can you be at the studio (at) 9 o'clock?' So from having sort of given up the ghost it all came together out of the blue. It was amazing; he stood there playing the guitar, saying the song reminded him of 'Maggie May' -- quite high praise, indeed."
Walsh described the rest of "All the Plans" as "back to our roots in a lot of ways," and a "reaction" to the "darker and heavier" tone of 2005's "On the Outside." "On this album, there's a lot more light to it, and we've reverted back to the more acoustic guitar- and piano-driven sound on a lot of the tracks," Walsh said. "It's hard to encapsulate it in one word or phrase, though."
Starsailor recorded the album in four studios around England, and other song titles include "Stars and Stripes," "Tell Me It's Not Over," and "Boy in Waiting." When it comes out remains a mystery, however; Walsh said the album has been finished since May and the band is waiting for EMI to decide on a release date.
"It's definitely frustrating when you've got a finished record you want to get out and promote," Walsh said, "But we're keeping ourselves as busy as we can." That includes opening for the Police on its U.K. dates this month as well as performances at the Isle of Wight Festival and Hard Rock Calling in Britain and the Cactus Festival in Belgium.

Devo to stage art exhibition

Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh is planning a touring exhibition of his artwork in the US called 'The Postcard Diaries'.

The show chronicle his early tours with Devo and feature original postcard-sized works created as his personal diaries.

The images were never intended for public viewing but Mothersbaugh was convinced to display them.

�??Usually, the only way someone can get an original sketch is if I give it to them myself," he explained. "I�??ve sent a few in the mail, and handed others out to friends and family. I�??ve probably got around 30,000 of them filed away now�?�and I keep making more every day. The limited edition prints are my way of sharing these personal images with other people around the world.�?�

Postcard Diaries and Beautiful Mutants photographs will go on show at The Sacred Rose Tattoo Gallery in Berkley on May 24 and Chicago's DLG Gallery/River North on June 6.

'Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions'

If asked to name the recording artist whose music came closest to serving as a soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most pop fans would probably think of James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan.

But a new DVD makes a strong case that the best answer is Curtis Mayfield. With the Impressions vocal group and on his own, Mayfield was a commanding, trailblazing songwriter, singer and guitarist, and he used those skills to create some of the most influential and inspirational recordings of the civil rights era.

Three years before Brown's landmark "Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud," the Impressions broke into the R&B Top 10 in 1965 with "People Get Ready," a gospel-tinged tune by Mayfield that became one of the anthems of the movement. Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and U2 are among the scores of recording artists who have sung the song.





Then, three years before Marvin Gaye's socially conscious "What's Going On" and five years before Wonder's wake-up call in the "Innervisions" album, Mayfield and the Impressions reached No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1968 with another glorious expression of black pride, "We're a Winner."

Andrew Young, the civil rights activist and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who was interviewed for the DVD, "Movin' On Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions," says he frequently heard the "spiritual power" of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Mayfield's music. Public Enemy's Chuck D too is convincing when he says Mayfield "left an impression on our soul" and helped inspire rappers to reflect on personal inner-city life struggles.

The DVD, released today, focuses on Mayfield's message, but its main value rests in the vintage footage of Mayfield and the group, which also included Fred Cash and Sam Gooden. In nearly two dozen performances, we can see Mayfield evolve from a young, somewhat awkward musical hopeful to one of the most supremely gifted and confident artists of the modern pop era. It's an illuminating and invaluable work.

Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions

"Movin' On Up: The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions"

Reelin' in the Years Productions/Universal Music Group International

The back story: Mayfield, who died in 1999 at the age of 57, was honored several times in his life, including two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- once as a member of the Impressions and then as a solo artist. Still, he isn't as widely known today as some of his gifted contemporaries, including Wonder and Brown.

One reason is because he recorded chiefly for labels, including ABC-Paramount and his own Curtom, that couldn't match the star-making, promotional machinery of Motown. In addition, so much of the Impressions' music seemed so tied to the civil rights movement that mainstream pop radio stations shied away from it.

All this contributed to Mayfield & the Impressions doing far better in the R&B field (17 Top 10 singles) than in the broader pop field (only three Top 10 singles). On his own, Mayfield had additional pop success, thanks to the wide exposure of such songs as "Freddie's Dead," which he wrote for the film "Superfly."

Mayfield's unbending optimism and faith came to him naturally. At the peak of his success in the early 1970s, he told me his grandmother was one of his biggest influences. "She was a very religious person. She always had something inspiring to say," he added in that gentle, distinctive high tenor voice.

Taking over as leader of the group after singer Jerry Butler left in the late 1950s, Mayfield wrote a battery of hits, including "Keep On Pushing" and "Choice of Colors," before leaving for a solo role himself in 1970. Cash and Gooden, who are interviewed in the DVD, brought in Leroy Hutson to replace Mayfield. While the group continued to have hits, its legacy is tied to the Mayfield years.

Despite the "Superfly" success of the early 1970s, Mayfield changed his priorities and eventually began devoting more time to his family than his music.

Just when Mayfield seemed to be on the verge of a comeback, he was hurt in a freak accident in the summer of 1990 in Brooklyn that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He was in such bad shape by the time he recorded his last album, 1996's "New World Order," that he had to record the vocals while lying down to preserve his strength.

Mayfield's high-pitched voice on his records often seemed at odds with the power of his vocals, but his guitar riffs conveyed much of the power and tension of his songs.

Future listening: The most rewarding way to sample Mayfield & the Impressions on CD is Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions' "The Anthology 1961-1977," a two-disc set from Geffen/MCA that includes 40 of the best-known tunes, including "Superfly" material.

Backtracking is a biweekly feature devoted to CD reissues and other historical pop items.

Ashkhabad

   
Artist: Ashkhabad

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   

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Discography:


   
 City of Love

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11

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The melodic traditions of Turkmenistan ar combined with non-eastern music influences by Ashkhabad. With its mixture of such Middle Eastern instruments as serp, nagara, taragat and dutar and western classical instruments including fiddle, viola and cello, the group creates a sound that recalls the cinematic euphony of Egypt and India.


Centered about piano accordion player Kurban Kurbanov and vocalist Atabai Tsharykuliev, Ashkhabad takes their identify from their site of source, the das Kapital city of Turkmenistan, placed in the defect plains of western Turkistan nigh the foothills of the Elburz Mountains.


Ashkhabad's debut album, "Metropolis Of Love", released in 1993, united Turkmenistan musicians including Khekberdy Allamuradov (serp, dep and nagara), Sabir Rizaer (clarinet, percussion, soprano sax, serp and nagara), Gassan Mamedov (fiddle) and Bernd von Ostrowski (bass, acoustic bass) and London-based musicians including David DeFries (fluegelhorn), Caroline LaVello (violoncello), Jacelyn Pook (genus Viola) and Sonia Slang (fiddle). Liner notes for the album were written by Peter Gabriel.

George Michael 'To End Touring Career' In August

George Michael will play two concerts in London last this year that will bring to an end the singer's touring career, it's been announced.



Michael's dates at Earl's Court, which have been dubbed 'The Final Two', will take place on August 24th and 25th.



They mark the end of the singer's current 25 Live tour, which began in Barcelona in 2006 and will call in America before concluding in the United Kingdom.



A statement on the singer's website said the “very special shows will naturally feature Michael's hits, some tracks not previously performed in Britain, and a stunning new stage set."



Although the shows will end Michael's touring career, he is still expected to play one off performances in the future.



As previously reported, the former Wham! Star is currently writing his autobiography, which is due to be released in the Autumn.

For ticket information, check out our new look Gig Guide.

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