Wednesday 25 June 2008

White Stripes Enjoying Odd Comeback At Euro 2008

Despite being on hiatus, The White Stripes have been enjoying an unexpected comeback at this summer’s Euro 2008 football championships.



The band’s song ‘Seven Nation Army’, which appeared on their 2003 record ‘Elephant’, has already outshone the tournament’s official themes sung by Shaggy and Enrique Iglesias.



‘Seven Nation Army’ has been on the receiving end of massive radio play during the tournament, in addition to accompanying teams onto the pitch before each game.



Fans have also been putting their own individual spin on the songs catchy guitar hook.



Speaking to the Reuters news agency, Russell Warby, the bands London agent, said was already popular within Italian club football.



"Football anthems are the people's folk music," he said. "They grow in this way."



The last song to captivate a football tournament in this way was The Lightning Seeds ‘Three Lions’ in 1996.


The White Stripes, who were forced to cancel their tour plans last year because of ill health, are expected to record their new album later this year.




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Saturday 21 June 2008

Papa Don't Preach!

It's Father's day, and there's a ton of daddies in Hollywood -- and they're spreading' their seeds all over town!
Who's Your Daddy? -- click to launch



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Joan Jett hasn't heard Britney Spears 'Rock 'N' Roll' cover

Rock icon Joan Jett has admitted she has never heard Britney Spears' cover of her track 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll'.

The 70's rocker also said she doubts Spears even likes rock 'n' roll music.

Speaking to [url=http:// www.thelipster.com]Thelipster.com[/url] Jett said of the cover, originally a hit in 1982: "I've never even heard Britney's version. I mean, I've obviously heard about it, but I never understood that whole idea."

She added: "I mean, people usually cover a song that says something about them, but I doubt she loves rock 'n' roll. Maybe she likes songs."

Ford Blues Band

Ford Blues Band   
Artist: Ford Blues Band

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   



Discography:


The Ford Blues Band   
 The Ford Blues Band

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13




After leaving Ukiah, CA, and moving south to San Francisco to variety the Charles Ford Band (named for their father) in the late '60s with harp player Gary Smith, brothers Pat (drums) and Robben (guitar) were enlisted by Charlie Musselwhite and were polar members of one of the c. H. Best aggregations the harper ever lED. Leaving Musselwhite after recording Arhoolie's Takin' My Time, they recruited bassist Stan Poplin and jr. comrade Mark, then age 17, on harp and played below the name the Real Charles Ford Band. Heavily influenced by the original Butterfield Blues Band and the Chess catalogue, the quartette was noted for their live jazz explorations -- a great deal jamming for 30 transactions or more on a John Coltrane and George Benson tune -- and hear-a pin-drop kinetics (with Mark abandoning mike and amp to play acoustically into the room or Robben turning the volume all the way off on his fat-body Gibson L-5). Muddy Waters sabbatum in with and praised the edward Young band, and Chess Records even came suit, only the brothers split on New Year's Eve, 1971, recording their sole LP posthumously, as it were. Robben went on to major cult status via session do work and sporadic solo releases, and afterwards extended hiatuses Mark and Pat continue to gig about the Bay Area and Europe. Pat founded his have Blue Rock'it label, on which albums like The Ford Blues Band, Hot Shots and 1999 were released. The band's influence in Northern California is still tremendous, peculiarly among guitar players wHO continue to ape licks Robben forgot two decades agone.






Mad Season

Mad Season   
Artist: Mad Season

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   



Discography:


Above   
 Above

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10




Quite a few side projects containing members of far-famed Seattle-based sway bands appeared through the '90s. Most failed to extend past a small cult following comprised mainly of fans of their master bands (Brad, the Rockfords, Three Fish, Tuatara, etc.), only there were a few exceptions to rule, especially Temple of the Dog and Mad Season. The latter outfit included members of Alice in Chains (vocalizer Layne Staley), Pearl Jam (guitarist Mike McCready), and the Screaming Trees (drummer Barrett Martin), as well as the only non-Seattle based musician, bassist John Baker Saunders (world Health Organization antecedently played with such vapors artists as Hubert Sumlin and the Lamont Cranston Band, among others). The band's roots go stake to the summer of 1994, when McCready chequered himself into a Minneapolis, MN, rehab center to conflict a drinking/substance problem. It was there that McCready met local musician Saunders, and when he returned indorse to Seattle, called up Staley, world Health Organization was also at the time attempting to conflict problems with substances. With Martin rounding out the lineup, an undeniable alchemy 'tween all four-spot musicians was ascertained at their selfsame first mob session, resulting in bits of music that would eventually go in full completed songs ("Wake Up" and "River of Deceit"). Going by the make of the Gacy Bunch (which paying homage to both cruel nonparallel killer John Wayne Gacy and the platitudinal TV evidence The Brady Bunch), the iV made its live debut on Sunday, October 16, 1994, at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe. Amazingly, the group had few songs written at the clip of the show (Mary Martin later admitted that the group really had "merely jams and beginnings of songs" prepared at the time), just the performance convinced the participants that a subsequent studio recording would be in card game.Ever-changing their diagnose to Mad Season (an English verbalism for the time of year when hallucinogenic "psilocin" mushrooms ar in full bloom), the quadruple lay out up patronize at Seattle's Bad Animals recording studio, co-producing the subsequent roger Sessions themselves along with Pearl Jam's sound technologist, Brett Eliason. Mad Season gave fans a tasting of their upcoming album by playacting a couple of songs on Pearl Jam's Self-Pollution Radio programme on January 8, 1995, ahead the resulting ten-track record album, Above, was officially issued in March. A mix in of melancholy ballads and difficult sway, the album (which too featured a few vocal contributions from Screaming Trees vocaliser Mark Lanegan) proven to be a gold-certified hit, just missing the U.S. Top 20 patch its leadoff single, "River of Deceit," became a major stone wireless run into. Despite a smattering of supporting live dates and speak of farther writing/recording, Mad Season would in the end essay to be a one-off visualise. Later in 1995, a unrecorded home video of a Seattle carrying into action Live at the Moore, was issued, as was a cover of John Lennon's "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier" for the Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon album. Reportedly, songs were penned for some other Mad Season album, which ultimately went live. Mad Season and then supposedly idea virtually replacing Staley with Lanegan (and ever-changing their name to Disinformation), just no songs were recorded -- resulting in the musicians going away their dissever slipway for dear. Sadly, this proven to be the net word on Mad Season as both Saunders and Staley would eventually die out from drug overdoses.





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AC/DC

AC/DC   
Artist: AC/DC

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Metal
   Soundtrack
   



Discography:


Plug Me In (cd3)   
 Plug Me In (cd3)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


Plug Me In (cd1)   
 Plug Me In (cd1)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 20


Plug Me In (Bonus CD)   
 Plug Me In (Bonus CD)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 5


Shockingly Rare   
 Shockingly Rare

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


Family Jewels [CD 2]   
 Family Jewels [CD 2]

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20


Family Jewels [CD 1]   
 Family Jewels [CD 1]

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20


Live From The Atlantic Studios   
 Live From The Atlantic Studios

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


Safe In New York City (Single)   
 Safe In New York City (Single)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


Stiff Upper Lip (Bonus Cd)   
 Stiff Upper Lip (Bonus Cd)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 6


Stiff Upper Lip (Australian Tour Bonus CD)   
 Stiff Upper Lip (Australian Tour Bonus CD)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 6


Stiff Upper Lip   
 Stiff Upper Lip

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


Thunderbolt - A Tribute To Ac/Dc   
 Thunderbolt - A Tribute To Ac/Dc

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


Volts   
 Volts

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


Volts   
 Volts

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


Live From The Atlantic Studio   
 Live From The Atlantic Studio

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 8


Let There Be Rock, The Movie - Live In Paris, Part 2   
 Let There Be Rock, The Movie - Live In Paris, Part 2

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 8


Let There Be Rock, The Movie - Live In Paris, Part 1   
 Let There Be Rock, The Movie - Live In Paris, Part 1

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 6


Ballbreaker   
 Ballbreaker

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


Last Action Hero   
 Last Action Hero

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 1


Live [CD 2]   
 Live [CD 2]

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


Live [CD 1]   
 Live [CD 1]

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


Live (Disc 2)   
 Live (Disc 2)

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


Live (Disc 1)   
 Live (Disc 1)

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


The Razors Edge   
 The Razors Edge

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


The Razor's Edge   
 The Razor's Edge

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


Blow Up Your Video   
 Blow Up Your Video

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


Who Made Who   
 Who Made Who

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 9


Fly On The Wall   
 Fly On The Wall

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 10


'74 Jailbreak   
 '74 Jailbreak

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 5


Flick Of The Switch   
 Flick Of The Switch

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)   
 For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 10


Back In Black   
 Back In Black

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 10


Highway To Hell   
 Highway To Hell

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 10


Powerage   
 Powerage

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 9


If You Want Blood You've Got It   
 If You Want Blood You've Got It

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


Let There Be Rock (Remastered)   
 Let There Be Rock (Remastered)

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 8


Let There Be Rock   
 Let There Be Rock

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 8


High Voltage   
 High Voltage

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 9


Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap   
 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 9


Tnt   
 Tnt

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


T.N.T.   
 T.N.T.

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


High Voltage (Australian)   
 High Voltage (Australian)

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 8




 






Deadlock

Deadlock   
Artist: Deadlock

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Death,Black
   



Discography:


Wolves   
 Wolves

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


Earth.Revolt   
 Earth.Revolt

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


The Arrival   
 The Arrival

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11




Schwarzenfeld, Germany's Deadlock first came into world in 1998 merely underwent numerous alterations to both their levelheaded and personnel department before arriving at a complex fusion of death and gothic alloy, topped with the "ravisher and the beast" vocals of Sabine Weniger and Johannes Prem, for their 2001 debut album, The Arrival. The grouping was rounded prohibited by guitarists Sebastian Reichl and Gert Rymen, bassist Thomas Huschka, and drummer Tobias Graf, and their followup efforts, Ground.Disgust (2005) and Wolves (2007), saw them incorporating electronic programing, symphonic orchestrations, and regular harsher elements of calamitous metal into their ever-evolving sound.