Monday 25 August 2008

Duffy admits she can't dance at V Festival

Duffy admitted to fans that she can't terpsichore while playing at the southern leg of V Festival today (August 16).


The singer, wHO played the 4Music Stage, then asked the herd to dance with her.


After performing her first track 'Distant Dreamer', Duffy said: �There's an unbelievable amount of money of people here, I can't believe it! I have to admit V Festival that I can't dance so dance with me please!�


The singer and her six-piece band then launched into 'Serious', as well taken from her debut album 'Rockferry'.

Duffy, wearing a blue gingham dress and frequently swinging her microphone, declared she had �a wonderful time� before she ended the set with her recent Number One single 'Mercy'.

Duffy played:

'Distant Dreamer'

'Serious'

'Hanging On Too Long'

'Rockferry'

'Breaking My Own Heart'

'Warwick Avenue'

'Delayed Devotion'

'Stepping Stone'

'Mercy'



Keep checking NME.COM for the up-to-the-minute news, pictures, videos and blogs live from both V Festival Chelmsford and V Festival Staffordshire all weekend.



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Friday 15 August 2008

Download Fleshcrawl






Fleshcrawl
   

Artist: Fleshcrawl: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Metal: Death,Black

   







Discography:


Made Of Flesh
   

 Made Of Flesh

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 10
As Blood Rains From The Sky... We Walk The Path Of Endless Fire
   

 As Blood Rains From The Sky... We Walk The Path Of Endless Fire

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 12
Bloodred Massacre
   

 Bloodred Massacre

   Year: 1997   

Tracks: 9
Bloodsoul
   

 Bloodsoul

   Year: 1996   

Tracks: 8
Impurity
   

 Impurity

   Year: 1993   

Tracks: 10
Descend Into The Absurd
   

 Descend Into The Absurd

   Year: 1992   

Tracks: 9






Formed in 1987, death metallic element unit Fleshcrawl released its outset record album, Descent Into the Absurd, in 1992. The record, featuring the lineup of vocalizer Alex Pretzer, guitarist/bassist Mike Hanus, guitar actor Stefan Hanus, and drummer/vocalist Bastian Herzog, john Drew the stripe patronize comparisons to the likes of Cannibal Corpse. Their soph effort, Impurity, followed in 1993; after threesome farseeing time of unremitting touring, Fleshcrawl released Bloodsoul in 1996. For 1997's Bloodred Massacre, Pretzer was replaced by Sven Gross. As Blood Rains from the Sky, We Walk the Endless Path of Fire followed in the outflow of 2000.






Thursday 7 August 2008

Keira Knightley - Knightley Keen To Show Shes Brainy

Actress KEIRA KNIGHTLEY is determined to prove she is not dumb later on dropping out of shoal at 17.

The British star, who is famed for portraying upper class characters in films like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, suffers from dyslexia.

But she insists her learning disablement and poor academia register only spurs her on more to show she is smart as a whip.

She says, "It (dyslexia) makes me experience I am going to read absolutely everything so I can prove that I am not stupid."

Knightley also admits that gift up university in favor of a film life history has left her with a "bit on her shoulder" o'er her lack of education Department.

She adds, "I am totally uneducated. Not going to university did give me an unbelievable driving violence because it leaves you with a slight flake on your shoulder.





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Friday 27 June 2008

Larry Sparks

Larry Sparks   
Artist: Larry Sparks

   Genre(s): 
Country
   



Discography:


Classic Bluegrass   
 Classic Bluegrass

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 18




Larry Sparks has aforementioned that he's the youngest oldtimer about, and the self-description is an apt i. Emerging from the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys band, Sparks carried on with the sounds created by bluegrass music's first-class honours degree contemporaries. His style was no clone, however; it had a distinctively bluesy undertone anchored by Sparks' possess guitar, a relatively unusual steer pawn in bluegrass, where the tercet of mandolin, banjo, and fiddle had defined the musical texture since the genre's early years.


Sparks grew up in Lebanon, OH, in the southwesterly part of the state that has produced several other tip bluegrass artists. His parents came from Appalachian Kentucky, and one of his grandfathers was a fiddle contest champion. Sparks heard Cincinnati country star Wayne Raney on the wireless when he was pres Young and conditioned to encounter the guitar. His skills set him in demand not only for bluegrass but too for country and rock bands patch he was in heights shoal, merely after sitting in as lead guitar player with the Stanley Brothers as they toured Ohio in 1964, bluegrass took first-class honours degree place among his musical interests. Sparks played progressively often with the Stanley Brothers and made his transcription debut in 1965 on a small Dayton, OH, judge. He spent triplet days as lead singer with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys later on Carter Stanley's last at eld 41 in December 1966.


Around 1970, Sparks formed his have band, the Lonesome Ramblers, and it's a rare bluegrass Country festival or concert series that hasn't played host to Sparks multiple times in the days since. Numerous jr. bluegrass Country players get passed through the Lonesome Ramblers or appeared on Sparks' many recordings, Ricky Skaggs and fiddler Stuart Duncan existence only deuce of the best-known examples. Sparks recorded for various labels in the '70s and early '80s, moving to Rebel in 1982 for the Dark Hollow LP. It was the start in a long drawing string of recordings that sold steadily and south Korean won critical herald; most of Sparks' Rebel catalogue remained in print in the early 2000s.


Along the way, Sparks made several songs into bluegrass standards. He unearthed an obscure folk-rock composition by Lawrence Hammond entitled "John Deere Tractor" and turned it into a perennial hymn of discontent rural family adrift in the big metropolis; the cover of the sung dynasty by the Judds on their Beloved Can Build a Bridge record album of 1990 was likely traceable to Sparks' possess legion performances. The Stanley Brothers' "Goin' Up Home (To Live in Green Pastures)" was one of several gospels pieces that every parking lot pickup isthmus wanted to larn after auditory modality Sparks sing it, and Sparks tended to nidus on gospel singing in his have legion compositions as well.


Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers barely slowed down pat in the nineties, releasing several albums over the course of the decennium, and 2003's The Coldest Part of Winter showed him in unrelieved anatomy. Sparks released Net Suit You Wear in 2007.






Monday 23 June 2008

The Gift

The Gift   
Artist: The Gift

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   



Discography:


Vinyl   
 Vinyl

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


FM   
 FM

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


Film   
 Film

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


Digital Atmosphere   
 Digital Atmosphere

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


AM   
 AM

   Year:    
Tracks: 8




 






Monday 16 June 2008

Bo Diddley 1928-2008

Bo Diddley, who has died of heart failure aged 79, was a rock 'n' roll pioneer and creator of arguably the first great electric guitar riff.

Taking a lead from African tribal music, his distinctive 5/4 time signature was a trademark of most of his songs � a sound he once boastfully described as �the rhythm that shook the world�.

It was a typical remark from a man whose tongue-in-cheek self-aggrandisement became a running motif throughout his career.

In addition to the self-titled 1955 single that introduced his famous riff, he also cut records with titles like 'Diddley Daddy', 'Hey! Bo Diddley', 'Bo Diddley Is Loose', 'Bo�s A Lumberjack' and 'The Story Of Bo Diddley'...

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Sunday 15 June 2008

Sigur Ros Stream New Album For Free

Sigur Ros are letting fans stream their new album 'Me� su� � eyrum vi� spilum endalaust' in its entirety for free.


All eleven tracks can be heard via a special audio player, which can be found either here (as a widget) or on the band's official website.


It's thought the album leaking recently, ahead of the June 23rd release date, is behind the free stream.


Me� su� � eyrum vi� spilum endalaust Tracklisting:


'Gobbledigook'

'Inn� M�r Syngur Vitleysingur'

'G�an Daginn'

'Vi� Spilum Endalaust'

'Festival'

'Su� �'

'�ra B�tur'

'Illgresi'

'Flj�tav�k'

'Straumnes'

'All Alright Eyrum'




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