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Rahzel M. Brown, also known as simply Rahzel, is an American musician and beatboxer, formerly a member of The Roots.

Nicknamed the “Godfather of Noyze,” Rahzel is known for an ability to sing or rap while simultaneously beatboxing, as evidenced in his performances of “Iron Man” and his signature song “If Your Mother Only Knew”, a hidden track on Make the Music 2000. His talents are showcased in various solo projects as well as on Ben Harper’s 2000 single, “Steal My Kisses.” He also provided his own voice on video games SSX and SSX Tricky.


I Told You I Was Freaky is the second studio album by New Zealand folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords. It features 13 songs. Out of those 13, ten were released as singles on the American iTunes Store following their television debut.

It was released on 20 October in the US and 2 November in the UK. One of the songs, “Demon Woman”, was released as part of a downloadable track pack for the video game Rock Band.[14] The album cover was created by John Dyer Baizley, reminiscent of the 1972 album Summer Breeze by the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts.


At Folsom Prison is a live album and 27th overall album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song “Folsom Prison Blues”, Cash had been interested in performing at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash’s material. Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. Backed with June Carter, whom he married later that year; Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison in California on January 13, 1968. The resulting album consisted of 15 tracks from the first show and two tracks from the second.

Despite little initial investment by Columbia, the album was a hit in the United States, reaching number one on the country charts and the top 15 of the national album chart. The lead single from the album, a live version of “Folsom Prison Blues”, was a top 40 hit, Cash’s first since 1964′s “Understand Your Man”. At Folsom Prison received good reviews upon its release and the ensuing popularity revitalized Cash’s career, leading to the release of a second prison album, At San Quentin. The album was re-released with additional tracks in 1999 and as a three-disc set in 2008. It was certified Gold on October 30, 1968, Platinum and 2x Platinum on November 21, 1986 and 3x Platinum on March 27, 2003 by the R.I.A.A.


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Lucia di Lammermoor

May 17th, 2012

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor.

Listen on SpotifyDonizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, a time when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a composer of opera. Gioachino Rossini had recently retired and Vincenzo Bellini had died shortly before the premier of Lucia leaving Donizetti as “the sole reigning genius of Italian opera”.

Not only were conditions ripe for Donizetti’s success as a composer, but there was also a European interest in the history and culture of Scotland. The perceived romance of its violent wars and feuds, as well as its folklore and mythology, intrigued 19th century readers and audiences.

The story concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton (Lucia) who is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods. The setting is the Lammermuir Hills of Scotland (Lammermoor) in the 17th century.

Lucia di Lammermoor

(Drama expressed through music)


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Tosca

May 17th, 2012

Listen on SpotifyTosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.

The work, based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples’s control of Rome threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy.

It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera’s leading singers.


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Coldplay – Parachutes

May 17th, 2012

Coldplay parachutes albumcoverParachutes is the debut album by British alternative rock band Coldplay, released by the record label Parlophone on 10 July 2000 in the United Kingdom. The album was produced by the band and British record producer Ken Nelson, excluding one track which was produced by Chris Allison. Parachutes has spawned the hit singles “Shiver”, “Yellow”, “Trouble”, and “Don’t Panic”.

The album was generally a commercial success, and was met with positive reviews. Upon release, the album quickly reached number one in the United Kingdom, and has since been certified 7x platinum. In the United States, the album peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified 2x platinum. It won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2002, and has earned the band various accolades since its release. Parachutes is number 12 on the list of the 20 biggest-selling albums of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, and was the winner of the Best British Album award at the 2001 Brit Awards. As of 2011, it has sold around 8.5 million copies worldwide.


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Coldplay – Live 2003

May 17th, 2012

Coldplay live 2003 albumcoverLive 2003 is a live album by English alternative rock band Coldplay, first released in November 2003. The set features concerts filmed at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on 21 July 2003 and 22 July 2003.

It was nominated for “Best Music Video: Long Form” at the 2004 Grammy Awards.

The song “Moses”, exclusive to this album, was written about Chris Martin’s wife Gwyneth Paltrow. The song inspired the name of Chris and Gwyneth’s second child, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, born in 2006. The song was solicited to US alternative radio as the album’s only single on 6 October 2003.[8] The cut “Clocks” had a small promotional radio release in some countries like Spain.

 


Producer Mark B and MC Blade hail from South London, England. Their debut, The Unknown is a concept album (without arty pretensions) aiming to celebrate home-grown hip-hop.

Conceived as a call to arms, Mark B and Blade’s collaboration deserve plaudits outside US comparison. Alongside, Big Dada’s Gamma they have mounted a rap attack on hip-hop’s dumbed-down status quo with an album that is lyrically and sonically superb. Although the subject matter may be monotonous for most (the under-appreciation of UK hip-hop), the delivery certainly is not.

Though elderly (in UK hip-hop terms), Blade’s baritone breath control is timeless. He rhymes with a furrowed brow straight across battle-scarred lines, assaulting conformists on “From The Wordlab” or criticising the music industry’s predilection for fads on “Ya Don’t See The Signs”. The ever-prolific Mark B profits from eccentricity; for him all music from Polish folk music to Elmer Bernstein-style brass is relevant. His desire to search and utilise the ultimate but strangest breaks marks him out as an innovative talent who can produce world-class state of the art hip-hop.



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Facebook’d Music

May 15th, 2012


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Tourist History is the debut studio album by Northern Ireland band Two Door Cinema Club. It was released on 26 February 2010 in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Kitsuné Music, and 27 April in the United States on Glassnote Records. The band announced the details of their album on 1 January 2010 in an interview with NME.[1] The idea for the album title “Tourist History” came from the popularity of their hometown Bangor with tourists, and of their own travels as Two Door Cinema Club.



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Dave Grohl joined the grunge group Nirvana as its drummer. During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote some small songs. Grohl held back these songs from the rest of the band; he said in 1997, “I was in awe of frontman Kurt Cobain’s songs, and intimidated. I thought it was best that I keep my songs to myself.”

Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers of songs he liked and even issued a cassette of some of those songs called Pocketwatch under the pseudonym “Late!” in 1992.

Frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994, and Nirvana subsequently disbanded. Grohl received offers to work with various artists; he almost accepted a permanent position as drummer in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Ultimately Grohl declined and instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to record fifteen of the forty songs he had written.

With the exception of a guitar part on “X-Static,” played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Grohl played every instrument and sang every vocal on the tracks.[7] “I was supposed to just join another band and be a drummer the rest of my life,” Grohl later said. “I thought that I would rather do what no one expected me to do. I enjoy writing music and I enjoy trying to sing, and there’s nothing anyone can really do to discourage me.” Grohl completed an album’s worth of material in five days and handed out cassette copies of the sessions to his friends for feedback.

Grohl hoped to keep his anonymity and release the recordings in a limited run under the title “Foo Fighters”, taken from the World War II term “foo fighter”, used to refer to unidentified flying objects.

However, the demo tape circulated in the music industry, creating interest among record labels.

Grohl formed a band to support the album. Initially, he talked to former Nirvana band mate Krist Novoselic about joining the group, but both decided against it. “For Krist and I, it would have felt really natural and really great”, Grohl explained. “But for everyone else, it would have been weird, and it would have left me in a really bad position. Then I really would have been under the microscope.”

Having heard about the disbanding of Seattle-based rock band Sunny Day Real Estate, Grohl drafted the group’s bass player, Nate Mendel, and drummer, William Goldsmith. Grohl asked Pat Smear, who served as a touring guitarist for Nirvana after the release of its 1993 album, In Utero, to join as the group’s second guitarist. Grohl ultimately licensed the album to Capitol Records, releasing it on his new record label, Roswell Records.

Foo Fighters made their live public debut on February 23, 1995 at the Jambalaya Club in Arcata, California and then March 3 at The Satyricon in Portland. They followed that with a show at the Velvet Elvis in Seattle on March 4. The March 3 show had been part of a benefit gig to aid the finances of the investigation into the rape and murder of The Gits singer Mia Zapata. Grohl refused to do interviews or tour large venues to promote the album.

Foo Fighters undertook their first major tour in the spring of 1995, opening for Mike Watt. The band’s first single, “This Is a Call”, was released in June 1995, and its debut album Foo Fighters was released the next month. “I’ll Stick Around”, “For All The Cows”, and “Big Me” were released as subsequent singles. The band spent the following months on tour, including their first appearance at the Reading Festival in England in August.


Catch a Fire is the major-label-debut album for Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers, released on Island Records on 13 April 1973. Although unsuccessful, the album’s supporting concert tour throughout England and the United States helped establish the band as international stars.

Catch a Fire peaked at number 171 and number 51 on Billboard’s 200 and Black Albums charts, respectively. The album has received critical acclaim, including being listed at number 123 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the second highest placement of the five Bob Marley albums on the list, after the posthumous compilation album Legend. It is also regarded as one of the top reggae albums of all time.


Kleptomania and other releases (2004-present)

With news of the split being confirmed and with the knowledge that most of the fourth album, which was set to be self titled, had already been recorded, an online petition was set up by fans to persuade Parlophone to release the material. The tracks intended for the album were then released in September 2004, along with the non-album singles and a selection of B-sides (compiled by Draper from a top 20 voted for by fans on the band’s official website) and rarities in a 3 CD box set entitled Kleptomania.[56] Draper later claimed that after Parlophone contacted him to ask whether he wanted to be involved in putting together the album sessions for release, he tried to reform the band to properly finish it but no one else was interested. In the press release for the album, Draper also claimed that when recording the new album, none of their hearts were in it, but in an interview in 2008 went on to blame Chad for the split, stating that the guitarist “wasn’t happy with the working method of writing and recording, but didn’t want to implement his own writing and recording method so we simply had to go home and end the band”.


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Pearl Jam Vs.

May 6th, 2012

Vs. is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on September 19, 1993 “ref”. through Epic Records. After a relentless touring schedule in support of its debut album, Ten (1991), Pearl Jam headed into the studio in early 1993 facing the challenge of following up the commercial success of its debut. The resulting album, Vs., featured a rawer and more aggressive sound compared with the band’s previous release. It was the band’s first collaboration with producer Brendan O’Brien.

Pearl Jam decided to scale back its commercial efforts for Vs., including declining to produce music videos for any of the album’s singles. Upon its release, Vs. set the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week, a record it held for five years. Vs. occupied the number one spot on the Billboard 200 for five weeks, the longest duration for a Pearl Jam album. The album has been certified seven times platinum by the RIAA in the United States.


Ten is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard’s previous group Mother Love Bone, the two recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder, guitarist Mike McCready, and drummer Dave Krusen to form Pearl Jam in 1990. Most of the songs began as instrumental jams, to which Vedder added lyrics about topics such as depression, homelessness, and abuse.


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Marley

April 20th, 2012

Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Listen now on spotify

Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.

Directed by Kevin MacDonald


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Continuum, John Mayer

April 16th, 2012

John Mayer – ContinuumContinuum is the third studio album by American musician John Mayer, released September 9, 2006 on Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during November 2005 to September 2006 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, California, Avatar Studios and Right Track/Sound on Sound in New York City, and Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Production was handled primarily by Mayer and Steve Jordan. It marked a change in Mayer’s musical style, and incorporated musical elements of blues and soul more heavily than in his previous work with pop-rock

The album debuted at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 300,186 copies in its first week. It also reached the top-ten in several other countries and sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

Upon its release, Continuum received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Mayer several accolades, including a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 49th Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone magazine named it the eleventh best album of 2006.


Parisian Living – Massive In a Parallel Universe Thirteen original songs of old school style illuminated by a certain English sensibility are offered for your entertainment. Get them. Feel them. Dig them.

It’s what would have been called a double album back in the day, running for nearly the full 80 minutes of a CD-R.

Free previews of three of the songs can be found on our downloads page.

We are still the last surviving independent cast- iron all-weather ever- optimistic still expanding flood- damaged no- budget home video bona fide 100% home- made from natural ingredients oldest- established permanent floating Anglo- French- Australian funk band in the South (of England) – PARISIAN LIVING!

Parisian Living – Massive In a Parallel UniverseThe drums, bass, some guitar and saxophone parts, and guide vocals for “MIAPU” were recorded at Studio Tom (alias Timski and Louise’s ski chalet “Le Mouille Fetu”) in Argentiere in the French Alps back in May 2006.

Tracks were overdubbed and mixed down by engineer, guest guitarist and former Parizzo, Manic Mike at his Snakepit Sounds and Heavy Glow studios.

Finalising was entrusted to the once young and keen but now old and jaded ears of Adam Whittaker of SpaceRay Music in his mixing suite “The Boom Boom Room” in Cluj- Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. Parisian Living’s main engine and songwriter Mike travelled to the city for these sessions. Adam has a long history with the band, having also engineered and co- produced our “Viva” and “Another Load From The Muthalode” albums.


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