Artist: Dere
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Gangstar
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Monday, 23 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
Friday, 6 June 2008
Rocked the Nation (Part 2)
TimeOut continues its tally of the top 100 moments in Kiwi music from C4's Rocked the Nation
81: In the early 2000s, local geeks from Serato revolutionise the art of DJing with Scratch Live which allows you to mix digital audio files from your computer using turntables. No longer are DJs lugging crates of records around, all they need is a laptop.80: The Chills' 1986 song I Love My Leather Jacket, which band leader Martin Phillipps wrote for his late friend and former Chills drummer Martyn Bull, who left his leather jacket to him in his will, becomes an international hit.79: In 1902 New Zealand's first classical composer Alfred Hill's Hinemoa is performed and the musical version of this Maori legend becomes widely popular thanks to songs like Waiata Poi.78: In 1979 teenage sensation Jon Stevens storms the charts with "shy walkin', sly talkin'" hit Jezebel. Then, a few weeks later he knocks that song off the No 1 spot with Montego Bay.77: Before the stock market crash of the 80s, some bright spark had the idea of funding albums like the Dance Exponents' Amplifier and Hello Sailor's Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion with shares. It didn't work. As Graham Brazier says, the bands were being ripped off while the guys who did the deals were driving round in fancy cars.
76: After signing to Arista in 1990 the Straitjacket Fits were on the verge of becoming the next REM but on stage in Toronto the tensions between Shayne Carter and Andrew Brough boiled over and Brough left the band.75: It's unclear what the first local music video was. The Spats' "film clip" for 1978's New Wave Goodbye was the first video not funded by state television. Coconut Rough's Sierra Leone from 1983 is the first to use special effects. Zany, man.74: Hollie Smith signs to Manhattan Records, part of the prestigious Blue Note Records label. Next step the world.73: The video for the Skeptics song A.F.F.C.O. remains this country's most disturbing and controversial music clip. Director Stuart Paige's idea was simple: "Get in the freezing works and film what [the band] were on about." 72: In 1972 teenager Shona Laing had a local hit with 1905; 15 years later, songs like Glad I'm Not A Kennedy and Soviet Snow made an international splash. 71: Meet guitarist Billy T.K., New Zealand's very own Jimi Hendrix. Chris Knox recalls seeing T.K. play Little Wing at a wake which "got everyone bawling".70: The signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1961 meant Christchurch was inundated with US servicemen who brought with them records by the likes of James Brown and Ray Charles. Rock'n'rollers like Ray Columbus and Max Merritt were listening.
81: In the early 2000s, local geeks from Serato revolutionise the art of DJing with Scratch Live which allows you to mix digital audio files from your computer using turntables. No longer are DJs lugging crates of records around, all they need is a laptop.80: The Chills' 1986 song I Love My Leather Jacket, which band leader Martin Phillipps wrote for his late friend and former Chills drummer Martyn Bull, who left his leather jacket to him in his will, becomes an international hit.79: In 1902 New Zealand's first classical composer Alfred Hill's Hinemoa is performed and the musical version of this Maori legend becomes widely popular thanks to songs like Waiata Poi.78: In 1979 teenage sensation Jon Stevens storms the charts with "shy walkin', sly talkin'" hit Jezebel. Then, a few weeks later he knocks that song off the No 1 spot with Montego Bay.77: Before the stock market crash of the 80s, some bright spark had the idea of funding albums like the Dance Exponents' Amplifier and Hello Sailor's Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion with shares. It didn't work. As Graham Brazier says, the bands were being ripped off while the guys who did the deals were driving round in fancy cars.
76: After signing to Arista in 1990 the Straitjacket Fits were on the verge of becoming the next REM but on stage in Toronto the tensions between Shayne Carter and Andrew Brough boiled over and Brough left the band.75: It's unclear what the first local music video was. The Spats' "film clip" for 1978's New Wave Goodbye was the first video not funded by state television. Coconut Rough's Sierra Leone from 1983 is the first to use special effects. Zany, man.74: Hollie Smith signs to Manhattan Records, part of the prestigious Blue Note Records label. Next step the world.73: The video for the Skeptics song A.F.F.C.O. remains this country's most disturbing and controversial music clip. Director Stuart Paige's idea was simple: "Get in the freezing works and film what [the band] were on about." 72: In 1972 teenager Shona Laing had a local hit with 1905; 15 years later, songs like Glad I'm Not A Kennedy and Soviet Snow made an international splash. 71: Meet guitarist Billy T.K., New Zealand's very own Jimi Hendrix. Chris Knox recalls seeing T.K. play Little Wing at a wake which "got everyone bawling".70: The signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1961 meant Christchurch was inundated with US servicemen who brought with them records by the likes of James Brown and Ray Charles. Rock'n'rollers like Ray Columbus and Max Merritt were listening.
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Ti Welcomes New Son
Rapper T.I. has become a dad again after his girlfriend TAMEKA "TINY" COTTLE gave birth to a little boy on Friday (16May08).
T.I. - real name Clifford Harris - chose the name Major for his newborn son, who is the second child for the couple.
Harris and 32-year-old Cottle, an American singer/songwriter and former member of R+B group Xscape, are already parents to three-year-old King.
This is the fifth child for the 27-year-old rapper.
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Petey Pablo
Artist: Petey Pablo
Genre(s):
Other
Rap: Hip-Hop
Reggae
Discography:
Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry
Year: 2001
Tracks: 18
Same Eyez On Me
Year:
Tracks: 18
Rather than pickings the underground route like most Southern rappers, Petey Pablo took the direct route into the rap game: he went uncoiled to the top. Though few knew much around him, Pablo of a sudden skint in late 2001, and non just in the South only from seacoast to coast -- MTV rotated his video and urban wireless championed his debut single. That unmarried, "Raise Up," took the U.S. by storm, breakage into Billboard's Top 30 pop singles and Top Ten R&B singles, not to mention the endless weeks of airplay. Before his debut album even streeted, he was a home name. Pablo's widespread success and commercial acceptation is perhaps to the highest degree bewitching because the North Carolina native is anything merely glamorous. Often shirtless and undecorated with jewelry and representing either the ghetto or the country, Pablo delineated an earthier and more realistic embodiment of the stereotyped Southern black-market man.
Pablo crataegus oxycantha take catapulted to stardom overnight, simply he strained for days before acquiring his big break. Born in Greensville, NC, he eventually moved to New York when he became unplayful near breakage into the whack game. There, he managed to befriend such notability figures as Busta Rhymes, Mystikal, and Black Rob. His recorded debut came on a remix of the latter's "Whoa!," which caught the attention of many, including Timbaland. Then, piece at a cabaret in New York, Jive's pass of A&R happened to try Pablo falling some rhymes with Black Rob, and afterward gestural him to a contract. Jive then gave Pablo a chance to shine on Mystikal's Let's Get Ready record album, while, about this same fourth dimension, Missy Elliott introduced Pablo to Timbaland, wHO had been curious about the doorknocker e'er since hearing him on the "Whoa!" remix. Jive made the quislingism happen, and the label constitute itself with a sure-fire debut exclusive, "Bring up Up."
"Raise Up" first-class honours degree began acquiring airplay in late summer 2001, beginning in the South and airing like a virus from there. It wasn't longsighted before the video recording was all over MTV and the song was crawl up the Billboard charts. Eventually peaking at number 25 pop and number nine-spot R&B, "Raise Up" remained on the charts for months and adjust the degree for Diary of a Sinner, Pablo's debut album. The record album featured trey Timbaland tracks as well as productions by Prophecy, Chucky Madness, Abnormal, and Pablo himself. Not surprisingly, it sold many, many copies, qualification Pablo some other of the overnight superstars produced by the early-2000s Dirty South manna from heaven.
Merely and so not a good deal came of Pablo. Journal of a Sinner failed to engender a follow-up single of much order of magnitude, and Pablo made very few edgar Guest appearances. Jive scheduled his sophomore album for late 2002 only and then pushed it back indefinitely. It wouldn't be until mid-2004 that Jive in the end released Still Writing in My Diary: second Entry, by which point a great many whack listeners had disregarded some Pablo. The album's lead exclusive, "Freek-a-Leek," did its line well, however. Produced by the then hot Lil Jon, the sexually denotative birdsong was successful in many shipway: it returned Pablo to the upper reaches of the Billboard charts; garnered endless play on urban radio and music video; crossed over well to the female consultation; became a club favorite overnight; and perked interest for the long-delayed Noneffervescent Writing in My Diary.
Gavin Rossdale Gets 'Aggressive,' Political On First Solo LP, But Don't Expect Any Gwen Stefani Cameos
On Tuesday, Wanderlust, the first true solo LP from former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, hit shelves worldwide. While it does boast an exhilarating cameo from Garbage's Shirley Manson (on the track "The Trouble I'm In"), the album will not feature a duet with No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, Rossdale's pregnant pop-star wife. In fact, it's unlikely such a collaboration will ever materialize on tape, he admitted.
That's because for Rossdale, the idea is just too much of a rock-and-roll cliché. He's no Sonny, and Gwen's no Cher. They're too very different artists, and he said they'd like to avoid combining their professional and personal lives.
"It's bad enough with the whole intrusive, paparazzi-celebrity-weird-photo life," he said. "I like mystery. The people I care the most about, whether it's in music or films or art or whatever, I don't really need to know anything about them. The less I know about them, the better, because then I can just have my own unfiltered image of them, and whatever they do publically, for me, can just work its magic. When we get burdened by people at Starbucks, it just takes away from that mystery."
Wanderlust, which was produced by Bob Rock (Metallica), is Rossdale's first studio offering since Institute — the band he formed after Bush's 2002 split — released their 2005 debut, Distort Yourself. And Stefani's hunky hubby claims that anyone who liked his work with both bands will find something to love on this new record.
"There's a reality that, when I sing with a guitar, it can sound similar to the last time I sang with a guitar," he said. "I can't help that. So people who enjoy either of those bands will enjoy this record. It's quite an aggressive record, which emancipated me a bit. I could bring the guitars back a little bit and let the atmosphere take over, which is what I've always tried to do anyway. This record allowed me to try something different, and with every record, I've always tried to do something different. Sometimes, when records have been less successful than others, I've always thought I'd screwed up, and that I should have done the same record."
Distort Yourself was one such record, having sold a mere 57,000 copies to date in the U.S. And the lukewarm reception to it was disappointing for Rossdale, who ruled out an Institute revival.
"Bands are like sharks — they've got to keep moving," he said. "[Institute was] a dead shark. It didn't really work out, but I just think that if people hear [Wanderlust], and they like it, they may investigate the Institute record. There are tracks on the Institute record that could've fit on this record easily, but that's just the way it goes. You try to make everything good, and every once in a while, you get one that takes off."
What struck Rossdale most about Institute was how "indifferent" people seemed toward the disc. "Love and hate...that's the sort of thing you get used to if you sell more than 20 copies of your record. So, it was just the fact that it couldn't make a big enough of a splash," he said. "We went on tour with U2, and they liked the record. I guess it's just too difficult to come from a successful band and start a new band, and I felt weird doing it anyway."
Rossdale said he gets political for the first time on this album, but the message isn't as overt as the kind you'd find in, say, Rage Against the Machine tunes.
"Some of the songs are reflections on the war," he said. "I took it quite to heart when Neil Young said bands of the younger generation weren't really making too much music about the war, and I thought, to a degree, he was right. I would never clothe it in a political statement, because I think Rage are the only band that can do that and have a kind of resonance to it. For me, it was about personalizing it. I have to go on tour and do this life, and it's hard for me to leave my family, but I can't imagine what it would be like to leave your family, and be under the threat of gunfire, the threat of being killed. I only get killed in print."
This summer, Rossdale will be touring mostly overseas in support of Wanderlust, but he is mapping out a U.S. headlining run for the fall.
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Iron Man, Indy power Paramount at box office
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Now we have a horse race -- a box office derby, that is.
Just weeks after Fox sat atop a big lead in year-to-date domestic totals, Paramount has blown past its crosstown rival on the strength of a comic book superhero and an adventuresome archaeologist. And despite a big misfire by its car-race family film, "Speed Racer," Warner Bros. suddenly is charging hard on the derby leaders thanks to a heady weekend of "Sex."
The weekend's overachieving $57 million bow by female-magnet "Sex and the City" renewed Warners' chances at summertime glory.
A studio's entire year can hinge on how its big summer "tentpoles" perform, with seasonal tallies representing about 40% of annual sales.
Of course, it's still early in summer 2008, and all three year-to-date leaders have important films set to bow before Labor Day.
For now, Paramount rides a $163.1 million lead over Fox, with the former boasting a 20% market share on $729.4 million in year-to-date grosses, according to Nielsen EDI. Fox's $566.3 million is good for a 15.5% market share, while Warners rounds out the top three with a 13.9% share on $509 million.
Paramount's leading performance has been built chiefly on distribution success with a couple of films it doesn't own -- Marvel Studios' "Iron Man" ($276 million) and Lucasfilm's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" ($215 million). The studio should pad its chart-topping advantage further this weekend when it unspools another such film: DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda."
"Panda" looks likely to open somewhere north of $40 million, with Sony's Adam Sandler comedy "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" its only major rival. The second weekend of "Sex" could be a tad limp if its box office draw proves unusually frontloaded, and the Indy sequel already has proven a one-week wonder after absorbing a big 55 percent second-session drop-off in grosses.
Just weeks after Fox sat atop a big lead in year-to-date domestic totals, Paramount has blown past its crosstown rival on the strength of a comic book superhero and an adventuresome archaeologist. And despite a big misfire by its car-race family film, "Speed Racer," Warner Bros. suddenly is charging hard on the derby leaders thanks to a heady weekend of "Sex."
The weekend's overachieving $57 million bow by female-magnet "Sex and the City" renewed Warners' chances at summertime glory.
A studio's entire year can hinge on how its big summer "tentpoles" perform, with seasonal tallies representing about 40% of annual sales.
Of course, it's still early in summer 2008, and all three year-to-date leaders have important films set to bow before Labor Day.
For now, Paramount rides a $163.1 million lead over Fox, with the former boasting a 20% market share on $729.4 million in year-to-date grosses, according to Nielsen EDI. Fox's $566.3 million is good for a 15.5% market share, while Warners rounds out the top three with a 13.9% share on $509 million.
Paramount's leading performance has been built chiefly on distribution success with a couple of films it doesn't own -- Marvel Studios' "Iron Man" ($276 million) and Lucasfilm's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" ($215 million). The studio should pad its chart-topping advantage further this weekend when it unspools another such film: DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda."
"Panda" looks likely to open somewhere north of $40 million, with Sony's Adam Sandler comedy "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" its only major rival. The second weekend of "Sex" could be a tad limp if its box office draw proves unusually frontloaded, and the Indy sequel already has proven a one-week wonder after absorbing a big 55 percent second-session drop-off in grosses.
Division of Laura Lee
Artist: Division of Laura Lee
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Black City
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Swedish garage kindling iV Division of Laura Lee emerged in the mid to previous '90s, assembled out of trim parts in the Swedish hard-core music underground. Comprised of vocalist/guitarist Per Stålberg, guitarist David Ojala, bassist Jonas Gustavsson, and drummer Håkan Johansson, DOLL was soon acting shows wherever it could. The band debuted on wax in 1998, issuance the There Is a First Time for Everything EP, and a split up release with the American post-hardcore chemical group Milemarker. Another split up EP followed in 1999 from Car Crash, this time with Impel. The Division self-released At the Royal Club in 1999, and the collection of singles and odds 'n' sods tracks served as a full-length until its signing with Burning Heart in 2001. The label released the Pretty Electric EP before issuance the Division's proper full-length a year afterward. Mordant City institute the group infusing nervy musical tradition of Fugazi with rowdier elements closer to Supergrass or its brethren in the Hellacopters. It enjoyed American promotion via Epitaph, and was supported through tours with the (International) Noise Conspiracy and Soundtrack of Our Lives. Das Not Compute arrived in 2004.
Kitty Daisy & Lewis To Release Debut Album
Helena Christensen dating Interpol frontman?
Supermodel Helena Christensen is dating Interpol frontman Paul Banks, according to People magazine.
Banks and Christensen were reportedly spotted kissing and holding hands at the model's Butik store in New York's West Village. She was also reportedly spotted at recent Interpol gigs.
However Christensen has refused to confirm the pair are a couple. She told People: "I don't talk about my private life, I've learned from all the other very smart artists out there."
The 39-year-old model has previously been linked with actors Josh Hartnett and the late Heath Ledger.
Christensen has an eight-year-old son - who is a child chess prodigy - with former partner Norman Reedus.
Banks and Christensen were reportedly spotted kissing and holding hands at the model's Butik store in New York's West Village. She was also reportedly spotted at recent Interpol gigs.
However Christensen has refused to confirm the pair are a couple. She told People: "I don't talk about my private life, I've learned from all the other very smart artists out there."
The 39-year-old model has previously been linked with actors Josh Hartnett and the late Heath Ledger.
Christensen has an eight-year-old son - who is a child chess prodigy - with former partner Norman Reedus.
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