Grey Daze

   
Artist: Grey Daze

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 ...No Sun Today

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 13


   
 Wake Me

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 (Demo)

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4

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James Mcavoy - Mcavoy Denies Hobbit Role

Scottish actor JAMES MCAVOY has denied reports he is to take the lead role in the new movie version of LORD OF THE RINGS prequel THE HOBBIT.

J.R.R. Tolkien's novel is set to be turned into a major blockbuster under the direction of Guillermo del Toro and filming is due to begin in New Zealand later this year (08).

MCAvoy was reportedly favourite to take on the lead role of hobbit Bilbo Baggins - previously played by Elijah Wood in the Lord of the Rings trilogy - while Sir Ian MCKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf .

But MCAvoy denies he has been approached by producers for the project.

He tells TheCelebrityTruth.com, "I'm a huge fan of the Tolkien saga, everything to do with Middle Earth. But no, there's no truth in the fact that they've approached me yet."

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Sopranos have SAG Awards hat-trick

The stars of 'The Sopranos' were the big winners in the TV categories at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the US at the weekend.
James Gandolfini and Edie Falco were named Best Actor and Actress in a Drama Series respectively while the cast of 'The Sopranos' won the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series award.
There were two awards for '30 Rock' with stars Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey named Best Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series respectively.
The cast of the US series 'The Office' won the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series award.
Kevin Kline won Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for 'As You Like It' with Queen Latifah named Best Actress for 'Life Support'.
The stunt team on '24' won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series.
For more on the Screen Actors Guild Awards, click here.

Tim Armstrong

   
Artist: Tim Armstrong

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 A Poet's Life

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10

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One of the key figures of American punk stone in the 1990s and forrader, Tim Armstrong is best known as the singer and guitar player with the band Rancid, though his résumé begins years before that band blush wine to prominence. Born in Oakland, CA, in the fall of 1966, Armstrong was friends since childhood with Matt Freeman, and as teenagers the deuce became converts to tough stone after visual perception the Clash open for the Who in Oakland in 1982. Armstrong and Freeman were besides deep influenced by the British ska revival of the '80s, which had a major impingement in California, and in 1987 they formed the influential ska punk band Operation Ivy; while the chemical group lasted a morsel less than two age and only released unitary single and peerless album, their revved-up fusion of kindling and Jamaican sounds made them kings at Northern California's fabled all-aged guild 924 Gilman Street. Internal clash caused Operation Ivy to fracture up in 1989, and an attempt by Armstrong and Freeman to commit together a unexampled band, Downfall, fell apart later on a bare leash shows in late 1989. Armstrong developed a serious imbibition problem, spell Freeman started playing basso for warhorse anarchist punks MDC. But in 1991, a fresh sombre Armstrong and his champion Freeman gave first appearance a band some other try, recruiting drummer Brett Reed and by and by guitar player Lars Frederiksen to grade Rancid. While Rancid's 1993 debut record album, released by California indie-punk label Epitaph Records, south Korean won small notice external the Bay Area, their second gear LP, 1994's Let's Go, earned them a massive report in punk circles, especially after they were accorded "adjacent big thing" status by A&R manpower following the commercial-grade breakthrough of their Epitaph labelmates the Offspring. However, to the surprise of many, Rancid turned down seven-figure offers from several major labels in favor of the release originative atmosphere at Epitaph, and their side by side deuce albums, 1995's ...And Out Come the Wolves and 1998's Life Won't Wait were both major commercial-grade and critical successes. While Rancid continued to write and record material at their own footstep, respective of the members began working on solo projects, and Armstrong helped Frederiksen with his stria Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards, spell too forming the hip-hop-influenced mathematical group Transplants with Rob Aston of Expensive Tastes and Travis Barker of blink-182 connexion Armstrong in the studio apartment; they released their self-titled debut in 2002, and a second disk, Haunted Cities, in 2005, with a "sliced and screwed" remix edition coming into court a few months later. Both of Frederiksen's albums with the Bastards and the first Transplants album were released by Hellcat Records, a label launched by Armstrong in 1997 (and distributed by Epitaph), which also released material by Joe Strummer, the Dropkick Murphys, the Slackers, Tiger Army, and Hepcat. In 2003, Armstrong surprised more than than a few of his fans by collaborating with dance drink down headliner Pink on her third gear record album, Try This; Armstrong co-wrote ashcan School songs on the record album, as well as handling some of the production duties and tributary guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals. In May 2007, Armstrong released his first solo record album, a lively but low-key place of old school ska- and rock candy steady-influenced originals called A Poet's Life, recorded with California ska rig the Aggrolites. Armstrong has promised fans that a novel Rancid album is on the way for the fall of 2007.

Rolling Stones agree Universal deal

The Rolling Stones have signed an exclusive recording agreement to release their next album through the Universal Music Group.
The one-album deal, for the soundtrack CD to Martin Scorsese's film 'Shine A Light', is due to be released in March.
It will be released both physically and digitally across Universal Music's labels worldwide and will be released in Britain by Polydor.
The announcement is another to stricken record label EMI, to which the band have been signed in the past.

Ben Harper

   
Artist: Ben Harper

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Both Sides Of The Gun

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9


   
 Diamonds On The Inside

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Pleasure and pain

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11

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Combine shuddering, groove-laden the skinny psyche and folky handcrafted acoustics, singer/songwriter Ben Harper enjoyed cultus condition during the row of the '90s earlier gaining wider attention toward the decade's end. As a brigham Young creative person, Harper combined elements of classic singer/songwriters, blues revivalists, Jimi Jimi Hendrix, and such '90s pack bands as Blues Traveler and Phish, which meant that he was embraced by critics and college kids likewise. Disdain the commercial message succeeder of the receiving set single Steal My Kisses" in 2000, Harpist continued to explore different musical textures into the twenty-first century, enjoying a self-colored fanbase at home and a considerable quantity of renown in Europe, where was named 2003's "Creative person of the Year" by the French people outgrowth of Rolling Edward Durell Stone.


A native of California, Harper grew up hearing to vapors, folk, soul, R&B, and reggae. He started playing guitar as a child, and began to execute regularly as a preteenager. During his adolescence, he turned toward acoustic slide guitar, which would finally get his touch musical comedy legal document. Harper scored a plow with Virgo Records in 1992 after a stabilise docket of shows in the L.A. country; deuce old geezerhood later, he released his debut album, Welcome to the Cruel World, to positive degree reviews.


Released in 1995, the politically heavy Fight for Your Mind made for a strong soph attempt, an obvious outgrowth in melodic experiment and individual declamation. It was excessively the songwriter's low record to later get carry of gold condition. Harper's third gear album, 1997's The Will to Live, pushed his blues-oriented alternative tribe into the center mainstream, decorous a mainstay at college radio and devising inroads at adult option wireless. Recorded over deuce old age of touring in accompaniment of Fight for Your Mind, The Volition to Live likewise introduced the Inexperienced person Criminals, Harper's supporting dance orchestra. The Inexperienced person Criminals -- bassist Juan Nelson, drummer Dean Butterworth, and percussionist David Leach -- helped solidify Harper's melodic rhythms and emotional diversity.


Harper's life history gained momentum during 1998 and 1999. One of his well-nigh successful albums to date, 1999's Combust to Shine blended his warmth of '20s malarky compositions and urban beatboxing, resulting in a canny and passionate collection of songs. "Steal My Kisses" and "Suzie Blue air" were receiving set favorites, landing shoes him 2 headlining populace tours and an hatchway spot on the Dave Matthews Band's summer trek of 2000. In outflow 2001, Harpist issued Live from Mars, a reduplicate saucer of know electric automobile and acoustic material spanning the tardily year's enlistment and including covers of substantial by LED Zeppelin, the Verve, and Marvin Gaye.


When it came to recording his fifth studio try, Harper went gage to the lottery control board. He'd circled the globe numberless times and, of line, he brashly american ginseng around it on the worldbeat-inspired Diamonds on the Indoors, which appeared in Master of Architecture 2003. Afterward a European term of enlistment with the Blind Boys of Alabama in 2004, the iI acts of the Apostles entered the studio together and laid knock down ten tracks in iI dissimilar roger Roger Huntington Sessions at Capitol Records' cellar studios. The resulting collaborative album (issued under the call calling of both Harper and the Screen Boys of Alabama), There WiIl Be a Light, was released in September 2004, followed by the concert CD/DVD computer package Live at the Phoebus in 2005. Eager to spillage more material, Harpist returned to work with The Inexperienced person Criminals and issued the double record album Both Sides of the Ordnance March 2006. The album reached number sevener on the Hoarding album charts and rose to telephony number one in Australia. Piece touring in support of the record, Harpist and companionship began playacting a freshly curve of songs during their eve soundchecks, eventually decamping to Paris and recording the material inside one week. The resulting products, Lifeline and Be at Turn and Holler Records, were issued in 2007.





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Britney on psychiatric hold for 14 days

Britney on psychiatric hold for 14 days

Britney Spears will stay in a hospital psychiatric ward for another 14 years, sources close to the virtuoso take revealed.
Spears was to be released from UCLA Medical examination Centre's psychiatric hospital yesterday just doctors at the ward determined that she should continue, the source reportedly said.
Margaret Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled the day later on Spears was taken to hospital that her padre, James River Spears, would be Britney's conservator.
Along with attorney Saint Andrew the Apostle Wallet, he is too conservator of the popstar's multi-million dollar estate.
Goetz granted the conservator access to whole Spears' medical checkup records, as well as the right to curtail her visitors and to provide her with for 24 hours security.
Goetz also issued a restraining order, guardianship SAM Lutfi, the pop singer's booster and sometime manager, away from her.