Steve Miller Band & other: 2008

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Jfb

Artist: Jfb

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

No Destination EP

Year: 2003
Tracks: 4

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Flower Kings

Artist: Flower Kings

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Rock: Progressive

Discography:

Adam and Eve

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Unfold the future

Year: 2003
Tracks: 17

The Rainmaker

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Flower Power

Year: 1999
Tracks: 31

Spase Revolver

Year: 1998
Tracks: 10

Flower Power part 2

Year: 1998
Tracks: 10

Flower Power part 1

Year: 1998
Tracks: 21

Stardust We Are

Year: 1997
Tracks: 20

Retropolis

Year: 1996
Tracks: 11

Back in the world of Adventures

Year: 1995
Tracks: 10

The songs

Year: 1994
Tracks: 8

Rare

Year:
Tracks: 9

Sweden played a authoritative part in the progressive rock revitalisation of the 1990s, only amid dark-sounding King Crimson-influenced bands like Anekdoten and Anglagard, the positive-thinking Yes-enlightened play the Flower Kings mat about out of home. Yet, the Flower Kings became, along with the American Spock's Beard, the '90s prog rock candy band with the largest winnow base, the biggest gross revenue, and the widest international appeal.

The Flower Kings came to life-time in August 1994, but retrospectively, their first base album came prohibited before their origin. That twelvemonth, guitarist/singer/composer Roine Stolt, world Health Organization enjoyed congeneric European celebrity in the 1970s as a member of the Swedish progressive rock and roll dance orchestra Kaipa, brought together ex-Jonas Hellborg drummer Jaime Salazar and ex-Samla Mammas Manna percussionist Hans Bruniusson to record book a solo album, The Flower King. Stolt's music was graced by a Jon Anderson-like aura and combined building complex structures with catchy devout melodies, and the prog fans welcomed the record album with undefendable blazon. Roine brought in pal Michael Stolt (freshwater bass, vocals) and longtime friend Tomas Bodin (keyboards) to execute the material live, and thence the Flower Kings were born and The Flower King, the album, is now commonly sensed as the band's first-class honours degree.

Back in the World of Adventures was released in November 1995 on the band's possess label, Foxtrot Music, and contained the stage favorite "Big Puzzle," patch the Flower Kings started to circuit in Europe. It was shortly followed by Retropolis (Crataegus laevigata 1996), the band's most '70s-influenced record album to particular date, which yielded "The Judas Kiss" and "In that location Is More to This World," still arguably one of their best anthems. Retropolis helped the Flower Kings contact Japan, South America, and North America (especially Quebec). The mammoth two-CD put Stardust We Are, which included "In the Eyes of the World," "Church of Your Heart," and the 25-minute epical "Stardust We Are," was released in 1997. With four albums (including nonpareil twofold CD) released in less than four-spot age, music critics around the creation started to admiration how Roine Stolt managed to write this fast. Obvious filler material on Stardust We Are had the great unwashed intellection the isthmus should make been a bit more selective and made it a one-CD liaison. Still, the band's fan base was growing, as were the gross sales. A compiling album, Scanning the Greenhouse (containing a fantastic rendering of Genesis' "The Cinema Show") was released to machinate Americans for the band's first U.S. circuit, and a limited edition CD containing live improvisations and unreleased tracks was issued by Ipso Facto for the Quebec market, spell Roine Stolt released his critically acclaimed solo album Hydrophonia -- all in a year's work.

Another two-CD set, Flower Power, byword the light of clarence Day in early 1999. Even more ambitious, it contained the 60-minute retinue "Garden of Dreams" and the quirky "Psychedelic Postcard," which paid tribute to one of Roine's principal (although rarely detected) influences: Frank Zappa. Flower Power was the band's first album to be released in the U.S. by Inside Out Music America, which acquired rights to the band's fill in catalog for domestic distribution. The Flower Kings' first live album, Live on Planet Earth, was released in 2000 patch Roine was touring with the supergroup Transatlantic (with Pete Trewavas of Marillion, Neal Morse of Spock's Beard, and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater). A novel studio apartment album, coroneted Infinite Revolver, followed later on that class with bassist Jonas Reingold replacing Michael Stolt. Open the Future appeared in 2002, with the live put Meet the Flower Kings following in 2003. Paradox Hotel was released in 2006.

Wendy Carlos and Al Yankovic

Artist: Wendy Carlos and Al Yankovic

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Peter and The Wolf

Year: 1988
Tracks: 1

New Boyfriend for Britney Spears?

Atlantic unveils music aggregation widget

Will pull various online content into one location

DENVER -- Atlantic Records unveiled a desktop computer applications programme that testament aggregate various types of online content related to its artists in unrivaled location. Called Fanbase, the widget includes a music player for streaming tracks, a chat feature to communicate with other fans, tour dates, videos and other features customized for each artist.

To deliver this content and information, Atlantic partnered with Imeem, Youtube and Brightcove for video, Meebo for the chat window, and others.

Fans tin can download the widget from the Atlantic Web web site.

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

EliteTorrents.org operator found guilty

Convicted of conspiracy and copyright infringement

A federal jury in Virginia has found the operator of a peer-to-peer Web site that distributed pre-release movies guilty of conspiracy and copyright infringement. Daniel Dove of EliteTorrents.org was convicted Thursday.

The conviction is the eighth in the country since a nationwide federal crackdown on illegal distribution of copyrighted content over P2P networks, said the MPAA, and "sends a clear message that when presented with clear-cut evidence, jurors have little tolerance for the willful, deliberate and widespread distribution of protected content."

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Author McCabe among IMPAC nominees

'Winterwood' by Irish author Patrick McCabe is among eight books shortlisted for this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
The shortlist was selected from 137 titles nominated by public library systems worldwide.
Among the other titles are three works of fiction set in the Middle East, as well as books by Russian, Spanish and Sri Lankan authors.
The IMPAC Award is worth €100,000 and is the world's most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Four of the final eight books are published in translation.
The full shortlist is:'The Speed of Light' - Javier Cercas (Spanish) in translation'The Sweet and Simple Kind' - Yasmine Gooneratne (Sri Lankan)'De Niro's Game' - Rawi Hage (Lebanese)'Dreams of Speaking' - Gail Jones (Australian)'Let it be Morning' - Sayed Kashua (Israeli)'The Attack' - Yasmina Khadra (Algerian) in translation'The Woman who Waited' - Andrei Makine (Russian) in translation'Winterwood' - Patrick McCabe (Irish)