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Artist: Destroy All Monsters
   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:

   
 Bored
   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7

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An anti-rock ring founded in direct reaction to the pretensions and complacency of 1970s pop music, the Detroit-based noise deconstructionists Destroy All Monsters earned their superlative ill fame at the pinnacle of the kindling eRA, thanks to a line up which included alumni of the MC5 and the Stooges. Named after a cult-favorite Japanese giant pic, Destroy All Monsters was formed in 1973 by graphics students Niagara (a late modeling), Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley and Cary Loren; influenced by everything from underground comix to celluloid noir to psychedelia, the highly optic mathematical group was experimental and abrasive, with Niagara’s Betty Boop-vocals and screaky violin cresting atop waves of trancelike transonic dementedness.

The original incarnation of Destroy All Monsters never widely released whatsoever official recordings, and by 1976 both Shaw and Kelley had exited to continue their graphic art careers, both later gaining considerable notoriety as subway system talents. Niagara and Loren continued on, recruiting brothers Larry and Ben Miller (space guitar and saxophone, respectively); within sixer months, early Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and erstwhile MC5 bassist Michael Davis had besides signed on, pointing the group’s sound in a more dynamic and energetic direction. Upon cathartic their first-ever unmarried, 1978’s “Bored,” Destroy All Monsters became darlings of the British music press, based largely upon the connection to the Stooges’ bequest; “Blase” was shortly set for UK passing on the Cherry Red label, which accredited the record in front of all time even hearing it.

Even as a mo unmarried, “Converge the Creeper,” was being readied for spillage, Destroy All Monsters was coming aside; tensions within the radical had come to a head when Niagara left longtime beau Loren to snarf up with Asheton, and shortly Loren, as substantially as the Miller brothers, left the ring over creative differences. In response, Loren issued a 1979 live EP, The Days of Diamonds; a year after, he, the Millers, and drummer Rob King formed Xanadu, recording an EP, Black-Out in the City, co-produced by Kelley and Shaw. Meanwhile, the unexpended members of Destroy All Monsters carried on until 1985 before finally disbanding. In the wake of a 1994 box coiffure, the original adjust occasionally reformed to play alive and record new material.

MACAU (Reuters) - Las Vegas Sands Corp offered a peek on Thursday at a $150-million Cirque du Soleil show that will open at the Venetian Macau, the casino operator’s latest high-stakes bet that it can get visitors to the Asian city to do more than gamble.

The dreamy “Zaia” features dancers and acrobats depicting a story of a girl who ventures into outer space in Asia’s first permanent Cirque du Soleil installation. It has an initial contract of 10 years.

The gamble that “Zaia” will pull in the crowds is critical for the U.S. casino operator, which suffered an unexpected first-quarter net loss, partly because it lost a significant share of a VIP market made up of high-rollers who gamble upwards of $100,000 a visit.

In contrast with Las Vegas, Macau, a former Portuguese enclave, has a reputation for attracting visitors with little more than gambling on their minds.

High-stakes players have driven growth and are projected to contribute roughly 60 percent of gaming revenues this year.

Las Vegas Sands hopes to change that.

“Obviously, there’s the big gamble here, no pun intended, which is that all of these gamblers that we know Macau can attract are also going to want to see shows and go to great restaurants and do things other than just gamble,” said Mario D’amico, Senior Vice-President for Marketing for the Canada-based Cirque de Soleil.

A second Macau-based Cirque show, also in cooperation with Sands, is set to open across the street at a Sheraton under development next year. 

Amy Winehouse has performed at her first concert since leaving rehab to a sold-out crowd - although the singer appeared almost an hour late to the Lisbon show.

Winehouse was at the Rock in Rio Lisboa festival in Lisbon, Portugal on Friday for the concert, the first of a series over the summer.

On her arrival, the 90,000-strong crowd that had been booing started cheering. But the singer warned her throat was hoarse and some of the songs were croaky, according to reports.

Although the song list was shortened, Winehouse had the crowd singing along to her hits, including Rehab and Valerie.

Fans also cheered loudly when she said she had recently celebrated her first anniversary with husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who is currently in prison awaiting trial, according to the BBC.

The set lasted for around 55 minutes before Winehouse left to make way for Lenny Kravitz.

A report from Associated Press said the crowd was "subdued" following the set, as the singer failed to perform an encore.

The singer is due to appear at several concerts in Europe over the summer, including one for Nelson Mandela’s birthday in London.

Although her singing career has gone from strength to strength, the star has been in and out of rehab in recent months. Winehouse was recently questioned by the police over footage of her apparently inhaling fumes from a crack pipe, but no charges have been brought.

31/05/2008 17:07:19

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ASH frontman TIM WHEELER holds an angry grudge against RONAN KEATING - after the pop star’s security callously threw him out of an elevator.
The Girl From Mars singer is still infuriated about the time he was forced to make way for the former Boyzone star - and lose his place in the mechanical carriage.
He says, “I got mad at him because I got kicked off a lift by all these security guards, so I thought it must be for someone really important, and then f**king Ronan Keating gets in the lift.
“I’ve kind of been mad at him ever since.”

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Top Hollywood actor Will Ferrell will tonight be honoured by University College Dublin.
The A-list star will be given the James Joyce Award by the university’s Literary and Historical Society.
He joins other public figures honoured by the L&H, including United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix, academic Noam Chomsky and former South African president FW De Klerk.
Every Irish Taoiseach and President has also addressed the society.
The Californian-born actor, who commands $20m per film, is being honoured for his achievements in entertainment.
Ferrell’s laugh-a-minute roles have earned him global movie stardom which began in 2003 with the hit comedy ‘Elf’, in which he played an oversized elf.
He won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination for his role in ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ in 2006, where he played an IRS auditor who suddenly becomes the subject of an ongoing commentary only he can hear.
In 2007 he starred as a high profile ice skater in the comedy ‘Blades of Glory’.
Ferrell has spent the past two weeks holidaying around Ireland.

‘The OC’ star Chris Carmack is reportedly set to join the cast of ‘Desperate Housewives’.
According to TV Guide, the actor will play a new character called Tim, who is Susan Mayer’s cousin.
He arrives on Wisteria Lane to help Susan, played by Teri Hatcher, with her taxes.
Carmack previously played Marissa Cooper’s boyfriend Luke Ward in ‘The OC’.

GARBAGE frontwoman SHIRLEY MANSON has reportedly landed a role in U.S. TV series TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES.
The Scottish singer has been given a regular role in the sci-fi show and will join the original line-up for the second season, which is due to air in America this autumn (08), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The casting is Manson’s first acting break and she will reportedly complete her stint on the show while the rock band are on hiatus pending work on a possible fifth studio album.

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AUSTRALIAN IDOL star TARISAI VUSHE has revealed she was blindfolded and abducted last week (ends11Apr08) by a former boyfriend.
Vushe refused to file a police report but has told the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper she was dragged into a car in the driveway of her home on Friday night (11Apr08) and dumped eight hours later.
The wannabe, who competed on the TV talent show last year (07), confesses she could not see her captor during the kidnapping, but she identified her ex’s voice as he quizzed her about why their relationship ended.
She says, “(He) kept asking me why I left him, in a really obsessive way.”
Vushe has refused to name the man, but told the newspaper she met him when she was living in Zimbabwe.
After her ex let her out of his car, Vushe walked to a nearby gas station and called a taxi.
Her manager, Alex Haddad, says, “I’ve encouraged her to go to the police, but I can’t make her.”

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Artist: Burning Flames
   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:

   
 Debble Ish Rage
   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16

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From Antigua, this isthmus represents the prototype of the high-energy, multiple-influenced, synthesizer-driven soca bands of some of the other soca islands. Years of tourist gigs and a stint as computer backup set to Montserrat calypsonian Arrow laid the groundwork for their solo debut … total domination of the Antigua carnival in 1986 with Stiley Tight. Elements of rock, funk, reggae, cadence, zouk, and more, assign to frantic tempos of amphetamine-like proportion, were the stylemark of this dance band until 1989’s “Workey Workey,” a funky, zoukish second-line that was an international superstar. They zouked it out further in 1990 with “Chook and Dig” and shortly afterwards were anthologized on a Mango release, Prod, although the re-mixing through for the record worked to the detriment of each cut. They induce interpreted Antigua Road March virtually every twelvemonth since 1985.

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Artist: Am I Blood
   Genre(s): 
Metal: Thrash
   

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Discography:

   
 Agitation
   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11

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Formed in 1992 under the original sobriquet St. Mucus, Am I Blood comply in the Finland tradition of 90’s belligerent metal with more an wrath tincture, rather than cheesy pop metal that this genre was experience for previously. With the sacking of their first 2 albums “Natural Mutation” and “Am I Blood” -which were distributed in limited quantities end-to-end EuropeJanne Kermine (vocals/ guitar), Pekka Kulmala (guitar) Toni Gronros (bass), and Sauli Suomalainen (drums) finally hit that Western market crossways the Atlantic with the sacking of “Fermentation” in 1998; thanks to the avail of Nuclear Blast Records.