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When Stroke Inspires Hyper Creativity

2008-09-10T18:17:00.001-07:00

This is not a soupy journey into the mind. It is a story about people whose brains were jolted and re-engineered by psychic trauma, leaving them with curious new talents.

"Line after line, all the time it was in rhyme," McHugh said. "Cup of tea, just for me, nice and sweetened, just be neat."

Eventually, his then-wife Jan McHugh handed him a sketch pad.

"And he'd filled a page with these little alien heads," she said. "There was hundreds on the page and every one of them had a different expression."

An Unwelcome Change

The old Tommy McHugh was no creative person or poet. Early in his liveliness, he was wild and hot-tempered. He got in trouble for fighting, stealing and diacetylmorphine addiction.

When he suffered a stroke at 51, it was as if this man world Health Organization once had been processed in and out of prisons had now been processed into a new existence and doctors were no serve in attempting to explicate it.

"It was just unspeakable," Jan McHugh said. "And I was constantly on the earpiece to people, trying to get help. Or an understanding of what was going on. I thought he was ... going insane."

Tommy McHugh was convinced that he had two brains and he confronted his wife by claiming to be Vincent Van Gogh.

"At this point I was getting really scared," she said. "And he aforesaid, 'You just don't know me at all.' And I thought, well, I don't. I don't know you at all, really."

The partner off eventually divorced, but remain friends.

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Kenny Rogers releases exclusive hits collection

2008-08-31T18:30:00.001-07:00

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Seventy-year-old whiz Kenny Rogers is celebrating 50 age in the music business and has invited Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores along for the play.

Sold exclusively at Cracker Barrel stores and on crackerbarrel.com, "Kenny Rogers: 50 Years" includes some of his biggest hits, including "The Gambler," "Lucille," "Coward of the County," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" (with Dolly Parton). There ar also ternary new songs -- "She'll Believe in You," "Something's Wrong in Vegas" and "Only Time Will Tell."

Cracker Barrel, which has released sets by Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alabama, Amy Grant, Ricky Skaggs and Sara Evans, has sold more than 3 meg units of exclusive music since launching its CB Music label in 2003, according to the company.

/Billboard

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Rocker

2008-08-11T18:21:00.001-07:00

The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer wHO is disposed a arcsecond chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson) is the extremely consecrated and astoundingly passionate (not to mention sweaty) drummer for the eighties haircloth band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years subsequently his rock candy star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally disposed up all hope, he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer. They reluctantly work him the newest member of the band, giving him a chance to reclaim the rock God throne he's always thought process he merited, and taking the whitney Moore Young Jr. band along for the ride of their lives.

--� Fox Atomic

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Bonnie Raitt heads into fall

2008-08-06T01:24:00.001-07:00

Blues vet Bonnie Raitt [ ] will return to the road this week with a revamped tour agenda that stretches into October.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will start with an Aug. 9 performance at the Dutch Mason Blues Festival in Truro, Nova Scotia, and play around 20 shows in the US and Canada, including a legion of benefit concerts. Two-night stands ar scheduled in Orillia, Ontario; Salt Lake City, UT; and Coquitlam, British Columbia. Dates ar listed infra and benefit details tin be launch at Raitt's website.

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The performer's most recent studio attempt, 2005's "Souls Alike," marked her eighteenth release and her number one time pickings on manufacturer duties. The set debuted at No. 19 on The Billboard 200 and spawned adult-contemporary singles "I Will Not Be Broken" and "I Don't Want Anything to Change."

Raitt recorded the album with the members of her tight-knit touring band, with whom she has worked for more than a decade. The players include bassist Hutch Hutchinson, drummer Ricky Fataar, guitarist/keyboardist George Marinelli and keyboardist Jon Cleary.

"With this band, it's the first or second takes on near all the album," Raitt said in an online bio. "It keeps the kind of spontaneity that makes the music clean and alive."

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Keane close to completing third album

2008-06-19T18:47:00.001-07:00

NEW YORK -- U.K. rock outfit Keane is "nearly done" with its third album, according to a Web posting from pianist Tim Rice-Oxley. No title or release date has been confirmed for the project, but it's likely to appear before year's end via Interscope.
Keane has recorded in Paris and Berlin, with assistance from producer Jon Brion and new bassist/guitarist Jesse Quinn. Among the songs likely to make the cut are "Playing Along," "Black Burning Heart" and "Perfect Symmetry," as well as "a lovely song we're trying to do in a kind of Mercury Rev-type of way," Rice-Oxley said.
Of the latter, he adds, "It's begging to burst into some kind of 'Only Living Boy in New York'-style (background vocal) extravaganza at the end."
Earlier postings referred to "gospel-infused backing vocals," "huge, pounding concert drums and timpanis" and "the grandness of (a) Steinway piano" as enriching the songs.
The new album will be the follow-up to 2006's "Under the Iron Sea," which has sold more than 369,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

John Mayer: Hasn't Dumped Aniston Yet

2008-06-11T23:25:00.001-07:00

John Mayer gave Jennifer Aniston a ride last night -- then he took her somewhere in his car.

The two lovebirds were spotted leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel together.

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'Michael Jackson Is Incapable Of Ever Performing Again'

2008-06-06T02:25:00.001-07:00

A top promoter in Las Vegas has lambasted reports that Michael Jackson is set for a spectacular comeback in the city, stating that the pop star is incapable of performing ever again.

Speculation that the Thriller singer will be making a triumphant return with a residency in Sin City has been rife since it was discovered an equity group linked to the Las Vegas Hilton helped him save his Neverland Ranch from foreclosure.

Jackson has also been spotted in the Nevada state a number of times recently, leading to further gossip.

However, promoter Jack Wishna, who helped Celine Dion secure her successful stint in Las Vegas, insists Jackson isn't fit enough to return to the stage.

He tells the National Enquirer: "Sadly, Michael's incapable of keeping promises, because he hasn't got the will to even show up anywhere, much less get himself into shape for a world-class performance.

“He might drop by to wave at guests, or do a dance on top of a limo, but a longterm show? That dream will never come true, I'm afraid."

Do you think Michael has it in him to make an amazing comeback? Be sure to leave your comments below.

Brotherhood of Pagans

2008-05-31T21:32:00.001-07:00

Artist: Brotherhood of Pagans

   Genre(s):
Metal

Discography:

Tales of Vampires

Year: 1995
Tracks: 10

Remy Ma sentenced to eight years

2008-05-29T20:11:00.001-07:00

Rapper plans to appeal ruling in nightclub shooting

NEW YORK -- Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub.
The state Supreme Court sentence was handed Tuesday to the 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Remy Smith, for assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion.
Remy Ma, who could have faced 25 years in prison, was teary-eyed as she heard the sentence.
She says last summer's shooting was an accident; an appeal is planned.
Correction officials say they called off her weekend wedding at the Rikers Island jail after the groom -- fellow rapper Papoose -- showed up with a handcuff key.
Remy Ma's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, denies the key could be used to unlock handcuffs. Papoose isn't charged.
Fisher says the two still plan to wed.

5pmvisions

2008-05-29T20:00:00.001-07:00

Artist: 5pmvisions

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:


Selftitled

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 3


Everlasting Wrongs

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 8

Gervais planning Extras spin-off?

Thousand Foot Krutch

2008-05-29T19:43:00.001-07:00

Artist: Thousand Foot Krutch

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:


The Flame in All of Us

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 12


The Art Of Breaking

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 11


Set It Off

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

Jennifer Lopez Doesn't Need Nanny For Twins

2008-05-29T19:26:00.001-07:00

Jennifer Lopez does not want to hire a nanny for her two baby twins, because she wants to be a full-time mother.

The diva, who usually comes complete with a gigantic entourage, gave birth to son Max and daughter Emme earlier this year, and initially had help from a nanny to deal with the duo.

However, the aid left her last month and Jenny From The Block is reluctant to find a replacement, preferring to carry out motherly duties herself with husband Marc Antony instead.

A friend tells Us Weekly: "She's beyond hands-on."

Both Lopez and Anthony plan to put family first and their careers second for at least the next 12 months: "They both told their managers that the next year would be all about family."

Meanwhile, Anthony will take his wife and children with him when he tours Spain next month.

Jimmy Page

2008-05-29T18:21:00.000-07:00

Artist: Jimmy Page

   Genre(s):
Blues
   Rock

Discography:


Outrider

   Year: 1988
Tracks: 9


Mean Business

   Year: 1986
Tracks: 8


The Firm

   Year: 1985
Tracks: 9


No Introduction Necessary

   Year: 1984
Tracks: 14

Unquestionably one of the all-time to the highest degree influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history is Jimmy Page. Just about every rock'n'roll guitarist from the tardy '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin -- his monolithic riffs served as a blueprint for what would eventually become sonorous metal, still he refused to be pigeonholed to whatever single musical manner (touching upon folk, country, funk, vapours, and other genres). Page likewise lententide a hand in writing (or co-writing) Zeppelin's vast array of classical songs and produced all their albums. Born on January 9, 1944, in Heston, Middlesex, England, Page picked up the guitar at age 13 later organism inspired by the Elvis Presley tune "Baby Let's Play House," and spell he took several lessons, was mostly self-taught. Instead of attention college right after high school, Page distinct to conjoin his number one actual stone band, Neil Christian & the Crusaders, whom he toured England with. But Page fell seriously ill (with glandular fever) and was forced to throw in the towel and recover. Dejected, Page pondered giving up music and focusing on another interest, house painting, as he enrolled at an fine art college in Sutton, Surrey.

With the emergence of such bands as the Rolling Stones in the early '60s and their gritty blues-rock, Page's interest in music perked up one time again -- just instead of forming a band right away, he decided to hone his trade by becoming one of England's round top sitting guitarists and producers. Although the demand specifics of which roger Sessions he was convoluted with have turn blurry over sentence, it's confirmed that he worked with many of the day's top acts, including the Who, Them, Donovan, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones, among others. By 1966, Page was looking for to place his seance form on take for and get together a full-time band; he accepted an offer to play with the Yardbirds (ab initio as a bassist, so shortly thenceforth as a guitar player), as he was paired up with some other one of rock's all-time guitar greats, Jeff Beck. Although the Yardbirds began as a straight-ahead blues-rock band, with the comprehension of Page in the lineup, the mathematical group began experimenting with psychedelic and hard john Rock styles.

Despite it being obvious that the Yardbirds were on the downside of their life history (Beck left shortly after Page came onboard), Page appeared on the album Slight Games and several tours ahead the lot at long last called it a day in 1968. With a strand of tour of duty dates still set up end-to-end Europe, Page decided to go through and through with the shows and assign together a new striation wHO was dubbed the New Yardbirds -- including longtime academic term bassist John Paul Jones, plus newcomers Robert Plant on vocals and John Bonham on drums. After the closing of their initial circuit, the lot changed their make to Led Zeppelin and explored the still largely chartless territory of toilsome rock/heavy metal. The band immediately became one of rock's most successful and long-suffering bands, issuing a string of graeco-Roman albums from 1969 through 1975 -- Led Zeppelin I, LED Zeppelin II, LED Zeppelin III, LED Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti -- which spawned such graeco-Roman rock receiving set standards as "Stupid and Confused," "Whole Lotta Love," "Immigrant Song," "Dim Dog," "Staircase to Heaven," and "Jammu and Kashmir," as the banding likewise became a must-see live represent in the process. Page also base the time to form with common people creative person Roy Harper (well-nigh notably his 1971 handout, Stormcock, under the false name S. Flavius Mercurius). Zeppelin was arguably the biggest stone band in the world by the mid-'70s (their influence on other john Rock bands following in their wake cannot be accented enough) as they launched their possess record book company, Swan Song, just it was around this time that Page began dabbling with diacetylmorphine and other substances, eventually preeminent to him seemly a full-blown addict by the late '70s/early '80s (as a result, his playing began to suffer). Also, Page's interest in the occult became a concern to those around him (he went as far as purchasing a mansion house on the Loch Ness in Scotland that was at one time owned by famed Satanist Aleister Crowley).

Graf Zeppelin continued issue albums until the morning of the '80s (1976's concert movie/soundtrack The Song Remains the Same and Presence, 1979's In Through the Out Door), just tragedy at last derailed the quaternity -- the expiry of Plant's whitney Moore Young Jr. son in 1977 and Bonham's alcohol-related death in 1980. After Led Zeppelin decided to call it quits in late 1980, Page disappeared from sight (it became known afterward on that he scarcely touched his instrument for a foresighted time afterward). It wasn't until 1982 that Page began to emerge from his self-imposed exile, as he composed and played on the question photo soundtracks to Death Wish I and Death Wish II, compiled the Zeppelin outtakes compendium, Coda, and took part in the 1983 star-studded A.R.M.S. tour, which power saw Page merge with Beck and Eric Clapton for a series of shows that elevated money for multiple induration research. In 1984, Page guested alongside Plant, Beck, and Nile Rodgers on the impinge on EP of rock & wrap oldies The Honeydrippers, and formed his first base band since the death of Zeppelin, dubbed the Firm. The group featured onetime Free/Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, and contempt the fact that their self-titled debut was a goodish hit, the band decided to call it a solar day shortly after the spill of their lukewarm-received sophomore effort, Mean Business.

Zeppelin fans were tending a rare treat when their living trinity members reunited (with drummers Tony Thompson and Phil Collins) for the mammoth Live Aid at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium in July 1985 -- unfortunately handing in an fantastically under-rehearsed, sloppy operation. Zeppelin reunited again in 1988 for the Atlantic Records twenty-fifth Anniversary Concert at New York's Madison Square Garden (this clock time Bonham's son, Jason, filled in for his late father-God behind the kit), and so far once again performed some other mistake-filled miniskirt set. The same class Page guested on Plant's solo press release, Now & Zen, as well as issuing his number one always solo recording, Outrider, following it up with a tour that affected upon tracks from all eras of his life history. By the early '90s, further rumors of an impendent Zeppelin reunion continued to circulate, and after Plant declined an invitation from Page to join forces one time once more, Page distinct to collaborate with onetime Deep Purple/Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, whose vocal fashion has a great deal been compared to Plant's over the geezerhood. Page's up-to-the-minute project only lasted a single record album, 1993's heavily Zep-like Coverdale/Page, as a proposed populace tour was scrapped in favor of precisely a few select dates in Japan.

In 1994, Plant and Page finally agreed to collaborate once once again (although Jones wasn't invited this clock time), in the lead to the release of the acoustic set No Quarter the same class, addition a highly popular MTV Unplugged special and sold-out world spell. A year after, Led Zeppelin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, this being the second time a Page-related band got the nod from the Hall (in 1992, the Yardbirds were esteemed). 1998 proverb Plant and Page emergence an album of all-new material, Walking into Clarksdale, which was surprisingly not well received by the world, sinking from sight shortly after its discharge. The duad went their separate shipway by the late '90s, as Page joined the Black Crowes for a tour and springy album (2000's Live at the Greek). The same class as the album's release, some other Crowes/Page tour was cut short due to a back up injury Page suffered. But in June of 2001, Page took to the concert stage aboard Plant to observe the sixtieth birthday of their quaker, common people artist Roy Harper.

Marcus Schulz

2008-05-29T18:16:00.001-07:00

Artist: Marcus Schulz

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Live From Illusion

Year: 2007
Tracks: 1

Ismael Serrano

ReelBigFish

2008-05-29T18:15:00.001-07:00

Artist: ReelBigFish

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Cheer up!

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of Southern California ska-punk bands to border into the mainstream undermentioned the commercial succeeder of No Doubt and Sublime. Like to the highest degree of their peers, the dance orchestra was distinguished by their hyperkinetic stage shows, puerile humour, ironic covers of new undulation pop songs, and metallic shards of ska. The grouping cultivated an resistance undermentioned that broke into the mainstream in summer 1997, when their single "Sell Out" became a mod rock radio and MTV favourite.

Based in Huntington Beach, CA, Reel Big Fish was originally a tierce comprised of vocalist/guitarist Aaron Barrett, bassist Matt Wong, and drummer Andrew Gonzales. At that stage, the grouping was a conventional stone banding with pop-metal leanings that covered both classic tilt and Top 40 songs -- it was euphony intentional for frat parties. After several months, the dance orchestra ascertained ska and decided to append horn players. Reel Big Fish had a hard clip maintaining a stable saddle horn section, and it took several days in front their terminal batting order -- featuring Tavis Werts (trumpet), Scott Klopfenstein (trumpet, vocals), Grant Barry (trombone), and Dan Regan (trombone) -- fell into topographic point.

This unexampled and last lineup of Reel Big Fish recorded their debut record album, Everything Sucks, in 1995, and released it themselves. Everything Sucks became a grapevine resistance hit in ska-punk and college circles. Following its success, the dance orchestra signed with the indie label Mojo Records. The label's president, Jay Rifkin, and former Oingo Boingo bassist John Avila co-produced Turn the Radio Off, Reel Big Fish's number one record album for Mojo. Turn the Radio Off was released in August 1996, and over the next year, the grouping continually toured in support of the album, expanding their fan pedestal all the while. In springtime 1997, the single "Sell Out" began receiving heavy airplay from several influential modern rock stations of the Cross in the U.S., which before long translated into MTV support for the song's offbeat picture. By summertime, the vocal had become a moderate modern rock strike, and the album had charted in the Top one C. In July 1997, Reel Big Fish released the Keep Your Receipt EP, which contained "Sell Out" and several outtakes, novel songs, and live cuts. Wherefore Do They Rock So Hard followed a year later on, and in early 2000 the striation returned with Everything Sucks.

The guys wound up on Jive in fall 2001 when their electric current label, Mojo, was bought by Jive's parent label, Zomba. Reel Big Fish's tag debut, Cheer Up!, appeared in mid-2002. A supporting circuit with the Starting Line and the Kicks as openers followed. Touring continued over the next few age with myriad bands, including Sum 41, Catch 22, Lucky Boys Confusion, the Matches, Zebrahead, and more than. Their instalment of Kung Fu's DVD series, The Show Must Go Off, was recorded live at Anaheim's House of Blues in June 2003. The DVD was released by the end of the yr, and the band's next record album, the misanthropic still attention-getting We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy, was issued in April 2005. For the record album, the grouping consisted of Barrett, Regan, Klopfenstein, Wong, new cornetist John Christianson, and drummer Justin Ferreira; Ferreira was replaced by Ryland Steen in February 2005.

Touring continued for the breathe of the year and through the next; Reel Big Fish gayly parted ways with Jive in January 2006 (they'd been lacking to be dropped since Cheer Up!'s release). Ever on the road, they could be constitute that summertime on a nationwide co-headlining hitch with MxPx. The self-released double live CD and attendant DVD set Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album arrived that August. A few months by and by -- and practically to the annoyance of the ring -- Jive issued the best-of compilation Greatest Hit...and More. Reel Big Fish returned with some new material in February 2007 with the split EP Duette All Night Long aboard their friends in Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer.