Frozen Shadows & other: June 2008

Monday 30 June 2008

Rollercoaster

Artist: Rollercoaster

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Damn!

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Tuesday 24 June 2008

BBC, EMI accessing each other's archives

Companies will receive reciprocal royalties on sales

LONDON -- The BBC has handed EMI Music the keys to its treasure-filled broadcast vault. Through an agreement struck between EMI and BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, both parties will be able to tap into each other's content wells.
The London-based music group will have access to BBC's archive TV and radio recordings to create products for release across multiple platforms, including DVDs, CDs and digital downloads.
On the flip side, BBC Worldwide will be able to use EMI artist performances to create new programming for commercial use, including international radio and TV programs. BBC Worldwide also has obtained rights to distribute the content direct to consumers by way of its own future digital services.
"We are very excited about this agreement," said Pete Duckworth, senior vp catalog, EMI Music U.K. and Ireland. "In the BBC vaults there is a wealth of unreleased and high-quality material from EMI artists that we will now be able to bring to fans. At the same time, we can offer new revenue opportunities to our artists that simply weren't there before."
BBC's archive includes such EMI spoils as 1967 live radio performances from Pink Floyd, playing tracks from its debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," plus a 1975 documentary on David Bowie and early recordings of Coldplay.
Both companies will also receive reciprocal royalties for each other's sales, and featured artists will be approached for clearance on each release project.
Its not the first time BBC has encouraged the major label community to tap into its broadcast library. Universal Music struck a landmark licensing deal in mid-2005, enabling the market-leader to leverage the BBC's audio and visual content for use in a broad range of internationally available products.

Monday 23 June 2008

DJ Stardust

Artist: DJ Stardust

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Dance pollution 241

Year: 2003
Tracks: 2

Dance pollution 221

Year: 2003
Tracks: 2

Julian Sas

MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann owes New York state for unpaid taxes

ALBANY, N.Y. - MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann, who spotlights misbehaviour nightly with his "Worst Person in the World" recognition, owes New York state for unpaid business taxes, according to a tax warrant notice.

And his conservative counterparts and bloggers are making sure the debt is fodder in the ongoing political commentators' feud.

Olbermann, the host of "Countdown," owes New York $2,269.50, according to a tax warrant obtained by The Associated Press.

State Tax and Finance Department spokesman Tom Bergin said the debt recorded against the TV host's Olbermann Broadcasting Empire Inc., based in Los Angeles, is still open.

MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines called it a bookkeeping disagreement between Olbermann's accountants and the state and said it was resolved months ago.

Bergin said the debt could have been resolved recently, but it has not yet been legally "satisfied" and so remains an open case.

The tax debt has been featured on the blog OlbermannWatch.com, which referred to Olbermann as a "deadbeat," and among Page Six items in the New York Post. The tabloid referred to Olbermann as a "professional angry man" who likes tax-and-spend liberals "but didn't pay his own taxes."

Olbermann has named Fox TV conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly the world's worst person more than a dozen times. News Corp., headed by CEO Rupert Murdoch, owns the New York Post and Fox News Channel, among other properties.

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Sunday 22 June 2008

Chitra

Artist: Chitra

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Ye To Prem Ki Baat

Year:
Tracks: 10

Manas Janam Anmol

Year:
Tracks: 6

Chitrakabhi Ram Banke

Year:
Tracks: 7

Chhoto So Kanhaiyya

Year:
Tracks: 13

Lee Not About To Shut His Face

Madonna’s adoption bid backed by Banda father

Madonna Madonna has received backing from the father of the Malawian tot she plans to adopt.

Yohane Banda says he fully supports the pop superstar’s plans to adopt his son David Banda, but wanted her to bring the tot home for visits.

Following the Malawian government’s recommendation that its High Court approve Madonna’s adoption of the child, Yohane told news agency Reuters: “I have no problem with the government’s recommendation to allow Madonna to get the child.

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Will Smith - Smith Scared Of Anti-action Films

WILL SMITH is reluctant to star in movies that aren't big-budget blockbusters - because he's not sure if such projects would succeed in the box office.

The actor has made a name for himself with lead roles in high-grossing action and sci-fi hits like Men In Black and Independence Day.

And he admits he is afraid to stray from his trademark genre in favour of more dramatic films.

He says, "I fear that if I don't do that 'Will Smith' thing, then it won't be successful."

But the 39-year-old is confident his best work on the big screen is yet to come.

He adds: "I think the next four or five years are going to be my innovative prime."

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Elysia

Artist: Elysia

   Genre(s):
Metal

Discography:

Masochist

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Taake

Hot Tuna

Artist: Hot Tuna

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Rock: Blues

Discography:

The Phosphorescent Rat

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Yellow Fever

Year: 2001
Tracks: 8

Live at Kenswick CD2

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Live at Kenswick CD1

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

Live in Japan: At Stove's Yokohoma City

Year: 1998
Tracks: 14

Classic Hot Tuna Electric

Year: 1996
Tracks: 8

Classic Acoustic

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Double Dose

Year: 1995
Tracks: 14

Live at Sweetwater 2

Year: 1993
Tracks: 12

Live At Sweetwater

Year: 1992
Tracks: 13

Pair A Dice Found

Year: 1990
Tracks: 14

Historic Live

Year: 1985
Tracks: 8

Hoppkorv

Year: 1976
Tracks: 10

Splashdown Two

Year: 1975
Tracks: 14

America's Choice

Year: 1975
Tracks: 8

Burgers

Year: 1972
Tracks: 9

First Pull Up, Then Pull Down

Year: 1971
Tracks: 7

Hot Tuna

Year:
Tracks: 15

Funky

Year:
Tracks: 11

Begun as an acoustic spin-off of the Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna eventually became the full-time focus of creation members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen, rising as a democratic touring act of the 1970s. The 2 were lifelong friends, maturation up together in Washington, D.C., and playing in the chemical group the Triumphs. After heights school, guitarist Kaukonen and his government-service parents resettled to the Philippines, merely he returned to the U.S. in time for the advent of psychedelia, landing place in San Francisco and co-founding the Airplane in 1965. Bassist Casady united not long after, and together they helped lead the group to massive success during the late '60s.

Hot Tuna -- in the first place dubbed Hot Sh*t, much to the mortification of their label, RCA -- start began pickings cast in 1969, patch both Casady and Kaukonen were tranquil active members of the Jefferson Airplane; in fact, their first performances were sandwiched between regular Airplane gigs. As a threesome rounded out by mouth harp player Will Scarlet (and at times including Airplane members Marty Balin and Spencer Dryden), Hot Tuna debuted in 1970 with a low-key self-titled LP of traditional blues and ragtime recorded live at the New Orleans House in Berkeley; by the undermentioned year's more rock-inspired First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, their roster included violinist Papa John Creach, at the same time a full-time member of the Airplane, and drummer Sammy Piazza. Minus Scarlet, a third album, Burgers, appeared in 1972.

By the appearance of 1974's The Phosphorescent Rat, both Casady and Kaukonen had formally exited Jefferson Airplane; by this time Creach, world Health Organization elective to persist with the Airplane, was no thirster in the group. With 1975's America's Choice, Piazza as well was kaput, replaced by drummer Bob Steeler; Sensationalistic Fever appeared that same twelvemonth, with Hoppkorv following in 1976. Keyboardist Nick Buck signed on for 1978's Double Dose, but Hot Tuna after announced their separation, ending out the first phase of their career with 1979's Last Vinyl.

In the come alive of the group's dying, Kaukonen released a solo LP, Jorma, and after joined the new wave unit Vital Parts; Casady as well fronted a modern wave group of his own, SVT. In 1984, both returned to their roots: Casady joined beau Airplane alums Balin and Paul Kantner in the K.B.C. Band, spell Kaukonen reverted to the acoustic folks and blue devils of his formative long time. Finally, Casady and Kaukonen played a handful of club dates under the Hot Tuna aegis, re-forming on a more concrete basis in 1986; by 1990, their ranks included Michael Falzarano, a veteran of many early reunion shows. That class Hot Tuna released Twin a Dice Found, their first base accumulation of new studio material in over a decade; a serial of live releases followed, including 1992's Live at Sweetwater, 1997's Splashdown Two, and 1999's And Furthurmore... In the geezerhood to follow, Hot Tuna continued to play respective alive shows a class in assorted configurations. A single-disc best-of from the RCA geezerhood, Keep on Truckin', was released in 2006.