Magic Slim

   
Artist: Magic Slim

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Grand Slam

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 14


   
 Highway Is My Home

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Collection

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Magic Slim & the Teardrops proudly uphold the custom of what a Chicago blues band should heavy like. Their emphasis on ensemble playing and a whopping repertoire that allegedly ranges upward of a few one C songs give the eminent guitarist's live performances an adorable ad-lib quality: You never cognise what obscurity he'll overstretch out of his outsized lid next.


Born Morris Holt on August 7, 1937, the Mississippi native was forced to reach up playing the piano when he lost his small finger in a cotton noose mishap. Boyhood chum Magic Sam bestowed his magic soubriquet on the budding guitarist (and times change as Slim's no yearner slender). Holt first base came to Chicago in 1955, merely establish that breaking into the competitive local blues circumference was a tough proposition. Although he managed to guarantee a steady gig for a while with Robert Perkins' band (Mr. Pitiful & the Teardrops), Slim wasn't good enough to onward motion into the upper berth ranks of Chicago bluesdom.


So he retreated to Mississippi for a spell to perfect his chops. When he returned to Chicago in 1965 (with brothers Nick and Lee Baby as his new rhythm section), Slim's detractors were quickly forced to change their tune. Utilizing the Teardrops discover and belongings onto his Magic Slim handle, the big man cut a yoke of 45s for Ja-Wes and established himself as a redoubtable strength on the South side. His guitar work on dripped vibrato-enriched spitefulness and his hollering vocals were as ill-humoured and sturdy as anyone's on the setting.


All of a sudden, the recording floodgates opened up for the Teardrops in 1979 after they cut quartet tunes for Alligator's Surviving Chicago Blues anthology series. Since then, a series of nails-tough albums for Rooster Blues, Alligator, and a skid for the Austrian Wolf logo experience fattened Slim's discography considerably. The Teardrops weathered a potentially annihilative change when longtime second guitarist John Primer cut his have major-label debut for Code Blue, merely with Slim and bass-wielding brother Nick Holt still on display board, it's doubtful the quartet's boilers suit legal volition change dramatically in Primer's absence. In 1996, Slim gestural with Blind Pig and has cut some of the most-celebrated albums of his vocation, including Scufflin' in 1996, Pitch-dark Tornado in 1998, Snakebite in 2000, and Blue Magic in 2002. A alive recording taped in 2005 at the Sierra Nevada Brewery was released that same class on both DVD and CD as Anything Can Happen. 2006 proverb the release of Atomic number 50 Pan Alley, a set of recordings made between 1992 and 1998 in Chicago and Europe, on Austria's Wolf Records.

Boyz II Men stand up for Simon Cowell

Boyz II Men have defended Simon Cowell over his remarks on 'The X Factor' and 'American Idol'.
The male vocal harmony group told Now Online that they believe Cowell's direct approach is beneficial to those hoping to make it in the music industry.
The said: "He's not always right, but his approach is dead on. He's the most truthful. You have to be very straightforward in this business."
"You gotta learn to speak your mind because if not you get cluttered with everybody else."
"Eventually you start lying and you don't have an identity any more. Whether he's right or wrong, his opinion is his opinion. But a lot of the time he's dead on."

Janek Schaefer

   
Artist: Janek Schaefer

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Migration

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 4

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Londoner Janek Schaefer began deconstructing music at the tender age of six, when he assembled a well-grounded collage called "Travel." After studying architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, he continued his heavy prowess experiments with a piece called "Recorded Delivery," which premiered at a London exhibition organized by Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson. The piece consisted of emended sounds culled from a taping recording made by a voice-activated device that traveled in a box through and through the British postal system. Eventually, a 7" single of "Recorded Delivery" was released. A great deal of live gigs and installation pieces followed in the later '90s, coincidental with several cassette releases.


During this point, Schafer continued to design and build his have unique tools for music making, including a three-armed "tri-phonic" turntable and several highly specialised vinyl mastering techniques. Schafer also has a strong interest group in field recordings as a compositional instrument. His interests converged on his fantastical album debut Higher up Buildings, which was released on Fat Cat in 2000. With its rough and beautiful sonics, the record redact Schafer on the spirit level of abstract euphony makers like Fennesz and Oval.

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Virtual gigs strike a chord in Second Life

Virtual gigs strike a chord in Second Life

Paris - Lion Wolff, a woman world Health Organization joined the online public of Endorsement Life in 2005, bought a small plot of virtual demesne with ogdoad other musicians and opening the "Virtual Garage" to show window and do their music.Her online character reference, or embodiment, Reduce Warrior was the first British musician to perform in the popular virtual earth with its possess currency and a growing economy. She was also the commencement to duette online with another artist based as far away as Texas.Wolff, wHO promotes other Second Life musicians and organises music festivals within the online humanity, is part of a growing number of artists wHO hold set up a unveiling pad for careers in the 3D game.Created by San Francisco-based Lime tree Labs, Indorsement Aliveness presently has about 13 jillion members - or residents as they are known - and simply over century musicians performing "live" shows."The main benefit is existence able to reach a wider audience, as well as the ability to touch out to audiences globally and create a larger fan foundation," Kaspar Friedrich Wolff said.


"Second Life as well increases a musician's confidence, particularly to those up and coming artists, world Health Organization sense the virtual world allows them to grow into their personas ahead playacting exterior the virtual world," she said.Wolff, 42, wHO makes for the most part electronic music, describes herself as a "virtual musician." She has never performed exterior Arcsecond Living though she said "it would be wonderful to do so."She does, however, work in the real world, giving advice to bands and indie artists around playacting on Arcsecond Life.In Indorsement Life, artists role the game's audio-video software package to perform from their homes, music studios or even from real creation shows.And apart from a good computer, there is little cost or hassle involved with gigs in Second Life. After whole, at that place is no transportation required or equipment to catch around.Close to performers charge a fee, merely most like Slim down Warrior play for give up: "It's great for marketing, increasing name recognition, which bathroom leash to marketing merchandise," she said.Gigs ar billed on the community's events calendar and followers sent an minute message inviting them to beam their avatars to virtual venues.No MySpaceUnlike the social network MySpace, S Living offers a live platform with interaction that only can descend from playing in front of a real interview.


A gig in Second Sprightliness.

"In MySpace, users either trip over your page or get wind about it through friends. Whereas in Second Spirit you ar organism actively promoted, whether that be by bars, islands, or forums," Kaspar Friedrich Wolff said.But in that location ar roughly limitations to the application, notably the number of people wHO tooshie serve a gig at the sami sentence.





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Atrium

   
Artist: Atrium

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Midnight Dancer (Vinyl Maxi)

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 3


   
 Weekend

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 14

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Oscar winner charged after fatal crash

Oscar winner charged after fatal crash

Roger Avary, the Oscar-winning co-writer of 'Pulp Fiction', has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after a fatal railcar ram northwest of Los Angeles.
Reuters reports that the dash occurred in the metropolis of Ojai, 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Los Angeles, at about 1am on Sun.
Thirty-four-year-old Andreas Zedini, a passenger in Avary's railcar, died of his injuries at a local anesthetic hospital, Captain Monica McGrath of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department said.
Avary's 40-year-old wife, Gretchen, was taken to infirmary with serious injuries.
Captain McGrath said Avary was released from pokey afterward notice $50,000 bail.




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