S.W.A.T. Squad & other: 2008

Saturday 16 August 2008

Download Wipers

Artist: Wipers: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rock: Punk-Rock
ROck: Alternative

Discography:

The Best of the Wipers

Year: 1990

Tracks: 16

Over The Edge

Year: 1983

Tracks: 18

Youth Of America

Year: 1981

Tracks: 11

Is This Real?

Year: 1980

Tracks: 22

Misunderstood, maltreated, underrated, and/or barely plain unknown, Greg Sage should be mentioned in the first-class honours degree degree breaths nigh trailblazing guitarists and U.S. self-governing music of the '80s and '90s. Since forming his ring, Wipers, in Portland, OR, in the late '70s, Sage has been invest through the dead ringer more than enough to justify his hermetic in operation methods and spatial relation. While virtually of his god-fearing fans consider it a charade that his discover isn't as known as a contemporary like Bob Mould or even an unembarrassed fan-boy off caption like Kurt Cobain, Sage would likely rejoinder that it's not for the ill fame that he began making music. Unlike most other musicians existence Health Organization gain elysian guidance and need from observation their ducky stars racket in popularity and god idolise, Sage's stirring caulescent more from the pleasure he got from carving records on his possess lathe. He has been more than than than subject to stay in the subway system system, retaining optimum ascendance condition over his have life history patch loaning production avail and reinforcing stimulus to jr. bands that search to him for his guidance. Throughout his prolonged and fecund life history, he has downplayed or shunned any attention or recognition inclined to him, preferring to let the medicine speak for itself.

Initialized with the spirit of being a recording protrude and non a ring in the truest sense, Sage formed Wipers in 1977 with drummer Sam Henry and bassist Doug Koupal. Sage's original end was to loss 15 records in ten-spot geezerhood, free of traditional band aspects like touring and pic shoots. However, he constitute out early on that organism involved with independent labels byzantine mickle of compromise -- and that sovereign labels took a corking address of independence away from him, rather than empowering him.

After a debut 7" on Sage's Trap label (an retail store that Sage likewise used to loss a pair of Portland scene compilations), Wipers recorded Is This Real? on a four-track fipple flute (free of overdubs) in their rehearsal space. Park Avenue Records was willing to release it, simply they insisted that Sage and company re-record everything in a professional studio. Despite the relatively polished resultant, Is This Real? remained the group's rawest and near direct excursion. It was full of Sage's raging only agile guitars and what would turn his trademark songwriting vogue, dealing with extreme isolation, confusion, and frustration with an agitated signified of melodic phrase. 14 years subsequently its dismissal, Sub Pop picked up the criminal record and reissued it without whatsoever affair from Sage.

Prior to the recording of the group's finest here and now, 1981's Youth of America, Henry left to bring together Napalm Beach. Koupal stayed on long sufficiency to play on a couple of the album's songs simply left the band to move to Ohio; Brad Davidson moved in to play freshwater bass and Brad Naish took over on drums. Having been unimpressed by the professional studio experience, Sage took it upon himself to criminal record and technologist everything by himself. The move paying off, resulting in a furiously bouncy merely abbreviated LP full of extended passages that allowed Sage to flex his dumfounding skills on guitar without sounding like a showoff.

For 1982's excellent Over the Edge, the structures of the songs tightened, the pour down sensibility score good footstep. As a resultant role, "Romeo" and "Over the Edge" each sustained a fair amount of radio set play in the U.S., thanks to a few stations that were developing play lists that would subsequently be identified as alternative or modern tilt. Another factor in Wipers' somewhat increased exposure had to do with the punter distribution of their new label, Restless. Before Over the Edge's release, Sage fell out with Park Avenue on a number of dissonant issues.

The future studio record, Land of the Lost, didn't appear until 1986. During the quiet betwixt studio prison term, the band toured, Sage released his first gear solo album (1985's quiet Straight Ahead), and the band released a self-titled live album. Naish left the mathematical group in 1985 and was replaced by Steve Plouf. Follow Blind came out in 1987 and The Circle followed in 1988. Aside from some svelte output nuances and the occasional dabbling with stylistic curveballs, the ternion studio albums betwixt 1986 and 1988 more or less swam in the waken of the first three but ar far from embarrassments.

A 1989 go was accompanied with an promulgation from Sage that Wipers would be ending. The close outcome of climb frustrations with the sovereign music business and the fact that the band had lost the rent on a studio space they had devoted trey years to development, Sage packed up and headed for Phoenix to stay close to his mother. He left a town that he couldn't get arrested in, get alone reviewed. Plouf came along to Arizona (Davidson married, touched to London, and sporadically played with the Jesus & Mary Chain), and Sage built a fully operational studio in his new hideout. He recorded a second solo record, Sacrifice (For Love), and released it in 1991.

In the meantime, several alternative bikers became vocal about their admiration for Sage. The near notable was Kurt Cobain, whose band Nirvana covered Wipers songs and asked Sage to open for them on tours. Never absent to be opportunist and never lacking to tie attention to himself, Sage courteously turned down the offers. Sage would too reason that the timing was never right, as he and Plouf had problem securing a bassist world Health Organization would be unforced to check over hundred songs and spell unglamorously to small ostentation. Sage himself was ne'er a fan of touring; trudging through the States to advertize records had been zip only i nightmare after another, he never got a thrill from the attention that comes with being a frontman, and alone a couple towns -- specifically Boston and Chicago -- were on a regular basis supportive. Wipers enjoyed to the highest degree of their touring success in Europe, where they were treated with a lot more respect and filled theaters holding a twain grand fans.

With a 1993 testimonial record called Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage & the Wipers floating about, the Sup Pop reissue of the first record, and the attender exposure gained from them, Sage effectively squashed whatsoever steam his "career" was gaining by releasing Silver Sail in 1995, a Wipers record that scarce resembled the storming wildness that made his back catalogue short revered. And so, once the attention waned, Sage and Plouf returned to their '80s hostility with 1996's The Herd. Three years subsequently, the couple unleashed Power in One on Sage's new Zeno pronounce. In 2001, Sage used his own label to spillage a three-for-one computer software of Wipers' number one ternion albums. Remastered with plentifulness of bonus tracks, it's in all probability i of the virtually unselfish moves attached by a musician. Electric Medicine, Sage's one-third solo record, came in 2002.

Thursday 7 August 2008

Pink - Pink Throws Free Baby Shower For Lisa Marie

Pop punk PINK is throwing a baby

Monday 30 June 2008

Nicollette Sheridan - Sheridan Set For Housewives Comeback

NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN is set to return to hit TV show DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - after being written out of the show at the end of the fourth series.

The actress left at the end of the fourth season, filmed last year (07), but is set to reappear on Wisteria Lane in the forthcoming series after being asked to reprise her role as maneater Edie Britt in the series.

And it has been revealed that Sheridan's character, who is notoriously unlucky in love, will be getting a new romantic interest, to be played by new cast member Neal MCDonough.

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Tuesday 24 June 2008

Rawhill Cru

Artist: Rawhill Cru

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

U3r (U3R008)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Mo' Fire Nitrous (Remixes)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 1

Monday 16 June 2008

Ashanti - Ashanti Ripped Up Boyfriends Boots Over Phone Row

Suitors beware - vengeful singer ASHANTI will make you pay if you ever upset her.

The R+B star, who is currently dating rapper Nelly, once wrecked an ex-boyfriend's beloved boots - because he hung up on her during a phone chat.

She says, "I found his Timberlands (boots) in my closet, took a razor blade and cut them until nothing but the sole was left."

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Sunday 8 June 2008

Helen Eriksen

Artist: Helen Eriksen

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Low Rain in Pain - The Remix E.P.

Year: 1997
Tracks: 7

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Alicia Keys - Keys To Marry

ALICIA KEYS will marry her music producer boyfriend KERRY 'KRUCIAL' BROTHERS in New York this summer (08), according to reports.

American magazine Star claims the couple has booked Oheka Castle on Long Island for a ceremony on Independence Day - 4 July (08).

Bosses at the 32-bedroom French-style chateau have confirmed a wedding will take place that weekend, but have refused to reveal the identity of the bride and groom.

Keys and Brothers have never spoken openly about their relationship. They have been songwriting partners for years, co-owning the KrucialKeys production company and New York's Oven Recording Studios.

A representative for the R+B star has yet to confirm or deny the wedding reports.

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Jason Lee - Fascinating Fact 5292

MY NAME IS EARL star JASON LEE has revealed the sex of his unborn baby. The actor is expecting a girl with his girlfriend CEREN ALKAC.

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will.i.am joins the Wolverine film

Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am is to star opposite Hugh Jackman in the new blockbuster 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
Billboard reports that will.i.am, real name William Adams, will play the mutant Wraith in the 'X-Men' spinoff.
Wraith has the power to make himself translucent.
The cast of the new film also includes '30 Days of Night' star Danny Huston, 'Friday Night Lights' star Taylor Kitsch and 'The Number 23' star Lynn Collins.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is due in cinemas on 1 May 2009.

Bardot Convicted Over Islam Comments

Latest: Legendary actress Brigitte Bardot has been fined $23,325 (£11,662) after she was found guilty of inciting racial hatred in her native France. The former screen siren-turned-animal rights activist was accused of publicly criticising the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Adha - during which sheep are slaughtered as a sacrifice - in an open letter to French president Nicolas Sarkozy in December 2006. In the letter she said, "I am fed up with being under the thumb of this (Muslim) population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts." The Contempt star was convicted of the racial slur in a Paris court on Tuesday . She faced a possible two-month suspended prison sentence for the charge, but was instead just fined $23,325 and ordered to pay an additional $1,555 (£777) in damages to leading French anti-racism group Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (Mrap). The 73-year-old's lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, is now looking into appealing the ruling - but he insists the constant legal woes will not stop Bardot from voicing her opinions. He says, "She is tired of this type of proceedings. She has the impression that people want to silence her. She will not be silenced in her defence of animal rights." Bardot, who quit the film industry in the 1970s to pursue a career as an animal rights activist, is no stranger to the law - she has been fined for similar charges of inciting racial hatred on four prior occasions, starting in 1997.

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Wu Tang Clan promote unity through chess

Fifteen years after 36 Chambers, the Wu-Tang Clan have turned their attention to 64 black and white squares. The hip-hop group's latest project isn't a Method Man album or a street-level mixtape - it's WuChess.com, "the world's first online chess and urban social network".

The combination of rap and online chess might not seem like an obvious fit, but the Wu have always been unabashed in their non-bling interests, from kung fu to comic books and science fiction. And chess has long been a passion of founding Clan-member RZA, who created WuChess together with social network ChessPark.com.

For a $48 (£24) annual fee, WuChess subscribers can play against hip-hop chess-heads worldwide, form "chess clans" to group their rankings, and even compete against chess-playing rappers like the RZA himself. A "large part" of WuChess' revenue will be donated to the Hip-Hop Chess Federation - whose almost ridiculously cool mission statement is to use "chess, music and martial arts to promote unity, strategy and non-violence".

RZA isn't alone in his chess fixation. The game has been surging in the American hip-hop community, with everyone from Ghostface Killah to the Hieroglyphics taking part. No less than the Dilated Peoples' Rakaa leads WuChess' video tour. Everyone seems to have taken to heart the wisdom sampled at the beginning of the Wu-Tang's Da Mystery of Chessboxin': "The game of chess is like a swordfight. You must think first, before you move ... When it's properly used, it's almost invincible."

It's only a matter of time before other board games win the support of musical acts. Risk for Coldplay, Boggle for Sigur R�s, and maybe Amy Winehouse's social networking website could chronicle the ups and downs of snakes and ladders.

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Puppets make summer debut

THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS will make their live debut at the Carling Weekender
over the August Bank Holiday.

Frontmen ALEX TURNER of the ARCTIC MONKEYS and MILES KANE
of THE RASCALS have yet to confirm any further shows, so these gigs
will be the first chance fans can hear tracks from their album The Age Of
Understatement live.

The band will play the NME/Radio 1 Stage as co-headliners, prior to previously
announced band THE CRIBS.

After last year’s packed tents for THE ENEMY and THE PIGEON
DETECTIVES expect a similar battle to the barrier on August 22 at Leeds
and August 24 at Reading.