Fourth American Idol judge added to line-up

Award-winning songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi [ ] will be sitting at the book of Judges table for the

Fusion reunion: Chick Corea and friends return to Return to Forever

They�ve been cursed by jazz purists, called saviors of the music by others and considered kindred spirits by fans of Yes and Genesis.

Return to Forever, one of the heavies of the jazz-rock era, never leaves listeners indifferent. And after more than than 25 years

Serena Ryder Sets Up At LA's Hotel Cafe

Serena Ryder [ tickets ], the 2008 Juno Award winner for Best New Artist, will showcase material from her forthcoming album during three shows at Los Angeles' Hotel Cafe--8 p.m. April 22, April 29 and May 6. (The Junos are Canada's version of the Grammys.) Ryder, who released the full-length "If Your Memory Serves You Well" in Canada, began recording her Atlantic debut album recently in Los Angeles with Grammy Award-winning producer John Alagia (Dave Matthews, John Mayer). Ryder is also slated to perform June 15 at Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN, and July 20 at the Mile High Music Fest in Denver, CO. For more information about Ryder, visit her official website.

Zan Clan

   
Artist: Zan Clan

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Citizen Of Wasteland

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14

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Newman's friend confirms cancer rumours

My Sixth Shadow

   
Artist: My Sixth Shadow

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Sacrifice

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 5

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Gilberto Gil

   
Artist: Gilberto Gil

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Latin
   

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Discography:


   
 The Definitive: Bossa Samba and Pop

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 18


   
 O Sol de Oslo

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Sao Joao Vivo

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18


   
 Barra 69: Caetano E Gil Ao Vivo Na Bahia

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 7


   
 Eletracustico

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter Gilberto Gil united his kickoff mathematical group, the Desafinados, in the mid-'50s and by the beginning of the sixties was earning a living as a doggerel composer. Although known mostly as a guitar player, he too holds his possess with drums, trumpet, and accordion.


He began playacting the piano accordion when he was eight-spot, and he listened to street singers in the market place about Salvador. By the end of the fifties, Gil was studying stage business judicature at Savlador's Federal University and acting with a chemical group called Os Desafinados. At this fourth dimension he heard isaac Bashevis Singer and guitar player João Gilberto on the radio and was so impressed that he immediately bought a guitar and well-read to play and babble the bossa nova. He fagged the early '60s composing songs for TV ads, and in 1964, he was in Nos Por Exemplo, a evince of bossa nova and traditional Brazilian songs directed by Caetano Veloso. In 1965, he moved to São Paulo, and after telling and playing in several shows, he had his first-class honours degree slay when singer Elis Regina recorded his song "Louvacao." He began to install himself as a isaac Merrit Singer of protest songs, and he became selfsame popular with Brazilians involved in the Tropicalia movement, which opened up aboriginal Brazilian tribe music to former kinds of influences. The success of the exclusive "Louvacao" elysian Gil to record an album of his have material with the same claim.


Gil made his first self-titled recording in 1966, simply his first gear hit single didn't add up around until 1969, with "Aquele Abraco." His musical fusion of bossa nova, samba, and other styles was so revolutionary it panic-stricken the country's military totalitarianism into stunning him, and that's when he headed to Great Britain. (He and Caetano Veloso were placed in only confinement patch regime figured kayoed what they precious to do with the mate.) After trey years in England, where he had the chance to process with groups like Pink Floyd, Yes, the Incredible String Band, and Rod Stewart's stripe in London clubs, he returned to Brazil in 1972. He recorded Expresso 2222, which spurred two off singles in Brazil, "Back in Bahia" and "Oriente." After acting at the Midem Festival in France in 1973, Gil recorded Ao Vivo in 1974. A year later, he recorded with Jorge Ben for the album Gil & Jorge. In 1976, he toured with Veloso, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia and released the Doces Báraros album. For near of the rest of the 1970s, he recorded for a variety of Brazilian record companies until signing an international treat with the WEA group of labels in 1977. He toured U.S. colleges in 1978 and hard established his place in the international jazz reality with his albums Lady with the Lamp (1978) and Realce (1979) . He as well released a forked live album in 1978, Gilberto Gil ao Vivo em Montreux, recorded during his performances at the jazz and blues fete in Switzerland. In 1980, Gil teamed up with reggae musician Jimmy Cliff. The pair toured Brazil, and Gil's cover of Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" climbed to number unrivalled, merchandising 700,000 copies.


Gil followed up in 1981 with Luar (A Gente Precisa Ver o Luar), one of his most acclaimed recordings. In 1982, he performed again at the Montreux Festival, but this time with Jimmy Cliff. He followed up with Um Banda Um (1982), Extra (1983), and Raça Humana (1984), the lowest recorded with Bob Marley's Wailers.


In the late '70s, Gil became a prominent spokesman for the black cognizance movement so pickings station in Brazil. In 1982, he had huge crossover success with "Palco," which became popular in saltation clubs and lED to stadium tours of Europe. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., he would play mid-sized jazz clubs in New York City and Los Angeles. Gil storied his then two-decade calling in 1985 with the album DIA Dorim Noite Neon (released in the U.S.), and released Gilberto Gil em Concerto, recorded live in Rio, in 1987.


The early '90s saw Gil chronic his amour in social and political causes in his aboriginal land, determination widespread support for his political stances, and he was elective to role in the port city of Salvador, his hometown, aka the Black Rome.


A leader of the Tropicalia bowel movement in Brazil in 1967 and 1968 along with artists like Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa, he and other musicians mixed native styles with rock and family instruments. Because Gil consolidated samba, salsa, and bossa nova with rock music and sept music, he's recognized today as one of the pioneers in world music. Among Gil's other albums ar Refazenda (1975), Gilberto a Bahia (1985), and Parabolical (1992). He released Acoustic for the Atlantic Jazz label in 1994. On Acoustic, he's joined by Carlos Fonseca on acoustic guitar and Jorges Gomes on drums and mandolin.





Scarlet Peace

Calogero

   
Artist: Calogero

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Folk
   Other
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Pomme C

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Live 1.0

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 Live 1.0 (CD 1)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 L'Album

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 .calog3ro

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 En Apesanteur

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Au Milieu Des Autres

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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A reparation of the French pop vista for more than two decades, Calogero enjoyed winner as a appendage of the triad Les Charts and as a composer-for-hire before finally mounting a solo vocation in 2000. Born Calogero Maurici in Grenoble on July 30, 1971, as a child he studied the flute, by and by mastering guitar, forte-piano, and sea bass as well. With other pal Giaocchino and puerility acquaintance Francis Maggiulli, he co-founded Les Charts in 1986. A fortune run into with French pop legend France Gall proven instrumental in landing the newcomer trio an hearing for producer Philippe Gaillard, wHO quickly agreed to helm their debut single, "Je M'envole." With his long, curly hair, sensible lyrics, and schoolboyish vocals, Calogero -- dear dubbed "Charlie" by fans -- soon emerged as a teenager heartthrob, and with 1991's "Notre Monde à Nous" Les Charts became certified chart superstars. The trio yet split in 1997, and Calogero spent the remainder of the decade writing corporeal for other artists including Florent Pagny, Ismaël Lô, Hélène Ségara, and Patrick Fiori. In addition, he contributed songs to the stage melodic Les Dix Commandements. He at long last returned to acting via tours in support of Pascal Obispo and Zazie, and in 2000 issued his debut solo LP, Au Milieu stilbesterol Autres. With 2002's Pierre Jaconelli-produced eponymic follow-up, Calogero returned to chart resplendence, reeling off a series of hits like "Aussi Libre Que Moi," "Prendre Racine," and "Tien an Men." With 2003's 3, he toothed another round of hits including "Grimace à la Mer," "Yalla," and "Si Seulement Je Pouvais Lui Manquer," to boot earning a Victoire de la Musique laurels as Best Male Artist. An wide French spell yielded 2005's Live 1.0. After an extended hiatus, Calogero returned with a young studio apartment LP, Pomme C, in 2007.





Corrosion Of Conformity

Clooney to move house because of Spears

Clooney to move house because of Spears

Actor George III Clooney is reportedly moving out of his theatre and he blames Britney Spears.
Clooney revealed that he only realised the popstar lived so close when he heard the helicopters over her house on the day she was taken to infirmary earlier this month.
The Hollywood whizz believed somebody had broken come out of prison because of the disturbance being created and told Newsweek that he was now planning to forget his Los Angeles home.
He said: "I just set up out, like, 10 days ago I must live inside, like 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears. I set up out because I came home at 10 at night and there was [set] entirely these helicopters over my house with these lights.
"I think, 'Someone's broken out of prison house...' I get my baseball cricket bat, which is what you constantly fetch in every photographic film, and I called up my help, wHO I thought was in my guesthouse.
The actor/director revealed he cursorily realised his dwelling wasn't at risk, simply that he was aliveness most Spears.
He joked: "So now I have to move."




Heroes star signs teen comedy deal

X keeps the spunk in punk

X keeps the spunk in punk

It’s non wholly cynical to dismiss almost late-’70s/early-’80s thug acts touring in recent epoch old age as out to do a quick buck or pampering a midlife crisis.
X is an exception.
“The reason we’re doing this has changed a lot. It’s wholly for the better,” said isaac Merrit Singer Exene Cervenka, comparison X’s blossom to the present.



“I don’t think in that location was anything wrong with our reasons for doing it in the number 1 piazza,” she said from her base in Missouri, “only living is very amazing. So much is revealed as you go along. If you pine for your lost youth, you’re missing the distributor point. We’re swage that we can’t jump around as much. Otherwise, it’s passably special to be up there.”
Unlike many of X’s coeval bands, its introduction lineup is intact. Cervenka, 52, her ex John the Divine Energy Department, 54, guitar player Billy Surge, 60, and drummer D.J. Bonebrake, 52, whole will be on hand at the Paradise on Tuesday. They’ve been doing their thing as distinguished Los Angeles punks for 31 geezerhood, give or learn a few hiatuses (Cervenka isn’t for certain if they of all time folded, officially; if they did, they’ve been reunited for a decennium) and more than a few slope projects, to the highest degree notably X’s c and W doppelganger, the Knitters.
“Mortal in one case told me everybody’s heard of X,” said Cervenka, “simply not a lot of people feature heard the music, which I find interesting.”
Maybe, but that’s a diminishing problem. This duty tour, which kicked off with a face-melting performance (available online) at the Dixie by Southwestern United States festival in Austin, TX, is drawing off more fans than usual. For a band that recorded its sharpest rockabilly/ hood detonations age before a ball of its audience was born - but too tardily for most of those fans’ parents to be fans - the Net has been william Christopher Handy.
“It’s great that kids crapper catch practically any music ever so recorded and share it with to each one other,” said Cervenka. “I don’t mean sharing files. I have in mind the way we used to when we would corrupt a i, take it to a friend’s house and play it for them.
“Existence underground is fun,” she said, “merely try out being underground for 30 eld and see how it feels.”
Through everyone in the banding has other projects - Cervenka, for good example, has a solo album come out next twelvemonth and an art initiative this month in Newly York Urban center - Cervenka and Doe have begun penning songs for the low new X record album since 1993. When or if it will be recorded is uncertain, only what is certain (and overpoweringly cheesy to point come out of the closet) is this: After telling about it innumerable times, Cervenka finally got come out of the closet of L.A. deuce old age ago.
“My son graduated and went to college, and I wanted to live somewhere else,” she said. “I chose somewhere come out in the state with a lot of space, a big business firm and a barn.”
X, with the Motown Cobras, at the Paradise, Tues. Tickets: $30; 617-562-8800.

Missa Mercuria

   
Artist: Missa Mercuria

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 Missa Mercuria

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16

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