Kondo, Bernocchi and Laswell

   
Artist: Kondo, Bernocchi and Laswell

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Re-Charged Remixes

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2

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The Zutons, Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent

Liverpudlian rock'n'soul troupe the Zutons are better suited to a clammy city nightclub than the leafy environs of deepest Kent, but here they are, at the top of a bill with Noah and the Whale and Mystery Jets as part of a tour of seven forest locations. They open with their theme song, Zuton Fever, but they do not have a coherent identity: the bassist is a moptop, the new guitarist resembles Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, frontman Dave McCabe could be an extra from Almost Famous, while saxophonist Abi Harding is like a dishevelled version of her Dutch counterpart Candy Dulfer.

As brassy as Madness and Dexys, there are fewer awkward angles than you would expect from a group who took their name from a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. In fact, McCabe's refusal to dilute his accent when he sings makes you think of the Zutons as something like the Cavern-era Beatles. More than anything, they recall fictional band the Commitments: they have the same gritty intensity and sweaty power. It gets wearing.

Live, they are tight and punchy, with strong drumming, if a bit heavy on the bass, which reverberates across the field and up to our chests. The crowd goes routinely wild, with syncopated claps. One man even mock-blows a plastic sax. The barnstorming boogie of Always Right Behind You is a respite from the rocked-up R&B. But Valerie is most rapturously received, and deservedly so - it is by far their best song, the one that achieves everything they set out to do. It also makes you wonder where the Zutons can go next.

· At Delamere Forest on June 13 (0845 3673787), and the National Arboretum on June 20 (01666 880220).


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Shemekia Copeland

   
Artist: Shemekia Copeland

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Talking To Strangers

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Wicked

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Turn the Heat Up

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live Paris

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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The daughter of noted Texas vapors guitarist Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland began qualification a spatter in her possess proper earlier she was even out of her teens. Projecting a maturity beyond her years, Copeland fashioned herself a potent, soul-inflected screamer in the custom of Koko Taylor and Etta James, hitherto besides proved capable of a subtler range of emotions. Copeland was natural in Harlem in 1979 and her father bucked up her to babble out proper from the beginning, even delivery her up onstage at the Cotton Club when she was just now eighter from Decatur age old. She began to engage a singing career in earnest at historic period 16, when her father's health began to decline ascribable to heart disease; he took Shemekia on hitch with him as his opening act, which helped institute her name on the blue devils circuit. She landed a phonograph recording deal with Alligator, which issued her debut album Turn the Heat Up! in 1998, when she was just now 19 years old (woefully, her father didn't live to go steady the occasion). While the influences on Copeland's style were quartz sack up, the platter was met with enthusiastic reviews praising its vitality and rage. Marked as a hot offspring newcomer to watch, Copeland toured the blues fete tour in America and Europe, and landed a fair amount of publicity. Her second album, Terrible, was released in 2000 and featured a duet with one of her heroes, early R&B diva Ruth Brown. Terrible earned Copeland a slue of W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations and she walked cancelled with three: Song of the Year, Blues Album of the Year, and Contemporary Female Artist of the Year. The followup phonograph recording, Talking to Strangers, was produced by legendary piano player Dr. John and featured songs that she proudly claimed were her best all the same. 2005 proverb the going of The Soul Truth, produced by Steve Cropper, on Alligator Records.





Pepe De Lucia

No Mercy

   
Artist: No Mercy

   Genre(s): 
Dance: Pop
   Dance
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16


   
 No mercy

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 1


   
 More

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 My Promise

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 15


   
 Widespread Bloodshed - Love Runs Red

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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My Chemical Romance - My Chemical Romance Fans To March On London

Chuck D 'forgets' Public Enemy Lyrics

PUBLIC ENEMY star CHUCK D is nervous about reuniting with his bandmates - because he fears he has forgotten the lyrics to their hit tracks.
The hip-hop band has agreed to reform to mark the 20th anniversary of their 1988 album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us.
But the rap pioneer is nervous about the band's forthcoming U.K. tour - because he can't remember all the words to their songs.
He says, "Just trying to remember all the lyrics is going to be hard. Some people have a gift for that, but I never had. Always found it difficult. We ain't all been together in a room for an age and we got some figuring out to do when we meet up next week. But, hey, what's the worst thing that can happen? You're going to write a bad review? Ain't no big deal. We're beyond all that now."

Granite and Phunk

   
Artist: Granite and Phunk

   Genre(s): 
House
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Give You Everything

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


   
 The Dancefloors Knew E.P Vinyl

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3

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Def Leppard - Def Leppard Irritated With Hit Album Success

Def Leppard - Def Leppard Irritated With Hit Album Success

Old stager bikers DEF LEPPARD ar baffled by their current graph success with newly album SONGS FROM THE Sparkle Waiting area - because their previous 2 LPs failed to print fans.

The disk, the Brits heavy metallic element band's tenth studio apartment album, has entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number basketball team this calendar week (07May08).

Just guitarist Phil Collen is upset fans ar overlooking the group's 10th record album, entitled X, which was released in July 2002 and became the band's least successful