Adan Chalino Sanchez

   
Artist: Adan Chalino Sanchez

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   

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Discography:


   
 El Unico

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Siempre y Para Siempre

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11

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Coldplay Say They 'Feel No Pressure Playing Free Gigs'

Hexx

   
Artist: Hexx

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 No Escape - Under The Spell

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 19

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After kicking about the Bay Area with little to show for it since 1978, San Francisco's Paradox changed their name to Hexx presently before sign language with the Shrapnel mark and cathartic their debut album, No Escape, in 1984. This showed them to be in the traditional alloy camp, with a few N.W.O.B.H.M. influences, simply by the fourth dimension of their sophomore drive, Under the Spell, arrived in 1986, Hexx was clearly assimilatory elements of the slash scene raging all around them. Now comprised of vocalist/guitarist Clint Bower, guitarist Dan Watson, bassist Bill Peterson, and drummer John Shafer, Hexx released a mate of EPs -- 1988's Watery Grave and 1989's Quest for Sanity -- spell chronic to tinker with their legal, which had pretty a great deal achieved destruction metal qualifications by the liberation of 1991's Morbid Reality. Success of whatsoever kind continued to fudge them, however, no affair what style they time-tested, so Hexx presently distinct that the time was right to give it up.

Barack Obama Projected To Win North Carolina Primary; Indiana Too Close to Call

Just moments after the polls closed in North Carolina, CNN projected that Barack Obama had won the biggest remaining delegate prize in the contentious Democratic nomination fight. With 46 percent of precincts reporting, Hillary Clinton leads Obama in Indiana by a 56 to 44 percent margin, though CNN said it could not yet call the race because a number of key areas where Obama is expected to do well had not yet been tallied. At press time, with 11 percent of the vote in, Obama led Clinton in North Carolina by a 65 to 35 percent margin.
A total of 218 delegates were up for grabs in the two contests, the biggest one-day delegate haul left in the primary season, and Clinton said she was well aware of how critical these typically afterthought states were in the race. "This primary election on Tuesday is a game-changer," Clinton said, according to CNN. "This is going to make a huge difference in what happens going forward. The entire country, probably even a lot of the world, is looking."
With Obama rapidly closing the gap in pledged superdelegates and not enough pledged delegates left in the remaining races for Clinton to overtake him at her current rate, the New York senator would have to win an improbable 70 percent of the vote in the final five primaries and one caucus to catch up to Obama, who leads her in both pledged delegates and the popular vote.
As it stands now, neither Democrat is likely to win the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination by June 3, the date of the final primary in South Dakota, so it will likely fall on the 796 superdelegates — governors, party officials and members of Congress — to decide the race.
Hours before the polls closed, CNN predicted that Clinton had pulled ahead and was expected to win by 4 percentage points in Indiana, where the candidates had been in a dead heat until last week, and where Obama was expected to feel the effects of a recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Hoosier State's photo-ID law, which could make it difficult for some younger voters without official Indiana driver's licenses or state ID cards to cast their ballots. The Indiana primary held a prize of 84 delegates, while North Carolina promised 134; the win there was the first big one for Obama since his victory in Mississippi in March. Obama was on track to win North Carolina by a comfortable margin, after being up by as many as 25 points in the months leading up to the primary.
As they crisscrossed both states over the past two weeks, the candidates were mostly civil, though they repeatedly exchanged fire over Clinton's support for a summer repeal of the 18-cent-per-gallon federal gas tax, a plan Obama has labeled as pandering for votes and which has drawn poor marks from hundreds of leading economists.
The New York Times reported that voters in both states were deluged by a wave of attack ads from both sides that were more intense than any seen so far in the primary season. The peak came with a Clinton ad on Monday that asked the question, "What has happened to Barack Obama?" countered by an Obama ad that parried, "We need honest answers and a president we can trust." The two candidates spent $9.5 million combined in the two states, almost as much as Democratic Senator John Kerry spent on TV ads during the entire 2004 primary season.
For Clinton, the potential Indiana win could be a chance to show that she is continuing to turn the tide in what had been a losing battle against Obama and further proof, after her wins in Ohio and Pennsylvania, that she has the ability to take big states by tapping into her base of white, blue-collar supporters, a constituency Obama has struggled to connect with.
Obama, who polls suggested was still feeling the ill effects of his break with his controversial former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was looking for a pair of wins that could prove he is a viable candidate who can win the general election. According to the Times, Clinton's best hope for winning the nomination at this point is to get superdelegates to vote against the pledged delegates after the primaries wrap up on June 3, with the hope that despite trailing Obama in pledged delegates, she can take the lead in the popular vote. The Times reported that Obama currently leads Clinton in the popular vote, 14.8 million to 14.2 million, not counting the votes of Florida and Michigan, whose primary numbers are not being tallied because they pushed their primaries up against party wishes.
With only 217 delegates left in the primaries, the candidates go at it again next Tuesday in West Virginia, a state whose makeup appears to favor Clinton. That election will be followed by Kentucky and Oregon on May 20, Puerto Rico on June 1 and Montana and South Dakota on June 3.
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Timberlake agrees new film deal

Justin Timberlake is to star opposite Jeff Bridges and Mary Steenburgen in a new drama called 'The Open Road'.
Variety reports that the film tells the story of a young man trying to repair his relationship with his legendary athlete father as he tries to make his way home to see his seriously ill mother.
The Michael Meredith-directed and written film is due to begin shooting in Louisiana and other southern US states this month.

Little Britain star plays Frankie Howerd

Little Britain star plays Frankie Howerd

'Little Britain' star Jacques Louis David Walliams is to play Frankie Howerd in a newly one-off BBC Four-spot drama.
The BBC says that 'Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me' will stress on the entertainer's struggle with his demons, as seen through the eyes of his long-term partner Dennis Heymer.  
Commenting on his casting, Walliams said: "I experience been a life-long fan of Frankie and his work: I even managed to get an autograph later one of his shows!"
He continued: "Playing Howerd is, in many slipway, a dream role for me. In fact, Mat Lucas ['Little Britain' co-star] and I commencement bonded as struggling comedians over a shared beloved of Frankie Howerd impressions."
The drama will be screened in the spring of 2008.

Los Van Van

   
Artist: Los Van Van

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Salsa

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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Los Van Van ar single of the nigh important and influential bands in the history of twentieth century Cuban pop music. Though the mid-nineties were pervaded by groups that assorted folkloric and traditional euphony with the musical theater trends of the day, and the etymon of the twenty-first century sawing machine that process go level further, in the mid-sixties and '70s that Latino nuclear fusion chemical reaction sensitivity was hardly at charles Victor Herbert Best. There were primarily 2 Cuban groups experimenting with admixture bulge, funk, john Rock, and head with their native traditions. One of those devil was Irakere, and the other, far more lasting band was Los Avant-garde Van.


Chase the revolution, Cuban youth were profiled for talents and predispositions. Children viewing capability in athletics were aerodynamic into sports. Academics, eyepiece liberal arts, and music followed courting. The youth musicians world Health Organization formed Los Van Van had enjoyed indoor garden educations from their earliest years, and were experts in hypothesis and public presentation by their former mid-twenties. The band's key players -- Juan Formell (bandleader, bass player, and lay manufacturing business), César "Pupy" Pedroso (pianissimo, songster), and José Luis "Changuito" Quintana (drumset/timbales) were fascinated with the soul, go-go, and disco music euphony that dominated U.S. radio waves. They named their dance circuit Los Van Vanguard after the go-go rage, substance literally "they go-go!"


The trend that the band pioneered took its make from the span of boy and go-go music that the stripe had created. The style "songo" bathroom buoy up now be base end-to-end the Latin malarkey, protrude, and fusion man race. Los Caravan Van's debut magnetic disc caliber the make, solidifying its position in musical comedy history invariably. In brief after the band's formation, they became the island's front-runner dance circle, a human action of imparting they held for age.


With the support of the Cuban government, Los Vanguard Van toured and recorded and toured tirelessly passim the '80s and '90s. They became the best-known Cuban grouping in the homo beings, maintaining a loyal fan base end-to-end EEC. Though there was about U.S. sake in the dance orchestra and their innovations, the politics of the years weasel-worded their ability to occur apart into the U.S. foodstuff. While Irakere defected to States, Los New wave Vanguard ne'er left Republic of Cuba. U.S. interest grew throughout the '90s, peaking with Los Avant-garde Van's Grammy Award in 1999 for their 15th archetype album, Llegó Van Caravan.


Many creation members have got gone on to wooing successful bandleaders in their have aright. César "Pupy" Pedroso formed his possess grouping, Los Que Logos, Son, at the turn of the hundred. Lúis "Changuito" Quintana left hand the band in 1993 to prosecute a Latin idle actor's line calling. Many lesser-known members went on to become or so of the nearly influential players in the timba rotation that came in the other '90s.


Los Van Van ar astray recognised as a genre-creating band. Aboard artists like the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Los Van Vanguard ar distinguished as a stripe that changed the path of popular music for an stallion propagation.





Deadstring Brothers

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

KT Tunstall has announced that she is to wed her drummer beau later he proposed on Yuletide Day.
The vocalizer revealed on her website how fellow Luke Bullen surprised her by turning up at her adoptive parents' home to crop up the question.
The drummer, wHO plays in Tunstall's backing band, called her on Dec 25 Eve singing her he was with his friends in Norwich.
Simply he was actually in a bar in Edinburgh with her brother and appeared at her parents' place in St Andrews the following daybreak.
32-year-old Tunstall wrote on her internet site: "So, 11 o'clock on Christmastide cockcrow, the doorbell goes and it's Saint Luke suited and booted. With wholly his bags. And a little boxful. Wrapped with a ribbon. He proposed!"
She added: "Existence an opportunist, I manifestly said yes! It feels shattering. Hold an eye out for a little scintillate as I'm playing those chords."
Tunstall said Bullen, 34, had on the Q.T. visited her parents a month earlier to ask their permit.
The couple plan to espouse this year.