Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Danish singer-songwriter is best known in the UK

Sacre Coeur is the powerfully moving first release from Tina Dico’s new
album (Count To Ten) due out in early February. A tale of lost and
found souls under a Parisienne sunset, Dico effects the listener with a
subtle, simple, yet beautiful force. Built over a gentle back beat and
a wistful piano, it rises into each chorus with passion and
sensitivity. The chorus becoming an ever forceful hook with each play.







The Danish singer-songwriter is best known in the UK for her
collaborations with trip hop guru’s, Zero 7. In her native Denmark,
however, she is known and respected in her own right, with a clutch of
Danish music awards

proud dad Joel

Earlier this week, proud dad Joel revealed his new baby looked just
like her mother. Joel wrote on his web blog: "I am finally home with my
beautiful girlfriend and our brand new little daughter. "She looks so
much like her mom its crazy! She eats like a little maniac and she's
really sweet. She barely ever cries, even when daddy is changing her
diaper, and believe me I suck when it comes to diapers, but I'm
learning!"

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Аffair with £10,000 worth of damage being done

They’ve been working on their debut album their whole lives. 'It’s a
concept album which covers a weekend. The storyline runs all the way
from meeting a guy on a Friday night right up until the hangover hits
on the Sunday!' explains Tammy.
'It’s like the soundtrack to our
lives and it’s all about the things that we do,' continues Kally, 'we
love doing things like going shopping on a Saturday afternoon,getting
ready to go out for the evening and go mental. We know other people our
age will be able to identify with it.'

The girls recently shot
their debut video in their managers house and the extras were invited
to appear via the girls MySpace site. The day turned into a raucous
affair with £10,000 worth of damage being done to the house that was
used.

'I Don’t Like The Vibe In The VIP' is set for release on
December 31st - featuring remixes from Jack Rokka, Slips and DN - and
will soon be filling dance floors from Hackney to Hull. And if you’ve
been searching for a new soundtrack to your weekend, fear not, because
it’s on its way.

NMA remain underpinned by a driving rhythm

NMA remain underpinned by a driving rhythm section. The relatively
recent arrival of Michael Gill on guitar adds a harder rocky edge to
the sound as a whole. The 'folky’ elements of harmonica or fiddle on
'Poison Street' and 'Vagabonds' were replaced with lead guitar, and it
worked great, lending to an adrenalin fuelled set. A couple of encores
and I was glad that they included amongst them 'No Rest' which is
fantastic (great bass line!) And how better to finish the night and
ease the atmosphere than to end with 'Green and Grey' which still tugs
at the heart.

Standing amongst fellow NMA devotees, with my
own arms raised and united in song, sharing my own 'sacred moments'
with friends, it’s easy to loose objectivity and simply say the gig was
brilliant. Five stars! What more could I want than to be singing my
heart and lungs out to songs that I actually believe in? But I guess
Justin and the boys would be more analytical and critical of their
performance tonight. After all, they’re the professionals making a
living out of this. But where I was standing I honestly didn’t find too
much to be critical about! (Except, maybe, squeeze in a couple off
'Vengeance' next time. Oh, go on, it’s Christmas.)

MSCI to the U.S. market

MSCI to the U.S. market was 0.438 from December 1992
through July 1998. Since then the average has jumped 66 percent
to 0.725, almost the exact same increase in correlations, in percentage
terms, seen in developed stock markets. Since May of
2005, 14 emerging stock markets, including the largest, South
Korea, have registered their highest correlation levels ever compared
to the United States.
In the case of both developed and emerging markets, some of
the change is explained by big moves in dominant countries in
each category.

Friday, January 11, 2008

I Don’t Like The Vibe In The VIP Hackney to Hull

The girls recently shot their debut video in their managers house and
the extras were invited to appear via the girls MySpace site. The day
turned into a raucous affair with £10,000 worth of damage being done to
the house that was used.

'I Don’t Like The Vibe In The VIP' is
set for release on December 31st - featuring remixes from Jack Rokka,
Slips and DN - and will soon be filling dance floors from Hackney to
Hull. And if you’ve been searching for a new soundtrack to your
weekend, fear not, because it’s on its way.

Billy Ocean and Ruby Turner

The CD features performances by legendary acts such as Billy Ocean and
Ruby Turner as well as younger well known musical figures such as
Roachford and the X Factor's Maria Lawson and Voices With Soul. The
album features both new songs and classics such as 'You've Got A
Friend' and 'Respect'.

The album is set for release on the
25th February 2008. All the proceeds of the album will be donated to
the charities Save the Children, Freetown Society and the Prince's
Trust.

Hed Kandi launch headlong into 2008 by adding a brand new member to the Kandi family; Kandi Lounge.

Following up their record-breaking antics in 2007, Hed Kandi launch
headlong into 2008 by adding a brand new member to the Kandi family;
Kandi Lounge.

Always
catering for the clubbers every need, Team Kandi take a well-earned
break from high-octane dance-floor glamour and return to their roots,
assembling a flawless cruise through laid back funky soul and on, all
the way to deliciously lazy Sunday beats. The perfect tonic as a
pre-club warm-up and equally sublime just loafing on your sofa, Kandi
Lounge creates the perfect setting, with serenely beautiful down-tempo
delights.

With 2008 looking set to be their busiest to date
Hed Kandi have already set the bar at record height with the welcome
addition of Kandi Lounge.

Long-awaited new single 'NW5’.

Everyone’s favourite pop/ska stalwarts Madness present a welcome return
to the music scene with their long-awaited new single 'NW5’. Although
breaking away slightly from their ska sound and foraying into a more
regimented pop sound, the wait seems definitely worth it. Suggs injects
his trademark vocals which blend nicely with the theatrical piano and
string accompaniment peppered with a steady infusion of drum beats.







Although not instantaniously catchy, this one’s a grower and
thankfully is not the sound of old men trying to be hip, Madness stay
true to form and still know how to whack out a hit.

What a great way to start the year.

Not Advised are out of Southampton and won their local heat of the
Nokia 'Rock Up & Play’ by playing a stadium set in a small local
club. Their sound is fearless and brattish but there is a quality about
the vocals that sounds older. The guitars are powerful and they riff
like there’s no yesterday, the drumming suggests that Andy White is a
little more focused that the average and Larry Hibbitt (production)
& Drew Griffiths (mixing) have kept the power down where it needs
to be. The sheer speed and relentless energy keep you pinned back in
your seat and on the danceflor this could kick off a new generation of
pogoers.

What a great way to start the year.

Kabbalah Water is life's original blueprint

Kabbalah Water is life's original blueprint information brought into the modern world."

Some
leaders from the Kabbalah Centre are said to have claimed the water has
the power to cure diseases including cancer and AIDS.

Madonna has been a devout follower of Kabbalah, a mystical off-shoot of Judaism, since the late 90s.

In
2006, it was revealed the 49-year-old singer - who has a seven-year-old
son, Rocco, and two-year-old adopted son, David, with husband Guy
Ritchie, and an 11-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from a previous
relationship - had spent $2.4 million promoting the faith around the
world in the previous four years.

Palace of Auburn Hills

A great gig from the Palace of Auburn Hills in late 1992 shows that the
last makeup-less version of KISS (Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick,
and Eric Singer) was now a very tight unit. As 1992 was smack in the
middle of all that was Grunge and Alternative, KISS was still a decent
concert draw and was one of the seasoned hard rock bands who were not
(temporarily at least) disabled at that time (which was a bad time and
a very difficult music scene for established bands).

Footage from the first KISS

The good vibes and high energy of the reunion tour (caught in all its
glory on the set with a gig at Tiger Stadium in Michigan) blended into
the Psycho Circus tour, a big deal at the time as Psycho Circus was the
first new KISS record with both Frehley and Criss in 18 years. The
possibilities for future KISS albums and the ilk were dashed by the
announcement of a final tour in 2000. The show from this tour, at
Continental Arena in New Jersey, shows the band had once again gotten
back their '1979/80-curse' and was a tired looking unit and at the end
of their line. The good times of the prior two tours apparently were a
facade as Simmons say in the KISSOLOGY liner notes that working with
Frehley and Criss was 'torture' from the Unplugged set all the way
through the disablement of the original band once again. Regardless,
the band created some of their most poignant moments during their
second coming, and the performances from these reformation years are a
rock historical keepsake on how to properly re-launch a band of this
caliber.

The most interesting moment on the set is footage
from the first KISS tour in 1973 in Queens, NY. Looking more like the
tons of KISS cover bands that would follow, it is a great time machine
view at the embryonic state of the group, sans the stadium backdrops
and mayhem, which would be an essential part of their shows from then
on.

Volume 3 is by far the best of all the KISSOLOGY’s. And
while your sensible side may wonder why you would ever need more
versions of Rock and Roll All Nite-your rock side (if you truly do have
one) knows you can never hear it enough.