D'arcadia

   
Artist: D'arcadia

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Nostrum

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11

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Sharon Osbourne - Osbourne Demanded Ridiculous Pay For The X-factor

Rock matriarch SHARON OSBOURNE has admitted she demanded a "ridiculous" amount of money from THE X FACTOR bosses before quitting her job as a judge on the hit British show.

The star recently resigned from the TV talent competition following a series of bitter feuds with fellow judge Dannii Minogue and rows with TV bosses over an increase in her pay packet for the show.

And now, Osbourne has confirmed she did indeed ask for a pay rise, insisting it's just the way show business works.

She says, "Yes, I asked for a ridiculous amount of money and they offered me an obscene amount."

"It is all ridiculous in this industry, we are all overpaid. We get paid too bloody much, that is why we are all drama queens."

The star reportedly demanded a $2 million (GBP1 million) rise, taking her salary for the three-month show up to $5 million (GBP2.5 million).

And the star has given her backing to Girl's Aloud star Cheryl Cole, who has reportedly been approached by Simon Cowell to take Osbourne's place on the show.

She adds, "I've heard they're asking Cheryl from Girl's Aloud, who I love. I'd like to see Cheryl. It will be interesting and take the show to a different place."

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Fugazi

   
Artist: Fugazi

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   Indie
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 The Argument

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Instrument Soundtrack

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 18


   
 End Hits

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 13


   
 Blueprint (Live1990)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 16


   
 Fort Reno 29-08-97

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 24


   
 Red Medicine

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 In On The Kill Taker

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


   
 Steady Diet Of Nothing

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Margin Walker Ep

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 6

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If history is tolerant to Fugazi, their records won't be overshadowed by their report and methods of procedure. Instead of being known for their community activism, five-dollar shows, ten-dollar CDs, resistance to mainstream outlets, and the ludicrously fictional folklore surrounding their lifestyle, they will alternatively be identified as stage setting a high bar for artistic excellence that is ofttimes aimed for just rarely achieved with great frequency. During their macrocosm, the four-piece created some of the most healthy, invigorating, and undeniably musical post-hardcore careen & roll. Along with their stridently underground morals -- which were more out of pragmatism and modesty than anything else -- they gained an exceedingly truehearted and numerous world-wide following. To many, Fugazi meant as much to them as Bob Dylan did to their parents. Somewhat better to look at, mayhap, and surely more accessible, merely simply as commanding of attention and adoration. More than anything, Fugazi inspired; they showed that nontextual matter tin prevail over doC.


Drummer Brendan Canty, bassist Joe Lally, and guitarists/vocalists Ian MacKaye, and Guy Picciotto formed Fugazi in 1987. Initially a ternary, Picciotto was added to the lineup after the band's first live shows. Prior to forming, the members already had deep pedigrees in the D.C. kindling scenery. Dischord labelhead MacKaye, world Health Organization had previously been in the Teen Idles and Minor Threat, had merely come from Embrace. For better or worse, Embrace, along with Picciotto and Canty's better Rites of Spring, kick-started the emocore sub-genre that would heighten to prominence decade years by and by.


Subsequently further honing their psychotherapeutic live behave and expanding their material, their low gear EP (Fugazi) was released in late 1988. More of an extension of Rites of Spring's thick, dynamic, varied-tempo soul-bearing than anything else, the EP featured "Suggestion," which would become the band's to the highest degree well-known song. Though the course of rock history shows that loud music created by tempestuous manpower tends to be of a raiding nature, "Suggestion" was an anomaly. MacKaye spoke from the female point of horizon, railing with frustration at how their sex is objectified. Not hampering the song's status as one of the most accepted chunks of late-'80s post-hardcore was its catchy, vaguely reggae-influenced rhythms and searing guitars.


The likewise venose Gross profit margin Walker EP followed the following year and was by and by conjugate with Fugazi on CD as 13 Songs. Though agony slenderly from lyrical shortcomings (MacKaye and Picciotto grandstand likewise much), 1990's full-length debut Repeating firearm is by and large regarded as a classical. Toughening and refining the band's shockingly propulsive lockstep dynamics (see "Repeater" and "Styrofoam"), it quiet left several critics and a few fans wondering if the stria was becoming a one-trick shot glass. A year subsequently, the cynics were proved awry with Regular Diet of Nothing, clearly the band's most challenging material to date. Branching out lyrically and restricting the finger pointing, Steady Diet besides varied from its predecessors with more inventive arrangements and less visceral qualities. Two old age passed until In on the Killtaker, the band's most abrasively black-and-white record. With scabous guitars and lengthened stretches of discord, some of the songs were among the band's to the highest degree fast-growing and angular.


At this point, the band's reputation for political correctness got a minuscule out of hand. Word of oral fissure and touring was providing more new fans than of all time, which was full and bad. Fugazi's energetic shows became the hooey of legend, known for the level of emotional spillage and Picciotto's violent stage antics as much as the band's anti-moshing stance. With the heighten of the band's popularity, the venues got bigger and the nescient herd demeanor became harder to control. There were tons of satire in clusters of bare-chested young workforce throwing themselves around and injuring others while the ring played their often anti-violent material. MacKaye would frequently stop consonant the band mid-song to calm the herd down, now and again offering troublemakers their money back to pass on the venue.


Since the band didn't do interviews with major publications, some journalists were left field to extemporise and opted to take creative license. The rumor pulverization amongst the fan base was as imaginative. In fact, some concertgoers might have been surprised to see the ring displume up to venues in a van, not arriving by a convoy of camels. Those world Health Organization rundle with bandmembers were surprised to hear that they lived in houses -- not monasteries -- with linear furnaces and that their diets weren't strictly rice-based. Worse yet, the band gained a reputation for non having a sense of humor. Their records never kicked out the yucks (they weren't Ween, subsequently all), but this was likely the most baseless myth of all. Those wHO were resourceful enough to rule interviews with the band in small fanzines might have been aghast to read that MacKaye was influence by Ted Nugent as a great deal as Jimi Hendrix. Now that takes a sense of humor.


As the increasing responsibilities of adulthood and outside melodic involvements increased, Fugazi's recordings and tours became more sporadic. Red Medicine was released some other deuce years after In on the Killtaker, chipping off some of the latter's abrasion in favor of more jam-oriented experiments. It sure as shooting wasn't a wholesale junking of the band's early sound, just more a matter of lacking to do things other than. They soundless sounded like Fugazi, but they weren't painting themselves into a corner, either. The fifty-fifty samuel Wilder Death Hits came in 1998, amidst rumors of the striation organism put to rest. Eschewing the notion, more choppy touring in support of the record continued throughout the class. In 1999, the Tool television and soundtrack arrive at the shelves. The result of various years exhausted working on a proper Fugazi documentary, friend Jem Cohen assembled a protracted court to the fabulous quatern, including lively performances and interviews. The soundtrack featured demos, jams, and incidental cut room food waste, placid forming an gratifying listen that focused on the band's instrumental talents. 2001 saw waiver of the band's sixth right LP, The Argument, which was at the same time issued with the three-song Furniture EP. Outside of Fugazi, both MacKaye and Picciotto helped other bands with production. MacKaye continued to operate Dischord, and Lally began his have label, Tolotta. Picciotto as well ventured into filmmaking.

'Twilight' Author Stephenie Meyer's Cameo: More Details Emerge From Book-Turned-Movie's Set

PORTLAND, Oregon — As the loyal legions of "Twilight" fans now know, best-selling author Stephenie Meyer shot a cameo on Wednesday for the big-screen adaptation of what could very well become Hollywood's next great franchise.

Here at MTV News, we often report on "Where's Waldo?"-esque nods to the creative talents behind our favorite films, whether we're talking about Jon Favreau's upcoming cameo in "Iron Man," Leonard Stern's appearance in "Get Smart" or the ubiquitous glimpses of Stan Lee in almost every superhero movie. Such appearances are typically blink-and-you'll-miss-'em moments with little bearing on the plot, and an advance heads-up gives moviegoers something fun to look for.

This is an article about further details behind Meyer's cameo. It contains exciting, expansive quotes from the film's stars that will undoubtedly please many of the author's biggest fans. However, since some people claimed that we ruined their lives by reporting the cameo news last week, we're giving you one last chance to surf elsewhere. Click here to enjoy a lovely story on "The Hottie and the Nottie."

Still here? All right, strap in and get ready for the exclusive details about Meyer's cameo, which, contrary to the reports we received at first, is not a silent one.

"She came to [shoot] the coffee shop [scene], and she orders a vegetarian plate," revealed director Catherine Hardwicke. "Of course, the joke is that [some of] the vampires are vegetarian vampires. Our vampires don't eat humans — they eat deer and animals — so that's a little inside joke."

With that order, Meyer might get the same sort of laughs as the "I'll have what she's having" line delivered by Rob Reiner's mother in "When Harry Met Sally." Those involved in the film, however, compared Meyer's wink at the fans to an old gimmick employed by Alfred Hitchcock.

"It was a little Hitchcock moment, which I love," explained Kellan Lutz, who plays Emmett Cullen in the flick and was on set the day of Meyer's cameo. "I love his movies, where he throws himself in there as a small little speck. [Meyer] did a great job, and I'm sure it's going to be cool for her to see herself in her movie."

"It's a great wink and a nod to the hard-core fans, who are going to identify it in a second," grinned producer Greg Mooradian. "It will be a very interesting moment in the theater when a gaggle of young girls are going to scream at a very quiet moment, and the rest of the audience will be scratching their heads. Those who know who she is and what she looks like will maybe, maybe, just maybe, have a little private thrill."

Nikki Reed (who plays Rosalie in the film) said that while she wasn't on set for Meyer's cameo, she was one of the many who watched nervously while the visiting author watched them. "It's tough to work with someone who created you," she grinned. "Most of the stuff she saw was pretty light stuff — lots of school cafeteria, fun shots, hair-blowing. We did a scene that's the introduction to the Cullens: We walk in [to the Forks High cafeteria], and there's this huge shot and it pushes in on us, and then there's a fan that was blowing our hair in the wind. I walked [behind the camera], and I was like, 'How did you feel about that, Stephenie?' and she was like, 'It's great.' "

Despite working on several novels, including the soon-to-be-released "The Host," Meyer was on the "Twilight" set during the preproduction process, answering questions for the actors. Pattinson told us that she even went so far as to let him read the unfinished manuscript for "Midnight Sun," an upcoming novel that tells the "Twilight" events from Edward's point of view.

"Stephenie describes her characters as people. She never really thinks of them as characters," Mooradian said of the mastermind behind the franchise that will land in theaters in December. "She truly thinks that these people walk around in her life, so to actually meet the physical embodiments of her characters was a mind-blowing experience. ... She's the fan that we want to please most of all."

"It's incredible," Hardwicke said of helping the former stay-at-home mom complete her Cinderella story with an immersion into the very tale she first imagined five years ago. "She was a mom, she has three sons, and one day she had this dream about a vampire boy meeting a human girl, and she just thought, 'I've gotta write that down!' In three months, she wrote the whole novel, and her friends and her sister encouraged her to do it. ... There are 2,000 young adult novels a year published, and hardly any of them ever break out. ... People were just swept away by that voice and by that passion."

Check out everything we've got on "Twilight."

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Black Label Society

   
Artist: Black Label Society

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Metal: Heavy
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Shot To Hell

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 Mafia

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


   
 Hangover Music Vol. VI

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Blessed Hellride

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 1919 Eternal

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live Plus 5

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 5


   
 Alcohol Fueled Brewtality

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Stronger Than Death

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Sonic Brew

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 [1996] Book Of Shadows

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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After falling out with mentor Ozzy Osbourne next the recording roger Sessions for 1995's Ozzmosis, guitarist Zakk Wylde struck out on his have with his first base solo album, Al-Qur'an of Shadows, in 1996. When it failed to scotch whatever mainstream success, the six-stringer took an extended break in front resurfacing with a new album and band called Black Label Society in 1999, featuring Wylde on vocals, guitar, and freshwater bass and drummer Phil Ondich. A identification number of different musicians would sift through the band's ranks during the convoluted go that followed, but Ondich was back on the barrel stool by the time Black Label Society recorded 2000's Stronger Than Death album for new label Spitfire Records. The subsequent circuit included a slot on the second stage of his old boss' Ozzfest tour and yielded the Alcoholic drink Fueled Brewtality Live!! album in 2001. The ring returned to Ozzfest the following year (this time on the primary level) in bread and butter of the 1919 Eternal LP. Blessed Hellride appeared in 2003 and Hangover Music, Vol. 6 followed a year later on. Cosa Nostra, Black Label Society's seventh record album, was released in springtime 2005. The following October, Spitfire Records issued the Wylde work digest Kings of Damnation: Era 1998-2004. In 2006, the ring began their relationship with the Roadrunner label with a unexampled record album, Shot to Hell.

MAE

   
Artist: MAE

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Singularity

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Destination: B-Sides

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Destination: Beautiful

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Everglow

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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No Emmerdale contract for Freeman

No Emmerdale contract for Freeman

Ben Freeman has been told that his 'Emmerdale' contract will not be renewed.
The actor, who played mechanic Scott Windsor, has been on a leave of absence from the soap since being charged with rape in Barbados in December last year.
An ITV spokesman told the News of the World: "We cannot be sure of Ben's availability for work, so we cannot renew his contract. It is due to the uncertainty of the process of law and the lead times in writing a character in and out of a soap."
Freeman said: "I am focusing on the legal proceedings in Barbados and look forward to speaking to ITV once this situation is behind me."
Freeman is dating Victoria Hawkins, Emmerdale's feisty WAG Sharon Lambert. She has vowed to stand by him.




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