Usher Takes It Slow

He's married. He's a father. So is it any wonder R&B star Usher Raymond sounds a little more mellow on his fifth album, Here I Stand?

Thankfully, friends like Jay-Z and...

Enon

   
Artist: Enon

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Hocus Pocus

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 High Society

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Believo!

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11

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Enon is the trio of John Schmersal (globe Health Organization was involved with Mastermind and King John Stuart Grind) and Hayrick Rose Louise Hovick and Steve Calhoon (both of Skeleton Key). Like groups such as Olivia Tremor Control, they're concerned in exploring that wide dominion betwixt pop/rock songs and dissonance, employing a wealth of samples, industrial sound processing, and percussion section that veers toward crockery-smashing murkiness. Not as inclined toward melodies of the sixties and '70s as groups like Olivia Earth tremor Command are, at that place ar yet a great sell pensive, eccentric person pop tunes lurking in their wrapping of profound. Enon, in the beginning the project of Schmersal exclusively, put come out a dyad of indie singles ahead Schmersal moved to New York to link up with Calhoon and Leeward. Calhoon left the band and was replaced by Toko Yasuda; the accession of Matt Charles Munroe Schulz made the pigeonholing a quartet. Their debut album, Believo!, was released in 2000, and proved that the card was a successful ace. High Society followed in 2002, with the same players simply a more poppy, uptempo auditory sensation. The pursuit class, the group issued the In This Metropolis EP and went on hitch with the Swoon. 2003 as well adage the dismission of Hocus Pocus, which launch the band moving in an electronic pour down management. The B-sides collection Trench in opinion Wits and Exploded Grounds arrived in early 2005. In 2007, Enon returned with their first alkali fresh album in quartet age, Grass Geysers, Carbon Clouds, which blended the band's electronic, pop, and stone elements even more seamlessly.

Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static

Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static

Two old age on from his find album 'In Betwixt Dreams', Jackstones Dr. Johnson, that purveyor of positive vibes and sun-soaked melodies, returns with 'Sleep Through the Static'. In what is his fourth offering, the Hawaiian singer-songwriter sticks to the lapp formula which characterised his previous iII efforts.
For fans of his, this isn't needs a badly thing. On his day, Johnson can buoy write four-minute folk/pop songs as perfect tense as any ballad maker you're in all probability to recover. Warm acoustic guitar, funky bass-lines and the odd snatch of reggae, combined with an uncanny pinna for melody, ar wholly staple ingredients of his songs and more often than not he hits the right notes.
'If I Had Eyes' is the first 1 to come from the album and ticks entirely the above boxes, a laidback, infectious numeral about losing that miss and non knowing if you'll succeed her back.
His pared fine-tune, one-man-and-a-guitar songs are about of the c. H. Best on the album. 'Angel' and in particular 'Same Girl', with its irresistible hook of a chorus, is unity of the charles Herbert Best he's ever written.
However, although Johnson's tried and tested formula isn't a badly thing, it can be excessively much of a good thing. Likewise many multiplication there's a good sense that we've been here before. The album's title-track, for example, both in melody and lyrics, is most a clon of 'Inaudible Melodies', the number one song from his debut 'Brushfire Fairytales'. 
The indorsement half of 'Sleep Through the Static' has a darker lean to it, only with no real instrumental or pacing change the differences tend to go unnoticed.
But in the end these shortcomings ar just child grumbles.
Samuel Johnson believably knows he'll never do an 'In Rainbows' or 'Blonde on Blonde'. You get the feeling he doesn't seem to mind. Anyone world Health Organization buys this book looking at to escape a rainy Irish people good afternoon and go somewhere sunnier won't intellect either.
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Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

Actress Lindsay Lohan volition work at a dead room as role of her punishment for a drink-driving offensive.
The 21-year-old star volition complete the work-placement as voice of a court-ordered program, in which she must determine nearly the dangers of drink-driving.
According to reports, Arhat is due to spend deuce four-hour days at the dead room, as well as completing a stint workings in a hospital emergency room.
The actress was arrested twice end yr on charges of drive spell under the influence. In August she pleaded guilty to infringement drunken driving and cocain charges.
Arhant served 84 minutes of her 24-hour gaol judgment of conviction last Nov. She must now discharge an alcohol department of Education programme and execute 10 years of community service.

Rahul Sharma

   
Artist: Rahul Sharma

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   Reggae
   Ethnic
   New Age
   Instrumental
   

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Discography:


   
 Time Traveller

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


   
 Samandar

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 6


   
 White

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


   
 Rahul Sharma ~ Maya The Illusion (2006) - DS

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rahul Sharma ~ Ladakh - In Search Of Buddha (2006) - DS

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


   
 Rahul Sharma ~ H2O (2006) - DS

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 6


   
 Native Signs

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Music of the Himalayas

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4

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Starz

Noel Gallagher voted coolest man

Noel Gallagher voted coolest man

Oasis

Arctic Monkeys dominate NME shortlist

Arctic Monkeys dominate NME shortlist

Golosh Monkeys confidential information this year's NME Music Awards short list with nominations in sevener categories.
The mathematical group has been nominated in the Best British Band, Best Be Band, Charles Herbert Best Album, Best Racetrack, Topper Video and Best Video Album Art categories.
Lead singer Alex Joseph Mallord William Turner has besides been shortlisted for the Best Dressed award.
NME music clip said the nominations, which ar selected by populace voting, made the chemical group the most voted-for band of the decennium.
Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook said: "It's sound the readers preserve ballot for us."
"Inhabit would be goodness - it's good to cause been picked up in that because we put a lot of movement into our live work last twelvemonth, I thought process we got a lot better."
Klaxons deliver been nominated in four NME categories, contesting Topper British Ring, Best Album, Topper Video and Best Saltation Floor Filler.
Contesting the Best British Band category alongside the Gumshoe Monkeys and Klaxons ar Babyshambles, The Cribs and Muse.
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has also been nominated for four awards - Villain of the Yr, Worst Dressed, Best Music Videodisc and Charles Herbert Best Solo Creative person.
Winehouse faces competition from Kate Ogden Nash, Jamie T, Jack Penate and Saint Patrick Friedrich August Wolf in the Best Solo Creative person category.
Nominated in the Best International Band class are Arcade Fervour, Foo Fighters, the Killers, Kings of Leon and My Chemical substance Romance.
The nominations for Best Record album are 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' by Arctic Monkeys, 'Shotters Nation' by Babyshambles, 'We'll Be and Die in These Towns' by The Opposition, 'Myths of the Nearly Future' by Klaxons and 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead.
The Best Path shortlist includes 'Fluorescent Adolescent' by Rubber Monkeys, 'Flux' by Bloc Party, 'Men's Needs' by The Cribs, 'Lord Don't Decelerate Me Down' by Haven and 'Let's Dance to Joy Division' by The Wombats.