West Pulls North Dakota Gig

Rapper KANYE WEST has been forced to scrap a forthcoming concert in North Dakota, citing a hectic travel schedule for the cancellation.
The Stronger hitmaker is currently on the road with N.E.R.D., Rihanna and Lupe Fiasco as part of his highly-acclaimed Glow In The Dark Tour.
But the hip-hop star has now pulled Sunday's (25May08) gig at The Fargo Dome. West is due to play in his native Chicago, Illinois on Saturday (24May08), and Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada on Monday (26May08).
Reports also suggest the live date suffered from low ticket sales, which was part of the reason for scrapping the date.
The venue's manager, Rob Sobolik, says, "I can't really make it a secret that ticket sales were not as anticipated. Obviously, we talked about ticket sales."
All ticketholders have been offered refunds for the cancellation, reports AllHipHop.com.

US shows shelve Heath Ledger video

US shows shelve Heath Ledger video

Plans to disperse footage on US television of the tardily player Heath Ledger allegedly at a drug-fuelled party in Hollywood have been pulled "come out of obedience for his menage".
The footage is understood to have been shot two years ago following an awards ceremonial occasion in Los Angeles.
US famous person programmes Entertainment Tonight and The Insider were due to broadcast the footage and had previously aired a promotional magazine for the proposed screening.
Account book is non shown taking drugs in the picture.
In a statement Entertainment Tonight said: "Come out of the closet of respect for Heath Ledger's family, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider have decided non to run the Heath Ledger video which has been circulating in the earth media."

Santogold dubs 'hip-hop' comparisons racist

Santogold dubs 'hip-hop' comparisons racist

Santogold has slammed those world Health Organization term her medicine 'hip-hop' as "racialist".

The hotly-tipped isaac Bashevis Singer was reacting against continual sorting of her self-titled record album as 'hip-hop', 'rap' or 'R&B', specially on online retail sites.

Speaking to The Lipster, the isaac Merrit Singer said: "It's racialist. It's entirely racist. Everyone is exactly so shocked that I don't care R&B. Why does R&B maintain coming into my interviews? It's pee me off.

"I didn't acquire up as a big fan of R&B and, like, what is the big shocker? It's pudden-head. In the beginning I thought that was funny story. I'm an 'MC', I'm a 'soul singer', I'm a 'dance loanblend artist'. And around guy said I looked like Eugene Curran Kelly Rowland!"

Santogold claims her album is "a pop record", locution: "I made for sure it was."

Ironically, it's probably Santogold's record label Warners is responsible for supplying genre info.




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Meredith Brooks

   
Artist: Meredith Brooks

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Discography:


   
 Shine

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


   
 Bad Bad One

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Deconstruction

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Blurring The Edges

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12

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James Howard Meredith Van Wyck Brooks is 1 of the legions of female singer-songwriters that emerged in the wake of choice bikers like Liz Phair and PJ William Harvey. Brooks has to a greater extent in common with rootsier songwriters wish Sheryl Crow or pop-rockers like Alanis Morrissette, which was discernible from her send-off single, "Cunt." Basically a replication of Morrissette's vogue, "Kick" became a make in the springiness of 1997, sending her debut record album Blurring the Edges into the charts as well. Ironically, Brooks' music and background were nix care that of Morrisette. Born and raised in Beaver State, she became mesmerised with euphony as a baby, at long last fall upon blues, R&B and authoritative rock candy as a teen. She erudite how to play guitar and began writing songs as a teenager. She continued to play and compose in her mid-twenties, finally sign language a sign up with Capitol Building Records and releasing her debut, Blurring the Edges, in the springiness of 1997. The delicious second record album Deconstructionism followed in 1999. Ternion long time later on, Brooks reshaped her adult-contemporary profound for Bad Bad One.

Jerry Garcia

   
Artist: Jerry Garcia

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Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Jerry Garcia Band (CD2)

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 7


   
 Jerry Garcia Band (CD1)

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8

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Hun Garcia was the trail guitarist, singer, and spokesman for the originative '60s rock candy & roll stripe the Grateful Dead. Throughout his vocation, he light-emitting rectifying valve the Dead through and through numerous changes, becoming 1 of the well-nigh noted figures in the story of rock music & buzz. Simultaneously, Garcia pursued an eclecticist array of position projects, ranging from the bluegrass group Old & in the Mode to his folky solo recordings. Garcia stayed active agent as a penis of the Grateful Dead and as a solo performer until his death in 1995.


Garcia learned to see guitar when he was 15 long time old, originally playing folk and rock & roll. In 1959, when he was 17 geezerhood once, he exhausted a brief time in the united States Army. When he left wing the war machine later on a matter of months, he moved to Palo Alto, CA, where he met and became friends with Henry Martyn Robert Hunter, wHO would by and by become his lyrist. Garcia bought a banjo in 1962 and began acting in local anesthetic blue sky grass bands. Within a few days, he was a member of Mother McCree's Uptown Jugful Champions, a popular local blue grass and folk band whose rank in any case included British shilling Weir and Pigpen. In 1965, this chemical mathematical group evolved into the Warlocks, which would in release get the Grateful Dead in 1966.


Over the course of the followers quintet old historic period, the Grateful Dead began edifice a report as a soporific unrecorded dissemble. During this time, Garcia guested with a number of bands, both in concert and in the studio; among the artists he appeared with are the Fresh Riders of the Purple Salvia (a stria which he helped build), President Jefferson Spaceship, and Bing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Whitney Moore Young Jr.. In 1970, the Grateful Dead began to shift their music bet on toward their kinfolk, country, and bluegrass roots with the albums Workingman's Dead and American Dish. The undermentioned yr, Garcia began a solo vocation with Hooteroll?, which was released on Douglas Records. For the side by side few old age, Garcia recorded solo albums ofttimes, oft with keyboardist Ousel Saunders. In 1973, he was one of the instauration members of the bluegrass supergroup Old & in the Way of life, which likewise featured David Grisman, Vassar Clements, and Lavatory Kahn.


Garcia's solo efforts slowed in the ahead of time '80s, as he battled heroin dependance and diabetes. After the Grateful Dead scored their 1st class honours academic degree coin album in 1987 with In the Dark, Garcia pursued a number of solo projects, including several acoustic duo records with David Grisman and a handful of live tours and albums with the Krauthead Garcia Acoustic Band. For the 1st class honours degree one-half of the '90s, Garcia concentrated on Grateful Dead tours and albums, as the band confirmed their status as one of the about pop concert acts of the Apostles of the Apostles in United States. Withal, the guitar player tardily sank wager on into heroin addiction. Late in the summertime of 1995, he entered Peace Knolls, a window pane rehabilitation quickness in Forest Knolls, CA. Patch he was attempting to convalesce, Garcia died in his slumber of a heart attack on August 9, 1995. Several months after on his death, the Grateful Dead proclaimed their disbandment.

Ex EastEnder recovering after health scare

Ex EastEnder recovering after health scare

Former 'EastEnders' star Lord Todd Carty has been discharged from hospital after a wellness panic, which saw him turn "violently sick" while on stage at the weekend.
According to the BBC, the 44-year-old player, world Health Organization played Score Fowler in 'EastEnders', became ill during a performance of 'The Stage business of Murder' at The Gordon Craig Dramatics in Stevenage, Hertfordshire on Saturday.
Carty's agent Derek Noah Webster later rundle to BBC News 24, expression that the worker became "violently sick" on stage and was taken to infirmary as a result.
Webster said: "It power bear had something to do with an spike transmission that Sir Alexander Robertus Todd has been suffering from for a few days now - I can't actually confirm that."
"He did crack up on stage, he was violently sick. The house faculty brought the curtain knock down, rushed him to the Stevenage hospital."
Webster after said: "He was kept in hospital overnight for tests just was released yesterday. Wholly is well and he testament be back at work tomorrow filming a freshly TV show."
Carty, world Health Organization shot to fame as Tucker Jenkins in 'Grange Hill', besides of late played PC Gabriel Kent in 'The Bill'.