Boys Like Girls, Good Charlotte share the stage

Pop-rockers Boys Like Girls [ tickets ] and pop-punk outfit Good Charlotte [ tickets ] are teaming to co-headline the "Soundtrack of Your Summer" tour in North America.The outing, which will also include up-and-coming bands Metro Station and The Main, is set to kick off July 8 in Chicago and visit 30 cities across the US, as well as a couple of Canadian provinces, through late August. Venues include a mix of clubs, theaters and sheds. Details are listed below.The hard-working Boys Like Girls have toured Japan and the UK this year, and just finished a stint opening for Avril Lavigne in the US. The Boston-based quartet will complete another UK run before launching the "Soundtrack of Your Summer" tour.Boys Like Girls continue to support their 2006 eponymous debut, which reached No. 55 on The Billboard 200 and spent more than 40 weeks on the magazine's Heatseekers chart, including three weeks at No. 1. The album has spawned pop hits "The Great Escape" and "Hero/Heroine," and the third single, "Thunder," is currently impacting Top 40 radio.Good Charlotte, which recently returned from an international jaunt, is backing its fourth full-length effort, "Good Morning Revival," which surfaced last spring and snagged the No. 7 spot on The Billboard 200. That album has spawned Top 40 pop hits "The River" and "I Don't Want To Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem)." The third single, "Where Would You Be Now," is scheduled to hit radio stations May 20 and is streaming at Good Charlotte's MySpace page.

Naglfar

   
Artist: Naglfar

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Pariah

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Sheol

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Ex Inferis

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 5


   
 Emerging From Wacken Bootleg

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Diabolical

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9


   
 Vittra

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10

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Originally named "Uninterred," Swedish shameful alloy band Naglfar was started in 1992 by vocalist Jens Rydén and bassist Kristoffer Olivius, and has its roots in the era's tangled post-thrash scene. They were shortly joined by guitarists Morgan Hansson and Andreas Nilsson, and, for a time, Nocturnal Rites drummer Ulf Andersson as well lent a paw, only 1994's Stellae Trajectio demo was finally recorded with a brake drum machine. A human drummer, Mattias Holmgren, was in property by the time of 1995's Vittra debut album, which was released by Wrong Again Records to generally positive reviews. Still, neither it, nor its late followup, 1998's Mephistophelian (featuring new drummer Mattias Grahn), managed to tie-up extinct amid the stiff competition of the day, so Naglfar busied themselves with touring, embarking on a European tour load-bearing American deathsters Deicide later that class. The succeeding half-decade was played out in flux: casual major festival and protection record album appearances, punctuated by lengthy periods of inactivity. Hansson was replaced by guitar player Marcus "Vargher" Norman (ex-Bewitched) in the year 2000. Despite these inveterate setbacks, Naglfar eventually stricken a unexampled deal with metal power station Century Media in 2002, and after revving their long-silenced engines with that year's Ex Inferis EP, they lastly delivered their third base record album, Sheol, in 2003. Pariah arrived in 2005, followed by Harvest home in 2007.

Ledger's family write about heartbreak

Ledger's family write about heartbreak

Heathland Ledger's class have expressed their heartbreak at losing their boy and brother in a series of death notices in an Aboriginal Australian paper.
In a message published in the West Aboriginal Australian, the actor's mother Sortie wrote: "Our dearie boy, special in so many ways to wholly of us. You knew you were so loved. You lived life with courageousness and daring and we ar so grateful for the wonderful multiplication we shared. We volition be thither for Matilda [Ledger's girl]."
Ledger's older sister Kate wrote: "I hind end hardly breathe when I try to write this. We were the ultimate in soul couple. I feel both my heart and living have been torn apart. I loved our special talks, our day by day chats from where ever you were in the world."
She as well wrote: "I peculiarly loved all the preciously time we spent together. We were so fortunate to have you as long as we did. You were so many things to so many people, but to me you were precisely my little blood brother."
The actor's father Kim wrote: "My beautiful boy, so loving, so talented, so free-lance, so caring, so pres Young... no more bromus secalinus games paraguay tea... this is it, couldn't vanquish you anyhow!"
"My body aches for the sound of your articulation, our chats, our laughs and our life story and multiplication together."
A message from completely of the menage record: "How do we identify our sudden and tragic loss?... You were the near amazing someone "old somebody" in a offspring man's physical structure."
"Your true legacy lives on in beautiful little Matilda, world Health Organization will always stay in the greatest of fear. Our hearts are broken."
Ledger was establish dead in his Freshly York flat to begin with this calendar week. Constabulary ar investigation the opening that he died from a drugs overdose.
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Tomita

   
Artist: Tomita

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Pictures At An Exhibition

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Ravel Album

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 8


   
 The Planets

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 7


   
 Snowflakes Are Dancing

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 10

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Pioneering Japanese composer and synthesist technical Isao Tomita bridged the gap betwixt note-by-note classical/electronic LPs like Switched-On Bach and the to a greater extent futuristic, user-friendly interfaces developed in the mid-seventies. After creating 1 of the get-go gearing personal recording studios with an raiment of circus tent synthesiser appurtenance in the other '70s, Tomita applied his visions for infinite eld synthesist medicine to his favourite advanced composers -- Claude Claude Achille Debussy, Igor Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel -- though his recordings steered a course far beyond the unfertile academics of Wendy Andres Martinez and other synthesists. Max Born in Tokio in 1932, Tomita grew up in Taiwan as advantageously as Japan, poring over composing and medicine surmise as well as fine art history at Keio University. Afterwards gradation in 1955, Tomita began composition mental picture, boob tube receiver and dramatic artistic production music. He was awarded ofttimes during the fifties and '60s, and became possibly the almost well-known contemporaneous Japanese composer.


By the early on '70s, Isao Tomita was introduced to the seminal work of synthesiser gurus Wendy Carlos and Henry M. Robert Moog, sparking his get interest in synthesized music. In 1973, he formed the electronic collective Plasma Music with musicians Kinji Kitashoji and Mitsuo Miyamoto, and exhausted more than a class stocking his home studio with electronics gear mechanism (including the Moog Terzetto victimized for Carlos' Switched-On Bach). Tomita's first-class honours degree record album, 1974's Snowflakes Ar Terpsichore, electrified the Nipponese world and yet translated to an American language classical audience, where it was nominated for four Grammy awards. Successive albums Pictures at an Exposition, The Scarlet tanager Suite and his masterpiece Holst: The Planets infused the classical-synthesizer fusion craze of the seventies with rightfully exciting, futuristic music instead of the politic, note-by-note translations favorite by less illusionist musicians. The Planets re-invoked the connection 'tween synthesizer music and science fiction first train broached in the 1956 celluloid Come out of the closet Satellite.


Tomita began incorporating digital synth and too soon MIDI setups with 1982's Grand piano Canyon, and whole gutted his studio during the hereafter two old eld during the passage from analogue to digital with his Casio Cosmo system. Though he recorded to a greater extent meagerly than in the mid-seventies, Tomita made patronise appearances at enormous concerts, including his 1984 Austrian render Nous of the Universe sooner 80,000 citizenry and at the Statue of Shore leave centenary solemnisation deuce long time later. Tomita was besides awarded the honorary presidency of the Japanese Islands Synthesist Programmers Association.

Balfor

   
Artist: Balfor

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Znamenie

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Hozyaeva morya

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5

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Music highlights for April 18-24

Music highlights for April 18-24

Friday, April 18




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Jackson 5 to play New Year's Eve show?

Jackson 5 to play New Year's Eve show?

The Jackson 5 are reportedly arrange to reunite this Christmas Day to play a Freshly Year's Eve exhibit in Atlanta.
According to hip-hop manufacturer Jermaine Dupri, the 'ABC' stars will toy a greatest hits set at his Studio apartment 72 club to saint Mark Dupri's engagement to Janet Jackson.
Michael Michael Joe Jackson and his foursome brothers will be flown into Capital of Georgia by whirlybird for the brawl, claims Dupri.
He told US wireless station V-103: "It's the Jackson 5 Party. I depone to you it's loss to be the biggest party this town has ever seen."




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