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Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Mp3 music: Biomechanical

Artist: Biomechanical: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Metal: Alternative

Biomechanical's discography:

The Empires Of The Worlds

Year: 2005

Tracks: 14

Eight Moons

Year: 2002

Tracks: 9

Fronted by Greek utterer John K. (besides known for his work with Balance of Power), England's Biomechanical is rounded out by guitarists Jamie Hunt and Chris Webb, bassist Jon Collins, and drummer Matt C. In contradiction to their industrial music-leaning mention, the band's debut album, 2002's Eight Moons, featured an super crimson and thrashy style of ability metal, often delving in esoteric issue affair with its lyrics.

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Madonna courts controversy again over McCain video

LOS ANGELES () - Madonna has always reveled in disceptation and with the recent launch of her concert tour, "Sticky & Sweet," the 50-year-old pop headliner has kicked up a new pother by comparing John McCain to Adolf Hitler in a video.

The dust-up is the latest in a career of risky moves that stimulate paid off handsomely for Madonna, whose tours and albums have long interracial music with politics, sexual activity and faith. While other stars rose to fame in the 1980s then faded away, "Material Girl" Madonna has become a global wizard and tied courted arguing to rest relevant to younger audiences.

"Madonna seems to be an extraordinarily brilliant business adult female in the business of culture," aforesaid Robert Thompson, a professor of media at and pop refinement at Syracuse University.

"She's controlled her controversy, so every time she's been in contention it does her undecomposed not uncollectible," he told .

As her globe tour opened in Cardiff, Wales, over the weekend, Madonna showed a video montage juxtaposing images of Hitler with McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona running for president against Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. The Democrats on Monday launched their nominating convention.

McCain's campaign goddam Madonna with a movement spokesman recounting media organizations that the video was "outrageous, unacceptable and inexpertly divisive."

Abraham Foxman, national music director for Jewish group The Anti-Defamation League also issued a statement calling it "outrageous to invoke Nazi imagery in the context of use of John McCain's political campaign."

In 2005, Rabbis criticized Madonna over a song, "Isaac," that they said used an inappropriate reference to a sixteenth century mystical. Madonna also has drawn the choler of the Vatican over sexual themes such as simulating onanism on stagecoach.�

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Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Tributes paid to music great Ronnie Drew

There take been many tributes to the vocalist and entertainer Ronnie Drew, who has died following a prospicient illness.

Mr Drew died in St Vincent's Private Hospital in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, aged 73.

He is survived by his son Phelim, girl Cliona and his grandchildren.

President McAleese aforementioned Ronnie Drew had brought great pleasure to citizenry at household and abroad and had re-energised and refreshened Ireland's unique musical heritage.

The Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, aforementioned that the Dubliners singer had been an iconic figure in Irish music over the past pentad decades.

The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, said that Ronnie Drew was "rightfully a Dublin icon".

U2 isaac Bashevis Singer Bono aforementioned: "Ronnie has left his earthly turn for ane of the heavens... they need him up there... it's a little to a fault quiet and pious."

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Sunday, 10 August 2008

Dub Buk

Artist: Dub Buk

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Idu Na Wy!

Year: 2001
Tracks: 8

Snow Patrol

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Political focus has helped make MSNBC more competitive network

NEW YORK - Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he's got something to fight for.

MSNBC is a player in the cable news competition in a way it hasn't been before. The surge in viewership created by the presidential campaign has benefited MSNBC more than Fox News Channel or CNN, and Griffin is pushing to consolidate those gains.

Round-the-clock political talk is planned for the Democratic and Republican national conventions later this summer. Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann will be the prime-time ringmasters working on outdoor sets in St. Paul and Denver, as opposed to booths in the convention halls. Joe Scarborough's "Morning Joe" will likely originate from a diner.

Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell - the kind of NBC News star power that once kept MSNBC at arm's length - will all play prominent roles.

MSNBC is competing hard in the sloganeering game, too. While CNN claims "the best political team on television" and Fox is "America's election headquarters," MSNBC is the "place for politics."

MSNBC specifically targets new viewers to cable news, in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic most attractive to advertisers. Fox and CNN have wider leads when all viewers are counted, but MSNBC is competitive among the younger viewers.

During the first three weeks of June, MSNBC's prime-time weeknight audience was up 85 per cent over last year within that group, according to Nielsen Media Research. CNN was up 29 per cent and Fox was down 1 per cent during the same period. MSNBC was within striking distance, fewer than 10,000 viewers on average, of second-place CNN.

Advertisers have taken notice of MSNBC's gains, said Andy Donchin, an analyst for the media buying firm Carat USA.

"They're not at CNN and Fox's level yet," Donchin said. "But I think they've made greater inroads. They've gotten their act together a bit and found a formula that works for them."

For the first time, MSNBC has everyone at NBC News behind the network and believing in it, Griffin said. That's partly explained by the simple move of MSNBC's studios from Secaucus, N.J., to NBC's headquarters at Rockefeller Center in New York.

The late Tim Russert played a key role in signaling an acceptance of MSNBC by starting to make more appearances there a year or two ago, Griffin said. That wasn't necessarily a priority at NBC News during years when MSNBC seemed without a direction.

"There was a sensibility here that 30 Rock was the major leagues," he said. "Cable is fine but it was sort of kids playing in Secaucus. I think everyone knows that MSNBC is a player and a platform for NBC News editorially and financially."

Management erred in years past by trying to be all things to all people, he said. Now MSNBC is "a little smarter, a little edgier, a little more honest."

And maybe a little more liberal. Griffin resists the idea that MSNBC is positioning itself as the go-to network for the left, in much the same way as Fox is the network of choice for many conservatives. Still, its breakout show is hosted by the virulently anti-administration Olbermann, who's made no secret of his admiration for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

CNN plays to that image with an advertising campaign that portrays itself as the "independent thinker."

"The difference I see in MSNBC is that it used to cling to the idea of 'just the facts, ma'am' for all of its broadcasts," said veteran news executive Richard Wald, now a Columbia University professor. "Now it's gotten into much more edge and a much more aggressive kind of talk rather than reporting."

That hasn't been a completely smooth transition. Hillary Clinton's campaign was not happy with Matthews and Olbermann for some of their commentary, and the White House delivered a broadside against Olbermann. The old-school Brokaw has also pushed back against Olbermann on the air for some remarks he thought went too far.

It's a sensible business decision, Wald said. He compared cable television today to radio in the years after television took over. To survive, radio stations needed to appeal to different niches of the listenership.

"The problem is that it narrows the possibility of understanding something," he said. "What you lose as you become niche-ified, if that's a word, is serendipity. You can watch one of these programs and never be surprised by something that you didn't know before."

Another concern: Nov. 5, 2008.

This election will end. That will be a problem for all of the cable news networks heavily covering the campaign, but more so for an organization promising 20 hours of live political coverage each day during the conventions (plus four hours of repeats in the middle of the night).

Griffin said there will still be a great deal of interest as a new administration takes over government.

He also sees a difference between now and past big news events that caused a bump in viewership that ended when the story ended. MSNBC's strong June ratings, during a relative lull in the campaign, proves his point, he said.

"We have a loyal audience," he said. "We never had a loyal audience."

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On the Net: http://www.msnbc.com/