Castle

   
Artist: Castle

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Doom
   

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Discography:


   
 Castle

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 7

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Katie Holmes - Katie Holmes Set For Broadway Stage Debut

Katie Holmes is to make her Broadway debut in a production of an Arthur Miller play, it has been confirmed.

It was reported in March that Holmes was in negotiations to take a role in a revival of Miller's World War II drama All My Sons and according to show producer Eric Falkenstein, the actress has now been confirmed to take to the stage this autumn.

The Dawson's Creek star will act alongside John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson for the production, for which opening dates will be announced shortly, Playbill.com reports.

All My Sons, Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit in 1947, tells of businessman Joe Keller (Lithgow) whose supply of defective parts to the military resulted in the deaths of 21 pilots during the war but who escaped jail after he pinned the blame on his business partner Steven Deever.

Wiest is to play family matriarch Kate Keller with Wilson as their idealistic son Chris, whose faith in his father is shattered when he learns the truth of Joe's complicity in the sale of the damaged airplane parts.

And Holmes, who has not appeared in a play since high school, is to play Ann Deever, the fiancee of Chris as well as being the daughter of Joe's imprisoned colleague.

Speaking earlier this month, Falkenstein said that Holmes was "very well suited" for the role.

"There is an additional layer of soul to Ann and from the work I've seen of Katie, she has always impressed with multi-faceted characters. She would nail it," he told OK! magazine.

The producer moved to deny suggestions that Holmes' celebrity - enhanced since her marriage to Tom Cruise - would detract from the play.

"The fact remains that she has a tremendous record of performances. I think Katie is a tremendous actor. Whenever she decides to come to the stage she'll be terrific."


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John and Jen's Romantic Dinner Date

On the eve of TomKat's big housewarming bash at their Beverly Hills home, another little party of a much smaller nature was going on just down the street at the Beverly Hills Hotel!

That's right, new couple John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston were spotted sharing an intimate and romantic dinner at the BHH's posh Polo Lounge on Saturday night.

An eyewitness tells OK! the two looked very much in love and only had eyes for each other.

UPDATE: As of 11 p.m. PT, Jen and John left the Polo Lounge but were still in the hotel. Room for two please?






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Shane MacGowan

   
Artist: Shane MacGowan

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 The Crock Of Gold

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 17


   
 The Snake

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12

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A surpassing singer/songwriter and two-fisted gutter poet whose infamous sottish doings, stinky teeth and drug-fueled excesses often threatened to occult his reputation as a performer, Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957 in Kent, England. Within months, his home returned to their native Ireland, where he spent the first base respective eld of his life immersed in the traditional music of the Irish culture. When MacGowan was six, the family touched to London; in that location his talents as a writer gradually blossomed, and he won a number of poetry contests prior to his projection from schoolhouse at the age of 14 for ownership of drugs. In 1976, he attended his first base Sex Pistols concert, and quickly became a regular at local punk shows; he before long formed his possess band, the Nipple Erectors (renamed the Nips later on cathartic their 1978 debut single "King of the Bop"). Despite finding a mentor in the Jam's Paul Weller, the Nips were for the most part unsuccessful, and disbanded in late 1980; MacGowan so took a chore in a record storage, now and then filling in with his admirer Spider Stacy's stripe the Millwall Chainsaws.


When the Chainsaws shortly split up as well, MacGowan and Stacy formed the Pogues -- originally dubbed Pogue Mahone, Gaelic for "osculation my piece of tail" -- along with accordionist James Fearnley, bassist Cait O'Riordan, guitar player Jem Finer, and drummer Andrew Rankin. Hot-wiring traditional Irish music with the energy and passionateness of punk, the Pogues chop-chop developed into ane of the to the highest degree well-thought-of and colourful bands of their epoch, scoring a number of U.K. hits including "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Fairy story of New York" and recording such superb LPs as 1985's Elvis Costello-produced Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and 1988's If I Should Fall From Grace With God. However, as stories of MacGowan's voracious appetence for alcoholic drink and drugs swelled to mythological proportions, he grew increasingly undependable, often missing live performances (including a series of 1988 dates hatchway for Bob Dylan). By the fall of 1991, the other Pogues had eventually had enough, and he was dismissed from the band. As MacGowan's imbibition problem worsened, many feared for his life; apart from a 1992 duet with Nick Cave on "What a Wonderful World," he was largely silent for several years, making only the occasional bibulous concert or tv set appearance. In 1994, however, he silenced critics by pulling himself together to form a young band, the Popes; after making a fitting St. Patrick's Day debut carrying into action at a London taphouse, the mathematical group -- which likewise included guitar player Paul McGuinness, bassist Berni France, drummer Danny Pope, tenor banjoist Tom McAnimal, guitar player Kieran 'Mo' O'Hagan and whistle histrion Colm O'Maonlai -- entered the studio to commence recording their first LP, dubbed The Snake. "Haunted," a gorgeous duet with Sinead O'Connor, later became a minor hit; McGowan's followup, Lonesome Highway, appeared in 1997.

Paris Hilton: ‘Me and Benji are the perfect match’

Paris Hilton says that she and new boyfriend Benji Madden are “the perfect match”.

The socialite — who has been dating the Good Charlotte rocker for the past three months — says she has never felt so strongly for a man before; and the couple have already thought about marriage.

She says, “He wants to get hitched and we’ve talked about it. I’d wear a beautiful white dress, probably Dolce and Gabbana.

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Dntel

   
Artist: Dntel

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Electronic
   Industrial
   Electronic
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Dumb Luck

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


   
 This Is the Dream of Evan and Chan

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6


   
 Season

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


   
 (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan EP

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6


   
 Life Is Full of Possibilities

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Something Always Goes Wrong

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Dntel (aka Jimmy Tamborello) produces music that merges the worlds of indie rock and electronica. Tamborello was at one time a guitarist in the emocore grouping Strictly Ballroom and also a member of techno-poppers Figurine. In improver, he has through with time in the SoCal groups Further and the Tyde. Tamborello originally started running as Dntel in 1994. Tracks he produced between 1995-1997 were released on the Phthalo label in 1999 as Early Works for Me If It Works for You. This was followed by the 2000 acquittance of an EP that had been recorded back in 1994 called Something Always Goes Wrong. The melancholy, often haunting, and electronica-heavy sweat Biography Is Full of Possibilities arrived in 2002 on Plug Research Records. It featured contributions from Chris Gunst (Beachwood Sparks, ex-Strictly Ballroom), Rachel Haden (that frump.), and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), among others. Tamborello stirred to Sub Pop -- also menage of his other identical successful protrude, the Postal Service -- for Dntel's 2007 album Dumb Luck, which featured Gibbard, Jenny Lewis, Conor Oberst, and many other indie stars.

Franz Ferdinand

   
Artist: Franz Ferdinand

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   New Age
   Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   Alternative
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Eleanor Put Your Boots on CDM

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


   
 You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 21


   
 You Could Have It So Much Better

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 You Could Have It So Much Bett

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 This Fffire

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Take Me Out

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


   
 Michael CD01

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


   
 Matinee

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


   
 Live At The Paradiso Amsterdam

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Franz Ferdinand

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Darts Of Pleasure

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 5

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Glasgow's art-damaged rock candy quartette Franz Ferdinand -- named for the Austro-Hungarian Archduke whose mangle sparked World War I -- features bassist Bob Hardy, guitarist Nick McCarthy, drummer Paul Thomson, and singer/guitarist Alex Kapranos. In late 2001, Kapranos and Hardy had begun working on music in concert when they met McCarthy, a classically trained pianist and bivalent bass player world Health Organization earlier played drums for the grouping disdain no prior go through as a drummer. The three had been rehearsing at McCarthy's home for a piece when they met and started playacting with Thomson, a one-time drummer for the Yummy Fur world Health Organization felt like playing guitar instead. Eventually, McCarthy and Thomson switched to guitar and drums, and the band switched practice spaces, stumbling upon an derelict storage warehouse that they named the Chateau.


The Chateau became Franz Ferdinand's home office, where they rehearsed and held rave-like events incorporating music and art (Brave calibrated from the Glasgow School of Art, and Thomson likewise posed as a life exemplar thither). The bandmembers required a new rehearsal space at one time their illicit art parties were observed by the police force, and they set up one in a Victorian courthouse and jail. By summer 2002, they recorded an EP's worth of material that they intended to liberation themselves, just countersign of mouth about the dance orchestra spreading and Franz Ferdinand signed to Domino in the summertime of 2003. The group's EP Darts of Pleasure, which lED some to label Franz Ferdinand "the Scottish Interpol," was released that fall, and the band exhausted the rest of the year load-bearing groups such as Hot Hot Heat and Interpol. Franz Ferdinand's second single, Train Me Out, arrived in early 2004. The single propelled them to greater popularity in the U.K. and set the understructure for the band's debut record album. Franz Ferdinand was released in February 2004 in the U.K. and a month later stateside. Franz Ferdinand's success followed them across the pond; "Have Me Out" became a sizable new sway hit, in part thanks to the song's cutting edge video, which earned the Breakthrough Video honor at that year's MTV Music Video Awards. The group's impulse continued with the handout of the Michael single and their Mercury Prize win over such artists as the Streets, Basement Jaxx, and Keane. Franz Ferdinand released their second record album, You Could Have It So Much Better in fall 2005.





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