Lollapalooza taps Kings of Leon, Jane's Addiction

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Kings of Leon will be among the headliners of this year's Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits festivals, Billboard sources have confirmed.
Depeche Mode, the Beastie Boys and Jane's Addiction are also playing Lollapalooza, which takes place in Chicago's Grant Park Aug 7-9, the Chicago Tribune reports and Billboard's sources confirm. Both events are produced by Austin, Texas-based C3 Productions.
The full Lollapalooza lineup announcement is expected in April.
Among the known top headliners for this year's Lollapalooza, Kings of Leon are the only band that wasn't around when the event debuted in 1991 as a traveling, multi-city festival. The Nashville-based rock act sold out New York's Madison Square Garden in January, and has a run of U.S. arena dates scheduled for April and May.
Jane's Addiction, the classic alternative band fronted by Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell, has reunited with its original lineup and will play the event for the first time since its inception. The group is set to embark on a co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails, a band that also played on the first Lollapalooza tour and headlined the Chicago fest in 2008. (Nine Inch Nails is playing a separate solo Chicago show this year.)
The Beastie Boys, who were on the Lollapalooza tour in 1994, are preparing for the release of their follow-up to 2007's "The Mix Up" instrumental album. They are among the headliners of the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee in June.
Depeche Mode is prepping the April 21 release of "Sound of the Universe" and heads out on a North American tour on July 24. The Lollapalooza show will be its only Midwest appearance.
Kings of Leon and Jane's Addiction will meet earlier in the season when they both headline the Sasquatch festival at the Gorge in Quincy, Wash., on May 23-25.

http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE52607Y20090307

NIN and Jane's Addiction to Tour

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction will kick off their co-headlining tour on May 8 in West Palm Beach, Fla., they said on Wednesday.
The 23-date amphitheater trek ends June 12 in Charlotte, N.C. The Chicago date, May 29 at the Charter One Pavilion, is the only stop on the tour without Jane's Addiction, fueling speculation that Perry Farrell's band will headline his own Lollapalooza festival there in August.
The tour may be Nine Inch Nails' last before an extended break. In announcing the tour recently, mainman Trent Reznor stopped short of saying the band was going on something more than a hiatus. But Reznor confirmed these will be the last NIN shows for some time, and that they will be "much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted" compared to last year's "Lights in the Sky" tour. "It's time to make NIN disappear for a while," he said.
Key stops include May 20 at Irvine, Calif., June 2 at Toronto, and June 7 at Wantagh, N.Y.

http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE5240I420090305

An article about a legend: Gandhi comes home

Gandhi's possessions to finally return home
3 hours ago
NEW YORK (AFP) — Mahatma Gandhi's meager possessions are to finally return home after a flamboyant Indian tycoon paid 1.8 million dollars to win a dramatic auction in New York.
Cheers erupted at Antiquorum Auctioneers when the hammer came down on the huge bid by liquor and airline baron Vijay Mallya.
"Basically he was bidding for the country," said Tony Bedi, who acted on behalf of Mallya to secure the revered independence leader's round glasses, worn leather sandals, pocket watch, plate and bowl.
Mallya "will take the items to India," Bedi said.
India had bitterly opposed the auction, insisting that Gandhi's belongings were part of the country's national heritage and that their sale was an insult to the memory of a man who rejected material wealth.
The owner, California-based pacifist James Otis, insisted the auction would proceed. With less than an hour to go, he astonished journalists outside the auction house by announcing that "in light of the controversy" he too wanted the sale stopped.
But he was too late and Antiquorum went ahead.
A fanfare of soft music and a slide show of black and white Gandhi photos introduced the bitterly controversial lot to a packed room.
Then Indian businessmen -- who had seen both their government and Otis himself fail to stop the sale -- leapt in, bidding frantically to prevent any foreigner from winning.
Within seconds, Antiquorum's opening price of 20,000 to 30,000 dollars for the five items rocketed to half a million dollars, and then kept climbing rapidly.
Asked afterward if the possessions of a man who embraced poverty were really worth 1.8 million dollars, white turbaned Bedi laughed: "I think they're worth six" million dollars.
There was still one more twist before Gandhi's passionate followers could breathe easy.
Otis had declared the auction to be illegal and his lawyer had warned of legal action if Antiquorum went ahead.
Antiquorum, which specialized in high-end watch sales, declared a two-week delay in delivering the goods to the auction's highest bidder to address legal questions.
Bedi acknowledged the delicate situation, saying: "Obviously there are some restrictions at the moment pending resolution whether this auction was legal."
But as if Gandhi's spirit of peace was now triumphant, even this potentially nasty legal problem was soon resolved.
Otis explained through his lawyer that his last-minute opposition to the auction had been because he suddenly feared that someone unsuitable, like a foreign dictator, would win.
Mallya's promise to repatriate the items resolved that worry.
"We intend to ratify the sale as we expect Vijay Mallya to keep his word," said Otis's lawyer Ravi Batra.
This must still be confirmed by Mallya, he added. "We don't want it in a private trophy case. We want them returned to the people of India."
However, Batra said that Otis had "every trust in the successful bidder."
Otis, a tall, curly haired documentary maker and longtime Gandhi enthusiast, seemed bewildered by events.
"I never intended the controversy that this has created," he lamented.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jZ21FMzjO-opSkVbTef7OdAubQEQ

R.I.P Gandhi, is all I have to say. He was the inspiration to many people including my mother and I and as cheesy as it sounds, it's true. He freed the Indians from the cruel British rule and he taught humanity valuable things. Even though he died before I was born, I still say R.I.P Gandhi.

Battle of the Song

THE musician Alex Lloyd's former band - Slim La Beef and the Spare Ribs - are set to re-form as part of a legal showdown in the Federal Court this year.
More than 15 years after they played together under that name, the four will probably be reunited to give evidence in Lloyd's court battle over who wrote the hit song Amazing.
Mark O'Keefe, a truck driver and songwriter, is suing Lloyd, claiming he wrote the lyrics to Amazing on a series of beer coasters at the Bridge Hotel in Rozelle late on a Thursday night in April or May 1991.
O'Keefe says he wrote the "lyrics and melody of the chorus", the opening line of the first verse and the opening line of the middle eight, and gave Lloyd a template to complete it later.
He also says Lloyd promised that he would finish the rock song and register it in both their names with the Australasian Performing Right Association.
The song was a hit in 2001 and voted No.1 on Triple J's Hottest 100 poll. It has since been used in three television advertising campaigns, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars for Lloyd.
At the time the song was written, Lloyd was performing under the name Slim La Beef in pubs around Balmain, O'Keefe says.
The Federal Court heard yesterday that the members of the Spare Ribs could either be called as witnesses by Lloyd to defend his version of events, or by O'Keefe, who is seeking to prove that he wrote the song.
The key to the case is the timing of the meeting between Lloyd and O'Keefe.
O'Keefe is not sure of the date on which the song was written, but is attempting to narrow it down by referring to which nights Lloyd was at the Bridge Hotel.
O'Keefe is appealing for any witnesses who saw him with Lloyd at the hotel in April or May 1991 to come forward. He says the song was written after a performance by his band, What's Next.
It is understood Lloyd will argue he was not at the hotel on the night What's Next played in 1991.
The other members of Slim La Beef and the Spare Ribs are Mitch Grainger, Declan Kelly and Kinnon Holt.
The case will return to court next month.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/song-lyrics-battle-in-court-20090303-8ngd.html

Anyone in the mood for playing chicken? An asteroid maybe?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/asteroid-plays-chicken-with-earth-20090303-8nge.html




IT COULD have put an end to our worries about the economy and those sharks at Sydney beaches.
At 12.40 yesterday morning, as the city slept, a previously unknown asteroid swept about 60,000 kilometres over the south-western Pacific.
In astronomical terms it was a close call. Estimated to be between 30 metres and 50 metres wide, it passed almost seven times closer than the moon.
"No object of that size, or larger, has been observed to come closer to the Earth," said Rob McNaught, of the Siding Spring Observatory, near Coonabarabran.
In 1908 an object possibly up to 50 metres across flattened some 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.
Mr McNaught said yesterday's asteroid was probably smaller but it could do a lot of damage to a city. If it had crashed into the ocean "I imagine it would produce a tsunami", he said.
Funded by NASA to search for asteroids bigger than one kilometre across, Mr McNaught spotted the object on Friday night. Within 24 hours astronomers had calculated it would narrowly miss the planet.
Mr McNaught said as the asteroid approached Earth yesterday morning it had glowed 5000 times brighter than on Friday night. "It was so bright I could actually observe it through the cloud. That is very rare," he said.
He believed that if 2009 DD45 had been on a collision course with a populated part of the planet, there would have been time to act. "A lot of people falsely claim there is nothing you could do, but there is. If there is an asteroid coming, and you have 24 hours, you can evacuate."
About 1000 asteroids are known to have come close enough to be classified as potentially hazardous.
While a collision with a one-kilometre-wide asteroid could cause global devastation, Mr McNaught said one that was just 300 metres wide could throw the world into "a short-term winter".
Objects bigger than one kilometre wide were likely to hit the world only every few million years but ones large enough to threaten a city crashed "probably once a century".

Invaders Must Die

Smack My Bitch Up's New Album

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[The Prodigy <3]

Proof That We're Old

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Footprints found in Kenya that resemble those left in wet sand by beach goers today show that 1.5 million years ago a human ancestor walked like we do with anatomically modern feet, scientists said on Thursday.
The remains of the footprints found in sedimentary rock near Ileret in northern Kenya most likely were left by a human ancestor called Homo erectus, also known as Homo ergaster, an international team of scientists wrote in the journal Science.
The scientists found a series of footprints, including one apparently left by a child, left by individuals walking on a muddy river bank. Judging from stride length, they estimated the individuals were about 5-foot-9 (1.75 meters) in height.
"It was kind of creepy excavating these things to see all of a sudden something that looks so dramatically like something that you yourself could have made 20 minutes earlier in some kind of wet sediment just next to the site," archaeologist David Braun of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, one of the researchers, said in a telephone interview.
"These could quite easily have been made on the beach today," Braun added.
The footprints show that the individuals had a big toe parallel to the other toes, unlike that of other apes where it is separated in a grasping configuration useful in the trees. The footprints show a characteristic human-like arch and short toes, typically associated with an upright bipedal stance.
The size, spacing and depth of the footprint impressions allowed the scientists to estimate weight, stride and gait, which all were found to be within the range of modern humans.
Our species, Homo sapiens, first appeared 200,000 years ago. But this shows that at least as far back as 1.5 million years ago, the human lineage walked with a modern stride, the researchers said.

The findings mark one of the most important discoveries in recent years regarding the evolution of human walking.
Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University, another of the researchers, said the findings show that these individuals had evolved an essentially modern human foot function and a style of bipedal locomotion matching today's people.
These are the second-oldest known footprints of human ancestors. The oldest, found in Tanzania, date from about 3.75 million years ago and apparently were made by a much more primitive human ancestor called Australopithecus.
These are smaller and show signs of bipedal posture but with a shallower arch and a more ape-like, divergent big toe.
The species Homo erectus had a smaller brain than modern people but had generally similar body proportions -- longer legs and shorter arms -- to Homo sapiens. Their remains have been found in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa, with dates consistent with the newly reported footprints.
But no remains of their feet have been found from that time period, Braun said.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE51P81K20090226?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

What word has the most definations?

SET

has 464 definations

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Aussies outbeat Poms in ... Fashion!

Yet Another Example Why The English Should Quit While They're Ahead

WE have bikinis, they have, er, rat carcasses. Yep, the divide between Australian and English fashion keeps getting bigger - while we're revelling in Swim Fashion Week, Poms are parading in a full headdress made of dead rodents.
Designer Charlie Le Mindu, 22, unveiled the bizarre creation on the fringes of London Fashion Week, with the model's whole face covered except for her eyes.
Gallery: Our Swim Fashion WeekGallery: London's catwalk mouse party
Rat tails even dangled down at the front and whiskers tickled her skin.
Le Mindu, 22, said: "I really like mice and rats. But everybody doesn't like them and I just wanted to show people it could be really beautiful."
Asked if he was worried about how animal rights campaigners might react, the former hairdresser and wigmaker added: "It's better to make them (the rodents) beautiful than give them to the snakes."
Is it wrong to parade fashions made of animal fur? Tell us below...
Le Mindu was not on the official schedule for London Fashion Week but staged a show on the fringes on the final day.
Meanwhile, Aussie swimwear designer Nicky Zimmermann might be the girl from Tamarama but she was transported to Glamarama on the Gold Coast when she and sister Simone's Zimmermann label opened our first national bikini festival.
The event, held at the once glitzy Sanctuary Cove resort, is the latest event from Australian Fashion Week organisers IMG.
It aims to mimic the only other successful international swimwear fashion event Miami Swim, which is also run by IMG.
The Zimmermann label shows at both events and, despite the tough times, Nicky said there was still plenty of potential in the cossie world.
Their parade was given a boost with the inclusion of top models, including 18-year-old Sarah Stephens of Sydney who recently featured in her first Victoria's Secret show.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25109965-5001021,00.html

Anyone Want Cheesy Tits?

...Anyone? Anyone want cheesy tits?...

Consumer group CHOICE has exposed the seedy side of the cosmetic surgery industry and the tricks some doctors use to promote their services.
In a recently released study, three would-be patients tested thirty surgeons in Brisbane and Sydney.
CHOICE's Christopher Zinn said the main problem was that patients were often not adequately informed of the risks they faced.
According to Mr Zinn, one woman was offered a $1700 discount if she allowed 'before and after' photos to be published to the internet.
Another patient was told she would have a better chance of finding a boyfriend if she got breast implants.
Earlier this week, a code of conduct for cosmetic surgeons was rejected because it failed to provide enough protection for consumers.
Ten years ago, an inquiry recommended the industry adopt strict guidelines.
Sydney University Associate Professor Merrilyn Walton said the findings were not sufficiently followed.
'I think the government, until there is some catastrophe, is probably going to think, well let it sort itself out, but it won't,' Prof Walton said.
About 1000 cosmetic surgeons currently operate in Australia. Prof Walton said many of them are GPs with no surgical training.
'If you call yourself a surgeon, I immediately think you have surgical qualifications and training, and that is not the case,' she said.
Dr Daniel Fleming from the College of Cosmetic Surgery said there needed to be recognitions of the specialities of cosmetic surgery so patients know who they are dealing with.
CHOICE advised people considering plastic surgery to do proper research and educate themselves of the potential risks.

http://www.skynews.com.au/health/article.aspx?id=306827

Faith No More Reunite

Billboard is reporting that Faith No More have officially announced plans to reunite for a string of live shows. Excerpts from the article are below:
Faith No More has announced its first live performances since splitting up in 1998. The band will play a series of European festival dates this summer, according to a statement from frontman Mike Patton's publicist.
No North American Faith No More dates are scheduled at this time. As previously reported, only Patton and frequent collaborator Rahzel will perform at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in April, despite speculation about a Faith No More appearance.
Neither the lineup for the revived Faith No More nor the specific festival dates have been announced. Patton's spokesperson Monica Seide said no further details on the band are yet available.
Read the full article at Billboard.

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=42570

Nickleback's New Video

New Nickelback video for "I'd Come For You"

Watch :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gassa97xDMY

Another Reason to Not Go Into the Mining Industry

Man's Death Avoidable at Beaconsfield Gold Mine

THE Tasmanian coroner this morning has found that the death of miner Larry Knight may have been avoidable had the Beaconsfield Gold mine undertaken a proper risk assessment process.While Rod Chandler found there was insufficient evidence to make negative findings against any individual, he concluded the mine had failed to put in place a “comprehensive and independent reassessment of the ground support system” at the mine. “Nevertheless it is my view that the likelihood of Mr Knight's death occurring would have been reduced, perhaps significantly, if Beaconsfield Gold had undertaken such an assessment,” Mr Chandler said at the conclusion of an inquest into the death of Mr Knight in a rockfall at the mine on April 25, 2006, which also entombed fellow miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb for two weeks. “A lesson to be learned from Mr Knight's tragic death is the critical importance of proper risk management practices to worker safety, particularly in the mine industry.”

Pfft. I mainly didn't want to go into the mining industry because of how crud the pay was. But now, I have another reason.

Lacuna Coil's Recoils For New Album

Lacuna Coil have streamed their new single “Spellbound” taken from their upcoming new album ‘Shallow Life‘ due out April 21st.Tracklisting:

1. "Survive"

2. "I Won't Tell You"

3. "Not Enough"

4. "I'm Not Afraid"

5. "I Like It"

6. "Underdog"

7. "The Pain"

8. "Spellbound"

9. "Wide Awake"

10. "The Maze"

11. "Unchained"

12. "Shallow Life"

http://www.myspace.com/lacunacoil

Listen to Spellbound their new single

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qhBJCvdWI

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Steven Page Leaves Barenaked Ladies

By mutual agreement, Steven Page will be parting company with the remaining
members of Barenaked Ladies.Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler
Stewart will continue recording and touring together as Barenaked Ladies. Steven
Page will pursue solo projects including theatrical opportunities while the band
enters the studio in April 2009, and hits the road in the fall. Page says "These
guys are my brothers. We've grown up together over the past twenty years. I love
them and wish them all the best in the future." The band also wish Steven well
in all of his endeavors. Ed Robertson says: "It's the start of a new chapter for
all of us. Here's to the future!" Everyone is looking forward to making new
music and thanks their fans for their support

http://lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?p=879712#post879712

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Yet Another Thing The Media is Wrong About

Ok readers, time for some serious news. *cough cough*. But I found this an interesting article from The Australian.

IS FACEBOOK TURNING ME INTO A 3 YR OLD?

Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist.
The startling warning from Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution, has led members of the government to admit their work on internet regulation has not extended to broader issues, such as the psychological impact on children.
Greenfield believes ministers have not yet looked at the broad cultural and psychological effect of on-screen friendships via Facebook, Bebo and Twitter.
She told the House of Lords that children's experiences on social networking sites "are devoid of cohesive narrative and long-term significance. As a consequence, the mid-21st century mind might almost be infantilised, characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity".

Arguing that social network sites are putting attention span in jeopardy, she said: "If the young brain is exposed from the outset to a world of fast action and reaction, of instant new screen images flashing up with the press of a key, such rapid interchange might accustom the brain to operate over such timescales. Perhaps when in the real world such responses are not immediately forthcoming, we will see such behaviours and call them attention-deficit disorder.
"It might be helpful to investigate whether the near total submersion of our culture in screen technologies over the last decade might in some way be linked to the threefold increase over this period in prescriptions for methylphenidate, the drug prescribed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder."
She also warned against "a much more marked preference for the here-and-now, where the immediacy of an experience trumps any regard for the consequences. After all, whenever you play a computer game, you can always just play it again; everything you do is reversible. The emphasis is on the thrill of the moment, the buzz of rescuing the princess in the game. No care is given for the princess herself, for the content or for any long-term significance, because there is none. This type of activity, a disregard for consequence, can be compared with the thrill of compulsive gambling or compulsive eating.
"The sheer compulsion of reliable and almost immediate reward is being linked to similar chemical systems in the brain that may also play a part in drug addiction. So we should not underestimate the 'pleasure' of interacting with a screen when we puzzle over why it seems so appealing to young people."
Greenfield also warned there was a risk of loss of empathy as children read novels less. "Unlike the game to rescue the princess, where the goal is to feel rewarded, the aim of reading a book is, after all, to find out more about the princess herself."
She said she found it strange we are "enthusiastically embracing" the possible erosion of our identity through social networking sites, since those that use such sites can lose a sense of where they themselves "finish and the outside world begins".
She claimed that sense of identity can be eroded by "fast-paced, instant screen reactions, perhaps the next generation will define themselves by the responses of others".
Social networking sites can provide a "constant reassurance – that you are listened to, recognised, and important". Greenfield continued. This was coupled with a distancing from the stress of face-to-face, real-life conversation, which were "far more perilous … occur in real time, with no opportunity to think up clever or witty responses" and "require a sensitivity to voice tone, body language and perhaps even to pheromones, those sneaky molecules that we release and which others smell subconsciously".
She said she feared "real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf. Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction."
The solutions, however, lay less in regulation as in education, culture and society.
Greenfield argued that the appeal of Facebook lay in the fact that "a child confined to the home every evening may find at the keyboard the kind of freedom of interaction and communication that earlier generations took for granted in the three-dimensional world of the street. But even given a choice, screen life can still be more appealing."
She quoted one user saying they had 900 friends, another saying the fact "that you can't see or hear other people makes it easier to reveal yourself in a way that you might not be comfortable with. You become less conscious of the individuals involved [including yourself], less inhibited, less embarrassed and less concerned about how you will be evaluated."
But Greenfield warned: "It is hard to see how living this way on a daily basis will not result in brains, or rather minds, different from those of previous generations. We know that the human brain is exquisitely sensitive to the outside world."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains

Okay stfu about websites that divert our attention from doing what we are really supposed to be doing, like house chores and homework (not that I have anyway btw). Our attention span is lacking? That's bs and this is just another cry from the government to censor/ban such sites. We have to improve our attention span to see what the other person is writing and if you're a big note writer in facebook, you have to have a lot of patience to read/write them in the first place. I don't know what the hell they are on about.

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Nightwish

Nightwish

(Anette Olzon, Marco Hietala, Emppu Vuorinen, Jukka Nevalainen and Tuomas Holopainen)

I love this Finnish band so much I could stalk the whole bunch of them! So much I've added my own image of them to this article of mine on them. Yes! It's them standing on the stage and I'm in the middle of the crowd. That photo was on their Dark Passion Play tour which I had to travel to Sydney to seem them. I can say what, it was well worth it. They opened with my favourite Anette song, Bye Bye Beautiful and finished with my favourite Tarja song, Wish I Had an Angel. Despite how much fun I had, I still wish that Tarja Turunen was still in Nightwish. But I can't complain really, a true fan of a band respects their decision to change band members and by what had happened, Tarja was being a biatch to the guys. But I am also a big fan of Tarja's solo project, which I shall do a segment on that later on.

Albums:

> Oceanborn
> Wishmaster
> Angels Fall First
> Once
> Dark Passion Play
> Century Child

Singles:
> Sacrament of Wilderness
> Passion and the Opera

> The Carpenter
> Walking in the Air
> Sleeping Sun (Four Ballads of the Eclipse)
> The Kinslayer
> Dark Silent Complete
> Ever Dream
> Bless the Child
> Nemo
> Wish I Had an Angel
> The Siren
> Sleeping Sun
> Eva
> Amaranth
> Bye Bye Beautiful

> The Islander

http://www.nightwish.com/

Linkin Park

Linkin Park

(Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell)

So here I am writing about a band I have great faith in, once upon a time. But don't get me wrong, these guys are awesome. The talents of these guys in one band impressed me by the first song I listen to theirs which was 'In the End'. I thought I might do a segment on them considering I have put two links up on the blog of two Linkin Park forum sites I am a proud of a member. With a combination of rap rock, Linkin Park is a award-winning band who have just recently released Minutes to Midnight, with the songs 'Shadow of the Day' and 'What I've Done', along with a whole bunch of other songs. They are well known for their work with Jay-Z on their Collision Course album which was a result of a MTV mashup with LP's Numb and Jay-Z's Encore.

Albums:

> Hybrid Theory

> Reanimation

> Meteora

> Collision Course

> Minutes to Midnight

> Live in Texas

> Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes

Released songs:

> One Step Closer

> Papercut

> Crawling

> In the End

> Points of Authority

> It's Goin' Down

> Pts.OF.Athrty

> Enthe E End/Frgt/10

> Somewhere I Belong

> Faint

> Numb

> From the Inside

> Lying From You

> Breaking the Habit

> Numb/Encore

> Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You

> What I've Done

> Bleed It Out

> Shadow of the Day

> Given Up

> We Made It (with Busta Rhymes)

> Leave Out All The Rest

Go check them out http://www.linkinpark.com/

Disturbed

Disturbed

(David Draiman, Steve Kmak, Mike Wengren, Don Donegan)




Disturbed is a rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1996 when Dan Donegan, Steve "Fuzz" Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired singer David Draiman. Since Disturbed formed, they have sold over 10 million albums worldwide.



Albums:
> The Sickness
> Believe
> Ten Thousand Fists
> Indestructible

Singles include:
> Stupify
> Voices
> Down with the Sickness
> The Game
> Prayer
> Remember
> Liberate
> Guarded
> Stricken
> Just Stop
> Land of Confusion
> Ten Thousand Fists
> Inside the Fire (< I watch this film clip just to see David wind up dead)
> Perfect Insanity
> Indestructible


www.disturbed1.com

A Perfect Circle

A Perfect Circle

(Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan, Josh Freese, Jeordie 'Twiggy' White and Troy Van Leeuwan)

Woo! Another great band, thanks to the genius himself, Maynard James Keenan, also in Tool and Puscifier. He teamed with Billy Howerdel that was a technician for NIN (Nine Inch Nail), the Smashing Pumpkins, Fishbone and Tool to produce three great albums, eMotive, The Thirteenth Step and Mer De Noms (french for Sea of Names). I fell in love with these guys when I first started getting into the 'good music' back in high school. Former members include James Iha from the Smashing Pumpkins and Danny Lohner from NIN. Jeordie 'twiggy' White has been in both Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. These guys have talent!!

Singles include:

> Judith

> 3 Libras

> The Hollow

> Weak and Powerless

> The Outsider

> Blue

> Imagine (A JOHN LENNON COVER THAT IS ACTUALLY GOOD!!!)

> Passive (Ace soundtrack to Constantine)

Catch them at: http://www.aperfectcircle.com/

The White Stripes

The White Stripes

(Meg and Jack White)

Yes! My favourite band =) The White Stripes have only two members, Meg on the drums and most percussion, while Jack on keyboard, guitar and vocals. I discovered this duo band with their latest album Icky Thump. But now I have cause for more celebration! They are back together, as Meg had suffered from acute anxiety disorder and Jack was off doing side projects with Alicia Keys and The Raconteurs.

Favourite album?

Get Behind Me Satan.

Favourite song?

The Denial Twist.

Do you have a video Selene?

Yes. Yes I do.

Albums:

> The White Stripes (self-titled)

> White Blood Cells

> De Stijl

> Elephant

> Get Behind Me Satan

> Icky Thump

Released singles:

> Red Death at 6:14

> Candy Cane Children

> Seven Nation Army

> I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

> The Hardest Button to Button

> There's No Home For You Here

> Jolene

> Blue Orchid

> My Doorbell

> The Denial Twist

> Icky Thump

> Rag and Bone

> You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told)

> Conquest

http://www.whitestripes.com/

The Raconteurs

The Raconteurs - also known as The Saboteurs in Australia.
(Jack White, Jack Lawrence, Brendon Benson and Patrick Keeler)

One band I am proud to promote =). This is my favourite album that I have posted the image of, their most recent album, Consolers of the Lonely. Personal favourite tracks include, Carolina Drama, Many Shades of Black, These Stones Will Shout and Attention. I discovered this band through White's other band, The White Stripes. (If you haven't noticed I've got an uber big crush on Jack White aka John Anthony Gillis). They've got two albums out, this one, and their first one, Broken Boy Soldiers.

They've currently only got 8 released tracks:

• Steady as She Goes
• Hands
• Broken Boy Soldier
• Level
• Salute Your Solution
• Many Shades of Black
• Old Enough
• Consoler of the Lonely

Links to their videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7aOWIFgIZQ
Steady As She Goes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7npSXQkxE
Broken Boy Soldier

Their fan site http://www.theraconteurs.com/

~Welcome~

Welcome to Selene's Blog site. There are a couple of questions you might be asking when you read this.

1) Who am I?

I'm an Australian girl, 20 on 30th May and I live in a little town. I'm a big talker, typer and big internet user. So instead of spending all my time on facebook and on forum sites, I decided to start this blog, Candy Child. Named afer the White Stripes song "Candy Cane Children". As you can see, I am a big White Stripes fan, well, to be honest, a big Jack White fan.

2) What other stuff will this blog provide?

It'll be a source of music updates, including bands like:

> The Raconteurs

> The White Stripes

> Nine Inch Nails

> Marilyn Manson

> Disturbed

> Rammstein

> Megadeth

> A Perfect Circle

> Tool

and the list just carries on, as I have a range of music tastes. Also updates on my general stuff, like photos from events I've attended, artwork I've done, sites that I'm promoting.

3) Why should I care?

Because. I said so! *lmao*