Beyonce and Shakira & other: May 2008

Monday, 26 May 2008

Flight of the Conchords' album soars to No. 3 on US chart

NZ Music Month

Kiwi music fans in for a busy time during May

LOS ANGELES - Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords' first full length album has scored a stunning debut on the US Pop charts.Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who play struggling musicians on a cult hit television show, have officially graduated to stardom in the US, with their debut album opening at No. 3 on the US pop chart.The self-titled album from Flight of the Conchords, whose show is broadcast in the US on cable channel HBO, sold 52,000 copies in the week ended April 27, according to tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan.In the process, they outsold pop idol Ashlee Simpson, whose new album opened at No. 4 with 47,000 copies. Bittersweet World marks her first release that did not go to No. 1.Mariah Carey outpaced everyone with sales of 182,000 copies for her reigning chart-topper E=MC2.Flight of the Conchords' quirky comedy series has won a devoted following in the US. The show is set in New York, where their bumbling bid for stardom is met with apathy by club owners and the public. Along the way, they recount their experiences in witty folk ditties. HBO has renewed the show for a second season.

Earlier this year, Flight of the Conchords won the comedy Grammy for their EP The Distant Future, which reached No. 116 on the Billboard 200 chart.Both albums were released by Seattle-based Sub Pop Records, which is perhaps best known for its success with grunge-rock trio Nirvana. The label is owned by Warner Music Group Corp.The new album's chart performance easily sets a new record for a New Zealand act, surpassing the No. 12 peak for pop-rock trio Crowded House's self-titled 1986 debut.- REUTERS

Friday, 23 May 2008

Good The Bad And The Queen

Artist: Good The Bad And The Queen

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

The Good the Bad and the Queen

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Gil Ventura

Sunday, 18 May 2008

Mark Wahlberg - Funky Bunch Reuniting Without Marky Mark

1890s belt boyband MARKY Target AND THE FUNKY Bunch are set up to reunify - without their frontman Marking WAHLBERG.

Under the key The Blue funk Bs, returning original members Scott 'Great Scott' Nellie Ross, Hector 'HB' Barros, Terrycloth 'DJ -T' Yancy have recruited fresh rappers Jaime 'Avalanche' Haage, Lola 'LB' Frazier, Chad 'Dragon' Penney, Dawayne 'DJ Rareform' Branco and Michael 'Yung Piff'

The Presets , Apocalypso

Britney on psychiatric hold for 14 days

Britney Spears will remain in a hospital psychiatric cellblock for another 14 days, sources close up to the principal have got revealed.
Spears was to be released from UCLA Medical exam Centre's psychiatric hospital yesterday only doctors at the aaron Montgomery Ward determined that she should remain, the source reportedly said.
Margaret Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled the twenty-four hours later Spears was taken to infirmary that her father, James Spears, would be Britney's conservator.
Along with attorney St. Andrew Notecase, he is likewise conservator of the popstar's multi-million dollar landed estate.
Goetz granted the conservator memory access to whole Spears' medical records, as well as the right to restrict her visitors and to provide her with for 24 hours security.
Goetz likewise issued a restraining order, keeping Surface-to-air missile Lutfi, the pop singer's friend and sometime handler, off from her.

Meet: The Everyday Visuals

The band: Kyle Fredrickson (guitar, keyboard) and Saint Christopher Pappas (vocals, guitar, keyboard) plowshare an flat together in Watertown. They populate just now polish the street from Joe Seiders (drums, vocals) and Eli Scheer (guitar, vocals, keyboard). Chris Zembower (bass, vocals) moved to Brooklyn a patch back, simply he visits the Hub often.
The sound: Breezy, harmonious pop that rocks you through a waving of emotions.
The exhibit: The Everyday Visuals play tonight at the Middle East on a lower floor, Cambridge, with WBCN [web site] Rock music N’ Undulate Rumble winners Girls, Guns & Aura, and the Cassavettes.

The music: Download “I’ll Take It Completely in Stride” and “Dance and Holler” from the Everyday Visuals’ sophomore CD, “Things Will Look Up,” unloosen at bostonherald.com/entertainment
The lead off: Pappas picked up a guitar and started a band in midsection school. When they got goodness enough, his instrumentalist father-God allow the fledgeling band dally a few songs between his sets.
“The crowd together got a kick out of it because it was young kids playacting in a barroom,” Pappas said. “1 clarence Shepard Day Jr. I was with my mammy at Home Store and this guy cable comes up to me and said, ‘Hey, you were that kid that played in that bar death night. You guys were great!’ I looked up at my mommy and said, ‘This is what I want to do with the rest of my life.’ ”
The backstory: Seiders and Pappas joined musical comedy forces at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H. They left for college, simply the band lived on. Pappas met Fredrickson at the Moss Hart School day of Euphony in Connecticut and recruited friends Zembower and Scheer afterwards moving to Hub of the Universe in 2005.
The find: “The NEMO Festival (demonstrate) at the Lizard Couch - that was our low dip into the euphony picture,” Pappas said. “We hadn’t even moved to Beantown all the same.‘
At this execution, the little Phoebe guys in the Everyday Visuals befriended banding members in the now-defunct Chauncey, world Health Organization introduced them to Billy Beard, a mainstay of Boston’s music scene.
“Two weeks later we opened up for Melissa Ferrick in New Hampshire and He-goat was playing drums for her,” Pappas said. “Billy liked us a good deal and said, ‘You should move to Bean Town. I want to contend you guys.’ That was great. He booked us at the Lizard Lounge and we opened for close to great bands.”
The albums: The Everyday Visuals recorded their debut, “Media Suppress,” in 2005 ahead Zembower and Scheer joined the fold. In 2006 the full card appeared on “Things Will Look Up.” They are currently recording new matierial - much of it fueled by politics - in the attic at Pappas’ parents’ home in Freshly Hampshire.

BBC backs down over Pogues classic