Wardog

   
Artist: Wardog

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Scorched Earth

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12

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After egg laying his former dance orchestra, Tension, to rest and relocating to Phoenix, AZ, in the early '90s, speed metallic element old-timer Tommy Gattis corralled bassist Chris Catero and drummer Ross Martinez into a young project named Wardog. Their small, independently released debut album of 1994 didn't bend too many heads, simply their sophomore crusade, Scorched Earth (released by Metal Blade deuce years afterwards), was another matter, establishing the mathematical group as crown purveyors of '90s thrash alloy (as unpopular as the style was then). After some hold up to realign their batting order (adding guitar player Paul Sullivan and young drummer Eric Bongiorno), a third Wardog LP, entitled A Sound Beating, was issued in 1999. But Gattis fell out with the others a short time later and touched on to start a new ring called Ballistic, even as the others teamed up in Razer.

Fourplay

   
Artist: Fourplay

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
   Jazz: Crossover Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 X (Ten)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9


   
 Journey

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Jazz

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 1


   
 Heartfelt

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Yes, Please

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Snowbound

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 4

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Best Of Fourplay

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


   
 Elixir

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 Between The Sheets

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 Fourplay

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 1991

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11

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This all-star grouping (comprised of keyboardist Bob James, guitar player Lee Ritenour, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Harvey Mason) was formed in 1991 after the quartet came together on portion of James' Grand Piano Canyon record album. They have since recorded a number of CDs for Warner Bros. that have all been big-sellers, not surprising considering the popularity of James and Ritenour. Larry Carlton took o'er the guitarist's spot in the late '90s, number one appearing in Fouplay on the band's successful 1998 album, 4. The group's music borders on jazz with some strong improvisations miscellaneous in with gravid doses of bug out and R&B, around what one would await from these studio musicians.

Pepe Aguilar

   
Artist: Pepe Aguilar

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   

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Discography:


   
 Por una Mujer Bonita

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Por el Amor de Siempre

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Por Mujeres Como Tu

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Recuerdame Bonito

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Pepe Aguilar 5

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


   
 Pepe Aguilar 4

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


   
 Pepe Aguilar 3

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


   
 Pepe Aguilar 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


   
 Pepe Aguilar 1

   Year:    
Tracks: 19

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Born in the U.S. merely brocaded in Zacatecas, Mexico, boy of transcription legends Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, Pepe Aguilar was influenced and supported by his parents to take up singing. He reached the stage for the first fourth dimension at the age of tierce, performing at New York's Madison Square Garden deuce long time by and by. After saving money, Aguilar decided to grease one's palms a drum set to catch mired in john Rock music, elysian by progressive groups such as Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. Nevertheless, patch leaving his adolescent age behind, he turned to tejano at one time once more, intermixture the traditional style with his new pop influences and becoming a potent identity in the Latin scene, in addition to development a successful playing vocation. Among his biggest albums ar 1998's Por Mujeres Como Tu, which spent closely a class on the Latin and Mexican charts, 1999's Por una Mujer Bonita, which won him a Grammy for Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance, 2003's Y Tenerte Olta Vez, 2004's No Soy de Nadie, and 2005's Historias de Mi Tierra.

Swayze not letting cancer interfere with TV role

Pancreatic cancer is not slowing Patrick Swayze.

The "Dirty Dancing" veteran stars in the cop drama "The Beast," which has just been picked up by cable's A&E Network.

Swayze plays an unorthodox but effective FBI veteran who trains a new partner (Travis Fimmel) in his hard-edged and psychologically clever style of agenting while being pursued by a secret Internal Affairs team.

"I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multilayered, unpredictable and downright entertaining as well as a project this current and cutting-edged," Swayze said in a statement.

The statement did not address his health, but network executives confirmed that his doctors have cleared him to resume work. They have ordered 13 hour-long episodes to go into production this summer in Chicago, with a premiere set for early 2009.

Swayze, 55, was diagnosed with cancer in March, and has been receiving treatment at Stanford University Medical Center, near San Francisco.





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Skyscraper of steel toy parts sparkles in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A million pieces of stainless steel toy parts assembled into a nearly seven-story model skyscraper glimmered under the hot sun in New York on Tuesday, in American artist Chris Burden's latest project.


The 16,000-pound (7,250-kg) "poetic interpretation" of the 30 Rock Building at Rockefeller Center was made of replicated Erector set pieces from the toy created by A.C. Gilbert in 1912, Burden said.


"He was inspired by the buildings to build this toy system and I used this toy system to build a building," Burden said.


"It's a poetic interpretation of 30 Rock, it's not a model of it. It references all the tall buildings in Manhattan," Burden said, standing near his 65-foot (20-metre) tower.


The project, assembled by 20 to 30 people using screwdrivers, began in late 2006 and was put together in Los Angeles County and trucked across the country in two parts.


"It's very reflective, sort of like a faceted jewel, really picks up the light," Burden said.


The exhibit, titled "What my dad gave me," will be on display through July 19 at Rockefeller Center.


Burden, who lives in Los Angeles, was born in Boston in 1946. He received attention as a performance artist in 1971 when he was shot in the arm for the sake of art in a performance called "Shoot."


(Reporting by Marcy Nicholson; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Cynthia Osterman)

Chris Martin admits he competes with wife's ex Brad Pitt

Chris Martin competes with Gwyneth Paltrow's ex-fiance Brad Pitt.The Coldplay frontman admits he finds it hard to deal with the thought that Gwyneth - who is mother to his two children, Apple, four, and two-year-old Moses - used to be engaged to one of Hollywood's hottest heartthrobs.He said: "I always felt it would be great to be with a very powerful woman because it would keep you in your place. Being married to someone very successful and very powerful basically keeps you hungry to improve."You've got to be hungry. If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"Chris also revealed he only became confident with the opposite sex when he hit his twenties.He said: "I had a tricky time with girls until I was, like, 21. I got trapped in the friendship tip many, many times. It was like, 'I need to be a rock star because this is no good. I want to be the guy that everybody bangs.'"Chris admitted he often uses sleeping pills to combat his insomnia, but this can sometimes trigger unusual behaviour.




He added to Rolling Stone magazine: "I often take a sleeping pill, but then I get excited about a song, so I go and play music, and then it kind of kicks in halfway through."I have a little corner where nobody can hear me in the middle of the night, and that's where I spend most of the night. I wake up the next morning and find these strange notes to myself - I'm a little bit ashamed about it!"- BANG! SHOWBIZ

Cate Blanchett - Blanchett Says No To Plastic Surgery

Actress CATE BLANCHETT has vowed never to go under the knife - because she is convinced wrinkles reflect a person's life experiences.

The mother-of-three - who turns 39 next week (14May08) - insists she is proud of her imperfections and would never consider turning to surgery to fix them.

She tells Britain's Glamour magazine, "I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children, and I think they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that?

"Death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move."

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Movie Reviews: You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls the new Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With the Zohan "shameless in its eagerness to extract laughs from every possible breach of taste or decorum." Nevertheless, Ebert suggests, Sandler succeeds in doing just that. "This is a mighty hymn of and to vulgarity, and either you enjoy it, or you don't. I found myself enjoying it a surprising amount of the time, even though I was thoroughly ashamed of myself." A.O. Scott in the New York Times also agrees that "a lot of the crude bodily-function jokes are actually pretty funny." Rafer Guzmán's take on the film in Newsday: "Crude, idiotic, ridiculous - in other words, flat-out hilarious, and Sandler's funniest film in years." But Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times suggests that such an assessment is far too generous. "If this was to be unapologetically funny, likable in an un-ironic, non-guilty-pleasure way," he writes, "You Don't Mess With the Zohan falls short. As a cutting comedic satire about the Arab-Israeli conflict and stereotypes, it misses more than it hits. As another run-of-the-mill Sandler movie, it is better than most." And Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer assesses it this way: "An amiable mess."


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Morissette Can't Take Any More Heartache

Alanis Morissette is keen to avoid another love break-up - because splits hit her too hard. The singer admits she was devastated when her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds ended last year and it took her months to recover. And she fears another heartbreak like that could be fatal. She tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "I was a full-blown love addict, so it was like, `I can't keep doing this, my body can't take it.' "Break-ups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating." But Morissette is confident her split from Reynolds was her personal rock bottom. She adds, "I've been on a constant journey toward finally surrendering and hitting the rock bottom that I've been avoiding my whole life. "So this was a huge, critical juncture for me. Everything broke, and it was an amazing and horrifying time." Morissette admits she poured all her heartache into her new album Flavors of Entanglement. She explains, "I entered my own version of rehab. I went to therapy - I went to therapy five days a week, I journaled." Her 'therapy' sessions also included remodelling her Los Angeles home and designing a jewellery line.


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Heinous In High-Def

Some stars just weren't meant to be seen in high-definition. Whether it's botched surgeries, bad acne or just plain atrocious extremities, these guys and gals are better suited for airtime that's a little less technologically advanced.




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