The Gales Brothers

   
Artist: The Gales Brothers

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Left Hand Brand

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 13

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Mos Def, Nas to headline Rock The Bells

Mos Def, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul are among the artists performing at this year's Rock The Bells festival.

The annual hip-hop festival is set to take place August 9 at the Glen Helen Pavilion in San Bernardino, California.

Als on the bill are Rakim, Method Man And Redman, Ded Prez, Murs, The Cool Kids, and special guest the Pharcyde.

2007's Rock The Bells featuring Rage Against The Machine was the top-grossing hip-hop event in the US last year.

For further information, visit Myspace.com/rockthebells.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Keeping them guessing

Angelina Jolie is refusing to reveal when her unborn twins are due � so she and partner Brad Pitt can keep the media guessing, according to imdb.com.

The actress was reported to be due on August 19, but her labour became the subject of a media frenzy last week when false reports claimed she had already given birth.

Jolie�s legal team subsequently stepped in to set the record straight. According to the New York Times, her lawyers issued a statement saying someone posing as Jolie�s assistant was behind the false birth claims. The statement read: �A random individual has engaged in a scheme to intentionally harm my client and deceive her fans, the public and the media through an illegal and tortuous impersonation of Ms Jolie�s longtime assistant, Holly.�

Regardless, stories have also surfaced claiming that Jolie will go into labour later this month. But Jolie herself insists she�ll never give away the actual date.

She tells Vanity Fair magazine, �I don�t want to say. If I do say, people will start stressing on our due date.�  

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Michael Bolton

   
Artist: Michael Bolton

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Pop
   Vocal
   Easy Listening
   Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 The Very Best of Michael Bolton: Slide Pack

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 17


   
 The Second Time Around

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Swingin Christmas

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


   
 Best Of Live

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18


   
 Vintage

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Ultimate Collection (CD 2)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Ultimate Collection (CD 1)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


   
 Only A Woman Like You

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Love Songs

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 My Secret Passion (The Arias)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Best Ballads 1985-1998

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 16


   
 This Is The Time: The Christmas Album

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Christmas Album

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 Greatest Hits 1985-1995

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 17


   
 Timeless

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Time, Love and Tenderness

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 Soul Provider

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Hunger

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 9


   
 Everybody's Crazy

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 9


   
 Michael Bolotin

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


   
 Michael Bolton

   Year:    
Tracks: 9


   
 'Til The End Of Forever

   Year:    
Tracks: 18

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Singer/songwriter Michael Bolton had an extended, though non very successful, career under his real call, Michael Bolotin, before emerging in the mid-'80s as a major soft rock candy crooner. He turned up on RCA Records in the mid-'70s vocalizing in a ill-humored, Joe Cocker-like voice both his have blue-eyed soul songs and cover tunes. Neither record buyers nor critics were much interested by the result. He and then became the lead isaac Bashevis Singer in Blackjack, a heavy metallic element band that made two albums for Polydor at the end of the '70s and the startle of the '80s. In 1983, he changed his name to Michael Bolton, signed to Columbia Records as a solo act, and relaunched his calling.


Michael Bolton was released in April 1983, and made the Top C bestsellers, as did its single, "Fools Game." At the same time, "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," which Bolton had co-written, became a Top 40 hit for Laura Branigan. Nevertheless, Bolton's second Columbia record album, Everybody's Crazy (1985), was a commercial floating-point operation. His breakthrough came with his third gear record album, The Hunger, released in September 1987. On this record album, Bolton derelict the more hard tilt aspects of his style to concentrate on blue-eyed soulfulness tattle: both on his have songs, such as "That's What Love Is All About," and on covers like Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Those deuce songs became Top 40 hits.


Soul Provider, released in July 1989, turned Bolton into a genius, reach the Top Ten, merchandising four meg copies, and spawning five Top 40 singles, including Bolton's number unmatchable version of "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," and the Top Ten hits "How Can We Be Lovers" and "When I'm Back on My Feet Again." "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" won Bolton a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Time, Love & Tenderness, released in April 1991, was even more successful, striking number one, selling six zillion copies, and featuring iV Top 40 hits, including the chart-topping track of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," and the Top Ten hits "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (later the subject of a successful piracy suit brought against Bolton by the Isley Brothers) and "Time, Love and Tenderness."


Bolton won another Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, for "When a Man Loves a Woman," just he had to put up with shout from two camps of detractors at the February 1992 observance. Just later Bolton had performed, pre-rock songster Irving Gordon won the Song of the Year awarding for "Unforgettable" and pointedly attacked songs that "screaming, cry, and possess a nervous crack-up" and singers wHO "receive a hernia" when they blab. Then, backstage, Bolton faced a hostile push corps of critics unhappy with his tendency to written matter outstanding soul singers like Redding, Ray Charles, and Sledge. Bolton suggested they apply their lips to a certain piece of his soma. He farther responded with Dateless: The Classics in September 1992, an record album made up totally of cover songs. It went to number unmatchable, sold three million copies, and featured a Top 40 hit in Bolton's version of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." Bolton's side by side album of original material, The One Thing, came in November 1993. It hit the Top Ten, sold triad meg copies, and featured the Top Ten hit "Said I Loved You...But I Lied." Bolton released Superlative Hits 1985-1995 in the fall of 1995, which debuted in the Top Ten. The following year, This Is the Time: Christmas Album appeared.


Bolton returned with All That Matters, his number 1 album of unexampled material since 1993's The One Thing, in the fall of 1997. Instead of chronic his success, it was a surprise flop. Not only did it not bring forth a hit individual, it hardly cracked the Top 40 and fell out of the charts afterward 15 weeks. Its want of success didn't halt Bolton from turning his attention to My Secret Passion, a collection of opera and arias that he released in January 1998. By authoritative standards, the album was a dispatch, and the record standard a great trade of press and surprisingly good reviews. He supported the iI albums with a summertime tour co-headlined by Wynonna Judd. He voluntarily stepped gage for nearly four-spot long time, disappearing from the public eye until the spring of 2002 when he began promoting Only a Woman Like You, his number 1 album on Jive Records. After a brief sabbatical, he returned with Til the End of Forever, a hybrid new record album of seven-spot newfangled recordings and a live greatest-hits concert. In 2006 he released Bolton Swings Sinatra, a 12-song tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes that included a duo with fiancée/actress Nicolette Sheridan.





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Samira

   
Artist: Samira

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Breakbeat
   

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Discography:


   
 When I Look Into Your Eyes (Special Italo Remixes)

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 4


   
 42kHz

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Wayne Gorbea's Salsa Picante

   
Artist: Wayne Gorbea's Salsa Picante

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Salsa

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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MCs hit Melbourne

LOCAL luminaries Curse ov Dialect have been fighting the good fight for cultural, spiritual and ethnic identity since 1994, touring all over to eager, conscious audiences.

HIP hop has long been a subversive art form. From Grandmaster Flash's anti-drug tirade on White Lines, to Gil Scott Heron's spoken wordsmithery on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised right up to Nas' recent declaration Hip Hop Is Dead. Local luminaries Curse ov Dialect have been fighting the good fight for cultural, spiritual and ethnic identity since 1994, touring all over Australia and Europe to eager, conscious audiences. Curse ov Dialect consists of MCs Raceless and Vulk Makedonski and vocalists Aturungi and August the 2nd backed up by DJ/producer Paso Bionic. The group have a diverse range of backgrounds - Maltese, Macedonian, Anglo-Indian, Maori and Pakistani - thus their ouevre is not such much a melting point of culture as a boiling cauldron. "We're the outcasts of the outcasts in the way we perceive the world,'' begins Raceless. Tonight sees Curse ov Dialect extend their modus operandi to a full-blown musical. "Our shows have always been theatrical hip hop and Arts House asked us to develop it more. We wanted to extend on what we're doing. "It's a musical, a very abstract interpretation through song of who we are as individuals and figuring out a way of finding common ground. "Everyone's got their own solo and all the songs are new,'' he enthuses. "We've got some pretty wacky ideas and they are getting brought out tonight, like Chinese music mixed with African folk hip hop beats...and that's just one song!'' Raceless draws upon his upbringing in St Albans, and spins tales of hanging out with Vietnamese gangs drinking coffees and going to old men's houses to obtain classical music. Clearly, he has lived. The revolution may not be televised, but tonight it will be staged live in a universal dialect.Curse ov Dialect, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, 5 Blackwood Street. 8pm. $10/$12