DJ Mattias

   
Artist: DJ Mattias

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Live in Berlin

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Kylie Collaboration 'Too Sexy' for Coldplay Album

Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan for Taste Of Chicago

Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Joss Stone are among the acts line-up to play this year's Taste Of Chicago festival over ten days in June and July.

Grundik and Slava

   
Artist: Grundik and Slava

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Tchaikovsky's Album

   Year:    
Tracks: 24


   
 One Second Before The Planet

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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Deyn named best-dressed ahead of Kate Moss

Kate Moss has been knocked off the top of a best-dressed list by model-of-the-moment Agyness Deyn.
34-year-old Moss had taken the best-dressed crown for the last two years thanks to her prized ability to influence the contents of women's wardrobes.
Although she still receives praise in Tatler magazine's annual list, it is Moss's rival Deyn, 25, whose sartorial choices enlist most respect.
Tatler also puts Samantha Cameron, the wife of Tory leader David Cameron, in the top 10 for being "consistently chic and never flash". The magazine adds: "She brings some much-needed glamour to the Tory Wives Club."
Actress Keira Knightley takes fourth place, for being a "red carpet style icon" who works the "grungy but clean" look during the day.
Anouck Lepere, the Belgian model girlfriend of Moss's ex, Jefferson Hack, is sixth.
Alexa Chung, the girlfriend of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and presenter of T4, is 10th. The magazine says she is often "seen in a navy children's princess coat with a velvet collar which cost a tenner in Brick Lane".
Former chip girl Deyn, winner of Model of the Year, recently replaced Moss in the latest Burberry campaign.
The fashion label says Moss is "still part of the Burberry family".
Tatler writes of Deyn: "Whether she's sipping chai at the Russian Tea Rooms in Primrose Hill or kicking back at Henry Holland's studio, She's fash-fabulous... Rockin."
It still credits Moss with influencing women, giving her second place in the top 10 and writing: "If she wears it, the rest of the world follows suit.She has proven her designer credentials with her sell-out Topshop clothing range."
Top 10 Best-Dressed1. Agyness Deyn (model)2. Kate Moss (model)3. Natalia Vodianova (Russian model)4. Keira Knightley (actress)5. Stella Tennant (model)6. Anouck Lepere (model)7. Lynn de Rothschild (of the banking family)8. Kirsty Bertarelli (billionaire's wife and former beauty queen)9. Samantha Cameron (David Cameron's wife and creative director of Smythson)10. Alexa Chung (T4 presenter)

Drummer quits Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Nick Jago left the band once before, in 2004





NEW YORK -- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club drummer Nick Jago has split with the band for a second time, just before the launch of a European tour. However, core members Robert Levon Been and Peter Hayes insist Jago is not "fired" and that they "look forward to playing with him again in the future."
"We just feel Nick needs time to sort out exactly what he wants right now," they wrote in a MySpace post. "His heart and all his energy and attention is on his own solo project and he needs to see that through. We welcome his singing and songwriting in BRMC, but his focus, at least at the present time, is on doing his own thing and we wish him the best."
In an earlier MySpace post, Jago wrote: "I don't make it easy for them. Maybe playing drums for BRMC all the time is not my calling, and there is something else I'm supposed to do. We will see."
Jago and BRMC first ran into trouble in the fall of 2004, and he left the band for what were then described as "personal reasons." But he returned the following year to play on the band's third album, "Howl," and has remained with BRMC until now.
On the upcoming European dates, which begin Saturday in Brussels, Jago will be replaced on drums by Dead Combo's Leah Shapiro, who recently toured with the Raveonettes. Dead Combo has previously toured with BRMC as well.

Edwin McCain

   
Artist: Edwin McCain

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Scream and Whisper

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14

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A rootsy singer/songwriter with ties to jazz and soul as well, Edwin McCain hails from Charleston, SC, and it was with the support of native sons Hootie & the Blowfish that McCain signed with Atlantic Records. Let it not be aforementioned that McCain never earned his contract: his touring schedule is among the most rigorous in music -- 300-plus nights per year -- and his dynamic stria (guitarist Larry Chaney, bassist Scott Bannevich, drummer Dave Harrison, and sax player Craig Shields) gained deference and accompaniment slots for similarly minded artists like Hootie, Jewel, and even the Allman Brothers. Signed to Atlantic's Lava subsidiary company in 1995, the group debuted with Honour Among Thieves. The unmarried "Solitude" gained support at VH1, prompt the acquittance of 1997's Ill-conceived Roses, which scored a mainstream strike in the song "I'll Be." Messenger followed in 1999 with another love-themed success, "I Could Not Ask for More," and Far from Over appeared deuce age after. McCain was dropped from Atlantic after the acquittance of Far from Over, merely he actually quickened his recording pace, cathartic The Austin Sessions in 2003 and Scream & Whisper in 2004. Keeping up with his unappeasable tour agenda through the years, the live DVD Tinsel and Tap Shoes: Live at the House of Blues appeared in late 2004. McCain's succeeding studio apartment feat, Helpless in America, was issued in April 2006 on Vanguard. Nationwide tour dates continued through leap and summer.

Carla Bley

   
Artist: Carla Bley

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Miscellaneous
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 New conversations

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 8


   
 Umbria Jazz 2006

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 Looking for America

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 European Tour (1977)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


   
 Big Band Theory

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 1


   
 Fancy Chamber Music

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 1

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Post-bop jazz has produced simply a few topnotch composers of bigger forms; Carla Bley ranks heights among them. Bley possesses an unco broad compositional grasp; she combines an acquaintance with and sexual love for jazz in all its forms with great gift and originality. Her euphony is a particularly private type of hyper-modern jazz. Bley is subject of writing music of capital drama and profound temper, ofttimes inside the confines of the same piece. As an player, Bley makes a fine composer; she plays pianissimo and/or pipe organ with most of her bands, and piece her acting is incessantly quite musical, it's pass that her strengths lie elsewhere. Bley's crooked compositional structures subvert jazz formula to rattling effect, and her unpredictable melodies are oft as attention-getting as they ar isolated. In the tradition of jazz's very finest composers and improvisers, Bley has highly-developed a mode of her selfsame own, and the music as a whole is the better for it.


Innate Carla Borg, Bley well-read the basics of music as a minor from her father, a church musician. Thereafter, she was mostly self-taught. Bley touched to New York around 1955, where she worked as a cigaret miss and occasional pianist. She married piano player Paul Bley, for whom she began to write tunes (she too wrote for George Russell and Jimmy Giuffre). In 1964, with her mo husband, trumpeter swan Michael Mantler, Bley formed the Jazz Composers Guild Orchestra, which a year afterward became known but as the Jazz Composers' Orchestra. Two years afterward, Bley helped found the Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association, a not-for-profit organisation intentional to submit, stagger, and bring forth improper forms of malarky.


In 1967, vibist Gary Burton's quartette recorded Bley's cycle of tunes A Genuine Tong Funeral, which brought her to the tending of the general public for the first-class honours degree sentence. In 1969, Bley composed and ordered music for Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. In 1971, Bley completed the work that cemented her reputation, the jazz opera Moving staircase Over the Hill. In the '70s and '80s, Bley continued to run the JCOA and write and record for her have Watt mark. The JCOA essentially folded in the late '80s, just Bley's creative life has continued largely unabated. For much of the past two decades, she's kept up a mid-sized heavy band with fairly stable force to circuit and record. She's too worked a great deal with the bassist Steve Swallow, in duo and in ensembles of variable size.


Bley wrote the music for the soundtrack to the 1985 film Mortelle Randone. She too contributed young compositions to the Liberation Music Orchestra's mo embodiment in 1983. All through the '80s, '90s, and into the young millennium, Bley continued releasing albums through ECM, ranging from duets with bassist Steve Swallow to the Very Big Carla Bley Band. She released a third duets record album with Steve Swallow, Ar We There Yet?, in 2000, Looking for for America in 2003, and The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu in 2007.





Electronic

Jonas Brothers choose first single

'Burnin' Up' due June 20 on radio outlets





NEW YORK -- The Jonas Brothers have selected "Burnin' Up" as the first single from their next album, "A Little Bit Longer," due Aug. 12 via Hollywood. The track will be augmented with an "action-packed James Bond-esque adventure" video, according to the label.
"Burnin' Up" (which will be shipped June 20 to U.S. radio outlets), "Little Bit Longer" and "Pushing Me Away" all debuted on the group's most recent tour. The new album was executive produced by John Fields; some of the recording was done in the fall on a Gibson-outfitted tour bus.
The Jonas Brothers are already sizzling with "We Rock," the first single from their made-for-Disney Channel movie "Camp Rock." The track debuts this week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales chart after 11,000 sales in an exclusive Wal-Mart edition.
The "Camp Rock" soundtrack is due June 17 via Walt Disney Records, while the movie premieres three days later. Meanwhile, the Jonas Brothers begin their "Burning Up" arena tour July 4 in Toronto with special guest Demi Lovato, who also appears in "Camp Rock."