Friday, 27 June 2008

Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart   
Artist: Mickey Hart

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Folk
   Ethnic
   New Age
   



Discography:


Spirit Into Sound   
 Spirit Into Sound

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


Supralingua   
 Supralingua

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


Mystery Box   
 Mystery Box

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


Planet Drum   
 Planet Drum

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13


At The Edge   
 At The Edge

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


The Music Of Upper and Lower Egypt   
 The Music Of Upper and Lower Egypt

   Year:    
Tracks: 6




Mickey Hart is a drummer, an ethnomusicologist, and an author. He united the Grateful Dead as its second percussionist in 1967. In 1970, Hart left hand the Dead and cut the solo album Rolling Thunder in 1972, featuring various members of the Dead. Hart returned to the dance band in 1974. Hart's musical activities outside the Dead get been extended. In 1976, the Dead's Round Records pronounce released Diga by the Diga Rhythm Band, an early experimentation in worldbeat nuclear fusion reaction order in concert by Hart. His interaction with drummers from around the humanity sparked an enduring interest in the function of the brake drum in early cultures -- and a steadily expanding curiosity about non-Western musics. 1979 and 1980 power saw the outlet of two albums of music from the photographic film Revelation of Saint John the Divine Now, a great deal of it contributed by Hart. In 1983, Hart released albums under the head the World. These began with a reissue of Diga Rhythm Band (an record album by Babatunde Olatunji produced by Hart). Then came a series of albums of euphony Hart had recorded around the humanity. In 1989 Hart released Music to Be Born By, an record album based on the heartbeat of his boy in the uterus, and 1990 proverb the concurrent release of Hart's number one volume, Drumming at the Edge of Magic, and an record album, At the Edge. In 1991, some other volume and disk, both called Planet Drum, appeared. Both albums made the upper reaches of the newfangled age and humanity music charts. Supralingua followed in 1998, and two long time later Hart returned with Spirit into Sound. 2007 byword the release of Globular Drum Project with Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo on Shout! Factory.






Thursday, 19 June 2008

50 Cent Compares Naked Fans To Prostitutes

50 Cent has compared the naked fans he regularly finds in his hotel room to prostitutes.

The hip-hop star - real name Curtis Jackson – insists he has never been tempted by his ready and willing groupies because they remind him of Amsterdam sex workers.

"I've been in hotel rooms, and girls were already there in the closet - naked. Hell, no! Are you kidding me? That's like Amsterdam,” he tells Vibe mag.   

"Amsterdam is fun for some people, but I don't want (no one) that costs $50. There's too many people that got $50!"

Friday, 13 June 2008

Coldplay follow Oasis' lead with Thursday album release today (June 12)

Coldplay's fourth studio album 'Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends' is out today (June 12).

This Thursday release of the Brian Eno-produced record, the follow-up to the band's 2005 multi-platinum selling album 'X & Y', echoes Oasis, who also went for a midweek release for their third album 'Be Here Now'.

Released in August 1997, the Oasis album, much like Coldplay's current record, was highly anticipated by both music fans and critics.

Similar to 'Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends', the Oasis record had a considerable pre-release build-up, which saw the band selling 420,000 copies on the first day.

Coldplay's new album has broken the iTunes pre-sale record - with pre-sales earlier this week outnumbering the rest of the Top 40 combined.

Have you bought the new Coldplay album? Or are you heading out to the shops today? If so NME.COM want your reviews.

Send them into news@nme.com with Coldplay in the subject line, and we'll put up the best ones.

Sunday, 8 June 2008

Jennifer Lopez baby names revealed?

Jennifer Lopez has apparently chosen names for her unborn twin babies, according to a report.
The singer announced last November that she was expecting her first children with husband Marc Anthony and is rumoured to be due to give birth in the spring.
According to Star magazine, her mother Guadalupe was spotted picking up baby ID bracelets engraved with the names Max and Emme at a New York jewellery store.
Lopez recently revealed that she is to take an extended break from work to focus on caring for her babies.