Pick of the week: Classical and opera

Love And Other Demons
Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes
Saturday 16, Tuesday 19, Friday 22
Peter E�tv�s's commission, based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novella.

Elliott Carter
Royal Albert Hall, London
Monday 18
Yet another UK premier from the astonishing centenarian.

Carmen
Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes
Monday 18, Thursday 21
Tania Kross is the femme fatale in David McVicar's production.

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Blaqk Audio

   
Artist: Blaqk Audio

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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 Cexcells

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12

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Despite the fact that AFI isaac Merrit Singer Davey Havok and guitar player Jade Puget had been on the job on songs for their electronic side jut Blaqk Audio since before AFI's breakthrough record album, Tattle the Sorrow, came out in 2003, it took a few eld for the music to see the light of day. The success of their group's major-label debut prevented the deuce from expenditure a good deal time on it, though Puget still continued to fetch programmed sounds into AFI's repertoire, both on Tattle the Sorrow and 2006's Decemberunderground. Finally, in early 2007, Havoc (on vocals) and Puget (on everything else) were able to get out what they began, releasing the all-electronic dancing and goth-inspired CexCells on Interscope in August of that same year.

Natasha Bedingfield, The Veronicas and Kate Voegele to Appear at Verizon Wireless Communications Store in New York City

NEW YORK, June 19 --

WHO: Verizon Wireless brings British pop sensation Natasha
Bedingfield and her tour mates: the Veronicas and Kate
Voegele to New York City.

WHAT/WHERE: Autograph signing at the Verizon Wireless Communications
Store at 581 Broadway, New York, NY.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25th
3:00-3:15pm Media Interviews
3:30-4:30pm Autograph Signing
Interviews need to be requested in advance and must be
approved prior to the event.

BACKGROUND: The U.K.'s biggest female star, Natasha Bedingfield, has
carved her place among America's most loved pop stars and her
latest album, Pocketful of Sunshine, debuted on the Top 200
chart at No. 3. Currently, the album's title track is soaring
up the pop and digital sales charts and the album has already
spawned the hit single "Love Like This" (featuring Sean
Kingston). Bedingfield's ubiquitous hit "Unwritten" was the
most heavily played song on U.S. radio last year and can
still be heard as the theme song to MTV's celebrated show,
The Hills. This is Natasha's first headlining tour, although
she has toured with superstars such as Justin Timberlake.

The Veronicas and Kate Voegele join Natasha Bedingfield on
tour and at the Verizon Wireless Communications Store
autograph session. The Veronicas are 23-year-old Australian
twin sisters Lisa and Jessica Origliasso, whose latest
electro-rock album, Hook Me Up, is due for digital release in
the U.S. this month. Kate Voegele was recently spotlighted
by Entertainment Weekly as being among the best of "the new
golden age of female singer-songwriters" while Billboard
hailed her as "An Artist to Watch in '08."

Verizon Wireless has a proven track record of leadership in
mobile music - beginning in 2004, Verizon Wireless was the
first national wireless company to offer ringback tones.
Verizon Wireless has built a massive full-song V CAST Music
library that currently contains more than 3 million songs
from well-known and independent artists and frequently brings
exclusive music from the hottest artists to its customers.
For more information about Verizon Wireless' music services,
offerings and artist relationships, visit
http://www.verizonwireless.com/music.
About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable wireless voice and
data network, serving 67.2 million customers. Headquartered in Basking
Ridge, N.J., with 69,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint
venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE:
VOD). For more information, go to: http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and
request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of
Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia
Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.




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Ted Nugent - Nugent Sells Off Hunting Trophies

Rock legend TED NUGENT has held an estate sale at his ranch in Texas to offload some of his unwanted belongings.

The guitarist and singer is planning to move house within the next few months and decided to clear out his current home by holding a sale over the weekend (20-21Jun08).

Nugent, an avid hunter and gun enthusiast, sold off a variety of animal trophies including a rhinoceros head, zebra stallion mounts and bleached deer skulls - all signed by the star.

Other items on sale included furniture from his Waco, Texas property.

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The Great Escape: day two, Various venues, Brighton

Anyone doubting the vitality of the UK's live scene should have spent the weekend in Brighton, where 328 acts performed in 73 venues. At 7.30pm on Friday, half an hour before they are due on stage, there is a queue along Brighton seafront of punters eager to see White Lies, one of the buzz-bands of the night. Despite their name, they are dressed in black and when the keyboards swirl, the drums pound and dry ice blows, it is like the Second Coming of Joy Division - third if you count the similarly 1981-ish Editors.

Everyone is studiously avoiding the Ting Tings now they are No 1, and the proverbial two men and a dog have turned up to see the Pack AD, a female blues-rock duo from Vancouver. Drummer Maya Miller, with shades of Meg White, drags behind the beat while singer/guitarist Becky Black screeches like Janis Joplin taught to sing by Björk. As the raw, powerful sound fills the air, the room fills up - what the pair lack in finesse they make up in brute force and trailer-trash charisma.

Preston's Team Waterpolo purvey a thrillingly primitive electronic pop. Realising that every great band should have a theme song, they start with Welcome to Team Waterpolo, featuring joint lead vocals. Problem is, how to sell this noise, caught as it is between indie and new rave.

The Yeasayer gig is predictably rammed. "It's a pale imitation of prog," moans one punter. They do look very 1972 Old Grey Whistle Test, yet their Afrobeat meanders like a krautrock Fela Kuti and sends the crowd into raptures.


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Satyrian

   
Artist: Satyrian

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Gothic
   

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Discography:


   
 Eternitas

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12

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Skoidats

   
Artist: Skoidats

   Genre(s): 
Ska
   

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Discography:


   
 Cure For Whatever Ales You

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Times

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14

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The Skoidats ar a ska-punk banding from Missoula, Montana, deriving their nominate from the hints of Oi! kindling in their music, although it should be renowned that the grouping ar anything but racists. When the grouping formed in Helena in 1995, it consisted of guitarist/vocalist Justin Dillavou, bassist Chuck Fuller, drummer Gardner Dunn, and tenor saxophonist Josh Crenz; afterward a move to Missoula, 2 University of Montana marching banding members, tenor voice saxist John Chapman and trombone player John Knight, completed the card. After signing with Moon Ska, the Skoidats released their debut album, The Times, in 1997; Crenz left hand shortly thenceforth to bring together the military, and the leftover banding issued Cure for What Ales You in 1999.