12 Stones

   
Artist: 12 Stones

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Anthem for the Underdog

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Potter's Field

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 12 Stones

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12

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12 Stones were formed in the diminished New Orleans suburbia of Mandeville, LA. The group was more often than not noneffervescent in their teens when they formed the lineup of vocaliser Paul McCoy, bassist Kevin Dorr, guitarist Eric Weaver, and drummer Aaron Gainer. After playacting no more than 12 live performances, they took their demonstration to New York City and performed at an industry showcase. The band all over up signing to Wind Up Records to disc their debut record album with manufacturer Jay Baumgardner. The album saw a discharge in 2002, less than iI long time later the shaping of the group. More success came to the band in 2003, when McCoy duetted on "Bring Me to Life" with Evanescence, which became a smash strike and was included on the Harum-scarum soundtrack as advantageously as Evanescence's debut album, Fallen. 12 Stones released their second album, Potter's Field, which featured a heavier, more guitar-driven healthy than their debut. After taking a break from music to pass meter with their families, the band reconvened to make their third album. Inspired by the personal effects of Hurricane Katrina on their hometown, 12 Stones recorded Anthem for the Underdog in Memphis, TN, with Justin Rimer and Skidd Mills during the better portion of 2006, and the album was released in 2007.

Del Toro's "Hellboy" sequel a devilish delight

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When is a big studio picture not a big studio picture? When we're talking Universal's "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" and the filmmaker happens to be Guillermo del Toro.


Armed with a slightly bigger budget than his 2004 original and with more clout after the Oscar-nominated success of "Pan's Labyrinth," del Toro's latest take on the Mike Mignola comic book is uncompromisingly the product of his wildly fantastical imagination.


Playing it faster and looser, if somewhat less focused than the first "Hellboy," the new film should have no problem building on the $100 million-plus its predecessor grossed internationally when it enters the summer derby on July 11.


Of course, just how much more would depend on how the fanboys will feel about sequences like Red and Abe drunkenly singing along to Barry Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You."


With the origin story out of the way, del Toro wastes little time in getting down to business. When a longstanding truce between the underground-dwelling original sons of the earth and humankind is broken by Prince Nuada (Luke Goss), the rebellious son of King Balor (Ron Perlman's old "Beauty and the Beast" co-star Roy Dotrice), something must be done to prevent him from reawakening the killing machines known as the Golden Army.


Enter the terrific Perlman's cigar-chomping, Tecate-chugging Red, who's been shacking up with the pyrokinetic Liz (an effectively brooding Selma Blair) in his pad over at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.


Also back to save the day is the aquatic Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, now also doing the vocals that last time were handled by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce), as well as long-suffering B.P.R.D. bureaucrat Tom Manning (Jeffrey Tambor).


Joining the highly dysfunctional family is the Germanic Johann Krauss (John Alexander and James Dodd) a protoplasmic robot who constantly gets in Red's face. 

U2 - U2 Selling Contemporary Basquiat Painting

Irish rockers U2 are expecting to cash in on a painting by late artist JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT - they are auctioning off the artwork with an estimated price tag of $8 million (GBP4 million).

Basquiat completed Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) in 1983 - five years before he died of a drug overdose (88).

The painting was spotted by U2 bassist Adam Clayton in a New York gallery and the band bought it in 1989 to help decorate their Dublin studio.

But the masterpiece will now go under the hammer at the Contemporary Art Sale at London auction house Sotheby's on 1 July (08).

Oliver Barker, of Sotheby's Contemporary Art department, says, "It seems especially appropriate that a work by Basquiat should end up in a music studio, since so much has been said about the relationship between his art and music."

It has been estimated to fetch between $8 to $10 million (GBP4 to GBP5 million).

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Skullbreaker

   
Artist: Skullbreaker

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Total Thrash Terror

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10

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Meniketti

   
Artist: Meniketti

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Hard-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Meniketti

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13

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Bulgarian Voices

   
Artist: Bulgarian Voices

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   

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Discography:


   
 Mixed Choir Of Sofia, Orthodox Chants

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 20

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A choir comprising two 12 female singers from crosswise the nation, the Bulgarian Voices--Angelite were largely unknown to the populace at large prior to the fall of communism, only in the years since the Iron Curtain was upraised the tout ensemble toured the ball many times over, bewitching audiences with their singular portmanteau of classic and tribe traditions. Among their recordings: A Cathedral Concert, From Bulgaria With Love, Fly, Fly My Sadness and Peck Tale.

Grey's Anatomy star Shanghai-bound

Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Jeffrey Dean Morgan is to star opposite John Cusack and Ken Watanabe in the thriller 'Shanghai'.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Morgan will play Connor, an American murdered in Japanese-occupied Shanghai before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Cusack will play a friend who sets out to investigate and finds himself embroiled in a cover-up.
The film is currently in production in Thailand with '1408' director Mikael Hafstrom directing.
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