Kiwi rock act Weta reform for tour

Much loved Kiwi rock act Weta�- who had several radio hits in 2000 including Calling On and Got the Ju - have reformed for two November tour dates.

The band, fronted by Aaron Tokona, broke�up shortly after releasing their debut album,�Geographica.

Their Wikipedia situation says the band stock split because Tokona "stopped believing that I was doing what I really treasured to do".

But in a web log posted on Stuff.co.nz in July, Weta's drummer Clinton den Heyer hinted the isthmus were considering making a comeback for summer.

"Who knows - peradventure we could get the opportunity to drop a second difficult album and have everyone slate it," den Heyer said.

It continues a trend for Kiwi acts to reform recently, following Supergroove, Garageland and the Headless Chickens.

Weta�play Auckland's Galatos�on November 20 and Wellington's San Francisco Bath House�on November 21.

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Screen Gems, Austin Chick in scream team

Indie darling to drop a line, direct Hamptons-based thriller





NEW YORK -- Sony Screen Gems and indie darling Austin Chick ar taking a trip to the Hamptons.

The label has signed on for a Hamptons-based thriller from Chick that mixes elements of the found-money morality story "A Simple Plan" with those of a youth-oriented romantic thriller like "Cruel Intentions."

The untitled project, which Chick is writing and will send, revolves around three early twenty-somethings -- two brothers and a brother's lady friend -- world Health Organization, while vacationing in the Hamptons, issue forth upon a cache of money. They get entangled in an increasingly complex plan to divide it up and elude the money's genuine owners, world Health Organization are pursuing them.

The project, which as well involves a love triangle, is go under for a March shoot on Long Island. Casting is set to begin shortly.

The WMA-repped Chick directed the 2008 Josh Hartnett drama "August" and made his debut with the Mark Ruffalo romantic drama "XX/XY"; he also served as a co-producer on Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." He aforementioned he was eager to work on a motion picture that he described as "straddling the line 'tween a thriller and a prestige picture show" because of the state of the indie business.

"I'd like to continue doing more strong point movies in the future, but with the business hitting such hard times I treasured to try something a little different," he said.

Screen Gems, which had a breakout to begin with this year with the $44 million-earning "Prom Night," has been expanding its scope. The Clint Culpepper label has signed on directors wish Lasse Hallstrom, who will direct the romantic drama "Dear John."


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Artist: Kyuss: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Metal Metal: Alternative     Kyuss's discography:      ...And The Circus Leaves Town    Year: 1995    Tracks: 11      Welcome To Sky Valley    Year: 1994    Tracks: 11      Blues For The Red Sun    Year: 1992    Tracks: 14      Wretch    Year: 1991    Tracks: 11      Queens Of The Stone Age    Year:     Tracks: 6 Hailing from Palm Desert, CA, Kyuss (marked "kai-uss") has turn something like a heavy metal eq to the Velvet Underground. Although they are wide acknowledged as pioneers of the palmy lapidator stone scene of the 1990s, the band enjoyed svelte commercial success during their abbreviated existence, merely their combination of sludgy, down-tuned guitars (ofttimes played through a bass adenosine monophosphate for maximum, earthshaking intensity), spacy jams, galloping convulse alloy rhythms, and organic drums became a design, often copied, only never quite replicated by uncounted resistance metal bands. Formed in 1990 by vocalist John Garcia, guitarist Josh Homme, bassist Nick Oliveri, and drummer Brant Bjork, Kyuss (named after a character from Dungeons & Dragons) began electronic jamming at supposed "desert parties," in and around the isolated towns of the Southern California abandon. The band step by step built a local following, sign-language with tiny main label Dali Records, and released their first base album, Poor devil, in 1991. Under-produced and seedy financed, the album failed to seize the band's live intelligent and went mostly unnoticed until sporadic touring started earning Kyuss a repute as a fierce hot unit, as well as the paying attention of many blighter musicians. One of these, Masters of Reality singer/guitarist Chris Goss, distinct to bring in out the band's succeeding endeavor, and the coaction eager fruit in 1992's stunning Blue devils for the Red Sun. Soon hailed as a turning point by critics and fans alike, the record album took the underground metal domain by storm and accomplished the signature Kyuss sound erstwhile and for all: the doom onerousness of Black Sabbath, the feedback bull of Blue Cheer, and the blank space rock music of Hawkwind, infused with psychedelic flashes, massive grooves, and a surprising sensitiveness for punk stone, alloy, and flail. Based on this sudden tide of interest, the band was signed by Elektra Records just as Dali was about to go insolvent, and despite the loss of bassist Oliveri (he was replaced by Scott Reeder, erst of the Obsessed), the band continued construction momentum with 1994's Welcome to Sky Valley. Also recorded under Goss' direction, the album nearly matched the glare of its precursor and sawing machine Kyuss pickings the novel overture of grouping the songs into three extended suites. Still, despite such creative promise and an ever-growing fan home, personal strife had already begun lachrymation the stria apart, and drummer Brant Bjork was the first base to depart when they ended their fall circuit. Then, although they apace recruited the jazz-trained Alfredo Hernandez to supercede him on 1995's observably less elysian ...And the Circus Leaves Town, a concluding falling out between Homme and Garcia finally brought Kyuss' meteorological unravel to a unsatisfying hold. 2000's Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss self-contained uncommon outtakes and hot recordings and effectively assign a capper on the Kyuss bequest, only after a period of congeneric quiet, each bandmember's natural endowment began leaving its gospels According to Mark on a turn of relevant projects. Garcia briefly worked with straightforward abandon rockers Slo Burn in 1997 before reuniting with Reeder in the often more hopeful (merely at long last ill-starred) Unida, later lending his coveted pipes to Hermano and former bands. Brant Bjork panax quinquefolius and played guitar in his own force trio, Che (featuring his Kyuss replacement Hernandez on drums), and released a number of solo albums while joining big top fuzz rockers Fu Manchu on a full-time ground. As for Josh Homme, discounting a short touring stretch as rhythm guitar player for Screaming Trees, he ab initio retreated into production and exhausted practically of the later '90s collaborating with an impressive array of musicians on the eclectic Desert Sessions. Some of this material was after reworked into his following major project, Queens of the Stone Age, which saw him mated with original Kyuss bassist Nick Oliveri (wHO had unbroken busy on the job with Dwarves) and, at first-class honours degree, drummer Hernandez, as good. Ironically, by their third handout (and last with Oliveri), 2002's Songs for the Deaf, Queens of the Stone Age had achieved significantly larger gross revenue than Kyuss e'er did, though it's arguable whether they've even matched their predecessor's fabled condition.

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Pixie Geldof to Design Fashion Range for New Look

Pixie Geldof has signed an �80,000 ($160k) deal to design a fashion range of mountains for British high street chain New Look.

The 17-year-old daughter of rocker Sir Bob Geldof -- wHO recently appeared on the cover of Tatler magazine -- is contracted to bring out one collection, but bosses are hoping further ranges will be produced if the clothes are a hit with shoppers.

A germ tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "The deal is virtually monovular to the one Lily Allen gestural. But whereas Lily's was met with a slightly muted response, Pixie's is expected to race stunned of stores.

"She is a stunning girl and as such fashionable. She dresses totally uniquely and in a quirky, fun way.

"Money can't buy you style only Pixie flaunts hers effortlessly. She's a brilliant part model for young fashionistas."

It is believed that Pixie -- world Health Organization is still in school -- volition model the clothes herself in the flagship London store on the found night.

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Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree

   
Artist: Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree

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 Mujo

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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Groupa

   
Artist: Groupa

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Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Av Bara Farten

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 12

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Incorporating modern instrumentation and imaginative extemporization, Groupa has taken a contemporary-minded advance to the folk music of Sweden. Led by lagger fiddle, viola and accordion player Mats Eden, the group has been at the head of the Swedish folk music revivification for more than two decades. While Rock'N'Reel magazine claims that Groupa "will challenge people's preconceptions of Swedish music", Roots World intimate that the band "achieves near perfection as they go further afield without leaving the ancient muse behindhand". In an early 1990s interview, Eden explained Groupa 's objective when he said, "each of us has in his own way been searching for unexampled means of expression within the range of traditional euphony. Having deep noesis of these old methods has tending us a ensure base from which to explore newfangled aesthetic possibilities".


Groupa's innovational level-headed has made them extremely popular in their fatherland. Their albums, Manskatt, released in 1991, and Imeland, released in 1996, received Swedish Grammy awards. In 1992, Eden was appointed "composer of the class" at the Musik Vid Siljian fete. Eden has balanced his participation with Groupa by playing with the Nordic Project and as a soloist.


Several other members of Groupa accept gone on to do with first-rate Swedish folk-rock bands. Lena Willemark and Ale Moller stay on to recreate with Frifot and the Nordan Project, a group that as well features Mats Eden. Lute and guitar participant Totte Mattson is a initiation fellow member of Hedningarna. Gustav Hylen performs with Hoven Droven.


The backbone of Groupa continues to be Mats Eden. A native of Varmland, Sweden, a small town near the border with Norway, Eden studied authorship at Musikhoyskole (the Norwegian Academy of Music) in Oslo. In 1979, Eden was named Riksspelman (master player).


Groupa went through a drastic personnel alteration, in 1990, when Matteson, Willemark and fipple pipe and basso clarinet role player Bill McChesney left hand the band. The stream mathematical group features Eden, flute and basso sax role player Jonas Simonson, keyboardist Rikard Astrom, percussionist Terje Tsungset and beautiful vocalist Sofia Karlsson.





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Geoff Whitehorn

   
Artist: Geoff Whitehorn

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Blues Turnarounds (tab and backtracks)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 2


   
 Funky Lead

   Year:    
Tracks: 3


   
 Blues Minor

   Year:    
Tracks: 2

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Geoff Whitehorn was born in 1951. He began playing guitar at the age of 11. His number one real band formed in 1973 -- a grouping called If. He released a solo album, entitled Whitehorn, the succeeding year. 1975 saw Whitehorn touring with Maggie Bell. He joined the group Back Street Crawler (later known just as Crawler) in 1976. He remained with that group until they stone-broke up in 1979. His succeeding be active was to the Shortlist. He stayed with that group from 1979 to 1988 and recorded x albums with them during his tenure. 1990 saw the release of his arcsecond solo album, Geoff Who. He as well joined Bad Company that same year, staying with them until 1991. After departure that group, Whitehorn moved on to Procol Harum. This affiliation has not, however, prevented him from labor other projects. In fact, in 1994 he released another solo record album, Big in Gravesend. He as well joined up with Roger Daltrey that same year. Add to that the fact that he has been playing with Paul Rodgers since 1974, doing multiple albums with Roger Chapman, and did a read with the Who in 1996, and one tush well see how officious this man really is.





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