Racer X

   
Artist: Racer X

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Live At The Whisky - Snowball Of Doom

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Getting Heavier

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Superheroes

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Super Heroes

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Technical Difficulties

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Extreme Volume Live 2

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


   
 Extreme Volume Live

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 12


   
 Street Lethal

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 11


   
 Second Heat

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10

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This Los Angeles dance orchestra earned a reputation for melodic, proficient, fabulously high-speed rock. Their original lineup featured Paul Gilbert (guitar), Jeff Martin (vocals), John Alderete (bass), and Harry Gschoesser (drums). Scott Travis replaced Gschoesser in 1986, when Bruce Bouillet was added as a second guitar player, offset a stop considered to be the band's best. Gilbert left in 1988 to join Mr. Big, and the dance orchestra broke up before long after, with Bouillet pursuing a solo life history. Martin afterwards joined Badlands as a drummer.

Mogwai Announce North American Tour Dates

Scotland's Mogwai have announced several North American tour dates in support of their forthcoming Batcat Ep, due on September 9th.

The monolithic quintet are expected to tour from coast to coast taking in major cities including New York, Dallas and San Francisco. Canada, meanwhile, will be treated to shows in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montreal. The excellently-titled Fuck Buttons will tour in support eager to capitalise on their blog-hero status.

The tour dates are as follows:

Sep 3 - Portland, Music Fest NW

Sep 4 - Seattle, Showbox SoDo

Sep 5 - British Columbia, Element Victoria

Sep 6 - Vancouver, Commodore Ballroom

Sep 8 - San Francisco, The Grand Ballroom

Sep 9 - Los Angeles, Wiltern Theatre

Sep 10 - Tuscon, The Rialto

Sep 12 - Austin, Stubbs Waller Creek

Sep 13 - Dallas, Granada Theatre

Sep 15 - Atlanta, Variety Playhouse

Sep 16 - Virginia, The National Richmond

Sep 17 - Washington, 9:30 Club Washington

Sep 18 - New York, Terminal 5

Sep 19 - Philidelphia, Starlight Ballroom

Sep 21 - New York, ATP

Sep 22 - Boston, Wilbur Theatre

Sep 23 - Montreal, Metropolis

Sep 25 - Pontiac, The Crofoot

Sep 26 - Chicago, Congress Theatre

Sep 27 - Minneapolis, First Avenue

Mogwai have had a busy start to the year, remastering and reissuing their seminal debut "Mogwai Young Team" while recording their next record "The Hawk Is Howling" which is also due in September 2008. Several new songs were previewed at a recent Glasgow gig, with track titles including "Scotland's Shame", "Thank You Space Expert" and "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead".

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan moves to 'Shanghai'

Joins cast that includes John Cusack, Ken Watanabe

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is heading to Asia for his next film project.


The "Supernatural" regular has inked a deal to appear in the Weinstein Co.'s period piece "Shanghai" alongside John Cusack and Ken Watanabe.


Morgan plays Connor, an American killed in Japanese-occupied Shanghai before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Cusack's Paul Soames sets out to investigate his friend's murder and discovers a larger secret that the government is hiding.


Mikael Hafstrom ("1408") is directing from a script by Hossein Amini ("The Four Feathers").


Phoenix's Mike Medavoy and Barry Mendel are producing, with Arnie Messer exec producing. The film is in production in Thailand.


Morgan is repped by WMA and Rob Gomez.

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Ludacris - Ludacris Tommy Lee Plan Shower Record Bid

Rapper LUDACRIS and rocker TOMMY LEE are hoping to set a new world record for the biggest group shower as part of a new environmental awareness TV series.

The odd couple is getting serious about all things green on upcoming U.S. show Battleground Earth - but they're taking time out to have a little fun in Las Vegas.

Ludacris and Lee are inviting fans to join them at the Planet Hollywood Resort + Casino pool on 19 May (08) for a bid on the clean record.

But the two hellraisers are keen to keep the shower a family affair - and they've asked that all those hoping to take part bring and wear a bathing suit.

Lee and Ludacris hope the stunt will also raise awareness about water conservation.

The two stars are travelling around America raising awareness about the environment and checking out the measures some eco-warriors are taking to save the planet as part of the Planet Green network show.

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Blues Traveler rolls out summer tour plans

Blues/jam-rockers Blues Traveler [ tickets ] have lined up a run of summer dates as the band continues to support last year's "Cover Yourself," a set of newly recorded old favorites.The group kicks off the next portion of its schedule May 17 in Grand Ronde, OR, southwest of Portland. The itinerary, a mix of headlining and festival dates, features several co-headlining shows in July with Live and Collective Soul, and includes the group's traditional Fourth of July appearance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. The complete schedule is included below.The Grammy-winning band's "Cover Yourself" is a mostly acoustic affair that features new takes on the group's old songs, and the tracklist was chosen via fan voting. According to lead vocalist/harmonica virtuoso John Popper, the band is also working on material for a new studio album."We're making two [albums] right now," Popper told music website Ultimate-Guitar.com last year. "One we wanted to write, and one [is the] acoustic covers album ['Cover Yourself.'] ... I left the band alone to work on it and they started writing completely new arrangements for the [old] songs. The band's most recent set of original studio material was 2005's "Bastardos!"--its eighth studio album and first for Vanguard Records. The set was produced by solo artist and ex-Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett.

Ewan Mcgregor - The Things They Say 8422

"You only have what you can carry. There is something liberating about just having what you need, on your bike. A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank, and a vague idea of where you're going." EWAN MCGREGOR on the thrill of motorbiking from Scotland to South Africa for his LONG WAY DOWN TV series.

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Valhalla

   
Artist: Valhalla

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Hail To The Fallen Majesty

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Winterbastard

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Wolfish Nocturne (Demo)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9

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Valhalla is a symphonic rock-and-roll ring world Health Organization recorded ane record for United Artists. Mark Mangold, now a storied AOR figure, played keyboards with this Long Island unit world Health Organization performed local gigs until management pushed the group to compose original material to frame a transcription press. Here the offspring Mangold honed his songwriting chops piece development a love for synths and mellotons which he would carry into his succeeding dance band, American Tears. American Tears evolved into Touch and Mangold besides formed Drive, She Said and has worked with Aldo Nova, Randy Jackson, and many others. He wrote Cher's fake alloy boom "I Found Someone" with Michael Bolton.