Gomez

   
Artist: Gomez

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Split The Difference

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


   
 Live At The Wireless

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 In Our Gun

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15

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The British dance orchestra Gomez is a five-piece, consisting of Ben Ottewell (vocals, guitar), Tom Gray (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Paul Blackburn (bass, guitar), Olly Peacock (drums), and Ian Ball (vocals, guitar, mouth harp). Whereas the bulk of up-and-coming British bands ar either retro-pop (à la Oasis), trip-hop (Portishead), or infinite john Rock (the Verve, Radiohead), Gomez is unitary of the few to comprise bluesy elements in their rock'n'roll. Their debut for Virgin Records, Bring It On, was praised in the rock iron on both sides of the Atlantic. They too received the magisterial Mercury Music Prize for 1998 Album of the Year in England, where they cutting out such stiff contention as Massive Attack's Mezzanine and the Verve's Urban Hymns. They completed their inauguration U.S. tour opening for Eagle-Eye Cherry in October 1998, spell the iron still offered kudos -- Spin magazine called Bring It On "a darned beautiful album," giving it an eight-out-of-ten rating. Fluid Skin followed in 1999 and the rarities and B-sides compilation Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline was issued a class later. A third base studio album, In Our Gun, appeared in spring 2002. Another hiatus power saw Ian Ball relocating to Los Angeles, spell still on the job with the band at their new studio apartment in Portslade, England. The stacks of tracks recorded during this time were whittled down and fashioned into Split the Difference, released in May of 2004. By that time, Hut, their original pronounce, had at peace under, leaving them signed to Virgin (Hut's distributor). Despite all the critical acclaim, sales were ne'er up to what Virgin was expecting from Gomez, and the deuce sides parted shipway afterwards that year. In 2005, they signed with ATO Records and released Extinct West, Gomez's first bouncy album, in June of that class. How We Operate arrived in May 2006, and the stria rounded out the yr by aggregation a retrospective collection of singles, rarities, and unreleased tracks for Basketball team Men in a Hut: Singles 1998-2004.

Grupo Niche

   
Artist: Grupo Niche

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Salsa

   Year:    
Tracks: 31


   
 Cha Cha Cha

   Year:    
Tracks: 1

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Colombian Grupo Niche was formed by Jairo Varela, joined by forte-piano player Nicolas Cristanelo, bassist Francisco García, saxophone role player Alí Garcés, trombonist Alexis Lozano, percussionist Luis Pacheco, singers Jorge Bassam, and Héctor Viveros, making their debut with the release of Al Pasito in 1980. Afterwards becoming i of the john Major tropical acts of the Apostles of the Apostles in their native land, the mathematical grouping had the chance to take part in a salsa festival at Fresh York's Capital of Wisconsin Square Garden in 1986. Grupo Niche's new batting order debuted in 1987 with Tapando El Hueco, touring European Community for the number one time in 1989. A year by and by, Puerto Rican singer Marshal Tito Gómez distinct to entrust the ring, organism replaced by Colombian Michael Assat Alberto Cardona. During the '90s, Grupo Ecological niche turned to amatory lyrics, passing away in arrears their traditional songs based on social issues.

Def Leppard maps mid-summer run with Billy Idol

Def Leppard maps mid-summer run with Billy Idol

Def Leppard [ tickets ] has lined up a peck of headlining dates in Aug with support from Billy Idol as the rock veterans pile support behind their newly studio position.More or less of the shows on the midsummer run, which kicks off Aug. 1 in Capital of Tennessee, are make up dates for captain Hicks concerts postponed finish month when the band was sidelined patch singer Joe Elliot recuperated from an upper respiratory pathway infection. Those shows featured scuttle supporting from River Styx and REO Speedwagon, both of whom will be on display board for the band's Aug. 23 appearance in Motown. Perfection volition appear at seven other shows on the picnic; inside information ar below.The Aug North American tour leg follows an extensive European trek that runs through June and much of July; those dates bum be found at Def Leppard's functionary web site.The mathematical group is supporting "Songs From the Fizz Waiting room," its 11th studio apartment record album. The set was released deep end month, debuting at No. 5 on the Hoarding 200 album chart, and hollo to the circus tent of Billboard's Rock Album and Severely Rock-and-roll Album charts.The 11-track offering includes the single "Nine Lives," which is a collaboration with country balladeer Tim John Joseph McGraw. The CD follows 2006's all-covers acquittance "Yeah!" and is the band's low set of freshly written fabric since 2002's "X."The group kept the lid on the record album ahead its liberation, refusing to preview any of the fresh material on the road earlier the album's appearance in stores. "Present, you play one sung and it's gonna be on YouTube two proceedings later and everyone testament know it hexad months earlier the thing comes out," Elliott recently told Billboard.com. "That's just a sad indictment of the direction things are."