Brainbox

   
Artist: Brainbox

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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 To You

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 19

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GZA Takes 'Liquid Swords' On The Road, Preps New Album

Rasmus Faber feat. Emily McEwan

   
Artist: Rasmus Faber feat. Emily McEwan

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Ever After (Christian Alvarez Mixes)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4

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The Missing - Casey Affleck Reveals Importance Of Boston Background

Casey Affleck has explained that his Massachussetts childhood was crucial for his role in Gone Baby Gone.

The Dennis Lehane adaptation opens in the UK on Friday June 6th and sees Affleck as earnest private investigator Patrick Kenzie, charged with the finding of a missing four-year-old girl.

And with his character contracted by the missing girl's family as a link to the criminal underworld in Boston, the Oscar-nominated actor explained that his own roots were essential for taking the role.

"I had the advantage of having grown up in Boston, as it plays an important part in the movie," he explained when asked about his research methods before taking the part.

"The character had to fit in because Ben had cast a lot of non-actors from Boston and I think I would have had trouble had I not actually been from there."

Amy Ryan was Oscar-nominated for her role as the child's drug addict mother and Affleck paid tribute to her ability to inhabit the unsympathetic character.

"With Amy, it's a testament to what a good actress she is because she's not from the area but she more than fitted in," he said.

"She ended up epitomising the community by the end of the movie."

Gone Baby Gone is Affleck's brother Ben's feature directorial debut and its leading man said it was "exciting" to work alongside a family member.

"I knew that he would do a really good job," explained Casey Affleck.

"And I knew he had good taste!" he joked at his own casting.

Gone Baby Gone is released on June 6th.


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Ocean Marzen

   
Artist: Ocean Marzen

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Wyspa Lagodnosci

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11

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Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

   
Artist: Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 At the 2nd Fret

   Year: 1962   
Tracks: 10

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Brand Mubian

   
Artist: Brand Mubian

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Fire In The Hole

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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The Five Percent Nation of Islam was a popular inspiration for legion thinking-man's pat groups during the early '90s, and Brand Nubian was arguably the finest of the more militant crop. Although they were powerfully related to the Native Tongues posse in style and wakeless, they weren't technically members, and were less reserved about spotlighting their politics and religious belief. Their frankness light-emitting diode to arguing, on an even larger scale of measurement than similarly tending groups like the X-Clan or Poor Righteous Teachers, in part because Brand Nubian's plain musicality made them so listenable careless of what their messages were. The ballyhoo circumferent their strong-growing Afrocentrism sometimes overshadowed the playful and positive sides of their work, as comfortably as the undeniable virtuosity of lead MC Grand Puba's rhymes -- all showcased to charles Herbert Best effect on their highly acclaimed debut, 1 for All.


Brand Nubian was formed in 1989 in the New York suburban area of New Rochelle. Grand Puba (innate Maxwell Dixon) had previously recorded with a chemical group called Masters of Ceremony, and was linked by Sadat X (innate Derek Murphy, in the beginning dubbed Derek X), Lord Jamar (innate Lorenzo DeChalus), and DJ Alamo (Murphy's cousin). The chemical group signed with Elektra and released their debut album, All for One, in 1990. Most reviews were glowing, merely the stronger rhetoric on the album -- peculiarly the track "Drop the Bomb" -- drew fire from some living quarters, including some white person Elektra employees reluctant to promote what they saw as reversal racism. Ultimately, the hubbub didn't truly hurt Brand Nubian's career, merely neither did it produce a wider off with bulge out or R&B audiences, despite the high paying attention in which the singles "All for One," "Slow Down," and "Wake Up" are held. A far more serious blow was Grand Puba's deviation from the group in tardy 1991, outstanding to tensions that had arisen over his handling the lion's part of the rapping. Not only did Brand Nubian lose their light up focal point and gaffer producer, they likewise lost DJ Alamo, world Health Organization elective to continue working with Puba.


Puba released his solo debut, Reel to Reel, in 1992; in the meantime, Lord Jamar and Sadat X regrouped with DJ Sincere (innate Terrence Perry) and issued In God We Trust in 1993. It sold clean well, just missing the Top Ten on the R&B chart, and the individual "Punks Jump up to Get Beat Down" was something of a score, though it besides drew fire for its anti-gay slurs. In Puba's absence, the pro-Islam palaver grew stronger, with more explicit support for the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan. By the time of 1994's Everything Is Everything, they'd gotten out-and-out dogmatic, and critics who'd antecedently defended the group nowadays set up them difficult to stomach, both lyrically and musically.


In the wake of the frosty reception afforded Everything Is Everything, the left members of Brand Nubian drifted apart. Sadat X reunited with Grand Puba for "Toy It Cool," a track on the latter's second gear solo album; Sadat too released his solo debut, Raving mad Cowboys, in 1996, and afterwards guested on records by a new wave of underground hip-hoppers. Lord Jamar, in the meantime, stirred into production, and too landed a revenant role on HBO's prison drama Oz. In 1998, with a modern alternative tap movement gaining prominence, the original foursome members of Brand Nubian reunited for the Arista album Foundation, which received highly positive reviews. Grand Puba and Sadat X both afterwards returned to their solo careers, simply they returned with Jamar and Alamo for 2004's Fire in the Hole.





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Pilot Preview: CBS’ ‘The Mentalist’ Knows If You've Been Bad Or Good

Photo: David M. Russell/CBS
This week, Vulture's taking a look at the best and worst of the fall's new picked-up TV shows. Which are good? Can anything replace Cavemen? And, most important, what's worth a DVR season pass?

Title: The Mentalist

Stars: Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada), Robin Tunney, Amanda Righetti

Network: CBS, Tuesdays at 9 p.m.

The pitch: A onetime charlatan TV psychic utilizes his legitimate skills of intuition to become a gratingly effective/begrudgingly respected homicide detective.

Pilot report: Through flashbacks, we learn that Patrick Jane (Baker) abandoned his life as a high-paying television personality after his wife and child were brutally murdered by notorious serial killer Red John. Now Jane’s part of a unit along with the no-bs chief Teresa Lisbon (Tunney), a naïve rookie (Righetti), and two comic-relief-y bumbling-cop types. When golf pro Price Randolph’s wife and personal doctor are found dead, it appears Red John’s at it again.



Representative dialogue:
Bereaved mother of murder victim: “You can’t help me … what do you know?”
Jane: (soft chuckle) "All sorts of things. You really only pretend to like skiing, right?"

Breakout star: Baker, we suppose, who is legitimately charming as a smirking know-it-all. But we’re guessing it’ll be tough for him to stay so thanks to the show’s awkward dips between a light and dark tone.

Worth a season pass?: Nah, sorry. Baker does what he can, but the “shocking revelations” are clunky and the show drags. Also not a good sign: The pilot’s climactic scene actually involves the ol’ Jackie Chan–style “throw something in the face of the guy who’s pointing a gun at you and then run the other way” move.
—Amos Barshad