Highly anticipated debut album from Sri Lankan born but London based M.I.A. (aka Maya Arulpragasam). Last year's singles Galang & Sunshowers picked up stacks of radio airplay as has current single ' Pull Up The People'.M.I.A. was one of the hits of the recent SXSW festival in the USA & has just signed a deal for North America with Interscope. M.I.A.'s sound has been described as " Uncompromising & provocative" (Harpers & Queens), Shaking Up Hip Hop (Interview Mag) & " Fuses hip hop ...

Personnel: DJ Ability (scratches); The Wilcannia Mob. Additional personnel: Afrikan Boy, Timbal&. Even before M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) debuted in 2005 with ARULAR, the blogosphere was already abuzz about her, engaging in the kind of discourse normally reserved for academic dissertations. Whether hailed as a canny postmodern pastiche or dismissed as inauthentic cultural pirating, the music, a lively pan-global mash-up of regional dance music styles, seemed to be emanating simultaneously f ...

The first offering from S.O.D. (Stormtroopers of Death) vocalist Billy Milano's M.O.D. (Methods of Destruction), U.S.A for M.O.D. follows the S.O.D. formula with precision. The music on this debut is similar to the N.Y. hardcore-influenced metal made famous by Anthrax (with whom M.O.D. had close ties). Milano doesn't seem to be taking things very seriously on this recording (or many others for that matter), which is a good thing, because otherwise his lyrics could be considered insensitive at be ...

Recorded with Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Suede) & Ewan Pearson (Tracey Thorn, The Rapture, Ladytron) Saturdays = Youth delivers the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known this time with a more focused approach to song structure & form. For M83's chief star-gazer Anthony Gonzalez, his youth is something he looks back upon with affection, something that has become the defining theme of his enchanting new album, Saturdays= Youth. ...

Personnel
Includes:: Maceo Parker (alto saxophone, background vocals); Kym Mazelle (vocals); Vincent Henry (alto saxophone,
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Machine Head: Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel (guitar); Adam Duce (bass guitar); Dave Mc Clain (drums). More than a decade into their tenure of metal devastation, Machine Head turn to an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach on their seventh full-length, THE BLACKENING. A riveting aural cataclysm from start to finish, THE BLACKENING finds these West Coast monsters touching upon almost all recent genres of heavy metal--from stoner to thrash to industrial to death--usually all in the course of a singl ...

On THROUGH THE ASHES OF EMPIRES, Machine Head delivers another potent dose of the group's signature blend of late-1980s thrash & Pantera-inspired alt-metal. This time around, though, the band takes frequent musical interludes from the sonic onslaught--a tinkling toy piano provides " Left Unfinished" with a nicely eerie, horror-film intro, while " Wipe Away the Tears" features a Black Flag-style spoken rant. In a few places, the ordinarily pummeling juggernaut that is Machine Head even gets downr ...