Matt Nathanson

   
Artist: Matt Nathanson

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Some Mad Hope

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12

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An impressive 12-string guitar player and songwriter, San Francisco's Matt Nathanson has built up a loyal fan root through extensive touring. His alive shows are stripped-down affairs, usually with just Nathanson and violoncellist Matt Fish onstage, and are half medicine, half standup comedy, with the humour reconciliation out the often heartsick self-contemplation of the songs. Nathanson has released four self-governing albums, Please (1993), Max Ernst (1997), Non Colored Too Perfect (1998), and Soundless Waiting for Spring (1999), as well as an EP, When Everything Meant Everything (2002). His major-label debut, To a lower place These Fireworks, was released by Universal Records in 2003, produced by Ron Aiello, and was followed four years by and by by Some Mad Hope. Nathanson's songs feature too been featured on several telecasting shows, including Dawson's Creek, Smallville, and Road Rules.





Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall

Nailbomb

   
Artist: Nailbomb

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Metal: Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Proud Commit Comercial Suicide

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 Point Blank

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13

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Nailbomb was a brief contrive between ex-Sepultura singer/guitarist Max Cavalera and ex-Fudge Tunnel singer/guitarist Alex Newport. Although both of the bandmembers' full-time bands specialized in extreme metal sounds, Nailbomb somehow found a elbow room to create even more dense and harsh metallic sounds (it too proves to be more repetitive, with the odd sample and brake drum machine detected here and in that respect). In addition to the duo, most of Cavalera's then-bandmates from Sepultura (guitar player Andreas Kisser and drummer Igor Cavalera) and Fear Factory guitar player Dino Cazares made particular guest appearances on Nailbomb's debut recording for Roadrunner Records, 1994's Point Blank, patch the group's last release, 1995's Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, featured appearances from former Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro, Biohazard bassist Evan Seinfeld, and Front Line Assembly/Fear Factory keyboardist Rhys Fulber. Since their soph release, little has been heard from Nailbomb, as Cavalera returned back to Sepultura (later going away the chemical group to form Soulfly) and Newport began producing other hard rock candy artists (including At the Drive-In, Samiam, and Will Haven, among others).

Austrian abductee Kampusch turns TV chat show host

VIENNA (Reuters) - Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who spent eight years locked in a windowless cell after being abducted in Vienna, turns TV chat show host on Sunday when her debut program airs on national television.


In "Natascha Kampusch meets..." Kampusch, whose case returned to the spotlight after revelations that another Austrian woman spent 24 years locked in a cellar, interviews former Austrian motor racing star Niki Lauda, who comments they have both had extreme lives.


"Of course I have realized I will always be different, but what I have experienced hasn't affected me in the way people think," Kampusch tells Lauda in the pre-recorded show which was screened to journalists on Friday.


The first of six episodes of the monthly chat show is to be broadcast at prime time on the private PULS 4 channel.


Snatched on her way to school aged 10, Kampusch was held in a cell beneath a house garage from 1998 until her dash to freedom in 2006. Her captor committed suicide after her escape.


Interest in 20-year-old Kampusch's psychological well-being and adjustment to freedom has only intensified since the case of Elisabeth Fritzl came to light.


Fritzl was held by her own father for 24 years in a windowless prison and bore him seven children, three of whom shared her captivity.


The family are now under careful supervision in a hospital and have chosen so far to avoid the media despite massive public interest. 

Sophie B. Hawkins

   
Artist: Sophie B. Hawkins

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Tongues and Tails

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11

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