Mr. Big: Still a Lady Killer

Mr. Big had a string of bad qualities -- commitment issues, emotionally unavailable, not as hot as Aidan -- but there isn't a negative thing we can say about the guy who plays him, Chris Noth, and his interaction with his DC fans.






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Invincible

   
Artist: Invincible

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 Sound Of Habib (SOHR014)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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UMG inks Asia deal with Disney Music Group

Digital formats included in distribution deal





Universal is the Disney Music Group's new licensee for Asia, excluding Japan.
Under the terms of the agreement, announced Tuesday by Universal Music Group, UMG will market and distribute Disney product in both physical and digital formats in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, effective immediately. India will be included in the agreement, with effect from October.
The new deal follows a license pact Universal announced in March with Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records for the release of the Jonas Brothers' self-titled album in Europe.
"Disney artists and music create excitement wherever they go, and Asia is no exception," said UMG International Asia-Pacific region president Max Hole in a statement issued Tuesday. "We're pleased to partner with the Disney Music Group in Asia, and our team throughout the region is looking forward to spreading the excitement even farther."
David Agnew, president of Walt Disney Records and executive vp and GM of Disney Music Group, added, "We are pleased to expand our excellent business relationship with UMG into the Asian marketplace and feel confident that we will do great things together there."
Disney's previous licensee in the region was EMI. EMI is understood to retain the Disney catalog business in the U.K. and Europe, including the best-selling "High School Musical" albums, and other projects, including "Camp Rock." EMI continues to serve as licensee for Disney and Hollywood in Australia and New Zealand.
EMI also has a nonexclusive relationship with Hollywood Records for Europe, covering releases by Plain White T's and Jesse McCartney.

Christie Leo reported from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Lars Brandle reported from London.

Goo Goo Dolls

   
Artist: Goo Goo Dolls

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Dizzy Up The Girl

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 A Boy Named Goo

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13

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Early in their life history, Buffalo natives the Goo Goo Dolls were often discharged by critics as mere imitators of the Replacements; however, the isthmus refined and mainstreamed their legal sufficiency to become of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the '90s, selling millions of records to audiences mostly unfamiliar with their inspirations. That's no criticize on the isthmus, either -- their music just improved in craft and approachability as the eld progressed, and radio happened to be receptive to what a ten earlier would sustain been considered collegial top executive toss off. Thus, the band landed two huge hits with the acoustic ballads "Discover" and "Iris."


The Goo Goo Dolls were formed in Buffalo, NY, in 1985 by guitarist/vocalist Johnny Rzeznik, bassist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska, ab initio under the diagnose the Sex Maggots (the new diagnose was chosen from an ad in True Detective cartridge clip at the behest of a local lodge owner). Originally a cover isthmus with a taste for power pop and definitive rock & roll, the group presently began piece of writing its own songs. Their early sound recalled the Replacements' origins as a bratty tinder banding (circa Drab Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash) -- musical, snot-nosed, and a little bit thrashy. That sound was the reasonableness the banding attracted the interest of the heavy metallic element label Metal Blade, which issued their debut album in 1987 (known either as The Goo Goo Dolls or First Release). 1989's Jed continued in a similar vein; the college radio breakthrough came with 1990's Hold Me Up, a Replacements-ish power pop record.


1993's Maven Car Wash was the Goo Goo Dolls' artistic find; though it did aught to squelch the Replacements comparisons, it was a finely crafted pop/rock platter, and its lead single, "We Are the Normal," was co-written with Replacements leader Paul Westerberg himself. Still, Mavin Car Wash wasn't the commercial force the banding hoped it would be, especially in light of the success of similar bands like the Gin Blossoms. That all changed with 1995's A Boy Named Goo, when an L.A. rock station put the acoustic-driven lay "Nominate" into heavy rotation. It was finally released as a single countrywide, and went Top Five late in the year; pt gross revenue for the album followed close behind. Unfortunately, drummer Tutuska was no yearner around to enjoy the band's succeeder; prior to the album's outlet, he'd been pillaged and replaced by drummer Mike Malinin.


Disgruntled with the royal family rates in their Metal Blade contract, the banding waged a legal battle that wound up allowing them to jump-start to parent ship's company Warner Brothers. Somewhat drained, Rzeznik and the band shook off a vitrine of writer's block to add the ballad "Iris" to the soundtrack of the 1998 Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan latinian language Urban center of Angels. Appearing that April, the song was a monster smash, although it was never released as a single (so its official Top Ten pop chart status doesn't convey how popular it was); for a better indicator, "Iris" spent nearly a yr on Billboard's airplay charts, including an amazing 18 weeks at number one, and was nominative for three Grammys. The band's following album, Dizzy Up the Girl, was released in September, during the midsection of "Flag"'s marathon airplay run, and sold over trey million copies. Its clean, refined good completed the Goo Goo Dolls' transformation into mainstream pop/rockers world Health Organization happened to have alternate roots. Further hits from the record followed o'er the following year, including "Swoop," "Dizzy," and the Grammy-nominated "Bootleg Balloon," and the band toured heavily in support. The Goo Goo Dolls revamped their sound for 2001's life history retrospective, Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce. A year later, the trio strike the charts with "Here Is Gone" from their one-seventh studio album, Gutterflower. The CD/DVD combo Live in Buffalo: July 4, 2004 helped fans suffer the prospicient wait for the band's adjacent studio album, Permit Love In, which didn't appear until 2006.

Kid606 vs Dalek

   
Artist: Kid606 vs Dalek

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Ruin It

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6

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Britney Spears Let Off Paparazzi Foot Injury Charges

Frog Eyes

   
Artist: Frog Eyes

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Tears of Valedictorian

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Future Is Inter-Disciplinary Or Not At All EP

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


   
 The Folded Palm

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Golden River

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11

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Victoria, British Columbia, quartet Frog Eyes are the antithesis of their still Canadian settlement. Utilizing the carnival atmosphere of Rain Dogs-era Tom Waits, the phrenetic vigor of vintage Cramps, and the diabolical scheming of pre-Bump off Ballads Nick Cave, the post-punk corporate created an atmosphere of psychedelic uneasiness with their 2002 full-length debut, The Bloody Hand. Lead vocalizer Carey Mercer, world Health Organization mined interchangeable territories in his previous group, Blue Pine, leads the indie rock ensemble, which as well includes Melanie Campbell, Grayson Walker, and Michael Rak. In 2003, after the vital success of Hand, the group released the enigmatical Golden River on the Animal World label, resulting in some other flurry of raves and a fresh minted fan base. They signed to Absolutely Kosher the following year and released their strongest book to date, the explosive and magnetic Folded Palm, as well as the lo-fi acoustic EP Ego Scriptor. 2006 saw the freeing of Bloody Hand, once more on Absolutely Kosher, followed by Tears of the Valedictorian in 2007.

Hardcell

   
Artist: Hardcell

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 Covak

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


   
 Vortac

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 Soar Vinyl

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


   
 Skunk #3

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4

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Magic Numbers

   
Artist: Magic Numbers

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Undecided Ep

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 6


   
 Those the Brokes

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13

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Snoop Dogg, Nas, Cory Gunz See Nothing Wrong With Shaquille O'Neal's Anti-Kobe Freestyle

Shaquille O'Neal hasn't rapped in public much over the past few years, but when he does, he makes an impact. (Remember his mixtape back-and-forth with Skillz a few years back?)

And on Monday, footage of him throwing some playful jabs at Kobe Bryant consumed the headlines. "Last week, Kobe couldn't do it without me," Shaq rapped about his former teammate's failed run at the NBA title. (See what the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust had to say about Shaq's rhymes here.)

Snoop Dogg, one of the biggest Lakers fans in the world, called up the Nutz in the Morning radio show in Phoenix on Tuesday (June 24) to give his take on the freestyle.

"I love it, because it only makes for a great game on the court," Snoop told the hosts. "Both of them is rappers; they tried rapping before. They know ain't no rules when it comes to rapping. Shaq has all access and the right to do and say what he wants to say in fun, in the spirit of rap."

On Monday night, TMZ cameramen caught up to Nas, and the Queens MC gruffly said that he didn't see Shaq's freestyle — but he rode with O'Neal nonetheless.

"I heard about it. Shaq is my man — f--- Kobe," he said, with wife Kelis in the background talking to her friends. "Big up to Shaq."

The big guy himself said the rap was all in fun. "I'm totally cool with Kobe. No issue at all," Shaq told ESPN.com on Monday afternoon. "I was freestyling. That's all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever. ... That is what MCs do. They freestyle when called upon."

Well, if you don't believe Shaq's explanation, a member of his inner circle is backing him up. He might not be that familiar to sports fans who don't follow rap closely, but hip-hop fans recognized Cory Gunz as the young man onstage with Shaq in the infamous video of his live freestyle.

"That was on my birthday on Sunday," Cory, son of rapper Peter Gunz, told MTV News on Tuesday. "It's all in fun. People thought he was doing it just to take shots at Kobe. He's not even thinking about [Kobe] like that. As a matter of fact, it's no bitterness towards Kobe at all. It was all done in fun to get the crowd hype. That's what real MCs do: get the crowd involved."

O'Neal and the Gunz family were celebrating for Cory at the Village Underground club in lower Manhattan when everyone started grabbing the mic.

"It was a few performers there," Gunz said. "My dad performed. He got on the set, gave me a birthday shout-out. I went up there and performed a couple of verses. After me, Shaquille came up on surprise mode. He was playing around, freestyling, joking around. All that stuff was off the top of his head. On his leisure time he does that. It's all done in fun. He sits around the house and freestyles. He snaps on me. That's what he does. That's Shaquille."

Cory said he has quite a few O'Neal rhymes in the stash waiting to hit the masses. "I got mixtapes with him getting ready to come out," Cory said. "Not a tape — tapes."

Before then, however, the young Gunz is focusing on restarting his solo career and introducing his rap crew, the Militia. "I'mma just put the music where my mouth is," the Bronx native insisted. "The next tape is coming out mid-July, titled The Best Kept Secret."

Gunz was the subject of a You Heard It First feature back in 2005 when the then-17-year old was lighting the mixtape circuit on fire with a string of street-CD and -DVD appearances. With Tommy Mottola in his corner, Gunz signed a deal with Def Jam Records soon after, but his time on the label was fruitless ("Things didn't work out as planned," he said. "No bad feelings. We left on good terms). He was recently granted a release and is hearing offers for a new label home.

Wherever he lands, he'll have the NBA's Man of Steel supporting him. "Shaquille is involved in everything," he said. "He's been helping for years. He's my god-dad. That's my peoples."

Gunz caught back on fire a few weeks ago with his performance over Lil' Wayne's "A Milli" beat. The track was originally planned to be one of several interludes on Weezy's Tha Carter III. Tyga, Hurricane Chris and Lil Mama were among those who were supposed to give their interpretations of "A Milli" as well.

"I was in the house. I had spoken to Wayne a couple of weeks prior when he sent me the record," he remembered. "I was talking to him about a couple things, and he said, 'You know what, I got you.' "

A month later, Wayne's management sent the instrumental for "A Milli."

"I got a slew of mixtapes coming out. I'm still working on my album. I'm about to go real hard," he said. "Everybody better watch their back."






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T.Monk, S.Rollins, E.Henrc.Terry

   
Artist: T.Monk, S.Rollins, E.Henrc.Terry

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Brilliant Corners

   Year: 1956   
Tracks: 5

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John Tesh

Dirty Three

   
Artist: Dirty Three

   Genre(s): 
Easy Listening
   Alternative
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Cinder

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 19


   
 She Has No Strings Apollo

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Whatever You Love You Are

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


   
 Lowlands

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 8


   
 Ocean Songs

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Horse Story

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 7

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Melancholy instrumental trio Dirty Three formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1992, lED by classically-trained fiddler Warren Ellis, wHO began writing and playing medicine for art openings and plays and also tenured in the groups Blackeyed Susans, Paranoid and the Nursing Mothers. After recruitment Blackeyed Susans' guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White -- veterans of Melbourne bands including the Sick Things, the Moodists, Fungus Brain and Venom P. Stinger -- Ellis formed the Dirty Three; at the group's debut functioning, he exploited a safe band to attach a guitar pickup to his violin, giving the instrument a distorted, feedback-drenched sense far distant from its original sound. Recorded as a demonstration, the trio's debut Sad & Dangerous appeared in 1994; subsequent tours in support of Pavement, Sonic Youth and John Cale helped succeed the Dirty Three a deal with the Touch & Go label, which issued a 1995 eponymous effort and 1996's acclaimed Buck Stories. In 1998, the Dirty Three resurfaced with Ocean Songs; Whatsoever You Love, You Are followed deuce days by and by. That February, the Dirty Three storied their tenth anniversary and headed back into the studio. Initially, the triplet had recorded songs for a follow-up to Whatsoever You Love, You Are in early 2001, nevertheless the songs were scrapped. White went on to tour with Smog and Will Oldham. Turner founded his possess label, King Crab Records, and worked with Marquis de Tren. Ellis linked his dude couple Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds for a monumental public tour in spring 2002. Somewhere in on that point, the Dirty Three reconvened with producer Fabrice Lor. Lor is foreman of Prohibited Records and recorded section of the soundtrack to Amelie. Together, he and the Dirty Three arrived with the enigmatic, grim album She Has No Strings Apollo in February 2003. Cinder, which features appearances


by Cat Power's Chan Marshall and Sally Timms from the Mekons, followed deuce days by and by.