Paramore's Hayley Williams

Paramore's Hayley Williams
Aint she just the cutest

evanescence lead singer Amy Lee

Kitty (the Entire Band)

Kitty (the Entire Band)

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Santana - The man



Delivered with a level of passion and soul equal to the legendary sonic charge of his guitar, the sound of Carlos Santana is one of the world's best-known musical signatures. For more than four decades – from Santana's earliest days as a groundbreaking Afro-Latin-blues-rock fusion outfit in San Francisco – Carlos has been the visionary force behind artistry that transcends musical genres, generational, cultural and geographical boundaries.


Long before the category now known as "world music" was named, Santana's ever-evolving sound has always been ahead of its time in its universal appeal, and today registers as ideally in sync with the 21st century's pan-cultural landscape. And, with a dedication to humanitarian outreach and social activism that parallels his lifelong relationship with music, Carlos Santana is as much an exemplary world citizen as a global music icon.

Carlos Santana's current project is Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through The Hits, a musical retrospective created in partnership with AEG Live exclusively for the new Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Santana will be the first act to hold a residency at the spectacular, newly-expanded venue, and the band will perform 72 times at the Joint over the course of 2009 and 2010. The show, debuting in May '09, includes Santana numbers ranging from "Jingo" — the group's first-ever charting single — and early classics including "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" through the Supernatural "Smooth" years and the group's most recent hit, 2008's "Into the Night."

Carlos' influence and idealism is also felt in the groundbreaking new project Architects of a New Dawn (www.aoand.com), a multi-platform media enterprise and social network designed to empower like-minded people from all walks of life to create positive change in the global community. The project grew out of a vision Carlos has been developing for almost 20 years to engage his worldwide audience with extraordinary music, progressive media content and transformational ideas. It is all in the service of building — architecting — a new reality for the planet based on inspiration, creativity, love and forgiveness.

Santana's star arrived in the era-defining late '60s San Francisco Bay area music scene with historic shows at the Fillmore and other venues. They emerged onto the global stage with an epic set at Woodstock '69, the same year that their self-titled debut LP came out. Introducing Santana's first Top 10 hit, "Evil Ways," the disc stayed on Billboard's album chart for 2 years, and was soon followed by two more classics — and Billboard #1 albums — Abraxas and Santana III.

Forty years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 90 million records and reached over 100 million fans at concerts around the globe. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY® Awards and two Latin GRAMMYs. Among them are a bevy for 1999's Supernatural — which has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide — including GRAMMYs for Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Smooth." In 1998, the group was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, whose web page on their induction notes, "Guitarist Carlos Santana is one of rock's true virtuosos and guiding lights." Among many other honors, Carlos Santana has also been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time," and #90 on their 2005 survey of the "100 Greatest Artists Of All Time."

Most recently, Carlos Santana is the recipient of the Billboard Latin Music Awards' 2009 Lifetime Achievement honor (he also received Billboard's Century Award in 1996), and the music of Santana has been celebrated with two album retrospectives. Multi-Dimensional Warrior (Columbia/Arista/Legacy, 2008) is a career-spanning 2-CD anthology presenting 28 selections hand-picked by Carlos, who calls the project, "a love letter to the fans." Divided between tracks with vocals and instrumental compositions, it emphasizes album cuts and personal favorites that evoke the band's hypnotic musical power and give deeper insight into its complex creative journey. The set follows up 2007's Ultimate Santana, the only single-disc collection uniting hits from the group's recent albums for Arista and classics from their Columbia years.

As profound as his artistic legacy is Carlos' dedication to humanitarian work. His Milagro Foundation, originally established by Carlos and Deborah Santana in 1998, has granted more than three million dollars to non-profit programs supporting underserved children and youth in the areas of arts, education and health. Milagro means "miracle," and the image of children as divine miracles of light and hope — as gifts to our lives — is the inspiration behind its name.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Rock News Featuren - 22 of Rocktober


Mettalica Issued a statment on tuesday asking for help in locating a missing fan. Here is what they had to say: We are deeply concerned about the disapearance of 20 year old Virginia Tech Student Morgan Dana Harrington, who was last seen while attending our concert, HA-HA forgive me but maybe I didnt get the Memo? since when does Mettallica give a F#@$ I mean come on now the guy was at a rock concert, he is probably passed out somewhere sleeping off his hangover, not that Im not concerned, I mean since when does Mettalica have 20 year old fans? final verdict? Publicity is GOLD well done boys

The Twisted Bucket List

I often watch movies just to relax and waste time, which usually leads to repeats, the other day I watched the bucket list, a movie about a list of things to do before you die, and I thought, "yeah what a concept I could use a little fuel myself" haha no this isint a smashmouth sing along, I thought how silly it was that all the hardcore things arent on the list, all the things everyone wants to do but no one has the guts to admit, no one exept me and the capital city that is. So here is my Bucket List with a Twist.

1. Ram into someone that cuts infront of me in the traffic
2. buy a drink and then spill it on someone elses' new expensive suit ( Sean the producer of the drive show had this happen to him, what a doosh)
3. apply for a job and then once I get it wipe my behind with the employment contract
4. punch slow walking people in the back of the head
5. take my neighbors copy of kurt darren and put it in the microwave
6. be the guy that sees a random hot woman in the street and actaully grabs her breast

Here is what some of the capital city want to do before they die!

1. Ek wil op julius malema se bonet pis! - Ryno
2. I would love to steal something really valuable - Kelly
3.Friends House party. Arrive. Rufee dad, nail mom. Leave - Anon

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Rock News 4th October 2009



If you didn’t know, U2 are currently busy with their 360 world tour which is set to run well into 2010 but sources at the Edge have informed me that the band plans to bring out their next album “sooner rather than later.” The album will be called Songs Of Ascent. The bands Guitarist told the media that it will feature some songs from the past that they just never got around to finishing.
Ozzy Osbounre has told sources that his families MTV reality show was an experiment that went wildly out of control, the show often showed a very confused domestic life with wild outbursts from the family members, it also introduced Ozzy to many new fans to which Ozzy responded by saying that the attention was “really creepy.” I think from my side watching Ozzy try to wrap his head around crazy tasks like using a TV remote was also “really creepy.”

Rob Zombie is set to bring out a new album on November 17th (yippee!) like all fan loving artists he has been good enough to give us a sneak peak by hooking up two tracks "Sick Bubblegum" and "What?" for our streaming pleasure. I had a listen to them earlier and I must say they sound pretty cool, the links and track listing are on my blog for you to check out.

Blue Bulls Move to Third on the Log


If you didn’t watch the game yesterday you are either not from Pretoria, a sharks supporter or dare I say it not a rugby fan. But for those of you who genuinely just didn’t get a chance to watch it, maybe if you were at rage for instance, I am going to do what I do every Sunday and that is recount the absolute awesomeness that is the blue bulls.

Firstly I have to mention that the blue bulls have moved up to third place on the Log, and not because they are lucky bit because yesterday we destroyed the Griquas 61-27 at Loftus. Now the player that stood out for me was Habana who scored two tries, but thats not why I was watching him, the reason is that it could be his last game for the Bulls and he had to go off for what seemed like a leg injury.

I think its absolutely fine that he has decieded to move teams, you cant stay in the same club forever. He also got married recently so maybe he just wants to get out of the huge bulls spotlight for a while.

Who’s That Rock Star?

• He was born Brian Hugh Warner in January 5 1969 in the USA

• In 2004 he proposed to Dita Von Teese, they are no longer together

• His first album Portrait of an American Family was released in 1994

• He is currently directing a gothic style rework of Cinderella staring Emma Watson

• He has sold more than 44 million albums world wide

• He had a rib removed a while ago so that he would be able to have oral sex with himself!

• His newest single on Tuks FM is called Arma-goddamn-motherFing-Gedon

• That’s right it’s Marilyn Manson!



Some stuff about the guy:

• He has 7 studio albums, 1 live album, 9 independently made albums and 24 music videos to his name

• His stage name Marilyn Manson comes from Marilyn Monroe and convicted murderer Charles Manson

• One of my favourite Manson Quotes is: “I'm grateful that I have two middle fingers, I only wish I had more.” This shows just how crazy this guy is!

Sundays winner is Neville! well done!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

DJ AM's Death an Accident !!!


law enforcement sources say the death of DJ AM was the result of an accidental overdose and not a suicide.
Ironically, sources indicated that DJ AM was a recovering addict who developed a dependency to Xanax and other benzodiazepines (a group of drugs used to treat anxiety) as a direct result of the plane crash a year ago.
Doctors began prescribing Xanax and other anti-anxiety medications to DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein) relieve his fear of flying, but the benzodiazepines triggered a relapse into addiction.
Source also said that the overdose had "absolutely nothing to do with his recent breakup".