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Wednesday 17 April 2013

30 SECONDS TO MARS'S GLORY








Founded in 1998 by brothers Shannon Leto and Jared Leto, 30 Seconds to Mars began as a small family project. American rock band from Los Angeles, Since 2007, the band has consisted of actor Jared Leto lead vocals, rhythm guitar and songwriter, Shannon Leto drums & percussion and Tomo Miličević as lead guitar & keyboards. Following the departure of Matt Wachter in 2007, Tim Kelleher became the bassist for the group, performing live only with both Jared and Miličević recording bass for studio recordings, while Braxton Olita keyboardist was added to the touring lineup in 2009. Previously, the group also featured guitarists Solon Bixler and Kevin Drake 30 Seconds to Mars' music has been associated mostly with neo-prog, progressive metal and post-grunge, but they have also included emo, screamo, space rock and synthrock into their music. They have been compared to Pink Floyd and Tool because of their use of philosophical and spiritual lyrics, concept albums and their use of experimental music.Matt Wachter later joined the band as bassist and keyboard player. After working with a number of guitarists the three auditioned Tomo Miličević to round out the band's roster.Jared and 30 Seconds To Mars told MTV News that their third album had its release date pushed back from April 2009 to some time in September 2009. Although the released dates were changed many times, 30 Seconds to Mars released this Is War on December 8, 2009. On February 19, 2010, 30 Seconds to Mars began their worldwide Into the Wild Tour in Nottingham to support This Is War. Their Studio albums 30 Seconds to Mars (2002),A Beautiful Lie (2005) ,This Is War (2009), Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013).
 The tour had 7 legs that ended on December 18, 2010. They also appeared at the 2010 MTV VMAs on September 12, 2010. Also, they presented on the inaugural headliner of the new International Lollapalooza Festival in Santiago, Chile at O'Higgins Park on April 3, 2011.
In September 2011 they headlined Split Works' inaugural Black Rabbit festival in China alongside Ludacris, amongst others. They performed their final show of the tour on December 7, 2011, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.On April 25, 2012 MTV Buzzworthy confirmed that they are working with famed record Producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, The Killers). Jared Leto's official Twitter account has also confirmed that the album is nearing completion, however a release date has not been hinted at yet. Jared Leto has announced on Twitter that the band has finished working on "Up In The Air", and it could be the first single.On February 28, 2013, it was announced via Twitter that "Up in the Air" would be the first single from the new album. A CD copy of the single was sent to NASA and SpaceX for launch aboard the Dragon spacecraft on SpaceX CRS-2. The mission was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 1, 2013, sending the first ever commercial copy of music into space. The spacecraft will berth with the International Space Station on March 3, 2013, making the single available to play by the Expedition 35 crew aboard the station. The song will make its worldwide debut aboard the station on March 18, 2013. The single will be released for digital download the following day on March 19, 2013.They have won and nominated lot of awards Billboard Music Awards,Kerrang! Awards, Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica, MTV Australia Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards
They have Nominations 146 times & Awards won 74 times. 
 IT’S AMAZIIIIIING…..

BREAKING BENJAMIN'S GLORY







Breaking Benjamin signed with Hollywood Records in early 2002. an American alternative metal band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, The group member currently consisting of Benjamin Burnley and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four studio albums, an EP, and a greatest hits album. The band took an indefinite hiatus due to frontman Burnley's recurring illnesses and inability to tour in mid-2010. Further complications arose in August 2011, when Mark Klepaski and Aaron Fink were fired from the band. Their band past members  Aaron  Fink Nick Hoover, Chris Lightcap, Jeremy Hummel, Jason Davoli, Jonathan Price, Mark Klepaski. Greatest Hits album In the summer of 2010, Breaking Benjamin announced an indefinite hiatus, due to Burnley's recurring illnesses. Guitarist Fink and bassist Klepaski rejoined their old band, Lifer, and Szeliga toured with his other band, OurAfter. 7 of June , 2011, a remixed version of "Blow Me Away", featuring Valora, was released. An animated music video for the remix was released on August 24. 30 of June, 2011, Rock Access posted the tracklist for the band's greatest hits album, Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin, and for its "deluxe edition". It was released on August 16, as a one-disc "standard edition" and a two-disc "deluxe edition" (featuring b-sides and rarities). Burnley publicly opposed the album's release, saying content had been altered and released without his consent, and that it did not meet his standards. In May 2011, Burnley fired bandmates Fink and Klepaski. Shortly after, a dispute over the new version of "Blow Me Away" went public. Burnley gave his side of the dispute in a June court filing, saying Fink and Klepaski made unilateral and unauthorized decisions on behalf of the band, such as giving permission in May for the remixing of "Blow Me Away".Burnley seeks at least $250,000 and the exclusive right to the "Breaking Benjamin" name. Burnley plans on reviving the band when the lawsuit is settled.Breaking Benjamin's musical style has mainly been categorized as alternative metal and post-grunge. The band have also been labeled as alternative rock hard rock and heavy metal. Breaking Benjamin has sold over five million albums in the United States11 of February, 2012 Cameron Edney from Hardrock Haven sat down with Szeliga and asked him about the future of Breaking Benjamin to which he replied, " I am just looking to get back in the studio with Breaking Benjamin… Yes, I’m answering the question that everybody asks me every day… Breaking Benjamin is still together. We will definitely and hopefully be doing another record in the future!"

Tuesday 19 March 2013

THE SCRIPT'S GLORY





Formed in 2002,The Script is an Irish alternative rock band from Dublin. In the beginning years of the band, Mark Sheehan's mother fell terminally ill, causing a lot of stress on the band and members, but it also had a positive effect on Sheehan's writing. With such strong emotional tension, the songwriter found new lyrics every day. Sheehan said that "That was the time when it finally came home to me how important music was to me, 'cause in my darkest moments that's what got me through." After Sheehan's mother's death, ten months after her diagnosis, Danny's father died four months later of an aneurysm. Even with such trying moments in their early years, the band was able to rise out of it, albeit with somewhat bleak lyrics in several songs, as commented by Danny when referencing "We Cry": "There is not a lot of hope in the song, cause not everybody's life is full of hope. There's not always roses at the end. Based in London after signing to Sony Label Group imprint Phonogenic, the band released their eponymous debut album in August 2008, featuring the hit songs "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven". The album debuted at number one in Ireland and the UK. Their second album, Science & Faith, was released in September 2010, and contains the hit songs "For the First Time" and "Nothing". The album debuted at number one in Ireland and the UK, and number three on the US Billboard 200. Their third album #3 was released in the UK on 10 September 2012, charting at number 2 in its first week. The Script also took part in Children in Need 2010. The Script will be participating in the VH1 Best Cruise Ever and sailing to Cozumel 28 April-2 May 2011. The Script took part in BRMB's live 2010 with acts such as The Saturdays, Mark Ronson and Mcfly. The Script were nominated for Best International Act at the 2011 Brit Awards. The Script announced that they will perform at: Pinkpop festival, V festival, Oxegen, Isle of Wight Festival, T in the park, Thetford Forest Show, iTunes Festival, Skanderborg Festival, Sudoeste Festival, Tennents ViTal. On Friday, 24 September at 9:00am tickets for The Script's three nights at The O2 Dublin, two nights at The Odyssey, Belfast & two at The INEC, Killarney went on sale and sold out in less than 40 minutes, with over 60,000 tickets sold. On 1 October at 9:00am tickets for The Script arena tour in March 2011 went on sale. The tickets for all 12 arenas around the UK sold out in 5 days. They also announced that they would play a "Homecoming" concert at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. This is part of the Science & Faith Tour and will be their biggest headline show to date.
In 2009,The Script won an EBBA Award. Every year the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognise the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year.On 5 October 2012, The Script kicked off the Major League Baseball Postseason by playing a free concert at the MLB Fan Cave in New York City. The Script was nominated for Best International band at Brits Awards 2013.

Sunday 17 March 2013

LINKIN PARK'S GLORY






Formed in 1996,Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries. Their following studio album Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium. Billboard ranked Linkin Park No. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart. The band was recently voted as the greatest artist of '00s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1.Linkin Park reached No.8 in Billboard Social 50, a chart of the most active artists on the world's leading social networking sites. In other Billboard Year-End charts, the band reached No.92 in the "Top Artists" chart, as well as A Thousand Suns reaching No.53 in the Year-End chart of the Billboard Top 200 albums and No.7 in the 2010 Year-End Rock Albums, and "The Catalyst" reaching No.40 in the Year-End Rock Songs chart. On April 13, 2011, Shinoda confirmed that the album's fourth single will be "Iridescent". He also confirmed that there will be a new, slightly shorter version of the song, which will be part of the soundtrack of the upcoming film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, continuing the streak of Linkin Park songs being the theme songs of the Transformers films (after "What I've Done" and "New Divide"), as well as the fact that a music video will be shot for the single. The video was directed by Joe Hahn, who directed the videos for both of the previous songs.The band was nominated for six Billboard Awards in 2011 for Top Duo or Group, Best Rock Album for A Thousand Suns, Top Rock Artist, Top Alternative Artist, Top Alternative Song for "Waiting for the End" and Top Alternative Album for A Thousand Suns, but did not win any award. The band charted in numerous Billboard Year-End charts in 2011. The band was No.39 in the Top Artists Chart, No.84 in the Billboard 200 Artists chart, No.11 in the Social 50 Chart, No.6 in the Top Rock Artists Chart, No.9 in the Rock Songs Artists Chart, No.16 in the Rock Albums Chart, No.4 in the Hard Rock Albums Chart, and No.7 in the Alternative Songs Chart. On April 15, 2012, Shinoda announced via his website that Living Things would be the title of Linkin Park's fifth album, with the pre-release sale to start on the April 16. Mike Shinoda stated that they chose the title Living Things because the album is more about people, personal interactions, and it's far more personal than their previous albums. The band will promote the album on the 2012 edition of the Honda Civic Tour, with co headliners Incubus. The band performed "Burn It Down" at 2012 Billboard Music Awards. On May 24, the band released the music video for "Burn It Down" and debuted "Lies Greed Misery", another song from Living Things, on BBC Radio 1. "Powerless", the twelfth and closing track of the album, is featured in the closing credits of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Most of the material from the album will have a live debut on the Honda Civic Tour in the Summer of 2012.  
In July 2012, it was confirmed by Big Concerts and Warner Bros. Records that Linkin Park would perform two dates in South Africa for their Living Things Tour. The band performed at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards on December 7, 2012 where "Castle of Glass" was nominated for the "Best Song in a Game" award, however the song "Cities" by Beck won the award.
Early in 2012 it was also confirmed that Linkin Park would tour Australia performing as part of the Soundwave music festival, in most capital cities alongside artists such as Metallica, Paramore, Slayer and Sum 41. As well as headlining at Soundwave they have also been confirmed to be performing a few Sidewave concerts in Sydney and Melbourne with artists Stone Sour as the opening act. Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.