Karate High School

   
Artist: Karate High School

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Arcade Rock

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11

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Like most youth bands, Karate High School went through some lineup changes early on in their life, finally set in July 2004 around Paul McGuire (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Gabe Ausiello (guitar), Ray Bautista (keyboards), Dan Kingdon (bass), and Danny Glaspy (drums). The Bay Area kit offered up an strong-growing portmanteau word of poppy punk, hyper post-hardcore, and eight-bit blips, becoming the foreman purveyors of the self-termed Arcade Edge (ax) effort (which included, um, them). Their love life of all things picture game carried o'er into their to a fault caffeinated debut, Arcade Rock, produced by McGuire in his studio flat and issued in March 2006 via EVO Recordings. Dates passim the year with bands care Tub Ring, Four Letter Lie, On the Last Day, and Cute Is What We Aim For unbroken the guys busy and their fans well-chosen, and helped to bedcover the Karate High love life.

Sacrificium

   
Artist: Sacrificium

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Cold Piece Of Flesh

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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50 Cent - 50 Cent Meets Mandela

Rap star 50 CENT has enjoyed an intimate chat with former South African president NELSON MANDELA in his Johannesburg home.

The star, real name Curtis Jackson, is currently touring South Africa and Tanzania with G-Unit, and was lucky enough to be granted a meeting with the revered former politician at his armed security-surrounded home earlier this week (begs28Apr08), reports MTV News.

Jackson and nine others, including crew from MTV who are filming the trip, were invited into Mandela's living room, where he was reading the paper. The pair chatted in front of the cameras, before talking in private.

Earlier the same day, Jackson visited the Hector Pieterson Memorial museum in Soweto to meet Mandela's grandson, who gave the star a lesson on Apartheid and its effect on South Africa.

The documentary will be shown through MTV later this month (May08).

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The Wight stuff: UK island to host 4 music events

LONDON (Billboard) - In 1970, it was described as "a psychedelic concentration camp." But this summer, the United Kingdom's Isle of Wight Festival tops a series of events that will turn the 150-square-mile island into the sold-out epicenter of the UK festival scene.


Rock fans with long memories remember the Isle of Wight's run of festivals in 1968-70, although the chaotic 1970 event headlined by Jimi Hendrix and the Doors has long carried negative associations. The "concentration camp" reference comes from one of 500,000-plus attendees captured in the concert film of that year's festival, "Message to Love."


But fast-forward into the 21st century, and one 1970 veteran has emerged as a key player behind the reinvention of the island as a "must-go" music destination, which in summer 2008 is hosting four major outdoor events.


London-based Solo Promoters managing director John Giddings revived the Isle of Wight festival in 2002, selling out 10,000 tickets for a bill including the Charlatans and Robert Plant.


Charlatans vocalist Tim Burgess recalls the IOW as "a really fun place to play -- like something out of an Enid Blyton novel." He adds, "There's a sense of adventure, like you are leaving behind society and inventing your own little world."


Since 2002, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, R.E.M. and Coldplay have all graced the IOW festival stage.


The south coast holiday island also hosts the 30,000-capacity dance/alternative festival Bestival, an offshoot of the Sunday Best label/club events firm headed by BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank. The lineup for this year's sold-out dates (September 5-7) at Robin Hill Country Park includes My Bloody Valentine, Amy Winehouse and Underworld.


For fans, Rob Da Bank says, "as soon as you get on the ferry, you let your hair down and leave a bit of yourself on the mainland. The pace of life is slower down there, and that's a good thing."