Phil Thornton and Steven Cragg & other: 2008

Tuesday 9 September 2008

The Echo Nest Launches Most Comprehensive Developer Web Site with More Than 30 APIs to Power the Future of Online Music

New developer site offers open and direct access code to The Echo Nest's
'Musical Brain'

SAN DIEGO and SOMERVILLE, Mass., Sept. 8 -- The Echo Nest,
a medicine intelligence fellowship providing enhanced music hunting,
recommendation and interactivity technology, today, launched its developer
Web site, developer.echonest.com at the DEMOfall 08 conference. This
release provides the development community with the freedom to tap into The
Echo Nest's Musical Brain by opening more than 30 developer tools for music
Web sites.

Based on 12 age of research at MIT, Columbia and UC Berkeley, the
Musical Brain is a fully-automated learnedness platform political machine with an
in-depth apprehension of the cultural and acoustic factors that inform
music penchant. Current online music intelligence information solutions offer only a
portion of the tools necessary to fully infer music across the web,
and the Musical Brain trumps them all with its power to do the undermentioned:

-- Listen to music and understand every song dynasty in the same elbow room a player
or artist would distinguish it

-- Read just about music to understand what the entire world knows about
every artist, album and song

-- Learn music trends to understand music conduct across the Web and
predict new music trends

By opening access to the Musical Brain through developer.echonest.com,
The Echo Nest is acting as the software system equivalent of a ironware store for
developers through and through an open API architecture. The Echo Nest's new developer
biotic community is a complete deposit of easy-to-use tools that will fuel the
creativity of anyone looking to create or enhance Web sites with musical
content. These tools include in-depth artist information, music search,
music recommendation, remix applications, mash-up and analytic tools. The
new Echo Nest situation empowers developers with myriad tools to innovate and
change the way users discover and interact with music through and through their
applications. At DEMOfall 08, The Echo Nest will exhibit some of these
groundbreaking ceremony applications. The applications let in:

-- A personalized music search Web site, serving up the latest intelligence,
videos, reviews from the web -- all personalised to each user's unique
taste. The application is powered by The Echo Nest's Web feeds and music
recommendation APIs

-- A screaming music mash-up site, Morecowbell.dj, which automatically
overdubs cowbell and Christopher Walken onto any vocal -- in perfect pitch
and time. The site is powered by The Echo Nest's music analysis API

-- The imeem "Echo Chamber," a individualised radio player that
mechanically creates customized radio streams for whatsoever imeem substance abuser, using
the Echo Nest's music testimonial API

-- A video/audio mash-up land site applies the Echo Nest's Remix API to
permit users to easily create video remixes of their favorite artists

The Echo Nest believes in empowering creative developers with great
ideas, by giving them access to the most advanced music intelligence
program available anywhere. Providing developers with direct access to The
Echo Nest's repository of easy-to-use tools will accelerate innovation and
provide richer consumer experiences, helping music fans find the music they
dear and keep coming back for more.

"Because so much music content is available on so many sites, content
today is becoming more of a commodity and what sets sites apart is the
consumer see" said Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest. "The tools at
developer.echonest.com offer whatever music land site plug-and-play access to an
incredible platform -- by opening access to our Musical Brain, we hope to
set ahead innovation in online music, powering the next wave of vanguard
music sites."

"The Echo Nest's Musical Brain is the engine driving the evolution of
online music through an open, API-based strategy," aforementioned Chris Shipley,
executive producer of the DEMOfall conference. "I'm excited to provide a
forum for The Echo Nest and witness the next waving of consumer and music
sites that will be easy to create through its chopine."

About The Echo Nest

The Echo Nest helps online music companies make connections 'tween
people and their music more meaningful through its "Musical Brain," a
large-scale machine learning platform that actually reads about medicine and
listens to euphony everywhere on the web. The company is co-founded by two
MIT Media Lab PhDs, Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan. The Echo Nest's
investors include a cofounder of the MIT Media Lab and a Boston-based
private investment fund.

About DEMO

Produced by Network World Event and Executive Forum, the semi-annual
DEMO conference focuses on emerging technologies and new products, which
ar hand-selected from across the spectrum of the engineering marketplace.
The DEMOfall conferences have earned their reputation for consistently
identifying tomorrow's cutting edge technologies, and have served as establish
pad events for accompanies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring and U.S.
Robotics, portion them to secure speculation funding, found critical
concern relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO fall
conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and
technologies. For more information, visit http://www.demo.com.

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Saturday 30 August 2008

Producer ready for Denver's Super Bowl of politics

LOS ANGELES �

Producer Ricky Kirshner knows how to couch on a big prove. After handling the Super Bowl, a NATO summit and four national political conventions, he was ready for the Democratic gather in Denver.

Then he conditioned that the convention starting Monday would move from the 20,000-seat Pepsi Center to 76,000-seat Invesco Field for Barack Obama's acceptance speech on the last night, Thursday.

Kirshner's reaction?

"After pickings oxygen for about an hour ..." he said, rental the punch line flow in the air before continuing. "I said to my pardner, one thing we're favorable about is that we've done so many arena shows."

This prison term around, it's both timing and size that count.

There's the issue of shifting the convening from one venue to another in one evening, and having to operate around football game games scheduled at Invesco within a couple years of the convention's opening and closing.

The plan was to impart equipment into the sports stadium this weekend and then "caravan over" from the Pepsi Center after events wrap thither Wednesday night, Kirshner aforesaid. "We'll practice a little and then show up Thursday and hope to do it."

Afterward, he has 48 hours to clear out for next Sunday's game between the University of Colorado and Colorado State.

Kirshner considers it worth the stress.

"I have my team with me, I know what we're acquiring into. It's not easy, but at the end of the day it's going to be unrivaled of the most historical things ever so, and how can you not want to be a part of it?" Kirshner said Friday from Denver.

The event at the Pepsi Center isn't diminished scale, by any measure.

About 400 people, including stagehands and proficient crews, are at function as RK Productions oversees the design, installation and operation of set, clear and audio systems. The company likewise is responsible for for amusement; even signs and banners are part of Kirshner's portfolio.

But it's the picture displays that tend to make the biggest splash.

"Every time you do one of these, you try to do something technologically advanced that people haven't seen before," Kirshner said.

That was a wall of 56 video recording cubes at the 1992 Democratic convention. This clock time around, Kirshner said, the set offers some 8,000 square toes feet of video panels with the flexibility to provide a changing setting for each speaker.

At bosom, a political convention is "a magnanimous corporate coming together," he said, which his company likewise routinely produces.

And no affair how dramatic the assemblage or Obama's stadium delivery turns out to be from a political standpoint, as a production it won't receive the clout of, articulate, a Beijing Olympics ceremony.

"Their budget was a caboodle more than ours and they had a lot more rid labor," Kirshner said.

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On the Net:

http://www.demconvention.com

http://www.kirshnerproductions.com

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Thursday 21 August 2008

Download Susie Ibarra mp3

Artist: Susie Ibarra: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Jazz

Discography:

Solo Percussion - Haus Der Kul

Year: 2000

Tracks: 7

By the end of the nineties, Susie Ibarra had emerged as one of the starring current free nothingness drummers, impressing jazz and new music audiences alike patch playacting in various lineups that included the David S. Ware Quartet, the Matthew Shipp Trio, and a duette with saxophonist Assif Tsahar. Although born in California, Ibarra grew up in Texas. She later studied at N.Y.C.'s Mannes College of Music, and after graduating went on to pay heed Goddard College. Ibarra studied drumming and percussion with Milford Graves and Vernel Fournier, and afterwards with Denis Charles, wHO had a weekly duo sitting with Ibarra for the few days unassuming his death in early 1998. A live recording of this duo, Drum Talk, was released inside the yr by the Wobbly Rail label. Ibarra too conditioned and performed in several percussion groups, including gamelan (Balinese and Javanese) and Philippine kulintang ensembles. A resident of N.Y. throughout the 1990s, Ibarra replaced Whit Dickey (wHO went on to lead his possess trine) as drummer in the David S. Ware Quartet by 1997, first coming into royal court with Ware, Matthew Shipp, and William Parker on Wiseness of Uncertainty, the inaugural vent-hole of the AUM Fidelity label. She was to a fault a appendage of the Matthew Shipp Trio (same lineup as the Ware Quartet, minus Ware) during this clock time, and with these iI groups recorded not only for AUM Fidelity simply for DIW, Sony, and Hatology as well. In 1998, she was awarded Best New Talent of the Year by Jazziz Magazine. The next yr, Ibarra started up her have label, Hopscotch, with saxist and married man Assif Tsahar. No yearner active in the Ware Quartet or Shipp Trio, Ibarra toured in a duette with Tsahar to support Hopscotch's first vent, Home crustal plate Cookin'. In 1999, she began in the lead her possess trio with pianist Cooper Moore and fiddler Charles Burnham. The trio's first recording, entitled Radiance, was released at the terminal of that class. Ibarra lED her showtime bigger group (which included the trio members) for her first root Tzadik press release, Peak After Flower (2000).

Monday 11 August 2008

Chiyoko Shimakura

Artist: Chiyoko Shimakura

   Genre(s):
Folk

Discography:

Chiyoko Shimakura Koga Melody wo Utau

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Silk

Artist: Silk

   Genre(s):
soul
   R&B: Soul
   Other

Discography:

Always and Forever

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

The Best Of

Year: 2004
Tracks: 16

Silk

Year: 2004
Tracks: 3

This '90s R&B vocal group should not be confused with the late-'70s Philadelphia band, which was a funk-oriented unit of measurement, or the outspoken trinity Silk from Los Angeles. Timothy Cameron, Jimmy Gates, Jr., Jonathen Rasboro, Gary Jenkins, and Gary Glenn issued their debut LP, Misplace Control, in 1992 and have aroused urban present-day audiences, specially women, with their piquant harmonies and aggressively indicative material. Their unmarried "Freak Me" was a huge hit in 1993; iI long time later, the mathematical group issued a self-titled LP for Elektra, followed in 1999 by Tonight. Love Session appeared in spring 2001.

Review : The Mars Volta at Logan Campbell Centre

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Full Gainer

Artist: Full Gainer

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Lady In Red Vinyl

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Monday 9 June 2008

Offspring to reissue two classic albums

Offspring have announced that they will reissue two of their classic albums next month.

The California punk rockers will put out digitally remastered versions of 1992�??s 'Ignition' and 1994�??s 'Smash' via Epitaph on June 17 to coincide with the US release of their new forthcoming album 'Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace'.

The reissues of their second and third studio albums have been digitally remastered from the original tapes, and 'Smash' features a new 24-page booklet.

'Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace' was produced by Bob Rock (Metallica, The Cult) and features 12 tracks, as previously reported.

The album's first single, 'Hammerhead', is available as a free download via the band's website Offspring.com.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Sunday 1 June 2008

Yves Montand

Artist: Yves Montand

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Vocal
   Other
   Chanson

Discography:

Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons d'Yves Montand CD5

Year: 2004
Tracks: 20

Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons d'Yves Montand CD4

Year: 2004
Tracks: 20

Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons d'Yves Montand CD3

Year: 2004
Tracks: 20

Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons d'Yves Montand CD2

Year: 2004
Tracks: 20

Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons d'Yves Montand CD1

Year: 2004
Tracks: 20

Ses Plus Grands Succes

Year: 2001
Tracks: 25

La Bicyclette

Year: 1998
Tracks: 24

Montand CD2

Year: 1995
Tracks: 24

Montand CD1

Year: 1995
Tracks: 23

Yves Montand: 36 Titres (cd2)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 18

Yves Montand: 36 Titres (cd1)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 18

Yves Montand CD2

Year: 1994
Tracks: 18

Yves Montand CD1

Year: 1994
Tracks: 18

Montand D'hier Et D'aujourd'hui

Year: 1980
Tracks: 14

Concert A Moscou

Year: 1956
Tracks: 16

Montand (Live)

Year: 1953
Tracks: 24

Olympia Complet 47 Titres (cd2)

Year:
Tracks: 24

Olympia Complet 47 Titres (cd1)

Year:
Tracks: 23

Yves Montand was an hugely popular singer in France, his adopted nation, from the forties until his death. He also gave concerts about the world, just he was better-known internationally as an role player.

Montand was innate Ivo Livi on October 13, 1921, in the small town of Monsummano Alto in the Tuscany region of Italy near Florence. He was the youngest of trey children of Giovanni Livi, a broom maker, and Giuseppina (Simoni) Livi. His father-God was involved with the Communist Party, and in May 1924 the family was constrained to move to France to escape political persecution from the Fascists light-emitting diode by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. They settled in Marseilles and became naturalized French citizens in 1929. At 11, Montand dropped kO'd of school to help support his category during the Depression by working in a attic manufacturing plant. He left that job iI years later and began working in a hair beauty shop run by his aged sister; finally he passed the essay for his barber's permit and got a job in another salon. But in September 1938, at age 16, he first base panax quinquefolius at an amateur point, and he soon began fashioning professional appearances. Recalling his mother's shout out to come home to the family's second-floor abidance for dinner, "Ivo, montes!" ("Ivo, come on up!"), which, in her Italian-accented French sounded like "Ivo, monta!," he adopted the stage name Yves Montand.

Montand's singing career was short-circuited by the set out of World War II in September 1939. In 1940, he worked in the Marseilles shipyards as Germany overran northerly France; he was not able to regress to singing until the springtime of 1941 under the German occupation. That fall, he first base headlined his possess vaudeville point in Nice, and he had his first base covert coming into court as an extra in La PriÃ¨re aux Etoiles (Orison to the Stars), shot in January 1942. But from March to October 1942, he had to process in a youth labor camp, as were all 20-year-old French males at the time. In February 1944, fearing that he would be forced to turn for the Nazis, he left wing Marseilles and touched to Paris, where he began performing once again. In July 1944, he was set-aside to open for Edith Piaf at the Moulin Rouge. The deuce became a yoke, and with France existence liberated by the Allies, they toured the land in the fall and in the bound of 1945. Montand was then minded his low gear credited use in a moving-picture show, tattle deuce of his phase favorites, "Luna Park" and "Les Plaines du Far West," in Silence ... Antenne (You're on the Air!). He too took a small part in Etoile Sans LumiÃ¨re (Star Without Light), a celluloid starring Piaf that opened in April 1946. Starting on October 5, 1946, he headlined at the Etoile dramatic art in Paris for vII weeks; during this stop, he and Piaf bust up. Director Marcel CarnÃ©'s Les Portes de la Nuit (William Henry Gates of the Night), Montand's first-class honours degree film in which he had the leading use, opened on December 4, simply was unwell received.

Meanwhile, however, he had signed to OdÃ©on Records, which began issuance his recordings. He did non stimulate another film use for more than a year, when L'Idole appeared in February 1948, and his subsequent appearances in such low-budget films of the early 1950s as Paris Chante Toujours (Capital of France Always Sings), Capital of France Sera Toujours Paris (Capital of France Will Always Be Paris), Souvenirs Perdus (Lost Souvenirs), and L'Auberge Rouge employed his talents more as a singer than as an thespian. They helped to raise his status as a stage performing artist. On March 5, 1951, he began a four-month run at the Etoile in which he appeared for the first-class honours degree time in a "one-person show," (i.e., without whatever encouraging acts on the measure). That summertime, he began what sour extinct to be a long spud on Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear), a dramatic play in which he played a hand truck device driver hired to tape drive glyceryl trinitrate to stoppage an oil well fire. When it finally appeared in the spring of 1953 (it open in the U.S. in 1955), it was an tremendous success, taking the luxurious booty at the Cannes Film Festival and finally establishing Montand as a sober doer.

Nonetheless, vocalizing remained his first-class honours degree precedence. On December 21, 1951, he married the actress Simone Signoret; deuce weeks later, he was off on a turn that included France, Switzerland, and Belgium. He made some other cinema, Tempi Nostri (The Anatomy of Love) in 1953, simply devoted much more than metre to singing. On October 5, he opened at the Etoile, where he performed until April 4, 1954, marketing intimately 200,000 tickets. During the run, OdÃ©on presented him with a gold track record marking sales of one jillion copies of "Les Feuilles Mortes" ("Autumn Leaves"), a remarkable achievement in the relatively small French track record market. (He subsequently switched to Philips Records.) In 1954, he turned to the lawful stage, co-starring with Signoret in a French adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible in Paris entitled Les SorciÃ¨res de Salem. The play ran through and through 1955, and a film version was made. This further enhanced Montand's report as an actor, and he appeared in more movies in the mid '50s. But he likewise found time in 1956-1957 to spell the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, a trip that began to open his eyes around caesarism.

After more than photographic film work in 1957 and 1958, Montand launched a major concert tour in September 1958 that began with some preliminary performances ahead subsidence into the ElysÃ©e music charles Francis Hall in Paris for five months, a track down that continued until March 8, 1959, playing one hundred sixty performances ahead cc,000 fans. In December 1958, Montand was approached by American impresario and track record company executive Norman Granz, wHO wanted to play him to America. Previously, the anti-Communist McCarthy Era in the U.S. would possess prevented Montand from obtaining a visa. (Although he himself was non a member of the Communist Party, he was sympathetic to its aims, and his older brother was an official of the party in France.) By the recent 1950s, however, this situation was moderation in the U.S., and Granz was able-bodied to develop Montand a visa and book a tour. Prior to that, in the bounce and summer of 1959, he toured Europe and performed in Israel. But on September 22, 1959, An Evening With Yves Montand opened at Henry Miller's Theater on Broadway to positive reviews. The show played 42 performances, and so Montand appeared in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. His tardy breakthrough in the U.S. and the well-disposed notices it attracted lED to a flurry of stateside record releases of material previous and new. Columbia Records brought out One Man Show earlier the end of the year and in 1960 released both An Evening With Yves Montand and Grandes Chansons. The like year, Monitor Records issued Yves Montand & His Songs of Paris, and Granz's Verve label had Aimez-Vous Yves?

Meanwhile, Montand was forced to hold over a Japanese tour when he received an extend from twentieth Century-Fox to co-star opposite Marilyn Monroe in the picture musical Let's Make Love. He shot the picture in the winter and give of 1960 (as well piquant in a much-gossiped-about affaire with Monroe), and had iI singing performances, "Incurably Romantic" and the title birdsong, both featured on the original soundtrack record album released by Columbia. He continued what mightiness be called the American phase of his career by apace shooting a series of Hollywood films, Sanctuary, Cheerio Again, and My Geisha, in 1960-61, and on October 24, 1961, returned to Broadway for 55 performances of his musical act earlier moving on to Japan and England in early 1962 and opening night once more at the Etoile in Paris in November 1962. (Meanwhile, in America, Columbia released More Yves Montand and Verve countered with On Broadway.)

Just, spell his efforts onstage and earlier the cameras in the U.S. in 1959-61 expanded Montand's international repute, they did not make him a star in the U.S. His concert audience was a sophisticated one interested in hearing songs sung dynasty in French, just his records did not get to the charts. And on picture he remained an exotic world Health Organization had knowing his lines in English phonetically. So, he returned to working primarily in Europe. After his Paris performances, he also, for the first base time, turned in the first place to filmmaking, relegating his vocalizing calling to unmatchable of episodic comeback shows for the rest of his life. (Meanwhile, Philips issued Yves Montand Recital Paris, 1963 in the U.S. in 1963, and Columbia had Yves Montand, Paris in 1964, just thereafter his American record releases were few.) The first of those comebacks consisted of 33 shows performed in Paris in the fall of 1968, after which Montand formally announced his retirement from concertizing.

For the perch of the 1960s and in the 1970s, Montand worked oftentimes in picture. His most far-famed performances included a series of political dramas made with music director Constantin Costa-Gavras, Z (1969, the Academy Award-winning Best Foreign Film and a Best Picture campaigner), The Confession (1970), and State of Siege (1973), films that condemned oppressive acts of the Apostles carried prohibited by both right wing dictatorships and Communist regimes. Montand did find time for one more Hollywood picture musical, stellar opposite Barbra Streisand in an adaption of the Broadway demonstrate On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), directed by Vincente Minnelli. He sang the title song with Streisand and soloed on "Melinda" and "Come Back to Me" in the photographic film and on the original soundtrack record album released by Columbia, which dog-tired near half a dozen months in the charts, only was a modest seller by Streisand's standards.

In 1974, in the stir up of the previous year's military takeover in Chile, Montand performed a welfare testify for Chilean refugees, his number one hot singing in vI years and his only such process of the 10. But at the take up of the eighties, he rescinded his retirement from the stage, and from October 7, 1981, to January 3, 1982, he played to sold-out houses at the Olympia dramatic art in Paris, followed by 48 shows around the country earlier continuing on to North and South America and Japan, the entire enlistment permanent more than than a year. He worked less frequently in film in the 1980s, his almost notable performances being in Claude Berri's Dungaree de Florette and its continuation Manon of the Spring in 1986. In the indorsement half of the eighties, he was oft mentioned as a possible presidential prospect in France, simply he declined to scat. He did, however, whistle a few songs on a television system programme propagate during the conjecture, Montand at Home, in December 1987. And he was invited to visit Poland during that country's number one release elections in the spring of 1989, obliging by singing "Les Feuilles Mortes." In June 1990, he gave a few final performances at the Olympia in Paris. He continued to do occasional films, complementary his final one, IP5: The Island of Pachyderms, exactly prior to his death from a bosom attack at age 70 in November 1991.

Although remote France he is viewed largely as a film star, Montand occupies an important stead as a postwar French popular singer world Health Organization followed Charles Trenet and Maurice Chevalier with an earthier, more direct expressive style wHO awaited such straightaway following as Jacques Brel and fifty-fifty the rock & flap geological era. Largely because of the speech communication barrier, his invoke as a isaac M. Singer was restricted mostly to his own land, simply there it was mammoth and continued without diminution passim his life sentence.

Saturday 24 May 2008

Cannes' market notches higher participation

Paillard attributes increase to government support

Sunday 11 May 2008

Juno the big winner at Spirit Awards

The teenage maternity drama 'Juno' was the vauntingly winner at the Independent Heart Awards in the US on Saturday.
'Juno's 21-year-old star Ellen Page was named Best Actress piece the plastic film was too named Best Feature of speech and its writer, Diablo Cody, south Korean won the Best First Screenplay award. Read the review of 'Juno' here.
Buffalo Bill besides won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar on Sun night. Read more on the Oscars hither.
The Best Histrion accolade went to Prince Philip Jane Seymour Hoffman for 'The Savages' with the film's writer-director, Tamara Jenkins, winning the Topper Screenplay laurels.
Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for 'I'm Non There' and Chiwetel Ejiofor south Korean won Best Support Actor for 'Talk to Me'.
Julian the Apostate Schnabel was named Charles Herbert Best Conductor for 'The Diving Campana and the Butterfly' and the film's cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, won the Best Cameraman laurels.
The Lav Carney-directed Irish whisky film 'Once' was named Best Foreign Film with George C. Scott Franks' 'The Lookout' winning Topper Number one Feature article. Read to a greater extent on the Oscar success of 'Once' here.
The C. H. Best Infotainment award went to 'Crazy Love' with the Trick Cassavetes Honour going to 'August Evening'.
The Henry Martyn Robert Altman Prize went to 'I'm Not There' with the Truer than Fabrication Prize passing to 'The Unforeseen' conductor Laura Dunn.
The Individual to Follow Award went to 'Chop Shop' director Ramin Bahrani and the Producers Honor was won 'Paranoid Park' and 'Old Joy' producer Neil Kopp'.

Sunday 4 May 2008

The Pixies

Artist: The Pixies

   Genre(s):
Indie
   Rock
   Alternative
   Pop
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Punk: Grunge
   Other
   ROck: Alternative
   Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography: