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Muse


Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, keytar), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, harmonica) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion, synthesisers, sampling, harmtar). After the release of their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations, keyboardist and percussionist Morgan Nicholls has performed live with the band. Muse are known for their energetic and extravagant live performances and their fusion of many music genres, including space rock, progressive rock, alternative rock, heavy metal, classical music and electronica.
Muse have released five studio albums: Showbiz (1999), Origin of Symmetry (2001), Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006), and The Resistance (2009). The band have also issued three live albums, Hullabaloo Soundtrack (2002), which is also a compilation of B-sides, Absolution Tour (2005), and HAARP (2008).
Black Holes and Revelations earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination and a third place finish in the NME Albums of the Year list for 2006. Muse have also won numerous other music awards throughout their history, including five MTV Europe Music Awards, five Q Awards, eight NME Awards, two BRIT Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, four Kerrang! Awards and an American Music Award. They were also nominated for three Grammy Awards, of which they won Best Rock Album for their fifth studio album, The Resistance.


Musical style

Muse are an alternative rock band, and are often associated with space rock and progressive rock their music currently mixes sounds from genres such as electronic music, hard rock, classical music and rock opera. The band was described as a "trashy three-piece" by Matthew Bellamy on the BBC during 2002.
On the band's association with progressive rock, Dominic Howard has said: "I associate it with 10-minute guitar solos, but I guess we kind of come into the category. A lot of bands are quite ambitious with their music, mixing lots of different styles – and when I see that I think it's great. I've noticed that kind of thing becoming a bit more mainstream."


Members

Current members
  • Matthew Bellamy – lead vocals, lead guitar, piano, keyboard
  • Christopher Wolstenholme – bass, backing vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
  • Dominic Howard – drums, percussion, synthesisers
Live members
  • Morgan Nicholls – keyboards, percussion, synthesisers, backing vocals, bass, guitar ("United States of Eurasia") (2004, 2006–present)
  • Alessandro Cortini – keyboards (filled in for Morgan Nicholls briefly in 2009)

Discography

  • Showbiz (1999)
  • Origin of Symmetry (2001)
  • Absolution (2003)
  • Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
  • The Resistance (2009)


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Limp Bizkit


Limp Bizkit is an American rap rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band's lineup consists of Fred Durst (lead vocals), Wes Borland (guitar), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal. Formed in 1995, the band achieved mainstream success with their second studio album Significant Other, released in 1999. Limp Bizkit has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and has won several other major awards. The band has sold an estimated 33 million albums worldwide.
Their third studio album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, released in 2000, continued the band's success. The album sold 1.05 million copies in its first week, making it the fastest-selling rock album ever, breaking the record held for 7 years by Pearl Jam's Vs. Following the departure of Wes Borland in 2001, Mike Smith was brought in for the fourth studio album Results May Vary, released in 2003. Borland rejoined the band in 2005 for The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1), but departed again. He rejoined the band in February 2009. Limp Bizkit's sixth studio album Gold Cobra was released in June 2011.


Musical style and influences

Limp Bizkit's musical style has predominately been described as nu metal, rapcore, rap metal and alternative metal. The band has stated that their primary influences include Korn, Faith No More, Nirvana, The Sugarhill Gang, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Guns N' Roses, Eric B. & Rakim, De La Soul, House of Pain, Grandmaster Flash, Kiss, Suicidal Tendencies, Jane's Addiction, Hed PE, Rage Against the Machine, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath, Primus, Tool, Esham, and Deftones.


Band members





Current members
  • Fred Durst – lead vocals
  • Wes Borland – guitars, backing vocals
  • Sam Rivers – bass
  • John Otto – drums, percussion
  • DJ Lethal – turntables, keyboards, samples, programming, sound development

Former members
  • Rob Waters - guitars (1995)
  • Terry Balsamo - guitars (briefly in 1995)
  • Mike Smith – guitars (2002–2004)
Session members
  • Scott Borland – keyboards (1996–2000)
  • Brian 'Head' Welch – guitars (2002–2003)
  • Sammy Siegler – drums, percussion (2005)

Discography

  • Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ (1997)
  • Significant Other (1999)
  • Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000)
  • Results May Vary (2003)
  • The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (2005)
  • Gold Cobra (2011)

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Gugun Blues Shelter


Gugun Blues Shelter, or Gugun and The Blues Shelter (often abbreviated as GBS) is an Indonesian blues band, formed in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2004. The current members are Gugun on guitar, Jono on bass and Bowie on drums. They've released three albums, Get The Bug (2004), Turn It On (2007) and Gugun Blues Shelter (2010).


Career

The band formed in 2004 to play in blues bars in Jakarta. They have played in jazz clubs and festivals.They were influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Betty Davis, and Led Zeppelin.Initially, the name of the band was The Blues Bug, which was later changed to Blue Hand Gang, and eventually Gugun Blues Shelter. They changed the band's name because a Greek band had already used the name Blues Bug for ten years.
At the end of 2004, they released their first independent album, Get the Bug.The featured musicians on the album were Gugun, Jono and Iskandar.
In early 2007, they released their second album, Turn It On, on Sinjitos Records. The album was voted as one of the best Indonesian albums of 2007 by Rolling Stone Indonesia. It was also voted the number one blues album of the year, with Gugun voted as the best blues guitarist in Southeast Asia, in 2007 by MTV Trax Magazine.
Bowie joined the band in 2007 (or 2008), replacing Iskandar on drums.
In 2010, they independently released a self-titled album as a replacement for their Set My Soul on Fire album, which failed due to conflict with their labels.
In 2011, Gugun Blues Shelter were chosen by a jury online votes from fans to win the Hard Rock Café’s Global Battle Of The Bands competition, celebrating Hard Rock Café’s 40th anniversary.They are scheduled to perform on Sunday, 26 June 2011 at Hyde Park, alongside Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart and The Killers.



Members 

Gugun : guitar, vocal

Jono : bass
  Bowie : Drum



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Dido


Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong ( born 25 December 1971), known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.
Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel (1999). The album sold in excess of 21 million copies worldwide, and won several awards; including the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act, two NRJ Awards for Best New Act and Best Album, and two BRIT Awards for Best British Female and Best Album. Her following album, Life for Rent (2003), continued her mainstream success with the help of popular singles "White Flag" and "Life for Rent". The album went on to sell around 12 million copies worldwide and saw her receive more accolades; including the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year for "White Flag", two further BRIT and NRJ Awards, as well as a Grammy Award nomination. Dido's first two albums, No Angel and Life for Rent, are among the best-selling albums in UK Chart history, and both are in the top 10 best-selling albums of the 2000s in the UK. Her third and latest studio album, Safe Trip Home (2008), received critical praise to help maintain her success. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the song "If I Rise". Dido has been ranked #98 of Billboard 200 Artists Music Chart based on the success of her music in the first decade of the 21st century.


Early life

Dido was born at St. Mary Abbots hospital in Kensington, London, on Christmas Day 1971. On her birth certificate, her name was registered as Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong. Because she was born on Christmas Day, she also celebrates an "official birthday" on 25 June, following the example of Paddington Bear. Her mother, Clare (née Collins), is a poet, and her father, William O'Malley Armstrong, was an Irish publisher and former managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson. Her older brother, Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong, is better known as record producer Rollo, part of the British electronica trio Faithless. Despite their impressive birth names, the pair were known from childhood by the names that are famous now — Dido and Rollo. Dido has made it clear that "Dido" is now her real name and not simply a stage name or nickname. Her name derives from that of the mythical Queen of Carthage. As a child, she had to deal with its ambiguous and unusual nature, which led to her being bullied and even to her pretending to have an ordinary name.


Personal life

Upon the release of No Angel in 1999, after a long time promoting the album, Dido broke up with her fiancé, entertainment lawyer Bob Page, after a seven-year relationship.
Dido is a keen Arsenal F.C. fan and regularly attended matches with her father as a child. Dido briefly dated Sol Campbell who played for the club at the time.
In February 2011, Dido posted a message on her official website, explaining to fans that she would not perform at the 83rd Academy Awards because she was pregnant and was expecting a baby with her husband.

Discography

  • No Angel (1999)
  • Life for Rent (2003)
  • Safe Trip Home (2008)

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Breaking Benjamin


Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, consisting of Benjamin Burnley and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four studio albums to date and a greatest hits album that was released on August 16, 2011. The group initially went on indefinite hiatus due to frontman Benjamin Burnley's recurring illnesses and inability to tour in mid-2010. Further complications arose in August 2011, when it was revealed that members Mark Klepaski and Aaron Fink had been fired from the band.
Breaking Benjamin has sold over 5 million albums in the US alone.


Musical style

Breaking Benjamin's musical style has been labeled as alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock, alternative metal, and nu metal.


Members

Current
  • Benjamin Burnley - lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1998–present)
  • Chad Szeliga - drums, percussion (2005–present)
Former
  • Aaron Fink - lead guitar (1998, 2001–2011)
  • Mark Klepaski - bass guitar (2001–2011)
  • Chris Lightcap - drums, percussion (1998–1999)
  • Nick Hoover - bass guitar (1998–1999)
  • Jonathan "Bug" Price - bass guitar, backing vocals (1999–2001)
  • Jeremy Hummel - drums, percussion (2001–2004)

Discography

  • Saturate (2002)
  • We Are Not Alone (2004)
  • Phobia (2006)
  • Dear Agony (2009)

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    Avril Lavigne


    Avril Ramona Lavigne (pronunciation: /ˈævrɨl ləˈvn/; av-ril lə-veen; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian musician, fashion designer, actress, and philanthropist. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but spent most of her youth in the small town of Napanee. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million. In 2002, when she was 17 years old, Lavigne broke onto the music scene with her debut album Let Go.
    Let Go made Lavigne the youngest female soloist to reach No. 1 in the UK, and the album was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. By 2009, over 18 million copies had been sold worldwide. Her breakthrough single, "Complicated", peaked at No. 1 in many countries around the world, as did the album Let Go. Her second album, Under My Skin, was released in 2004 and was her first album to peak at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, eventually selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. The Best Damn Thing, Lavigne’s third album, was released in 2007, becoming her third No. 1 album in the UK Albums Chart and featuring her first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single, "Girlfriend". Lavigne has scored five number-one singles worldwide, including "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "I'm with You", "My Happy Ending" and "Girlfriend". With more than 30 million copies of her albums sold worldwide, Lavigne is one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in the U.S., with over 10.25 million copies certified by the RIAA. Her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby, was released in March 2011. Goodbye Lullaby gave Lavigne her fourth top 10 album on the U.S. Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart and her third No. 1 album in both Japan and Australia. Three months after the release of Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne began work on her fifth album.
    Lavigne branched out from recording music, pursuing careers in feature film acting and designing clothes and perfumes. She voiced a character in the animated film, Over the Hedge, in 2006. That same year, she made her on-screen feature film debut in Fast Food Nation. In 2008, Lavigne introduced her clothing line, Abbey Dawn, and in 2009, she released her first perfume, Black Star, which was followed by her second perfume, Forbidden Rose, in 2010 and her third perfume, Wild Rose, in 2011. In July 2006, Lavigne married her boyfriend of two years, Deryck Whibley, lead singer and guitarist for Sum 41. The marriage lasted a little over three years, and in October 2009, Lavigne filed for divorce. Whibley and Lavigne continued to work together, with Whibley producing her fourth album, as well as Lavigne's single, "Alice", written for Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland.


    Early life

    Avril Ramona Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario. Her father, Jean-Claude Lavigne, named her "Avril" after the French word for the month of April. At the age of two, she began singing church songs with her mother, Judith-Rosanne "Judy" (née Loshaw). Judy recognized her two-year-old daughter's talents after hearing her sing "Jesus Loves Me" in church.Lavigne has an older brother, Matthew, and a younger sister, Michelle, both of whom teased her when she sang. "My brother used to knock on the wall because I used to sing myself to sleep and he thought it was really annoying."
    When Lavigne was five years old, the family moved to Napanee, Ontario, a town with an approximate population of 5,000. Although she struggled with paying attention in school, sometimes being kicked out of class for misbehaving, her parents supported her singing. Her father bought her a microphone, a drum kit, a keyboard, several guitars, and converted their basement into a studio. When Lavigne was 14, her parents would take her to karaoke sessions. Lavigne also performed at country fairs, singing songs by Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks, and Shania Twain. She also began writing her own songs. Her first song was called "Can't Stop Thinking About You", about a teenage crush, which she described as "cheesy cute".






    Musical style and songwriting

    Themes in Lavigne's music include messages of self-empowerment from a female or an adolescent view. Lavigne believes her "songs are about being yourself no matter what and going after your dreams even if your dreams are crazy and even if people tell you they're never going to come true."On her debut album, Let Go, Lavigne preferred the less mainstream songs, such as "Losing Grip", instead of her more radio-friendly singles, such as "Complicated", saying that "the songs I did with the Matrix... were good for my first record, but I don't want to be that pop anymore." Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, had deeper personal themes underlying each song. Lavigne explained, "I've gone through so much, so that's what I talk about.... Like boys, like dating or relationships". In contrast, her third album, The Best Damn Thing, was not personal to her. "Some of the songs I wrote didn't even mean that much to me. It's not like some personal thing I'm going through." Her objective in writing the album was simply to "make it fun". Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne's fourth album, was much more personal than her earlier records, with Lavigne describing the album as "more stripped down, deeper. All the songs are very emotional".
    Growing up, Lavigne listened to Blink-182, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox Twenty and Shania Twain, and her influences include Courtney Love and Janis Joplin.Because of these influences, musical genres, and her personal style, the media often defined her as punk, something she denied being. Lavigne’s close friend and guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, said, "It's a very touchy subject to a lot of people, but the point is that Avril isn't punk, but she never really pretended to claim to come from that scene. She had pop punk music and the media ended up doing the rest". Lavigne also commented on the matter: "I have been labeled like I'm this angry girl, [a] rebel... punk, and I am so not any of them."
    Most of critics identify Lavigne as some form beetween teen pop and pop-punk: Publications such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NME, MusicMight, IGN and Popmatters have identified Avril Lavigne as a mix of rock, teen pop and pop-punk.
    While Lavigne denied being angry, her interviews were still passionate about the media's lack of respect for her songwriting. "I am a writer, and I won't accept people trying to take that away from me", adding that she had been writing "full-structured songs" since she was 14. Despite this, Lavigne’s songwriting has been questioned throughout her career. The songwriting trio, the Matrix, with whom Lavigne wrote songs for her debut album, claimed that they were the main songwriters of Lavigne’s singles, "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi" and "I'm with You". Lavigne denied this, asserting that she was the primary songwriter for every song on the album. "[N]one of those songs aren't from me". In 2007, Chantal Kreviazuk, who wrote with Lavigne on her second album, accused Lavigne of plagiarism and criticised her songwriting. "Avril doesn't really sit and write songs by herself or anything". Lavigne also disclaimed this, and considered taking legal action against Kreviazuk for "clear defamation" against her character. Kreviazuk later apologised: "Avril is an accomplished songwriter and it has been my privilege to work with her". Shortly after that, Tommy Dunbar, founder of the 1970s band, the Rubinoos, sued Lavigne, her publishing company, and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald for allegedly stealing parts of "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" for her song "Girlfriend". Gottwald defended Lavigne, stating, "me and Avril wrote the song together…. It has the same chord progressions as ten different Blink-182 songs, the standard changes you'd find in a Sum 41 song. It's the Sex Pistols, not the Rubinoos." In January 2008, the lawsuit was closed after a confidential settlement had been reached.




    Backing band


    Current members
    • Al Berry – bass guitar, backing vocals (2007–present)
    • Rodney Howard – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2007–present)
    • Steve Ferlazzo – electronic keyboard, backing vocals (2007–present)
    • Jim McGorman – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2007–present)
    • Steve Fekete – lead guitar, backing vocals (2008–present)

    Past members
    • Mark Spicoluk – bass guitar, backing vocals (April – September 2002)
    • Jesse Colburn – rhythm guitar (2002 – January 2004)
    • Evan Taubenfeld – lead guitar, backing vocals (2002 – September 2004)
    • Craig Wood – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, vocals (2004 – January 2007)
    • Matt Brann – drums, percussion, vocals on (2002 – February 2007)
    • Charlie Moniz – bass guitar (2002 – February 2007)
    • Devin Bronson – lead guitar, backing vocals (2004–2008)
    • Sofia Toufa – backing vocals, dancer (2007 – October 2008)
    • Lindsay Bluafarb – backing vocals, dancer (2007 – October 2008)

    Discography

    • Let Go (2002)
    • Under My Skin (2004)
    • The Best Damn Thing (2007)
    • Goodbye Lullaby (2011)

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