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The Ugandan pharmaceutical company Quality Chemicals later this year will begin producing antiretroviral drugs aimed at preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission system in the country, George Baguma, the company's music director of marketing, announced on Tuesday, the Monitor/AllAfrica.com reports. The party expects to start producing the drugs by November, according to the Monitor/AllAfrica.com. More than 25,000 children each year in Uganda contract HIV from their mothers during labor or through breastfeeding. "These drugs will grant [HIV-positive] mothers to safely breastfeed without any worry about infecting their children," Baguma said.
Of the estimated 50,000 children in Uganda who pauperization antiretrovirals, only about 12,000 have access to the drugs, the Monitor/AllAfrica.com reports. According to Baguma, Quality Chemicals imports the latest ingredients used in the production of affordable antiretrovirals to ensure widespread access and to forestall drug resistance (Lugya, Monitor/AllAfrica.com, 8/14).
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Thursday 21 August 2008
Monday 11 August 2008
Greg Howe
Artist: Greg Howe
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Guitar Virtuoso
Discography:
Hyperacuity
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Ascend
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Five
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Howe II: High Gear
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Greg Howe
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Easton, PA's Greg Howe was a breathing place of refreshful airwave amidst the ostensibly incessant flow of harmonic small guitar virtuosos gushing onward from the Shrapnel Records judge in the late '80s. While other post-Yngwie Malmsteen players of the "tittle guitar" music genre were pursuing the dramatic neoclassic vein, Howe brought a sensation of funk and groove to the table that was sorely required. Howe paying his dues acting the Easton/Allentown clubhouse tour in the '80s with the banding Duke, featuring his chum Al on lead vocals. When one of his implemental demos grabbed the ear of talent scout and Shrapnel Records proprietor Mike Varney, Howe was signed to the Shrapnel judge in 1987.
His all-instrumental debut, Greg Howe, featuring the talents of Billy Sheehan and Atma Anur on bass and drums, respectively, was released in 1988, to considerable hail. Howe's second base album, Senior high Gear, released under the nickname Howe 2, was less a solo record album than a Van Halen-styled band exertion, featuring his comrade Al Howe on lead vocals. The band skint up later on cathartic its more commercially minded follow-up, Now Hear This, in 1990 and Greg Howe returned to making all-instrumental albums in his dwelling studio, pickings a decidedly more fusion-styled direction.
Howe released Self-examination in 1993 and Uncertain Terms in 1994 and has continued to produce albums at a prolific pace since then. Aside from cathartic Parallax and Five in 1995 and 1996, respectively, Howe collaborated with mate Pennsylvania whiz and Shrapnel labelmate Richie Kotzen on the Tilt album in 1995 and once again on 1997's Richie Kotzen/Greg Howe Project. His net Shrapnel album, Ascend, was released in 1999, followed by his debut on the Tone Center judge, Hyperacuity, released in 2000.
External of his solo calling, Greg Howe is too a sought sideman wHO has toured with the likes of Michael Jackson and N'Sync.
Danny Becher
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Michael Jackson To Release New Album This Month
A new Michael Jackson album, which features eighteen of the singer's biggest hits, will be released later this month.
The tracklist for 'King of Pop', which is beingness released to coincide with Jackson's 50th birthday, is to be chosen altogether by his British fans.
Jackson's fans have until this Sunday (August tenth) to select the charles Herbert Best tracks from a list of fifty.
Which songs would you opt for the album? You can control all those being considered below.
Why non post your tracklist in the comment form infra? Become a member of Gigwise and it will appear automatically.
As previously reported on Gigwise, the Jackson 5 are to be honoured with a BMI Icon awarding at the Urban Awards next month.
So far, Jackson is the only brother who hasn't confirm his attendance at the ceremony.
Possible tracks for 'King of Pop':
'Billie Jean'
'Smooth Criminal'
'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'
'In The Closet'
'Black Or White'
'Will You Be There'
'Earth Song'
'Thriller'
'You Are Not Alone'
'Who Is It'
'Blood On The Dancefloor'
'P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)'
'Leave Me Alone'
'Liberian Girl'
'Heal The World'
'Jam'
'Give In To Me'
'Another Part Of Me'
'You Rock My World'
'Man In The Mirror'
'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough'
'Cry'
'She's Out Of My Life'
'Gone Too Soon'
'Beat It'
'Workin' Day And Night'
'Bad'
'Human Nature'
'The Way You Make Me Feel'
'The Lady In My Life'
'Scream'
'For All Time'
'Dirty Diana'
'Remember The Time'
'They Don't Care About Us'
'Childhood'
'Stranger In Moscow'
'Ghost'
'History'
'Is It Scary'
'One More Chance'
'Break Of Dawn'
'Rock With You'
'Butterflies'
'Off The Wall'
'Speechless'
'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin''
'We Are Here To Change The World'
'The Girl Is Mine'
'Say Say Say'
Michael Jackson - Through The Years
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Turbonegro
Artist: Turbonegro
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Retox
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Small Feces
Year: 2005
Tracks: 19
Party Animals
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Darkness Forever!
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Scandinavian Leather
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Ass Cobra
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Apocalypse Dudes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Never Is Forever
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
Small Feces (cd2)
Year:
Tracks: 23
Trashy, epicurean, decadent fun was the nidus of Turbonegro, a stripe that was formed in Oslo, Norway, in the '90s just had more than in common with '70s and '80s pop-metal, hard rock, and glam metal than with the alternative rock played by their Scandinavian peers. Blending traces of punk with such influences as Alice Cooper, Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, and Judas Priest, Turbonegro's late-'90s recordings were over the big top and lofty of it. Although all of its members ar Norwegian, all of the band's lyrics ar in English. Lead singer Hank Von Helvete, sings quite convincingly in English, and solely the slightest traces of a Scandinavian emphasis come through. Other Turbonegro members of the tardy '90s included leash guitarist Euroboy, bassist Happy Tom, rhythm guitar player Rune Rebellion, keyboardist/percussionist Pål Pot Pamparius, and drummer Chris Summers.
In 1997, Turbonegro recorded Apocalypse Dudes, which was released in the U.S. by Man's Ruin in early 1999. However, the group had unkept up at the end of 1998; Shadow Forever!, a selection of live performances from the band's final class, was released in early 2001. The detachment, however, was transient, and Turbonegro were back for tour of duty dates in 2002, followed by the handout of Nordic Leather in 2003. A handful of northern European dates coincided the acquittance of the band's seventh album, Party Animals, in 2005. A collection of remixes appeared in 2006 as Little Feces, Vol. 1, with the full-length Retox arriving in 2007.
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Pharao
Artist: Pharao
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Pharao - The Return (1997)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
Pharao
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
The German duo Pharao consisting of Indian descent singer Kyra Pharao (innate 1971) and American rapper Deon Blue (innate Marcus Deon Thomas in 1970) debuted with a unmarried called "I Show You Secrets," followed by a self-titled album produced in 1994 by Alexander Hawking and DJ Stevie Steve. Waliser Eric Martin (innate 1971) replaced Deon Blue before issue Pharao's 1998 album The Return.
Hook n Sling
Artist: Hook n Sling
Genre(s):
Breakbeat
Discography:
Number Cruncher Vinyl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Lord Finesse
The Platters
Artist: The Platters
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
The Original Platters: The Very Best Of
Year: 1987
Tracks: 16
Selection CD 1 of 2
Year:
Tracks: 36
Jolie: 'Twins Will Be A Challenge'
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt fear the addition of twins to their growing family will be such a challenge they've asked the actor's parents to standby as potential caregivers. Jolie admits she was stunned when she discovered she was expecting two babies at once, expanding her brood of adopted and natural kids from four to six overnight. She tells the new issue of America's Entertainment Weekly, "We weren't expecting twins... but we like a challenge. "(Brad's) mom and dad are on standby to come out (to France) and help." And she's determined to make sure her other kids are included in the twins' life from day one: "They're old enough to feel included, to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves. "We're trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing... Everybody gets special time." Jolie is expected to give birth to the twins at an exclusive Provence wine estate she and Pitt have hired for the summer .
See Also
See Also
AK1200
Artist: AK1200
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Prepare For Assault
Year:
Tracks: 14
Mixed Live
Year:
Tracks: 16
Lock and Roll
Year:
Tracks: 16
Fully Automatic
Year:
Tracks: 17
When Orlando native AK 1200 started his career in electronic music in the late '80s, nigh no one in the rural area had of all time heard of it. Nevertheless, the artist managed to carve stunned an extremely successful career in the land of resistance electronic music spell at the same time introducing myriad mass to the up-and-coming genre. At this point, he boasts one of the most illustrious careers of anyone in the business. He is not only a DJ, only besides a producer, promoter, remixer, cartridge clip publisher, and record store owner, not to mention a pioneer of breakbeat, jungle, and drum'n'bass.
The artist, whose real name is Dave Minner, first started playing generic early techno music in Orlando clubs in 1989. He has constantly had passably progressive, jumpy, and specific musical tastes, however, and social club techno was not a very good couple for him. The emergent U.K. breakbeat level-headed, on the other hand, suited him identical substantially. AK promptly launch his niche in hard-core breaks and left the mainstream techno scene behind forever. He was implemental in helping keep breakbeat alive in the U.S. subway system scene after it had disoriented popularity in the U.K. As the early '90s byword the birth of hobo camp and, later on, drum'n'bass in the U.S. subway system, AK constitute his station as a tireless initiate of the new effectual. He toured extensively, scored a abidance at San Francisco's legendary ball club Spundae, and published the magazine publisher Junglized with musical co-worker DJ Jeffee. His shape was clean predictable: He would champ a novel subgenre but until everyone else had heard around it and jumped onto the bandwagon. When that happened, he'd slue off into some other young niche of electronica that no i had even heard of. Finally, in the mid-'90s, he decided to centering on producing and remixing, jumping into a fertile career that included collaborations with the likes of Keoki and Rabbit in the Moon. In 1999, he came full-circle, headlining the national Planet of the Drums hitch. For this hitch, he was the organiser and give, as well as the star.
AK's discography and resumé read like a wash list of who's world Health Organization in tube electronica. He has remixed tracks for A Tribe Called Quest and the Crystal Method and collaborated with Dieselboy and Danny Breaks. His lengthy discography includes releases on Moving Shadow and Moonshine. Full-length releases include Prepare for Assault and Lock & Roll: A Drum & Bass DJ Mix. He also followed in Carl Cox's footsteps, releasing the second Sundry Live record album on Moonshine Records in 2000.
Spears & Gibson to holiday together?
Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75
Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as the beleaguered police chief Martin Brody in 'Jaws', has died. He was 75.
The two-time Oscar nominee died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital spokesperson Leslie Taylor said the actor had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past two years.
New Jersey-born Scheider earned his first Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Eight years later he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV adventure series 'SeaQuest DSV'.
The two-time Oscar nominee died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital spokesperson Leslie Taylor said the actor had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past two years.
New Jersey-born Scheider earned his first Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Eight years later he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV adventure series 'SeaQuest DSV'.
Sonic Youth set for special July 4 show
Sonic Youth are gearing up for a special afternoon show on over the July 4 holiday weekend in New York City.
The band will perform at Battery Park as part of the River To River NYC series of events, which will also see performances this summer from A Place To Bury Strangers, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Dirty Projectors.
Meanwhile, Sonic Youth main man Thurston Moore is scheduled to read from his book �??No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980�?? at Other Music in New York tomorrow evening.
The independent record store will host a reading, signing and release party for the book which was written by Moore and Byron Coley.
The event happens at Other Music, 15 East 4th at 6.30pm
--By our New York staff.
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The band will perform at Battery Park as part of the River To River NYC series of events, which will also see performances this summer from A Place To Bury Strangers, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Dirty Projectors.
Meanwhile, Sonic Youth main man Thurston Moore is scheduled to read from his book �??No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980�?? at Other Music in New York tomorrow evening.
The independent record store will host a reading, signing and release party for the book which was written by Moore and Byron Coley.
The event happens at Other Music, 15 East 4th at 6.30pm
--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.
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