Onyx

   
Artist: Onyx

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   Hip-Hop
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Groove On

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


   
 Triggernometry

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 21


   
 Bacdafucup Part 2

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Shut 'Em Down

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 19


   
 All We Got Iz Us

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 15


   
 Bacdafucup

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 18


   
 Instrumentals Vol. 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Instrumentals Vol. 1

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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Onyx's cheering, in-your-face firebrand of high-volume rapping proven to be more at family in the slam infernal region than on the dancefloor and brought the rap quartette clamant chart success. Originally formed in Queens, NY, during 1990, the members of Onyx (Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, Big DS, and DJ Suave Sonny Caeser) met spell running as barbers. The ring honed their rhymed skills and act by playing at local clubs, which eventually gained the care of Run-D.M.C.'s Jam Master Jay, world Health Organization signed the grouping to his label, JMJ Records, and even helped produce Onyx's debut full-length, Bacdafucup, in 1993. The album turned out to be a platinum-certified crush, spurred on by the runaway winner of the hit single "Slam," which went on to become matchless of the year's biggest belt hits. The group confirmed that they were simply as content attracting a fleshy metal audience by a geminate of collaborations with the N.Y.C. hard-core metallic element outfit Biohazard (a remix of "Slam" credited to Bionyx, and the title track to the movement pictorial matter Sound judgment Night). The album even outfox tabu such smashed contest as Dr. Dre's rap authoritative The Chronic at the Soul Train Awards for Best Rap Album that year. But Onyx was unable to cover their commercial success as such subsequent albums as 1995's All We Got Iz Us and 1998's Close 'Em Down came and went without much ostentation. The late '90s proverb members Sticky and Fredro try their bridge player at playing, landing floater on HBO's Strapped, Spike Lee's Clockers, the Rhea Pearlman/Danny De Vito-directed Sunset Park, and Brandy's hit TV render Moesha. The assorted members tested to launch solo careers, just the records never connected with audiences. With the rap genre's continuous changes and shifts, they decided to try a comeback and reappeared with 2002's Bacdafucup, Pt. II.





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"Making out with him is like the yummiest lollipop, dipped in sunshine and wrapped in a masculine wrapper! That's the only way I can think to describe it." —Anne Hathaway on kissing Steve Carell in Get Smart [Contact Music]

"It's a B-movie. It's the best B-movie you'll see." —M. Night Shyamalan keeps raising our expectations for The Happening [MTV]

"No matter what I do, I don't have Simon telling me how dreadful it was." —David Cook on his butchering the national anthem before last night's Lakers-Celtics game [People]

"I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to." —Gilles Marini, the naked guy from Sex and the City, on staying in shape [Reuters]

"I don't know if this opportunity will ever come around again, so I want to abuse it as much as I can." —Bow Wow on abusing the acting opportunities that are coming his way [MTV]

Lucas Says He Reassured Spielberg About Indy Leaks

Director Steven Spielberg was "depressed" over the number of leaks about the plot of the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that appeared in the press and online and had to be reassured by George Lucas that they would not affect the film's box office, Lucas disclosed in an interview with the London Sunday Times. The producer told the newspaper that he told Spielberg that audiences would not be "coming to see the plot. They're coming to see Steve Spielberg interpret a story. You can't get that any other way than by seeing the movie."


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Estradasphere

   
Artist: Estradasphere

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Palace of Mirrors

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 Quadropus

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Silent Elk of Yesterday

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18


   
 It's Understood

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 Buck Fever

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16

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Unmistakably derived from the genre-bending loins of data-based rockers Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere respectfully lives up to the challenging musical aims of their wildly talented mentors. Tim Harris, violin and trumpet, Dave Murray, drums, Jason Schimmel, guitar and banjo, bassist Tim Smolens, and John Wooley, sax, met in the late '90s at the U.C.-Santa Cruz school of music, where they shared an interest in the tackiest aspects of pop culture and the to the highest degree excessive forms of music.


Their first record album, It's Understood, appeared with following to no commercial-grade fanfare in the leap of 2000 as the number one spillage on Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance's homespun label Mimicry Records. Their feverish ruffle of jazz, alloy, video recording game themes, and blue grass was eaten up by hard-core Mr. Bungle fans, merely went largely unnoticed elsewhere. With instrumentality resembling Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Estradasphere doesn't ever call forth immediate sonic comparisons to Mr. Bungle, merely their manic, short-attention-span philosophy of writing apparently does. Drawing on influences all over the musical spectrum, a great deal inside the same birdcall, Estradasphere amply demonstrates the breadth of their technical musical talent on a song-by-song basis. Although their first album doesn't certify the conciseness of Mr. Bungle or Secret Chiefs 3, it stretches out as an telling musical landscape for such a young set of musicians.


Accompanied onstage by a collecting of Bohemian artists, ranging from fire-breathers to book-readers, Estradasphere exudes an excess of vernal muscularity and creativity, which, with a decorous amount of packaging, could finally grant them a solid resistance following.