Ulrich: 'Oasis helped us quit cocaine'

Metallica's Lars Ulrich has claimed that he was inspired to give up cocaine by Noel Gallagher.

The drummer aforementioned it was the Oasis guitarist's decision to quit taking the illegal substance at the end of '90s that prompted him to reevaluate his drug intake.

Ulrich told Quietus: "A couple of years ago I was like, 'You know? Enough of this. I don't need it'.

"It was literally something that happened one morning time, like 'Y'know? F**k that'.

"I was very impressed with Noel Gallagher. As you know, I'm an Oasis fanatic, and Noel was like 'You know what? No more cocaine!'

"I thought, 'If he can do it, everybody else can do it'."

He added: "I had my fun with it, it was always more of a social thing. We were ne'er like pealing around and spending days in john stalls, and peeking out the keyholes of doors for days."



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The Faint

   
Artist: The Faint

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Wet from Birth

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Danse Macabre

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


   
 Blank-wave Arcade

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Faint Remixes From by Dado

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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Billie Piper - Piper Fears Nudity Will Ruin Hollywood Career

Smegma

   
Artist: Smegma

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Rumblings

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


   
 Amgems

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 Disco Queen MCD

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


   
 Gewalt, Hass and Wut

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 4


   
 Schrammel Oi

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Nattering Nybobs Of Negativity

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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Smegma's roots lie in the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) scene of the mid-1970s, and all the same this long-running avant-rock collective, ar peerless of the few groups from that epoch that ar noneffervescent combat-ready today. With the musicians out of sight in arrears absurd pseudonyms, Smegma offered a strange psychedelic improvisational music, throwing in all sorts of odd instruments as well as tapes, and turntables. The group began in Pasadena, California in 1973 as a reaction to the bloated union rock of the day. They were unaware that other nearby groups had also formed to execute similar freeform experimental music. They became part of a work party of similar noise artists world Health Organization collected most nightly in the backroom of the Poo-Bah record storage in Pasadena, which in 1975 incorporate with the LAFMS. Smegma make always been a lax blackened market corporate, and former members included Amy Zonbambi, Chucko D. K. Fatts, Juk Suk Reet Meate, Dennis Duck, Cheezit-Ritz, Cheese-Bro, Dr. Id, Dr. Odd, and Reed Burn. Ace Ford Farren, world Health Organization joined the group in early 1974, introduced Smegma to half-crazed street performer and Zappa-protégé Wild Man Fisher and in deuce roger Huntington Sessions, on New Years Day of 1975 and a few months later, they recorded some tracks with Fisher on vocals. Smegma stirred to Portland, Oregon by the end of 1975 only remained in touch with the continue of the LAFMS crowd. After advent into courtyard on various LAFMS compilations, their first base LP, Glamour Girl 1941/Five Years Wasted was recorded and produced in their possess studio apartment in July 1978 and released by LAFMS the following year. They likewise released several 7" singles that same class on their take Pigface label. The following year bring them sharing a 7" with industrial pioneer Non (Boyd Rice), released by Mute. Throughout the eighties Smegma kept a scummy profile and continued to put out LPs, singles and cassettes on their own label, and now and once more gigged hot. With their world repute hard cemented, their LP Nattering Naybobs of Negativity was released by the UK pronounce Dead Mans Curve and the LP Smell the Remains by the German pronounce Dom. More albums came out in the mid-1990s on the Portland pronounce Tim/Kerr, including the LP Smegma Plays Merzbow/Merzbow Plays Smegma with Japanese noise creative person Merzbow. In the recent nineties rock and undulate source Richard Meltzer became their vocalizer, adding his verbal ramblings and sardonic learning ability to their jury-rigged thinking.





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Carrie Underwood's Heartbreak Revenge Through Fame

Carrie Underwood knows the way to get over a bad breakup – work hard and become more successful than your former beau.

The 25-year-old star has dated a series of Hollywood hunks including Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford and American football star Tony Romo.

And although Underwood insists she's not akin to the vengeful character in her hit song Before He Cheats, she does relish in the revenge her superstardom has already provided her against former flames.

She says: "Cheating is a deal breaker. If you cheat, you're gone. Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

"The best revenge I can think of is becoming famous."

Minor Threat

   
Artist: Minor Threat

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 First Demo Tape

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Complete Discography

   Year:    
Tracks: 26

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Minor Threat was the unequivocal Washington, D.C., hardcore punk rock banding, setting the style for the straightedge punk bowel movement of the other '80s. Led by vocaliser Ian MacKaye, the striation was staunchly independent and fiercely unplayful. Through their songs, the grouping rejected drugs and alcoholic drink, espoused anti-establishment politics, and lED a call for self-awareness. Every song was fast, sharp, and lethal, often clocking in at simply around a instant. Their speed and frenzy often hid their fairly catchy melodies, just the band's primary mapping was to vent fad. Over the course of action of trey days, Minor Threat released two EPs, one album, and several singles, all of which were quite pop in the American punk underground. Their records and concerts helped spawn straightedge, an American punk lifestyle based on the group's intense, clean-living political orientation. Following the disbandment of Minor Threat, MacKaye formed Fugazi, wHO became one of the more popular American indie rock bands of the late '80s and '90s.


The origins of Minor Threat lie in the Teen Idles, Ian MacKaye's first stria. MacKaye formed the Teen Idles patch he was attendance Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., and after he gradatory in 1980, he founded the Dischord record label with the intent of putting out his group's records through the mark. Shortly after commencement ceremony, the Teen Idles had humbled up and MacKaye had formed Minor Threat with early Idles drummer Jeff Nelson, early Government Issue bassist Brian Baker, and guitar player Lyle Preslar. By the end of the year, Minor Threat had released the singles "Pocket-size Threat" and "Straight Edge," and had played many concerts along the East Coast. Throughout 1981, they followed this same design, playacting a lot of concerts and releasing 7" singles. That year, they likewise released deuce EPs, Minor Threat and In My Eyes, both of which compiled their singles.


In 1982, bassist Baker had left and was replaced by Steve Hansen; Baker by and by played with the Meatmen, Junkyard, and Dag Nasty. With Hansen on plug-in, the chemical group recorded their only uncut album, Out of Step. Upon its 1983 waiver, the album became popular within the underground and Minor Threat were decorous alternative stars, which didn't sit well with MacKaye. By the end of the year, he stone-broke up the band. MacKaye and Nelson continued to run Dischord, which thrived well into the '90s. The mate likewise played together in some other band, Egg Hunt. Following the disbandment of Egg Hunt, Nelson played with a diversity of bands -- including Three and Senator Flux -- earlier devoting his energies to running Dischord. MacKaye played with Embrace, Skewbald, and Pailhead earlier forming Fugazi, world Health Organization carried on the esthetic, if not the sound, of Minor Threat.

J-Live

   
Artist: J-Live

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 The Best Part

   Year:    
Tracks: 24

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Brooklyn MC J-Live outset garnered notice with the spill of his 1995 single "Bragging Writes." Delivering his thoughtful lyrics with confidence and informality, J-Live's rapping was inviolable and his soul-inflected grooves immediately appealed to fans of metro hip-hop. A twelvemonth later he followed up with some other hit, "Hush the Crowd," and started to bring forth a palpable buzz. With tracks produced by luminaries such as Prince Paul, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock, the outlet of J-Live's full-length debut The Best Part was hotly awaited and the future looked promising for the ascendent MC. At this point, though, J-Live was incrust by a host of troubles. Amidst invariant label shambling and plagued by a series of illegal bootlegs, the spill of The Best Part was delayed for five age. There was some talk that J-Live was behind some of the bootlegs -- a few of which were of highly high quality -- and the ongoing saga became something of an subway system caption. In the meanwhile, J-Live worked as an one-eighth grade instructor in Brunswick and continued to prettify and refine his debut. He unbroken good company, making cameo appearances on hard albums like Handsome Boy Modeling School's So How's Your Girl? and J Rawls' The Essence of J Rawls. The Best Part finally enjoyed its official release in the fall of 2001. All of the Above followed one year later on, and 2003 brought a bipartite mini-LP-tribute to his early days, Always Has Been and Always Will Be.

Robert Downey Jr - Downey Blames Movie For Addiction

Former troubled actor ROBERT DOWNEY JR blames his role in 1980s cult film LESS THAN ZERO for fuelling his drug addiction.

The 43-year-old insists he only took drugs recreationally before he was cast as a cocaine addict in the 1987 film based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

Soon after completing the movie, Downey Jr's substance abuse worsened and he was jailed at California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran for a year for missing mandatory court-imposed drug tests.

He says, "Until that movie I took my drugs after work and on the weekends. That changed on Less Than Zero. The role was like the ghost of Christmas Future. I became an exaggeration of the character."

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