Since 2002’s debut success hit “Hot in Here”, Nelly has established himself in the hip hop scene with little effort, his distinct Missouri style sets him apart the usual Hip Hop scene, accentuating parties and good living to guns and violence.

Brass Knuckles features 14 tracks that are set out to take you into Los Angels’ current lifestyle of silicone breasts, stormed gangsters Snoop Dogg acts as the cheerful LA tour guide on the chorus.

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Brass Knuckles by Nelly

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Video: Big Beach Boutique 4 - Danny Tenaglia and Layo & Bushwacka

• Arty McGlyn
• Camera Obscura
• Nollaig Casey
• Jose Gonzalez
• Shomyo Buddhist Monks
• Kasai Masai
• Maire Ni Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
• Atongo Zimba

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Canterbury Festival 2008

Mixed by the labelmeister himself, this first volume of classics, exclusives and brand new heavies is guaranteed to get the blood flowing, the synapses snapping and to have you forgetting the gathering autumnal gloom.

The obvious big-hitters are names such as Francois Dubois, brother of Frank and Parisien master of silky smooth keyboard-led deep trance. Also on call is Shur-I-Kan. Still pumping out the live improv action beloved of followers of London’s Bays, he also appears here in his solo guise for a reprise of this year’s instant classics, Gripper and Twist. But this is the tip of the iceberg in this heavenly collection.

Add in some Sergio Munoz, the techno buzz of Office Gossip, and even Scope’s Deep Track and you have a collection that’s high on warmth, electro goodness and above all good to come back to over and over again. Urban Torque seems to be this year’s label to watch. You heard it here first.

Source: BBC

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Urban Torque Vol. 1: Another Great Compilation from urbantorque recordings

Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury Festival founder, said yesterday that by the evening they’ve sold around 100,000 tickets, despite selling out within hours in previous years.

Many people are saying that this year’s line-up is also to blame for the slow volume of ticket sales. Jay-Z is headlining the Somerset event which hasn’t been widely welcome.

Mr Eavis said:

It’s a nice little sale for a Sunday morning. And that’s without them even knowing who’s playing - we haven’t announced our line-up yet. In previous years all tickets were sold out within a couple of hours, but I think three years of mud may have taken their toll, but even so, 100,000 isn’t bad.

Last year, 177,000 people attended the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and more than 700 acts played.

The festival has been criticised in recent years for becoming more commercialised and changing the target audience, brought on by new strict ticketing measures. Glastonbury is also facing growing competition from smaller festivals, such as the Connect Festival, at Inveraray Castle, launched last year.

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Glastonbury 2008 Has Slowest Ticket Sales in Years

Global Gathering is rated the world’s biggest dance festival and unique camping weekender, with a line up that continuously features the best DJs on the planet. Therefore with unsurprisingly all tickets sold out well in advance.

World class DJs such as Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Erick Morillo and David Guetta will not disapoint the 55,000 people that are expected to turn up at Marston Field on the the 25^th and 26^th July for the Global Gathering 2008 to steep up the incredible atmosphere.

The Global Gathering organisers know their crowd, and once again they’ve invited the legendary regular dance floor spinners - Sasha, Ferry Corsten, Roger Sanchez and 2ManyDJs will surely fire up souls on this epic weekend.

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Excellent Line Up at Global Gathering 2008

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Portishead’s Latest Video: Machine Gun

The new album is called ‘Third’ and will be recorded live in Portishead - the town from which the band took their name – as such the programme will be titled ‘Portishead In Portishead’.

The broadcast will be available to stream on the Current TV website for two months after originally being shown.

‘Portishead In Portishead’ will be broadcast on April 11 at 10pm (BST).

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Portishead In Portishead: TV Show to Debut New Album

Here’s some advice for buying tickets released by XFM:

To buy the tickets, you’ll need to have your registration number (and the registration numbers and surnames of each of those coming with you). Only registered applications will be catered for.

OK, with your registration number in hand, you can buy your ticket(s) either online or on the telephone. Historically, the majority of tickets have always been sold online but organiser Michael Eavis has promised more tickets to be available via the phone.

Seetickets.com is the only website authorised to sell tickets so DON’T buy them from anywhere else.

This year’s telephone number 0800 079 2008.

Weekend tickets cost £155 each plus an additonal £5 booking fee and £4 p&p.

Debit cards, cheques or postal orders are the only acceptable methods of payment and the only debit cards accepted are Visa Debit, Visa Electron, Switch/Maestro and Solo. So that’s NO CREDIT CARDS.

Cheques and postal orders must be sent within five working days to:

PO BOX 9091, Nottingham, NG1 9DA. All cheques must be payable to Glastonbury Festival 2008 Ltd.

Glastonbury 2008 will be held between June 27-29 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset.

This year’s Pyramid Stage headliners are Kings Of Leon, Jay-Z and The Verve.

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Glastonbury Festival 2008 Ticket Details Revealed

Music.Pofire.org proudly presents the techno house legend, Little Mike, of Phrunky fame. Great dance music mix, hope you enjoy. Cheers Mike!

1. October - Homosapiens [Caravan]
2. Unknown
3. Minilogue - Hispaniola [Cocoon]
4. Anja Schneider - Unknown [Mobilee]
5. Matthias Tanzmann - Hotel Sapporo [Moon Harbour]
6. Dan Ghenacia - Cycles [Freak N Chic]
7. Umek - Unknown (Tigerskin Remix) [Unknown]
8. Holger Zilske - Spooky Kissing [Playhouse]
9. Unknown
10. Joris Voorn - Decay [Green]
11. Danton Eeprom - Comfessions Of An Opium Eater [Tsuba]
12. Szenario - Peaseasy (Raudive Remix) [Leftroom]
13. Thomas Schumacher - (I Forget) [Superstition]
14. Unknown
15. Supermayer - The Art Of Letting Go (Ewan Pearson Remix) [Kompakt]
16. Anthony Collins - Unknown [Tuning Spork]
17. Unknown
18. Matthias Tanzmann - (I forget) [Moon Harbour]
19. Unknown
20. I:Cube - (I forget) [Versatile]

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Guest Mix: Little Mike - Horrible Programming & Shameful Mixes Part 1