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An American Rock band, “Breaking Benjamin”, consisting of Benjamin Burnley- the vocalist, Aaron Fink- lead guitarist, Mark Klepaski- the bass player and Chad Szeliga-percussion player and drummer, was formed in the year 1998.

The band initially after their formation launched their independent, Breaking Benjamin EP, which was a huge success and sold around 2000 copies. Later in the year 2002, the band signed with Hollywood Records and released first full length; label Saturate, which marked their debut as a famous rock band. This album scored second position on Billboard top Heatseekers chart. The album has many popular singles of the band including “Polyamorous”, “Skin”, “Medicate”, “Next to nothing”, “Sugarcoat” and more.

After the success of their first album, the band released their second album “We are not alone” in 2004. The album consisted of popular track “So cold” which immediately reached second position on the US billboard mainstream rock chart. Not only this, the track persisted for thirty seven weeks in the list of top 20 billboard charts. The album sold 48000 copies in its first week of release, giving it a platinum status in 2005. The other tracks that hit the charts included “sooner or later”, “Rain”, “Forget it”, “Follow” and more.
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If you’re someone who loves to listen to alternative rock then songs like “Yellow”, “Fix you” and “The Scientist” should sound very familiar to you. If you’re not very familiar then these songs were by the London based, alternative rock band called Coldplay. This band, formed in 1998, has achieved great heights in the music industry. they’ve even been compared to musical sensations like U2, Travis and even Radiohead.

Now originally this band was called Pectoralz can consisted of Chris Martin on vocals, keyboard and guitar, Jonny Buckland on the lead guitar and Guy Berryman on bass guitar. In 1997 this group changed their name again and this time it was to Starfish and they used to perform gigs at small pubs.

Then the band was finally joined by its final member, Will Champion on the drums and they finally changed their name to Coldplay. Now the bands very first single was called Safety EP. Now the first release after Coldplay joined Fierce Panda which is an independent label was called Brothers and Sisters EP consisting of 3 tracks. Now after this they recorded another EP which was called The Blue Room. Now during the recording of this, Martin had kicked out Champion from the band but had later on pleaded for his return.
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The band Jonas Brothers is one of the most sought after band in the whole world. Its popularity does not end in the United States of America but rather transcends as far as in some Asian countries. The Jonas Brothers did not only hook the fans with their great looks. Their approach to musicality of pop to rock captures the hearts of many young people, well, especially the girls. Since the popularity of the band is intensifying, the demand to see them live in concerts or series of concerts is increasing.

Jonas Brothers will be doing series of concerts in Florida on the 18th and 19th of August with upcoming live performances in the Time Warner Cable Arena on the 21st of September and would still do some shows on the 22nd and 23rd of the same month at the Philips and Rupp Arena respectively.
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After 11 long years of waiting KISS has finally returned with a new album “Sonic Boom”. Many will be quite impressed especially if they had been disappointed with the last few albums that came out in the 90’s. In “Sonic Boom” Kiss has truly gotten their act together. It is good to see them return in style. The 90’s were not the best for this band but they seem to have redeemed themselves in this new album.

Gene Simmons is absolutely amazing on bass and finally shows it. Many of us had forgotten how good he was. Tommy Thayer gets to strut his stuff which is great. Thayer is finally getting some of the attention he has deserved for a long time.

Gene Simmonds voice is as amazing as always and will have the women wishing they could be with him and the guys wishing they were him.
Many of the song lyrics are pretty incredible. “Modern Day Delilah” is a great song that appears to get even better every time you hear the words. Isn’t that the great thing about certain songs you just hit replay time after time in the car. It doesn’t hurt that Paul Stanley is the one singing the vocals.
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Taylor Swift has been almost everywhere in the year 2009, and one cannot deny the fact that there has been no other star who could match her persona. She has won all the major trophies at the award ceremony of Country Music Association awards and has been nominated for eight categories in the Grammy awards, 2009. When it comes to female performers people usually look for innocence and when they find it then they applaud and appreciate it.

These days Taylor swift is seen as all new rising sensations. Her innocence and charming personality are seen as major factors that attribute to her success. She is refreshing and her inescapable sexual presence makes her more popular.

It’s been said really many times before that Taylor Swift is the perfect and a real deal. Most of the time, she writes all her songs herself. Her innocent songs reveals her truly princess heart and also depicts her mentality. In most of her songs, she places value on purity and morality. She has exuded beauty from inside out that reminds all the girls and women from all the ages that they can be fearless, hopeful and beautiful.

In a very short span of time, she has delivered many successful and exciting concerts like Tom Petty in 2007, life house in 2008 and many more. Sometimes in some of her concerts it has been seen that due to her inexperience in the stage performing, or may be because of her adolescent awkwardness; some of her body movements are uncomfortable like head throws and frolics. Due to this, her band members sometimes need to our stage her. However, this cannot affect her talent because with time this will be easily finessed.
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