Pick of the week: Rock and pop

N*E*R*D
Carling Academy, Sheffield, Monday 18
Academy 1, Manchester, Wednesday 20
Funking rock from the Neptunes spin-off world Health Organization, having channelled the energies of dead souls, ar now eyesight sounds.

Leeds Festival 2008
Bramham Park, Wetherby
Friday 22
An emo and indiepunk friendly throwaway, with the likes of Feeder and Slipknot brush up against the Cribs and Conor Oberst. It's all about hoods and trainers, kids.

Solfest
South Bay Beach, Wigton
Friday 22
Strangely marvelous mix of hula-hooping, knitathons and willow-making workshops among the likes of Supergrass and R�is�n Murphy. Not at the same metre, mind.

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Artist: Happy Mondays: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock Indie Other     Discography:      Uncle Dysfunktional    Year: 2007    Tracks: 13      Step On    Year: 2005    Tracks: 3      Greatest Hits    Year: 1999    Tracks: 15      Bummed    Year: 1999    Tracks: 10      Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches    Year: 1990    Tracks: 10 Along with the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays were the leadership of the late-'80s/early-'90s terpsichore club-influenced Manchester view, experiencing a brief here and now in the spotlight before collapsing in 1992. While the Stone Roses were based in '60s belt down in the mouth, adding simply a little hint of dance music, Happy Mondays immersed themselves in the golf-club and rave culture, finally decent the most recognisable isthmus of that drug-fueled view. The Mondays' music relied heavily on the legal and calendar method of birth control of house music, spiked with '70s soul licks and swirling '60s psychedelia. It was brilliant, colourful medicine that had fractured melodies that never rather gelled into cohesive songs. Inadvertently or not, Happy Mondays personified the atrocious face of gush culture. They were thugs, purely and simply -- they brought proscribed the latent violence that put down to a lower place the airfoil of any dose finish, even one as seemingly beatific as England's late-'80s/early-'90s mouth off scene. Under the leadership of vocaliser Shaun Ryder, the radical sounded and acted like thugs, peculiarly in comparison with their peace-loving peers, the Stone Roses. Ryder's lyrics were twisted and surrealistic, crocked with outlandish pop acculturation references, drug slang, and forbidding gender. Appropriately, their music was as convoluted. Happy Mondays were one of the first rock bands to integrate hip-hop techniques into their music. They didn't sample, but they borrowed melodies and lyrics and, in the process, attached rock and roll profanation. For a band that historied their vulgarity and excess, Happy Mondays appropriately were undone by their addictions, just they left behind a surprisingly influential bequest, patent in everyone from dance bands like the Chemical Brothers to rock & rollers like Oasis. With their indorsement album, 1988's Bummed, Happy Mondays became British superstars, in particular Ryder. Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, released in 1990, marked the height of the band's popularity, creativity, and influence; although the disc made the Top hundred albums chart in America, it didn't establish them as stars in the U.S. After that, the fall was ready. By the time they released their next studio album, Yes, Please, Manchester had disappeared from public knowingness; it sold respectably, but the group didn't get the commercial impact that they had hardly deuce years earlier. Besides the want of public interest, Shaun Ryder had become addicted to diacetylmorphine, watering the dance band aside in the action. At a upper-level record undertake coming together, Ryder walked verboten for some "KY Fried Chicken," which was the band's slang for diacetylmorphine. He never returned and the group apace fell aside. Ryder and the Mondays' full-time social dancer, Bez, re-emerged in the mid-'90s with Black Grape. The band released its critically acclaimed debut, It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah, late in the summer of 1995. Black Grape's sound chased the same way as the Mondays, only with a harder, grittier boundary to their sound and lyrics. In 2007, 15 days since their last record, the band (negative about half the original members, including guitarist Mark Day) released their one-fifth studio record album, Uncle Dysfunktional.

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Eva Mendes' nipple too hot for TV

An advertising featuring Hollywood star Eva Mendes rolling around on a bed naked has been prohibited from screening on TV in America.

The ad, for Calvin Klein's new sweetness Secret Obsession, was prohibited because Mendez flashes her nipple in one scene.

"Between love and madness lies obsession," Mendes, 34, says in the ad. "Love ... madness. It's my secret."

An edited version is covering on cable TV in America.

The prohibition has seen the ad�become a strike on the internet, with more than 360,000 views on YouTube in just deuce days.

Calvin Klein president Tom Murry