Alex Smoke - 6am
soulseek's better.and Alex Smoke's songs are awesome...remember listening to Incomunicado during a never ending solitary trip across Spain... sounds like an indigo foggy morning.

Singer Taylor Swift opened this year's Country Music Awards which was held at the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

The 19-year-old, who picked up two awards, also performed with rock band Def Leppard.

Kellie Pickler, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow struggled to keep straight faces for the cameras backstage.

Rapper T-Pain out shone all the other celebrities on the red carpet with his immense chain round his neck.

Charles Kelley, singer Hillary Scott and musician Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum took to the stage and performed together.

The crowd enjoyed Dierks Bentley's performance too.

Martina McBride, who was once dubbed the Celine Dion of country music, took time out to meet with fans outside the venue.

Keith Urban accepted the prize for collaborative video with Braid Paisley for Start a Band.

Paisley also won the award for best male video for Waitin' On A Woman.

Jennifer Nettles (L) and Kristian Bush (C) of Sugarland, performed with Fred Snider, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Keith Strickland of the B-52's.
I see your face in my mind as I drive away
'Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way
People are people
And sometimes we change our minds
But it's killing me to see you go after all this time
Mmm mmm mmmmmm
Mmm mmm mmm mmm
Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie
It's the kind of ending you don't really want to see
'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down
Now I don't know what to be without you around
And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand
And I can't breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
Never wanted this, never want to see you hurt
Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve
People are people and sometimes it doesn't work out
Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out
And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand
And I can't breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
It's 2AM
Feel like I just lost a friend
Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me
It's 2AM
Feel like I just lost a friend
Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me
And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
Oh
I can't breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
Ohh
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
Yoko Ono was praised as a 'huge influence on modern music'John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has received a lifetime achievement honour at the Mojo magazine awards in London, the first music prize of her career.
Ono, more used to flak from Beatles fans who thought her main achievement was to cause the band to split, thanked Mojo for their "courageous" decision.
With Lennon and on her own, she has made two dozen albums in 41 years.
"It's really great that I went on stage and people were very warm towards me, I didn't expect that," she said.
After picking up the accolade, she added: "For the longest time I never expected people to be so warm when I get on stage."
Asked what her late husband would have made of the award, Ono replied: "He would have said, 'I told you so, man.'
"He was the only person who was really believing and promoting my work. Without that I might have been pretty discouraged."
'Terrible press'
Ono, 76, received support from other musicians at the ceremony.
Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr said she deserved the award because she had "an awful lot of utterly terrible press that was completely uninformed and out of control for no reason".
"But also her records are pretty great," he said, "she didn't really need to be a Beatle wife.
"She was doing some pretty good stuff as it was, and I think she's fantastic."
The four members of Blur were back together before their looming live gigsMark Ronson, who has produced Amy Winehouse and Duran Duran, will perform as part of the Plastic Ono Band at the Meltdown festival in London on Sunday.
He said: "I'm a fan of hers. All those early Plastic Ono recordings are just incredible."
Mojo editor Phil Alexander, who hosted the event, praised Ono as "a huge influence on modern music".
He said: "She may have been married to one of the most famous men in the world, but she also helped change music as we know it in her own right.
"First, by introducing avant-garde sensibilities to her husband but, just as significantly, by continuing to push the boundaries of what was deemed the norm way after that."
Other acts honoured by Mojo included Fleet Foxes, who were named best live act, and Elbow, who won best song for One Day Like This.
Paul Weller beat both of those acts to the prize for best album.
The winners of five competitive categories were voted for by readers and another 14 honorary prizes were handed out.
Manic Street Preachers were presented with the maverick awardBlur, making their first public appearance together ahead of their forthcoming reunion gigs, collected the inspiration award.
The Manic Street Preachers won the maverick award and bassist Nicky Wire said it was an achievement to have spent 20 years signed to the same major label and still be regarded mavericks.
Johnny Marr said he was "very honoured" to receive the trophy for classic songwriter from former Suede guitarist and Duffy producer Bernard Butler.
Mott the Hoople entered the Mojo Hall of Fame, Joy Division won the vision award and the Pretty Things picked up the hero award. Phil Lynott, the late lead singer of 1970s rock gods Thin Lizzy, won the icon award.
Island Records founder Chris Blackwell was decorated with the Mojo Medal, rock 'n' roll pioneer Joe Brown was recognised for his outstanding contribution to music and The Zombies received the classic album award.
Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, whose novels were widely translated and poems set to music, has died at the age of 88 at his home in Montevideo.
Benedetti's work chronicled the life of Uruguay's middle-class and was popular throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
He lived in exile from 1973 to 1983 during military rule in Uruguay and was well-known as a supporter of the Cuban government.
His readings of his work attracted sell-out crowds in Uruguay.
"I don't think we should be talking of a loss, because he will be with us forever," Uruguayan Culture Minister Maria Simon told local media.
Born to Italian immigrants, Benedetti wrote more than 80 novels, poems, short stories and essays during a career spanning six decades.
His 1960 novel The Truce was translated into 19 languages and made into a film.
Spanish singer Joan Manuel Serrat set Benedetti's poems to music, including The South Also Exists, an anti-US polemic.
A left-wing activist, Benedetti went into exile when the military came to power in Uruguay in 1973. He returned to his homeland 10 years later in what he dubbed his "unexile".
Benedetti died at home on Sunday morning. He had suffered from respiratory and intestinal problems and had recently spent some time in hospital.
Coldplay's Viva La Vida was the biggest-selling album of 2008 globallyGlobal music sales fell by more than 8% to $18.42bn (£12.67bn) in 2008, according to the body that represents the record industry worldwide.
Physical formats like CDs and vinyl performed particularly badly - dropping by 15% globally and 31% in the US.
Sales of digital formats like MP3s and ringtones grew by 24% worldwide but failed to make up the shortfall.
This is partly due to the lower price of downloads, but also because people tend not to buy entire albums online.
According to figures released by the Official Charts Company earlier this year, Only 10.3m albums were downloaded in the UK last year, compared to 110.3m singles, or individual tracks.
The prevalence of pirated music on the internet also plays a key role in the decline in music sales overall.
Best-selling album
As well as physical and digital sales, the IFPI's figures cover performance rights money.
There was a global rise of 16.3% to $802m (£548m) in money received by record companies for music being used on radio and TV and being played in public.
Europe accounted for most of that money, with a total of $576m (£394m) collected by bodies like PRS for Music.
Separate IFPI figures released earlier this year showed that Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends was the best-selling album of 2008 worldwide, selling 6.8 million copies.
It was followed by Black Ice, by veteran rockers AC/DC, and the soundtrack to Mamma Mia! The Movie.
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When you first left me I was wanting more
But you were fucking that girl next door
What you do that for
When you first left me
I didn't know what to say
I've never been on my own that way
Just sat by myself all day
I was so lost back then
But with a little help from my friends
I found the light in the tunnel at the end
Now you're calling me up on the phone
So you can have a little whine and a moan
And it's only because you are feeling alone
At first when I see you cry
It makes me smile
Yeah it makes me smile
At worst I feel bad for a while
But then I just smile
I go ahead and smile
Whenever you see me
You say that you want me back
And I tell you it don't mean jack
No it don't mean jack
I couldn't stop laughing
No I just couldn't help myself
See you messed up my mental health
I was quite unwell
I was so lost back then
But with a little help from my friends
I found the light in the tunnel at the end
Now you're calling me up on the phone
So you can have a little whine and a moan
It's only because you are feeling alone
At first when I see you cry
Yeah it makes me smile
Yeah it makes me smile
At worst I feel bad for a while
But then I just smile
I go ahead and smile
Lalala...
At first when I see you cry
Yeah it makes me smile
Yeah it makes me smile
At worst I feel bad for a while
But then I just smile
I go ahead and smile
At first when I see you cry
Yeah it makes me smile
Yeah it makes me smile
At worst I feel bad for a while
But then I just smile
I go ahead and smile
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| Release type : Studio album Record label : Epic Genres : Pop music Release date : Feb 3, 2009 | |
The Fray - The Fray Download MP3 | |
| Release type : Studio album Record label : Epic Genres : Pop music Release date : Feb 3, 2009 | |
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You Download MP3 | |
| Release type : Studio album Record label : Capitol Genres : Pop music Release date : Feb 10, 2009 | |
| 1 | Everyones At It | lyrics | |
| 2 | The Fear | lyrics | |
| 3 | Not Fair | lyrics | |
| 4 | 22 | lyrics | |
| 5 | I Could Say | lyrics | |
| 6 | Back To The Start | lyrics | |
| 7 | Never Gonna Happen | lyrics | |
| 8 | F**k You | lyrics | |
| 9 | Whod Have Known | ||
| 10 | Chinese | lyrics | |
| 11 | Him | lyrics | |
| 12 | He Wasnt There |
The Fray - The Fray Download MP3 | |
| Release type : Studio album Record label : Epic Genres : Pop music Release date : Feb 3, 2009 | |
The Fray - The Fray Download MP3 | |
| Release type : Studio album Record label : Epic Genres : Pop music Release date : Feb 3, 2009 | |