Shinedown and their new hit "Second Chance"

"Shinedown Strikes Gold as "Second Chance" Explodes Into Top 10; "THE SOUND OF MADNESS" Certified by RIAA While Smash Single Blows Up at CHR/Top 40"--marketwire

Shinedowns new hit sky rocketed to the top ten spot!

Genres: Rock

Representative Albums: "Us and Them," "The Sound of Madness," "Leave a Whisper"

Representative Songs: "Save Me," "I Dare You," "Devour"

Melodic hard rockers Shinedown come from Jacksonville, FL, and originally featured vocalist Brent Smith, guitarist Jasin Todd, bassist Brad Stewart, and drummer Barry Kerch. Snapped up by Atlantic Records during the early-2000s flurry of post-Creed and Nickelback signings, the group released its debut album, Leave a Whisper, in 2003. Whisper ended up doing very awesome for the band (eventually going platinum), aided by its single, "Fly from the Inside." Shinedown also supported it with a heroic slate of live shows, remaining on tour for most of 2004. The following year the band issued a live album documenting those shows, then returned in October 2005 with its sophomore effort, Us and Them, which went gold. The band made a few lineup changes in the years to follow, coming back in 2008 as a quintet that included Smith and Kerch along with guitarists Nick Perri and Zach Myers and bass player Eric Bass. The long-awaited Sound of Madness, featuring Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavalloo (Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day), arrived in July.

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Angel Taylor and her hit single " Make Me Believe"

Angel Taylor's New Hit single "Make Me Believe" is Awesome i Have It on my ipod and i really enjoy it she brings soul to the genre of pop and i kan tell you how much im looking forward to her new music! If you get the chance listen to it!

genre: pop

Angel taylor:

"In February 2009, Taylor's first solo release, Love Travels EP was released on Aware/Columbia Records. Taylor's debut album, entitled Love Travels was released on iTunes on March 31, 2009. Her song "Make Me Believe" was also offered as the iTunes single of the week on the week of March 30, 2009. Taylor has toured with a variety of artists including Adele, Kate Voegele, Brett Dennen, Brandi Carlile and Gavin DeGraw." wikipedia

"Haters" By: Alisa Valdes - Rodriguez

"From the first day at her new Southern CAlifornia high school, Pasquala [[PASKI 4 short]] Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta learns that the popular students may be diverse in ethnicity but are alike in their cruelty. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot Chris Cabrera, she is troubled by the beautiful and wicked Jessica Nguyen[[nooyen]]. JEssica is the queen of the haters and she's got her eye on Paski."--"Haters"

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In this book Paski is tacken from her home in the small town of Taos, New Mexico, To big beautiful SoCal. or to be more specific the O.C.

Here she tries to over look her special powers but in time they catch up with her and she has to do what is right.Even if its saving the wicked Jessica Nguyen.

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This book caught my eye at first becouse it has to do with New Mexico, my hometown. But shortly after reading a few chapter i fell in-love with the whole story and the main characters Chris, Paski, Haley, and so on. This is a book any teenage girl would enjoy. It has everything from romance to action & suspense and even the sad parts we do so adore!

Manchester Orchestra

Manchester Orchestra is a Indie Rock group that formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2005.Theyre band members are: Andy Hull (vocals, guitar), Robert McDowell (guitar), Jonathan Corley (bass), Christopher Freeman (keyboards) and Jeremiah Edmond (drums).

The band has released two album's--2006's "I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child" and 2009's "Mean Everything to Nothing"

i myself have only heard one song "I've Got Friends" i instantaneously fell inlove with their music!

"Inspired by the pounding, primal assault of Weezer’s Pinkerton , Nirvana’s In Utero , and Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape , this young band has created its own version of what a classic rock album should sound like, complete with fiercely beautiful melodies, shifting guitar and keyboard textures, loud/soft dynamics, and an urgency in each band member’s performance, especially Hull’s cathartic vocals."--tafka2112

"Operation Alone At Last"!"

I'm standing

near the children

watching them swarm

over the jungle gym,

remembering vaguely what it was like to be six.

I'm stealing a glance at Dylan

as he ducks through the hole

in the chainlink fence

and disappears

into the sheltering darkness

of the woods.

I'm waiting,

just as we planned,

for my slow motion tick off

three

full

minutes.

I'm sliding over

and sneaking through the same hole

into the shadows,

into the warm flanneled arms

of my partner

in delicious crime.

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This book is a young adult book written in poetic form of a teenage girl and her social life. I like this book becouse i can kind of relate in someways ,and i think every teenage girl should read it and see how they can relate wether its the first break-up, first love, or first kiss. Sonya captures everything that goes on in a teen girls thoughts and i really enjoyed reading this book.

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• winner of the Iowa Teen Book Award (2005 -2006)
• named by the American Library Association as one of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of
• 2004 and of 2005
  
• Michigan Thumbs Up Award Honor Book (2002)
  
• unanimously chosen an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2002)
  
• unanimously chosen an American Library Association Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (2002)
  
• named an International Reading Association Young Adults' Choice (2003)
  
• named a Booklist Editor's Choice (2001)
  
• voted a VOYA Top Shelf for Middle School Readers (2003)