This category is for bands and artists whose name begins with the letter N.
If a category exists for the band or artist your site is about, please submit it to that specific category. Otherwise, please submit it to the appropriate letter or digit category of the alphabet bar.
Sites in the main letter categories will be listed with the band or artist''s name as the site title. Individuals will be listed "Surname, First Name". Bands with an article will be listed as "Band, The".
This category contained links to 'N Sync related web sites.
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N.W.A., short for Niggaz With Attitudes, was started in 1986 by Eazy-E (Eric Wright), Dr. Dre (Andre Wright), MC Ren (Lorenzo Patterson), Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson), and DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby). The deal was not to crank out the same type of danceable radio-friendly pop records that could easily get airplay, but instead to push the envelope of profanity, violence, and all that "normal society" deemed as decent.
Ice Cube left the group after the release of the first album, Straight Outta Compton, over a financial dispute, and started a solo career. Instead of buckling, NWA went on to record the EP 100 Miles And Runnin' which was immediately followed up with Efil4zaggin. Soon after, however, the group split, each member going their own separate way.
Anna Nalick is a pianist, singer and songwriter who is often compared to Kate Bush and Tori Amos. She was discovered by Amos producer Eric Rosse and former Blind Melon members Christopher Thorn and Brad Smith. Her full-length CD "Wreck of the Day" received critical acclaim when released in 2005, as did her single "Breathe (2 AM)."
Spanish vocalist who released her self-titled first album in 1994.
Only submit sites related to Mónica Naranjo in this category. Generally such media or fan sites include information, forums, articles, interviews, and/or media files related to the artist. Only completed sites (not under construction) should be submitted. Additionally, sites with a primary focus of selling CDs would be more appropriately submitted to a Shopping category.
Needledrop is a New York City based trip/pop duo consisting of Amanda on vocals and Steve on guitar and production of their music. Steve is originally from New York, while Amanda is originally from Ireland. They first met in Ireland in 1998 where Steve was on tour with his former band Fun Lovin' Criminals. Realising their instant chemistry the duo briskly moved back to New York and started writing the music that would become NEEDLEDROP. Steve creates the instrumental tracks for Amanda's lyrics and haunting vocal melodies.
Please submit any sites that are related to Needledrop.
Matthew and Gunnar Nelson are the identical twin sons of rock icon, Rick Nelson. The twins reached #1 in 1990 with their single, "Love and Affection", off their debut album, "After the Rain", which to date has sold over 2,500, 000 copies. Since 1991, the twins have recorded six more albums and continue to tour yearly, promoting their new, country/rock sound and paying tribute to their famous father.
Please only submit sites that deal with Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, or the full band Nelson. Do not submit sites dealing with the Nelson family members, they are in separate categories.
Mark Nevin - UK singer, born Ebbw Vale, South Wales, August 13th 1959.
Formed Fairground Attraction with Eddi Reader.
Mark Nevin wrote the worldwide hit 'Perfect' (sung by Eddi Reader') and the album 'First Of A Milllion Kisses', for which he won Brit Awards for both. After this one album, they split, and he went on to be a solo artist.
He then took a back seat and wrote countless songs which were recorded by the likes of David Bowie, Morrissey, Kirsty MacColl, Ringo Starr, Mica Paris and Lloyd Cole.
Solo albums include 'Insensitive Songwriter' and the 'The Mighty Dove'.
Devoted to sites about New Kids On The Block.
New Kids On The Block formed in 1985 and hit the charts with their albums "Hangin' Tough" and "Step by Step". The five members of the group, Donnie Wahlberg, Jonathan and Jordan Knight, Joe McIntyre and Danny Wood sold out concerts all over the world in the early 90's, topping the charts and reaching the Forbes list. After their album "Face The Music" was released, the band went their separate ways.
For official, unofficial, and related sites about the political rock/post-punk band formed in the early 1980s.
Please submit only English language sites here. Non-English sites should be submitted in the most closely-related subcategory under the correct language in curlie.org/World.
In the mid-1980s, Columbia Pictures Television decided to take a stab at creating a new version of the Monkees. Enter Larry, Dino, Jared, and Marty -- the New Monkees. Set in an old, strange mansion, the new show tried to follow the old Monkees format of nutty hijinks interspersed with musical numbers. Unfortunately, it failed miserably and was cancelled after 13 episodes. Fifteen years later, though, it is still remembered fondly by a small body of fans.
From The Death of Rock 'n' Roll: Untimely Demises, Morbid Preoccupations, and Premature Forecasts of Doom in Pop Music by Jeff Pike (Faber & Faber):
The New York Dolls emerged in the post-rock pre-punk early-'70s welter of glam-rock, championing trash, androgyny, old-fashioned rock'n'roll, drugs, and fun. They were much loved as a live act but somehow the point never quite made it to vinyl. Still, they knew their place and worked it well -- singer David Johansen looked back to Mick Jagger and forward to Axl Rose, while his compadre Johnny Thunders did the same with Keith Richards and Slash. They had that seductive, unruly, swaggering poise about them; that much, anyway, has survived.
As with the Glimmer Twins (and as may happen yet with Rose and Slash), it was ultimately the guitar player who earned the most credibility and won the most enduring status as a legend. Of course, that legend has all too often been related as much to heroin addiction as to guitar playing, but still, Johnny Thunders (born John Genzale) was an incredibly ferocious performer when he was on the beam. And he was otherwise about as aimless as it gets. The Replacements' sardonic, hardly prescient "Johnny's Gonna Die" from 1981 covers the main points. In the mid-'70s, after the Dolls broke up, Thunders cemented his reputation with Richard Hell in the Heartbreakers (no relation to Tom Petty's group of the same name), consistently reeling off memorable knockout performances, even through the nod. Punk-rockers everywhere -- particularly British punk-rockers -- loved it and flocked to see him for years. But in the end, his body was found in a New Orleans hotel room, dead of a drug overdose, with alcohol and methadone nearby in the room. It was 1991, and the question was not why he died but how he had lived so long. He was thirty-eight.
Billy Murcia, the original drummer for the New York Dolls, didn't last long. On the group's first tour of England in 1972, he mixed alcohol and drugs and suffered an overdose. All night long, reportedly, his girlfriend worked to keep him awake and alive -- evidently she never thought to seek medical assistance -- walking him continually around their hotel flat, putting him into a bathtub of cold water, and forcing black coffee into him. To no avail. The official cause of death was suffocation. He had drowned on the coffee, or choked, more likely, though "drowned," which reportedly appears on the death certificate, tends to dignify just a little the whole sorry episode. He was twenty-one.
The Dolls' long-term drummer, Jerry Nolan (a Charlie Watts in his own fashion), who came in to replace Murcia, stayed with the group until the end, then went on to join Thunders and Hell in the Heartbreakers. Nolan died in 1992 of a stroke after undergoing treatment for pneumonia and meningitis, age forty-five.
Nine Inch Nails contains only one official member, Trent Reznor, though it features a number of other musicians in when on tour. Already popular after a stint on the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991, Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor became a huge commercial and critical success with 1994's multi-platinum album "The Downward Spiral" and helped make industrial music popular during the 90s. In 1999, Nine Inch Nails released the double album, "The Fragile", to great critical acclaim, but less than stellar sales.
After touring to support "The Fragile" and releasing a "live" DVD and audio disc called "And All That Could Have Been" in 2001, Reznor took a lengthy break to deal with personal issues. He re-emerged in 2005 with Nine Inch Nails newest release, With_Teeth.
In addition to his work as/with Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor produced Marilyn Manson's second album, "Antichrist Superstar," and produced soundtrack albums for the films Lost Highway and Natural Born Killers.
This category is for sites about Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails.
This category is for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and its members.
Please submit sites dealing with the life or music of the Dirt Band or its individual members, including biographies, discographies, analyses of songs, articles, interviews, reviews, lyrics or bibliographies. If your site focuses on individual band members, please submit it to the appropriate individual''s category or to the letter category of his last name.
Hailing from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, The Northern Pikes were one of Canada's top bands in the late '80s and early '90s. They reunited in 1999 and are currently touring and recording new music.
Heather Nova is a singer/songwriter who was born in Bermudas. She has released four studio albums (Glowstars, Oyster, Siren, South) and three live albums (Blow, Live from the Milky Way, Wonderlust).
Laura Nyro was born born Laura Nigro on October 18, 1947 in The Bronx, New York City. She was a singer, songwriter, and pianist. She died April 8, 1997 at age 49 from ovarian cancer.
While she was a popular singer, most of her career success came from others who sang her songs, including "Eli's Comin'", "And When I Die", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", and "Stoney End".