adidas 2011 NBA All-Star Game Footwear

Adidas Lightning Creator East  + Bounce Commander West
With the 2009 NBA All Star Game just two weeks away, most sneaker companies are starting to unveil their performance footwear. Adidas has a number of sneakers for their sponsored athletes on both the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference, they include the Bounce Commander and Lightning Creator. The Adidas Bounce Commander will be worn strictly by those the bigger players including Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan. The Adidas Lightning Creator which is a shoe for the quicker players will be worn by Tray McGrady, Chauncey Billups and Derrick Rose. Both styles will come in Silver/Sunset Blue for the East and Desert Red/Gold for the West and will be available at retailers nationwide beginning All Star Weekend.


Adidas Lightning Creator West  + Bounce Commander East

Adidas Lightning Creator East

Adidas Bounce Commander West

Adidas Bounce Commander East

Adidas Lightning Creator West

Adidas Lightning Creator Low East

Avenged Sevenfold Biography

Years active:	1999 - present
Genre(s):	Metalcore, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Label(s):	Warner Brothers Records
Members:	M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ, The Rev

HISTORY

The band formed when the members were in high school. Their first album was titled Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, and was recorded when the band members were eighteen years old. Their follow-up album was entitled Waking the Fallen, which received a positive rating in Rolling Stone magazine.

City of Evil, released on June 7, 2005, strays from hardcore/metalcore, and adds a more "metal" sound with obvious influences ranging from Iron Maiden, Pantera and Metallica to Misfits and Guns N' Roses. Although the band has been labeled metal, metalcore and hard rock in many publications, the band themselves claim that they are a metal band and have no musical similarities to metalcore in any way. During the recording of City of Evil, M. Shadows' vocal stylings have changed more to focus on melodic singing than on hardcore screaming, due to a decision by the band to change directions.

The band's name is an alleged reference to the book of Genesis in the Bible and the story of Cain and Abel, where Cain is punished to live in exile, alone and miserable. Anyone who relieved Cain of his misery by killing him would be "avenged sevenfold," or punished in a way that is seven times worse than Cain's punishment. The title of Avenged Sevenfold's song "Chapter Four" references Genesis IV, the chapter of the Bible in which the story of Cain and Abel takes place. The song's subject also appears to be this story. Beast and the Harlot, yet another song derived from the Bible, comes from the book of Revelation and refers to the punishment of Babylon and the destruction of Pagan nations. Although the band's title and members' stage names make obvious reference to religion, Shadows stated in an interview that they are "not really religious at all."

Their song "Blinded in Chains" was used in the soundtrack for the video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Another song, "Bat Country," was used in the soundtracks for SSX on Tour, NHL 06 and Madden 06, following in the footsteps of "Chapter Four" which had also been on the soundtrack for both NHL 2004, Madden 2004 and NASCAR Thunder 2004. The song "Beast and the Harlot" was in the soundtrack for Burnout Revenge. All the above games, not coincidentally, are produced by various divisions of Electronic Arts.

Avenged Sevenfold will be touring on Ozzfest in 2006, alongside Ozzy Osbourne, System of a Down, Black Label Society and Disturbed. They will be opening for Guns N' Roses and Metallica this summer along with playing at European festivals such as the Download Festival and Rock am Ring.

History Linkin Park

The band saw its and first beginings in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda's small bedroom studio, where he and Brad Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Delson shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. At this point, they named themselves Xero and recorded several demo tracks. They never got signed, and the project floundered. Then Shinoda decided to hire a vocalist, and put out an ad. They got Chester Bennington, a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when he was 16. 'When I was two, I used to run around singing Foreigner songs - there's tapes of me doing that... since I learned how to talk I've been telling everybody I was gonna grow up to be a singer.' laughs Bennington.
The band called itself Hybrid Theory after the addition of Bennington (the idea being that they were a hybrid of rock and rap), however, due to a trademark issue with a band called Hybrid, they were forced to change their name. Some discarded ideas (serious or not) were Clear (the band's favorite), Probing Lagers (which they thought was the lamest), Ten PM Stocker (because they would record every night at 10 pm at a place on Stocker Street) and Platinum Lotus Foundation. Eventually, they settled on Lincoln Park, suggested by Bennington because after band practice he would have to drive past there to get home. However the domain 'lincolnpark.com' cost more than the band could afford, so they changed the spelling to Linkin Park. However, it has also been suggested that the name 'Linkin Park' was suggested so that the band would appear right next to Limp Bizkit at record stores.
Working with an independent label, the band recorded the album Hybrid Theory EP, which featured 'Carousel', 'Technique', 'Step Up', 'And One', 'High Voltage', 'Part of Me'.
After being signed to Warner Brothers in 1999 their first album, Hybrid Theory, was released in 2000. It was the top-selling album in the United States and New Zealand in 2001, with the hit singles 'One Step Closer', 'Crawling', 'Papercut', 'In The End' and 'Points of Authority'. The album is notable for its absence of profanity, in contrast to many other nu metal bands' songs.
Linkin Park were part of the Ozzfest in 2001, touring along side Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Crazy Town, Papa Roach, and Disturbed. Linkin Park have also created their own tour - Projekt: Revolution, and on it have toured with Cypress Hill, Adema, DJ Z-Trip, Xzibit, Mudvayne and Blindside.
In 2002, they released a remix album of their Hybrid Theory album, called Reanimation, as well as releasing a remix version of their song, 'Points Of Authority'.
In 2003 their new studio album was released, titled Meteora, which debuted at #1 in the US and UK, and #2 in Australia. It contained the singles, 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Faint', 'Numb', 'From The Inside' and 'Breaking The Habit'. Later in the year, they joined forces with fellow nu-metal band Limp Bizkit and Metallica for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003. From this tour, Linkin Park released a new CD/DVD set called Live in Texas. This set contains tracks from their three previous records, and was filmed on location at their Summer Sanitarium performances in Dallas and Houston, Texas .
In 2004, Linkin Park created the Meteora World Tour. This tour included Linkin Park, P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Story of the Year.
In 2004, Linkin Park was touring with Snoop Dogg, The Used, Korn, and Less Than Jake on the main stage, and No Warning, Ghostface, Funeral For A Friend, M.O.P., and Downset on the second stage as part of Projekt Revolution 2004. They also had a travelling DJ, Z-Trip with them, along with Irvin the Urban Action Figure.
On November 30, 2004, Linkin Park released Collision Course, a collaboration with rapper Jay-Z featuring rap-style remixes ('mash-ups') of songs from Meteora and Hybrid Theory using lyrics from Jay-Z's repertoire. Collision Course debuted at #1 in the US, but only got to # 17 in the UK. In Holland Collision Course made it to a 7th place. Their first Collision Course hit single 'Numb/Encore' reached #1 at the Free Record Shop Download Charts in Holland.

Jeremy Scott for adidas Originals Sneakers

Photography: Mark The Cobra Snake
We first wrote about the Jeremy Scott for adidas Originals collaboration a couple of weeks back, today nitro:licious reader Jane sent over a few images of the high top sneakers in the collection via: The Cobra Snake. The first images are looking dope, can’t wait to see the full collection- super retro! Footwear in the collection ranges from about $120 to $250. The collection is scheduled to release on February 1, 2009 and will be first launched in select boutiques and fashion doors and a month later in adidas Originals stores. Are you anticipating this drop?
More pics after the jump…

Arumi Bachsin Dinasihati Linda Gumelar

Arumi Bachsin (Foto: Dok Okezone)

JAKARTA – Selama pertemuan dengan Menteri Peranan Wanita dan Perlindungan Anak Linda Gumelar, Arumi Bachsin banyak mendapatkan nasihat positif. Apa saja?

“Bu Linda pesan agar segala sesuatu diselesaikan dengan komunikasi yang baik antara anak dan orangtua. Pesan lainnya yang baik-baik dan berharap ke depan Arumi lebih baik dan terus bersama dengan keluarga,” kata Arumi ditemui di kediaman Linda Gumelar di kawasan Panglima Polim, Jakarta, Minggu (22/5/2011).

Bagaimana dengan perasaan Arumi sekarang? “Yang pasti senang, semua kembali sediakala. Lagian kalau enggak ada pengalaman ini, enggak ada cerita dalam hidup. Mungkin ini proses pendewasaan hidup buat Arumi. Ini bisa jadi pelajaran buat teman-teman seusia saya. Memang mungkin sulit, tapi kita sama-sama introspeksi. Insya Allah semua bisa ada jalan keluar yang terbaik untuk kita semua,” papar Arumi, bahagia.

Dalam kesempatan itu, Arumi sekaligus meminta maaf kepada kedua orangtuanya.

“Maaf sebanyak-banyaknya dan terima kasih sudah bisa menerima saya kembali,” tutupnya