Artist of the Month: Hinder

Hinder's web sight http://www.hinderonline.com/

Hinder (verb): 1. To be or get in the way of. 2. To obstruct or delay the progress of. 3. To interfere with action or progress.

Let nothing 'hinder' your appreciation of the subtleties purveyed by this Oklahoma City fivesome, who are collectively dedicated to bringing back the good old decadent days when sex, drugs and rock & roll weren't dirty words, but a way of life.

Produced by Brian Howes (Closure, DDT) and engineered by Mike Fraser (Aerosmith, AC/DC) in Vancouver, BC's Armoury Studios, Hinder's debut Universal Records effort, Extreme Behavior, is filled with flick-your-Bic moments of arena-rock grandeur, all crackling dual lead guitars, ethereal four-part harmonies and soaring beat-your-chest rock vocals, taking a page from timeless groups like Bad Company, Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones, among others.

The album's first single, 'Get Stoned,' is already tallying up pre-release airplay at such bastions of Rock radio as 102.1 The Edge in Dallas/Fort Worth and CFOX Vancouver.

'I loved all that shit,' explains rollicking lead singer Austin Winkler, a gravelly voiced howler who counts such in-your-face front men as Steven Tyler, Vince Neil and Buckcherry's Josh Todd as his inspirations. 'Four people singing and putting on a big rock show. We want to bring that back. It would be wicked if we could.'

'We're hoping to be the band to get people into rock again,' says drummer Cody Hanson, who writes the bulk of the band's material with Winkler.

Hinder was formed in Oklahoma City more than four years ago, when guitarist Joe Garvey and Hanson discovered Austin singing for a cover band at a college dorm party.

'I heard him and was blown away,' says Cody. 'He has the kind of charisma very few people have and that unique voice. You can't really compare him to anybody

Hinder - Lips Of An Angel

Artist of the month on iWebRadio.com
Internet Radio

General tried to warn Bush on Tillman

Memo shows suspicions on soldier’s death weeks before family was told

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Just seven days after Pat Tillman's death, a top general warned there were strong indications that the NFL star-turned-soldier did not die in an ambush in Afghanistan, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. But it was not until a month afterward that the Pentagon told the public and grieving family members the truth — that Tillman was mistakenly killed in Afghanistan by his comrades.

The memo reinforces suspicions that the Pentagon was more concerned with sparing officials from embarrassment than with leveling with Tillman's family.

Blonde's Car Ride

A guy and his blonde girlfriend are driving to the movies one night for a date. As the guy was making a right turn, he noticed his turn signal light inside the car didn't light up at all.

So as he approached the next right turn, he asked his girlfriend to please stick her head out the window and tell him if his turn signal is working. She happily obliges and at the turn she sticks her head out the window and replies, "It is... It isn't... It is... It isn't... It is... It isn't."

Man Caught Videotaping Women's Feet

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - A cameraman was caught with some creepy video footage. The man was surreptitiously videotaping female feet in the science library at University of California, Santa Cruz, campus police said. "Officers indicated he was embarrassed by his behavior," university spokesman Jim Burns said Monday. "He offered no resistance to the request that he leave immediately and indicated he would not be back."

It's not illegal to videotape feet so no charges were filed. The name of the man, who was in his 40s and had no affiliation with the university, wasn't disclosed. He was banned from the campus for two weeks.

Vince Nova, manager of the Science and Engineering Library, said the man was seen pointing a small video camera in the vicinity of three students' feet. One of the students confronted the cameraman and he fled.

One of the female students spotted him again last Wednesday, and campus police were called. A campus officer searched the man's bag and inspected the camera.

Skydiver Arrested for Mooning Fla. Cop

DELAND, Fla. (AP) - A visiting Norwegian skydiver was arrested after exposing his buttocks to an officer, police said. Vegard Svarstad, 24, of Norway, was blocking traffic at an intersection early Saturday morning, according to an arrest report.

When DeLand police Lt. David Heinig stopped at the intersection, he told Svarstad to continue across the street, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.

Instead, the man started to dance around, pulled down his pants and mooned the officer, Heinig said.

Svarstad was charged with disorderly intoxication and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail on a $250 bond. At a first-appearance hearing later Saturday, Svarstad said he was preparing to return to Norway.

Prosecutors decided that his night in jail was sufficient punishment, a State Attorney's spokeswoman said. They dropped the charge and released him.

World's Tallest Man Marries

(AP) Bao Xishun, the world's tallest man, poses with his new wife Xia Shujian in Chifeng, in China's... Full Image

BEIJING (AP) - The world's tallest man has married a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.

Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married 5-foot-6 saleswoman Xia Shujian several days ago, the Beijing New reported.

Bao's 28-year-old bride is half his age and hailed from his hometown of Chifeng even though marriage advertisements were sent around the world, it said.

"After a long and careful selection, the effort has been finally paid off," the newspaper said.

Bao was confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest person.

Matzoball / Adam Sandler on David Letterman

It's Not Over - Daughtry

Carrie Underwood - Before he cheats

LEBRON'S TODDLER AT COURTSIDE AN OFFENSIVE FOUL

KID STUFF: LeBron James Jr. sits with his father, the Cavaliers' LeBron James, during Friday's Knicks-Cavs game in Cleveland.

March 27, 2007 -- THE camera attested to LeBron James' sensitivity the other night when the Knicks were in Cleveland, zeroing in on him as he delicately tucked a folded towel to cushion the head of toddler, LeBron James, Jr., who was laying in front of the Cavaliers bench. Too bad a bigger issue - the child's safety - has to come into play.

A different kind of 'wave'

PHOTOS: Food City 500
Fans hold up cards creating an American flag in the grandstands prior to the start of the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. (Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images)

Anna Nicole Smith Died from Accidental Overdose

MONDAY MARCH 26, 2007 10:55 AM EDT

By Caris Davis and Stephen M. Silverman

Anna Nicole Smith Photo by: Charles Sykes / REX USA

Anna Nicole Smith died of "an accidental overdose with no other criminal element present," Seminole Police Department Chief Charlie Tiger announced at a press conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Monday.

He said the police conducted a thorough investigation, which included reviewing hundreds of hours of videotapes captured by the hotel security cameras and analyzing the contents of the laptop computer belonging to Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, and "we found nothing to indicate any foul play."

Today's Top Ten

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Ordering A $1,000 Pizza "Will they let me rent a pizza?" "Does my bank offer pizza mortgages?" "Can I afford the extra cheese?" "Does blowing my kid's tuition on pizza make me a bad father?" "If I don't order a $1,000 pizza, have the terrorists won?" "Which would be a bigger waste -- this or a contribution to the Dennis Kucinich Presidential Campaign Fund?" "Is there a discount if I order more than one?" "What would Al Gore do?" "How much for a large?" "Only $1,000? What's the catch?"

DEI focus on Dale Jr., sister's health

BRISTOL, Tenn. - DEI president of Global Operations Max Siegel expects dialogue to progress on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s contract but his current concern is the well being of Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, who underwent surgery on Friday to remove a tumor from her pancreas.

Earnhardt Elledge is Junior's sister and the GM of JR Motorsports. She's also his key business advisor and has been actively involved in re-negotiating Junior's contract, which runs through the end of 2007.

"Every day we're checking in with her and making sure the first priority is her getting healthy," Siegel said. "As soon as they're ready to resume any kind of discussions, we're ready."

Suck it up

Darrell Waltrip says the track, not the Car of Tomorrow, was the reason why most drivers didn't like the car's debut at Bristol. The more drivers run the COT, the better they will get and the more they will like it. Full Story ...

Mouse Taunts Man, Steals Dentures

WATERVILLE, Maine -- Bill Exner, 68, has his dentures back, but his wife said the mouse that stole them is now taunting him.

The resident of Waterville, Maine, said he's caught the mouse three times, but each time it escaped.

Exner told the Morning Sentinel he trapped the field mouse and placed in a gallon-sized pickle jar three times. He said each time the mouse escaped.

"The first time, I left the top off the pickle jar -- I figured there's no way this guy can get out," Exner told the paper. "But he escaped, so the next time I caught him, I put the cover on loosely so he could breathe, and he got out again."

After the third time, Exner discovered his lower dentures were missing.

In the subsequent search, he and his wife found a small opening in a wall. With the help of their daughter's fiance, they tore a larger hole and retrieved the dentures.

"The dentures were inside the wall, lying right there. They were not damaged. The mouse didn't bite them or anything. It's like he was saying, 'I'm going to get even with you for putting me in that jar,'" Exner said

Woman guilty of frying her husband

Associated Press
Mar. 23, 2007 04:59 PM

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his corpse into small pieces and frying it.

Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, was sentenced by Judge Casio Miranda in northeastern Bahia state after a 15-member jury found her guilty of killing retired police officer Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos, court spokesman Francisco Ribeiro said.

Authorities said the killing occurred almost two years ago in Vila Sao Cosme, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the Bahia state capital of Salvador, 930 miles northeast of Sao Paulo.

"On June 23, 2005, Rosanita Nery dos Santos drugged her husband and stabbed him to death while he slept," Idmar Bonfim, a spokesman for the Salvador Civil Police Department said. "She then hacked his body into more than 100 pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding them in plastic bags underneath the staircase of her house."

Blonde Inventions

1. The waterproof towel
2. Solar-powered flashlight
3. A submarine screen door
4. A book on how to read
5. Inflatable dartboard
6. A dictionary index
7. Ejector seat in a helicopter
8. Powdered water
9. Pedal-powered wheelchair
10. The waterproof tea bag

Making History

Jeff Gordon won the first Car of Tomorrow pole, turning the fastest lap at Bristol. He also moved into a tie for fifth-place on the all-time Cup pole list. Full Story ...

Reunited in Raiderville?

FOXSports.com

There was a time the Raiders wanted Daunte Culpepper. Well, now they could probably get him on the cheap and -- that's right -- reunite him with Randy Moss until JaMarcus Russell is ready.

Life after A-Rod

FOXSports.com

The overlooked question in the A-Rod opt-out saga in New York is who replaces his bat in the lineup if he goes? Andruw Jones could fit that bill.

Angelina Jolie's baby pics deal

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will reportedly earn almost $2 million for photographs of their newly adopted son. According to Radar magazine, Angelina - who adopted three-year-old Vietnamese orphan Pax Thien Jolie last week - is said to have agreed to sell pictures of her new son to People magazine for between $1.75 million and $2 million.