Friday 8 August 2008

Dreams Of Freedom

Dreams Of Freedom   
Artist: Dreams Of Freedom

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


Ambient Translations of Bob Marley   
 Ambient Translations of Bob Marley

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




 





Grey Daze

Tuesday 1 July 2008

The Walkmen added to Outside Lands lineup

The Walkmen and Toots & the Maytals have been added to the upcoming Outside Lands Festival in San Fancisco, joining the likes of Radiohead, Beck, and .

Howlin' Rain, The Dynamites, Carney, Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck and Everest have also been added, as have Rogue Wave, Mike Gordon and Vienna Teng.

The event, which is in its first year, is set to take place in Golden Gate Park from August 22 �?? 24. It is the first event of this scale to take place in the famous park, and a portion of every ticket sold will directly benefit Golden Gate Park.

The updated schedule is:

Friday August 22 (first band is on at 5pm)

Radiohead
Beck
Manu Chao
The Black Keys
Cold War Kids
Steel Pulse
Black Mountain
The Felice Brothers
Howlin Rain
The Dynamites
Carney

Saturday August 23rd (first band is on at 1pm)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Primus
Steve Winwood
Lupe Fiasco
Café Tacvba
Regina Spektor
Galactic's Crescent City Soul Krewe feat. Dirty Dozen Horns
M. Ward
Devendra Banhart
Matt Nathanson
Two Gallants
Dredg
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet feat. Bela Fleck
The Walkmen
Sidestepper
Kaki King
The Coup
Donavon Frankenreiter
Nellie McKay
Goapele
Sean Hayes
Rupa & The April Fishes
Everest

Sunday August 24th (first band is on at 1pm)

Jack Johnson
Wilco
Widespread Panic
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Broken Social Scene
Andrew Bird
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Drive-By Truckers
Toots & the Maytals
Stars
Rogue Wave
ALO
Jackie Greene
Mike Gordan
The Cool Kids
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Little Brother
Bon Iver
The Mother Hips
Nicole Atkins & The Sea
K'naan
Back Door Slam
Culver City Dub Collective

--By our New York staff.
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Sunday 22 June 2008

Nicole Kidman - The Things They Say 8624


"It's the roughest thing I ever had to go through. The heat is debilitating. I was sitting on a horse once and I remember thinking, 'Gosh, this is what it feels like before you faint - and then I fainted." NICOLE KIDMAN on sweating it out on the set of new movie AUSTRALIA.





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Saturday 14 June 2008

Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Confirms Bond Theme Rumours

LATEST: AMY WINEHOUSE has confirmed she has been working on the title track from forthcoming BOND movie QUANTUM OF SOLACE - following weeks of speculation about the track.

The troubled star was rumoured to have been dropped as the film's official musical muse after DJ Mark Ronson told reporters he had scrapped his 007 collaboration with the singer because she was not "ready" to work on music after a recent return to her erratic ways.

But Winehouse has now confirmed that she has in fact completed the song and is just waiting to get the green light from movie bosses over whether the song will be used in the film, which is due in cinemas later this year (08).

She says, "I've written the song. If they like it, they like it. If they don't, they don't."

And Ronson adds, "If I talk about it (James Bond star) Daniel Craig will whack me in the eyes. Amy wrote the song on an acoustic guitar. It was my job to help with the arrangement and realise the sound we were going for. So that was my role."




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Sunday 1 June 2008

Kylie tops at growing old fabulously

Kylie Minogue has been voted the celebrity who is growing old most glamorously.

Sunday 25 May 2008

Madonna - Madonna Upsets French Fans With Short Performance

Pop superstar MADONNA upset her fans in France on Tuesday night (06May08) after turning up to a concert more than two hours late.

And the Holiday hitmaker further disgruntled her followers by only giving a 40-minute performance in the nation's capital, Paris.

Dressed in a black T-shirt, trousers and big boots, she finally took to the stage on a big chair by sipping champagne directly from the bottle. She got up from the chair and kissed one of her female dancers - like she did with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards - before performing Hard Candy.

One fan, Melanie Monnier, told WENN after the show, "She is great, but the wait and the shortness of the show were a bit disappointed. There was a real lack of emotion."

And fan Guy Juliean even doubted Madonna was performing live. He said, "The show was perfect - too perfect with no room for any emotion. Was she singing live? I'm not sure. It was good to see her but I'm a bit disappointed by her lack of charisma tonight on stage."

The singer announced her love of France and spoke of the honour of performing on the same stage as the iconic French chanteuse Edith Piaf, or fellow legends Juliette Greco and Marlene Dietrich.

She says, "Why do I have this relationship with France? I'm always drawn to working with French people - and frenching French people. Vive la France!"

Lenny Kravitz, John Galliano and Kelly Rowland were among the crowd to see her perform four singles from her new album Hard Candy, as well as Hung up and Music.




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Monday 5 May 2008

US beyond me, says Kylie

US beyond me, says Kylie





DESPITE making strenuous efforts to publicise her newly album in the States, Kylie Minogue has admitted that the challenge of breakage into the US music market is beyond her.

AS Kylie Minogue busted come out in a costume fit for a Japanese tea house, the Australian come out princess admitted she had failed in her attempt to crack the US food market. Britain’s Daily Mail quotes her as locution, "I gave it my best scene. I won't taste again". Kiley appeared on numerous US shows to promote her album X including The Today Show, Dancing With The Stars, The Ellen DeGeneres Picture and The Belatedly Deep Show. But contempt her attempts, the record sold only 6,000 copies and debuted at number 139 on the US Billboard charts. With her US bomb behind her, Kiley has turned her attention to her reality duty tour, which begins in Paris on Crataegus oxycantha. It includes shows in Hellenic Republic, Magyarorszag, Rumania, Bulgaria, Meleagris gallopavo, Luxemburg, Russia, Republic of Latvia and Kingdom of Spain, and has already taken over half a trillion in gross sales.









Tuesday 29 April 2008

Madden says baby looks like Richie

Madden says baby looks like Richie



Rocker Joel Madden has said that his newly baby girl looks like her mother, 'The Simple Life' star Nicole Richie.
In a web log, which he posted on the DCMA Collective site, Craze said: "I am eventually home with my beautiful girlfriend and our firebrand new little girl."
He as well confirmed the baby's name in the posting, referring to the newborn as Jean Harlow Wintertime.
Madden said: "She is 19 inches long and development everyday already. We ar so blessed to take this beautiful little baby in our lives."
He said that his girl "looks so a good deal like her mammy it's weirdo".
"She grub care a little maniac and she's actually sweetness. She scarcely ever cries, yet when daddy is changing her diaper, and believe me I suck when it comes to diapers, only I'm learnedness," Madden said.





On Wings Of Song and Robert Gass

On Wings Of Song and Robert Gass   
Artist: On Wings Of Song and Robert Gass

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Other
   



Discography:


Heart of Perfect Wisdom - A Sufi Song of Love   
 Heart of Perfect Wisdom - A Sufi Song of Love

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 3


Om Namaha Shivaya   
 Om Namaha Shivaya

   Year:    
Tracks: 1




 





Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

Enrique Iglesias regrets “small penis” joke

Enrique Iglesias regrets “small penis” joke



Latin pop star topology ENRIQUE Julio Iglesias regrets once devising a joke near having a “small penis” as it blighted his erotic love life.
The 32-year-old made the comment at the beginning of his music life history, before he started dating lawn tennis wizard Anna Kournikova sestet age ago - and insists the rumours take followed him around always since.
Julio Iglesias is convinced it may have cast away more or less prospective lovers just insists his girlfriends have incessantly ground out the myth is not true.





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Blue Mitchell

Blue Mitchell   
Artist: Blue Mitchell

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   



Discography:


The Thing to Do   
 The Thing to Do

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5


The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD4   
 The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD4

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD3   
 The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD3

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD2   
 The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD2

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD1   
 The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD1

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9


The Cup Bearers   
 The Cup Bearers

   Year: 1962   
Tracks: 7




Owner of a place, lightly swing, middling plain-wrapped shadow that suit powerful in with the Blue Promissory note label's heavy bop ethos of the 1960s, Blue air Billy Mitchell tends to be unnoted today perhaps because he never in truth stood tabu vividly from the crowd, despite his undeniable talent. Afterward eruditeness the trumpet in senior high schoolhouse -- where he got his cognomen -- he started touring in the early '50s with the R&B bands of Paul Ted Williams, Earl Bostic and Spue Thomas Willis earlier reversive to Miami and jazz. In that location, he attracted the attention of Cannonball Adderley, with whom he recorded for Riverside in 1958. That yr, he coupled the Horace Flatware Quintette, with whom he played and recorded until the band's disintegration in March 1964, polishing his hard fed Office of Prisons skills. During his Silver medal days, Mitchell worked with tenor Junior Ready, bassist Cistron Elizabeth Taylor, drummer Roy Van Wyck Brooks and assorted pianists as a divide unit of measurement and continued transcription as a drawing card for Riverbank. When Silver disbanded, Mitchell's spinoff v carried on with Al Foster alternate Brooks and a brigham Young hereafter lead named Skirt Corea in the forte-piano electric chair. This radical, with respective force changes, continued until 1969, recording a string of albums for Blue Annotation. Likely cognisant that opportunities for playing straight-ahead jazz were dwindling, Mitchell became a prolific pop and soulfulness sessionman in the late '60s, and he toured with Beam Charles from 1969 to 1971 and blues/rock guitar player Trick Mayall in 1971-73. Having settled in Los Angeles, he besides played big band dates with Louie Bellson, Visor Holman and Poster Berry; made a number of blue funk and pop/jazz LPs in the late '70s; served as school principal sum soloist for Tony Bennett and Lena River Horne; and unbroken his hand in intemperate bebop by acting with Harold Farming in a v. He continued to mercenary in this many-sided fashion until his previous end from cancer at age 49.





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