 Artist: Laurie Anderson: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Rock ROck: Alternative Soundtrack Discography:  Bright Red/Tightrope Year: 2002 Tracks: 14  Life on a String Year: 2001 Tracks: 12  The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories Year: 2000 Tracks: 18  Bright Red Year: 1994 Tracks: 14  Mister Heartbreak Year: 1990 Tracks: 7  Home Of The Brave: A Film By Laurie Anderson (1986 Film) Year: 1990 Tracks: 8  Big Science Year: 1990 Tracks: 9  Strange Angels Year: 1989 Tracks: 10  United States IV Year: 1984 Tracks: 19  United States III Year: 1984 Tracks: 21 After briefly entering the mainstream pop radiolocation in 1981 with her sole rack up "O Superman," Laurie Anderson enjoyed a public profile greater than virtually whatever early new wave figure of her era. Her infrequent forays into john Rock aside, Anderson nevertheless remained firmly grounded within the realm of public presentation art, her ambitious multimedia system projects extensive not only medicine only too riffle, mime, ocular projections, dance, and -- most importantly -- spoken and written speech communication, the fundament of all of her exercise. Born in the Chicago suburban area of Glen Ellyn, IL on June 5, 1947, she studied fiddle as a teenager; relocating to New York City at age 20, she after tended to Barnard College, graduating with a B.A. in prowess history in 1969. After earning an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University in 1972, Anderson taught artistry history and Egyptian architecture at City College; she mounted her starting time populace performances a year by and by on. By 1976, Anderson was on a regular basis climb performances in museums, concert halls and prowess festivals throughout North America and Europe; claiming to base all of her projects on the world power of dustup and language, her work too emphasized optical imagery and cutting edge engineering, with pieces wish 1980's "Born, Never Asked" written for both orchestra and electronics. A year later on Anderson recorded "O Superman" for the flyspeck New York label cx Records; an eleven-minute unmarried reinforced about electronic drones and featuring unintelligible lyrics half-spoken and half-sung (in a voice sometimes electronically toughened), this most unlikely hit became a smash in Britain, where it reached the number 2 spot on the interior bulge out charts. Warner Bros. soon signed Anderson to record a full-length LP, and in 1982 she issued Magnanimous Science, a bring careworn from a much larger propose, the seven-hour multimedia execution Joined States. With 1984's Mr. Heartbreak, Anderson produced her most overtly pop-oriented work, teaming with artists including Peter Gabriel and Adrian Belew; the goal result even reached the American Top hundred. That same year she besides issued United States Live, a recorded document of the complete execution spreading across a five-LP set. Anderson's side by side project, Home of the Brave, was a concert plastic film; a year later, she besides scored the Jonathan Demme/Spaulding Gray film Swimming to Cambodia. A proper studio album, Strange Angels, did not conform to until 1989; the next several years were devoted to execution tours, including 1990's "Vacate Places," 1991's "Voices from the Beyond" and 1993's "Stories from the Nerve Bible." In 1994, Anderson teamed with producer Brian Eno for Bright Red, besides featuring her boyfriend Lou Reed; the following year she released the LP The Ugly One with Jewels as well as Puppet Motel, a CD-ROM validating her on-going interest in the latest engineering science. |
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Bernie Mac's Wife Opens Up About His Passing: 'I Know He's In A Better Place'
With Bernie Mac's memorial service plotted for Saturday in Chicago, his wife, Rhonda McCullough, opened up to People magazine well-nigh the red ink of her husband, world Health Organization died on August 9 of complications from pneumonia.
She had hoped that when Mac, 50, was admitted to the hospital last month, he would receive treatment and be back at menage. But, she remembered, "he didn't search good to me and I knew this could be it.
"I said, 'Hey, Bernard. How are you?' and I kissed his os frontale," she continued, "He shrugged his shoulders, like 'I'm tired,' and I said, 'I know you're tired.' Later on that night, it took a turn for the worse."
Not long after, Mac's doctor took both Rhonda and their daughter, Je'Niece, 30, away and stony-broke it to them that Mac had passed. "[The doctor] came in and I aforesaid, 'He's gone, isn't he?' and she said, 'Yes,' " she remembered.
She recalled meeting Mac when she was a 16-year-old jnr and he was a 17-year-old senior at Chicago Vocational High School.
"He aforesaid, 'You never seen a black man as pretty as me.' And I aforesaid, 'No, I sure haven't.' And he aforementioned, 'Girl, you know I'm so beautiful,' " she recalled.
Later, on Valentine's Day, he asked her to come to his shop class so he could give her something. When she got there, "I said, 'What do you have for me?' And he kissed me. That was our first kiss." The couple wed in 1977, when both were 19, and Je'Niece was born the following year.
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Comedian Bernie Mac hospitalized for pneumonia
LOS ANGELES () - Comedian Bernie Mac has been hospitalized for pneumonia in Chicago but is expected to be released soon, his publicist aforementioned on Friday.
Mac, 50, suffered from sarcoidosis, a tissue rubor, but his publicist, Danica Smith, aforesaid his unwellness has been in remittance since 2005 and the bout of pneumonia is unrelated.
"Mr. Mac is responding well to treatment and will be released shortly," Smith aforesaid in a statement.
"He asked that his privacy and that of his mob is respected while he gets well," she aforementioned.
Mac, a comic who has always stayed close to his aboriginal Chicago, starred last year in the films "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Transformers," and in "The Bernie Mac Show" on the U.S. television network Fox from 2001 to 2006.
Mac was nominated for two Emmys and 2 Golden Globes for his performances in "The Bernie Mac Show."
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Shorty Rogers
Artist: Shorty Rogers
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
A fine middle-register trumpeter whose style seemed to practically define "cool jazz," Shorty Rogers was actually more significant for his arranging, both in jazz and in the film studios. After gaining other get with Will Bradley and Red Norvo and serving in the military, Rogers rose to fame as a fellow member of Woody Herman's First and Second Herds (1945-1946 and 1947-1949), and in some manner he managed to bring some swing to the Stan Kenton Innovations Orchestra (1950-1951), distinctly enjoying writing for the stratospheric flights of Maynard Ferguson. After that association ran its track, Rogers settled in Los Angeles where he light-emitting diode his Giants (which ranged from a fivesome to a nonet and a large band) on a series of rewarding West Coast jazz-styled recordings and wrote for the studios, serving greatly to take jazz into the movies; his heaps for The Wild One and The Man With the Golden Arm are in particular memorable. After 1962, Rogers stuck nearly solely to composition for television and films, merely in 1982 he began a return in jazz. Rogers reorganized and headed the Lighthouse All-Stars and, although his possess playing was non quite as hard as previously, he remained a welcome comportment both in clubs and recordings.
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Coldplay Finally Claim Number One UK Single
Three years after they narrowly lost out on the number one spot because of the Crazy Frog, Coldplay have finally topped the UK singles chart.
'Viva La Vida', which wasn't officially released as a single, went in at number one thanks to digital-download sales alone.
It completes a chart double for the band who are currently number one in the UK album chart with their fourth album, 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends'.
The closest Coldplay have come to topping the singles chart in the past was in 2005 with 'Speed Of Sound'.
But the song, from the band's third album 'X&Y', had to settle for number two because of the computer animated Crazy Frog.
Elsewhere in the weekend charts, Rihanna slipped to third with 'Take A Bow', replaced in second position by US rapper Ne-Yo.
As previously reported on Gigwise, Coldplay look set to top the US album chart on Tuesday with their new record.
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Wednesday 18 June 2008
Lil Wayne Sells A Million Copies Of New Album
Lil Wayne’s new album ‘Tha Carter III’ has sold over 1 million copies in it’s first 7 days in the U.S., making him the only artist in three years to break the million mark in one week.
The New Orleans rapper, who smashed sales expectations, has held the top spot on the U.S singles chart for the past few weeks with the hit song ‘Lollipop’, and has featured heavily on the mixtape circuit over the past couple of years.
According to Nielsen SoundScan figures, the last album to sell in-excess of a million copies was 50 Cent’s ‘The Massacre’ in 2005.
‘Tha Carter III’ sold 423,000 copies on the first day of release even after the album had been pushed back a number of times due to internet leaks and bootlegs.
Watch Lil Wayne’s ‘Lollipop’ below (warning: strong language).
Photo courtesy of Universal Motown.
The New Orleans rapper, who smashed sales expectations, has held the top spot on the U.S singles chart for the past few weeks with the hit song ‘Lollipop’, and has featured heavily on the mixtape circuit over the past couple of years.
According to Nielsen SoundScan figures, the last album to sell in-excess of a million copies was 50 Cent’s ‘The Massacre’ in 2005.
‘Tha Carter III’ sold 423,000 copies on the first day of release even after the album had been pushed back a number of times due to internet leaks and bootlegs.
Watch Lil Wayne’s ‘Lollipop’ below (warning: strong language).
Photo courtesy of Universal Motown.
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"(My daughter) SOPHIE is in Vietnam right now, with a Vietnamese family, living in a hut. She's finding out that the world isn't really like Beverly Hills." KISS star GENE SIMMONS makes sure his daughter's life isn't all about privilege.
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Man Killed At Afterparty For Dr Dre Book
One man has been killed and another injured after a party celebrating the launch of a new DR DRE biography turned violent.
Authors Bruce Williams and Donnell Alexander appeared at a bookstore in Tukwila, Washington on Saturday (12Apr08) to sign copies of their highly-anticipated book Rollin' With Dre, which explores Williams' account of the 10 years he spent as the rapper's confidante.
An afterparty was held at local golf course Gordon's On The Green, but violence erupted at around 2am, with shots fired in the parking lot of the venue - where police found two wounded men.
They were rushed by ambulance to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center where one of the men, a 24-year-old, was pronounced dead on arrival. The other victim, 25, remains in a critical condition.
Michael Murphy, of the Tukwila Police Department, says, "We don't know if the victims were involved in a fight or if they were ambushed or what. We just don't know yet.
"When we first got there, there was panic - people were trying to care for the wounded, people were trying to get out of there, people were scared. It wasn't a healthy scene. It took about 20 minutes to get everything calmed down."
Authors Bruce Williams and Donnell Alexander appeared at a bookstore in Tukwila, Washington on Saturday (12Apr08) to sign copies of their highly-anticipated book Rollin' With Dre, which explores Williams' account of the 10 years he spent as the rapper's confidante.
An afterparty was held at local golf course Gordon's On The Green, but violence erupted at around 2am, with shots fired in the parking lot of the venue - where police found two wounded men.
They were rushed by ambulance to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center where one of the men, a 24-year-old, was pronounced dead on arrival. The other victim, 25, remains in a critical condition.
Michael Murphy, of the Tukwila Police Department, says, "We don't know if the victims were involved in a fight or if they were ambushed or what. We just don't know yet.
"When we first got there, there was panic - people were trying to care for the wounded, people were trying to get out of there, people were scared. It wasn't a healthy scene. It took about 20 minutes to get everything calmed down."
Kelly Ripa: Oral Skills to Pay the Bills
With one hand gripped firmly on her food and the other hand cupped gently underneath, Kelly Ripa unhinged her jaw and showed the proper technique for, er, eating.See Also
LC & Audrina: What Bitch Fight?
In a move more transparent than a chick wearing white in a wet t-shirt contest, Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge set up an obvious PR stunt last night to "prove" they're still friends.
It's been forever since they've gone anywhere together -- and this move, coming just one day after TMZ broke the story the two were involved in a backyard rumble over an OK! magazine photo shoot, is definitely a little suspect.
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It's been forever since they've gone anywhere together -- and this move, coming just one day after TMZ broke the story the two were involved in a backyard rumble over an OK! magazine photo shoot, is definitely a little suspect.
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Black Majesty
Artist: Black Majesty
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Tomorrowland
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Silent Company
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Sands of Time
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Masters of movies and music combined to create "Nevsky"
"It's as if Michelangelo and Beethoven collaborated on 'Jaws,' " says producer John Goberman of the 1938 film "Alexander Nevsky."
Goberman's referring to filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev, who teamed up to create a classic cinematic story of heroes and villains in 13th-century Russia.
Now the movie will bring together another couple of heavyweights, when Seattle International Film Festival and Seattle Symphony collaborate on a presentation of "Alexander Nevsky" at Benaroya Hall.
As Eisenstein's bold images build on a screen above the stage to one of the most famous (and lengthy) battle sequences in film history, the orchestra — along with the Seattle Symphony Chorale, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Weld and conductor Xian Zhang — will bring Prokofiev's original film score to glorious life.
Seattle audiences will have the opportunity to see and hear "Nevsky" the way it was intended a couple of generations ago, when Prokofiev tried to fulfill the potential of his ambitious, progressive score on the film's soundtrack. The poor quality of Russia's recording facilities and Josef Stalin's premature appropriation of the movie, however, left the film's music a scratchy, blurry mess. It's still that way on DVD, 70 years later.
Goberman, creator of public TV's "Live at Lincoln Center" and the producer of the Benaroya event, wasn't exaggerating when he compared "Nevsky's" original creative team to Michelangelo and Beethoven.
Eisenstein is acknowledged by film historians as a crucial inventor of the movies, an architect of editing who made such seminal works as "Battleship Potemkin." Prokofiev is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, known, among other things, for his extraordinary score for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet."
Fellow Russians, both men were on the ropes at home in 1938. Prokofiev had recently returned to his country from an 18-year self-exile, only to find his work denounced and ignored. Eisenstein's glory days as a Soviet-sanctioned filmmaker, a favorite of Stalin, were so far behind him he was threatened with arrest.
Along came the opportunity to work on "Nevsky" together, and the two saw a chance to rehabilitate their official reputations. With the Nazis threatening Europe, the medieval story of a Teutonic threat to the Russian people of Novgorod, and the rise of a champion in Nevsky, was great anti-German propaganda. Stalin was keen on it.
For Eisenstein, "Nevsky" was going to be a relatively simple adventure story, albeit visually thrilling. But the director, working very closely on his first sound film with Prokofiev, managed to connect some intriguingly disparate elements — literary references, black humor, Soviet nationalism — with an inspired use of music.
The team utilized state-of-the-art innovations intensifying the relationship of image and music. Prokofiev, before returning to Russia, spent time with his friend Walt Disney learning an advanced scoring process. For "Nevsky," he and Eisenstein borrowed ideas from the so-called "silly symphony" scores in Disney's animation features, making music that comments on action as well as underlines it.
Where it all fell apart was in Prokofiev's doomed effort to record a decent version of his score in Russia. Prokofiev later adapted the score to a well-known cantata with full orchestration.
Goberman, who created Symphonic Cinema over two decades ago to marry film with live orchestra performances, got hold of a print of "Nevsky" from Russian archives. He says he took the composer's concert adaptation of the score and "turned it back into a film score."
"This is the music Prokofiev heard in his head while working on 'Nevsky,' " says Goberman, speaking from his New York office. "He wrote it for a little studio orchestra, where you can put the microphone close to an instrument. He wrote the greatest movie score, but it was a terrible recording. In a concert hall, the fuller orchestration gives you the sound he was looking for."
The first screening of "Nevsky" accompanying a live performance of the score occurred in New York in 1987, conducted by Andre Previn. Xian Zhang, hailed by The New York Times as a big talent, previously conducted the work in London.
"Eisenstein and Prokofiev got together when the relationship between music and film was being invented," Goberman says. "They were geniuses creating what we now take for granted."
Tom Keogh: tomwkeogh@yahoo.com
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Finn Brothers
Artist: Finn Brothers
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Won't Give In
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Everyone Is Here
Year:
Tracks: 12
Brothers Tim and Neil Finn have been devising music together since their childhood in Te Awamutu, New Zealand, continuing through to external success in Split Enz and Crowded House. However, it wasn't until late 1989 that they actually started writing together -- a reunion that yielded more than a twelve songs for a proposed Finn Brothers side project. That record album was scrapped and most of the material was absorbed by Crowded House's Woodface (1991) and Unitedly Alone (1993), as well as Tim's 1993 solo album, Ahead & After. The brothers' project resumed in late 1994, and in four weeks, they completed an album called simply Finn. The record album, released in the fall of 1995 (the summer of 1996 in the U.S.), showed a much more casual side of the Finns and was less pop-oriented than their previous melodious collaborations -- the brothers encounter about all of the instruments themselves, ranging from the crude to the exotic. After initial pressings of Finn, the duet changed their appoint to the Finn Brothers to void confusion with a striation loss under a similar appoint. In 2004 the Finn Brothers returned with Everyone Is Here.
Pamela Anderson to part with prized sports car to raise money for PETA
Blockbuster Video Top 10 game rentals list per platform
TORONTO - The most popular game rentals according to Blockbuster Video Canada for the period ending June 1.
Playstation 3
1 Grand Theft Auto IV
2 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
3 Haze
4 Army of Two
5 Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
6 Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
7 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
8 UEFA Euro 2008
9 Iron Man
10 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Playstation 2
1 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2 Iron Man
3 UEFA Euro 2008
4 WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008
5 Transformers: The Movie
6 Need for Speed: Pro Street
7 Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s
8 Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock
9 Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3
10 Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
Xbox 360
1 Grand Theft Auto IV
2 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
3 Army of Two
4 Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
5 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
6 UEFA Euro 2008
7 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
8 Iron Man
9 Assassin's Creed
10 Bully: Scholarship Edition
Xbox
1 LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
2 Thrillville
3 Star Wars Battlefront 2
4 The Sims 2: Pets
5 Jaws Unleashed
6 Over the Hedge
7 Call of Duty 3
8 Destroy All Humans
9 Cars
10 Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Wii
1 Super Smash Bros. Brawl
2 Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
3 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
4 Deca Sports
5 Mario Party 8
6 Boom Blox
7 Super Mario Galaxy
8 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
9 Iron Man
10 Super Paper Mario
GameCube
1 LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
2 Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island
3 Need for Speed: Carbon
4 Mario Party 7
5 Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
6 The Sims 2: Pets
7 Ratatouille
8 Shrek Smash N' Crash
9 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10 Pac Man World Rally
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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