Thursday, 4 September 2008

No Idol Catfights, Says Ryan Seacrest

For seven seasons, Paula Abdul has been goddamn (though some might say "cursed") to be the only woman judge on America's most popular picture. But with the promulgation on Monday that ballad maker and producer Kara DiaGuardia had been added for the coming season of American Idol, some Hollywood insiders were predicting that the "Straight Up" vocaliser would be showing her claws to defend her territory.

But according to Idol host Ryan Seacrest, that couldn't be further from the truth.

"Let's clear the air," he said during a break at Tuesday's first-round auditions in Manhattan. "Paula and Kara are great together. They ill-used to live together and Paula helped her out years agone. Now the two of them ar on the same team."

However, this hasn't stopped resident imp Simon Cowell from trying to stir up trouble. "I love catfights," he told OK!. "I encourage them. It's no fun if everyone gets along."

To that end, Simon has already started in on trying to case a rift. "I wouldn't have recognized Kara by the way Paula described her," Simon said. "I was expecting someone perchance 50 years old, about 180 lbs., maybe a bit of gray hair."

During yesterday's announcement, AI producer Simon Fuller described Kara as a "�smart, impudent lady," wHO will "fetch a new level of energy and excitement to the picture.�










Do you expect Kara's presence to cause tenseness on American Idol?

I hope so!
Nah... Two women will quiet Simon mastered.










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Friday, 15 August 2008

Lenny Kravitz denies Revolver rumours

Lenny Kravitz has denied rumours that he

Friday, 27 June 2008

Silent Circle

Silent Circle   
Artist: Silent Circle

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Dance
   



Discography:


Collection   
 Collection

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18


The Maxi Singles Collection-1   
 The Maxi Singles Collection-1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 15


Stories Bout Love   
 Stories Bout Love

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


Best Of Vol.3   
 Best Of Vol.3

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


Back Ii   
 Back Ii

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


Back   
 Back

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


Best Of Vol 2   
 Best Of Vol 2

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


No. 1   
 No. 1

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 11




 






Sunday, 22 June 2008

Why HBO’s ‘Grey Gardens’ Put the Hamptons in … Toronto?

From left, the Beales; Lange and Barrymore.Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Beales); Getty Images

At last night's benefit dinner at Bottino for the Ghetto Film School, Rachael Horovitz, producer of HBO's upcoming film of Grey Gardens (starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore), explained why she and first-time director Michael Sucsy filmed the quintessential Hamptons story in Toronto. "Funnily enough," she quipped, "you can re-create sand dunes, but you can't re-create tax breaks." So how do you re-create sand dunes in Toronto, anyway? "We got extremely lucky," Horovitz confessed. "On our first day of shooting, which was October 22, they were having a heat wave — a one-day heat wave, no joke — in Toronto. And we did the beach exteriors on that one day." The crew built a Hamptons-esque façade in the countryside outside Toronto, and the city itself was used for flashback scenes set in thirties and fifties New York. The production got lots of mileage out of its lead actresses: "Drew played Little Edie from age 16 to age 65," and "Jessica sings her own songs."

New York film commissioner Katherine Oliver, for her part, claimed that the pathetic state of the U.S. dollar and the "sweetened" tax breaks written into law in 2005 ensured that classic New York tales would never again be shot across the border. "Now that [the tax incentive] has been increased to 35 percent, there's no reason anybody would have to go anywhere else," she said. Except maybe to get away from the heat? —Darrell Hartman



Saturday, 14 June 2008

Willie Colon

Willie Colon   
Artist: Willie Colon

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   R&B: Soul
   Folk
   Other
   



Discography:


Cosa Nuestra   
 Cosa Nuestra

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 8


Quien Eres   
 Quien Eres

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


Og - Original Gangster   
 Og - Original Gangster

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14


Lo Mato   
 Lo Mato

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


Guisando   
 Guisando

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


Fantasmas   
 Fantasmas

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


El Malo   
 El Malo

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


El Jucio   
 El Jucio

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


El Baquine de Angelitos Negros   
 El Baquine de Angelitos Negros

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


Crime Pays   
 Crime Pays

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9


Corazon Guerrero   
 Corazon Guerrero

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


Willie Colon - The Best   
 Willie Colon - The Best

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


Metiendo Mano   
 Metiendo Mano

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


Demasiado Corazon   
 Demasiado Corazon

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


Salsa's Bad Boy   
 Salsa's Bad Boy

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 16


Los Gigantes   
 Los Gigantes

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


Asalto NavideAo 2   
 Asalto NavideAo 2

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 8


El Rey Del Trombon   
 El Rey Del Trombon

   Year:    
Tracks: 13




Trombone thespian, composer, and bandleader, Willie Colón was one of the pioneers of Latin American music. Despite initial criticism, Colón's album El Malo has become known as one of the first albums to feature the "Unexampled York Sound" that sparked a renewed interest in Latin music during the seventies. Colón has been implemental in the careers of such Latin musicians as Rubén Blades, world Health Organization first sang with Colón's dance band in 1975, and Celia Cruz, for whom Colón has produced such albums as Merely They Could Have Done This Album in 1977 and the highly successful duette album Celia & Willie in 1981. Colón has likewise produced albums for Ismael Miranda, Sophy, Soledad Bravo, and the late Hector Lavoe, world Health Organization american ginseng with his banding in the early '70s. Inspired by the music of assorted cultures, Colón has recorded with such musicians as Puerto Rican cuatro thespian Yomo Toro and David Byrne. Colón's composing "Che Che Cole," adapted from a Ghanaian children's song, was used by Ntozake Shange in the melodious play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. In addition to 11 Grammy nominations and one Grammy honour, Colón has received a CHUBB fellowship from Yale University, the most esteemed honor disposed by the Ivy League school. Colón ran for the United States Congress, representing New York's seventeenth Congressional District, in 1992.


Starting to play the trumpet at the age of 12, Colón switched to the trombone iI age later. Making his recording debut in 1967, for Al Santiago's Futura pronounce, Colón became a victim of misfortune when the label folded. Colón was a lot more successful when he sign with Johnny Pacheco's Fania pronounce. When his vocalizer failed to make Colón's first session for the label, Pacheco suggested Hector Lavoe as a surrogate. The collaboration proved fruitful when two singles from Colón's starting time two albums (El Malo, Guisando) -- "Jazzy" and "I Wish I Had a Watermelon" -- became hits. Lavoe remained a lively member of Colón's striation until the mid-'70s when an increased drug addiction caused him to miss or evince up late for several gigs. Although their partnership formally complete in 1975, Colón and Lavoe continued to work together. Lavoe's last-place album, Strikes Back, released in 1987, was produced by Colón.


In 1975, Colón balanced his schedule as conductor of the Latin Jazz All Stars with studies in medicine theory, make-up, and orchestration. His increased noesis nonrecreational off quick. In 1978, Colón was named Musician, Producer, and Trombone Player of the Year in a readers poll conducted by Latin New York. Three years by and by, he received an prize as Musician of the Year and his record album Fantasmas was named Album of the Year. Colón continued to garner spat when his album Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos received a Grammy award in 1982.


Although they met backstage ahead a concert in Panama in 1969, Colón and Blades didn't begin collaborating until basketball team long time later. While working on the album The Good-The Bad-The Ugly, Colón asked Blades to sing on the Blades-penned tune "El Cazanguero," which reflected on Blades' experiences as a law educatee working in a Panamanian prison house. The session was so square that Blades became a full-time member of Colón's striation following the departure of Lavoe. Their 1978 record album Siembra became the top-selling album in Fania's catalogue. Despite their success, Blades severely quarreled with label president Jerry Mascucci over money. Although Colón recorded two solo albums -- El Baquine de Angelitos Negros in 1977 and Solo in 1979 -- and Blades recorded a solo album, Maestra Vida, in 1980, their solo work failed to equate the commercial success of their spliff efforts.


In 1981, the deuce musicians resumed their partnership with Blades performing coro on Colón's solo album Fantasmas. The following year, they collaborated on the Grammy-winning record album Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos, which yielded the hits singles "Tiburon," "Ligia Elena," and "Te Estan Buscando." Their partnership again proved short-lived as Colón and Blades rip up afterwards working on the picture The Last Fight. The rip was far from cordial and the deuce musicians continued to feud until reuniting for a concert at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan in March 1992. Despite collaborating on the record album Tras la Tormenta in 1995, Colón and Blades recorded their parts individually. Following a reunion concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1997, Colón and Blades performed a series of concerts together.


In the late '80s, Colón formed a new band, Legal Aliens, with jr. musicians. Signing with Sony, Colón and the striation recorded Color Americano in 1990 and Honra y Cultura in 1991. Two years by and by, Colón recorded Hecho en Puerto Rico with an all-star striation featuring ex-members of the Fania All-Stars, Papo Lucca and Bobby Valentin. Since leaving Sony over a want of promotional support, Colón continued to remain active.






Sunday, 1 June 2008

Mendes leaves rehab but will return

Actress Eva Mendes has left the rehab clinic where she was being treated in order to attend to some "personal business".
US media reports suggest that the star has been in the Cirque Lodge in Utah for several weeks now.
Mendes' representative said: "Eva is attending to some personal business in Los Angeles and intends to return to complete her treatment shortly."
It was announced earlier in the week that the actress was in a rehab clinic attending to "personal issues".
A spokesperson said: "Eva has been working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support."

Saturday, 24 May 2008

New CDs: Bun B, Flobots, Abigail Washburn, Danielia Cotton

Bun B

"II Trill" (Rap-A-Lot/Asylum)

* * * 1/2





IN THE months since the death of rapper Pimp C, Bun B, his partner in the legendary Southern rap group UGK, has popped up on nearly every high-profile remix to hit the Internet, with each of his verses topping the last. The tragedy has seemingly spurred the veteran Houston rapper to new heights, and his second solo album finds him continuing this ascent.

The majority of "II Trill" may have been completed when Pimp C suddenly died in December, but his presence still hangs heavily over the album. From the "R.I.P. Pimp Cs" shouted by David Banner, Rick Ross and 8-Ball & MJG to "Angel in the Sky," Bun B's eloquent lament to his comrade, the ghost of the late Chad Butler, feels ubiquitous. Bun B even includes one of UGK's last tracks, "Underground Thang," and it's one of their best.

Plagued by more than just the loss of his partner, the 35-year-old Bun B sounds a weary and disillusioned note, using "Get Cha' Issue" to call out faux-spiritual hypocrites, police brutality and more, before launching into a powerful third verse in which he denounces the White House's deception in Iraq, Congress members who flip-flopped on their war votes and the Larry Craig scandal.

In "If It Was Up to Me," he indicts inequities in the educational system, lead-based paint, asbestos in project housing and local politicians beholden to shady developers. Careful to balance his social protests with levity, Bun B enlists Lupe Fiasco for "Swang on 'Em," a bass-heavy, hydraulic hop tailor-made to catapult out of sub-woofers all summer long.

Bun B's second solo record is an impressive late-career triumph, one with a poignancy and resonance worthy of his dedication and devotion to the memory of his departed friend.

--

Jeff Weiss

What an ideal time to fight

Flobots

"Fight With Tools" (Universal Republic)

* * 1/2

YOU MIGHT not guess it from its hit single "Handlebars," but this Denver band is a sort of Rage Against the Machine on a Rocky Mountain high. Or maybe a Linkin Park as an acoustic jam band.

"There is a war going on for your mind," the Flobots declare in the opening words of "Fight With Tools," an album that they put out independently last year and that gets a major-label release today. That proposition introduces a focused flip-book of progressive-leaning issues: corporate greed, Guantanamo, the Iraq war, globalization, racism, government-sanctioned assassination, the plight of the powerless.

The list goes on, and on, but the Flobots find some fresh and educational territory, such as a tribute to the late Anne Braden, a Southern white who led the fight against segregation.

They serve it up in a style that touches on underground hip-hop and hippie funk, boho jazz and folky grooves. "Mayday!!!," with its alternating rapped and sung sections, sounds like an organic Linkin Park, with Mackenzie Roberts' viola in place of the heavy sampling. In "Handlebars," their breakthrough track, they build up the force and tension as they describe the fine line between noble achievement and dangerous power.

Overall, the music on "Fight With Tools" is a little loose-limbed and light in touch to deliver the artillery with Rage Against the Machine impact, but the sentiments are strong, smart and sincere. And of course election year is an ideal time for a little good-hearted subversion.

--

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Vegastar

Vegastar   
Artist: Vegastar

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Metal
   



Discography:


Un Nouvel Orage   
 Un Nouvel Orage

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


Ep Cd 5 Titres   
 Ep Cd 5 Titres

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


Album LP   
 Album LP

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11




 






Thursday, 1 May 2008

THE FILTER: A Personalized Online Discovery System To Enter Private Beta on April 15th

THE FILTER: A Personalized Online Discovery System To Enter Private Beta on April 15th



Imaginativeness of Grammy Award-Winning Creative person & Digital Media Initiate Saint Peter
Gabriel, Technology Available as Personal Breakthrough Site and Patrick Victor Martindale White Pronounce
Result for Substance Partners

Tub, England, April 15 -- The Sink in, the vision of Cock
Gabriel, the Grammy award-winning artist and digital media pioneer, will
infix buck private beta today and transform the online find experience as
it filters the earthly concern of online entertainment and information and
personalizes it for apiece individual user. The Permeate provides a holistic
approach to filtering out irrelevant content and only filtering in capacity
that reflects an individual's tastes and moods through unique algorithms,
crossways entertainment media, including music, film, amusement news and
TV. In addition to launching as a consumer amusement get at
hypertext transfer protocol://www.thefilter.com, The Strain testament also provide white label and co-branded
solutions for message partners quest to better match their armory of
content to their visitors' tastes.

"We believe one of the many joys of the internet would be freedom of
choice, just many of us are straight off drowning in an ocean of options. An
intelligent filtrate stool take away the essence and tedium of pick and have us
what we desire and want with plenty of exploration and discovery. The Permeate
is a smartness on-line comrade -- once it knows you, your tastes and your
moods, it can buoy disclose treasure for you every metre," claims Peter Gabriel,
the music industry legend whose digital artistry has lED to about of the
first online media solutions.

The Filter's Unique Algorithmic rule

The Filter's core is a recommendation and discovery engine derived from
a branch of Artificial News, called Bayesian math.
Simplistically, the engine uses an evidence model (which includes purchase,
use of goods and services and browse data) to derive the similarity of items. When The
Filter's engine is supplied with unity or to a greater extent items of interest, such as a
sung, actor, film or web video, it delivers a pick-list of items that are
statistically relevant by decree of probability. The Trickle is unlike most
tools, withal, that merely interpret a altogether pick-list of recommendations.
Instead, the pick-list is federal Reserve through a number of filters to present the
customized recommendations. The Separate out and so incorporates simple filters to
prejudice results by personal discernment, popularity, eRA, or genre. More complex
filters lavatory besides be applied to catch climate, the influence of friends,
third gear party experts or reviewers.

"The Trickle aims to be the charles Herbert Best possible blend of world and machine -- a
hybrid locomotive that filters wholly amusement capacity to one's have personal
tasting," says Steve Martin Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, a cofounder and CSO of The Filter.

The Filtrate for consumers

Users wHO visit hTTP://www.thefilter.com will be able to aggregate their
medicine, film, and amusement RSS feeds, and then utilize the dynamic
filtering system of rules to optimize their digital libraries by discovering a
greater concentration of relevant cognitive content. Users will be able to build
their digital libraries based on The Filter's rendition of their
tastes and moods. The Filtrate will not hold finish content merely rather
will cater samples with links to subject sites, such as iTunes and
Netflix, so if a vocal is recommended, a sampling will be available only the
drug user will make to contact to the actual iTunes or Netflix site to download the
song or order a plastic film.

The Percolate will also launch with a mixer facet that will enable
customers to utilize another user's Filter to take recommendations in
genres that they are not familiar with for the benefit of exploration
outside one's comfort zone. For illustration, if a user wants to buy a birthday
gift for his girl, he can access code his daughter's shared Filter to catch a
testimonial of a fresh book from what is essentially her personal online
assistant.

"The Filter's ability to interpret a person's tastes and personality
makes it a breakthrough solution for individuals struggling to virginia Wade through
the enormous sum of info online," said David Maher Richard J. Roberts, Chief executive officer
of The Sink in. "No one else toilet aggregate customized content across
multiple entertainment platforms the way The Dribble tooshie, and we carry it
will establish the online go through far more enjoyable for entirely world Health Organization exercise it."

The Filtrate for Strategic Partners

The Sink in provides an unparalleled solution for content partners
seeking to maximize their inventory by matching more cognitive content to their
customer's tastes and moods.

"Online inventory of digital content simply keeps on growing, patch our
electronic computer screens and attention spans stay the saami, so only adding
inventory volition not lead to increased sales and traffic," continues David
Maher Roberts. "The Filter's advanced personalized filtering tools testament
help capacity businesses increase their gross sales and online activity by simply
ensuring that every inch of screen space is targeted and personalized for
for each one somebody."

The Filter ab initio launched in the UK only as a downloadable
playlist almighty and music discovery lotion, and has too been
provision recommendations for Nokia, MSN and The Ministry of Sound's online
stores. The Filter was successful in attracting all over 200,000 customers, 40%
of which came from the US in its outset year as a free download.

The Team Behind The Trickle

The Filter was developed and founded by Martin Sir Anthony Hopkins and Rhett Ryder
in Bath, England. David Maher Richard John Roberts, a fresh media and marketing expert world Health Organization
came on board as CEO last light pursual a career in digital publishing,
joined CMO Andy Semple, a former theater director at Dennis Iraqi National Congress. and Future plc.
The Filtrate is backed by Simon Peter Gabriel's Real Reality Grouping and Garden of Eden Ventures.
$8.5 million has been invested in the venture to day of the month.

Nigh The Filter

The Filter is a personalized content filtering system that aggregates
amusement and info and connects users to content that reflects
their tastes and moods. The developers behind The Permeate are world leadership
Brits software system company Exabre. They are backed by high profile investors,
including St. Peter Gabriel's Real Man Mathematical group and Eden Ventures.

The Trickle has been downloaded in 164 countries. Its database presently
includes over 5m songs, 330k movies and more than 50m soul purchases
and playlists.


The Filter works by using Bayesian maths. It was developed by Martin
Anthony Hopkins, a physicist world Health Organization was struggling to wield his ontogeny digital medicine
collection.

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Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Idol star hospitalised after live show

Idol star hospitalised after live show



'American Idol' star David Cook was hospitalised afterwards last night's hold out show in the US.
According to People cartridge holder, the vocalizer was taken to infirmary after he began to find heart palpitations.
Wangle was reportedly treated for high blood pressure before organism released from the hospital.
A source told the magazine publisher that Make is at present "doing exquisitely".
The isaac Bashevis Singer performed Doll Patron's 'Little Sparrow' on the show just was later absent from the line up when entirely the contestants returned to watch a performance by last year's victor Jordin Sparks.





Division One

Division One   
Artist: Division One

   Genre(s): 
Jungle
   



Discography:


Nuff Reggae Music Crazy   
 Nuff Reggae Music Crazy

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1




 





Pessimist

Led Zeppelin back on stage tonight

Led Zeppelin back on stage tonight



The legendary LED Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin will have to the stage in Capital of the United Kingdom tonight for their one-off reunion show.
Tonight's performance by vocalizer Henry Martyn Robert Plant, guitar player Jemmy Page, bassist John the Divine Alice Paul John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham, the logos of belatedly Light-emitting diode Graf Zeppelin drummer Privy Bonham, is in financial aid of the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund and will also help set up a music scholarship at Ravensbourne College in Kent.
Ertegun, wHO died last year, was the record label honcho world Health Organization signed LED Zeppelin to Atlantic Records.
The Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund pays for pupil scholarships to universities in the UK, US and Turkey.
More than 20m fans worldwide registered for tickets for tonight's spear at the O2 Arena.
Listen to a special Dave Fanning broadcast on LED Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin here.





IBIZARRE

IBIZARRE   
Artist: IBIZARRE

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


The Ambient Collection Vol 6   
 The Ambient Collection Vol 6

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 1


The Ambient Collection vol.4   
 The Ambient Collection vol.4

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 1


The Ambient Collection vol.3   
 The Ambient Collection vol.3

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 1


The Ambient Collection vol.2   
 The Ambient Collection vol.2

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 1


The Ambient Collection vol.1   
 The Ambient Collection vol.1

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 1




Lenny Ibizarre was an Ibiza-based maker and DJ specializing in ambient and chill beat generation. He debuted in 1997 with The Ambient Accumulation and was before long keeping tampering with remix wreak. Ibizarre was a even at the beachfront Café Del Mar, spinning pall come out sets as the sunshine went mastered. He DJed regularly on Spanish receiving set, and appeared on host Ibiza calm down compilations. By 2003, Ibizarre was travel for each one summertime on the outside fiesta electrical circuit; however, he could unruffled now and over again be establish spinning for his hometown fans at Café Del Mar, Pasha, Mambo, and Kumharas.