Patti Smith Group & other: 2008

Monday, 8 September 2008

Oprah smashes O cover snub reports

TV mogul Oprah Winfrey has denied snubbing her own magazine by refusing to pose for the front cover.

The legendary chatshow host publishes her own monthly magazine, O, and the cover always features a picture of the star.

Winfrey was lately rumoured to have fully grown tired of the regular photoshoots and reportedly told editors at the publication to

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Download Jennifer Love Hewitt mp3

Artist: Jennifer Love Hewitt: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rock: Pop-Rock
Pop

Discography:

Barenaked

Year: 2002

Tracks: 13

JLH - Let's Go Bang [1995]

Year: 1996

Tracks: 11

Another

Year: 1992

Tracks: 6

Teen pop star Jennifer Love Hewitt was already a ex-serviceman of several TV serial publication (including Kids Incorporated) and had recorded a 1992 Japanese LP when she signed on to appear in Fox TV's popular series Party of Five in 1995. That same year, she made her American debut on record, releasing Let's Go Bang on Atlantic Records. Her self-titled second album appeared one year afterward, and she as well contributed iI songs to the soundtrack for House Arrest, in which she likewise starred. Hewitt went on to star in the successful thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer; her song "How Do I Deal" was featured on the soundtrack to the shuddery sequel. In 2002, she emerged with a deal with Jive Records, home to Britney Spears and Aaron Carter. She likewise followed up with a third solo album entitled BareNaked, which was produced by Meredith Brooks, in September 2002.

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Aerosmith' gets preview

'Sweet Emotion,' 'Walk This Way' among songs

NEW YORK -- Real-life Aerosmith fans screamed as loudly as the animated ones in a video sneak preview of "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" played Friday during a news conference at New York's Hard Rock Cafe. All five band members attended the event to answer questions about the game, which fans got a chance to test-run before it hits stores Sunday.
The premise of "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" is for players to progress through the band's nearly 40-year career. Gamers have the opportunity to play seminal Aerosmith songs, all taken from the band's master recordings, as well as tracks from artists who have played with or influenced the band such as Joan Jett and Run DMC.
Among the Aerosmith tracks used in the game are "Sweet Emotion," "Livin' on the Edge," "Walk This Way" and "Dream On." The game will be released for Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 and 3.
Singer Steven Tyler said the process of animating the band was not easy. Game creators "wrapped me in a rubber suit, and I spent seven hours a day for two weeks getting in there with my hands and making this thing be all that Aerosmith is," he said. Bassist Tom Hamilton joked that the game reminded him of the first time the band was animated, which was on "The Simpsons."
Players begin as guitarist Joe Perry, but completing different levels allows them to also play as guitarist Brad Whitford and Hamilton. The band starts out with club gigs and makes its way to stadium shows.
"Playing the 'Guitar Hero' game put me in that mode of the old songs," drummer Joey Kramer said. "I went back and started listening to the old albums. It's just really amazing. It made me really proud of all of us because I haven't listened to those records in so long."
Perry said the "Guitar Hero" series, regardless of which band's music is used, shows the significant changes in the music business. "Everybody's wondering how they're gonna [sell] their music [and] how the musicians are gonna get paid for it," he said. "I think this is one of the avenues that is gonna be an outlet and it's actually as important as albums used to be."
"Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" is the fourth game in the best-selling, but the first based on a specific band. The fifth edition, "Guitar Hero: World Tour," is slated for a late October release. As tipped here earlier this month, Guitar Hero franchise publisher Activision is expected to announced another special edition of the game featuring Metallica.

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

'Wall-E': Environmental Cautionary Tale Or Just A Robot Love Story?

It's a love story about two lonely robots that may very well represent all that is left of life on Earth, a science-fiction fable about what makes us who we are. It's a tale, according to writer/director Andrew Stanton, about "a little machine with a soul [that] over time finally asks that question: 'There has to be more to life than what I'm doing.' "

"Wall-E," Pixar Animation Studios' latest opus, is certainly all those things, but it's also a movie that "presents a wonderful message about environmental stewardship and conservation," containing "unsubtle jabs at corporate megapowers, out-of-control branding, insidious advertising and rampant consumerism," as CHUD.com's Devin Faraci pointed out in an editorial on his site Monday.

The movie deals with a Waste Allocation robot left on Earth to dig the planet out from under mountains of trash, while what's left of humanity passes the time as gelatinous blobs of flesh in a luxury space cruiser. Both the planet and the people from it are victims of rampant, uncontrolled consumerism.

Given that premise, Faraci and Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere.com have both chided the film's talent, beginning with Stanton, for reportedly refusing to acknowledge the central themes of "Wall-E" as anything other than byproducts of a Disney love story.

Maybe some of the voice actors didn't get the memo?

"It absolutely is a cautionary tale," said Fred Willard, who appears in the film as the CEO of the insidious Buy n Large, the company seemingly most responsible for Earth's sorry state. "You can suddenly say, 'Boy, it looks a lot like scenes we're already seeing around the world,' with all these floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and natural disasters, which are caused a lot by our economy and damaging our resources. I hope it implants in young people's minds to keep our planet clean and be more conscious of the environment."

"It's also something that is very realistic," added Kathy Najimy, who voices Mary, one of the spaceship's inhabitants. "It's not like 40 billion years from now, we may have this problem. We have this problem right now, if you're talking about the population of junk on this Earth and what Wall-E does for a living."

Stanton himself, while insisting that making an environmental film was not part of an "agenda," acknowledged to MTV News that "Wall-E" had elements that made it somewhat of a warning.

"It's science fiction, not science fact," the director said. "[But] I think that all really good sci-fi films make certain observations about ourselves that just seem like a little bit of a truth about us. You use that to tell your main story ... to amplify the story."

In fact, the only actor with whom MTV News spoke who refused to recognize the film's environmental message was Pixar good-luck charm John Ratzenberger. Asked if he thought the film was cautionary, he said, "No. I think it's fantasy."

But at the end of the day, not putting the environmental message front and center is a good thing, Najimy and Willard said, because the message is front and center in the movie — and it's the movie, not the voices behind it, that has the potential to shape audiences' minds forever.

"It's not scary, and it's not without solutions. I don't like to pose a problem just for the sake of fear," Najimy said of the environmental message. "I like when I'm shown what the problem is or might be and then the ways that I can be part of fixing it."

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Monday, 23 June 2008

Balanescu Quartet

Artist: Balanescu Quartet

   Genre(s):
Classical

Discography:

Luminitza

Year: 1994
Tracks: 9

Possessed

Year: 1991
Tracks: 9

Junior Kimbrough

Artist: Junior Kimbrough

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

All Night Long

Year: 1997
Tracks: 10

Meet Me In The City

Year:
Tracks: 9

God Knows I Tried

Year:
Tracks: 9

Cited as a prime early influence by rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers, Mississippi Delta bluesman Junior Kimbrough's modal, spellbinding blues vision remained a regional sensation for most of his calling. He finally transcended the confines of his region in the early '90s, when he appeared in the 1991 pic Deep Blues and on its Anxious/Atlantic soundtrack, preeminent to his possess debut for Fat Possum Records, All Night Long.

Junior Kimbrough was born and elevated in Hudsonville, Mississippi, where he erudite how to play guitar by listening to records by Delta bluesmen. In 1968, he hack his low single, "Hobo," for the local Philwood label. For the following two decades, Kimbrough didn't get the chance to book frequently -- he recorded a single, "Keep Your Hands Off Her," for High Water and his "All Night Long" was available on the several artists digest National Downhome Festival, Vol. 2 released on Southland Records.

During the '70s and '80s, Kimbrough played fake joints end-to-end Mississippi, which is where music diary keeper Robert Palmer discovered him in the late '80s. Palmer featured Kimbrough in his objective film Rich Blues. The exposure in the picture show lED to a internal record condense for Kimbrough -- he signed with Fat Possum and released his first base uncut record album, All Night Long, in 1992. The record was critically acclaimed by both blues and mainstream publications, as was Deep Blues and its accompanying soundtrack. All of the media attention lED to performances outside of the Delta, including a few shows in England. After the flurry of activity in 1992, Junior Kimbrough returned to playing fake joints in the Delta, recording on occasion -- he released his second album, Sad Days, Lonely Nights, in 1993. Most Things Haven't Worked Out followed in 1997, and a year later Kimbrough returned with God Knows I Tried. He died of a heart attack on January 17, 1998.

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Trace Adkins - Adkins Wins Political Support In Fight For Food Allergy Bill

Country star TRACE ADKINS' efforts to help kids suffering from killer food allergies has been given a major boost - two top politicians have agreed to support his cause.

The singer is promoting legislation to assist schools and protect the 2.2 million children in America who suffer from life-threatening allergies.

And now Adkins, whose six-year-old daughter Brianna suffers from severe food allergies, has been joined by Tennessee Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker.

The two Republicans have announced they will co-sponsor the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act to develop voluntary guidelines for schools to prevent exposure to food allergens and ensure a prompt response when a student suffers a potentially fatal reaction.

Adkins tells CMT.com, "There have been no consistent standardised guidelines to help schools safely manage students with their food allergies (and) this bill will help keep kids safe while at school and parents will be more at ease knowing an action plan is in place."

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Edgar Wright, 'Ninja' duo join JFL lineup

Jason Reitman also slated for comedy conference

TORONTO -- The Just for Laughs festival has added "Shaun of the Dead" helmer Edgar Wright, FremantleMedia's Rob Clark and "Ask a Ninja" creators Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine to the lineup for its upcoming Montreal comedy conference.

Wright and fellow filmmaker Jason Reitman will take part in an informal conversation about how to make feature comedies, while Clark, FremantleMedia's senior executive vp production, will deliver a keynote speech on international comedy formatting.

The Just Comedy conference is set to run July 17-18, midway through the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival.

The festival also announced that it has added stand-up comics Andre-Phillipe Gagnon, Shaun Majumder, Robert Schimmel, Robert Klein, Larry Miller and "Daily Show" correspondent John Oliver to the lineup of its July 23-27 Just for Laughs Toronto Festival.

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Jessica Alba - Dawson Alba Will Be Great Role Model To Daughter

New mother JESSICA ALBA will be a great parent and "role model" to her daughter, according to the actress' SIN CITY co-star ROSARIO DAWSON.

Alba and her husband Cash Warren became first time parents to little Honor on 7 June (08) - and Dawson is sure the Fantastic Four star is coping well with her new responsibilities.

She tells People.com, "She'll be really attentive and really strong and she'll be a great role model. She's very smart and I like that about her.

"I don't know what people think about her on the outside or what their impression is, but Jessica is very strong and a very powerful woman.

"She'll probably be the disciplinarian more than Cash. I can definitely see that."

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Philly's Crazaziest -- I Got Teed Up on Dr. Phil!

That anchorvixen from Philadelphia is clawing back at the station that fired her -- and Alycia Lane says she was basically set up by her bosses to get the chop by weeping on Dr. Phil's show.

In a suit filed in Philly Common Pleas Court, the newsmess says that her bosses at CBS3 sent her to Dr. Phil to talk about her failed relationships. After she got all weepy at the taping, she begged producers not to air parts of her segment. When they did anyway, the appearance made her "tabloid fodder" and started her down a slippery wreckalicious slope -- which ended in her getting fired.

Of course, there was that whole sending pictures to married sports guy Rich Eisen and getting arrested in New York for slapping up a cop. The station says it hasn't seen the suit yet.

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Led Zeppelin - Jones Has High Hopes For Led Zeppelin Dvd Release

Legendary rockers LED ZEPPELIN want to release a DVD of their reunion gig last December (07) to commemorate the "special occasion".

The Stairway to Heaven stars came together for a one-off charity concert at London's O2 Arena to pay tribute to late music mogul Ahmet Ertegun.

The gig was filmed and rumours that a DVD would be released have been circulating ever since.

And now bassist John Paul Jones has hinted that a full release looks likely - although there is no release date just yet.

When asked about the status of the DVD, Jones replied, "Yeah, I should think one day the DVD will come out, but there is no hurry to do it.

"It was a special occasion you know, and we really wanted that just to be it, really."

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