Artist: Kevin Braheny and Tim Clark
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
The Spell
Year: 1996
Tracks: 8
Rain
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Dr. Octagon - DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist and Jurass
Friday 27 June 2008
Kevin Braheny and Tim Clark
Artist: Kevin Braheny and Tim Clark
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
The Spell
Year: 1996
Tracks: 8
Rain
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Dr. Octagon - DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist and Jurass
Sunday 22 June 2008
Saturday 14 June 2008
Ludacris Returns To High School
Rapper-turned-actor LUDACRIS will return to his former high school to give advice to troubled students.
On Tuesday (13May08), Ludacris - real name Christopher Bridges - will visit Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Atlanta, Georgia, to address students about various concerns facing teenagers today, including rape, gang violence and the pressure to sell drugs.
According to event organiser Tory Edwards, students have prepared for the ceremony by writing anonymous letters voicing their problems, which will later be placed in a casket and buried.
The star will also plant a tree on the school's campus, which plans to name one of its gymnasiums the Christopher Bridges Gym Of Dreams in the star's honour.
The visit will be filmed for a documentary series about the hip-hop star, tentatively titled Behind The Mic.
On Tuesday (13May08), Ludacris - real name Christopher Bridges - will visit Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Atlanta, Georgia, to address students about various concerns facing teenagers today, including rape, gang violence and the pressure to sell drugs.
According to event organiser Tory Edwards, students have prepared for the ceremony by writing anonymous letters voicing their problems, which will later be placed in a casket and buried.
The star will also plant a tree on the school's campus, which plans to name one of its gymnasiums the Christopher Bridges Gym Of Dreams in the star's honour.
The visit will be filmed for a documentary series about the hip-hop star, tentatively titled Behind The Mic.
Monday 9 June 2008
Mel B joins up with Janet
FORMER Spice Girl Mel B has announced that she will be recording a duet with Janet Jackson for her new album, trusting that the collaboration will score her chart success.
The Spice Girls star's last single Today failed to break the UK Top 40 when it was released in 2005.She said: "I am doing something with Janet Jackson which should be amazing. I am also going to hook up with Missy Elliott again." Mel teamed up with Missy Elliott for her debut solo track I Want You Back. The 1998 track was her only single to top the UK charts after she left the Spice Girls. The 33-year-old singer insists she isn't worried about going it alone again and is convinced she has the best people in the music business working on her third solo LP. Mel added: "I am not scared of having another try. I am working with the best producers ever. I am now 10 tracks in to my new record." The star's previous albums were Hot, which was released in 2000 and 2005's LA State Of Mind.
The Spice Girls star's last single Today failed to break the UK Top 40 when it was released in 2005.She said: "I am doing something with Janet Jackson which should be amazing. I am also going to hook up with Missy Elliott again." Mel teamed up with Missy Elliott for her debut solo track I Want You Back. The 1998 track was her only single to top the UK charts after she left the Spice Girls. The 33-year-old singer insists she isn't worried about going it alone again and is convinced she has the best people in the music business working on her third solo LP. Mel added: "I am not scared of having another try. I am working with the best producers ever. I am now 10 tracks in to my new record." The star's previous albums were Hot, which was released in 2000 and 2005's LA State Of Mind.
Grey's Anatomy star Chambers hospitalised
'Grey's Anatomy' star Justin Chambers reportedly checked into a psychiatric ward at a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this week.
The actor's representative told celebrity website TMZ.com that he "was exhausted and suffers from a sleeping disorder".
Chambers, who plays Dr Alex Karev in the medical show, went in to hospital "voluntarily to get some help".
The actor was treated at the same hospital where singer Britney Spears is currently under a psychiatric hold.
The actor's representative told celebrity website TMZ.com that he "was exhausted and suffers from a sleeping disorder".
Chambers, who plays Dr Alex Karev in the medical show, went in to hospital "voluntarily to get some help".
The actor was treated at the same hospital where singer Britney Spears is currently under a psychiatric hold.
Drolls
Artist: Drolls
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Carminis Vagantibus
Year: 2003
Tracks: 22
Via Sacra
Year:
Tracks: 18
Bad English
Radiohead and Beck reveal their favourite Sonic Youth songs
Radiohead and Beck are among the artists who have revealed their favourite Sonic Youth songs on a new compilation of tracks by the New York noise-rock band.
Radiohead have selected 1990's 'Kool Thing', while Beck has picked 1992's 'Sugar Kane' as his favourite track by the band.
The Sonic Youth compilation, entitled 'Hits Are For Squares', is controversially released through Starbucks no June 9, and is only available in selected shops in major US cities and online.
Other stars who have picked their favourite songs include The Flaming Lips, Chloe Sevigny, Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea and actress Michelle Williams.
Speaking to Billboard last year about their choice to release the compilation through the coffee shop chain, guitarist Thurston Moore said: "I guess, for some, Sonic Youth represents something that they don't really equate with Starbucks. But I kind of like the absurdity of it. Sonic Youth has always, in a way, made itself available to the super mainstream.
"I thought it would be interesting to have a CD available in a store like Starbucks where the casual consumer can sort of have access to it more readily."
The tracklisting for 'Hits Are For Squares', which also features a new Sonic Youth jam, is:
'Bull In The Heather' (selected by Catherine Keener)
'Sugar Kane' (selected by Beck)
'100%' (selected by Mike D)
'Kool Thing' (selected by Radiohead)
'Disappearer' (selected by Portia De Rossi)
'Superstar' (selected by Diablo Cody)
'Stones' (selected by Allison Anders)
'Tuff Gnarl' (selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt)
'Teenage Riot' (selected by Eddie Vedder)
'Shadow Of A Doubt' (selected by Michelle Williams)
'Rain On Tin' (selected by Flea)
'Tom Violence' (selected by Gus Van Zant)
'Mary-Christ' (selected by David Cross)
'World Looks Red' (selected by Chloe Sevigny)
'Expressway To Yr Skull' (selected by Flaming Lips)
'Slow Revolution'
Radiohead have selected 1990's 'Kool Thing', while Beck has picked 1992's 'Sugar Kane' as his favourite track by the band.
The Sonic Youth compilation, entitled 'Hits Are For Squares', is controversially released through Starbucks no June 9, and is only available in selected shops in major US cities and online.
Other stars who have picked their favourite songs include The Flaming Lips, Chloe Sevigny, Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea and actress Michelle Williams.
Speaking to Billboard last year about their choice to release the compilation through the coffee shop chain, guitarist Thurston Moore said: "I guess, for some, Sonic Youth represents something that they don't really equate with Starbucks. But I kind of like the absurdity of it. Sonic Youth has always, in a way, made itself available to the super mainstream.
"I thought it would be interesting to have a CD available in a store like Starbucks where the casual consumer can sort of have access to it more readily."
The tracklisting for 'Hits Are For Squares', which also features a new Sonic Youth jam, is:
'Bull In The Heather' (selected by Catherine Keener)
'Sugar Kane' (selected by Beck)
'100%' (selected by Mike D)
'Kool Thing' (selected by Radiohead)
'Disappearer' (selected by Portia De Rossi)
'Superstar' (selected by Diablo Cody)
'Stones' (selected by Allison Anders)
'Tuff Gnarl' (selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt)
'Teenage Riot' (selected by Eddie Vedder)
'Shadow Of A Doubt' (selected by Michelle Williams)
'Rain On Tin' (selected by Flea)
'Tom Violence' (selected by Gus Van Zant)
'Mary-Christ' (selected by David Cross)
'World Looks Red' (selected by Chloe Sevigny)
'Expressway To Yr Skull' (selected by Flaming Lips)
'Slow Revolution'
Super Numeri
Artist: Super Numeri
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Great Aviaries
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Based in Liverpool, the abstract vanguard collective Super Numeri explores a fusion of experimental and rock allied to late-'60s/early-'70s innovators as widespread as Miles Davis and Can. The group was organized by multi-instrumentalists Pop Levi, Karl Webb, and Snap Ant -- world Health Organization, betwixt them, wrap up a full 12 instruments ranging from Farfisa to kalimba to viola to sitar. After recruiting ten-spot or so more than players, they recorded Heavy Aviaries and released the record through and through Ninja Tune in 2003.
Superbad star set for 21 Jump Street
'Superbad' star Jonah Hill is bringing 1980s police series '21 Jump Street' to the big screen.
Entertainment Weekly says that Hill will write the screenplay for the film and will serve as executive producer.
Entertainment Weekly says it has not been decided whether Hill will also appear in front of the camera.
'21 Jump Street' helped launch the career of Johnny Depp and told the story of an elite team of young undercover police officers in high schools.
Entertainment Weekly says that Hill will write the screenplay for the film and will serve as executive producer.
Entertainment Weekly says it has not been decided whether Hill will also appear in front of the camera.
'21 Jump Street' helped launch the career of Johnny Depp and told the story of an elite team of young undercover police officers in high schools.
Little Caesar
Artist: Little Caesar
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Influence
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Little Caesar
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Spottiswoode Film Crew Turned Road Builders In The Desert
The cast and crew of new movie THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI left a permanent reminder of the time they spent filming in Mongolia's Gobi Desert in the shape of a new pebble road.
Moviemaker Roger Spottiswoode called on his stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Radha Mitchell to join extras and crew members on an all-night hunt for stones to help stop heavy filming equipment and vehicles from sinking into the sand.
The Tomorrow Never Dies director says, "Great areas of the Gobi are just thin crusts of hardened sand, and underneath that it's very soft sand.
"Where we were there was a two-inch crust and, if you break through that it's extremely difficult to get back up, so if you're out there with 50 vehicles and they all sank through the crust one day, you're in trouble.
"We were sent on a detour by the government and we took a crane with us to help pull vehicles out of the sand but that was one of the first things to start sinking. So we had to build a road back.
"Our cast and crew of 500 people went out at night into the desert looking for little pebbles and bigger pebbles for hours and hours when we should've been shooting and watching the dawn come up.
"Over a period of hours we collected enough rocks and slowly we had built our own road to put them back under the wheels of the vehicles that were stuck.
"It was an enormous amount of work but I'm sure the road is still there. It will be there for the next thousand years, this short road that got us out of trouble."
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New York City Opera commissions opera based on 'Brokeback Mountain'
NEW YORK - The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards.
The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera said Sunday. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October 2004.
"Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen said in a statement.
"Brokeback Mountain" is a cowboy romance about two ranch-hand buddies who start a homosexual affair when they meet on the fictional mountain in 1963.
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