Woody Harrelson - The Things They Say 8324 & other: 2008

Thursday, 7 August 2008

The Gales Brothers

Artist: The Gales Brothers

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Left Hand Brand

Year: 1996
Tracks: 13

Friday, 27 June 2008

Mos Def, Nas to headline Rock The Bells

Mos Def, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul are among the artists performing at this year's Rock The Bells festival.

The annual hip-hop festival is set to take place August 9 at the Glen Helen Pavilion in San Bernardino, California.

Als on the bill are Rakim, Method Man And Redman, Ded Prez, Murs, The Cool Kids, and special guest the Pharcyde.

2007's Rock The Bells featuring Rage Against The Machine was the top-grossing hip-hop event in the US last year.

For further information, visit Myspace.com/rockthebells.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Monday, 23 June 2008

Keeping them guessing

Angelina Jolie is refusing to reveal when her unborn twins are due � so she and partner Brad Pitt can keep the media guessing, according to imdb.com.

The actress was reported to be due on August 19, but her labour became the subject of a media frenzy last week when false reports claimed she had already given birth.

Jolie�s legal team subsequently stepped in to set the record straight. According to the New York Times, her lawyers issued a statement saying someone posing as Jolie�s assistant was behind the false birth claims. The statement read: �A random individual has engaged in a scheme to intentionally harm my client and deceive her fans, the public and the media through an illegal and tortuous impersonation of Ms Jolie�s longtime assistant, Holly.�

Regardless, stories have also surfaced claiming that Jolie will go into labour later this month. But Jolie herself insists she�ll never give away the actual date.

She tells Vanity Fair magazine, �I don�t want to say. If I do say, people will start stressing on our due date.�

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Monday, 16 June 2008

Michael Bolton

Artist: Michael Bolton

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Pop
   Vocal
   Easy Listening
   Classical

Discography:

The Very Best of Michael Bolton: Slide Pack

Year: 2007
Tracks: 17

The Second Time Around

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

Swingin Christmas

Year: 2006
Tracks: 8

Best Of Live

Year: 2006
Tracks: 18

Vintage

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

The Ultimate Collection (CD 2)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 16

The Ultimate Collection (CD 1)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 16

Only A Woman Like You

Year: 2002
Tracks: 14

Love Songs

Year: 2001
Tracks: 14

My Secret Passion (The Arias)

Year: 1998
Tracks: 11

Best Ballads 1985-1998

Year: 1998
Tracks: 16

This Is The Time: The Christmas Album

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

The Christmas Album

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Greatest Hits 1985-1995

Year: 1995
Tracks: 17

Timeless

Year: 1992
Tracks: 10

Time, Love and Tenderness

Year: 1991
Tracks: 10

Soul Provider

Year: 1989
Tracks: 10

The Hunger

Year: 1987
Tracks: 9

Everybody's Crazy

Year: 1985
Tracks: 9

Michael Bolotin

Year: 1983
Tracks: 9

Michael Bolton

Year:
Tracks: 9

'Til The End Of Forever

Year:
Tracks: 18

Singer/songwriter Michael Bolton had an extended, though non very successful, career under his real call, Michael Bolotin, before emerging in the mid-'80s as a major soft rock candy crooner. He turned up on RCA Records in the mid-'70s vocalizing in a ill-humored, Joe Cocker-like voice both his have blue-eyed soul songs and cover tunes. Neither record buyers nor critics were much interested by the result. He and then became the lead isaac Bashevis Singer in Blackjack, a heavy metallic element band that made two albums for Polydor at the end of the '70s and the startle of the '80s. In 1983, he changed his name to Michael Bolton, signed to Columbia Records as a solo act, and relaunched his calling.

Michael Bolton was released in April 1983, and made the Top C bestsellers, as did its single, "Fools Game." At the same time, "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," which Bolton had co-written, became a Top 40 hit for Laura Branigan. Nevertheless, Bolton's second Columbia record album, Everybody's Crazy (1985), was a commercial floating-point operation. His breakthrough came with his third gear record album, The Hunger, released in September 1987. On this record album, Bolton derelict the more hard tilt aspects of his style to concentrate on blue-eyed soulfulness tattle: both on his have songs, such as "That's What Love Is All About," and on covers like Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Those deuce songs became Top 40 hits.

Soul Provider, released in July 1989, turned Bolton into a genius, reach the Top Ten, merchandising four meg copies, and spawning five Top 40 singles, including Bolton's number unmatchable version of "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," and the Top Ten hits "How Can We Be Lovers" and "When I'm Back on My Feet Again." "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" won Bolton a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Time, Love & Tenderness, released in April 1991, was even more successful, striking number one, selling six zillion copies, and featuring iV Top 40 hits, including the chart-topping track of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," and the Top Ten hits "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (later the subject of a successful piracy suit brought against Bolton by the Isley Brothers) and "Time, Love and Tenderness."

Bolton won another Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, for "When a Man Loves a Woman," just he had to put up with shout from two camps of detractors at the February 1992 observance. Just later Bolton had performed, pre-rock songster Irving Gordon won the Song of the Year awarding for "Unforgettable" and pointedly attacked songs that "screaming, cry, and possess a nervous crack-up" and singers wHO "receive a hernia" when they blab. Then, backstage, Bolton faced a hostile push corps of critics unhappy with his tendency to written matter outstanding soul singers like Redding, Ray Charles, and Sledge. Bolton suggested they apply their lips to a certain piece of his soma. He farther responded with Dateless: The Classics in September 1992, an record album made up totally of cover songs. It went to number unmatchable, sold three million copies, and featured a Top 40 hit in Bolton's version of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." Bolton's side by side album of original material, The One Thing, came in November 1993. It hit the Top Ten, sold triad meg copies, and featured the Top Ten hit "Said I Loved You...But I Lied." Bolton released Superlative Hits 1985-1995 in the fall of 1995, which debuted in the Top Ten. The following year, This Is the Time: Christmas Album appeared.

Bolton returned with All That Matters, his number 1 album of unexampled material since 1993's The One Thing, in the fall of 1997. Instead of chronic his success, it was a surprise flop. Not only did it not bring forth a hit individual, it hardly cracked the Top 40 and fell out of the charts afterward 15 weeks. Its want of success didn't halt Bolton from turning his attention to My Secret Passion, a collection of opera and arias that he released in January 1998. By authoritative standards, the album was a dispatch, and the record standard a great trade of press and surprisingly good reviews. He supported the iI albums with a summertime tour co-headlined by Wynonna Judd. He voluntarily stepped gage for nearly four-spot long time, disappearing from the public eye until the spring of 2002 when he began promoting Only a Woman Like You, his number 1 album on Jive Records. After a brief sabbatical, he returned with Til the End of Forever, a hybrid new record album of seven-spot newfangled recordings and a live greatest-hits concert. In 2006 he released Bolton Swings Sinatra, a 12-song tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes that included a duo with fiancÃ©e/actress Nicolette Sheridan.

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Thursday, 5 June 2008

Samira

Artist: Samira

   Genre(s):
Other
   Breakbeat

Discography:

When I Look Into Your Eyes (Special Italo Remixes)

Year: 1997
Tracks: 4

42kHz

Year:
Tracks: 1

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Wayne Gorbea's Salsa Picante

Artist: Wayne Gorbea's Salsa Picante

   Genre(s):
Latin: Dance

Discography:

Salsa

Year:
Tracks: 1

MCs hit Melbourne

LOCAL luminaries Curse ov Dialect have been fighting the good fight for cultural, spiritual and ethnic identity since 1994, touring all over to eager, conscious audiences.

HIP hop has long been a subversive art form. From Grandmaster Flash's anti-drug tirade on White Lines, to Gil Scott Heron's spoken wordsmithery on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised right up to Nas' recent declaration Hip Hop Is Dead. Local luminaries Curse ov Dialect have been fighting the good fight for cultural, spiritual and ethnic identity since 1994, touring all over Australia and Europe to eager, conscious audiences. Curse ov Dialect consists of MCs Raceless and Vulk Makedonski and vocalists Aturungi and August the 2nd backed up by DJ/producer Paso Bionic. The group have a diverse range of backgrounds - Maltese, Macedonian, Anglo-Indian, Maori and Pakistani - thus their ouevre is not such much a melting point of culture as a boiling cauldron. "We're the outcasts of the outcasts in the way we perceive the world,'' begins Raceless. Tonight sees Curse ov Dialect extend their modus operandi to a full-blown musical. "Our shows have always been theatrical hip hop and Arts House asked us to develop it more. We wanted to extend on what we're doing. "It's a musical, a very abstract interpretation through song of who we are as individuals and figuring out a way of finding common ground. "Everyone's got their own solo and all the songs are new,'' he enthuses. "We've got some pretty wacky ideas and they are getting brought out tonight, like Chinese music mixed with African folk hip hop beats...and that's just one song!'' Raceless draws upon his upbringing in St Albans, and spins tales of hanging out with Vietnamese gangs drinking coffees and going to old men's houses to obtain classical music. Clearly, he has lived. The revolution may not be televised, but tonight it will be staged live in a universal dialect.Curse ov Dialect, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, 5 Blackwood Street. 8pm. $10/$12

Neil Diamond - Neil Diamond And Rihanna Top Us Charts

Veteran musician Neil Diamond and R 'n' B star Rihanna have both made history in topping the US albums and singles charts this week.

Home Before Dark, Diamond's 29th studio album, has debuted at number one in the Billboard Hot 200 after selling 146,000 copies in its first week on release, representing his first-ever number one album in the United States.

The 67-year-old, who had previously reached number two in 1973 with his soundtrack for the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull, is to take to the Pyramid Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

And Take A Bow, the new single from Umbrella star Rihanna, has achieved the second-biggest climb to the number one spot in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, after it soared from 53rd to first.

According to Billboard.com, the young singer's sudden rise can be related to huge digital download sales of 267,000 in one week alone.

Only Maroon 5's Makes Me Wonder, which climbed 63 places in May 2007, has achieved a bigger jump in the US singles chart.

As well as signalling her third US number one single - after SOS and Umbrella - the digital success sees Rihanna holding two of the top three positions in first-week digital downloads, with only her own Umbrella (277,000) and Mariah Carey's Touch My Body (286,00) having been downloaded more.

The top ten albums on the Billboard Hot 200 are: (last week's position)

1 Neil Diamond: Home Before Dark (-)
2 Toby Keith: 35 Biggest Hits (-)
3 Madonna: Hard Candy (1)
4 Clay Aiken: On My Way Here (-)
5 Mariah Carey: E=MC2 (2)
6 Leona Lewis: Spirit (3)
7 Gavin DeGraw: Gavin DeGraw (-)
8 Josh Groban: Awake Live (-)
9 Dierks Bentley: Greatest Hits/Every Mile A Memory 2003-2008 (-)
10 Luis Miguel: Complices (-)

And the top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 are: (last week's position)

1 Rihanna: Take A Bow (53)
2 Leona Lewis: Bleeding Love (1)
3 Lil Wayne feat. Static Major: Lollipop (2)
4 Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown: No Air (3)
5 Usher feat. Young Jeezy: Love In This Club (4)
6 Ray J Yung Berg: Sexy Can I (5)
7 Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake: Four Minutes (6)
8 Mariah Carey: Touch My Body (7)
9 Natasha Bedingfield: Pocketful of Sunshine (8)
10 Danity Kane: Damaged (11)

15/05/2008 15:35:01

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50 Cent F. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland

Artist: 50 Cent F. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Ayo Technology

Year: 2007
Tracks: 4

Putumayo World Music

Artist: Putumayo World Music

   Genre(s):
Ethnic
   Folk
   Other

Discography:

Music From The Coffee Lands II

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Puerto Rico

Year: 2000
Tracks: 11

World Playground

Year: 1999
Tracks: 12

Music From The Coffee Lands I

Year:
Tracks: 10

Algaion

10 Million Tv Homes May Go Dark

Just nine months from now, at least ten million homes will be unable to receive television
programs on any set and 15 million more will have at least one set that will not
function. Those estimates are included in a new report, "The February 2009 Digital Telev
ision Transition," released today (Tuesday) by Nielsen Media Research on the potential
effect of the switchover from analog to digital set for next Feb. 17. The study indicates
that network morning programs are likely to be particularly affected by the switch
since many of the incompatible sets are secondary units located in kitchens and bedrooms.
The study shows that exclusively Spanish-speaking households are the least likely
to have purchased settop converters or subscribed to cable services that will allow
them to continue to receive television programs. While they represent 2 percent of
the U.S. population, they make up 10 percent of completely unready households. African-American
homes also show a relatively high percentage of unready sets. The study also shows that
some markets are better prepared for the transition than others. In Milwaukee, for
example, 18.3 percent of households are completely unready for the switch, while
in New York only 3.8 percent are.

27/05/2008

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