Artist: Fuck On The Beach
Genre(s):
Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Endless Summer
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Fastcore And Loud
Year:
Tracks: 11
Stevie Wonder announces European tour
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Fuck On The Beach
Artist: Fuck On The Beach
Genre(s):
Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Endless Summer
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Fastcore And Loud
Year:
Tracks: 11
Stevie Wonder announces European tour
Monday 23 June 2008
Ray Wilson
Artist: Ray Wilson
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Next Best Thing
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Change
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Gifted with a warm, shingly voice, Scottish singer Ray Wilson has had a career of high and lows so far. A Levi's TV ad dragged him taboo of tilt limbo and propelled his group Stiltskin into the UK charts. A few months later on, his hiring as Phil Collins' renewal in Genesis shoved him into the public eye, simply only for a brief period of time. The group's straightaway abandon in the face of adversity (i.e. unsatisfactory gross revenue of the record album Calling All Stations) brought Wilson down and left him unfairly carrying the system of weights of the failure. He is tardily edifice back a solo vocation.
Mount Wilson was born in Dumfries, Scotland, September 9, 1968. His first-class honours degree high school rock bands included his brother Steve. In 1988 he met bar piano player Paul Holmes at a bar where his girlfriend american ginseng. They started a songwriting partnership and deuce long time after they formed Guaranteed Pure, which as well included Steve Wilson and future Cut bassist John Haimes. The group released a duet of tapes and one CD, Swing Your Bag which they recorded at Fish's studio. The deed runway appeared on the Fish curated digest Outpatients รข€˜93, but the grouping failed to attract much interest. Holmes returned to the piano bar circuit and Guaranteed Pure disintegrated.
Beam Wilson was non left without a band for long. In January 1994 he was asked by to unite Stiltskin. The group instantly entered the studio apartment to record The Mind's Eye (1995). In the lag, the vocal "Inside" got featured on television system in an advertisement for Levi's jeans. The exposure shot the individual to No. 1, but the grouping fell aside o'er national dissensions.
That's when Wilson heard that Genesis were look for a new singer. He passed the auditory modality and panax quinquefolius and contributed lyrics to the 1997 album Calling All Stations. His voice existence slightly resonant of Peter Gabriel, fans of the band were hoping for a devolve to the group's sooner good, merely the isaac Bashevis Singer ne'er had a chance to leave his depression. After record album and ticket gross sales failed to meet expectations in America, voice of Genesis' 1998 reality circuit was off, the group put on the ice, and Wilson on the side pillaged. He immediately formed Cut with drummer Nir Z. (Collins' drumming replacing), John Haimes and brother Steve, releasing Millionairehead on the German market in 1999. In 2001 he made an acoustic solo tour of Europe which yielded the self-released record album Unplugged, retitled Live and Acoustic when picked up by Inside Out Music in mid-2002.
Prolific author Farley Mowat to publish final book, 'Otherwise,' in fall
TORONTO - McClelland and Stewart plans to publish the final book by prolific author and environmentalist Farley Mowat this fall.
The memoir, called "Otherwise," is due out in late October.
The publisher says it will be the last book by Mowat, who is 87.
He's the author of classics such as "Lost in the Barrens" and "Never Cry Wolf."
"Otherwise" will be Mowat's 40th book.
The author divides his time between Cape Breton, N.S., and Port Hope, Ont.
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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Sunday 22 June 2008
Scissors for Lefty
Artist: Scissors for Lefty
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Underhanded Romance
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Peter Krimmel (piano/vocals/guitar), Robby Garza (guitar/bass), Bryan Garza (vocals/guitar), and James Krimmel (drums/bass) comprised the initial incarnation of the flirty indie rock stripe Scissors for Lefty. Part Brit-pop and share indie rock candy, and with a campy image and languid lyrics to mate, Scissors for Lefty were a great increase to the post-punk revival of the new millennium. They played shows with the likes of Grandaddy, the Coral, Mary Timony, Pedro the Lion, and Diamond Nights. They self-released their first gear record album, Bruno, in 2005. A performance at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, TX, followed in spring 2006. A few months later they added Stevie Garza (Bryan's brother) on bass and jell to work on their Rough Trade debut, Underhanded Romance, which came out in June of the following year.
Katzenjammer Kabarett
Artist: Katzenjammer Kabarett
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Katzenjammer Kabarett
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
'The Incredible Hulk': Anger Management, By Kurt Loder
Nobody much cared for Ang Lee's take on the Hulk five years ago — too thoughtful. So Marvel Comics — now making movies on its own without the annoyance of studio partners siphoning off profits — is taking another shot. This time, the accent is on damage, as it should be. Psychological complexities and other distractions are being held for "Ghost Rider 2," which I'm afraid actually is in the pipeline. But let's not torment ourselves.
Anyone even glancingly familiar with the last 46 years of Hulk lore will need no prep to grasp "The Incredible Hulk." Research scientist Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton, this time out) is still plagued by the effects of a gamma-ray overdose that turns him into a rampaging mass of angry green muscles whenever he gets upset — even when he thinks a little too heatedly about his girlfriend, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler). As the movie opens, Banner is hiding out in Brazil, studying martial arts in an effort to keep his pesky temper under control and trading encrypted e-mails in his off hours with a scientist back in the States named Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson), who's working on a Hulk antidote. Banner is on the down-low because a megalomaniacal U.S. Army general called "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt) is hot on his trail. Ross — who is also Betty's father, talk about a bummer — wants to use whatever it is that ails Banner to create a legion of "super-soldiers" for purposes that may not be altogether well-intentioned. Spearheading Ross' search for the young physicist is a mildly psycho subordinate named Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth).
I know it's unwise to nitpick superhero movies, in which plausibility is a suspect concept, but I had a problem with Blonsky. First of all, he was born in Russia and raised in England — and yet he's now a captain in the U.S. Army. How does that work? He also has longish hair and Hollywood-issue face stubble, and he slouches around as if there were 20 pounds of rocks sewn into the seams of his disheveled uniform. If the writers (Zak Penn and Norton himself) were determined to make this character such a schlub, they might have used his messiness to explain why Blonsky is still only a captain at the advanced age of 38. But no: Blonsky claims that the reason he hasn't been promoted is that he doesn't want to be — he's a fighter, not a desk jockey. This is pathetic. If Blonsky were so intent on being a warrior, why didn't he just set his sights on becoming a sergeant or something — enlistees are the ones who do most of the fighting.
While we're on the subject of implausibility, I must also admit that I find the computer-generated Hulk to be insufficiently cool. Obviously it's difficult to weave a humongous green guy into live action in any completely convincing way (Gollum is the platinum standard here), but this big-screen iteration of the Hulk is pure video game. Speaking of which, so is a lot of the mayhem — especially an endless street-level smackdown between the Hulk and Blonsky's similarly savage alter ego, the Abomination. Cars go hurtling through the air, rockets are fired, snarling behemoths swat them away. Didn't "Cloverfield" already do this with about one-fifth of the budget?
Even Norton is slightly problematic here. He's such a meticulously fine actor that he seems overqualified for a simple monster romp. He brings fresh gestures and delicate shades of feeling to his character; but especially in the first third of the movie (which is a little slow), these emotional explorations take up room that might more enjoyably be filled with damage.
In any case, the man who really owns the movie turns out to be Robert Downey Jr. He's only in it for a minute, and he's not even credited; but when he strolls up to General Ross in a barroom at the end of the picture, totally rocking his Tony Stark character from "Iron Man," and announces that he's "putting a team together" — well, you feel better just knowing that this okay-but-not-great movie is only a way station en route to that most tantalizing of Marvel destinations, "The Avengers." Three years and counting.
Check out Kurt Loder's review of "The Happening," also new in theaters this week.
Check out everything we've got on "The Incredible Hulk."
For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Artist: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Genre(s):
Pop
Indie
Discography:
Etiquette
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Twinkle Echo
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Car
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the lo-fi solo project of Portland, OR, indie son Owen Ashworth. His songwriting is part Bright Eyes-sensitive singer/songwriter grief balladry and Atom & His Package battery-operated antics. His weapons of option are Casio SK-1 and his hot pole Casiotones. His lyrics are a coy-edged blend of Stephin Merritt's sarcasm and the Mountain Goats' earnestness.
Broadly speaking a concept record album of cagey musical part mails, his first recording, Respondent Machine Music: A Brief Album in Twelve Parts, was released in 1999 on his own label, Cassingle USA. Some of the tracks, including "Root from David Hanna," were first recorded into his car. Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars followed in 2001 on Tomlab and featured several "real" instruments, including violoncello and drums. In 2003, Ashworth released Twinkle Echo, followed by Etiquette in 2006.
Caught live: Grace Jones
LONG before MADONNA, GRACE JONES was the material girl who paved the way.
And a quarter of a century on, while they both share a penchant for tight
minimal cladding it is Jones - at 60-years-old, a decade older than the
Queen of Pop - who carries it off best.
She out-cusses her, looks half her age, and needs less gimmicks to pull off a
live show which is nothing less than mesmerising.
She may change hats and jackets offstage between each of the surprise 16 songs
in the Royal Festival Hall set which lasted more than an hour longer than
billed, but when she stood on a podium in front of a sell-out crowd stripped
down to just a corset, g-string and see-through leggings, she looked nothing
less than a Greek goddess commanding her throng.
From her Close Encounters of the Third Kind-style arrival to set-opener
Nightclubbing through to set-closer Slave To The Rhythm - dressed as a
peacock and thanking hat-designer PHILIP TREACY in the same breath as
her band members - Jones ruled supreme.
Other highlights included her launching herself into the crowd - which
included celebrity NOEL FIELDING - while screaming at a backstage
assistant to find her lyric sheet and when he (probably wisely) failed to
show his face, Jones started freestyling.
And then she invited dozens of the crowd onstage to Pull Up To The Bumper.
Enthralling.
And a quarter of a century on, while they both share a penchant for tight
minimal cladding it is Jones - at 60-years-old, a decade older than the
Queen of Pop - who carries it off best.
She out-cusses her, looks half her age, and needs less gimmicks to pull off a
live show which is nothing less than mesmerising.
She may change hats and jackets offstage between each of the surprise 16 songs
in the Royal Festival Hall set which lasted more than an hour longer than
billed, but when she stood on a podium in front of a sell-out crowd stripped
down to just a corset, g-string and see-through leggings, she looked nothing
less than a Greek goddess commanding her throng.
From her Close Encounters of the Third Kind-style arrival to set-opener
Nightclubbing through to set-closer Slave To The Rhythm - dressed as a
peacock and thanking hat-designer PHILIP TREACY in the same breath as
her band members - Jones ruled supreme.
Other highlights included her launching herself into the crowd - which
included celebrity NOEL FIELDING - while screaming at a backstage
assistant to find her lyric sheet and when he (probably wisely) failed to
show his face, Jones started freestyling.
And then she invited dozens of the crowd onstage to Pull Up To The Bumper.
Enthralling.
Hulk Hogan - Hogans Son To Spend 18th Birthday In Prison
LATEST:HULK HOGAN's son NICK BOLLEA will spend his 18th birthday in prison after a judge turned down a request for his early release.
Bollea is currently serving an eight-month prison sentence at Florida's Pinellas County Jail after pleading no contest to felony reckless driving following a horrific car crash in Clearwater, Florida - which has left his friend John Graziano brain damaged.
On Tuesday (03June08), Bollea requested he was placed under house arrest until his birthday next month (Jul08), but a judge turned down his application, reports TMZ.com.
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Vanity Fair cancels Tinseltown Oscar night
Vanity Fair has cancelled its annual Academy Awards party on 24 February even though the writers guild is said to be on track for a possible deal with studios.
A statement posted on VanityFair.com said: "After much consideration, and in support of the writers and everyone else affected by this strike, we have decided that this is not the appropriate year to hold our annual Oscar party."
The magazine added: "We want to congratulate all of this year's nominees and we look forward to hosting our 15th Oscar party next year."
The annual post-Oscar soiree often lures more luminaries than the ceremony itself and the event has been a fixture for partygoers since its inception in 1994.
The night's big winners and nominees typically turn out, along with A-listers including Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Jack Nicholson, Madonna, Cher, Sean Penn, Joni Mitchell and Al Gore, who have attended the party in previous years.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter decided to cancel the party because even if the three-month writers strike was resolved before the Academy Awards, its effect on Tinseltown was likely to linger.
In a statement Carter said: "Inasmuch as Vanity Fair is a collection of writers, photographers and artists, we do feel ourselves in aligned solidarity with the writers, directors and actors in the film business."
A year after holding its first Oscar party, Vanity Fair introduced its annual Hollywood issue. This year's issue, featuring 10 young actresses on its tri-fold cover, reaches newsstands next week.
A statement posted on VanityFair.com said: "After much consideration, and in support of the writers and everyone else affected by this strike, we have decided that this is not the appropriate year to hold our annual Oscar party."
The magazine added: "We want to congratulate all of this year's nominees and we look forward to hosting our 15th Oscar party next year."
The annual post-Oscar soiree often lures more luminaries than the ceremony itself and the event has been a fixture for partygoers since its inception in 1994.
The night's big winners and nominees typically turn out, along with A-listers including Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Jack Nicholson, Madonna, Cher, Sean Penn, Joni Mitchell and Al Gore, who have attended the party in previous years.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter decided to cancel the party because even if the three-month writers strike was resolved before the Academy Awards, its effect on Tinseltown was likely to linger.
In a statement Carter said: "Inasmuch as Vanity Fair is a collection of writers, photographers and artists, we do feel ourselves in aligned solidarity with the writers, directors and actors in the film business."
A year after holding its first Oscar party, Vanity Fair introduced its annual Hollywood issue. This year's issue, featuring 10 young actresses on its tri-fold cover, reaches newsstands next week.
Maestro
Artist: Maestro
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Special Request
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
One of the origination fathers of soca euphony, Maestro was tragically killed in the late 70s.
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