R. Kelly 's lawyers have called it a case.
The defense in the R&B superstar's trial on kiddie-porn charges rested its case today,�after spending only two days...
Thursday, 19 June 2008
R. Kelly Defense Rests
R. Kelly 's lawyers have called it a case.
The defense in the R&B superstar's trial on kiddie-porn charges rested its case today,�after spending only two days...
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Portishead ready new single for June
Portishead have announced their next single from album 'Third'.
The band will release 'The Rip' on June 9.
The track is taken from the trio's recent record, their first in 11 years, and follows the release of 'Machine Gun' in April.
The band will release 'The Rip' on June 9.
The track is taken from the trio's recent record, their first in 11 years, and follows the release of 'Machine Gun' in April.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Statemachine
Artist: Statemachine
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Less than perfect
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Breakdown
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Legerdemain
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Hologram CD5
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Avalance Breakdown (Limited Bo
Year: 1996
Tracks: 4
Friday, 6 June 2008
American Pie - Scott Hates Woodcock Dukes
AMERICAN PIE star SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT can't watch his performances in MR. WOODCOCK or THE DUKES OF HAZZARD because both films are terrible.
The actor admits he started to realise the two movies would suck midway through the filming process - but, by then, it was too late for him to back out.
He says, "I actually didn't like Mr. Woodcock at all. It's the only movie I've ever done where, after 15 minutes, I couldn't watch anymore.
"I couldn't help but think that it could've been good; it could've been better - and that bothers me. Mr. Woodcock and Dukes Of Hazzard were pretty good projects on paper.
"Me and (Dukes co-star) Johnny Knoxville could've been fun but the fact that it was PG-13 rated kind of ruined it."
But Scott still prides himself on the way he stuck with both films and gave his best every day: "I could have either gone home every day feeling depressed and going, 'This is gonna ruin my career', or do your best, cross your fingers and move on."
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Country rookie Julianne Hough dancing up charts
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Country singer Julianne Hough, whose debut album opened at No. 3 on the U.S. pop chart this week, took the scenic route to Nashville.
Growing up one of five dancing and singing Utah siblings -- sometimes nicknamed "the blonde Osmonds" -- she moved to London to study performing arts at age 10. Five years later, she returned to Utah, and eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where she joined the cast of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
She partnered with the show's 2006 and 2007 champions, Apolo Ohno and Helio Castroneves, respectively, and this past season was paired with radio humorist Adam Carolla.
Hough signed to Mercury Nashville not long after her digital single "Will You Dance With Me" -- a collaboration with veteran producer David Malloy -- peaked at No. 8 on iTunes' country chart last year.
"I've always wanted to sing country music," the 19-year-old says. "I've been singing as long as I've been dancing and it's actually a bigger passion of mine."
Her self-titled album, which sold 67,000 copies in its first week, is led by the appropriately infectious single "That Song in My Head," which debuted at No. 88 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday.
Hough is gearing up to hit the road as the opening act on Brad Paisley's 42-date tour, which begins June 11 in Albuquerque, N.M.
Reuters/Billboard
Growing up one of five dancing and singing Utah siblings -- sometimes nicknamed "the blonde Osmonds" -- she moved to London to study performing arts at age 10. Five years later, she returned to Utah, and eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where she joined the cast of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
She partnered with the show's 2006 and 2007 champions, Apolo Ohno and Helio Castroneves, respectively, and this past season was paired with radio humorist Adam Carolla.
Hough signed to Mercury Nashville not long after her digital single "Will You Dance With Me" -- a collaboration with veteran producer David Malloy -- peaked at No. 8 on iTunes' country chart last year.
"I've always wanted to sing country music," the 19-year-old says. "I've been singing as long as I've been dancing and it's actually a bigger passion of mine."
Her self-titled album, which sold 67,000 copies in its first week, is led by the appropriately infectious single "That Song in My Head," which debuted at No. 88 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday.
Hough is gearing up to hit the road as the opening act on Brad Paisley's 42-date tour, which begins June 11 in Albuquerque, N.M.
Reuters/Billboard
Forbes digs up a few YouTube money stats
Forbes has a story about YouTube with a few hard, if unsourced, financial numbers � the kind Google and YouTube keep very close to the vest.
The article, by Quentin Hardy and Evan Hessel, says YouTube is going to bring in $200 million this year, and possibly $350 million next year. From one perspective that's small taters (the fourth "Indiana Jones" made $126 million in four days), but it's a heck of a lot more than YouTube was making last year, and if there's one sure thing about YouTube, it's that the site isn't going to stop growing anytime soon. It now gets more than 50% of its traffic from overseas (cagey 'Tube executives won't say how much more, but some of us think it's a lot), and they're making partnership deals like rabbits � CBS, Scripps, Universal Music and now even their competitor Hulu.
A few of the other interesting stats from the article, headlined "GooTube":
- A branded channel (a YouTube page devoted to a product or manufacturer) costs $200,000. Bonus question: Is Scientology's YouTube page a branded channel?
- The big ad on the YouTube homepage costs $175,000 a day, plus a commitment to drop $50,000 more on YouTube or Google ads.
- Web video ad spending is expected to be $1.35 billion this year, up from $775 million in 2007.
- There's not much money in user-generated video: Rates for ads next to such content are down 45% since February, to 18 cents per 1,000 pageviews, according to digital analytics company PubMatic. Of course, that can add up after a few billion views ...
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DJ Kevin Greening Died Of Drugs Overdose
BBC Radio 1 Breakfast DJ Kevin Greening died from a drugs overdose after taking part in a gay bondage session, a coroner has recorded.
The DJ, who presented the morning show with Zoe Ball from 1997 to 1998 died last year on December 29th 2007. He was found dead at his partner's home in Wandsworth, London.
The inquest heard how Greening was still "wearing a rubber suit and had cling film and gaffer tape around him", reports the BBC.
Coroner Paul Knapman said at the inquest: "He was found dead having indulged in unorthodox sexual behaviour involving restraint equipment and illegal drugs."
Tests on Greening's blood found traces of cocaine and ecstasy.
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Amy Winehouse to James Bond film bosses: “Put up or shut up”
Amy Winehouse has launched a scathing attack on James Bond film bosses, telling them to “put up or shut up”.
The Grammy Award winning superstar, 24, said she was delighted with the result of her recording efforts for the new 007 flick, Quantum Of Solace — believed to be without top producer Mark Ronson.
“I�ve done loads of Bond songs, there are loads of good ones I�m really happy with,” she said.
And in response to Bond bosses’ fears that using her music would detract from the film, Amy said, “I don�t know what is wrong with them or what the problem is, to be honest.
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Victoria Beckham - Beckham Quits Music
VICTORIA BECKHAM has quashed reports the SPICE GIRLS will reunite for a final time at former South African President NELSON MANDELA's 90th birthday concert this summer (Jun08) - because she has quit the music industry.
The former singer made a triumphant return to the stage as part of the group's comeback world tour last year (Dec07).
But the 34-year-old has ruled out ever performing with the band again - because she wants to concentrate on her career as a fashion designer.
She says, "I loved the whole social thing about being back with the girls. It was so much fun.
"But I am not going to sing anymore - I've hung up my mic."
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Stars On 45
Artist: Stars On 45
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Disco Collection
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
The narrative of Starsound, world Health Organization started the medley craze in 1981, began two years sooner in a disco in Montreal, where peerless of the resident DJs was Michel Gendreau. Into his nightspot walked Michel Ali, world Health Organization had with him a tape created from a bootleg white-label recording originating in Holland of a potpourri of Beatles songs called "Lets Do It in the 80s Great Hits" and credited to an unknown mathematical group named Passion. The record used excerpts from the original Beatles records as well as snippets from the Archies' "Sugar Sugar," Shocking Blue's "Venus," and the initiation to the Buggles' major hit "Video Killed the Radio Star." The bootleg was hapless caliber, the tape measure contained more noise than music, and it was badly produced, merely Gendreau believed it was a just idea, although he was reluctant to play it at extremum time. This was the very former '70s and discotheque had been king of the dancefloor for various years, with modern tracks created by the Bee Gees, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, and a host of modern producers with new groups and singers. The last thing the disco-going patronage precious was a series of Beatles and former sixties real.
Ali began working with well-grounded railroad engineer Paul Richer to make a cleansing agent version of "Let's Do It in the 80s Great Hits," and in order to fulfil Gendreau's fears near oldies, they added some recent hits, including "Low-down Town" by Lipps, Inc. and "Working My Way Back to You" by the Detroit Spinners. By starting with current hits, then introducing the Beatles tracks, the dancefloor would not empty as was feared, merely the dance would retain as the sixties hits were rig to the same definable pound as the flow hits. One of the sixties hits used was "Genus Venus" by Shocking Blue, the copyright of which was owned by a Dutch record party, Red Bullet Records, and when this was brought to the attention of its director back in Holland, Freddy Haayen, world Health Organization, although outraged that his data track was parting of the pastiche, realized the electric potential commercial-grade viability of the potpourri idea and or else of contacting his lawyers, he contacted record producer Jaap Eggermont, erstwhile of the band Golden Earring, and asked him whether it would be possible to create a legal version. Eggermont knew sufficiency about copyright to take in that it would be a otiose exercise to access the original rights holders, so he brought in concert a group of session singers to re-record the vocals as close as possible to the originals, using Bas Muys from the Dutch chemical group Smyle as the voice of John Lennon, Hans Vermeulen from Sandy Coast as George Harrison, and Okkie Huysdens as Paul McCartney. The tracks that had been victimised on "Let's Do It in the 80s Great Hits" and the recut variant -- "Dough Sugar," "Urania," "Funky Town," and "Video Killed the Radio Star" -- were likewise retained, and a linking small-arm was written to acquaint the song with the tag assembly line "The Stars on 45 keep on turning in your mind," song dynasty by Jody Pijper to a pumping discotheque beat that continued throughout the pastiche.
It was originally released on a 12" unmarried only and ran for 16 minutes. When wireless stations crossways Europe began redaction it themselves for worthy daylight play, Eggermont took the "Stars on 45" foundation and added just the first base verses of "Venus" and "Clams Sugar" and a further trey transactions of the Beatles pastiche, cathartic a 7" single that swept the creation and began a craze that lasted throughout the unanimous of the early '80s. Depending on the territory, the group was either known as Starsound (as in Europe) or Stars on 45 (in the U.S.A.), and the title of the single that finally went on general sale was the longest ever claim to strive the charts, as the individual song publishers insisted on their track forming portion of the title, which became formally "Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45," although it was often cut plainly to "Stars on 45." The exclusive was a big achiever, peaking at number iI in the U.K. (with most of the sales on the 12" format) and leaving all the way to number one, sandwiched by deuce separate runs of Kim Carnes' biggest-selling off of the class, "Bette Davis Eyes," in the U.S.A.
It was inevitable that this achiever would be followed by an expanded album envision, and less than a calendar month after the single had been released, a long-player was ready that included an expanded Beatles surgical incision with the songs "Slate to Ride," "Eleanor Rigby," "And Your Bird Can Sing," "Get Back," "Eight Days a Week," "It Won't Be Long," "Clarence Shepard Day Jr. Tripper," "Good Day Sunshine," "Here Comes the Sun," "Piece My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Collector of internal revenue," "A Hard Day's Night," "Things We Said Today," "If I Fell," "Please Please Me," "From Me to You," and "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and many of the sixties oldies from the original bootleg, "Sherry" (Four Seasons), "Cathy's Clown" (Everly Brothers), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (Neil Sedaka), "Only the Lonely" (Roy Orbison), "Light-headed Love Songs" (Wings), "Jimmy Mack" (Martha Reeves), "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" (Fortunes), and "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (Brian Hyland). Although the album stopped up at number 9 in the U.S.A., it did fifty-fifty better than the single in the U.K., loss all the way to number i for five weeks in May and June and terminated the class as the tenth best-selling album of 1981.
The next project, centered round the hits of ABBA, victimization the voice of Claudia Hoogendoorn as both the ABBA female singers Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. In the U.S.A., a second medley had already been released featuring more Beatles excerpts, just the freshness was already wear off and disdain the success of the beginning potpourri, the irregular one stalled at turn 67. In Britain, however, the medley cult was just beginning and "Stars on 45, Vol. 2" followed the first volume to the runner-up military position. A second album was released, highborn the same as the individual, and expanded with 17 excerpts of drink down hits from the sixties and 1970s, ranging from mortal tracks ("Pappa Was a Rolling Stone," "Dance to the Music," "Reach Out I'll Be There") to fun pop hits ("Sugar Baby Love," "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," "CA Dreaming"). It also featured a Supremes medley and an compartmentalization of instrumental intros including the "Hotshot Wars Main Title Theme," "Kung Fu Fighting," "Layla," "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy," "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough," "Baker Street," and "The Eve of the War."
By the fall of 1981, a bandwagon had well and rightfully been developed and many groups were cathartic their possess medleys of their former hits, including the Beach Boys, the Hollies, and even the Beatles themselves under the title "The Beatles Movie Medley" (victimisation the original vocals this time). Lobo hit the charts with a Harry Belafonte Caribbean medley, Startrax covered the Bee Gees, Gidea Park did the Beach Boys, and the Four Seasons and Tight Fit hit with "Back to the 60s," a potpourri like to the original corn liquor that started it all. Even the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra got in on the act with "Drug-addicted on Classics," a potpourri of notable classical pieces. Starsound themselves used Tony Sherman as a Stevie Wonder soundalike on "Stars on Stevie," Peter Vermeij as Mick Jagger on "The Greatest Rock n Roll Band in the World," Peter Douglas as Frank Sinatra on "Stars on Frankie," and regular Patricia Paay, Yvonne Keeley, Sylvana caravan Veen, and Ingrid Ferdinandusse as the Andrews Sisters, although the latter two did not in reality do whatever of the telling.
A third album featuring the Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder medleys was released in the spring of 1982, just by then it was all all over and the album peaked at a miserable number 94 for just one workweek. The potpourri was being parodied by artists such as Chas & Dave with their selection of olde worlde music hall and London songs, "Stars Over 45," Ivor Biggun with "Bras on 45," and Weird Al Yankovic with his potpourri "Polkas on 45." The sitting musicians all went their classify ways and Starsound or Stars on 45 was leftfield as just a memory of a furore of medleys that swept the cosmos in 1981. The first two behind still be heard at clubs, more than a quarter of a century afterwards, especially the cheap type where a DJ needs a pastiche to animate up the dancefloor, and Starsound has managed to retain its believability for longer than Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers, wHO revived the medley arrange eight-spot eld later to even greater simply fugacious effect.
Ice judge Jason blasts contestants
'Dancing on Ice' judge Jason Gardiner has predicted that a male celebrity will win the show this year, claiming that the ladies aren't very good on the ice.
Speaking on 'This Morning', he said: "It's a boy's competition. The boys this year are of a better standard than the girls."
Speaking about contestant Chris Fountain, he said: "He reminds me of that 'Looney Tunes' character the Tasmanian Devil. He whirls around and wrecks devastation in his path. He had no connection with his partner."
He also slated 'How Clean Is Your House?' star Aggie Mackenzie whom he described as an "OAP" during last Sunday night's live show.
Speaking about the television presenter, he said: "With her bruises and everything showing, it really wasn't what you wanted to see."
Speaking on 'This Morning', he said: "It's a boy's competition. The boys this year are of a better standard than the girls."
Speaking about contestant Chris Fountain, he said: "He reminds me of that 'Looney Tunes' character the Tasmanian Devil. He whirls around and wrecks devastation in his path. He had no connection with his partner."
He also slated 'How Clean Is Your House?' star Aggie Mackenzie whom he described as an "OAP" during last Sunday night's live show.
Speaking about the television presenter, he said: "With her bruises and everything showing, it really wasn't what you wanted to see."
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