Tuesday 9 September 2008
Internet hoax claims Miley Cyrus killed in car accident
Saturday 30 August 2008
Mp3 music: Ligabue
 Artist: Ligabue: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Pop Rock Ligabue's discography:  Il Giorno Dei Giorni Year: 2005 Tracks: 11  Giro d'Italia CD3 Year: 2003 Tracks: 11  Giro d'Italia CD2 Year: 2003 Tracks: 11  Fuori Come Va? Year: 2002 Tracks: 12  Miss Mondo Year: 1999 Tracks: 14  Radio Freccia CD2 Year: 1998 Tracks: 16  Radio Freccia CD1 Year: 1998 Tracks: 16  Su E Giu' Dan Un Palco CD2 Year: 1997 Tracks: 15  Su E Giu' Dan Un Palco CD1 Year: 1997 Tracks: 14  Buon Compleanno Elvis Year: 1995 Tracks: 13  A Che Ora - Gtu La Fine Del Mondo Year: 1994 Tracks: 8  Sopravvissuti e Sopravviventi Year: 1993 Tracks: 13  Lambrusco, Coltelli, Rose and Pop Corn Year: 1991 Tracks: 11  Ligabue Year: 1990 Tracks: 11 The Italian Bruce Springsteen, that's how many critics have described Ligabue and his music -- non only for his sound, strongly influenced by U.S. classic rock, nor for his lyrics around lovemaking, rock candy & roll, and dreams of escape (with Italy's Via Emilia in place of Route 66), and non regular for his look. No, such a comparing is principally due to the impact that Ligabue has on his wide audience and to the way in which his fans strongly identify with his songs. Authenticity, sweat, and electrical guitars: these ar the ingredients of a formula that, with very small changes during the eld, possess made him one of the nearly successful Italian bikers of the last deuce decades, second only to Vasco Rossi. Born in Correggio, non far from Reggio Emilia, on the 13th of March, 1960, Luciano Ligabue had diverse work experiences during his pre-rock long time, including fieldhand, blue-collar worker, salesman, city councilman, and DJ. Accompanied by a band called OraZero, in 1987 Ligabue won a contest for unsigned bands, which during the following year allowed him to book his first 7", including the songs "Bar Mario" and "Anime in Plexiglass." Between 1988 and 1989 singer/songwriter Pierangelo Bertoli recorded two of Ligabue's compositions, "Sogni di Rock & Roll" and "Figlio di un Cane" (on the Tra Me e Me and Sedia Elettrica albums, severally). With his new patronage band, ClanDestino (Goop Cottafavi on guitar, Gigi Cavalli Cocchi on drums, and Luciano Ghezzi on bass), and with Elio e le Storie Tese's Paolo "Feiez" Panigada as a sound engine driver, Luciano released his debut, Ligabue, in 1990. Including both romantic ballads and frizzly bikers, the album sold D,000 copies, piece the first single, "Balliamo Sul Mondo," won that year's edition of Festivalbar Giovani. Then Ligabue started a spell that would end trio years subsequently, during which he as well the hazard to support U2 on 2 Italian dates of their Zoo TV spell, and in the lag released Lambrusco Coltelli Rose & Popcorn (1991) and the less focussed Sopravvissuti e Sopravviventi (1993). In 1994 he was besides cofounder of the direction agency and record label Mescal. In the same year, the EP A Che Ora è la Fine del Mondo?, the title racecourse organism the Italian translation of R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," was his lowest track record with ClanDestino, world Health Organization would later on release deuce albums on their own (1994's ClanDestino and 1996's Cuore Stomaco e Cervello). With a new mount band including other members of Rocking Chairs (Carmelo "Mel" Previte on guitar, Antonio "Rigo" Righetti on basso, and Roberto "Robby" Pellati on drums) and Litfiba (lead guitar player Federico Poggipollini), in 1995 Ligabue released Buon Compleanno Elvis. Thanks to the vast winner of singles such as "Certe Notti" and "Vivo Morto o X," it sold more than one trillion copies, leftover on the Italian charts for 70 weeks. In 1997 deuce dates at Milan's San Siro arena (with a tot up of 110,000 mass attendance) confirmed his position as one of Italy's reliable rock stars. In the same year Ligabue promulgated his number 1 koran, a collection of short stories called Fuori e Dentro il Borgo, and the live track record Su e Giù da un Palco, spell in 1998 he directed his number one picture, Radiofreccia (for which he north Korean won the David di Donatello and the Nastro d'Argento awards for Best New Director) and composed its soundtrack. In 1999 he released the benefit single "Il Mio Nome è Mai Più" with Jovanotti and Litfiba's Piero Pelù, and in 2002 Miss Mondo was issued -- its standout tracks included "Questa è la Mia Vita," from the soundtrack of his secondment motion-picture show, Dazeroadieci (2002), and "Eri Bellissima," success of that year's Festivalbar. The 2003 theatrical spell in which Ligabue was backed by PFM's Mauro Pagani and Almamegretta's sound manipulator Stefano "D.Radian" Facchielli was documented by the live album Giro d'Italia. In 2004 Ligabue promulgated the novel La Neve Se Ne Frega, and Teramo University awarded him a degree honoris causa in communication sciences. In September 2005, a few years in front the release of Nome e Cognome, Ligabue unionized a immense live issue at Reggio Emilia's Campovolo (approximate the city's airdrome), with four-spot stages and a total of one hundred eighty,000 citizenry (the largest paid audience of all time in Europe for a individual creative person). In 2006 he promulgated the five-DVD limit Nome e Cognome Tour 2006, spell the single "Felicitous Hour" north Korean won the Festivalbar. In the same year he too wrote a sung for Elisa, "Gli Ostacoli del Cuore," included in her greatest-hits collecting Soundtrack '96-'06, and promulgated the poetry collection Lettere d'Amore Nel Frigo. Primo Tempo, released in November 2007, was the low gear volume of a double anthology spanning from 1990 to 1995; the second half, highborn Secondo Tempo and including material from 1997 to 2005, is to be released in May 2008. |
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Mp3 music: Pretty Maids
 Artist: Pretty Maids: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Metal: Heavy Rock: Hard-Rock Pretty Maids's discography:  Alive At Least Year: 2003 Tracks: 15  Planet Panic Year: 2002 Tracks: 10  Carpe Diem Year: 2000 Tracks: 12  Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing Year: 1999 Tracks: 11  Spooked Year: 1997 Tracks: 13  Screamin' Live Year: 1995 Tracks: 14  Scream Year: 1995 Tracks: 11  Stripped Year: 1993 Tracks: 10  Sin-Decade Year: 1992 Tracks: 11  Offside Year: 1992 Tracks: 5  Jump The Gun Year: 1990 Tracks: 12  In Santa's Claws Year: 1990 Tracks: 5  Future World Year: 1987 Tracks: 9  Red, Hot and Heavy Year: 1984 Tracks: 11  Pretty Maids Year: 1984 Tracks: 6  First Cuts... Year: 1984 Tracks: 6 Danish hard sway dance orchestra the Pretty Maids was formed in 1981 by isaac Merrit Singer Ronnie Atkins and guitar player Ken Hammer; adding guitarist Pete Collins, bassist John Darrow and drummer Phil More, the chemical chemical group recorded a demonstration which earned them a undertake with the British approximate Bullet, resulting in the 1983 freeing of their self-titled debut EP. That same year the Pretty Maids supported Black Sabbath on their go of Scandinavia, and after replacement Collins with guitarist Ricky Hansson and Darrow with bassist Allan Delong, the band entered the studio apartment to record their number one LP for novel mark CBS, 1984's Red, Hot and Heavy. Hansson's term of office proved ephemeral, nevertheless, and Collins returned to the line up for a tour unyielding through 1985; two age later, the Pretty Maids resurfaced with Future World. While recording the reexamination, drummer More was sternly injured in a railway system car doss down, and the resulting LP Jump off the Gun did not appear until 1990; by the end of the twelvemonth a series of defections reduced the roster to the original couple of Atkins and Hammer, world Health Organization recruited bassist Kenn Jackson and drummer Michael Fast to cut 1992's Sin-Decade, scoring a major achieve in Europe and Japan with the unmarried "Please Don't Leave Me." An acoustic tap, Stripped, appeared in 1993, followed a twelvemonth later by Shrieking; in 1995, the Pretty Maids likewise issued their first official live track record, Screamin' Live. Subsequent releases include 1997's Spooked and 1999's Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing. |
Sunday 10 August 2008
CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG
�CSNY: Deja Vu,� the documentary film about Crosby Stills Nash & Young�s recent, highly politicized Freedom of Speech hitch, does a good problem of capturing the ripening quartet�s conclusion to inject �60s-style anti-war activism into the twenty-first century concert scene. What it doesn�t do is show uncut performances from the tour of duty. That skip is remedied by this 16-cut live �soundtrack,� which is split between fan favorites and songs from Young�s fiercely anti-Bush �Living With War� record album. In the film, certain fans ar enraged by such Young ditties as �Impeach the President�; music critics may dislike them, too, merely for completely different reasons. Despite the passion of the lyrics, Young�s musically undernourished new songs make him sound more like a cheerleader than a rock �n� roll great. Download: �Deja Vu.�
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Thursday 26 June 2008
Fun and games among most-watched shows on broadcast networks
NEW YORK - Broadcast networks are the place to be for prime-time competitions - if little else.
Nine of the 20 most-watched programs on the networks last week involved some sort of game, from the Boston Celtics clinching the National Basketball Association title to the eager guys seeking a date on "The Bachelorette," according to Nielsen Media Research. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are heading into their slowest weeks of the year.
NBC's "America's Got Talent" opened a new season with 12.8 million viewers, by far the most popular prime-time show after the Celtics-Lakers. The talent competition and "Deal or No Deal" enabled NBC to claim the status of No. 1 network for the first time since the first week of the year.
Disney's rollout of the new kids' movie "Camp Rock" was the week's biggest event, shown to a total of 16.1 million people over three networks on three nights.
More people watched "Camp Rock" on its Disney Channel debut Friday (8.9 million) than the 3.7 million who watched on ABC Family Sunday. The smallest audience, 3.5 million, was on ABC Saturday - illustrating how the distinction between broadcast and cable networks mean little to young viewers.
Illustrating ABC's problems in getting viewers to watch its reruns, last week's "Grey's Anatomy" airing reached 3.2 million people, a smaller audience than 14 programs that aired on Univision. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" had virtually the same size audience as Univision's "Amas Casa Desperados."
For the week, NBC averaged 6.5 million viewers (4.2 rating, 7 share). CBS had 6.4 million viewers (4.3, 8), Fox 6.1 million (3.8, 7), ABC 5.4 million (3.6, 6) and the CW 1.7 million (1.1, 2).
A ratings point represents 1,128,000 households, or one per cent of the estimated 112.8 million TV homes in the U.S. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of June 16-22, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NBA Finals, Game 6: L.A. Lakers vs. Boston, ABC, 16.88 million; "America's Got Talent," NBC, 12.78 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.1 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 8.95 million; "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 8.87 million; "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 8.86 million; "Deal or No Deal" (Tuesday), NBC, 8.72 million; "House," Fox, 8.63 million; "Deal or No Deal" (Wednesday), NBC, 8.34 million; "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 8.25 million.
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Madonna Gets Her Way -- As Usual -- In 1994, In The Loder Files
November of 1994 was cold, damp and windy up in Ronda, a fairly ancient town perched on a mountain cliff in the south of Spain. Madonna had gone there to shoot a video for "Take a Bow," her next single, so we, of course, dutifully followed. Ronda is promoted to tourists as the birthplace of modern bullfighting — meaning it was there, around 200 years earlier, that some brave/insane matador had decided to climb down from the relative safety of horseback to do battle with a bull face to face (or horn-to-groin, just as likely). "Take a Bow," the song, had nothing to do with bullfighting, but in the world of music videos this was a fact of gnat-like insignificance.
Madonna and her crew (which included cinematographer Harris Savides, who went on to shoot "American Gangster") set up in Ronda's old stone bullring, with Maddy's friend Donatella Versace, the fashion personage, flitting around up in the gallery. Congregated in a street outside the ring was a troupe of bullfighting pros — picadors, banderilleros, and so forth — who were awaiting the arrival of Madonna's video costar, the dark and sultry Emilio Muñoz, an actual, well-known torero. The sun had come out, and the afternoon proceeded in the usual way. Madonna, looking very 1940s in a little black-veiled hat (she was lobbying for the lead role in the movie version of the hit musical "Evita" at the time), was situated in a seat looking down on the dusty ring, where Muñoz twirled about, baffling a bovine opponent with his shiny cape. She was playing the role of a woman who'd been dumped by this guy, and was now blinking away tears of heartbreak. Since tears and heartbreak were two commodities rarely associated with Madonna, it had been decided to intersperse the video with other scenes showing her writhing around on a bed in her underwear. That was more like it.
Our interview later on proceeded in the usual way as well. Our own camera crew spent hours setting up a flattering shot on the edge of a courtyard garden in a beautiful old building filled with gleaming carved wood and weathered brick. Then Madonna arrived — well past the appointed time, as usual — and marched straight up to the cameras to check the out the angles and the lighting, which, as usual, she found to be wanting. After much scurrying about, everything was adjusted to ... well, not to her satisfaction, probably, but to a point where she was willing to put up with it without feeling compelled to punch anybody.
She was wearing some beautiful outfit — I forget exactly what it consisted of, but it looked great on the monitors. Then, however, she pronounced herself chilly, and suddenly pulled on a nondescript white sweater that obliterated the look we'd been hoping to capture. For good measure, she also flopped a fur lap robe over her legs, completing the impression of a person being nursed back to health following some frigid Arctic mishap. She then began talking about her family, her voice, and her then-trashy image while we blinked away tears of professional heartbreak.
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Tuesday 24 June 2008
Love: Thy neighbor
Back in 1992, G. Love, whose new album “Superhero Brother” comes out tomorrow, was playing on the streets of Boston and Cambridge, busking his hip-hop/blues hybrid in Harvard Square. He soon met bassist Jim Prescott and drummer Jeffrey Clemens and formed G. Love & Special Sauce and started landing gigs at clubs on Lansdowne Street and pubs like the Plough & Stars and the now-departed Tam O’Shanter.
The band’s star didn’t truly rise until the band relocated to Philadelphia. But 15 years later, G. Love is back living in Boston, the place of his musical birth.
“I definitely come from Philly and always represent Philly,” said Love from his home in the South End last week, “but it was just a nice time for me to relocate up here for the last couple years. I just find Boston to be a tremendous music town. There’s so many people performing music. I feel like I tap into the musical energy that’s floating around in the air around here.”
Reminiscent of his early Boston days, Love has returned to the pub scene recently, performing incognito at Matt Murphy’s under the pseudonym The Phamily.
“It’s obviously been a different experience because when I first got here I was a struggling street musician and now I’m a recording artist,” said Love. “We kept it on the down low, didn’t advertise it, and it was awesome. It’s a great outlet for me.”
The band’s next show under the name G. Love & Special Sauce will be a grander affair: an Aug. 14 date headlining the Bank of America Pavilion.
Surviving 15 years in the music business is an accomplishment - and Love has managed his longevity without a commercial hit. He and Special Sauce came closest when their “Cold Beverages” video made it to MTV in 1994, but their success has been more slow burn than sudden meteor.
“We’ve always been on the edge of breaking out,” Love said. “Because we’ve never had a huge commercial hit, we never had the, ‘Oh they sold out, they’re too commercial now’ reaction. So that has always been special for the fans, people who’ve found us on their own. They feel like they own the music more, which is cool.”
When G. Love and Special Sauce’s debut came out, there was nothing else like it. No one was combining gutbucket acoustic blues with hip-hop. Today, their influence is pervasive, from Jason Mraz to Jack Johnson (whose career G. Love helped start).
“We originated that sound, and over the years you’ve seen a lot of people cop the style a little bit,” Love said. “But you can’t claim music like that. That’s how music is. It gets passed along.”
For the new record, Love didn’t reinvent the wheel. “Superhero Brother” may be less raw and minimalist than the band’s first albums, but it’s still the same G. Love & Special Sauce, with maybe a dash of social consciousness. As Love puts it, “The record is funky and a good time, but it also makes you think a little bit.”
Amor Antiquita
Artist: Amor Antiquita
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Metallic Sonatas
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Pt. Ganapati Bhat Hasanagi
Amy Winehouse undergoing more tests
LONDON -- A spokesman for Amy Winehouse says the 24-year-old soul diva is having more hospital tests after fainting earlier this week.
Spokesman Chris Goodman says Winehouse had more scans and tests Thursday.
Winehouse collapsed Monday at her north London home after signing autographs for a group of fans. An assistant caught her before she hit the ground.
She is scheduled to sing at a June 27th concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday, and is due to take part in the Glastonbury music festival the next day.
Her spokesman says that although Winehouse still plans to perform at both concerts, the decision "will be made entirely on the advice of her doctors and in her best interests."
Tom Hanks supports AFTRA contract deal
Tom Hanks has thrown his support behind a contract deal reached by the smaller of two actors unions, putting his high-profile name against plans by the larger union to wring more concessions from the major Hollywood studios.
Hanks added his name to an e-mail petition urging members to vote for a deal reached May 28 by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and avoid another Hollywood work stoppage on the heels of the 100-day writers' strike, which put many actors out of work.
The Screen Actors Guild continued to negotiate with studios Monday and has urged its members to vote down the AFTRA deal.
Both unions' contracts on prime-time TV shows and movie productions expire June 30.
The AFTRA petition said a "no" vote would effectively shut down Hollywood.
"Either our employers will lock us out, or SAG will strike," it said. "There really is no alternative if the AFTRA deal is defeated."
Among other prominent backers of the petition are former SAG president Richard Masur, Loretta Swit from "M-A-S-H", James Cromwell from "L.A. Confidential" and other actors including Adam Arkin, Morgan Fairchild and Tess Harper.
Cromwell, a former SAG board member, told The Associated Press he felt SAG was pressing for demands that could not be met.
"You bargain as hard as you can. But when you make promises you can't keep and then you hold this town hostage by your belligerence and intransigence to the realities of the industry ... it ain't gonna fly," he said. "Let's get what we can get."
A representative for Hanks confirmed Monday the actor had added his name to the petition but was unavailable to comment because he was filming in Europe.
AFTRA mailed out ballots to its some 70,000 members last week and the results are expected to be announced July 8.
SAG, representing 120,000 members, has said that talks with Hollywood studios could extend past the end of the current contract on June 30, but it was willing to keep actors working without a deal. Some 44,000 are members of both unions.
The guild has said it would push for higher wage increases, increased fees for Internet and DVD content, better mileage reimbursements and more protection for actors who refuse to consent to the use of clips of their images online.
"When unions compete with different contract terms, actors lose," said SAG's chief negotiator Doug Allen, in a statement urging members to vote against the deal.
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De-vision and Green Court
Artist: De-vision and Green Court
Genre(s):
Dance
Electronic
Trance
Discography:
Take My Breath Away (Part II)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 5
Take My Breath Away (Part I) C
Year: 2001
Tracks: 5
Shining (Part II) CD5
Year: 2000
Tracks: 5
Shining (Part I) CD5
Year: 2000
Tracks: 3
One Self
Scott Weiland - Weilands Released On Day One Of Sentence
LATEST: Rocker SCOTT WEILAND reportedly walked free from jail on Monday (12May08) - just hours after checking himself in to serve his eight-day sentence for driving under the influence (DUI).
It's claimed the singer began his stint behind bars at a California prison at 8.55am (EST) after pleading guilty to drink driving charges.
However, Weiland - who was axed from Velvet Revolver in March (08) after a series of spats with bandmates - was released from the Van Nuys Municipal Court Lockup at 6.54pm (EST), just 10 hours after entering the correctional facility, reports PerezHilton.com.
Weiland was given until 28 May (08) to complete 192 hours behind bars, but the rocker chose to start his jail time early so he could tour with the newly-reformed Stone Temple Pilots from 17 May (08).
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Day-Lewis jokes about Clooney kiss
MTV.com reports that when asked backstage why he had kissed Clooney on hearing that he had won the Oscar for 'There Will Be Blood', Day-Lewis replied: "I had to kiss someone."
He continued: "I had kissed my wife, so in the interest of parity, I had to kiss George."
'There Will Be Blood' opens in Irish cinemas on Friday 29 February.
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Faulty seat heater scorches Beckham's 'boys'
David Beckham was left with red hot genitals because of a faulty car heater.
The English soccer star ran into trouble when the heated seats of his 4x4 car malfunctioned in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Galaxy player was driving when the setting jammed on heat, forcing him to pull over and find something to cushion his scorched manhood.
An onlooker told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “One minute he was tearing across Los Angeles, the next, he was rolling down his windows, panting and staring down at his crotch in horror.
“There were lots of fans and paparazzi following him, making it even more difficult for him to sort out his boiling bits. He was gutted to be caught cushioning his seat from the hot leather.”
David recently showed the world his seemingly impressive tackle in a series of new adverts for Emporio Armani.
The 33-year-old sports superstar models the fashion house’s autumn and winter 2009 underwear collection.
Meanwhile, Will Smith revealed at the premiere of his latest film Hancock that David is going to give him soccer lessons.
Smith said: “David Beckham is one of the best soccer players in the world. I begged him to teach me how to play and he promises he will. I can't wait.”
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