Tuesday 9 September 2008

Shamed Glitter released from Vietnamese jail




Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that she does not want Gary Glitter to be
able to travel abroad once he has returned to Britain.








The singer - real name Paul Gadd - is presently on his way indorse to Britain
after finishing a prison sentence in Vietnam for abusing children.



"We need to control him, and he volition be, erstwhile he returns to this country,"
Ms Smith told the wireless station talkSPORT.



She added: "It for sure would be my horizon that with the sort of record
that he's got, he shouldn't be travelling anyplace in the world,"



"I want Gary Glitter to be controlled whilst he's here and I don't require
him to be able-bodied to go anywhere else in the world in order to abuse children."



Glitter will be required to sign the sex offenders' register and will have to
apprise the authorities if he wants to travel afield.



Glitter's attorney Le Thanh Kinh said that his client went to the British
consulate after beingness released from Thu Duc jail in Binh Thuan at 11.30am
local time (5.30am UK time).



He added: "I spoke to him scarcely now and he said everything is OK. He is
felicitous to be going family. He was in a good mood."



Glitter was transported in a Jeep under police guard to the aerodrome. On his
arrival he was taken inside through a VIP entrance around an hour before the
flight took off. He is due to change planes in Bangkok, Thailand, and make it
in London tomorrow good afternoon.














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Saturday 30 August 2008

Trailblazing band Radiohead casts hypnotic spell

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - While millions around the world fagged Sunday watching the shutting ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, 7,000 fans lucky sufficiency to grudge a ticket to Radiohead's show at the Hollywood Bowl witnessed not only a band at the top of its game but likewise an behave that at times seemed to be the topper on the planet.





Certainly that's high congratulations, but during its two-hour set -- the first-class honours degree of iI sold-out nights at the Bowl -- the quintette from Oxford, England, managed to throw a spell over the crowd without resorting to fist-pumping anthems like U2, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam or even Coldplay. Radiohead simply operates on a completely different level: It connects with the consultation through sublime and mesmerizing intensity rather than by pummeling a crowd into submission via bravado.





Even its politics ar subtle. Throughout the set up, two Tibetan flags were draped on the backs of keyboards; this was never addressed but nonetheless sent a message as the lie of the world noted the Olympic Games in China. And, in the jaw-dropping, fuzz-bass-fueled "The National Anthem," the band employed snatches of audio hijacked from infomercials that in effect mocked mindless consumerism.





Radiohead has enough confidence in its music and fan radix that it initially offered its up-to-the-minute album, the superb "In Rainbows," as a name-your-own-price download. That self-assuredness also was on display Sunday (August 24). Frontman Thom Yorke performed several songs, including the sinuous "All I Need," at the piano with his back to the crowd, a move that came off not as standoffish simply organic, as did the band's tasteful yet sensational video and lighting presentation.





As it has since the release of its third album, 1997's landmark "OK Computer," Radiohead served up an heady mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation at the Bowl that somehow managed to sound thoroughly modern and fabulously human. "Faust Arp," from "In Rainbows," was performed by the duo of Yorke and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood, on acoustic guitar. On the other goal of the spectrum, the electronic and live percussion of "Idioteque," from "Kid A," packed enough punch to fire a gush.





The band's heart and soulfulness is Yorke, whose voice at times resembled the cries of a maimed animal. For nonbelievers, it might hold sounded like an endless stream of whining, simply those wHO felt an emotional connexion with Yorke were touched not so much by his insightful lyrics as by his wordless singing, which canful be just now as effective.





Before launching into the set-closing "Everything in Its Right Place," Yorke sang a few lines from R.E.M.'s "Electrolite," in a nod to the band's alt-rock forefathers. On Sunday, Radiohead proved that the torch has long been passed, and the band is running at full f number with no need to look over its shoulder.





/Hollywood Reporter









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Sunday 10 August 2008

Sharon Isbin

Sharon Isbin   
Artist: Sharon Isbin

   Genre(s): 
Vocal
   



Discography:


Dreams of a World   
 Dreams of a World

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 20




Described by Boston Globe's Michael Manning as a musician wHO plays "beyond virtuosity," guitarist Sharon Isbin has been a coherent challenge for critics, world Health Organization struggle to detect the right meridian that would do justice to her exquisite playing. "In her hands," wrote Anne Midgette in The New York Times, the guitar takes on the precision of a ball field, each note a clear, lustrous facet that catches, prismlike, a glimpse of the spectrum." In burden, a performance by Isbin is like a picture by Vermeer: a formally impeccable and inexhaustible influence of artistic creation. A Renaissance charwoman of the guitar, Isbin performs worldwide -- at notable venues, commissions new works from imposing American composers (more than whatsoever other guitar player) for her instruments, collaborates with a spacious smorgasbord of musicians, and tirelessly searches for new music to stakes. As a kid, Isbin precious to be scientist, like her founder. However, she started guitar lessons at the old age of iX (the crime syndicate was living in Italy at that time) and base her vocation. Her teachers included Andres Segovia and harpsichordist Rosalyn Tureck. With Tureck, Isbin worked on the first public presentation edition, for guitar, of J. S. Bach's Lute Suites. This cast finally resulted in a critically acclaimed magnetised disk. In 1989, Isbin founded the guitar department at the Juilliard School of Music and became that institution's first professor of guitar. Isbin's recordings stimulate systematically been assessed as groundbreaking ceremony musical events. In 1995, her disc, the start ever, of American guitar concert was presented to Russian cosmonaut during a rendezvous between the space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian spaceship Mir. Journey to the Amazon, performed with Brazilian percussionist Thiago de Mello and saxophonist Paul Winter, earned Isbin a Grammy nomination in 1999. She received a Grammy in 2001, for her Dreams of a World: Folk-inspired Music for Guitar. Significantly, this was a first classical guitar Grammy in 28 eld. In 2002, Isbin got some other Grammy, for an extraordinary performance of concerti by Christoher Rouse and Tan Dun. The concerti featured in this reality prime Minister magnetic saucer were vow to Isbin.Spanning several styles, genres, and periods Isbin's other recordings include Aaron Jay Kernis' Double Concerto (with twiddler Cho-Liang Lin), Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjues, and Sharon Isbin plays Baroque Favorites for Guitar. The last-named album features a sincerely dumfounding performance of a transcription of Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.





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Wednesday 2 July 2008

Annie Pleads Insanity

Photo: Anthony Pidgeon / Retna
1. Annie, "Loco"
Norway's finest expounds on the joys of new love in such a way that will probably not strain your limited knowledge of Spanish vocabulary. This song is awesome, by the way. [Music is the Heart of Our Soul via Idolator]

2. Coldplay, "Lost!" (live on The Daily Show)
Last night, Coldplay became only the third-ever musical artist to perform on The Daily Show, confirming that it is, indeed, the slowest news week in all of history. [Pitchfork]

3. Pearl Jam feat. Ace Frehley, "Black Diamond" (Kiss cover)
Ace let Mike McCready take five at MSG last night, soloing on KISS's classic "Black Diamond," their best-ever song about advanced downhill skiing. [Stereogum]



4. David Banner feat. Lil Wayne, "Shawty Say"
Banner refashions Wayne's "Lollipop" into a track approximately half as good as "Lollipop." Still, not bad. [Nah Right]

5. Liz Phair, New song
From Phair's Guyville show in Chicago on Tuesday, a brand-new track. We like all her other songs better. [Stereogum]


Monday 23 June 2008

Sony To Focus On Rebuilding Tv, Game Units

Sony's top priority in the coming year is "to restore profitability in our television and game businesses," the company's chairman, Howard Stringer, said today (Friday). Sony reported a $678-million loss in its TV business last year and a $3.4-billion loss in its game division. Speaking at a shareholders' meeting in Tokyo, Stringer appeared to take note of the fact that Sony's PlayStation game systems are selling well below those of rival Nintendo's Wii, when he said, according to a Bloomberg News report, "Three years ago, we were criticized for the lack of innovation. Three days ago, in a U.K. brand poll, Sony was ranked No. 1 this year. ... But, we are not No. 1 in my mind yet."


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Monday 16 June 2008

TAHO

TAHO   
Artist: TAHO

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   Techno
   



Discography:


Shambhalla  Hybrid   
 Shambhalla Hybrid

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 3


Forest of Wonders-(65DSR)   
 Forest of Wonders-(65DSR)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 3




 





Spears Pulls Out Of Danish Furniture Deal

Monday 9 June 2008

Downchild blues band

Downchild blues band   
Artist: Downchild blues band

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   



Discography:


We Deliver   
 We Deliver

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


A Matter Of Time   
 A Matter Of Time

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


Good Times Guaranteed   
 Good Times Guaranteed

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


Dancing - Road Fever   
 Dancing - Road Fever

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 21


Double header   
 Double header

   Year:    
Tracks: 20




Led by Donnie "Mr. Downchild" Walsh, the Downchild Blues Band is the prime minister vapours band in Canada. Their saxophone-driven jump vapours provided a major inspiration on Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi's Blues Brothers, world Health Organization included Walsh's tunes, "Everything I Need (Most)" and "Shotgun Blues", on their 1978 debut album, Briefcase Of The Blues. Formed in 1969, by Walsh and his chum, Richard "Hock" Walsh, the Downchild Blues Band endured continuous personnel department upset. More than xVIII musicians, including Gene Taylor, world Health Organization went on to play with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Kenny Neal, world Health Organization joined after going away the engage of Buddy Guy and relocating to Toronto. Conflict between the Walsh brothers resulted in Hock Walsh organism pink-slipped from the band, shortly in front work began on their third album, in 1974. Although he returned to work with the banding in 1977 and 1985, his hard living caught up with him on February 1999 when he succumbed to an seeming heart onslaught. Since the early nineties, Downchild Blues Band has benefited from a more-fixed lineup. Vocalist/songwriter Chuck Jackson, world Health Organization joined in 1990, received a Maple Blues prize as "c. H. Best male vocalizer of 1999" and a "Megrims With A Feeling" prize, from the Toronto Blues Society, for his "achievements during a imposing career". A erstwhile member of 1960s rock band, Rhinoceros, Michael Fonfara received a Maples Blues prize, in 2000, as "piano/keyboards player of the year." Mike Fitzpatrick has played drums with Big Joe Turner, Sonny Rhodes, Hubert Sumlin and Bob Margolin and has recorded with such vapours artists as Snooky Pryor and B.B. Odom. Gary Kendall, world Health Organization played bass on the band's earlier recordings, returned after a 12 year break, during which he engaged concerts at Toronto blues golf club, the Silver Dollar. The receiver of a Toronto Blues Society "Blues With A Feeling" awarding, in 1993, he received Maple Blues awards as "bass musician of the year" in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2002. The signature sound of the Downchild Blues Band continues to emanate from sax player, Pat Carey. A penis of the band since 1985, Carey antecedently worked with the Winnepeg Symphony, the Jimmy King Golden Boy Brass, Tony Faim And The Dukes and Richard "Rhine wine" Wilson. In addition to providing horn arrangements for such Canadian artists as Jack DeKeyzer, braggy Daddy G, Sonny Fournier and Chuck Jackson and The All Stars, he has recorded with Rita Chiarelli, Fathead, the Unity Band, Danny Brooks and Curley Bridges. The receiver of a Maple Blues awarding as "horn player of the year", in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, he recorded an album, Starlight with his grouping, Pat Carey's Jazz Navigators. Raised in northern Ontario, where their parents ran a resort hotel, Donnie and Richard "Rhine wine" Wilson resettled to Toronto in their teens. Together with the Downchild Blues Band, they recorded one of the number one independent albums to be released in Canada. Recorded in deuce nights, in a minor make-do studio at Rochdale College, the record album, coroneted Bootleg, was picked up for statistical distribution by RCA Victor and re-released in Canada and Japan. Their second album, Straight Up", released in 1974, included the band's only strike, a reworking of Joe Turner's "Flick, Flop And Fly".






Monday 26 May 2008

American Idol - Hicks To Star On Broadway

AMERICAN IDOL winner TAYLOR HICKS will join the Broadway production of GREASE next month (06Jun08) for a three-month stint as THE TEEN ANGEL.

The 31-year-old singer, whose Idol fan base was dubbed The Soul Patrol, plans to add "soulful flavour" to his performance of the song Beauty School Dropout, a tune originally made famous by Frankie Avalon in the 1978 film.

He says, "It's a big number, and, you know, I've made some pretty grand entrances before. And this one is probably the grandest entrance I've had in my career."

The grey-haired crooner, who won the TV talent competition in 2006, will end his run at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on 7 September (08).




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Thursday 22 May 2008

Naomi Campbell recovering following operation

Naomi Campbell recovering following operation



Supermodel Noemi Joseph Campbell is recuperating subsequently being discharged from hospital pursuit surgery.
Last week, she underwent four-and-a-half hours of operating theatre at a infirmary in Sao Paulo, Brasil, to murder a cyst.
The hospital said all over the weekend that Campbell had recovered "really substantially" and left in a eggbeater subsequently being discharged on Fri afternoon.
Mirtes Bogea, spokeswoman for the Sirio Libanes hospital, said: "Doctors signed her release and she left in the afternoon in a whirlybird that person sent to pick her up."
Meantime Campbell hit come out of the closet at "ludicrous" reports she was planning a company.
The Brazilian press reported that the 37-year-old planned to hurl a lavish party on the day she left hospital.
But the modeling said in a statement: "I pack my health very earnestly, so to suggest that I would legion a company followers an operation is ludicrous.
"I would wish to thank everyone for their sort wishes and care over the past calendar week and for the fantastic service I have received at the infirmary. I will now be recuperating in common soldier."
The Streatham-born example underwent a four-and-a-half time of day laparoscopy process on Monday.
A friend said: "The trace that she would make a company as soon as she leaves is ridiculous and makes light of what she has been through over the last few days."





Sunday 11 May 2008

Paul Avgerinos

Paul Avgerinos   
Artist: Paul Avgerinos

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   New Age
   



Discography:


Phos Hilaron   
 Phos Hilaron

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


Words Touch   
 Words Touch

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


Sky Of Grace   
 Sky Of Grace

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


Muse Of The Round Sky   
 Muse Of The Round Sky

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


Maya - The Great Katun   
 Maya - The Great Katun

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 2


Balancing Spheres   
 Balancing Spheres

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 5




Avgerinos is a classically trained composer world Health Organization served as star bassist with The Hong Kong Philharmonic and performed with numerous other orchestras. He has as well toured with popular medicine and jazz acts and has through with roughly grading for films and tv coiffe commercials. His true vocation, however, seems to be as an electronic-music composer. The trinity albums he has released so far ar entirely gems.





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Saturday 10 May 2008

T.I. Became Friends With Eminem After Legal Troubles

T.I. Became Friends With Eminem After Legal Troubles



Rapper T.I. has formed a strong hamper with EMINEM in recent months, after the hip-hop mogul reached come out to the Fetch 'EM Out star to offer his living during his legal woes.
T.I. was handed a 1,000-hour community divine service sentence in Borderland (08), after pleading guilty to weapons charges relating to his October (07) nab, when he allegedly tried to buy unregistered automobile guns and silencers.
And, spell outlay several months on house apprehend at his Atlanta, Georgia family, T.I. reveals a number of his hip-hop peers got in touch to avail him through his troubled times.
Only no unity was more supportive than Lose weight Shady superstar Eminem.
Oral presentation on Battle of Atlanta wireless place Hot 107.9, T.I. says, "I wasn't expecting to try from cypher. I made a percentage point non to give out to mass... because I didn't want to get none of my scum in nobody else's yard...
"(Young) Jeezy really came to 1 of my hearings. ...I spoke to (Lil) Duke Wayne a duo multiplication, spoke to Puff (Sean 'Diddy' Combs), Jay(-Z) a few times. I plausibly spoke to Busta (Rhymes) the most.
"The only mortal I rung to more than Busta was Eminem. Me and Eminem stayed in contact, stayed on the earpiece. Simply checking in on each other, making for sure one another was doing good. Of track I spoke to Nelly, a fortune."















SANTOGOLD

SANTOGOLD





“Santogold” (Business district): A-

Santogold - singer Santi Whiteness, who’s backed by a shape-shifting appeal of players and producers - hails from Brooklyn, but she sounds like she’s from, well, all over. Her debut spans the musical theater spectrum from fresh wave, ska and dancehall to electro-pop and indie rock. By turns she resembles M.I.A., Gwen Stefani and Martha
Davis of the Motels, but has also strong an identity of her possess to
reside in anyone else’s shadow. The end event is a risky, bizarre and much brilliant break up from cookie cutter convening. Download: “Starstruck.”







Ferrell a huge hit during UCD appearance

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants



'Dancing on Ice' pass judgment Jason Gardiner has predicted that a male celebrity will win the show this year, claiming that the ladies aren't really good on the ice-skating rink.
Speaking on 'This Morning', he said: "It's a boy's competition. The boys this year are of a better standard than the girls."
Oral presentation about protester Chris Fount, he said: "He reminds me of that 'Looney Tunes' character the Tasmanian Fiend. He whirls about and wrecks devastation in his course. He had no connexion with his cooperator."
He as well slated 'How Clean Is Your Star sign?' ace Aggie Mackenzie River whom he described as an "OAP" during final stage Sun night's last show.
Speech production around the television system presenter, he said: "With her bruises and everything screening, it truly wasn't what you wanted to discover."





Jennifer Lopez says TLC series is not a “reality show at all”

Jennifer Lopez says TLC series is not a “reality show at all”



Jennifer Lopez has insisted that her upcoming series on cable length network Tender loving care is non a realism show; and will not, by any means, be featuring her neonate twins Scoop and Emme.
“You heard it here first-class honours degree. Thither is no reality indicate at altogether. We would not get camera�s in our house,” the singer, 38, told Access Hollywood at the Metropolitan Museum of Art�s Costume Bring Gala affair Monday nox. “It�s just now not our thing. That mightiness be delicately for other people, merely not for us.”
When Tender loving care confirmed Lopez had a show in the works, the press release stated that the series would “save a slice of [Jennifer�s] life history that audiences have never seen earlier, as she takes on her life history and launches a fresh sweetness piece trying to juggle her newly responsibilities as a start time mum.”





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The Bill star Stewart says he is recovering

The Bill star Stewart says he is recovering



'The Bill' genius Jeff Stewart said today that he is recovering, following media reports that he harmed himself afterward his contract with the show was non renewed.
The 52-year-old actor, wHO plays PC Reg Hollis in the ITV drama, has issued a statement asking the media to respectfulness his concealment.
Jimmy Stewart said in the argument: "The last few days take been real difficult for me, only I am receiving the flop tending and help, and am surrounded by menage and friends."
"I want to confirm that I do not birth any financial concerns, or so any other problems, as has been reported."
He likewise said: "I lovemaking existence an actor. My exercise as an worker is very important to me - it's my life, and the idea of this all of a sudden changing had an extremely serious effect on me."
"I am feeling practically better now, and am more and more improving."
Stewart has played PC Hollis since the show's launch in 1984.