DESTINY'S CHILD ruined vocalizer MICHELLE WILLIAMS' education because she was planning on completing her studies when she received a call to get together the
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Housewives & Heroes Snubbed By Emmy
Desperate Housewives and Heroes have been snubbed for Emmy Awards a year after making the top 10 finalists lists for Best Comedy and Drama. Instead, Emmy first timer Family Guy and critics' favourite Mad Men will take their place. Announcing the finalist lists for the upcoming TV awards a day early, website GoldDerby.com reveals Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Flight Of The Conchords, The Office, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Two And A Half Men, and Weeds will compete for Best Comedy Series. Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, House, Lost, Mad Men, The Tudors and The Wire have been named the top 10 Drama Series finalists. The awards will be handed out on 6 September .
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Rick Derringer
Artist: Rick Derringer
Genre(s):
Jazz
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Free Ride
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Jackhammer Blues
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Electra Blues
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Back to the Blues
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
It seems like Rick Derringer has been on the stone & roll vista forever -- actually, it's only when been since 1965, which makes him one of the more enduring veterans of his genesis. Derringer's work with his band the McCoys in his midteens, highlighted by the bubblegum anthem "Hang On Sloopy," gave him a claim to low-level rock & roll immortality, and his subsequent playacting with Johnny (and later Edgar) Winter provided him with a grade of credibility that a muckle of guitar players crapper only when envy, particularly after the release of the Edgar Winter live double album Roadwork.
Derringer began getting production feel with the McCoys, but they were ne'er able to get the best their bubblegum rock'n'roll image, and by the end of the sixties, Derringer and his brother Randy were recruited by Johnny Winter into his band, with Derringer playing guitar and besides producing. He emerged as a solo creative person in the heat of his playacting with Edgar Winter's White Trash. Derringer number one became popular in his have proper during the early/mid-'70s, root with a new version of his have "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo" (which Johnny Winter had covered for him a few days in the beginning) sour Derringer's grievous metal-influenced debut album, All American Boy. Derringer shortly had his own band, called Derringer, on the road -- although his guitar player and bassist, Danny Johnson and Kenny Aaronson, left hand in 1977 to form Axis -- and within a duet of days had established himself as a popular deary. Derringer's recorded history was middling uneven, however, as his track record gross revenue never matched his favor with concert audiences -- a huge spread too existed between releases, which didn't bother him; even in the former '90s, Derringer played close to 200 shows a class. He worn-out about of the later '70s and eighties, nonetheless, as a producer, working with artists as diverse as Bette Midler, Kiss, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand, and Weird Al Yankovic.
Derringer is known for his hard-rocking live shows, which don't necessarily translate well to recordings, or bestow themselves to a great deal originality. As he neared eld 50 in the nineties, however, he had mellow, and this showed when he began recording once more for Shrapnel Records in 1993 with the albums Back to the Blues and Electra Blues. Years of fairish to median rock and roll and adult modern-day albums followed, simply in 2002 Derringer did an policy change and tested his work force at jazz with the adventuresome Release Ride.
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Motley Crue - Motley Crue Seeking New Film Backers
Rockers MOTLEY CRUE are looking for a new company to produce a film based on their best-selling autobiography DIRT - after the band severed ties with music channel MTV following several delays to the project.
The band originally signed up with MTV Films and Paramount to make the movie, which will focus on the group's rise to fame and their life in the public eye.
But after a series of postponements, the band have now ditched the deal and are searching for another company to work with on the film.
Bassist Nikki Sixx tells Blabbermouth.net, "We're trying to get them (MTV) out of the way to make this movie that should have been made a long time ago.
"MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip. We signed with them because we believed they were right, but they haven't come to the table. We need to find the right partner. They are not the right partner."
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Friday, 20 June 2008
50 Cent - Ex Slaps 50 Cent With Restraining Order
Rap superstar 50 CENT has to stay away from the mother of his 11-year-old son after a temporary restraining order was granted by a judge on Friday (20Jun08).
Shaniqua Tompkins made the appeal, claiming she had been the recipient of numerous threats and was convinced they were made by the rapper's camp.
And now the rapper - real name Curtis Jackson - is not permitted to be on any premises at the same time as Tompkins, although no distance is specified.
Jackson has also been asked to forfeit any guns and other firearms in his possession and the order also states that any pick-up and drop-off of their son Marquise must be "at curbside".
According to website TMZ.com, Tompkins' lawyer Paul Catsandonis, says that his client will be fighting for a permanent restraining order against the rapper next month (Jul08).
Jackson and Tompkins have been locked in a bitter court battle for months, after he tried to evict them from the Long Island, New York mansion he owns.
The property went up in flames last month (May08) in what police have called a "highly suspicious" inferno and Tompkins later allegedly accused the rapper of being behind the blaze.
Jackson has since filed a defamation lawsuit against Tomkins .
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Bahram-Ji and Maneesh de Moor
Artist: Bahram-Ji and Maneesh de Moor
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Call of the Mystic
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Sunset Strip Music Fest Details Announced
The Sunset Strip Music Festival [ tickets ] is scheduled to kick off June 26 with music at both the House of Blues and the Whisky A Go-Go, two of the more popular venues located on the legendary 1.3 mile stretch of West Hollywood city streets.At HoB, Mark McGrath will host a tribute to industry icons Lou Alder, Mario Maglieri and Elmer Valentine, which will be followed by musical performances from Everclear, Soul Asylum and Camper Van Beethoven. The event will feature Michelle Phillips, Cheech Marin and other special guests on hand to honor the music business heavyweights and their connection to the Sunset Strip.Across the Strip at the Whisky A Go-Go, L.A. Guns featuring Jani Lane of Warrant will start rocking at 11:30 p.m.Friday's (6/27) events will begin with an invitation-only Virgin America celebrity/VIP cocktail party at The Standard Hotel before the clubs open their doors for a night of music that will include Hot Hot Heat, The Shys and The Deadly Syndrome at The Roxy Theatre; Juliette & The Licks, Lady Sinatra and Looner at the Viper Room; and B Real of Cypress Hill featuring Slash and other special guests at the Whisky.Saturday's (6/28) events include a free, all-ages Wasted Space show with performances by Camp Freddy and Louis XIV as well as interactive games including Guitar Hero. The Wasted Space show, which will run from 1-9 p.m., will be broadcast live on Indie 103.1 FM.At night fall, clubs on the Sunset Strip will feature musical performances by a variety of acts including The 88, Derby and Satisfaction at The Roxy; Louis XIV and Transfer at the Viper Room; Starf***ers All Star Jam at The Cat Club; and Mickey Avalon, Andre Legacy, Beardo and Lisa D'Amato at the Key Club.Saturday's show at The Whisky will include an All Star Jam featuring McQueen with special guests Billy Boy on Poison; Faded Spades featuring Hollywood Allstarz and Joey Covington of Jefferson Airplane; and other "legendary" guests, according to the press release. The SSMF also will feature a Saturday night show at the House of Blues with special guests to be announced.The final day of the festival (6/28) will feature a Larry King-moderated "Icon Roundtable" discussion with Adler, Maglieri and Valentine at the new London West Hollywood Hotel, formerly the Bel Age.All club shows kick-off at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Additional details are available at the festival's website.
Mikey Brooks Meets The Upsetters
Artist: Mikey Brooks Meets The Upsetters
Genre(s):
Reggae
Discography:
Solid Ground
Year: 1976
Tracks: 18
Lavender Diamond
Artist: Lavender Diamond
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Imagine Our Love (Dig)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
The sept enchant that is Lavender Diamond in the beginning came to life in Bird Songs of the Bauharoque, a touchwood light opera inspired by the ferment of American painter/architect Paul Laffoley. Vocalist Becky Stark wrote and created the piece with a friend piece living in Providence, RI, and asterisked as Lavender herself, a winsome part bird/part human world Health Organization wants heartsease on earth. The indie microscope stage point was such a hit at home that Stark and company went on to hitch 56 cities across North America in 2003. Her debut solo exploit, the self-generated Artefacts of the Winged album, was made available during this tour, and as Stark continued writing songs, she felt they merited to be interpreted more in earnest. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 provided Stark with the creative scene of action she had been searching for; befriending guitarist Jeff Rosenberg (Pinko & Brown, Tarentel, the Young People) and forming a country-pop act with him, things started to take shape for Stark. When she wasn't retention meddlesome with Rosenberg, she was acting classical arias and Tin Pan Alley originals with classical piano player Steve Gregoropoulos (W.A.C.O.), and making psychedelic doo dago corporeal with drummer Ron Rege, Jr., at one time of the Swirlies.
At the end of the day, Stark opted to gather such sounds as 1, and collected her coevals for Lavender Diamond in 2004. Matching the airy lightness of Linda Ronstadt and Carole King with Bacharach-like arrangements, Lavender Diamond issued The Cavalry of Light EP in 2005; a second base tone ending, a rent 7" with Queens of Sheeba for Cold Sweat, also appeared that year. A hum around the blogosphere and indie magazine elite began to exact shape by early 2006, and performances at ArthurFest, South by Southwest, and the CMJ New Music Seminar only added fuel to the record label fury. In November 2006, piece touring with the Decemberists, Lavender Diamond sign to Rough Trade in Europe and Matador in the U.S. The Cavalry of Light was slated for reissue in later January 2007, and the uncut Imagine Our Love followed in May.
Friend believes Ledger was anxious
A close friend of the late Australian actor Heath Ledger has said that he was anxious over the Christmas holidays about not seeing enough of his two-year-old daughter and his split with actress Michelle Williams.
The 28-year-old actor was found dead at his New York apartment on Tuesday; results of an autopsy conducted yesterday were inconclusive.
Reuters reports that in an interview with the West Australian newspaper, model Sophie Ward said that Ledger was worried about his split with actress Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda during his Christmas holidays at home in Perth.
During the interview, Ward said: "We went to the movies and just did normal stuff... but he was a bit edgy. He couldn't really relax."
She continued: "He said he was going to London but was quite upset because he couldn't see his daughter as much as he'd like to. He was travelling so much and I think he was just frustrated with it all."
"He was clean and wasn't drinking any alcohol or taking drugs," said the model.
She added: "He smoked cigarettes, but that's about it. He was drinking diet Coke when we were together and he said he was very committed to not drinking alcohol. I don't believe he took his own life deliberately."
Police are treating Ledger's death as possibly drug-related and said sleeping pills were found close to his body.
But a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said on Wednesday that an autopsy had proved inconclusive and further tests were needed - which could take around 10 days.
The West Australian newspaper says that before Ledger returned to the US from Perth, he left a message with the film editor of the newspaper, thanking the media for leaving him alone.
He said: "I don't know whether it's a conscious thing or an unconscious thing, giving me space and respecting my privacy. It's just been awesome."
He continued: "I've had the most beautiful time back here and being able to see all my friends and family ... It's really enabled me to be a boy again from home and feel like I'd never left. It's truly been an incredibly therapeutic and a much-needed trip home..."
To view a special gallery on the life and career of Heath Ledger, click here.
The 28-year-old actor was found dead at his New York apartment on Tuesday; results of an autopsy conducted yesterday were inconclusive.
Reuters reports that in an interview with the West Australian newspaper, model Sophie Ward said that Ledger was worried about his split with actress Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda during his Christmas holidays at home in Perth.
During the interview, Ward said: "We went to the movies and just did normal stuff... but he was a bit edgy. He couldn't really relax."
She continued: "He said he was going to London but was quite upset because he couldn't see his daughter as much as he'd like to. He was travelling so much and I think he was just frustrated with it all."
"He was clean and wasn't drinking any alcohol or taking drugs," said the model.
She added: "He smoked cigarettes, but that's about it. He was drinking diet Coke when we were together and he said he was very committed to not drinking alcohol. I don't believe he took his own life deliberately."
Police are treating Ledger's death as possibly drug-related and said sleeping pills were found close to his body.
But a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said on Wednesday that an autopsy had proved inconclusive and further tests were needed - which could take around 10 days.
The West Australian newspaper says that before Ledger returned to the US from Perth, he left a message with the film editor of the newspaper, thanking the media for leaving him alone.
He said: "I don't know whether it's a conscious thing or an unconscious thing, giving me space and respecting my privacy. It's just been awesome."
He continued: "I've had the most beautiful time back here and being able to see all my friends and family ... It's really enabled me to be a boy again from home and feel like I'd never left. It's truly been an incredibly therapeutic and a much-needed trip home..."
To view a special gallery on the life and career of Heath Ledger, click here.
Rihanna
Artist: Rihanna
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Dance
Pop
Discography:
Umbrella (EP)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Shut Up And Drive
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Good Girl Gone Bad
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
A Girl Like Me
Year: 2006
Tracks: 16
Music Of The Sun
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Rihanna established herself big time in summer 2005 with her debut dash hit, "Pon de Replay," and continued to shew her smash hit potential in subsequent old age (e.g., "S.O.S.," 2006; "Umbrella," 2007). By the prison term of her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), she was a fully fledged external pop star with a regular presence atop the charts, from Germany to Japan. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, she always exhibited a special quality, fetching beaut and talent contests as a schoolchild. But because she lived on the passably remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her.
That stardom came courtesy of a disastrous get together with a man named Evan Rogers. The New Yorker was vacationing in Barbados with his married woman, a native of the island, when somebody sour him on to Rihanna. Since Rogers had washed-out geezerhood producing pop artists -- including superstars like *NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Laura Pausini, and Rod Stewart -- he offered her the chance to record some euphony after he recognized her talent and potency. Along with Rogers' production better half, Carl Sturken (the other half of Syndicated Rhythm Productions), Rihanna recorded some demos that sparked the interest of the Carter Administration -- that is, new appointed Def Jam chairperson Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. This lED to an tryout and, in turn, an on the spot offer to sign with Def Jam, which Rihanna indeed inked on the blot.
Come summer 2005, Def Jam rolled stunned "Pon de Replay," the lead single of Music of the Sun, which was produced well-nigh only by Rogers and Sturken and which synthesized Caribbean rhythms and beat generation with urban-pop songwriting. "Pon de Replay" caught fire almost immediately, climb all the way to issue two on The Billboard Hot one C and contesting the half-summer reign of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" atop the chart, and this was before Euphony of the Sun regular had been released. The album spawned one other hit, "If It's Lovin' That You Want," which stony-broke the Top 40. Rihanna's followup album, A Girl Like Me, was a greater success, spawning trey big hits: a chart-topper ("S.O.S.") and two Top Tens ("Unfaithful," "Break off It Off").
Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), continued her success and, more notably, signaled a change of counsel. Whereas her past two albums had been been unbalanced -- often weighed low by faceless balladry and canned Caribbean-isms -- Honest Girl Gone Bad was a topnotch dance-pop album. Moreover, it was amazingly solid, curvy with potential singles and easily enjoyable from beginning to end. Collaborators included Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Timbaland, and StarGate. The lead single, "Umbrella," shaft to number one and, for the third year in a row, was a potential drop "birdcall of the summer." By this point in time it was clear that Rihanna had suit one of the biggest singles artists of the mid-2000s.
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