Britney Bonds With Her Boys Over Holiday Weekend & other: 2008

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Update: Tamia Set To Release Live DVD/CD In December

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Sunday, 24 August 2008

Dido Set to Release New Album, Safe Trip Home, on November 4

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 -- The new album from Dido, Safe Trip
Home will be released by the RCA Label Group on November 4, 2008.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080822/NYF011)

Recorded in Los Angeles and London, Safe Trip Home is co-produced by:
Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kayne West, Rufus Wainwright, The Eels) Ark, the
new production company of Rollo Armstrong (Faithless) and Dido. The record
also features a vocal co-written with Brian Eno.

To coincide with this announcement a track from the record album will be
available for free download. From Friday, August twenty-second "Look No Further"
will be available from http://www.didomusic.com. A single, "Don't Believe in
Love," will also be released in both strong-arm and digital formats ahead of
the album.

Safe Trip Home is Dido's third studio record, following her globally
chart topping albums No Angel and Life for Rent

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Thursday, 14 August 2008

Download HEPCAT

Artist: HEPCAT: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Ska

Discography:

Push 'N Shove

Year: 2000

Tracks: 14

Hepcat was among the near famous bands to emerge from the Southern California ska revitalisation scene of the 1990s, victorious fans with their infectious Caribbean melodies, soulful harmonies and swinging rhythms, all informed by elements of reggae, careen candy steady, R&B and jazz. Comprising vocalists Greg Lee and Alex Desert, keyboardist Deston Berry, guitar player Aaron Owens, bassist Dave Fuentes, saxophonists Efren Santana and Raul Talavera, trumpeter Kincaid Smith and drummer Scott Abels, Hepcat was formed in 1989; holy place Writ quick feast, and in 1993 they issued their debut LP, Out of Nowhere. After 1996's Scientific, they signed to Epitaph, touring as a featured artist on the next year's Warped Tour before purgative their third gear LP, Right-hand on Time, in 1998 and Push N' Shove followed in summertime 2000.

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Friday, 27 June 2008

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Artist: Sophie Ellis-Bextor

   Genre(s):
Dance: Pop
   Pop

Discography:

Trip the Light Fantastic

Year: 2007
Tracks: 16

Me and My Imagination CDM

Year: 2007
Tracks: 3

Catch You

Year: 2007
Tracks: 6

Music Gets the Best of Me

Year: 2002
Tracks: 4

Murder on the Dancefloor

Year: 2002
Tracks: 7

Get Over You (Single)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 3

Read My Lips

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

Throughout the '90s the U.K. medicine scene was filled to the lip with nerdy cockney types betting messy togs and regular messier hair. Fresh faced Sophie Ellis-Bextor was amongst the commencement Brit-pop stars to break with this trend. She made it onto the stage in 1997 as the adolescent singer behind young wave outfit Theaudience. Smartly robed (often in black) and boast a sexy, posh phonation, she caused quite a excite on London's alternative electric circuit. Theaudience became known the world over as a groundbreaking pop act and even enjoyed success on the crowded U.K. singles chart with such imaginatively coroneted numbers game as "I've Got the Wherewithal." Due to intimate conflicts, all the same, the group split up and Ellis-Bextor went searching for success on her possess. The solo thing wasn't really working out and it took her a piece to reappear on the scene. But when she did, it was in late 2000 as a major star aboard Italian DJ/producer Spiller. The 6'9" Venetian had just now put together a disco house number, highborn "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)," and was looking at for a distaff singer to total spice to the act upon. Though very popular in the clubs as an instrumental, the track started selling like unrestrained afterward Ellis-Bextor strutted her stuff over its deep grooves. It was a number ane stumble on singles charts around the earth. Spiller and Ellis-Bextor both starred in the now illustrious picture show clip to the track, in which the Londoner's eye-popping set of cheekbones vied for supremacy with the Venetian's imposing stature. A yr on, Ellis-Bextor was once again making waves with the pop individual "Submit Me Home." Thanks to that effort, she beat the likes of Five to the number ane spot on the U.K. singles chart. In their on-going search for disceptation, the British press regular touted her as the principal rival to staggeringly pop Victoria Beckham, previously known as Posh Spice. That same year, Ellis-Bextor served up another chart-topper in the ultra-cool disco music strain "Dispatch on the Dancefloor."

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

June 18 Ford e-News

DEARBORN, Mich., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

Transformed Rouge, five years later

Five years ago, the Rouge factory complex was a symbol of America's
industrial past. Scarred by decades of heavy manufacturing, it was nobody's
idea of the environmental showpiece. Today, the Rouge Center is studied and
benchmarked by companies and academics around the world. The "living" roof
atop the Dearborn Truck Plant remains the largest in the auto industry and
one of the largest in the world. More than 500,000 people, including school
groups, have toured the Rouge since its transformation in 2003. For more
information, contact Kristen Kinley at kkinley@ford.com or 313-337-2786 or
click on: http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=28471

Fine tuned ears behind Lincoln THX II

John Giardina is Ford's acoustical engineer with the ears responsible
for maximizing the sound quality of the Lincoln MKS's THX II Premium
Certified Audio System with 5.1 surround sound. While much of the audio
system work is done with extensive computer design and analysis, Giardina's
ears have the final say. With his trained ears, he can sit in the car and
detect minute subtleties that affect the overall sound quality and tweak
the sound accordingly. For more information, contact Mark Schirmer at
mschirme@ford.com or 313-390-8647 or click on:
http://media.ford.com/products/press_article_display.cfm?article_id=28344&v
ehi cle_id=1678&make_id=93&CFID=451915&CFTOKEN=64896464 (Due to length of
the URL please copy and paste into your browser)

A vroom with a safer view

V-8 engine. Check. Killer sound system. Check. Panoramic glass roof
that filters 90 percent of the sun's heat-generating infrared rays and 96
percent of burn-causing ultraviolet rays with the relative effectiveness of
SPF 50 sunscreen. Um ... check. At a time when the auto industry is
introducing ever-larger and more creative sunroofs, the 2009 Glass Roof
Mustang is a step ahead of the trend by offering protection to passengers
from the sun's harmful rays. For more information, contact Wes Sherwood at
wsherwoo@ford.com or 313-390-5660 or click on:
http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=28473

Lincoln MKS dealer bound

Lincoln dealers across the U.S. are celebrating the arrival of the
all-new 2009 Lincoln MKS - a new flagship sedan that offers a timeless,
elegant design, well appointed interior and a comprehensive suite of
safety, comfort and convenience technologies for a value compared to other
luxury sedans. Prices start at $38,465 (including destination), thousands
less than similar products from Lexus and Acura. For more information,
contact Mark Schirmer at mschirme@ford.com or 313-390-8647 or click on:
http://media.ford.com/products/press_article_display.cfm?article_id=28472&v
ehi cle_id=1678&make_id=93&CFID=451915&CFTOKEN=64896464 (Due to length of
the URL please copy and paste into your browser)

Fickle teens stick with 'Stang

Eight tracks may have given way to iPods and passing notes in class has
morphed into text messaging. But one teen trend remains stubbornly in style
- the love of Ford (NYSE: F) Mustang. A recent survey showed that the
Mustang remains the car that teens would choose as their first car. Little
has changed since the Mustang debuted in 1964 and immediately became an
icon of affordable automotive freedom and style. For more information,
contact Dan Jarvis at djarvis1@ford.com 313-845-2709 or click on:
http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=28462&make_id=92

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Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Ashanti - Ashanti Is Hooked On Hollywood

R+B star ASHANTI is considering ditching music for movies to be a full-time movie star.

The multi-talented 27-year-old has already starred in Resident Evil, John Tucker Must Die and Coach Carter - and she reveals she is so hooked on Hollywood she wants to work behind the camera as well as in front of it.

Ashanti says, "I'm always reading scripts. I'm even looking to get into some behind-the-scenes work. Maybe do some co-producing. It's all about taking chances. You can't be afraid to try something different."

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Thursday, 5 June 2008

Pete Namlook and Charles Uzzell-Edwards

Artist: Pete Namlook and Charles Uzzell-Edwards

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Create 2

Year: 1996
Tracks: 4

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Kevin Ayers

Artist: Kevin Ayers

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Unfairground

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

Still Life with Guitar

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Joy of a Toy

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories

Year: 2005
Tracks: 11

Whatevershebringswesing

Year: 2003
Tracks: 11

Yes We Have No Mananas

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

Rainbow Takeaway

Year: 2002
Tracks: 9

Odd Ditties

Year: 2002
Tracks: 20

Deia (Vu)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 8

Live in Concert

Year: 1992
Tracks: 9

Falling Up

Year: 1988
Tracks: 8

Bananamour

Year: 1973
Tracks: 8

Singing The Bruise - The BBC Sessions 1970-72

Year: 1970
Tracks: 12

Zaragoza

Year:
Tracks: 11

Holland 7-30-70 (Canterbury Anthology Vol. 11)

Year:
Tracks: 7

Canterbury Anthology - Volume 3

Year:
Tracks: 16

Kevin Ayers is one of rock's oddest and more likeable enigmas, even if often he's seemed non to operate at his highest potentiality. Perhaps that's because he's never seemed to get interpreted his music overly seriously -- one of his crucial charms and most aggravating limitations. Since the late '60s, he's released many albums with a distinctly British sensibility, devising ordinary lyrical subjects seem extraordinary with his rich low-toned vocals, imaginative wordplay, and bemused, relaxed attitude. Apt to flavour his songs with female backup choruses and alien island rhythms, the singer/songwriter inspires the image of a sort of progressive rock beach idler, writing around life's absurdities with a celebratory, relaxed detachment. Yet he is besides matchless of progressive rock's more important (and more than humane) innovators, portion to launch the Soft Machine as their original bassist, and functional with far-famed European progressive musicians like Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill, and Steve Hillage.

Ayers polite a taste for the bohemian lifestyle early, outlay much of his childhood in Majorca before he moved with his mother to Canterbury in the early '60s. There he fell in with the town's zymolysis underground vista, which included future members of the Soft Machine and Caravan. For a piece he american ginseng with the Wilde Flowers, a mathematical group that too included future Softs Robert Wyatt and Hugh Hopper. He left in 1965, met fellow monstrosity Daevid Allen in Majorca, and returned to the U.K. in 1966 to base the first lineup of the Soft Machine with Allen, Wyatt, and Mike Ratledge.

Sir Thomas Wyatt is usually regarded as the prime mover in arrears the Soft Machine, merely Ayers' contributions carried equal weight in the early days. Besides playing bass, he wrote and panax quinquefolius much of their material. He lav be heard on their 1967 demos and their 1968 debut album, only by the end of 1968 he felt burnt out and discontinue. Selling his basso to Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, he began to write songs on guitar, starring to a shrink with Harvest in 1969. His relationship with his ex-Soft Machine match remained amiable; in fact, Wyatt and Ratledge (as well as Ayers' replacement, Hugh Hopper) guested on Ayers' 1969 debut.

Ayers' solo corporeal reflected a folkier, lazier, and gentler set than the Soft Machine. In some respects he was comparable to Syd Barrett, without the rabidness -- and without the ferocious high of Barrett's almost advanced work. Ayers was never less than pleasurable and original, though his albums were erratic correct from the set about, swerving from singalong ditties and pleasant, frothy ethnic music ballads to at variance improvisation. The more ambitious progressive rock elements came to the head when he fronted the Whole World in the early '70s. The championship band included a adolescent Mike Oldfield on guitar, Lol Coxhill on sax, and David Bedford on piano. But Ayers only released i album with them earlier they dissolved.

Ayers continued to release albums in a poppier vein throughout the '70s, at a regular tread. As some critics have noted, this reliable output formed an ironic counterpoint to much of his lyrics, which often storied a life of leisure, or even laziness. That lazy charm was often a dominant feature film of his records, although Ayers constantly unbroken things interesting with offbeat arrangements, now and then telling in extraneous tongues, and seasoning his product with unusual instruments and earthly concern medicine rhythms. He (or Harvest) never gave up on the singles market, and indeed his charles Herbert Best early-'70s efforts in that direction were accessible enough to have been hits with a little more advertize. Or a little less bizarreness. Even Ayers at his most accessible and target wasn't mainstream, a moral excellence that endeared him to his loyal cult.

That cult was modified to the rock subway, and Ayers logically concentrated on the album market end-to-end the 1970s. Almost constantly pleasant, eccentric, and catchy, these all the same started to sound like a blind alley by the mid-'70s. Ayers pressed on without changing his approach, contempt the dwindling away audience for progressive rock and the oncoming trail of punk and new undulation. He only recorded sporadically subsequently 1980, though he remained active in the early nineties, generally on the European continent. The 2007 release The Unfairground was first twenty-first Century release.

SAG Cries Foul

Their behind-closed-doors negotiations temporarily ended, the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers began sniping at one another Wednesday, suggesting that the issues dividing them are substantial and not easily untangled. SAG Executive Director Doug Allen told the Associated Press that the studios and networks "want us to give up the 50-year-old right actors have to give consent or not when someone wants to use a clip of their work." The AMPTP responded: "Will we be required to compete against agile opponents in the Internet age while constrained by 50-year-old rules, or can we collectively find ways to take advantage of fresh market opportunities?" The AMPTP contends that the studios and networks may only be able to monetize the Internet if they sell advertisers a package of hundreds or even thousands of clips and old shows at a time, since such clips are generally watched by a relative handful of online viewers, with each clip therefore representing a few dollars at most in ad revenue. Obtaining permission from the tens of thousands of actors and estates of actors who appear in those clips may not be feasible, the studios contend.

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Billy Idol

Artist: Billy Idol

   Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock
   Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   New Age

Discography:

Devil's Playground

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Vh1 Storytellers

Year: 2002
Tracks: 14

Greatest Hits

Year: 2001
Tracks: 16

Speed (Single)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 4

Heroin (Single)

Year: 1993
Tracks: 5

Cyberpunk

Year: 1993
Tracks: 20

Charmed Life

Year: 1990
Tracks: 11

Idol Songs - 15 Of The Best

Year: 1988
Tracks: 15

Californian Night

Year: 1987
Tracks: 14

Whiplash Smile-1986

Year: 1986
Tracks: 10

Whiplash Smile

Year: 1986
Tracks: 10

Vital Idol

Year: 1985
Tracks: 7

Rebel Yell

Year: 1983
Tracks: 9

Don't Stop

Year: 1983
Tracks: 5

Billy Idol

Year: 1982
Tracks: 10

Wasteland (single)

Year:
Tracks: 4

LA Woman (Single)

Year:
Tracks: 3

Cradle Of Love (single CD)

Year:
Tracks: 4

Along with Duran Duran, Billy Idol was one the first pop/rock artists to achieve massive success in the former '80s due to a then spic-and-span U.S. television network, MTV. Mixing his bad-boy beneficial looks with an appealing portmanteau word of pop meat hooks, punk attitude, and a dance beats, Idol quickly rocketed to stardom, in front voiceless living derailed his calling and virtually proven fateful. Born William Michael Albert Broad on November 30, 1955, in Middlesex, England, the shaver relocated with his family for a brief spell to New York, earlier returning back to England. After a stint at Sussex University only final a class, Broad establish himself as part of a radical of stripling punk rockers world Health Organization befriended and followed the Sex Pistols, known as "the Bromley Contingent" (a appendage of this colorful radical of characters was Siouxsie Sioux, eventual leader of Siouxsie & the Banshees).

It wasn't long earlier Broad accomplished that he to a fault could be the frontman of a punk rocker ring, and sham the name Billy Idol short thereafter. After a stint playing guitar in a mathematical group called Chelsea didn't pan out (interestingly, the mathematical group featured next Clash guitarist Mick Jones and future Damned guitarist Brian James), Idol put down the guitar and picked up the mic, and recruited bassist Tony James, drummer John Towe, and guitarist Bob Andrews, forming Generation X in 1976. Named after a sixties softback book book, the band signed a recording constrict with Chrysalis short thereafter (Towe was replaced with new skinsman Mark Laff) -- resulting in such releases as 1978's self-titled debut, 1979's Valley of the Dolls, and 1981's Buss Me Deadly -- earlier rending up.

Frustrated with Generation X's dying, Idol relocated to New York City, where he pursued a career as a solo creative person. Hooking up with Kiss manager Bill Aucoin, Idol issued the 1981 EP Don't Stop (comprised of a cover of Tommy James' '60s hit "Mony Mony" and a pair of remixed Generation X tracks), which helped the isaac M. Singer grudge another record deal with his late band's label, Chrysalis. Idol establish the consummate collaborationist and partner in guitarist/Johnny Thunders image Steve Stevens, and issued a self-titled debut in July of 1982. A pair of attention-getting videos for the tracks "Andrew D. White Wedding" and "Dancing With Myself" (the latter a remake of a Generation X constitution) scored major air time on MTV, with both clips focusing in on Idol's spiky, peroxide blond hair and Elvis-like sneer. The debut eventually obtained amber corroboration, and go down the microscope stage absolutely for Idol's vainglorious commercial-grade breakthrough, 1984's Rebel Yell.

Rebel Yell became the singer's best-selling record album of his career (eventually sledding double pt), spawning such big time MTV/radio hits as the album's anthemic title track, "Eyes Without a Face," and "Flesh for Fantasy," establishing Idol as an scene of action star stateside. But with massive success came its many distractions, which prevented Idol from issuance a new studio apartment album until triplet long time after Maverick Yell. 1987's Whiplash Smile was some other sizable bump off on the intensity level of such hits as "To Be a Lover" and "Sweetened Sixteen," but failed to live up to the eminent expectations set by his premature releases. Stevens jumped ship shortly thereafter to launch his have band, Steve Stevens' Atomic Playboys (and eventually was a phallus of MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e isaac Bashevis Singer Vince Neil's solo circle), departure Idol to fend for himself.

An eight-track best-of dress, Full of life Idol, was issued later the same year, spawning one of the year's nigh heavily played MTV videos -- a springy version of the previously recorded cover of "Mony Mony" -- which helped maintain Idol in the spot. Idol spent the next few years working on his fourth studio release, just reappeared in the summer of 1989 as part of an all-star rendition of the Who's Tommy, with Idol playing the office of the sadistic character Cousin Kevin. Around the time of Idol's succeeding outlet, 1990's Captivated Life, the isaac Bashevis Singer was involved in a unplayful bike accident (in which he nigh lost his leg), forcing the vocaliser to walk with a cane for a period of time; the video for the album's lead off single, "Cradle of Love," featured the isaac Bashevis Singer filmed from the waist up. The stratagem worked, as the undivided (which was besides used as the root word song in the failed Andrew "Dice" Clay flick, John Ford Fairlane) was some other smash bump off, making Charmed Life the fourth Idol album in a row to achieve at least reach platinum gross revenue.

Expectedly, several age passed before the release of Idol's succeeding record album, during which clock time he tried and true his hand at playing with a bit part in Oliver Stone's question pictorial matter The Doors. By the time 1993's Cyberpunk surfaced, Idol had dropped his spiky peroxide hairdo in piazza of dreadlocks, and experimented with techno beat generation. The move proven to be an unwise one, as the record album tanked and sank from the charts. At the same time, Idol was knee deep in drug addiction, resulting in some other close brush with death when he overdosed and had to be treated in a Los Angeles hospital in 1994. Not often was heard from Idol until 1998, when he made a cameo appearance (as himself) in the come to Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore clowning The Wedding Singer, which resulted in renewed interest. Idol teamed up erst once again with Stevens, was the subject of a VH1: Behind the Music special (as good as a Storytellers episode for the channel, which was finally issued as a CD), and issued a more extensive Greatest Hits set in 2001; the latter of which sold D,000 copies in the U.S. alone. Next up was his first studio album since Cyberpunk, Devil's Playground, released on Sanctuary in 2005.

Little Britain star plays Frankie Howerd

'Little Britain' star David Walliams is to play Frankie Howerd in a new one-off BBC Four drama.
The BBC says that 'Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me' will focus on the entertainer's struggle with his demons, as seen through the eyes of his long-term partner Dennis Heymer.
Commenting on his casting, Walliams said: "I have been a life-long fan of Frankie and his work: I even managed to get an autograph after one of his shows!"
He continued: "Playing Howerd is, in many ways, a dream role for me. In fact, Matt Lucas ['Little Britain' co-star] and I first bonded as struggling comedians over a shared love of Frankie Howerd impressions."
The drama will be screened in the spring of 2008.

Rock acts ringing up sales via video games

DENVER (Billboard) - Games like "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero III" have proved their ability to breathe new life into classic rock sales. But can they do the same for new music?

Last month, Motley Crue decided to find out. The band placed its new single, the title track from "Saints of Los Angeles," for sale as a downloadable track on "Rock Band" well in advance of the album's release date, which has been pushed back to June 24. The only other place to obtain the track was iTunes.

According to data provided by the band's management, Tenth Street Entertainment, the track was downloaded more than 47,000 times via the Xbox 360 version of the game alone in the first week after it became available. ("Rock Band" publisher MTV Networks was unable to independently verify these figures, and total downloads that include the PlayStation 3 version of the game were not available.)

That's a pretty big discrepancy considering that music bought via "Rock Band" can't be transferred to a portable music player or even a computer for later enjoyment. It can be played only via the game.

FINDING THE AUDIENCE

Tenth Street CEO Allen Kovac shrugs off the gap in sales between formats, pointing out that a sale is a sale. In an age of rampant piracy, reaching fans where they are willing to spend money is the primary goal.

"We do research on every artist we have, and the research said that the people who bought Motley Crue music and tickets play 'Rock Band" and video games ... (so) it was our inclination to go there," he says. "As marketers, it's our job to find the audience. If our audience tells us they're sitting at Xbox and PlayStation, that's our job to do that."

Music highlights for May 16-22

FRIDAY, May 16 Anders Osborne is at Tipitina's. Stephen Marley headlines the House of Blues. After an early set at d.b.a. by the Hot Club of New Orleans, stick around for the campy garage rock and swing of the...