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Royal Opera House; Cadogan Hall, London
The boos came as a surprise. They were aimed at the production team who lolloped onstage awkwardly for their bow, as production teams invariably do, after a smart, well-choreographed company curtain call which seemed all the more crisp and stylish in comparison. Those forlorn catcalls, loud but isolated, left barely a dent in the wall of cheers which greeted cast, chorus and conductor Daniele Gatti in a new staging of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Royal Opera House.
Had you warned me I might enjoy this latest project by the Canadian-born director Robert Carsen, I would have raised an eyebrow, being fairly neutral towards Carsen’s work and even ? avert your eyes, blasphemy ahead ? to Verdi’s last masterpiece. Written in old age with a final flourish of inspiration, the score bristles with complex counterpoint, rapid madrigal patter, wild humour and explosive, trill-laden orchestration. Yet this musical brilliance far outstrips the uncomfortable amalgam of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV Parts I and II, out of which Boito constructed a libretto.
All goes at a cracking pace until fat, preening Sir John Falstaff is tossed into the Thames by the merrily cruel wives, on this occasion causing a delayed tidal wave to pour through the window into the 1950s-style dream home of Mr and Mrs Ford. The problem is the sagging third act. Since few directors manage to maintain the pace here, it must in part ? more sacrilege ? be a weakness of the work itself. Sir John, outstandingly sung and acted by the in all respects enormous Italian baritone Ambrogio Maestri, mourns human wickedness in a long outpouring, never helped by having to stand in dripping long johns, a figure of folly and water-logged pathos.
The unravelling of the wives’ deception takes place at midnight in Windsor Great Park, an interminable scene in which Falstaff is bullied and pinched black and blue by grown-ups pretending to be fairies or ghostly Herne huntsmen, here wearing identical antlers presumably borrowed, handily, from over their own fireplaces. Despite this treachery, Falstaff redeems the world from its universal cruelty by offering himself as the source of humour: witty, as well as “the cause of wit in others”, but the moment is brief, the taste bitter.
Hunting was a key visual gag in Paul Steinberg’s minutely detailed designs, all encased within huge, multi-purpose wooden walls ? not so much Herne’s oak as Herne’s oak-panelling. Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s costumes delight in tweeds, twinsets, hat pins, ruched gloves, pinched waists and big skirts. Yes, this will sound familiar to anyone who saw Richard Jones’s matchless, similarly updated Glyndebourne staging, which immersed itself more in the suburban mock-Tudor of Joan Hunter Dunn than the stuffy shires of John Bull. At Covent Garden the opera opens with Sir John in bed in somewhere like the Connaught and ends at a hunt ball ripe for Jennifer’s Diary.
The wives, in the score’s most delicious, feather-light music, plot their duping in a smart hotel dining room: stiff napery, chandeliers and synchronised tureens. Alice Ford, sung with glee and esprit by Ana María Martínez, resembles the young Princess Margaret. Kai Rüütel’s silver-voiced Meg Page is more muted, while Mistress Quickly, fearlessly and comically overplayed by Marie-Nicole Lemieux with fruity voice and un-shy cleavage, steals the show. No one else would get away with it. The Fords’ shiny, well-equipped kitchen is the breezy setting for the linen-basket scene. Everything that can nest ? spoons, ladles, saucepans, tumblers, tables, chairs ? does nest. All this order is turned to chaos by a silent movie-style crowd of men in trilbies hunting the hard-to-hide knight. It’s silly and well done.
Gatti coaxed superb colour from the orchestra, especially the ever-busy woodwind, and kept textures transparent to support the ensembles as they divided and reshaped in various contrapuntal patterns. With the exception of Maestri and Lemieux, no single singer stood out but mostly the ensemble was secure. The tenor Joel Prieto as Fenton and soprano Amanda Forsythe as Nannetta, the innocent young lovebird, were charming rather than exceptional, as was the Slovakian baritone Dalibor Jenis, whose Ford was under- or, if you prefer, over-characterised: he was dressed as an American cowboy. Despite these reservations, this was a buoyant and vivacious production, though given the mixed critical response some will regard it as a concept too far.
There was one misjudged distraction: the horse. A stuffed animal would have done just as well. Coming so soon after Ann Widdecombe’s debut in La Fille du régiment, this quest for non-musical novelty begins to feel like clutching at straws. Bit between my teeth I rang the horse-hire company to check the price. Evidently business was brisk: there was no answer. I emailed the Royal Opera: how much was the horse? The official reply came: “It is our policy never to reveal the fees for artists.” Artist? They obviously know their Catcher in the Rye. (“I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”) Taking a lead from the opera’s own gesture of honour, the ROH should now donate the equivalent of this 15-year-old animal’s fee, plus Maestri’s single riding lesson, to the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund.
The dying Falstaff, according to Shakespeare, though beyond the action of Verdi’s drama, babbled “of green fields” on his death bed. Not so many years later, Henry VIII of England met Francis I of France on a more elevated pasture near Calais: the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a lavish prototype for the jamboree Euro-summits of today. A notable difference, apart from some 2,200 sheep being consumed, was the presence of at least two composers: Jean Mouton (1459-1522) in the French camp, William Cornysh (1465-1523) in the English.
As part of the Choral at Cadogan series, the formidable Tallis Scholars gave a thoughtfully constructed programme of works by these composers, including an Ave Maria from both and culminating in Cornysh’s five-part Magnificat, one of the glories of the era. These a cappella meditations, interweaving plainchant and polyphony, sober canon and rhythmic surprise, take the listener as near extraterrestrial as you can get sitting in a concert hall. British musicians have cornered this area of repertoire.
Last week alone, as well as the Tallis singers you could hear Stile Antico (broadcast live from Oxford on Radio 3) on Monday or the Cardinall’s Musick at Wigmore Hall on Thursday ? three generations of vocal ensembles who excel in Renaissance music.
This style of singing may not attract the shouting headlines of opera stars but their virtuosity is equally exciting, their impact magical. If they want to whip up more interest with, say, a few onstage equine quadropeds, I could let them have the number of a reputable hire company who offer, as their promotional material says, the ”complete package to suit the client”, including anything from Tudor-style jousting to a rearing horse on set. At the risk of flogging a dead one, I’ll stop there.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/20/falstaff-tallis-scholars-review
Alessandra Ambrosio Alessandro Nivola Alex A. Quinn Alex Band Alex Black
Last night, Laura Snapes filed a report on the xx‘s show at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, where they played material from their upcoming album. Now, Consequence of Sound points to video from that show of a currently untitled song, which Snapes described thusly: “Hooked around a beautiful, languid guitar slide, it’s initially not wildly dissimilar to something off of Beach House‘s Bloom. Then it breaks into militaristic drumming, followed by coy stadium heft.”
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Alexandra Kyle Alexandra Maria Lara Alexandra Paul Alexie Gilmore Alexis Arquette
Last night, Laura Snapes filed a report on the xx‘s show at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, where they played material from their upcoming album. Now, Consequence of Sound points to video from that show of a currently untitled song, which Snapes described thusly: “Hooked around a beautiful, languid guitar slide, it’s initially not wildly dissimilar to something off of Beach House‘s Bloom. Then it breaks into militaristic drumming, followed by coy stadium heft.”
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Alexandra Paul Alexie Gilmore Alexis Arquette Alexis Bledel Alexis Denisof
The second round of performances from this week’s “Later With Jools Holland” aired in England tonight. Hot Chip played “Night and Day” earlier this week, and this time, they did “Don’t Deny Your Heart” and “How Do You Do”, all from their forthcoming album, In Our Heads, out June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 in the UK via Domino. Watch video of the two new performances below.
And don’t forget: Hot Chip is playing the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park on July 14. Single-day passes are on sale now.
“How Do You Do”:
“Don’t Deny Your Heart”:
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Alyson Hannigan Alyson Michalka Alyson Morgan Alyson Stoner Alyssa Milano
Sick and Twisted Affair is the second album from Canadian rock band, My Darkest Days. The album was released on March 26, 2012. It debuted at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and number 9 on the Billboard Rock Album charts.
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Alicia Keys Alicia Leigh Willis Alicia Silverstone Alicia Witt Alison Arngrim
AMERICAN IDOL’s Season 11 Top 3 compilation album, featuring full length recordings of performances of this week’s songs is now available at the iTunes store. Each finalist sang three songs: “Judges’ Choice”; “Jimmy’s Choice”; and “Their Choice.” Last week’s AMERICAN IDOL Season 11 Top 4 compilation album dominated the charts by remaining #1 for nearly the entire week.
Wednesday’s show featured the Top Three returning to their hometowns to see family, friends and fans and they found out what songs the judges and in-house coach, Jimmy Iovine chose for them to perform on last night’s show.
Don’t miss the live results show tonight, Thursday, May 17 (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed), when host Ryan Seacrest will announce the Top Two finalists who battle it out in the Grand Finale. // Continue to the full article
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Welcome to the 314th Grey’s Anatomy Caption Contest here at TV Fanatic, where readers submit their best caption(s) for a photo from the ABC drama! Ready to flex your creative muscle again?
Follow the link to find out who won last week’s edition of TV Fanatic’s Friday tradition, then prepare to test your skills again with a shot from last night’s heart-stropping season finale, “Flight.”
Just click “Comments” and leave your caption(s) from this picture below. Leave as many as you like, funny or serious. We will select the winner around this time next week. You know the drill.
Best of luck to all, and thanks for playing – for 314 weeks and counting!
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Adriano Giannini Adrien Brody Adrienne Bailon Adrienne Barbeau Adrienne Frantz
Six years after the first Gossip Girl blast rocked the Upper East Side, Gossip Girl returns for its swan song next fall. The Gossip Girl Season 6 spoilers we posted last week offered some hints at what we can look forward to in the final chapter. Now the CW has issued an official press release as well.
Here’s the network’s official, very early synopsis for the final season:
“Gossip Girl Season Six opens with the Upper East Siders working together to find one of their own. Serena has gone off the grid, beyond even the reach of Gossip Girl.”
“Her friends fear for the worst and hope for the best, but even they can’t imagine where they will ultimately find her. Meanwhile, Blair has offered Chuck her heart, but is her love enough to help him win back his empire?”
“Lonely Boy Dan has written a new book that promises to make even more trouble than the first, and this time he has no desire to remain anonymous. Nate is determined to finally reveal the true identity of Gossip Girl, thereby making a name for The Spectator, and himself.”
“Lily and Rufus turn on one another when Rufus makes a surprising new ally who threatens Lily and her family. Anywhere else it would be too much drama to handle, but this is the Upper East Side.”
“And when Bart Bass, Jack Bass and Georgina Sparks show up to raise hell, it’s a fight to the spectacular series finale. Who comes out on top? That’s one secret I’ll never tell… xoxo, Gossip Girl.”
What do you think? Are Chuck and Blair endgame? Will he and Jack dethrone Bart? Can Ivy take down Lily? How low will S go? Has Dan lost his mind? Can Nate succeed with his ambitious goal?
Share your comments on this week’s Season 5 finale, what you’re most looking forward to seeing in the fall, and how you see all these storylines playing out in the final season, with us below:
Source: http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/05/gossip-girl-season-six-press-release-teases-final-chapter/
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Antony and the Johnsons will release the live record Cut the World August 6 on Rough Trade in the UK and August 7 through Secretly Canadian in the U.S. The album is made up of symphonic versions of songs primarily from the band’s four full-length studio albums, recorded last September in Copenhagen, Denmark with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. That’s the cover art, above.
The title track, which has not been released before, is from the stage show The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi?. The track ”Future Feminism”, which can be heard below, features a speech made by Antony promoting a shift away from patriarchy and toward a more feminine mode of global governance. He spoke about these ideas in our recent interview about the Meltdown Festival he’s curating; read it here.
Antony and the Johnsons are on tour this summer (dates after the tracklist).
Cut the World:
01 Cut the World
02 Future Feminism
03 Cripple and the Starfish
04 You Are My Sister
05 Swanlights
06 Epilepsy Is Dancing
07 Another World
08 Kiss My Name
09 I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy
10 The Rapture
11 The Crying Light
12 Twilight
Antony and the Johnsons:
05-19 México City, México – Festival de México with Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México
06-02 Moscow, Russia – Ahmad Tea Festival with Novaya Opera Orchestra
06-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Holland Festival with The Metropole Orchestra
07-03 Paris, France – Salle Pleyel with L’ Orchestre National d’Ile de France
07-06 Lyon, France – Théâtre antique de Fourvière with Orchestre de L’Opera de Lyon
07-09 Istanbul, Turkey – Cemil Topuzlu Open Air Theater with Philharmonia Istanbul
07-11 Gent, Belgium – Gent Jazz Festival with The Metropole Orchestra
07-13 Ostrawa, Czech Republic – Colours of Ostrawa Festival with The Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
07-15 Joensuu, Finland – Ilosaarirock Festival with The Joensuu City Orchestra
07-19 Molde, Norway – Molde Jazz Festival with The Trondheim Solistene
07-22 San Sebastian, Spain – Jazzaldia Festival with The Et Incarnatus Orkestra
07-25 Lisbon, Portugal – Cascais Music Festival with The Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa
07-28 Lucern, Switzerland – Blue Balls Festival and orchestra
08-03 Stockholm, Sweden – Stockholm Music and Arts Festival
08-01 – 08-12 London, England – Meltdown
“Future Feminism”:
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The newly reunited Afghan Whigs are sharing their first new recorded music in five years. It’s a cover of “See and Don’t See”, a song originally recorded in 1970 by funk/soul singer Marie “Queenie” Lyons. Download it for free in exchange for an email address below.
The band begins their reunion tour with an appearance on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” next Tuesday, May 22.
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Alan Rosenberg Alan Ruck Alan Rudolph Alan Silvestri Alan Thicke
Keane’s new album, ‘Strangeland’, debuted at number 1 in the UK charts on Sunday – their fifth consecutive number one album, equalling Coldplay and Radiohead, and beaten only by The Beatles.
‘Strangeland’ made the top ten around the world. It is their fourth studio album, after ‘Hopes & Fears’ (2004); ‘Under The Iron Sea’ (2006); ‘Perfect Symmetry’ (2008) and the ‘Night Train’ EP (2010) which also topped the UK Album Chart.
‘Strangeland’ has marked a hugely successful return for the band, whose other chart-topping albums were 2004′s ‘Hopes And Fears’, 2006′s ‘Under The Iron Sea’, 2008′s ‘Perfect Symmetry’ and 2010′s mini-LP ‘Night Train’ (which also topped the UK’s main album chart).
As the Sunday Times’ Culture magazine stated, ‘Strangeland’s literate, piano-driven songs “pull the heartstrings with a strength that even a band as notoriously emotive as Keane have rarely managed before”. // Continue to the full article
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Plant Plants have handed ClashMusic a new teaser ahead of their forthcoming EP.
London pairing Plant Plants made a big impression with last year’s debut EP. Out on This Is Music, the group match head-spinning electronics to a warped take on pop’s immediacy.
Taking time off to focus on their next step, Plant Plants have now completed their second EP. Logically titled ‘EP2′ the collection won’t be released until June 18th, although ClashMusic have been handed a quick teaser.
Featuring ‘One To Adore’, the clip boasts plenty of blue skies, cityscapes and visual effects. Check it out below.
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Plant Plants are set to release ‘EP2′ on June 18th.
Source: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/watch-plant-plants-ep2-teaser
Donna Summer inspired a generation of female singers including Beyoncé. The pop superstar paid tribute to the late disco diva, who died at the age of 63, in an open letter on her website. “She was so much more than the queen of disco she became known for,” wrote B, who sampled Summers’ “Love to [...]
Source: http://www.rap-up.com/2012/05/18/beyonce-remembers-donna-summer/
Alison Lohman Alison Pill Alison Sweeney All Saints Allen Rossum
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are across the pond in the UK hitting up events and prepping for the Watch The Throne 5-night O2 arena stint kicking off tomorrow night. Check out their pics from the The FiFi UK Fragrance Awards inside…
Kanye West was spotted outside of his hotel in London earlier today. Love a man in a tailored white jacket. Lookin’ good ‘Ye.
And then my fashion high was curbed. He later returned to escort his navy maxi dress wearing girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, out for the evening.
The pair were attending The FiFi UK Fragrance Awards held at The Brewery in East London.
It’s perfect timing for Kim and Kanye in London as he prepares for his O2 concerts and she launches her new fragrance all at the same time. And of course….the cameras never stop rolling…
Photos via Gotcha Images / Splash News / PacificCoastNews / FameFlynet Pictures
The clown prince of hip-hop turntablism empties the contents of his psychic record bag
It’s like a trademark stamp, so you know you’re about to get the real deal DJ Yoda show!
People don’t tend to know the track by name because it’s more of a beat loop than an actual song, but it was used in DJ Kool’s Let Me Clear My Throat and is instantly recognisable to almost anyone.
It’s the original sample source for Nas’s big single The Don. When people hear that sample, it’s reeeewind time.
It’s like a country and western single by a rapper. Sounds wrong on paper, but it just feels right.
It’s a chopped-up disco record featuring old samples from an Arnold Schwarzenegger workout video. Totally up my street.
OK, so this is a podcast rather than a track, but it’s what was on my iPod this morning. It’s two New York radio DJs who are systematically interviewing every golden-era rapper in the most nerd-friendly detail imaginable.
I always assumed I’d be in my element playing a wedding because I’ve got such a love for 80s pop. But the first time I tried it, I quickly realised that it’s a very different skill to club DJing!
I was asked to create the ideal summer track for a beer company. I decided that it had to have a bit of moombahton ? a summery Latino/house/hip-hop hybrid ? and plenty of airhorns.
He’s a rapper who was originally a chef, so loads of his rhymes are about detailed cooking instructions.
Vietnamese folk music that I picked up when I DJed in Hanoi. Well, you did ask ?
DJ Yoda presents a Live AV Spectacular, HMV Forum, NW5, Sat
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/19/dj-yoda-q-and-a
Adriana Fonseca Adriana Lima Adrianne Curry Adrianne Palicki Adriano Giannini
Fixers released Pop Meat/Your Corruptor, their first EP in the US, on April 24th via Dolphin Love Records, and now the band is sharing a Memory Tapes remix of their lead single, “Crystals.” Memory Tapes reworked the track with an irresistible bassline and funky, ocscillating synths- you can head over to soundcloud to download the track for free. If you missed the bands’ kaleidoscopic video for “Crystals” last month, be sure to check it out!
Download Memory Tapes’ Remix of “Crystals” via Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/fixerstheband/crystals_memorytapesremix
With an aesthetic that blooms from Beach Boys-era harmonies and surf samples, Fixers assert themselves as a band to watch, with endless hooks and a love for experimentation.Pop Meat/Your Corruptor’s opener, “Another Lost Apache,” builds on an acappella harmony and turns it into a fuzzed out adventure. // Continue to the full article
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Alexandra Breckenridge Alexandra Kerry Alexandra Kyle Alexandra Maria Lara Alexandra Paul
The Olympics closing concert is apparently Blur‘s last one before dissolving into a couple of musicians, a cheesemaker, a wannabe politician and an occasional Phil Daniels. Before then, there are four “intimate” ? ie small for them ? warm-up gigs (1 Aug, Winter Gardens, Margate; 5 & 6 Aug, Civic Hall, Wolverhampton; 7 Aug, Plymouth Pavilions) ?
Missing the lucky dip thrills of the Olympics tickets ballot? Fear not: London’s iTunes Festival returns, taking in ? ooh ? Jack White, Usher, and ? oh ? Norah Jones and One Direction (1-30 Sep). Fill in a form, maybe get lucky ?
Blissfields has assembled some choice attractions (Toddla T, Clock Opera, real ale). Synth-indie tykes Bastille are new to the bill, as is a school sports day theme (29 Jun-1 Jul, Vicarage Farm, Winchester) ?
Speech Debelle, Anchorsong and Ghostpoet will christen the new Sound Castle venue in Hay-on-Wye next month (1-9 Jun) ?
Finally, Wilderness Festival is hooking up with Future Cinema. Bugsy Malone will be accompanied ? yes! ? by an enormous, live splurge gunfight (10-12 Aug, Cornbury Park, Charlbury).
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/19/live-music-booking-now
Adam Scott Adam Shankman Addison Timlin Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Adnan Khashoggi
This is a full CD with music by the chulhyungeum. This instrument is an iron-stringed zither designed by Kim Yeong-cheol in the 40s. It is played by a plectrum and a pick on the left hand with possible techniques like vibration, gliding tones and bending tones. It became one of the first new instruments to play the Korean traditional style of sanjo (solo traditional music accompanied by an hourglass shaped drum). Definitely recommended for people interested in expanding the possibilities of the guitar.
If you’re a fan of “Game of Thrones,” the photo you see below should make you very, very happy. Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you: that is indeed Jerome Flynn as the sellsword Bronn, taking aim with a fire-tipped arrow at an unseen enemy with Blackwater Bay at his back. That’s right: the Battle [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/05/18/game-of-thrones-blackwater-photo/
Alter Bridge Alyson Hannigan Alyson Michalka Alyson Morgan Alyson Stoner
Following on from our announcement last week that Sailor Jerry and CLASH will be holding an Anti-Jubilee Punk Party at Hotel Street on the 3rd June; today we are excited to reveal the headline band?DZ Deathrays.
DZ Deathrays have been taking the UK by storm since arriving on these shores from their native country Australia, playing sold out gigs to fervent fans and whipping up a frenzy through their high energy performances and ?no rules? style.
The band are currently on tour, taking in various countries across Europe and will be playing this exclusive Anti-Jubilee Punk Party at Hotel Street as part of Sailor Jerry?s weekly music events, exhibitions and film screenings.
Hotel Street on Charing Cross Road is named after the infamous district in Chinatown, Honolulu where sailors would blow off steam during the Second World War. There, in the Hotel Street District Norman ?Sailor Jerry? Collins built his legendary tattooing reputation with his innovative style, independent values and no BS attitude. A gallery, store and cafe by day and gig and dive bar by night, Hotel Street, located on Charing Cross Road is an all-round good place for bad people.
The gig promises to be an alternative to your traditional Bank Holiday knees up and we expect the 3rd June to be fizzing with atmosphere, as it falls over the weekend when the country will be celebrating the Queen?s sixty years on the throne.
Ably warming up the party for DZ Deathrays will be a support band, which we?ll be announcing shortly and our own Clash DJ?s, who?ll be unleashing a torrent of punk classics.
Whatever your beliefs, there’s no excuse for not having a party so we?ll see you on the 3rd June at Hotel Street.
Source: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/sailor-jerry-anti-jubilee-line-up
Alison Pill Alison Sweeney All Saints Allen Rossum Allen Silvestri
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Aida Turturro Aidan Mitchell Aidan Quinn Aimee Anouk Aimee Garcia
Expectant mom Molly Sims and mom-of-two Soleil Moon Frye attended the 10th anniversary of Liz Lange Maternity for Target at Glass Houses in New York City on Wednesday (May 16). With DJ Marjorie Gubelmann spinning tunes, the glowing moms helped celebrate a decade of helping expecting moms dress stylishly on a budget.
“What people don’t realize, and what Liz has done really well, is that you want to show off the belly,” Molly Sims tells Celebrity Baby Scoop. “Because if not, you look really big. If you make it tighter – I know people laugh – you actually look smaller,” says Molly, who was sporting a Liz Lange flutter-sleeve top (available at Target stores and Target.com for $19.99).
Source: http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2012/05/18/molly-sims-soleil-moon-frye-celebrate-liz-lange-maternity
Alan Ruck Alan Rudolph Alan Silvestri Alan Thicke Alan Tudyk
Plant Plants have handed ClashMusic a new teaser ahead of their forthcoming EP.
London pairing Plant Plants made a big impression with last year’s debut EP. Out on This Is Music, the group match head-spinning electronics to a warped take on pop’s immediacy.
Taking time off to focus on their next step, Plant Plants have now completed their second EP. Logically titled ‘EP2′ the collection won’t be released until June 18th, although ClashMusic have been handed a quick teaser.
Featuring ‘One To Adore’, the clip boasts plenty of blue skies, cityscapes and visual effects. Check it out below.
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Plant Plants are set to release ‘EP2′ on June 18th.
Source: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/watch-plant-plants-ep2-teaser
Aerosmith Afton Smith Agnes Bruckner Agyness Deyn Ahmet Zappa
Metal rocker Willie Basse is joining Slash, Rob Zombie, Megadeath, Chickenfoot, Queensryche, Chevelle and more than 60 of rock’s hottest bands at Rocklahoma (www.Rocklahoma.com), one of the USA’s biggest rock festivals, in Pryor City, OK, for two shows on Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26. But Basse’s performance-with-a-purpose will also raise funds and food for Feed America-NOW, his 501c3 non-profit corporation that collects and redistributes food through local food banks to feed local people in every city that Basse visits.
On May 26, Basse, the former frontman of the pioneering metal band Black Sheep whose past members include Slash, Paul Gilbert (Racer-X), Randy Castillo (Ozzy Osbourne) and James Kottak (The Scorpions), will perform with his namesake Willie Basse band featuring guitar virtuoso Patrick Abbate from Italy. // Continue to the full article
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Aerosmith – Pandora’s Box (3CD Box, 1991)
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Released by Columbia Records to capitalise on the band’s newfound success with Geffen, the box set is comprised of 3 discs which cover Aerosmith’s output from the 1970s and early 1980s. Alongside previously released studio material, Pandora’s Box features alternate versions, unreleased songs, live renditions and remixes…
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Aida Turturro Aidan Mitchell Aidan Quinn Aimee Anouk Aimee Garcia
David Banner and Chris Brown get animated in the video for “Amazing.” Neither of the stars actually appear in the stop-animation video. Instead, their heads appear on dolls as they ride around the city in a convertible, picking up some plastic cuties. Breezy even dances with a doll version of his idol Michael Jackson. “Amazing” [...]
Source: http://www.rap-up.com/2012/05/17/video-david-banner-f-chris-brown-amazing/
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As the James Stewart classic ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ so accurately observes – “youth is wasted on the wrong people…”
But Young Kato seem to wear their age well. Precocious types, the band performed to 70,000 people in Bristol last year before penning a deal with Manchester based imprint LAB Records.
A six piece, their mixture of Friendly Fires style indie-dance and Morrissey-inspired laments are getting numerous figures in that-there music industry all hot under the collar.
The four track ?Young Kato EP? is set to be released on July 23rd, with lead track ‘Drink, Dance, Play’ hitting radio.
Watch the video below.
Source: http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/young-kato-drink-dance-play
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Internationally-acclaimed, Belgium-born recording artist Selah Sue will release her self-titled debut album on August 21 on Columbia Records. The album will introduce the U.S. to Selah Sue’s unique style – a distinctive blend of pop, soul, funk and reggae. The album’s vivacious first single, “Raggamuffin,” is available now via all U.S. digital retailers, and its corresponding video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IunmW3wI5Q
Selah Sue’s self-titled album debuted in the top 10 charts in Belgium, France and the Netherlands and, to date, the success of those releases has garnered her multiple platinum certifications. The U.S. version of the album will include three exclusive, never-before-heard songs: “On the Run,” “Break,” and “Fade Away.” Selah Sue features rap superstar J. // Continue to the full article
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David Banner and Chris Brown get animated in the video for “Amazing.” Neither of the stars actually appear in the stop-animation video. Instead, their heads appear on dolls as they ride around the city in a convertible, picking up some plastic cuties. Breezy even dances with a doll version of his idol Michael Jackson. “Amazing” [...]
Source: http://www.rap-up.com/2012/05/17/video-david-banner-f-chris-brown-amazing/
Rising star and electronic dance sensation, Angelina Lavo, is set to perform at New York City’s exclusive Arena as part of Boutique Artists Summer Fashion Week 2012. Angelina’s performance will be part of the official event for the Latino Show Magazine May 2012 issue.
Angelina Lavo caught the attention of various music industry heavy weights including Omen (Producer for Usher, Lil Wayne, Drake and Ludacris) and Lu Diaz (Producer for Pitbull, DJ Khaled, Jason Mraz and J-Lo) and has collaborated with acts as musically diverse as Twista.
Her performance at Arena, NYC is but one of many scheduled for the next few months and part of Angelina Lavo’s “Fall In Love (Tonight)” campaign – described by the artist as a campaign about “Promoting the importance of Love.”
Sources close to Angelina Lavo revealed that she is likely to perform her latest single, “Jealous Girls” as a playful and supportive tribute to the models, designers and artists that are part of the fashion event. // Continue to the full article
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With his new movie “Magic Mike” set to hit theaters on June 29th, Channing Tatum amped up promotions by landing the cover of the June 2012 issue of Out magazine.
The 32-year-old actor looked studly in ensembles from Louis Vuitton and Calvin Klein for the Nino Muñoz shot spread accompanying the article titled “From Stripper to Superstar”.
Highlights from Channing’s interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Out!
On coming out with a male stripper movie:
?It?s risky. People say that women and the gay community will go see it — knock on wood — but I know straight guys won?t be like, ?Yo, what?s up man — you wanna go see the stripping movie after the game tonight?? I doubt they?ll have the balls to see it. What?s funny is that the girls don?t ask me questions about my stripping days, but straight guys want to know everything. It?s that fantasy element. It?s probably why a lot of females on Halloween are the whorey version of a ketchup bottle, or slutty nurse, which I love and respect — it?s liberating.?
On becoming a male stripper at age 19:
“I was definitely looking for something to take me into the dark side. You learn something about yourself, you learn about men, women, you see a lot of depressing s**t, people that are lost. But at the same time, the dark side can be exciting. It can feel like you?re cheating death every night.?
On having to strip down:
?I never enjoyed the taking-the-clothes-off part. You are on a stage with people yelling at you, and you feel you?re a rock star, but you?re nothing — you?re just a guy taking off his clothes, looking like a fool in a stupid outfit.?
Matt Bomer on Channing Tatum:
“He?s obviously very good-looking and effortlessly cool, but he?s also one of the kindest, most open-hearted people I?ve ever known. More than anything, he just has a lust for life that makes him want to tell stories and to dig deeper than someone who looks like him might have to dig. He kind of reminds me of Steve McQueen in a lot of ways — completely authentic and comfortable in his own skin.?
Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/channing-tatum/channing-tatum-talks-stripping-out-june-2012-642653
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Full marks for nerve to Tom Jones for opening his second successive album of stripped-down gravitas rock with Leonard Cohen’s Tower of Song, transformed from hotel-bar funk into a finger-picked country blues. Cohen’s version is a mordant, blackly comic meditation, but Jones can’t play lines about “born with the gift of a golden voice” for laughs and so he turns it, unexpectedly and triumphantly, into a eulogy for a life in music. It’s also the highlight of this collection mixing covers of rock-aristo songwriters, a couple of well-regarded cults and a sprinkling of blues, soul and gospel. It’s never as rollicking as 2010′s Praise and Blame, though a version of Tom Waits’ Bad As Me will sound agreeably demented to anyone who’s never heard the original. Odetta’s Hit or Miss answers its own question, sadly, in its transition to country-pop. Most intriguing of all is the closing version of the Low Anthem’s spectral Charlie Darwin, into which a full choir is inserted, as if to compensate in big dollops for the fact that doing “spectral” has never been among Jones’s noted virtues.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/17/tom-jones-spirit-room-review
So the summer movie season is officially in full swing, with all kinds of big blockbusters hitting theaters each and every week, offering up action-packed experiences of the highest cinematic quality and the best visual effects studio money can buy. And no matter how impressive the 3D or digital technology, there’s only so much you [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/05/17/transformers-the-ride-3d/
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John Travolta Makes Mother?s Day Video for Wife Kelly - Celebuzz
Woman Murders Fiance Over Cheap Mother?s Day Gift – The Frisky
Kim Kardashian’s Producer Addresses Her Most Scandalous Rumor – The Stir
Maternity Trend of the Moment – LilSugar
Kim, Jen & Gisele! Celebrity Nude Covers – Celebuzz
Amber Portwood?s Embarrassing Mug Shot! – HollyBaby
Source: http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2012/05/17/latest-dish
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The Roc was in the building at the star-studded U.K. premiere of Men in Black III in London on Wednesday. The film’s star Will Smith met up with his pal and business partner Jay-Z, who was in town for the kickoff of the European “Watch the Throne” tour. Will’s co-star Nicole Scherzinger arrived with boyfriend [...]
The reissue of Sleep’s Dopesmoker shows musicians with the nerve to really stretch a song and take listeners on a journey
The three-minute pop song is an undeniable design classic: short enough to fit on one side of a 7in, long enough to turn a repeated chorus, melody or hook into an insanely addictive earworm. But greatness can also occur when an artist changes their game up from sprint to marathon, breaking past the 180-second barrier as far as their creativity will take them.
I’m talking specifically about tunes that rely on their uncommon length for their effect, not just songs rendered radio-unfriendly by lengthy instrumental excursions. While I’ll gladly play air guitar through all 10 minutes of the album version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s legendarily solo-slaked ballad Free Bird, were the 3:31 radio edit to pop on the jukebox, it’d still be enough to have me sobbing into a tumbler of bourbon. The five-minute radio edit of Neil Young’s Change Your Mind, however, has none of the impact of the 15-minute original found on his 1994 LP Sleeps with Angels, one of many of his tracks ? see also Cowgirl in the Sand, Down By the River, Like a Hurricane ? where the song’s troubled heart is only truly expressed through the cumulative power of Young’s extended, discursive and emotive guitar solos, more erudite than lyrics could ever be.
Similarly, it would be hard to imagine an effective radio edit of Sleep’s Dopesmoker, recently given a deluxe reissue by Southern Lord. When the San Jose metallers submitted the unbroken 64-minute track as their first album for London Records in 1994, they were comprehensively rebuffed, and the album shelved, leading to the group’s dissolution. “We were stubborn,” frontman Matt Pike told me in 2009. “Our contemporaries, like Soundgarden, were recording their ‘radio hits’, but we refused to. Out of integrity.” Its subsequent posthumous release saw Dopesmoker rightfully recognised as a subterranean masterpiece, and no mere gesture of bloody-mindedness: the song derives an elephantine majesty from the way its grinding, weed-soaked riffs evolve and elucidate over that most-heavy of hours.
Decades earlier, the Velvet Underground reveled in the similarly alienating perversity of the track that closed their second album, 1968′s White Light/White Heat. Sister Ray chased a two-chord chug over a quarter of an hour, John Cale’s searingly distorted Vox Continental firing off peals of crazed carnival organ as Lou Reed unspooled a foul-mouthed urban shanty of cock-sucking, drug-shooting transvestite prostitutes. Six minutes in, the song descends into a seamy chaos, where it stays for another 10 minutes, an excessive, debauched paean to excess and debauchery that’s never less than electrifying (though the engineer evidently didn’t agree, reportedly quitting the session in disgust and leaving the Velvets to improvise as the tapes rolled unattended.)
In 2002, another New York art-rock group, Oneida, took Sister Ray’s bloody-minded concept one step further with Sheets of Easter, the opening track to their Each One Teach One double album. Named in tribute to a particularly fearsome batch of blotter acid, the track opened with the whispered words “You’ve got to look into the ?”, before the Brooklyn trio hammered into a needling one-chord, two-note riff punctuated by repeated yells of “Light!”, like a stylus locked into a scratched groove, for 14 further minutes: a scourging, hallucinatory experience, a strychnine-laced mind enema.
But long songs needn’t be such masochistic (albeit rewarding) experiences. Funk artists long ago realised that “more is more”, that a sweet groove gathers exponential power the longer you play it, as long as the audience is still dancing. Many of James Brown’s finest funks could barely be shoehorned into the 7in format, broken up over two parts flowing from side A to B, cut down from even longer studio jams (check the unedited take of Escapism from the 1993 reissue of his 1971 LP Hot Pants, where Brown’s JBs happen on a vamp so hypnotic it keeps you moving, as Brown clowns his musicians at length for their “country” roots).
The advent of the 12″ single saw the rise of the disco edit, as soul evolved into grooves extended specifically for the dancefloor. Donna Summer ascended to disco’s throne via songs such as 1977′s I Feel Love; Hi-NRG pioneer Patrick Cowley remixed the track, almost doubling the length of the original eight-minute 12″ version of the Giorgio Moroder-scored mantra. Summer had made her maiden voyage into disco two years earlier with Love to Love You Baby, the album version of which found Summer simulating climaxes over sultry tantric funk for almost 17 minutes, serving as some disco-era equivalent to Ravel’s Bolero; the success of the song provoked Diana Ross’s own move towards the dancefloor with her ambitious 1976 epic Love Hangover, which segued from languid post-coital purr to urgent disco barn-burner over eight minutes.
The lushly orchestrated, deep-voiced seduction of Isaac Hayes’ 70s albums similarly soundtracked intimate moments in bedrooms across the world ? with Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra following in his wake ? but his remarkable, meditative cover of Jimmy Webb’s By the Time I Get to Phoenix, from his 1969 album Hot Buttered Soul, remains one of the most compelling portraits of love’s death. It would be an understatement to describe it as unhurried, but what Hayes humbly describes as “my own interpretation of it” is so powerful precisely because of his lengthy preamble, spending nine minutes describing what he imagined as the back-story to Webb’s ballad of betrayal and resignation, detailing the blind love of the song’s hero and the cold cruelty of his cheating partner, over Hammond-organ hum. Having so established the dramatis personae, the song’s lachrymose glide is affecting as never before; edit away Hayes’ tear-etched prologue, and its impact would be profoundly lessened.
This is but a brief sampling of pop’s excursions into the epic ? I haven’t even touched on the lengthy pleasures of Krautrock, the heart-pulse hedonism of house, the gonzo song-cycles of prog. And, of course, a surfeit of ambition, ego and indulgence is equally likely to result in travesty as triumph. But the likes of By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Sister Ray and Dopesmoker prove the risk is worth taking. As Matt Pike said of his magnum opus: “Dopesmoker was a ballsy move, but it destroyed the band. It also made us legends.”
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/may/17/long-songs-sleep-dopesmoker
The Stranglers – Nice ‘N’ Sleazy – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYqllpnyWrY&feature=player_detailpage)
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Did you know that “Toy Story 2″ was once almost entirely erased during production at Pixar? Now we have a handy video to tell us all about it. Also, we look at characters that disappear from sequels and Michael Gondry’s next gets a trailer in Dailies! » This is the story all about how Pixar’s [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/05/15/toy-story-2-erased/
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Death Grips have released a self-directed video for ”Hustle Bones” from their latest album The Money Store. It brings new meaning to the phrase “money laundering.”
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Nicki Minaj touched down in Australia for the first date of her “Pink Friday” tour on Wednesday. The hip-hop queen kicked off the international trek at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, giving her Aussie Barbz a first look at her neon wardrobe and dollhouse set. “Omfg!!!!! Sydney, Australia was thee most amazing crowd ever tonite!!!!!! Thank u [...]
Source: http://www.rap-up.com/2012/05/16/nicki-minaj-kicks-off-pink-friday-tour-in-sydney/
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Roc Nation / Columbia Records newest singing sensation, Rita Ora is ready for blast off as she is featured for VEVO’s next emerging artist LIFT promotion.
Rita smashed onto the UK charts featuring on the No.1 hit by DJ Fresh’s “Hot Right Now.” With her brand new single “R.I.P.” taking the #1 spot on the charts this week, she is the first singer of 2012 to have two #1′s in the UK this year. Now, she is preparing to race up the radio charts with her debut US single “How We Do (Party).”
The sizzling new VEVO LIFT artist was introduced to the states by a surprise visit to New York’s Z100.
LIFT, VEVO’s emerging artist program, has introduced previously unknown stars One Direction, Jessie J and Tinie Tempah among others by connecting them with music fans through original programming exclusive to VEVO. // Continue to the full article
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Royal Opera House, London
Since it pensioned off Franco Zeffirelli’s naturalistic 1960s production of Falstaff, Covent Garden has struggled to find a successor that could successfully capture the many qualities of Verdi’s late masterpiece. Robert Carsen’s new staging is the Royal Opera’s third post-Zeffirelli effort and, while this one may not endure for decades either, in some ways it is the house’s best shot so far.
Carsen sets Falstaff in a posh, postwar, panel-lined country hotel, inhabited by conservative hunting chaps in plus-fours and handsome women in glamorous New Look frocks. The fat knight racks up his room service bill and behaves like a cad in the smoking room, while Bardolph and Pistol pocket the dining room silver and the lady diners’ handbags. Alice Ford’s home, by contrast, is 1950s gaudy gadget heaven. There’s not a hint of Windsor or its forest, but there is a notable (and distracting) cameo for a horse. The production also lacks the unerring wit and sense of place and period that marked Richard Jones’s similar updating of the piece for Glyndebourne, with which Carsen’s staging will inevitably be compared.
Carsen has a musical grasp of the piece, though, and he understands that Falstaff is more than a romp. Everything sung by the young lovers Fenton and Nannetta (Joel Prieto and Amanda Forsythe, both excellent) is carefully set apart from the onrushing tumult elsewhere, just as Verdi’s score indicates, while Ford’s jealousy monologue, muscularly delivered by Dalibor Jenis disguised as a good ol’ boy tourist, is effectively cradled in an eerie half-light. These are rare moments of intimacy in what is too grand and frantic a production.
Vocally, standards are uniformly good rather than remarkable, but then Falstaff is an ensemble opera rather than a star vehicle. In the title role, Ambrogio Maestri may lack the vocal allure of some of his predecessors, but he is confident and sympathetic, subtle of tone when needed, and certainly looks the part when he goes wooing in his full hunting regalia. Ana María Martínez is a bright-voiced and sexy Alice, a natural leader of women, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux ticks lots of boxes as Mistress Quickly.
In the pit, Daniele Gatti‘s conducting is less conventionally Italianate than a touch Germanic ? with shades, not always convincingly, of Carlo Maria Giulini’s 1980s performances. There is lots of attention to dark orchestral detail, and Gatti seemed keen to underline that Falstaff is the work of a composer who knew his Wagner. That is fair enough, given there is even a discreet quote from Parsifal, which Gatti has conducted at Bayreuth, near the start of the final act.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/16/falstaff-review
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El-P stopped by “Late Show With David Letterman” last night in support of his forthcoming record Cancer for Cure. He brought along Nick Diamonds of Islands to play album cut “Stay Down”. Watch below via the Audio Perv.
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Beady Eye have announced plans for a one off warm up show in Warrington this summer.
Heady days for Liam Gallagher. His beloved Manchester City won the Premiership title in the most dramatic of circumstances, forcing the frontman to make good on his promise to re-locate to his hometown.
Looking ahead, Beady Eye have been picked to support The Stone Roses at their epic Heaton Park shows. Now the band have announced plans for a one off show in Warrington on June 28th, to act as a warm up.
It’s a very intimate venue by the band’s normal standards, so Beady Eye have set up a lottery to ensure that their fans have an equal chance of attending.
After signing up to a mailing list, the fortunate fans will be able to purchase two tickets priced at £25 + booking fee.
Sign up HERE.
Here’s ‘The Roller’.
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Beady Eye have confirmed the following shows:
June
28 Warrington Parr Hall
Click here to buy tickets for Beady Eye!
Source: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/beady-eye-announce-one-off-show
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Bookstore shelves are loaded with titles offering the same stale retelling of rock history. In his new book No Sleep ‘Til Sudbury, rock critic Brent Jensen takes a different tack by providing a no-holds-barred narrative look at what it was like growing up in the 80s as a hard rock and heavy metal fan in a small northern Ontario town.
The rock history is here and some academic treatise is included as well, but these aspects are uniquely woven together with personal experiences and biting commentary to make No Sleep ‘Til Sudbury a highly entertaining observation of the power of musical nostalgia as a pop cultural force.
On Aerosmith – ‘There is Old Aerosmith, and there is New Aerosmith. Old Aerosmith is that slutty Jezebel that would take you upstairs to deliver the groceries at the end of a sloppy late-night boozefest. // Continue to the full article
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Be among the first to hear Slash’s new album, Apocalyptic Love, and tell us what you think in the comments
You don’t need to know much about rock’n'roll to know Slash more or less defines the idea of the guitar hero. Across five albums with Guns N’ Roses, two each with Slash’s Snakepit and Velvet Revolver, and a previous solo album, he’s shown just what can be done with an amped-up Gibson.
Now ? backed by Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators ? he’s back with a second solo disc. “A lot of this record was written on the road ? musicians that say they can’t write on the road are usually busy doing something else,” Slash has said of this album. “I think it’s been my way of keeping myself out of trouble, to take all the energy I used to put into partying and spend it on the guitar. But it’s very inspired. It’s not like I make myself do it. I get to my room and I’ve got ideas so I’ll work on them, rather than waiting until later.”
Have a listen, and let us know what you think of Apocalyptic Love. We’ll only have this exclusive stream for 48 hours ? so get to it.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/may/16/slash-apocalyptic-love-album-stream
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German-American digital imprint Block Starz Music has announced the signing of Omaha, Nebraska rap group Block Movement and the release of their upcoming album, “N.A.F.T.A.”, which is slated to drop later this year. Block Movement, which consists of members Latin Threat (born Joshua Bates), Stylo (born Rolando Valadez), and S. Gats (born Kevin Fredericks), is the founding act on the Midwest imprint of Thizz Latin.
Block Movement will announce the signing and debut their new single, “Smoker’s Ball”, on Omaha’s leading radio station, Power 106.9 FM (KOPW), on May 13 and will perform the song for the first time live at a pair of shows the weekend of May 18 locally and in Sioux City, Iowa, where they will join Texas rapper Lucky Luciano, who originally introduced the group to Thizz Latin CEO Julio “Goldtoes” Sanchez and lead to the formation of Thizz Latin Midwest. // Continue to the full article
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Gisele Bundchen rocked a sheer shirt last night at a photocall in Sao Paulo. The blouse served the purpose of showing off one of her creations, the blue bra. Gisele’s in her native country of Brazil, having arrived yesterday, in order to do press for her Gisele Bundchen Brazilian Intimates collection. The evening event was organized so Gisele could debut her Diva, Wish, and Rococó lines for the brand. She’s the face and body of the intimates’ ads, and also recent landed a big magazine job. Gisele is topless on the cover of the June 2012 issue of Vogue Paris.
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She’s landed herself a role on the most lauded series the small screen has to offer, and Jessica Pare now finds herself gracing the cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine.
The 29-year-old Canadian actress is dressed in a Rochas top, Jet Jeans, Jimmy Choo shoes and earrings by Craig Evan Small Estate Jewelry for the flirty Zachary Scott shot front page while talking about topics including her topless scene in “Hot Tub Time Machine” and gig as Megan Draper on “Mad Men”.
Highlights from Miss Pare’s interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to New York Magazine!
On being mostly known for a minute-long topless scene in 2010?s ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’:
?I cross into the States from Canada a lot, and the border guards always say, ?You?re an actor, what have you done?? I always try Mad Men, but I guess it?s not our target audience. So then I?m like, ?Hot Tub Time Machine?? And they?re like, ?We love that movie!??? She adds, ?I think tits can be funny. Please don?t make that the headline.?
On all of the fuss over her teeth:
?I forget about them because they?re in my face and they do their job just great. I never get anything stuck in them.?
On thinking her ‘Mad Men’ role was short term:
“Every time I did an episode, I didn’t know if I would be back. I was just happy to sit in the background if they did a scene in the reception area. I kept saying, ‘Two words: closed casket’. It (season premiere) opens on a closed casket. Pan up to Don, bereaved, winks at a blonde down the aisle. Bye-bye, Megan.”
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‘I still get berated for the line “Take your seaside arms”, but it’s from Nabokov’s Lolita’
I wrote the song at my parents’ house, where I was still living at the time. As a working-class boy, I wouldn’t think of moving out till I got married. I was infatuated with Clare Grogan [the Altered Images singer and star of Gregory's Girl]. I met her on Top of the Pops and, at one point, travelled up to Scotland to have tea with her and her mum and dad. Although my feelings were unrequited and the relationship was platonic, it was enough to trigger a song, True, which became the name of our 1983 album, too.
True is about how difficult it is to be honest when you’re trying to write a love song to someone. Hence: “Why do I find it hard to write the next line?” The lyrics are full of coded messages to Clare. I’m still berated for the line “Take your seaside arms” but it’s straight out of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, which she had given me as a present ? although in the book, it’s “seaside limbs”. The line “With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue” is also a bastardisation of Nabokov. I don’t want to embarrass Clare. I was 22 and she was 18. True was really a song about me and my idea of love.
The bit that goes “Listening to Marvin all night long” was a reference to me and Steve Norman, the band’s saxophonist. We were massive soul boys: we loved MTV, the Face magazine and all that glossy stuff, so this was us taking an anti-rock stance. The inky press loved blues and reggae because they were about suffering. They didn’t like soul because it was aspirational, all about dancing, wearing great clothes and having sex. They saw it as vacuous. So namechecking Marvin Gaye was a defiant statement aligning us with the London soul boy culture stretching back to mod. And I’d loved Mott the Hoople singing about T Rex in All The Young Dudes so was pleased to reference another artist in a song.
I remember thinking that we no longer wanted to be a cult band. We’d always been about what was hip, but it’s impossible to keep that going when you’ve been on Top of the Pops six times. We were leaving the London club scene and starting to sell records around the world, so the next album really needed to be pop.
We’d always recorded in London, but this time we went to the Bahamas, to Compass Point in Nassau, because a lot of soul records had been made there. Talking Heads were there at the same time, sitting in the shade on the other side of the pool, while we wore shorts and flip-flops and roasted in the sun. It added to the groove.
Musically, I wanted to write something like Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together with its line: “I’m, I’m so in love with you.” But it came out as: “Huh huh uh-huh huh.” It was seen as such a strong hook that it became the intro. I feel sorry for Martin [Kemp, bass-player] because he didn’t perform on the track. We used a bass synth because we’d liked the sound of it on Imagination’s Body Talk.
When we listened to the playback in the studio, everyone suddenly started singing along, the road crew and everything. I think we knew then it was a No 1.
Everyone remembers the sax solo on True but I actually started off as a drummer. I could never afford a full kit, though, so I got a guitar. Then, when it turned out there wasn’t room in the band for another guitarist, I looked around for a different instrument. I first blew sax on Gently, the B-side of Instinction, having taught myself. The thing I love about saxophone is you’re virtually singing into it: it’s the closest thing to the human voice.
The solo is actually a composite of two takes. I’d only been playing a year and was listening to Grover Washington Jr’s Just the Two of Us with Bill Withers, over and over. The solo is a reply to that: at the key change things just lift off, giving the song a moment of elation.
David Bowie was a massive influence on us: his constant metamorphoses inspired us to keep changing. As soon as other people tried to catch up, we’d do something else. We had horns on Chant No 1 and then suddenly everyone had horns.
Spandau Ballet had a friendly rivalry with Duran Duran. In the studio, we used to leave each other insulting messages, jokes and caricatures. But when True came out, they sent us a message saying: “Guys, this is fantastic.”
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/14/how-we-made-true-spandau-ballet
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Jay-Z has seemingly invited Barack Obama to perform at his Budweiser Made In America Festival.
Barack Obama is the hip hop President. The first African-American to lead the United States, the politician intersected with rap culture – reaching out to some MCs whilst also abhorring some fringe elements.
Jay-Z is set to host the Budweiser Made In American festival later this year, and the rapper could be planning a surprise guest. Chatting with Rolling Stone, the magazine teased the hip hop icon about the possibility of Barack Obama making a guest appearance.
“Ah, yeah, that guy. I’m gonna try” he said. “I’m gonna tell you guys right now: I’m gonna give him a call and I’m gonna try to get him to perform ? do a little rendition of Al Green ? but I doubt it. I think that opens up the political season. He’ll be so far into helping the world that he probably won’t have time, but I’m absolutely going to ask him.”
Barack Obama, of course, broke into an impromptu of ‘Let’s Stay Together’ earlier this year. Watch that clip below.
Source: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/will-barack-obama-perform-with-jay-z
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The BBC has the latest update on the continuing hologram– excuse me, “optical illusion”– story: The late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury will appear at a staging of the Queen musical “We Will Rock You” in London on May 14. Queen guitarist Brian May stressed that Mercury won’t appear in the same hologrammed fashion as 2Pac, though. ”It’s an optical illusion of sorts”, he told the BBC. “People will come out saying, ‘did we actually see Freddie?’” I have a good answer for anyone asking that question.
Also, May is calling firsties on this one: “It’s a little unfortunate they did that thing with Tupac as we’ve been trying to make Freddie appear on the stage for quite a while”, he said. This is just like the Russians and the Americans racing to land on the moon, all over again.
The musical performance will celebrate 10 years of showings of “We Will Rock You” at London’s Dominion Theatre. Robert De Niro, who’s produced the show in the past, is scheduled to make an appearance.
Watch the video for Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now”, featuring the real Freddie Mercury:
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William Balfour, the ex-husband of Julia Hudson, the sister of Jennifer Hudson, has been found GUILTY of first degree murder. Get the deets inside….
In Chicago, William Balfour has been found guilty of 1st degree murder in the death of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and 7-year-old nephew.
The jury took two days of deliberation before handing down the verdict which also found William guilty of home invasion and residential burglary. He now faces life in prison. Witness say Jennifer was present in court when the verdict was read.
EXTRAS:
1. Lil’ Boosie found not guilty at murder trial. Story.
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Blaster Entertainment has signed Aaron Lewis to its growing roster of recording artists. Lewis received rave reviews for his inaugural country music project, “Town Line”, a solo EP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart last year. In addition, his debut single, “Country Boy” has been certified gold and had multiple award nominations.
“Aaron Lewis is a great musician,” said Tom Porter, CEO of Blaster Entertainment. “His songs relate true country values and life experiences. We’re excited about having him on the Blaster team.”
“Country music was the first music I ever listened to,” Lewis said. “I sat on my grandfather’s lap listening to his country records and I grew to love them. The country audience has been so accepting of my music and I’m excited about working with the Blaster team to put out the new record this summer. // Continue to the full article
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