This never would've happened to Nancy.
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Saturday, 28 June 2008
Tina Sinatra: Ol' Shrew Eyes
Frank Sinatra's daughter Tina threw a hissy fit after being forced to wait over 30 minutes at the STK valet -- don't they know who she thinks she is?
This never would've happened to Nancy.
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This never would've happened to Nancy.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Mendeed
Artist: Mendeed
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
This War Will Last Forever
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
The members of Glasgow, Scotland's Mendeed -- vocalizer David Proctor, lead guitarist Steven Nixon, rhythm guitarist Steph Gildea, bassist/vocalist Chris Lavery, and drummer Kevin Matthews -- met as teenagers spell attention local Dumbarton Academy, and evolved through a series of different heavy alloy styles until settling upon a frenzied mixture of power metal and deathcore in time for 2002's Violent death Something Beautiful EP. The chemical group afterwards toured with rising Brit great power metallers Dragonforce, among others, and, following the vent of 2003's As We Rise and 2004's From Shadows Came Darkness EPs, they transitioned from original indie label Rising Records to the more established Nuclear Blast for full-length follow-ups This War Will Last Forever (2006) and The Dead Live by Love (2007).
Merlin's Magic
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Theron blasts �sad� celebrities
Oscar winner Charlize Theron has blasted celebrities who constantly court media attention � branding their attitude �ugly,� imdb.com reports.
The actress is sick of fame-obsessed stars, insisting she finds it �sad� to see people strive to be paparazzi fodder. She tells Britain�s GQ magazine:
�It comes across as this really sad need for approval. I�ve heard people make comments like, �You don�t really want to be in the tabloids but you need to be for your career.� They believe it�s actually important. It�s not. It�s ugly.�
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Saturday, 21 June 2008
Razors Edge
Artist: Razors Edge
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Flag Still Flies
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Stick To Your Guns
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Friday, 20 June 2008
Megan Fox - Fox Hints About Kissing Labeouf
Hollywood beauty MEGAN FOX is preparing to get intimated with actor SHIA LaBEOUF - the two will share a love scene in the sequel to their hit film TRANSFORMERS.
The actress has been attending script meetings for upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and has let slip one of the plotlines - there will be a blossoming romance between her and LaBeouf's characters.
She tells MTV.com, "As big as the first movie was, this is 10 times as big, 10 times as many set pieces, explosions, and acrobatic stunts.
"Shia and I make out a little bit; I don't know if anyone wants to see that."
And the 21-year-old insists she is working diligently to deliver on director Michael Bay's vision: "His main note to me is just to look hot, so I try my best."
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Kate Hudson - Hudson Spends Fathers Day With Robinson Armstrong
KATE HUDSON enjoyed an unusual Father's Day this year (08), spending it in the company of her ex-husband CHRIS ROBINSON, their young son RYDER, her new beau LANCE ARMSTRONG and his three kids.
The Fool's Gold actress stepped out in Brooklyn, New York for brunch on Sunday (15Jun08) and was joined by her lovers past and present.
Hudson split from the Black Crowes rocker in 2006 after six years of marriage, and began a romance with cycling ace Armstrong earlier this year (08) - although neither star has spoken publicly about the relationship.
But Armstrong made sure his own children - Luke, eight, and six-year-old twins Isabelle and Grace - didn't miss out on spending the day with their dad, and brought them along to join in the fun, according to the New York Daily News.
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Djavan brings 'Matizes' to L.A.
Three decades into his musical career, Brazilian superstar Djavan says he's eager to tackle whatever artistic opportunities the future will bring his way.
"I feel so creative that three decades seem like yesterday," the singer-composer said, speaking by phone from his home in Rio de Janeiro. "I have so much emotion, motivation. . . I feel all this strength and energy to do more. It's like I'm always starting."
Djavan (pronounced Dee-jah-van) has just released his 18th album, "Matizes," on his own label in Brazil, material from which will be featured in his appearance at the Ford Amphitheatre tonight. The album is a summation of the widely varied genres that the singer has employed over the years, an assortment of styles that includes modern sambas, dance-oriented boleros, Cuban son and even a stab at the blues.
" 'Matizes' [Shades of Color] means to do a little bit of everything, put all the varieties together," he says. "I really like to have mixtures of funk, samba, flamenco, jazz, bolero, all types of genres that have influenced my life and my type of music."
An early start
Life for Djavan began in Maceió, in Brazil's northeastern state of Alagoas, where he grew up hearing folk music, listening to his mother sing and teaching himself guitar. At 16, he quit school and his factory job to form a band called Luz, Som e Dimensão (Light, Sound and Dimension), which played Beatles covers and other popular fare at clubs.
A subsequent move to Rio brought him early success recording songs of other artists for television soap operas and singing at popular nightclubs, but it was his composition "Fato Consumado" (Consummated Fact), which won second prize at a music festival in 1975, that brought him recognition in the Brazilian music scene and launched his recording and performing career.
Over the years, Djavan has become widely respected for his eclectic compositional approach, which dovetails samba, bossa nova, American jazz and pop -- his songs often feature complex harmonies, extended melodies and rhythms and textures drawn from unusual mixtures of romantic ballads, jazzy horns and screaming rock guitar. Some of Brazil's highest-profile musicians, including Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Nana Caymmi and Beth Carvalho as well as American stars Al Jarreau, Carmen McRae and the Manhattan Transfer, have covered his songs.
Yet he said that the music of his home village remains his strongest source of inspiration.
"I definitely am a musician of the northeast of Brazil," he says. "I really have gotten the influence of Luis Gonzaga, the king of forro from Pernambuco. But I was always open to lots of varieties -- the Beatles, classical music, bossa nova, African, jazz and flamenco.
"It's that fusion mainly of the Beatles and Luis Gonzaga that produces that special harmony."
It's just human nature
Though "Matizes" does address social issues, Djavan's material is generally not heavy with topicality, his songs' lyrics more often inspired by nature and human relationships.
"I need to write when things are at peace, when everything is very calm," he said. "I need that harmony around me to be able to compose. And when I do, I like to get involved in writing about human nature."
For his show at the Ford Amphitheatre, Djavan will be backed by a seven-piece band that includes two of his sons, guitarist Max Viana and drummer João Viana, both of whom have played with their father for a decade.
He said that the father-son bond makes for a special musical communication as well.
"With my sons, they're used to my kind of music; growing up they were there all the time next to me," he says. "Apart from the DNA involved, they have also grown as musicians, so that makes it that much easier. It just comes more naturally to my sons.
"My code of music -- the division of the rhythms and so forth -- is sometimes a little bit difficult for musicians to understand," he added, with a laugh.
"I feel so creative that three decades seem like yesterday," the singer-composer said, speaking by phone from his home in Rio de Janeiro. "I have so much emotion, motivation. . . I feel all this strength and energy to do more. It's like I'm always starting."
Djavan (pronounced Dee-jah-van) has just released his 18th album, "Matizes," on his own label in Brazil, material from which will be featured in his appearance at the Ford Amphitheatre tonight. The album is a summation of the widely varied genres that the singer has employed over the years, an assortment of styles that includes modern sambas, dance-oriented boleros, Cuban son and even a stab at the blues.
" 'Matizes' [Shades of Color] means to do a little bit of everything, put all the varieties together," he says. "I really like to have mixtures of funk, samba, flamenco, jazz, bolero, all types of genres that have influenced my life and my type of music."
An early start
Life for Djavan began in Maceió, in Brazil's northeastern state of Alagoas, where he grew up hearing folk music, listening to his mother sing and teaching himself guitar. At 16, he quit school and his factory job to form a band called Luz, Som e Dimensão (Light, Sound and Dimension), which played Beatles covers and other popular fare at clubs.
A subsequent move to Rio brought him early success recording songs of other artists for television soap operas and singing at popular nightclubs, but it was his composition "Fato Consumado" (Consummated Fact), which won second prize at a music festival in 1975, that brought him recognition in the Brazilian music scene and launched his recording and performing career.
Over the years, Djavan has become widely respected for his eclectic compositional approach, which dovetails samba, bossa nova, American jazz and pop -- his songs often feature complex harmonies, extended melodies and rhythms and textures drawn from unusual mixtures of romantic ballads, jazzy horns and screaming rock guitar. Some of Brazil's highest-profile musicians, including Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Nana Caymmi and Beth Carvalho as well as American stars Al Jarreau, Carmen McRae and the Manhattan Transfer, have covered his songs.
Yet he said that the music of his home village remains his strongest source of inspiration.
"I definitely am a musician of the northeast of Brazil," he says. "I really have gotten the influence of Luis Gonzaga, the king of forro from Pernambuco. But I was always open to lots of varieties -- the Beatles, classical music, bossa nova, African, jazz and flamenco.
"It's that fusion mainly of the Beatles and Luis Gonzaga that produces that special harmony."
It's just human nature
Though "Matizes" does address social issues, Djavan's material is generally not heavy with topicality, his songs' lyrics more often inspired by nature and human relationships.
"I need to write when things are at peace, when everything is very calm," he said. "I need that harmony around me to be able to compose. And when I do, I like to get involved in writing about human nature."
For his show at the Ford Amphitheatre, Djavan will be backed by a seven-piece band that includes two of his sons, guitarist Max Viana and drummer João Viana, both of whom have played with their father for a decade.
He said that the father-son bond makes for a special musical communication as well.
"With my sons, they're used to my kind of music; growing up they were there all the time next to me," he says. "Apart from the DNA involved, they have also grown as musicians, so that makes it that much easier. It just comes more naturally to my sons.
"My code of music -- the division of the rhythms and so forth -- is sometimes a little bit difficult for musicians to understand," he added, with a laugh.
Britney Spears - Spears Manager Britney Not Coming To Vegas Show
LATEST: Troubled star BRITNEY SPEARS' former manager LARRY RUDOLPH has refuted reports the singer is in secret negotiations to stage a major comeback spectacular in Las Vegas.
Rumours of a Sin City performance emerged earlier this month (May08), after the pop star was spotted dining with Palms Hotel + Casino owner George Maloof Jr. in Los Angeles.
But Rudolph has denied claims the Toxic hitmaker will be appearing on stage in the Nevada city.
He tells the Las Vegas Review Journal, "She's not here (in Las Vegas) and she's not coming in. I wouldn't lie to you."
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Manfred Mann
Artist: Manfred Mann
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Plains Music
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Solar Fire
Year: 1973
Tracks: 7
Pretty Flamingo
Year: 1966
Tracks: 11
My Little Red Book Of Winners
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
The Manfred Mann Album
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
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