John Fogerty/The Blue Ridge Rangers & other: 2008

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Aceyalone with RJD2

Artist: Aceyalone with RJD2

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Magnificent City

Year: 2006
Tracks: 14

LiveDaily Sessions: Rogue Wave

Rogue Wave [ ], a four-piece alt-rock band based in Oakland, CA, have down pat the artistry of producing soundtrack singles. Together since lead singer Zach Schwartz (a.k.a. Zach Rogue) founded the group back in 2002, the dynamic bikers have contributed to Xbox's "Stubbs: The Zombie Soundtrack," "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Just Friends," as well as episodes of notable idiot box shows "Heroes," "Friday Night Lights" and "Weeds," among others.

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The quartet's showtime two albums, "Out of the Shadows" and "Descended Like Vultures," resulted in national support tours, followed by their most late release, September 2007's "Asleep at Heaven's Gate," on Jack Johnson's Brushfire embossment. Rogue Wave [ ] is currently in the midst of a summer tour supporting Johnson, with dates scheduled through the end of August.

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Tree63

Artist: Tree63

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

King

Year: 2004
Tracks: 3

The Life and Times of Absolute Truth

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

Originally known just as Tree, Tree63 is an alternative CCM mathematical group from Durban, South Africa, influenced by bands like hallucinating? and Sonicflood, with dashes of U2, Jars of Clay, and other dc Talk for estimable standard. Guitarist/lead singer John Ellis, bassist Scoop, and drummer Daryl Swart got together in late 1996 to do at a local Christian music festival assembled by producer Martin Engel. Over the first base half of 1997, Tree continued honing its alive act, and recorded their debut album, Overflow, at Engel's studio around mid-year. The record helped domain Tree a touring slot possibility for the more dance-oriented Christian outfit MIC in 1998, and subsequently that year, the band was invited to clear for their heroes excited? at the U.K. Soul Survivor festival. Warmly received by the hearing, the band was invited back for the side by side class, and jell around transcription their second album in a higher-tech U.K. studio. Titled 63 (after the psalm), the record album was released in the U.K. in mid-1999 and in South Africa toward the goal of the year, by which time Martin Engel had replaced Scoop as the basso thespian. Tree scored a major strike in their fatherland with the single "A Million Lights," which crossed all over onto mainstream wireless as well, making them the first Christian band to find mainstream achiever in South Africa. Word of mouthpiece around 63 filtered over to American shores as easily, and the group signed to the American inpop label, upon which point they officially changed their identify to Tree63. Their first base American pour forth, a self-titled solicitation of songs re-recorded from their first dickens albums, hit stores in summer 2000.

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Sixty Six - movie review

Preteen years can be so awkward, especially when you're in the shadow of a bully
big brother. And an obsessive-compulsive father. And a blind rabbi preparing you
for your Bar Mitzvah. This is the sweet, goofy story of North London's Bernie Rubens,
a non-athletic, bespectacled son waiting excitedly for his Jewish transition into manhood.
But the year is 1966 (thusly, the championship), and as any Brit knows, thither was something
else going on that year.

That "something else" was the presence of the underdog England soccer club in the
World Cup Final. With a last match scheduled for the same day as inadequate Bernie's Bar
Mitzvah celebration. In music director Paul Weiland's "true-ish narration" (a good establishing
trick there), our slight paladin carefully prepares, with Martha Stewart-like preciseness,
to at long last take his place as the nerve center of attention. But there's that nettlesome football
squad everyone is rooting for�

Weiland, with written material team Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, could have simply
drawn the analog between the two events, but Sixty Six aims for more, and ordinarily
succeeds. The filmmakers add together depth to Bernie's woes by exposing his household issues,
most notably those of his ultra-nebbish padre Manny.

As Manny, character worker Eddie Marsan (The Illusionist, Hancock) makes the most of his bulging
jowls and inward face, developing a shlumpy Willy Loman-type who's incessantly sad,
aflutter and proud at the same time. The sticky relationship betwixt Manny and Bernie
(assured newcomer Gregg Sulkin) is initially played for giggles -- unrivalled a morsel far on
the ridiculousness scale -- but is later the pivot percentage point of Bernie's warm recollections.

The absurd moment, involving a terribly unrelenting dog, illustrates Weiland's episodic
weakness in combining to a fault many styles, a common move in the "advent of geezerhood" genre.
Most of the film resides in that funny-yet-sad territory, but when Sixty Six goes toward
goofier humour -- and yeah, there's a blind gag with the rabbi -- the narrative loses
a piece of focus.

The saving good will is that Weiland does each of the tones very well. The timing is
solid whether the laugh is visual or dialogue-based, and the heartwarming moments
are indeed touching. For many viewers, this level of layers may be seen as more of
a plus than a problem.

While Marsan and Sulkin command the most attention, two Oscar nominees play a bit
of second fiddle, and do so praiseworthily. Helena Bonham Carter is Bernie's fast and
healthy mom; Stephen Rea participates in a bit purpose as an asthma dr. who
helps Bernie with his ventilation and newfound interest in world football.

Which leads us to the fantastic footage of the 1966 World Cup, which Weiland uses
gracefully to create analog action or insert the Rubens' tarradiddle within a far larger
nationalist circumstance. Early in the photographic film, Manny, a grocer, warns a much larger competition tha
t England loves an underdog. The land certainly did that twelvemonth, and Weiland is
bright enough to work a little cinematic magic during that World Cup final.

It's a termination that eventually overstays its welcome, sliding into a bit of melodrama.
But for a few shiny moments then and end-to-end, Sixty Six is a satisfying trivial
surprise, exactly like Bernie and that scrappy small soccer team.

(Side note: The release of Sixty Six comes just about the same time as the DVD issue
of The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, another foreign film near a Jewish neighborhood
during the World Cup (Brazil, 1970). Talk about a specific genre and a weird coincidence...)

Mazel tov!

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Friday, 11 July 2008

Britney video confirmed for Madonna tour

Britney Spears is to shoot a video for Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' tour, the older singer has confirmed.

However, Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg dismissed rumours that Madonna and Spears are filming a music video together.

"There is footage being shot of Britney some time this week in conjunction with Madonna's upcoming tour," Rosenberg told The Associated Press. "That is all the information I have available. The rest is a secret."

Madonna and Spears sparked controversy when they kissed during a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003. Madonna later guested on Spears's single 'Me Against The Music', which reached number two in November 2003.

Madonna's 42-date 'Sticky & Sweet' tour begins at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on August 23.

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50 Cent - 50 Cent Ordered To Hand Over Any Guns

US rapper 50 Cent has been ordered to hand over any guns he may own after an ex-girlfriend secured a restraining order against him.

The restraining order bans the rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, from contacting Shaniqua Tompkins without gaining permission from the New York court.

Ms Tompkins is the mother of Mr Jackson's 10-year-old son.

The rapper and his ex-girlfriend have been involved in a legal row over Mr Jackson's money, with Ms Tompkins claiming she is entitled to half of his estate after securing an oral agreement.

In May, a fire destroyed the rap star's house in Long Island, where Ms Tompkins and their son had been living.

Police have claimed they are treating the fire as suspicious while Mr Jackson has denied any involvement.

Following the court's instruction to hand over all firearms in Mr Jackson's possession as part of the restraining order, his lawyer Brett Kimmel said he would be contesting the ruling, adding: "To my knowledge, he has no guns".

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Jason Bralli

Artist: Jason Bralli

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Unforgettable

Year: 2007
Tracks: 1

Human Mincer

Artist: Human Mincer

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Devoured Flesh

Year: 2005
Tracks: 8

Ton Scherpenzeel

Artist: Ton Scherpenzeel

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Le Carnaval Des Animaux

Year:
Tracks: 12

Duran Duran - Duran Duran Plot Second Bond Theme

British rockers DURAN DURAN are planning on teaming up with superproducer MARK RONSON to record a second BOND theme - 23 years after releasing the title track to A VIEW TO A KILL.

The band recently chose Ronson to remix a string of their hit singles and will be performing a one-off gig with Ronson in Paris, France on Wednesday (02Jul08) night.

And keyboardist Nick Rhodes insists they are keen to collaborate with the 32-year-old again - on a theme tune for forthcoming James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.

He says, "We'd love to collaborate with Mark on a single for the next Bond film. With him we may even surpass A View To A Kill."

Speculation about who will sing the title track to the new 007 movie has been rife - with rumours that Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis and Beyonce Knowles are all being considered for the job.

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Wild Beasts, The Cockpit, Leeds

With a name like Wild Beasts, you expect a band tearing onstage on motorcycles, emitting heavy metal thunder - not polite young men from Kendal fronted by a man singing falsetto. Hayden Thorpe's extraordinary voice is perhaps why Wild Beasts have often been dubbed "fey", although the tag does them a disservice. They wear vests and beanies, and look like they could handle a spot of building. They sing about beer, casual sex, thugs and football, and are not too effete for lines like "I swear by my own cock and balls" and references to "the bastards". Meanwhile, their song titles (Vigil for a Fuddy Duddy, Woebegone Wanderers) seem to come from literature, not pop. There are hints of early Roxy Music, Sparks and second world war military bands ("cheerio, chaps", they sing), all conspiring to make them probably the most original new band in Britain.

Wild Beasts don't do conventional pop hits, but pocket symphonies with awkward waltz timings, and dancing to them risks injury. Thorpe's voice - veering from Billy Mackenzie opera to a more laddy, Fratelli-type rasp - prompts gasps of "incredible" in the crowd. And the rhythm section are furiously inventive - guitarist Benny Little plays like an indie Nile Rodgers, and bassist Tom Fleming reveals his own classically-tinged vocal on Please Sir, an anti-war song that somehow mentions "chips with cheese". Wild Beasts are a similarly acquired taste, but are attracting a small, devoted following. One drunk girl celebrates them by snogging her female friend, and thrusting her bottom at the audience before finally being thrown out - for behaving like a Wild Beast.

· At Latitude Festival, Southwold, July 17-20 (Details: 0871 220 0260). Then touring.

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