Artist: Typecell
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Voice Of Submission
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Trickdisc (TD009)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Monday, 23 June 2008
Typecell
Artist: Typecell
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Voice Of Submission
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Trickdisc (TD009)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Monday, 16 June 2008
Geeks to Madden: Jock Block This!
A couple of gamers are tossing up a Hail Mary class action suit against one of the biggest video game makers -- over the biggest sports game on the market.
EA Sports has an unfair monopoly on the football game business, so the suit alleges, because they negotiated a sweetheart deal with the NFL Players Association -- essentially making "Madden" the only game on the market to feature real player names. Would you rather play with Brett Favre or QB#4? And as a final kick in the nads -- they jacked up the price, too!
EA is mum.
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EA Sports has an unfair monopoly on the football game business, so the suit alleges, because they negotiated a sweetheart deal with the NFL Players Association -- essentially making "Madden" the only game on the market to feature real player names. Would you rather play with Brett Favre or QB#4? And as a final kick in the nads -- they jacked up the price, too!
EA is mum.
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Monday, 9 June 2008
David Byrne’s Building Has Every Convenience, and Other Culture Highlights From This Week’s ‘New York’
Photo: Aharon Rothschild/Metro New York/Courtesy of Creative Time
In this week's issue, New York's classical music and architecture critic, Justin Davidson, reviews a work that's right in his wheelhouse(s): the Battery Maritime Building, where David Byrne has rigged up a building-size musical instrument for visitors to play. Architecture is classical music! Meanwhile, Jerry Saltz reviews David Altmejd's installation at Andrea Rosen Gallery, noting that the large sculptural figures have a lot going on — and when they fail, they fail spectacularly. John Leonard revisits the seventies in his review of CBS' Swingtown. And David Edelstein raves The Go-Getter and Operation Filmmaker.
Speaking of critics, Harvey Fierstein has a problem with them — he thinks they're ruining theater. Santogold's critics have mostly been nice to her, but she's got a problem with the press anyway: “I’ve been watching people clamber over themselves to try to place some sort of label on me.” Danny Elfman annotates his score to Twyla Tharp's new ballet Rabbit and Rogue, in which he creates the kinds of moments they never let you write in film scores. And Emma Rosenblum inexpertly (but hilariously) diagnoses the crazy ladies of reality TV, using DVR and the DSM-IV.
In this week's issue, New York's classical music and architecture critic, Justin Davidson, reviews a work that's right in his wheelhouse(s): the Battery Maritime Building, where David Byrne has rigged up a building-size musical instrument for visitors to play. Architecture is classical music! Meanwhile, Jerry Saltz reviews David Altmejd's installation at Andrea Rosen Gallery, noting that the large sculptural figures have a lot going on — and when they fail, they fail spectacularly. John Leonard revisits the seventies in his review of CBS' Swingtown. And David Edelstein raves The Go-Getter and Operation Filmmaker.
Speaking of critics, Harvey Fierstein has a problem with them — he thinks they're ruining theater. Santogold's critics have mostly been nice to her, but she's got a problem with the press anyway: “I’ve been watching people clamber over themselves to try to place some sort of label on me.” Danny Elfman annotates his score to Twyla Tharp's new ballet Rabbit and Rogue, in which he creates the kinds of moments they never let you write in film scores. And Emma Rosenblum inexpertly (but hilariously) diagnoses the crazy ladies of reality TV, using DVR and the DSM-IV.
Nigel Lythgoe: "David Cook Needs a Personality"
If you thought Simon Cowell was blunt, how about this?
The Idol judge has nothing on his boss Nigel Lythgoe, who told OK! that this year�s winner David Cook could be as big as AI alum Daughtry � but only if he gets some personality.
The exec producer also revealed for the first time that the smash hit show had a run-in with the White House earlier this year over the President�s appearance on the Idol Gives Back special!
And he told us about hsi bizarre plans to turn America second biggest show, So You Think You Can Dance, into a tinned-food drive.
The Idol exec producer said yesterday that both of the finalists, Davids Cook and Archuleta, could have a shot at the big time -- except that they both suffer from a lack of onstage charisma.
Lythgoe said that he thinks 25-year-old Cook, who took the Idol title two weeks ago, could be �enormous for a long time� and even rival the success of fellow rocker Chris Daughtry, who came fourth in the show's fifth season.
�He can certainly sing � and I�d like to see a bit more personality when he�s singing,� he said.
�And that was the only thing that I think our finalists lacked a little bit this year, was more charisma.�
He said that the pair should use the American Idol Live tour this summer, which starts in Glendale Az. on July 1, to learn to put a unique sparkle into their performances.
Nigel, 58, also spilled that during the planning for the second annual Idol Gives Back fundraising special, which aired in April, America�s biggest TV show had a spat with no less a power than the White House!
He said that the show�s producers were so disappointed with President Bush�s efforts to combat the very poverty that the show was trying to relieve that they were embarrassed to have him on their TV show.
But Nigel said that Idol relented under pressure from the Pres's people, and allowed him to speak during the star-studded broadcast.
�The President is always saying �I want to be on [Gives Back],� said the Brit.
�We didn't ask the President this year to say anything because we are all a bit embarrassed about him, and the office insisted that, because the [primary] candidates were on it, the President would like to come on and say �thank you.�"
So far Nigel says, Idol Gives Back, has raised some $142million for projects in the US and Africa. But that hasn�t stopped him for developing some far more home-grown ways to help the poor.
The exec, who is also on the board of the after-school program LA�s Best, said that he is going to make the studio audience for So You Think You Can Dance donate canned goods for the program in exchange for an admission ticket.
"So if you want a ticket for So You Think You Can Dance, all you have to do is bring a can of fruit or vegetables or something.
"And I'll come and collect it each week and just take it away.
"And how sad is this? How sad is this in Los Angeles. I get angry with it,� he said.
So You Think You Can Dance airs on Fox on Wednesday and Thursdays at 8pm ET/PT.
Tickets for the Pop Tarts American Idol Live Summer Tour 2008, featuring the final 10 contestants from season 7 of American Idol, are on sale now.
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Mtv - Mtv Movie Awards To Go Ahead
The MTV Movie Awards will go ahead at California's Universal City, despite the fire that destroyed much of the nearby Universal Studios on Sunday (1Jun08).
The inferno ripped through a number of studio sets and destroyed movie and TV archives, but MTV bosses are determined the star-studded bash, hosted by Mike Myers, will take place at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
A spokesperson says, "The areas we are utilising for our production were unaffected and the 2008 MTV Movie Awards will go on as planned. We're working closely with authorities to make sure everything operates smoothly."
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Novye Kompozitory
Artist: Novye Kompozitory
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Suda - A Retrospective
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Sputnik
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Kellys Lawyers Point Out Mole Difference In Sex Tape
LATEST: R. KELLY's lawyers have continued to deny the singer features in a sex tape at the centre of his child pornography trial, insisting the man in the video bears key physical differences from the star.
Kelly stands accused of videotaping himself having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Opening statements in the trial got underway in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday (20May08), and prosecutors told the jury members they will have to watch the explicit footage of an "underage child performing sex acts that you have never seen before".
But the defence have argued that Kelly is not the man in the tape - making reference to a mole on the R+B star's penis, which the male in the sex video reportedly does not have.
The girl thought to be in the video, who is now 23, has maintained that she isn't the female in the footage, and Kelly's attorneys backed up her claims.
According to website TMZ.com, they told jurors the female in the sex video wasn't the "sweet and nice" girl they knew, because "the woman in this tape is a prostitute".
The trial continues.
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"Semi-Pro," "Meet the Spartans" released on DVD this week
Here are some of today's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, go to www.seattletimes.com/movies).
"Semi-Pro" (R), a comedy directed by Kent Alterman and starring Will Ferrell (with resplendent Afro) as an owner/coach/promoter/power forward of a hapless basketball team facing extinction.
"Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show" (R), a road-trip movie with fast-talking Vaughn and four fledgling stand-up comedians on a grueling 30-day, 30-city tour. Directed by Ari Sandel.
"Meet the Spartans" (PG-13), a spoof of "300" with a C-list cast (including Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra and Kevin Sorbo) donning Greek wear and fake six-packs. Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
"The Eye" (PG-13), starring Jessica Alba as a blind violinist who has her sight restored. And what does she see? Dead people. Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud.
"Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition," Clint Eastwood's five cop thrillers are back: "Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact" and "The Dead Pool." Go ahead, make your day.
TV on DVD
"Weeds: Season Three"
"Rescue Me: The Complete Fourth Season"
"The Dead Zone: The Final Season"
"Mannix: The First Season"
"CHiPS: The Complete Second Season"
"The Incredible Hulk"
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Regan and Thrills on Shortlist longlist
Irish artists Fionn Regan and The Thrills are among the 54 acts on the longlist for the prestigious Shortlist Music Prize in the US.
Regan is longlisted for his debut album 'The End of History' while The Thrills are longlisted for their latest album 'Teenager'.
Among the judges of the 2008 prize are Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Ten acts will be shortlisted for the award early in 2008.
Cat Power won the Shortlist Music Prize last year for her album 'The Greatest'; previous winners include Damien Rice, TV on the Radio, Sigur Ros and NERD.
Among the other acts on the 2008 longlist are: Arcade Fire ('Neon Bible'), Bjork ('Volta'), Eddie Vedder ('Into the Wild' soundtrack), Feist ('The Reminder'), Josh Ritter ('The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter'), Kings of Leon ('Because of the Times'), MIA ('Kala'), PJ Harvey ('White Chalk') and Wilco ('Sky Blue Sky').
Regan is longlisted for his debut album 'The End of History' while The Thrills are longlisted for their latest album 'Teenager'.
Among the judges of the 2008 prize are Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Ten acts will be shortlisted for the award early in 2008.
Cat Power won the Shortlist Music Prize last year for her album 'The Greatest'; previous winners include Damien Rice, TV on the Radio, Sigur Ros and NERD.
Among the other acts on the 2008 longlist are: Arcade Fire ('Neon Bible'), Bjork ('Volta'), Eddie Vedder ('Into the Wild' soundtrack), Feist ('The Reminder'), Josh Ritter ('The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter'), Kings of Leon ('Because of the Times'), MIA ('Kala'), PJ Harvey ('White Chalk') and Wilco ('Sky Blue Sky').
Mark Morrison
Artist: Mark Morrison
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Return Of The Mack
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Mark Morrison was one of the to the highest degree successful British urban R&B singers of the mid-'90s. His discovery undivided, "Refund of the Mack," became a Top Ten bump off across Europe in 1996, and open the U.S. market for him the undermentioned year. Although he became a commercial success nearly overnight, his career was plagued by run-ins with the practice of law that prevented him from consolidating his position as a star.
Ironically, if it wasn't for poky, Morrison wouldn't get chased a career in music in all. He distinct to go a singer in 1995 piece serving a three-month sentence for causation an incident at a club. Following his acquittance, he entered the studio with a production squad. In the accrue of 1995, he released "Crazy," which became a order darling and a Top 20 bump off in Britain. It was followed in the spring of 1996 by "Return of the Mack," which became a smash make, outgo 2 weeks at number one on the U.K. charts; he became the first blackened male solo artist to reach out number ane in the '90s. Morrison's debut record album, too coroneted Reelect of the Mack, followed and sickly at number four-spot. "Let's Get Down," his one-third undivided, reached the Top 40 that summer.
Although his calling was departure intimately, Morrison was constantly in problem with the law, culminating in an catch for nerve-racking to bring a stun gun onto a airplane. He was convicted and sent to clink in early 1997. Around the like time, he received quadruplet Brit Award nominations (he didn't advance whatever), and "Refund of the Mack" began to climb its way to number 2 on the American charts.
Mountain
Artist: Mountain
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Go For Your Life
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Climbing!
Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
Twin Peaks
Year: 1974
Tracks: 9
The Best Of (Remastered)
Year: 1973
Tracks: 16
Nantucket Sleighride
Year: 1971
Tracks: 9
The breakup of Cream in late 1968 had consequences that wavy crossways the rock music earth -- in its wake were formed directly such bands as Blind Faith (whose tragedy was they never had a opportunity to actually go a band) and Ginger Baker's Air Force, as easily as the rich solo careers of members Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. And it yielded -- by way of Cream associate and manufacturer Felix Pappalardi -- something of a replacement band in 1969, in the form of Mountain.
The band's history all started with a Long Island-based psychedelic/garage banding called the Vagrants, who'd acquired a serious local following and invariably seemed poised to weaken out, without of all time actually doing so. Their lead guitarist, Leslie West, was a physically oversize figure as well as a instrumentalist extraordinaire whose playing had been entirely transformed by his feel of hearing Clapton's playing in Cream. The Vagrants and West first crossed paths with Pappalardi in 1968, when he saw their potential and got them gestural to Atlantic Records, where he was working as a producer. He had already made a name for himself producing Cream's First Earl of Beaconsfield Gears album, and had played numerous scope instruments on their follow-up, Wheels of Fire (and on the studio apartment tracks that would form their Sayonara album). He did produce some of the best do work that the Vagrants e'er released, but none of it sold; and when West left the band in late 1968 to do a solo album, highborn Slew, Pappalardi produced it for him, as well as played keyboards and bass on the record. The results were the most impressive of West's vocation up to that time, a solid, blues-based hard rock exercise, exhibit off just how profoundly he incorporated Clapton's playing into his own way -- Mass sounded a big administer like the now-disbanded Cream, and was satisfying sufficiency for the deuce to form a partnership, besides called Mountain. Their first batting order was built around the one used on the album, with N.D. Smart on drums, and Steve Knight added on keyboards, spell Pappalardi saturated on playing the bass. Following a debut performance at the Fillmore West in July 1969, the chemical group played its fourth live functioning of all time at Woodstock, in figurehead of an audience of several century k, on a measure with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and -- too getting their first base interior exposure at the same fete -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The event was an auspicious one, fifty-fifty though it was followed by a personnel shift, as Smart was replaced by Corky Laing, West's oldest friend.
The group was gestural to the Windfall label and released their debut LP, Mountain Climbing!, in the springiness of 1970, accompanied by their debut single, "Magnolia State Queen," which reached number 21 in June of 1970. That chart placement doesn't begin to outline the shock of that undivided, a hard rock music boogie that was a killer show window for West's guitar and an unlikely piece of Southern-fried rock & roll, orgasm from the pens of the Queens- and Brooklyn-born West and Pappalardi, and the Canadian-born Laing -- it was as unconvincing as the California-born John Fogerty authoring "Born on the Bayou" or "Viridity River," and most as abiding in popular cultivation. The unmarried may not have reached the Top 20, simply the record album it was on peaked at number 17, determined by listeners careworn to the single just lacking more from the band behind it, and the high-energy commix of hard sway and blues they generated. And the debut record album offered some surprises, such as the quartet's successful digression into reformist rock music with "Theme from an Imaginary Western" (co-authored by Cream's Jack Bruce, which only further emphasized the indirect connections and melodic debt owed the other band). The latter got slews of play on FM radio set, as did "Ne'er in My Life."
Every bit important to the band's fortunes, they were able to deliver onstage what they promised on their records -- so, their records were a surprisingly precise representation of their actual sound, leave out that Mountain was even louder live than they were in the studio. The chemical group scored some other hit at the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1970, aboard the Allman Brothers, Cactus. and others. Mountain's second record album, Nantucket Sleighride, was equally successful commercially and unveiled the title of respect path, which would charter on epic proportions in concert. Flowers of Evil followed in November of 1971, just ten months subsequently its forerunner, and it began to clearly designate the strain of the gait the band had been guardianship up since July of 1969 -- half of it consisted of lustreless studio originals, patch the other half was a live medley and a concert interpretation of "Mississippi Queen." Lackluster gross sales and reviews were inevitable, and the depression of a ring running on empty was strengthened by their next release, Mountain Live (The Road Goes Ever On) (1972), which had only four cuts on it, all of them characterized by extended solos. Hardcore fans appreciated the record as an reference of their recordings, simply many listeners and most critics launch it deficient musical cohesion.
The mathematical group broke up shortly afterward the handout of that album, due in part to Pappalardi's concerns around his hearing, which been damaged by the high volume the band generated in concert. He returned to production, patch West and Laing -- staying close to their severe rock roots, as well as the orbit whence Pappalardi had derive -- teamed up with ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce as West, Bruce & Laing, a hard john Rock office trio that cut a brief just memorable wrapping of their own across the melodious landscape in the early/mid-'70s. Meanwhile, a Best of Mountain LP released in the arouse of the detachment helped to sustain interest in the group. And later in 1973, Mountain was back together, West and Pappalardi reactivating the ring with Bob Mann on keyboards and guitar and Allan Schwartzberg on drums for a tour of duty of Japan. This resulted in the live two-fold LP Counterpart Peaks (1974), a much better representation of the group's concert good, including a 32-minute version of "Nantucket Sleighride." During 1974, in the arouse of the second live album, West, Laing, and Pappalardi revived Mountain over again to record a studio LP, Avalanche. In subsequent age, West and Laing revived the grouping for live shows, sometimes joined by Pappalardi; West besides performed with his possess Leslie West Band. Sadly, Pappalardi was shot and killed by his married woman in 1983. Two years later on, West and Laing regrouped with Mark Clarke on bass and recorded an album in front one time once more career it quits. Laing served as PolyGram's A&R vice chairwoman in Canada 'tween 1989 and 1995. In 1996, he reunited with West and Clarke for a new Mountain album, Man's World. West and Laing teamed up over again in 2002 for some other album as Mountain, Mystical Fire.
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