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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Linkin Park Adds Busta Rhymes to 2008 Summer Tour

Multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park has announced that acclaimed hip-hop innovator Busta Rhymes will join their Projekt Revolution 2008 lineup. Rhymes and Linkin Park recently collaborated on "We Made It," the first single and video from Rhymes' upcoming album, Blessed. By touring together, Linkin Park & Busta are taking a cue from the chorus of their song: " ... we took it on the road ... ".
As recently pointed out in Rolling Stone's "Summer Tour Guide," the tour will see nine acts joining rock superstars Linkin Park, who are also offering concertgoers a digital souvenir pack that includes a recording of the band's entire set. As the band's co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda told the magazine, "That puts extra pressure on us to make sure our set is different every night."
The fifth installation of Linkin Park's raging road show will see them headlining an all-star bill that features former Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, electro-rockers The Bravery and Ashes Divide featuring Billy Howerdel, known for his work with A Perfect Circle. The Revolution stage will be headlined by metallic act Atreyu and features hard hitters 10 Years, fiery Ohio natives Hawthorne Heights and buzz band Armor For Sleep. Also performing will be percussive force Street Drum Corps. The tour launches July 16 at the Tweeter Center in Boston.
Fans can go to http://www.linkinpark.com/, http://www.projektrevolution.com/ or http://www.livenation.com/ for show dates and on-sale information in each area.
Produced by Live Nation and partnered with Major League Baseball, Monster Energy Drink, Verizon Wireless and Nowwhat.com, Projekt Revolution 2008 sees Linkin Park building upon the success and excitement of previous Revolution tours, which included artists such as My Chemical Romance, Korn, Snoop Dogg, HIM, Xzibit and Mudvayne, among others.
"We started Projekt Revolution six years ago and have been lucky to have toured with some great bands," says Linkin Park co-frontman Chester Bennington. "This year, however, might just be the best lineup yet. We're looking forward to taking this show on the road and bringing great music to the masses."
Last month Linkin Park took a break from their headlining tour in support of new album MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT and traveled to New Orleans to help families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The band joined volunteers from Music for Relief, and Habitat homeowner families from New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to build homes in the damaged Gulf Coast area. Prior to that, Linkin Park's nonprofit organization, Music For Relief, initiated a partnership with Hollywood for Habitat For Humanity to fund and build homes in hurricane ravaged areas. Additionally, Linkin Park recently donated $1 from each ticket sold on their European & UK, U.S. & Canadian headlining dates to Music for Relief for a tree-planting initiative.
With Projekt Revolution 2008, Linkin Park continues to give back, as $1 from every ticket sold will go toward Music for Relief to support disaster relief and reduce global warming. In just over a year Music For Relief has raised over $1 million for reforestation, planting over 797,000 trees. Music For Relief endeavors to help victims recover and rebuild following natural disasters but also works to reduce global warming. During Projekt Revolution 2008, Music for Relief will continue its grassroots outreach to fans to educate them on how to reduce their own carbon emissions and how those changes can have a global effect.

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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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.

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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