Miley Breaks Out of Her Hannah Montana Shell & other: 2008

Thursday, 4 September 2008

'Foo Fighters secret gig' chaos at Reading Festival

Rumours of a Foo Fighters clandestine gig yesterday (August 24) at the Reading Festival resulted in thousands of fans causation chaos in front of the BBC Introducing Stage.

A British punk band named The FF'ers were billed to be playing on the stage at 5pm (BST), causing rumours to spread round the web site that the band appoint was a pseudonym for Dave Grohl's band.

By the time 5pm came around 3,000 fans had gathered about the small stage. When The FF'ers came on they were bottled by the wild fans, world Health Organization were expecting to go through the aforesaid US rockers play a secret express. The FF'ers had to abandon their set due to the chaos.

Despite the rumours of the secret show beingness scuppered by The FF'ers' brief show, most of the fans remained by the stagecoach. The next band on, Underground Railroad, received a similar handling to The FF'ers, with fans hurling mud, bottles and place at them.

The Parisian threesome responded by playing 'NYC' in frenetic fashion, then began hurling the missiles back into the crowd. They were pulled off by security soon afterwards.

After announcers had calmed the situation by explaining that Foo Fighters were not going to play, Underground Railroad realised their localize to round 500 fans who had remained to watch them.

"That was a scary and punky moment for us!" drummer/singer Raf Mura told NME.COM afterwards his band�s performance.

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Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Download Monica mp3

Artist: Monica: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

R&B: Soul

Discography:

The Makings Of Me

Year: 2006

Tracks: 10

All Eyez On Me

Year: 2003

Tracks: 14

After The Storm

Year: 2003

Tracks: 13

Atlanta vocaliser Monica debuted in 1995 with the atomic number 78 Top Ten singles "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" and "Before You Walk Out of My Life." After coming into court on LL Cool J's Mr. Smith later that yr, she recorded another killer distich with Brandy, "The Boy Is Mine," which fagged several weeks at the spinning top of the singles charts during summer 1998. Her secondment platter album, as well highborn The Boy Is Mine, was released in July 1998. She scored a few more than than graph successes through the following spring, only a long period of silence pronounced time 'tween albums. The much-delayed After the Storm finally strike stores in the bound of 2003, while the following Makings of Me took trio years to materialize.

Saturday, 16 August 2008

Public Health Clinic Study Links 'Americanization' And Depression

�A study of 439 U.S. and Mexican-born Latinas seeking maternity and postnatal services at public health clinics in San Antonio uncovered elevated levels of depression among the more than "Americanized" women, report researchers from The University of Texas School of Public Health and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the most recent online government issue of the Maternal and Child Health Journal.

"Americanization" or acculturation is the

Thursday, 7 August 2008

David Crosby - Crosby Nash Were Like A Married Couple

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Friday, 27 June 2008

Something Racist About Cameron?

Cameron Diaz doesn't strike us as a bigot -- and judging by her reaction to a photog joking that she made a racist comment, she doesn't think she's one either.
Cameron Diaz: Click to watch

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Monday, 23 June 2008

Klaxons, Charlatans and DPT supergroup to record album

The Chavs, the supergroup compromising The Charlatans' Tim Burgess, Klaxons' Jamie Reynolds and Dirty Pretty Things' Carl Barat, will hit the recording studio in August.

The group are planning to record their "quite avant-garde" debut album providing Barat has recovered from acute pancreatitus, which is currently keeping him in hospital.

Speaking to BBC 6Music, Burgess said: "The idea is to actually record something proper over the summer when we get a chance.

"Myself, Carl and Jamie from Klaxons actually went out for a bit of a band meeting and I think that we are all free in August - but I've just heard the news yesterday that Carl got quite sick so hopefully he'll be recovered by then."

Explaining the planned sound of the album, the singer said: "I just want it to be very serious you know, which would kinda be conflicting in the way that people have seen us in the past, but I think it might be quite avant-garde to be honest."

Barat was rushed to hospital on Tuesday (June 17) and may face surgery, which has caused Dirty Pretty Things to cancel a charity gig at the London Hackney Round Chapel tomorrow (June 20).

Monday, 16 June 2008

The Move

Artist: The Move

   Genre(s):
Other
   Trance: Psychedelic
   Rock

Discography:

Ghetto Blaster

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Dogfight

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Proud

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Sight For Sore Eyes

Year: 1994
Tracks: 4

One Night In Heaven

Year: 1994
Tracks: 3

Elegant Slumming

Year: 1993
Tracks: 10

Northern Soul

Year: 1992
Tracks: 13

Looking On

Year: 1971
Tracks: 11

Shazam' and Something Else

Year: 1970
Tracks: 11

Shazam

Year: 1970
Tracks: 15

The Move

Year: 1968
Tracks: 20

Message From The Country

Year: 1966
Tracks: 10

Friday, 6 June 2008

Uma Thurman sued by Lancome

Actress Uma Thurman is being sued by Lancome, the French cosmetics giant has confirmed.

Lancome says it did not violate its contract with the Kill Bill actress and she is not entitled to the $1m she has demanded.

The company filed papers in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court saying Uma has threatened a lawsuit claiming they improperly used her name and face in advertising.

The court papers state that Uma is complaining her name and likeness were used on Canadian billboards and Asian websites after her contract to help market the beauty products titan’s products expired.

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Thursday, 5 June 2008

Neverland Ranch could be on the market

An American court filing has said that Michael Jackson's home, Neverland Ranch, could be put up for sale at a public auction next month.
If the pop star is unable to pay the $24m he still owes on the property, the court will put his home on the market.
Jackson closed down areas of the 1,100 hectare (2,800 acre) ranch in 2006 in a bid to reduce costs on the property.
He also made the majority of his staff redundant but kept on a skeleton staff to run the parts of the estate that he kept open.
Financial Title Co filed the notice of trustee's sale with Santa Barbara County Superior Court yesterday, setting the auction date for 19 March.

Fergie's mother denies pregnancy reports

Singer Fergie's mother has denied media speculation that her daughter is pregnant.
Speaking on Ryan Seacrest's radio show on KIIS FM, Terri Ferguson responded to the baby rumours by saying: "Nope, not at all."
Fergie's mother then added: "Did you see her at the Grammys?", describing her 32-year-old daughter as "skinny, skinny, skinny".
Recent media reports suggested that the singer, real name Stacy Ferguson, had decided to change her wedding date.
However, Terri Ferguson dismissed these reports, saying: "We are not moving up the wedding."
"I think people can't believe people do get married just because they love each other, not because they are pregnant," she said.

Coldplay Score Biggest US Hit Single Yet

Coldplay have had their biggest ever US hit, climbing to number three in the Billboard Hot 100.

The band entered relatively badly at the low end of the top 50, with single 'Viva La Vida', but managed to soar to number 10 last week.

This weeks charts saw them climb even higher, breaking their previous highest entry of number eight three years ago.

Elsewhere Lil Wayne and Leona Lewis continue to reign over the top two positions with Lollipop and 'Bleeding Love', while American Idol winner David Cook falls from three to nine.

The Top 10 Billboard Charts Singles :

1. Lil Wayne ft. Static Major - 'Lollipop'

2. Leona Lewis - 'Bleeding Love'

3. Coldplay - 'Viva La Vida'

4. Rihanna - Take A Bow

5. Katy Perry: 'I Kissed A Girl'

6. Usher ft. Young Jeezy - 'Love In This Club'

7. Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown - 'No Air'

8. Ray J & Yung Berg - 'Sexy Can I'

9. David Cook - The Time Of My Life

10. Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes

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Art Garfunkel

Artist: Art Garfunkel

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Rock
   Other
   Rock: Folk-Rock

Discography:

Some Enchanted Evening

Year: 2007
Tracks: 13

Everything Waits To Be Noticed

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

Across America

Year: 1997
Tracks: 17

Up 'til Now

Year: 1993
Tracks: 13

Fate for Breakfast

Year: 1979
Tracks: 11

Watermark

Year: 1977
Tracks: 12

Breakaway

Year: 1975
Tracks: 10

Angel Clare

Year: 1973
Tracks: 10

After Simon & Garfunkel, 1 of the about successful duos in come out history, split up in 1970, Art Garfunkel became a solo artist, as well as pursuing an acting life history. Garfunkel's pure, high tenor had been unitary of the most distinctive elements of the duo's music, even he wasn't responsible for for the songwriting -- Simon wrote all of the group's hits. Not amazingly, Garfunkel relied on other songwriters, from Jimmy Webb and Randy Newman, in addition to rock & roll standards like "I Only Have Eyes for You," throughout his solo vocation. As a solo performer, he was never quite as successful as he was with Simon & Garfunkel, in time he did have a number of Top 40 hits in the mid-'70s.

Garfunkel didn't begin a solo vocation until 1973. Between 1970 and 1973, he acted, appearance in two Mike Nichols films, Catch 22 and Animal Knowledge. Holy man Clare, his first solo book, was co-produced with Simon & Garfunkel producer Roy Halee and released in the fall of 1973. It established the style -- a light, carefully arranged and constructed melodic soft careen -- he would fall out end-to-end his solo life history. The album became a Top Ten hit on the strength of the individual "All I Know," which under the weather at number nine-spot. Two age later on, he returned with the Richard Perry-produced Breakaway, the to the highest degree successful album of his solo career. The record book poorly at issue seven-spot, with a adaptation of the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You" reaching number 18 on the U.S. charts; in Britain, the individual topped the charts. That same fall, he reunited with Paul Simon for the first time, playacting on Sabbatum Night Live. In December, Simon's "My Little Town," featuring Garfunkel on backing vocals, became a Top Ten hit.

In the fall of 1977, Garfunkel released his third gear record album, Watermark, which primarily consisted of Jimmy Webb covers. However, when the first single from the album failed to graph, the album was reissued in early 1978 with a cut across of Sam Cooke's "Terrific World" that featured supporting vocals from Simon and James Taylor. Released as a individual, "Grand World" under the weather at number 17. The following year, Portion for Breakfast appeared. Although it performed well in Britain, reaching number deuce, the album signalled that his American audience was beginning to funk: none of the singles made the Top 40 and the album only reached issue 67. In the fall of 1979, he filmed deuce movies, Spoiled Timing and Illusions. Scissors hold Cut, a reunion with producer Roy Halee released in 1981, did nothing to opposite his sliding commercial potency -- it didn't tied wear out into the Top 100 albums.

Later on the release of Scissors Cut, Simon & Garfunkel reunited for a concert in New York's Central Park. The concert was so successful, the duette distinct to venture on a yearlong creation hitch. During the tour, tensions mounted between the partner off and they split again afterwards it was completed. After a extended quiet period of time, Garfunkel re-emerged in 1988 with Lefty, which spent a mere eight-spot weeks in the American charts and failed to make the British charts. He did not release another album until 1993's rarities compilation Up 'til Now. Following its sack, Garfunkel took another prolonged break, returning in 1997 with the hot album Across America and the children's record book Songs from a Parent to a Child. The (mostly) self-penned Everything Waits to Be Noticed arrived in 2002, followed by Some Enchanted Evening, a accumulation of renditions of classics from the American Popular Songbook, in 2007.

Jessica Simpson engaged to Tony Romo?

Jessica Simpson is engaged to boyfriend Tony Romo, say reports.
Rumors of a possible engagement were triggered when Simpson’s friends were overheard toasting the singer’s “happiness” at P Diddy’s party in Hollywood on Friday May 4.
The former ‘Newly Weds’ star, who was out without the Dallas Cowboys quaterback, was heard telling pals: “I have never felt better. I am really excited.”
Jessica, 27, is reportedly determined to beat younger sister Ashlee — and her boyfriend Pete Wentz — down the aisle.

Jessica Alba: 'My Pregnancy Was No Accident'

Jessica Alba admits that she wasn’t being careful and practising safe sex when she and fiancé Cash Warren conceived their unborn child.

The star, who is due to pop out her first child next month, never predicted she would be pregnant at the age of 27, but she openly admits she wasn't being "careful" with contraception.

She tells Allure magazine: "I can't say it was a total accident. Because you're aware of when you're being careful and when you're not. It just happened so soon.

"I never believed women had to be virgins when they got married, or that a woman has to fall in love with a guy just because they're having sex. I don't think sex is a big deal."

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Rumble in the Bowery

On April 1, 1979, Elvis Costello and the Attractions performed three concerts in a single evening at three different New York City clubs. The first venue was the Lone Star Cafe, a beloved, L-shaped hole-in-the-wall with a gigantic replica of an iguana on the roof. Sadly, the Lone Star no longer exists. Venue No 2 was the legendary Bottom Line, where Bruce Springsteen achieved lift-off; the club, after many years as a "home away from home" for high-class has-beens, bit the dust in 2004. The third concert was held at a short-lived, long-forgotten Bowery club called Great Gildersleeves, which never achieved anything approaching the fame and mythical razzamatazz of its iconic neighbour CBGBs, located a block or so to the south.

The April Fool's marathon was coloured by drama, as Costello had recently traded angry words with Buffalo Springfield / Crosby, Stills and Nash co-founder Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett, a back-up singer in Stills's touring band. The incident occurred at a Columbus, Ohio, Holiday Inn, when Costello, undeniably under the influence, made a few untoward comments about Ray Charles and James Brown. This seemed then, and seems even more so now, to be a classic confrontation between a cocky young upstart from England and a pair of geriatric Americans. A case can even be made that Elvis Costello and the Attractions were gifts from God, bequeathed to mankind as partial compensation for the horrors wrought on them by His previous creations: Crosby, Stills and Nash, Seals and Croft, Loggins and Messina, and all the other torpid, comfy, easy-listening combos of that general ilk. Costello quickly held a New York press conference to apologise for - and contextualise - his comments (Honestly, your worship, I was only trying to wind them up!) but even so, there was some expectation that unpleasantness might erupt at one or more of the Sunday evening concerts, as irate Ray Charles aficianados gathered up their cudgels, scythes and pikestaffs and took to the streets, seeking blood.

Nothing of the sort came to pass, though the Great Gildersleeves engagement did come to an abrupt ending as a result of a brawl between two bikers and a cabal of slobs from Long Island. Having won tickets to the concert from a local radio station, I witnessed the kerfuffle from just a few feet away; indeed, I had seen trouble brewing the entire evening, as it became more and more obvious that the two groups would eventually come to blows. The official pretext for the brawl was the bikers' earnest and oft-articulated desire that the greaser slobs shut up, stop hassling the female patrons, and let everyone enjoy the concert. It had nothing to do with Ray Charles, Stephen Stills, or, for that matter, Elvis Costello. The unobliging greasers - whose presence at the concert remains a mystery to me to this day - were beaten up badly, even though they outnumbered the bikers 5-2. In the hour or so leading up to the punch-up, I remember looking over at the two Central Casting bikers and deciding that you'd have to be a real idiot to get on the wrong side of them. The Long Island boys were real idiots.

The concert was late getting started, and did not last very long. The band did not take the stage until well past one in the morning, and were probably worn out by all the sturm und drang of recent days. They were touring in support of their third album, Armed Forces, which had been released three months earlier, but the high point of the evening was Pump It Up, which appeared on their previous LP This Year's Model. With songs such as Radio Radio, No Action and This Year's Girl, This Year's Model was immediately recognised, at least by me, as one of the 10 greatest records ever made (even though I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea, inexplicably, was left off the US release by the record company). Though Costello had started his career by masquerading as a punk, in the same way the Police initially pretended to be less than stellar musicians, out of fear of alienating unforgiving crowds that mistook primitivism for authenticity, his songs were far too sophisticated to fit into the punk canon. Punk, like heavy metal, is an art form based on one idea. Costello had millions of ideas.

The night of the Great Gildersleeves concert, Costello chose to end the show by playing a medley including the raucous Pump It Up. He may have done this in response to the punch-up, I do not know, but the song provided a fitting backdrop to the festivities, as it is a pounding and relentless little number, and the bikers were pounding on the uncouth out-of-town youths relentlessly. All in all, the whole thing was a smashing success. Fifteen years later, I met Costello at the rooftop pool of the Bel-Age Hotel in Los Angeles. He proved to be shockingly convivial, easily one of the most interesting people I have ever met. He told me, for instance, that Franz Lizst's last pupil had died within recent memory, a nugget of information I would not expect to have elicited from Axl Rose or Justin Timberlake.

One thing that amazed me about Costello was his seemingly total recall of every concert he had ever given: the night he played Madison Square Garden with the much-admired but doomed Replacements, the night he played The Juliet Letters almost in its entirety twice - as a sort of encore that got out of hand - with the Brodsky Quartet at Town Hall in Manhattan, the night he used a wheel of fortune containing the names of all his songs to devise the set list at a Broadway theatre. And yes, of course, he recalled the concert at Great Gildersleeves. The only thing he could not tell me was whether he cut the show short because of the brawl or because it was already getting on for three in the morning. It didn't matter, it was an unforgettable evening, the kind we all dream about when we first start going to concerts. Various breathless, inaccurate accounts of what transpired at Great Gildersleeves that evening can be found on the internet, but the reality is, the brawl had nothing to do with the Holiday Inn-cident; it was a clear-cut case of white punks on drugs (well, beer) getting in way over their heads, and paying for their feistiness with blood.

Pump It Up is as perfect as a pop song can be, and aspiring songwriters would do well to study it carefully before deciding if they really want to get into the same business as Elvis Costello. After a catchy opening featuring Bruce Thomas's hypnotic bass line and Pete Thomas's assertive drumming, the song is propelled forward by Steve Nieves's cunningly cheesy organ work and that peculiarly declarative way of singing Costello perfected as a young man. The song has a great hook, a great beat and a great break in the middle, and it even has great lyrics. Not that anyone cares, as the refrain Pump it up pretty much does the trick for most listeners. To this very day, at stadiums all over America, sports fans who do not own a single Elvis Costello record go wild when Pump It Up starts ripping through the speakers. They have no idea why. It's as if they were on tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks, listening to the Muzak, thinking about this and that. It's as if they'd been listening to Stephen Stills for the past 50 years, and can now breathe a sigh of relief, as the cavalry has finally come to the rescue.

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