Paramount Folds Specialty Unit Into Main Studio & other: 2008

Thursday 4 September 2008

Fatal Flaw scores Lunch

With just a handful of shows under its belt, local indie quartette the Fatal Flaw has signed a deal with Newburyport-based main label Lunch Records.

The place of Dear Leader, Taxpayer and Bleu, Lunch volition release a colored vinyl 7-inch of the band�s debut undivided, �Stab the Speakers,� on Sept. 23. A full-length record hits Nov. 4.

�(The Fatal Flaw) is ready to fill up your iPod with catchy rock candy numbers that make you want to throw away all those Weezer records,� Lunch honcho Paul Buckley wrote on the label�s site (lunchrecords.com).

Relatively unknown on the local circuit, the band features members of the Information, Pansy Division and the Mr. T. Experience. Singer Joel Reader also splits time playing basso in re-launched San Francisco punk band the Avengers.

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Monday 25 August 2008

Isaac Hayes, soul singer dies at 65

The soulfulness singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes, known for his gravelly voice, shaven head and plentiful jewellery, died on Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 65.

Hayes was found by family members, who ascertained him prevarication next to a tread-wheel in a basement room at his home. Sheriff's deputies performed CPR until paramedics arrived. He was taken to hospital just was pronounced dead an hour later.

Hayes, a typical and splashy figure among the black rhythm and blues stars of the early 1970s, found fame later in his calling as the voice of Chef, the laid-back womaniser on the cartoon series South Park.

But it was his hit song for the soundtrack of the blaxploitation motion-picture show Shaft that made and cemented his reputation. An atmospheric portmanteau word of Hayes's lover-man vocals, breathless mount singers and a funk-fuelled wah-wah guitar arrangement, Shaft - the song and the type - became synonymous with black urban cool. It also provided Hayes with an double that stayed with him for the rest of his career.

The Theme From Shaft, released in 1971 was, Hayes later told an interviewer, "like a blastoff heard around the world".

He gave a memorable performance of it at the Oscar ceremony in 1972, scooping the Academy Award for c. H. Best original song. The song and the film soundtrack also south Korean won him two Grammy awards.

That success, coming before his 30th birthday, marked the end of the first base stage of Hayes's life history, a journey that had seen him take a familiar route for many black performers.

But four years later Hayes was stated bankrupt following a series of fiscal problems at Stax Records. He lost his base, much of his personal property and forfeited the right to royalties from his past hits.

Hayes was raised in a tin shack in Covington, Tennessee, 30 miles north of Memphis, by his grandparents following the death of his mother. His beginner left the family home when Hayes was 18 months old.

When Hayes was six, the family affected to Memphis. His intention to become a dr. was derailed after he won a singing contest. After jobs including shiny shoes on the city's famous Beale Street and gigging in southern juke joint joints, Hayes was hired by Stax in 1964 as a backup pianist. He worked with Otis Redding and others before forming a songwriting partnership with David Porter. The two went on to write R&B numbers such as Soul Man and Hold On, I'm Coming, both hits for the duo Sam and Dave.

The reward was a transcription contract, which led to his number one album, Presenting Isaac Hayes, released in 1968. That failed to find an audience, simply in 1969 came the more provokingly titled Hot Buttered Soul. Containing merely four tracks, it sold more than a trillion copies.

After Shaft and the follow-up Black Moses, he was not to handout another major seller, although he had several minor hits as the disco movement emerged. His soundtrack to the Shaft sequel included Zeke the Freak, a song that gained a new lease of life with the sign music motion in the UK.

Hayes likewise pursued an acting vocation, with cameos in several movies including Escape from New York, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the blaxploitation spoof I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.

In the 1990s Hayes reached a modern generation as Chef. Two years agone, however, he left the show after an episode that he felt made fun of the Scientology movement, of which he was a member.

"There is a place in this world for satire, merely there is a time when irony ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," he said.

There was subsequent dispute about the origin of the financial statement. Hayes suffered a cVA in early 2006, and it has been reported that this was the reason he left the show.

An show on a TV talk show in April this year appeared to propose that Hayes was agony from the side-effects of a stroke.

However, he continued to lead an combat-ready life, spearheading a military campaign for the Memphis Heart Clinic which was due to start on Friday.

He established the Isaac Hayes Foundation in 1993 to do beneficent work in Africa, and was after crowned world-beater of a small community in Ghana.

A businessman world Health Organization owned deuce restaurants and wrote a best-selling cook book, Hayes was married four times and had 12 children.

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Thursday 7 August 2008

The Swellers

Artist: The Swellers

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

End Of Discussion

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Friday 27 June 2008

Cool Water and Time Passing

Artist: Cool Water and Time Passing

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

The Last Night

Year:
Tracks: 12

Black Eyed Peas charity gig

Monday 23 June 2008

Psychedelic meets philharmonia

When New Zealand's most psychedelic band joins forces with the Auckland Philharmonia for a concert in July, it might pay to buckle-up. Little Bushman and the APO will perform songs from the band's two albums, The Onus of Sand and Pendulum, which have been specially arranged by composer John Psathas, the man who did the music for the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics in 2004. The concert has been in the planning for more than a year and Little Bushman leader Warren Maxwell is excited to hear the final result."I'm looking forward to hearing how he [Psathas] intends to explode our songs and feed them out to the different sections of the orchestra," he says.Little Bushman meets the APO is at 8pm on July 13, at the Auckland Town Hall.

Monday 16 June 2008

South Pacific early winner at Tony Awards

Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific was an early winner at Broadway's top honours, the Tony Awards, with the musical picking up five prizes - for direction, scenery, costume, lighting and sound.

In the Heights, a musical about three days in a largely Dominican northern Manhattan neighbourhood, which led the Tony nominations with 13 nods, nabbed three awards, including best original score for creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

"I used to dream about this moment, now I'm in it," Miranda, 28, said in an acceptance speech he rapped to the crowd at New York City's Radio City Hall.

"I wrote a little show about home."

The show Miranda thought up during his second year in college also won awards for choreography and orchestration.

"This is a dream come true," choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler told reporters. "The thing about In the Heights is, we have loved every minute getting to this point."

August: Osage County, the Tracy Letts play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama this year, won awards for best performance by a featured actress in a play, by Rondi Reed, and best scenic design of a play.

The 39 Steps, based on the Alfred Hitchcock film, also nabbed two prizes - for best lighting and sound design.

The Tony Awards were established in 1947 and are named after Atoinette Perry, whose nickname was Toni. Perry, who died in 1946, was an actress, stage director and philanthropist who was a founder of the American Theatre Wing.

Around 750 people from the theater industry - from actors, to directors to journalists - vote for the Tony Awards.

Comedian and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg hosted the televised awards ceremony.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter films, walked the red carpet ahead of his planned Broadway debut later this year in Equus.

He said he was nervous about reprising the role he first performed in London's West End and during which he appears naked on stage.

Composer Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the music and lyrics for such shows as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George, was given a special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater.

The late Robert Russell Bennett, who orchestrated musicals including South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady, was honored in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theater in the field of orchestrations.

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater received the Regional Theatre Tony Award.

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Sunday 15 June 2008

Kennedy - Senator Kennedy Suffers Seizure

JOHN F. KENNEDY's last surviving brother EDWARD 'TED' KENNEDY was rushed to a U.S. hospital on Saturday (17May08), after suffering what appeared to be a seizure.

The 76-year-old, one of the most famous politicians in the U.S., was airlifted to a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts after falling ill at the family estate in nearby Cape Cod.

Initial reports claimed Kennedy, a Senior Senator for Massachusetts, had suffered a stroke - but Stephanie Cutter, a spokesperson for the Kennedy family, claims those early fears appear to be unfounded.

Cutter says, "Senator Kennedy is resting comfortably and it is unlikely we will know anything more for the next 48 hours."

Edward's two older brothers, both prominent politicians, were each assassinated during their time in office. Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in 1963, aged 46, while 42-year-old brother Robert, a New York senator, was gunned down in 1968.

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British Royal Princess Eugenie Naked And Drunk

British royal Princess Eugenie reportedly caused outrage at her private school by cavorting around naked and drunk.
The 18-year-old joined pals after a drinking session in “frolicking like nymphs” around the grounds of her exclusive school Marlborough College in Wiltshire.
A fellow pupil tells The Sun, “It’s the talk of the college. The girls had been drinking, possibly in a local pub, and decided to let their hair down.
"It was a couple of weeks ago just before people started taking their A-levels and some find exams all a bit stressful. For some reason they stripped off and started prancing about.
"It was light-hearted and they were sort of frolicking like nymphs. But they got too noisy and staff discovered them.
"They had to quickly pick up their clothes and hot-foot it inside."
Eugenie and her fellow nymphs were said to have received a “severe telling off and told not to stay at school at weekends” following the episode.

Phil Collins' model daughter lands TV job

Phil Collins' 18-year-old daughter Lily has landed a job as a television presenter for Nickelodeon.
The teenager, who currently works as a model, is studying broadcast journalism at the University of Southern California.
Collins will act as a roving entertainment correspondent for the children's channel, reporting from the sets of Nickelodeon television series, movie premieres, awards shows, concerts and other celebrity events.
Last year the young model was a guest correspondent on the network's 'Slime Across America' tour.
She also helped out with E! Entertainment's red-carpet Oscars coverage last weekend.

Racist, Party of One?

Never mind an outstanding arrest warrant, Coolio blames the club for his arrest -- calling One Sunset a racist establishment!
Coolio: Click to watch

Our cameras caught the rapper leaving jail this morning in a pretty good mood, despite a breakfast of "nasty ass pork sausage." Hey Coolio, you just got arrested! Where you goin' now??

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Jodie Foster speaks about lesbian partner

Jodie Foster has spoken publicly for the first time about her lesbian partner after a reported 15-year relationship.
The 45-year-old actress had long refused to discuss her private life or rumours about her sexuality, although her relationship with film producer Cydney Bernard had long been knowledge in Hollywood.
According to reports, Foster thanked her "beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss" in a speech at the Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment breakfast.
She added: "I feel fragile, unsure, struggling to figure it all out, trying to get there even though I'm not sure where there is."
Having reportedly met on the set of 'Sommersby' in 1992, Foster and 54-year-old Bernard are raising Foster's two children together, nine-year-old Charles and six-year-old Kit.
Fiercely private, Foster has never discussed the father of her children and has always resisted pressure from gay rights groups to talk about the romance with Bernard.

The International Music Industry Descends on London Calling 2008!

LONDON, June 10 -- LONDON CALLING 2008 (19-20 June, Earls
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David Oistrakh - Violin

Artist: David Oistrakh - Violin

   Genre(s):
Classical

Discography:

Andaluza, Op. 37 No.5 (Abram Makarov - piano,arr: F. Kreisler)

Year: 1948
Tracks: 1

Romance in A minor, Op.94 No.2 (arr: F. Kreisler)

Year: 1947
Tracks: 1

Passpied from "123"

Year: 1946
Tracks: 1

Beau soir ( (Abram Makarov - piano,arr: J. Heifetz)

Year: 1946
Tracks: 1