Artist: Rainer Lange
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Meditation, Der Weg Zur Mitte
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Amerie Signs With Def Jam Records
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Rainer Lange
Artist: Rainer Lange
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Meditation, Der Weg Zur Mitte
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Amerie Signs With Def Jam Records
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Berlin mayor concerned at Madame Tussauds' plan to feature Hitler
BERLIN - Berlin's mayor has expressed concern at Madame Tussauds' plans to include Adolf Hitler among prominent Germans who will be immortalized in wax at its new museum, his spokesman said Monday.
Klaus Wowereit has written a letter to the wax museum's curators urging them to consider carefully whether to include the Nazi dictator and, if they still do, to be careful how they present him, spokesman Guenter Kolodziej said Monday.
"In the mayor's view, he should not be shown as a cult figure," Kolodziej said.
Madame Tussauds' Berlin museum is scheduled to open on July 9. It will be located on the Unter den Linden boulevard, close to the German capital's landmark Brandenburg Gate.
Spokeswoman Katrin Srumsdorf said the museum planned to send Wowereit an official response Tuesday.
She stressed that curators recognize the need to treat Hitler with sensitivity. Unlike in London, where he stands along with major world leaders, Hitler's likeness in Berlin will be hunched over a desk in a dimly lit bunker, she added.
"He will appear as an old, broken man, as he might have looked in the days just before he committed suicide," Srumsdorf said.
The Hitler statue will be the only one on display behind glass, which means visitors won't be able to have their pictures taken with it, and the exhibit will be constantly monitored by video cameras.
Madame Tussauds Berlin will feature many prominent Germans, including former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, current Chancellor Angela Merkel and scientist Albert Einstein - who left Germany shortly before Hitler took power in 1933, never to return.
The display also will feature Britain's prime minister during World War II, Winston Churchill.
Kolodziej noted that it is illegal in Germany to use Nazi symbols as propaganda, but that Hitler's likeness alone is not illegal.
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Thursday, 5 June 2008
Black Eyed Peas raise $1 mil for quake relief
Singer Karen Mok opened the show
VIDEO: The Black Eyed Peas and Hong Kong singer Karen Mok raised more than $1 million to help victims of the Sichuan earthquake.
VIDEO: The Black Eyed Peas and Hong Kong singer Karen Mok raised more than $1 million to help victims of the Sichuan earthquake.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Miley Cyrus doesn’t want to end up like other child stars
Teen sensation Miley Cyrus says she’s determined not to fall victim to the trappings of celebrity in the way other child stars like Britney Spears have.
“I definitely try to steer away from it as much as I can, but it’s all around me,” she says in an interview with Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper. “I think it’s more of a personal battle really.
“You have to know what you feel and what’s in your heart.
“But I’m more of a positive person. I’ve always wanted to be a positive role model and that’s what I want to continue to be.”
“I definitely try to steer away from it as much as I can, but it’s all around me,” she says in an interview with Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper. “I think it’s more of a personal battle really.
“You have to know what you feel and what’s in your heart.
“But I’m more of a positive person. I’ve always wanted to be a positive role model and that’s what I want to continue to be.”
Ashlee Simpson-Pete Wentz Marriage Confirmed
AshleeE Simpson and Pete Wentz exchanged vows in an intimate wedding ceremony yesterday evening, their spokesperson has confirmed.
The top-secret event was held at Simpson's parents' home in Encino, California and was attended by 150 guests, including Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, actor Donald Faison and the pop star's big sister Jessica, who served as maid of honour.
Jessica's boyfriend, American footballer Tony Romo, was also present at the ceremony, despite reports the couple has split.
Ashlee wore an ivory lace Monique Lhuillier gown, complete with a diamond necklace and earrings by Neil Lane.
Father of the bride Joe Simpson, a former Baptist minister, performed the non-denominational service, and Fall Out Boy bassist Wentz's English bulldog, Hemingway, was the ring-bearer, reports People.com.
Confirming the reports on Saturday night, the couple's representative says, "We're delighted to confirm that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were married this evening in front of family and close friends."
The newlyweds celebrated their new status as husband and wife with an Alice in Wonderland-themed reception, with black beauty roses by Mark's Garden decorating each table.
The wedding cake, by Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings, featured a top hat, a tea pot, a stop watch and a pot of flowers on top.
The marriage comes amid rumours Ashlee is pregnant with the couple's first child.
Both stars have repeatedly dodged questions surrounding the alleged pregnancy, refusing to confirm or deny the reports.
The top-secret event was held at Simpson's parents' home in Encino, California and was attended by 150 guests, including Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, actor Donald Faison and the pop star's big sister Jessica, who served as maid of honour.
Jessica's boyfriend, American footballer Tony Romo, was also present at the ceremony, despite reports the couple has split.
Ashlee wore an ivory lace Monique Lhuillier gown, complete with a diamond necklace and earrings by Neil Lane.
Father of the bride Joe Simpson, a former Baptist minister, performed the non-denominational service, and Fall Out Boy bassist Wentz's English bulldog, Hemingway, was the ring-bearer, reports People.com.
Confirming the reports on Saturday night, the couple's representative says, "We're delighted to confirm that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were married this evening in front of family and close friends."
The newlyweds celebrated their new status as husband and wife with an Alice in Wonderland-themed reception, with black beauty roses by Mark's Garden decorating each table.
The wedding cake, by Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings, featured a top hat, a tea pot, a stop watch and a pot of flowers on top.
The marriage comes amid rumours Ashlee is pregnant with the couple's first child.
Both stars have repeatedly dodged questions surrounding the alleged pregnancy, refusing to confirm or deny the reports.
Fission
Artist: Fission
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Architecture (ARX019)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Nerve (NERVE013)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
California EAR Unit's 'Premieres!' at REDCAT
One couldn't help but detect a hint of irony in the California EAR Unit's name for the latest concert in its residency at REDCAT on Wednesday night -- "Premieres!"
This is a group, after all, for which premieres -- and the pursuit of things contemporary -- are both commonplace and fuel for its missionary fire, even after more than 25 years.
And in fact, what may have been surprising to longtime observers of the group, one of the premier new-music ensembles in the U.S., was that only half of the four pieces qualified for the P-word.
Of the disparate offerings, the world premiere of Gordon Beeferman's "Rites of Summer" was the de facto main event, at least by virtue of its duration (about 40 minutes) and use of resources. The EAR Unit's full sextet, plus Donald Crockett as conductor, was put to good, busy and technically challenging use.
Beeferman, a New Yorker, was, to quote his statement, in a California state of mind for this work. Clearly, though, the score nods toward Stravinsky and Frank Zappa more than the Beach Boys. Bursts of ensemble activity are almost neurotically tight rhythmically, though tense and ragged in terms of clustered harmonies. Such fervent energy is juxtaposed with passages of airier lyricism, all with a distant kinship to "The Rite of Spring."
As for the other world premiere, Brooklynite Will Smith's "Automatic Arms" was decidedly looser and lankier. Violinist Eric km Clark filtered the scratches and wails of his bright red electric violin through sound-processing toys as Kevin Lovelady's scruffy video component attempted a sensory dialogue.
More impressive, the increasingly acclaimed composer John Luther Adams (recently the subject of a profile in the New Yorker) was represented by a fascinating short work, "The Light Within." Inspired by James Turrell's ethereal installation art, Adams' thick and undulating wall-of-sound approach suggests a musical corollary to Turrell's sublime manipulations of time, space and color.
In the final analysis, perhaps the best came first on this night. Eric Chasalow's 2004 piece "Trois Espaces du Son" braves the electro-acoustic divide, deftly blending an electronic palette of sounds, on a laptop, with the very real-time instrumental work of a pianist and percussionist. Wednesday, they were Vicki Ray and Amy Knoles, respectively.
On a sadder and somewhat disorienting note, this was the first EAR Unit concert without flutist Dorothy Stone, a founding member, who died in March. She was a commanding force in this group and on the contemporary music scene generally.
This is a group, after all, for which premieres -- and the pursuit of things contemporary -- are both commonplace and fuel for its missionary fire, even after more than 25 years.
And in fact, what may have been surprising to longtime observers of the group, one of the premier new-music ensembles in the U.S., was that only half of the four pieces qualified for the P-word.
Of the disparate offerings, the world premiere of Gordon Beeferman's "Rites of Summer" was the de facto main event, at least by virtue of its duration (about 40 minutes) and use of resources. The EAR Unit's full sextet, plus Donald Crockett as conductor, was put to good, busy and technically challenging use.
Beeferman, a New Yorker, was, to quote his statement, in a California state of mind for this work. Clearly, though, the score nods toward Stravinsky and Frank Zappa more than the Beach Boys. Bursts of ensemble activity are almost neurotically tight rhythmically, though tense and ragged in terms of clustered harmonies. Such fervent energy is juxtaposed with passages of airier lyricism, all with a distant kinship to "The Rite of Spring."
As for the other world premiere, Brooklynite Will Smith's "Automatic Arms" was decidedly looser and lankier. Violinist Eric km Clark filtered the scratches and wails of his bright red electric violin through sound-processing toys as Kevin Lovelady's scruffy video component attempted a sensory dialogue.
More impressive, the increasingly acclaimed composer John Luther Adams (recently the subject of a profile in the New Yorker) was represented by a fascinating short work, "The Light Within." Inspired by James Turrell's ethereal installation art, Adams' thick and undulating wall-of-sound approach suggests a musical corollary to Turrell's sublime manipulations of time, space and color.
In the final analysis, perhaps the best came first on this night. Eric Chasalow's 2004 piece "Trois Espaces du Son" braves the electro-acoustic divide, deftly blending an electronic palette of sounds, on a laptop, with the very real-time instrumental work of a pianist and percussionist. Wednesday, they were Vicki Ray and Amy Knoles, respectively.
On a sadder and somewhat disorienting note, this was the first EAR Unit concert without flutist Dorothy Stone, a founding member, who died in March. She was a commanding force in this group and on the contemporary music scene generally.
Lahka Muza
Artist: Lahka Muza
Genre(s):
Gothic
Discography:
Cesty Svetla Plynu Temnotou
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Sen Ohraniceneho Zivota
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Chvenie Absolutna
Year: 1995
Tracks: 8
Tien Bolesti
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Baby Dee
Jackson's First Tour In Seven Years
R&B superstar Janet Jackson has announced she will be hitting the road to tour the U.S. and Canada - for the first time in seven years. The hitmaker will open her Rock Witchu tour in Vancouver, British Columbia on September 7, followed by dates in New York and Washington, D.C. And the singer, who released her latest album Discipline earlier this year, says she "can't wait" to perform to arena audiences, claiming she was all set to tour on the back of her 2006 record 20 Y.O., but was advised against it by her record company despite being mid-way through preparing the shows. She explains, "I was supposed to go on tour with the last album. We were actually in full-blown tour rehearsals at that point... learning numbers, getting everything together, set designs, I had to kind of shut everything down and go into the studio." According to concert promoter Live Nation, who are organizing Jackson's upcoming tour, the full itinerary of shows will be announced shortly.
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James Dean Bradfield
Artist: James Dean Bradfield
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Discography:
The Great Western
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Although rhythm guitar player and lyricist Richey James Edwards' assaultive public persona garnered virtually of the band's headlines in their early years, the heart of Manic Street Preachers was always isaac Bashevis Singer and lead guitarist James Dean Bradfield. With his short, compact build and hard-man bravado, Bradfield had an Everyman anti-mystique that stock-still the band's often incipient political posturing and served as an anchorperson for Edwards' substantially flightier proto-Pete Doherty antics. Together, Bradfield and Edwards made Manic Street Preachers THE bombilate ring of the early days of Brit-pop, earlier the reconfigured ring became universal stars after Edwards' manifest self-destruction in 1995.Natural in the little Welsh industrial metropolis of Pontypool on February 21, 1969, James Dean Bradfield claims that his father named him afterwards the doomed American film histrion. Early exposure to the first wave of punk bands, peculiarly the Clash, lED Bradfield to form a band with his cousin-german Sean Moore on drums and puerility friend Nicholas Jones (shortly renamed Nicky Wire) on bass in 1986. Wire shortly confident his university quaker Edwards to conjoin the band, and the fresh rechristened Manic Street Preachers released their first D.I.Y. single in 1988. A long series of singles and EPs, along with the band's maturation live buzz and a notorious incident where Edwards carven the idiomatic expression "4 Real" into his arm in figurehead of a journalist from New Musical Express, lED to the Manics signing to Sony in 1991. Three albums -- 1992's Generation Terrorists, 1993's Gold Against the Soul, and 1994's The Holy Bible -- followed, just Edwards' increasingly aberrant conduct eclipsed the band's medicine regular in the eyes of many fans. When Edwards disappeared in February 1995 (his abandoned cable car ground on a bridge deck near Bristol), many fictive that would be the end of the Manic Street Preachers.Instead, Bradfield reasserted his position as the focal point of the Manic Street Preachers both onstage and in interviews (although Wire took up the job of writing the lyrics) and the modern threesome lineup released 1996's reflective Everything Must Go, a crisply commercial pop album more or less at odds with the glam-infused punk of their other years. Released in 1998, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was equally commercially successful, although 2001's Know Your Enemy and 2004's slick, Tony Visconti-produced Lifeblood saw diminishing returns, including the red ink of the band's American distribution.During this period, Bradfield took on production and remixing jobs for the likes of Massive Attack, Kylie Minogue, and fellow Welshman Tom Jones, ahead finally cathartic his first solo album, The Great Western, in July 2006. Featuring the single "That's No Way to Tell a Lie" and "An English Gentleman," an affecting tribute to the Manic Street Preachers' late managing director Philip Hall, The Great Western is a return to the mainstream guitar rock'n'roll of Everything Must Go.
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