Singer apologizes after complaints about his voice
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Disappointed Neil Diamond fans volition get a refund later attending a concert at Ohio State University in which the 67-year-old singer's voice sounded raspy.
Some fans left the Monday concert early and others aforementioned Diamond realised the concert without mentioning anything to the hearing about his voice.
A statement from Diamond, the singer of such hits as "Sweet Caroline" and "Song Sung Blue," on Tuesday says a doctor has diagnosed intense laryngitis.
Diamond spokeswoman Eve Samuels says the singer is offering a refund to those wHO place a request before Sept. 5. "I haven't let you down ahead and I won't let you down now," the singer aforementioned in an apology on his Web site.
Another message said Wednesday's concert in Green Bay, Wis., will be rescheduled for Sept. 12, and Friday's concert in St. Louis, Mo., will instead take home Sept. 10.
Wednesday 3 September 2008
Sunday 24 August 2008
Gym Class Heroes team with The Roots
Alt-hip-hop outfits Gym Class Heroes [ ] and The Roots [ ] have made plans to co-headline a North American fall tour.
British singer/rapper Estelle will support the jaunt, which is scheduled to launch Oct. 3 in Baltimore, MD, and call in nearly 20 cities across the US through early November. Details are listed below.
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Members of Gym Class Heroes' fan club will have access to pre-sale beginning tomorrow (8/12), and the general public will get its shot commencement this Friday (8/15). One dollar from each slate sold will be donated to younker organizations, according to a press release.
The tour will follow the Sept. 9 release of Gym Class Heroes' fourth part album, "The Quilt," which features special guest contributions from artists including Busta Rhymes, Daryl Hall and Estelle. The lead single, "Cookie Jar" featuring The-Dream, is already making waves on Billboard's Pop century chart, and its companion video is set to premiere Friday (8/15) on MTV's new FNMTV channel.
The video for another runway, "Peace Sign / Index Down," is currently qualification an impact at MTV stations and is streaming at the group's website.
"The Quilt" follows Gym Class Heroes' 2006 breakthrough album, "As Cruel As School Children," which reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the pop hit "Clothes Off!!"
The band is currently finish its final week on the Vans Warped Tour and will spend a couple of weeks in Europe succeeding month. Gym Class Heroes' full tour itinerary can be institute at its MySpace page.
The Roots ar also acquiring ready to roll kO'd a two-week European outing, which is detailed at the band's MySpace page. The Grammy-winning hip-hop/soul getup has been on the road load-bearing its 10th album, "Rising Down," which topped the Rap Album chart in May and reached No. 6 on The Billboard 200.
[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the issue time of this news report. Changes may occur ahead go on sale. Check with prescribed artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for previous updates.]
October 20083 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live!4 - Norfolk, VA - The Norva5 - N. Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues6 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle7 - Orlando, FL - House of Blues8 - Miami, FL - The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason10 - Houston, TX - Meridian (The Roots do not appear on this date)11 - Dallas, TX - The Palladium Ballroom12 - Austin, TX - The Backyard14 - Phoenix, AZ - The Marquee19 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues21 - Denver, CO - The Fillmore Auditorium23 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom24 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre25 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore Detroit26 - Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy28 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom30 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium Downstairs31 - Asbury Park, NJ - Asbury Park Convention HallNovember 20081 - Albany, NY - Washington Avenue Armory
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Thursday 14 August 2008
Pink saws down tree with ex's name on
Pink saws down a tree bearing a lovemaking heart containing her and estranged husband Carey Hart's names in her new music video.
The singer - real key Alecia Moore - is seen assaultive the tree branded with a nerve saying �Alecia and Carey' in the video for her new single �So What'.
Lyrics to the course include: "I guess I just lost my hubby. I don't know where he went. So I'm gonna drink my money. I'm non gonna pay off his rip (nope)... I hate marriage.
"I don't want you and guess what, I'm havin more sport. And immediately that were done, I'm gonna show you tonight I'm alright. I'm but fine."
Pink's newfangled song is likely to come as a blow to motocross racer Carey, who recently admitted he was hoping to conciliate with the singer.
He said: "I would like to have aspiring thinking and say, �Yes.' Only time will distinguish. I bob Hope we hold a friendship, and world Health Organization knows what will bechance when we get sr.. For the next three years, we're both exceedingly busy people so it's tough."
Pink and Carey started dating in 2001 and became engaged in 2005. They married in 2006 and announced their imminent split this February.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Viagra Can Improve Sexual Function For Women Taking Antidepressants, Study Finds
�Pfizer's erectile dysfunction medicine Viagra can improve sexual function for some women who take antidepressants, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Baltimore Sun reports (Kohn, Baltimore Sun, 7/23). According to the AP/Denver Post, previous research has establish that more than 50% of patients who consider antidepressants develop side effects that include decreased intimate function (Johnson, AP/Denver Post, 7/22).
For the study, George Nurnberg, a University of New Mexico School of Medicine shrink, and colleagues divided 98 women wHO took 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitors into deuce groups, unmatchable that took Viagra and one that took a placebo (Baltimore Sun, 7/23). Participants, world Health Organization had an average age of 37, reported no problems with sexual function before they began to take antidepressants and had "controlled" their depression, USA Today reports (Szabo, USA Today, 7/23).
According to researchers, 28% of participants wHO took Viagra experienced no improvement in sexual function, compared with 73% of those wHO took a placebo (Wall Street Journal, 7/23). The study too found that Viagra did not increase sexual desire (Gellene, Los Angeles Times, 7/23). Some of the women world Health Organization took Viagra experienced headaches, reddening of the
For the study, George Nurnberg, a University of New Mexico School of Medicine shrink, and colleagues divided 98 women wHO took 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitors into deuce groups, unmatchable that took Viagra and one that took a placebo (Baltimore Sun, 7/23). Participants, world Health Organization had an average age of 37, reported no problems with sexual function before they began to take antidepressants and had "controlled" their depression, USA Today reports (Szabo, USA Today, 7/23).
According to researchers, 28% of participants wHO took Viagra experienced no improvement in sexual function, compared with 73% of those wHO took a placebo (Wall Street Journal, 7/23). The study too found that Viagra did not increase sexual desire (Gellene, Los Angeles Times, 7/23). Some of the women world Health Organization took Viagra experienced headaches, reddening of the
Friday 27 June 2008
'Wall-E' bow kicks off Oscar season
First half of the year rarely yields Academy contenders
With Pixar's newest blue-chip animated movie "Wall-E" hitting theaters Friday, the 2008 Oscar race is finally off and running.
It's an unofficial starting gun, of course. Technically, any movie that's had a commercial release of at least a week in Los Angeles County since the start of the year is eligible to compete. But the first half of the year rarely yields much in the way of Oscar fodder, and this year has been no exception.
May's Festival de Cannes didn't do much to clarify the situation, either: Several promising foreign films aside, only Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, emerged as a mainstream contender.
Most of the remaining summer popcorn fare isn't generally regarded as Oscar worthy, though if critics and fans applaud Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" when it is released July 18, Warner Bros. is ready to support a campaign on his behalf. Only one acting Oscar has been bestowed posthumously -- to Peter Finch for 1976's "Network" -- but five others have been nominated in the wake of their deaths, including James Dean, who earned noms for "East of Eden" and "Giant."
But while Oscar strategists are marking time, waiting for the fall festival circuit to launch a wave of hopefuls, the animation race has begun to take shape.
The critics are just beginning to weigh in on "Wall-E" -- the Village Voice's Robert Wilonsky has already called it "both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate" -- but the buzz surrounding the film about a lovelorn robot already is so heady, there's no doubt it will be the movie to beat for best animated film. The bigger question is whether it might become a candidate for a best picture slot.
At one point last year, director Brad Bird wanted to position his "Ratatouille" in the best picture heat, but he was convinced to focus on the best animated film category, which it handily won while also picking up noms in four other categories.
But if today's moviegoers warm to "Wall-E" the way an earlier generation embraced "E.T. the Extra-Terrestial," then the latest Pixar effort could find itself contending with the big boys for best picture.
In any event, the photo-real, computer-animated "Wall-E" should dominate the animation arena, which given the number of films expected to be released this year should yield three Oscar nominees.
Fox and Blue Sky Studios' "Horton Hears a Who" looks like a strong contender for bringing Dr. Seuss' illustrations into the CG realm. DreamWorks Animation will have two hopefuls with "Kung Fu Panda" and the upcoming "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa."
Other titles that could figure prominently are "Waltz With Bashir," an Israeli film set amid the Lebanon War that Sony Pictures Classics plans to promote in multiple categories, and the stop-motion "Coraline," Henry Selick's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's book, which Focus has slated for a late-December release.
On the live-action front, the picture is much murkier.
At Cannes, "Changeling," Eastwood's period drama, drew appreciative reviews, putting it on the same award-winning track "Mystic River" followed in 2003. Jolie was hailed as a definite Oscar nominee for her performance as a single mother who fights the Los Angeles establishment; then again, prognosticators said the same thing about last year's "A Mighty Heart," though that one failed to secure her an acting nom. Writer J. Michael Straczynski, in a major change of pace for the creator of "Babylon 5," also could find himself courting awards consideration for his based-on-fact screenplay.
Real question marks surround a number of the other American films that debuted at Cannes. Steven Soderbergh's "Che," Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" and James Gray's "Two Lovers" all left town without securing distribution deals, raising the possibility that they might not even qualify for awards attention this year.
With the specialty film business under siege -- and such past Oscar players as Picturehouse, Warner Independent and New Line out of the picture -- Hollywood might be facing a leaner, if not meaner, Oscar season.
Yet there are still plenty of awards aspirants coming from pedigreed filmmakers.
Leonardo DiCaprio will appear in Ridley Scott's CIA tale "Body of Lies" and Sam Mendes' domestic drama "Revolutionary Road" opposite Kate Winslet, who also stars in Stephen Daldry's "The Reader," set in post-World War II Germany.
Also on tap are adaptations of such award-winning plays as "Doubt," directed by John Patrick Shanley, and "Frost/Nixon," directed by Ron Howard; such critically applauded novels as Fernando Meirelles' screen version of "Blindness," Gina Prince-Bythewood's "The Secret Lives of Bees" and John Hillcoat's "The Road"; and also David Fincher's imagining of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
Taking on big topics are director Baz Lurhmann, returning to the screen with the epic "Australia"; Oliver Stone, tackling President Bush in "W"; and Gus Van Sant, looking at a hero of the gay rights movement in "Milk."
Will Smith, who earned an Oscar nomination in Gabriele Muccino's "The Pursuit of Happyness," is reteaming with the director in "Seven Pounds"; Keira Knightley will don period garb again for Saul Dibb's "The Duchess"; Robert Downey Jr. will play a journalist who befriends a homeless musician, played by Jamie Foxx, in Joe Wright's "The Soloist"; Daniel Craig will lead a group of Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland in Ed Zwick's "Defiance"; and last year's big winners, the Coen brothers, will be back, this time with outright comedy "Burn After Reading."
But at this early date, that hardly defines the field. Remember, at this time last year, no one had even heard of "Juno."
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Thursday 19 June 2008
Fred Giannelli
Artist: Fred Giannelli
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Other
Discography:
Telepathic Romance
Year: 1996
Tracks: 2
Born in Boston, Fred Gianelli began experimenting with electronics in the late '70s as Turning Tranz, only a 1984 meeting with Psychic TV's Genesis P. Orridge at his local tuner post changed his counselling. By 1988, Gianelli was part of the radical, running on Techno Acid Beat and Kondole. He gradually dislocated himself from Psychic TV and began working on the Plus 8 tag with Richie Hawtin as Spawn. Under the Plus 8 banner, he by and by formed the Telepathic tag for his have industrial/techno recordings as the Acid Didj, Gianelli, Deneuve and Mazdaratti (which are collected on Telepathic's Telepathic Wisdom, Vol. 1.)
The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI
Saturday 14 June 2008
Windmill Signs With Friendly Fire Recordings In The U.S.
Windmill, AKA 28-year old songwriter Matthew Thomas Dillon, has signed with Friendly Fire Recordings In The U.S., where he'll finally be releasing his debut album 'Puddle City Racing Lights'.
After being released in the UK last year by Melodic Records, the LP was subject to great reviews that compared Dillon to everyone from Mercury Rev to Guided By Voices to Built To Spill.
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Co-produced by Tom Knott of The Earlies and recorded with a band that included members of The Earlies live group and former Alfie member Ian Smith, 'Puddle City Racing Lights' is described as "a storm of lush strings, clashing percussion and cacophonous vocals."
It's not known whether the U.S. version - due July 15th - will include any bonus songs that didn't appear on last year's UK issue.
Until then, why not watch videos for a pair of album songs - Tokyo Moon and Fit.
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