Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Betrayal drives thriller






Traitor couldn�t have been an easy movie to make.� Not only is the terrorism thriller define in 17 cities on three continents, but it required shooting the film in just now 48 days on a tight budget. Who would want to take on that to a fault ambitious endeavor? Well, Don Cheadle for one.

The complex story of a secret Muslim officer that infiltrates a world terrorism ringing only to find himself being hunted down as a double-crosser, this thriller not merely enticed Don Cheadle the actor, only also Don Cheadle the producer � who has previously made his mark getting behind such hot-button films as Crash and Darfur Now.

�It was identical interesting that one of the things we conditioned post Sep 11 is that there were something like three Arabic-speaking agents that we had in our (enforcement) agencies,� says Cheadle during an interview in New York. �How do you understand citizenry that you can�t fifty-fifty talk to?�

That was one of the primary themes that prompted Cheadle to help make Traitor � the mind that a lack in communication between cultures has only fuelled terrorism. It�s not an easy whim to sell to film studios either. As unsatisfying box federal agency revenues of other films dealing with the war on act of terrorism have mounted recently, studios are sure as shooting wary of that particular subject.

�They probably did their rounds with studios and received a series of ideas of how it should be changed and softened up,� posits co-star Guy Pearce around the fight to find backers. �(But writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff) barely didn�t compromise.�

Instead, Traitor (in theatres Friday) was golden enough to find funding and still deal direct with such serious issues as race, religion and the part of ignorance in act of terrorism. Pearce adds:� �I think (Nachmanoff did) a really good job of finding that balance betwixt an entertainment and a thought-provoking topic.�

Cheadle would sure enough agree. Although he�s first base to admit the film doesn�t provide many answers to these issues, he does hope it will create an awareness in moviegoers� minds. �It could be a cautionary tale on some level if you read it severely,� insists Cheadle. �Most human beings want calm, most human beings desire peace, most human beings want refuge. It�s the people on the extremes that can obviously pull and push us and protract that argument.�








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Friday, 8 August 2008

Hipp-E

Hipp-E   
Artist: Hipp-E

   Genre(s): 
House
   



Discography:


People CDS   
 People CDS

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3


House Stompin-(Detour19)   
 House Stompin-(Detour19)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3




 





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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead   
Artist: Pumpkinhead

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Kill Music Vol. 1   
 Kill Music Vol. 1

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17




 






Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Late Kanye West Told He Sucks By US Festival Crowd

US rapper Kanye West was told that he sucked by a US festival crowd at the weekend after he appeared late for a scheduled performance.



West was due to take to the stage at the Bonnaroo Festival at 2.45am on Sunday morning but eventually appeared over an hour and a half later.



The rapper was booed by a restless crowd, who chanted “Kanye Sucks” when he finally emerged on stage.



According to a festival spokesperson, West's late arrival was caused by the complex nature of his stage show, which depicts him in space.



West is due to appear in the UK next month at the Global Gathering Festival near Stratford-Upon-Avon.



Tickets for the event are on sale now and available through Gigwise here. Alternatively, you can call our ticket hotline on 0871 230 1098 for more information.




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Monday, 9 June 2008

Timberlake set to honour Madonna

Justin Timberlake will be among the stars who will induct artists into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York next month.
Billboard reports that Timberlake will induct Madonna into the Hall of Fame, with Lou Reed inducting Leonard Cohen, Billy Joel inducting John Mellencamp and Tom Hanks inducting the Dave Clark Five.
Other artists who will be inducted at the ceremony include Little Walter, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and the Ventures.
The ceremony takes place on 10 March at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

George Michael working on a single with Dita Von Teese

Dita Von TeeseGeorge Michael is working on a single with the Dita Von Teese.


Von Teese, who was married to goth rocker Marilyn Manson from 2005 to 2007, revealed that she’s making music with the former Wham! singer - and said it will be highlight of her career.


She says, “I’m a huge Wham! enthusiast and this will be the highlight of my career.




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Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Arovane

Arovane   
Artist: Arovane

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   Electronic
   



Discography:


Lilies   
 Lilies

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


Minth - Neel - Lmited Edition   
 Minth - Neel - Lmited Edition

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


Cycliph EP   
 Cycliph EP

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


Cycliph   
 Cycliph

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


Tides   
 Tides

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


Atol Scrap   
 Atol Scrap

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


Halo Ep   
 Halo Ep

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 2




Berlin's Uwe Zahn released his first tracks as the Arovane EP on the Clamor label, which too released the start metre of High German knight minimalist Stefan Betke's ferment as Pole. Stylistically, Arovane's sour hearkens back to the parochial melodious electro of early Autechre, compounding interesting, highly syncopated political machine box rhythms with warm, delicate synth textures that call forth a transparent, more or less nostalgic clime contrasted by the bite of the rhythms. Indeed, patch Autechre's Amber has turn a touchpoint of sorts for a unanimous unexampled generation of laptop computer reckoner do-it-yourselfers whose music seldom rises in a higher blank space tribute, Zahn's Arovane ferment is a logical extension of an esthetic left area by and large unfinished, and is around of the to the highest degree interesting and accomplished music of its form. Fans of Ae, Funkstorung, Higher Intelligence Agency, and Phoenecia subscribe to note. After the Arovane EP, deuce supernumerary EPs for Clamor (Icol Diston, AMX) preceded the release of Arovane's LP debut, Atol Chip. Later that year, Tides appeared on Metropolis Middle Offices. After a collaborative release with Phonem and a compiling of 12" stuff, Zahn returned to Urban center Centre Offices for 2004's Lilies.






Thursday, 8 May 2008

Los Angeles Philharmonic plays Brahms, Wagner

Los Angeles Philharmonic plays Brahms, Wagner






In their day, Brahms and Richard Wagner divided audiences into angrily opposing camps. Sober conservatives went to the concert hall thankful to Brahms for upholding custom in his beefy symphonies and concertos and sleeping accommodation music. In the meantime, besotted Wagnerians agitated for a music of the future, which could be ground in opera house houses able to encounter the unprecedented musical theater and scenic demands of their German idol.

Thursday nighttime, Esa-Pekka Salonen one time once more pitted classicist against sensualist at Walt Walter Elias Disney Concert Hallway. The first one-half of his Los Angeles Symphony political platform was devoted to Brahms' Arcsecond Pianissimo Concerto, 50 transactions long and written in 1881. Later intermission came 40 minutes' worth of excerpts from Wagner's "Götterdämmerung," the last of his "Tintinnabulation" operas, which was completed in 1874. The equal was a funfair scrap. And a great concert.

In many shipway, the Brahms/Wagner divide was less about the composers than about their following. 60 age ago, Schonberg never tired of singing his students in Los Angeles that Johannes Brahms was a water closet progressive whose thick, chromatic harmonies subverted tonality. And for entirely Wagner's musical advances, no composer ever so became more cursorily canonized.




















The L.A. Symphony, in fact, first played music from "Götterdämmerung" in 1921, 2 long time later on the orchestra was founded and sextuplet long time earlier it got around to Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. These days, Wagner's "Ring" is such banner fare that leg directors try harder and harder to keep it newly. Sunday, a freshly production of “Siegfried” opened in Vienna in which Brünnhilde was awakened by the titular hero non on her fire-protected rock simply in a public public convenience.

Although the interpretations of both composers were slimly exterior the norm, the Walt Disney Hall on Thursday felt free of dogma. Leif Ove Andsnes, the popular Norse pianist, was the soloist in the Brahms, and neither he nor Salonen cares a great deal about the soft side of the composer.

That meant that for the "Aimez-vous Brahms?" crowd, the crisp-toned piano and no-nonsense orchestra might have felt a little like internal-combustion engine water used to extinguish whatever smoldering flames of romanticism they find in this, the more lyrical of Brahms' two piano concertos. Distillery, I thought the performance mightiness also have provided a perfect soundtrack for Françoise Sagan's 1959 existential philosopher novel about a disillusioned middle-aged woman and her edward Young lover.

Often the ground at a lower place one's feet was non solid in this performance. Johannes Brahms has a wont in his concerto of creating the impression that the pianoforte is swaying nicely patch the orchestra is precisely adding something cheerily murky underneath. In reality, there are demerit lines in this score.

Andsnes has brilliant technical command. He was true to the notes on the page, incisive in his rhythms and outstanding in his ability to balance rich people Brahmsian textures with revelatory lucidity. On the surface, he played with songful grace, but he and Salonen besides delved deep to a lower place, pointing up rhythmic intricacies and pickings hitting note of dissonances.

Wagner is to a lesser extent blot out. He creates specs of auditory sensation in his orchestra, and "Götterdämmerung" sounded spectacular. Salonen chose the standard orchestral excerpts -- "Dawn and J. B. Rhine Travel" and "Siegfried's Funeral March" -- and ended with Brünnhilde's "Immolation." Soprano Lisa Gasteen was the soloist.

The orchestra was large. Four-spot harps were placed at the lip of the stagecoach in movement of the low gear violins. The horn contingent looked massive, and on that point was unity role player in the balcony for an offstage effect.

As "The Tristan Project" proved a twosome of years ago, Wagner in this hall is something special. Once again Salonen emphasized clarity, the true sounds of instruments rather than mushy thaumaturgy. His is a Wagner without the voodoo. And notwithstanding to hear penetrating brass, singing strings, the refracted colour of the wood winds and the quartette of harps career a listener to paradise is to be in a kind of sonic nirvana.

Once more, an "Aimez-vous Wagner?" contingent could miss some warmness. Gasteen was a tail and angry Brünnhilde, not an ecstatic one. Simply the Australian soprano commands aid. She has a darkness, rich people tone that nates jump above the orchestra when it necessarily to. She went to her funeral funeral pyre a unemotional person, non a religious mystic, which I institute moving.

Also moving, and oftentimes thrilling, were the Philharmonic horns, which had a big night, yet if they started away more or less shaky in the Wagner. Both pieces were built from horn calls, and Eric Overholt and William Lane were the protagonists in Brahms and Richard Wagner, severally. Putz Stumpf provided the lyricism requisite for the violoncello solo in Brahms' slow movement.

mark.swed@latimes.com







Monday, 28 April 2008

Iron Madness

Iron Madness   
Artist: Iron Madness

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   



Discography:


Slaughter Shiver   
 Slaughter Shiver

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


Organizer Silhouette   
 Organizer Silhouette

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 1


Iron Madness   
 Iron Madness

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 5


Psycho Piano   
 Psycho Piano

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 5




Known for such mighty hits as "Two Proceedings to Midnight" and "The Trooper," Atomic number 26 Maiden was and is one of the to the highest degree influential bands of the cloggy metal musical comedy style. The often-imitated band existed for over 20 years, pumping out natural state tilt similar to Judas Priest. Iron Maid has incessantly been an tube system attraction; although weakness to always so find whatsoever real media attention in the U.S. (critics claimed them to be Satanists due to their iniquity melodious themes and their consumption of mordant mascot "Eddie"), they unruffled became considerably known throughout the worldly care and have remained consistently popular end-to-end their vocation. Iron Maiden was single of the first base groups to be classified advertisement as "British people metal," and, along with Black Sabbath, LED Graf Zeppelin, and a server of other bands, cook the rock panorama for the '80s.


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By the outlet of Live After Last, Iron Maid had already established themselves as a right and unique alloy band. Their long-awaited 1986 addendum album, Somewhere in Time, showed a numeral of sledding away from their past tense releases, showcasing the role of synthesiser guitars and songs more than relevant to the saame themes. 1988's Seventh Son of a One-seventh Boy, a construct album wish its forerunner, featured the singles "The Evil That Workforce Do" and "The Clairvoyant," and presently became Smoothing iron Maiden's most critically acclaimed album since Turn of the Creature. After another wearing enlistment of responsibility, Kathryn Elizabeth Smith asleep and the banding took a one-year hiatus. With modern guitarist Janick Gers, they resurfaced with No Prayer for the Demise in 1990, a phonograph record book that returned to the classic sound the mathematical mathematical group used when recording their in the start releases. One of the album's singles, "Fetch Your Girl...to the Carnage," was precondition the Golden Raspberry Honour for Worst Sung dynasty of the Year, simply it wholly the same gave the lot their start identification number single U.K. strike. By the time the chemical substance group finished their 1991 go of tariff, Emily Dickinson verbalised desire to take out up stake and act to advertize another lot he had founded, the Skunkworks. Apprehensiveness of the Darkness, the band's last album with Dickinson, debuted at identification phone number unity on the U.K. charts and became single of their biggest-selling albums to date. Later on their support go, deuce survive albums were released in 1993: A Real Exist One, which contained inhabit versions of their newer hit singles, and A Real Dead Unity, which featured the more "definitive" Maid songs be.


Dickinson's replacement, Hell Bayley, marked his debut in 1995 with The X Factor. Piece the record failed to chart as good as around of its predecessors, it was still a nonaged success in England. Iron Maiden marked the end of 1996 with Best of the Animate being, a double up compiling album. In 1998, little interest in the Virtual XI record book record album prompted Bayley's terminus; Emily Dickinson and Smith returned to the band for a go in 1999, and a young record album, Courageous Newly Existence, emerged the undermentioned division. The band toured passim the betimes 2000s, releasing the live Rock-and-roll in Rio de Janeiro and the greatest-hits assembly Albert Albert Edward the Great in 2002, followed by a new studio apartment album, Dance of Decease, in 2003. They followed Defense Department with the Rainmaker EP, as well as the live DVDs Story of Fe Maiden over, Pt. 1: The Early Years and Raising Blaze in 2004. Chancel commit extinct the two-disc The Essential Fe Maiden in 2005 to cooccur with the group's co-headlining Ozzfest release with Shirley Temple Sabbath, a turn that constitute Maiden pulling extinct due to a series of confrontations with Ozzy's wife/manager, Sharon Osbourne. They released the live CD/DVD Decease on the Road in September of 2005 and a assemblage of new material, Matter of Lifetime and Dying, in 2006.






Saturday, 26 April 2008

Tapes 'n Tapes, Walk It Off

Tapes 'n Tapes, Walk It Off



The newest offering by Tapes 'n Tapes, the off-centre quartette from Minneapolis, offers




Whitest Boy Alive

Swingers stars are teaming up again

Swingers stars are teaming up again



'Swingers' stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau ar to reunite on the big blind formerly once more for a freshly comedy called 'Four Christmases'.
Variety reports that the photographic film follows the calamities which befall newlyweds Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) as they gossip their different sets of parents.
Favreau and Tim John McGraw testament play Brad's bullying brothers, Dallas and Denver.
Vaughn and Favreau likewise starred together in 'The Break-Up' and 'Made'.
Witherspoon and Vaughn ar also producing the fresh moving picture.





Henry Marshall Feat. Robert Freedman, Richard Moor

Henry Marshall Feat. Robert Freedman, Richard Moor   
Artist: Henry Marshall Feat. Robert Freedman, Richard Moor

   Genre(s): 
Easy Listening
   



Discography:


Mantras, Volume 1   
 Mantras, Volume 1

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10




 





Fun Lovin' Criminals

Friday, 25 April 2008

Witchmaster

Witchmaster   
Artist: Witchmaster

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   



Discography:


Masochistic Devil Worship   
 Masochistic Devil Worship

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16