Monday 8 September 2008

Agenda: Iraq War Doc �No End in Sight� Attacks With the Facts

Agenda: Iraq War Doc �No End in Sight� Attacks With the Facts
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Rather than take down George Bush with smug cheap shots, political scientist Charles Ferguson�s terrific No End in Sight, first released in 2007, simply attacks with the facts. Now, it�s available on YouTube, without interruption and with all its upsetting insights intact. Its methodical, incisive dissection of the Bush administration�s myriad stupidities leading up to the Iraq war make for that rare contemporary documentary that worries less about its entertainment value than building a convincing argument. [No End In Sight; On YouTube]







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Friday 29 August 2008

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Tuesday 19 August 2008

Smashing Pumpkins set free Orlando show

The Smashing Pumpkins [ ] will give a free performance next workweek as portion of the Samsung AT&T Summer Krush Concert Series.

The Aug. 22 show is set to take place at Orlando, FL's Hard Rock Live, and the free ar being distributed via the Summer Krush website. According to a post on the band's MySpace page, those wHO enter the word "Pumpkins" in the comment box on the ticket order form volition be given priority.

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Saturday 9 August 2008

Touch Of Cruel Hands

Touch Of Cruel Hands   
Artist: Touch Of Cruel Hands

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   



Discography:


Sors   
 Sors

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10




 





The Billboard Q&A: Miley Cyrus

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Zee U

Zee U   
Artist: Zee U

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Vingardium Leviosa   
 Vingardium Leviosa

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13




 





Britney Spears back in court over child custody

Wednesday 25 June 2008

'Sopranos' mini-reunion in 'Mourning'

Lorraine Bracco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler to star in comedy





Lorraine Bracco and Jamie-Lynn Sigler will star in the satirical indie comedy "Son of Mourning," marking a "Sopranos" mini-reunion.


Bracco and Sigler will play the mother and love interest, respectively, of a disaffected ad copywriter (Joseph Cross). When he returns home to deal with his parents' divorce, the locals mistake him for a spiritual savior who will deliver them from the world's climate crisis. Heather Graham also stars.


Writer-director Yaniv Raz's feature debut is shooting in Florida. Cross also is making his producer debut on the film, with Moritz Borman serving as exec producer.


Bracco is repped by Innovative and One Entertainment. Sigler is repped by UTA and Untitled.



Gregg Goldstein reported from New York; Borys Kit reported from Los Angeles.



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Wednesday 18 June 2008

Bloco Electro, Global Beatbox Part 1

After playing to an estimated worldwide audience of 55 million people opening Live Earth, you would assume that you would recognise the gentlemen and lady behind BlocoElectro. Forming part of the SOS All-Stars, the drumming super group of 40 members, led by Roger Taylor of Queen, the band are slowly making the transition between support slots to the main attraction.

Global Beatbox Part 1 is a curious collection of electronic and hip hop-tinged dance, compromised of solely percussive based sounds. Largely influenced by the sound of Brazilian drumming groups (Bloco) and fusing the distinct rhythmic patterns with both Latin and other world beats, BlocoElectro have a sound that is like a thousand holidays rolled into one.

The emphasis is very much on the 'Global' throughout this album, with inspiration gained from just about anywhere you care to mention. Echoes of India, Africa and the Middle East all feature but each influence never sits incongruent to another and each sound seems to meld seamlessly into each other in this international melting pot.

While African Beat also retains a progressive feel with the use of more synthetic drum sound, it is tracks such as Afro Cuba which mesh together the international influences in perhaps the most organic way. By merely allowing these percussive sounds to meet without any electronic intervention, they combine to make the most interesting noises on the album.

Whereas keyboards, decks and loops are usually the staple of most dance music, the lack of such tools does not hinder the sound produced by BlocoElectro. It is perhaps, by not falling into the trap of other bands which use these fusion techniques by layering loops and such to infinitum, that the band retain a rather fresh and uncluttered sound.

Although this album isn't rewriting any of the rule books or trying to punch through any boundaries, it is still a relatively accomplished collection of interesting sounds. After gaining a fan in the shape of Annie Nightingale and having secured a slot on the BBC Introducing tour, you are bound to hear a lot more of this band in the near future.


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Monday 16 June 2008

Spectral

Spectral   
Artist: Spectral

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   



Discography:


Diffuse (Br105Cd)   
 Diffuse (Br105Cd)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


Celtic Alchemy   
 Celtic Alchemy

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4




 





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Ian Brown Injures Eye During Show Fracas

Ian Brown was involved in a scuffle during a show last week, which resulted in the singer being treated for an eye injury.


The former Stone Roses man was performing at the Carling Academy in Sheffield on Friday the 13th of June, when he was pulled from the stage during a fracas.


The next day, when Ian was playing live again at the Isle Of Wight Festival, he had one of his eyes covered up.


"I got pulled off the stage yesterday," he told fans at the festival. "I had to have stitches. I've still got one eye on you, though."




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Katie Holmes - Holmes Signs On For All My Sons

LATEST: The worst kept secret on Broadway is no longer a secret - KATIE HOLMES will star in the upcoming revival of playwright ARTHUR MILLER's ALL MY SONS.

The Batman Begins star will join a cast that also will include John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson.

The drama, about a family patriarch's darkest secret, was Miller's first big hit and is beloved by thespians and theatre critics throughout the world.

It will mark the first time a Miller play has been staged on Broadway since the writer's death in 2005.

The play will also be Holmes' Broadway debut.

Venue and dates were not available as WENN went to press, but the play is expected to debut this autumn (08).




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No black velvet Elvis, but 'bad painting' exhibit opens at Austrian museum

VIENNA, Austria - Two blonds with bulging bosoms. A child crying next to a decapitated doll. A man with pipes protruding from his face.

That's just a sampling of intriguing images on view in the Austrian capital that all share the same label: bad painting that makes good art.

Curators of the new exhibit at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art, or MUMOK, say the phenomenon began in the 1920s and is represented in works by celebrated 20th century artists such as Rene Magritte, Francis Picabia, and Georg Baselitz.

"They challenge their medium by using a range of incorrect, bad or ugly approaches in order to attack and criticize it by its own means," a panel tells visitors entering the exhibit.

"Bad Painting - good art," which opened Thursday, takes the viewer on a fascinating tour of occasionally in-your-face creations, such as a seemingly severed and bloody foot by Baselitz, dated 1963.

There's also a large piece of fabric inscribed in black lettering with a dozen lines of German insults by Sigmar Polke, titled "Cloth of Abuse," from 1968.

In the exhibit's catalogue, MUMOK director Edelbert Koeb calls the show "the first major historical overview of a phenomenon which has undeservedly received little attention to date, offering a new, differentiated view on the history of Modern and Postmodern painting."

Particularly compelling are several works by Asger Jorn, who bought nondescript paintings at flea markets - then added his own touch.

One such image, frequently reproduced, is titled "The Avant-garde Does not Give up" and features a girl in a cream dress clutching a jump rope. The viewer is immediately drawn to Jorn's changes, which include a minute moustache and hint of a beard on the child's face.

"Cabbage" is the name of another painting modified by the Danish artist. It depicts a woman posing in an elegant off-the-shoulder evening gown, her face completely shrouded by Jorn in what could be described as a multicoloured mask.

MUMOK press material explains that Jorn, toward the end of the 1950s, considered his "modifications" as a way of recognizing the value of kitsch, which he referred to as "bad painting."

Works by bad painting's so-called father figure, Picabia, are also on show. The museum describes him as an artist who, already in the 1920s, espoused jumping from style to style as an alternative to the earlier avant-gardist belief in linear progress in art.

One striking Picabia image, dated 1935, shows the face of an attractive woman completely covered in small dark spots.

The museum says artists hardly ever used bad painting continuously but rather let it shape certain periods of their careers.

"Bad painting is a strategy that no artist has followed consistently throughout his entire career, but rather deployed during specific phases as a way of opening up new possibilities for the medium," Koeb wrote.

The exhibit runs through Oct. 12.

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On the Net: http://www.mumok.at










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David Knopfler

David Knopfler   
Artist: David Knopfler

   Genre(s): 
Country
   



Discography:


Small Mercies   
 Small Mercies

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14


The Giver   
 The Giver

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12




 





Aditya Chakrabortty on Utsavam, a new exhibition of music from across India

Ladies' Day Returns To Theaters

Even the box office estimates for the opening weekend of Warner Bros.' Sex and the City turned out to be too conservative as the film earned a million and a half dollars more on Sunday than studio executives had reckoned. The film took in a total of $56.9 million for the weekend, substantially ahead of Paramount's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which brought in $44.8 million in its second week, pushing its gross past the $200-million mark to $215.6 million. The No. 3 film, Universal's horror flick The Strangers, also performed better than expected with $21 million -- more than what the film cost to produce. In fourth place, Iron Man appeared to have legs of steel, as it brought in another $13.5 million after five weeks. Rounding out the top five, Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian added $12.7 million to its gross in its third week.



The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Sex and the City: The Movie, Warner Bros, $56,848,056, (New); 2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Paramount, $44,754,615, 2 Wks. ($215,635,899); 3. The Strangers, Universal, $20,997,985, (New); 4. Iron Man, Paramount, $13,541,264, 5 Wks. ($276,166,336); 5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Disney, $12,704,545, 3 Wks. ($115,362,725); 6. What Happens in Vegas, 20th Century Fox, $6,681,097, 4 Wks. ($65,904,971); 7. Speed Racer, Warner Bros., $2,259,031, 4 Wks. ($40,677,371); 8. Baby Mama, Universal, $2,194,320, 6 Wks. ($56,117,805); 9. Made of Honor, Sony, $1,913,035, 5 Wks. ($42,878,354); 10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Universal, $1,059,840, 7 Wks. ($60,485,980).


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'Hottest MCs In The Game': Check Out The MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust's Top 10s!




The MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust: Collectively we've made decisions that cause controversy and make the hip-hop community talk. We all stand by each other, but as you can tell from our round-table debates, everyone submits their individual lists before a vote takes place on various "Hottest" or "Greatest" list positioning — most recently for the latest edition of "Hottest MCs in the Game."

While everyone's opinions are certainly heard in the show, here are the Brain Trust's individual lists of who they think is hot right now. And yes, some of these lists have been updated since everyone sat down at the round table — the game changes often!

Tuma Basa

Director, MTV Music Programming

1. Lil Wayne

2. Jay-Z

3. Rick Ross

4. Kanye West

5. 50 Cent

6. Snoop Dogg

7. Lupe Fiasco

8. Young Jeezy

9. T.I.

10. Bun B

Bridget Bland

Contributor, MTV Radio Network

1. Kanye West

2. Jay-Z

3. Lil Wayne

4. Young Jeezy

5. Rick Ross

6. Lupe Fiasco

7. T.I.

8. Snoop Dogg

9. Andre 3000

10. Soulja Boy Tell'em

Honorable mentions:

Plies

Ludacris

Gucci Mane

Rocko

Shawty Lo

Lil' Kim

Buttahman

Director, Music & Talent, MTV Jams

1. Lil Wayne

2. Kanye West

3. Jay-Z

4. Rick Ross

5. T.I.

6. 50 Cent

7. Ludacris

8. Souljah Boy Tell'em

9. Big Boi

10. Flo Rida

11.Young Jeezy

12. Snoop Dogg

Rahman Dukes

Senior Producer, MTVNews.com

(In no particular order)

Lil Wayne

Kanye West

Jay-Z

Nas

50 Cent

Plies

Rick Ross

Young Jeezy

Prodigy

The Game

Sean Lee

Supervising Producer, MTV News

1. Kanye West

2. Lil Wayne

3. Jay-Z

4. Rick Ross

5. Snoop Dogg

6. 50 Cent

7. Andre 3000

8. Young Jeezy

9. Lupe Fiasco

10. Plies

11. T.I.

12. Soulja Boy

13. Flo Rida

14. Pusha T

Joseph Patel

Senior Producer, MTV News

1. Kanye West

2. Lil Wayne

3. Young Jeezy

4. Ghostface Killah

5. Pusha T

6. Big Boi

7. Styles P

8. Bun B

9. Snoop Dogg

10. Rick Ross

Honorable mentions:

Andre 3000

Jay-Z

Shaheem Reid

Senior Hip-Hop Editor, MTV News

1. Kanye West

2. Jay-Z

3. Lil Wayne

4. 50 Cent

5. Rick Ross

6. Lupe Fiasco

7. Young Jeezy

8. T.I

9. Snoop Dogg

10. Plies

Jayson Rodriguez

Editorial Director, XXLMag.Com

1. Kanye West

2. Lil Wayne

3. Jay-Z

4. Snoop Dogg

5. 50 Cent

6. Rick Ross

7. Lupe Fiasco

8. Young Jeezy

9. Plies

10. Talib Kweli

11. T.I.

12. Ghostface

13. Fabolous

14. Joe Budden

15. Styles P

Now that you've checked out our "Hottest MCs in the Game" show, we want to know what MCs you're feeling! Keep the debate rolling by submitting your own top-10 list below or heading to YouRHere.MTV.com to upload your video reaction. And the hotness continues: You can check in on last year's top 10 and see this year's complete list on our "Hottest MCs" page.






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Britney Spears - Spears Hits London For New Video


BRITNEY SPEARS' former manager LARRY RUDOLPH has confirmed the star will be hitting the streets of London to shoot the promo for her upcoming single RADAR.

The Toxic star is set to film the video in the British capital next week (beg09Jun08), and is determined to get her career back on track by taking a director's role on-set.

Rudolph tells the New York Post , "The theme is her and her girlfriends are going to be looking all around London trying to find a boy who she met in a club. Every time they think they have him, it's someone else.

"She will be behind the camera as much as possible; she wants to make sure it's exactly right."

In April (08) Rudolph, who was reportedly dismissed by the singer after he joined her parents in forcing Spears into rehab last year (07), told reporters how the star is gearing up to make a triumphant return to the charts, saying, "She's in an amazing position for a comeback right now. She could end up being the biggest comeback in history."





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