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Artist: Joanne Shenandoah: mp3 download    Genre(s):  New Age Other     Joanne Shenandoah's discography:      Skywoman    Year: 2005    Tracks: 10      Covenant    Year: 2003    Tracks: 11      Peace and Power    Year: 2002    Tracks: 14      Eagle Cries    Year: 2001    Tracks: 12      Warrior In Two Worlds    Year: 2000    Tracks: 16      Peacemaker's Journey    Year: 1999    Tracks: 12      Orenda    Year: 1998    Tracks: 16      Matriarch: Iroquois Women's Songs    Year: 1996    Tracks: 13      Life Blood    Year:     Tracks: 18      All Spirits Sing    Year:     Tracks: 11 Native American vocalizer Joanne Shenandoah is a fellow member of the Wolf Clan of the Oneida Nation, Iroquois Confederacy. Her parents, Maisie Shenandoah, a Clanmother, and the late Clifford Shenandoah, an Onondaga gaffer and jazz guitarist, loved music and named Joanne "Tek-ya-wha-wha," which means "she sings" in the Oneida language. As a baby, Joanne learned all the tribal songs and studied voice, cross flute, pianoforte, clarinet, guitar, and cello. She draws upon her rich inheritance, so far hind end bring these songs into a contemporary mise en scene. In 1994, Shenandoah panax quinquefolius at the Woodstock Festival and has appeared on and created healthy tracks for numerous television shows, most notably Northern Exposure and How the West Was Lost. She has performed and recorded with many realized musicians in Europe and America, including pianist/composer Peter Kater, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, and Rita Coolidge. From traditional chants to contemporaneous ballads of Native slipway, her music has been described as an emotional experience, a "Aboriginal American trance." Shenandoah is the cofounder and president of Round Dance Productions, a not-for-profit educational Native-operated foundation dedicated toward the preservation of Iroquois culture. Round Dance has begun to initiate activities which will consequence in the instauration of a Native American traditional music archive, playacting arts centre, and recording studio. In 1993, Shenandoah was prestigious with the "Native American of the Year" award, and the future year she was awarded "Native Musician of the Year," from the First Americans in the Arts Foundation. Shenandoah has recorded on the Canyon Records and Silver Wave Records labels since then, delivering a sometimes patched simply always reliable array of Native American music. Highlights of her catalog include 1997's strong and solemn Matriarch: Iroquois Women's Songs and 2001's politically motivated Eagle Cries.

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DVDs released this week

Here are some of today's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, go to www.seattletimes.com/movies).

"My Blueberry Nights" (PG-13), Wong Kar Wai's pastry-filled romantic reverie starring Norah Jones, in her acting debut, and Jude Law.

"Drillbit Taylor" (PG-13), a comedy, directed by Steven Brill, about three high-school freshmen who seek protection from a pair of bullies. What do they do? They hire Owen Wilson.

"Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" (PG-13), a comedy/drama starring Angela Bassett as a struggling single mother of three who heads to Georgia for the funeral of the father she never met.

Also available in a three-disc set is the TV series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne: Volume Two."

"Vantage Point" (PG-13), Pete Travis' tale of the shooting of an American president (William Hurt), told "Rashomon"-style, through the different perceptions of several people who witnessed the event. The cast also includes Dennis Quaid, Sigourney Weaver and Forest Whitaker.

TV on DVD

"Mad Men: Season One"

"The Closer: The Complete Third Season"

" 'Til Death Do Us Part: The Complete First Season"

"The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 1"

"Walker, Texas Ranger: The Fifth Season"

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Mint Royale score number one single

Mint Royale have scored a surprise number one single today (June 8).

Manchester's big beat veterans are in at number one with the re-release of their 'Singin' In The Rain' remix ending Rihanna's three-week reign with 'Take A Bow'.

Further down the chart, Morrissey is in at 24 with 'All You Need Is Me' and Mystery Jets enter at 28 with 'Two Doors Down'.

On the album chart, Paul Weller is straight in at number one with his new collection '22 Dreams', while Radiohead's Best Of and The Zutons' 'You Can Do Anything' are in at four and six respectively.

The UK's top ten singles this week are"

1. Mint Royale � 'Singin� In The Rain'
2. Rihanna � 'Take A Bow'
3. The Ting Tings � 'That's Not My Name'
4. Duffy � 'Warwick Avenue'
5. Ne-Yo � 'Closer'
6. Sara Bareilles � 'Love Song'
7. Gabriella Climi � 'Sweet About Me'
8. Madonna ft Justin Timberlake � '4 Minutes'
9. Sam Sparro - 'Black And Gold'
10. Will.I.Am ft Cheryl Cole - 'Heartbreaker'

This is nerdcore: welcome to the nerdy face of hip-hop

In a few weeks' time in Florida, there will be an entire festival dedicated to one musical sub-genre, a sub-genre that was regarded as a joke when it first came to attention at the start of this decade. Now, maybe, the joke is on those who laughed at nerdcore. Where conventional hip-hop celebrates wealth and sex and drugs, nerdcore eschews gangsta themes for "geeksta" interests - its MCs rap about Star Wars, about World of Warcraft and about computer coding. If that's what you want from a festival, then get along to - you guessed it - Nerdapalooza. Or just hope that the talk of a Nerdapalooza UK proves to be more than idle speculation.

The festival isn't the only sign that nerdcore is in rude health, eight years after its birth. Scene stalwart MC Chris has recorded with the acclaimed rapper Talib Kweli and has reached the hip-hop Top 10 on iTunes. Nerdcore MCs have been played on MTV. The main nerdcore internet forum, Rhyme Torrents, is thriving. And, most tellingly, this spring saw two documentaries about nerdcore screened at US film festivals.

Nerdcore Rising focuses on MC Frontalot and his first full US tour in 2006, as he attempts to turn a hobby into a career. It sounds like a pipe dream for a bespectacled man in suit and tie, whose sole concession to stagewear is a headtorch. But when I meet him at the film's premiere at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas, he assures me that the move has been successful - his income has doubled annually since he made the leap. In Nerdcore for Life, an overview of the movement, the similarly square MC Chris recounts a similar tale: "My name is MC Chris and I'm a full-time rapper, crazy as it sounds. That's what I do for a living." Dan Lamoureux, the film's director, says that although these two and MC Lars are the only artists able to ones able to turn a career from nerdcore, "I think a few artists are on the verge of taking the plunge and try and make a living off their music."

"This really is the dawning of nerdcore," agrees Jason Christie, featured in Nerdcore for Life under his stage name High-C. As founder of Rhyme Torrents, he has probably played as big a role as anyone in the growth of the scene. "It is spreading far and wide, internationally: my server stats show regular visits from just about any country you can care to name. And when people do discover nerdcore, they now enter into a vibrant scene with many diverse artists - a far cry from a scant two years ago, when the only nerdcore artists anyone knew of were on Wikipedia, and numbered eight in total."

Obviously, that doesn't mean there were only eight people rapping on nerdy themes. Jazzy Jeff was doing just that a full two decades ago, and the lineage runs through MC Paul Barman, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, various Madlib and Kool Keith projects and even Lupe Fiasco. Yet these aren't nerdcore artists, not least because they never claimed to be; nerdcore, Frontalot tells me, is strictly an "opt-in identity".

Nerdcore began with Frontalot's 2000 tune, Nerdcore Hip Hop. Subsequent milestones for Frontalot - at least according to Nerdcore for Life - include performances at the Penny Arcade Expo video game convention in Seattle and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. That news of these performances spread over the blogosphere points to one of nerdcore's key strengths: the internet, now fundamental to the dissemination of all music, is presumably embraced more warmly by nerds than by anyone else on the planet. This, after all, is a scene whose biggest bad boy is a convicted hacker and self-proclaimed "digital gangster" named YT Cracker.

Technology doesn't just help in spreading the nerdcore gospel. It also makes the creation of the music itself cheaper and more accessible than ever before. Perhaps most importantly, it allows artists without record labels, and operating within what is still a highly underground scene, to tap into an international audience. As MC Frontalot says, he might only have one fan in every town but when you add all those together, "you create a very shallow but incredibly wide-reaching fanbase.

"It means it's hard to look at the sort of deal that's traditionally been offered by a record company and see it as a good idea. A record company sells a CD for $16.75, and the whole band gets $1.20 out of that, but my margin is completely the reverse. I spend $1.20 producing the physical CD, I sell it for $14 and pocket all the rest. I've sold less than 10,000 copies of either my albums, but they've been paying my rent for the last two years." As we are told on Nerdcore Rising, "without the internet, there would be no MC Frontalot".

Negin Farsad, director of Nerdcore Rising, certainly endorses that theory. "Nerdcore seems a natural and cultural embodiment of the entire tech revolution that's created a sea change in the way that we live," she insists. "Frontalot has grabbed hold of the zeitgeist and recognises that hip-hop and technology aren't going anywhere - they will emerge and converge in the form of nerdcore, whether we like it or not."

In Nerdcore for Life, MC Chris makes a similar point, noting that mainstream hip-hop is getting geekier, to the point where even Jay-Z records now contain references to comic books and superheroes. High-C takes the argument even further: "The whole definition of a nerd is expanding. Everybody in the US uses computers, a great many of them play video games, and comic books are really coming back for adults. So there's a little bit of nerd in us all."

Nerdcore has no shortage of critics, though. For some, it's just too jokey. Others suggest that nerdcore, as a largely white and often humorous take on a predominantly black genre, carries racist undertones.

Dan Lamoureux, whose Nerdcore For Life depicts black and Asian as well as white nerdcore artists, responds thus: "I spent more than two years studying nerdcore, and never once did I encounter anyone that I thought was trying to insult or disparage people of another race. The genre is not a parody. A lot of the music is very witty, but the primary goal isn't to make people laugh. I think that the confusion comes from the antiquated and prejudiced assumption that hip-hop is 'black' music and shouldn't be attempted by people of other races. The whole point of hip-hop is that it's supposed to be the voice of the people. It's evolved into a truly global art form, and the music is so ubiquitous that it's even permeated into geek culture."

Indeed, if a key tenet of hip-hop is "keeping it real", then a fantasy obsessive is being less true to the genre by pretending to have more bullet scars than 50 Cent than he is by rapping about Lord of the Rings. Though admittedly, Lords of the Rhymes, who in Nerdcore for Life do exactly that while dressed in Middle Earth costumes, remain on the wrong side of the crucial distinction made in the same film by MC Lars: between being "fun" but still being taken seriously, and being "funny", and hence perceived as a joke.

The simple truth is that, as with many genres, nerdcore has both wheat and chaff, and with time, the lesser acts will fall by the wayside. What's remarkable is that the scene's strongest artists do now have a chance of forging a sustained career - at least as long as there are fans as ardently loyal as the girl in Nerdcore Rising who travels for 19 hours to see Frontalot perform. Yet the same strength of passion can also manifest itself negatively: Nerdcore for Life gives a glimpse of nerd in-fighting so ferocious it makes the beef between Death Row and Bad Boy look like a schoolyard scrap. Similarly, both Dan Lamoureux and Wired magazine have found themselves the subject of "diss tracks" for their coverage of the scene, MC Router's verbal assault on Wired featuring the charming line: "What the hell's going on with this shitty magazine? You want this motherfucking knife in your fucking spleen?" Just like "real" hip-hop then.

Where to hear nerdcore

Sadly, neither of the nerdcore movies has a UK release scheduled. But you can still catch up with the main players. MC Chris has three albums available, including this year's mc chris is dead. You can buy all three from his website, mcchris.com. If you are feeling cautious, you can hear seven songs at myspace.com/mcchris. MC Frontalot has two albums, and you can buy his most recent effort, Secrets from the Future from frontalot.com. Or you could just download the 53 tracks available for free on the site. YT Cracker - "the undisputed king of nerdcore" - has a vast digital archive available at ytcracker.com. For further information, rhymetorrents.com rightly proclaims itself "your source for nerdcore" and has links to blogs, podcasts, artists' sites and downloadable music.


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Will Smith - Smith Wants To Make Bad Boys 3

WILL SMITH is desperate to make a second BAD BOYS sequel, and begged director MICHAEL BAY at the MTV Movie Awards to reunite him with MARTIN LAWRENCE for a third movie.

The actor tackled Bay backstage at the bash on Sunday (1Jun08), before he stepped up onstage to collect the Best Male Performance award for his movie I Am Legend.

He told Bay, "We need Bad Boys 3. I was just watching Bad Boys 2. with my son and I told him you can't open a movie better. That's the best movie opening ever!"

Bay teamed Smith and Lawrence for the first time in 1995 and then again in 2003.

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