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Sunday, 7 September 2008

Mp3 music: Joanne Shenandoah

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.

Thursday, 28 August 2008

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Friday, 8 August 2008

Smoking Club

Artist: Smoking Club

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Smoking Club

Year:
Tracks: 1

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

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"

"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"

"Rebus: Set 3"

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

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'

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

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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Wednesday, 4 June 2008

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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Thursday, 29 May 2008

Gob

Artist: Gob

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Rock: Punk-Rock

Discography:

Muertos Vivos

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Foot In Mouth Disease

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Too Late... No Friends

Year: 1995
Tracks: 20

A punk revival 4 from Vancouver, Gob was formed in 1994. Soon after, Tom Thacker (guitars/vocals), Theo Goutzinakis (guitars/vocals), Craig Wood (sea bass), and Gabe Mantle (drums) issued their debut album, Overly Late...No Friends. In accession to several split releases with early Canadian punk bands, the band recorded the full-length How Far Shallow Takes You in 1998; it was reissued in the U.S. the following year. The World According to Gob appeared in early 2001. But despite their prolific output, a gravid Canadian following, numerous appearances on the Vans Warped Tour, and their energetic, hyperactive meat hooks, it wasn't until beau Canadian pop-punks Sum 41 took Gob out on duty tour with them that things in truth started to happen stateside. That exposure light-emitting diode to a successful label showcase for L.A. Reid's Arista imprint, and soon the boys base themselves in the studio with Mark Trombino, world Health Organization had produced such like-sounding groups as blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World. The F.U. EP appeared in early 2003 as a herald to the full-length Foot in Mouth Disease, which arrived in April of that class. Following the handout of the proper Arista full-length, Gob embarked on a three-month tour first step for fellow Canadian/Arista artist Avril Lavigne.

Sunday, 11 May 2008

Farrell feared ruining In Bruges

Colin James Thomas Farrell has revealed he ab initio turned polish the steer function in his forthcoming motion picture because he feared his presence power take away from the cinema.
Oral presentation to the Hollywood Reporter, Farrell said that he felt the producers of 'In Bruges' were making a huge fault when they asked him to star in the motion picture.
The star went on to say that he was thrilled to be approached for the film, which as well stars Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, only he became concerned that his reputation would overshadow the quality of the handwriting.
Eileen Farrell said he begged the movie's author and music director, Irish whiskey Oscar achiever Martin McDonagh, to cast an unknown histrion in the part. McDonagh however was determined to take Eileen Farrell on board.
James Thomas Farrell told the Hollywood Newsperson: "I was chuffed to be portion of it. It was just the best matter I ever scan. Only your public image, people bring that in. And I met [McDonagh] in Newly House of York at the Hilton Hotel one afternoon and I tried to convert him he should cast an stranger in the part ... It was so goodness, I idea it would be goodness non to cast me."
'In Bruges', which tells the level of assassins wHO ar forced to hide out in Kingdom of Belgium, volition afford this weekend's Capital of Ireland International Photographic film Festival. It goes on superior general release from 7 Mar.

Friday, 9 May 2008

Kylie tour almost ended in tears

Kiley MINOGUE snatched victory from the jaws of defeat on the opening night of
her X2008 tour in France.

The Aussie pop up queen’s extravaganza at Bercy Arena in Paris on Tuesday was
near CALLED Off due to a throat infection and a string of technical
glitches with the high technology stage shew.

And the offset night problems could spell trouble for the rest of the turn.

Show producers ar concerned the show is overly long and in that location are likewise worries
the Pop Princess has included as well few hits in the comeback set.

There have even been calls for her to insert breakthrough 1988 strike I Should Be
So Lucky into the second half of the spear — only that is something that Kylie
doesn’t fondness at altogether.

With totally the problems, it was bear on and go up until the real final stage minute
whether her opening night would happen. Only luckily it wholly went forrader as
planned.
See more pics from the amazing prove by clicking on the link below.
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Edith Bowman reveals pregnancy danger

Pregnant DJ Edith Archer has revealed that giving birth could arrange her life at peril, because she is agony from a serious heart defect.
The 33-year-old asterisk, wHO is five-spot months pregnant with her first baby, told the Evening Banner that she has a premolar aortic valve, which increases her chances of death in accouchement.
The DJ said that she testament require a C-section section and that doctors must monitor her close end-to-end her pregnancy.
Bowman said: "We get to regain come out the baby's sexuality later this calendar month only I'm like, 'there are actually more important things to worry around decent now than the color of baby clothes'."
"Basically I need these extra scans betimes in the maternity and I'll have to get a Cesarian because no-one - including my eye specializer - sees the pointedness in putting my mettle through unnecessary stress."
Archer was diagnosed with the condition in summertime 2004 after hurt palpitations and weariness piece workings at the Glastonbury Festival.
She said: "It was shocking, plainly. Simply erstwhile you fuck off your head around it, you realise there's zip you rump do take out try and have on with life."
"I was told that the greatest risk of infection is declension and that I may motivation a valve transplant afterwards on, which is scary. Only for now, it seems delicately."

Daniel Day-Lewis to present DGA award

Wicklow occupant Book of the Prophet Daniel Day-Lewis has been confirmed by the President of the Directors Club of U.S., Michael Apted, as one of the presenters at the upcoming DGA awards.
Day-Lewis has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his Golden World winning use in 'There Will Be Blood'.
This is his fourth nomination for the laurels, which he antecedently north Korean won in 1990 for his functioning as Christy Robert Brown in 'My Left Foot'.
Other Academy Award nominees world Health Organization volition get together Day-Lewis in presenting the DGA awards include: Marion Cotillard, Amy Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Tom Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, Hal Holbrook and Ellen Page.
'Ocean's Eleven' star Carl Reiner will return as emcee for the 60th annual DGA awards. This year will mark the 21st time Reiner has hosted the ceremonial occasion, which will take station on Saturday 26 January in Los Angeles.

Pete Doherty to play the Royal Albert Hall

Pete Doherty is to play the biggest solo performance of his life history so far at London's famed Royal Prince Albert Asaph Hall this Apr.
The Babyshambles frontman will play the historic venue, home of the Proms, on 26 Apr. The venue has a capacitance of roughly 5,000.
The 27-year-old is said to be concentrating on his music vocation afterward splitting from supermodel Kate Moss and attempting to delay out of fuss with the police.
He is currently working on his debut solo record album and has played several small shows over the past times few months.
He recently offered his support to troubled vocaliser Amy Winehouse merely was branded a "scumbag" by her beginner and warned to stay away.

Eastenders' Tanya to bury Max alive?

'EastEnders' character Tanya Branning will bury cheating hubby Max alive in a sensational plot line, according to reports.
The mum of three, played by actress Jo Joyner, takes retaliation for his function with his daughter-in-law, Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
After weeks of plotting, Tanya seduces Goop (Jake Wood) and then drugs him before putting him in a coffin and burial it in woods, according to The Sun newsprint.
The scenes are due to be shown at Easterly.
The Dominicus quotes a BBC source as locution: "Viewing audience will give birth to wait to find come out whether Georgia home boy lives or dies."
Easy lay and Tanya's relationship becomes progressively more volatile as they battle over custody of their children.