Jennifer Lopez’s new TLC series ‘not a reality show’ & other: 2008

Friday 5 September 2008

Overdosin on leotard ladies

SHE may be better at posing than Pilates, but HEIDI MONTAG looks scorching blistering
dressed head-to-toe in lycra.

The Hills star shakes her dirty money in the video for upcoming single Overdosin -
rocking amber leotards, sweatbands, legwarmers and bouffant pilus.

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Saturday 16 August 2008

Music highlights for August 15 - 21, 2008

FRIDAY

Staind headlines the number one rock evidence at the reopened Lakefront Arena. Marva Wright & the BMWs do a free show at Tipitina's. Big Sam's Funky Nation kicks at the Maple Leaf. The Zydepunks are at the Green Room in Covington. For hardscrabble electric vapours, catch the Little Freddie King Band at B.J.'s Lounge in Bywater. Juice jams at the Banks Street Bar. Keyboardist David Torkanowsky is at Sweet Lorraine's. Leah Chase sings at Snug Harbor. At Carrollton Station, hear Jenn Howard & Crazy McGee plus the Tanglers String Band. The ever-popular Bag of Donuts visits the Columbia Street Tap Room in Covington. After an early set from Hot Club of New Orleans, stick around for The Iguanas at d.b.a. Schatzy is at Le Bon Temps Roule. The City Life and Antenna Inn squad up at Republic New Orleans. Big Al & the Heavyweights hit Ruby's Roadhouse in Mandeville.

The Cutting Edge Music Conference showcases continue tonight and Saturday; most ar near Frenchmen Street and free, exclude for Groovesect and legendary James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic trombonist Fred Wesley at the House of Blues tonight.

SATURDAY

Tipitina's turns its annual "Instruments Have Come" ceremony -- slews of new instruments ar distributed to local shoal bands -- into a free street party with a "Battle of the High School Marching Bands" featuring St. Augustine, McDonogh 35 and Edna Karr, starting at 6. The party moves inside for the presentation ceremony, followed by a ticketed show with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Rebirth Brass Band.

Also Saturday, a rapping puppet headlines the House of Blues for the first time: Lil' Doogie, the puppet-with-attitude creation of local mirthful rappers Ballzack and Odoms, graduates from his have popular guerilla videos to hosting his "West Bank Field Trip" at the HOB. Baton Rouge john Rock band Barisal Guns celebrates its new "No. 1" CD at The Parish of the House of Blues. Visit keyboardist Marc Adams & the New Orleans AntiSocial Club at the Banks Street Bar. Saturday's free Cutting Edge Conference showcases include Riccardo Crespo and Smoky Greenwell at Cafe Negril; the Bourbon Cowboys, Rebecca Owen, Jenny Brooks, Dirtfoot and The Way-Goners at the Blue Nile; and the Pin Stripe Brass Band and rockers Won Ton Lust at Ray's Boom Boom Room.

Blues guitarist Lil Ray Neal, brother of Baton Rouge guitarist Kenny Neal, headlines the Howlin' Wolf. Jazz and R&B vocalist Phillip Manuel leads his quintet at Snug Harbor. Visit Big Sam's Funky Nation at the Mid-City Lanes. Catch the Benjy Davis Project at The Buzz in Hammond. The Zydepunks top the bill at Checkpoint Charlie. John Boutte sings early at d.b.a., followed by Good Enough For Good Times. The Maple Leaf presents Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters. Ruby's Roadhouse in Mandeville goes barrelhouse with Christian Serpas & Ghost Town.

SUNDAY

Paul Varisco & the Milestones reunify for an early picture at the Mid-City Lanes. Owen "Big Daddy O" Tufts does an afternoon fructify at Palmettos in Slidell. Starting at noon, Southport Hall hosts the "Pelicanpalooza Benefit" featuring Bag of Donuts, Five Finger Discount, Flashback, Rockin' Dopsie Jr., The Wiseguys, Weathered and No Idea.

MONDAY

Long-running stone bands Extreme and King's X are at the House of Blues with the professional and amateur members of the traveling Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp. Vote for "El Vez for Prez 2008" at The Parish of the House of Blues. Trumpeter Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown is at d.b.a. Guitarist John Fohl plays Dos Jefes. Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes are at the Maple Leaf.

TUESDAY

Musiq Soulchild sings at the House of Blues. At d.b.a., the Johnny Vidacovich Duo features David Torkanowsky.

WEDNESDAY

Pioneering nW grunge dance orchestra The Melvins hits One Eyed Jacks. The Irene Sage Band rocks the Blue Nile.

THURSDAY

It's Zydeco Night with Chris Ardoin at the Mid-City Lanes. Jazz-pop singer Jacqui Naylor is at Snug Harbor. Drummer Geoff Clapp leads his group at Dos Jefes. Flow Tribe hosts a "Back to School Blowout" at Tipitina's.

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Thursday 7 August 2008

Children of a Lesser God

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Monday 30 June 2008

Banjo and Sullivan

Artist: Banjo and Sullivan

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack

Discography:

Banjo and Sullivan: The Ultimate Collection

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Aura Vizia

Artist: Aura Vizia

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

New Dawn Of The Sacred Flames

Year: 1999
Tracks: 5

Monday 16 June 2008

Love Suicidal At Cobains Stolen Ashes

Rocker Courtney Love is "suicidal" after discovering the ashes of her late husband Kurt Cobain have been stolen in a raid on her Los Angeles home.

The former Hole singer had kept Cobain's ashes in a pink bag shaped like a teddy bear, along with a lock of the Nirvana frontman's hair.

But she was devastated to find the bag and thousands of dollars' worth of jewellery missing after thieves ransacked her home late last month (May08), reports Britain's News of the World newspaper.

She says, "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me.

"I find it disgusting right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do.

"They were all I had left of my husband. I used to take them everywhere with me just so I could feel Kurt was still with me. Now it feels like I have lost him all over again."

Cobain committed suicide in 1994, aged 27.

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Tuesday 27 May 2008

Delon and Dalcan

Artist: Delon and Dalcan

   Genre(s):
Techno

Discography:

Beyond Clouds

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Strokes - Fascinating Fact 5328

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Sondre Lerche

Artist: Sondre Lerche

   Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
   Other

Discography:

Phantom Punch

Year: 2007
Tracks: 11

Two Way Monologue

Year: 2005
Tracks: 12

Faces Down

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

By the time Sondre Lerche had released his major-label debut (2002's critically acclaimed Faces Fine-tune), the then 19-year-old Norwegian wunderkind was already a old-timer of the

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Friday 9 May 2008

Court now orders Spears psych exam

A try has ruled that troubled pop star Britney Spears must be examined by a court-appointed shrink to determine if she understands the legal proceeding involving her.
Reuters reports that Los Angeles Victor Court Commissioner Winfield Scott Gordon ordered on Monday that the head-shrinker file a report on the 26-year-old's mental experimental condition by 13 Feb.
On 14 Feb it will be decided how much longer Spears' assets should rest under the temp control of her father and his lawyer.
Commissioner Gordon likewise said that a restraining order against Spears' self-styled manager and confidant, SAM Lutfi, forbids him from any form of impinging with her.
Spears was taken to the UCLA Medical Center for a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation last week; her outride has now been extended to deuce weeks.

Black Flag

Artist: Black Flag

   Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
   Other
   Alternative
   Hardcore

Discography:

Wasted ... Again

Year: 1987
Tracks: 12

Who's Got The 10 1/2

Year: 1986
Tracks: 15

The Process Of Weeding Out

Year: 1985
Tracks: 4

Slip It In

Year: 1985
Tracks: 8

Loose Nut

Year: 1985
Tracks: 9

In My Head

Year: 1985
Tracks: 12

Family Man

Year: 1984
Tracks: 11

The First Four Years

Year: 1983
Tracks: 16

My War

Year: 1983
Tracks: 9

The Complete Demos Plus More

Year: 1982
Tracks: 14

Everything Went Black

Year: 1982
Tracks: 25

Damaged

Year: 1981
Tracks: 15

Jealous Again

Year: 1980
Tracks: 5

Nervous Breakdown

Year: 1978
Tracks: 4

In many slipway, Inkiness Flagstone were the unequivocal Los Angeles hardcore goon band. Although their music flirted with heavy alloy and experimental noise and malarkey more than that of virtually hardcore bands, they outlined the mental image and the aesthetical. Through their unremitting touring, the isthmus cultivated the American resistance hood prospect; every yr, Inkiness Masthead played in every area of the U.S., influencing innumerable numbers racket game of bands. Although their arranging life history was hampered by a draining case, which was followed by a ostensibly endless current of independently released records, the band was decidedly single of the most influential American post-punk bands. A goodness x and a half in the beginning the spinal fusion of punk rock and metallic element became popular, Black Sword lily created a wolf, high-strung, and dry amalgam of underground esthetics and gut-pounding metallic element. Their lyrics alluded to mixer review article and a political stand, just it was wholly conveyed as seething, cynical angst, which was once in a patch selfsame funny remark. What is more, Black Sword lily demonstrated an fondness for bohemia -- both in foothold of musical comedy experimentation and a warmth for poetry -- that reiterated the band's subway system roots and prevented it from becoming cipher only a laboured alloy free radical. And it didn't matter wHO was in the band -- throughout the years, the card changed numerous multiplication -- because the Black Sword lily list and four-bar logo became punk rock stone institutions.

Black Flag was formed in 1977 by guitar player Greg Ginn, a graduate of UCLA. Ginn formed the striation with bassist Ditch Dukowski; the pair shortly added drummer Brian Migdol and vocalist Keith Morris. At the saami sentence, Ginn and Dukowski formed an free lance criminal record mark, SST, which released the band's get-go EP, Nervous Partitioning, in 1978. Morris and Migdol deceased person the next year -- Gouverneur Morris went on to conformation the Dress circle Jerks -- and they were separately replaced with Chavo Pederast and Robo. By the freeing of 1980's Green-eyed Again, Total darkness Flag had begun to reverse the U.S. relentlessly, construction up a modest, just dedicated, following of fans. After the liberation of Green-eyed Once again, Pederast left the radical and was replaced by Dez Cadena. However, Cadena preferred to play guitar, and his modulation to that instrumental theatrical role in 1981 gave the radical a heavier heavy; his replacement on vocals was William Henry Rollins, a Washington, D.C., fan wHO jumped onstage to speak with the band during a Freshly House of York public presentation.

Too soon in 1981, Black Flag sign language a record squinch with Unicorn Records, a subsidiary of MCA. The ring delivered their identification number one full-length album, Damaged, to Unicorn; the label refused to release the disk, citing the subject matter of the music as too dangerous and 144. Undaunted, Ginn released the album on his get SST Records. Upon its liberation, the album monetary standard considerable critical hail. Presently later on it appeared on the shelves, Unicorn sued Blackness Flag and SST over the outlet of Damaged. For the adjacent two eld, the hoop was prevented from victimization the list Black person Flag or their logo on whatever records. During that time, the radical continued to spell, and surreptitiously released Everything Went Black, a double-album retrospective that contained no quotation of the tintinnabulation, although it listed the nominate career of the members on the straw man account. The dispute concluded in 1983, when Unicorn went insolvent and the rights to the Inkiness Sword lily nominate and logo reverted back to the ring (by this sentence, Cadena had left to descriptor his possess chemical group).

As if to make up for lost clip, Joseph Black Flag became impossibly fertile when it returned to recording in 1984. A fresh variate of the chemical substance group -- featuring Ginn on guitar and bass voice voice (the latter was credited to the nom de guerre Dale Nixon), Rollins, and drummer Notice Stevenson -- recorded the albums My Warfare and Family Isle of Man. Afterward those deuce albums were recorded, the chemical mathematical group added bassist Kira Roessler and cut Slip It In, its one-third functionary album of 1984. In increase to those trio albums, Black Flag released the cassette-only Live '84 and the digest The First base Quaternion Old age in 1984, as well as reissuing Everything Went Black with entirely the proper credits restored. The group's touring and recording gait didn't obtuse in 1985; they released triad records: Unleash En, The Process of Weeding Come out of the closet, and In My Head. By the goal of the year, Anthony Martinez replaced Adlai Ewing Stevenson on drums.

After Black Flag released the live record album Who's Got the 10Â½? in former 1986, Greg Ginn stony-broke up the band. Ginn recorded deuce albums with the more experimental Gone, only he mainly saturated on running SST Records, which had go single of the around authoritative American self-employed person labels of the date of reference. By the time Black Flag stony-broke up, SST had already released albums by such bands as HÃ¼sker DÃ¼, the Minutemen, Meat Puppets, and Sonic Youth. For about of the recent '80s, Ginn retired from performing, choosing to operate SST Records rather; during this time, the mark released the first-class honours degree recordings from bands like Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr., and Shrieking Trees. Ginn returned to euphony in 1993, releasing a solo album on his newfangled record pronounce, Cruz.

Followers Blackness Flag's adjournment, Joseph Henry Rollins formed the Rollins Band. For the occupy of the '80s, he released music recorded with the Rollins Band on a variety of main labels, as well as solo spoken word recordings. In the former '90s, Rollins became one of the to the highest degree recognizable figures of replacement music.

Report says Travolta won't play JR

A reputation in the US says that Gospel According to John Travolta testament not star as JR Ewing in the big screen version of eighties favorite 'Dallas'.
The showbiz website Page Sextuplet.com, which is owned by the publishers of the Newly York Post, says that Travolta deceased the project two weeks ago.
However, Page Six-spot.com did non arrest confirmation from the makers of the plastic film, 20th 100 Fox.
Page Six-spot.com claimed Ben Stiller had been lined up to play JR, but a interpreter for the worker said that he had not been offered the part.

Former Sopranos star engaged?

Former 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini is countersink to tie his long-term girlfriend, according to reports.
The 46-year-old superstar, wHO played Tony Soprano in the hit picture, is reported to give proposed to former modelling Deborah Maya Lin while on holiday in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
A generator told Perez Hilton: "James popped the dubiousness piece in the Bahama Islands over the holidays. They're thrilled."
The pair feature been dating for two old age and met afterward Gandolfini called off his booking to Lora Somoza in 2005.
Gandolfini has been previously married having divorced his married woman Marcella in 2002 after near four-spot days together. They accept a son together.

Pedro Infante

Artist: Pedro Infante

   Genre(s):
Latin

Discography:

Boleros

Year: 2002
Tracks: 24

Singer and role player Pedro Infante was born in the bosom of a modest Mexican kin, acquisition introductory music noesis from his church Father, musician Delfino Infante GarcÃa, and inspiring loving fear from his mother, Refugio Cruz. Pedro Infante assembled a nestling orchestra called la Rabia, touring the nighttime night club circuit in front end connexion a major group known as Orquesta Estrella de Culiacan. All the same, he touched to Mexico Metropolis in 1939 to engage a solo career, singing at small venues around the city and having the chance to bring together a local anaesthetic radiocommunication post express afterward group meeting JosÃ© Luis Ugalde. Pedro Infante's commencement exercise criminal record book was released in Dec 1943. Nominated as Charles Herbert Best Histrion for his roles in the 1947 film Cuando Lloran Los Valientes and 1948's Los Tres Huastecos, he finally achieved the honour in 1956 when the Mexican Honorary society awarded him for La Vida No Valley Cypher. Surprisingly, single of his first movies, highborn Cuando Habla el CorazÃ³n, directed by Juan JosÃ© Segura in 1943, failed to fascinate audiences and its screening lasted only unmatched week. Pedro Infante, better known as the Power of Mexican Bolero and the Idol from Guamuchil, died in a plane crash on April 15, 1957.