Jennifer Lopez checks into hospital? & other: 2008

Monday, 25 August 2008

MGMT Touring Australia This December!

Read on� because The Frontier Touring Company has the tidings that everyone has been waiting for.�MGMT � the super coolheaded Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden � are touring Australia for the low time ever this December.�The band testament perform headline shows in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Whilst MGMT might look like an overnight success, they�re not.�Goldwasser and VanWyngarden have been performing together since their freshman years at uni back in 2001.�After their graduation in 2005, the band took their hyped live usher on the road and following a brief foramen, secured a record deal through SonyBMG.

From there things snowballed, with the circle exploding onto the international music scene earlier this year.�The duo�s hit song �Time To Pretend� was added to radio the world over, used on the hit UK TV show �Skins� and the USA�s �Gossip Girl� and earned the pair appearances on Letterman and Conan O�Brien.

THE buzz band at this year�s SXSW, MGMT�s psychedelic debut Oracular Spectacular caused a wave of excitement amongst critics and fans alike upon its release in May.

Now with another hit song �Electric Feel� flooding the airwaves and a wealth of live experience (including Glastonbury, T in the Park and Lollapalooza of late), MGMT testament be the concert of the Summer.

Enigmatic Sleepy Jackson frontman Luke Steele will warm up the level for MGMT.�Steele will execute a mix of Sleepy Jackson songs and new material from various projects in solo-acoustic mode.

Psychedelic Perth rockers Tame Impala testament open the shows.�Fresh from inking a deal with Modular, it�ll be worth getting down early to see music�s next braggy thing in full flight.

Perth fans volition also be treated to a cracking set by DJs Anton & Andrei Maz from Death Disco.�Get ready to dance!

Tickets on sale August 19.�Don�t miss out.

MGMT � AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

Tickets on sale August 19 through and through Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

Tickets for Perth demonstrate only also available through Heatseeker www.heatseeker.com.au

Frontier Touring pre-sale from 3pm EST on August 14

December 6 - Belvoir Amphitheatre, Perth

December 9 - Enmore Theatre, Sydney

December 10 - The Tivoli, Brisbane

December 11 - The Palace, Melbourne

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Friday, 15 August 2008

Jessica Simpson wants to be the next Dolly Parton

London (ANI): American pop singer Jessica Simpson has revealed that she hopes to be like legendary country isaac Bashevis Singer Dolly Parton. Simpson, 28, who has worked with Parton, 62, idolizes her and says that she is dictated to make a name as bad as her country idol.

"Dolly is awesome! I idolise her. And she is beautiful. I would love to be simply like her. I get worked with her and it was great," the Sun quoted Simpson as saying. "It was actually exciting - I am blessed, 100 per centime," she added.

Simpson, world Health Organization is set to release her first country album 'Do You Know' in September, has a long journey ahead to rival 26 No. 1 singles and 42 Top 10 country albums. The Dukes of Hazzard star had recently admitted that she had been in an abusive human relationship and her upcoming strain 'Remember That' is based on her own experiences.

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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Johann

Artist: Johann

   Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic

Discography:

Blow Your Mind

Year: 1998
Tracks: 9

Friday, 27 June 2008

"You Don't Mess With the Zohan": Whose harebrained idea was this?

In his latest comedy, Adam Sandler plays an Israeli counterterrorist who, by way of a faked death, moves overseas to follow his dream of becoming a great New York hairstylist. This is one of those movie ideas that leaves you wondering what other ideas, exactly, were rejected in favor of this one, on the grounds of being too lame.

Essentially, "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" is about 100 minutes of ethnic stereotypes, bathroom jokes and adolescent sexual humor, with a couple of minutes of unity and good feeling tacked on at the end so we get that it's all a joke. Zohan, who has uncanny talents as an operative (he can catch bullets in his hands, in silly slow-motion), reads out-of-date hairstyle guides while loading up his guns at home, dreaming of the life he wants. "I like hair," he says. "It's pleasant, it's peaceful. No one gets hurt."

Just a few crotch-gyrations later (Zohan likes to dance), he's stowing away on a flight to America, planning his introduction to hair guru Paul Mitchell. When that goes badly — Zohan's '80s hair is mercilessly mocked by the Mitchell stylists, who frankly don't look much better — he finds some new friends, and quickly gets established in a small shop run by an Arab woman (Emmanuelle Chriqui, who's so beautiful you wonder why she had to settle for this movie). Soon, a parade of older women is being trimmed and otherwise satisfied by the scissors-wielding, sex-happy Zohan, who's oblivious to the fact that his Palestinian nemesis, The Phantom (John Turturro), is winging his way stateside for a confrontation.

Written, more or less idiotically, by Sandler, Robert Smigel and the ubiquitous Judd Apatow (does the man ever sleep?), "Zohan" is aimed squarely at teenage boys and anyone who might find the idea of sexually active older women hilariously funny. Sandler, who attempts a throat-clearingly silly accent that won't be keeping Sacha Baron Cohen up nights, boogies through the movie in his usual dead-eyed way. Random cameo appearances by Mariah Carey, Henry Winkler, John McEnroe and an enormous vat of hummus occasionally enlighten things for a moment, but quickly fall flat. Memo to director Dennis Dugan: If you can't make an enormous vat of hummus funny, you've made one lousy movie.

Moira Macdonald: 206-464-2725 or mmacdonald@seattletimes.com

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Monday, 23 June 2008

Pantheon

Artist: Pantheon

   Genre(s):
Hardcore
   Other

Discography:

Wolfskrieger and Galdur Vikodlak

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

Ergriffenheit [EP]

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Misc Unreleased Material

Year: 1999
Tracks: 7

Monday, 9 June 2008

The Zen of debauchery

Alanis Morissette is not the person Rob Thomas thought she was. Matchbox Twenty and its lead singer once saw her as a Zenlike soul, Morissette told Newsweek for its issue hitting newsstands today. "He kept saying that whenever I wasn't with him, his imagining was that I was levitating somewhere, meditating," the Canadian singer said. But then, "we had the most debaucherous, entertaining, hysterical time together, so they were the first to say that their perception of me was a little off," she told the magazine. She did not elaborate on the debaucherous details.

The arts

Cowboy arias? Giddyap!

The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards. The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October 2004.

Passages

Mustafa Khalil, 88, a former Egyptian prime minister who was an architect of the 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, died Saturday in Cairo.

Today in History

1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1998: Three white men were charged in Jasper, Texas, with the brutal dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man.

Today's Birthdays

Sports commentator Dick Vitale, 69. Mystery author Patricia Cornwell, 52. Actor Michael J. Fox, 47. Writer-producer Aaron Sorkin, 47. Actor Johnny Depp, 45. Actress Gloria Reuben, 44. Actress Natalie Portman, 27.

Seattle Times news services

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Superman - Superman Actress Sues Financial Advisor

SUPERMAN radio star JOAN STANTON is suing celebrity financial manager KENNETH STARR, accusing him of losing tens of millions of dollars of her money.

The actress - who voiced the role of Lois Lane on the radio in the 1940s - claims she turned to Starr for advice after her husband died and left her $70 million (GBP35 million) in his will.

A lawsuit, filed on Tuesday (15Apr08) at New York's Supreme Court, alleges he misled her and plunged her money into risky investments.

But Peter Parcher, a spokesperson for Starr + Co., claims Stanton's assets "grew considerably" during her 20-year relationship with the firm.

He says, "It will become clear during the course of this litigation that Mrs. Stanton was well-advised."

Starr's former clients include Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and American news anchor Diane Sawyer.

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Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters

Artist: Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Muddy and the Wolf

Year: 1990
Tracks: 12

K

Artist: K

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Oblivious / Still Moving

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Droids Otrivin

Year: 1998
Tracks: 1

Baldwin & wife celebrate baby's birth

Actor Daniel Baldwin and his wife Joanne are celebrating the birth of a baby daughter.
According to People magazine, the baby girl was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles and weighed 7lbs 10oz. The couple plan to call the baby Avis Ann Baldwin.
Baldwin told the magazine: "Thank God she looks like her mother."
His wife said: "I'm ecstatically happy. Daniel wasn't as nervous as me. He's a little used to this sort of thing. I'm glad he's got some experience in this area."
This is Baldwin's fourth child, his first with model and chef Joanne Smith-Baldwin, whom he married in July 2007.

Kylie is 'too sexy' for new Coldplay album

Two weeks before the release of Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay have disclosed that they have another album planned, for as early as next year. And it'll feature Kylie Minogue.

"It will neatly wrap up things for the end of the decade," Chris Martin said of the album, which will likely be a bits'n'bobs collection. "Then, I don't know what we'll do."

Coldplay recorded a song with Kylie during the Viva La Vida sessions, Martin told Q Radio, but the track was "too sexy" to make the final cut. "At this point we cannot be that sexy," he said. "It's a song called Lunar and Kylie is particularly brilliant on it.

"It will be on a record we will put out in 2009, some time at the end of next year. It will be track nine, I imagine."

As the more perceptive of you will have gathered, this implies that there will be at least eight more tracks. The only other one to be described so far is a version of Viva La Vida's instrumental opening track, Life in Technicolour, with vocals. Tracks like Famous Old Painters and Glass of Water, mentioned by Coldplay last year but absent from Vida La Vida's final track list, may also be destined for the collection.

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The Rapture

Artist: The Rapture

   Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
   Indie
   Metal: Gothic
   Metal: Doom
   Rock

Discography:

Pieces Of The People We Love

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Living Inside Of Death

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

The Silent Stage

Year: 2005
Tracks: 9

Mr. Right

Year: 2004
Tracks: 4

Songs For The Withering

Year: 2003
Tracks: 9

Echoes

Year: 2003
Tracks: 11

Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks

Year: 2001
Tracks: 6

Mirror

Year: 1999
Tracks: 8

Zero Down

Artist: Zero Down

   Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock

Discography:

With A Lifetime To Pay

Year: 2000
Tracks: 13