Winehouse is released from custody & other: June 2008

Friday, 27 June 2008

Glen Wilson - harpsichord.

Artist: Glen Wilson - harpsichord.

   Genre(s):
Classical

Discography:

The Well-Tempered Clavier II [HARPSICHORD]

Year: 1990
Tracks: 24

The Well-Tempered Clavier I [HARPSICHORD]

Year: 1989
Tracks: 24

Thursday, 19 June 2008

'Led Zeppelin reunion was like a World Cup penalty shoot-out'

Jason Bonham has declared filling in for his dad John at Led Zeppelin's reunion show last year was more nerve-wracking then taking penalties at the World Cup.

Plus, the drummer added that he would be happy for the band to play more dates together, but that that was in the hands of his dad's former colleagues.

"It was like the penalty shoot-out at the World Cup, but you're taking everyone one," Bonham told the Musician's Union's Musician magazine. "I had to shoot 16 times and get the goal every time."

He added that his nerves were really bad just before taking the stage at the 02 Arena in London last December.

"We all arrived separately and didn't communicate with each other until ten minutes before we went on. At that point I don't know what I was feeling," said Bonham. "I was breathing deeply trying to keep calm. I knew I could do the gig, but could I do it when it counted?"

However, after enjoying the show, the drummer said he would be up doing more gigs with Led Zeppelin, but that had not being discussed yet.

"It's hard to be in this situation where it was so good and now I'm left in limbo about what's going to happen next. I managed to pull Excalibur out of the stone and, for a short period, I carried the sword but then I was told, 'no, no, put it back in the stone now'," he explained. "I'm happy with what happened and if I ask for me it's me being greedy."

Bonham added that whatever the future holds for Led Zeppelin he was happy to have filled in for his father at least the once.

"There's a sense of accomplishment that Dad has remained my hero, my mentor throughout the last 27 years, and I still used him as my main focus to be able to do the gig," explained Bonham. "So it's hats off to him � look what you did now, Dad."

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Arcade Fire to sue TV station?

Arcade Fire are reportedly considering taking legal action against the Fox TV network for using their music without permission during Sunday's Super Bowl in Arizona.
According to music website Pitchfork, Fox did not ask the Canadian band if it could use their hit 'No Cars Go' on the advert for the National Football League, which aired during the half time show.
The band's representatives are currently considering whether they should pursue the matter.

Thursday, 5 June 2008

Herbert Pricopa

Artist: Herbert Pricopa

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Himera

Year:
Tracks: 6

Monday, 2 June 2008

Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson Party Before Saturday's Wedding: Reports

Though just a few days ago he told MTV News, "Blah, I got nothing" when asked if he was planning to get married this weekend, it looks as if Pete Wentz might have been holding back a bit. Unlike Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, who pulled off a stealth wedding with almost no one finding out (or at least believing it would ever happen), the buzz about the Wentz/ Ashlee Simpson union has been building all week.

Though no update has come from Wentz, 28, a number of outlets claimed to have confirmed the nuptials will take place this weekend. Usmagazine.com claims that the couple have asked guests to wear dark clothing to the event. People.com reported on Friday (May 16) that Wentz had a low-key bachelor party Thursday night in Beverly Hills in a private room at popular restaurant Mr. Chow, accompanied by his bandmates, soon-to-be-father-in-law Joe Simpson, Joel Madden and about 10 other friends.

People.com reported that Wentz arrived at his party wearing a black hoodie and smiled as he stepped out of the car, accepting congratulations from a patron on his way in as Papa Simpson put his hands on Wentz's shoulders and said, "This is the man." Simpson picked up the $1,000 tab for dinner, Usmagazine.com said. The group left the restaurant just before 11 p.m., according to People, and ended up at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where they partied in the Marilyn Monroe suite.

While Jessica Simpson was spotted at the Roosevelt Hotel lounge Teddy's, People.com said bride-to-be Ashlee, 23, was elsewhere, having her bachelorette party with friends at the Kiki De Montparnasse luxury lingerie store. In keeping with the confusion surrounding the event, Usmagazine.com reported that Ashlee's bachelorette party actually took place at her parents' Encino, California, home, where Jessica and mom Tina Simpson put on a "mellow affair" with about a dozen close friends and family in the backyard.

On Monday, Usmagazine.com reported that the wedding will take place this Saturday, citing as proof a big white tent with bright red curtains that was reportedly being set up at the Encino home on Thursday, along with a seating area around a fireplace adorned with a cross.

"Proper invites have not been sent out, but instead guests have been given a save-the-date notice," an unnamed source said. An intimate rehearsal dinner is reportedly scheduled to take place on Friday night for close friends and family.

"[Guests] have been asked to wear cocktail attire, but to not be overdressed," a friend of the couple is reported to have told Usmagazine.com about the dress code for the wedding. The site said that around 250 guests are expected, though they are being kept in the dark about the details of the celebration.

TMZ.com reported that People has paid "well over" $1 million for the rights to run the wedding photos. "We're thrilled that celebrities continue to choose People as the place for their most intimate photos," a spokesperson told the site. "We do not comment on specifics of any deals."

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Famed Hollywood publicist Warren Cowan dead at 87

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Legendary Hollywood press agent Warren Cowan, who counted Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor among his clients and virtually wrote the book on how to represent a star, died at age 87 after a fight with cancer, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.

A pioneer of entertainment publicity who helped build the company Rogers & Cowan into a PR powerhouse, Cowan died on Wednesday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his family members at his side. He had been diagnosed with cancer three weeks earlier.

His career lasted more than 60 years, and his client list spanned a veritable who's who of Hollywood, with actor Paul Newman and his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, still represented by Cowan until his death.

Other notable clients over the years included Danny Kaye, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Shirley MacLaine, Elton John, Doris Day, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Bette Midler, Clint Eastwood and Audrey Hepburn.

And he served as press agent for actors-turned-politicians Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Reagan used to joke that had Cowan done a better job for his acting career he would never have had to go into politics.

Known as an innovator in the world of publicity, Cowan created events that have become routine in show business, including celebrity charity dinners and Oscar campaigns in which the stars duke it out for recognition of their work ahead of the annual film awards.

Rogers' first Academy Award campaign was Crawford's successful Oscar bid as best actress for the 1945 tearjerker

Speed Racer A Slow Starter Overseas Too

Speed Racer
hit the overseas market with all gaskets blowing. It earned just $12.8 million in
30 countries, to place third at the international box office, behind Iron Man,
which remained the top film with a gross of $39 million in its second week. (It
has now grossed $165 million overseas. With its domestic gross, its worldwide total
has reached $342.1 million after two weekends.) Twentieth Century Fox's What Happens
in Vegas actually earned more overseas than it did in the U.S., drawing an estimated
$23 million in 36 countries.

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'Beavis & Butt-Head' Creator Mike Judge Says He Might Be Ready For The Duo's Live-Action Debut

SANTA MONICA, California — They pissed off our parents, filled our mouths with clever catchphrases, mocked your favorite music videos, and followed their hit TV show with the #1 opening of a nationwide film

Then they were gone.

Now, Beavis & Butt-Head might be getting ready to do it all over again — and wait until you hear what they're gonna look like.

"I feel like it's something I can come back to and do," creator Mike Judge told us when he stopped by our studios to promote "The Animation Show," an eye-popping theatrical/DVD cartoon extravaganza that has occasionally featured the dimwitted duo. "I did a little animated intro for this ['Animation Show: Volume 3'] thing."

Judge — who also created TV's "King of the Hill," as well as the films "Office Space" and "Idiocracy" — recently spoke to us about the next phase in his career, which includes the Jason Bateman-starring comedy "Extract." After that film, he might turn his attention to bringing back everyone's favorite fire-loving fools.

"I've even thought about doing a live-action 'Beavis & Butt-Head' possibly," he revealed.

As his die-hard fans know, the now-iconic "Office Space" characters Milton and Lumbergh came from early cartoons drawn by Judge long before Stephen Root or Gary Cole brought the characters to life. It was Judge's infamous "Frog Baseball" short that landed him the deal to create a show for Beavis & Butt-Head, and now he's warming up to the thought of giving them a similar animated-to-live-action makeover.

"I guess Seann William Scott's kinda got Butt-Head eyes," Judge agreed when given one possible casting idea. "A long time ago, Johnny Depp had said to me that he really wanted to play Beavis. ... He was doing that ['Island of Dr. Moreau'] movie with Marlon Brando, and he said Marlon Brando used to imitate Butt-Head, and he would do Beavis."

A big fan of both cartoons and classic comedy, Judge agreed that the notion of two headbanging, fast-food-slinging, smartass buddies seems as relevant today as it did in the '90s. So perhaps fans would embrace new, real-life guys rocking those iconic AC/DC and Metallica T-shirts.

"The Three Stooges survived a lot of different guys with Shemp, Curly," he reasoned. "I haven't yet said, 'OK, I wanna make a live-action "Beavis & Butt-Head" movie, and here's the idea.' But for some reason, I used to hate the idea for years, and now I think maybe there's something there."

All he has to do now is find two teen actors who can deliver the perfect "heh-heh-heh" laughs. And after the arduous process of casting his first two live-action films, Judge isn't sure he's ready to watch all those actors unveiling their best underbites and "uhhhhh ..." line deliveries.

"Casting is bad enough as it is. I don't know if I want to sit through a casting session trying to find the live-action Beavis & Butt-Head," he laughed.

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Supermodel charged over plane incident

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting a police officer after a disturbance on a plane at Heathrow's new Terminal 5, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said.

Sigur R�s fifth album for US release

Sigur Ros have unveiled details of their fifth album, set to be released June 24 in North America.

�??Me_ su_ í eyrum vi_ spilum endalaust�?? was recorded at Sear Sound Studios in New York, Assault and Battery Studios and Abbey Road Studios in London and in the band�??s native Iceland at their studio Álafoss, as well as church.

Co-produced with the with the band by Flood, it�??s the first record they�??ve ventured outside their homeland to record and is their first album to feature vocalist Jón �??Jónsi�?? Thor Birgisson�??s vocals in English.

Translated as �??with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly�??, the record will be available for download during a pre-sale via the band�??s website on June 2, and later in the year a special deluxe edition of the album will be released and will feature a �??Making Of�?��?? book, a film and more. The deluxe version will also be available for pre-order on June 2.

The album was completed just weeks ago and features the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy�??s Choir, their string-quartet friends Amiina, as well as a five-piece brass section on certain tracks.

The tracklisting for �??Me_ su_ í eyrum vi_ spilum endalaust�?? is:

�??Gobbledigook�??
�??Inní mér syngur vitleysingur�??
�??Gó_an daginn�??
�??Vi_ spilum endalaust�??
�??Festival�??
�??Me_ su_ í eyrum�??
�??Ára bátur�??
�?? Illgresi�??
�??Fljótavík�??
�??Straumnes�??
�??All Alright�??

Meanwhile the band will preview the album at the following shows:

Omaha, NE Orpheum Theater (June 11)
Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater (12)
Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (14)
New York, NY Grand Ballroom (16)

--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.

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Scarlett Johansson, Anywhwere I Lay My Head

Actors making music, what a cheek eh? The crimes are many and varied. Bruce Willis' soul monstrosities? Keanu Reeves' sub-grungers, Dogstar? William Shatner's remarkable thesp-psych classic, The Transformed Man? We do love to laugh and point at such abberations. Yet why should we? Surely musicians and actors share many similar traits, if only the need to show off in public. So before we talk about Scarlett Johansson's new album let's remember that it's a thin line between this and David Bowie mincing around in tights as the Goblin King in Labyrinth.

Which brings us to Anywhere I Lay My Head. For it features the Dame himself on backing vocals ((Fannin' Street, Falling Down). It's been a few decades since he lent his voice to others like this (Lou Reed, Mott The Hoople etc.) but a very servicable job he does too. And what of Johansson? Well, you probably know by now that this album consists of ten Tom Waits cover versions and one original. What's more it's ten fairly left field Waits tracks from albums like Alice, Bone Machine and even Small Change, all performed and produced as if it were a Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine-era product. Confused yet? Believe me, you will be.

Much has already been made about the double-tracked, bathed in reverb vocals of SJ. Aha, say detractors, she obviously can't sing! Well, yes, it's hard to tell here, but frankly it matters not. What's more if this was some obscure Canadian indie act's debut not a soul would focus on such a detail. What IS apparent is that she has a distinctive tone that suits these arrangements down to the ground. TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek (a man almost as ubiquitous as Danger Mouse these days) slavishly recreates those early 4AD days with ticking beat boxes, cavernous strings and chiming musical boxes. Each song is totally re-versioned; a distant ghost of the jazzy, wheezy originals. And (here's the controversial bit) it actually works. It's Tom Waits for the post-industrial age and works best as one whole piece. From the dreamy waltz of Fallin' Down to the nursery rhyme tinkles of I Wish I Was In New Orleans, if you just let go and allow Anywhere I Lay My Head to carry you away you'll be hooked.

Let critics bray, but one suspects that this album will, in ten years, be a treasured obscurity that was wrongly condemned. Be cool, and dig it now...

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