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Sunday, 17 August 2008

Rick Ross Slapped With $4 Million Lawsuit By DJ Vlad For Ozone Beatdown

Bay Area's DJ Vlad has reportedly filed a $4 million lawsuit against Rick Ross for orchestrating a "brutal attack" on him at the Ozone Awards in Houston last Sunday (August 10).

According to MTV, Vlad claims that Ross summoned his associates to attack him�for media reporting he had done on the Miami rapper's former life as a correctional officer.

Vlad claims he suffered three facial fractures, a corneal abrasion and possible permanent nerve wrong.� He also had to buzz off seven stitches below one of his eyes.

A illustration for Ross had no comment on the suit.

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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Atreyu

Artist: Atreyu

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Hardcore
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Vocal
   Other
   Metal
   ROck: Alternative

Discography:

The Best Of Atreyu

Year: 2007
Tracks: 18

Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

A Death Grip on Yesterday

Year: 2006
Tracks: 9

The String Quartet Tribute to Atreyu

Year: 2005
Tracks: 11

The Curse

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

Suicide Notes and The Butterfl

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

Visions

Year: 1999
Tracks: 7

Right Side Of The Bed

Year:
Tracks: 1

Coming prohibited of Southern California during the rap-metal explosion or so the turn of the century, Atreyu crafted a level-headed much closer to Agnostic Front or Hatebreed. The metalcore cinque was formed by Brandon Saller (drums/vocals), Dan Jacobs (guitar), Chris Thomson (bass), Travis Miguel (guitar), and Alex Varkatzas (vocals). Their warped, detuned guitars are matched by pound drums and acidic vocals, which pass the real an bound otherwise missing from their sludge metallic element. Atreyu released several demos, including the seven-song EP Visions, in the late '90s earlier commerically debuting with the Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty EP on Tribunal in late 2001; the full-length Self-annihilation Notes and Butterfly Kisses appeared the adjacent yr on Victory. Touring virtually nonstop in support of the record, the chemical group faced batting order changes as bassist Marc McKnight replaced Thomson forward the recording of their followup. Atreyu's second uncut, The Curse, surfaced in June 2004 and went on to sell over ccc,000 copies; it was re-released with an accompanying DVD a year later. The guys run into the road operose, playing 2004's Ozzfest and 2005's Warped Tour, in addition to headlining their own successful world turn. They contributed a track to 2006's soundtrack to Underworld: Evolution and were nigh the crest of the billing for the year's Taste of Chaos turn, aboard the Deftones and Thrice. Their adjacent endeavor, A Death Grip on Yesterday, was issued in late March 2006 and hit turn ball club on the Billboard charts. Following a summer exhausted headlining the s stage at the year's Ozzfest, Atreyu jumped into the major pronounce ethel Waters over at Hollywood Records, leaving an other 2007 best-of aggregation as their Victory leave-taking. Their Hollywood debut, Lead Sails Paper Anchor, followed later in the yr.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

How I Became The Bomb

Artist: How I Became The Bomb

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Let's Go

Year: 2006
Tracks: 7

Hailing from Murfreesboro, TN, How I Became the Bomb ar a band blend time of origin synth pop and uptight indie rock with influences ranging from spaghetti Western picture show wads and video game music to ABBA and Electric Light Orchestra to make music that's witty, smart, and just a little unnerving. How I Became the Bomb were launched in 2005, when Jon Burr (vocals) and Andy Spore (drums), friends wHO were attending Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, got unitedly one evening to make some music for the playfulness of it. Burr's roommate Denis Deck united in on guitar, and the ternion were happy enough with the results to sample making more sounds in public. Following the enlisting of trained pianist and synthesiser instrumentalist Adam Richardson, the group's flake sound began to conduct form, and with the accession of bassist Ricky Bizness, How I Became the Bomb were born. How I Became the Bomb's first-class honours degree gig was a chaotic show at a bar featuring exotic dancers (which is against the law in Murfreesboro), just it didn't take long for word to gap about the group on the Nashville independent music view, and in front long the band was making the rounds of Music City's stone clubs. After sharing bills with most of Nashville and Murfreesboro's star resistance bands, How I Became the Bomb teamed with producer Jason Bullock to record a six-song EP, Let's Go! The EP became a top-seller at independent record stores in Tennessee, and the ring began winning international clap for its angular music, mordant wit, and crisp outfits.

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Amy Winehouse's husband's victim acquitted

The pub owner accused of taking a bribe to drop assault charges against Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been acquitted.

Sunday, 15 June 2008

Franky Perez

Artist: Franky Perez

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Poor Mans Son

Year: 2003
Tracks: 18

Singer/songwriter Franky Perez got his musical bulge out when he befriended dude conga caption and Cuban expatriate, Lazaro Valdez. Perez ab initio precious to recoil things off in New York City, just finances were humble so a tripper to Miami for a cultural reconnection suited him fine. Valdez and Perez at once connected; Perez blind drunk up Cuban rituals like voodoo piece honing his musical background. He was also waiting tables and barely scrape by when quondam Van Halen/Black Crowes manager Pete Angelus contacted him. Angelus urged Perez to leave Miami slow for the private-enterprise border of L.A. Perez did just that, stopped up by his native Las Vegas and gathered the Highway Saints band. A deal with Atlantic's Lava Records surfaced before 2002 came to an end and the reflective, worldbeat-tinged debut Poor Man's Son appeared the following spring.

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Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Strictly star blamed herself for affair

'Strictly Come Dancing' star Alesha Dixon has revealed that she blamed herself for her husband's affair.
The 29-year-old singer told Company magazine that she was devastated when she found out that her husband, rapper MC Harvey, was having an affair with singer Javine Hylton.
Dixon said: "It was like my whole world had just collapsed around me. I thought, 'what have I done to deserve this?'"
"I'm a big believer in karma, and I felt I must have done something to invite it into my life. I tried to take the blame."
The former Misteeq singer said she was also angry after recently discovering that former bosses had wanted her to shed some weight.
"I found out the other day that, a while ago, some old bosses asked someone to have a word with me about losing weight. It's disgusting."
She said: "I'm not overweight and I'm not skinny, so to tell me to lose weight - what kind of message is that to girls?"
Dixon also revealed that she put her wedding dress on eBay after her marriage fell apart.
"It turned out the person who bid for it was a hoaxer, so I took it off eBay and never put it back up," she said.

Saturday, 31 May 2008

Britney Spears Las Vegas Comeback Is Off?

It looks as if Britney Spears may not be heading to Vegas after all.

Rumours of a Sin City performance emerged earlier this month, after the singer was spotted dining with Palms Hotel & Casino owner George Maloof Jr. in Los Angeles.
However, her former manager Larry Rudolph – who patched up his relationship with the singer earlier this year - has refuted reports she is in secret negotiations to stage a major comeback spectacular in Las Vegas.

He tells the Las Vegas Review Journal, "She's not here (in Las Vegas) and she's not coming in. I wouldn't lie to you."
Yesterday a Los Angeles court heard that Brit is still incapable of participating in any legal proceedings, with her attorney telling the court that her doctor hopes to carry out "additional testing in the not-too-distant future".

Friday, 30 May 2008

Dennis Quaid - Quaid Campaigns For Patients Rights

Actor DENNIS QUAID is calling on the U.S. government to preserve patients' rights to sue drugmakers for injuries.

The actor's twin babies had to fight for their lives last year (Nov07) when they were mistakenly given a near-fatal overdose of blood thinner Heparin, and Quaid insists the mishap could have been avoided if there was a better system of marking medicines.

California regulators fined hospital bosses $25,000 (GBP12,500) after concluding the failure of staff at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to follow their own procedures resulted in incorrect doses of the drug being administered to Quaid's infants and other children.

Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington have sued Baxter International Inc, the maker of the blood-thinning drug given to his twins

On Wednesday (14May08), Quaid said victims of harm from medicines should be able to seek damages from manufacturers in state courts.

He says, "I believe if preemption of lawsuits is allowed to prevail, it will basically make all of us, the public, uninformed and uncompensated lab rats."

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Rufus Sewell - 62nd Tony Awards Nominees Announced

The list of the nominees for the 62nd Tony Awards has been announced.

They include Tom Stoppard for best play and playwright for "Rock and Roll".

Laurence Fishburne, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Stewart and Mark Rylance are the nominees in the best actor category.

Meanwhile, Eve Best, Deanna Dunagan, Kate Fleetwood, S. Epatha Merkerson and Amy Morton are all shortlisted for the best actress award.

The complete list of nominations is below:

Play (and playwrights): "August: Osage County" (Tracy Letts), "Rock 'n' Roll" (Tom Stoppard), "The Seafarer" (Conor McPherson), "The 39 Steps" (Patrick Barlow).

Musical: "Cry-Baby," "In the Heights," "Passing Strange," "Xanadu."

Book-Musical: "Cry-Baby" (Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan), "In the Heights" (Quiara Alegria Hudes), "Passing Strange" (Stew), "Xanadu" (Douglas Carter Beane).

Original Score (music and/or lyrics): "Cry-Baby" (Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger), "In the Heights" (Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda), "The Little Mermaid" (Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater), "Passing Strange" (Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Lyrics: Stew).

Revival-Play: "Boeing-Boeing," "The Homecoming," "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," "Macbeth."

Revival-Musical: "Grease," "Gypsy," "South Pacific," "Sunday in the Park With George."

Actor-Play: Ben Daniels, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"; Laurence Fishburne, "Thurgood"; Mark Rylance, "Boeing-Boeing"; Rufus Sewell, "Rock 'n' Roll"; Patrick Stewart, "Macbeth."

Actress-Play: Eve Best, "The Homecoming"; Deanna Dunagan, "August: Osage County"; Kate Fleetwood, "Macbeth"; S. Epatha Merkerson, "Come Back, Little Sheba"; Amy Morton, "August: Osage County."

Actor-Musical: Daniel Evans, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Lin-Manuel Miranda, "In the Heights"; Stew, "Passing Strange"; Paulo Szot, "South Pacific"; Tom Wopat, "A Catered Affair."

Actress-Musical: Kerry Butler, "Xanadu"; Patti LuPone, "Gypsy"; Kelli O'Hara, "South Pacific"; Faith Prince, "A Catered Affair"; Jenna Russell, "Sunday in the Park With George."

Featured Actor-Play: Bobby Cannavale, "Mauritius"; Raul Esparza, "The Homecoming"; Conleth Hill, "The Seafarer"; Jim Norton, "The Seafarer"; David Pittu, "Is He Dead?"

Featured Actress-Play: Sinead Cusack, "Rock 'n' Roll"; Mary McCormack, "Boeing-Boeing"; Laurie Metcalf, "November"; Martha Plimpton, "Top Girls"; Rondi Reed, "August: Osage County."

Featured Actor-Musical: Daniel Breaker, "Passing Strange"; Danny Burstein, "South Pacific"; Robin De Jesus, "In the Heights"; Christopher Fitzgerald, "Young Frankenstein"; Boyd Gaines, "Gypsy."

Featured Actress-Musical: Laura Benanti, "Gypsy"; de'Adre Aziza, "Passing Strange"; Andrea Martin, "Young Frankenstein"; Olga Merediz, "In the Heights"; Loretta Ables Sayre, "South Pacific."

Direction-Play: Maria Aitken, "The 39 Steps"; Conor McPherson, "The Seafarer"; Anna D. Shapiro, "August: Osage County"; Matthew Warchus, "Boeing-Boeing."

Direction-Musical: Sam Buntrock, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Thomas Kail, "In the Heights"; Arthur Laurents, "Gypsy"; Bartlett Sher, "South Pacific."

Choreography: Rob Ashford, "Cry-Baby"; Andy Blankenbuehler, "In the Heights"; Christopher Gattelli, "South Pacific"; Dan Knechtges, "Xanadu."

Orchestrations: Jason Carr, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, "In the Heights"; Stew and Heidi Rodewald; "Passing Strange"; Jonathan Tunick, "A Catered Affair."

Scenic Design-Play: Peter McKintosh, "The 39 Steps"; Scott Pask, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"; Todd Rosenthal, "August: Osage County"; Anthony Ward, "Macbeth."

Scenic Design-Musical: David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Anna Louizos, "In the Heights"; Robin Wagner, "Young Frankenstein"; Michael Yeargen, "South Pacific."

Costume Design-Play: Gregory Gale, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; Rob Howell, "Boeing-Boeing"; Katrina Lindsay, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"; Peter McKintosh, "The 39 Steps."

Costume Design-Musical: David Farley, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Martin Pakledinaz, "Gypsy"; Paul Tazewell, "In the Heights"; Catherine Zuber, "South Pacific."

Lighting Design-Play: Kevin Adams, "The 39 Steps"; Howard Harrison, "Macbeth"; Donald Holder, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"; Ann G. Wrightson, "August: Osage County."

Lighting Design-Musical: Ken Billington, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Howell Binkley, "In the Heights"; Donald Holder, "South Pacific," Natasha Katz, "The Little Mermaid."

Sound Design-Play: Simon Baker, "Boeing-Boeing"; Adam Cork, "Macbeth"; Ian Dickson, "Rock 'n' Roll"; Mic Pool, "The 39 Steps."

Sound Design-Musical: Acme Sound Partners, "In the Heights"; Sebastian Frost, "Sunday in the Park With George"; Scott Lehrer, "South Pacific"; Dan Moses Schreier, "Gypsy."

Also announced:

Regional Theatre Tony Award: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Special Tony Award: Robert Russell Bennett

Lifetime Achievement Award: Stephen Sondheim

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Britney Spears - Spears Mum Prays For Better Family Fortunes

BRITNEY SPEARS' mother has turned to God in a desperate bid to turn the troubled first family of pop around.

Struggling Lynne Spears has a lot on her mind - her eldest daughter has twice been hospitalised for mental illness this year (07) and teenage Jamie Lynn is pregnant.

But the matriarch is philosophical about the family's problems, revealing she's hoping regular prayers will turn their fortunes around.

In an exclusive new interview with the upcoming issue of Life + Style magazine, Lynne Spears says, "All I can do is turn to God for answers and just leave it in his hands."

Spears admits she was "a bit disappointed" when her youngest daughter fell pregnant, but now she's resolved to the idea of becoming a grandmother again - and she thinks 17-year-old Jamie Lynn will make a great mum.

She explains, "She really has a way with children - she's a natural nurturer. I just wish she had waited a bit."

And, as for Britney, who was recently diagnosed bipolar amid her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline, Lynne insists the eldest daughter would greatly benefit from spending more time with her young sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

She adds, "I pray for Britney every day to be a better mother. She's gone through a lot of trauma, but she seems to be coming out of it - and it's showing in her relationship with the boys. They're really bonding."

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Cbs - Viacom-cbs Divorce Permanent Says Redstone

Sumner Redstone insisted Thursday that Viacom and CBS, the two companies that
he heads, will never be reunited. Redstone, speaking at CBS's annual
shareholders meeting in New York, was responding to a report that appeared in
the New York Post suggesting that Viacom chief Philippe Dauman would
like to see the two companies wedded again. "There has never been such a plan
in existence and never will be," Redstone said.

23/05/2008

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Madonna - Madonna Vacuums In Clean Up Video

MADONNA has posted a video online featuring her vacuuming the set of her new 4 MINUTES video, stating, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."

The odd YouTube.com video is Madonna's attempt to poke fun at fans who are posting homemade videos of her new single online.

The pop superstar says, "All you people out there who are making videos to my single, you've got to clean up after yourself."

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Law & Order star is leaving series

'Law & Order' star Jesse L Martin, who plays Detective Ed Green in the police drama, is leaving the series.
Variety reports that it is expected that 'Transformers' star Anthony Anderson will replace Martin later this season.
Martin has starred in nine seasons of 'Law & Order'.
He is due to shoot one more episode before leaving the series.
Martin is set to play Marvin Gaye in a new film about the last years of the soul legend's life.
'Sexual Healing' will chronicle Gaye's self-imposed exile in Belgium and his return to the big time with the help of promoter Freddy Cousaert (James Gandolfini).
Filming is due to begin in April.