Artist: Human Resource
Genre(s):
Hardcore
Discography:
Human Resource
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Friday, 27 June 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008
Lyzanxia
Artist: Lyzanxia
Genre(s):
Rock: Thrash
Discography:
Mindcrimes
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Anjou, France's Lyzanxia were founded in 1996 by the Potvin brothers, David (vocals, lead guitar) and Franck (vocals, rhythm method guitar), and by the following year, had a full-length demo (deceptively entitled Lullaby) in bridge player to sponsor to record labels. But there were as until now no takers for the band's services, so Lyzanxia continued functional on their personal brand of neo-thrash alloy laced with last and nu-metal tendencies until 2001, when Wagram Music agreed to freeing their second total album, Eden. This disc featured the musical rhythm section of Eguil Voisin (freshwater bass) and Gweltaz Kerjan (drums) and, like its 2003 successor, Mindcrimes, was directed by renowned Swedish producer Fredrik Nordström at Gothenburg's Studio Fredman. Excellent reviews and a ontogeny outside fan base permitted Lyzanxia to venture on their number 1 U.S. and Canadian duty tour in the fall of 2004, and a newfangled handle with Listenable Records finally sent the Potvins and their new rhythm division of Vincent Perdicaro (freshwater bass) and Clement Decrock (drums) game into the studio apartment to record their fourth album, UNSU.
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Monday, 16 June 2008
Naomi Campbell - Campbell Has Surgery To Become A Mum
British supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL has undergone surgery to enable her to have children.
The catwalk queen, 38, is desperate to become a mother and recently had an operation to help her fulfill her dream.
Although Campbell doesn't specify her condition or give any details about the surgery, she insists she can now become a mother.
She says, "Now I can have a child I would like one. I'm even willing to have one without a father. I know that I am ready."
And Campbell believes motherhood will be life-changing for her.
She adds, "I know that with a baby I would change, I'd calm down. With a child you cannot accept compromises. You have to give your full self."
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Friday, 13 June 2008
Record label sues two Stone Temple Pilots
Warner Music Group Corp's Atlantic Records label has sued two members of the alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots for trying to end their recording contract early.
The suit filed in US District Court in Manhattan claims lead singer Scott Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz have threatened to stop performing under their contract and have indicated they would like to end the agreement unless Atlantic makes significant changes.
The record company said in the suit that while Stone Temple Pilots have already delivered six albums, it wants the group to record a seventh album and deliver up to two more albums if the record label decides they want them.
The group, known for hits like Sex Type Thing and Interstate Love Song, rose to fame in the 1990s and reunited last month for their first national tour in eight years.
The group, whose momentum was often curtailed by Weiland's drug problems, had fallen apart shortly after a 2002 tour.
In late 2003, the other two members of the group, guitarist Dean DeLeo and bassist Robert DeLeo, were released by Atlantic from their recording contract as they said they wanted to pursue separate careers.
Atlantic said in the lawsuit that the group - Weiland, Kretz and the DeLeos - was now touring successfully and had indicated its intention to record together again.
The record company said its contract with Stone Temple Pilots was written under New York laws and that the musicians are trying to use California laws to terminate it.
Atlantic said claims by Kretz and Weiland that they have a right to terminate the contract "have given rise to a definite, real and substantial controversy between the parties that threatens to harm Atlantic's business".
Atlantic is seeking a court declaration of its rights under the recording contract, the costs of its legal fees and any other relief the court decides is appropriate.
A spokeswoman for Stone Temple Pilots had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.
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Play it again: Mission of Burma turns old albums into new shows
Playing a classic rock album front-to-back in concert should be a gambit for nostalgia-milking dinosaur bands: Certainly Roger Waters owes most of his 21st century fortune to the practice. But it isn’t Rush with “2112” or Yes with “Fragile” spearheading the trend.
Rock’s leading indie, underground and cult bands are fueling the fad. Artists from Mission of Burma and Built to Spill to the Lemonheads and Camper Van Beethoven are playing their milestone releases live in 2008.
Thursday night, Boston’s Mission of Burma performs 1981’s “Signals, Calls and Marches” at the Paradise. Friday the quartet returns to do 1982’s “Vs.” Thorny, brutal slices of post-punk, the albums were recently reissued by Matador. Burma figured doing them live would be good promotion.
“In some skewed way it seemed to make sense,” Burma guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller said. “When we were touring for (2006’s) ‘The Obliterati,’ we kind of nuked all the old stuff from the set list. Partly because we suspected we might be doing the old stuff when the reissues came out.”
Many in the indie rock crowd like the idea because no one thought they’d like the idea.
“This is all very un-Mission of Burma,” Miller said. “We have only done the same set twice. It was in 1979 and it was a disaster.”
The whole-album concert is becoming incredibly chic among Burma’s peers. New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties has sponsored a series of entire-album events called “Don’t Look Back” since 2005; the inaugural show featured Western Massachusetts rockers Dinosaur Jr. doing “You’re Living All Over Me” and Boston’s Lemonheads doing “It’s a Shame About Ray.” When the deluxe CD of “Ray” was released two months ago, the Lemonheads celebrated by playing it in full at the Paradise.
“ATP set the precedent, but now there’s a tradition for doing this,” Miller said. “This summer we’re playing at the Pitchfork festival doing ‘Vs.’ After us comes Sebedoh doing ‘Bubble and Scrape’ and then Public Enemy doing ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions (to Hold Us Back).’ ”
The practice will likely continue to grow as more bands get hip to the notion of reliving their not-so-distant heyday.
“As far back as I can remember I liked the idea of hearing my favorite bands doing my favorite albums,” said Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch, who will perform 1997’s “Perfect from Now On” at the Orpheum on Sept. 27.
“The idea of going to a show knowing exactly what to expect is really interesting to me,” Martsch said. “But it seemed like a lot of work to do just one show. We’re going to bring along John McMahon, who played cello on the album. To take the time to integrate John and work out the sound kinks and add keyboards, it made sense to do a whole big tour.”
For the first time in many of these indie bands’ histories, they’ll be paying attention to details their messy, unrehearsed genre usually ignores. No Waters-esque lasers or smoke or flying pigs, but plenty of chord changes to remember.
“We’ve had to learn 12 new songs,” said Miller. “Not new songs but resuscitated songs, some that we haven’t played since 1980. Relearning them can be kind of dizzying.”
Mission of Burma, at the Paradise, Thursday night with Cul de Sac, Friday with A.K.A.C.O.D. Tickets: $20; 617-562-8800.
Rock’s leading indie, underground and cult bands are fueling the fad. Artists from Mission of Burma and Built to Spill to the Lemonheads and Camper Van Beethoven are playing their milestone releases live in 2008.
Thursday night, Boston’s Mission of Burma performs 1981’s “Signals, Calls and Marches” at the Paradise. Friday the quartet returns to do 1982’s “Vs.” Thorny, brutal slices of post-punk, the albums were recently reissued by Matador. Burma figured doing them live would be good promotion.
“In some skewed way it seemed to make sense,” Burma guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller said. “When we were touring for (2006’s) ‘The Obliterati,’ we kind of nuked all the old stuff from the set list. Partly because we suspected we might be doing the old stuff when the reissues came out.”
Many in the indie rock crowd like the idea because no one thought they’d like the idea.
“This is all very un-Mission of Burma,” Miller said. “We have only done the same set twice. It was in 1979 and it was a disaster.”
The whole-album concert is becoming incredibly chic among Burma’s peers. New York’s All Tomorrow’s Parties has sponsored a series of entire-album events called “Don’t Look Back” since 2005; the inaugural show featured Western Massachusetts rockers Dinosaur Jr. doing “You’re Living All Over Me” and Boston’s Lemonheads doing “It’s a Shame About Ray.” When the deluxe CD of “Ray” was released two months ago, the Lemonheads celebrated by playing it in full at the Paradise.
“ATP set the precedent, but now there’s a tradition for doing this,” Miller said. “This summer we’re playing at the Pitchfork festival doing ‘Vs.’ After us comes Sebedoh doing ‘Bubble and Scrape’ and then Public Enemy doing ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions (to Hold Us Back).’ ”
The practice will likely continue to grow as more bands get hip to the notion of reliving their not-so-distant heyday.
“As far back as I can remember I liked the idea of hearing my favorite bands doing my favorite albums,” said Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch, who will perform 1997’s “Perfect from Now On” at the Orpheum on Sept. 27.
“The idea of going to a show knowing exactly what to expect is really interesting to me,” Martsch said. “But it seemed like a lot of work to do just one show. We’re going to bring along John McMahon, who played cello on the album. To take the time to integrate John and work out the sound kinks and add keyboards, it made sense to do a whole big tour.”
For the first time in many of these indie bands’ histories, they’ll be paying attention to details their messy, unrehearsed genre usually ignores. No Waters-esque lasers or smoke or flying pigs, but plenty of chord changes to remember.
“We’ve had to learn 12 new songs,” said Miller. “Not new songs but resuscitated songs, some that we haven’t played since 1980. Relearning them can be kind of dizzying.”
Mission of Burma, at the Paradise, Thursday night with Cul de Sac, Friday with A.K.A.C.O.D. Tickets: $20; 617-562-8800.
Natalie Portman - Portman Shooting Charity Clip In Rwanda
Actress NATALIE PORTMAN has reportedly visited Rwanda to shoot a clip promoting a new village for children orphaned by the 1994 genocide in the African country.
The Israeli-American star arrived in the central African nation earlier this week (begs02Jun08) to shoot the video, which is set to be aired on the Oprah Winfrey Show in the coming weeks, according to Israeli media reports.
An official close to the ministry of culture says, "The American film star is currently in Rwanda shooting a film on the genocide."
The Jewish-funded Rwandan community, due to be inaugurated in August (08), will be modelled along the lines of Israeli youth villages created for orphaned Holocaust survivors.
Approximately 800,000 people were massacred in Rwanda in 1994.
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KISS say they're like 'herpes'
Kiss have said they're not planning on finishing anytime soon.
Speaking before their gig at Download tonight (June 13) the quartet said they still love getting dressed up too.
When asked if they still enjoyed wearing the get-up they wear on stage Gene Simmons said: "We get to wear our mummy's heels."
The band admitted it's important to keep fit too when wearing those outfits and Stanley added: "Well nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights."
The band, who take to the stage at 8.45pm (BST) tonight, also said the show wouldn't disappoint.
Paul Stanley said: "We go for knockouts every night."
The band were adamant that they wouldn't stop performing anytime soon either and joked: "We're like herpes I guess."
Keep up with this weekend's (June 13-15) festival action as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Isle Of Wight Festival page and NME.COM's Download Festival page for live coverage from both sites.
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Speaking before their gig at Download tonight (June 13) the quartet said they still love getting dressed up too.
When asked if they still enjoyed wearing the get-up they wear on stage Gene Simmons said: "We get to wear our mummy's heels."
The band admitted it's important to keep fit too when wearing those outfits and Stanley added: "Well nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights."
The band, who take to the stage at 8.45pm (BST) tonight, also said the show wouldn't disappoint.
Paul Stanley said: "We go for knockouts every night."
The band were adamant that they wouldn't stop performing anytime soon either and joked: "We're like herpes I guess."
Keep up with this weekend's (June 13-15) festival action as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Isle Of Wight Festival page and NME.COM's Download Festival page for live coverage from both sites.
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Cryptic response to Newman cancer reports
Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman, responding to a flurry of unconfirmed reports he is gravely ill with cancer, has issued a terse, cryptic statement on his condition.
"Newman says he's doing nicely," his spokesman, Jeff Sanderson, said in a message emailed to Reuters and other media outlets in answer to queries about the cancer reports.
Reached by telephone in his Los Angeles office, Sanderson declined to elaborate or give further details.
"This is what I got from him. He says he's doing nicely, and this is the statement I wanted to share with you, and that's what I have," Sanderson said. "I spoke to his office. . .. this is the statement that came directly from him."
According to numerous media accounts circulating on TV and the internet since Monday, Newman, 83, has been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing out-patient treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.
A spokeswoman for Sloan-Kettering said she had no information about whether Newman was a patient there.
Newman announced just over a year ago he was essentially retiring from a half-century career in acting because of his age.
Last month, he stepped down as director of a stage production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, citing unspecified health issues.
Newman's wife of more than 50 years, actress Joanne Woodward, is a co-artistic director of the playhouse.
Newman, who appeared in some 60 movies, made his name portraying brooding characters in films like "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof," "The Hustler" and "Hud" – roles that all won him Oscar nominations.
The blue-eyed performer enhanced his superstar status later by playing winking rogues and anti-heroes – such as the title character in "Cool Hand Luke," an outlaw in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and a suave con man in "The Sting."
He earned nine Academy Award nominations in all, but his only Oscar win was for best actor in the 1986 film "The Colour of Money," portraying the same pool shark, Fast Eddie Felson, he had played when he was nominated in 1961 for "The Hustler."
Newman also enjoyed successful side endeavours as an auto racing driver and the creator of a line of food products, Newman's Own, that bore his name and face on their labels and donated all its earnings to charity.
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Universal acquires 'Dragonology' rights
Leonard Hartman to write and exec produce adaptation
Universal has acquired the film rights to the children's book series "Dragonology," setting Leonard Hartman to write and executive produce the adaptation.
The faux nonfiction books by Dugald A. Steer are based on the conceit that dragons actually exist as revealed by the Victorian dragonologist Ernest Drake. An underlying theme is that dragons should be studied and revered in the same way as any rare species.
Hartman's fantasy adventure take revolves around a group of dragonologists who go on a globetrotting quest to keep a corrupt man from taking control of the world's dragons and using them to wipe out humanity.
The first book, devised and published in the U.K. in 2003 by Templar and in the U.S. by Candlewick Press, has sold more than 2.8 million copies worldwide in 32 languages. Subsequent titles, from books on tracking and taming dragons to a code-writing kit, have brought the total sales for all "Dragonology" titles to 5.7 million, according to its publisher.
Templar recently signed a licensing agreement with video game producer Codemasters, which will see "Dragonology" adapted into Nintendo Wii and DS games.
Hartman most recently penned the script for Universal's "Fury," which is in development, and he wrote the short "Gray Matter." He is repped by ICM and Flashpoint Entertainment.
Universal senior vp production Jeff Kirschenbaum is shepherding for the studio.
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Foo Fighters Wembley shows set for cinema screening
Foo Fighters' Wembley Stadium shows are set to get a special cinema screening.
Footage of the two gigs, which took place on June 6 and 7, will be screened at 50 Vue cinemas in the UK.
"These Wembley shows have been the most incredible experience of the band's entire career," explained a spokesperson for Foo Fighters. "They've never played bigger or better for a more insanely huge and appreciative crowd. It was an unforgettable occasion for everyone onstage and off."
The show saw Foo Fighters joined onstage by members of Led Zeppelin.
For details of the screening locations and tickets go to Myvue.com.
Footage of the two gigs, which took place on June 6 and 7, will be screened at 50 Vue cinemas in the UK.
"These Wembley shows have been the most incredible experience of the band's entire career," explained a spokesperson for Foo Fighters. "They've never played bigger or better for a more insanely huge and appreciative crowd. It was an unforgettable occasion for everyone onstage and off."
The show saw Foo Fighters joined onstage by members of Led Zeppelin.
For details of the screening locations and tickets go to Myvue.com.
We Are Scientists announce North American tour
We Are Scientists have announced a tour of the US and Canada in support of their second album �??Brain Thrust Mastery�??.
The record was released earlier this month in the US and is the follow up to 2006�??s �??With Love And Squalor�??.
The jaunt kicks off at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on July 1, wrapping up in Newport, KY on August 10.
The dates are:
Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre (July 1)
San Diego, CA The Casbah (2)
Pomona, CA Glass House (3)
Sacramento, CA The Blue Lamp (5)
San Francisco, CA The Independent (6)
Portland, OR Berbati's Pan (8)
Seattle, WA Neumo's (9)
Toronto, Ontario Wakestock Festival (27)
Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's (29)
Cambridge, MA Middle East (30)
Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (31)
New York, NY Bowery Ballroom (August 1)
Washington, DC Black Cat (2)
Columbus, OH The Basement (3)
Detroit, MI Magic Stick (4)
Indianapolis, IN The Music Mill (5)
Madison, WI High Noon Saloon (6)
Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater (7)
Chicago, IL The Abbey (8)
Newport, KY Southgate House (10)
By our New York staff.
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The record was released earlier this month in the US and is the follow up to 2006�??s �??With Love And Squalor�??.
The jaunt kicks off at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on July 1, wrapping up in Newport, KY on August 10.
The dates are:
Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre (July 1)
San Diego, CA The Casbah (2)
Pomona, CA Glass House (3)
Sacramento, CA The Blue Lamp (5)
San Francisco, CA The Independent (6)
Portland, OR Berbati's Pan (8)
Seattle, WA Neumo's (9)
Toronto, Ontario Wakestock Festival (27)
Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's (29)
Cambridge, MA Middle East (30)
Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (31)
New York, NY Bowery Ballroom (August 1)
Washington, DC Black Cat (2)
Columbus, OH The Basement (3)
Detroit, MI Magic Stick (4)
Indianapolis, IN The Music Mill (5)
Madison, WI High Noon Saloon (6)
Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater (7)
Chicago, IL The Abbey (8)
Newport, KY Southgate House (10)
By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.
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Aug 30, 2008 at Royal Jersey Showgrounds, Trinity -
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Winehouse's Late Appearance For Husband's Trial
Amy Winehouse made a brief appearance at her husband Blake Fielder-civil's trial in London on Monday - after turning up four hours late. Fielder-Civil's trial on charges of perverting the course of justice relating to a previous charge of grievous bodily harm kicked off on Monday at the capital's Snaresbrook Crown Court. Winehouse turned up at the courthouse just after 2pm (Gmt) to support her spouse, who has been behind bars at London's Pentonville Prison since November . Wearing a spotted blue shirtdress and cream Christian Louboutin heels, the Rehab singer sat alone in the court's empty front row and constantly blew kisses and mouthed "I love you" to her beau, who was sat behind a glass wall. But after sitting through less than two hours of opening statements, Winehouse got up to leave, before turning to Fielder-Civil's direction and saying, "I love you, you're fit (gorgeous)", as she walked out of the courtroom. The case continues.
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