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"RocknRolla" finds Ritchie back with a vengeance

2008-09-10T18:11:00.001-07:00

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - First the good news: Guy Ritchie is back. Then the even better news: Guy Ritchie is back with his most accessible and pleasurable film until now in "RocknRolla."

After acquiring swept off course by Madonna ("Swept Away") and pretension ("Revolver"), the English writer-director, wHO in the late '90s invented a new form of criminally funny pulp fiction set in an exaggerated London underworld, returns to this gangland with renewed vigour. It's all here: the ingenious, obscenity-laced language, the double-crosses that turn into triple-crosses, the swaggering characters so in love with themselves. GottaLove "RocknRolla"!

Which also is good news show for Warner Bros. when the distributor releases the dark criminal offence comedy across the nation October 8. Although pitched more toward males, the film contains one deliciously duplicitous turn by Thandie Newton that might touch more than a few female viewers' inner gangster.

The London underworld to which Ritchie returns looks selfsame much the same merely somehow different. For one thing, that skyline is changing incessantly thanks to the surge in skyscrapers and property values, which is what Ritchie's story revolves about. For some other, a nouveau riche idea of chichi has invaded the new East London commercial complexes, and the place is full of Russian and Eastern European businessmen.

"RocknRolla" throws three distinct branches of criminals against one another. Old School, with its network of on-the-take bureaucrats, crooked politicians and back entrance fixers, is represented by Tom Wilkinson's merciless mobster and his right-hand man, Mark Strong. New School is Karel Roden's Russian billionaire, backed by a willingness to use physical violence that makes Old School expect as if Mary Poppins were its headmistress.

Finally, there's the Wild Bunch, the kind of small-timers world Health Organization populated Ritchie's earlier gangster films and who are hungry to challenge the raised bar of the crime world. These include Gerard Butler, more big than he is smart, but he's learning, and his longtime mates Idris Elba and Tom Hardy. The waste card is a real rock 'n' roller -- Toby Kebbell's missing and presumed dead punk rocker who happens to be Wilkinson's near estranged stepson.

The Russian comes to Wilkinson to get a building project past the red tape. The Russian's favourite painting goes missing, his accountant is tipping cancelled a few lowlifes, the Russian blames the mobster, who in turn pressures his acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and somehow the dead rocker has the painting. Then Butler makes a startling discovery about his best mate.

The movie, narrated like a graphic comical -- as Ritchie tends to do -- spins off in many directions, and afterwards you see there were several spins and scenes more than necessary. You get the feeling that when Ritchie as a writer hits on a great scene, Ritchie the director can't bring himself to cut it.�

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2008-08-31T18:21:00.001-07:00

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Oasis Not Properly Engaged in Beef With Jay-Z

2008-08-21T18:26:00.001-07:00

1. Oasis, "The Shock of the Lightning"

The first single from Oasis since the Internet debut of Hova's "Jockin' Jay-Z" has no rhymes, disses, or beat generation to verbalise of. Where's the beef cattle, Noel? [The Pop Cop]

2. Los Campesinos!, "How I Taught Myself to Scream"

What Los Campesinos! learned to scream on this unreleased track from the roger Huntington Sessions from their spring sacking was "We don't get tired, alone tired of you." We certainly aren't tired of them, which is a good thing, because they have another record advent out in October. [Stereogum]

3. Ice Cube feat. Young Jeezy, "I Got My Locs on"

Given Cube's recent proclivity for cheesy home comedies, we thought the title was "I Got My Crocs on" when we first saw it. Fortunately, this blunted modern track is more street than that, but only just scarcely. [Sit Down Stand Up]

4. Peter Bjorn and John, "Inland Empire"

PB&J no yearner care about the lester Willis Young folks on this data track from their new instrumental album, which trades attention-getting whistling and cute boy-girl vocals for screechy adolphe Sax and atmospherical piano. [Sound Bites]

5. Okkervil River, "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979"

In this second track leaked from Okkervil River's approaching album (the companion to The Stage Names), isaac Bashevis Singer Will Sheff channels Bruce Wayne Campbell, the glam rocker wHO starred in Hair. No word even on whether Sheff will be seen in the altogether in Central Park this summertime. [Covert Curiosity] �Ehren Gresehover

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Spinetta

2008-08-11T18:15:00.001-07:00

Artist: Spinetta

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Latin

Discography:


Camalotus

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 4


Para Los Arboles

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 12


Obras en vivo (2001)

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 12


Silver Sorgo

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 12


Los Ojos

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 14


San Cristoforo

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 12


Elija y Gane

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 18


MTV Estrelicia

   Year: 1997
Tracks: 14


Fuego Gris

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 17


Peluson Of Milk

   Year: 1991
Tracks: 15


Exactas

   Year: 1990
Tracks: 10


Don Lucero

   Year: 1989
Tracks: 9


Tester de Violencia

   Year: 1988
Tracks: 11


Priv

   Year: 1986
Tracks: 11


La La La

   Year: 1986
Tracks: 19


Mondo Di Cromo

   Year: 1985
Tracks: 13


Madre en alos luz

   Year: 1984
Tracks: 9


Kamikaze

   Year: 1982
Tracks: 11


Los Nidos Que Escriben En El Cielo

   Year: 1981
Tracks: 10


El Valle Interior

   Year: 1980
Tracks: 7


Almendra - En Obras

   Year: 1980
Tracks: 13


Alma De Diamante

   Year: 1980
Tracks: 7


Only Love Can Sustain

   Year: 1979
Tracks: 11


Spinetta a 18' del sol

   Year: 1977
Tracks: 8


Almendra 2

   Year: 1970
Tracks: 17


Almendra (version rara)

   Year: 1969
Tracks: 20


Almendra

   Year: 1969
Tracks: 9

Spinetta -- wide name Luis Alberto Spinetta -- is one of the nigh pregnant and influential figures in the developing of carry music in Argentina. Renowned for his poetical lyrics, Spinetta emerged as a voice of john Rock & roll out rebellion during a judgment of conviction of intense social tempestuousness, couching taboo social and political comment in elusive metaphors that much incurred the wrath of the Argentine politics. Taking the Beatles -- and John Lennon in particular -- as his musical base, Spinetta added his possess South American hippy sensitiveness early on, eventually branching kO'd into more progressive, rarify compositions steeped in nothingness concordance. He continued recording all the path into the new millennium, left a well-respected human body in his home commonwealth.

Spinetta was born January 23, 1950, in Buenos Aires, and grew up in the Belgrano territory; he began vocalizing and playacting guitar at a young age, making his television debut at age 14. Charged by his first encounter with the Beatles, the 17-year-old Spinetta formed a band called Almendra in 1967. Their 1969 debut record album, Almendra I, basically wrote the commencement significant chapter of the history of Argentine rock, producing a immense hit in the Spinetta paper "Muchacha (Ojos de Papel)." After the 1970 followup, Almendra II, the group splintered, and Spinetta recorded a guest-laden solo project, La Busqueda de la Estrella, credited to Spinettalandia y Sus Amigos.

In 1972, Spinetta formed a unexampled group called Pescado Rabioso (Rabid Fish), a more aggressive stone outfit influenced by psychedelia and electrical blues-rock that produced some of his most groundbreaking ceremony work. The group recorded three albums over the socially roiled 1972-1973 period (the last, the acclaimed Artaud, was fundamentally a Spinetta solo album). In late 1973, Spinetta disbanded Pescado Rabioso and formed a raw grouping, Invisible, which marked a partial return to acoustic instruments and saw him commencement to contain malarky into his compositions. Additionally, his songwriting voice was ontogeny more provocative, and many Invisible songs came to be touchstones of the politically repressive times (indeed, both band and fans were sometimes captive after performances). As a pernicious material body of protestation, Spinetta's albums often featured nontextual matter by acquaintances world Health Organization disappeared under the Argentine totalitarianism.

After three albums from 1974-1976 with Invisible, Spinetta stepped out under his have describe on 1977's A 18 del Sol, forming a new backing band that entered full-fledged jazz-rock territory. For the reexamination, he traveled to the U.S. in 1979 and recorded Only Love Can Sustain, an uncharacteristic album of jazzy, glibly produced piano pop he has since disavowed. Returning to Argentina, Spinetta briefly reunited Almendra earlier forming a raw grouping, Spinetta Jade, his most musically progressive contrive to date. Four albums followed from 1980-1984, as well as a duo of solo platters. With the return of democracy to Argentina in the mid-'80s, Spinetta went solo one time over again and recorded prolifically from 1986-1991, including an aborted externalize with Charly GarcÃa and a more successful collaborationism with the danton True Young Fito Paez.

Apart from the 1993 film soundtrack Fuego Gris, Spinetta remained tacit for some time; his marriage ceremony dissolved in 1996, and he was romantically joined to model Carolina Peleretti. He in conclusion returned in 1997 with a stripped -- in time static musically progressive -- group, los Socios del Desierto (The Partners of the Desert); they released a self-titled debut and an MTV Unplugged installment that twelvemonth. San CristÃ³foro followed in 1998, as did the introverted Los Ojos in 1999. The solo project Silver Sorgo, featuring comment on the Argentine economic crisis, was released in 2001, earning Spinetta iI Latin Grammy nominations (C. H. Best Solo Rock Album and Best Rock Song, the latter for "El Enemigo").

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Renowned Egyptian director Chahine dies

2008-08-06T01:20:00.001-07:00

CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's official news agency says moving-picture show director Youssef Chahine has died in Cairo. He was 82.

The report says Chahine died Sunday at a military hospital in Cairo, some four weeks after he went into a comatoseness following a brain hemorrhage.

He was flown to France in critical condition for treatment merely later sent back to Al Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo.

Chahine studied performing in California in the 1940s and went on to turn one of Egypt's most distinguished film directors. His work has been

The Eastern Bloc

2008-06-26T07:52:00.001-07:00

Artist: The Eastern Bloc

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Freedom Or Death

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Love and Honor

Father-daughter box-office battle

2008-06-25T00:46:00.001-07:00

Preparing for a film role can be daunting, but as the daughter of Will Smith, Willow Smith didn�t have to go far for acting advice, reports People News Online.

�My dad gives me tips,� Willow told People last week at the New York City premiere of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, in which she co-stars. �He says listen to the director and feel the moment.� And did she feel the moment? �Yes, I did.�

Willow, who hit the red carpet with her mom Jada Pinkett Smith and brother Jaden, also enlisted her family to assist in the wardrobe department.

�My mom helped and the stylist helped,� said the 7-year-old actress of her premiere attire: a sequined shirt, Capri pants, Tory Burch shoes and strands of green and red woven into her braids.
As for her Kit Kittredge attire, �I didn�t have a lot of makeup,� said Willow. �Basically, for me it�s just clothes, clothes, clothes, shoes.�

The child actress, who also appeared in her dad�s film I Am Legend, enjoyed tapping into her creative side on screen.

�It�s really fun,� says Willow of acting. �Because on the set, the directors tell you something and you can do it a whole different way. And they will still like it.�

And with dad Will starring in the film Hancock on July 2, the same day Kit Kittredge opens, which Smith does Willow think will do better at the box office? One word: �Me.�

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Tomasz Kubiak

2008-06-25T00:04:00.001-07:00

Artist: Tomasz Kubiak

   Genre(s):
Electronic: Progressive

Discography:

Some Of Random Realites

Year:
Tracks: 14

Fripp and Eno

2008-06-24T23:43:00.001-07:00

Artist: Fripp and Eno

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Ambient

Discography:


The Equatorial Stars

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 7


No Pussyfooting

   Year: 1973
Tracks: 2

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Paul Gross's First World War epic 'Passchendaele' to open Toronto film fest

2008-06-24T23:41:00.001-07:00

TORONTO - "Passchendaele," the First World War epic from Canadian actor and filmmaker Paul Gross, is opening this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

The film, starring Gross and Caroline Dhavernas, will have its world premiere at the festival when it opens on Sept. 4. "Passchendaele" was inspired by the story of Gross's grandfather, an Alberta veteran of the First World War. Gross wrote and directed the film.

Piers Handling, the director of the film festival, called the film "personal and passionate" and significant to both Canadian film and Canadian history.

News from �The Canadian Press, 2008

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Marsel

2008-06-24T23:40:00.000-07:00

Artist: Marsel

   Genre(s):
Acid Jazz

Discography:


Viginti Etduo

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 11


Cirrus Maximus

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 11

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Ultrasound brings Nicole Kidman to tears

2008-06-24T23:39:00.001-07:00

Nicole Kidman started crying the first time she saw her baby on an ultrasound machine.

The Moulin Rouge actress - who is expecting her first biological child with husband Keith Urban - was so overwhelmed with joy when she saw the image, she couldn’t hold back the tears.

She said: “When I first saw the baby on the ultrasound, I started crying. I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime. I like the unpredictable nature of it.

“To feel life growing with you is something very, very special, and I'm going to embrace that completely. I don't believe in flittering around the edges of things. You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.”

Nicole also revealed she loves all aspects of being pregnant.

She added to America’s Vogue magazine: “The whole experience is so primal. But I'm glad I've learned to let things flow. I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

"So to be given the blessing of a child at this stage of my life, you just say, 'Wow, this was meant to be'.”

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Chris Martin - Coldplays Chris Martin Walks Out Of Radio 4 Interview

2008-06-24T23:38:00.003-07:00

Chris Martin has walked out of an interview with BBC Radio 4 in discomfort at being questioned about Coldplay's new album.

The frontman was being interviewed for the station's art programme Front Row when he asked to leave the studio after nine minutes of discussion.

Will Champion, the four-piece's drummer, was left alone in the studio to answer the questions of interviewer John Wilson until his bandmate returned to stammer an answer to the final question.

The band's fourth album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends was released on Thursday June 12th and is expected to shatter sales records for the year, with HMV estimating more than 250,000 copies will be sold in its first three days on release.

However, Martin appeared uncomfortable with being interviewed about the album and its lyrical content.

"I wouldn't agree with you there at all, no," said Martin after Wilson questioned whether the album's title reflected an obsession with death.

"I'd say you're journalistically twisting me into saying something I don't really mean," he added.

And when Wilson asked if the band started with the song Viva La Vida and "the idea within that song of the deposed dictator looking back at his life", Martin replied: "I'm not enjoying this. Can I have two minutes?"

When asked if he was feeling the pressure, he explained: "I just don't like talking about things."

Judging by the album's sale figures, Martin can afford to let his music do the talking after it sold more than 100,000 copies on its first day on release.

According to HMV, the speed with which Viva La Vida is flying off the shelves means it has the potential to become the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history behind Oasis' 'Be Here Now', which sold 695,761 copies in its first week when it came out in August 1997.

"This rate of sales exceeds even our optimistic forecasts, and shows how massively popular a band Coldplay remain despite having been away for the best part of three years," said HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo.

"Aside from having a substantial core fanbase, Coldplay are one of the few acts that can genuinely connect with a much wider audience."

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Porter Wagoner

2008-06-24T23:38:00.001-07:00

Artist: Porter Wagoner

   Genre(s):
Country

Discography:


Wagonmaster

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 17


RCA Country Legends

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 16


The Essential Porter Wagoner

   Year: 1997
Tracks: 23

Porter Wagoner, the Thin Man from the West Plains, is a case of an artist a great deal out front of his clock time wHO has always appeared hopelessly behind the times. He's among the nigh immediately recognizable figures in country music, largely due to his exploitation of TV -- and flashy costumes -- a full 20 age in front the video boom. And piece he's forever sensed as the man world Health Organization tested to bear Dolly Parton back from start success, he was besides responsible, in many slipway, for putt her in a career position where the egress could even come up. As for his music, since sign language with RCA in 1952 he has produced a wealth of brilliant arduous country, and just as much of the most wretchedly oversentimentalized tripe you'll always want to hear. The latter, of course, is half the reason he's loved.

Waggoner was born in West Plains, MO. As he grew up, he fell in love with the area music he heard over the wireless, pedagogy himself guitar so he could sing and play along with them. When he was a stripling, he landed a problem at a local market, where he would often sing when business was dumb. The possessor believed that Porter's singing was actually portion the store's reputation, so he arranged to sponsor a local wireless register that would lineament the fledgeling vocaliser. Throughout the late '40s, Wagoner was singing on the local West Plains wireless place. Eventually, a Springfield wireless place called KWTO offered Porter a show in 1951. Around the same clock time, Red Foley was beginning his Ozark Jamboree programme, which was based in Springfield and spread both on KWTO and national television. Foley brought Wagoner onto his show, which helped the young singer land a record contract with RCA Records. In 1954, his ninth single, "Company's Comin'," make the Top Ten. It was followed in the leaping of 1955 with "A Satisfied Mind," which stayed at number quartet for quatern weeks. At the end of the year he released "Consume, Drink, and Be Merry (Tomorrow You'll Cry)," which climbed to number triad in early 1956. In 1957, he joined the Grand Ole Opry and affected to Nashville, where he formed his backing isthmus, the Wagonmasters.

For the rest of the '50s, Porter continued to record, merely he never skint the Top Ten once again. It would consume another television prove for him to return to the top of the charts. In 1961, he began hosting his possess video show, which was syndicated out of Nashville. It was the most pop nation demonstrate of the '60s, growing from 18 stations of the Cross in 1961 to over a hundred stations in the early '70s. Wagoner ofttimes american ginseng with Norma Jean, a new female singer he introduced to the country audience, on these programs. The face of Porter's tV show defined country music for lots of America's general public during the '60s, although his music seldom asleep from traditional country. In 1967, Norma Jean was pink-slipped from the show and replaced by Dolly Parton, world Health Organization was and then an unknown isaac Merrit Singer. Not only did exposure on Wagoner's computer program kick start Parton's vocation, it provided a boost for Porter's as well. Parton was hugely pop on the show, and their number 1 spliff single, "The Last Thing on My Mind," rocketed to number seven at the beginning of 1968. The song launched a chain of Top Ten hits that ran more or less continuous until 1975, when the duo stopped working together. In 1968, the Country Music Assocaition named the duo the Vocal Group of the Year; the CMA would award them Vocal Duo of the Year in 1970 and 1971, as well.

Although the duet of Wagoner and Parton was successful, it wasn't stress-free. Porter continued to feature solo hits during the tardy '60s and early '70s, though none of them was as great as his songs with Parton. Furthermore, he resented her attempts at a solo life history; on her share, she felt musically restrained by him. The tensions culminated in late 1974, when she parted ways with Wagoner. RCA issued iI singles in 1975 and 1976, and both of the songs -- "Say Forever You'll Be Mine" and "Is Forever Longer Than Always" -- hit the Top Ten. The pair would continue to couple periodically all over the next tenner, highlighted by the number iI strike "Qualification Plans" from 1980. After Parton and Wagoner separated in 1975, Porter continued to plastic film his TV designate and to chart singles, simply all of his hits were minor. In 1976, he retired from touring, choosing to reduce on producing his own studio, Fireside. Wagoner sued Parton in 1979 all over various contractual problems; the suit was settled out of court the following twelvemonth. For the first few long time of the '80s, Porter had several small-scale hits, just he stopped up recording in 1983.

In 1981, Wagoner and RCA Victor parted ways after nearly 30 days, and his video show went off the aviation. He mounted a small-scale comeback in 1982, coming into court in the Clint Eastwood film Dive Man and recording an album, Oral examination Porter Wagoner, for Eastwood's label imprint at Warner Bros. Records, Viva, that made the country charts and produced a couple of minor area singles chart entries. After that, he only made periodic recordings for small labels. He toured with the Right Combination, an all-girl band, for several long time. In the late '80s and early '90s, he became increasingly fighting on The Nashville Network, to the full point that Opryland named him its "Good will Ambassador" and he was a even host of the Grand Ole Opry wireless and video program. In July 2000, he released his first fresh album in many days, The Best I've Ever Been. In 2007, as Wagoner turned 80 and some 55 long time after his first gear recording, the Marty Stuart-produced Wagonmaster was released on Anti Records.

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