Sunday 24 August 2008

'Hamlet 2': The Play's The Thing, By Kurt Loder





"Hamlet 2" was so smothered in buzz at this year's Sundance Film Festival that Focus Features apparently fought to pay $10 zillion dollars to acquire it. Now that the picture's being ushered out into the ticket-buying world, however, those wHO see it may wonderment what's beingness put in the thumb foods up in Park City.


The motion-picture show certainly sounds promising. Steve Coogan plays Dana Marschz, a failed actor with an undying love for the dramatic art. Having abased himself in late-night TV commercials for power juicers and herpes virus medications, Dana has now followed his muse to Tucson, Arizona, where he runs the drama department at a local high school. The student productions he stages, however � musical adaptations of "Erin Brockovich" and "Mississippi Burning" � discover no favor with the school circuit card, which is in a budget-cutting mood and has decided to shut him down. Upon receiving this news, Dana's wife, Brie (Catherine Keener), decides she's just some had it. She and her hapless spouse are already so broke that they've had to take in a boarder, a near-mute case-by-case named Gary (David Arquette). Now this.


But Dana is undeterred. Defiantly, he announces one last production: a sequel to "Hamlet" � a play at the end of which, as you whitethorn recall, all the independent characters ar dead. To finesse this problem, Dana's "Hamlet 2" will feature film a time machine, which will bring all those dead characters back, along with Albert Einstein, Jesus and, for some cause, the as-yet-unexpired Dick Cheney. Motorcycles besides figure in the transactions. Several setbacks intervene, merely in the end, as you'd require, the picture goes on.


Is there anyone who doesn't love Steve Coogan � for his incomparable "Alan Partridge" BBC series, his flamboyant indie-music mogul in "24 Hour Party People," his general satirical brilliance? Here, though, director Andrew Fleming seems to have turned Coogan a small too escaped, indulging him in frantic declamation and hit-and-miss slapstick. Catherine Keener � is there anyone who doesn't love her, too? � is as sharp and endearing as ever, simply there's way too little of her. On the other hand, a rum, self-deprecating coming into court by Elisabeth Shue, playacting herself, adds an element of unearthly invention that the picture show could suffer used more of. (The idea is that Shue has step down showbiz to become a nurse in a local fertility clinic; when Dana persuades her to apply an address to his theater class, the number 1 question she takes is, "Who are you?")


The moving-picture show suffers from its spotty humor and low-budget languor. Or perchance it's just that the bulk of the impression seems asthenic in comparison to its rousing conclusion � the glorious operation of "Hamlet 2." This is staged with a professionalism that's entirely laughable, of course � what cash-strapped senior high school drama department could afford the elaborate staging and whizbang effects on display hither? But Ralph Sall's songs are riotously beltable ("Rock Me, Sexy Jesus" could be more than simply a YouTube hit), and the whole extravaganza is more entertaining than some Broadway musicals I've actually sat through.


It's too bad that so little of what precedes the movie's dynamite wrap up is worthy of it. Well, with the exception of the gay men's chorus that gives forth with an oddly moving rendition of "Maniac." Now that's entertainment.


Check out everything we've got on "Hamlet 2."


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Don't miss Kurt Loder's reviews of "The House Bunny," "The Rocker" and "Death Race," likewise new in theaters this week.







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Thursday 14 August 2008

Download Union13






Union13
   

Artist: Union13: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rock: Punk-Rock

   







Discography:


Youth, Betrayal and the awakening
   

 Youth, Betrayal and the awakening

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 17






Not to be deep in thought with unmanageable rockers Union, Union 13 is a Latino kindling band that came extinct of East Los Angeles' vibrant understudy rock position of the '90s. The members of the bilingual outfit, which alternates betwixt English and Spanish lyrics, were only in their teens when they formed Union 13 in 1992 and started playing backyard parties on L.A.'s lumbering Latino East Side. Local gigs helped Union 13 members Edward Escoto (pencil lead vocals), José Mercado (guitar), Ben Sandoval (guitar), Gerardo Navarro (bass voice), and Louie Villareal (drums) gain a low local following, and in the mid '90s, the band came to the attention of an intern at Epitaph Records. Impressed by Union 13's alive performances, the intern introduced the basketball team members to Epitaph's president and owner Brett Gurewitz. Formerly the guitarist for Bad Religion, Gurewitz divided the intern's enthusiasm and signed Union 13 to his judge in 1996. Epitaph released East Los Presents Union 13, the band's debut album, in 1997; Why Are We Destroying Ourselves? was released in 1998. Youth, Betrayal and the Awakening followed in mid-2000, and establish the band down pat to trio situation after the exit of Navarro and Sandoval. Touring followed in support, only as the guys later sabbatum downward for their adjacent record album, Escoto made his passing. Instead of recruiting a replenishment, Mercado simply stepped up and took self-governing vocal duties over, piece Rudy Ramos united in on bass. This somewhat altered lineup (Villareal was still manning drums) produced 2003's Symptoms of Humanity, released through and through Disaster Records.






Wednesday 6 August 2008

Mady Mesple (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Mady Mesple (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)   
Artist: Mady Mesple (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   



Discography:


Tripatos, chant populaire grec   
 Tripatos, chant populaire grec

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 1


Reves (Leon-Paul Fargue)   
 Reves (Leon-Paul Fargue)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 1


Manteau de fleurs (Paul Gravollet)   
 Manteau de fleurs (Paul Gravollet)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 1


Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer (Roland de Mares)   
 Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer (Roland de Mares)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 1


5 Melodies populaires greques (trad. de M.D.Calvocoressi)   
 5 Melodies populaires greques (trad. de M.D.Calvocoressi)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 5




 





Kanye West Overcomes Sound Problems To Stun Global Gathering

Friday 27 June 2008

Rap Chart Movement: Lil Wayne Still Reigns, Carter III Moves 300K Copies In It's Second Week

For the second week in a row, Lil Wayne remains at the top of Billboard's 'Top Rap Albums Chart'.
Tha Carter III scanned 308,500 discs this week, pushing it's total to 1,316,200 copies.
Florida rapper Plies holds on to the No. 2 spot.  Definition Of Real moves 67,600 CDs this week. After two weeks, the album has sold a total of 282,500 copies.
Houston's TMI Boyz move five steps up to No. 3. Grindin' For A Purpose cashes out 18,000 copies this week.  After 3 weeks, the album has sold a total of 27,500 units.
Young Jeezy affiliate Blood Raw enters the charts at No.4 with his debut album titled My Life: True Testimony. The album scans 17,400 copies in its opening week.
Also making his first appearance on the charts is 2 Pistols at No. 5 with his debut album Death Before Dishonor.  The set shifts 15,700 copies in its first week on the charts.
Total Club Hits drops two slots to No. 6.  The set shelved off 13,800 discs this week.  So far, the set has sold 33,800 copies.
Posted at No. 7 are The Flobots.  Fight With Tools ringed out 13,700 copie



s this week, pushing the album's total to 122,000.
Right behind them is Bun B at No. 8.  II Trill pushed 13,300 discs this week, bringing the album's total to 195,800.
Chilling at No. 9 is Rick Ross.  Trilla, which has sold 588,700 copies since its March debut, gets scooped up by 11,200 folks this week.
Rap/reggaton duo Wisin Y Yandel wraps things up at No. 10. Los Extraterr bags up 8,400 copies this week.  So far, the album has sold 290,600 units.

Thursday 19 June 2008

50 Cent Responds To Young Buck On Hot 97, Explains Why He Tapes Conversations




Round ... um, everybody is losing count. On Thursday (June 19), 50 Cent told his side of the latest drama between him and Young Buck on New York's Hot 97 radio station.

Earlier this week, 50 released portions of a call between him and Buck, in which his former crew member broke down in tears over his dismissal from the group and financial difficulties. Buck responded Wednesday afternoon with a dis record called "Taped Conversations." 50 retaliated by putting out the entire phone call on ThisIs50.com.

"A lot of times people don't see what the other person is doing," 50 said, explaining to host Angie Martinez why he taped the talk between him and Buck. "They don't understand the cause and effect. They don't see the other person; they just pay attention to me."

50 said the phone call took place just three months ago, at a time when he "was trying to be as helpful as possible" to Buck. 50 also said that he wasn't coming with any records toward Buck, but did imply that their friendship is beyond repair.

"It's crazy. When I see people showing me so many different things within their character, I don't value them anymore," the Unit's leader said.

When asked if he taped all his phone conversations, 50 said, "With idiots, yeah! So if they saying something crazy, it's right there."

Right before the break, Fif told stories of Buck's impulsive spending and once again alleged that he has a drug problem: "He needs to go to a program and get some real help," 50 said. "Then maybe we can talk to each other."

The MC brought up footage that recently appeared on the Internet in which Buck curses his former comrades during a concert.

"He's in the middle of his show, saying 'F' me and everything else that created him."

On Hot 97 on Friday at 12 p.m. ET, 50 plans to debut his new mixtape Sincerely Yours, featuring him and his team rhyming over old-school R&B beats.






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Thursday 12 June 2008

Coastal

Coastal   
Artist: Coastal

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Halfway To You   
 Halfway To You

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9




 






Friday 6 June 2008

Dizzee Rascal brings 'Maths & English' to El Rey

IF YOU'RE a rapper traveling to Houston and Bun B picks you up from the airport, you're doing something right as an MC. In Dizzee Rascal's recent video for "Where Da G's," off his third album "Maths & English," the 22-year-old London rapper rolls with Bun B through a blighted Houston block, trading jabs at fake thugs and purchasing sunglasses equipped with infrared "gangstavision."

But the video also symbolizes his lengthy and tumultuous career in music. Rascal (real name Dylan Mills) -- who plays the El Rey tonight -- is a hugely ambitious MC who, in the U.S. at least, remains a perpetual outsider.

"I don't think they had ever met anybody from England," Rascal says of the Houstonian extras in the video. "Half the time I didn't think they understood a word I was saying, but I connected with them."





Rascal's squelching beats and wild patois are sometimes difficult to sort. But his albums capture the many-sided emotional realities of street life, while also promising on one track that "there's a world outside the ghetto, and I want you to see it."

His 2003 debut "Boy in Da Corner" was heralded as the high point of a new genre -- an English strain of panicked, dub-influenced rap known as "grime." But even as he won Britain's Mercury Prize for his first album (which sported the hilarious and ghastly teen-pregnancy lament "I Luv U"), he was eyeing foreign rap markets and different production styles, but still treading lightly after a knife attack that year ("Maths & English" opens with a drum sample of sharpening blades).

The single "Sirens" begins harrowingly, with "12 black boots on my bedroom floor" coming to arrest the narrator over a "99 Problems"-style guitar riff. But Rascal reveals they had reason to: He beat and robbed a couple, and he ruefully predicts that "I break the law, I will never change." Rascal admits "Sirens" is autobiographical, but by admitting his complicity, Rascal explores the fear that drives violence.

"The song doesn't make me out to be a victim," Rascal says. "What I do comes from a more vulnerable place."

There's a riotous house influence on the lascivious single "Flex," and playful collaborations with Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and disco maven Matthew Herbert imply Rascal's vision beyond his laurels as Britain's best rapper. It's fitting that his most eccentric album would also be his most approachable. But as "Sirens" suggests, emotionally incisive art is inherently complicated.

"When my first album came out, I was an outsider then, and I still am," Rascal says. "I'm not Lil' Wayne just yet."

DIZZEE RASCAL WHO: With El-P and Busdriver

WHERE: El Rey Theater, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.

WHEN: 8 tonight

PRICE: $21.50

INFO: (323) 936-6400

Sunday 25 May 2008

Paul Rein

Paul Rein   
Artist: Paul Rein

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Sex (maxi)   
 Sex (maxi)

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 2


Freaky Dance (maxi)   
 Freaky Dance (maxi)

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 2




 





Tim Vincent leaves Dancing on Ice

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Eddy Arnold Dies At 89

Eddy Arnold Dies At 89



Rural area crooner Eddy Benedict Arnold [ tickets ], considered one of the almost successful country singers in history, died yesterday (4/8) at a concern facility nigh Nashville, according to The Associated Press. His death came precisely one week in front his 90th birthday.Arnold's married woman of 66 age, Sallying forth, had died in March, and in the saame month, the state principal fell outside his home, injuring his hip.Benedict Arnold was elected in to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966. The followers year, he was the number one person to receive the Entertainer of the Year honour from the Area Music Association. In the book "Top Area Singles 1944-1993," Arnold was ranked the No. 1 country isaac Bashevis Singer in terms of overall success on the Billboard state charts. His hits--which blended land, pop and folk--included "What Is Life Without Love," "Corsage of Roses," "Cows Call," "Soul Like Me" and many others.Arnold, world Health Organization recorded many hits with Chet Atkins, continued to work late in life. Among his near holocene epoch albums were 2002's "Looking Back" and 2005's "Later on All These Eld."Born on a farm most Henderson, TN, Arnold lived in Brentwood, a Capital of Tennessee suburb.





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Wednesday 7 May 2008

Eminem recovering from pneumonia

Eminem recovering from pneumonia



Rapper Eminem is recovering good at his Lake Michigan home later he was hospitalised during the festive season for bosom problems arising from a bout of pneumonia.
The Melt off Shady star, real make Marshall Mathers 3, has been suffering from multiple heathland problems of of late, and reports claim the headliner has piled on the pounds as a consequence - he at present weighs over 90.7 kilograms.
"Over the holidays, E. G. Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, was under doctor's care at a Detroit-area hospital for complications due to pneumonia," the rapper's publicist, Dennis Dennehy, confirmed.
Eminem's illness first was reported by celebrity Web site TMZ.com.
Eminem, 35, blush wine to stardom thanks to a number of best-selling CDs, personal lyrics and a starring function in the strike 2002 plastic film '8 Mile.




Underworld

Monday 28 April 2008

Sr. Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert

Sr. Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert   
Artist: Sr. Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   



Discography:


Father and Son   
 Father and Son

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12




 






Thursday 24 April 2008

Hudson confirms dramatic Corrie exit

Hudson confirms dramatic Corrie exit



'Coronation Street' star Tomcat Hudson has confirmed that he is departure the soap in a dramatic plot line.
The 21-year-old doer, world Health Organization plays Seafarer Duckworth's grandson Paul Clayton in the demonstrate, volition reportedly leave Weatherfield later on setting Leanne Battersby's Italian eatery on fire.
According to reports, Alice Paul will set the premises on fire in rescript to claim the insurance money for the failing eatery.
Henry Hudson told The Sun: "I've loved it on 'Corrie' but I've got other things planned."
"Paul's just now like his dad Terry and he'll by all odds return to Weatherfield to lawsuit to a greater extent trouble for his grandpa."
Speechmaking well-nigh his outlet plot line, William Henry Hudson said: "It's a great storyline - precisely the variety of exit I hoped for."





Wednesday 23 April 2008

Guilty Method

Guilty Method   
Artist: Guilty Method

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Touch   
 Touch

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10




 





Free

Wednesday 16 April 2008

Nomad

Nomad   
Artist: Nomad

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Other
   Trance
   



Discography:


Echoes from Shangrila   
 Echoes from Shangrila

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


Demonic Verses (Blessed Are Those Who Kill Jesus)   
 Demonic Verses (Blessed Are Those Who Kill Jesus)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


Unreleased Tracks   
 Unreleased Tracks

   Year:    
Tracks: 5


Echoes from Shangri-La   
 Echoes from Shangri-La

   Year:    
Tracks: 9




Nomad is the London-based span of Damon Rochefort, world Health Organization handles programming and production, and soulful singer Sharon Dee Clarke. Although the duo only if lasted for 1 album, 1991's Changing Cabins, that rails record featured a fair great society hit, "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion," that was unavoidable for a few months in 1991. Clarke had antecedently released respective well-regarded 12" singles, including 1989's "Something Special" and 1986's "Dance Your Way Out the Door." Rochefort had remixed a few singles, and had worked with the collective G.T., only Nomad was the number one major figure where he had written and performed the absolute majority of the euphony.


Although Nomad only if lasted for the matchless record album, Rochefort and Clarke continued to shape unitedly for their followers see, Serious Rope, which too included newly accomplice Aron Friedman. Too their possess singles, which featured Clarke on vocals, Rochefort and Milton Friedman wrote and produced for various other artists including Kim Oscar Wilde, LaToya Michael Jackson, and Jeanne Dee.





Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tuesday 15 April 2008

Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request

Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request



Eyes like Katie Holmes, the sultry pout of Angelina Jolie and a body like Jessica Biel are the looks most charge plate surgery patients in Beverly Hills desire, according to a new survey.
The specific attributes of the three actresses topped the list of the yearbook 'Hollywood's Hottest Looks' follow by the Beverly Hills Institute of Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.
According to doctors Richard Fleming and Toby fillpot jug Marie Goeppert Mayer, their clients need for charge plate surgery not to front precisely care a specific star, simply to replicate a distinct characteristic of various celebrity faces and bodies.
The most requested image female nose was that of 'Grey's Anatomy' star topology Katherine Heigl, while British people actress Keira Knightley was tops in the cheek department, and Paris Hilton had the to the highest degree sought-after skin.
The features most desired by work force were Leonardo DiCaprio's nose, soccer player Jacques Louis David Beckham's consistence and the blue eyes of the latest William James Bond actor, Daniel Craig. George Clooney's cheeks and Matt Damon's lips likewise got top of the inning billing.
Dr Fleming said: "Our patients continue to





Watson completes tumour treatment

Watson completes tumour treatment



Opera isaac Bashevis Singer Ken Russell Watson has completed a five-week course of actinotherapy to decimate a recurrent einstein neoplasm.
The 41-year-old isaac Bashevis Singer, known as The Voice, described his treatment as "no walk in the park".
Watson's director Giles Baxendale said: "He's finished his treatment merely he doesn't know whether he is in the clear yet."
"He's doing substantially, he's a little tired, a snatch drained, only he's upbeat that it's finished."
James Watson testament now hold to have habitue scans to settle whether or not the treatment has been successful.
In a message on his website, Watson said: "I've had my moments under that machine where I just now wanted to stay the bloody thing and walk away."
"I'm not come out of the wood nevertheless. I in a heartfelt way wanted to maintain the side-effects to a minimum and I've been keeping myself fit and healthy as I bum, simply I'm afraid they've caught up with me, and I don't judgment admitting I've not been myself."
"I'm scarcely so lucky I've had friends, family, and of course of study my fans to help me through; I actually don't cerebrate I could do this without the support I've had," the singer wrote.
James Watson underwent surgery to absent a mastermind neoplasm last Oct. It was his second operation on the tumor in 12 months.




Theory Of Ruin

Williams 'devastated' by Heath Ledger's death

Williams 'devastated' by Heath Ledger's death



Actress Michelle Roger Williams, the




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