 Artist: David Torn: mp3 download Genre(s): Soundtrack Avantgarde Jazz Jazz: Jazz-Rock David Torn's discography:  The Order Year: 2003 Tracks: 16  Polytown Year: 2001 Tracks: 10  What Means Solid Traveller Year: 1996 Tracks: 10  Tripping Over God Year: 1995 Tracks: 13  Door X Year: 1990 Tracks: 10  Cloud About Mercury Year: 1986 Tracks: 6  Best Laid Plans Year: 1985 Tracks: 1  Soft Cells Year: Tracks: 61  Microsong Cells Year: Tracks: 12  Hard Cells Year: Tracks: 40  Cell Damage Year: Tracks: 60 New York-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, isaac M. Singer, writer, and self-described "texturalist/guitarist" David Torn lent his distinctive expressive style to legion films and documentaries and collaborations. He worked with composers Howard Shore, Carter Burwell, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as appeared on recordings from k.d. lang, David Bowie, Jim Carroll, Laurie Anderson, and a host of others. His solo workings let in Best Laid Plans (1984), Cloud About Mercury (1986), Door X (1990), Swingy Over God (1995), What Means Solid, Traveller? (1996), Splattercell's Oah (2000), the soundtrack to the Heath Ledger thriller The Order (2003), and the ECM acquittance Prezens (2007). |
Sunday 24 August 2008
Mp3 music: David Torn
Thursday 14 August 2008
CNN adds reporters in 10 cities to expand coverage
LOS ANGELES �
More info
CNN said Tuesday it's adding journalists in 10 cities from Philadelphia to Seattle to offer broader, more nimble TV and online coverage of news nationwide.
The move comes as newspapers and other media companies are forced into cutbacks and layoffs because of sweeping changes triggered by the growth of the Internet and because of the slumping U.S. economy.
Each city testament get one person world Health Organization can provide "grassroots spirit level" coverage of breaking tidings and other local stories, said Nancy Lane, senior vice president of the United States of newsgathering for CNN/U.S.
The mix of traditional general assignment reporters and "all-platform journalists" may be based at affiliate stations, colleges or even at place, Lane aforementioned, with the best available technology to file moving-picture show and picture reports via laptop computers and PDAs.
Some of the new jobs may be filled by correspondents nowadays with CNN's daytime and prime-time programs, the mesh said.
Besides Philadelphia and Seattle, the journalists will be located in Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Houston; Las Vegas; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix; the Raleigh, N.C., area; and Minneapolis, Minn., where the approach was tested and is in operation.
CNN, owned by Time Warner Inc., has bureaus in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
With zephyr travel more and more complicated and time-consuming, CNN wanted a way to respond more quickly to breaking news everywhere, Lane said.
The enlargement represents a "sizable commitment in dollars," Lane aforementioned, declining to provide specifics. Hiring is under mode, and the timetable is to catch the fresh positions filled by the end of March 2009.
Support staff for the journalists will be added in some hub bureaus.
CNN is trying to do something "new and different," Lane said. "If we don't do this, where's the industry in 10 years?" she said.
---
On the Net:
http://www.cnn.com
More info
Wednesday 6 August 2008
PAUL WELLER
�22 Dreams� (Yep Roc): A-
More info
Weller, influential frontman of the Jam and Style Council, is making some of the most vital, ambitious music of his career. This sprawling assembling is familiar but unlike anything the Modfather has done before. Pastoral instrumentals bookend Motown soul (�Cold Moments�) and funky psychedelia (�Echoes Round the Sun,� a coaction with Oasis� Noel Gallagher); Britpop (�Black River�) coexists with hard rock (�Push It Along.�) �22 Dreams� contains 21 songs, because, well, everyone should keep at least one dream private. Download: �Why Walk When You Can Run.�
More info
Friday 27 June 2008
Dawn Of Relic
Artist: Dawn Of Relic
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Lovecraftian Dark
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Thursday 19 June 2008
Kanye booed for late Bonnarroo show
Kanye West was booed during his show at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee at the weekend.
The rapper arrived on stage over an hour late for his headline performance at the festival, where he eventually played at 4.25am on Sunday.
Fans chanted "Kanye sucks" and threw glow sticks on the stage, according to the BBC.
West's delay was blamed on difficulties setting up the musician's complex glow-in-the-dark backdrop.
Other performances at the four-day event came from Pearl Jam, The Raconteurs and comedian Chris Rock.
See Also
The rapper arrived on stage over an hour late for his headline performance at the festival, where he eventually played at 4.25am on Sunday.
Fans chanted "Kanye sucks" and threw glow sticks on the stage, according to the BBC.
West's delay was blamed on difficulties setting up the musician's complex glow-in-the-dark backdrop.
Other performances at the four-day event came from Pearl Jam, The Raconteurs and comedian Chris Rock.
See Also
Friday 13 June 2008
Denise Richards to ex-husband Sheen: "be civil"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Bond girl Denise Richards, currently starring in a reality television series about her chaotic life, has one key thing to say to ex-husband Charlie Sheen now that he has remarried: stop picking on me.
Richards, 37, divorced Sheen in 2006, and her break-up from the star of TV's "Two and Half Men," became instant fodder for celebrity magazines. She hopes to "set the record straight" about her life on her reality program, "Denise Richards: It's Complicated," on cable TV network E!.
"He loves to trash me in the press and discredit me and has tried to sabotage my (new) show. I can't change that, so I just keep living my life," said Richards. "I hope that now that he's married, he can move forward and be civil."
During their divorce, the press seized on Richards' claims of Sheen's domestic abuse, penchants for prostitutes and porn, made public in court documents. The actor's career weathered the storm and about two weeks ago, he married a third time.
Richards' career and reputation, however, have been overshadowed by what she sees as negative press, which included stories about her former romance with Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, ex-husband of her one-time friend Heather Locklear.
So in late May Richards, whose career blossomed in the 1990s on TV and in movies such as "Starship Troopers" and Bond flick "The World is Not Enough," joined a growing list of celebrities documenting their lives on reality TV.
"I've gotten sick of not saying anything for three years. I wanted it (the show) to be real. Hopefully people can better understand my honesty and that I'm relatable as a single mom," said Richards.
CELEBRITY MOM
Richards, 37, divorced Sheen in 2006, and her break-up from the star of TV's "Two and Half Men," became instant fodder for celebrity magazines. She hopes to "set the record straight" about her life on her reality program, "Denise Richards: It's Complicated," on cable TV network E!.
"He loves to trash me in the press and discredit me and has tried to sabotage my (new) show. I can't change that, so I just keep living my life," said Richards. "I hope that now that he's married, he can move forward and be civil."
During their divorce, the press seized on Richards' claims of Sheen's domestic abuse, penchants for prostitutes and porn, made public in court documents. The actor's career weathered the storm and about two weeks ago, he married a third time.
Richards' career and reputation, however, have been overshadowed by what she sees as negative press, which included stories about her former romance with Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, ex-husband of her one-time friend Heather Locklear.
So in late May Richards, whose career blossomed in the 1990s on TV and in movies such as "Starship Troopers" and Bond flick "The World is Not Enough," joined a growing list of celebrities documenting their lives on reality TV.
"I've gotten sick of not saying anything for three years. I wanted it (the show) to be real. Hopefully people can better understand my honesty and that I'm relatable as a single mom," said Richards.
CELEBRITY MOM
Saturday 7 June 2008
Anna Tatangelo
Artist: Anna Tatangelo
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Mai Dire Mai
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Ragazza di periferia
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Attimo X Attimo
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Italian pop star Anna Tatangelo was only 15 in 2002 when she won number one place at the yearly Sanremo Festival in the "New Arrivals" department, with her vocal "Doppiamente Fragili." Because of her historic period, it was decided to hold up the release of her number one record, and or else the pres Young isaac M. Singer focused on construction up her performance experience, appearance again at Sanremo the following twelvemonth (where she was met with less favorable results) and in 2006, when her sung dynasty "Essere una Donna" won in the "Women" category. The year earlier, Tatangelo had come out with her full-length debut, Ragazza di Periferia, an record album that was re-released in 2006 after the Sanremo advance with iI bonus tracks ("Essere una Donna" being i of them), and in 2007 Mai Dire Mai slay shelves.
Austrian tourism officials debating plans for 'Sound of Music' museum
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Passage to India
Lionsgate, Eros ink distribution pact
CANNES -- North America's Lionsgate and India's Eros International are joining forces to distribute Lionsgate and other English-language content to the 1.3 billion-person South Asian market.
The companies will split profits 50/50 on the as-yet-unnamed venture, which will produce original films using both U.S. and Indian talent and remake properties from each company. Lionsgate will draw on Eros theatrical (which controls 40% of the Indian market), home entertainment, television and new media distribution channels for its catalog titles, and vice versa. Original and dubbed-language projects will be released.
Lionsgate co-chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer said that the distribution deal will begin immediately, and new production plans will be launched in about three months. Eros chairman and CEO Kishore Lulla estimates it will start with about two-to-three soon-to-be-announced projects and eventually ramp up to 10-20 productions a year using English- and Indian-language talent in the vein of such films as "Bend it like Beckham" for crossover appeal. By the end of the year, at least one exec will be hired to work specifically for the venture.
Lionsgate also will acquire North American home entertainment distribution rights to 20 top features from Eros' library of 1,900 titles.
Feltheimer, who announced the deal with Lulla on Eros' Cannes yacht office boat, said the company will be open to service deals or additional partners in the arrangement, citing Lionsgate's recent formation of a new pay TV channel with Viacom's Paraount and MGM as one example of similar collaboration.
The execs met 12 years ago when Feltheimer was at Sony Pictures Entertainment and entered into a TV deal with Eros. Feltheimer said his main motivation for the new venture was the untapped potential of the market in India, the second-largest English speaking nation in the world.
Lionsgate has had some of its biggest hits with violent genre fare, many of which would be considered too extreme for Indian audiences. Feltheimer sidestepped the issue when asked about it, instead mentioning possible remake properties such as "Dirty Dancing" and "The Eye" as films suited to the partnership.
See Also
'Hottest MCs In The Game': Is A Huge Hit Enough To Get Soulja Boy On The List?
Two days, two names and two Atlanta natives.
The rollout of rankings in the 2008 "Hottest MCs in the Game" list continued Friday (May 15) with Andre 3000 being revealed as number 9. On Wednesday, number 10 turned out to be T.I. One of the big questions surrounding the final eight slots is about yet another ATL performer — the guy with the biggest hit of the last year, Soulja Boy Tell'em.
"Crank That" was a worldwide phenomenon, with just about everybody and their mother knowing both the song and its dance moves. CNN even reported on the track, which lays claim to being the highest-selling ringtone of all time with more than 3 million downloads. Soulja Boy Tell'em's debut LP, Souljaboytellem.com, went platinum, and he had hit follow-ups with "Soulja Girl" and "Yahhh!"
By all indications he should be a lock, right? No. Soulja Boy's detractors — both in and out of the music industry — have criticized him for lacking substance and appealing mostly to younger kids. But the 17-year-old feels that with all his accomplishments over the past year, he is not just ranking-worthy, but is the number-one guy right now.
"I'll wonder [if I don't make the list]," he told us a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. "I won't be mad, because I don't get any money out of it or nothing. So I'll be sitting back like, 'What happened with that?' I would be like, 'Why?' I wouldn't be mad, I would just wonder. I'd look at y'all's list and be like, 'OK, let's just keep it moving if y'all missed all of that that came through.' That's basically it, though. Some other people would look at that list and wonder too, though. They would be like, 'What about Soulja Boy? Didn't he have the highest selling whatever, whatever?' But then they might look at it and be like, 'That's right. He ain't supposed to be there. He ain't got lyrics.' It all depends on how you look at things."
Mixtape King DJ Drama told us there's no question — the MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust should take a long look at the teenage superstar.
"Got to be a contender," Dram said. "The top 10 is so hard to just pick, but you've got to take Soulja Boy into consideration for something like that. Granted, he may not be [one of] the top 10 lyricists, but the top MCs? At the end of the day, there are a lot of people throughout history that have not been the lyrical giants that others are. Take Eazy-E and Ice Cube — there's a big difference. But when it comes down to it, you show Eazy-E respect. When it comes to somebody like Soulja Boy, his accomplishments, what he's done to the game ... On a scale of things, his music in general, you can't front Soulja Boy because he's not the best rapper out here. Somebody likes what he's doing. It might not necessarily be what I ride to, but best believe it's what I'm playing in the club.
"I'm on the album, so you know what I'm saying. I'm playing 'Shoot Out,' " he added. "I'm playing 'Donk.' And you know, if there's ladies involved, which it always is, it is a lovely thing."
Either way, Soulja Boy says he's already won.
"Soulja Boy Tell'em's the name," he declared in closing. "17 years old, rich and pursuing my dreams. I think I'm really lucky to be in this position, because it could have been anybody, and I love my life and I'm glad that I'm here. [I don't care] if there's people criticizing me, or people saying I'm wack, or people saying that they don't like my music, or I cant rap, or I'm a one-hit wonder, or whether I'm your favorite rapper, or if I'm the best rapper in the world. Whether I make the list, whether I don't make the list, I still accomplished my dream.
"I wouldn't have known about being on the list or being criticized as a one-hit wonder if I wouldn't have never gotten here in the first place," he reasoned. "I love it! I wouldn't change it for nothing in the world. Whether I do a million interviews, a million shows, or make a million dollars. At the end of the day I had a dream and it came true."
The 2008 version of "Hottest MCs in the Game" airs Friday, May 16, on MTV at 10 p.m. — and you can also hit MTVNews.com once the program is over to read more in-depth about the Brain Trust's choices.
In advance of the special, we're letting you all have a say. Head over to Newsroom.MTV.com, where you can vote on who you feel is the #1 hottest MC in the game — but don't stop there! You can submit your own top-10 list below, or on yourhere.mtv.com.
And the hotness continues: You can check out last year's top 10, join the debate and more on our "Hottest MCs" page.
See Also
LL Cool J Designs Designs Kids Clothing Range
Rapper LL COOL J has signed up to design a range of childrens' clothing for a U.S. fashion chain.
The star - real name James Todd Smith - has teamed up with department store Sears to create a line for young boys and girls which will be sold in over 450 stores across North America.
And Smith - who previously launched a men's line called Todd Smith - admits he turned to the women in his life for help in coming up with the designs.
He says, "I was raised by a matriarch, I have a wife and three daughters, so I know what women are looking for when they shop for clothes. Clothes have to make a woman feel good, relaxed and sexy. We are going to be constantly looking at fine-tuning the fit and we'll get it right."
Smith has three children with Simone, his wife of 12 years - son Najee, 18, and daughters Italia, 17, Samaria, 12, and Nina, seven.
The star - real name James Todd Smith - has teamed up with department store Sears to create a line for young boys and girls which will be sold in over 450 stores across North America.
And Smith - who previously launched a men's line called Todd Smith - admits he turned to the women in his life for help in coming up with the designs.
He says, "I was raised by a matriarch, I have a wife and three daughters, so I know what women are looking for when they shop for clothes. Clothes have to make a woman feel good, relaxed and sexy. We are going to be constantly looking at fine-tuning the fit and we'll get it right."
Smith has three children with Simone, his wife of 12 years - son Najee, 18, and daughters Italia, 17, Samaria, 12, and Nina, seven.
Arrested Development movie planned?
Popular US sitcom 'Arrested Development' is to be made into a movie, according to the shows star Jason Bateman.
Bateman told US TV show E! News that plans are underway for a movie version of the cancelled show.
Rumours of a big-screen adaptation of the cult show began to circulate last year after the actor was reported to have met with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.
Now Bateman, who currently stars in 'Juno', has confirmed the cast has received calls from executives asking if they would be interested in reviving their roles once the ongoing Hollywood writers strike is over.
He told E! News: "I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started. Any talk is targeting a post-strike situation, of course.
"I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Bateman told US TV show E! News that plans are underway for a movie version of the cancelled show.
Rumours of a big-screen adaptation of the cult show began to circulate last year after the actor was reported to have met with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.
Now Bateman, who currently stars in 'Juno', has confirmed the cast has received calls from executives asking if they would be interested in reviving their roles once the ongoing Hollywood writers strike is over.
He told E! News: "I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started. Any talk is targeting a post-strike situation, of course.
"I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Springsteen collaborates on anti-war film
Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Pearl Jam have contributed songs to the soundtrack of a new anti-war documentary.
Billboard reports that 'Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran' will be released on 18 March on Sire Records.
All proceeds from the album will go to Iraq Veterans Against the War.
The documentary 'Body of War' tells the story of Tomas Young, a US Army soldier paralysed in Iraq.
The film will open on 13 March in Austin, Texas before opening across the US in subsequent months. European release dates have yet to be revealed.
Talk show veteran Phil Donahue co-directed the film with Ellen Spiro.
Young was the driving force behind the album, which features the single 'No More', composed specifically by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder for the film. Pearl Jam's live version of Bob Dylan's 'Masters of War' also features on the soundtrack.
Springsteen's track 'Devils & Dust' is on the album, as is Neil Young's 'The Restless Consumer'.
Other songs featured include 'Yo George' from Tori Amos, 'Son of a Bush' from Public Enemy and 'Bushonomics' from Talib Kweli and Cornel West.
Billboard reports that 'Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran' will be released on 18 March on Sire Records.
All proceeds from the album will go to Iraq Veterans Against the War.
The documentary 'Body of War' tells the story of Tomas Young, a US Army soldier paralysed in Iraq.
The film will open on 13 March in Austin, Texas before opening across the US in subsequent months. European release dates have yet to be revealed.
Talk show veteran Phil Donahue co-directed the film with Ellen Spiro.
Young was the driving force behind the album, which features the single 'No More', composed specifically by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder for the film. Pearl Jam's live version of Bob Dylan's 'Masters of War' also features on the soundtrack.
Springsteen's track 'Devils & Dust' is on the album, as is Neil Young's 'The Restless Consumer'.
Other songs featured include 'Yo George' from Tori Amos, 'Son of a Bush' from Public Enemy and 'Bushonomics' from Talib Kweli and Cornel West.
Lost star eager to leave 'paradise'
'Lost' star Matthew Fox has become the latest cast member to reveal that he's eager to complete filming the series because he's sick of its Hawaii location.
Fellow actor Evangeline Lilly recently confessed that she did not enjoy working on the series' Oahu set because she is allergic to so many things there.
Now Fox has admitted he no longer likes living there while filming.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for three-and-a-half years now and it's not really paradise anymore. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy getting off the island.
"It's a beautiful place and my kids are happy there and it's been a good place for us to be for the past three years... but it's not a place we're gonna stay after 'Lost' is finished."
However, Fox has admitted that the major benefit of being a Hawaiian resident is the fact that he is not bothered by paparazzi.
He added: "One thing that was beneficial in Hawaii was I didn't get the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life and photographs of my kids. If it happened it would be very rare."
"There's not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500 mile trek into the South Pacific to get a picture of me walking on the beach. I think if I was living in Los Angeles it would be more difficult for me."
Fellow actor Evangeline Lilly recently confessed that she did not enjoy working on the series' Oahu set because she is allergic to so many things there.
Now Fox has admitted he no longer likes living there while filming.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for three-and-a-half years now and it's not really paradise anymore. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy getting off the island.
"It's a beautiful place and my kids are happy there and it's been a good place for us to be for the past three years... but it's not a place we're gonna stay after 'Lost' is finished."
However, Fox has admitted that the major benefit of being a Hawaiian resident is the fact that he is not bothered by paparazzi.
He added: "One thing that was beneficial in Hawaii was I didn't get the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life and photographs of my kids. If it happened it would be very rare."
"There's not a lot of paparazzi who want to do the 2,500 mile trek into the South Pacific to get a picture of me walking on the beach. I think if I was living in Los Angeles it would be more difficult for me."
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic Music Review
Yash Raj Films would certainly be expecting that the worst is over with Tashan. Aaja Nachle, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - the list of disappointments, both critically and commercially, for the production house has been pretty long by now and it would just be the right time for Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic to put a stop before the list grows any further. Directed by Kunal Kohli, the man who has given YRF two successful films - Hum Tum and Fanaa, Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic has music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy (Jhoom Barabar Jhoom) and lyrics by Prasoon Joshi (Fanaa, Hum Tum). In spite of such names around, somehow one isn't too enthused about the film's music. What could be the reason behind that? A weak title perhaps!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)