Artist: Claude Challe and Friends
Genre(s):
Dance
Other
New Age
Discography:
Les Remixes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
L'original
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Je Nous Aime (CD2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Heater Mills advices woman seeking divorce
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Claude Challe and Friends
Artist: Claude Challe and Friends
Genre(s):
Dance
Other
New Age
Discography:
Les Remixes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
L'original
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Je Nous Aime (CD2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Heater Mills advices woman seeking divorce
Guitar great Jeff Healey dies, 41
Jeff Healey, the Canadian guitarist who sold over a million copies of his debut album 'See the Light' and starred opposite Patrick Swayze in 'Road House', has died.
Healey, who was 41, had battled cancer throughout his life and died on Sunday in Toronto.
As an infant Healey lost his eyesight due to retino blastoma, a rare form of cancer.
He began playing the guitar when he was three-years-old and developed a style of playing the guitar across his lap while seated.
Discovered by the legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan in a Toronto bar at 15, Healey put together his first band at 17 and later found fame with his trio The Jeff Healey Band.
The trio's debut, 'See the Light', was Grammy-nominated and gave them a US hit with the track 'Angel Eyes'.
Healey explored early jazz on his later albums but had completed work on his first rock and blues album in eight years, 'Mess of Blues'. It was due for release in Europe on 20 March.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
Healey, who was 41, had battled cancer throughout his life and died on Sunday in Toronto.
As an infant Healey lost his eyesight due to retino blastoma, a rare form of cancer.
He began playing the guitar when he was three-years-old and developed a style of playing the guitar across his lap while seated.
Discovered by the legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan in a Toronto bar at 15, Healey put together his first band at 17 and later found fame with his trio The Jeff Healey Band.
The trio's debut, 'See the Light', was Grammy-nominated and gave them a US hit with the track 'Angel Eyes'.
Healey explored early jazz on his later albums but had completed work on his first rock and blues album in eight years, 'Mess of Blues'. It was due for release in Europe on 20 March.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
Gabriella Cilmi - sweet at 16
Gabriella Cilmi is excited to see her debut album, Lessons to be Learned (including her latest single, the incredibly catchy Sweet About Me) on shelves in stores. "It's very cool," she says. The album debuted at number 3 in her Australian homeland, and number 8 in the UK (where she has been living for the past year), and charted at a respectable number 13 here in New Zealand."It was a long time coming and a lot of hard work," she reveals. Small point worth mentioning: since she's only 16, the "long time coming" refers to the fact that the Italian-Australian songstress was signed to a record label when she was just 13."My family's Italian, and every year we go to this festival," she says, explaining her big break. "People get up, they do their thing, although most of them are just auctioning off jams and chutneys for charity," she says, pausing to have a laugh. "One of my uncles pushed me up to sing. I did Jumpin' Jack Flash and I think only one person there liked it. But he happened to work for Warner Brothers so that was a bit of a blessing."
Indeed. Cilmi (it's pronounced "chill-me") is a rarity in that, at 16, she is interested in music from the 1970s, rather than singing trumped-up pop on the Disney channel."I just grew up with things like Janis Joplin, The Sweet, T-Rex, Cat Stevens - and I just love all that stuff." She tells me that if she could start adding covers to future albums she would want to take on The Doors' Moonlight Drive and "anything by Led Zep". Odd, but reassuring choices for a precocious teen. "I'm pleased to have started out young; it means I have heaps of options, different paths that I can go down," she says.The rising star has played support slots for James Blunt, The Sugarbabes and Rufus Wainwright so far, all of which have "been a blast, such good exposure and experience". She returns home to Australia in October for her first national tour. "And we'll be doing New Zealand shows, too," she adds. "I can't wait."So what does she do in the little spare time that exists in between shows and promo stopovers around Europe?"My homework! Don't laugh; I have to email it through most days."Gabriella Cilmi's album, Lessons to be Learned, is in stores now.
Indeed. Cilmi (it's pronounced "chill-me") is a rarity in that, at 16, she is interested in music from the 1970s, rather than singing trumped-up pop on the Disney channel."I just grew up with things like Janis Joplin, The Sweet, T-Rex, Cat Stevens - and I just love all that stuff." She tells me that if she could start adding covers to future albums she would want to take on The Doors' Moonlight Drive and "anything by Led Zep". Odd, but reassuring choices for a precocious teen. "I'm pleased to have started out young; it means I have heaps of options, different paths that I can go down," she says.The rising star has played support slots for James Blunt, The Sugarbabes and Rufus Wainwright so far, all of which have "been a blast, such good exposure and experience". She returns home to Australia in October for her first national tour. "And we'll be doing New Zealand shows, too," she adds. "I can't wait."So what does she do in the little spare time that exists in between shows and promo stopovers around Europe?"My homework! Don't laugh; I have to email it through most days."Gabriella Cilmi's album, Lessons to be Learned, is in stores now.
Bonnaroo to be televised for first time
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival is going to be nationally televised for the first time this year, it was announced today (May 19).
The annual Tennessee event features headliners Kanye West, Pearl Jam and Metallica. Now those unable to attend the three-day festival have the option to watch it from their own homes on national cable television channel Fuse TV.
Fuse plans to televise six hours of programming from the festival, ranging from performances to interviews with the artists, and will broadcast live from the event, reports the Associated Press.
The festival is set to take place June 12-15 in Manchester, Tennessee and also includes performances by MIA, My Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, !!!, Death Cab For Cutie, Sigur Ros, Rilo Kiley and The Raconteurs, as previously reported.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
The annual Tennessee event features headliners Kanye West, Pearl Jam and Metallica. Now those unable to attend the three-day festival have the option to watch it from their own homes on national cable television channel Fuse TV.
Fuse plans to televise six hours of programming from the festival, ranging from performances to interviews with the artists, and will broadcast live from the event, reports the Associated Press.
The festival is set to take place June 12-15 in Manchester, Tennessee and also includes performances by MIA, My Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, !!!, Death Cab For Cutie, Sigur Ros, Rilo Kiley and The Raconteurs, as previously reported.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
Kung Fu Panda - 6/7/2008
It's surprising that Hollywood has taken until 2008 to come up with Kung Fu Panda. Taking your factory-issue period-piece martial arts plot -- wherein schlubby protagonist finds his inner warrior as a means of expressing filial piety and ensuring the harmonious survival of his village -- and combining it with supercharged computer animation, PG-friendly combat, and a flurry of cute animals just makes good business sense. One could argue about the logic of surrounding Jackie Chan (voicing a monkey who's also a kung fu master) with a Hollywood stew of A-list talent eager to scoop up some easy voice-actor money, but when the film's star is an overweight panda voiced by Jack Black, such kvetching is almost beside the point.
Blazing across the screen with eye-popping, sublime artwork, Kung Fu Panda sets itself apart from the modern domestic animation trend with its sheer beauty. From an opening dream sequence whose abstract style seems culled straight from a modern manga, the film enters instant classic status as some of the most gorgeous animation Hollywood has produced since the golden age of Disney. Eschewing the cold and severe art of Dreamworks' Shrek films, the makers of Kung Fu Panda fill the screen with painterly backdrops of mountain vistas and fluttering leaves that give Zhang Yimou a run for his money. It somehow makes it all the funnier to have the titular panda, Po (Black), come huffing and wheezing through the impeccable and non-specific ancient China landscapes like a less-active relative of Hurley on Lost.
The story is that Po wants to be a kung fu master but is stuck instead working at the noodle shop run by his father, a tender-hearted goose (James Hong) whose real relationship to Po is left unexplained (a nicely humorous touch). The village, composed mostly of large-faced and telegenic animals like rabbits and pigs, is threatened by the prophesized return of the dreaded snow leopard villain Tai Lung (Ian McShane, given little to do with an underwritten stock role). Fortunately for Po, there's a kung fu temple called the Jade Palace high above the village (cue many scenes in which Po wheezingly hauls his pudgy frame up the vertiginous staircase), where the aging master Oogway has deemed that Po is in fact not a lard-reared slacker but the Dragon Warrior of legend who will save the village.
Standing at first between Po and his future as a chubby warrior of destiny, however, is not Tai Lung but the star pupils at the Jade Palace, a jealous menagerie of kung fu animal superstars composed of Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Crane (David Cross), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Monkey (Chan). Trained by master Shifu, a diminutive red panda voiced with appropriately embittered edge by Dustin Hoffman, as a lightning-quick squad of kung-fu-coolness, the five resent the panda-come-lately and don't make things easy. Wouldn't you know: Po makes them reconsider their assumptions, and learns a few things about himself, and the true meaning of courage along the way, particularly after the lightning-quick and merciless Tai Lung shows up.
What helps Kung Fu Panda succeed is not just the classic beauty of the animation but also another way it avoids the Shrek pitfall by steering clear of that series' flat irony and tired snark. Po's journey to enlightened martial arts coolness is modeled quite explicitly on old Chan-style films like Drunken Master (the fighting style that Po eventually takes on is actually a more PG-friendly variation of that used by Chan), where family unity and service to the community is prized above all.
Also like Drunken Master, Kung Fu Panda never lets all that wisdom-gathering slow down the pace, and keeps the fights and jokes coming at a wicked pace. It also allows Black to make Po just enough of his own creation to make him stand out from a million other animated heroes. Along the way Black even gets to utter a trademark phrase; after vanquishing a host of enemies and being asked by some grateful villagers what they can do to repay him, he says merely, "There is no charge for awesomeness." Indeed.
There is actually a $10 charge for awesomeness, plus popcorn and soda.
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Ashlee Simpson And Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Get Wedding Congrats From Family, Fans, Bandmates -- And An Ex!
One day after Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz shocked their fans by announcing their engagement via a blog post on FriendsOrEnemies.com, reactions are starting to come in from those who know the couple well ... and from those who think they do.
"All I can really say is I'm totally happy for them," FOB frontman Patrick Stump told MTV News in an e-mail. "And I'm happy for myself, too. I'll probably get to wear a tux."
"My sister is overflowing with joy," Ashlee's older sister, Jessica Simpson, told UsMagazine.com. "Pete is an incredible soul. They naturally bring out the best in each other. I couldn't be happier."
Ashlee's dad, Joe, told the site that Wentz asked for his permission to propose to his daughter, and that "I told him that I would be honored to have him as part of my family."
Even Ryan Cabrera, Ash's former boyfriend, weighed in to the site, giving the newly-engaged couple a resounding thumbs-up.
"I think they're really good together," he told the magazine. "I met [Wentz] a couple times, and he was really nice and intelligent, so I was like, 'Very cool, go for it!'"
Of course, fan reactions to the engagement were decidedly less glossy. On FriendsOrEnemies.com, comments ranged from elation ("FINALLY!!!!! i knew u guys would get married one day! I am happy for both of you!!!!!") to anger ("i hope assslee DIESS IN A F---ING HOLE,") with a few stops in crazytown thrown in for good measure ("I couldn't believe well i guess i didnt want to believe it its kinda weird i mean pete a husband w/ kids can u really picture that and w/ ashlee well maybe u guys will last CONGRATS now im gonna go stalk patrick ha he isnt married").
The reaction was similar on Wentz's personal blog, where the bassist celebrated his engagement by posting a piece of Pop Art featuring his dog Hemingway. (Uh, congrats?)
"I love the way she makes you smile, bright boy for wanting to keep someone like that around," one commenter wrote.
"Hey Pete, did you hear that? Little emo hearts just broke all over the world," another added. "Much happiness to you and the lady."
"All I can really say is I'm totally happy for them," FOB frontman Patrick Stump told MTV News in an e-mail. "And I'm happy for myself, too. I'll probably get to wear a tux."
"My sister is overflowing with joy," Ashlee's older sister, Jessica Simpson, told UsMagazine.com. "Pete is an incredible soul. They naturally bring out the best in each other. I couldn't be happier."
Ashlee's dad, Joe, told the site that Wentz asked for his permission to propose to his daughter, and that "I told him that I would be honored to have him as part of my family."
Even Ryan Cabrera, Ash's former boyfriend, weighed in to the site, giving the newly-engaged couple a resounding thumbs-up.
"I think they're really good together," he told the magazine. "I met [Wentz] a couple times, and he was really nice and intelligent, so I was like, 'Very cool, go for it!'"
Of course, fan reactions to the engagement were decidedly less glossy. On FriendsOrEnemies.com, comments ranged from elation ("FINALLY!!!!! i knew u guys would get married one day! I am happy for both of you!!!!!") to anger ("i hope assslee DIESS IN A F---ING HOLE,") with a few stops in crazytown thrown in for good measure ("I couldn't believe well i guess i didnt want to believe it its kinda weird i mean pete a husband w/ kids can u really picture that and w/ ashlee well maybe u guys will last CONGRATS now im gonna go stalk patrick ha he isnt married").
The reaction was similar on Wentz's personal blog, where the bassist celebrated his engagement by posting a piece of Pop Art featuring his dog Hemingway. (Uh, congrats?)
"I love the way she makes you smile, bright boy for wanting to keep someone like that around," one commenter wrote.
"Hey Pete, did you hear that? Little emo hearts just broke all over the world," another added. "Much happiness to you and the lady."
Usher Scores Chart Double While Lil Wayne Is Still Top Of The Pops
USHER has scored a TransAtlantic double after taking his new album HERE I STAND to the top of both U.S. and U.K. charts.
The release hit number one in Britain at the beginning of the week (02Jun08) and now it has debuted at the top in America too with impressive 433,000 first-week sales.
It's the second biggest debut of the year, 20,000 copies behind Mariah Carey's E=MC2.
The Sex and the City movie soundtrack debuts at two on the new chart, while last week's number one, 3 Doors Down's eponymous new album, slips to three.
On the singles chart, rapper Lil Wayne's Lollipop begins a fourth week at number one, while Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love remains unmoved at two and Coldplay's Viva La Vida jumps up seven places from 10 to three to round out the new top three.
Lil Wayne also scores the highest debut on the Hot 100 - his Got Money collaboration with T-Pain enters the chart at 13.
The release hit number one in Britain at the beginning of the week (02Jun08) and now it has debuted at the top in America too with impressive 433,000 first-week sales.
It's the second biggest debut of the year, 20,000 copies behind Mariah Carey's E=MC2.
The Sex and the City movie soundtrack debuts at two on the new chart, while last week's number one, 3 Doors Down's eponymous new album, slips to three.
On the singles chart, rapper Lil Wayne's Lollipop begins a fourth week at number one, while Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love remains unmoved at two and Coldplay's Viva La Vida jumps up seven places from 10 to three to round out the new top three.
Lil Wayne also scores the highest debut on the Hot 100 - his Got Money collaboration with T-Pain enters the chart at 13.
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