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Friday, 27 June 2008

The Ting Tings Expand US Tour Schedule

The Ting Tings are just as popular overseas as on home turf it would appear, as the band have been forced to increase their tour of the States due to demand.

The Tings Tings will expand their US club tour into July and August, with appearances also taking place at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago and a show at the McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn with Columbia labelmates MGMT.

The next release from the pair will be the single 'Shut Up and Let Me Go', which is being used on the current iPod + iTunes adverts - here is a video of them performing the song live for Jimmy Kimmel.

June Dates:

7 - San Diego, CA, Casbah - SOLD OUT

9 - Vancouver, BC, Plaza - SOLD OUT

10 - Seattle, WA, Chop Suey - SOLD OUT

12 - San Francisco, CA, Popscene

13 - Los Angeles, CA, Troubadour - SOLD OUT

16 - Toronto, ONT, Mod Club - SOLD OUT

18 - New York, NY, Bowery Ballroom - SOLD OUT

19 - Boston, MA, Great Scott - SOLD OUT

20 - Brooklyn, NY, Southpaw - SOLD OUT

21 - Philadelphia, PA, Popped

July Dates:

22 - Washington, DC, 9:30 Club

25 - Providence, RI, Club Hell

26 - Albany, NY, Valentine's

27 - Brooklyn, NY, McCarren Park Pool w/ MGMT & Black Moth Super Rainbow

30 - Kansas City, MO, City Market w/ Gnarls Barkley & Black Lips

31 - St. Louis, MO, The Bluebird

August Dates:

2 - Chicago, IL, Lollapalooza

4 - Minneapolis, MN, Varsity

6 - Los Angeles, CA, El Rey Theatre

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Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Butler had tryst with Diana, family member claims

Former royal butler Paul Burrell boasted to relatives about having secret sex with Princess Diana, his brother-in-law claims.

In a sensational newspaper interview published in Britain today, Burrell's brother-in-law Ron Cosgrove revealed how the butler told him in 1993 about how he had bedded the princess while he worked for her at Kensington Palace.

Cosgrove also claimed that Burrell had told him he had accidentally seen the Queen naked and that after Diana's death Burrell asked relatives to hide three bin bags filled with clothes, jewellery and mementos belonging to her.

The 61-year-old furniture dealer said Burrell met him at a Cheshire pub in 1993 and told him that he had been having a sexual relationship with Diana.

"He said they did it in the bedroom, the bath, everywhere," Cosgrove told The News of the World.

"He claimed Diana liked to be domineering.

"I told him if it was true I was disgusted with him because he was married to my sister and cheating on her with another woman.

"But he didn't see that as a problem. He just replied, 'Yes, but it IS the princess.' I was dumbfounded. I couldn't believe what he was telling me."

Cosgrove said Burrell had also claimed to have seen the Queen naked after chasing a royal corgi into her bedroom at Buckingham Palace.

"He barged in to grab the dog and was greeted by the Queen who was standing there with no clothes on," Cosgrove said.

"Her only concern was that the dog would not get its muddy paws on her bedsheets."

Burrell also was accused by Cosgrove of hiding bag loads of Diana's belongings in an attic and garden shed after her death in a Paris car crash in August 1997.

Cosgrove said Burrell ordered a relative to take three sealed bags from Kensington Palace and "keep them safe and out of the way".

"The relative later told me Burrell had said there was royal memorabilia in them, like dresses and hats," he said.

Burrell was charged in 2001 with stealing 342 items belonging to Diana and her sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

But his trial collapsed after the Queen said she recalled Burrell telling her he had kept some of Diana's belongings for safe-keeping.

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Sunday, 22 June 2008

Skanatra

Artist: Skanatra

   Genre(s):
Ska

Discography:

Skanatra

Year: 1998
Tracks: 10

If the name of this Hoboken, NJ circle sounds in a flash familiar, the resemblance is entirely intentional. Skanatra, an energetic 11-member ska banding, came unitedly for one primary purpose, to do ska-styled renditions of Frank Sinatra classics and thereby pay court to the Chairman of the Board in their have unimitable fashion. Members of Skanatra have backgrounds as various as their musical construct is unique. There's lead singer Chairman Sunbeam, world Health Organization tended bar at the local Hoboken saloon, O'Niel's, and Senior Toastmaster Willie. These deuce Jersey allies began putting the band together on what just very well crataegus oxycantha have been a beer induced caprice. In fact, O'Niel's is where the completed ring played the low of many performances and where bassist Bass D. String allegedly came up with the band's sobriquet. Bass D. String, as well a Hoboken native, had been the musical director of the city's Salvation Army Band before joining Skanatra. Florida native Swiggin' Higgin' as well sign up as did Hungarian Count De Money, a erstwhile employee at at local blood bank. Skanatra began to have good form when forklift operator/percussionist Case O'Stengel,'white hot' guitarist Fat Hand and organist Ray Bahn came aboard. The missing piece, that of securing the essential horn section, came most during the band's early rehearsals when trey janitors were spotty and pegged to become The Got the Tape on Tuesday Horns. The rest, as they say, is history. Skanatra's self-titled debut of Frank Sinatra cover songs was released on P.O.S. records in the spring of 1999.

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Saturday, 21 June 2008

Lorettal Lynn

Artist: Lorettal Lynn

   Genre(s):
Country

Discography:

20 Greatest Hits

Year: 1988
Tracks: 20

Loretta Lynn is one of the definitive land singers. During the '60s and '70s, she ruled the charts, wrenching up over 70 hits as a solo artist and a duo collaborator. Lynn helped forge the way for strong, independent women in nation music. As told by her birdsong (and flick and book), Loretta Lynn is a char miner's girl, innate in Butcher Hollow, KY, in 1935. As a child, she panax quinquefolius in church building and a miscellanea of local concerts. In January 1949, she marital Oliver "Mooney" Lynn. She was 13 eld sure-enough at the time. Following their marriage, the couple touched to Custer, WA, where they raised four children.

After a decade of motherhood, Lynn began playacting her possess songs in local clubs, backed by a band light-emitting diode by her brother, Jay Lee Webb. In 1960, she signed a undertake with Zero Records, which released her debut single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl." The honkey tonk lay became a remove thanks to the insistent, self-governing promotion of Lynn and her husband. The pair would drive from ane radio station to the following, acquiring the DJs to roleplay her single, and sent out thousands of copies to stations. All of the travail paid off -- the single reached turn 14 on the charts and attracted the attention of the Wilburn Brothers. The Wilburns chartered Lynn to tour with them in 1960 and advised her to relocate to Nashville. She followed their advice and touched to the urban center in belated 1960. After she arrived in Nashville, she signed with Decca Records. At Decca, she would make with Owen Bradley, world Health Organization had produced Patsy Cline.

Lynn released her first base Decca unmarried, "Success," in 1962 and it went straight to number six-spot, showtime a bowed stringed instrument of Top Ten singles that would endure to the end of the decade and passim the following. She was a hard honkie tonk vocaliser for the first half of the '60s, and rarely strayed from the genre. Although she still worked within the confines of honkey tonk in the latter half of the ten, her sound became more personal, varied, and ambitious, peculiarly lyrically. Beginning with 1966's number two remove "You Ain't Woman Enough," Lynn began writing songs that had a libber viewpoint, which was unheard of in nation music. Her lyric posture became more autobiographical and realistic as time wore on, highlighted by such hits as "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" (1966), "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath" (1968), "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" (1969), and a tune virtually birth control called "The Pill" (1974).

Betwixt 1966 and 1970, Lynn racked up 13 Top Ten hits, including quaternity issue one hits -- "Don't Come Home a Drinkin'," "Clenched fist City" (1968), "Adult female of the World," and the autobiographic "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1970). In 1971, she began a professional partnership with Conway Twitty. As a brace, Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive number one hits between 1971 and 1975 -- "After the Fire Is Gone" (1971), "Booster cable Me On" (1971), "Pelican State Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973), "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" (1974), and "Feelins'" (1974). The hit streak kick-started what would go one of the most successful duos of country history. For quaternity consecutive years (1972-1975), Lynn and Twitty were named the Vocal Duo of the Year by the Country Music Association. In addition to their basketball team number one singles, they had seven other Top Ten hits betwixt 1976 and 1981.

Lynn promulgated her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, in the mid-'70s. In 1980, the rule book was adapted for the silver screen, with Sissy Spacek as Loretta. The cinema was one and only of the to the highest degree critically acclaimed and successful films of the year, and Spacek would win the Academy Award for her performance. All of the attention encompassing the film made Lynn a house name with the American mainstream. Although she continued to be a popular concert attraction passim the '80s, she wasn't capable to go forward her mastery of the area charts. "I Lie," her last Top Ten single, arrived in early 1982, patch her last Top 40 single, "Heart Don't Do This to Me," was in 1985. In light of her declining criminal record gross revenue, Lynn backed away from recording frequently during the former '80s and '90s, concentrating on performing rather. In 1993, she recorded the Honkey Tonk Angels record album with Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton. Noneffervescent Country was released in mid-2000. In 2004, Lynn teamed up with White Stripes guitar player Jack White and released Van Lear Rose, which was met with both surprise and awe. The record album promptly became popular and Lynn embarked on turn to support it. Van Lear Rose won deuce Grammy Awards, including topper nation record album in 2005.

Friday, 20 June 2008

Ian Boddy and Markus Reuter and Nigel Mullaney

Artist: Ian Boddy and Markus Reuter and Nigel Mullaney

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Triptych

Year: 2001
Tracks: 6

Tim Wheater

Artist: Tim Wheater

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Sound Medicine Man

Year: 2004
Tracks: 5

Incantation

Year: 2003
Tracks: 9

Afterglow

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

Heart Land

Year: 1995
Tracks: 4

Whalesong

Year: 1994
Tracks: 3

Fish Night Moon

Year: 1994
Tracks: 9

Awakenings

Year: 1994
Tracks: 12

Timeless

Year: 1992
Tracks: 9

Eclipse

Year: 1990
Tracks: 2

Green Dream

Year: 1989
Tracks: 11

A Calmer Panorama

Year: 1988
Tracks: 2

The Enchanter

Year: 1986
Tracks: 16

Flautist, composer and self-described "sound healer" Tim Wheater began his musical breeding at the Guildhall School of Music in London, later winning a scholarship to study in Paris under Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Roger Bourdin. A stint at New York's Eastman School of Music under the aegis of James Galway followed ahead Wheater toured with the dance-pop outfit Bronski Beat; he later fagged tierce years with Eurythmics, afterward on the job with Ugly Kid Joe. Additionally playing with everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra to jazz figures like Sonny Stitt and Al DiMiola, Wheater recorded his solo ambient debut A Calmer Panorama in 1988; subsequent efforts include 1991's Mistral: The Wind of Change, 1994's Fish Night Moon, 1997's This Earth and 1999's Conjuration. He to boot recorded a series of albums in collaboration with fellow flute player Michael HoppÃ©, among them The Yearning, The Dreamer and Wind Songs.

Prince Becomes Author At 50

Prince has released over 30 albums, starred in hit movies and won almost as many awards as he has had names.

Now the Purple One, who became a half-century old last Saturday, has become an author as well, when he released a book about his groundbreaking 21-night residency at London's O2 Arena last year, according to Jet magazine.

He's putting out a book of never-before-seen photos from the shows taken by world-famous photographer Randee St Nicholas, plus some poems and a CD called Indigo Nights, with music from the after show sessions.

The Raspberry Beret star launched the book, called 21 Nights, at a private party at his palatial home in the hills above Los Angeles for guests including Eddie Murphy, Babyface and Diddy.

"When Prince is in the room, there are no other celebrities," the author Karrine Steffans, who was a party guest, told the magazine. "He's magnetic and electrifying. The crowd became entranced."

You can read more in the latest issue of Jet hits newstands today.

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Young Jeezy Says He Brought Usher, Kanye To Atlanta Birthday Bash For 'Extra Umph'

Yeah, Jeezy stood beside John McCain on Saturday Night Live, but the Snowman says he's definitely not supporting the candidate's run for president. Jeezy is for Barack Obama and talks about it on his new LP, The Recession.

The album has a song called "My President's Black," and Jeezy feels so great about it that he's already made and passed out thousands of T-shirts throughout Atlanta.

"My president's black/ My Lambo's blue," he said, reciting lines from the record Saturday night at Atlanta's Phillips Arena. "I made that song. It's on The Recession. I motivate the thugs. I'm really proud of Barack Obama. It's crazy 'cause for the first time, we got hope. A lot of times you be out here and do what you do. You see the presidents come in and go out. They really don't help the people, they help themselves and their partners."

Jeezy describes his album, due in August, as full of anthems. Over the weekend, he released his latest mixtape, The Prime Minister, and launched his social-networking Web site, USDA2Day.com. The Snowman was one of the stars of radio station Hot 107.9's annual monster concert, the Birthday Bash. He brought out a myriad of surprises, stealing the show.

"I gave you a show," he said backstage. "[At the] Birthday Bash two years ago, I brought out Jay-Z. Shout-outs to Hov. It's about topping it. Making people step their game up. Relationships is everything. When you really know people, you tell them, 'Come through, we got Birthday Bash. Be there,' and they there? To me, that means everything. This year I called out Dream, Kanye, Usher, Blood Raw. ... I'm from Atlanta, so they pretty much see you every day. They know you gonna come out, but when you bring those special people out, it just gives it that extra umph. Me, personally, I take pride in Birthday Bash. Birthday Bash 13 was mine, by the way."

(Check out pictures of T.I., Young Jeezy and more onstage at the Birthday Bash.)

Kanye and Usher specifically went out of their way to make it to Atlanta for the show. Usher flew in from a promo tour in Japan, while Kanye came to town, performed and flew right back out to make his concert at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee

"Shout out to Kanye, he flew all the way in," Jeezy said. "I had to throw him a private jet courtesy of Young."

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Tranzident

Artist: Tranzident

   Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic

Discography:

The Origin

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Ecast BarPulse Showcases Usher and 3 Doors Down Plus Emerging Hit-Makers Duffy and American Idol's David Cook

Listeners Throughout the U.S. Give a Monthly Snapshot of Hot Music in Bars
and Nightclubs

NEW YORK, June 16 -- R&B artists take the top slots on
Ecast BarPulse for the month of May with Usher, Rihanna and rising British
star Duffy finishing one, two and three out of the ten most played tunes in
May.

Not to be outdone, the Rock genre represented with three other top ten
spots going to Coldplay, 3 Doors Down and Death Cab for Cutie. All three
artists have been involved in promoting their new albums through social and
electronic media. Usher also pre-released his latest to the public before
it was available in stores.

Ecast BarPulse ranks plays of new music on the Ecast broadband media
network, located in over 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the country. Adding
more than 1,000 songs each week, Ecast keeps its finger on the pulse of U.S.
nightlife and then issues a monthly ranking of the most popular new song
plays, nationwide.

May 2008 Ecast BarPulse
Courtesy: Ecast, Inc.

Rank Track Artist Album Label
1 Love In This Club Usher Here I Stand LaFace
(ft. Young Jeezy) Records
2 Take A Bow Rihanna Take A Bow (single) Def Jam
3 Mercy Duffy Rockferry Mercury
Records
4 Love In This Club Usher Here I Stand LaFace
Part II Records
5 It's Not My Time 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down Republic /
Universal
6 Violet Hill Coldplay Violet Hill (single) Capitol
7 The Time Of My Life David Cook The Time Of My RCA
Life (single) Records
Label
8 Moving Mountains Usher Here I Stand LaFace
Records
9 I Will Possess Your Death Cab Narrow Stairs Atlantic
Heart (Album Version) for Cutie Records
10 Game's Pain The Game Game's Pain (single) Geffen

"This month largely reflects the top songs in America today but with a
couple of surprises such as Duffy at #3 and Death Cab," said Lisa Tiver,
senior vice president business affairs, Ecast. "Death Cab for Cutie has
been an Indie favorite, but their ninth place finish in May puts them
squarely in the mainstream. Our monthly rankings reveal what's going on
with a very targeted and desirable audience. The jukebox provides a
terrific way for the labels and artists to build word of mouth while
getting return on their investment -- each time a fan chooses a song, it
gets exposure to many listeners not just one."

About Ecast

Ecast operates the largest broadband touchscreen media network in the
United States, providing digital music to over 10,000 bars and nightclubs
across the country. The unique touchscreen music service allows locations
to put the power of choice where it should be: with the consumer. Utilizing
the speed and scalability of broadband, Ecast delivers music, advertising
and other forms of entertainment to the young-adults most responsible for
affecting purchasing decisions and consumer trends. Ecast is changing the
way people listen to music in public places and revolutionizing out-of-home
advertising. Ecast's investment partners include Crosslink Capital, DCM, El
Dorado Ventures, Focus Ventures and Mobius Venture Capital. For more
information, please visit http://www.ecastnetwork.com.

BarPulse is a trademark of Ecast, Inc. All other trade names are the
property of their respective owners.

This release is available on the KCSA Strategic Communications site at
http://www.kcsa.com.

CONTACT INFO:
Rob Manfredo/Charlotte Maumus
KCSA Strategic Communications
(212) 896-1213 / (212) 896-1269
rmanfredo@kcsa.com / cmaumus@kcsa.com

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McKenzie brother cartoons give new life to an old hack

GET LOST, EH?: I suppose that as a Canadian I should be used to this feeling, but there�s something both triumphant and sad in the news that Bob and Doug McKenzie are heading to the small screen in cartoon form with Fox their likely home in the U.S., according to a Canadian Press story.

Talking to CP from Los Angeles, where he was working on scripts for the show, Dave Thomas said that the show was initially green-lit by Global here in Canada and that Fox asked to see the script and pilot when they saw how eager the Canadian network was to get the show in production.

�We submit the pilot in early August,� Thomas said, �and we'll hear after that. But I think they'll go for it - I think they like this show. Just to get them this close is good, and means we can probably get
someone else interested if they're not.�

According to Thomas, the show takes the iconic characters created for SCTV with Rick Moranis and puts them in a new, apparently updated setting. �They are in a world that they weren't in before, and they have some friends who are a little raunchier than they are,� he said.

While Thomas is clearly the instigator of the cartoon iteration of the McKenzies, Moranis is far less enthusiastic, as he �doesn't enjoy doing any showbiz stuff anymore ... I can't even guarantee his involvement long term in this, but whatever ... if I have to drag a sound-alike in for his voice, I'll do that. I don't think anyone would care because it's a new product.�

I�m not sure I�d agree with that last bit, Dave, but we�ll see, won�t we? Thomas is abundantly aware of the irony that a skit created as a joke to placate the grumblings of Canada�s culture bureaucrats who were concerned about Canadian content on the show has turned into a nest egg of sorts, as well as an ongoing role for the comedians.

�I thought it was a bit of a nightmare back then, when I thought of myself as a young artist, but now that I think of myself as an old hack, I'm glad I have Bob and Doug," Thomas said. I don�t know why, but my heart sags a little whenever I read that last line.

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES: The observant will probably have noticed the new name that this column ran under as of yesterday, accompanied by the �kindler, gentler� photo. I hope I can weather the change from idiot to intelligent with dignity. Metro has also launched a blog, where yours truly will try and fit in all the stuff that can�t possibly make it into a daily column. The web address is metronews.typepad.com/intellivision/ -- at least for the moment, though I�m told that things might change. I�ll keep you posted in case they do � happy reading.

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