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Sunday 7 September 2008

Michael Moore releasing 'Slacker' online

Filmmaker's modish available as free download for 3 weeks

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Michael Moore will distribute his future movie, "Slacker Uprising," online for free.

The film, which played last year's Toronto Film Festival under the title "Captain Mike Across America," follows Moore on his 2004 62-city tour of college campuses as he bucked up young voters to elect John Kerry president.

Although the film appeared in Toronto under the Weinstein Co. banner, it now bears the logo of Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films, which is joining with Blip.tv to release it online. The Weinstein Co. returned the domestic rights to Moore but retains foreign rights in the film.

The film will be available for free download in North America for three weeks beginning Sept. 23.

Activist film producer Robert Greenwald, whose credits include "Uncovered: The War on Iraq," said, "Our mission here at Brave New Films is to get kO'd a message of social justice. This year, that means getting people to take a close attend at what's at stake in this incredibly of import election. You can find literally no better teller in the world for that purpose than Michael Moore."

"This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans," Moore said. "The only return any of us ar hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November. I think 'Slacker Uprising' will inspire jillion to get off the couch and give vote a chance."

According to Moore, the docu cost or so $2 billion, but neither he nor Brave testament profit from the release, which testament be promoted at the website slackeruprising.com. A DVD testament be released Oct. 7.

Moore also is working on what he is describing as a sequel to his 2004 documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," which Overture Films will shell out domestically in 2009.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Thursday 28 August 2008

Download Daniel Higgs mp3

Artist: Daniel Higgs: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Other

Discography:

Magic Alphabet

Year: 2004

Tracks: 17

With the appearance of a heavily bearded tattooed prophet, Daniel Higgs emerged from the early-'80s hard-core punk scene as an tube icon with a near-mythological emplacement. He sharpened his teeth in the music view as a wild-eyed vocalizer in the legendary Baltimore hard-core pigeonholing Reptile House. Brewing a dark psychedelic sound with early-'80s hardcore zip and esthetics, they earned a solid following and a lasting report due to riot at their live shows. The group disbanded in 1986 and Higgs, world Health Organization was raised on Yeats and Dylan Thomas, became involved with the Apathy Press poets and started doing open-mic poesy readings. He was introduced to late Null Set bassist John Chriest, reality Health Organization created tape measure loops for Higgs to play along with his spoken row. One night, the two distinct to rout on a caprice, and later on discovering a strong interpersonal chemistry, they teamed up with a drummer and guitar player and quickly evolved into a new isthmus.

As the lead singer of the unequivocal band Lungfish, Higgs' phase presence was function Jim Morrison stream of consciousness poetry and function G.G. Allin uncurbed indulgence. In his shows, he elicited specters of Franz Kafka and Walt Whitman in his lyrics spell playing outrageous shenanigans like rolling his eyes support like a maniac and trying to pull his possess tongue out, or stabbing himself in the forehead with a guard pin piece spouting rants around the Antichrist. Some view his unembarrassed freakouts nonsense; others consider them an fine art var. of the purest kind. After 10 records with Dischord, Higgs splashed in conceptual artistic production, formed a side project with his blood brother called Cone of Light, and created respective books of poetry. His first solo album was recorded in 2006 and released on Holy Mountain and combined minimum pensive hillbilly blues, Eastern mysticism, and lyrics about physical and ethereal death at the custody of demons. The beautifully packaged Atomic Yggdasil Tarot was released by Thrill Jockey in June 2007, and combines a leger of his art and poetry with a CD of abstract lo-fi subservient drones, with intentions of conjuring a tarot-like force when experient at the same time.

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Monday 18 August 2008

Girls Aloud cover Robyn at V Festival

Girls Aloud covered fellow pop starlet Robyn at V Festival in Stafford today (August 16).

The lady friend group, came out in pop solidarity for the Swedish vocalizer � wHO herself appears on the JJB Arena later today � by performing her hit 'With Every Heartbeat'.

Known for their cover-packed festival sets, the five-piece followed it a cheeky interpretation of Salt n' Pepa's 1988 score 'Push It'.

Appearing in ignominious dresses, singing into pink-diamond studded microphones and accompanied by five-spot male dancers, the group drew the day's biggest V Stage crowd.

Before 'Love Machine', Sarah Harding teased the audience: "Have we got whatever love machines in the house tonight? Sounds like we've got a few!"

Girls Aloud played:

'Sexy (No! No! No!)'

'Sound Of The Underground'

'Can't Speak French'

'Love Machine'

'With Every Heartbeat'

'Push It'

'Biology'

'Call The Shots'

'Jump (For My Love)'

'Something Kinda Ooh'

Keep checking NME.COM for the in vogue news, pictures, videos and

blogs live from both V Festival Chelmsford and
V Festival

Staffordshire all weekend.

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Saturday 9 August 2008

Tributes paid to writer Solzhenitsyn

Tributes possess poured in from around the world for Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wHO has died aged 89.

He had been frail for several years and died of affectionateness failure late yesterday, his son Stephan told wire services.

"He had been ill many years, but notwithstanding he was still able to work every day and he was of completely sound mind all this time, so his death, in fact, was sudden," Stephan Solzhenitsyn said.

The author was working on corrections to a 30-volume set of collected workings on the day of his death, his boy said, adding that the family would treasure the many condolences they were receiving.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's lying in state volition take place at the Russian Academy of Sciences tomorrow forwards of his burial at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow on Wednesday, an official from the writer's foundation said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hailed him as "one of the sterling thinkers, writers and humanists of the 20th century" and "an irreplaceable loss".

Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 after portrayal in torturesome detail the Soviet working class camps, where he spent eight years from 1945.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy honoured Solzhenitsyn as "one of the superlative consciences of 20th century Russia", while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said he was a great and important writer.

Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov called him an inspiration.

Born in 1918 in Kislovodsk in the Caucasus in the bloody aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Solzhenitsyn was initially a loyal communist.

But he was sentenced to ashcan School years in the camps in 1945 for criticising Russian drawing card Joseph Stalin in a letter to a friend.

He was released in February 1953, a few weeks before Stalin's death and eventually became a maths teacher. He earned renown in 1962 with 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'.

Published with official approval during the thaw under Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, the book's description of the camps made a huge shock. But it was afterwards banned and for decades Russians could only read clandestine editions of his work.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970 but refused to travel to receive it for fear of not beingness allowed to return home.

By then Solzhenitsyn was working on his massive labor camp portrayal, 'The Gulag Archipelago'. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 after the authorities discovered manuscripts of the book.

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Tuesday 1 July 2008

The Unband

Artist: The Unband

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Retarder

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

Monday 23 June 2008

Spiderman's marriage over in plot twist

For the last 21 years Marvel Comics have written about Spiderman and his wife, Mary Jane Watson, but not any more.
In a bid to confront the dilemma of how to allow the superhero to age gracefully, and also gain the attention of younger readers, writers felt it would be easier if he wasn't married.
In a plot twist that has enraged some fans, Spiderman has had his entire memory of his marriage erased.
Peter Parker AKA Spiderman has been spinning webs and saving lives for over 40 years. The comic book character-come-superbrand was first created in the 1960s and was married in the 1980s but is now single again.
The move is not the first time writers have resorted to such a twist, and then received a backlash.
Fans of the 1980s American TV drama 'Dallas' saw Bobby Ewing return after a massacre of characters turned out to be a dream.

Monday 16 June 2008

Miroslav Vitous

Artist: Miroslav Vitous

   Genre(s):
New Age
   Jazz

Discography:

Universal Syncopations

Year: 2003
Tracks: 9

Bireli Lagrene and Special Guests

Year: 1998
Tracks: 8

Journey's End

Year: 1983
Tracks: 6

Best known as unrivaled of the foremost young bassists in the jazz-rock movement of the late '60s and early '70s, Miroslav Vitous is one of Europe's most versatile imports, equally at home in mainstream idioms and level down music. A sometime leader, his bass dances and skitters around an supporting players as a coequal phallus of the front strain, and he makes very creative use of the bow. He is influenced non simply by bassists like Scott LaFaro, Ron Carter and Gary Peacock, merely too by Czech folk music.

Vitous began his musical studies on the fiddle at eld six-spot, switch to piano from ages nine to fourteen earlier in conclusion settling upon the bass. While studying at the Prague Conservatory, he played with a trio that included his blood brother Alan on drums and Jan Hammer -- some other future jazz-rock mover and shaker -- on piano. After winning a scholarship to Berklee in 1966, he touched to New York the next year and wound up on the job with Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, and very briefly, Miles Davis.

Today i of the most highly touted prodigies in jazz, Vitous started playing in a recurring triad with Chick Corea and Roy Haynes on Corea's 1968 album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. He then joined one of Herbie Mann's most democratic groups from 1968 until 1970, with time out for a turn with Stan Getz; Mann produced his number 1 album, a pioneering series of prolonged jazz-rock workouts called Infinite Search on the flutist's Embryo label. As a creation member of Weather Report, Vitous helped delineate the band's freewheeling initial level, leaving the group in late 1973 as its music began to evolve into more than structured forms. A incite to Los Angeles in 1974 lED to a yearlong session of woodshedding in private with a new custom-made instrument, a double-necked guitar and bass. However, that experimentation did not pan out, and he returned to the bass, ahead sessions for Warner Bros., Arista, and from 1979, a sporadic series of dates for ECM as a leader and in reunions of Corea's bop-to-free Trio Music chemical group.

In the meanwhile, Vitous became immersed in academe, joining the module of the New England Conservatory in 1979 and becoming head of the jazz department in 1983. Although his profile isn't most as highschool as it was at the peak of the jazz-rock geological era, he continued to play at jazz festivals and record into the 1990s.

Sunday 8 June 2008

Video: The 2008 National Memorial Day Concert on PBS: A Time to Remember, to Heal and Bring our Nation Together

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
wages on, PBS unites our nation with the award-winning National Memorial
Day Concert (http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/) honoring the service
and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and
all of those who have given their lives for our country. The event, which
has become the memorial service for our entire nation, is co-hosted
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/features/cohost.html) for the third
year by Gary Sinise (CSI: New York) and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna
(Criminal Minds), two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to
veteran's causes and supporting our troops in active service. The top-rated
show will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol
on Sunday, May 25, 2008 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings)
before a concert audience of 300,000, millions more at home, as well as to
our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Radio and
Television Network.

To view the Multimedia News Release, go to:
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/capital/33101/

"I think all Americans have a moral obligation to honor the military,
by taking a moment to pause and reflect on the bravery and sacrifice of our
men and women in uniform, so that we can truly appreciate
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/remembrance/) what they gave to
preserve our freedoms," said Joe Mantegna. Added co-host Gary Sinise,
"Lending a hand to our country's servicemen and women is truly one of the
most rewarding things I have ever done. Knowing that they are not forgotten
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/stories/) and that their sacrifice
is appreciated can make a world of difference."

Joining co-hosts Sinise and Mantegna is an all-star line-up
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/concert/performers.html) including:
multiple Grammy award-winning Motown legend Gladys Knight; classical
crossover soprano Sarah Brightman; General Colin L. Powell USA (Ret.); Best
Actress Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent); actor and comedian
Denis Leary (Rescue Me); distinguished actor Charles Durning; country music
star Rodney Atkins; actor and singer John Schneider; actress Gail O'Grady
(American Dreams, Boston Legal); and film and television actress Caitlin
Wachs; in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of maestro Erich Kunzel.

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Sunday 25 May 2008

Garden Tribute For Late Beatle Harrison

Late BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON's widow OLIVIA has created a floral tribute for the legendary musician - by designing a garden in his honour for an English flower show.

The garden will feature as part of England's Chelsea Flower Show, and is entitled Life To Life after a line in the Beatle's hit It's All Too Much.

The tribute will depict Harrison's humble beginnings growing up in Liverpool, England to his post-Beatle life of luxury - all through the medium of plants and flowers.

The garden - which is sponsored by Harrison's own Material World Charitable Foundation - is a fitting tribute for the musician who often frequented the Chelsea Flower Show before he died from lung cancer in 2001.

Olivia tells Britain's Radio Times magazine, "Each year we used to go to Chelsea and George would take copious notes and come home with a list of plants he wanted to buy.

"My hope is that this project will be a tribute to the horticultural side of his personality that relatively few people knew about."

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Thursday 22 May 2008

Discokris

Artist: Discokris

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Discokris - Night

Year: 2006
Tracks: 4

Lindsay Lohan opens up about life post-rehab

Saturday 10 May 2008

Kirsten Dunst dating Ryan Gosling?

Actress Kirsten Dunst is geological dating Ryan Gosling, it has been claimed.
The lately rehabbed ‘Spider-Man’ actress has reportedly been spending a set of clock time with Gosling — her co-star in new picture show Entirely Good Things — sparking rumors of a possible romance language.
The twin were spotted enjoying a romantic repast at Newly York’s Freeman’s eating place Saturday. “They were definitely performing like they were on a date. They lingered at that place for hours,” a colleague dining compartment said.