London (ANI): Britney Spears younger sister, Jamie, world Health Organization recently gave birth to a baby girl, seems to be shaken by fiancee Casey Aldridge's infidelity rumours. Jamie looked a bit reticent as she cradled her two-month-old tot during their shopping trip.
Casey's ex-girlfriend Kelli Dawson recently rocked the Spears family when she revealed to an American yellow journalism that she enjoyed an affair with Aldridge while Jamie was six months pregnant, reports The Sun. Britney's first husband had confirmed Dawson's claim by stating that the splurge was of common noesis in their hometown. However Casey, world Health Organization is to wed girlfriend Lynn later this year, has denied any such allegations.
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Velvet Revolver still looking for frontman
Spacehog's Royston Langdon under consideration
NEW YORK -- Contrary to reports suggesting former Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon is in line to become the new isaac M. Singer of Velvet Revolver, the band is still making up its mind about who will replace Scott Weiland.
Bassist Duff McKagan aforesaid that though Velvet Revolver did play with Langdon and that "he's f***ing awesome, at this point I'd have to say no" on him comme il faut the raw singer.
"We but have to make trusted it's the right guy," he aforementioned, adding that Weiland's raging departure from the band this spring has brought him closer to group members Slash, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner. "Karmically, we deserve the right guy. It's a tough thing, adult male. We make a pretty big noise."
Velvet Revolver isn't so a great deal auditioning vocalists as "barely seeing how it feels," McKagan aforementioned, adding with a laugh, "We wouldn't know how to do an audition. We wouldn't have individual come in and go, 'OK, take on 'Slither!' Play 'Fall to Pieces!'"
For now, the band is pickings inspiration from its recent personnel drama and channeling it into new material. "We accept a bunch of stuff finished. It's great. It's killer," McKagan said. "We started acquiring really fertile when a ton of drama started happening on the road. It was like our safe situation to go to. Sometimes that's how you get some feelings out."
One thing McKagan hasn't done is listen to any of the online leaks from his other band Guns N' Roses' long-awaited "Chinese Democracy." "I wouldn't even know where to search," he said, chuckling. "Slash said he heard a couple of tunes. I wish (Axl Rose) all the best."
As reported yesterday, McKagan just now finished an album with his side band Loaded, and will play a handful of U.S. and European shows in August and September.
NEW YORK -- Contrary to reports suggesting former Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon is in line to become the new isaac M. Singer of Velvet Revolver, the band is still making up its mind about who will replace Scott Weiland.
Bassist Duff McKagan aforesaid that though Velvet Revolver did play with Langdon and that "he's f***ing awesome, at this point I'd have to say no" on him comme il faut the raw singer.
"We but have to make trusted it's the right guy," he aforementioned, adding that Weiland's raging departure from the band this spring has brought him closer to group members Slash, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner. "Karmically, we deserve the right guy. It's a tough thing, adult male. We make a pretty big noise."
Velvet Revolver isn't so a great deal auditioning vocalists as "barely seeing how it feels," McKagan aforementioned, adding with a laugh, "We wouldn't know how to do an audition. We wouldn't have individual come in and go, 'OK, take on 'Slither!' Play 'Fall to Pieces!'"
For now, the band is pickings inspiration from its recent personnel drama and channeling it into new material. "We accept a bunch of stuff finished. It's great. It's killer," McKagan said. "We started acquiring really fertile when a ton of drama started happening on the road. It was like our safe situation to go to. Sometimes that's how you get some feelings out."
One thing McKagan hasn't done is listen to any of the online leaks from his other band Guns N' Roses' long-awaited "Chinese Democracy." "I wouldn't even know where to search," he said, chuckling. "Slash said he heard a couple of tunes. I wish (Axl Rose) all the best."
As reported yesterday, McKagan just now finished an album with his side band Loaded, and will play a handful of U.S. and European shows in August and September.
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Cari Lekebusch and Gene Hunt
Artist: Cari Lekebusch and Gene Hunt
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Audio Mekcanicks EP
Year: 2000
Tracks: 5
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Bo Diddley
Artist: Bo Diddley
Genre(s):
Rock
Jazz
R&B: Soul
Retro
Blues
Discography:
Bo Diddley Rides Again-Bo Diddley in the Spotlight
Year: 2002
Tracks: 24
His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
A Man Amongst Men
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Gold Collection
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
The Chess Box
Year: 1990
Tracks: 45
Go Bo Diddley
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
The 20th Anniversary Of Rock 'N' Roll
Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
500% More Man
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
Bo Diddley
Year: 1963
Tracks: 11
Signifying Blues
Year:
Tracks: 14
Rare and Well Done
Year:
Tracks: 16
Collection (Boogie Woogie)
Year:
Tracks: 2
Bo's Guitar
Year:
Tracks: 1
Bo Diddley and Muddy Watters
Year:
Tracks: 14
He only had a few hits in the fifties and early '60s, only as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't pass judgment an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early bikers. The Bo Diddley beat -- bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp -- is nonpareil of rock & roll's basics rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knock-offs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmical attack and large, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His stylemark nonnatural vibrating, blurred guitar style did much to extend the instrument's office and chain. But even more authoritative, Bo's bounce was playfulness and overwhelmingly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized stone & roll at its most humorously off-the-wall and devil-may-care.
Earlier pickings up blue devils and R&B, Diddley had actually studied classical violin, only shifted gears after hearing John Lee Hooker. In the early '50s, he began acting with his longtime partner, maraca instrumentalist Jerome Green, to catch what Bo's called "that consignment groom reasoned." Billy Boy Arnold, a fine vapours harmonica player and isaac Bashevis Singer in his have right, was too playing with Diddley when the guitar player got a consider with Chess in the mid-'50s (after being turned down by match Chicago label Vee-Jay). His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I'm a Man" (1955), was a double-sided ogre. The A-side was squiffy with futurist waves of tremolo guitar, set to an ageless greenhouse rhyme; the flip was a bump-and-grind, harmonica-driven mix, based about a annihilating blues riffian. But the solvent was non exactly vapours, or even straight R&B, but a new kind of guitar-based rock & roll, wet in the blue devils and R&B, but undischarged allegiance to neither.
Diddlyshit was never a top vender on the order of his Chess rival Chuck Berry, but o'er the succeeding half-dozen or so old age, he'd grow a catalog of classics that rival Berry's in timbre. "You Don't Love Me," "Diddly-shit Daddy," "Pretty Thing," "Diddy Wah Diddy," "World Health Organization Do You Love?," "Mona," "Road Runner," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" -- all ar stone-cold standards of early, riff-driven stone & roll at its funkiest. Oddly enough, his merely Top 20 pop come to was an atypical, laughable backward and forward hip-hop between him and Jerome Green, "Say Man," that came about nearly by accident as the pair were casual roughly in the studio.
As a live performer, Diddley was electric, using his trademark square guitars and deformed amplification to produce new sounds that awaited the innovations of '60s guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. In Great Britain, he was venerable as a giant on the order of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. The Rolling Stones in particular borrowed a mint from Bo's rhythms and attitude in their early days, although they only officially covered a couple of his tunes, "Anglesea" and "I'm Alright." Other British R&B groups like the Yardbirds, Animals, and Pretty Things as well covered Diddley standards in their early years. Buddy Holly covered "Bo Diddley" and put-upon a modified Bo Diddley beat on "Non Fade Away"; when the Stones gave the song the full-on Bo treatment (complete with shaking maracas), the solvent was their number one full-grown British attain.
The British Invasion helped increase the public's sentience of Diddley's importance, and of all time since then he's been a popular live act as. Sadly, though, his life history as a recording artist -- in commercial and artistic price -- was over by the metre the Beatles and Stones attain America. He'd record with on-going and declining frequency, but later 1963, he'd never write or record whatever original material on par with his early classics. Whether he'd fagged his muse, or just felt he could sea-coast on his honor, is unvoiced to order. But he remains a life-sustaining function of the corporate stone & roll consciousness, occasionally reaching wider visibility via a 1979 term of enlistment with the Clash, a cameo character in the film Trading Places, a late-'80s go with Ronnie Wood, and a 1989 television commercial for sports place with headliner jock Bo Jackson.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
Big Brother - Hundreds Complain After Big Brother Bullying Row
Hundreds of viewers have lodged complaints after a Big Brother housemate was accused of bullying another contestant.
Watchdog Ofcom said it had received 361 complaints following Tuesday's broadcast, which saw Alexandra De-Gale verbally attack three fellow housemates.
Broadcaster Channel 4 is understood to have received a similar number of complaints itself.
An Ofcom spokesperson said 505 complaints had been received since the ninth series of the show began last Thursday and were all being looked into.
The watchdog has the power to launch an investigation if beaches of the broadcasting code are discovered.
The row centres on Alexandra, 23, criticising Rebecca Shiner for burning chips during cooking for a communal meal.
Rachel Rice stood up for the nursery nurse, but was attacked herself by Alexandra.
"You're getting on my f*****g nerves - I don't give a f*** what you think," the south Londoner said, before also criticising Stephanie McMichael when the teenager complained about her behaviour being abusive.
Big Brother followed up the row by warning Alexandra "bullying" was unacceptable in the house, although she is safe from eviction this week after four housemates failed the first week's task.
Last year in the celebrity version of the reality TV show, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was the subject of alleged racial abuse from her fellow housemates, prompting almost 45,000 complaints from viewers.
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Friday, 13 June 2008
Mimi Gates to step down at Seattle Art Museum
Since Mimi Gardner Neil took over as director of Seattle Art Museum in 1994, she has steered the museum through an ambitious downtown expansion, guided the formation of the Olympic Sculpture Park, held steady through a landmark legal battle over a Nazi-pillaged painting, racked up an unprecedented wealth of gifts to the permanent collection — and changed her name to Mimi Gates in 1998, after marrying Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft founder.
Now, Mimi Gates has announced she will retire in June 2009.
"A 15-year tenure as director of SAM is just right," Gates, 65, said in a news release. "The moment is ripe for robust succession, for the appointment of a new director with a fresh vision, and Seattle will attract a person of high caliber. ... Now I will embark on a new chapter in my life."
Gates' stint at SAM has brought the most dramatic changes in the institution's history and its largest capital campaign. To open the expansion and the sculpture park last year, the museum raised some $200 million. It also recently announced 1,000 promised gifts of art valued at $1 billion, a landmark in museum philanthropy. Under Gates' watch, SAM also established a new art-conservation department and broadened the museum's audience and attendance.
When she started at SAM, she told The Seattle Times she had not been looking for a new job. She was living in New Haven, Conn., directing the art gallery at Yale University, where she had earned her Ph.D. "But when Seattle [Art Museum] asked me, I had an intuitive sense: I felt it was a good fit." A fan of outdoor activities, Gates is fond of fishing, kayaking and cross-country skiing.
Former SAM curator of Chinese Art Jay Xu says his regard for Gates is unqualified. Xu left SAM to work at the Art Institute of Chicago and recently was hired as director of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, where he will begin working June 16. "The time I had at Seattle Art Museum was the best in my career so far," Xu said by phone from Chicago. "I cannot be grateful enough to Mimi who really helped launch my career in the United States. ... She cares very much about the art. Her passion is very deep. Fundamentally, she has a wonderful sense of humility."
Gates fended off initial criticism of SAM's handling of the return of a Matisse "Odalisque" which had been given to the museum by collector Prentice Bloedel and was later identified as having been looted by the Nazis. SAM at first refused to return the painting, waiting until full information on its past could be traced. Eventually, SAM did return the painting to the heirs of Paul Rosenberg, but went on to sue the Knoedler Gallery in New York, which had sold the painting to Bloedel. SAM eventually received a cash settlement from Knoedler for an undisclosed amount.
Gates joined Yale University Art Gallery in 1975 as a curator and became director in 1987. With her leadership, the gallery opened a conservation laboratory and new departments in European and contemporary art. Gates earned a degree in art history at Stanford University, studied Chinese language and culture in Paris, earned a master's degree at the University of Iowa and a doctorate from Yale.
SAM trustees are beginning to organize a search for her successor.
Sheila Farr: sfarr@seattletimes.com
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
In Somnis
Artist: In Somnis
Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
Discography:
The Memory You've Become
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Michelle Williams: 'It was cool to be at Cannes'
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