LiveDaily Song of the Day: Mates of State - "My Only Offer" & other: June 2008

Monday, 30 June 2008

Rastaman-dita

Artist: Rastaman-dita

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Rastaman-Dita

Year: 2003
Tracks: 1

Richard Williams revisits the musical masterwork of former Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Srebrna Krila (Vlado Kalember)

Artist: Srebrna Krila (Vlado Kalember)

   Genre(s):
disco

Discography:

Za Ljubav Me Ne Pitaj

Year: 1988
Tracks: 10

Monday, 16 June 2008

Ewan Mcgregor - Mcgregor I Wouldnt Do Trainspotting Sequel

Actor EWAN MCGREGOR has scuppered plans to star in a sequel to cult film TRAINSPOTTING - insisting he is not a fan of the book the film would be based upon.

The star was reportedly eager to set work in motion on plans for a follow-up to the 1996 movie, adapted from Scottish author Irvine Welsh's second book, Porno.

But the Star Wars star claims he wouldn't want to appear in the film, because a big screen venture based on the poor follow-up book could potentially ruin the acclaimed first movie's iconic reputation.

He says, "There has always been talk of a sequel (to Trainspotting) but I was disappointed with the book, Porno, that Irvine wrote afterwards - it was like he wrote a sequel to the movie.

"I would hate to damage Trainspotting. It would be awful to damage the reputation of that film."

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Sunday, 8 June 2008

Judge denies media motion in R. Kelly trial

A judge has denied a motion from news organizations seeking immediate access to sealed court records and transcripts in the R. Kelly child pornography trial.

Judge Vincent Gaughan (GAWN) also refused to lift a gag order forbidding attorneys to talk about the case.

The judge says he's not trying to inhibit the press. But he says the time isn't right to release the information and keeping it secret is the only way to guarantee a fair trial.

Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges he videotaped himself having sex with an underage girl.

Jury selection in the R&B singer's trial finished this week. Opening arguments begin Tuesday.

Friday, 6 June 2008

Caetano Veloso With Chico Buarque

Artist: Caetano Veloso With Chico Buarque

   Genre(s):
Latin

Discography:

Juntos E Ao Vivo

Year: 1972
Tracks: 11

Back To School With Cyndi Lauper, 1988, In The Loder Files

Where do old interviews go to die? Since 1988 they've gone into the MTV News vault, but we've been exhuming them to bring you these classic natterings. Here's the latest in the series, which runs every Tuesday.

In June of 1988, just days after celebrating her 35th birthday, singer Cyndi Lauper was back in her native Queens to mark another milestone — her long-delayed high school graduation. It was a little odd. Lauper was at that point one of the world's most recognizable pop stars — a thrift-store-fashion pioneer with an endearing nasal honk that morphed, onstage, into a phenomenal alto wail that could pin back your ears. Her 1984 debut album had spun off some very big hits — chief among them, the deathless "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (currently featured in "Baby Mama") and the chart-topping "Time After Time" — and the title track of its follow-up, the 1986 "True Colors," had returned her to number one.

And yet there she was, up on a little stage at Richmond Hill High School, in cranberry robe and mortarboard, waiting in a line of more conventionally successful students to pick up her diploma. "I really tried doin' the formal education," she told us, noting that she'd flunked out of four different high schools altogether. "I figured, I'm a dummy, OK, I can deal with that."

Lack of high school certification didn't affect her career, obviously (1988 was also the year she made her first feature-film appearance, starring with Jeff Goldblum in a movie called "Vibes," which, alas, went nowhere). She was hampered, however, by the loud, wacky image her video fame had been built upon — wackiness having a fairly short shelf life. She remains a great singer, though, and has in fact never stopped making albums for her original record company. Her latest release, just out, is called Bring Ya to the Brink. The wackiness is long gone, but the voice remains undimmed. You might want to give it a listen.

Enjoy digging through The Loder Files? You'll find more here, and there's much more to come from the vaults — check back every Tuesday!

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Harry Belafonte

Artist: Harry Belafonte

   Genre(s):
Jazz
   Folk
   Other
   Easy Listening
   Pop

Discography:

Collections

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

Ultimate Collection

Year: 2005
Tracks: 25

Island in the Sun

Year: 2005
Tracks: 14

Greatest Hits

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

The Greatest Hits Of Harry Belafonte

Year: 2003
Tracks: 23

Live Europe

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

Ultimate Collection CD3

Year: 1997
Tracks: 16

Ultimate Collection CD2

Year: 1997
Tracks: 16

Calypso From Jamaica

Year: 1997
Tracks: 18

Calypso

Year: 1992
Tracks: 11

Sings Of The Caribbian (Vinyl)

Year: 1957
Tracks: 11

The Best Of Harry Belafonte

Year:
Tracks: 14

Songs for Dancing

Year:
Tracks: 16

Live - Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

Year:
Tracks: 1

Hits and Rare Songs

Year:
Tracks: 25

Gold - 20 Super Hits

Year:
Tracks: 20

Banana Boat E Other Famous Folk Songs

Year:
Tracks: 17

An worker, do-gooder, and the acknowledged "King of Calypso," Harry Belafonte stratified among the nearly seminal performers of the postwar era. One of the most successful African-American pop stars in story, Belafonte's astounding natural endowment, estimable looks, and consummate assimilation of sept, jazz, and worldbeat rhythms allowed him to attain a level of mainstream distinction and crossover popularity about unequalled in the days before the advent of the polite rights movement -- a cultural rebellion which he himself helped spearhead.

Harold George Belafonte, Jr., was innate March 1, 1927, in Harlem, NY. The logos of Caribbean-born immigrants, he returned with his female parent to her native Jamaica at the age of eight, left there for the side by side five age. Upon reversive to the U.S., Belafonte dropped out of high school to enlist in the U.S. Navy; after his assoil, he relocated in New York City to spirt a calling as an actor, acting with the American Negro Theatre piece studying drama at Erwin Piscator's famed Dramatic Workshop alongside the likes of Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis.

A telling role resulted in a series of night club engagements, and finally Belafonte fifty-fifty opened his possess club. Initially, he put his top, silken voice to work as a straight pop up singer, launch his recording calling on the Jubilee label in 1949; yet, at the dayspring of the fifties he observed sept music, eruditeness material through the Library of Congress' American folk songs archives while also discovering West Indian music. With guitar player Millard Thomas, Belafonte shortly made his debut at the legendary jazz club the Village Vanguard; in 1953, he made his cinema bow in Bright Road, winning a Tony Award the side by side twelvemonth for his work in the Broadway review John Murray Anderson's Almanac.

With his lead role in Otto Preminger's photographic film adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones, Belafonte shooter to stardom; after signing to the RCA judge, he issued Scar Twain and Other Folk Favorites, which reached the number tercet slot on the Billboard charts in the other weeks of 1956. His succeeding exploit, highborn simply Belafonte, reached number one, kick-starting a national craze for calypso music; Calypso, as well issued in 1956, topped the charts for a stupefying 31 weeks on the strength of hits like "Jamaica Farewell" and the immortal "Banana Boat (Day-O)."

Following the success of 1957's An Evening with Belafonte and its strike "Mary's Boy Child," Belafonte returned to photographic film, victimisation his now considerable pull to actualize the controversial celluloid Island in the Sun, in which his fibre contemplates an thing with a egg white cleaning lady portrayed by Joan Fontaine. Similarly, 1959's Odds Against Tomorrow cast him as a bank robber teamed with a racist accomplice. Also in 1959 he released the LP Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, a recording of a sold-out April carrying into action that exhausted over troika days on the charts; Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall followed in 1960 and featured appearances by Odetta, Miriam Makeba, and the Chad Mitchell Trio.

At the turn of the sixties, Belafonte became television's starting time black manufacturer; his special Tonight with Harry Belafonte won an Emmy that same year. Although dissatisfied with filmmaking, he continued his prolific record album turnout with 1961's Alternate Up Calypso and 1962's The Midnight Special, which featured the first-ever recorded appearance by a youth harp player named Bob Dylan. As the Beatles and other stars of the British Invasion began to master the pop charts, Belafonte's impact as a commercial force diminished; 1964's Belafonte at the Greek Theatre was his terminal Top 40 exploit, and subsequent efforts like 1965's An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba and 1966's In My Quiet Room struggled even to crack the Top C. 1969's Homeward Bound earned Belafonte his last Billboard chart appearance, although he continued to record. He then made his first base plastic film appearance in all over a decade in 1970's The Angel Levine and continued to focussing on his work as a civil rights militant.

In increase to his continued work in recording (albeit less oftentimes after going RCA in the mid-'70s) and photographic film (1972's Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and the Preacher and 1974's Uptown Saturday Night), Belafonte spent an increasing amount of the 1970s and eighties as a indefatigable humanist; nigh famously, he was a central pattern of the USA for Africa exploit, singing on the 1985 single "We Are the World." A year afterwards, he replaced Danny Kaye as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador. After a long absence from the silver screen, Belafonte resurfaced in the mid-'90s in a number of film roles, most notably in the reverse-racism drama White Man's Burden and Robert Altman's jazz-era period man Kansa City. Although at this point Belafonte had stopped up recording new medicine, he unbroken his nominate in the news by releasing the casual live album (including 1997's An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends) as good as existence an candid exponent of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and opposite of the Bush government.

Heroes star signs teen comedy deal

'Heroes' star Nicholas D'Agosto has joined the cast of a new teen comedy called 'Maxim's Fired Up'.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the film tells the story of a high school sports star who goes to a cheerleading camp to satisfy his ego but ends up falling in love.
D'Agosto, who plays West Rosen in 'Heroes', will star opposite Sarah Roemer, Daneel Harris and Eric Christian Olsen in the film.
Shooting begins in Los Angeles later this month.

Rod Stewart - Stewart Slams Soccer Payouts

Scottish rocker ROD STEWART has slammed soccer stars who are motivated by money, rather than their love of the game.

Soccer fan Stewart laments the 'work ethic' of many highly-paid soccer players is now dictated by financial gain.

He says, "Too many mercenaries think only of the cash they're going to pick up.

"The only ethic is money."

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New Neil Young Anthology Uses Cutting-Edge Technology

The upcoming "Neil Young [ tickets ] Archive" will be released as a series of Blu-ray Discs that use Java technology to give the viewer sophisticated ways of interacting with the content, according to a press release. The Java technology makes it possible to browse archival material while listening to the unsurpassed audio quality provided by the Blu-ray format.The technology behind the 10-disc set also makes it possible to add content to already released Blu-ray archive volumes by downloading music, film, photographs, recording sessions or other materials that were located after the release of that volume. The additional materials will automatically be assigned their place in the chronology timeline of the specific volume.The Java technology that enables content updates also will make it possible to download tour information, as well as supporting fan community features such as message boards and concert reviews, according to the release. Viewers also will be able to use a donation mechanism to help support the Bridge School, Young's non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that individuals with severe speech and physical impairments achieve full participation in their communities through the use of augmentative and alternative means of communication and assistive technology applications.The first "Neil Young Archive" release, which will be available this fall, will cover Young's career from 1963-1972.