Thursday 4 September 2008

Kerry Katona to Have Breast Reduction Surgery

Kerry Katona is plant to undergo breast reduction surgery -- and possess every moment filmed for her approaching MTV reality show.


The other Atomic Kitten singer, 27, is likewise planning more cosmetic work, including optical maser treatment on her stretch marks, a tummy tuck and suction lipectomy.


She reveals, "After four kids I need it. I'm a GG at the here and now, and when I take my brassiere off my nipples ar by my feet. I want to be a DD instead."


Katona's spokesman Max Clifford confirmed she is having the procedure, saying, "She has wanted it for rather some time. Kerry is enjoying her life and getting on with doing things she wants to."


However, he denied reports that Kerry had a long list of surgery demands and the procedure was funded by MTV, wHO is producing her new show, Whole Again.


A source close to the wizard said she was putt her financial woes behind her and focusing on the operating theater, which she hopes will give her a major boost.


The source said, "She is devastated about the bankruptcy only is surefooted it will be OK in the end.


"Her antecedency is acquiring her head in ordination for the surgery. She's quite nervous but her husband Mark has been really supportive."


Meanwhile, Katona expects her bankruptcy to be overturned this week when checks clear.


She was declared bust at the High Court terminal week for failing to pay an �82,000 ($164k) task bill -- despite trey final warnings.


But the mother of tetrad told Britain's Star magazine, "Our financial adviser, wHO takes care of all our money affairs, told us that the johnny Cash was in place with the court but hadn�t been cleared in time.


"I've been told the bankruptcy will be annulled."




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Monday 25 August 2008

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OneRepublic
   

Artist: OneRepublic: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rock

   







Discography:


Dreaming Out Loud
   

 Dreaming Out Loud

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 13






Featuring salient piano and vocals in nominal head of U2-inspired anthemic rock and roll candy songs, OneRepublic formed in 2002 around singer/pianist/producer Ryan Tedder and pencil lead guitarist Zach Filkins. The deuce speedily left their home base of Colorado Springs and resettled to Los Angeles, where keyboardist Drew Brown, bassist and cellist Brent Kutzle, and drummer Eddie Fisher united the lineup. OneRepublic and then signed with Sony BMG's Columbia tag in 2003; trey years later on, however, the ring returned from a carrying out at Coachella to find themselves dropped from Columbia's roster. Nevertheless, their popularity continued to soar on MySpace, and OneRepublic before long became the most popular band on the social-networking site. Hip-hop producer Timbaland (with whom Tedder had antecedently worked as a song physician on several projects) took notice of the group's growing audience and gestural them to his own Mosley Music Group, a joint speculation with Interscope Records. Timbaland also remixed one of OneRepublic's to the highest degree bright tracks, "Apologise," and included it on his terpsichore 2007 album Timbaland Presents Shock Value. The vocal quickly became a platinum-selling exclusive in many countries, breakage records in the U.K. (where it was crowned the most popular vocal in wireless history) and the U.S. (where it received more airplay than whatsoever other song dynasty dynasty in Top 40 story). Later that twelvemonth, OneRepublic made their official world curtain call with the uncut Dream Out Loud.





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Thursday 7 August 2008

Colin Linden

Colin Linden   
Artist: Colin Linden

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   



Discography:


Southern Jumbo   
 Southern Jumbo

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13




Canadian singer/songwriter Colin Linden has been delivering his own blues-oriented rock since the early '70s. He plays into sound gospels and family as substantially, devising Linden's ferment intimately recognizable across Canada. He has released a slew of records end-to-end the '80s and '90s, nigh notably victorious a Juno Award for South at Eight-North at Nine (1993) in 1994. He made quite an an imprint on the American homefront with his 1997 vent Through the Storm, Through the Night, but Linden continued making euphony into the new millennium and issued Raised By the Wolves in February 2000. His collaborations as well include work with Kim Wilson, Bruce Cockburn, the Band, and Mavis Staples.





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Friday 27 June 2008

May boxoffice down overseas

Strong releases not enough to top 2007 grosses





Call it the month that could have been.


What if "Speed Racer" hadn't tanked? What if "Iron Man" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" had played Japan like "Spider-Man 3" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" did a year ago?


As it is, one distribution expert calculates that the overseas boxoffice for Hollywood films came to $620 million for the month versus $750 million in May 2007, about a 20% difference.


Just as flowers bloom in May, so do industry blockbusters -- particularly in an overseas market that accounts for 51% of worldwide boxoffice revenue. For almost a decade, May has become a more pivotal month for the international release of what distribution executives term the "key drivers" of the summer season. Those drivers frequently foretell the direction of the business for the full year.


In 2007, it was the May tentpoles that set the stage for the biggest year in industry history as the month unfolded with nary a casualty among an unprecedented slate of sequels and franchises.


The month's two behemoths -- Sony's "Spidey" and Disney's "Pirates" -- dominated, finding little competition as "Spidey" snared $500.9 million in May and "Pirates" looted $245 million for its end-of-May, six-day launch. By the end of their foreign runs, "Spider-Man" had pulled in $555.4 million from abroad compared with domestic's $336.5 million, and "Pirates" hoisted a record $663 million from overseas compared with North America's $309.4 million.


In the same month, DreamWorks/Paramount's "Shrek the Third" began a staggered rollout, registering about $23 million in May from only four markets and reaching $475 million at year's end vs. domestic's $336.5 million.


Come this May 2008, the month's lineup appeared as crowded as a subway at rush hour. Not only did presumed tentpoles -- Paramount/Marvel Comics' "Iron Man," Warner Bros.' "Speed Racer," Disney's "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," DreamWorks/Paramount's "Indiana Jones" -- open week after week, but, in an unexpected challenge, the major studios added a trio of romantic comedies to the May mix -- Sony's "Made of Honor," Fox's "What Happens in Vegas" and New Line's "Sex and the City."


The outcome? "More movies and less gross," as one distribution executive put it.


"Iron Man," which kicked off this May's overseas tentpole parade, picked up $95.5 million in a conventional Wednesday-to-Saturday opening in 57 markets and had collected $243 million overseas by month's end. Counterprogramr "Made of Honor" opened at No. 2 offshore to $6.1 million from 19 markets and reached $30.8 million at May's windup.


The international barrage in May -- an industry tradition since studios began finding it necessary to release major tentpoles day-and-date with the U.S. because of marketing and piracy concerns -- witnessed its first tentpole casualty this year when "Speed Racer" slowed down the month's second weekend with a skimpy $12.6 million bow from 30 markets, lapped by romantic comedy "What Happens in Vegas' " $24.2 million from 36 countries. By month's end, "Vegas" had taken in $96.3 million, while "Speed" could only manage $33.8 million.


A week after "Speed's" crash, family entry "Prince Caspian" started a staggered rollout, raking in a princely $23.3 million from only 12 markets and reaching $74.1 million by month's end from 19 territories. The final week of May saw Steven Spielberg's "Indy" take command with a $265.6 million total for the month while "Sex and the City" blasted off with a surprise $37.2 million from just 14 markets.


Looking forward, there's no stopping the scramble for May dates. Already lined up for May 2009 are Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," Paramount's "Star Trek XI," Universal/Working Title Films' period comedy "The Boat That Rocked," Disney's "The Hannah Montana Movie," Sony's "The Da Vinci Code" follow-up "Angels and Demons," Fox's "Night at the Museum 2" and Warner Bros./Sony's "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins." Sony is handling the overseas release of "Terminator," which starts a limited foreign run day-and-date with Warners domestic release May 22, then goes wide in June.


And May 2010 is beginning to shape up. Already penciled in are the next "Chronicles of Narnia" movie and "Iron Man 2."



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Sunday 22 June 2008

Radiohead producer to work on 'The Mighty Boosh' album

Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich is in line to produce the forthcoming album by 'The Mighty Boosh' comedy duo.

Saturday 14 June 2008

Louis Clark

Louis Clark   
Artist: Louis Clark

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   Classical: Neo-Classical
   



Discography:


Hooked On Classics 4: Baroque   
 Hooked On Classics 4: Baroque

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8


The Hooked On Classics Collection   
 The Hooked On Classics Collection

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 8


Hooked On Classics 3   
 Hooked On Classics 3

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 12


Hooked On Classics 2   
 Hooked On Classics 2

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 9


Hooked On Classics   
 Hooked On Classics

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 9




 





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Monday 26 May 2008

Bands reduce carbon footprints - but their fans' cars pollute

From its sci-fi, dystopian-themed music to its 2007 pay-what-you-want Internet album release, Radiohead has always been a forward-thinking band. Still, it’s surprising to discover the English quintet commissioned a carbon footprint analysis of its previous two U.S. tours.
The conclusion: it is fans, not bands, that are killing Mother Earth. The report found concertgoers commuting to and from shows accounted for the majority of CO2 generated during each tour.
“We can recycle, we can convert every tour bus to biodiesel, but this is what we really have to tackle,” said Brian Allenby of Maine-based Reverb, an organization founded by Guster guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner and wife Lauren Sullivan to help artists “green” their tours. “Seventy to 80 percent of the CO2 footprint of a show is fans driving to and from the show. Especially at rural venues like the Tweeter Center.”



Following the report’s recommendations, Radiohead is encouraging fans to take public transportation. But the band is playing Aug. 13 in Mansfield at the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, the Boston-area venue least accessible by mass transit.
There are other options. Reverb and PickupPal.com are working with the Dave Matthews Band (performing June 24 and 25 at Tweeter) on an online carpooling network. DMB fans can connect at concerts.pickuppal.com/DMB.
Reverb’s other Tweeter shows - John Mayer (July 12), Maroon 5/Counting Crows (Aug. 2) and Jack Johnson (Aug. 6) - will offer eco-villages selling carbon offsets for drivers and prizes for carpoolers.
Live Nation, which runs the Tweeter Center, knows the onus shouldn’t be entirely on fans and bands. As part of its “Green Nation” program, Tweeter has switched to reusable catering cutlery, bulk water, CFL lightbulbs and low-flow showerheads, and expanded its recycling and composting while moving from chemical pesticides and fertilizer to organic alternatives.
“We’re constantly updating and perfecting,” said Tweeter operations administrator Audrey Butler. “And we’ve brainstormed how to deal with the big problem of not being near mass transportation.”
Under consideration are more carpooling rewards - there’s already a special easy in-and-out lot for carpoolers - and a carbon offset customers can add to tickets purchased online.
Still, Saturday’s T-and-foot-accessible EarthFest trumps anything Live Nation, Radiohead or Reverb have cooked up. Radio 92.9-FM’s annual free rock ’n’ roll celebration of green at the Hatch Shell - this year featuring Cake, Cracker, the BoDeans and English Beat - has spent a decade-plus shrinking its carbon footprint creatively. A daytime show (which means a lot less electricity used), it has compost buckets, a bike valet program (you ride it, they park it) and biodiesel generators.
Now all we have to do is get the Radiohead guys to practice what they preach and play next year’s EarthFest. Or anywhere that’s T accessible. We’re not picky when it comes to free Radiohead shows.