Artist: The 411
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
On My Knees
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Between The Sheets
Year:
Tracks: 12
Monday, 30 June 2008
The 411
Artist: The 411
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
On My Knees
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Between The Sheets
Year:
Tracks: 12
'Mini Me' sues TMZ.com over sex tape
Dwarf actor Verne Troyer, a star of The Love Guru, has sued celebrity website TMZ.com and other defendants seeking more than $20 million in damages over a sex tape he said was stolen and posted online.
Troyer, who played the diminutive character Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, is shown in the tape with former girlfriend Renae Shrider.
Also named in the lawsuit, which was filed in US District Court in Los Angeles, was producer Kevin Blatt, said to be a promoter of the 2004 sex tape featuring celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, and movie distribution company SugarDVD.
"The videotape was never intended by either plaintiff or his girlfriend to be shown to the public, and was always intended exclusively for plaintiff's own personal, private use," states the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
The tape was posted on TMZ on Wednesday, with a headline that included the words "avert your eyes".
Troyer, 39, is 2 feet, 8 inches tall.
He claims the tape was stolen, and accuses TMZ Productions Inc, which operates TMZ.com, of violating his privacy. His lawyers are seeking an injunction to have the tape removed from the internet and not otherwise distributed.
TMZ officials were not immediately available to comment.
The suit estimates expected profits from the video to be $20 million, and seeks all profits earned. Troyer claims that he only found out on Wednesday, when the video was posted at TMZ.com, that it was in the hands of the defendants.
In 2004, Troyer went to court to dispute a contention from model Genevieve Gowman - whose professional name was Genevieve Gallen - that the two were legally married that year.
Troyer has worked in Hollywood for more than a decade, getting his start as a stunt double for an infant in the film Baby's Day Out.
In The Love Guru, which stars Mike Myers, he plays an ice hockey coach.
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Sunday, 29 June 2008
Greg Ginn
Artist: Greg Ginn
Genre(s):
Indie
Rock
Discography:
Getting Even
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
Let It Burn (Because I Don't Live There Anymore)
Year:
Tracks: 13
Unquestionably, the most influential guitar player to emerge from the late-'70s/early-'80s U.S. hardcore/punk motion was Black Flag's Greg Ginn. Never afraid to comprise other musical styles into this acting (videlicet malarky fusion and Black Sabbath-y dense metal) as well as squeaky feedback from his amplifier, Ginn's playing also served as a major ingredient to the Black Flag level-headed as he was the only original member to remain in the group from its formation until its demise. Influenced equally by the Grateful Dead and the Stooges, Ginn formed Black Flag in 1977, only the grouping didn't truly start out to make a name for itself until Ginn set up patronise in Hermosa Beach, CA, in early 1979, where he began running an electronics furnish stage business. It was during this meter that the musical phrase "SST" was coined (an abbreviation for Solid State Transmitter), which would eventually be used for the call of Black Flag's record label. Although members came and went at a steady charge per unit (including singers Keith Morris, Ron Reyes, and Dez Cadena), Black Flag prevailed, edifice a magnanimous and loyal undermentioned on the lastingness of their explosive live render, EPs/singles (including such classics as Nervous Breakdown and Covetous Again), and an appearance in the cult classical L.A. goon objective The Decline of Western Civilization. Ginn also began to favor a Plexiglas "Dan Armstrong" guitar, which would soon become a earmark of sorts for both him and the dance band (scorn eventually becoming covered with black tape). Black Flag began to make a countrywide shock when big time Flag winnow Henry Rollins signed on as the group's quartern vocalizer, which resulted in the group's first-ever full-length album, 1981's Damaged, considered by many as one of the greatest hardcore albums of all clock time. Although legal tape would prevent Black Flag from issuing a follow-up as speedily as they would have liked (which included Ginn organism sent to poky for v days), the dance band returned more fierce then always, with such releases as My War and In My Head, among others. Black Flag also managed to issue a completely instrumental press release, Litigate of Weeding Out, which elysian Ginn to launch his own instrumental project, Gone, resulting in a partner off of releases around this time as well, Let's Get Real, Real Gone for a Change and Gone II - But Never Too Gone. Additionally, Ginn launched another side project about this time, October Faction, which included contributions from many other SST artists. Black Flag skint up after a last U.S. duty tour in 1986, and while many fictitious that Ginn would plainly play with Gone full-time, he distinct to focus on book party work, forming an all new judge, Cruz, spell running the Minutemen's former tag, New Alliance, as well as SST. The early '90s saw Ginn return from his exile as he began issuing solo albums, including such titles as Acquiring Even, Payday, Pecker, and Let It Burn, as well as amazingly relaunching Gone. Ginn has also performed aboard other acts of the Apostles (Mojack, Hor, Killer Tweaker Bees, etc.), shortly operated a umber house, The Idea Room, and has been known to appear under an false name, Poindexter Stewart, on his have radio receiver program, Screw Radio. In 2003, Ginn put together a new version of Black Flag (he and Cadena were the only recognizable name calling) to do benefit shows for several different Cat Rescues.
Silent Cry
The Zombies
Artist: The Zombies
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Odyssey and Oracle (Remastered)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 22
Bill Murray - Murray Heading For Messy Divorce
Actor BILL MURRAY has been hit with divorce papers from his wife of almost 11 years, who has reportedly blamed domestic abuse, drug addiction and infidelity for the breakdown of their marriage.
Jennifer Butler Murray filed papers for a legal separation in a Charleston, South Carolina family court on 12 May (08).
According to legal documents obtained by local newspaper the Charleston Post + Courier, Jennifer and the couple's four children moved out of the family home in 2006 as a result of the comedian's "adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behaviour, physical abuse, sexual addictions and frequent abandonment".
The court papers go on to claim that Murray "hit his wife in the face and then told her she was 'lucky he didn't kill her'".
Local reports state Jennifer has requested a restraining order against the Groundhog Day star to keep him away from her current home.
She has also ordered her lawyers to look into the couple's $7 million (GBP3.5 million) pre-nuptial agreement to determine whether it is still valid.
The pair married in July 1997 and have four sons together, ranging from seven to 15 years of age.
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Al Jarreau
Artist: Al Jarreau
Genre(s):
Jazz
Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz: Funk
Discography:
Accentuate the Positive
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
All I Got
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Tomorrow Today
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
The Best of Al Jarreau
Year: 1996
Tracks: 17
Tenderness
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Heaven and Earth
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
We Got By
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
This Time
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Look to the Rainbow (Live)
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Live in London
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
L Is for Lover
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Jarreau
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
High Crime
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Heart's Horizon
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Breakin' Away
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
All Fly Home
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Glow
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
The only vocalizer in history to net Grammy Awards in ternary different categories (jazz, pop, and R&B, severally), Al Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, WI, on March 12, 1940. The boy of a vicar, he earned his first playing receive singing in the christian church choir. After receiving his master's arcdegree in psychology, Jarreau chased a vocation as a social worker, but eventually he decided to relocate to Los Angeles and try his mitt in testify business, playing small clubs throughout the West Coast.
He recorded an LP in the mid-'60s, merely for the most part remained an unknown, not reentering the studio for some other ten. Upon signing to Reprise, Jarreau resurfaced in 1975 with We Got By, earning herald for his sophisticated brand of vocalese and victorious positive comparing to the likes of Billy Eckstine and Johnny Mathis. After 1976's Glow, Jarreau issued the undermentioned year's Look to the Rainbow, a two-disc live set that reached the Top 50 on the U.S. album charts. With 1981's Breakin' Away, he entered the Top Ten, marking a match of hits with "We're in This Love Together" and the title track. After recording 1986's L Is for Lover with manufacturer Nile Rodgers, Jarreau scored a strike with the theme to the popular television system computer programme Moonlighting, simply his mainstream pop success was on the wane, and subsequent efforts like 1992's Heaven and Earth and 1994's Tenderness establish greater success with grownup contemporaneous audiences.
A string of budget compilations and original albums hit the shelves at the end of the 10, only into the turn of the century his original output signal slowed downward. That was until he signed with the Verve/GRP tag in 1998 and reunited with manufacturer Tommy LiPuma. LiPuma had produced Jarreau's ostensible 1975 debut, We Got By, and the pairing seemed to invigorate Jarreau, world Health Organization went on to acquittance leash starring albums under LiPuma's direction, including 2000's Tomorrow Today, 2002's All I Got, and 2004's Stress the Positive. 2006's Givin' It Up, recorded with George Benson, was nominated for trinity Grammy Awards -- each one for a different song.
'Barcelona' spreads love with Woody Allen pic
Indie band Giulia y los Tellarini's song used in film
NEW YORK -- Like Woody Allen's new film, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," the song "Barcelona" by the band Giulia y los Tellarini is about what comes of chance meetings and subsequent love affairs, including one with the city itself.
"I equate Barcelona with love," said Giulia Tellarini, the singer of the little-known indie band whose song is featured in the film. Talking to reporters at May's Festival de Cannes, where the movie met with enthusiastic reviews, Allen called the track "perfect."
"Barcelona" can be heard in trailer for the film, due Sept. 5 in the U.S. and starring Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. In addition to "Barcelona," the soundtrack includes Giulia y Los Tellarinis' song "La Ley del Retiro."
The band's first album, "Eusebio," was released on iTunes in late May. Its music came to Allen's attention last year during filming, when the girlfriend of one of the band members left a CD with some of the group's songs on it at the director's hotel, the fashionable Hotel D'Arts.
"I didn't even know about it," recalled Tellarini, who was dubious when she checked the band's MySpace mail one day and found a message from someone in Allen's camp who was urgently trying to reach them. "I thought it was a joke. I didn't think that something like this could happen."
The band had similarly unexpected beginnings. Tellarini, 29, an accordion player, sound engineer and self-described "gypsy" from Northern Italy, met Alejandro Mazzoni, a musician from Buenos Aires who produces music for advertising and film at a studio in Barcelona.
Mazzoni and studio partners Maik Alemany and Jens Neumaier needed a female voice for a commercial and Tellarini, who had never sung into a microphone before, obliged. The four subsequently decided to record some music together, called in other musicians they knew, and within two weeks had written and recorded all of the tracks on the album.
"Our music is difficult to classify. It's got loads of influences," said Tellarini, noting her preference for traditional forms of popular song such as French chanson, tango, jazz and Latin boleros. "I think one of the main things about us is that we sing in different languages. We try and get inspired by the atmospheres of different countries."
"Barcelona," sung in Spanish, is a seductively bouncy tune with punchy brass and dark edges intoned by Tellarini's whispery vocals. The song reflects Guilia's on-and-off relationship with the city, written at a time when she was deciding between staying in Barcelona with Mazzoni or returning to Paris.
"Barcelona was expensive. There were too many people, I was confused," she said. "It wasn't the top point of my life."
Ultimately, Tellarini and Mazzoni moved to Berlin, where Tellarini finds it "cheap enough to be creative." But the couple plans to spend the summer in Barcelona with the rest of the band, where they'll play some shows to support the release of the album.
"We hope that people will appreciate the music -- not just the buzz it's getting because it's part of the film," Tellerani said.
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Have Not Sold US Home
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have quashed allegations that they have sold their mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Recent reports suggested the couple had offloaded the house they bought in January 2007, and have lived in while working with those left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
But Trevor Neilson, a spokesperson for the couple's charity the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, tells NOLA: "This rumour going around that they've sold or are selling their house in New Orleans is not true.
"It's just made up, as are a lot of things that are said about them."
Recent reports suggested the couple had offloaded the house they bought in January 2007, and have lived in while working with those left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
But Trevor Neilson, a spokesperson for the couple's charity the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, tells NOLA: "This rumour going around that they've sold or are selling their house in New Orleans is not true.
"It's just made up, as are a lot of things that are said about them."
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