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Scott Weiland announces solo tour

2008-09-07T18:22:00.001-07:00

Scott Weiland has announced a string of solo dates to support the release of his mo solo album, coming out November 18.

�??Happy In Galoshes�?? will be released via Softdrive Records, and was produced by Weiland and Doug Green, as well as a number of tracks produced by Steve Albini.

The dates are:

N. Kansas City, MO Voodoo Lounge @ Harrah's Casino (November 11)

Minneapolis, MN First Avenue (12)

Chicago, IL Cabaret Metro (14)

Detroit, IL St. Andrew's Hall (15)

Boston, MA Wilbur Theatre (17)

New York, NY Fillmore @ Irving Plaza (18)

Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts (21)

Washington DC Lincoln Theatre (22)

Norfolk, VA The Norva (23)

Atlanta, GA Centerstage (25)

Houston, TX Wherehouse Live (28)

Dallas, TX Granada Theatre (29)

Denver, CO Gothic Theatre (December 1)

San Francisco, CA Grand Ballroom (4)

--By our New York staff.
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Radiohead Still Oddly Silent Over Beefs With Hold Steady and Silver Jews

2008-08-29T18:01:00.001-07:00

Photo: WireImage, Getty Images, Chris McKay / Retna

On Sunday, bespectacled, cirrhosis-livered Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler set off a music-blog firestorm by brutally slagging off Radiohead during an interview with BBC's Radio 6. "I think they've lost the plot," he said. "I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don't really care for. I'm a fan of rock music, and what they're doing now I don't think is very good." But Kubler wasn't the only boozy indie-rock titan to weigh in with a negative opinion of Radiohead this week! On Monday, Silver Jews leader David Berman told Pitchfork, "You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and tell me what they're saying, and all you'll get over and over again is things are miserable, don't try, things suck � Never before has there been a 'greatest band in the world' who had so little to say about anything."

The list of things Radiohead have nothing to say about evidently includes the Hold Steady and Silver Jews, as neither Thom Yorke nor any of the various Greenwoods have responded to either attack. There's currently no mention of any beef on the band's official blog and a search on Hype Machine indicates that no dis tracks have yet been recorded. Are they simply too big for this? Or are they holed up in Oxford right now putting the finishing on a Nigel Godrich�produced ironic cover of "Chips Ahoy!"? God, we hope so. Come on, guys, it's the slowest news week of the year!

Steady vs Radiohead [BBC]
Interview: Silver Jews [Pitchfork]

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Bow Wow Films Sex Scene With Porn Star For Entourage

2008-08-09T18:03:00.001-07:00

Rapper/actor BOW WOW is set to raise temperatures after denudation off to shoot a sex scene with an adult film star as part of his raw role on TV serial ENTOURAGE.

The hip-hop star, real discover Shad Moss, has landed a parting as a stand-up comedian on the hit U.S. show.

He is convinced his female admirers will love the steamy scenes - only he confesses he can't even recall his sonsie co-star's make.

He tells MTV.com, "I know the girls, they're going to go wild when they see it. The ladies are gonna go crazy when they see Bow Wow's first base sex scene...

"It was with a porn headliner. I don't know her name. She probably watching this wish, 'What? I did a scene with him, and he doesn't remember my name?' Nah, I don't think back her name, but she was defective though. She was baaaaad!"

And the 21-year-old had no problems shedding his clothes to bed the porn superstar - because the scene wasn't also different from his own bedroom antics.

He adds, "I was cool. I was comfortable with it. I was definitely comfortable with it. It is what it is - normal stuff that happens. It's crazy 'cause for me, it was normal. It was normal, merely I know when I look back at it, when I see it, I'm gonna be like, 'Damn! Look at this. This is crazy!' I stun myself sometimes, I can't even front (pretend)."

The fifth season of Entourage debuts in the U.S. in September (08).

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CBS Films takes scribe's 'Seminar'

2008-07-01T17:37:00.000-07:00

Story of parents who mess with kid's minds

Anyone can merely ground a troublemaking kid -- but it takes macabre ingenuity to hire people to literally screw with his mind.

CBS Films has pre-emptively purchased Richard D'Ovidio's spec screenplay "The Seminar" in a low- to mid-six-figure deal.

The script combines elements of "Disturbia" and "The Game" to tell the story of an 18-year-old whose parents engage a mysterious consulting firm to mess with his reality.

Production executive Mark Ross brought the project into CBS.

D'Ovidio is repped by ICM and Media Talent Group.

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Tesla

2008-06-23T06:46:00.001-07:00

Artist: Tesla

   Genre(s):
Metal
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock
   Metal: Heavy

Discography:


Real to Reel

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 13


Into The Now

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 12


Standing Room Only

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 13


Time's Makin' Changes: The Best Of

   Year: 1995
Tracks: 15


Bust A Nut

   Year: 1994
Tracks: 14


Bonus and Unreleased

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 15


Five Man Acoustical Jam

   Year: 1990
Tracks: 14


The Great Radio Controversy

   Year: 1989
Tracks: 13


Mechanical Resonance

   Year: 1986
Tracks: 12


RePlugged Live (CD 2)

   Year:
Tracks: 10


RePlugged Live (CD 1)

   Year:
Tracks: 10

Although Tesla emerged during the glorification days of haircloth metal, they ne'er totally fit the spirit of the times. Their music was well-produced pop-metal, to be certain, simply they never indulged in the glammed-up excess that made cartoons out of many of their peers. Instead, Tesla's music was bluesy, no-frills, '70s-style hard careen; it concentrated more on solid musicianship than tremendous, arena-ready choruses (or hairdos), and it had a noticeable guts -- not so much the urban tat of Guns N' Roses, merely a grounded attitude and a true affectionateness for old school intemperate tilt. Despite their refreshful want of posturing, Tesla was scarce as hard-hit as the rest of the pop-metal populace when grease wiped out classic-style hard rock music, simply they did produce one of the more healthy bodies of put to work of the geological era.

Tesla was formed in Sacramento, CA, in 1985, out of an sooner, locally popular mathematical group called City Kidd which dated back to 1982. Tesla's card featured singer Jeff Keith, the underrated guitar tandem of Frank Hannon and Tommy Skeoch, bassist Brian Wheat, and drummer Troy Luccketta. At management's suggestion, the band named itself subsequently the character discoverer Nikola Tesla, world Health Organization pioneered the radio set only was given only late credit entry for doing so. After playing various showcases in Los Angeles, Tesla quickly scored a handle with Geffen and released their debut album, Mechanical Resonance, in 1986; it produced a minor hard rock 'n' roll impinge on in "Modern Day Cowboy," reached the Top 40 on the album charts, and finally went platinum. However, it was the follow-up, 1989's The Great Radio Controversy, that unfeignedly stony-broke the band. The first single, "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)," was another hit with intemperate rock audiences, stage setting the phase for the second single, a warm, comforting ballad called "Dearest Song" which substituted a dash of hipster utopianism for the common power ballad histrionics. "Erotic love Song" hit the bug out Top Ten and made the band stars, push The Great Radio Controversy into the Top 20 and double-platinum gross revenue figures; the follow-up single, "The Way It Is," was as well something of a hit.

In retention with their unpretentious, blue-collar roots, Tesla responded to stardom not by aping the glam theatrics of their tourmates, only by uncovering things grim. The idea behind 1990's Five-spot Man Acoustical Jam was virtually unheard of -- a pop-metal band playing loose, informal acoustic versions of their best-known songs in concert, summation a few favorite covers ('60s classics by the Beatles, Stones, CCR, and others). Fortunately, Tesla's music was inflexible enough to hold up when its roots were exposed, and one of the covers -- "Signs," an rarefied bit of hippy outrage by the Five Man Electrical Band -- became another Top Ten hit, as well as the band's highest-charting single. Not only did Basketball team Man Acoustical Jam hit the Top 20 and go pt, but it likewise helped directly inspire MTV's Unplugged series, both with its relaxed vibration and its monitor that acoustic medicine could sound vital and gumptious.

The studio apartment reexamination to The Great Radio Controversy, Psychotic person Supper, was released in 1991 and quickly became another platinum impinge on. It didn't grow whatsoever singles quite as successful as "Honey Song" or "Signs," but it did spin off the sterling figure of singles of whatsoever Tesla album: "Edison's Medicine," "Call It What You Want," "What You Give," "Song and Emotion." Perhaps that was partly because Tesla's workmanlike hard rock 'n' roll didn't good ludicrous if it was played on rock music wireless aboard the fresh crop of Seattle bands. But careless, the winds of change were blowing, and by the fourth dimension Tesla returned with their 1994 follow-up, Fall apart a Nut, those winds had blown pretty much whatever new blue-collar voiceless stone off the airwaves. Rupture a Nut did sell over 800,000 copies -- an exceedingly respectable exhibit, disposed the musical climate of 1994, and a testament to the fan fundament Tesla had managed to crop over the years. But all was non well inside the band. Tommy Skeoch had been battling an addiction to tranquilizers, and his problems worsened to the item where he was asked to leave the band in 1995.

Tesla attempted to continue as a quartette for a clip, but the chemistry had been irreparably neutered, and they stone-broke up in 1996. Most of the bandmembers began playacting with littler outfits, none of which stirred beyond a local layer. When Skeoch's health improved, the banding arranged a modest reunion in 2000, which quickly became full-fledged. In the fall of 2001, the mathematical group released a two-disc live album, Replugged Live, which authenticated their reunion hitch. Into the Now, which was co-produced by Michael Rosen (Will, AFI), appeared in March 2004. A collection of '70s covers called Real to Reel arrived in 2007.

Akimbo

2008-06-16T17:06:00.001-07:00

Artist: Akimbo

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Jazz

Discography:


City of the Stars

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 9


Forging Steel and Laying Stone

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 12


Elephantine

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 10


On Top

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Izzy Stradlin

Ash Can't, Um, Bump Mariah, Leona or Conchords

2008-06-04T10:00:00.000-07:00

A high-profile engagement, endless speculation about major uterine developments and plenty of face time on TV and magazines couldn't put Ashlee Simpson over the top.
As it were,...

Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles

2008-05-29T00:23:00.001-07:00

'High School Musical' star Zac Efron is set to star in Richard Linklater's next film 'Me and Orson Welles'.
Based on a novel by Robert Kaplow, the film is set in 1937. The director of 'A Scanner Darkly' has cast the pre-teen idol as a student living in New York, who strolls into the legendary Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles.
Once there he gets cast in Welles' production of 'Julius Caesar' and spends a week learning from the legend.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Christian McKay has been cast as Welles, with Ben Chaplain set to play the actor George Coulouris.

More Acts Announced For CMAs

2008-05-09T22:23:00.000-07:00

More Acts Announced For CMAs

Kellie Pickler, Toby fillpot jug Keith [ tickets ] and LeAnn Rimes [ tickets ] are scheduled to perform Crataegus oxycantha 18 at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. To boot, Kenny Chesney and George Pass are scheduled to do a survive duet, according to a press release. Chesney, Straight and Pickler ar among the evening's nominees.Other artists scheduled to come out include Clint Black, Trace Adkins, Garth Van Wyck Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley, Rapscallion Flatts, Keith Urban, Sara Arthur Evans, Jewel, Carrie Underbrush, Clay Walker and Trisha Yearwood. Reba McEntire volition boniface the event for the 10th time.The ceremony observance land music's summit endowment will air know from the MGM Grand Garden Field in Las Vegas on CBS TV.

Halle Berry to play Caucasian racist in new film

2008-05-08T20:57:00.001-07:00

Halle Berry to play Caucasian racist in new film

Academy Award winner Halle-an-der-Saale Berry is set for her well-nigh harrowing cinema persona to date - she’ll play a Caucasian language racialist in FRANKIE + ALICE.
The actress volition portray a black woman struggling with a multiple personality disorder in the psychological dramatic play - and her alter ego is a racist, according to Daily Change.

Mutya Buena

2008-05-08T20:38:00.001-07:00

Artist: Mutya Buena

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Real Girl

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Mutya Buena has been an international star topology since the eld of 15, when she enjoyed her number one impinge on with the British pop free radical Sugababes, just it wasn't until 2007 that she stepped come out on her possess as a solo artist. Born in London's Kingsbury dominion on Crataegus laevigata 21, 1985, Genus Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena was brocaded in a multicultural company (her female person parent is of Irish decline piece her father is from the Philippines), and she highly-developed an interestingness in music at an early historic menstruum. When she was eight historic period old, Buena met Keisha Buchanan and they became fast friends world Health Organization divided up a love for peach. In 1998, Buena and President Buchanan were 13 and interested in putt together a vocalizing grouping when they met a carriage public Health Administration paired them up with beau vocalizer Siobhan Donaghy. The freshly common chord was named Sugababes, and their first class honours degree level record album, Unitary Contact, was released in 2000, with the ace "Clog" reaching the British Top Ten. While the chemical group parted ways with its British record label subsequently Single Refer failed to spinning top the charts and Heidi Reach replaced Donaghy in the group's batting order, Sugababes' minute album, Angels with Dirty Faces, became a blare, release triple atomic number 78 and marking quatern hit singles in the U.K., including two tunes that went to phone number unitary, "Monstrosity Like Me" and "Troll Round." Sugababes enjoyed similar succeeder with their one-third platter album, 2003's Trey, only 2005's Taller in More Shipway proven to be Buena's wander vocal with the triad; she gave nativity to a girl, Tahlia-Maya Buena, in March 2005, and in December 2005 she resigned from the group to use more clipping with her baby. The radical wasted no time hiring a replacement, Amelle Berrabah, wHO re-recorded Buena's vocal music parts for a 1 freeing of "Red Dress" from Taller in More Ways. In 2006, Buena began posting demos of freshly substantial on her MySpace page, and enjoyed a hit bingle with George V Michael, "This Is Not Real Honey," as well as tributary node vocals to Vallecula Armada's record album Soundboy Stone. In June 2007, Buena released her highly awaited solo debut, Real Miss.

Spiderman's marriage over in plot twist

2008-05-08T19:58:00.001-07:00

Spiderman's marriage over in plot twist

For the last 21 years Marvel Comics get written about Spiderman and his wife, Virgin Mary Jane John Broadus Watson, merely not any more.
In a adjure to confront the dilemma of how to give up the superhero to age gracefully, and also acquire the attention of younger readers, writers felt it would be easier if he wasn't married.
In a secret plan twist that has enraged more or less fans, Spiderman has had his stallion computer memory of his union erased.
St. Peter Charlie Parker AKA Spiderman has been spinning webs and rescue lives for o'er 40 eld. The comic word of God character-come-superbrand was first gear created in the 1960s and was married in the 1980s but is now single again.
The move is non the first base prison term writers have resorted to such a twirl, and then received a recoil.
Fans of the eighties American TV drama 'Dallas' power saw Bobby Ewing return after a carnage of characters turned out to be a dreaming.

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LiveDaily News Break, May 6: Stone Temple Pilots, Spoon, Aimee Mann and more

2008-05-08T19:23:00.001-07:00

LiveDaily News Break, May 6: Stone Temple Pilots, Spoon, Aimee Mann and more

Today's edition features newsworthiness and tour information about Stone Temple Pilots [ tickets ], Spoon [ tickets ], Aimee Mann [ tickets ], and Nine-spot Inch Nails [ tickets ]. We'll likewise list off just about of this week�s newly record album releases.* * *Stone Temple Pilots ar about to embark on a reunion enlistment that launches Whitethorn 17, and experience added more dates to the jaunt. The upcoming run, which will be the band's first in nigh six-spot age, is scheduled to touch devour in nearly 50 cities. * * *Spoon will cap away more than a year of touring behind last year�s �Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga� with a smattering of shows passim the summer months. The final leg of the year begins with a June 13 appearance at the PetAid benefit in Troutdale, OR and wraps up with a three-night stand in San Francisco beginning Sept. 22.* * *Aimee Thomas Mann has about doubled her North American duty tour beforehand of her forthcoming album, �Smilers.� The run kicks on away June 2 in Los Angeles and the travel guidebook stretches into early Sep.* * *Just weeks afterwards surprising fans with a four-album instrumental set, Nine Inch Nails mastermind River Trent Reznor has unveiled a new studio record album with vocals--and has upped the ante by giving it forth for discharge. Titled "The Slip," the collection--which comprises 11 tracks that clock in at a tally of nigh 45 minutes--is available at 9 Column inch Nails' internet site, NIN.com.* * * Hit store shelves today ar Neil Rhombus [ tickets ]�s �Home Before Dark,� Clay Aiken�s �On My Means Here,� Tim John Joseph McGraw [ tickets ]�s �Tim John McGraw Collector�s Variation,� Toby fillpot jug Keith [ tickets ]�s �35 Biggest Hits,� and Back breaker Costello and the Imposters� �Momofuku.�

Xavier

2008-05-08T17:43:00.001-07:00

Artist: Xavier

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Give Me The Night - Sunrise In Tokyo

Year: 2004
Tracks: 3

Saint Francis Xavier Dphrepaulezz, the baby of the number one Somali ambassador to the United Nations, was raised in Oakland as a exacting Sunni Muslim. Xavier's life as a nipper centered around prayer, and the only if when music he was officially allowed to hear to was Arthur Arthur Fiedler. All the same, Saint Francis Xavier establish to a greater extent of an chemical attraction with R&B, in particular Sly and the Folk Stone and James Brown, formerly he was exposed to it through Oakland's street civilisation. His newfound sexual love light-emitting diode his church Father to kick back him come out of the closet of the theater of operations, just Saint Francis Xavier was able to support himself piece honing his musical talents. Patch only 25, he played wholly the instruments on his 1995 debut record album, The X Cistron.