Artist: Lutricia McNeal
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Rise
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Thursday 29 May 2008
Saturday 24 May 2008
Pink Floyd awarded Swedish Polar Music Prize
London (ANI): Legendary rock band Pink Floyd has been honoured with the 2008 Polar Music Prize in Sweden. The award, given each year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, is the country's biggest music prize, reports Scotsman. It was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA. According to the prize committee, Pink Floyd, founded in 1960s, had made a 'monumental contribution' to the development of popular culture. "They captured the mood and spirit of a whole generation," the committee added. Recently, it emerged that the British band are all set to reunite for a charity gig. Drummer Nick Mason confirmed the band's reunion and said that they just had to find the right cause to support. Pink Floyd fell out in the Eighties over who owned the band"s name.
Barrymore In Hit And Run Chase
Actress Drew Barrymore chased a hit and run motorist around Los Angeles after the reckless driver smashed into her car and sped off. The 50 First Dates star was driving in West Hollywood just before 12pm on Monday when she was rear-ended, reports Tmz.com. But instead of pulling over to exchange insurance details, the perpetrator made off - forcing brave Barrymore to take vigilante action. She eventually lost track of the vehicle, but she did at least commit the offending car's license plate number to memory - and pass on the information. Police are reportedly investigating the incident, but no arrests had been made as Wenn goes to press.See Also
Naomi Campbell steps out with convicted swindler at the Cannes Film Festival
Supermodel Naomi Campbell stepped out with a controversial new beau at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Wednesday� - her date was a convicted swindler.
The runway queen - who has an assault conviction to her name - arrived at the premiere of new movie Che with Christian Rocancourt, a fraudster who has spent five years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from investors.
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DoomVS
Artist: DoomVS
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Aeternum Vale
Year: 2006
Tracks: 6
Empire Of The Fallen (Demo)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Uneasy Lies the 'Prince' That Wears the Crown
Although a few box office analysts had predicted that The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian would gross as much as $100 million over the weekend and the general prediction was that it would do about $70-80 million, the film fell far short of those predictions. According to studio estimates, it opened with $56.6 million. It was the second week in a row that a big-budget film had failed to fulfill expectations -- although Prince Caspian did not match the disastrous performance of last week's Speed Racer, which opened with just $18.6 million. That film sold only $7.6 million in its second week and dropped to fourth place. Iron Man, which had held the top spot for the previous two weeks, dropped to second place with $31.2 million, as it crossed the $200-million mark to finish the weekend with $222.5 million. What Happens in Vegas slipped to third place with $13.9 million, to bring its domestic total to $40.3 million.
The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, $56.6 million; 2. Iron Man, $31.2 million; 3. What Happens in Vegas, $13.9 million; 4. Speed Racer, $7.6 million; 5. Baby Mama, $4.6 million; 6. Made of Honor, $4.5 million; 7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $2.5 million; 8. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, $1.8 million; 9. The Forbidden Kingdom, $1 million; 10. The Visitor, $687,000.
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Live: Dianne Reeves at UCLA Royce Hall
Dianne Reeves has a voice to die for -- crystalline and bell-like in her soaring soprano notes, warm and embracing in her middle range, dark and feline in her low chest tones, and always delivered with spot-on pitch accuracy.
The four-time Grammy Award winner's program at Royce Hall on Thursday night was a virtuosic display of all those qualities, combined with an improvisational adventurousness that has made her one of the signature jazz vocalists of her generation.
Virtuosity and intrepid improvising are best served, of course, on a jazz menu that also includes lyrical insights, dramatic pacing and an appreciation for the values of sounds and silences. And there were times when Reeves, backed by pianist Peter Martin, guitarist Peter Sprague, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, brought all those qualities together in impressive fashion.
Most of the material was drawn from her recently released CD, "When You Know," her first solo album in five years. The selections -- bossa nova numbers "Triste" and "Once I Loved," the standard "One for My Baby" and a cover of the Temptations' pop classic "Just My Imagination" -- underscored her eclectic taste and the range of her stylistic abilities.
Interestingly, however, the evening's most mesmerizing moment was Reeve's gripping, a cappella rendering of Duke Ellington's "I Like the Sunrise." Capturing every aspect of the song -- the poignancy of the lyrics, the airiness of the melody -- it was a stirring display of Reeve's potential for musical and interpretive mastery.
But that was not always true of other numbers.
Although Reeves was frequently at her storytelling best in her song introductions, her actual readings of songs sometimes tended to evolve in too-similar patterns, losing contact with the actual flow of the lyrics, while building to predictable emotional climaxes. In the process, the most intimate aspects of a lyric were lost in the rush.
Such lines, for example, as "Love is the saddest thing when it goes away" ("Once I Loved") and "The autumn leaves were turning to the color of his hair" ("Windmills of Your Mind") were sung with full-out intensity, rather than the held-breath emotional suspension they deserve.
Given the audience's enthusiastic response to Reeves' more ebullient moments, there wasn't a lot of encouragement to display the more subtle aspects of her inner Muse. And that's a shame, because at her best she has the skills, the talent and the imagination to function fully and impressively on both those levels.
The four-time Grammy Award winner's program at Royce Hall on Thursday night was a virtuosic display of all those qualities, combined with an improvisational adventurousness that has made her one of the signature jazz vocalists of her generation.
Virtuosity and intrepid improvising are best served, of course, on a jazz menu that also includes lyrical insights, dramatic pacing and an appreciation for the values of sounds and silences. And there were times when Reeves, backed by pianist Peter Martin, guitarist Peter Sprague, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, brought all those qualities together in impressive fashion.
Most of the material was drawn from her recently released CD, "When You Know," her first solo album in five years. The selections -- bossa nova numbers "Triste" and "Once I Loved," the standard "One for My Baby" and a cover of the Temptations' pop classic "Just My Imagination" -- underscored her eclectic taste and the range of her stylistic abilities.
Interestingly, however, the evening's most mesmerizing moment was Reeve's gripping, a cappella rendering of Duke Ellington's "I Like the Sunrise." Capturing every aspect of the song -- the poignancy of the lyrics, the airiness of the melody -- it was a stirring display of Reeve's potential for musical and interpretive mastery.
But that was not always true of other numbers.
Although Reeves was frequently at her storytelling best in her song introductions, her actual readings of songs sometimes tended to evolve in too-similar patterns, losing contact with the actual flow of the lyrics, while building to predictable emotional climaxes. In the process, the most intimate aspects of a lyric were lost in the rush.
Such lines, for example, as "Love is the saddest thing when it goes away" ("Once I Loved") and "The autumn leaves were turning to the color of his hair" ("Windmills of Your Mind") were sung with full-out intensity, rather than the held-breath emotional suspension they deserve.
Given the audience's enthusiastic response to Reeves' more ebullient moments, there wasn't a lot of encouragement to display the more subtle aspects of her inner Muse. And that's a shame, because at her best she has the skills, the talent and the imagination to function fully and impressively on both those levels.
Liz Hurley Wears Another Of THOSE Dresses
Liz Hurley turned mind’s back to THAT dress 14 years ago after wearing a cleavage bearing number at a party in London on Thursday night.
The revealing black number the former actress’ sported to the RD Crusaders’ party at Old Billingsgate Fish Market couldn’t help evoke fond memories of the infamous Versace dress which launched her into the public consciousness more than a decade ago.
That time, Hurley wore the headlining hitting dress alongside boyfriend Hugh Grant at the premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral.
This time mum Liz was accompanying her millionaire husband Aran Nayar, reports The Sun.
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