Superstar Nelly Hosts Las Vegas Celebrity Weekend Event at Red Rock Resort

Inviting just a few hundred lucky contest winners, fans and close friends, Derrty Entertainment/Universal Motown's superstar NELLY hosts a weekend-long event at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. The affair will preview Nelly's long awaited studio album Brass Knuckles.
The Las Vegas celebrity weekend takes place June 6th - 8th at the Red Rock Resort. Planned events include a VIP dinner, an evening of bowling inside Red Rock Lanes VIP bowling suite with radio contest winners, a press conference, an intimate live concert performance by Nelly inside Rocks Lounge, and an exclusive party at CHERRY nightclub.
News Image "Party People," the album's debut single featuring Fergie, and produced by Polow Da Don (Fergie, Ludacris, Usher), has bulleted into the Top 20 Rhythmic-Crossover radio format. The seethingly energized music video, directed by Marc Webb with signature imagery from the film musical Moulin Rouge, is in rotation on MTV and BET, and has generated over 2 million streams on youtube.com.
BRASS KNUCKLES, Nelly's first full album of new songs in four years is scheduled for release on August 19, 2008. On this fifth studio album, he's joined by top-notch producers and recording artists- Jermaine Dupri, Pharrell, Akon, Usher, T.I., Babyface, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, Ciara, Ashanti and the St. Lunatics.
The three-time Grammy winner and six-time Billboard Award winner has sold over 40 million copies worldwide of his four studio albums. His previous studio project, the unique double release Sweat and Suit, made Nelly the first solo artist in history to make simultaneous album chart entries at No. 1 and No. 2. He starred in the remake of The Longest Yard and was also executive producer of the hit soundtrack album.
Nelly is CEO of the label he founded, Derrty Entertainment, and has launched two successful clothing labels, Apple Bottoms (the No. 2 junior apparel line in the U.S.) and Vokal, as well as the all-natural energy drink Pimp Juice. He is a co-owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats as well as a noted philanthropist. He has founded two charitable organizations, Jes Us 4 Jackie and 4 Sho 4 Kids.
Red Rock Resort, named one of the world's best new hotels by Conde' Nast magazine's 2007 Hot List issue, is Las Vegas' hottest off-strip luxury resort located 10 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. The resort features more than 800 guest rooms and suites, a 25,000 square foot spa, CHERRY nightclub, nine restaurants, gaming, bowling, movies and live concerts. For more information, visit http://www.Rapweekly.com/www.redrocklasvegas.com

Plucking away the bells and whistles

Plucking away the bells and whistles

Operation WHO: Gunter HerbigWhere and when: Completely Saints Howick, Sat 7.30pm; St Matthew-in-the-City, Sun 1pmOn disk: Gunter Herbig, Hauturu (Manu 5016, through Ode Records)Gunter Herbig is a cosmopolitan cranny, born in Federative Republic of Brazil, growing up in Portuguese Republic and educated in Federal Republic of Germany. For the past 18 years, he has been based in Freshly Zealand, establishing himself as ace of our lead guitarists, non afraid to challenge and provoke his audiences.When Herbig tackles the Five-spot Preludes of Heitor Villa-Lobos, as he volition this Sabbatum and Dominicus, he warns that his versions ar not quite a the same as those you power pick up on recordings of the run. Herbig has returned to master copy manuscripts and taken on control panel Villa-Lobos' first, raw make."These versions give us a fresh sixth sense into a composer's way of intellection," Herbig explains. "You can see where Villa-Lobos started from and audiences can sense component part of the creative process."The Brazilian composer likewise turned up on his 2007 album Hauturu, a CD which Herbig idea "power be bought by a few ex-students and libraries"; as it happened, the disc's intriguing integrate of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bach and Freshly Seeland composer Whoremonger Rimmer has taken it to the elevation of Radio Fresh Seeland Concert's Classical music Chart for heptad weeks.




The guitarist is a garter of the local composer and he likes to premise fresh music with words when he plays it in concert. "It's a little number like organism a second hand elevator car salesman," he jests. "You've got a patch that could be difficult, only if you tell the audience something of its history and background, the mass will be more in all likelihood to listen to it with openness."There are Newly Sjaelland works included this weekend - David Farquhar's Prospero Dreaming and 4 Canzonas by Stephen Arnold Douglas Lilburn. "No special advocacy should be needed here," he says, "especially with the Lilburn. These are pin-up, melt, romantic pieces, non like the slimly harsher linguistic communication of the guitar music he wrote at the end of the 60s when he was turning to electronic music."Permission had to be sought from the Lilburn Trust to transcribe trey of the industrial plant. "It was the number one time anyone was allowed to mess with Lilburn's music," he says with a rebuff laugh. The trustees need non give birth worried. Non only did the composer cook a guitar transcription of the first Canzona, merely the rest could have been written with this instrument in judgment, and Herbig is just the adult male to do them justice Department.