Artist: The New Aesthetic
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Fake Your Feelings
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Thursday, 12 June 2008
American Idol - Idol Pulls In Years Biggest Audience
Although the size of the audience for American Idol dipped significantly over
the season, Wednesday night's finale actually rose slightly from last year's. The
episode averaged 30.6 million viewers versus 29.5 million for the 2007 finale. Fox's
17.3 rating and 27 share was greater than the ratings for the three other networks combined
-- as was the network's rating for adults 18-49. The final half hour of Idol recorded
a 19.1/29, translating to 36.34 million viewers -- the biggest number for any regular
television episode of the year.
22/05/2008
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Friday, 6 June 2008
MTV Asia Awards heading to Malaysia
Jared Leto will host ceremony in August
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia is playing host to the MTV Asia Awards ceremony for the first time this year. The eighth edition of the annual show will be held at the 6,000-capacity Arena of Stars in Genting, northeast of Kuala Lumpur, on Aug. 2.
Hosting the event will be 30 Seconds to Mars vocalist/guitarist Jared Leto.
"It's an honor to be part of what I'm sure will be an exciting and unforgettable night in a magical and beautiful country," Leto said.
The annual MTV Asia Awards is broadcast to more than 291 million homes across Asia. Portions of this year's show will be broadcast on MTV channels worldwide, reaching 1 billion viewers in 162 countries, according to MTV.
"The MTV Asia Awards 2008 will set new benchmarks for the Asian music scene," said Amit Jain, executive vp and managing director of MTV Networks, Southeast Asia, China and India.
MTV will present 16 awards, nine for favorite artists from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, and seven awards in categories for international artists.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia is playing host to the MTV Asia Awards ceremony for the first time this year. The eighth edition of the annual show will be held at the 6,000-capacity Arena of Stars in Genting, northeast of Kuala Lumpur, on Aug. 2.
Hosting the event will be 30 Seconds to Mars vocalist/guitarist Jared Leto.
"It's an honor to be part of what I'm sure will be an exciting and unforgettable night in a magical and beautiful country," Leto said.
The annual MTV Asia Awards is broadcast to more than 291 million homes across Asia. Portions of this year's show will be broadcast on MTV channels worldwide, reaching 1 billion viewers in 162 countries, according to MTV.
"The MTV Asia Awards 2008 will set new benchmarks for the Asian music scene," said Amit Jain, executive vp and managing director of MTV Networks, Southeast Asia, China and India.
MTV will present 16 awards, nine for favorite artists from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, and seven awards in categories for international artists.
Friday, 30 May 2008
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
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
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
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.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Krust
Artist: Krust
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Krust Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Full Cycle (FCY070)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The cofounder of Bristol's Full Cycle crowd (with Roni Size, DJ Die and Suv), DJ Krust is much noted in the jungle resistance for his push-the-envelope productions both unparalleled and in collaboration with Size. Born in Bristol in 1968, Krust was raised on rap and began DJing in the mid-'80s at schools and small clubs around the surface area. His interests grew to include acidulous house and spout by the late '80s, and a stint in the group Fresh 4 landed Krust in the midsection of the charts, when "Wish on a Star" made number nine-spot in late 1989. Fresh 4 signed to Virgin, only never released another record, so Krust returned to DJing and casual production figure out (notably for Smith & Mighty with his brother Flynn, later of Flynn & Flora).
Afterwards get together at the 1990 Glastonbury Festival, DJ Krust and Roni Size soon began to produce tracks in concert, much in collaborationism with DJ Die and Suv. The kit recorded solo and in tandem for Bryan G and Jumpin' Jack Frost's V Records during the other '90s, but then in 1992 formed the Full Cycle label with coach Chris Warton. Along with its sister pronounce Dope Dragon, Full Cycle released several crucial singles and the 1995 pronounce retrospective Music Box, through an correspondence with Talkin' Loud Records. DJ Krust continued to track record for V and Full Cycle, and helped out on remixes for Goldie and fellow Bristol crowd More Rockers. Size's debut album New Forms -- with considerable production help oneself from Krust -- hit the music earth like a bomb in 1997, in the lead to Krust's possess major-label contract the following year (as Krust). His Polygram debut, True Stories, was followed in 1999 by Coded Language.
Bond
Friday, 18 April 2008
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