The Wounded & other: June 2008

Monday, 30 June 2008

Eddie Vinson and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Artist: Eddie Vinson and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Cleanhead and Cannonball

Year: 1988
Tracks: 12

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Kelly Rowland Taking Charity African HIV Test

R&B singer Kelly Rowland will undergo a HIV and Aids test in Africa to raise awareness of the deadly diseases - in a bid to try and dissolve the stigma surrounding the illnesses.
The former Destiny's Child star decided to visit Nairobi to encourage the country's young people to get tested for the illness, which is rife in the Kenyan capital.
Rowland is an ambassador for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, which aims to reduce discrimination against HIV and Aids victims, and has visited projects in Tanzania and Kenya to promote the charity.
She says, "Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to HIV infection, and it is important for everyone to know their HIV status.
"The quicker you know your status, the sooner you can receive treatment if you're HIV+, and reduce the risk of inadvertently infecting future partners."

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Big names lined up for Galway Arts Festival

Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell, Des Bishop, Blondie, KT Tunstall and 'Frasier' star John Mahoney are just some of the big names confirmed to showcase their work at this year's Galway Arts Festival.
The Festival, which takes place over 14-27 July, will feature over 400 writers, artists, performers and musicians from Australia, Africa, Europe, North America and Ireland.
The festival will feature dance, theatre, visual art and music, as well as a variety of other art forms.
Three-time Oscar nominated composer Philip Glass will prove one of the big sellers at the event, as he brings his 'Philip Glass Ensemble' to St Nicholas' Collegiate Church on Tuesday 15 July.
Glass was nominated for Academy Awards for 'Kundon' (1997); 'The Hours' (2002); and 'Notes on a Scandal' (2006). He has also worked with Woody Allen, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen.
Other musical highlights include Blondie, KT Tunstall, Ash, Tom Baxter, The Dandy Warhols and Tinariwen, all of whom will perform at the specially erected 'Festival Big Top'.
Richard Hawley, The Blue Nile, Alabama 3, Nouvelle Vague, Damien Dempsey, Cathy Davey, Dave Geraghty and Lisa Hannigan will also perform in various venues throughout Galway.
Joni Mitchell, best known as a musician, is also a visual artist and she will showcase a body of new work entitled 'Green Flag Song', dealing with the consequences of war, at the festival.
In theatre, Chicago's Northlight Theatre Company will stage the European premiere of Larry Gelbart and Craig Wright's new comedy 'Better Late', starring 'Frasier' star John Mahoney.
New theatre from Ireland includes Druid's Enda Walsh Season, which will feature Walsh's new play 'The New Electric Ballroom', starring Rosaleen Linehan, Mikel Murfi, Catherine Walsh and Val Lilley.
Comedians Ed Byrne, David O'Doherty, Des Bishop and Steve Hall, will perform while literary events include theatre critic Michael Billington in conversation with Vincent Woods, and readings with The Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent Christina Lamb; US writer Dan Kennedy, and punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

Saturday, 21 June 2008

Deborah Coleman

Artist: Deborah Coleman

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Blues

Discography:

What About Love?

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

Exile On Blues Street

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Soul be it!

Year: 2002
Tracks: 8

Livin' on Love

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Soft Place to Fall

Year: 2000
Tracks: 11

Where Blue Begins

Year: 1998
Tracks: 11

Although she's a herculean vapours guitarist, songster and vocalist, Deborah Coleman got her first inspiration from an improbable station: beholding the pop chemical group the Monkees on TV. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in a military syndicate, Coleman took to music easy enough, since her pappa played piano, two brothers played guitar, and a sister played guitar and keyboards. She picked up the guitar at years octad after beholding the Monkees and began to play professionally at 15, playing bass part with a series of Portsmouth-area R&B and rock candy bands. She afterwards switched to guitar afterwards audience Jimi Hendrix, too taking to James Brown and the Beatles. Coleman began buying records by blues-rock groups like Cream and Led Zeppelin, and easy followed the music's origins back to basic blues. When she was 25, she got married and focussed on raising her girl piece working day jobs as a nurse and lineman. After her daughter grew old enough to depart place unequalled, Coleman began to play out again, topically at number one. In 1985, she began working with an all-female grouping, Moxxie. When that group tear up in 1988, she got her blues chops together as component of an R&B triad. After iI geezerhood of touring with the trio, Coleman did some woodshedding, sightedness as many blues acts as she could live and perusal megrims recordings. Coleman got the break she was looking for for in 1993 when she entered the Charleston (S.C.) Blues Festival's National Talent Search. Leading her possess band, she took first station. She right away lay together her have touring grouping, the Thrillseekers, commencement a solo vocation as a bandleader. Coleman used her contest prize of release studio time to book a demonstration and insure a record contend with New Moon Records tabu of Chapel Hill, N.C. Her debut, Takin' A Stand, was released in 1995 on that label, and she followed it up two geezerhood later with I Can't Lose, her first album for Blind Pig. Coleman returned in 1998 with Where Blue Begins; Easygoing Place to Fall followed in the spring of 2000. She released her fifth part album for Blind Big Livin' on Love in 2001, further consolidating her position as one of the top active blueswomen. Making this designation passably official, Coleman south Korean won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female" in 2001. Also that year she was nominative for a W.C. Handy award for the fourth time. 2002's Soul Be It was her last platter for Blind Pig as 2004's What About Love? appeared on Coleman's new place, Telarc.

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Rhys Ifans - Pals Worried About Inconsolable Ifans

Welsh actor RHYS IFANS is reportedly struggling to cope after he was dumped by actress SIENNA MILLER - with friends worrying about his excessive binge drinking.

The Notting Hill star split from actress Miller earlier this month (Jun08) and has been spotted out in London on a string of lonely boozing sessions.

On Thursday (19Jun08), Ifans had to be calmed down by police after he lashed out at paparazzi after drinking until late at a London nightspot - reportedly trying to hit one snapper with a bottle.

And friends of the star are concerned about his current fragile state, with one source telling Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that the actor is "inconsolable".

The source says, "His life was anarchic already, but now he is going on all these hard-core benders and is inconsolable. He is going to the pub first thing in the morning.

"He is desperate to get her back and has been doing things to remind her how in love they are, such as bombarding her with their favourite Ella Fitzgerald and Edith Piaf CDs."

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Razorlight - Razorlight Drummer Auctions Kit For Charity

Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows is to celebrate the upcoming release of his solo album by auctioning a vintage drum kit for charity.
Burrows' debut offering The Colour of My Dreams is released on May 26th and on the day the album hits the shelves, the bidding on internet auction site eBay for the stickman's costly Ludwig kit will be closed.

The proceeds from the sale of the unique kit, which Burrows used while recording Razorlight's self-titled second album, will go to an appeal for a Winchester-based hospice for terminally ill children, called Naomi House.

Proceeds from the auction of the drum kit, as well as contributions from the sale of Burrow's album, will be used to build a specialised teenage wing of the hospice, to be named 'Jack's Place'.

The auction for the drum kit, which Burrows calls his "favourite of all time", goes live on eBay at 18:00 BST on Friday May 16th, closing on May 26th.

"We are really excited that Andy has decided to sell his drum kit on eBay," said a spokesman for the site.

"Not only will his video listing for the kit be an exclusive live performance by a member of one of the UK's most popular bands, but the auction is a unique opportunity for one fan to own a true one-off.

"With all proceeds going to such a worthy cause, we hope that it raises a large amount of money for Naomi House," the spokesman added.

Two days after the release of The Colour of My Dreams, Burrows will be joined at London's Union Chapel for a special performance of the album, with guest appearances from Razorlight bandmate Johnny Borrell, The Boy Least Likely To and Guillemots' Fyfe Dangerfield, while a "very special guest" will be in charge of event catering.

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Die Laughing

Artist: Die Laughing

   Genre(s):
Rock: Gothic
   Rock

Discography:

Heaven In Decline

Year: 1996
Tracks: 13

Glamour and Suicide

Year: 1996
Tracks: 7

BIG BROTHER: The Housemates Put Their Game Plans Into Effect!

This year's Big Brother is all about the game plan! Alex, Sylvia, Dennis and Dale are just a few of the housemates who seem to know exactly how they are going to manipulate the others to avoid eviction.

Sylvia has been moving between Jennifer, Dennis and Dale, sharing the fact that Alex thinks certain housemates have plans to form an alliance to get other contestants out.
It seems that Sylvia is more devious than Alex because at least everyone knows how Alex feels about every situation! Sylvia seems to be using information she gained from one friendship to form friendships with other housemates – perhaps in an attempt to minimize her nominations come Monday?

Dennis is a self-confessed game planner. He told Big Brother that he came into the house with the aim of being two-faced to everyone – but now he is in the house he doesn’t want to do this, he wants to be himself. Maybe this is a game plan in self? He is appealing to the audience – with all the two-faced behavior in the house he wants to assert that he is not involved.

And of course we can’t forget Dale – the boy who declared in his audition video that he wanted to sleep with as many girls as possible. Is his game plan to be the love interest of BB9? Everyone knows the public loves a ‘love story.’

Or is this just too cynical, a result of watching too much Big Brother? Maybe all the housemates are ‘just being themselves!’ We will have to watch and see...

Raw Artistic Soul Feat. Wunmi

Artist: Raw Artistic Soul Feat. Wunmi

   Genre(s):
House
   Other

Discography:

Oya O-Promo

Year: 2007
Tracks: 7

Oya O

Year:
Tracks: 7

Album Chart: Big debut for Usher's 'Here I Stand'

Dead Poetic

Artist: Dead Poetic

   Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative

Discography:

Vices

Year: 2006
Tracks: 14

New Medicines

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

Four Wall Blackmail

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

The Ohio four-piece Dead Poetic defines their possess punk style fitted for the new millennium. Brandon Rike (vocals), Zach Miles (guitar), Josh Shellabarger (drums), and Chad Shellabarger (bass) formed Dead Poetic in 1997 and institute themselves following the word of God inside their own hard rock presentation. Tooth & Nail took a liking to them in fall 2000 after the band played and pushed their list at the Cornerstone 2000 Festival. A year later, Dead Poetic struck a deal and landed studio time with Barry Poynter (the Juliana Theory, Furthermore) at Poynter Studio in Little Rock, AK. The fruit of those sessions resulted in Dead Poetic's debut record album, Four Wall Blackmail, in spring 2002. New Medicines appeared in 2004, after which the mathematical group fundamentally self-destructed. But Dead Poetic would before long be born-again with exclusively Rike and Miles carrying over. Rounding them out were drummer Jesse Sprinkle (erst of Demon Hunter, Poor Old Lu) and Beloved alums, guitar player Dusty Redmon and bassist John Brehm. Working with the production squad of Chino Moreno (the Deftones) and Aaron Sprinkle (Jesse's brother), the alternative rock-inspired Vices surfaced on Halloween 2006.

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Sasha Lazard

Artist: Sasha Lazard

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

The Myth Of Red

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

After graduating from Bennington College, Sasha Lazard started getting mired in the classical scene while attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. After vocalizing opera in San Francisco and New York's circuit, producer Anthony Vanger teamed up with her to put to work on a revolutionary project to combine opera arias and Russian folks superimposed over electronic music, especially drum'n'bass. While working along with Mark Kamins and Joey Moskowitz, a dissimilar side of electronica began emergent, fascinating classical followers and dance/club audiences at the same time.

Sasha Lazard contributed to the Japanese alive picture show Princess Mononoke with a birdcall composed by Hayaro Miyakazi, and her translation of "Ave Maria" was chosen to be region of Holy place Smoke's soundtrack.

In 2001, Higher Octave Music/Virgin Records gestural her up. The Myth of Red became her debut album, produced by Frank Fitzpatrick and co-produced by Mark Raskin and Dale Wardlaw.