Beyonce Knowles fuels pregnancy rumors & other: May 2008

Friday 30 May 2008

Teresa Berganza and Dalton Baldwin

Artist: Teresa Berganza and Dalton Baldwin

   Genre(s):
Classical

Discography:

Vocalise en forme habanera

Year: 1983
Tracks: 1

Chanson espagnole (Chants populaires, No.1)

Year: 1983
Tracks: 1

Tuesday 27 May 2008

Armin Van Buuren 'Imagine'

Armin Van Buuren's 3rd studio album is "Imagine"

Imagine is the hotly anticipated third artist album from Armin van Buuren, the world�s number 1 DJ, as voted by the public in DJ Mag�s prestigious DJ Top 100 poll. Testament to Armin�s ongoing transition from producer to fully-fledged artist, it�s the perfect amalgamation of beats and electronica with lush chords and songwriting.
As Armin explains on his website, the main inspiration for a lot of the tracks has come from the theme imagine.
�Imagine for me stands for the way I visualise music when I listen to it, and a lot of people have that same connection with music, especially trance which is so emotionally driven. Music is very personal for everybody, and what I've realised from my travels is that music transcends everything � the same music can touch people all over the world. You can�t judge someone else on their taste in music, and you can�t turn people onto music that isn�t for them - it�s just something that resonates with each individual. One of the beautiful things about being human is that we can imagine, create, and escape back into our imagination when we want to recall a feeling or invent something new��
There is no doubting that the trance genre�s universal appeal and Armin�s dedication to the music style have contributed to his massive global success (including a radio show that broadcasts over 40 FM stations as well as satellite and internet radio, with over 6 million listeners a week). His latest offering, Imagine, is the product of two years� work, with tracks recorded across 8 locations, from Washington to Holland, and LA to Ireland, and featuring a number of vocals, from the sublime tones of American Jennifer Rene to the rock-friendly sound of Liverpudlian Chris Jones on Going Wrong (released as a single and currently making a serious impact on the airwaves).

I tell all of the producers on Armada to do something they love, not just to produce what people expect, and this is what I�ve done with Imagine.�

�Some of the tracks are more melodic and chilled than past productions,� says Armin, �but the great thing about trance is the number of guises that it comes in. The intro track, Imagine, is an instrumental that takes in a number of different styles � orchestral elements, guitar, kickdrums � trance has been criticised for being stuck in one formula but if you look around that just isn�t the case. Trance DJs don�t just play one style of music and are often influenced by many different genres as well. For me, it can be everything from the lush chords and guitars of Pink Floyd to the song structures of the Beatles or the vocal sounds of Amy Winehouse!�
As well as vocals from the likes of Cathy Burton, Audrey Gallagher, Vera Ostrova of The Bluestorm, Sharon den Adel of rock band Within Temptation and more, the album features Armin�s brother on guitar on four of the tracks as well.
�It�s amazing how much we use the word �Imagine� in our daily language� says Armin. �I hope this album resonates in the same way, and everybody can find a piece of music or a lyric that means something to them. A lot of the tracks are about love � one of the ultimate triggers of emotion on all ends of the spectrum. I�ve loved putting them together, from sitting down to write them to arranging and recording them. I tell all of the producers on Armada to do something they love, not just to produce what people expect, and this is what I�ve done with Imagine.�

TRACKLIST:
1. Armin van Buuren - Imagine [9:27]
2. Armin van Buuren with DJ Shah feat. Chris Jones - Going Wrong [5:36]
3. Armin van Buuren feat. Jaren - Unforgiveable [8:04]
4. Armin van Buuren - Face To Face [7:29]
5. Armin van Buuren feat. Audrey Gallagher - Hold On To Me [7:16]
6. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel - In And Out Of Love [6:01]
7. Armin van Buuren feat. Jacqueline Govaert - Never Say Never [6:59]
8. Armin van Buuren feat. Cathy Burton - Rain [7:11]
9. Armin van Buuren feat. Vera Ostrova - What If [7:17]
10.Armin van Buuren feat. Jennifer Rene - Fine Without You [6:26]
11.Armin van Buuren - Intricacy [7:07]
Catch Armin on his �Armin Only� tour around Australia, with new dates being added!
Friday June 6th � Hordern Pavilion, SYDNEY � Tickets at www.ticketek.com.au
Saturday June 7th � NEW DATE! � Melbourne Park, MELBOURNE � www.ticketek.com.au
Sunday June 8th � Melbourne Park, MELBOURNE � SOLD OUT
Friday June 13th � Metro-City, PERTH � SOLD OUT
Saturday June 14th � Commerce Building, BRISBANE � Tickets at www.ticketek.com.au

U23D breaks box office records

'U23D', the first live-action movie ever shot, produced and exhibited in digital 3-D, has broken box office records in Ireland.
U2's concert film had the highest screen average (€11,192) of any film playing in Ireland last weekend and took in €89,538 from just eight cinema screens in its first three days.
Justin Marciano, Managing Director of Revolver Entertainment which is distributing the film in Ireland and the UK said: "This weekend's takings for the film prove that there is an enormous appetite for this kind of filmmaking."
He added: "We're eager to see how it grows in scope as more audiences experience this step forward in 3D technology."
Filmed in South America during U2's 'Vertigo Tour', 'U23D' was directed by Catherine Owens, U2's visual content director for more than 15 years, and Mark Pellington, who directed U2's 'One' video.
To read Steve Cummins' interview with Catherine Owens click here.
Watch the discussion on 'U23D' on 'The View' here.
For a chance to win a director-signed 'U23D' poster click here.

Can Niche Audience Make 'Sex And The City' A Hit?

Analysts are sharply divided over whether New Line's Sex and the City: The Movie will benefit from or be hurt by its avid female fan base, the Los Angeles Times observed today (Thursday). "It's easier to find $2-a-gallon gas than a straight man eager to see the movie," the Times commented. On the other hand, some thirtysomething women "are organizing ladies' night viewing parties" around the film. While some analysts are forecasting an opening weekend of around $40 million, others are predicting a figure of half that amount. A lot depends on whether younger women (the film is rated R, so the very young are excluded from screenings) join their elders at the multiplex, the Times suggested, noting that interest among that group is growing.

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Carlene Carter

Artist: Carlene Carter

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Country
   Country: Bluegrass

Discography:

Hindsight

Year: 1996
Tracks: 21

Little Acts of Treason

Year: 1995
Tracks: 14

Musical Shapes

Year: 1994
Tracks: 28

Little Love Letters

Year: 1993
Tracks: 14

I Fell in Love

Year: 1990
Tracks: 11

Carlene Carter has always straddled the line 'tween res publica and stone. Beginning her career as a rock singer in the mid-'70s, she became immersed in the new wave in the tardy '70s, earlier emerging as a new country singer in the former '80s, Throughout it all, her music has forever infused roots music -- whether country or rock & roll -- with a nervy, overstrung free energy.

Carlene is the girl of June Carter and Carl Smith, wHO divorced when their girl was just two. June would frequently take her girl on Carter Family tours, which meant that Carlene developed a musical pastime at an early eld. When she was 12, her female parent marital Johnny Cash. Following the marriage, Carlene and her half sister, Rosanne Cash, became backup singers in the Carter/Cash touring point.

At the long time of 15 she marital Joe Simpkins and had a baby; they were divorced within a few age. Carter enrolled in college as a piano major in her late teens, simply she never gradatory. At 19, she married Jack Routh and had some other child; they were divorced within two years.

In 1978, she distinct to follow up on a musical career, bearing to Los Angeles where she received a phonograph record contract with Warner Bros. Her debut album, Carlene Carter, was a stone & wheel disk recorded in London with Graham Parker's backup band, the Rumour. The following year, she released her indorsement album, Two Sides to Every Woman, which featured support from the Doobie Brothers. That same year she marital Nick Lowe, wHO was presently the co-leader of the new wave stone & roll revivification striation, Rockpile. Lowe helped Carter condition her melodic direction in the early '80s, and her third album -- the new wave-inflected country-rock record Musical Shapes (1980) -- showed the influence of Lowe, Rockpile, and Dave Edmunds. Although the album was critically acclaimed, it was a commercial failure. She followed Musical Shapes in 1981 with Gentle Nun, which continued to follow up on a young wave-country direction; care its predecessor, it was unheeded.

During the early '80s, Carter was close off from the commonwealth community because she was living in England with Lowe. After Gentle Nun, she stopped-up recording, choosing to do solo shows instead; she as well had a prima use in the theatrical production Pump Boys and Dinettes. Carter and Lowe's married couple collapsed in the mid-'80s and she returned to the States, where she became part of the touring Carter Family.

In 1989, she began working on a comeback book with Howie Epstein, the bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. That same year, she performed a yoke with Southern Pacific on the Top 40 hit "Time's Up." Reprise signed Carter in 1990 and she released her delinquent fifth record album, I Fell in Love, by and by that year. I Fell in Love soundless had john Rock influences, but it was a more straightforward country criminal record than her old albums, and country radio paid attention. The album became a hit and deuce singles, "I Fell in Love" and "Get on Back," climbed all the way to number trey. Little Love Letters, her 1993 follow-up (which was released on Giant Records), was evenly successful; its first-class honours degree unmarried, "Every Little Thing," was another number deuce-ace stumble. Little Acts of Treason, her 1995 album, wasn't as liberal a collide with as its deuce predecessors, simply it static enjoyed temper success on the country charts. A hits collection, Hindsight 20/20, appeared in the settle of 1996.

Anugama

Artist: Anugama

   Genre(s):
New Age
   Ambient

Discography:

Shamanic Dream, Vol. 2

Year: 2002
Tracks: 3

Environment 1

Year: 2002
Tracks: 2

Classic Fantasy

Year: 1998
Tracks: 9

Lightness Of Being

Year: 1997
Tracks: 13

Tantra

Year: 1996
Tracks: 2

Shamanic Dream

Year: 1995
Tracks: 2

Jungle Of Joy

Year: 1995
Tracks: 10

Healing

Year: 1995
Tracks: 6

Classic Fantasy II

Year: 1994
Tracks: 8

The Best Of Just Being Here

Year: 1991
Tracks: 7

Silent Joy

Year: 1989
Tracks: 7

Morning Breeze

Year: 1989
Tracks: 7

Open Sky

Year: 1988
Tracks: 10

Like The Ocean

Year: 1988
Tracks: 2

Floating Gently

Year: 1988
Tracks: 2

Exotic Dance

Year: 1988
Tracks: 3

Environment 2

Year: 1987
Tracks: 2

Shamanic Dream 2

Year:
Tracks: 3

Sampler 1

Year:
Tracks: 11

Classic Fantasy 2

Year:
Tracks: 8

By bringing together the exotic instrumentation of world music with a new age-style sense of self-exploration and a broad palette of ambient electronic sounds, Anugama garnered sufficiency of a little cult undermentioned to sustain a prolific, wordy calling. Though born in Cologne, Germany, where he number one developed his special involvement in music, Anugama's wonder took him to far and upstage lands. He spent his teens in Hamburg, where he played drums and worked in a music storage, before traveling to Asia in his mid-twenties for a life-changing five-year period. While in Asia, he highly-developed a potent interest in religious philosophies and meditation. These interests shortly crept into Anugama's music, which had expanded to contain his multicultural interests: the beats of African and Caribbean music, the rhythms of Hawaii, the meditations of India, and so on. Anugama began releasing one record album afterwards another throughout the '80s that explored his many interests, with him playacting all the instruments. Throughout the '90s, he didn't slow down his output, left as fertile as earlier, astonishing his fad next with his unlimited well of creativity.

New Weezer Album Coming Early

The release date of Weezer [ tickets ]'s sixth album has been pushed up from June 24 to June 3. The album, which will be the band's third self-titled CD, is being released a few weeks early due to popular demand and the intense reaction to the first single, "Pork and Beans," according to a statement on the band's website. However, some speculate it's being released three weeks early because several songs from the album have been leaked online, according to published reports.The standard and deluxe versions of "Weezer"--which is being referred to as "The Red Album" to differentiate it from the previous self-titled releases--can be pre-ordered at Apple's iTunes store. The deluxe version will initially be available in digital form only. The release date for the physical deluxe version has not been announced.The video for "Pork and Beans" is expected to surface in the coming weeks.