Dizzee Rascal Tour Dates Announced For This Winter

Dizzee Rascal has proclaimed a series of new tour dates this Winter.

After landing a recent four-week stint as the UK number unrivaled single, with Dance Wiv Me - a collaborationism with producer Calvin Harris, the rapper will run eight shows during the month of November.

Dizzee starts his unexampled jaunt on the 1st in Sheffield and ends with a hometown demonstrate in London on the 22nd.

Tickets ar on cut-rate sale now - you can buy yours here

November Tour Dates:

1 - Sheffield Plug

2 - Liverpool Uni

15 - Glasgow ABC

17 - Norwich UEA

18 - Southampton Guildhall

19 - Leeds Academy

20 - Lincoln Engine

22 - London Forum

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Preservation Hall, Blind Boys to tour together

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Blind Boys of Alabama get booked an extensive co-headlining tour that kicks off Sept. 16 in Fort Collins, Colorado and continues intermittently until spring 2009.

These two stalwarts of American roots music have shared out some recent history. Preservation Hall appears on the Blind Boys' acclaimed "Down in New Orleans" CD, released in January. The Blind Boys have performed at Preservation Hall for a individual event, and the Preservation Hall circle joined the Blind Boys for a Tipitina's testify in April. That concert was filmed for a DVD due in early 2009.

Their marijuana cigarette "Down by the Riverside" tour includes stops at B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City on Sept. 23; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. on Sept. 28; the University of Alabama in Birmingham on Oct. 18; and the Majestic Theater in San Antonio, Texas on Nov. 22. No Louisiana dates ar scheduled.

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Amir Baghiri

   
Artist: Amir Baghiri

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Planet X

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9


   
 Seele Berlin Cd2 Remix Project

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 Seele Berlin Cd1 Silentes

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Ghazal

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Yalda

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 Dreamresources

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Rooms Cd3 Spaces In Between

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


   
 Rooms Cd2 Real Rooms

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 7


   
 Bluebox Collection Sleep Cd4

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


   
 Bluebox Collection Live Cd-2

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Winterscape

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Time

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


   
 Cages

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 8


   
 Autumn

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 9

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Amir Baghiri creates recondite, emotional, and religious soundscapes in his own studio -- Bluebox Recording, BMI -- in Lemgo, Germany. He is one of the electronic music community's prime Minister electro-tribal sound designers. He in the main augments his synths with tribal rhythms and ethnical

JB and Spice and Twisted Individua

   
Artist: JB and Spice and Twisted Individua

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 Back 2 Basics (B2B12088)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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The Strokes, Santogold And Gnarls Barkley Get Reviewed: Singled! Out

Richard Grey Feat Jonathan Ulysses

   
Artist: Richard Grey Feat Jonathan Ulysses

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Sundays at Space (FFS019) Vinyl

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2

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Marly

   
Artist: Marly

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 You Never Know

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 4

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Lily Allen Explains Her Drunken Behaviour At Awards Show

Lily Allen has taken to her blog to explain her drunken behaviour at the Glamour Awards which resulted in her being carried out of the event.

The 23-year old rocked up at the glitzy affair with bright pink hair and a controversial dress adorned with a decapitated animal print to collect the Editor’s Special Award.

Despite starting the night in high spirits, the Smile singer ended up inebriated she had to be carried to her car.

Writing on her MySpace blog, she explains: "Last time I wrote (sic) here, I was defending my honour and dignity, explaining my innocence and also outrage at the press for insinuating my behaviour (sunbathing topless while on holiday) was embarrassing.

"This time I'm putting my hands up, I got very drunk last night, too drunk. It's not cool getting that drunk, I feel awful..."

And, although she admits she had a good time, Allen also makes sure to warn others about the dangers of drinking: "Kids, drink responsibly or you'll end up looking like this, not pretty!

"Was quite fun though, from what I can remember."
If you've not yet witnessed photos of Lily's intoxicated state, see the embarrassing snaps here.

Kylie tells Britney to "reach out" for help

Pop singer Kylie Minogue has advised troubled star Britney Spears to "reach out" for whatever help she needs.
Speaking to The Sun, Australian singer Minogue said: "Who knows what is going on in her life? Britney isn't that young anymore. I think she will still come back but it's like she's taken an extended holiday."
She continued: "Whatever help she needs, she should reach out and get it. I wish someone would write a manual about fame because it's not easy."
The singer also said: "I'm always loath to say that because there are a lot more difficulties out there that people deal with every day - but when fame is handed to you, it is unique."
She added: "It's not to the same extreme, but I can remember having a mini-meltdown myself - and unless you've got good people around to support you, you've got a problem."

Rossmann

   
Artist: Rossmann

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Wellness Music

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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Floyd returns to cause a stir in Fair City

Radiohead back catalogue finally available on iTunes

Radiohead's seven studio albums are now available to download on iTunes.

The music is available to download alongside recent record 'In Rainbows', which appeared on the portal in January this year.

The Oxford band are one of the last big namers to have their tracks available through iTunes - The Beatles being the last remaining major British band whose music is not available through the service.

Radiohead had abstained from having their music on the music portal as they wanted fans to buy their albums whole - Apple make single tracks available to buy as well as complete albums.

The group however changed their minds after moving labels, from EMI to XL, when releasing 'In Rainbows', which 'officially' came out in January this year after beign available to download free from October 10, 2007.

Radiohead aren't the only band to quibble signing up to iTunes though.

Garth Brooks, who is just behind The Beatles in all-time US record sales, has refused to let his music become available on iTunes.

Much like Radiohead once thought, he believes fans should only be able to download full albums as that is how they were made to be heard.

He told BBC News: "We do albums, we have always done albums."

Brooks then added: "There are a number of issues that need to be addressed in the digital downloading world before we introduce our music to it."

Brooks is not alone though - AC/DC have stopped their material from appearing on iTunes - the band signed an exclusive deal with US mobile phone operator Verizon instead.




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Know Your South Asian Art

Courtesy of Christie's
As the euro-smug international art world continues to drop millions on chalet décor at this week's Art Basel in Switzerland, American collectors at the fair — and there are fewer than usual this year — have been talking excitedly about the bargain investment opportunities presented by a relatively untapped market: contemporary Indian art. Pegged as the next phenomenon to catch fire among international collectors, Indian art is also about to receive a prominent platform next Wednesday when work by the hottest artists goes on the block at Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art auction in London. For those whose grasp of the field doesn't extend beyond Anish Kapoor (who's based in London anyway), here's a quick primer on the heavies of Indian art.



Subodh Gupta
Born in 1964, Gupta is both one of the most recognizable and the most Pop-friendly artists to emerge from the vibrant New Delhi scene — and as a result one of the priciest. Sharing Kapoor's affinity for shiny surfaces, he's best known for building art out of the ubiquitous stainless-steel containers that Indians use for transporting food, either painting them, casting them, or, most striking, forming them into imposing sculptures like Very Hungry God, a gleaming cookware skull. At Christie's another such sculpture is expected to fetch up to $1 million, and a triptych painting of his already sold for that price on Basel's opening day.

Courtesy of Christie's
Atul Dodiya
A painter and multimedia artist based in Mumbai, Dodiya makes melancholy works that bring together imagery from India's past — Gandhi makes frequent cameo appearances — with the present, such as depicting the many-limbed Hindu goddess Durba as an airport metal detector. A member with Gupta of the so-called Bombay Boys, India's answer to the YBAs, Dodiya also forms one half of an estimable power couple with his wife, the artist Anju Dodiya.

Nalini Malani
One of India's most provocatively political artists, Malani draws on sources ranging from Lewis Carroll to Greek myths to address what she sees as political and intellectual stagnation in her country as well as India's hot-button nuclear program. One well-known 2003 work, Game Pieces, features an apocalyptic slideshow created by streaming light through rotating cylinders that display animal and human figures alternated with mushroom clouds.

Arpita Singh
A painter whose flattened and brightly colorful works suggest Matisse or Frida Kahlo gone Bollywood, Singh specializes in domestic scenes that provide an intimate glimpse of the interior lives of women, sometimes wryly, sometimes to tragic effect. Her enigmatic yet accessible oils, often featuring Giottoesque floating figures and scattered toys, have made her one of the most widely known artists in India.

M.F. Husain
At 91 years old the elder statesman of Indian art, Husain had worked steadily as a painter since the thirties, turning out a massive body of inventive work that has won him long-standing comparisons to Picasso. Despite his prominence in the country for so many years, Hussein had to flee into exile in Dubai after coming under fire from conservative critics in 1996 for a series of nude paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses — that he had made in the seventies. Last month a judge in New Delhi finally threw out an obscenity case lodged against Husain, declaring that the artist should return home and continue his work. In March a painting by Husain fetched $1.6 million at Christie's in New York amid protests from detractors camped outside the auction house.
—Andrew M. Goldstein

Dennis Plans Comeback

Singer/songwriter CATHY DENNIS is to make a return to the spotlight after forming a new band called SEXCASSETTES.

The star gave up her own singing career after releasing her third album in 1996 - choosing instead to write hits for other artists.

Dennis achieved major international success in her songwriting career - penning Kylie Minogue's 1999 hit single Can't get You Out Of My Head and winning a Grammy Award for Britney Spears' Toxic.

But now the 39-year-old is planning her own comeback with a new girl group and a new album scheduled for later this year (08).

She says, "We're called the Sexcassettes and there's four of us. It's more of a live band thing and gives me the opportunity to write songs I couldn't get away with for other artists."

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Graham Norton - Id Do Anything Girls Attempt To Build Bridges

The contestants on I'd Do Anything have stressed they back their rivals to rise to the challenge of playing Nancy in the West End.

The five remaining hopefuls on the BBC1 talent show had been quick to offer their views regarding the weakest performers in the group when quizzed a week ago but have now moved to emphasize their firm belief in each other's abilities.

Under questioning from host Graham Norton about the most likely contestants to be ejected from the competition both Jessie Buckley and Jodie Prenger had earmarked 17-year-old schoolgirl Niamh Perry as the girl least suited to playing the part of Nancy in Sir Cameron Mackintosh's upcoming revival of the Lionel Bart musical.

Buckley had said Perry was "better suited to a pop career" while Prenger described the Northern Irish contestant as "naive, so fragile".
But in an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, Blackpool native Prenger dismissed the notion that she could not see the appeal of Perry, claiming: "I just pulled the name out of a hat. It was such a hard thing to do."

She added: "We've really bonded. We really are best friends."

Samantha Barks, a drama student from the Isle of Man, performed a similar turnaround in the interview, after saying on last week's show that Belfast singer Rachel Tucker was "so slick and polished".

When questioned about her views on Tucker a week later, Barks replied: "I don't think Rachel should go. I definitely think Rachel could be Nancy."

Buckley, however, firmly believes is capable of playing the part of the feisty EastEnder, saying: "They think I'm fragile, but I'm not."

She continued: "I speak my mind and don't let people walk all over me. It's irritating that people have a judgment because of my build.

"I don't want to change myself. I'm not going to put fake tan on. I'm not going to eat more. I'm who I am.

"[Sir] Andrew [Lloyd Webber] has said I could redefine the role, so that's what I want to do rather than be the stereotypical Nancy."


16/05/2008 13:56:36

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U2 reissues packed with rarities

'Boy,' 'War,' 'October' get bonus discs





NEW YORK -- A wealth of previously unreleased and rare material will be found on reissues of the early U2 albums "Boy," "War" and "October," due July 22 via Universal. Each album will be available as a remastered single CD, a deluxe set with a second disc of extras and on vinyl.
U2's 1980 debut album, "Boy," features the previously unreleased tracks "Speed of Life," "Saturday Night" and "Cartoon World" and a previously unreleased mix of "I Will Follow." "Boy-Girl" and "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" are captured in live versions taped at London's Marquee.
The new edition of 1981's "October" boasts a series of tracks taped live at London's Hammersmith Palais and Boston's Paradise Theatre, a BBC session with Richard Skinner and Common Ground's remix of "Tomorrow."
"War" (1983) is bolstered here with the previously unreleased track "Angels Too Tied to the Ground," several remixes of "New Year's Day" and "Two Hearts Beat as One" plus the 7-inch single edit of "New Year's Day."
U2 is recording its next album with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. No release date has been set, but rumblings are that it may be out before the end of the year via Interscope.
Here are the tracklists for the U2 reissue bonus discs:

BOY
"I Will Follow" (Previously Unreleased Mix)"11 O'Clock Tick Tock""Touch""Speed of Life" (Previously Unreleased Track)"Saturday Night" (Previously Unreleased Track)"Things to Make and Do""Out of Control""Boy-Girl""Stories for Boys""Another Day""Twilight""Boy-Girl" (Live at the Marquee, London)"11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Live at the Marquee, London -- Previously Unreleased Version)"Cartoon World" (Live at the National Stadium, Dublin -- Previously Unreleased Track)

OCTOBER
"Gloria" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London)"I Fall Down" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London)"I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London)"Fire" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London)"October" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London)"With a Shout" (Richard Skinner BBC Session)"Scarlet" (Richard Skinner BBC Session)"I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Richard Skinner BBC Session)"A Celebration""J. Swallo""Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl""I Will Follow" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston)"The Ocean" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston)"The Cry/Electric Co." (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston)"11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston)"I Will Follow" (Live From Hattem, Netherlands)"Tomorrow" (Bono & Adam Clayton, Common Ground Remix)

WAR
"Endless Deep""Angels Too Tied to the Ground" (Previously Unreleased Track)"New Year's Day" (7" single edit)"New Year's Day" (USA Remix)"New Year's Day" (Ferry Corsten Extended Vocal Mix)"New Year's Day" (Ferry Corsten Vocal Radio Mix)"Two Hearts Beat As One" (Long Mix)"Two Hearts Beat As One" (USA Remix)"Two Hearts Beat As One" (Club Version)"Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)"