U2: Live At Red Rocks and Under a Blood Red Sky

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 11 -- U2's low concert video,
LIVE AT RED ROCKS, testament be released on DVD by Interscope/Island/UME on
September 30, 2008 in the U.S., along with the sequent live album,
UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY.

Recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on 5th June 1983,
LIVE AT RED ROCKS testament be uncommitted for the first time on DVD, and testament
include 5 previously unreleased songs, a director's comment, digitally
re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix.

The remastered UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY record album was originally released in
November 1983, and consists of live recordings from three shows on the
band's War Tour through Europe and America.

A de luxe version featuring the UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY CD and the LIVE AT
RED ROCKS DVD testament be uncommitted, as well as exclusive disc formats of the CD
and DVD. An LP version of UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY pressed on hulk
virgin vinyl will besides be released.



Full tracklisting as below:

UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY
Gloria / 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / I Will Follow / Party Girl / Sunday
Bloody Sunday / The Electric Co. / New Year's Day / "40"

LIVE AT RED ROCKS

Out Of Control / Twilight / An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart / Surrender /
Two Hearts Beat As One / Seconds / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Cry/The Electric
Co. / October / New Year's Day / I Threw A Brick Through A Window / A Day
Without Me / Gloria / Party Girl / 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / I Will Follow /
"40"




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Woody McBride

   
Artist: Woody McBride

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Rasta pon top

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Pure Ideas

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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Born in North Dakota merely based in Minneapolis, Woody McBride number 1 gained a distinguish for his acid-based techno under the aliases DJ ESP, 4D, and through the Earthworm series, recorded for New York's EX mark. McBride besides released singles through Drop Bass Network and Germany's Labworks, simply founded his own Communique mark (plus subsidiaries Sounz and Head in the Clouds) for recordings from Josh Wink, DJ Skull, Damon Wild and his possess singles.





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"Keep It Real": An enthralling trip to the truth

"Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction"

edited by Lee Gutkind

Norton, 169 pp., $22.95

Creative nonfiction is a broad category of writing that uses "literary craft in presenting nonfiction," and while fabrication crosses the line — James Frey being only the most recent example — the genre allows considerable imaginative leeway and innovation.

In "Keep It Real," editor Lee Gutkind and a passel of experienced nonfiction writers have teamed up to write a stimulating and informative collection of short, digestible chapters on the marvels and pitfalls of creative nonfiction.

The genre has been around for a long time, but entered its modern heyday with the "New Journalism" of the 1960s and '70s — Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson were the chief practitioners — and includes the current proliferation and popularity of memoirs. Straightforward nonfiction such as history, journalism and the standard essay evolved into writing that was more personal, subjective and experimental.

The organizational approach of "Keep It Real" — chapters on topics arranged alphabetically — seems haphazard at first, but the juxtaposition of practical advice and less-tangible aspects of the craft make for a pleasing eclecticism. A chapter called Compression is followed by Defamation and Libel; The Lyric Essay follows Legal Responsibilities of Publishers. There are fascinating disquisitions on the nature of memory and truth.

Although this is not a "how to" book, the authors define and describe the genre with specificity and good examples, generating plenty of options and approaches. One that caught my eye: the "lyric I" point of view and the use of the "fragmented braided essay form or the collage essay, where white space implies silence and meaning is created through oblique connections of images and metaphors rather than through a straightforward narrative story."

"Keep It Real" contains many more nuggets and demonstrates that nonfiction can be no less elastic or unfettered than fiction.

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Report: Amy Winehouse Faces Emphysema Bout

Amy Winehouse [ tickets ] has been diagnosed with emphysema and could--within one month--land in a wheelchair with a permanent oxygen mask if she doesn't stop smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, the Sunday Mirror reported. Doctors told the 24-year-old performer if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her, her father told the Mirror.Winehouse reportedly underwent an extensive series of tests when she was hospitalized last week after fainting at her London-area home. In addition to the emphysema, the tests revealed a lump in her chest. However, a scan reportedly has shown it is not cancerous and there are no traces of cancer in her blood.Winehouse also was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, however it now has been regulated with medication.Mitch Winehouse said he hopes his daughter will be able to perform at the upcoming Glastonbury Festival because he believes she abstains and regulates her drug use when she has to do a show. Doctors reportedly said Winehouse is physically able to perform as long as she stays off drugs.

Us Newsman Tim Russert Dead

Revered U.S. news anchor and political pundit TIM RUSSERT has collapsed and died at his office in Washington, D.C.

The longtime Meet The Press host had just returned from a family vacation in Italy. Friend and colleague Tom Brokaw called Russert, 58, "one of the premiere political analysts and journalists of his time.... He'll be missed as he was loved, greatly."

As well as becoming a beloved face on U.S. political news and opinion shows, Russert, who began his career as an attorney, was also a bestselling author - his books Big Russ + Me and The Wisdom of Our Fathers both topped the New York Times book list.

Russert, the senior vice president of NBC News in America, also mediated the recent TV political debates between presidential wannabes Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John MCCain.

He died of a heart attack.

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Foxboro Hot Tubs, Stop, Drop And Roll

With its faux-battered sleeve and go-go dancing logo you'd be right in thinking that Stop, Drop And Roll owes something to the 60s. As all fans now undoubtedly know, Foxboro Hot Tubs are, in reality, Green Day having a little retro fun on the side with their touring band along for the ride. 20-odd years on, the boys are as busy as ever, following a stamp-of-approval appearance in the Simpsons Movie in 2007. Much of this material was previously available free from the band's website but now, with an actual live tour in the offing, the album gets a proper physical release. Fans will go crazy, the rest of us may be a little less keen.

The problem with an album of pastiches is a question of authenticity. A comparable project would be the Dukes Of Stratosphear ; in reality XTC on a mission to recreate the best psychedelic sounds from their youth. Their two albums really did sound like they'd fallen through a hole in the space/time continuum. But Green Day, arch proponents of the three-minute punk pop outburst, while attempting various stylistic variations here, only really convince on the tracks that, well, sound like Green day (albeit Green day with the bass turned down). These include the title track, Mother Mary and Pieces Of Truth. It makes the whole album something of an oddity. Was it intended as a full-on recreation of an era, or are we just meant to take it as a GD album with many nods to the past? On either score it doesn't quite work. Stop, Drop And Roll is the 60s filtered through 80s punk.

Elsewhere the obvious nods are the Kinks (Alligator), The Doors (Red Tide), The Yardbirds (Dark Side Of Night) and a whole slew of garage punk (in the Nuggets sense of the word) bands like the Standells, Shadows Of Knight (Ruby Room, 27th Ave. Shuffle). It's the latter type of songs that best suit the band's dynamic: All blusterung chords, minimal guitar lead lines and a touch of wiggly organ thrown in for good measure. The writing is tight, the playing suitably spry and the hooks are plentiful. Certainly plentiful enough to keep the faithful happy for now. Yet, not unlike the Beastie Boys' recent foray into lacklustre psych funk, the majority of us will just wish that they'd get back to what they do best.


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Martha Wainwright announces US tour

Martha Wainwright has announced that she will tour the US in support of her new album this summer.

The singer and sister of Rufus Wainwright will kick things off with headlining dates in New York and Los Angeles beginning June 12 before hitting the road with KT Tunstall in August.

Wainwright's new album, 'I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too', is due out in the US on June 10. Artists including Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Pete Townshend and Garth Hudson of The Band contributed to the album, as previously reported.

The tour dates are:

Joe's Pub New York, NY (June 12)
The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA (19)
Highline Ballroom, New York, NY (July 23)
Calvin Theater Northampton, MA (August 4)*
Empire State Plaza Albany, NY (6)*
Fairfield Theatre Fairfield, CT (7)*
Borgata Music Box, Atlantic City, NJ* (8)
Virgin Festival Baltimore, MD (9)*
Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI (11)*
House Of Blues Cleveland, OH (12)*
LC Pavillion Columbus OH (13)*
Kresge Auditorium Interlochen, MI (14)*
The Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI (15)*
Denver Botanical, Denver, CO (18)*
Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, UT (20)*
Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, NV (22)*
Belly Up Aspen, Aspen, CO (25)*

*with KT Tunstall

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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"I love cheese and we'll make chocolate chip cookies. I've got lots of lovely vices." Actress GWYNETH PALTROW loves indulging now she has ditched her strict macrobiotic diet.

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JEWEL

Perfectly Clear (Valory): B+

Producer John Rich (of Big & Rich) dresses Jewel in every
imaginable cowgirl style and the Alaskan songstress looks damn good in every one of them. Indeed, she sounds at home on the range in these twangy environs, which isn’t all that shocking given commercial country’s widened scope; much of Jewel’s catalog could qualify as country these days, even though it may not have when originally released. What is surprising is the trite songwriting that weakens her debut indie set. But she makes up for it with positive, fem-empowering messages infrequently aired in Nashville, where “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” still wins every time. Download: “Anyone But You.”
CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

Ex Corrie star talks about her TV future

Former 'Coronation Street' star Tina O'Brien has spoken about her hopes for the future, saying that she would love to appear on 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The 24-year-old actress, who played Sarah-Louise Platt in the soap, said that she hopes to do more television work.
She told New: "I'd even consider doing 'Celebrity Big Brother' - I really love that show."
The actress didn't rule out a return to 'Coronation Street' in the future, saying: "It's good to spread your wings but I am so glad I wasn't killed off."

Leah sheds her clothes for fella

STARRING alongside sexy ROXANNE MCKEE and CARLY STENSON in saucy soap
Hollyoaks has given LEAH HACKETT plenty of practice getting her kit off.

The actress, who plays Tina in the hit Channel 4 soap, has now shed her
clothes in the music video for band REEMER.

But maybe she would have passed the audtion without the Chester drama on her
CV - as Leah has been dating the band's frontman for the past three years.
Watch the catchy video for Maniac below:
The boys already have a massive following in the North West and regularly sell
out venues across Manchester and the surrounding area.

The quirky quartet release their debut single on July 21.

Oslo win over crowd at Club NME LA

Oslo gave a rousing performance at Club NME Los Angeles last night (June 11).

The California indie rock quintet played tunes from their most recent album 'The Rise And Fall Of Love And Hate', which was co-produced by Interpol's Sam Fogarino.

They also played a handful of tracks from their 2005 self-titled debut including crowd-pleasers 'Minute Gun' and 'My Soul' at a far more relaxed tempo than usual.

The room was packed with fans who danced and cheered after each song. When someone walked out toward the end of the set, frontman Mattia Borrani quipped, "Thanks for coming. On a Wednesday I'd be outta here too."

Oslo played:

'No Rhyme Or Reason'
'Mistakes'
'My Soul'
'Minutegun'
'Things Fall Apart'
'Nervine'
'The Stranger'
'The Rise And Fall Of Love And Hate'
'Slowdive'

Club NME with Fred Perry Subculture takes place at Spaceland in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles every Wednesday night.

Next Wednesday (June 18), Midnight Movies are set to headline Club NME Los Angeles.

For more information, visit Myspace.com/clubnmela.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Ice T

   
Artist: Ice T

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Gang Culture

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


   
 Greatest Hits: The Evidence

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17


   
 7Th Deadly Sin

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 21


   
 Vi: Return Of The Real

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 21


   
 Home Invasion

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 19


   
 O.G. Original Gangster

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 24


   
 O.G. Original Gangsta

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 24


   
 The Iceberg / Freedom Of Speech...Just Watch What You Say

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 13


   
 Power

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 13


   
 Rhyme Pays

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 13

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Ice-T (born Tracy Morrow) has proved to be one of hip-hop's most vocalize and reasoning stars, as considerably as one of its well-nigh frustrating. At his charles Herbert Best, the rapper has written some of the c. H. Best portraits of ghetto life and gangsters, as well as some of the topper social comment hip-hop has produced. Just as oftentimes, he can slip into sexism and gratuitous force, and even then his rhymes are ingenious and bitter. Ice-T's best recordings have e'er been made in alignment with strong collaborators, whether it's the Bomb Squad or Jello Biafra. With his euphony, Ice-T has made a conscious effort to gain the immense audience of white male adolescents, as his shop at excursions with his sonorous metal band Body Count show. All the piece, he has withstood a unceasing battery of unfavorable judgment and contention to become a respected figure not only in the euphony press, simply the mainstream media as well.


Although he was one of the leading figures of Californian rap in the '80s, Ice-T was natural in Newark, NJ. When he was a child, he stirred from his native Newark to California after his parents died in an automobile chance event. While he was in heights school, he became possessed with rap piece he went to Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles. Ice-T took his name from Iceberg Slim, a pandar world Health Organization wrote novels and poetry. Ice-T used to con lines of Iceberg Slim's poetry, reciting them for friends and classmates. After he left wing high shoal, he recorded several undistinguished 12" singles in the former '80s. He also appeared in the low-budget hip-hop films Rappin', Breakin', and Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo as he was nerve-wracking to build a life history.


Ice-T eventually landed a major-label record dispense with Sire Records in 1987, releasing his debut album, Rhyme Pays. On the record, he is supported by DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika Islam, wHO helped create the rolling, spare beats and samples that provided a backdrop for the rapper's charismatic rhymes, which were principally party-oriented; the book combat injury up release gold. That same year, he recorded the paper song for Dennis Hopper's Colours, a cinema nearly inner city lifetime in Los Angeles. The call -- also called "Colours" -- was stronger, both lyrically and musically, with more knifelike lyrics, than anything he had previously released. Ice-T formed his have track record label, Rhyme Syndicate (which was distributed through Sire/Warner) in 1988, and released Power. Ability was a more assured and impressive record, earning him firm reviews and his second gold record. Released in 1989, The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say accomplished him as a true hip-hop hotshot by matching first-class harsh euphony with ferocious, well-informed narratives, and political commentaries, especially about rap censoring.


Deuce old age later, Ice-T began an playing calling, star in the updated blaxploitation photographic film Young Jack City; he also recorded "Unexampled Jack Hustler" for the film. "New Jack Hustler" became one of the centerpieces of 1991's O.G.: Original Gangster, which became his to the highest degree successful album to escort. O.G. as well featured a alloy track called "Soundbox Count" recorded with Ice-T's band of the like refer. Ice-T took the band out on tour that summer, as he performed on the first-class honours degree Lollapalooza circuit. The circuit pitch increased his appeal with both alternate music fans and bourgeoisie teenagers. The following year, the rapper decided to released an entire record album with the dance band, too called Soundbox Count.


Body Count proven to be a major turning head in Ice-T's life history. On the footing of the track "Collar Killer" -- where he american ginseng from the stand of a law manslayer -- the record ignited a national arguing; it was protested by the NRA and police force militant groups. Time Warner Records ab initio supported Ice-T, in time they refused to release his unexampled rap record album, Home base Invasion, on the groundwork of the record cover. Ice-T and the label parted ways by the end of the year. Plate Invasion was released on Priority Records in the spring of 1993 to tepid reviews and gross sales. Somewhere along the way, Ice-T had begun to lose to the highest degree of his original rap music audience; now he appealed mainly to suburban white teens. In 1994, he wrote a book and released the second Body Count album, Born Dead, which failed to arouse up the same disceptation as the first record -- so, it failed to benefit much attention of any sort. Nevertheless, Body Count was successful in clubs and Ice-T continued to circuit with the set.


In the summer of 1996, Ice-T released his first rap album since 1993, Give back of the Real. The album was greeted by motley reviews and it failed to alive up to commercial expectations. 7th Deadly Sin followed in 1999. Ice-T then returned to playing, pickings a role on NBC's Law & Order : Special Victims Unit playing, ironically, a police officer.





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Paul Michel

   
Artist: Paul Michel

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Quiet State of Panic

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11

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Singer/songwriter Paul Michel is a old hand of Washington, D.C.'s hardcore view, only his solo work reflects a very different side of his musical personality; trading his galvanic guitar for an acoustic ax, he performs melodic and touching pop songs informed by personal business of the pump. Michel began playing music as a boy when his parents arranged for him to submit lessons in flamenco guitar, and as a teenager he developed a gustatory sensation for jazz before diving into the Washington, D.C., rock view. While perusing journalism in college, Michel played guitar with a number of punk-leaning D.C. bands, including Blue Line, the Hard Tomorrows, and Out_Circuit, just after a hard romantic breakup, he began focusing on his own songs and his possess style. Michel made his solo debut with the 2004 EP Ayuda!, released by the independent Magic Bullet tag (based in Fredericksburg, VA, non far from D.C.). A uncut album followed in 2005, These Are All Beautiful Things, and a minute EP, Revolve, appeared in the summer of 2006. Later that year, Michel sign with the Astoria, NY, tag Stunning Models on Display and recorded Quiet State of Panic, an album released cheeseparing the end of 2006 that integrated the quiet textures of his sooner recordings with a more eclectic pop/rock approach shot, boast some stiff galvanic guitar and a subtle merely pointed political broadside, "Your Name Is Icarus."