Garth Brooks [ tickets ] returned to the stage June 14 to play an acoustic set at the eighth annual "So the World May Hear" benefit concert for the Starkey Hearing Foundation. The concert, held at the RiverCenter in St. Paul, MN, raised $5 million to sponsor Starkey's missions to other countries to supply children with hearing aids, according to the Star-Tribune reported. Brooks, who "retired" in 2001 to raise his three daughters, first returned to the stage in November for nine concerts to inaugurate a new Kansas City arena. In January, he performed five shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to benefit California firefighters.This most recent concert reportedly was a bit more intimate than his usual fare. He performed songs--in front of 1,500 people--that were originally recorded by his musical influences, including Cat Stevens' "Wild World," Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," and James Taylor's "Fire and Rain." "James Taylor is why I play music," Brooks reportedly told the crowd. "George Strait is why I play country." He performed Strait's "Unwound," Bob Seger's Night Moves" and Billy Joel's "Piano Man," before launching into some of his hits, including "Friends in Low Places" and "The Dance," among others.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Christina Aguilera - The Things They Say 8360
"Breast-feeding's my secret workout. The pounds fall off." Pop star CHRISTINA AGUILERA reveals the key to her slender post-pregnancy figure. The Beautiful singer gave birth to son MAX LIRON in January (08).
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OK! Exclusive: Jamie Lynn Welcomes a Daughter!
Jamie Lynn Spears is officially a mom!
OK! has confirmed with a rep for the 17-year-old star that Jamie Lynn gave birth to daughter Maddie Briann earlier today in a hospital near her new home in Liberty, Mississippi, OK! confirms.
Maddie is the first child for the former Zoey 101 star and her fianc� Casey Aldridge. Not to mention, she makes an aunt and cousins out of Britney Spears and her sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.
As OK! has reported, Aunt Britney, along with her father Jamie and brother Bryan, flew into Kentwood on Wednesday to be present for the birth.
The birth culminates a very public pregnancy for the teen, who exclusively announced she was expecting in the pages of OK! in December.
"I can�t say it was something I was planning to do right now," she confessed to OK!. "But now that it�s in my lap and that it�s something I have to deal with, I�m looking forward to being the best mom I can be."
Retreating to her hometown of Kentwood, Jamie Lynn laid low for the rest of her pregnancy, preparing for her summer arrival and getting engaged to Casey, 19. The two recently purchased their first home in Liberty, Miss., where they plan on raising Maddie.
In May, she hosted an intimate baby shower that reunited her with Britney, 26, for the first time since October. Big sis even gave the expectant mom some motherly words of wisdom.
"She told me, 'There are going to be some long nights, but it is completely worth it,'" Jamie Lynn said.
Now that her daughter has arrived, the actress wants to devote all her time and attention to her bundle of joy. Everything else � including a wedding and her career � can wait.
"Right now, I am so focused on the baby," she told OK!. "You never know what may happen a year from now. There is the possibility I'll go back, but right now, I just want to be a good mom."
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Monday, 23 June 2008
Sandi Thom Eyes Tunstall, Macdonald For Supergroup
Sandi Thom is eyeing fellow singer-songwriters Amy Macdonald and KT Tunstall, to form an all-girl Scottish "supergroup".
After being compared to the two popular names, she told The Daily Record: "KT, Amy and I do attract a similar type of audience and we all kind of look alike as well. Maybe we should form a supergroup."
"There seems to be a real influx of female singer/songwriters in the charts just now, but we all have our own style and own sound." added Thom. "But it's always a compliment to be compared with another successful female artist."
Sandi Thom released her second album 'The Pink & The Lily' last month.
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Coldplay Play New Album Tracks At Open Air Concert
Coldplay played songs from their new album 'Viva La Vida or Death and All is Friends' during an open air concert in London last night (June 18th).
The gig, broadcast live one BBC television, was the second time that the band have played the capital this week.
Dressed in their Military outfits, the band began their set with 'Life In Technicolor', the song that opens their new album.
The concert once again saw Chris Martin on jovial form, at one point asking how many of the crowd had come to see Coldplay because they couldn't get tickets to the Weakest Link.
As previously reported on Gigwise, the band are expected to score a chart double this weekend, with both their album and its title track set to top the charts.
'Viva La Vida' is already one of the fastest selling albums of all time, selling 302,000 copies in just three days last week.
Coldplay: Live in London
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Blue Nile
Artist: Blue Nile
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Discography:
High
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
The Scottish folk-ambient circle the Blue Nile has enjoyed a mystique contrived by its inaccessibility and the rarity of its recordings, only it has also made a series of critically acclaimed discs. The group was formed by trey Glasgow natives wHO had graduated from university there: Paul Buchanan, bassist Robert Bell, and keyboardist Paul Joseph Moore. (Locomotive engineer Callum Malcolm and drummer Nigel Thomas feature worked with the trio systematically, to the decimal point of being considered secondary bandmembers.) (The Blue Nile is the title of Alan Moorehead's 1962 continuation to The White Nile, the two books making up a chronicle of the Nile River.) They recorded their possess single, "I Love This Life," which was distributed by Robert Stigwood's RSO Records precisely before the fellowship closed its doors. They were then signed by Linn Products, which released their debut record album, A Walk Across the Rooftops, in 1984. (A&M handled it in the U.S.) Since the company was small and the band did not enlistment, the record album took some sentence to find its audience, though it briefly reached the U.K. charts and lED to high expectations for a mo album. This came in 1989 with Hats, which reached the British Top 20, throwing off ternary graph singles, "The Downtown Lights," "Headlights on the Parade," and "Saturday Night." The album too made the lower reaches of the American charts as the Blue Nile embarked on its first circuit, a 30-date travel pickings position in the British Isles and the U.S. In the ensuing years, the band members switched record labels, sign language to Warner Bros., and contributed to recordings by Robbie Robertson and Julian Lennon. They ultimately emerged with their tierce album, Peace at Last, in June 1996. Another critically acclaimed release, it placed in the U.K. Top 20, merely failed to chart in the U.S.
Twins news surprised Angelina
Angelina Jolie has talked candidly about her desire to continue expanding her family with Brad Pitt. But when the actress found out she was pregnant with twins, well, even she was taken aback, People.com reports.
�We weren�t expecting twins,� Jolie, 33, tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. �So it did shock us, and we jumped to six (children) quickly. But we like a challenge.�
With a house full of kids, Jolie says she needs help � so it�s a good thing there�s family around to pitch in. �(Brad�s) mom and dad are on standby to come out and help,� she says.
But the real focus, Jolie says, is making sure their other children � Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2 � feel included when their new siblings are born.
�They�re old enough to feel included to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves, like if I pump into a bottle,� Jolie says. �We�re trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing ... Everybody gets special time so we can make sure we know where they�re at.�
As for how she�s handling being pregnant with twins, Jolie tells EW she�s taking it easy and letting Pitt handle all the heavy lifting � literally.
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Otomo Yoshihide and Martin Tetreault
Artist: Otomo Yoshihide and Martin Tetreault
Genre(s):
Avantgarde
Discography:
Studio-Analogique-Numerique
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Sienna Miller: I'm A Chubster
Despite comment about her super skinny frame, actress Sienna Miller insists she’s a “chubster”.
Her and co-star Keira Knightley’s stick-thin bodies created the headlines at The Edge Of Love’s London premiere this week, but Sienna says she and leading man Matthew Rhys look fat in the film.
She told the Sunday Mirror, “I'm going to be honest with you now - there are a couple of chins on the screen.
“Me and Math were the chubsters."
Her and co-star Keira Knightley’s stick-thin bodies created the headlines at The Edge Of Love’s London premiere this week, but Sienna says she and leading man Matthew Rhys look fat in the film.
She told the Sunday Mirror, “I'm going to be honest with you now - there are a couple of chins on the screen.
“Me and Math were the chubsters."
Gunter Schickert
Artist: Gunter Schickert
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Somnambul
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Uberfallig
Year:
Tracks: 3
Samtvogel
Year:
Tracks: 3
Though his name barely registers among most of the Krautrock intelligentsia, Schickert was both prolific in the back scenes as well as organism an important creative person. Along with the better-known Achim Reichel, Schickert pioneered the echo guitar, where the repeated guitar tones create unequalled multi-layered textures that take the musical instrument quite beyond the ordinary.
Schickert was combat-ready through much of the sixties in the Berlin free-jazz picture, though it wasn't until 1974 that his first base album, Samtvogel came tabu, self-released by Schickert in a low clutch. The album was alone enough that it was quickly snatched up by the fabled Brain label, and they reissued the record the following twelvemonth. Samtvogel is quite similar to Manuel Gottsching's like solo-guitar album Inventions for Electric Guitar, where guitar sounds ar layered and superimposed on round top of each other to create new hypnotic textures.
In 1973 Schickert founded the trio GAM, with guitar player Axel Struck and percussionist Michael Aleska, and with Schickert on guitar, vocals and trumpet this group created a unequaled sort of freaked-out blank rock. GAM recorded some cram roger Huntington Sessions in 1976, which were in the end released on cassette in 1986 coroneted Gam 1976, and an unreleased album called Eiszeit in 1978.
At this time Schickert was besides creating music for a theatre company, and even performing live on stage in some of the productions. He besides served as a roadie for electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze, and sometimes played live with Schulze as well. Schickert's moment solo album, Uberfallig, came out in 1979 on Sky Records, this time with Charles Heuer on drums to augment Schickert's echo guitar textures.
In the eighties Schickert's work in theater production continued, and he also took part in a duet of bands, No Zen Orchestra and Ziguri Ego Zoo. A third album under his possess name, this one a completely solo feat with him on guitar, tapes, vocals, percussion, and trumpet, Kinder der Wildnes, from 1983 only came out on cassette, though it showed that Schickert was expanding into a wider stove of musical styles. Another compendium, Somnabal, was released in 1995 on CD with euphony from throughout the decennary and a half in front that. Though his recordings ar few and hard to rail down, specially the debut Samtvogel, Schickert is an groundbreaking music divine wHO deserves more notice.
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