Artist: Abhijit Pohankar
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Tranquillity
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Motley Crue slam MTV over 'Dirt'
Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has hit out at MTV for stalling production on The Dirt, a biopic on the metal veterans.
The group reached a deal with MTV Films/Paramount in 2006 to turn their best-selling autobiography into a movie but have been unable to generate momentum for the project.
Sixx told Reuters: "We're trying to get them out of the way to make this movie that should have been made a long time ago.
"MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip. We signed with them because we believed they were right, but they haven't come to the table. We need to find the right partner. They are not the right partner."
The Dirt, which the band co-wrote with Neil Strauss, details the band's formation, rise to fame and decadent lifestyles.
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The group reached a deal with MTV Films/Paramount in 2006 to turn their best-selling autobiography into a movie but have been unable to generate momentum for the project.
Sixx told Reuters: "We're trying to get them out of the way to make this movie that should have been made a long time ago.
"MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip. We signed with them because we believed they were right, but they haven't come to the table. We need to find the right partner. They are not the right partner."
The Dirt, which the band co-wrote with Neil Strauss, details the band's formation, rise to fame and decadent lifestyles.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Plies' Definition Of Real Debuts At #2, Making Up For Past Disappointments
For some, the reality of first-week record sales means utter exaltation. A stamp of approval from the masses. For others, it can be deflating. A show that you weren't on as many people's radar as you expected. Last August, Plies' initial Nielsen SoundScan numbers were the latter, but he promised himself never to let up.
"I guess I looked at my situation differently last time," he said, recalling the debut of his first album, The Real Testament, which scanned 96,500 copies in its first week. "To be able to come back ... I tell people all the time: You can sell a million records off hype in this game in the first two weeks. When you really see what your album is made of is after week four. Week four will show you the true response of how people view your material. For me to sell 96,000 records the first week, I was crushed by that number. All the work I put in, I expected bigger. That turn made me come up with the whole [mantra] of 'God don't make mistakes.'
"I had the blessing of selling another 400,000 records after week one," he added. "It doesn't really happen that way. A lot of times you see big artist sell 300,000 records the first week and still don't get to that mil. Or artists that sell 500,000 the first week and just get to a mil."
Plies should be satisfied with the opening week of his second album in under a year, The Definition of Real. With sales of 214,000 copies, Plies' latest landed the #2 spot on next week's Billboard albums chart. That's not even close to Lil Wayne's 1 million sales, but it is double Real Testament's opening numbers.
Plies has built his popularity by cementing his street cred while still maintaining a strong appeal with the ladies. For every record that has women screaming, such as "Bust It Baby Part 2," he drops another for the "goons," such as his latest, "Worth Goin Fed Fo."
"I'm at a cross point in my career right now," he explained. "I had a gold album on my last record. I could play over there in that realm, or I could make friendlier, more acceptable music to try to sell records. At this point in time, I don't feel that that gamble is worth it for me.
"I'm not one way all the time," he continued. "Sometimes, I may get off a phone call and be in a verbal confrontation with a cat out of the streets. That's enough to make me formulate a whole song off of that conversation. Sometimes, I'm in my woman mode, like we all are. Sometimes, I can look at the newspaper and see an indictment just happened, and it makes write a song, like I just did on my sophomore album, called 'Worth Goin' Fed Fo.' ... I never force myself to go to the studio and to feel the pressure of trying to come up with good music. I feel there's so many problems in the world, you should never run out of things to talk about that are important."
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Monday, 23 June 2008
Martin Helped Clinton To Victory In Puerto Rico
Crooner Ricky Martin is claiming credit for Senator Hillary Clinton's success in the Puerto Rican primary on Sunday (1Jun08) after he delivered a rousing speech encouraging his countrymen to offer her their support. The 35-year-old, born in the capital San Juan, is a staunch supporter of the Democrat candidate, and was keen to offer his support ahead of Sunday's vote. He said, "Senator Clinton has always been consistent in her commitment with the needs of the Latino community. "Whether fighting for better education, universal health care and social well-being, as first lady and senator from New York - representing millions of Latinos - she has always fought for what is most important for our families." Martin's words may have made a difference - Clinton romped to victory over rival Barack Obama.
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Actress, dancer Cyd Charisse dead at 86
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, the impossibly long-legged movie musical star who gained fame for her on-screen pairings with Hollywood dance greats Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died on Tuesday at age 86.
Charisse, a sinuous, athletic performer once described by Astaire as "beautiful dynamite," died early in the morning of a heart attack at a Los Angeles-area hospital, according to her agent, Scott Stander.
Publicist Gene Schwam said she had only recently celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary with her second husband, singer Tony Martin, whom she married after a romance with millionaire Howard Hughes.
"What was special about Cyd was that she was always stylish and graceful, and when I saw her two weeks ago, she was still dressed beautifully and her hair was done properly," Schwam told Reuters. "She was such a loving and gracious woman throughout her life."
Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, she took her professional surname from her first husband, ballet instructor Nico Charisse. The moniker of Cyd was adapted from a childhood nickname, Sid, coined by her brother.
Joining the Ballet Russe as a teenager in the mid-1930s, she broke into movies in 1943 dancing opposite Don Ameche in "Something to Shout About," billed then as Lily Norwood.
That appearance led to a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she first danced with Astaire in a brief routine in "Ziegfeld Follies" and made her film acting debut with Judy Garland in "The Harvey Girls," both released in 1946.
But Charisse cemented her status as an MGM star as Kelly's dance partner in their provocatively memorable "Broadway Melody Ballet" routine in the finale to the 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain."
Charisse, a sinuous, athletic performer once described by Astaire as "beautiful dynamite," died early in the morning of a heart attack at a Los Angeles-area hospital, according to her agent, Scott Stander.
Publicist Gene Schwam said she had only recently celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary with her second husband, singer Tony Martin, whom she married after a romance with millionaire Howard Hughes.
"What was special about Cyd was that she was always stylish and graceful, and when I saw her two weeks ago, she was still dressed beautifully and her hair was done properly," Schwam told Reuters. "She was such a loving and gracious woman throughout her life."
Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, she took her professional surname from her first husband, ballet instructor Nico Charisse. The moniker of Cyd was adapted from a childhood nickname, Sid, coined by her brother.
Joining the Ballet Russe as a teenager in the mid-1930s, she broke into movies in 1943 dancing opposite Don Ameche in "Something to Shout About," billed then as Lily Norwood.
That appearance led to a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she first danced with Astaire in a brief routine in "Ziegfeld Follies" and made her film acting debut with Judy Garland in "The Harvey Girls," both released in 1946.
But Charisse cemented her status as an MGM star as Kelly's dance partner in their provocatively memorable "Broadway Melody Ballet" routine in the finale to the 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain."
Dryft
Artist: Dryft
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
The Mytotyc Exyt
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Cell
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
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