Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson has a type, it seems-- at least when it comes to recording music. Johansson's first album, the better-than-anyone-realized 2008 drug-pop swooner Anywhere I Lay My Head, consisted almost entirely of Tom Waits covers. And later this year, Johansson and singer/songwriter Pete Yorn will release a collaborative album reportedly inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot, according to USA Today.

So if you're a legendary songwriter with a craggy seen-it-all voice and a permanently unimpressed hangdog facial expression, you might eventually inspire a Scarlett Johansson album. Leonard Cohen-- call your manager!

USA Today reports that Johansson and Yorn teamed up with producer Sunny Levine to record Break Up, which the newspaper describes as "a song cycle that chronicles a tempestuous affair." Yorn wrote eight of the album's nine songs, the other being a cover of "I Am the Cosmos" by Big Star's Chris Bell. The album was actually recorded in 2006, so it pre-dates Anywhere I Lay My Head. unsecured loans

The first single, the amiable rockabilly chug "Relator", is currently streaming on the album's website. Judging by that, Johansson does a better job channeling Bardot than Pete Yorn does playing Gainsbourg, but that shouldn't exactly come as a shock. bad credit loans

Loveable Rogues

Loveable Rogues and 11-year-old Molly Rainford were voted through tot he 'Britain's Got Talent' final last night.

Loveable Rogues and Molly Rainford have made it to the 'Britain's Got Talent' final.
The trio were the first act through in last night's (08.05.12) semi-final after winning the viewer vote for their performance of self-penned track 'Lovesick', while the 11-year-old singer won the judges' vote.

Molly went head-to-head with the Twist & Pulse Dance Company for last night's final slot, with David Walliams going with his "heart" to save the youngster, and Alesha Dixon opting for the dancers who she said she felt "emotionally invested" in.

Amanda Holden also chose the dance group, but show chief Simon Cowell sent the decision to deadlock after deciding Molly had the "most potential". unsecured loans

After hosts Ant & Dec announced Molly had received more public votes and was therefore through to the final, she said: "It's just amazing. I can't believe it. I want to thank [the voters] so much, without them I wouldn't be in the final."

After Loveable Rogues had performed, Simon appeared to hint he was keen to sign them up.
He said: "It was brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. You have come along at the right time, you are current, I know who you should be working with on your first album, I can hear that single already.
"This is the real deal! The song is genius and you have a great chemistry."

Later, Amanda admitted she thought Simon would offer the trio a record deal regardless of whether or not they win the contest. bad credit loans

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Eurovision

Hello. Yes, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? But the arrival of May heralds the Coming of the Contest and Twitter just isn’t up to the task of telling all I have to tell about this year’s Eurovision.

My pre-show pontificating is divided into three posts: one for each semi-final (of which, you will correctly surmise, there are two) and one for the final. On your behalf, I’ve endured all of this year’s songs and compiled some brief thoughts. I’ve linked the country name to the song’s video on the official Eurovision YouTube channel to make it as easy as possible for you to agree with me (or disagree, if you’re crazy).
As has been the case for a few years now, the large number of participating countries means we’re treated to semi-finals in order to whittle the songs down to a barely manageable final. Fear not: the UK’s financial contribution to the competition means we never have to go through the indignity of being knocked out in the first round. We’ll be voting for the songs in second semi-final, so we’ll only get to cast formal judgement on these if they make it through to the big event, which is being held in Azerbaijan on Saturday 26th May. In some cases, I really hope we’re spared.

So, without further ado, let’s take a look at the countries who’ve been drawn in the first semi-final.

The Good

The ones I liked and hope to see get through to the next stage, in alphabetical order:

• Greece have a strong track record of memorable, up tempo Eurovision entries and this is very much in that vein. It’s almost Eurovision by numbers – pick a one word title (in this case the suitably exotic sounding Aphrodisiac) and contrive a song around it – with the musical production updated for 2012. I’m not complaining: this is surely one for the final and it’s the only one of the entrants to lodge itself unbidden inside my head.
• Next up is Maureen Lipman‘s favourite Eurovision country: Hungary. This one keeps just on the right side of über earnest and I really like the musical production (though how that will translate on the night is anyone’s guess). The last Hungary song I liked was Dance With Me in 2009 and that sank without a trace, so I’m hoping for better luck this time.
• Iceland will hope to put European prejudices against ash clouds and defaulting banks behind them, and with Never Forget they may. I rather like the video, with its Icelandic scenescape, but more importantly I like the song. I’m a sucker for atmospheric strings, syncopated percussion and a male-female counterpoint – even if there is a touch of Evanescence to it. Since they then add a sudden silence (which I hope survives in the live version) and a key change, I’d put this straight through to the final. (You may remember Jónsi’s cheekbones from such Eurovisions as 2004, where he performed 19th-placed power ballad Heaven.)
• Ireland – I’d never heard Jedward sing before last year’s contest, having not seen whichever talent show from which they emerged, and this year they’re back for a second helping of Eurovision. Waterline feels like it’s fallen off a Stock, Aitken and Waterman landfill of leftover pop songs, but that’s by no means a bad thing. It could do well – although I wouldn’t be surprised if the twins’ live performance falls short of the recorded version, which could impact on their chances. Either way, it needs to accompany a training montage in a 1980s action film as soon as possible.
• Moldova – It’s cheesy as sin – worse, it’s cheesy as actual cheese – but it’s one of many songs in this first semi-final with a winning cheerfulness that keeps the whole thing bouncing along quite happily. A nice instrumental in the middle and a ska jazz feel make it a keeper.
• Romania – Bagpipes, drums and accordion are all part of Zaleilah‘s charm. I suspect the lyrics mean nothing of note but this is a bit of light fun and begs to be served with rum.

The Bad

There’s a disappointing dearth of truly terrible entries this year – I don’t know what the other countries think they’re playing at – but there are certainly some songs I’d like to see taken down the knacker’s yard and put out of our misery. For example…

• Austria – Yes, they are genuinely using the band name Trackshittaz. To their credit, it’s an appropriate name, because, to their deficit and excuse mon français, the track is utterly shit. Awful, shouty rubbish. Still, sung in German, “Woki mit deim Popo” sounds rude, so at least that’s entertaining.
• Denmark – I’ve often loved overlooked Danish entries (and pastries, for that matter), and now that we all love The Killing and Borgen, could it be Denmark’s year? No, no it won’t. Soluna Samay is so middle of the road, her only chance of creating excitement is if she trips over the cat’s eyes. Tiresome.
• Latvia – Oh cripes: it’s a Eurovision song about recording a song for Eurovision, and its winning no fans here with the lyric “I was born in distant 1980″. A Eurovision fan friend asked me a few weeks ago whether singer Anmary was in on the joke. I really hope so. Yes, it’s catchy, but so’s smallpox. If the lyrics were in foreign, this might be passable – as it is, it’s hideous and deserves to be burned. Right now.
• Russia – The Eurovision gays won’t be in any hurry for Russia to host the contest again so this dreadful chorus line of singing grannies could be perfect news, if only we didn’t have to listen to it. That said, it does run the major risk of picking up a shedload of “ironic” votes from across the continent. The dancing is only marginally more co-ordinated than Pan’s People, the singing is less tuneful than Jemini and the song itself is dire, so anything could happen. bad credit loans
• San Marino – “Do you wanna be more than just a friend? Do you wanna play cybersex again? If you wanna come to my house then click me with your mouse.” Those lyrics alone tell you all you need to know about the horror that is The Social Network Song. Someone’s noticed that the internet’s a thing and decided to write a sub-Whigfield pun-laden Eurovision entry about it – and then autotuned it to death. And the social networks have spoken: its YouTube Dislikes are outnumbering its Likes by more than three to one. “Oh oh – uh – oh oh” indeed.

The Ugly

Some songs defy categorisation, and they’re the ones I’ve included in this category:

• Sometimes Israel give us a stonking pop song; sometimes it’s a terribly worthy ballad about how good it would be if everyone just got along; and sometimes it’s just bizarre. This time it’s a kitch number that sounds like it’s fallen through time from one of those 1970s Top of the Pops they show on BBC Four to save them making new programmes. It’s too jolly to actively dislike but Slade were never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars. (I do like Star Wars.)
• Montenegro will open the show with Euro Neuro and we start as we might hope to go on: bonkers. It’s a strange fusion of folk instruments, funky beat and monotonous rapping, like an Eastern European Cake, and there is clear evidence the lyricist got drunk and made a series of ill-advised bets with a rhyming dictionary. For all that, the chorus is memorable (for the duration of the song).

The Rest

The remaining songs were neither particularly good, nor particularly bad. The word “meh” is frowned upon, so we’ll just call them “the rest”:

• Albania – I spent two of this song’s three minutes waiting for it to start. It eventually did (complete with some epic shrieking), but that’s not making the best use of the allocated stage time. The video’s worth a look: a woman with her legs in a box; two children drawing chalk lines on a wall; a weird bird mask; a tealight on a record player. I’m not saying Rona Nishliu doesn’t have good hair – I’ve got nothing against the hair – but I am saying this song could be better. On the other hand, it also could be worse. UNsecured loans
• Belgium – When the drums came in a third of the way through, I was hoping this was going to turn into a big number. Instead, it just carried on as before but with drums. Sorry, Iris: this may still be better than most of whatever the kidz listen to today, but you’re no Sergio & The Ladies.
• Cyprus – Here comes the Eurodance. That’s pretty much all you need to know, and being the only track from that oeuvre in the semi, it should corner the market. It’s not bad, although nothing special for the genre – it would play quite happily in a club in Ibiza or Gran Canaria or Frinton or wherever it is one goes to take E and dance topless these days. As the title La La Love suggests, there are a lot of la la la la las – and then it abruptly stops because its three minutes are up. NB: the video appears to feature Catherine Zeta Jones being chased by Tracy Scoggins in a funny hat.
• Finland – Interestingly, this is sung in Swedish. (Look, it’s interesting to me. So Suomi.) I don’t understand a word but I’m sure it’s very poetic. The song has a pleasant, gentle melody and Anna Friel did an OK job singing it, but I can’t see it sparking a riot at Our Price or overloading the phone voting lines.
• Switzerland – Sinplus, the first rock band in this year’s contest, offer a less than subtle “follow your dreams” message. Unbreakable isn’t breaking any new ground – who is it I’m reminded of? Snow Patrol? The Pigeon Detectives? – but it fills three minutes without complaint and as the only guitar band in this semi-final, they stand a good chance of getting through. Of course, when it comes to the voting, I expect Switzerland to give everybody two points.

That’s not a bad line-up, I’d say, so expect a watchable semi-final on Tuesday 22nd May. Were we phone voting for this programme, I’d be calling up to vote for Iceland and Hungary.

Patrick Wolf interview

The sun-dappled roof garden of Camden’s Koko feels like an apt location in which to chat with Patrick Wolf about his latest album. Named Lupercalia after a pagan fertility festival held to purify the city, Patrick’s fifth release sees him at his most optimistic, dealing largely with themes of love and contentment. Fittingly for a pop star promoting a record titled after a seasonal celebration, much in Patrick’s life seems to have come full circle; as we meet he is excitedly preparing to perform songs written about his boyfriend William in the venue where they first met at a party three years ago, and while his last album saw him lamenting that “I'm not gonna marry in the fall, and I'm not gonna marry in the spring, I'll never marry, no one will wear my silver ring”; today he is engaged. To see the stark contrast between the moods of this album and his last, you only need look as far as the videos for their prospective lead singles. Vulture saw Patrick trussed up in leather bondage imploring the listener to ‘take my dead meat’, while new single The City features him frolicking in the Santa Monica surf, surrounded by a similarly jubilant cast. Break out the bunting: Patrick Wolf is happy.

It hasn’t always been so. If Lupercalia is about romantic hopefulness, the inspirations for Patrick’s previous albums have been darker. He’s sung about everything from pedophilia to Satanism, and his follow-up to 2009’s The Bachelor was originally conceived as a concept album about conquering personal demons, ‘but I didn’t want to do that because Lycanthropy was about that, and Wind In The Wires and The Bachelor were also about struggle. It was like, Patrick, what are you doing repeating yourself again and again? There’s a certain point that you have to let go and become a new person.’ It is this new Patrick who greets us today.

What’s influenced this new optimism?

I think that it’s a mixture of being in love and turning 27 and being more secure within myself and knowing a bit more about the world. I actually met William, my fiancé, here at Koko. We met on the first balcony and it was love at first sight. I think 27 is an age where you really do have to take a look at your life and then readdress what you want to do with your future. It’s a real sea-change moment. I was very happy at the same time that I had someone with me who also wanted to go forward and create a future together.

What are you like as a boyfriend?

Hard work!

How come?

I don’t stop working, I never stop writing. It’s like that great Hidden camera song music is my boyfriend – they might get jealous of the other half of me, which is my music. I spend so much time with it. I barely sleep if I’m writing, so that might be hard work. But I’m better now. I brush my teeth now!

Was William aware of you as a pop star when you met? In the past has your persona meant that boys have preconceived notions of what it would be like to go out with Patrick Wolf?
He’s definitely not sycophantic at all. A lot of my friends are either people I went to school with of people who I met when I was thirteen or fourteen and was doing gigs. I find it quite hard to make friends, because I prefer it when people almost hate my music. Then I can just be a human and talk about life. Then again, I do like it when my friends like my music!

A lot of your lyrics in the past have been very fantastical, but this album feels more domestic. Why do you think that is?
All my other albums are very much about travelling and escapism and running away from yourself, running away from other people, and this is just very much ‘I’m home, lets look at the world around me, us, and the future.’ I haven’t felt this way since I was 10-years-old in terms of having roots and having a house and a home. I’m through with being solipsistic and lonely. I’ve decided that that’s not where I want to be. For now I’m going to be surrounded by the world around me. It’s an interesting moment in my life – but it’s all about to change because now I’m on tour.

Is it right that some of the darkness on the last album came about as a result of some of the difficulties you had touring with the Magic Position album beforehand?

I think it came about through being single and gay on tour. I’m quite shy and I don’t go out really, I party with my band and stuff, but I felt like I would never meet anybody. Also, being a different type of gay man, a lot of the time I felt marginalized as being the weirdo anyway. I wrote The Bachelor for anybody that feels they are unloved in the world, that’s how I felt.

This album sees you with a new perspective, because you’re getting married – what can we expect from Patrick Wolf’s wedding? We’re guessing not a registry office with matching three-piece suits.

We grow up with a traditional idea of a marriage in a church, but I can’t do it in a church. I definitely want something very nature orientated. We want to make our own church somewhere. We have plans but I don’t want to give them away. I’ve put everything off for a while because I need to focus on my album and I think that marriage and a record at the same time are two big responsibilities, so it would be unfair if I was fitting it in around festivals. It might be a very long engagement.

You’ve spoken about how you were quite badly bullied at school, what did you make of the It Gets Better campaign?

Unfortunately I was at school while section 28 was really very powerful, so nobody would talk about being gay other than as part of a joke or something to be bullied about. I turned 18 just as the age of consent was lowered to 16, so I seem to have grown up through some of the workings of liberation. It’s a real shame that there was no-one there to help me. I thought those videos were amazing. If I had had the internet when I was younger I probably would have been able to talk to people about these things. When I was growing up there weren’t any messages of support in the media, even Queer As Folk happened when I was seventeen. Anything like that is amazing. For me it’s not just about the UK, it gets way darker and deeper into the Middle East. That really breaks my heart, and the internet is wonderful that you can get a message out to anybody anywhere in the world that they’re OK.

You notoriously refused the record company’s wish to have your third album produced by Mark Ronson – what happened there?

I ran into him on the street with friend of a friend and invited him down to my studio. It was then that the label went mental and were like ‘OK, you should work together.’ We both actually really wanted to work with each other, but my relationship with the label was on the rocks anyway at that time so it was just a nuts time. I was on the rocks with myself, I was a bit mental. It was just bad timing.

How were you a bit mental?

I was self-medicating, drinking, partying. I didn’t have grip with normality. It was classic pop star syndrome – get off the tour bus, back to your two-bedroom flat, one of them is filled with boxes from the flat you never moved out of because you were on tour. All your friends have forgotten you, exist because you’ve been on the road for four years, you don’t have a partner, you haven’t had sex for a year and you’re kind of going mental. unsecured loans

Lots of the theatrical elements of your previous albums have extended to your costumes, but it feels like as your lyrics have become less whimsical so have your outfits. Is that a conscious decision?

I always want to feel like I’m adding something new. I think the whole theatre within music is not new right now, it’s not really the future for me. The future is what hasn’t happened. I think that what Lady Gaga is doing is fantastic. It’s there, it’s part of culture now. It’s like ‘bread’ ‘eggs’ ‘Lady Gaga’. It’s now totally establishment and that’s wonderful, but I’m anti-establishment in a way and I feel like I need to be doing something new and different. For me right now I would like people to maybe be focusing again on my music again. bad credit loans

You’ve spoken before about your relationships with men and women, do you feel like there’s a lot of gay people who are suspicious of bisexuality?

I can understand why they get upset by it. I’m so confused by a lot of gay culture. Within LGBT there’s this sort of hatred towards lesbians or rivalry between all the different tribes of gay. A sense of unity needs to come back into the LGBT community, the idea that we should all support and like each other. Open-mindedness about sexuality would be really wonderful. When I lived with [Patrick’s last partner] Ingrid it was an art affair, it was a love affair. Love and sex are two very different things and I think you can have a love affair with a woman as a gay man. I have experimented with all types of sexuality, but I would say that, getting to know myself, I’m definitely a gay man. But I wouldn’t rule out falling in love with anything in the world. You have to have that wonder for life. Life can be complex and exciting, and I think it always should be.

Which song are you most looking forward to performing later?

Slow Motion. I’m going to play it for William. It’s the most romantic song on the album, and the most musically complex and experimental. It sums up the last few years. The slow motion of depression and this idea of life slowing down and not being as fast as it used to be, and then halfway through the song I got out of the house and got dressed properly, came to this party and fell in love. And falling in love is the most wonderful drug in the world. It feels like slow motion, like you’re tumbling down a rabbit hole into a beautiful place. Two slow motions in one song.

Rihanna is being criticized

Singer Rihanna is being criticized by the Rape Crisis Center because they believe her latest video encourages domestic violence. bad credit loans

Staff member Eileen Kelly criticized Rihanna’s newest video, “We Found Love,” calling it disgraceful.

“Rihanna’s new video is a disgrace,” said Kelly. “It sends the message that she is an object to be possessed by men, which is disturbingly what we see in real violence cases.”
This is not the first time a Rihanna video has caused controversy due to violence, as several groups criticized her “Man Down Video” for promoting murder.



The Grio reports:

Eileen Kelly of the Rape Crisis Center in the UK says she’s concerned about a scene in the video where Rihanna’s “boyfriend” tattoos the word “mine” on the singer’s backside.
“Rihanna’s new video is a disgrace. It sends the message that she is an object to be possessed by men, which is disturbingly what we see in real violence cases,” Kelly said in an interview with Britain’s popular tabloid newspaper, Daily Star. unsecured loans

Bert Weedon

Mr. Weedon was an early rock-and-roll guitar star in Britain in the late 1950s, with a series of instrumental hits that included “Guitar Boogie Shuffle,’’ “Apache,’’ and “Nashville Boogie.’’ But when his instructional book was first published in 1957, he became something of a spiritual godfather to a generation of would-be guitar heroes.
Its title - “Play in a Day’’ - offered the hope of instant musical gratification. The lessons began at the most basic level, with an illustration of how to hold a guitar. Weedon taught novices how to get through many rock-and-roll songs with three basic chords and included pointers on how to play a few basic tunes.
His guide, which was updated through the 1980s, sold millions of copies, leading Britain’s Independent newspaper to call Mr. Weedon “the man who taught the world to play the guitar.’’
Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Keith Richards, the Who’s Pete Townshend, and three of the Beatles - George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney - studied Mr. Weedon’s book.
“I like to think that I’ve helped in some way to make the guitar the most popular instrument in the world,’’ he said in 1997.
Herbert Maurice Weedon was born in London on May 10, 1920. His father was a subway driver and amateur singer.
Mr. Weedon was 12 when he bought a secondhand guitar. He wanted to learn to play jazz, but his first teacher - an elderly music-shop owner - refused to teach him anything but classical music.
“He picked up his guitar and played Chopin’s Prelude No. 7,’’ Mr. Weedon told London’s Daily Mail newspaper in 1995. “I had never heard anything so beautiful in my life. I sat transfixed and he said: ‘That’s what I’m going to teach you.’ And I said: ‘Yes, please.’ ’’‘
By 14, Mr. Weedon was performing in dance bands. He was a featured soloist before World War II.
He volunteered with rescue units during the London bombing blitz and, after the war, replaced Django Reinhardt in a group led by Grappelli, a prominent jazz violinist. unsecured loans

As a member of a BBC band in the 1950s, Mr. Weedon was known for his ability to sight-read any style of music. He was the host of children’s television shows and performed with many acclaimed singers, including Sinatra.
“He asked me if I’d like to go and play guitar in America,’’ Mr. Weedon recalled in 1995. “He was the greatest pop singer in the world and I was immensely flattered. I thanked him very much, but I told him no. I said I’d rather be a bigger fish in a smaller pond.’’ bad credit loans
Mr. Weedon recorded well into the 1980s, and one of his albums from the 1970s, “22 Golden Guitar Greats,’’ reached No. 1 on the British charts, knocking Led Zeppelin out of the top slot.
His first marriage, to Doris Weedon, ended in divorce. He leaves his wife of 53 years, Maggie Weedon; and two sons.

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Heineken Jammin’ Festival

The headliners for the 2011 Heineken Jammin’ Festival have finally been announced: 9th June COLDPLAY, 10th June NEGRAMARO and on 11th June VASCO.

The Heineken Jammin' Festival, the most important music festival of its kind in Italy, comes back from 9 to 11 June, 2011. Since its very first edition in 1998, the Heineken Jammin' Festival has been conceived as a big rock gathering held over several days, with lots of artists following each other on stage for the entire afternoon as well as acclaimed headliners for the long evening concert.

Over the years, prestigious names of both the national and international music scene have taken part, such as Metallica, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Santana, Chemical Brothers, Marylin Manson, Skunk Anansie, Robbie Williams, Blur, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, Cranberries, Ben Harper, Green Day, Vasco Rossi, Carmen Consoli, Piero Pelù and Zucchero.

Since 2007 the festival takes place in the striking location of Parco San Giuliano, a large green space overlooking the Venice Lagoon.

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Concerts on the Central Stage will start around 3.00pm with the winning band of HJF Music Contest and finish around midnight

Coldplay will headline the Heineken Jammin' Festival 2011, on 9 June. The English rock band will present hits from their latest release Viva la Vida, their fourth studio album achieving a great success around the world. In its first week of release it debuted at number one in 36 countries. In the United Kingdom, the album sold 125,000 copies in bad credit loans its first day of release and 302,074 in three days, debuting at number one.

On 10 June, the British alternative rock band Elbow will perform on the central stage. Although they have not achieved widespread popularity in Italy yet, their most recent album Build a Rocket Boys!, released in March 2011, has been a great success in the UK receiving great reviews by such authoritative colleagues as R.E.M., U2 and Blur. Elbow's performance at Heineken Jammin' Festival is their only Italian date this year.


The New Yorkers Interpol will open the show on 10 June. In the late evening the headliner Italian band Negramaro will bring the festival's second day to an end.

The Heineken Jammin' Festival will have Vasco Rossi headlining the final day. The performance of the Italian rockstar, on 11 June, will be preceded by Echo & The Bunnymen, We are Scientists, Beady Eye and Cesare Cremonini, Alla Time Low, and Pretty Reckless.

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Stone roses

Rumors about The Stone Roses’ reunion were confirmed with a press conference Tuesday and the announcement of the band’s first tour dates in more than 15 years.

The British alternative rock band’s reunited lineup features singer Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield and drummer Alan “Reni” Wren. Reuters noted that all four members attended the press conference in London.

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The Stone Roses formed in Manchester, England, in 1983 and released its debut, self-titled album in 1989. The group’s second album, Second Coming, was released in 1994. Two years later the band broke up following Squire’s departure in 1996. Reni had quit the band in 1995.
The first reunion dates are set for June 29-30 in Manchester at Heaton Park. An announcement on the band’s website promises that there are more shows to come as “the unsecured loans dates will form part of an extensive world tour.”
During the press conference Squire pointed to Mani’s mother’s funeral as the event that brought the band back together.
“Everything changed when me and Ian started seeing each other again,” Squire said, according to Reuters. “It was surreal. We went from crying and laughing about bad credit loans the old days to writing songs in a heartbeat.
“I think it’s in some ways a friendship that defines us both and it needed fixing and two phone calls later the band was no longer dead.”
And how long will the reunion last?
Brown said, “We will ride it as long as we can,” according to BBC News.  Reni said he “would be happy with 12 months.”
Brown is putting his solo career on hold during The Stone Roses’ reunion and Mani is giving up his spot in Primal Scream’s lineup to “follow his dream.”
As far as the band’s plans for a third album, Brown said fans will have to wait and see.
“We hope so, but we said that before didn’t we,” he said, according to Reuters.

Tupac Coachella 'Hologram'

After shocking the world by beaming an image of the late rapper onstage, the company behind the spectacle hints at more appearances by the optical marvel.

It wasn't enough to just raise him from the dead -- now Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre might take be starting a Tupac Revivalist Roadshow.

The two rap superstars put together an all-star ensemble for their Coachella performance Sunday, but the event was truly made by the 2D reflected image of a walking, talking, singing Tupac Shakur, who performed two songs for the in-awe concert audience (and then, a massive audience on YouTube). The computer work was done by Digital Domain Image Group, which told The Wall Street Journal that it created an entire synthetic human without use of archival footage for the show.

Their work might not be done, as the Journal reports that Dre has been considering taking the spectacle on tour.

"This is just the beginning," Ed Ulbrich, the company's creative director, told the newspaper. "Dre has a massive vision for this."

In an interview with MTV, Ulbrich said that normal unsecured loans digital re-creations cost anywhere from $100,000 to $400,000.

"I can't say how much that event cost, but I can say it's affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around the world and create bad credit loans concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country," he told the network's website

musicMagpie

musicMagpie, the online entertainment purchaser and retailer, has secured investment from LDC, the mid-market equity specialist, rumoured to be worth £10m.

Launched in 2007 by Steve Oliver and Walter Gleeson, musicMagpie, purchases CDS, DVDs and games directly from customers to resell on its website.The website has grown to become the largest operator of its kind in Europe, employing more than 500 people and serving customers in over 80 countries worldwide.
Oliver says the investment will be used to fund “the next phase of our international expansion”, which “has already begun with the launch of our German website, which is already showing some very encouraging results.”
With LDC’s support, musicMagpie also plans to advance its online purchasing and sales capabilities overseas, and build on its existing partnerships with global industry players to launch a series of consumer marketing campaigns in Europe, as it sets out on its international expansion programme.
musicMagpie has appointed Allan Leighton as non-executive chairman. Leighton formerly experience, held non-executive chairmanships at Asda unsecured loans  (Walmart), the Royal Mail and Lastminute.com.
Oliver continued: “With the backing of LDC, an investor renowned for developing international opportunities for its portfolio businesses, and with the contribution to the team by Allan Leighton, we hope to further develop the musicMagpie.co.uk brand and our strong trading performance in the bad credit loans UK, in other countries.”

GlobalGathering

GlobalGathering - the UK’s cutting edge and forward thinking electronic music festival has announced further details of their 2011 event, which will take place at Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-Upon-Avon on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th July.

Following their first ever phenomenal live appearance at Radio1's Big Weekend and their forthcoming Glastonbury show, Nero will be bringing a bigger and better full Live show to the GlobalGathering crowd for the very first time.  London dubstep bad credit loans quartet Modestep have also been added to this year’s line-up and will be hosting their live show at the Wax:On Arena on the Friday

Taking to the Main Stage on Friday will be multi-million selling drum and bass luminaries Pendulum, with support from legendary Swedish House Mafia DJ Steve Angello. British rapper Professor Green will also take to the stage, plus vocal genius Beardyman, who’ll start the weekend as it means to go on.

Following his triumphant appearance at GlobalGathering 2010, home-grown rap superstar and double-Brit winner Tinie Tempah takes charge of the Main Stage on Saturday, returning for the second year running with his thrilling torrent of drums and rave synthesizers. The Main Stage headliner will be supported by a host of established and fresh new acts  unsecured loans including Axwell, Labrinth (Live), Dirty South, Alex Metric and Yasmin (Live).

For the full line-up and details of who will be taking to the Global, Metropolis, Above & Beyond Presents Group Therapy, Wax:On, Union, Carl Cox Revolutions, Godskitchen, Toolroom Knights, Hospitality, Bedrock and Electric Arenas go to www.globalgathering.com

Goldman Sachs fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing Goldman Sachs of “[creating] and [selling] a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail,” according to The New York Times. The investment in question, Abacus 2007-AC1, was the brainchild of hedge-funder John A. Paulson. The Times reports: “Goldman let Mr. Paulson select mortgage bonds that he wanted to bet against—the ones he believed were most likely to lose value—and packaged those bonds into Abacus 2007-AC1, according to the S.E.C. complaint. Goldman then sold the Abacus deal to unsecured loans investors like foreign banks, pension funds, insurance companies and other hedge funds.”Goldman is denying any wrongdoing. A statement to the paper noted that the investments “were popular with many investors prior to the financial crisis because they gave investors the ability to work with banks to design tailored securities which met their particular criteria.” However, according to charges from Robert Khuzami, director of the Division of Enforcement at the S.E.C., “Goldman wrongly permitted a client that was betting against the mortgage bad credit loans market to heavily influence which mortgage securities to include in an investment portfolio, while telling other investors that the securities were selected by an independent, objective third party.” Investors—maybe make that “former investors”—now appear to be betting against Goldman: The Wall Street Journal reports that the bank’s stock has already dropped 12 percent.

Fiona Apple

It’s been long enough since Fiona Apple’s second (and to date second-to-last) album was released in 1999 that there are probably some more recent fans of hers who were actually born after its release. Those fans could probably be forgiven, then, for balking at the recently announced title of Fiona’s upcoming fourth studio album—which, to be fair, is considerably unwieldy and perplexing. It is as follows:

The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do.

Tough one, sure. (For the record, Wikipedia defines an “idler wheel” as “a system used to transmit the rotation of the main shaft of a motor to another unsecured loans rotating device, for example the platter of a record-reproducing turntable or the crankshaft-to-camshaft gear train of an automobile,” if that helps.) But really, this is child’s play compared to that 1999 album:

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he’ll win the whole thing ‘fore he enters the ring
There’s no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won’t matter, cause you’ll know that you’re right

No, those weren’t the lyrics to a song on the album—we bad credit loans don’t think so anyway, it’s been a while—that was actually the whole album title. By contrast, the 23-word new one might as well be Take Care or 21. Plus, it even has a singular central noun to make it easy to refer to in shorthand. “Hey, you guys got that Idler Wheel in stock yet?” Much less cumbersome and weird than “Hey, you guys got that When the Pawn…?”
C’mon, Fiona, you used to be challenging. Quit lobbing us these softballs.

Leeds and Reading line up

The hotly-anticipated line-up for this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals was announced this evening – with Foo Fighters, Kasabian and The Cure revealed as the headliners of the two-site festival.
Other notable inclusions to the bill include the newly reformed At The Drive-In, who announced they were playing earlier today (see below), Florence and The Machine, The Maccabees, The Black Keys, The Vaccines and The Horrors. unsecured loans
Reading and Leeds will take place across the August Bank Holiday weekend (24th-26th) and tickets went on sale tonight to coincide with the announcement of the line-up. Check out the links below for ticket details for each of the sites:

As mentioned above, newly reformed post-hardcore legends At The Drive-In announced their inclusion on the bad credit loans Reading and Leeds line-up on Twitter a full 3 hours before the ‘big’ announcement:

Freight train coming !!!… At The Drive In will be performing atReading / Leeds Festivals August 25-26
— At The Drive-In (@AtTheDriveIn) March 12, 2012

What do you think of the line-up? Excited or underwhelmed? Let us know in the comments below…

Latitude annual festival

The line-up for the seventh edition of Latitude Festival, held at Henham Park Estate, Suffolk, from 12 to 15 July 2012, has been announced.

Theatre highlights in this year's programme, which was announced during an event at the Century Club last night, include performances by the BAC, Lyric Hammersmith, Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, C!rca and HighTide.

Sadler's Wells return to the Waterfront Stage, which will be shared with acclaimed concert pianist Lang Lang who has also been named as exclusive special guest.

Performances in the theatre arena include companies such as Australian circus performers C!rca, the Lyric Hammersmith returning with a series of site specific pieces, Battersea Arts Centre and documentary-theatre company Look Left Look Right, who will premiere their Latitude commission of four new musicals.

Political activist and alternative comedian Mark Thomas will also preview his new play about his father, Bravo Figura at Latitude before transferring it to the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe.

Other high-profile productions include Alice By Heart, a new rock-musical take on Alice in Wonderland from Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, the writers of Spring Awakening. The show is brought to Latitude as part of the National Theatre's Connections, the theatre's annual, national festival of new writing and young theatre making.

Away from the Theatre Arena, Theatre Delicatessen premiere their new production of Henry V in The Outdoor Theatre, which will also play host to Globe Education at Shakespeare’s bad credit loans Globe.

HighTide Festival Theatre will also showcase their major new work on local folklore created especially for Latitude, Eisteddfod, whilst the award-winning Pentabus Theatre will present specially created work The Diggers Band.

Elsewhere on the site comedy headliners include Whatsonstage.com Award-winning comedian and creator of Matilda the Muscical Tim Minchin whilst the music stages are headlined by Bon Iver, Elbow and Paul Weller.

Lionel Richie gives advice to Jesse Campbell

Lionel Richie is seen offering advice to The Voice contestant Jesse Campbell in a new preview for the NBC singing competition. 

The 'Hello' singer will serve as a guest mentor for Christina Aguilera's team on the second season of The Voice, which airs Monday nights on NBC. 

A new preview clip released by NBC shows Richie and Aguilera listening to Campbell performing Alicia Keys's 'If I Ain't Got You' as he prepares for the battle rounds. 

Watch Lionel Richie on The Voice below: 




Richie previously said that he has known Aguilera "for a while" because she is friends with his daughter Nicole Richie, and also knows fellow coach Blake Shelton because he featured on Richie's new album Tuskegee. 

An earlier preview released by NBC shows unsecured loans that Campbell is paired against Anthony Evans in his battle round, with both singers performing 'If I Ain't Got You' in a bid to get through to the next round. 

Single dad Campbell had impressed all four coaches in his blind bad credit loans audition, opting to join Team Christina, while Evans became a member of Team Christina following his performance of 'What's Going On'. 

Cher Llyod USA

Cher Lloyd is gearing up to take the US by storm, transporting her credible, unsecured loans  yet fearless approach to pop music to the stages of Austin, TX, performing at Perez Hilton's annual SXSW showcase, Nylon Magazine/Dub Frequency event as well as Idolator's party.

Now she is hitting the shores of the US with her new single "Want U Back" set to reach the US airwaves in April following her live performance debut of the song at SXSW.

"I am so excited about coming over to the states and working with L.A Reid," said Cher. "L.A is a musical genius and has been such a great supporter of me. Now I just cannot wait to get on that stage and for everyone to hear my music."

"I had the pleasure of meeting Cher Lloyd backstage bad credit loans at The X Factor USA," commented L.A. Reid. "The moment she walked in the room I could just feel the presence of someone truly special. I believe in her extraordinary talent and will stand by her as we climb to the top of the US music charts."

Last year, Perez Hilton proclaimed, "Cher Lloyd is on the fast track for SUPERSTARDOM!" and now he has announced Cher as part of his annual SXSW event line-up at the Austin Music Hall on Saturday, March 17th. Fans can also catch her at Idolator's event on Thursday, March 15th and the Nylon magazine/DFM at the W Hotel party Friday, March 16th.

lil wayne - rollingstone

n the new issue of Rolling Stone — on stands and online in the digital archives on January 21st (subscription required) — Lil Wayne opens up for the first time about his time in prison. (See video from his cover shoot below.) During his eight month stint in Building C-76, cell 23 at Rikers Island, Weezy worked as an SPA (suicide prevention aide), listened to a lot of music on the radio (oldies and Hot 97) and played countless games of Uno with his cellmates in the Protective Custody division.

"I'd bust a nigga's ass at Uno," he told writer Josh Eells. "We gamble for phone unsecured loans time. I'd take nigga's commissary: Lemme get them cookies, lemme get them chips, get that soup."

Lil Wayne: A History in Photos

Eventually his cellmates stopped inviting him to games. "They'd be like, 'Oh, we thought you were asleep,'" Wayne says. "Like you can't look inside my cell and see that I'm right there! We ain't got no doors!"

Lil Wayne Goes to Jail: Rolling Stone's February 2010 Cover Story 

Other highlights from the piece:

- When Wayne sat court-side at a recent Miami Heat/New Orleans Hornets game he was upset that Lebron James and Dwyane Wade never came over to talk to him. "Them niggas never speak to a nigga," he says. "They don't chuck me the deuce or nothing. Nigga spent all that money on them fucking tickets ... Come holla at me. We sit right by them little bitch-ass niggas. At least come ask me why I'm not rooting for you."

Life on Planet Wayne: Rolling Stone's 2009 Lil Wayne Cover Story

- In prison he read biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Joan Jett, Vince Lombardi and Anthony Kiedis. "[Kiedis'] Scar Tissue was really good," he says. "I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he'd be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool."

Lil Wayne's 2009 Rolling Stone Cover Shoot

- He spent his final month in jail in solitary after he was bad credit loans caught with an iPod charger in his cell. It could have been worse: He also had a watch with an MP3 player on it, but another inmate took the rap. "He was a solid nigga," says Wayne. "Shout-out to Charles...Solitary was the worst. No TV. No radio. No commissary. Basically you're in there 23 hours a day." The only upside was he had a window where he could watch cars go by. "I used to sit at that motherfucker all day," he says.

One direction smash america

One Direction will soon leave British shores to return to America and it seems as though they have quite a hectic promotional tour planned when they arrive.

The X Factor stars will first attend The Brit Awards in London this week and then plan to jet off to the US, to start their first nationwide tour with band ‘Big Time Rush’. They will also be promoting their debut album ‘Up All Night,’ which is set for it’s American release on March 13th.

The boys have revealed that the day before the record is due to hit the shelves, they will be making an appearance on the hugely popular ‘Today Show’ and tweeted yesterday:

“We’re going to perform on @todayshow on Monday March 12th. Who’s planning to come down to see us? #1Dtodayshow,”

The American breakfast television show airs every morning on NBC and is one of the countries most watched and most popular. Many of the musical greats have appeared on it and the long, long list includes stars such as Whitney Houston, Madonna, Usher, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Lady Gaga.

Meanwhile, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan are putting their Twitter account to good use and bombarding their 1,720,000 followers with messages asking them to vote for their single in this year’s Brit Awards. Their debut song ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ is up for the Best Single award but faces stiff competition in the category. One Direction are trying to rally their legions of fans to bad credit loans vote for them, by tweeting:

Have you voted for One Direction at this years BRITs? Less than 24Hrs to go! #IVoted1DatTheBRITs
Last chance to vote for 1D at the BRITS. Make it count now. Voting closes at 12pm today. #1DFirstBRITAward 1DHQ x

Voting has now closed for the awards, and the unsecured loans boys will find out if they have been successful later this week.

They have had an exciting month and as well as their debut single in America reaching the top ten in the US itunes charts, their album also shot straight to No.1 in Italy and Sweden.

We think that perhaps the teen sensations are heading for world domination!

Sonisphere Festival with Bill Bailey

Making sweet music at Knebworth has become a British tradition, but never has the BBC theme been given such a dramatic rendition, as Michael Loveless finds out when he heads to Sonisphere to see Bill Bailey, read on... bad credit loans

There is usually a clear line between music and comedy acts at festivals, one is blaring out the guitar riffs while the other is swearing back at them, however with Bill Bailey you feel like the tables have been turned.

Before his headlining appearance Bailey had sent out a cheeky message to old school big boys Metallica, that should anything happen to them before the show, he would be ready to step in.

He demonstrated just what he meant at Sonisphere on Sunday night as his band embarked on Enter the Sandman, to which Bailey provided the solo by shredding his homemade car horn parade. 

There's no doubt that Bailey was one of the big draws at the festival, which brought the 'Big Four', Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, together to share a bill for the first time in UK festival history.

Saturday provided a more family-friendly flavour before Sunday's costume capers/metal favourites Slipknot took the headline slot. But Bill Bailey was hot on everyone's lips from the moment the first cymbal crashed and the first devil horn was raised.

Bailey's much awaited set began with the tone-setting warm up, ’Oi, Amstel, I ain't gonna be your bitch’, sparking further intrigue into his famous departure from Never mind The Buzzcocks. And with it, the savage sunshine turned to a heavy downpour.

Next up was an adaption of his popular ‘I bleed on your Panini’ EMO song, entitled ‘I bleed on your Fageena’. Nice. A classically trained musician though, Bill Bailey was keen to flex his muscles and rip out the car horn parade he previewed in his video. Suitably, a cover of Gary Numan’s 'Cars' would do it, in French, as a tribute to Megadeth.

This was followed by 'I love news', with a homage to what has to be the UK's most listened to 10-second mash-up, the BBC News intro. Annie Mac must be kicking herself that she didn't think of that one while sharing a croissant with Huw Edwards in the Beeb canteen.

Next ‘The Wurzels’ were blended with Eurotrash with a generous sprinkling of piercing Euro beats and a west country Lady Gaga with guest vocals from Chairman 'Mao' overdubbing ‘My'. Bailey broadened his accent accordingly, in which the metal revellers took delight.

He then gave a beautiful rendition of Scarborough Fair with a bouzouki before launching into a heavy interpretation through the ears of German rockers Rammstein. It was surprising how well the German lyrics were picked up (rubbish translation below if you want to give it a go), which led into Hokey Cokey, with Bailey clearly showing too much interest in Rammstein. unsecured loans

All the more impressive was that as the rush for the main headliner started, with the rain still lashing down as if straight from heavy metal hell, the crowd stuck with him until the end, allowing a delighted Bill to congratulate everyone on what he claimed must have been " the biggest comedy crowd ever, ever, ever". I’m not sure what McIntyre would say about that.

Grammy Awards Skrillex

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards telecast has yet to begin, but breakout star Skrillex is already a three-time winner.

The dubstep king, who was nominated for five awards, has already taken home Grammys for Best Dance Recording ('Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites') and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (Benny Benassi's 'Cinema (Skrillex Remix)'). He also beat out stadium house kings Deadmau5, David Guetta, pop darling Robyn and Aussie dance-rockers Cut Copy in electronic music's biggest category, Best Dance/Electronica Album.

"This is really crazy for me, man," Skrillex said, accepting the award for Best Remixed Recording. "I made this song in my bedroom when I was living illegally in a warehouse in downtown L.A. I made that song with a blown speaker." bad credit loans

The 24-year-old newcomer, unsecured loans born Sonny Moore, continued to pay his respects to the dance artists who paved the way for the current crop of EDM stars, including Justice and Daft Punk.

"Everyone in the [electronic dance music] community, this means a lot to us," he said. "There's a lot of people who have been here before us."

Skrillex is up for two more awards, including Best New Artist, for which he will compete against Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver, The Band Perry and J. Cole.

Adele rips up the Grammy ceremony

LOS ANGELES —

British soul diva Adele made a triumphant return to the stage at the Grammys on Sunday, winning a clean sweep of six awards and a standing ovation, in a show clouded by the death of Whitney Houston.unsecured loans

The 23-year-old Londoner, who has been out of action since October to undergo throat surgery, wowed a star-studded audience with a storming rendition of her worldwide hit “Rolling in the Deep.”

The tune won best song Grammy, to add to Adele’s haul of awards for best record, best album for her breakthrough “21,” best short video, best pop album and best pop artist—wins in all six categories in which she was nominated.

“This record is inspired by something that is really normal .. just a rubbish relationship,” said Adele, adding: “It’s been the most life-changing year.”

“Oh, I got a bit of snot!” she said in her trademark cockney accent, wiping her nose and fighting back tears at the climax of the three-and-a-half hour show, which ended with a Beatles medley led by Paul McCartney.

The other hotly-anticipated comeback of the night was by iconic 1960s California surfer band the Beach Boys, who played together live on stage for the first time in over two decades.

A three-song tribute started with a close-harmony version of “Surfer Girl” by Maroon 5, and then the falsetto strains of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by Foster the People, against a backdrop of multicolor surf boards.

After a standing ovation, the Beach Boys themselves, all now in their 60s, then took to the stage to play “Good Vibrations,” with famously glum-looking Brian Wilson almost smiling as he hit the high notes with his old bandmates.

Another blast from the past came in the form of country legend Glen Campbell, currently on a farewell tour after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, who had the audience singing along with his classic “Rhinestone Cowboy.”

But while Adele was the big winner, the show was punctuated with tributes to Houston, the 1980s and 1990s superstar who died on Saturday at age 48 at the Beverly Hilton hotel on the eve of the U.S. music industry’s big awards night.

The Grammy show began with a prayer for Houston from host LL Cool J.

“There is no way around this. We’ve had a death in our family,” he said, adding: “The only thing that feels right is to begin with a prayer for a woman who we loved, for our fallen sister.”

The audience, with stars including McCartney in the front row, then watched a clip of Houston singing one of her greatest hits, “I Will Always Love You,” and gave her a standing bad credit loans ovation.

“Whitney, we will always love you,” said the U.S. rapper host. “This night is about something truly universal and healing; this night is about music.”

Later in the show, singer Jennifer Hudson—who was presented with a Grammy by Houston in 2009—gripped the audience in silence with a classy rendition of “I Will Always Love You,” the smash hit from Houston’s film “The Bodyguard.”

“Whitney, we love you,” she said as she closed the performance sung to a piano accompaniment, spotlighted in the dark in a plain black dress.

Winners

Record Of The Year: “Rolling In The Deep” - Adele.

Album Of The Year: “21” - Adele.

Song Of The Year: “Rolling In The Deep” - Adele and Paul Epworth.

Best New Artist: Bon Iver.

Best Pop Solo Performance: “Someone Like You” - Adele.

Best Pop Duo: “Body And Soul” - Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse.

Best Pop Vocal Album: “21” - Adele.

Best Rock Song: “Walk” - Foo Fighters.

Best Rock Album: “Wasting Light” - Foo Fighters.

Best R&B Song: “Fool for You” - Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona.

Best R&B Album: “F.A.M.E” - Chris Brown.

Best Rap Song: “All of the Lights” - Kanye West.

Best Rap Album: “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” - Kanye West.

Best Country Song: “Mean” - Taylor Swift.

Best Country Album: “Own the Night” - Lady Antebellum.