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See you later, everyone! It's my last (half-)day as editor of Vulture. I'm really proud of the blog and the important stories we've broken � crucial, game-changing news about movies, contemporary art, and quality television programs. I'm proud to have been here in good times and bad times, embracing our joys and sharing our sorrows.

But I'm afraid it's time to move on. People keep asking me, "Where are you going now?" and then they look uncomfortable when I say "Nowhere!" and laugh merrily. But it's true! I turned down the hopeful entreaties of Paul Dergarabedian � even when he raised my salary offer and explained that one number was larger than the other number � and considered, but passed, on a job as Ben Silverman's personal tiger groomer. So I'm heading off into the sunset unencumbered. Well, I have to write an entire book by January. I'll also be contributing to Vulture and to the magazine every once in a while. Whatever, my plans are boring. What about your plans? What are you up to this fall?

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David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

27 years agone David Byrne of Talking Heads and Brian Eno of everything cool in music since 1973 made My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Its early sampleology, mixing third gear world ethicity with first base world engineering science and intellectualism, was, to put it simply, i of the most authoritative releases of the terminal 50 age; presaging music's rush into imminent globalism and the blurring of genre boundaries. Reunited, the pair take come up with a completely different beast. Anyone expecting boundaries to be broken here will be sorely foiled. Anyone expecting something intriguingly and sometimes maddeningly infectious will be in fortune.

With a crew of ambient guitar player Leo Abrahams and F-Ire Collective jazz figurehead, drummer Seb Rochford, Everything That Happens Will happen Today is in turns slinky, poppy, shopworn and fantastic. Sometimes all at erst. Described by Byrne as 'Electronic gospel', initial listens put you in mind of the space-age country twangs of Eno's Apollo soundtrack, but with vocals. Yet once you amaze past the foursquareness of some of the arrangements then it's the inside information that get going the neurons firing.

With Byrne intoning over Eno's musical ideas we get the geekiness of Byrne's voice filled to bursting by Eno's trademark dulcet harmonies. Songs like Home and Life Is Long (featuring, shock horror, a brass section) seem simplistic on the surface, thus far repeated plays make them harder and harder to resist. It's just the anticipation of hearing something world-shaking that gets in the way.

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But for every slightly misjudged step you get something as sweet as Life Is Long or One Fine daylight, which in true Enoesque fashion seems to both resemble some township intone AND a sea shanty.

No, it's not going to change your life. No, it's non remotely up there with the classics. But dammit, it's Eno and Byrne, and it's lovely.

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Axel Rudi Pell

   
Artist: Axel Rudi Pell

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal
   Metal: Heavy
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Diamonds Unlocked

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Mystica

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Ballads III

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Kings and Queens

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Shadow Zone

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Ballads

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Wizard's Chosen Few [CD 2]

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Wizard's Chosen Few [CD 1]

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Masquerade Ball

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Maquerade Ball

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Ballads II

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Oceans Of Time

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Magic

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 Black Moon Pyramid

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 Between The Walls

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Between The Wall

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Ballads

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Eternal Prisoner

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


   
 Nasty Reputation

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 9


   
 Wild Obsession

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10

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German guitar player Axel Rudi Pell is one of cloggy metal's masterminds, thanks to his volute playacting techniques and pinch-hitting riffs which crafted Pell as a mainstay in the hard john Rock genre for the majority of the hair metal '80s. His first band, Steeler, kicked off a mild calling in Europe during the early piece of the decennary, issuing trey albums (Steeler [1984], Rulin' the Earth [1985], Strike Back [1986]) prior to 1987's Undercover Animal, which signaled the beginning of Pell's long-sought solo calling. This professional junket allowed Pell to fully queer his riveting playing big businessman and collaborations betwixt he and other musicians. His 1989 debut Wild Obsession showcased ex-Steeler's bassist Volker Krawczak and vocal good luck charm from Charlie Huhn, simply 1991's soph effort proved Pell's finding. Cruddy Reputation was heavier, throttling with Rob Rock on vocals and a unequivocal stance for Pell to too breach upon neoclassical influences. Later albums such as Black Moon Pyramid (1996) and Oceans of Time (1998) were exquisitely down pat, churned-up interchangeable sounds of Rainbow and Deep Purple. Axel Rudi Pell proven his single star status, most celebratory, like guitar champion Yngwie Malmsteen, throughout the '90s as well, issuing a veer of releases spell left over a chief force out among the German charts.





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Angelina Jolie: 'Disney Offends Me And My Children'

Angelina Jolie and her two daughters have been left upset by Disney because none of their movies feature African princesses.

The pregnant star and partner Brad Pitt are disappointed by the lack of different cultures featured in children's films and are urging the movie giant to be more diverse.

The actress insists educating their children about culture is important in the Jolie-Pitt household.

She tells OK!: "(So) even the colour of the children in the cartoon matters.

"There still isn't a Disney princess that's African and it's very difficult because our daughters' getting into princesses right now and it upsets me."

Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children: Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as biological daughter Shiloh.

Rowling offers glimpse into Harry prequel

LONDON (Reuters) - The secret of what happened before boy
wizard Harry Potter went to Hogwarts will be revealed through
the unusual channel of a charity auction next month.


Author JK Rowling has penned an 800-word outline of a
prequel to the seven book series that has made her into a
billionaire which will be sold at the auction on June 10 by
bookseller Waterstones.


The outline, which ends with the line "From the prequel I
am not working on -- but that was fun!" is one of 13 story
outlines written for the auction by famed authors including new
Bond writer Sebastian Faulks and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.


"What's Your Story? just gets more and more exciting -- all
these brilliant works by amazing writers and illustrators,
every one a small masterpiece," said Waterstone's chief Gerry
Johnson.


"We never dreamed that JK Rowling would donate something so
precious, and we're incredibly grateful."


The money raised will go to charities English PEN and
Dyslexia Action.


Other authors who have donated outline works are Lisa
Appignanesi, Margaret Atwood, Lauren Child, Richard Ford, Neil
Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Michael Rosen, Axel Scheffler, Tom
Stoppard and Irvine Welsh.


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Chilly

   
Artist: Chilly

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Dance
   disco
   

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Discography:


   
 Secret Lies

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 13


   
 Showbiz

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 13


   
 Come To L.A.

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 7


   
 For Your Love

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 7


   
 Come To L.A./For Your Love

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 9


   
 Deluxe Collection

   Year:    
Tracks: 23

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Spears' father to retain control over affairs

Spears' father to retain control over affairs

Britney Spears' father will keep control over her affairs for around 3 more weeks, according to a motor lodge opinion

Ludacris juggles recording and acting

Ludacris juggles recording and acting

Newly House of York (Billboard) - Rapper Ludacris is




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LiveDaily Sessions: Paddy Casey

LiveDaily Sessions: Paddy Casey

Paddy field Casey [ tickets ] power seem wish an emerging creative person here in the United States, merely in his native Ireland, he's already reached icon status. His second record album, 2005's "Living," went 11 times atomic number 78, landing him the second-best-selling album of the class behind chap countrymen U2. Casey garnered American music industry attention when he played the US-Ireland Confederation pre-Oscar company in Los Angeles in March 2006. Music bigwig Larry Hamby, the A&R piece responsible for crafting Michael Jackson's "Thriller" into the best-selling album of wholly clock time, cornered Casey and encouraged him to track record his next record album stateside. The final result: "Addicted to Company," an organized patchwork of styles ranging from old school Philadelphia soul featuring established session background signal singers to brooding melodies scattered with personal insight and loads of emotion. This, the third button of his life history, is last putt Paddy Casey on American language airwaves and possibly best-of lists.Paddy Casey testament join KT Tunstall for a month-long US spell in Whitethorn earlier taking off with Augustana to enlistment the Southern states through and through mid-June.





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Dan Hicks

   
Artist: Dan Hicks

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 A Woman Alone with the Blues

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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Passim his decades-long calling, Dan Hicks stood as one of coeval music's true eccentrics. Patch steeped in sept, his acoustic sound knew few musical comedy boundaries, lottery on state, call-and-response vocals, tick over words phrasing, and no pocket-size amount of money of money of humor to make a typical, albeit sporadic, consistence of work which earned him a devoted rage undermentioned.


Hicks was natural December 9, 1941, to a armed forces household then living in Arkansas River, and grew up in Calif., where he was a drummer in a bit of high bands. He accompanied college in San Francisco, where he switched to guitar and began playing mob line music. He returned to the drums, all the same, when he joined the Charlatans, one of the Embayment City's commencement psychedelic bands. Although the Charlatans were short-lived -- they issued just one person during their organism -- they proved influential end-to-end the San Francisco musical community and were i of the first acts of the Apostles to playact the legendary Class Detent.


Hicks had formed the acoustic mathematical radical Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks in 1968 as an opener for the Charlatans, but soon the cy Young band became his primary project. Afterward adding a pair of female championship vocalists -- "the Lickettes" -- the group issued its debut LP, Master Recordings, in 1969. Subsequently a copulate of 1971 records, Where's the Money? and Contact It Rich people, they issued 1973's Meshwork Take to Hicksville, which proved to be the Hot Licks' nearly successful record record album so far. At the crest of the group's popularity, however, Hicks dissolved the circle and did not resurface until 1978, releasing the solo LP It Happened Unity Morsel, the soundtrack to an incomplete feature motion-picture show by energiser Ralph Bakshi. He then phased in and taboo of the music industry for more than than a decade and did non issuance another major recording until 1994's Shootin' Straight, a live recording cut with a modern font band, the Acoustic Warriors. In 2000, over two decades by and by on the group's adjournment, Hicks re-formed the Hot Licks and issued Beatin' the Heat. Alive and Lickin' arrived a year by and by.

Man who took Lost star hostage pleads guilty

Man who took Lost star hostage pleads guilty

The man wHO took 'Lost' star Chaff Holloway and his wife hostage faces up to 30 days in pokey.
Ruben Royce, 23, broke into to the couple's Hawaiian home in October 2005 and threatened them ahead devising away with their wallets and railcar.
Royce pleaded guilty to 33 malefactor charges in a Hawaiian capital court, including three other robberies, as voice of a prosecution steal that could see him sentenced to up to 30 age behind parallel bars.
He was convicted last month of another robbery, as comfortably as charges including reckless endangerment and firearms violations. Royce said he had no mind at the time that Holloway, wHO plays Sawyer in the series, was famous.
"Essentially, he was drive around looking for illusion cars, nice homes and picked certain ones for home base invasion," said public prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado.
He said Holloway and his wife had been frightened by Royce.
"They view they were going to develop killed," Arrisgado said. "This hombre was real vicious and had no hesitancy in pointing the artillery in their grimace."
Royce volition be sentenced on 29 April.




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Breed 77

   
Artist: Breed 77

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Un Encuentro

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 In My Blood (En Mi Sangre)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Breed 77

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Worlds On Fire

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Cultura

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13

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Rock of Gibraltar, a tiny British protectorate well-nigh Espana at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea Sea, does not loom large in john Rock and roll & roll account: prior to Breed 77, the doS came nighest to stone importance when King John Lennon and Yoko Ono were matrimonial in that location in 1969. A little over a twenty-five percent c later, Multiply 77 (marked "breed seven vII"), an old school hard-rocking alloy band in the dash of Iron Maiden and other New Wave of British people Heavy Metallic element stalwarts, formed in Greater London when its members moved in that locating after development up together in Gibraltar. Trail isaac M. Isaac Merrit Singer Paul Isola, guitarist Danny Felice, bassist Stuart Cavilla, and drummer Lawrence Bautista gained flash notoriety on the small but dedicated U.K. metal fit; by 1998, Breed 77 had already south Korean south Korean won the Kerrang! Readers Poll parrot as best unsigned ring. Sign language to the Aussie label Albert Productions (best known as AC/DC's country of origin mug) and replenishment Bautista with Pete Chichone, Cover 77 debuted with 2001's self-titled album. Fleshing extinct their sound with second guitar instrumentalist Pedro Caparros, they returned with 2004's Cultura. Replacing Chichone with Brits drummer Robert Adam Lewis, Cover 77 released their third base album, In My Blood (En Mi Sangre), in Sept 2006.





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