S. Grappelli and S. Asmussen & other: June 2008

Monday 30 June 2008

Diana Reyes

Artist: Diana Reyes

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Folk

Discography:

Te Voy a Mostrar

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

Singles

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

La Reina del Pasito Duranguense

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Diana Reyes

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Querida Socia

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

Duranguense is generally a man's world, with very few female voices to credit in the apace growing genre. Diana Reyes appears perfectly comfortable staking her claim yet. Born in Puerto de la Paz in Baja California, Reyes showed an kinship for music early on. Under the discover Diana Polanco, she began playing in local festivals and giving concerts spell most of her peers were in the number one level. She recorded her low gear norteÃ±o record at the age of eight-spot in Guadalajara, generating the singles "Barrios y Escuela" and "Cristo Rey." Reyes continued to do passim the early '90s, gaining attention and the notice of important figures in the regional Mexican music world, including Lola BeltrÃ¡n, wHO took a extra interest in her. A few days afterwards Reyes recorded her low gear full-length record book, entitled A Todo Norte, which opened doors all passim her family's base state of Sinaloa. She shortly relocated to Mexico City to sign with Azteca Music, with whom she won national fame. "La Joya Nortena" and "Querida Socia" became some of the most played tuner hits of 2000, winning Reyes the popular assumed name "La Socia," too the nominate of the 2001 release on which the hits appeared. As the winds of Duranguense blew through the nation, Reyes felt a hard pull to redefine herself artistically, and she recorded an album entitled La Reina del Pasito Duranguense, featuring the hits "Rosas," "El Sol No Regresa," and "Como una Mariposa." That album became her low gear gold record book, to be followed a year later by her bit, Las No. 1 de la Reina. Reyes' third au record was released in 2007, entitled Te Voy a Mostrar.

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Chris Barber

Artist: Chris Barber

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Jazz

Discography:

The Skiffle Sessions: Live in Belfast 1998

Year: 2000
Tracks: 15

Who's Blues

Year:
Tracks: 9

Jambalaya

Year:
Tracks: 18

One of the leaders of England's early-'60s trad jazz front, Chris Barber (a solid trombone player) began leading his have bands in 1948. In 1954, trumpeter Pat Halcox linked Barber, and with the later additions of clarinettist Monty Sunshine, banjoist/singer Lonnie Donegan, and blue devils isaac Bashevis Singer Ottilie Patterson, Barber had an all-star work party. Sunshine's gain version of "Petite Fleur" made both Barber and the clarinettist into big names. Although his chemical group was based in Dixieland, Barber has long been open-minded towards rag, swing, mainstream, blues, R&B, and john Rock. He has collaborated with many artists including Louis Jordan, Russell Procope, Wild Bill Davis, and Dr. John, and has toured the U.S. various times since 1959.

Careful Daddy, That's a Live One!

Monday 16 June 2008

Cage The Elephant Singer Rushed To Hospital With Leg Injury

Cage the Elephant frontman Matt Schultz was rushed to hospital earlier this week after suffering a serious leg injury, Gigwise can reveal.

Shultz and the band were filming a television programme in Manchester on Wednesday (June 11th) when the incident happened.

Despite twisting his knee, as you can see from the pictures below, at the beginning of the bands set the band continued with their performance.

Shultz is expected to make a full recovery from the injury.

You can see behind-the-scenes pictures of Cage the Elephant below...

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Thursday 12 June 2008

Daft Punk recording new album

Our favourite French robots are back in the studio making glorious bleeps and bloops while bobbing their heads in unison. Yes, Daft Punk are right back at it - holed up in Paris, recording new music.

The dance act's previous album, 2005's Human After All, received a critical drubbing and Daft Punk seemed destined for the dustbin. But that all changed with a 2006-2007 world tour where, with a giant space-age pyramid, they knocked a thousand dancing shoes right off and now appear keen to put that live magic back on record.

"I can't wait to listen to their new stuff," enthused the band's long-time friend and manager, Busy P, who broke the news of their imminent new album in an interview with In The Mix magazine. "[But] they are slow, you know. They are taking their time, and they have a right."

Indeed, Busy P may have to wait, like the rest of us, until the album is officially released before he can hear what Daft Punk have been cooking up. For after 12 years as their manager, Busy P - real name Pedro Winter - is to step aside. "I've stopped working with them really recently," he said. "I want to concentrate on [my label] Ed Banger, and my own career as Busy P."

We can imagine Busy P now, sitting in his kitchen, reliving old times, dreaming that his microwave and toaster are mumbling in robotic French accents.

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Nick Swardson on ‘Zohan,’ Gay Robots, and ‘Cavemen’

Swardson and Sandler in Zohan.Courtesy of Sony
He may not be a household name just yet, but fans of goofball comedy (and of Adam Sandler) should be well aware of Nick Swardson’s work. In addition to a slew of roles memorable for their general oddity (Hector the Stalker! Terry the Rollerskating Gay Guy!), he also graced the screen in Click and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry — and now he’s teamed up with Sandler again for the Vulture-befuddling but Edelstein-recommended flick You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, which hits theaters tonight. Swardson talked to Vulture about his weird career trajectory, his self-professed tendency to be a “fucking dork,” and his guest appearance on the Best. Show. Ever. (No, not that one.)

Tell us about your character in the film.
Well, Adam Sandler is playing an Israeli counterterrorist who's decided that he doesn't want to kill anybody anymore. So he fakes his own death and moves to New York to cut hair, and in New York he meets my character on the street. Then he moves in with me and my mother. I'm basically his first friend in the city.

Can you let us in on anything about the film that hasn't been reported yet?
It's all in black-and-white, and there's no sound. Kidding.

It’s about an Israeli counterterrorist-cum-hairdresser getting chased by Hezbollah wannabes, right? Does it ever get controversial?
Not at all! Like, Rob Schneider’s character finds out that Zohan is still alive in New York and only faked his death in Israel, and since he's a Palestinian cabdriver, he figures he can get a lot of fame and attention by capturing Zohan.

So this isn't Munich.
No way. It's just a warm-hearted comedy saying, "Look, let's just get along."

You have an unorthodox IMDb history: You were the stalker in Blades of Glory, an insane Bowie fan in Almost Famous, a bewigged weirdo in Benchwarmers. Why are you drawn to those roles?
I was thinking about that other day! I swear I wasn't consciously deciding that I wanted to be a huge weirdo.

You also have a history of playing people with crappy jobs, like a furniture salesman on Cavemen, and you played a Bed, Bath and Beyond employee in Click. Did you ever have a job like those before you started acting?
I used to be a busboy at Planet Hollywood. I was, like, 18. And I remember — this is so corny, I don't really want to tell you this — but I remember looking up at the wall and thinking, One day I'll be up there. I'm such a fucking dork.

We read that you began work on a TV pilot called The Gay Robot. Any plans on developing that?
We're finishing up the pilot for Comedy Central. It's a show about a professor who creates a robot who turns out to be gay. David Faustino plays one of the leads, from Married … with Children. It's basically like a day in the life of a gay robot.

You guest-starred on Cavemen, which means we're honor-bound to bring up our editors' unabashed adoration for that show.
Really? I don't know if I believe you.

Sample Vulture headlines: "In Cautious Defense of Cavemen"; "Cavemen Actually Pretty Good!"; "Cavemen Continues to Be Funny, Despite Everything"; "Please, ABC, Don't Cancel Cavemen!"
Oh my God. Are you kidding me? Really? That's hilarious. I don't even know what to say. Usually people are like, "You were on Cavemen? Why?"
—Annsley Chapman

Steve Bug and Cle

Artist: Steve Bug and Cle

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Silicon Ballet EP

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Hammer and Bennett

Artist: Hammer and Bennett

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Language Inc Elevation Remix

Year:
Tracks: 3

Basketball Star Sues Over Speed Racer Deal

U.S. basketball star SAMUEL DALEMBERT is suing a design studio he claims conned him out of more than $1 million (GBP500,000) he thought he was investing into comic book movie SPEED RACER.

The Philadelphia 76ers player claims he handed the money over to a design studio in New York in 2006, in the belief it was using his investment to license Speed Racer products and merchandise.

According to TMZ.com, Dalembert has filed a lawsuit, seeking more than $50,000 (GBP25,000) from Art Asylum, claiming they never had the rights to Speed Racer in the first place.

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John Mayer: The New Chandler

Could he be any more in there?

John Mayer paid a visit to the Malibu beach home of David and Courteney Cox Arquette this weekend -- with girlfriend du jour Jen Aniston.

Janice was nowhere in sight.

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Prince and The Revolution

Artist: Prince and The Revolution

   Genre(s):
funk
   Soundtrack

Discography:

Parade (Under The Cherry Moon)

Year: 1986
Tracks: 12

Purple Rain

Year: 1984
Tracks: 9

Newman cancer rumour confirmed

Rumours that movie legend Paul Newman is battling cancer have been confirmed.
According to Sky News a neighbour and business partner of Newman's said the actor told him about the disease 18 months ago.
Writer AE Hotchner, a partner at 'Newman's Own' salad dressing company in the 1980s, did not say what kind of cancer he was suffering from.
Last month, Newman pulled out of directing John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' for unspecified health reasons.
He is reported to be attending the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, a few hours from his Connecticut home.