Update: Jury Deliberates in R. Kelly Trial, Singer Slapped With Another Charge This Week

Just as R. Kelly?s child pornography trial went to jury Thursday, the singer found out that he has been slapped with yet another lawsuit.

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2 Clean

   
Artist: 2 Clean

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Don Mecca

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 21

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Barack Obama Reveals His iPod Playlist: Jay-Z, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen ... And Sheryl Crow?

'Popcorn' strike heats up

SkyCity cinema workers are promising further industrial action after staff at an Auckland theatre walked off the job last night.

Management were forced to step in after 26 staff at SkyCity's WestCity Shopping Town cinema in Henderson, took to the streets at 6pm yesterday, in support of a pay increase and secure working hours.

The action has been dubbed the "popcorn" strike after staff requested cinema patrons to show support for their cause by boycotting buying food from confectionary stands.

Unite Union national director Mike Treen said today that further industrial action would continue over the next month.

"SkyCity put out a statement saying they pay the industry rate – well, they rule half the industry and that's the problem," he said.

"Eventually the entire movie industry will be involved. We are already negotiating with the other players including Reading and Hoyts."

Members were asking for an hourly rate of $12.20, moving up to $13.10 after two years' service, as well as guaranteed work hours.

Mr Treen said the public reaction to yesterday's picket was overwhelming.

"[The workers] had big signs up saying `toot for support', `for secure hours', `against low pay', and the toots were deafening."

Mr Treen said when the workers went back to work they were met with big lines after senior management had tried to fill the strikers' shoes.

The union was willing to re-enter negotiations at any time but he did not believe SkyCity took its workers seriously.

"In our negotiations with them they were contemptuous and dismissive of any idea that these workers deserved greater rights."

SkyCity Cinemas did not return calls today but chief operating officer Joanne Watt said yesterday that the chain had good relationships with its employees and that it offered flexible hours for staff to suit student timetables.

SkyCity was disappointed about the strike action, Ms Watt said.

SkyCity is the largest cinema operator in New Zealand with 19 cinemas throughout the country.

 - NZPA





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Cooper? He Hardley Knew Her!

Wanna know who Anderson Cooper wants to be his "boo"?

Now if he could only figure out what the word means.






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Michel Pepe and Logo

   
Artist: Michel Pepe and Logo

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Harmonia Millenium

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14

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Rob 'n' Raz

   
Artist: Rob 'n' Raz

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Rob 'n' Raz feat. Leila K

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 15

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Death Before Dishonor

   
Artist: Death Before Dishonor

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Count Me In

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Friends Family Forever

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


   
 True Till Death

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10

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SAG Continues Two-front Battle

Dr. Drew says addicted celebs need to spend more time in rehab

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood has a serious drug problem and isn't committing the time it takes to fix it, according to Dr. Drew.

Not only are substances plentiful and socially acceptable in most celebrity circles, but stars who seek treatment often opt for abbreviated programs in exclusive environments, Drew Pinsky, host of radio's "Love Line" and VH1's "Celebrity Rehab," said in an interview.

Drew, who has studied what draws stars to drugs, presents his findings in the hour-long "VH1 News Presents: Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction Special," which airs Tuesday in the United States.

"Today, in the celebrity world, we're seeing an addiction epidemic," Pinsky said, adding that the disease of addiction is more deadly than cancer.

"If you had cancer, you would drop everything," he says. "You would take whatever time it needed to do the treatment and do what it takes to get out on the other side. Here's a disease that is more dangerous, and we can't get people to take three months."

These compound challenges give celebrity drug addicts a "bad prognosis," Pinsky said.

"I don't like treating celebrities," he said. "It's not a group I would seek out of a population I would necessarily treat as a separate goal because they're very, very difficult."

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On the Net: www.drdrew.com

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/vh1-news-presents/136589/episode.jhtml

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Big Brother's Dennis Questioned By Police

Dennis McHugh was questioned by police last night on suspicion of common assault, following his removal from the Big Brother house.
The 23-year-old was removed from the show yesterday afternoon after allegedly spitting in the face of fellow contestant Mohamed Mohamed, 23, in the early hours of the morning during a row involving several housemates.
A spokesperson for Hertfordshire Police told The Daily Mail, “We are aware of the alleged incident that took place in the Big Brother house.
“We are investigating this and have spoken to a 23-year-old man from Edinburgh as part of our enquiries.”

Girlschool

   
Artist: Girlschool

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

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Discography:


   
 Believe

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 15


   
 Can't Keep A Good Girl Down

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 16


   
 Live

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


   
 Girlschool

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Take A Bite

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


   
 Nightmare At Maple Cross

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10


   
 Play Dirty

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Screaming Blue Murder

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 10


   
 Hit and Run

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 11

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Although the Runaways preceded them by several age, Girlschool was one of the first all-female outfits to emerge in the male-dominated domain of heavy metal/hard stone, serving to pave the way for similar groups of the future. Originally formed in South London during 1977 by bassist Enid Williams and vocalist/guitarist Kim McAuliffe (along with a few other members), the mathematical group was start known as Painted Lady. Eventually the couple came across lasting members Kelly Johnson (guitar, vocals) and Denise Dufort (drums), and switched their call to Girlschool by 1978. With England simply about to be swept up by a massive heavy metal move (known as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal), Girlschool picked a perfect time to consequence a debut undivided, "Take It All Away," which caught the attention of Motörhead handler Doug Smith, wHO in turn signed on as Girlschool's handler. After supporting both Motörhead and Budgie on circuit, Girlschool landed a recording contract with Bronze Records (wHO at the time was the plate to such notable metal acts as Motörhead, Uriah Heep, and Juicy Lucy).


The quartet's 1980 debut, Demolition, reached the U.K. Top 30, just was surprisingly non issued in the U.S. (despite spawning quatern popular singles back nursing home: "Emergency," "Nothing To Lose," "Yeah Right," and "Race With the Devil"). Girlschool's soph endeavour, 1981's Hit & Run, proven to be even more than successful, peaking at number five on the British album charts, while a coaction with their pals in Motörhead, an EP called The St. Valentines Day Massacre, pip numeral cinque on the British singles charts (due in constituent to the overpoweringly strident running, "Please Don't Touch"). Pip & Run would also turn forbidden to be the low Girlschool album issued stateside, albeit with a different data track itemization than the original U.K. version (the U.S. version was more or less a compiling of both of their albums). 1982's Screaming Blue Murder and 1983's Playact Dirty both failed to execute as imposingly on the U.K. charts as their predecessors did, the latter of which contained a more than commercial-grade sound and was produced by Slade members Noddy Holder and Jim Lea.


Just it was likewise more or less this sentence that card changes began to plague the mathematical group, starting off when Johnson left the radical undermentioned the release of Play Dirty. Further albums were issued (such as 1985's Linear Wild, 1986's Nightmare at Maple Cross, and 1988's Get hold of a Bite), just Girlschool was never able to replicate their early success, leading to their detachment curtly after the release of Take a Bite. In the arouse of Girlschool's initial split, McAuliffe teamed up with punk singers Beki Bondage and Toyah Willcox, worked on the U.K. cable's length television demonstrate Raw Power, and in 1991 toured with other bandmates Dufort and Williams below the name Strange Girls. Throughout the '90s, Girlschool would reunite sporadically for tours and albums (including 1992's self-titled release and 1995's Live), piece several compilations were issued, including 1995's double-disc best-of set The Collection and 1997's The King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents In Concert (the latter featuring a show recorded on January 12, 1984, in Nashville, TN).





Celtas Cortos

Blu-ray Making Faster Inroads Than Dvd

Consumers are buying Blu-ray Disc players at a rate faster than they did conventional DVD players when they first appeared nine years ago, according to a new study. UK-based Futuresource Consulting estimated that Western European consumers are grabbing up Blu-ray players at more than six times the rate that they bought DVD players in 1999. Video Business magazine quoted Futuresource exec Jim Bottoms as saying, "As player prices continue to fall, title availability grows and awareness increases, Blu-ray Disc players will become the product of choice, given the fact that they also play DVD and CD media." Other analysts, however, have previously questioned the longterm viability of the high-definition players, noting that most of those sold are in fact Sony PlayStation 3 consoles and that many consumers have expressed an unwillingness to pay a significant premium for Blu-ray discs.

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Roy Gates

   
Artist: Roy Gates

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Take U Down

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 3

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Cee-Lo

Fucked Up Sign With Matador

Fucked Up have signed with the rather excellent Matador label and the news doesn't just end there - a second album will be released in October.

Entitled 'The Chemistry Of Common Life', the CD will hold 11 tracks while collectors of vinyl can enjoy 12 songs on the double 12".

Guitarist 10,000 Marbles says the record is "basically about rebirth and the Sun. And lightning."

Matador meanwhile, also add that 'The Chemistry Of Life' as being "incredibly dense, featuring 10-15 guitar tracks on many songs, along with flutes, organs, and French horn, with an elegant clarity and sense of purpose."

Fucked Up will be touring Canada and Europe this summer:

Jun 27 - Calgary AB - Vern's (622 8 Ave SW) - 1 AM - Sled Island Festival

Jun 28 - Calgary AB - Royal Canadian Legion #1 (117 7 Ave SE) - 1 AM - Sled Island Festival

Jun 29 - Calgary AB - Palomino Smokehouse (109 7 Ave SW) - 1 PM - Sled Island Festival

Jul 3 - Chatham, Kent UK - The Tap and Tin

Jul 4 - Kent UK - Z008 Festival, Tap and Tin Stage

Jul 5 - Belfort FR - Eurokennes Festival

Jul 6 - Zurich CH - Dynamo

Jul 8 - Benidorn ES - Abraxas

Jul 9 - Barcelona ES - Nitsa

Jul 10 - Getaria ES - Gaztetxe

Jul 11 - Madrid ES - Sal El Sol

Jul 12 - Balado, Kinross-shire, Scotland - T In The Park

Jul 13 - Birmingham UK - Supersonic Festival

Jul 14 - London UK - Water Rats in Kings Cross

Aug 17 - Lelystad NL - Lowlands Festival, Charlie Stage

Aug 20 - Belfast IE - Limelight

Aug 21 - Dublin IE - Whelans

Aug 22 - Ghent BE - Ieper Fest

Aug 23 - Reading UK - Reading Festival

Aug 24 - Leeds UK - Leeds Festival

Aug 25 - Bradford UK - 1 in 12 Club

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Koenig recalls "difficult" teaching days

Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig has revealed that he found juggling teaching and music "difficult".

Prior to finding success with the 'Oxford Comma' indie group, Koenig taught eighth-grade students at a tough Brooklyn school.

He told MTV News: "It was a pretty hectic lifestyle. To teach all day, then go record or try to, you know, play a show, and then wake up and go to work again was pretty difficult.

"I guess there were a few times where I had to bring a guitar to school, so even just the fact that I played guitar impressed some of the kids."

Former student Quraan Jones said: "I still see him as the same Mr Koenig. I still have that thing in my mind that this is the same man we threw paper at, wrote on his shirt and put gum on his chair."

Vampire Weekend will play Glastonbury's Other stage on Friday June 27, then the John Peel stage the following day.



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Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse Begins Rehearsals After Hospital Exit

Amy Winehouse has commenced rehearsals for her scheduled summer shows despite being hospitalised with traces of emphysema.

The troubled singer was taken to the London Clinic in Marylebone last week and it was claimed yesterday that she is suffering from early stage emphysema.

But according to her spokesman, Winehouse's father Mitch had exaggerated the severity of his daughter's condition and it "looks likely" she will fulfill her commitments to perform at Glastonbury Festival and the Nelson Mandela charity concert.

Mitch had told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "She's got emphysema. It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe."

The following day he told BBC Radio 1 there were merely "traces" of the lung disease and said the 24-year-old was "flourishing" in response to treatment.

And Tracey Miller, the Back to Black star's US representative, has dismissed Mitch's prognosis.

"She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema," she told the Associated Press news agency on Monday.

Winehouse is scheduled to appear at the concert marking Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday on Friday June 27th and at Glastonbury on June 28th.


24/06/2008 12:48:06

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Pharoah Sanders With Jah Wobble

   
Artist: Pharoah Sanders With Jah Wobble

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 The Last Poets

   Year:    
Tracks: 6

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Space Chimps

Ham III has some pretty big shoes to fill. Or he would, if he actually wore shoes. His grandfather was the first chimp in space, but all Ham III wants to do is wow crowds at the circus.

Heather Nova

   
Artist: Heather Nova

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Redbird

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Siren

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 South

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Beautiful Angel

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 17


   
 Sleepin'

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16


   
 Blow

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 9

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The sweet of Heather Nova consumed the indie rock food market throughout the nineties, and into the unexampled millennium she was a rising whiz across the orb. Born to a Canadian mother and a forefather from Bermuda, Heather Frith used tattle and music as a means of entertainment during her puerility. She was born in her father's native din Land on July 6, 1967, and exhausted the side by side 16 age of her life aboard a 40-foot boat with her parents, brother, and sister. Her imagination was tried and true and music was her calling. She endlessly listened to tape-recorded records from her mother, after crafting her own songs by years eight. By 14, she was learning to play guitar and was a fan of Neil Young and Jimmy Cliff. Two years later, she and her kinsperson returned to the States, where Nova enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Performing Arts and began perusal visual liberal arts. One to be interpreted by a moving figure and artistic creation itself, Nova shifted creativity into piece of writing music, just music for films. A cupboard ballad maker of sorts, Nova was quick to see that she could commix her sexual love for film and medicine for something solid. To seduce her dreaming occur lawful, she stirred to New York City and adopted her mother's maiden name.


Fourth dimension exhausted in the metropolis that never sleeps was fugacious; Nova establish herself at house in London by the late '80s and focussed on songwriting. A self-titled EP was recorded under her given key out, just later released by Rough Trade as These Walls in 1990. Nova was a budding creative person and ontogeny confident by the clock time she issued her low album, Glowstars, in 1993. Coffeehouse gigs across the land attributed to Nova's emergence as a performing artist and Blow, a alive effort, followed the same year. The president of Big Cat Records, Abbo, was interpreted by Nova's innocent lyrical lulu and made her an offer. Nova aquiline up with Killing Joke's Youth for her proper orbicular debut, 1994's Oyster. Oyster, which appeared on Sony/Work in the U.S., was dark and sulphurous, just naked as a jaybird and sexy. The individual "Walk This World" was a score in Europe and she went on to play nearly 300 gigs crosswise the continent for the next two years.


After a domain go, Nova returned to Bermuda for some down time. It was there that she reflected upon her life and composed songs for a third gear album. Siren would surface in 1998, showcasing a more calm down and serene Nova. It was a surprise strike among critics and earthy, passionate songs such as "Heart & Shoulder" and "London Rain (Zero Heals Me Like You Do)" that were mainstays among college wireless. Prior to the decade's end, Nova went back to Bermuda on December 31, 1999, for her first show up ever. She performed Bob Marley's "One Love" and embarked on another journey, another x.


The long time to come would prove prominent for Heather Nova. She was creatively in control of her have material and comfortable in her London home. Still England's sweetheart, Nova surfaced for a fourth album in the come down of 2001. South (V2 Records) was recorded patch on vacation in Bermuda and the title itself was an homage to Nova's upbringing. The album was a chart-topper in the U.K. as was the individual "The Virus of the Mind." In May 2002, American fans ultimately got a sense of taste of Nova's young substantial when South was officially released the U.S. Several months later, Nova self-published a book of drawings and poems coroneted "the sorrowjoy." Her fifth album, Storm was released in 2003.





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BJ Cole

   
Artist: BJ Cole

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Trouble In Paradise

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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Born on June 17, 1946, in London, B.J. Cole was elysian by the instrumental puzzle out of the Shadows' Hank Marvin, and picked up a guitar. He worked his way through various versions of the instrument, eventually settling on pedal-steel guitar. During the seventies, Cole was a sought session man, playing alongside Elton John, Scott Walker, T. Rex, and Nazareth, among others. He besides founded the post-psychedelic, country-influenced jazz group Cochise in 1970, and released threesome albums with the group. Cole issued the solo effort New Hovering Dog upon the profligacy of the banding, and went on to puzzle out with David Sylvian (1986's ambient opus Done for to Earth), and singer Hank Wangford. The ambient land bit Pellucid Music appeared in 1989. Cole continued to work as a session man end-to-end the 1990s, conducive to the crop of the Verve, Björk, and Beck, among others. In 2000 he collaborated with electronica experimentalist and manufacturer Luke Vibert on Stop the Panic, which intersected his shimmering guitar lines with the quell and boP of Vibert's electronics.





The Amps

Aeone

   
Artist: Aeone

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Point Of Faith

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Aeone

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8

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Sheryl Crow - Crow Opens Up About Suicidal Thoughts

Alison Moyet

   
Artist: Alison Moyet

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   ROck: Alternative
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Turn

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Voice

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Hometime

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Essex

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13


   
 Alf

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 9

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Alison Moyet, a British pop isaac Bashevis Singer with a remarkably bluesy voice, began her professional life history with synth bulge duo Yazoo (Yaz in the U.S.) in the early '80s. In 1983, Moyet began a solo vocation, cathartic her debut album, Alf, the next year. Alf was a major success in Britain, hit number one on the charts and debut the hit singles "Inconspicuous," "All Cried Out," and "Honey Resurrection"; it was a minor hit in the U.S., with "Unseeable" cracking the Top 40. During 1985, Moyet toured with a jazz band light-emitting diode by John Altman; the mathematical group recorded a version of Billie Holiday's "That Ole Devil Called Love," which became her biggest British hit, even though the radical received poor reviews.


In 1986, Moyet had some other major U.K. hit with "Is This Love?," which was released while she was recording her second gear solo album. Raindancing appeared in 1987 and it was another bighearted British arrive at, peaking at number two and featuring the Top Ten hits "Fallible in the Presence of Beauty" and "Sexual love Letters." The criminal record wasn't quite a as successful in the U.S., peaking at number 94. In 1991, she released her third record album, Hoodoo, which was her most musically ambitious collection to date. However, it didn't equal the commercial success of her former albums, failing to chart in America. Essex, her fourth album, appeared in 1994 and she released a greatest-hits ingathering, Singles, the following year. After a near-nine-year layoff, she returned with Hometime produced by the production squad the Insects. Two age later and filled with standards, Voice arrived. In 2005, the album was reissued in America with her translation of "Alfie" as a fillip track.

Curtain Falls on Toni Braxton's Vegas Run

Recovery is going to be the only thing on Toni Braxton's to-do list for awhile.

The Flamingo Las Vegas announced Thursday the remainder of the R&B diva's shows at the hotel...