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Sunday 31 August 2008

Mixing a benefit concert for Julesy B.

Julesy B., known as �the Mixtress,� has been credited for putting in concert DIY compilations of subway system artists to raise their exposure. Now, bands ar coming together to raise awareness of her situation.

Diagnosed with acute myelogenous/myeloid leukaemia in June, 25-year-old Julesy B. is the creator of found-art project Mixtress Online Project (themixtressonline.com). Her Project works in sly mode: She leaves the desegregate CDs she creates in random places for unsuspecting people to find as a way to promote new music.

Tonight, however, she�s the center of attention at the Middle East in Cambridge, the focus of a benefit show to put a prick in her skyrocketing medical bills.

�Chemotherapy normally helps set the crab in absolution in 80 percent of the patients, but Julesy is in the 20 percent that do non respond well,� said organizer Gary Robely, drummer of Dashboard Jesus and the Dave Tree-led J. Geils Band tribute stria Blow Your Face Out, both of which perform tonight.

Also on the government note: a who�s-who of local rock/indie acts, including Noble Rot, the Sterns, Zambri, the Boo Jays, Age Rings and Paparazzi.

And Julesy B. testament live up to her Mixtress nickname by DJ-ing between sets. She�s devising the trek to Cambridge from Vermont, where she recently relocated to extend her chemo.

�(Expect) a fortune of sexual love and secure times for someone we�re all very fond of,� aforementioned Aloud guitarist Henry Beguiristain. �Some very excellent bands are playing, and the ones that aren�t will have CDs and other stuff raffled off.�

Raffle prizes include goods from local businesses and bands, and big name calling include Ween, Sonic Youth, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Several Boston labels have as well joined in as a way to give back to an ardent garter of music.

�In the occupation, a heap of people will bedevil around the �E� word -

exposure - to take advantage of bands and musicians,� Beguiristain said. �Jules is voice of a rare breed. She actually busts her (rear) acquiring underground music out in that location, all because she really loves the

music. Getting together for a night to watch bands and help her out with her medical bills is the least we tooshie do.�

Doors open at 7 p.m. for the 18-plus show. Tickets ar $10. For more entropy, go to mideastclub.com.

Boston does dance

It�s an electro-mad holiday weekend for the dance-minded citizens of the Hub.

Tomorrow, local-boy-done-good DJ Armand Van Helden and Jersey family mixer Junior Sanchez strike the decks for the biggest party of the weekend: an all-day, all-night dance party down at Quincy�s Marina Bay Beach Club starting at 2 p.m.

But don�t sleep on the local flavor that�s supporting the two terpsichore heavyweights: rising electro party trio Hot Pink Delorean (which is set to have a huge 2009), old-school turntablists Soul Clap and the Middlesex Lounge�s Hearthrob DJs help make this beachside bash about Boston�s possess exploding scene, too. For more ticket information and full lineup of this 12-hour throwdown, go to going.com/avh.

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Thursday 21 August 2008

Watch Verve, Muse, Amy Winehouse in V Festival Video News

An NME Music News: V Festival Special is useable to watch now on NME.COM (roll down for the video).

Today's (August 18) round up features all the weekend's big performance from the likes of The Verve, Amy Winehouse and Muse, plus features exclusive backstage video interviews from artists including The Prodigy

Meanwhile the regular NME Music News video is available on-line every Friday.

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Monday 11 August 2008

Dannii Minogue - Minogue Forgives Cole For Sake Of X-factor

Dannii Minogue has said she wants to get going afresh with fellow X-Factor judge Cheryl Cole.

Before the pair were brought together to exploit on the ITV show they exchanged continual insults in the press.

Cole initially claimed that Minogue was not attractive and well-advised her to "get all her shaping surgery reduced".

Retaliating, the Australian pop vocalizer described Cole's band Girls Aloud the
"bitchiest" group around, claiming: "They say nauseous stuff around mE in every interview."

The squabbling singers have been spending a lot of time together since June when Cole took over from Sharon Osbourne as a try on the X-Factor and Minogue has said she hopes they can now get on.

Speaking to the News of the World, she aforementioned: "It's true that Girls Aloud take said some unfortunate things about me, but you can't hold on to things like that."

"When we do bugger off to spend time unitedly, I hope we acquire on. I don't ever want to go through the same atmosphere as before."

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Iris

Artist: Iris

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Awakening

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Often described by critics as disposable, '80s synth pop acts of the Apostles of the Apostles such as Erasure and Depeche Mode continued to cheer pres Young musicians to spell hummable songs with a overplus of keyboards even into the '90s. Iris formed in 1993 as Forgiving Iris with Reagan Jones (vocals, keyboards) and Matt Morris (keyboards, programming). Jones and Morris met in college; they were pickings an electronic music class and ascertained they shared the same taste in artists. Forgiving Iris started acting at clubs in the Austin, TX, surface area, coating definitive new wave songs. When the dyad began chess game opening up for early groups, they hard on their own material. Forgiving Iris contributed the path "Annie, Would I Lie to You" to the Electronic Fields compilation in 1996. The path became a cultus favourite in terpsichore clubs, simply it had many fans risky if, or when, the band was going away to record a uncut CD. They abbreviated their nominate to Iris and released their debut album, Disconnect, on June 1, 1999, for the A Different Drum label. Disconnect was praised by medicine reviewers for its well-being synth-driven rhythms. In the summer of 2000, Iris was voted Best Band and Best Album at the first gear yearly American Synthpop Awards.

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Tiki Obmar

Artist: Tiki Obmar

   Genre(s):
Industrial

Discography:

High School Confidential

Year: 2003
Tracks: 7

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Wednesday 18 June 2008

SAG chief risks striking sour note

Balancing negotiation tactics with membership wishes

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SAG president Alan Rosenberg faces a fight on two fronts.

Confronted with opposition from studio reps at the bargaining table over key contract demands, Rosenberg and SAG chief negotiator Doug Allen are aiming to regain negotiating leverage by going against sister union AFTRA's recent deal with the majors.

The problem: There is significant opposition to that strategy from within his own ranks.

"To ask me to vote down one of my union's contracts is about as absurd a proposal I can possibly imagine," said Paul Christie, SAG national board member and former second national vp. "I think it's probably unprecedented in American labor history. Nobody is going to walk off a cliff for them."

AFTRA struck a deal on its primetime TV deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on May 28. It was the first time the performers union negotiated the contract without SAG in 27 years. The decision to bargain separately increased the animosity between SAG and AFTRA that had been brewing for the past year.

Rosenberg and Allen are set to meet in person and via video conference with members of its national board Friday to discuss the negotiations. At the top of the agenda is whether to push the 44,000 members of SAG who are also members of AFTRA to vote down the recent deal. Additionally, the SAG board is expected to discuss strike authorization and try to determine whether members would vote in favor of a walkout.

Meantime, a Santa Monica-based economic think tank report released Thursday indicates another industry strike would be devastating to California's economy alone.

The report, "The Writers Strike of 2007-2008: The Economic Impact of Digital Distribution," suggests that the recent three-month scribe strike tipped California into a recession. And while the strike lasted 100 days, its effect will be felt through the end of 2008, with a projected loss of 37,700 jobs and $2.1 billion in lost output by the end of the year. Personal income is projected to decline by $3.1 billion, while wages and salaries are expected to hit a $2.3 billion loss as a result.

The state could recover in 2009, but if another strike were to be called, it wouldn't be until 2010 before the industry and state would see a recovery, the report says.

"If the industry were to shut down yet again due to a SAG strike, it would deal a serious blow to California's prospects for economic recovery," the report concludes.

Hollywood has been bracing for another union walkout, with studios essentially throwing themselves into de facto strike mode for the summer, penciling in few, if any, projects on their calendars.

But SAG has yet to ask its membership for a strike vote, though that could change Friday.

Veteran Los Angeles labor attorney Howard Fabrick, a former chief negotiator for the AMPTP, said a strike threat would not give SAG much leverage in the talks. Rather, it would create animosity and cause added tension in the negotiations.

"The attitude across the table in dealing with a union that has sought strike authority tends to harden, as opposed to a union that is bargaining in good faith and trying to make a deal," Fabrick said. "The employer may find the strike authorization the equivalent of an ultimatum. That undercuts the effort.

"If they failed to get a strike vote, it would put them between a rock and a hard place," he added.

Allen and Rosenberg may have already muddied the waters with the AMPTP when they met Monday with execs at Sony Pictures, Fabrick said. Such actions are often considered an attempt to undercut the authority of the collective bargaining representative, he noted.

"I would be rather upset if someone went around me and went to members of my committee or the groups I represented and tried to sabotage my role as a negotiator," Fabrick said. "I think (the AMPTP's Nick Counter) would react the same way I have."

While members of the WGA negotiating committee met with studio heads during the strike, those meetings had the blessings of Counter because of the breakdown between the Writers Guild negotiators and the AMPTP.

"Frankly, the AMPTP bargaining committee was going nowhere and the Writers Guild couldn't bargain with them," Fabrick said. "The AMPTP elected essentially surrogates to deal with it."

SAG board member Christie said SAG's leaders would have to present "a real good case" to convince members to vote for a strike. And right now, he doesn't believe there is enough there to justify a strike vote. He also suggested that any bid to undercut AFTRA's pact by blocking ratification would further lessen SAG's chance that the membership would authorize a strike.

SAG and the AMPTP said after their meeting Thursday that talks will continue Monday.

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Justin Timberlake: 'Cameron Diaz Taught Me About Life'

Justin Timberlake has credited his ex-girlfriend Cameron Diaz for helping him learn how to put his life in perspective.

The SexyBack hitmaker admits he is still confused by the fairer sex, despite having dated some of the world's most famous women, including Britney Spears and his current beau Jessica Biel.

But he credits Charlie's Angels beauty Diaz, who he split from in January 2007 after almost four years together, for helping him to figure out more about the female form.

He tells Cosmopolitan: "I know a couple more things than I used to, but us men will never understand women. Ever!

"I think I learnt a lot from my relationship with Cameron, notably that you should always put things in perspective.

“As much as I've learnt though, I'm still a man, so I have some kind of learning disability. And women wouldn't have us any other way."