Artist: Brainbox
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
To You
Year: 1972
Tracks: 19
GZA Takes 'Liquid Swords' On The Road, Preps New Album
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Brainbox
Artist: Brainbox
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
To You
Year: 1972
Tracks: 19
GZA Takes 'Liquid Swords' On The Road, Preps New Album
Monday, 16 June 2008
Rasmus Faber feat. Emily McEwan
Artist: Rasmus Faber feat. Emily McEwan
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Ever After (Christian Alvarez Mixes)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
The Missing - Casey Affleck Reveals Importance Of Boston Background
Casey Affleck has explained that his Massachussetts childhood was crucial for his role in Gone Baby Gone.
The Dennis Lehane adaptation opens in the UK on Friday June 6th and sees Affleck as earnest private investigator Patrick Kenzie, charged with the finding of a missing four-year-old girl.
And with his character contracted by the missing girl's family as a link to the criminal underworld in Boston, the Oscar-nominated actor explained that his own roots were essential for taking the role.
"I had the advantage of having grown up in Boston, as it plays an important part in the movie," he explained when asked about his research methods before taking the part.
"The character had to fit in because Ben had cast a lot of non-actors from Boston and I think I would have had trouble had I not actually been from there."
Amy Ryan was Oscar-nominated for her role as the child's drug addict mother and Affleck paid tribute to her ability to inhabit the unsympathetic character.
"With Amy, it's a testament to what a good actress she is because she's not from the area but she more than fitted in," he said.
"She ended up epitomising the community by the end of the movie."
Gone Baby Gone is Affleck's brother Ben's feature directorial debut and its leading man said it was "exciting" to work alongside a family member.
"I knew that he would do a really good job," explained Casey Affleck.
"And I knew he had good taste!" he joked at his own casting.
Gone Baby Gone is released on June 6th.
05/06/2008 00:01:01
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Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
Artist: Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
At the 2nd Fret
Year: 1962
Tracks: 10
Brand Mubian
Artist: Brand Mubian
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Fire In The Hole
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Five Percent Nation of Islam was a popular inspiration for legion thinking-man's pat groups during the early '90s, and Brand Nubian was arguably the finest of the more militant crop. Although they were powerfully related to the Native Tongues posse in style and wakeless, they weren't technically members, and were less reserved about spotlighting their politics and religious belief. Their frankness light-emitting diode to arguing, on an even larger scale of measurement than similarly tending groups like the X-Clan or Poor Righteous Teachers, in part because Brand Nubian's plain musicality made them so listenable careless of what their messages were. The ballyhoo circumferent their strong-growing Afrocentrism sometimes overshadowed the playful and positive sides of their work, as comfortably as the undeniable virtuosity of lead MC Grand Puba's rhymes -- all showcased to charles Herbert Best effect on their highly acclaimed debut, 1 for All.
Brand Nubian was formed in 1989 in the New York suburban area of New Rochelle. Grand Puba (innate Maxwell Dixon) had previously recorded with a chemical group called Masters of Ceremony, and was linked by Sadat X (innate Derek Murphy, in the beginning dubbed Derek X), Lord Jamar (innate Lorenzo DeChalus), and DJ Alamo (Murphy's cousin). The chemical group signed with Elektra and released their debut album, All for One, in 1990. Most reviews were glowing, merely the stronger rhetoric on the album -- peculiarly the track "Drop the Bomb" -- drew fire from some living quarters, including some white person Elektra employees reluctant to promote what they saw as reversal racism. Ultimately, the hubbub didn't truly hurt Brand Nubian's career, merely neither did it produce a wider off with bulge out or R&B audiences, despite the high paying attention in which the singles "All for One," "Slow Down," and "Wake Up" are held. A far more serious blow was Grand Puba's deviation from the group in tardy 1991, outstanding to tensions that had arisen over his handling the lion's part of the rapping. Not only did Brand Nubian lose their light up focal point and gaffer producer, they likewise lost DJ Alamo, world Health Organization elective to continue working with Puba.
Puba released his solo debut, Reel to Reel, in 1992; in the meantime, Lord Jamar and Sadat X regrouped with DJ Sincere (innate Terrence Perry) and issued In God We Trust in 1993. It sold clean well, just missing the Top Ten on the R&B chart, and the individual "Punks Jump up to Get Beat Down" was something of a score, though it besides drew fire for its anti-gay slurs. In Puba's absence, the pro-Islam palaver grew stronger, with more explicit support for the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan. By the time of 1994's Everything Is Everything, they'd gotten out-and-out dogmatic, and critics who'd antecedently defended the group nowadays set up them difficult to stomach, both lyrically and musically.
In the wake of the frosty reception afforded Everything Is Everything, the left members of Brand Nubian drifted apart. Sadat X reunited with Grand Puba for "Toy It Cool," a track on the latter's second gear solo album; Sadat too released his solo debut, Raving mad Cowboys, in 1996, and afterwards guested on records by a new wave of underground hip-hoppers. Lord Jamar, in the meantime, stirred into production, and too landed a revenant role on HBO's prison drama Oz. In 1998, with a modern alternative tap movement gaining prominence, the original foursome members of Brand Nubian reunited for the Arista album Foundation, which received highly positive reviews. Grand Puba and Sadat X both afterwards returned to their solo careers, simply they returned with Jamar and Alamo for 2004's Fire in the Hole.
Former Music Mogul Gets 25 Years
Pilot Preview: CBS’ ‘The Mentalist’ Knows If You've Been Bad Or Good
Photo: David M. Russell/CBS
This week, Vulture's taking a look at the best and worst of the fall's new picked-up TV shows. Which are good? Can anything replace Cavemen? And, most important, what's worth a DVR season pass?
Title: The Mentalist
Stars: Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada), Robin Tunney, Amanda Righetti
Network: CBS, Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
The pitch: A onetime charlatan TV psychic utilizes his legitimate skills of intuition to become a gratingly effective/begrudgingly respected homicide detective.
Pilot report: Through flashbacks, we learn that Patrick Jane (Baker) abandoned his life as a high-paying television personality after his wife and child were brutally murdered by notorious serial killer Red John. Now Jane’s part of a unit along with the no-bs chief Teresa Lisbon (Tunney), a naïve rookie (Righetti), and two comic-relief-y bumbling-cop types. When golf pro Price Randolph’s wife and personal doctor are found dead, it appears Red John’s at it again.
Representative dialogue:
Bereaved mother of murder victim: “You can’t help me … what do you know?”
Jane: (soft chuckle) "All sorts of things. You really only pretend to like skiing, right?"
Breakout star: Baker, we suppose, who is legitimately charming as a smirking know-it-all. But we’re guessing it’ll be tough for him to stay so thanks to the show’s awkward dips between a light and dark tone.
Worth a season pass?: Nah, sorry. Baker does what he can, but the “shocking revelations” are clunky and the show drags. Also not a good sign: The pilot’s climactic scene actually involves the ol’ Jackie Chan–style “throw something in the face of the guy who’s pointing a gun at you and then run the other way” move.
—Amos Barshad
This week, Vulture's taking a look at the best and worst of the fall's new picked-up TV shows. Which are good? Can anything replace Cavemen? And, most important, what's worth a DVR season pass?
Title: The Mentalist
Stars: Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada), Robin Tunney, Amanda Righetti
Network: CBS, Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
The pitch: A onetime charlatan TV psychic utilizes his legitimate skills of intuition to become a gratingly effective/begrudgingly respected homicide detective.
Pilot report: Through flashbacks, we learn that Patrick Jane (Baker) abandoned his life as a high-paying television personality after his wife and child were brutally murdered by notorious serial killer Red John. Now Jane’s part of a unit along with the no-bs chief Teresa Lisbon (Tunney), a naïve rookie (Righetti), and two comic-relief-y bumbling-cop types. When golf pro Price Randolph’s wife and personal doctor are found dead, it appears Red John’s at it again.
Representative dialogue:
Bereaved mother of murder victim: “You can’t help me … what do you know?”
Jane: (soft chuckle) "All sorts of things. You really only pretend to like skiing, right?"
Breakout star: Baker, we suppose, who is legitimately charming as a smirking know-it-all. But we’re guessing it’ll be tough for him to stay so thanks to the show’s awkward dips between a light and dark tone.
Worth a season pass?: Nah, sorry. Baker does what he can, but the “shocking revelations” are clunky and the show drags. Also not a good sign: The pilot’s climactic scene actually involves the ol’ Jackie Chan–style “throw something in the face of the guy who’s pointing a gun at you and then run the other way” move.
—Amos Barshad
Officials Hit HBO Documentary On Florida Recount
Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who represented the Al Gore team during the 2004 Florida recount, has denounced the HBO drama Recount, scheduled to air on May 25. In an interview with today's (Thursday) New York Times, Christopher Said that he had asked to see a script of the film before production began but never received one. After reviewing a transcript provided by the Times, Christopher Said that he was stunned. "Much of what the author has written about me is pure fiction," he said. "It contained events that never occurred, words I never spoke and decisions attributed to me that I never made." Bill Daley, Gore's campaign chairman, who said that the filmmakers agreed to make changes in the script about his role in the recount, called the depiction of Christopher "absolute fantasy." Even James Baker, the chief Republican adviser at the time, who is depicted in the film as outsmarting Christopher at every turn, commented, "I don't think I was as ruthless as the movie portrays me, and I know he was not as wimpish as it makes him appear." Screenwriter Danny Strong, who interviewed the three men, acknowledged that he decided not to send Christopher the script "because I didn't feel that he was being totally candid in our interview." Meanwhile, the drama is getting some solid reviews. Syndicated columnist Liz Smith called it "one of the most viscerally powerful, fast-moving, literate, magnificently acted roller-coaster rides ever put on-screen."
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Pilot Preview: CBS’ ‘Harper’s Island’ Might Be Killer
Cassidy in Harper's IslandScreencap courtesy of CBS
Title: Harper's Island
Stars: Elaine Cassidy (The Ghost Squad), Bill Pullman (come on, you know who Bill Pullman is)
Network: CBS, mid-season replacement
The pitch: A serial-murder mystery, in which a mysterious killer picks off the inhabitants of an island one by one.
Pilot report: Abby Mills (Cassidy) returns to her childhood home of Harper's Island for the wedding of her best friend. She hasn't been back since her mother was one of the victims of a string of vicious murders. All seems to be going well onboard the ferry taking the wedding party to the island, until we witness the particularly gruesome killing of one of the guests, who is strapped to the propeller of the boat and quickly chopped to pieces. This fifteen-minute presentation — the show's opening teaser, plus a handful of other scenes — was the way Harper's Island's producers sold the show to CBS, which means everything here will likely be re-shot, perhaps with different actors. What we do see, though, promises a lot of suspense and gore.
Representative dialogue:
Murky taxi driver with an eye patch: You look familiar. Abby: Yeah, I grew up on the island. Murky taxi driver with an eye patch: Right, you're Sheriff Mills's kid. What a shame. All those people? Terrible. I never would have believed something so terrible could happen on the island.
Breakout star: One of the only stars guaranteed to make it from the pilot to actual broadcast is narrator and protagonist Elaine Cassidy. She's essentially playing the Neve Campbell role from the Scream movies, but it looks like she'll be able to pull it off without all of the pouting.
Worth a season pass? Yes. The location, an island in Puget Sound, is an appropriately spooky setting for this series — and the cast is young and sexy enough (and multitudinous enough) to keep us watching as they get picked off. And if the literal back-stabbing isn't enough, there's also a fair amount of figurative backstabbing — and cheating, and sleeping around — as well.
—Chris Rovzar
Title: Harper's Island
Stars: Elaine Cassidy (The Ghost Squad), Bill Pullman (come on, you know who Bill Pullman is)
Network: CBS, mid-season replacement
The pitch: A serial-murder mystery, in which a mysterious killer picks off the inhabitants of an island one by one.
Pilot report: Abby Mills (Cassidy) returns to her childhood home of Harper's Island for the wedding of her best friend. She hasn't been back since her mother was one of the victims of a string of vicious murders. All seems to be going well onboard the ferry taking the wedding party to the island, until we witness the particularly gruesome killing of one of the guests, who is strapped to the propeller of the boat and quickly chopped to pieces. This fifteen-minute presentation — the show's opening teaser, plus a handful of other scenes — was the way Harper's Island's producers sold the show to CBS, which means everything here will likely be re-shot, perhaps with different actors. What we do see, though, promises a lot of suspense and gore.
Representative dialogue:
Murky taxi driver with an eye patch: You look familiar. Abby: Yeah, I grew up on the island. Murky taxi driver with an eye patch: Right, you're Sheriff Mills's kid. What a shame. All those people? Terrible. I never would have believed something so terrible could happen on the island.
Breakout star: One of the only stars guaranteed to make it from the pilot to actual broadcast is narrator and protagonist Elaine Cassidy. She's essentially playing the Neve Campbell role from the Scream movies, but it looks like she'll be able to pull it off without all of the pouting.
Worth a season pass? Yes. The location, an island in Puget Sound, is an appropriately spooky setting for this series — and the cast is young and sexy enough (and multitudinous enough) to keep us watching as they get picked off. And if the literal back-stabbing isn't enough, there's also a fair amount of figurative backstabbing — and cheating, and sleeping around — as well.
—Chris Rovzar
Mommy and Daddy Lohan Are Fighting Again!
Believe it or not, Michael Lohan has reopened his divorce battle with Dina Lohan. They settled last summer, but with everything that has happened over the past year, Mike is hauling Dina back into divorce court in Long Island. The question -- will she actually show up? We're there to find out ...
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Union claims 'Tetro' shut down
Coppola's production house denies any delays
BUENOS AIRES – The Argentinean actors union is claiming that actors on director Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" have been working without a contract, and said they shut down the film's production here.
Coppola's spokeswoman, Kathleen Talbert, denied this, saying production on the film was proceeding as planned.
"There are no holds on shooting, no problem with actors. In fact, the majority of the Argentine actors have already wrapped the shooting," she wrote in an e-mail.
The Asociacion Argentina de Actores (Argentina Actors Association) claims that union members have been working without a contract since production started in late March and that Zoetrope Argentina -- Coppola's newly-formed local production house -- was given various opportunities to present the proper paperwork to avoid the work stoppage.
"At the moment, they are not filming because the contracts have [not] arrived to the union. On Tuesday, the union gave them 48 hours to present the documents and they didn't do that, so we took this action," AAA spokesman Daniel Valenzuela said.
Local press reports say that script changes and communication problems between the multi-national cast and crew have extended filming days beyond regularly scheduled hours, and that some of the Argentine actors are still not certain of their salary.
Argentina's strong production capabilities, competitive prices and European look have made it a popular destination for foreign film and commercial shoots in recent years.
"Tetro" has had a rocky road from the beginning. Thieves broke into the Palermo neighborhood office of Zoetrope Argentina in September and stole Coppola's computers and back-up systems. Oscar-winner Javier Bardem dropped out just before shooting began and his part was re-written as a female role for actress Carmen Maura.
Coppola's semi-autobiographical screenplay tells the tale of an artistic family in modern-day Argentina, and stars Vincent Gallo in the title role as well as Maribel Verdu, Alden Ehrenreich, Rodrigo de la Serna and Leticia Bredice.
The AAA said it plans to send inspectors to the set on Friday evening to ensure that filming does not take place.
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