FRANCE - Persistent illegal downloaders in France are to have their internet access cut, after a controversial anti-piracy law was endorsed by the French cabinet. Under the rules, which come into effect in January, it will be "three strikes and you're out" for French web users downloading copyrighted films and songs, presumably including those of President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. "There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone," said Sarkozy. Adrian Strain, the director of communications for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said: "It's a great initiative that is good news for the whole music sector and we hope it will get through the legislative process as quickly as possible. We're very pleased to see France taking the lead in addressing the critical issue of internet piracy."As a sweetener to the deal, material produced in France will be available free of copyright protection devices, which means music and video files will be able to be more easily transferred between different computers and portable media players.
The law will be policed by a new agency, the High Authority for Copyright Protection and Dissemination of Works on the Internet.Those who have been found illegally downloading files will receive a warning by email and then by registered letter. If the offender persists, their connection will be cut off by their provider for up to a year. Critics of the new law claim that internet users could face a breach of their privacy. One petition claims the agency will essentially "hunt down individual users, who happen to love culture". And some major internet companies - including Google and the French video-sharing website Dailymotion n have refused to sign up. - THE INDEPENDENT
Friday, 27 June 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008
Javier Bardem wins top Spanish film award; honour given by Culture Ministry
MADRID, Spain - Javier Bardem has won Spain's 2008 national film award, an honour given annually by the Culture Ministry.
Bardem was selected for the $46,500 prize for "goals achieved throughout a long career."
The ministry, in a statement Wednesday, highlighted the 39-year-old actor's "defence of the acting profession and a constant commitment to Spanish cinema."
Bardem won a best supporting actor Oscar for "No Country for Old Men." His screen credits also include "Before Night Falls."
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Monday, 16 June 2008
Fear
Artist: Fear
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
The Record
Year: 1982
Tracks: 15
Along with Black Flag and the Circle Jerks, Fear helped define the sound and style of L.A. hard-core. Although they actually formed during the low gear undulation of toughie game in 1977, Fear didn't release an album until five-spot age subsequently, by which clock time they'd honed a hot, thrashy attack that, for all its fury, was surprisingly miserly and sometimes even intricate. Which is to say that, musically, the dance band wasn't as rough as frontman Lee Ving's outrageous, humorously offensive lyrics, which were geared to urine off anyone inside earreach, especially women and homosexuals; his vulgarity was equalled only by his sincere passion of beer. Fear's original incarnation fell apart subsequently scarce iI albums, simply Ving began touring with new lineups once more in the '90s.
Fear was formed in Los Angeles by vocalist Lee Ving (whose past tense is shrouded in secret, though he's rumored to be a Vietnam old hand), with the catch one's breath of the original lineup including tip guitar player Philo Cramer, bassist Derf Scratch, and drummer Johnny Backbeat. Rhythm guitar player Burt Good became a fellow member for a short fourth dimension in 1978, only became unnecessary when Ving decided to lease up the official document. The same year, Backbeat was replaced by Spit Stix. Fear issued its debut single, I Love Livin' in the City, at the beginning of 1978 on Criminal Records. They were in no benjamin Rush to record an album, however, and exhausted the adjacent few days without a track record look at; instead, they for the most part played punk clubs around the Los Angeles region, cultivating a volatile, confrontational stage presence. Fear's explosive appearance in theatre director Penelope Spheeris' tough chronicle The Decline of Western Civilization cemented their fable, and they found a devoted fan in comedian John Belushi, wHO talked Saturday Night Live into having the band on as a musical guest for the Halloween episode in 1981. Not a band to act in a public forum, Fear invited a tamp down of skinhead slam-dancers onstage for their performance, resulting in dear studio price and a spot of on-mic profanity.
Now notorious on a home degree, Fear lastly landed a criminal record get with Slash in 1982, and released their debut album, The Record, which nigh critics static agree was their best and funniest field day. Scratch left the stria afterwards on in the year, and was replaced first gear by Eric "Kitabu" Feldman (wHO appeared on the late-1982 single Fuck Christmas), then the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea; in 1984, Flea was in turn replaced by the Dickies' Lorenzo Buhne. 1983 base Fear taking some fourth dimension off for english projects; Stix went to Europe and united Nina Hagen's band, Cramer formed a stria called M'Butu Ngawa, and Ving chased a successful playacting vocation, acting sundry baffling guys in films like Flashdance (the peel nightclub possessor) and Streets of Fire, among others. In 1985, Fear released its second album, More Beer, simply presently drifted aside into other projects; they disbanded in 1987.
In 1991, near of Fear's prime batting order -- Ving, Cramer, and Stix, plus fresh bassist Will "Sluggo" McGregor -- reunited and began playing concerts once more. Live...For the Record was released later that year. Cramer and Stix both discontinue in 1993, end the reunion; Ving began touring with some other group, Lee Ving's Army, which included guitarist Sean Cruse, former Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes, and drummer Andrew Jaimez. This mathematical group finally became the modern Fear batting order, and entered the studio in 1995 to criminal record the band's first album of new material in a decennium, Get Another Beer With Fear, which was released by Sector 2. Over the future few years, Thunes was replaced by Mondo Lopez, and Cruse by Richard Presley; in 2000, the revamped Fear returned on the Hall of Records label with American Beer, some other all-new album.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Dwight Yoakam - Fascinating Fact 5314
Country star DWIGHT YOAKAM will make his 24th appearance on American TV programme THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO on Thursday (15May08) - smashing the record for the most musical performances by any artist. The Act Naturally star's guest slot on the NBC chat-show will put him ahead of Lyle Lovett, who has played 23 times on the programme.
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Saturday, 7 June 2008
Madonna - Madonnas Adoption Approved By Malawian Court
LATEST: MADONNA has finally won her drawn-out battle to adopt DAVID BANDA, after a Malawian judge approved her application to make the African toddler her son.
The ruling at Malawi's High Court on Wednesday (28May08) has put an end to a 20-month-long saga which began in October 2006, when Madonna and her director husband Guy Ritchie brought Banda back to the U.K. from a Malawian orphanage. At the time, the tot was just 13 months old.
And the couple is delighted with the happy news.
Madonna's lawyer Alan Chinula says, "We are very happy with what the judge has ruled. It is a positive and beautiful judgment that will have an impact on Malawi's adoption laws.
"Finally the court has granted Madonna full adoption rights of the boy - it's a long judgement but I am quite happy with it."
Madonna's adoption of Banda has been highly controversial, attracting accusations the impoverished nation's government had bypassed laws that ban non-residents from adopting children in Malawi.
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Duffy: 'Why is Jay-Z at Glastonbury a problem'
Duffy has lent her support to Jay-Z, who is set to headline the Glastonbury festival next month (June 28) despite a bout of criticism about the organisers' choice.
The Welsh singer said she didn't understand why the decision to book the rapper had been slammed by the likes of Oasis' Noel Gallagher.
Noel Gallagher lashed out at the choice of Saturday night headliner, saying that hip-hop was "wrong" for the Somerset festival. Jay-Z responded by calling for more respect between musical genres.
Speaking to the Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk, Duffy said she was looking forwat to seeing Jay-Z more than any other artist performing at the bash.
"I genuinely think he's a great musician," she said. "I was quite intrigued by it [the criticism he received]. It hadn't really crossed my mind that his appearance might be a problem. I've seen him live and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.
"[I saw him] at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He had these great string arrangements and was just an amazing showman. It was really fun and you left feeling good. I'm completely excited about seeing him again."
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The Welsh singer said she didn't understand why the decision to book the rapper had been slammed by the likes of Oasis' Noel Gallagher.
Noel Gallagher lashed out at the choice of Saturday night headliner, saying that hip-hop was "wrong" for the Somerset festival. Jay-Z responded by calling for more respect between musical genres.
Speaking to the Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk, Duffy said she was looking forwat to seeing Jay-Z more than any other artist performing at the bash.
"I genuinely think he's a great musician," she said. "I was quite intrigued by it [the criticism he received]. It hadn't really crossed my mind that his appearance might be a problem. I've seen him live and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.
"[I saw him] at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He had these great string arrangements and was just an amazing showman. It was really fun and you left feeling good. I'm completely excited about seeing him again."
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Spielberg leaves his Olympics post
Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg has said he is withdrawing as an artistic advisor to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing because of the Chinese government's policy towards its ally Sudan and the conflict in Darfur.
In a statement, Spielberg said the Sudanese government shouldered the bulk of responsibility for the crimes in Darfur, but said China should be doing more to end the human suffering there.
Actress Mia Farrow, who had been pressing the director to end his involvement with this year's games, said his decision sent the right sort of message to Beijing.
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington is quoted in the New York Times as saying that the Darfur issue was neither an internal issue for China nor was it caused by China.
The spokesman is also quoted as saying that it was completely unreasonable, irresponsible and unfair to link the two as one.
In a statement, Spielberg said the Sudanese government shouldered the bulk of responsibility for the crimes in Darfur, but said China should be doing more to end the human suffering there.
Actress Mia Farrow, who had been pressing the director to end his involvement with this year's games, said his decision sent the right sort of message to Beijing.
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington is quoted in the New York Times as saying that the Darfur issue was neither an internal issue for China nor was it caused by China.
The spokesman is also quoted as saying that it was completely unreasonable, irresponsible and unfair to link the two as one.
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Singer Amy Winehouse will not face charges over a video that allegedly showed her smoking a crack pipe, police have said. She was interviewed under caution by police ...
Neneh Cherry
Artist: Neneh Cherry
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Man
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
The stepdaughter of jazz trailblazer Don Cherry, vocalizer Neneh Cherry bad her have groundbreaking blend of pop, dance, and rap music which presaged the emergence of both alternative rap and trip-hop. She was natural Neneh Mariann Karlssson on March 10, 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of West African percussionist Amadu Jah and artist Moki Cherry. Raised by her mother and her cornetist stepfather in both Stockholm and New York City, Cherry dropped out of schooling at age 14, and in 1980 she relocated to London to sing with the punk group the Cherries.
Following brief flings with the Slits and the Nails, she united the observational funk turnout Rip Rig + Panic, and appeared on the group's albums God (1981), I Am Cold (1982), and Attitude (1983). When the band stone-broke up, Cherry remained with one of the spin-off groups, Float Up CP, and lED them through one record album, 1986's Kill Me in the Morning. The band proved ephemeral, nevertheless, and Cherry began rapping in a London golf-club, where she earned the attention of a natural endowment lookout world Health Organization signed her to a solo get. Her first-class honours degree individual, "Stop the War," railed against the encroachment of the Falkland Islands.
Later attracting some notice vocalizing backing on the The's "Deadening Train to Dawn" single, she became romantically and professionally involved with composer and musician Cameron McVey, wHO, under the alias Booga Bear, wrote lots of the material that would represent Cherry's 1989 debut LP Unsanded Like Sushi. One song McVey did non write was "Old World buffalo Stance," the album's breakthrough individual; earlier tossed off as a B-side by the mid-'80s pop chemical group Morgan McVey, Cherry's cover up was an outside smash which neatly summarized the album's eclectic fusion of pop smarts and hip-hop vitality.
A geminate of hits -- the eery "Manchild" and "Kisses on the Wind" -- followed, simply shortly after the record's firing Cherry was sidelined with Lyme disease, and apart from a cover of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" for the 1990 Marxist Hot + Blue welfare album, she remained dumb until 1992's Homebrew. A more than subdued assembling than New Like Sushi, it featured cameos from Gang Starr and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe; as advantageously as writing and production help from Geoff Barrow, wHO layered the lead "Somedays" with the same distinct trip-hop glass over he later on perfected as half of the duo Portishead. While the record album was not as commercially successful as its predecessor, Cherry returned to the charts in 1994 duetting with Youssou N'Dour on the planetary attain "Seven-spot Seconds." After some other prolonged layoff spent breeding her children, she resurfaced with the atmospheric Isle of Man in 1996.
Miten With Deva Premal
Artist: Miten With Deva Premal
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Dance Of Life
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
Songs For The Inner Lover
Year:
Tracks: 9
Global Heart, Native Soul
Year:
Tracks: 9
Blown Away
Year:
Tracks: 10
Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles
Eddy Arnold Laid To Rest
LATEST: Music legend EDDY ARNOLD was remembered as a man who changed country music when he was laid to rest at a funeral service at Nashville, Tennessee's Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday (14May08).
The 'Tennessee Plowboy' died on 8 May (08) at the age of 89, and was mourned in style before a private family burial.
The Make The World Go Away singer's body brought to the Ryman in a procession of vehicles from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where his body lay in state for fans and friends to pay their respects.
Vince Gill sang two songs in the service and called Arnold, "the most successful man in country music history, and he taught us how to be kind and how to be a gentleman."
The Jordanaires and Bill and Jeanine Walker also performed at the emotional farewell.
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LiveDaily News Break: Ashlee Simpson, Lil Wayne, Ryan Cabrera and more
Today's edition features news and tour information about Ashlee Simpson [ tickets ], Lil Wayne [ tickets ], Coheed and Cambria [ tickets ], Ryan Cabrera [ tickets ] and Built to Spill [ tickets ].* * *Ashlee Simpson will step out for a short tour this month to support her new album, "Bittersweet World. The just-married and pregnant 23-year-old singer is scheduled play a dozen dates in the eastern US beginning June 9 in Chicago.* * *Lil Wayne has put his troubles with the law on hold as he mounts a brief tour to support his soon-to-be-released album, "Tha Carter III." The rapper launched the run in Providence, RI, on Friday and currently has dates lined up through the end of the month, and the new album is due in stores June 10. * * *Prog-rockers Coheed and Cambria have added another round of US dates to their international tour in support of the group's latest album, "No World for Tomorrow." After wrapping up a European tour, the band will tackle a mid-summer stateside outing that launches in late July, and will bring along fellow rockers Secret Machines and Russian Circles to open most of the shows.* * *With his new album, "The Moon Under Water," now in stores, pop-rocker Ryan Cabrera has hit the road. The singer/songwriter will kicked things off yesterday Baltimore, and, so far, is scheduled to play a mix of clubs, theaters and radio shows around the eastern US into July.* * * Alt-rock quartet Built to Spill will mount an early fall headlining tour after emerging from the studio, where the group is busy working on a new album.The Idaho-based band has lined up stops in a dozen cities, beginning with an early September two-night stand in San Francisco.
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