 Artist: Betty Lavette: mp3 download Genre(s): R&B: Soul Betty Lavette's discography:  Souvenirs Year: Tracks: 18 A recurrent religious cult front-runner in Northern soul circles, singer Bettye LaVette was natural in Muskegon, MI, on January 29, 1946. Raised primarily across the state in Detroit, at 16 she cut her first sides for the local Lupine label, with a test press of the disk qualification its way to Atlantic Records. After sign language with Atlantic, she scored an R&B Top Ten score taboo of the boxful with her debut single, "My Man -- He's a Loving Man," merely to fail to strive the like commercial high in one case again. After one more Atlantic personnel casualty, 1963's "You'll Never Change," LaVette stirred back to Lupine for her third gear base record, "Witchery in the Air." After a stint as a featured vocaliser with the Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford Revue, she recorded the long-unreleased "Unmatched Thin Dime" for Scepter in front resurfacing on Calla with the 1965 lost authoritative "Countenance Me Down Easy," her merely other record to crack the R&B Top 20. Two more Calla efforts -- the fine "Only Your Love Can Save Me" and "I'm Just a Fool for You" -- preceded a shift to Big Wheel, where after but unitary individual, "I'm Holding On," LaVette once more moved along, this time to the Karen imprint for "Hey Love." Following stays at Silver Fox ("He Made a Woman Out of Me," "Do Your Duty"), SSS International ("Claim Another Piece of My Heart"), and her have TCA imprint ("Never My Love"), LaVette returned to Atlantic, sign language to their Atco class for 1972's Neil Young cover "Nub of Gold." An LP, Child of the Seventies, was besides recorded at Muscle Shoals Studios, merely Atco opted against its loss afterwards the failure of the individual "Your Turn to Cry" (the album was reissued, complete with fillip tracks, in limited copies by Rhino in 2006). After connection the touring company of the Broadway musical Bubbling Brown Sugar, LaVette concisely signed to West End for a disco try, 1978's "Doin' the Best I Can." She did not record over again until 1982, landing at Motown and rechristening herself "Bettye." However, despite a heavy promotional push, neither the LP Tell Me a Lie nor the individual "Right in the Middle (Of Falling in Love)" proved her long-awaited chart breakthrough, and outside of a handful of recordings for Motor City during the nineties, she focused mainly on live appearances in the long time to be. The 2000s establish her in the recording studio more ofttimes with newfangled albums A Woman Like Me existence released by the Blues Express judge in 2003 followed by I've Got My Own Hell to Raise in 2005 on the Anti judge. In 2006, Take Another Little Piece of My Heart, a aggregation of Silver Fox singles as intimately as other material, all of which had been recorded in Memphis betwixt 1969 and 1970, came out on Varèse Sarabande. The Scene of the Crime appeared on Anti in 2007. |
Monday, 1 September 2008
Mp3 music: Betty Lavette
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Twisted Black
Artist: Twisted Black
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Street Fame
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Although he was born in Detroit, doorknocker Twisted Black (aka 145) entered the hip-hop biz by way of Texas. With fellow lyricist Seed he debuted as half of Houston favorites One Gud Cide, wHO in 1996 released the full-length Seem What the Streets Made. When the album did well on a local scale, the group was motivated to break through nationally with its follow-up album, Contradictions (1999), simply Black landed a three-year jailhouse opinion of article of faith for assault entailing serious injury, and was unable to kick upstairs the release. While locked up he unbroken writing his rhymes and expected to pick up where he left rancid upon release. But Seed had touched on, and without his collaborator Black was unwillingly forced to go solo. His one by one released debut, Later Bloomer, arrived in 2003 and john Drew the attention of the TVT label. Just as his lowly endeavour for the mark dropped in March of 2007, Black was at one time again headed for prison. This time he had earned 30 years for conspiracy and delivering 1,022 grams of snap cocaine. Black's attorneys immediately filed an appeal.
Monica Molina
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Justin Timberlake hosts Shriners benefits
Justin Timberlake [ ] will host a concert to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children Oct. 17 at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
The show, billed as "Justin Timberlake and Friends," will feature performances from some of the bulge out star's "mega-recording artist friends," according to a press release.
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Cemetery Of Scream
Artist: Cemetery Of Scream
Genre(s):
Metal: Gothic
Rock
Metal: Death,Black
Metal: Doom
Discography:
The Event Horizon
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Fine De Siecle
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
Prelude To A Sentimental Journey
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
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[1999] Fin De Siecle
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Deepression
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Deeppression
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Melancholy
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Sameone
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Poland's Cemetery of Scream formed in the early '90s and featured vocaliser Marcin Kotas, guitarists Marcin Piwowarczyk and Artur Oleszkiewicz, bassist Jacek Krolik, and drummer Grzegorz Ksiazek. Not content with acting conventional doom/death metal, the 5 added mediaeval nuances, keyboard atmospheric static, and even the casual female vocalization to their sole recording, 1995's ambitiously minded but terrestrially highborn Melancholy track record album, ahead vanishing from sight.
Gisele Bundchen - Bundchen Rues Missing Millions
Friday, 11 July 2008
Jean Michel Jarre and Natasha Atlas
Artist: Jean Michel Jarre and Natasha Atlas
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Cest La Vie Cdm
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
Potential strike already affecting film
AMPTP declares de facto stoppage in play
As the clock ticks ever closer to the June 30 end of SAG's contract, the industry is nervously contemplating the possibility of yet another strike -- even as it admits that, at least in terms of film production, a de facto strike already exists.
The AMPTP, in what could be characterized as its lack-of-progress report issued Thursday, argued that a de facto strike "limiting the greenlighting of features and disrupting pilot production" already has begun. As one talent attorney observed: "No one is doing anything that finishes after June 30, (and) nobody's starting anything now. There is the impact of a strike already."
The threat of a stoppage has had an impact on production schedules at the major studios, which pushed a slew of projects into production back in April in order to complete filming by June 30.
DreamWorks is wrapping both John Hamburg's "I Love You, Man" and Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" this week, while Paramount is aiming to finish principal photography during in the next two weeks on its untitled Wayans Bros. comedy, "G.I. Joe" and Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island," starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Warners is finishing up shooting on Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant," its Seth Rogen starrer "Observe and Report" and the action pic "Ninja Assassin." Universal is racing the clock on "Land of the Lost," starring Will Ferrell. Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain," "When in Rome" and "High School Musical 3" are on track to be finished by month's end. And Columbia/MGM's latest Bond adventure "Quantum of Silence" is set to wrap next week.
United Artists is squeezing in the additional footage it's shooting on the Tom Cruise starrer "Valkyrie" before the witching hour strikes.
At the same time, a number of movies aiming for key 2009 release dates decided to risk potential disruption by moving forward anyway.
Columbia's "Angels and Demons," the follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code," already was forced to postpone production once when writer Akiva Goldsman could not turn in a script polish during the writers strike. With a release date moved from Dec. 19 to May 15, 2009, the film began shooting this month, with Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard on location in Rome. Crossing its fingers, Columbia is calculating that if a strike does force a shutdown, production can resume in time to make the spring release date.
Other big-budget productions have contingency plans in place.
DreamWorks/Paramount's "Transformers" sequel is before the cameras in Pennsylvania, with shooting eventually set to move to New Mexico. In the event of a strike, director Michael Bay figures he can shut down principal photography and focus on VFX and second unit work. Halcyon's "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins," which is shooting exteriors in New Mexico now before moving to soundstages next month, is planning a similar strategy if its actors become unavailable.
In the case of Screen Gems' "Mardi Gras," which is shooting in New Orleans, the schedule has been arranged so that the final eight days of shooting, set for July, are all interiors and can be completed later in Los Angeles if a strike closes down the Louisiana shoot.
Several projects are set to begin filming in July but could be postponed.
At Warners, Clint Eastwood's "Gran Turino" is revving its engines for a proposed mid-July start in hopes that it will be ready for release by year's end. Disney's video game adaptation "Prince of Persia" and Columbia's disaster pic "2012" are moving forward with casting as they ready to shoot next month.
Other projects are awaiting a resolution before moving forward.
MGM has held off greenlighting its remake of "Fame" and "The Thomas Crown Affair 2," even though the Lion, trying to stage a comeback, hopes to begin rolling out new material by the end of 2009.
On the indie front, any strike would have less impact because SAG says it has already signed guaranteed completion agreements on more than 300 independently produced films that would allow them to keep working during a strike.
Among the more prominent projects are Oliver Stone's "W," the QED-financed pic shooting in Louisiana, with Josh Brolin George W. Bush; the Catherine Zeta Jones-toplined "The Rebound"; the Lindsay Lohan starrer "Labor Pains"; the Nicolas Cage remake "Bad Lieutenant"; and Nia Vardalos' "I Hate Valentine's Day."
A number of indie producers said they were able to land a higher cut of talent because of their ability to guarantee that actors will collect a paycheck this summer regardless of what happens at the bargaining table.
Newer stand-alone companies such as Overture and Summit largely will bypass the effects of the strike as well because of lighter production schedules or completion guarantees. While Summit has no films set to shoot in July, the sci-fi tale "Pandorum," which Overture will distribute in North America, is set to go before the cameras with financing from Germany's Constantin.
Overture and Par Vantage also are behind Michael Moore's sequel to "Fahrenheit 9/11." The movie is in production and is expected to continue shooting through the summer, but documentaries by and large won't be affected by any SAG labor action.
Because of disruptions that already have taken place, anxiety can be felt throughout the post community.
"We believe this will be worse than the WGA strike," said Stephen Buchsbaum, CEO of the Post Group. "During the WGA strike, we were doing projects that didn't involve the WGA -- some independent films, game shows and reality shows. Those all have SAG hosts, and unless there is a side deal struck, we believe this impact will be catastrophic.
"The post industry still has not recovered from the writers strike," he continued. "The industry has not come back, partly because TV season as we know it is still in limbo."
Unease also is growing in the visual effects community.
"I'm hearing about and seeing people being laid off or told hurry up and wait," Visual Effects Society executive director Eric Roth said. "It seems like there is already a strike."
This situation is further aggravated by the lurching global economy, weak dollar and increasing amount of VFX work heading to less expensive destinations.
"It's a recipe for the perfect storm at the worst possible time," Roth said.
Jay A. Fernandez, Carolyn Giardina, Borys Kit and Leslie Simmons in Los Angeles and Gregg Goldstein and Steven Zeitchik in New York contributed to this report.
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