William Basinski & other: 2008

Wednesday 3 September 2008

Telluride Film Festival unveils lineup

Writers mint affects American contingent

Directors David Fincher and Jan Troell and actress Jean Simmons will trek this weekend to the Rockies, where each testament be feted with a tribute at the thirty-fifth Telluride Film Festival.

The pocketable festival, which traditionally doesn't reveal its lineup until the net minute, gets under way today in the Colorado mountain township and runs through Monday. Despite the all-American venue, this year's event testament have an especially international feel.

"Internationally, this has been another terrific year," Gary Meyer, wHO serves as fest director along with Tom Luddy, said of the lineup the iI have assembled.

The only easy spot might be the U.S. component.

"The trend that all the fall festivals are lining," Meyer aforementioned, "is that because of the writers strike, a lot of high-profile American films that might experience been useable just aren't going to be ready in time."

That, in turn, could touch the way some of the participants perceive Telluride. By launching such movies as "Walk the Line" and "Juno" in recent years, the festival earned a repute for providing an former peek at the developing awards season.

But while Meyer said those films deserved the limelight Telluride trained on them, "We don't want to become known as just a display case for a bunch of Hollywood movies."

Certainly, there will be plenteousness of films on hand likely to attract awards buzz. For example, Mike Leigh's drollery "Happy-Go-Lucky" already has handicappers doing cartwheels over Sally Hawkins' performance as a cockeyed optimist. Meyer illustrious that the fest, which has a long-standing relationship with Leigh, spotted the movie in Berlin in February, engagement it even before Miramax picked it up for U.S. release.

Marc Abraham's "Flash of Genius," in which Greg Kinnear plays the man wHO invented the intermittent windshield wiper, is expected to pop up, unannounced, in one of the sneak preview muscae volitantes. And Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," set in Mumbai, could substantially show up in another preview slot.

A number of films that established themselves at Cannes also volition be on hand, like the animated Israeli feature "Waltz With Bashir," Matteo Garrone's Italian crime drama "Gomorra" and Steve McQueen's prison study "Hunger."

But Telluride also will unveil several new films, including Paul Schrader's modish feature, "Adam Resurrected," an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's novel in which Jeff Goldblum plays a troubled concentration camp survivor. "It will split audiences correct down the middle," Meyer predicted. "We had a small screening of it, and multitude stood about in the lobby for over an hour discussing it."

Other titles that could stake tabu turf at Telluride include the French film "With a Little Help From Myself," directed by Francois Dupeyron, in which Felicite Wouassi, head an African-French cast, turns in what is said to be an award-worthy performance; Tim Disney's "American Violet," starring Nicole Behaire as an black undivided mother; the Indian feature "Firaaq," which will be introduced by Salman Rushdie; Ole Christian Madsen's "Flame & Citron," set amid the Danish resistance to the Nazis; and the documentary "Learning Gravity," Cathal Black's portraiture of Thomas Lynch, an undertaker and poet.

As for the tributes, Fincher volition be lauded as a contemporary movie maker whose work out has steadily become more rich as he's stirred from such films as "Alien 3" and "Seven" to the recent "Zodiac" (Telluride will screen the director's cut of the latter film). The protection is besides likely to include a first look at footage from Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which Paramount is releasing Christmas Day, just as last year's honoree Paul Thomas Anderson used the occasion to show footage from Par Vantage's "There Will Be Blood."

Simmons, whose extensive credits range from "Great Expectations" (1946) and "Guys and Dolls" (1955) to "Hamlet" (1948) and "Elmer Gantry" (1960), will look back over her long playing career. "When you really start looking for at her filmography, when you really see her performances and range, it blows you away," Meyer said.

Although Troell received two Oscar nominations for committal to writing and directing his 1971 film "The Emigrants," Luddy and Meyer felt that his more than recent films had non received the attention in the U.S. they merit. The program will include his up-to-the-minute feature, "Everlasting Moments."

Slovenian-born culture critic Slavoj Zizek, portion as this year's guest director, testament aim his spotlight on three examples of time of origin film noir: Edmund Goulding's "Nightmare Alley" (1947) stellar Tyrone Power, Nicholas Ray's "On Dangerous Ground" (1952) starring Robert Ryan and John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" (1966) starring Rock Hudson.

The fest also is presenting a special salute to Romanian director Nae Caranfil with showings of two of his films, "Philanthropy" (2002) and "The Rest Is Silence" (2007).

Meyer and Luddy are hoping to swerve down on some of the lines that had attendees complaining last class. They've cut back the program, and this year instead of five slip previews, at that place will be only two. They've also resorted to some strategical scheduling so that films expected to be hot tickets are programd against each other, forcing festivalgoers to get some tough choices.

"We don't want people to feel they have to stand in channel one or two hours in advance," Meyer said.

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Sunday 24 August 2008

New Kids On The Block Return To The Block

Pop supergroup New Kids on the Block are back.�Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and Jordan and Jonathan Knight return on September 6, 2008 with The Block, their first album together in almost 15 years.

Featuring the first single, the run into mellow block �Summertime,� the album also features collaborations with some of the biggest name calling in pop music.�R&B mavin Ne-Yo appears on �Single,� the followup to �Summertime.��Other collaborations include �Grown Man� (with The Pussycat Dolls and uber-producer Teddy Riley), �Put It on My Tab� (with the ubiquitous Akon), �Big Girl Now� (with NY dance-pop diva Lady GaGa) and the much-buzzed around �Full Service� (with buster super-group New Edition).

NKOTB will support The Block with a sold-out tour that starts on September 18 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and continues throughout North America until the last of November.�

Background

New Kids On The Block sold more than 80 million albums worldwide -- including back-to-back international #1 songs, 1988�s Hangin� Tough and 1990�s Step By Step -- and a series of crossover smash R&B, pop hits like �You Got It (The Right Stuff),��Cover Girl,� �Didn�t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),� �Hangin� Tough,� �I�ll Be Loving You,� �Step By Step� and �Tonight.��The grouping shattered concert box office records playing an estimated 200 concerts a class, in sold out stadiums throughout the world.�They soundless hold many of these records to date.�They were Forbes highest paid entertainers of 1990, beating out Michael Jackson and Madonna.�The band boasted an extensive and highly profitable merchandise line which included everything from lunch boxes and sleeping bags to comic books, wits and dolls.

New Kids On The Block � The Block - Out September 6

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Woven Hand

Artist: Woven Hand

   Genre(s):
Folk
   Indie

Discography:

Consider the Birds

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Blush Music

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Woven Hand

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

David Eugene Edwards, perplexing frontman and visionary for 16 Horsepower, began recording under the Woven Hand cognomen patch Horsepower was on

Friday 27 June 2008

Syko

Artist: Syko

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Amerikkkan Syko

Year: 2004
Tracks: 19

Helen Boulding, New Red Dress

Thursday 19 June 2008

R Kelly trial: Day Three

Eight jurors were selected today (May 13) in R Kelly.'s pornography trial.

The panel, which will eventually be made up of 12 jurors and four alternates, now has five men and three women, and is split evenly between black and white members.

Making up the panel so far are a teacher's assistant, a married man in his 40s, a criminal justice student, an investment firm compliance officer and a man with prior jury experience, reports the Chicago Tribune.

These jurors join the three others selected yesterday, including a pastor's wife and a self-described Christian.

The juror selection at the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago is expected to take about a week, and the trial itself could last several weeks.

If Kelly is found guilty of the charges, he could face up to 15 years in prison.

Kelly faces child pornography charges for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a minor some time between 1998 and 2000.

The Grammy-winning artist is due to release a new album in July.

Thursday 12 June 2008

Pete Doherty - Doherty Wants To Start Album From Scratch

Rocker PETE DOHERTY is considering scrapping the songs he's already recorded for his forthcoming solo album - because his recent spell in jail has forced him to re-evaluate the musical direction of his new release.

The Babyshambles frontman was released from London's Wormwood Scrubs prison last month (May08) after serving 29 days of his 14-week sentence for probation violation relating to his previous drug and driving offences.

And he admits he is keen to start his album all over again by travelling to Portugal and Paris, France to find inspiration - if only he wasn't barred from doing so by his bail conditions.

He says, "I've re-thought everything about what I'm going to do with the solo record.

"(But) I'm not allowed out of the country until my probation licence is up, which is a little while."

Doherty has been working on the album for the past 12 months and is due to release his solo LP at the end of the year (08).

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Friday 6 June 2008

Christina Aguilera and baby son Max in 'Rock the Vote PSA': Photo

Christina Aguilera and baby son Max film a PSA for 'Rock the Vote 2008' campaign. Photo Credit: Rock the Vote / Splash News
June 5, 2008 () - Christina Aguilera filmed a PSA for 'Rock the Vote 2008' campaign that shows her cradling baby son Max, wrapped in an American flag, in her arms and singing to him "America the Beautiful" as a lullaby.

The shoot for the campaign, which urges young voters to have their say in the forthcoming Presidential elections, lasted half a day.

"She sang a cappella, and her son was so well behaved," Rock the Vote executive director Heather Smith told E! Online. "She got it on the first take."

"We decided it was time for a new generation of artists to speak to young people," Smith explained. "This image really shows the country's 44 million young Americans that the future is in our hands."

The ad will air in a few weeks along with a co-ordinate print media campaign.

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Par Lindh Project

Artist: Par Lindh Project

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Mundus Incompertus

Year: 1997
Tracks: 3

Bilbo

Year: 1996
Tracks: 15

Rondo

Year: 1995
Tracks: 4

Gothic Impressions

Year: 1994
Tracks: 6

National Student Music Awards details revealed

Thursday 22 May 2008

DJ Sanches

Artist: DJ Sanches

   Genre(s):
House

Discography:

Thursdays of Sanchez in Propagation

Year: 2004
Tracks: 12

Groovenics

Monday 19 May 2008

Scarlett Johansson - Johansson Im Not What I Seem

SCARLETT JOHANSSON hopes her freshly record album of

Pink Floyd's missing giant pig has landed

Rustie Lee joining EastEnders cast

Fame chef Rustie Lee is set to conjoin the cast of 'EastEnders', as Gus Smith's feisty aunt.
According to the show's functionary web site, the 54-year-old will play a eccentric called Opal for deuce episodes, which will be screened in Apr.
Bruce Lee said: "I'm absolutely over the moon to think I'm going to be in the Square. I can't wait."
Actor Mo Saint George, wHO plays Lee's on-screen nephew Gus, will be leaving the show before long.

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Calls Lawsuit Over Fight With Heckler 'Entirely Without Merit'

A man world Health Organization got into a scuffle with Pete Wentz last summertime at a Spin magazine party is suing the Fall Out Boy bassist and the fight's venue, Schuba's Tavern in Chicago, seeking unspecified amends.
In the suit, Andy Kallas alleges that he suffered "serious injuries to his pass, mouth and face" after an unprovoked attacked by Wentz and as many as 10 other individuals.
Wentz has a different view of the incident, and he responded exclusively to MTV Newsworthiness on the matter. "This case is only without merit and will be vigorously defended," Wentz said via e-mail. "This is another in a long line of frivolous lawsuits that ar filed against celebrities apiece yr from individuals seeking a quick payoff when in that respect is absolutely no justification for the claim."
When we number 1 covered the write up back in June, one Schuba's frequenter said Kallas was "calling Pete a sell out, request him, 'Where's [girlfriend] Ashlee [Simpson]?' and making fun of his hoodie."
Wentz himself said that he only punched Kallas because the man had grabbed him, and that he was playing in self-defence. "We get heckled onstage completely the time, and while I'm a jolt, I'm non the sort of person world Health Organization would ever lash out at mortal plainly over this," Wentz told us at the metre.
The scrap at Schuba's was the second Wentz was involved in last year. In January 2007, he battled a security guard at the Temperateness Theatre in Albuquerque, Freshly Mexico, after the guard allegedly shoved a member of FOB's security department team. No charges were filed in that incident.

Osimira

Artist: Osimira

   Genre(s):
Folk

Discography:

Proshcha

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

Museum showcases female punk scene

Lysa Flores looks far too stylish to be unity of the female voices of East L.A. punk rock, to borrow the subtitle of an exhibition opening next week at the Claremont Museum of Artistic creation. Wait one cloudy first light late for a mesa at a trendy cafe in her Los Feliz neighborhood, the singer-songwriter is sporting a bolshy silk scarf under a long gray herringbone overcoat revelation black leggings that stop just above her buckled mortise joint boots. Thither are no pinks or blues in her curly blackamoor haircloth and no pins, hoops or studs in her nozzle or eyebrows.

She brings a burned CD of freshly medicine she's transcription and that doesn't sound punkish either, despite a guest appearing by Trick Doe of X renown. The autobiographical sour, "Immigrant Girl," is acoustic, reflective and often poetic, suited for the creative person who's been called the Joni Margaret Mitchell of Chicano rock.

So what's she doing in a museum show focused on a punk scenery that exploded in East L.A. in the early '80s when she was hush a schoolgirl?

"To me, the punk rock idea was constantly about having this oppositional identity, which is very Chicano to me," says Flores, a vegetarian world Health Organization orders fruit and granola. "Even though that was the music I was raised listening to, it would be completely inauthentic to fag out the punk rock stone uniform. You have the ideology and so you get the look. And I think so many multitude settle down on the depend without the actual thought process behind it. For me, I'd instead turn over heads with a song."

She will try on turning some heads with a performance next Sabbatum at the opening reception for "Vexing: Female Voices From Orient L.A. Touchwood," the exhibition that takes its name from the legendary Eastside punk nine, the Vex. She'll be joined on stage by or so of the archetype Chicana punks wHO influenced her, including Alice Handbag (née Armendariz) of the Bags and Mother Teresa Covarrubias of the Bratwurst. In their act as, Flores and Armendariz plan to unveil a brand-new genre called "punkcheras," or punked-out mariachi standards.

The exhibition documents the a great deal untold story of L.A.'s Chicano punk rock shot not just through and through music simply via the entire aesthetic of this sharply revolutionist writing style or, more accurately, way of biography. In addition to time of origin video of seldom seen performances, the demonstrate features paintings, photography and performance fine art to follow the history of the scene and its bequest. A ending concert will spotlight deuce younger female bands, Go Betty Go and the Sirens.

In doing research for the show, co-curator Pilar Tomkins discovered a paucity of selective information on the scene. One touchwood anthology devoted a bingle page to the matter, and that included a film of Los Lobos, hardly a punk band. What's more, if the men of Chicano kindling were ignored, imagine how little is known most the women in what more or less deal a male-dominated shot.

With the show and catalogue, the museum seeks to "exemplify the singularity of what these women were doing and how it's different being a Chicana punk rock and organism any other variety of tough," Tomkins says. "For them to do what they were doing meant stepping outside of non only gender roles but too socioeconomic conditions, immigrant condition and ethnic and cultural roles."

Armendariz, or Alice Bag, grew up with about of the traditional customs duty of her Mexican immigrant kinsperson. She recalls having to warm up tortillas at dinner for her brother, world Health Organization enjoyed the male privilege of eating first base. That obsequiousness english hawthorn have something to do with the identify of her band afterwards the Bags broke up -- Castration Squad.

"Rock 'n' vagabond stands for rebellion, and if you're opinion disenfranchised it gives you a voice," says Armendariz, world Health Organization retired from teaching after 20 years and now lives in San Diego with her hubby and their trio children. "I wouldn't be surprised if there's a group of kids somewhere doing something that's beyond hood, that's completely different, channeling their rising in a creative way."

For Chicanos in East L.A., creativeness meant channeling their rebellion against the established punk shot of the day, which thrived in Hollywood clubs with bands such as X and the Blasters. Unlike the Bags, which were part of that scene, many Chicano punks felt left out. They were doing a band of head-banging, merely it was against the doors of clubs that would non have them in to play.

Hence, the Chafe was max Born. The guild was started in 1980 as an choice for those shutout Due east L.A. bands, including Los Illegals with Willie Herrón, also known for his work with ASCO, the vanguard Chicano prowess group. Herrón helped establish the club in a second-story space at the influential Self Help Artwork. What started come out of the closet as a smack in the face turned come out of the closet to be "a benediction," recalls Armendariz, world Health Organization played the Perplex with Emasculation Squad. "Because from that rejection, from that closed [Hollywood] scene, people just turned about and created their have scene in their have backyard."

The Worry at Self Help served as an alternative cultural oasis, until the place was trashed later that lapp year by marauding punks from outside the neighbourhood during a Shirley Temple Black Flag concert. It moved to other locations, simply or so say it never recaptured the pilot spirit of shared community.

A 10 by and by, another oasis for Chicano pop culture developed at the Troy Café, operated by Sean Carrillo and Bibbe Hansen, the former Andy Warhol protégé and mother of rock candy star Beck. It's where the generations came together, where Armendariz met Flores, wHO finally teamed up in the all-girl stone band Stay at Home Bomb, with a drummer world Health Organization played pots and pans and a bass player wHO was already ashcan School months pregnant.

In their post-Bags and post-Brat days, Armendariz also teamed with Covarrubias in Goddess 13, a sly numerical point of reference to Chicano gangs. After, the geminate would join Angela Vogel of Odd Squad, who's also featured in "Vexing," to chassis an acoustic vocal chemical group called Las Tres. The trio played at Troy, sometimes in paper costumes designed by ASCO associate degree Diane Gamboa, whose work is too showcased at the exhibition, co-curated by Colin Gunckel with support from the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Centre of attention.

"From each one group of women that comes along kicks the door a little harder," says Armendariz, about that punk press to be heard. "The [Dumbfound] legacy is that, if you find a door that's closed to you and you can't kick it down, and then create your have picture somewhere else. You're non release to be deterred."

"Vexing: Female Voices From East L.A. Punk." Whitethorn 18 through August. 31 at the Claremont Museum of Artistry, 536 W. 1st St., Claremont. $3 for adults; under 18 liberate. (909) 621.3200; world Wide Web.claremontmuseum.org.

agustin.gurza@latimes.com

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