Imani Coppola

   
Artist: Imani Coppola

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 The Black and White Album

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14

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While scarcely a sophomore at the State University of New York (poring over orchestra and later on studio composition), Imani Coppola gained a record compress for her phantasmagorical, sample-laden pop vision of rap music, linked to Digable Planets as well as Neneh Cherry. While maturation up, her entire folk was musical, and Coppola began playing violin at the age of six. She began writing songs and skilful her vocals (although her recording life history has featured her rapping more than telling). Her debut album, Chupacabra, featured the MTV hit "Legend of a Cowgirl." Coppola exhausted the future decade out of the limelight -- her label dropped her before she could acquittance her followup, so she gear up about making music in relation obscureness in New York, starting her own label so as to expiration her have material, including 2004's Afrodite. In 2007, all the same, she was picked up by Ipecac Records, world Health Organization issued The Black & White Album late that year.

Ryan Cabrera takes control over new album

Pop-rocker Ryan Cabrera [ tickets ] is back in action with a newfound independence, a new look and a new album.The singer/songwriter/guitarist has formed his own record label and will release his first self-financed set, "The Moon Under Water," tomorrow (5/13). He and his band are currently showcasing the new material on a radio-concert tour that continues tonight (5/12) in Houston. The outing will take Cabrera through a handful of US cities into July. The itinerary is listed below.The Texas prodigy shot to fame in 2004 as a young, blond-tipped popster, scoring hits including "On the Way Down" and "True" from his debut album, "Take It All Away." Cabrera followed that the next year with "You Stand Watching," which spawned the Top 40 pop single "Shine On."For his next trick, the maturing artist wanted to move in a different direction, but his major label wasn't having it, so they parted ways. Cabrera formed his own Frolic Room Records company and spent about a year and a half writing and recording "The Moon Under Water" his own way."The sound of the new record I think will open a lot of eyes and ears, and definitely be a surprise to fans and anybody who hasn't heard my music," the 25-year-old explained in a press release. "I wanted to take my time with this record and really make a diverse entire album as opposed to just a single or two; no, I want a ride, a journey, I want the record to be able to be played all the way through. So many things have changed in my life, and the music is heading along with it."The album's lead single, "Say," is currently making waves at radio and is streaming at Cabrera's MySpace page.

Foo Fighters - The Things They Say 8488

"Mondays should be TAYLOR HAWKINS Day." FOO FIGHTERS frontman DAVE GROHL wants a national holiday for his drummer.

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Obama Runs Against Reruns; Reruns Lose

Many media critics were sharply scolding the nation's television networks Wednesday for their decision to ignore the results of Tuesday's Democratic primaries, which resulted in Sen. Barack Obama receiving enough delegate votes to guarantee his nomination as president at the Democratic convention in August. "History was made in the nation last night. It just wasn't carried on the nation's airwaves," Advertising Age's John Rash wrote on the trade publication's website. Rash observed that ABC, CBS and NBC ran mostly reruns and that their failure to cover the primary election results represented "a lost opportunity to find new audiences for the networks' nightly newscasts." (ABC briefly interrupted its programming to carry Obama's victory speech.) The New York Times observed that CNN outdrew most of the broadcast networks Tuesday night and concluded that it was likely "the second time in history that a cable network attracted more viewers than a broadcaster during a major news event." The networks' decision also allowed Fox to move to the front of the ratings race with a schedule of reality shows during primetime Tuesday. Its Hell's Kitchen was the night's highest-rated show.


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Robert Downey Jr - Downey Jr In Talks To Play Cowboy In Quirky Sci-fi Western

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. is set to bring a 10-year-old sci-fi movie idea to the big screen after negotiating to star in COWBOYS + ALIENS.

The Iron Man star is in talks to sign on to the film, about an alien spaceship that lands in the Wild West, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will produce the film, which has been in development for a decade.

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Jolie gives birth to twins - report

It is reported that Angelina Jolie has given birth to twins in France.
The US television show 'Entertainment Tonight' cited a source close to Jolie, but did not name the source.
There was no immediate comment from representatives for either Jolie or partner Brad Pitt.
The twins are Jolie and Pitt's fifth and sixth children.

Critikal

   
Artist: Critikal

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 State

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7

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Mel Ferrer, once wed to Audrey Hepburn, dead at 90

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor-filmmaker Mel Ferrer, the onetime husband of Audrey Hepburn who co-starred with the screen icon in "War and Peace," directed her in "Green Mansions" and produced her film "Wait Until Dark," has died at age 90, a family spokesman said on Tuesday.


Ferrer, who also appeared with Hepburn on Broadway for her Tony Award-winning turn in "Ondine," died in his sleep on Monday surrounded by relatives and friends at his family's ranch in Carpenteria, California, near Santa Barbara, the spokesman, Mike Mena said.


The lanky, gaunt Ferrer first appeared on Broadway as a chorus dancer in 1938. After suffering a bout of polio, he worked behind the scenes in radio, TV and film before making his big-screen acting debut in the 1949 drama "Lost Boundaries" playing a fair-skinned black doctor passing as white.


Delving as it did into the sensitive subject of post-war American race relations, it was a risky role that "had a huge impact on him and his commitment to civil rights," Ferrer's son, Mark, recalled of his father.


But he is best remembered for his role as the lame puppeteer in the 1953 musical "Lili" with Leslie Caron, the same year Hepburn made her big-screen breakthrough opposite Ferrer's friend Gregory Peck in "Roman Holiday," which earned her a best actress Oscar.


Ferrer and Hepburn married in 1954 and appeared together that year in the Broadway production of "Ondine," for which she won a Tony as best actress for playing the water sprite just weeks after receiving her Academy Award.


They also co-starred in the 1956 movie adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel "War and Peace" -- she as Natasha Rostov and he as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.


So intent was Hepburn on remaining near her husband that shooting of her Paris scenes in "Funny Face" were timed to coincide with Ferrer's filming of the French movie "Elena et les hommes," in which he co-starred with Ingrid Bergman. 

These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid

A collaboration with fashion designer Hedi Slimane for Dior Homme in 2007 and purple and gold outfits on stage... from the press it would be all too easy for some grumblers to dub These New Puritans The Emperor's New Clothes and retreat to the post-punk milestones to hear how it really should be done.
But such a write-off would be an opportunity missed: while the four 19-year-olds may be the latest post-Christmas excitement band, their debut album has some great moments and a real appreciation of the dynamics of the art form.
Singer Jack Barnett, his twin brother drummer George, bassist Thomas Hein and synth and samples colleague Sophie Sleigh-Johnson mix genres here without leaving you worried that the kitchen sink might make an appearance on the next track - their creation could appeal as much to the fan of US label Dischord as those who stockpile electronica.
And what's most refreshing amidst all the shape throwing is that the quartet can write catchy songs too if they're in the humour, as one listen to 'Numerology (AKA Numbers)', 'Colours' and 'Navigate - Colours' will attest.
The years should prove kind to These New Puritans: they have a lot of ideas, they spark off each other in style and while their sound is quite grey at the moment, it's never dull.
Harry Guerin