Coldplay will have their very own US radio station, which launches next month to coincide with the kick off their North American tour.
'30 Days of Coldplay' will feature exclusive live performances from the band on their tour supporting their new album 'Viva La Vida', as well as band interviews, rare import tracks and other selections from the Coldplay catalogue.
The month-long programme will broadcast on XM Radio's channel 51 from July 15 until August 15.
The North American leg of Coldplay's Viva La Vida Tour is set to kick off July 14 in Los Angeles.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
Jenni Rivera
Artist: Jenni Rivera
Genre(s):
Folk
Latin
Discography:
En Vivo Desde Hollywood
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Mi vida loca
Year:
Tracks: 27
In the ‘90s, vocalist/songwriter Jenni Rivera established herself as a major star in the regional Mexican market. Rivera's speciality is banda, which is also known as corrido and is one of the various Mexican styles that is extremely popular in Mexico as well as the southwest role of the United States. Rivera is well aware of other Mexican styles, such as norteño, tejano, mariachi and ranchero--in fact, the Mexican-American vocalist has recorded norteño versions of some songs--but banda/corrido is her main focus. And the fact that Rivera is a major female star makes her a infrequency for the banda/corrido field. While Mexican music has had plenitude of famous female artists over the years--everyone from Rocio Durcal to Lola Beltrán to Selena to the controversial Gloria Trevi--banda has tended to be male-dominated. In the Mexican market, Rivera has been granted such titles as La Diva de la Banda (the Diva of Banda) and la Primera Dama del Corrido (the First Lady of Corrido). It should be famed that non all Latin artists wHO purpose the word banda in their name really play banda/corrido music; for example, there ar merengue outfits with names like Banda X.Although Rivera is of Mexican descent, she didn't actually grow up in Mexico. Rivera was natural and brocaded in Long Beach, CA, the Los Angeles suburb that too gave us gangsta blame star Snoop Doggy Dogg. Rivera's parents had immigrated to the United States from Mexico, and she grew up oral presentation both English and Spanish fluently. Her father, Pedro Rivera, and her brothers both played Mexican music, focalization on banda/corrido, norteño and ranchero--and they did a peck to boost her interest in music. When Rivera got to college, however, she didn't major in music just rather, studied business judicature. Rivera went on to work as a real estate agent, although she kept a hand in music and helped her father run his record company. Working in real land didn't prevent Rivera from pursuing a life history in euphony, and around 1994, she signed with Capitol/EMI's Latin division; her first record album, Chacalosa, came out in 1995. Rivera made a few more than albums for Capitol/EMI (including Adios a Selena) ahead transcription for Sony's Latin division in the late ‘90s. It was In 1999 that Rivera sign-language with Fonovisa, one of the top labels in the regional Mexican market. Her first Fonovisa album, Que Me Entierrren Con la Banda (which contained the remove "Las Malandinas") came out in 1999 and was followed by early 2000s releases that included Dejate Amar (which included the remove "Querida Socia") and Se Las Voy a Dar a Otro. In 2003, Fonovisa released the conceptual Homenaje a las Grandes, which crataegus oxycantha identical well be Rivera's most challenging record album so far. The title Homenaje a las Grandes means "homage to the great ones," and the 2003 release finds Rivera stipendiary tribute to famous Mexican distaff stars such as Lucho Villa, Mercedes Castro, Rocio Durcal, Lola Beltrán and Alejandra Guzmán.
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Kurt Cobain's ashes stolen
It's not entirely clear how you'd go about flogging them on eBay without arousing suspicion, but that hasn't stopped someone from stealing Kurt Cobain's ashes, according to his widow Courtney Love.
Love believes a former friend is responsible for swiping Kurt's remains, which were stored in a pink bear-shaped handbag and hidden in a wardrobe at her Hollywood home.
She now claims to be suicidal as a result of the theft: "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do."
Most of Cobain's ashes were originally scattered at a New York Buddhist temple and in the Wishkah river in Washington state. However, Love says she kept some for herself, hidden away in a location that was a closely guarded secret until now.
"They were all I had left of him," Love said to the News of the World. "Who has their husband's ashes stolen?"
Love is hardly a stranger to controversy. This March she claimed that someone had used Cobain's social security number to steal more than $200 million from his estate. As with the theft of his ashes, Love believes the culprit was known to her.
Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994.
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Friday, 30 May 2008
Dunkin' Donuts Yanks Rachael Ray Spot
A TV commercial for Dunkin' Donuts featuring afternoon TV personality Rachael Ray has been yanked from the air after viewers complained that a scarf Ray wears in the spot resembled a keffiyeh, a traditional male headdress. The ad had been denounced by Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, who said that the scarf was an "adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos." The company initially denied that the scarf was a keffiyeh, but as complaints mounted, the Boston Globe reported, Dunkin' Donuts decided to pull the spot, "given the possibility of misperception." Malkin welcomed the company's response, saying that it showed "sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."
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Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Bannerman says he simply 'fell in love'
Bannerman says he simply 'fell in love'
'I'm A Fame... Catch Me Come out of the closet of Here' star Marc Bannerman has claimed that he simply couldn't shroud his feelings for isaac Merrit Singer Cerys Matthews patch they were in the jungle.
Speechmaking on 'Al Murray's Happy Hour', his number one television system interview since the testify, Bannerman said that he "felled seam in passion" with the vocaliser when he met her in Australia.
Bannerman said: "I fell in love with soul and that is that."
"I know I spite soul back in England but what tin can you do? Life goes on and I hope she is altogether right."
Speech production around media claims that his family relationship with Matthews is a packaging stunt, he said: "I couldn't caution less what anyone thinks."
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Thursday, 24 April 2008
Sexed-up B-52s fly once more
Sexed-up B-52s fly once more
WHEN you hear a lyric like "do a egg white hot shimmy in a Lurex gown" or "there's the G-Spot perpetrate the car over", it canful only mean one thing. The B-52s are back.
Sixteen age after the band's previous handout, Good Stuff and nonsense, and near 30 geezerhood after they introduced their distinctive sound with the bouncy merely bonkers John Rock Lobster, the four-piece that pose Athens, Peach State, (besides habitation to REM, The Indigofera tinctoria Girls and Danger Shiner) on the map has returned with a fresh record album, Funplex, released yesterday.
Entirely the trademarks ar thither, the unmistakable harmonies of Cindy Harriet Wilson and Kate Pierson, the honking half-singing, half-speaking vocals of Fred Schneider, the delightfully daffy lyrics and the music that has no greater aim than to get the party started and keep it
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