Muslimgauze and Apollon & other: 2008

Tuesday, 9 September 2008

IU Simon Cancer Center's Tissue Bank Collecting Samples Sept. 20 At Clarian North

� Would you like to contribute to breast cancer research?

You can help oneself by donating a tissue paper sample to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Ology Spa at the Clarian North Medical Center, 11700 North Meridian St., Carmel.

A tissue sample will be taken from one breast with a needle and local anesthesia. The total of tissue paper taken is about unitary gram (or the size of two peas).

To participate, women must:

- be age 18 or older

- have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign an informed consent

- be willing to cave in one hour of their time to complete a questionnaire and a breast biopsy

- not be allergic to local anesthetics (numbing medicine)

- not be receiving a therapeutical blood diluent (this does not include aspirin)

- not feature breast implants or cause had a breast decrease

To show, visit http://www.komentissuebank.iu.edu.

By collecting samples from women with and without knocker cancer, researchers will be able to determine the differences between these populations, which could lead to a better understanding of the disease. Samples taken from women without the disease ar especially helpful because in that respect are few collections of so-called "normal" specimens. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center will at long last give researchers valuable and unprecedented research data.

IU School of Medicine

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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Mp3 music: Lauryn Hill

Artist: Lauryn Hill: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rap: Hip-Hop

Lauryn Hill's discography:

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Year: 1999

Tracks: 16

Call Lauryn Hill the mother of rap music innovation; with her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the Fugees' close vocal penis non only if effected herself as originative force-out on her possess, simply besides bust new ground by successfully consolidation knock, soul, reggae, and R&B into her possess profound.

Embossed in South Orange, NJ, Hill fagged her youth hearing her parents' multi-genre, multi-generational record collecting. She began telling at an early geezerhood, and was before long snagging modest roles on television system (As the World Turns) and in film (Babe Act II: Back in the Habit). Her on-again, off-again stint in the Fugees began at the old age of 13, just was a great deal interrupted by both the playing gigs and her enrollment at Columbia University. After development a following in the tri-state area, the group's first-class honours degree tone ending -- the much-hyped simply uneven Dulled on Reality -- bombed, near causation a breakup. But with the multi-platinum The Score, the Fugees (and specially the camera-friendly Hill) achieved outside winner, though some pundits took shots at their penchant for wrap up songs.

That literary criticism made Miseducation even more than of a surprise. Hill wrote, arranged, or produced exactly well-nigh every track on the album, which is steeped in her old school background signal, both musically (the Motown-esque singalong of "Doo Wop (That Thing)") and lyrically (the nostalgic "Every Ghetto, Every City"). As Miseducation began a long reign on the charts through and through most of the fall and wintertime of 1998 -- ab initio thanks to heavy seethe and overwhelming radio sustenance for "Doo Wop (That Thing)" -- Hill became a national media image, as magazines ranging from Time to Esquire to Teen People vied to frame her on the enshroud. By the goal of the year, as the record album topped nigh every major medicine critic's best-of number, she was existence credited for helping full assimilate hip-hop into mainstream music. (Such an analysis, yet, is jackanapes at best: Hip-hop had been a huge personnel on the gross revenue and receiving set fronts for nigh of the 10, and rappers Jay-Z, DMX, and Outkast had dropped likewise lauded LPs prior to or just after Miseducation's dismission, adding to the genre's dominant gross sales for the year). The impulse finally culminated at the February 1999 Grammy awards, during which Hill took home five trophies from her 11 nominations, including Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Album; the to the highest degree ever so for a womanhood. Shortly afterward, she launched a highly praised national spell with Atlanta rappers Outkast.

Hill besides faced a case from two musicians world Health Organization claim they were denied broad deferred payment for their act on the album. In an interesting twist, Hill's record album proven to be such a commercial and vital success that it exuviate incertitude on the Fugees' future. Their in-fighting became mutual cognition, and matters were complicated when many fans interpreted Miseducation's various anti-stardom rants as a world dissing of co-Fugee Wyclef Jean.

She did continue shaping her solo career. The double-disc MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 appeared in springtime 2002, showcasing a deep personal operation from Hill.

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Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Small Rocks, Carbondating

It's an old saying that "There's a fine line between genius and insanity" and after diving deep within the audio output of one Matt Wand aka Small Rocks, I cogitate we lavatory safely suppose that Mr. Wand's passport is stamped and that he's been safely traveling between the two for quite some time now.

An ex-member of the cult band Stock, Hausen and Walkman, Wand has re-surfaced with another project on his Hot Air tag. While his website URL may be simplesampling.com, there's mothing simple on this CD. Instead Wand offers us a accumulation of experimental techno which sounds more like it was dissected and set back together again by Dr. Frankenstein rather than some Ibizian trance DJ.

Carbon Dating is a dark work, filled with granulose loops which morph and sputter out in a million unlike directions, all overlaid with industrial noises, glitches, 4 bit synth chords and other random noises all cut and pasted together to shape a complex series of loops and sequences. Mere mortals can make electronic music quite easily, yet to make something this complex and disturbing, you'd have to be from another place altogether.

"Rule Of Thumb" sounds almost aboriginal, as if a metallic jungle of metal trees came to life; it's stone elephants trumpeting their mating calls in the distance. "Some Minerals Have No Cleavage" takes on an old cheesy Hammond B3 iteration and then promptly mixes in a building situation. Einsturzende Neubauten would have been proud. "Carbon Dated", my favorite track here, begins with a puree of glitch and timestretched samples ahead rolling rashly down a hill, it's off-kilter jazz backbeat trying desperately to keep up. Don't even ask me about what's going on on "Martian Housing Crisis". This is the kind of music you would probably hear if the inmates took over the lunatic mental home disco.

While Wand was an integral theatrical role of Stock, Hausen and Walkman, this solo crusade shows off not only his control of studio trickery in ways that were never really explored before. His approach is often like that of John Oswald yet instead of victimisation other songs to word form the foundation of his plunderphonics, Wand uses the detiritus of machines.

"Carbon Dating" is without question one of the most interesting releases we've heard here in quite some time. It's worrying, it's weird, it's ludicrously catchy and it's completely insane. Keep out of reach of children, simply for the rest of you - go and find this at once.

Don't forget the straightjacket. You're going to need it.

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Sunday, 10 August 2008

Suggs

Artist: Suggs

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

The Lone Ranger

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

Camden Town

Year: 1995
Tracks: 1

Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for $900M

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Kanye, Radiohead, RATM, Nine Inch Nails top Lollapalooza lineup

This year's Lollapalooza [ tickets ] lineup is official: Radiohead [ tickets ], Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails [ tickets ] and Kanye West [ tickets ] will top the bill of the Aug. 1-3 festival at Chicago's Grant Park.

About 90 acts were announced this morning (4/7), including Wilco [ tickets ], The Raconteurs [ tickets ], Love and Rockets, Gnarls Barkley [ tickets ], G. Love [ tickets ] & Special Sauce, Dierks Bentley, Blues Traveler, Bloc Party, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Flogging Molly and Lupe Fiasco. The full lineup is listed below and the schedule is expected to be announced in June.

Early-bird tickets are already sold out, according to Lollapalooza's website. Advance three-day passes are currently on sale for $190 and, when those run out, regular three-day passes will go for $205. VIP packages are also available.

In addition to hosting a wide-variety of music on multiple stages, the festival will once again provide entertainment for the next generation of Lolla fans with Kidzapalooza, which includes family-oriented musicians, a hip-hop workshop, "a rock and roll petting zoo," hair and makeup styling, and a dance floor.

Lollapalooza, formerly a traveling festival, successfully reinvented itself in 2005 as a multi-day event anchored in the Windy City. Organizers later struck a deal to remain at Grant Park through 2011.

Lollapalooza 2007 sold out with an attendance of more than 167,000, and tickets for the 2008 edition are outpacing last year's, according to Billboard.

Lollapalooza lineup:
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Kanye West
Wilco
The Raconteurs
Love and Rockets
Gnarls Barkley
Bloc Party
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Flogging Molly
Mark Ronson
Cat Power
Lupe Fiasco
The National
G. Love & Special Sauce
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Explosions in the Sky
Brand New
Gogol Bordello
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Dierks Bentley
Okkervil River
Amadou & Mariam
Blues Traveler
John Butler Trio
Girl Talk
CSS
Battles
Jamie Lidell
Butch Walker
Mates of State
Spank Rock
Brazilian Girls
Chromeo
Duffy
The Kills
Rogue Wave
The Go! Team
Mason Jennings
The Gutter Twins
Yeasayer
Grizzly Bear
MGMT
The Weakerthans
Booka Shade
Santogold
Black Kids
Black Lips
Louis XIV
Dr. Dog
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
The Ting Tings
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Does it Offend You, Yeah?
The Whigs
Manchester Orchestra
Foals
Uffie
The Octopus Project
Cadence Weapon
Ferras
De Novo Dahl
Noah and the Whale
Margot & the Nuclear So and So�s
K�NAAN
Serena Ryder
Newton Faulkner
Your Vegas
Eli "Paperboy"
Reed & the True Loves
Steel Train
Bang Camaro
The Blakes
Tally Hall
White Lies
Magic Wands
Electric Touch
Innerpartysystem
The Postelles
The Parlor Mob
Bald Eagle
Krista
Ha Ha Tonka
Witchcraft
We Go to 11
Sofia Talvik

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Friday, 27 June 2008

Gala

Artist: Gala

   Genre(s):
New Age
   Pop: Latin

Discography:

Come Into My Life

Year: 1997
Tracks: 10

Gregorian Dance

Year:
Tracks: 12

At Last David Hasselhoff Gets His Own Social-Networking Website

Courtesy of DavidHasselhoff.com
Sure, it may be a slow news week, but please don't think for one second that that's why we're reporting on what will surely be remembered as the year's most world-changing technology story: David Hasselhoff has debuted his very own social network at DavidHasselhoff.com. Affectionately dubbed "Hoffspace" by the Hoff himself on his Hoffblog, the site will finally offer Hoff heads a place to congregate, share music, and ponder such pressing questions as, "If the Hoff were a god, what would he do first?" ("I reckon the Hoff would grant everyone a Trans Am," speculates one Hoffspace user). Sign up, then send us a Hoff request!

DavidHasselhoff.com [via G4TV]

Britney Spears' sister gives birth to baby girl

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britney Spears' 17-year-old sister Jamie Lynn, star of Nickelodeon's popular TV show "Zoey 101," has given birth to a baby girl, People magazine reported on Thursday.

Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to Maddie Briann on Thursday morning at a hospital in Mississippi, the magazine said.

A high school student who lives in Louisiana, Jamie Lynn Spears reportedly met the father, Casey Aldridge, the son of a Tennessee paper mill worker, at church. The couple are engaged, People magazine said.

Jamie Lynn Spears' personal publicist was not immediately available for comment.

"Zoey 101," which wrapped production on its fourth and final season in September, revolves around a headstrong student at a co-ed boarding school in California.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, editing by Vicki Allen)

Young Buck - Young Buck Leaked 50 Cent Phone Call Is Fake

Rapper YOUNG BUCK has slammed his former G-UNIT bandmate 50 CENT, accusing the superstar of doctoring a leaked telephone conversation between the two, in which Buck can be heard apparently breaking down in tears.

The two stars first fell out last year (07), when Buck was initially axed from rap group G-Unit. Buck and 50 Cent reconciled soon afterwards, but he was kicked out of the group once and for all in April (08), after a dispute over song royalties.

A new track by 50 Cent - titled The Taped Conversation - features Buck grovelling to the rapper, begging him to allow him back into the group and vowing not to betray him like another former G-Unit member The Game did.

But Young Buck's new manager, Blue Williams, claims the audio is heavily edited.

He says, "Just so that it is clear, this obviously edited and doctored recording was made from a phone conversation between Young Buck and 50 Cent - recorded and leaked by 50 Cent. It was made over a year ago, the first time Buck was kicked out of G-Unit for being a man and communicating with people that 50 deemed his 'enemies.' You only hear one side of the conversation."

And Williams reveals Young Buck, real name David Darnell Brown, will not be lowering himself to 50 Cent's level to fire back - because he's a "real man".

He adds, "At this time, I have convinced Buck to take the higher road and not respond to the petty back and forth with an obviously scorned and angry man.

"I am sure if need be, there are plenty of explosive G-Unit secrets that he could put out there from the inner workings of the crew, but he's going to take the high road.

"Everybody out here already knows what a real cat Buck is. I don't think anyone in the streets thinks Young Buck is soft. If anything, they know he's real and he's emotional. That's what makes him such a great rapper. He's a real man, thinking he was having a real conversation with 50 Cent, not someone who'd record it, doctor it up, and put it out a year later to try and build hype to sell a G-Unit compilation CD."

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Thursday, 26 June 2008

Beneath the Sky

Artist: Beneath the Sky

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

What Demons Do To Saints

Year: 2007
Tracks: 11

Merging death metal, hard-core, and melody, Beneath the Sky formed in mid-2004 after diverse bands on the Cincinnati scenery dissolved (most notably Blind Judgment) and some of their members united as one. Comprised of singer Joey Nelson, guitarists Jeff Nelson and Chris Profitt, bassist Nick Scarberry, drummer Brandon Sowder, and keytar player Matt Jones, the isthmus low released a four-song demonstration in early 2005. Through changeless furtherance and the group's rounds of regional touring, the demonstration went on to sell over 5,000 copies by the year's end. Beneath the Sky continued to spiel shows throughout the Midwestern and Eastern U.S. in front recording another EP, More Than You Can Handle, which was self-released in spring 2006. It was received intimately by their local fan base; things escalated promptly and a deal was inked with Victory Records that summer. Their full-length and label debut, What Demons Do to Saints, appeared in January 2007.

Katie Melua

Artist: Katie Melua

   Genre(s):
Vocal
   Rock
   Pop

Discography:

Pictures

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Piece by Piece

Year: 2005
Tracks: 12

Call Off The Search

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Plucked from music school abstruseness by songwriter/producer Mike Batt, Katie Melua byword her debut bolt up the U.K. charts upon its press release there in late 2003. Melua was born in Soviet Georgia in 1984. Eventually, she and her family line stirred to Belfast, Ireland, and eventually to London, where Melua entered the B.R.I.T. School for the Performing Arts & Technology. The track record industry-funded school had a habit of graduating talented playacting artists (Floetry, for illustration), and Melua became its next success when a 2003 showcase caught the attention of Batt, who'd been looking for for a vocalizer capable in both malarky and blues styles. Call Off the Search was issued in the U.K. in November 2003 through Batt's Dramatico Records embossment. A comfortable, highly neat blend of malarky vocals, pop style, and adult modern-day shake, the record album featured deuce cuts penned by Melua (including a testimonial to matchless of her biggest influences, Eva Cassidy), as intimately as covers of material from John Mayall, Randy Newman, and the James Shelton definitive "Lilac Wine." The single "Nearest Thing to Crazy" hit number one in December, and by January of the following year, Call Off the Search had gone platinum (three hundred,000 units in the U.K.). Gigs in Europe followed, and in May 2004 Melua made her fashion to the U.S. for a round of nightspot dates load-bearing the album's domestic release. She achieved regular greater success with her 2005 follow-up, Spell by Piece, a wise blend of worldbeat and jazz-pop that topped both the outside and British charts in front mount its sights on the U.S. securities industry in 2006.

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Jay-z Glastonbury Row Is Ridiculous

Rap superstar JAY-Z has defended his controversial forthcoming appearance at legendary U.K. music festival Glastonbury - branding the furore around his headlining slot "ridiculous".

Festival organisers' decision to book the hip-hop mogul as a headliner for the festival later this month (27-29Jun08) has been widely criticised - with Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher insisting he was a "wrong" choice for the event.

But the rapper - real name Shawn Carter - is adamant that hip-hop does, in fact, have a place at the annual British rock n' roll event.

He tells BBC Radio One, "It's ridiculous, if we don't embrace what is new, how do we progress?

"I've never actually experienced anything like that before. It's 2008, what is that about? That's such old school thinking, that's not even how the world thinks anymore. So I was really taken aback (by the criticism)."

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Gemstar-N-Bigmato

Artist: Gemstar-N-Bigmato

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Mas Pure

Year: 2005
Tracks: 20

Jane Krakowski "Thrilled" for Katie Holmes' Stage Debut

Katie Holmes may have some Broadway stars in the audience during her stage debut this fall.

Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski can hardly wait for Mrs. Tom Cruise to storm the Great White Way in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

"I'm so thrilled she's coming to Broadway, and in a great play, All My Sons. That's wonderful," she tells OK!. "It always brings excitement when someone of that level comes."

A seasoned vet, the 39-year-old, who will star in Damn Yankees from July 5 to 27, has some word of advice for the theater newbie, echoing the sentiments of fellow stage stars to rest up.

"Rest during the day, because you're going to need all your energy for the performances at night," Jane says.

Katie will portray Ann Deever in the production. Joining her onstage are John Lithgow, Dianne Weist and Patrick Wilson.

For more on Jane, pick up the latest issue of OK!, on newsstands Thursday.

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Wayne Rooney's Westlife Wedding Duet

Wayne Rooney surprised his new bribe Coleen McLoughlin by leaping onto stage with Westlife at their reception.
The soccer star amazed guests with a “note-perfect rendition” of the boy band’s hit ‘Swear It Again’ at the reception in Italy this week.
Coleen was reportedly so touched by the gesture - which apparently cost the Man Utd forward £400,000 - she burst into tears.
A source tells the Daily Mirror, “The boys were stunned - they could not believe it.
"Wayne hadn't practised with them but must have practised somewhere.
"He is a brilliant singer and it was a moment that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Some guests said it was the most romantic thing they'd ever seen. Coleen was not the only one in tears. It was the perfect end to the perfect day."