BARRICADE & other: June 2008

Monday 23 June 2008

Dj Coco Silco and Dj J.F. Bruno

Artist: Dj Coco Silco and Dj J.F. Bruno

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

World

Year:
Tracks: 3

Monday 16 June 2008

Tim Mcgraw - Country Music Festival Scrapped

The Country Thunder USA music festival near Dallas, Texas has been cancelled just days before the likes of TIM MCGRAW and CARRIE UNDERWOOD were due to perform.

Poor ticket sales prompted organisers to scrap the four-day event.

It's the second year in succession the festival has suffered - torrential rains prompted organisers to cancel one day of last year's (07) event.

Promoters insist the decision to cancel will not affect the Country Thunder festival taking place in Wisconsin in July (08).

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Sunday 15 June 2008

Hariharan

Artist: Hariharan

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening

Discography:

Buddham Saranam Gachchhami

Year: 2002
Tracks: 1

Karnivool

Saturday 14 June 2008

Britney Spears’ rep denies pregnancy rumors

Britney Spears’ rep has denied reports the singer is pregnant.

Rumors that the ‘Toxic’ star was expecting her third child were fueled earlier this week after Britney’s stomach swelled and she spent two hours in a health clinic.

But her rep says, “I want to make completely clear that Britney is not pregnant. There�s not going to be a statement � she�s just not.”

A pal also explained the appearance of what looks to be a baby bump.

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Sex & The City Premiere Fashion Focus

All eyes were on London last night, as the eagerly anticipated Sex And The City movie finally had it’s first screening in Leicester Square, and leading lady Sarah Jessica Parker certainly gave everyone something to talk about as she sported a small garden on her head.

The actress, who’s been wowing audiences with her quirky style in the role of sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw since the show began, didn’t disappoint as she modelled a towering Philip Treacy creation, complete with butterflies and huge green corsage atop her head.

She topped it off with a pistachio prom dress by Alexander McQueen, ditching her favoured Manolo Blahniks for shoes by the designer too.

Fellow co-star Kim Catrall, who plays PR goddess Samantha Jones, looked classy in a red off-the-shoulder knee-length dress by Vivienne Westwood and £300 metallic Gucci sandals.

Kristin Davis, whose character Charlotte Yorke is a timid romanticist, also wore red, but instead chose an elegant vintage number, completed with beige Christian Louboutin shoes.

However, it was usually reserved Cynthia Nixon, who plays lawyer Miranda Hobbes, who almost stole SJP’s fashion crown, stepping out in a midnight blue dress Calvin Klein dress which left very little to the imagination.

See pictures of our favourite New York girls strutting their stuff on the red carpet here.

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Mr Shadow

Artist: Mr Shadow

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

El Mejor Vol 1

Year: 2005
Tracks: 14

One of the West Coast's more proved Chicano rappers, Mr. Shadow began his prolific recording life history in the late '90s, culminating with 2001's Best of Mr. Shadow. Later that like year, Shadow re-emerged from the barrio with The Mayhem Clique, an album that teamed him with O.G. Sanch, Alt, Seldom Seen, G.P.A., and Slush the Villain. A year by and by, Shadow followed with A Name You Kan't Touch.

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'The Happening': Night Falls, By Kurt Loder

I don't want to say "The Happening" is a bad movie. Well, yes I do; in fact, consider it said. But it's bad in more than just an everyday, sure-does-suck kind of way. Director M. Night Shyamalan's last picture, "Lady in the Water," based on a bedtime story that put everybody to sleep, was a bad movie plain and simple. "The Happening," on the other hand — with its what-the-hell plot, lobotomized dialogue and consequent B-movie performances — is worse, in a way, because littered among its many baffling passages are brief, vivid demonstrations of what a skillful filmmaker Shyamalan can be. And has been. I'd say "will be again," too, but that no longer seems such a sure thing.

The movie gets off to a good, creepy start on a sunny morning in New York's Central Park: people strolling the lanes, wind rustling the trees. Suddenly, the strollers all come to a halt, rooted in place. A lone scream is heard in the distance, then, nearer by, a fearful voice: "Is that blood?" Then a woman sitting on a bench pulls out a little stick that's knotted in her hair and jams it into her neck. What's going on? Well, as one character says shortly thereafter, prefiguring the verbal fizz to come, "There seems to be some sort of event happening."

Very soon it's happening to the movie's four main characters: a Philadelphia science teacher named Elliot (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), their math-teacher friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and Julian's 8-year-old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). Wahlberg, Deschanel and Leguizamo are all miscast, although in fairness, it's hard to imagine any actors who wouldn't feel stranded in the motivational morass of Shyamalan's script. We're given vague indications that Elliot and Alma have been squabbling, but this turns out to have no import for the story. Alma and Julian keep exchanging devious looks, as if they might be having an affair, but this eventually amounts to nothing also. And in what may be the movie's most ridiculous plot thread — although that's a large statement — Alma keeps getting unwanted calls on her cell phone from someone named Joey. "You have to stop calling me," she hisses during one such intrusion, clearly ashamed and panicked. What's going on? We find out when she finally decides to come clean with her husband. Joey, it seems, is one of Alma's work colleagues. One night, she and Joey went out and had dessert together, and Alma never told Elliot. Again: She snuck off with this guy and they had dessert together. Did I mention that Elliot wears a mood ring?

As the mysterious suicide epidemic rages up and down the East Coast (but nowhere else, go figure), Elliot, Alma and little Jess flee for the Pennsylvania countryside, the destination of choice in most Shyamalan movies. There they spend much too much time trudging through otherwise-empty fields, as if they'd just wandered into an especially uneventful soccer game, minus the ball. The picture's tedium piles up like silt. But then, usually when you least expect it, the director will suddenly unleash a jolt of startling imagery: bodies raining down out of buildings; corpses hanging like Spanish moss from the tree canopy over a lonely road. There's also a scary encounter with a crazy old lady (Betty Buckley) in a remote farmhouse that suggests hair-raising possibilities for a much better movie than this one.

And what's been causing all the suicides? Global warming, of course. Yes, really! Well, sort of. There's a lot of stuff about disappearing bees and angry plants and other such silliness, but in the end, Shyamalan reaches back into the mustiest recesses of the '50s sci-fi tradition to bring forth an explainer: a doctor who earnestly informs us, "This was an act of nature we'll never fully understand." If I were the guy who made this movie, I would have thought that was hitting a little too close to home.

Check out everything we've got on "The Happening."

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Sammy Dread

Artist: Sammy Dread

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Jungle Royale (ROYALE004)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

One of the first base British reggae artists to embrace dancehall, Sammy Dread (innate: Stewart Farquaharson) has continued to have a hard-edged, roughhouse, access to reggae. While he scored minor solo hits with "Talk It Over" and "Nerve-racking To Conquer Natty Dreadlocks", and an album, Stereophonic, recorded with Philip Frazer in 1980, Dread's best mold has been produced in collaborationism with such reggae artists as Sugar Minnot, Black Roots and InI Oneness. The championship track of his 1995 album, Road Block, was covered by London-born and United States-based vocalist/rapper, Shinehead.

Dread united with Peter Rankin and Smokey Dread, in April 1981, for an album-length "battle" betwixt competing Jamaican good scheme companies, BlackStar vs. King Jammys.

Abdullah

Artist: Abdullah

   Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
   Metal
   Rock

Discography:

Graveyard Poetry

Year: 2002
Tracks: 14

Snake Lore

Year: 2000
Tracks: 6

Abdullah

Year: 2000
Tracks: 11

Demo #3

Year: 1999
Tracks: 6

Following in the influences of Black Sabbath and Sisters of Mercy, the Richfield, OH-based Abdullah got in concert in 1998 through Jeff Shirilla. Accompanied by guitarist Al Seibert, the duo brought on their cross of peasant metallic element from their have Rage of Achilles Records and released their debut EP "Snake Lore" in 1999. The following yr, their self-titled second album came out through Meteor City Records.