Be Kind Rewind - 6/10/2008 & other

Friday 15 August 2008

Singles Club: with Solange Knowles, Hamfatter and the Verve

Solange Knowles � I Decided
The Pharell Williams jazz-tinged, Motown-y original felt like it required someone to kick it up the Bootylicious. And that's what the Freemasons have done � replacing handclaps with stomping bass drums and replacing the lounge-bar pianos with synth-stabs that could out-chunk a Yorkie manufacturing plant. The result means Beyonce's little sister has scored one of the year's best crop up tracks. Now, let's just gloss all over the fact that the brains behind it all is him from Phats and Small, OK?
Watch the Freemasons Mix

Hamfatter � The Girl I Love
I met Peter Jones once. Very big hands, he had. Anyway, I love how the "matey" Dragon "signed" this lot on Dragons Den without listening any of their new material. That's the genial of news report you'd buzz off from Alan McGee � "Just took one wait at them and signed them on the spot" � merely not necessarily a venture capitalist. This is perfectly pleasant indie that even Jones, had he listened to it, could happen a decent melody in. But simon Marks off for A) organism completely inconsequent, and B) making it impossible to end whatever review without saying "I'm out".

The Verve � Love Is Noise
Ever since I've been a music fan (around 12 years now), the Verve receive been rending up and getting back together. This time they announced their arrival with a quite literally not very gratifying "jamming academic session" through NME. Now they've discovered rabbit on, or at least they've sampled a euphoric chipmunk and put it on loop throughout this. It's not on the nose Atlantis to Interzone, but a welcome foray into more uplifting waters. Can't wait for them to discover dubstep in time for their 2016 reformation tour.

Jeremy Warmsley � Lose My Cool
Transgressive ar signing up a muckle of London-based bleepy singer-songwriters like Esser and this guy. Jeremy Warmsley is a bit more nerdy, misunderstood and angsty than Esser though, and I can't help thinking frYars does this kind of thing a lot better. Still, the guy's completed at an early age that eating away thick rimmed specs and making indie is his only fortune of getting a shag, so honest play to him.

Alanis Morissette - In Praise Of The Vulnerable Man
"You are the bravest man I've ever met," wails Alanis over backward synth phrases (unless the dodgy YouTube clipping I'm hearing to this on is some kind of sicko remix). She continues: "You are the sexiest man I've ever been with..." OK, OK, enough. The sanctions on singing about gap year enlightenment and falafel have been upraised. "Sexy Alanis" is hardly too goddam frightening.

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Thursday 7 August 2008

LaBeouf lawyer asks for witnesses to accident

LOS ANGELES - Shia LaBeouf could have a long road before him as he recovers from an accident that crushed his hand, his lawyer says.

LaBeouf, 22, was injured in a late-night crash final Sunday in West Hollywood that flipped his motortruck. The "Indiana Jones" star was cited for boozy driving only authorities feature since aforesaid he was not at fault and the other driver seemingly ran a red light.

Michael Norris, LaBeouf's lawyer, aforesaid in a statement Friday LaBeouf had four hours of surgery. His leftfield arm cadaver immobilized from the elbow down.

"He volition need steady medical supervision until his doctors clear him to return to work," Norris said in the statement.

"His doctors stay hopeful that he will fully recuperate but due to extensive surgery and the nature of the injuries, there remains a substantial risk of exposure of both infection and other complications."

Photos posted on entertainment blogs Friday showed the actor wearing jeans, a ballcap and a T-shirt missing one sleeve as he smoked a cigarette outside the Los Angeles hospital where he has been recovering since the surgery. Bandages and a brace cover his left arm, leaving only his pinky finger exposed.

LaBeouf has been filming the "Transformers" continuation, "Revenge of the Fallen." Director Michael Bay said the injury may be added to the script.

"His two fingers are pretty smashed just we're reckoning out a way to shoot close to it, kind of drop a line it into the report," Bay told "Access Hollywood" in an interview airing Friday.

Bay claimed his leading man was not rummy at the time of the crash and insisted "that's gonna go away."

"He was drinking hours and hours before," Bay told the syndicated entertainment show.

LaBeouf's passenger in the accident was Isabel Lucas, a 23-year-old Australian actress wHO appears in the "Transformers" sequel. She was not injured.

Sheriff's officials have said they won't release the other driver's name until the prescribed investigation is completed and a report is issued, which could take weeks.

LaBeouf's lawyer said the thespian has co-operated with police force and independent investigators "received information that suggests the other number one wood may get been travelling upwards of 50 miles an hour and that said driver may not have been looking onward at the time of the accident."

"We are selfsame appreciative, again, of the patience that everyone has shown us and of the many concerned citizens who have stepped ahead to provide information regarding this collision," the statement continued, adding anyone with information nearly the accident was urged to

Friday 27 June 2008

Urban Takeover

Artist: Urban Takeover

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Majistrate and DJ Nicol-URBTAK

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Dirty Pretty Things' Carl Barat rushed to hospital

Monday 23 June 2008

Alka Vuica

Artist: Alka Vuica

   Genre(s):
Folk: Croatian

Discography:

Lazi me

Year:
Tracks: 6

'Blade Runner' tops DVD Critics Awards

Monday 16 June 2008

Yulia complaint shocks punk website boss

The administer of a punk rock website is surprised Yulia and her husband Glyn MacLean complained to police about its content.The singer and her manager-husband lodged a complaint after graphic sexual comments aimed at her appeared in the forums of Punkas.com.Administer Matt Barns says he had never heard of Yulia and was shocked at the police complaint, which he first found out about when the police called him in the middle of the night. He says he is surprised the couple went to the police, before contacting him.Mr Barns says he has put a word block on her name, and a search for "Yulia" now comes up with the word "nameless".The couple also received harassing late night phone calls, after their contact details were published on another website.- NEWSTALK ZB