Mad marketing reaps bad payoff

MAD LOVE: AMC spent a fabled lot in promotion leading up to the premiere of the

De Facto

   
Artist: De Facto

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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 Evangeliom

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8

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Channel change doesn't cloud outlook of KIRO-TV's Rebecca Stevenson

UNKLE has a couple of songs for Mulder, Scully

'X-Files' movie includes original track picked by Carter





NEW YORK -- When "X-Files" heroes Fox Mulder and Dana Scully wrap up their second big-screen search for the truth this summer, audiences will exit to two tracks by U.K.-based electronic/rock artist UNKLE: an original handpicked by series creator Chris Carter and a reinterpretation of the classic "X-Files" TV series theme song, commissioned after the fact.
"There was something I was looking for at the end credit of the movie, and it needed to be a really specific beat," Carter said. "I had gone to see the Police over the summer. They opened the show with 'Reggatta De Blanc,' which is one of my favorite Police songs. I love that song, and it was in my head as I was writing the movie. Then (20th Century Fox music supervisor) Danielle Diego gave me this UNKLE piece, and I realized that was really what I was looking for. Immediately I called her and I said, 'I think I've got my end-credit piece.' "
The song, "Broken," from UNKLE's 2007 album "War Stories" (Surrender All), has the spry new wave guitar and insistent pulse of "Reggatta," plus wayward lyrics sung by vocalist Gavin Clark, which seem to fit the profile of Carter's eternally tense fictitious duo ("We're miles adrift/We're inches apart").
"It's funny, because the lyrics ended up working unexpectedly," Carter said.
"It's really the beat that's the perfect fit for the end of the film."
Carter phoned UNKLE mastermind James Lavelle personally to explain his intentions for "Broken," and the two discovered a mutual admiration: Lavelle was a fan of the long-running TV series. A big one. "I've seen every episode," he said.
After that conversation, "it was decided by all of us that James would be the person to ask to -- 'remix' is the wrong word, I'll call it 'reinterpret' -- the 'X-Files' theme for the end of the film as well," Carter says. The two tracks will also be featured on the "X-Files: I Want to Believe" soundtrack as the only additions to the Mark Snow-composed score. The album is due July 22 via Decca.
Lavelle took the distinction between "remix" and "reinterpret" to heart. "Most of the time when you hear remixes of themes, they're never as good as the original and they sound cheesy, like the James Bond theme," he says. "With this piece it was difficult to take the original parts and move them around; it didn't sound right. And we wanted something that would work in context with 'Broken' as well. That was the directive: to have the same kind of emotion. So we went that route sonically, with a snare and a rockier bass line."
Carter -- a self-proclaimed "student drummer" who took DJ'ing lessons during his "X-Files" downtime -- says there are more collaborations in the future for he and Lavelle, who is also an internationally renowned DJ. "His sense of tempo and beat and the blending of it will be a beautiful match for some ideas that I have," Carter said. "We've already talked about it."

The White Buffalo

   
Artist: The White Buffalo

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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 The White Buffalo Ep

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12

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Dreamworks' Deal -- A Geffen Ploy?

Artist Alton Kelley, who pioneered psychedelic rock posters, dies at 67

PETALUMA, Calif. - Alton Kelley, an artist who helped created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67.

Kelley died Sunday of complications from osteoporosis in his Petaluma home, according to his publicist, Jennifer Gross.

Kelley and his lifelong collaborator, Stanley (Mouse) Miller, churned out iconic work from their studio, a converted firehouse where Janis Joplin first rehearsed with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

The pair created dozens of classic rock posters, including the famous Grateful Dead "skull and roses" poster designed for a show at the Avalon Ballroom, as well as posters and album covers for Journey, Steve Miller, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.

Kelley and Miller's work influenced other well-known names in the genre such as Rick Griffin, who moved to San Francisco in 1966 after seeing their psychedelic posters and soon started producing his own.

For inspiration, the pair scrutinized old etchings and photos, took in the youth culture of the time and dug through public libraries, often breaking out into laughter until they were asked to leave by the librarian, Miller recalled.

"We were just having fun making posters," Miller told the San Francisco Chronicle. "There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment."

Born on June 17, 1940, Kelley met Miller in 1965, at the epicentre of the hippie movement - San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district - and soon recognized their ability to work together, in their words "riffing off each other's giggle."

In recent years, Kelley's artwork focused on paintings of hot rods and custom cars, which were sold as fine art and printed on T-shirts.

He is survived by his wife Marguerite Trousdale Kelley; their children Patty, Yosarian and China; his mother, his sister and two grandchildren.

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Kidman to play exposed CIA Agent

Nicole Kidman is to work with 'The Bourne Identity' director Doug Liman on a new drama about the CIA agent, Valerie Plame, whose identity was leaked after her diplomat husband questioned evidence used to justify the war in Iraq.
Speaking to MTV about the film, Liman said: "I have a really, really insane take on how to tell it. It's so outrageous."
He continued: "Ultimately, I'd be doing something no one has ever done before. Therefore it's automatically appealing to me. I'm just starting to explore whether [what I'm planning ] is even possible to do."
Kidman's new film, 'Margot at the Wedding', opens in Irish cinemas on Friday 28 February.

RF

   
Artist: RF

   Genre(s): 
Retro
   

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 Falls

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14

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Blunt is critical of Spears' media treatment

'American Idol' Elimination Shocker: Michael Johns' Dreams Dashed, As Carly Smithson And Syesha Mercado Squeak By

'American Idol' Elimination Shocker: Michael Johns' Dreams Dashed, As Carly Smithson And Syesha Mercado Squeak By

He'd never been to the bottomland triplet before, and he'll ne'er be thither over again. Michael Jasper Johns, the soulful Aboriginal Australian jolly boy with an affinity for ascots, watched his dreams collapse in what was goose egg if not a complete shocker of an elimination episode. Jasper Johns drew the least votes pursual his Tuesday-night performance of Aerosmith's "Dream On."

Jasper Johns stood center stage — pensive, preparing for the worst — next to Irish young girl Carly Smithson, wHO seemed absolutely convinced it was she world Health Organization was gonzo, and Syesha Mercado, wHO exuded the confidence of somebody who'd been to the verge of extinction triplet times earlier and survived every prison term. He stared hard at the level as host Ryan Seacrest said was the one going home Thursday nox. No i appeared to a greater extent astounded than Smithson, wHO waved "Goodby" and mouthed the words "It's me" ahead one commercial kick downstairs, when the faux-hawked one asked America, "Which of these Idols will be going plate tonight?" (Bump out wHO our panel of Irak war soldiers thought should go plate, in the Newsroom blog.)
Judge Paula Abdul was shocked, as well, and told the isaac Bashevis Singer she was "a fan" of his. The release was met with an immediate wave of booing from the hearing, where Johns' friends, family and legions of female fans reacted to the news. Brooke White was bummed, David Archuleta seemed bored, and David Cook looked as though he'd but set up out his dog had died. And maybe the virtually surprising reaction came from unemotional person adjudicate Simon Zelotes Cowell, wHO broke lineament and told Johns he'd miss his presence on the show up. Having prepared herself for bad intelligence completely night, Smithson clung to Mercado for comfort when she realized she'd south Korean won a second chance at stardom.
"It's a birdsong around dreams," Jasper Johns told Seacrest about whether the Aerosmith strain was the decent song clean, shrugging off the pain in the ass. "If there's a song dynasty to go come out on, that's not a badly one."
For "God" fans, it was 1 hellhole of a week, with more or less stellar and surprising performances, an inspiring (at least to approximately) telethon — which raised $60 million in pledges so far — and something to lecture about totally weekend long. Followers death year's "Idol Gives Back," the final examination trine were whole spared elimination — something Seacrest pointed out in front telling Johns that they weren't doing it this year. And for those wHO tried to keep off Wednesday's star-studded fundraiser, there were plenty of leftovers scattered end-to-end Thursday's episode, including pre-taped speeches from the three presidential candidates, Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senators Sir Edmund Percival Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which had been bumped from the benefit circularize. Michael Chiklis, depiction Vic Mackey, his lineament on FX's "The Shell," even sent in a tapeline, threatening to fall pink pour down completely our doors if we didn't chip in a clam or iI.
Thursday's exhibit also included a public presentation by Chris Brownness and last year's "American Idol," Jordin Sparks, of their hit "No Air." Sparks was and then presented with record plaques commemorating 1 meg downloads of that track, 1 one thousand thousand of her bingle "Tattoo," and five hundred,000 in gross revenue of her self-titled debut record album.
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Radiation 4

   
Artist: Radiation 4

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Alternative
   

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 Wonderland

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9

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Matt Damon & wife expecting a baby

Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Arrested Over Drug Offences

Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Arrested Over Drug Offences

Troubled singer AMY WINEHOUSE has been arrested on suspicion of drug offences after footage of the star allegedly smoking crack cocaine was handed to British police.

The 24-year-old star is currently being questioned at a police station in East London.

It is Winehouse's second brush with the law in as many weeks; The Back to Black hitmaker was accused of headbutting a man outside a North London pub on 23 April (08) and later turned herself in to authorities. She escaped with a caution.

Winehouse - who has faced a long and public battle against drugs and alcohol - checked into a rehab clinic in London in January (08) after a video showing her allegedly taking a variety of illegal substances was passed on to British newspaper The Sun.

She was also arrested, along with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, in Bergen, Norway last year (Oct07) on suspicion of possessing cannabis.

Winehouse was issued with a $714 (GBP357) fine, which she accepted, not realising that paying up is the same as pleading guilty in the Scandinavian country.

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Judge reinstates Notorious B.I.G. lawsuit

Judge reinstates Notorious B.I.G. lawsuit

A evaluate has reinstated a wrongful death suit brought by the folk of slain doorknocker Notorious B.I.G.




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Norton is making Obama documentary

Norton is making Obama documentary

Histrion Edward Norton is devising a infotainment about US Senator Barack Obama and his campaign to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
Variety reports that Norton is fashioning the film through his company, Category 5 Films, and it will be directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams.
Rice and Sams began shooting the documentary film before Obama's declaration of campaigning.
The pic is due for acquittance in 2009.