DJ River & other: June 2008

Sunday, 22 June 2008

The Hulk - Hulk Incredible At Us Box Office

The comic world's mean, green fighting machine THE HULK has enjoyed an incredible opening weekend, taking in $54.5 million (GBP27.25 million) at the U.S. box office.

The Incredible Hulk roared into first place, making a third of its $150 million (GBP75 million) budget in just three days in one territory.

The film, a collaboration between Marvel Studios and Universal Pictures, stars Edward Norton as a well-meaning doctor who turns into The Hulk and Tim Roth as his nemesis, The Abomination.

Animated comedy Kung Fu Panda fell to second place with an impressive $34.3 million (GBP17.15 million), while M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller The Happening debuted at three with $30 million (GBP15 million).

The new top five is rounded off by Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With The Zohan at four and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at five.

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Sunday, 15 June 2008

Peter Rauhofer and Pet Shop Boys

Artist: Peter Rauhofer and Pet Shop Boys

   Genre(s):
House

Discography:

The Collaboration

Year: 2001
Tracks: 20

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

All Shows Named Official Fan Marketplace and the Official Premium Ticket Source for Ives Concert Park

-- All Shows Partnership with the Ives Concert Park Allows Concert Fans
to Safely and Securely Purchase and Resell Tickets on the Secondary Market
for Ives' 2008 Summer Concert Series --

GREENWICH, Conn., May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All Shows
(http://www.allshows.com) today announced it has been named the official fan
marketplace and the official premium ticket source for Ives Concert Park.

"All Shows fan marketplace for Ives Concert Park offers concert fans a
safe and secure place to purchase tickets from others who cannot make the
performance or for ticket holders to sell their unused tickets," said Jason
Berger, All Shows. "We are also pleased that our partnership with Ives
Concert Park allows our clients to purchase premium seats to concerts
during the 2008 Summer Concert Series."

Ticket holders for concerts at Ives Concert Park can call All Shows
toll free at 1-800-All-Shows or visit any All Shows office to have their
tickets safely and securely posted for sale on the secondary market on All
Shows' inventory system, which highlights hundreds of thousand tickets for
events across the country. Tickets are sold to other fans for a 10% fee and
can be listed for resale up to one hour prior to the start of the concert.

As the official premium ticket source for Ives Concert Park, All Shows
is pleased it can offer its clients the best seat selections for the Ives
Center's 2008 Summer Concert Series. All Shows may also offer backstage
"meet and greets" with artists, when available, to patrons who purchase
their tickets for events at the Ives Center from AllShows.com or
1-800-All-Shows.

Performances for the 2008 Summer Concert Series include:

Melissa Etheridge - Sunday, June 29

Lyle Lovett - Tuesday, July 1

The Beach Boys - Thursday, July 3

Moe - Sunday, July 6

Frankie Valli - Thursday, July 10

Ani DiFranco -Tuesday, July 15

Gov't Mule - Saturday, July 26

About Ives Concert Park

The Charles Ives Center for the Arts is a unique outdoor amphitheater
situated on 40 wooded acres with a pond, breathtaking gardens and public
hiking trails within the westside campus of Western Connecticut State
University. A one-of-a-kind venue of exceptional beauty and charm, the
Center enhances the quality of life and economic vitality of the greater
Danbury area with its world class programming. The Center boosts the
tourism industry through increased weekend hotel stays and is an asset in
attracting consumers, new residents and businesses to the area.

The Charles Ives Center for the Arts is a nationally recognized center
for the arts and the area's only major outdoor venue devoted to live
entertainment. The Center has showcased hundreds of artists from every
branch of the Musical Spectrum. The Center has a 5,000 seat capacity and
over 30,000 people attend events each year on average. The Authority was
named in honor and memory of Danbury native Charles Edward Ives
(1874-1954), one of America's greatest music composers.

About AllShows.com

AllShows.com is a leading ticket seller for events in the New York
metropolitan area with over 20 years in business with offices in Fairfield
County as well as New York City. AllShows.com is fully licensed and bonded
in New York and New Jersey and is proud members of the National Association
of Ticket Brokers (NATB) as well as the Better Business Bureau. In addition
to being the official premium ticket source for the Ives Concert Park, All
Shows also buys and sells tickets to all New York metropolitan area
professional sporting events including baseball (MLB regular season and the
All-Star Game), football, hockey, basketball, and soccer. AllShows.com has
a team of over 20 sales professionals to ensure the highest quality of
service and fast delivery.

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Artist: The Brian Setzer Orchestra

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Rock & Roll

Discography:

Rockabilly Riot, Volume One

Year: 2005
Tracks: 23

Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy

Year: 2003
Tracks: 12

Ignition!

Year: 2001
Tracks: 14

Vavoom!

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

Jump, Jive An' Wail: The Very Best Of (1994-2000)

Year: 2000
Tracks: 23

The Dirty Boogie

Year: 1998
Tracks: 12

Guitar Slinger

Year: 1996
Tracks: 12

The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Year: 1994
Tracks: 12

Rockin' By Myself

Year: 1993
Tracks: 18

The Knife Feels Like Justice

Year: 1986
Tracks: 11

Jim Broadbent - Broadbents Potter Snub

British actor JIM BROADBENT took on a role in forthcoming movie HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE - despite harbouring a dislike for the boy wizard franchise.

The star plays teacher Horace Slughorn in the sixth installment of the films, which are all adapted from J.K. Rowling's book series.

But Broadbent insists he did not accept his role in the penultimate movie out of love for the famous books - admitting that he doesn't even like the Potter series.

He says, "I'm not a massive fan."

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Spice Girls - Brown Rejected Sex And The City For Her Music

SPICE GIRLS star MELANIE BROWN turned down a role in SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE to concentrate on making her new record.

The singer insists although she would have loved to have acted in the big screen version of the hit U.S. TV show - she didn't want to interrupt work on her forthcoming album.

She tells British newspaper The People, "They asked me to do the film, but I decided not to. I wanted to bring my music out all at once."

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Jam Cruise Sails In January

Jam Cruise [ tickets ] 7 will set sail from Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 4, 2009, for five days of music featuring Les Claypool [ tickets ], Medeski, Martin & Wood, Michael Franti [ tickets ] and Keller Williams [ tickets ], among others. The seventh incarnation of the floating festival--on board the MSC Orchestra--offers passengers a "backstage pass" experience coupled with all the luxuries of an elegant cruise ship including swimming pools, nightclubs, a Turkish bath, Jacuzzis, restaurants, theaters, a jogging track, shopping areas and more, according to a press release.The MSC Orchestra, which features nearly 800 cabins with ocean view balconies, is scheduled to stop in Belize City, Belize, and Costa Maya, Mexico. Cabins are now available via www.jamcruise.com.The extensive lineup also includes Droll and Sipe, Galactic Cruise Crew (featuring Big Sam, Walter "Wolfman" Washington and Trombone Shorty), Leftover Salmon, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Martin Sexton, The New Deal, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, and Garage a Trois, among others. Additional artists are still to be announced.

Warner Bros. To Be Feted At Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival announced plans on Wednesday to pay tribute to Warner Bros. on the studio's 85th anniversary by screening a classic movie from the studio's archives during each night of the festival. The festival said that it will also premiere film critic Richard Schickel's documentary, You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, narrated by Clint Eastwood, as well as a night of Looney Tunes shorts. The tribute begins with a screening of Mervyn LeRoy's 1932 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and ends with 1999's The Matrix. Somewhat surprisingly, the film series does not include a screening of The Jazz Singer, the first sound film, produced in 1927 and starring entertainer Al Jolson.

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Charlie Band Daniels

Artist: Charlie Band Daniels

   Genre(s):
Country

Discography:

Ultimate Collection (cd2)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 15

Ultimate Collection (cd1)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 15

A talented and showy violinist, Charlie Daniels and his band flux hard-core country with a hard-edged Southern rock boogie and vapours. The group -- which has had a rotating be sick of musicians over the years -- has always been known for their instrumental dexterity, only they were as well notorious for their down-home, good ol' boy attitude; in the early '80s, they became a practical symbol of conservative land values. Daniels and his band experienced the pinnacle of their popularity at the oddment of the '70s and early '80s, simply they remained a popular concert magnet well into the '90s.

Daniels was innate and brocaded in North Carolina, playing diddle and guitar in several bands during his teen years. At the age of 21, he distinct become a professional musician, aggregation an instrumental rock & twine combo called the Jaguars. The grouping landed a recording session for Epic Records in 1959 with Bob Johnson, wHO would subsequently become Columbia Records' in the lead phratry and land producer. The record didn't pick up much attention, but the dance orchestra continued to play and Daniels continued to publish songs. One of his originals, "It Hurts Me," was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1963. By the late '60s, it had become clear that the Jaguars weren't leaving to impinge on the big time, so Johnson recommended to Daniels that he make a motion to Nashville to suit a session musician. Daniels followed the advice and became one of the most democratic fiddlers in Nashville. He played on several Bob Dylan albums -- Capital of Tennessee Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, and Dylan -- as well as Ringo Starr's 1970 record Beaucoups of Blues. He besides became theatrical role of Leonard Cohen's touring band in the late '60s and produced the Youngbloods' Elephant Mountain album about the same time.

Daniels cut an record album for Capitol Records in the early '70s that was ignored. In 1972, he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, using the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers as a blueprint. The band comprised Daniels (tether guitar, vocals, tinker), lead guitar player Don Murray, bassist Charlie Hayward, drummer James W. Marshall, and keyboardist Joe DiGregorio. The chemical formula worked, and in 1973 they had a minor hit with "Uneasy Rider," which was released on Kama Sutra Records. In 1974, they released Fire on the Mountain, which became a gold record inside months of its release; the album would eventually go pt. Its replacement, 1975's Night rider, did even better, thanks to the Top 40 land impinge on "Lone-Star State." Saddle Tramp, released in 1976, became his first nation Top Ten album, going away au.

Throughout the mid-'70s, the Charlie Daniels Band chased a Southern rock direction. They were moderately successful, simply they never had a breakthrough hit either on the pop or body politic charts. By the late '70s, Daniels perceived that the hearing for Southern rock was evaporating, so he refashioned the stria as a more aboveboard country dance orchestra. The change paid off in 1979 when the single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" became a act one hit, crossing over into the pop charts, where it strike issue three. The song was named the Country Music Association's Single of the Year and helped its concomitant album, Jillion Mile Reflections, suit a multi-platinum success.

Daniels wasn't able to accompany "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with some other blockbuster undivided on the country charts, ironically, merely he had several rock crosswalk successes in the years undermentioned the success of Trillion Mile Reflections: Wide-cut Moon (1980) went pt and Windows (1982) went gold. Although he continued to sell respectably throughout the '80s, he didn't have a big hit until 1989's Simple Man, which went au. In the '90s, his records failed to chart advantageously, although he remained a democratic concert disembowel, a drift that continued through the early long time of the 21st century. In 2007 Daniels released Live from Iraq, followed later in the twelvemonth by Deuces.

Embraced

McGuinness reveals U2 LP release plans

U2's manager Paul McGuinness has said the group will not let fans download their music for free.

McGuinness said the band would consider using "whatever technology is available", but claimed that Radiohead's decision to allow fans to pay what they want was not the way forward.

"We should all be aware that Radiohead's honesty box release of their album to some extent backfired," he told BBC 6 Music.

"Even though it was available on their own website for no money at all, if that was what you preferred to pay - 60 to 70% of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway, even though it was available for free."

Speaking about U2's new LP, he said: "There will be events around the release of the album but for U2 physical sales are still an enormous part of our business and we still sell a lot of actual CDs.

"We will obviously work with whatever technology is available to make the release of the new record as interesting as possible."

U2's 12th studio album is expected to be released in October.

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