Artist: Liar
Genre(s):
Metal
Alternative
Discography:
Murder Manifesto
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Set The World On Fire
Year:
Tracks: 8
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Liar
Artist: Liar
Genre(s):
Metal
Alternative
Discography:
Murder Manifesto
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Set The World On Fire
Year:
Tracks: 8
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Coldplay - Coldplay Enjoy Second Best Opening Week In Us Charts
British rockers COLDPLAY have another reason to celebrate - their latest album VIVA LA VIDA has enjoyed the second-best opening week of the year so far in the U.S. charts.
The band's latest LP debuted atop of America's Billboard 200 charts on Tuesday (24Jun08) - selling 720,000 copies in its first week in record stores.
The rockers are only behind rapper Lil Wayne, whose Tha Carter III LP proved the biggest hit of the year so far - shifting one million copies in its first week.
Last week (ends20Jun08), Coldplay became the first British act in over a decade to get to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with the title single from the album, Viva La Vida.
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Rareform
Artist: Rareform
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Rareform-NV0401 Vinyl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
World's leading art fair opens in Switzerland as demand soars
Vibrasphere
Artist: Vibrasphere
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Trance
Electronic
Discography:
In Control (Incl Chris Micali Mixes)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Floating Free Remixes
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Exploring The Tributaries
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Archipelago Remixed
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Strictly 12inch WEB
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Landmark Cds
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Landmark
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Archipelago
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Stereo Gun Cdm
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
Lime Remixes Vinyl
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Echo
Year: 2000
Tracks: 1
Bono, Bob Geldof press G-8 on aid to Africa
PARIS —
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Bono, Bob Geldof and other celebrities pressed the world's wealthiest countries Wednesday to come through with more pledged financial aid for Africa.
The Irish rock stars-turned-activists presented a new report that found the Group of Eight countries have collectively donated a fraction of the $22 billion in extra funds they pledged in 2005 to be paid by 2010.
"What this big, long, exact, cold and brutal analysis shows us is that halfway to this historic date of 2010 - halfway - these wealthy countries ... have delivered 14 percent. How tragic is that?" Geldof told reporters in Paris.
"What a failure for all of us," he said.
The report by Data, an advocacy group aimed at wiping out extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa, says targeted aid is working, but countries are falling behind in their commitments.
Bono, Geldof, singer Angelique Kidjo, tennis star-turned-singer Yannick Noah and aid workers laid out the findings in Paris, partly to put pressure on France near the July 1 start of its presidency of the European Union.
The report said that 2.1 million Africans are on life-saving AIDS drugs, up from 50,000 in 2002; that 26 million children were immunized against life-threatening diseases from 2001 to 2006; and that 29 million children in Africa entered school for the first time between 1999 and 2005 because of debt relief and increased aid.
It also said that France's assistance to sub-Saharan Africa fell $66 million from 2006 to 2007; that Germany, Italy and Canada are off "track;" and that "more is needed" from Japan. The United States and Britain appear set to meet their targets by 2010, it said.
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Skandalo
Artist: Skandalo
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Sesion DJ. Batiste
Year: 1999
Tracks: 2
Biar
Year: 1996
Tracks: 1
Cherish
Review: Mike Myers comedy 'The Love Guru' lame self-help romp
In "The Love Guru," Mike Myers must come to love himself before he can love others. From the credits of this scattershot comedy sketch stretched and strained to movie length, Myers clearly loved himself to the point of narcissism going in.
Besides starring, Myers is a producer and co-writer. He's in the cast list four times - three times for the same character (Guru Pitka, Young Pitka and Teenage Pitka) and for a two-second cameo as himself.
The song credits feature three tunes performed by Myers, among them Eastern-inflected and mystically bad versions of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" and Steve Miller's "The Joker."
And Myers mercilessly inflicts some of his favourite things on the audience - his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs and Verne Troyer, the tiny actor who played Mini-Me in two of the "Austin Powers" flicks.
Self-love does not seem to be an issue for Myers, unlike Pitka, the world's second-best guru, who carries a chip on his shoulder from growing up in the shadow of top-seeded rival Deepak Chopra (who makes a brief appearance in "The Love Guru").
Looking like a cross between Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Charles Manson, Pitka seems to have it all: A popular self-help regimen, a lush L.A. ashram with celebrity fawners, even his own spiritual greeting, "Mariska Hargitay." It's cute at first but wears thin by the 20th or 30th time Pitka and his followers appropriate the "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress' name.
The orphan Pitka was raised along with Chopra by the cross-eyed Indian Guru Tugginmypuddha (Ben Kingsley, who's a long, long way from "Gandhi" here).
The teenage Pitka is put into a chastity belt until he can learn to love himself. For all his success counselling others on romance, the adult Pitka still has his privates encased in the metal contraption.
Enter Jessica Alba. She's Jane Bullard, the owner of the Maple Leafs (yeah, right), and her star player, Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), has hit a slump just as the team has a shot at winning its first Stanley Cup in 40 years.
Darren's lovesick because his wife has taken up with well-endowed Jacques (Le Coq) Grande (Justin Timberlake), the goalie for the L.A. Kings, the Leafs' rivals in the finals.
So Jane engages Pitka to smooth things over between Darren and his wife. Of course, Jane herself falls for Myers' hoary Pitka (yeah, right), forcing the love guru to resolve his own inner conflicts.
Myers spent years honing Pitka, the first original character he has dreamed up in more than a decade, since the first "Austin Powers" movie arrived. Even putting all that time in on Pitka, Myers, co-writer Graham Gordy and first-time director Marco Schnabel (filmmaker Jay Roach's aide on the "Austin Powers" movies) come up with only a few real laughs.
Most of the gags are half-hearted, many puzzling and unfunny lines delivered by Myers with his trademark sly stare into the camera, as though waiting for fans to guffaw. He may have a long wait.
Myers pushes the PG-13 rating with the movie's bawdy language, coarse images and scatological humour involving such things as elephant dung and a fight with urine-soaked mops.
The first half of "The Love Guru" meanders drearily, but the climax packs a few chuckles. Otherwise an irritant as the Leafs' crusty coach, Troyer is the subject of an amusing slapstick moment near the finale.
With thick '70s-style hair and moustache, an outrageous French-Canadian accent and undying devotion to Celine Dion, Timberlake goofs it up and occasionally enlivens the movie.
Given nothing remotely challenging to do, Alba comes off as bland and hollow.
Obviously having fun playing Pitka, Myers' earnestness makes some lines seem funnier than they are. But his zeal cannot save most of the empty jokes from landing with a deadly thud.
Self-referential - or self-reverential - moments also include a snippet where a car radio briefly tunes in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Myers undergoing a fleeting flashback to "Wayne's World," when he and Dana Carvey led a group sing-along to the song.
Myers wants us all to love him, wants us all to be in on his jokes. But love and laughs are earned, not given just because you mug for the camera behind a wild wig and beard.
One and a half stars out of four.
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