The Alternative & other: June 2008

Monday, 30 June 2008

Chris Conway

Artist: Chris Conway

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Ayurveda

Year: 2003
Tracks: 9

Elle Macpherson - Macphersons Bedroom Behaviour Revealed In New Tell-all Book

Jamie Lynn Sigler: "It's Never Bad To Be Single In The Summer!"

It sounds like Jamie Lynn Sigler doesn't have too many regrets about splitting from her boyfriend!

The Sopranos star ended her two-year relationship with New York club owner Scott Sartiano back in April to move out to LA for her career.

Last night she told OK! that she's been getting over the break-up with a little help from her friends.

And the 27-year-old even said that she's enjoying being single for the summer.

At the premiere of Glamour magazine's Reel Docs movie in New York, we asked the actress, who's shooting a new movie Son of Mourning, how she liked single life.

"Well, I've been single before," she said, "and I have supportive friends and I'm enjoying my life.

"And, you know, it's never bad being single for the summer!"

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Sunday, 29 June 2008

French Band - Tribute To ACDC

Artist: French Band - Tribute To ACDC

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

If You Want Blood (Demo)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 6

Glen Hall, Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker

Artist: Glen Hall, Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Oasis Of Whispers

Year: 2005
Tracks: 9

Tequila 100 Anos(TM) Celebrates Mexico in '100 Years of Mexican Music'

Kurt Cobain's ashes stolen from widow's home

London (ANI): Ashes of rock legend Kurt Cobain have been stolen from the Hollywood home of his widow Courtney Love, it has emerged. Sources say that Love is "suicidal" after finding Kurt's remains missing from her house. She had kept the singer's ashes in a pink teddy-bear-shaped bag along with a lock of his hair. But she was appalled to discover them gone, along with thousands of pounds worth of clothes and jewellery. "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me," News of the World quoted Love, as saying. "I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do," she added. In 1994, tragedy struck when Kurt killed himself with a shotgun while high on heroin.

Kasabian Talk "Techno" Inspired Third Album

Kasabian have talked of their next album, describing how their forthcoming third long-player is sounding so far.

Guitarist Serge Pizzorno tells the Metro: "The music we're making is rooted in techno and dance music but it's also influenced by the '60s."

"The new stuff is sounding really hypnotic. The tunes we've done so far remind me of a really good road movie." said Pizzorno, while frontman Tom Meighan added: "This is the best record we've made so far - of course, I'm always gonna say that."

"We've got to compete with a title like Empire so we're not making it easy for ourselves." Ended the singer.

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Waveshape

Artist: Waveshape

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Vestige

Year: 1999
Tracks: 6

Wellenformen

Year: 1996
Tracks: 6

Zyklus

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

Polychron

Year: 1994
Tracks: 7

Sigma

Year: 1993
Tracks: 7

At All Cost

Artist: At All Cost

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

It's Time to Decide

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Beginning in 2002, Austin-based metalcore 5 At All Cost started working hard to record, word shows, and encourage its political and societal docket to anyone wHO would mind. Texas audiences responded both to the music and the band's concentrated make for, and by 2003 the quintette had affiliated itself with Fiddler/Imprint to waiver the Shattered Dreams and Bourgeois Schemes EP. In 2005 At All Cost became the first-class honours degree dance band with a release under the revitalised Combat impression, the old metal label that had been place to bands like Venom and Megadeth. For their full-length It's Time to Decide, issued in September 2005, At All Cost's card included bassist Bobby Andrews, guitarists Mike Theobald and Trey Ramirez, drummer Grant Anderson, and vocalist/keyboardist Andrew Collins. Tours with acts like Norma Jean and Darkest Hour came next ahead the crew sign-language to Century Media in early 2007.

Saturday, 28 June 2008

R. Kelly Trial Scandalized by Sex-Tape Mix-up

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R. Kelly's child-pornography trial was rocked yesterday when it was revealed that a DVD of the infamous sex tape given to Kelly's lawyers by the prosecution two weeks ago was not an exact copy, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Though the defense did have access to the original tape, they were assured by the state attorney's office that the lower-quality DVD was identical and thus fit to use in their questioning of forensic-video analyst Charles Palm last week (Palm testified that a mole on Kelly's back was not visible in still frames of the video shown to the jury, though he says he based his original opinions on the original, higher-quality version).

Prosecution lawyer Robert Heilingoetter acknowledged the mistake and also that the DVD was made by "a junior member of the state's attorney's staff" and not video analyst Grant Fredericks as they'd originally claimed. The defense is now worried the jury will think they acted in "bad faith" by using the degraded video, and Judge Vincent Gaughan says that this is a "rotten tomato in the barrel," though it's currently unclear what the hell that means, exactly. Is any of this grounds for a mistrial? We've never seen anything like this on Law & Order, so we have no idea. But, as far as sex-tape mix-ups go, this sounds like a pretty big one.

Rotten tomato hits R. Kelly trial [Kelly Chronicles/ Chicago Sun-Times]