CD: Calexico, Carried To Dust

Calexico have crafted a horn, maraca and maybe tumbleweed-laden sound almost geographically located in Calexico, a town nigh the Californian-Mexican border. They cast a critical middle over their homeland, only from the storytelling angle of a striking writer who uses his free time to travel around the US. Victor Jara's Hands tells of a murdered political activist, subtly highlighting American imperialism. However, their music can sound both terrifically evocative or occasionally simulated - as authentic as a Mexican restaurant set in Milton Keynes - and lacks a dominant vocal like former bandmate Howe Gelb, of Giant Sand. Iron and Wine's Sam Beam also features on the record.

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Exposure To Agent Orange Linked To Prostate Cancer In Vietnam Veterans

�UC Davis Cancer Center physicians released results of research display that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate gland cancer and even greater risks of getting the most fast-growing form of the disease as compared to those who were not exposed.


The findings, which appear online now and will be published in the September 15 issue of the journal Cancer, are the low gear to data link the weedkiller with this form of cancer. The research is also the first to utilize a large universe of men in their 60s and the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to screen for the disease.


"While others have joined Agent Orange to cancers such as soft-tissue sarcomas, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, there is limited evidence so far associating it with prostate cancer the Crab," said Karim Chamie, lead author of the study and occupant physician with the UC Davis Department of Urology and the VA Northern California Health Care System. "Here we report on the largest study to date of Vietnam War veterans open to Agent Orange and the incidence of prostate cancer."


Chamie also aforementioned that, unlike previous studies that were either excessively small or conducted on men wHO were excessively young, patients in the current study were entering their prime years for developing prostate cancer. There was besides the added advantage that it was conducted only during the era of PSA showing, providing a powerful tool for early diagnosis and tracking of prostate cancer.


More than 13,000 Vietnam veterans enrolled in the VA Northern California Health Care System were stratified into two groups - exposed or non exposed to Agent Orange between 1962 and 1971. Based on medical evaluations conducted between 1998 and 2006, the study revealed that double as many men uncovered to Agent Orange were identified with prostate crab. In addition, Agent Orange-exposed men were diagnosed two-and-a-half years jr. and were nearly four-spot times more likely to present with metastatic disease. Other prostate cancer risk factors - race, body-mass index and smoking - were not statistically different between the two groups.


"Our country's veterans merit the best possible wellness care, and this cogitation clearly confirms that Agent Orange exposure during service in Vietnam is associated with a higher risk of infection of prostate gland cancer later in life," said Ralph deVere White, UC Davis Cancer Center director and a study co-author. "Just as those with a family history of prostate cancer or who ar of African-American heritage are screened more frequently, so too should men with Agent Orange exposure be given priority consideration for all the screening and diagnostic tools we have at our disposal in the hopes of early detection and treatment of this disease."


Now a banned chemical, Agent Orange is a combination of two synthetic compounds known to be contaminated with the dioxin

Deadline

   
Artist: Deadline

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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 [2003] Back for More

   Year: 2003   
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Die Streuner

Heath Ledger - Scholarship Created In Ledgers Memory

A scholarship fund benefiting struggling Australian actors has been established in late star HEATH LEDGER's memory.

Gregor Jordan, who befriended Ledger while directing him in 1999's Two Hands, announced the fund's formation at Thursday night's (05Jun08) Australians in Film Breakthrough Awards in Beverly Hills.

Jordan, who also directed Ledger in 2003's Ned Kelly, told guests Ledger's spirit had inspired the foundation, as he was once just "your old, broke Aussie actor" struggling to make a name for himself.

But after earning his first significant paycheque, the Perth, Australia native immediately went "into a bar (to) buy everyone a round of drinks."

The director said, "It is that generosity that somehow sums Heath up. When he had nothing, he still found a way to give to others."

Jordan admitted the details of the scholarship at this point remain "a little sketchy" but did pronounce the first benefactor would be Ledger's former girlfriend, Michelle Williams - the mother of Ledger's two-year-old daughter Matilda Rose.

He added: "It's going to involve a number of benefactors and there's been a lot of interest already.

"I was talking to Michelle Williams, his partner and the mother of his child, today and Michelle has said she would be very proud and happy to be the first benefactor."

A letter written by Ledger's father Kim, who could not attend, was read aloud, stating: "We know that Heath would be proud of his attachment to this scholarship.

"(It) does what Heath has done personally during the last 10 years, (supporting) Australian actors, singers, directors or writers who seek to supply their talents to the U.S.A."

The first scholarship is due to be awarded in 2009.

Ledger died in January (08), aged 28, after accidentally overdosing on prescription drugs at his New York apartment.

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Kid Rock Promotes Stealing In New PSA

Kid Rock has filmed a tongue-in-cheek Public Service Announcement about illegally downloading music, saying, “let’s level the playing field. Steal everything!” Watch the PSA by clicking ‘Read More’.

Photo courtesy of Kid Rock’s MySpace.

Lil Wayne pops back to top of Hot 100

'Lollipop' breaks chart-topping hiatus record





NEW YORK -- After a three-week break, Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" featuring Static Major returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. It's the longest chart-topping hiatus since Usher's "U Got It Bad" went four weeks between No. 1 stints in January 2002.
Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" is No. 2 for a second week, while last week's chart-topper, Rihanna's "Take a Bow," slips 3-1 despite being the fastest-growing track at radio. Usher's "Love in This Club" featuring Young Jeezy rises from No. 5 to No. 4, trading places with Jordin Sparks' "No Air" featuring Chris Brown.
Ray J & Yung Berg's "Sexy Can I" holds at No. 6, and Madonna's "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake remains No. 7. Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine" rises fro No. 9 to No. 8, trading places with Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body." Danity Kane's "Damaged" holds at No. 10 to round out the top tier.
Another new Usher song, "Love in This Club, Part II," soars from No. 63 to No. 18 in its fourth week, thanks to digital sales of 44,000.
The Hot 100's greatest digital gainer is Duffy's "Mercy," which sold 59,000 downloads en route to a 66-27 climb. The U.K. artist's debut Mercury album, "Rockferry," debuted yesterday at No. 4 on The Billboard 200.
The week's top debut comes from the reunited New Kids On The Block with "Summertime" at No. 57. The song shifted 39,000 downloads and is off to a strong start at top 40 radio, moving from No. 40 to No. 35 this week on the Pop 100 Airplay tally.
Also new this week are Kate Voegele's "Hallelujah" at No. 66, Three 6 Mafia's "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)" at No. 79 and Jason Mraz's "Lucky" featuring Colbie Caillat at No. 82.
Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" is No. 1 for a fourth week on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, where Kanye West's "Homecoming" featuring Chris Martin is the top new entry at No. 68.
Brad Paisley's "I'm Still a Guy" moves from No. 2 to No. 1 to overtake Hot Country Songs, his fourth chart-topper from the album "5th Gear."
On Billboard's rock chart, Weezer is No. 1 on Modern Rock with "Pork & Beans" for a third week, and Disturbed's "Inside the Fire" tops Mainstream Rock for a third. The Cure has the top debut on Modern Rock with "The Only One" at No. 35.

Dj_Quest

   
Artist: Dj_Quest

   Genre(s): 
Breakbeat
   

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 So Good And Break Da Funk (DF002) Vinyl

   Year: 2004   
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The Memory Thief

An aimless tollbooth clerk takes on the suffering of Holocaust survivors in this edgy psychological thriller. Mark Webber (STORYTELLING), Rachel Miner (BLACK DAHLIA), and Jerry Adler (THE SOPRANOS) star in this provocative tale of obsession.

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Californication star devastated by husband's sudden death

Californication star devastated by husband's sudden death

Californication star Natascha McElhone has been left hand devastated by the sudden death of her husband.

Auckland Choral at Auckland Town Hall

Auckland Choral at Auckland Town Hall

This Sabbatum night Peter Watts picks up his baton for the last time as Auckland Choral's euphony director.The quietly-spoken Englishman weighs language carefully when he looks back over 20 age at the helm of an organisation that has been providing Auckland with music for 153 long time.Isaac Watts settled here in 1973 and was coaxed into the Dorian Singers by his treble married woman, Katharine."It was exciting to come in to the other remainder of the humanity and find something so special," he says."We were discovering the repertory and everything seemed new."Watts has always been drawn to the unusual, gift us Prokofiev and Honegger alongside the perennial Messiahs.Auckland Choral has ever encouraged Fresh Sjaelland composers, commission Saint David Hamilton's Missa Pacifica for its 150th celebrations.He admires Hamilton's "ability to write something that is specific for a particular occasion only non so much so that it can't be used elsewhere".Hamilton's The Dragons ar Telling Tonight, which the choir revived last June, was a welcome change from the standard sacred repertoire.


"You can't be doing Carmina Burana entirely the time when you require to do something secular."The medicine of today matters."If we don't programme coeval music, what is on that point leaving to be?"Watts asks."Back in the 18th century, most of the medicine performed was contemporary but, since and then, the whole historical perspective of music has worked against the contemporary composer."Look endorse o'er his deuce decades, the choir's 2001 carrying into action of Elgar's The Pipe dream of Gerontius is a high spot. Back in England, as a educatee, Isaac Watts had song dynasty in the oratorio, conducted by Benjamin Britten, with St. Peter the Apostle Pears vocalizing Gerontius."It was a dream come true," he says. "I can buoy still get word Pears singing, 'Take me away"' - vocalising the Elgarian musical phrase in an uncanny imitation of Pears' somewhat strangulated tenor."I was fortunate in Auckland because the Sheffield Choral Union had done Gerontius here in 1911 as theatrical role of a domain tour. A grandson of one of the Sheffield consort members was singing with us and his grandfather's diary recalled totally the performances and the adventures that were to be had in Auckland. To make that connexion for the choir spell we were preparing it was in truth thrilling."With a number of smaller choirs established in the metropolis, what use does he see the 140-150 voices of Auckland Choral performing?
"We have got past the feeling that the big choir is a geriatric thing of the past tense," he says."A lot of larger choirs ar trying to whistle in a more chamber choir style, expiration for focused sound and commodity voice - things that give real lifetime to the singing ... the act of tattle itself goes very deep, to the whole use of our breath."Breathing space is a symbolization of creation," he continues."God breathed on the piss. And breathing together in that common sense is something amazing. The cooperation that it demands must be good for society."On Sabbatum, flanked by St. Andrew Carter's Benedicite, which the English people composer, Isaac Watts points out, "considers is one of his best works" and The Hoop of Words, peculiarly written settings of Henry M. Robert Louis Stevenson and Siegfried Sassoon by David Hamilton to fete the occasion, is Beethoven's great C major Mass."The consort hasn't done this Pile since 1867. It's manageable in the Haydn sense, simply it has a fresh feel. It's got the drama, Beethoven's rush crescendos."In that location are quaternity soloists simply no arias; it is team work and I've chosen it because I like working with teams."Execution What: Auckland ChoralWhere and when: Auckland Township Hall, Saturday 7.30pm





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Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre

Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre

The Wind Coffee shop in London's Camden Town scarcely seemed the nonpareil setting for Jimmy Giuffre's intimate form of jazz - on that night in 1991, a wispy necromancy on clarinet and treble sax like bubbles drifting in still air. Merely Giuffre and his chamber jazz triplet (with longtime partners Paul Bley on piano and Steve Bury on bass guitar) brought a ordinarily animated venue to an awed silence as the then 70-year-old Giuffre, looking like a reduce bird of night, eased gently between a pastel-hued impressionism, hints of the blues, brief glimpses of a New Orleans-like raucousness, and soft doodling with double time bebop lines.










Giuffre, world Health Organization has died aged 86 of complications from Parkinson's disease, had been fashioning music this way for decades - long before the post-1960s north European motion that brought ambient sounds and spaciness into the lyric of nothingness. If he had been active longer as a participant, he would very in all likelihood have got joined the prestigious Electronic countermeasures label's roster of quietly contemplative jazz makers - the groundwork even existed, Electronic countermeasures having released its low reissue, in the too soon 1990s, of the landmark Giuffre/Bley/Swallow free-jazz academic session just titled 1961.Giuffre's afterward long time, however, were spent in comparative degree obscurity. All the same he had been a jazz fame from his late forties membership of Woody Herman's Minute Herd (along with Stan Getz, among others), through his iconic performance of the contrapuntal The Condition and the River in the 1958 Newport festival pic Malarky on a Summer's Day. His mature trend seemed to make several distinct timbral identities on his broad range of instruments: darkness, loose-pitched and from time to time even raw in a Charles VII Lloyd-like manner on tenor voice sax; poignant and pure-toned on soprano; airy and diaphanous on transverse flute; folksy, low-pitched and rather European-sounding on clarinet.Giuffre was max Born in Dallas, Lone-Star State, and took up the clarinet at nine-spot. He studied euphony at North Lone-Star State State Teachers College, worked in terpsichore bands and classical ensembles, and spent little Joe years in an air effect orchestra. He studied opus in Calif. in the late forties, and presently began arrangement for the innovative, Bartok-and-Debussy influenced dance band of Boyd Raeburn, and the swing orchestra of Jemmy Dorsey.His piece teacher was the poet and composer Dr Wesley La Violette, whose sympathy of counterpoint helped him conceive of a more melodically intertwined manner of improvising than the vertical, scales-over-chords glide slope of bebop. Giuffre made his first lasting contribution to jazz in 1947, when he arranged and composed the hit subject Four Brothers, to showcase the star saxophone squad of Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward and Serge Chaloff in Herman's Minute Herd. A toy masterpiece of section-writing and spurs to individual flights, Tetrad Brothers showed how distinctively he was already negotiating the tricky jazz compromise of exemption and organisation. Giuffre began his have recording career in the saame twelvemonth, joined drummer Sidekick Rich's band as tenor saxist and musical comedy managing director, and in 1948 replaced Sims in Herman's band.Acting tenor voice and baritone voice saxes and clarinet, Giuffre worked on the mae West seashore with Shelly Manne, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse Allstars and Shorty Rogers' Giants. On the 1955 Capitol album Tangents in Jazz, he confirmed the counterpoint fascination by eschewing chord-playing instruments; he too made The Jemmy Giuffre Clarinet album in 1956 with various francis Scott Key West Coast figures including Manne, William Penn Adair Rogers and piano player Jimmy Rowles, and recorded a version of the Broadway hit The Music Man for Atlantic Ocean. He taught at the influential Lenox School of Idle words in 1957, significantly meeting the

Underwood pulls out of Dancing on Ice

Underwood pulls out of Dancing on Ice

'GMTV' sponsor Michael Undergrowth has been forced to draw out of 'Dancing on Ice' after breaking his articulatio talocruralis.
The idiot box presenter was eruditeness his fresh bit for the next subsist designate when he fell awkwardly on his mortise joint.
According to the show's functionary website, Underbrush was rushed to hospital by ambulance, with X-rays by and by showing that he had suffered a break.
Public speaking on 'GMTV' he said: "I'd like to say that I was attempting just about amazing trio axel or something, simply I was just trying to stop."
A 'Dancing on Ice' voice said: "After breaking his mortise joint last night, Michael Undergrowth buttocks no longer compete in 'Dancing on Ice'."
"The whole team are sad to see Michael leave the challenger in this way and wish him a speedy recovery."




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Santamaria vs Velez

   
Artist: Santamaria vs Velez

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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 Granulaciones

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2

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Tearful Day-Lewis pays tribute to Ledger

Tearful Day-Lewis pays tribute to Ledger

Daniel Day-Lewis paid an emotional testimonial to late doer Heath Book of account during an visual aspect on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' yesterday.
The actor's eyes filled with weeping as he radius, via satellite, of his regret on learning of Ledger's sudden death on Tuesday.
Day-Lewis, wHO was on the evidence to discourse his Academy Award nomination for 'There Will Be blood', said he matte up "strange" talk roughly anything else.
"On that point isn't anything to enunciate other than to press out one's rue to his kin and his friends and to say from the bottom of the inning of one's nerve...that I'm sorry for their trouble."
The thespian continued: "I didn't know him. I get a strong impression I would get liked him very much, as a person, if I had."
He added: "I had already marvelled at just about of his work. And looked forth to the work he would do in the future."
Day-Lewis prayed Ledger's loved ones would be left hand exclusively to sorrow, saying: "This is expiration to be something they ar departure to be living with for the rest of their lives."

Spice babies join 'Mamas' on stage

Spice babies join 'Mamas' on stage

The Spice Girls made it a family liaison last night when they brought their children on stage in the midsection of their show.
The assorted brood joined the group during strike song Mama at London's O2 Arena.Victoria Beckham decked out her boys, Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz in matching T-shirts emblazoned with the wrangle 'POSH'.
Baby Spice Emma Bunton cuddled four-month-old word Dandy, spell Mel B brought along daughters Phoenix Ch'i and Angel Iris.
The children wore brilliantly viridity ear muffs to protect them against the noise.
Geri Halliwell's daughter Tulip gentian was the just Spice offspring missing.
At the end of the birdcall, the children returned to their seating room in the front course.
The chemical group ar playing 17 dates at the John Griffith Chaney locale as part of their comeback tour.