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YOU! PowerPlay 19/12/2010-25/12/2010

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Aretha Franklin feels 'great' after undergoing surgery

2010-12-19T00:00:00.001+02:00

added: 18 Dec 2010 // by: newsdesk

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The legendary singer ' who has refused to confirm reports she is battling pancreatic cancer ' was allowed home from hospital earlier this week and though she was told by doctors she must recuperate for eight weeks, she hasn't ruled out doing some work.

She said: ' feel great. The doctors say I can do whatever I feel like I am up to do. Of course, that doesn't mean any concerts or anything like that. But I can do things around the house, and today I am just piddling around the house. It is good to sit up, too. I also might make one or two business calls. Not too much, just a teeny bit.

' am putting Aretha together first. We will put Ree Ree together first. This is Aretha time to do whatever it is that I need to do. But I will talk more later.'

However, the 68-year-old star is positive about her diagnosis, saying she doesn't need any Christmas presents because her improving health is enough.

She said: 'God has given me the greatest gift already for the holidays. I am so grateful.'

Aretha also praised the support she has received from 'the great sisterhood', saying the support of those closest to her is helping her through her illness.

She told JET magazine: 'Sisterhood is so important. It really means a lot because it is solid. The sisters came together over me. They can put it together and they can pull it together. They said, 'What is it that you need? What needs to be done?' Don't think the sisters can't handle it. We can handle it. And we have to be reciprocal in that manner. People don't know whose help they may need. People support you, you support them.'

Aretha was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942 and grew up in Michigan where she started singing in her local church as a young girl.

The soul legend - whose hits include 'I Say A Little Prayer', 'Think' and 'Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves' - has won 20 Grammy Awards and had 20 number one hits in the Billboard top 100 music chart.

Bruno Mars Grenade

2010-12-18T23:59:00.001+02:00

added: 18 Dec 2010 // release date: 21 Dec 2010 // label:
reviewer: David Spencer

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It’s been quite a year for Peter Gene Hernandez or as we know him Bruno Mars. Perhaps that should be Bruno Midas, as this year everything he’s touched has been a hit. After featuring on chart toppers with B.o.B, Cee-Lo Green and Travie McCoy, the singer took over the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with the huge number one ‘Just The Way You Are’. He’s undoubtedly one of the artists of the year.

His big hit features on his debut album of course, but it’s not typical of the content. US top ten hit ‘Grenade’, is a better taster, with pure and clean vocals over a pounding drum beat. It’s a better song than ‘Just the Way Your Are’ and should be a bigger hit.

If those two songs provide great pop but little in way of surprise, then it’s from ‘Our First Time’ (track 3) that the album offers an interesting change in direction. It’s a groovy soul ballad in the mould of Michael Jackson with a mix of Maxwell. The Outkast style funk-of ‘Runaway Baby’ follows and before you know it, you are halfway through the album.

With ‘The Lazy Song’ there’s the first hint of Jason Mraz. Both singers have similar clear pop voices and they even both like a good hat. There’s no surprise that Mars is using his template for sing-a-long pop but the later track ‘Count On Me’ is too much of a copy.

Later there’s some reggae with ‘Liquor Store Blues’, featuring Damian Marley, which sounds slightly out of place here but is till infectious. ‘Ticket to the Moon’ is a tender ballad with a sumptuous piano bed. It’s a pop album made for 2010 and a touch saccharine and may well date badly in years to come. But right now you will do well to find anything better.

Bono and The Edge's Spider-Man musical pushed back again

2010-12-18T23:58:00.001+02:00

added: 18 Dec 2010 // by: vintagevinylnews.com

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The official opening for the Broadway production Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has taken another hit as the opening has been pushed from January 11 to sometime in February (an official date is expected in the next couple of days).

With music by U2's Bono and the Edge, the $65 million musical has been plagued with financing problems, injuries to cast, hung up special effects and story problems, leading to the ongoing run of preview shows which started in late November. The early previews included lengthy intermissions when flying equipment became snarled and, although no reviews are supposed to be written until the official opening, a flurry of bad reports about the structure of the show's story.

Word is that director Julie Taymor (The Lion King) has been working extensively with playwright Glen Berger to revise the script, including changes to the end of the show and to dialog throughout. While Bono and the Edge have not seen the show due to their ongoing 360 Degree Tour, they have been working feverishly on changes to the music and are expected in New York in late December. No new songs have been written for the production, but the possibility has not been ruled out once they can meet in person with Taymor.
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Ghostface Killah's 'Apollo Kids' Track-By-Track

2010-12-17T23:28:00.002+02:00

After releasing offbeat R&B exploration "Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City" last year, Wu-Tang Clan MCGhostface Killah returns to creating pummeling street rap with "Apollo Kids," his ninth studio album set for a Dec. 21 release. Taking its title from a track on his 2000 classic "Supreme Clientele," the album finds the rapper (real name: Dennis Coles) once again relying on his obtuse wordplay and delicious soul samples.

"Apollo Kids" also boasts impressive roster of guest rappers, includingBusta Rhymes, the Game, Jim Jones and more than a few of Ghost's Wu-Tang brethren. They all add to the rap-for-rap's-sake vibe of the album, with tracks like "Superstar" and "Starkology" featuring little more than a few flowing verses and a grimy beat to match.

Before the album is released next week, check out Billboard.com's take on each of the 12 songs on Ghostface's latest effort.

1. "Purified Thoughts" (featuring Killah Priest and GZA)"Apollo Kids"'s opening track and the first of its many posse cuts features an aching soul sample that asks, "Am I a good man?" Ghostface jumps on the dark track and spits in a deep, gruff voice, while Killah Priest later unravels the tongue-twisting line, "Gravity grabbin' me, gradually draggin' me through hell's cavity/This is blasphemy, I fell where the jackals be."

2. "Superstar" (featuring Busta Rhymes)Ghostface shifts from somber to superfly on "Superstar," his funky collaboration with Busta Rhymes collaboration that showcases the Wu-Tang MC's off-the-wall wordplay. "Mink coats! Rock diamond wristlets!/Bankroll's so thick I don't need a wish list," Ghostface raps over a thick bass line and quick electric guitar lick.

3. "Black Tequila" (featuring Cappadonna and Trife)Even before Ghostface and his two cohorts, Trife and Cappadonna, arrive on "Black Tequila," Frank Dukes' vibrant production, which hinges on pounding snare hits and wonky guitar parts, establishes the Latin-tinged track as an early highlight. The trio of rappers feed off of each other's chest-thumping swagger on the track, but Trife's violent storytelling remains the most captivating.

4. "Drama" (featuring Joell Ortiz and the Game)"Drama," the longest track on "Apollo Kids" at only 4:28, recalls Ghostface's meticulously plotted "Fishscale" track "Shakey Dog" by offering a winding narrative of drugs and violence -- as the Game calls it, "Wu-Tang Sopranos." Treating the song like a campfire story, Ghostface, Joell Ortiz and the Game spin a yarn about calculating gangsters, kitchens full of cocaine, and exacting revenge at a Burger King drive-through window.

5. "2getha Baby"Ghostface's first solo track on "Apollo Kids" is simple and head-knocking, with a buttery sample breaking up the rapper's boasts and sexual innuendos. Once again, the MC's loose, uncluttered rhymes shine through, with an opening line like "It's Tone, crispy like a pair of headphones/Used to play the 280 party rec rooms/Now I play the big spots all in the city/Spraying champagne, scoping out bitties" immediately grabbing the listener's attention.

6. "Starkology"In just two minutes and 25 seconds, Ghostface spearheads an adrenaline rush of a track that plays off his prominent qualities. "Starkology" lets the percussion stay out of the way of Pretty Toney's flow, with only a few second-long DJ scribbles breaking up the rapper's whacked-out musings.

7. "In Tha Park" (featuring Black Thought)Staten Island meets South Philly as Ghostface welcomes the Roots MC Black Thought on this guitar-driven track. Instead of delivering his verse with his typically measured flow, Thought matches Ghost's hard-edged braggadocio and drops out-of-character declarations like, "You don't like how I'm living? Well, fuck you!"

8. "How You Like Me Baby""How You Like Me Baby" plays out like a distant cousin of "Big Doe Rehab" track "Walk Around," in which the rapper uses a mid-tempo R&B hook as a springboard to his rough-and-tumble rhyming. The track features slick production from Pete Rock as well as a bridge in which Ghostface forgoes any outside singing help and belts out a few bars by himself.

9. "Handcuffin' Them Hoes" (featuring Jim Jones)"Apollo Kids" is full of Ghostface's romantic recountings and bedroom achievements, but "Handcuffin' Them Hoes," featuring Dipset rapper Jim Jones, is a full-on celebration of women. "I gets my love game on, without a doubt," Ghost snarls before describing how he constantly has too much money to fit in his jeans.

10. "Street Bullies" (featuring Sheek Louch, Wiggs and Sungod)Ghostface Killah caps off "Apollo Kids" with a trio of songs featuring three other rappers, the first showcasing recent tour mate Sheek Louch, Wiggs and Ghostface's son, Sungod. On "Street Bullies," the three MCs perform admirably over a beat punctuated by a piercing female vocal sample; sadly, Ghostface opts to simply rap the chorus instead of laying down a few bars.

11. "Ghetto" (featuring Raekwon, Cappadonna and U-God)Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon, Cappadonna and U-God drop by to each lend a quick verse to this track, which chronicles the rappers' hardships while growing up. With its snare rolls and grooving guitar, "Ghetto" wouldn't be out of place on Raekwon's 2009 triumph, "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2."

12. "Troublemakers" (featuring Raekwon, Method Man and Redman)The three principles of this year's "Wu Massacre" album, as well as an effervescent Redman, close out "Apollo Kids" on a high note. Like any classic Wu-Tang cut, "Troublemakers" is a cohesive mixture of many styles: Raekwon's detailed storytelling, Ghostface's unfiltered danger, Redman's animated drug rhymes and Method Man's cold intensity.

Greg Allman to release first new album in 14 Years

2010-12-17T23:25:00.002+02:00

added: 17 Dec 2010 // by: Andy Snipper

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GREGG ALLMAN TO RELEASE LOW COUNTRY BLUES ON JANUARY 25, 2011;
Rounder Records is excited to announce that Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame legend Gregg Allman will release his first solo record in 14 years on January 25, 2011.

Called Low Country Blues for the coastal Georgia region Allman calls home, the record was produced by T Bone Burnett, recorded at his Village Recorder studio in Los Angeles and features Dr. John on piano, guitarist Doyle Bramhall II, and Burnett's brilliant go-to rhythm section: bassist Dennis Crouch and drummer Jay Bellerose.

Though constantly on the road, Allman has spent precious little time in the studio since the 2002 death of producer Tom Dowd -- the man behind the glass for much of his recorded career. Sceptical at first, Allman and Burnett quickly bonded and work began in January 2010. The powerhouse band ' which of course also features Gregg's own acoustic guitar expertise and trademark Hammond B-3 organ ' cooks up an earthy and atmospheric musical stew infused with gritty R&B muscle, spooky Southern psychedelia, and greasy deep soul grooves.

'When you have a new record it always feels different,' he says. 'Man, you gotta get out there and move the muscles, you gotta move it and shake it.'

't's been too long,' he adds. ' guess I was just born with a lot of gypsy in my soul.'

Greg Allman to release first new album in 14 Years - Music-News.com

Cher wants to be a movie director

2010-12-17T23:23:00.002+02:00

added: 17 Dec 2010 // by: newsdesk

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The 64-year-old actress has no plans to retire from movies but if she starts to look old she intends to move behind the camera.

She explained: "My grandmother just died at 96 and she still looked pretty hot and my mom is 84 and still looks great so I'm just going to keep going and pray for the best.

"And you know what? When it's not like that, I'll just do something else. I want to direct movies anyway - that's what I really want to do.

"Why continue working? It's like telling Picasso, you've done enough paintings, you've created everything, there's nothing more to do. I like what I do and will do it as long as I can."

The actress-and-singer - who can be seen starring alongside Christina Aguilera in new movie 'Burlesque'- is currently considering other movie roles but admits she finds acting tough.

She added: "I would like to make more movies. Stanley Tucci thinks he can direct me in a film - I'm not very directable though.

"I do enjoy acting, but it's hard work. It's torture for me right before, until I start filming, because it takes a lot of emotion, but it's fun."

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Nathaniel Rateliff on the road in 2011

2010-12-17T23:21:00.000+02:00

added: 17 Dec 2010 // by: Andy Snipper

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Nathaniel Rateliff ' will be touring and preparing the frontline UK release of 'n Memory of Loss' repackaged with extra tracks and new sleeve image featuring his father to whom the album is dedicated ' release date March 2011

Tue 25 Jan Glasgow, Grand HALL: Celtic Connections / Out to Lunch Festival w/ Roseanne Cash
Fri 28 Jan Belfast Out to Lunch Communion night @ Black Box Theatre
Sat, 29 Jan Dublin communion ' venue info TBA
Mon 31 Jan London - Communion night at Kings Cross Church
Thu 3 Feb Koln, Luxor http://www.fkpscorpio.com/tickets_bestellung.asp?nummer=202341
Fri 4 Feb Hamburg, Prinzebar http://www.fkpscorpio.com/tickets_bestellung.asp?nummer=202342
Sat 5 Feb Berlin, Roter Salon, http://www.fkpscorpio.com/tickets_bestellung.asp?nummer=202343
Sun 6 Feb Munich, 59-1 http://www.fkpscorpio.com/tickets_bestellung.asp?nummer=202344
Mon 7 Feb off / promo?/ German TV / Radio, etc? - POSSIBLE Saulsburg / vienna?
Tue 8 Feb Paris, Cafe de la Danse
wed 9 Feb Brussels, Witloofbar/ Botanique
Fri. 11 Feb London, HMV Next Big Thing Borderline w/ Caitlin Rose,

Nathaniel Rateliff on the road in 2011 - Music-News.com

Οι Coldplay ηχογραφούν νέο album!

2010-12-17T23:17:00.000+02:00

Από τον Σεπτέμβριο της φετινής χρονιάς οι Coldplay έχουν επιστρέψει στο studio και ηχογραφούν το νέο τους album.

To συγκρότημα του Chris Martin αυτή την φορά σκοπεύει να δημιουργήσει ένα πιο απαιτητικό album, με το σύνολο των κομματιών να συνδέονται με μια κεντρική ιδέα. Το concept album των Coldplay έχει ως παραγωγό τον Brian Eno, που τους είχε βοηθήσει και στο, βραβευμένο με Grammy, “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends”.

O Chris Martin μίλησε στα BBC News και ανέλυσε την κεντρική ιδέα του album: «Μιλάει για δυο ανθρώπους που νοιώθουν χαμένοι, βρίσκονται σε άγνωστο περιβάλλον και ταξιδεύουν μαζί.» Προς το παρόν οι Coldplay κυκλοφόρησαν ένα single, το χριστουγεννιάτικο “Christmas Lights”.

Οι Coldplay ηχογραφούν νέο album!

Various artists Christmas Gift

2010-12-17T23:13:00.002+02:00

added: 17 Dec 2010 // release date: 6 Dec 2010 // label: Rainboot (label)
reviewer: Sophie MacKintosh

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What comes to mind when you think of Christmas songs? If your first instinct is to cringe, imagining Shakin’ Stevens, Wizzard, et al, or sinking careers hastening their own demise by desperate use of jingle bells and Santa hats – think again. The songs on Christmas Gift are a gentle hearkening back to a time when Christmas songs (much like the holiday itself) were less…garish, more heartfelt.

This tone is set by the gorgeous opener Love Again by The Animal Beat, and things only get better from then on. The songs are mostly originals, except for The Whiskey Priest’s folksy interpretation of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (where the addition of an electric guitar actually works and doesn’t call up images of backing singers in Christmas hats), and Trev Gibb’s and Travis Tucker’s heartbreakingly wonderful versions of Silent Night and O Holy Night. The original songs may technically be Christmas songs (see “Santa Claus won’t be coming this year”, James Neill mournfully sings on Up Before Dawn), but ultimately they are low-key tributes to love and life, sung with joy and beauty in every note. And isn’t that what Christmas is really about, in the end?

Highlights include Waxwing by Tyler Butler- mournful and lyrical, as far from your typical Christmas song as you can imagine, except for the way it makes you picture bleakly beautiful snowscapes stretching as far as the eye can see – and Christmas By The Sea by The Animal Beat, a ukulele-strummed ditty that dares you not to sing along. And as if you needed any other reason to buy this CD, all the proceeds go to ‘Save The Children’. Really, no other CD deserves a place in your stocking more.

You can download the album directly from the label (www.rainboot.co.uk/gift) or get it from iTunes, Amazon et al.

Various artists - Christmas Gift - Music-News.com

Ronan Keating admits he has a 'long way to go' to repair his marriage

2010-12-13T23:20:00.001+02:00

added: 13 Dec 2010 // by: newsdesk

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Ronan Keating admits he has a 'long way to go' to repair his marriage.

The Boyzone singer's 12-year union with former model Yvonne was rocked by revelations he had an affair with dancer Francine Cornell and while the couple - who have three children, Jack, 11, Marie, nine, and Ali, four ' have decided to give things another go, the pop star admits it's going to take a lot of hard work.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: ''ve had a tough couple of years. I t feels like a fresh start now. We're building a new family home and we move in next week.

' want to put everything behind us. I'm still struggling with a lot of things personally, and there's still a long way to go.'

While he admits he still has a way to go to get his marriage back on track, Ronan recently made a public apology to his wife, using the sleeve notes of his latest album 'Duet' to praise the "light" she brings to his life.

He wrote: "You are the most incredible, inspirational woman I have ever met.

"For the mistakes I have made in my life, I am sorry. Guess you have to go there to come back. It was a dark place and you were the light to bring me back. I love you."

Kylie Minogue thinks performing live again will be 'delicious'

2010-12-13T23:19:00.001+02:00

added: 13 Dec 2010 // by: newsdesk

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The Australian singer - who battled breast cancer in 2005 - is to embark on her 'Aphrodite - Les Folies' tour in March 2011 and plans to push herself harder than ever.

She said: "The opportunity to perform songs from 'Aphrodite' is going to be delicious. It's my favourite part of what I do.

"It's gruelling, but I'd rather have that and the kind of reward it gives me.

"I'm not planning an interval this time because we're having a hard enough time choosing which songs to put in the two-hour show. And I'm breaking my three-day rule. It used to be that I could only do two shows in a row. Now we are doing three. I feel strong and ready."

As well as loving life on the road, Kylie also spoke about how much she enjoys wearing daring designer clothes.

She told Britain's Glamour magazine: "I wore one of David Koma's dresses in the video for 'Get Outta My Way'. It's black mesh with chains inside.

"I also love Mark Fast. I wore his frock on a show and it arrived so tiny I thought, 'I didn't order socks?' His dresses are unforgiving, but hot."

Elton John's drug habit nearly killed him

2010-12-13T23:17:00.003+02:00

added: 13 Dec 2010 // by: newsdesk

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The legendary musician - who has battled alcohol and cocaine addictions, as well as the eating disorder bulimia in the past - admitted his "tragic" life come "very close" to ending at the height of his drug problem.

When asked how close his addictions came to killing him, Elton replied: "Very close. I mean, I would have an epileptic seizure and turn blue, and people would find me on the floor and put me to bed, and then 40 minutes later I'd be snorting another line.

"This is how bleak it was, I'd stay up, I'd smoke joints, I'd drink a bottle of Johnnie Walker and then I'd stay up for three days and then I'd go to sleep for a day and a half, get up, and because I was so hungry, because I hadn't eaten anything, I'd binge and have like three bacon sandwiches, a pot of ice cream and then I'd throw it up, because I became bulimic and then go and do the whole thing all over again.

"That is how tragic my life was."

The 63-year-old singer - who suffered from a drug overdose in 1975 - admitted despite his vices, he never considered himself to be a drug addict.

Speaking to Piers Morgan as part of his 'Life Stories' series, Elton added: "I'm not being flippant when I say that when I look back I shudder at the behaviour and what I was doing to myself. It just takes over your whole psyche, this stuff.

"I never considered myself a drug addict, I thought drug addicts were people who stuck needles in their arms. And I was the biggest junkie there was."

Kelly Rowland turned Usher on to dance music

2010-12-13T23:17:00.001+02:00

added: 13 Dec 2010 // by: Marco Gandolfi

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The former Destiny's Child singer gave up R 'n' B to pursue a different direction two years ago, and said at the time her peers were unsure whether it would work.

She said: 'No one like me was doing dance music back then. Producers only knew me in an R 'n' B capacity. I played Usher a song and he said, 'That record is crazy' but I was like, 'You should try dance'.'

Usher later took more of a dancefloor friendly approach with the track 'OMG', which was produced by Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am, who collaborated with DJ David Guetta for his band's huge track 'I Gotta
Feeling'.

David had got in touch with will.i.am after working with Kelly's on her breakthrough solo single 'Love Takes Over', which was one of the first dance/R 'n' B crossover tracks to become a huge pop hit.

Her solo success means the 'Commander' singer now has fewer doubts about her own opinions.

She added: ''m not afraid to make decisions now. I used to worry and gave everybody else the credit.'

Kelly's as-yet-untitled third solo album will be released next year.

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