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Davis, Wolfson attending convention for Fox

2008-09-10T18:20:00.001-07:00

NEW YORK �

Longtime Clinton intimate Lanny Davis and Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton's former communications theatre director, once awaited being very busy at this week's Democratic National Convention.

They never envisioned sledding to Denver as employees of Fox News Channel.

Davis and Wolfson will be on television system commenting on the convention Monday alternatively of on the job behind the scenes to shape it. They have also cast themselves into the center of a simmering civil war among Democrats over how to deal with a network many see as hostile to their cause.

Both see their punditry positions as something like missionary mold, and argue that it makes little sense for Democrats non to engage with Fox News Channel viewers, regular those they know oppose them.

For Fox, having them in the fold helps blunt the impact of a military campaign that built momentum when Democrats wouldn't agree to participate in debates on Fox during the nomination campaign.

Davis and Wolfson came to Fox this summer following defective experiences with rival networks, although they both declined to talk about them. Wolfson and Clinton's inner circle resented MSNBC, believing the network's top talkers favored Barack Obama's candidacy. Davis, a sometime special guidance to President Clinton, looked like he swallowed a lemon during his lowest primary-night invitee appearance on CNN.

Wolfson aforementioned Fox's Democratic primary insurance coverage was fairish, "and I appreciated that." With the exception of one combative appearance on "Fox & Friends" that he smoothened over offstage, Davis said he had always been treated moderately and with respect on Fox.

They've each appeared around two 12 times on various Fox News programs since joining as contributors.

Another thing they shared: sorrow from fellow Democrats when they signed with Fox.

"Less than I expected, but still some," Davis said. "The some were from the places that possess a stereotype about Fox, but when I asked them if they ever actually watched Fox, the answer is almost never."

Wolfson said he also got encouragement from Democrats wHO see the value in having a strong progressive voice on the network.

"My sense is that there is a recognition that we can't ignore or give the back of our hand to the largest audience in cable television (word)," he said.

Fox remains the most-watched meshing in cable length news, although excitement over the Democratic primary political campaign - and comparatively less excitement over the Republicans' - has helped CNN and MSNBC make the competition tighter.

Fox is intelligibly the network of pick for Republican viewers, although its audience is less homogeneous than many look. A Pew Research Center study released this calendar month found that 39 per centum of veritable Fox News Channel tV audience identify themselves as Republicans, while 33 percent suppose they're Democrats and 22 percent say they're independent. By contrast, more regular CNN viewing audience identify themselves as Democrats (51 percentage to 18 percent Republican). MSNBC is 45 to 18 pct Democratic.

Based on his e-mails, Davis said that many of the people world Health Organization see him on Fox are "suasible voters," willing to seriously consider a liberal peak of view.

"Are they Democrats?" Robert Greenwald said, only half-jokingly, around Davis and Wolfson. The filmmaker makes "Fox Attacks" videos critical of the network and is one of the most prominent activists in a drive to sway liberals to stay out from Fox.

"They have nada to do with a progressive point of view," Greenwald aforementioned. "I don't think you would come up anybody in the reformist movement wHO would say, yes, they are spokesmen for what we believe in."

Their association with Clinton would already make Barack Obama supporters suspicious of them. The anti-Fox Web site Newshounds has already said Wolfson "is a disaster at standing up for Democrats - that must be why Fox hired him." The Web site dissected a Wolfson appearance aboard Bush run architect Karl Rove, locution Wolfson basically let Rove attacks on Obama go unanswered.

Davis authored an article saying that he had been faulty about the Iraq surge and that it worked - lease Fox bring him on to question why Obama wasn't locution the same thing.

Greenwald aforesaid Fox is less interested in a genuine debate than in having mortal to state positions they can easily shout downward. "Without liberals and progressives to yell at, without liberal positions to take a shit fun of, Fox doesn't exist," he said. (Fox spokesman Richard White called Greenwald "irrelevant" and aforesaid "his off-the-wall obsession with Fox News has big stale.")

Davis and Wolfson aforementioned they did not regard that as their role, and that they believe their opinions are being sought sincerely.

"People who know me know that I'm not a shrinking violet," Wolfson aforesaid. "I didn't sign up to be the guy cable who plays the Harlem Globetrotters."

Davis said he disagreed with Hillary Clinton when she supported the bm not to give Fox a Democratic debate. He said he believed the anti-Fox effort represents a small, although vocal, wing of the party that believe in vitriol and demonization or else of a serious give-and-take of issues.

If he were advising Obama, he'd intimate the presumptive Democratic campaigner appear on Fox News Channel as much as possible during the campaign.

"You have 2 choices when you're in politics," Davis said. "You can walk into a room where everybody agrees with you, give a talk and everyone applauds you so you leave the elbow room thinking you've accomplished something. Or you can go into a room filled with the great unwashed who either haven't made their minds up or disagree with you and try to open some minds.

"Being on Fox is like loss into the second room," he said.

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Johan Timman

2008-08-11T18:24:00.001-07:00

Artist: Johan Timman

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Trip Into The Body

Year: 1981
Tracks: 10

Patrick Van De Ven

2008-08-06T18:02:00.001-07:00

Artist: Patrick Van De Ven

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:


Involution

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 9


Passing Winterghosts

   Year:
Tracks: 5

American Idol - Idol Runner-up Says Rumors About Dad Weird

2008-06-19T19:25:00.001-07:00

American Idol runner-up David Archuleta says he found all of the "stage dad"
reports about his father Jeff "really weird." In an interview with E! Entertainment
Channel, the 17-year-old singer, whose father was reportedly barred from rehearsals
during the show's final weeks for attempting to override the producers, said the weirdest
rumor was one claiming that his father refused to bring him a glass of water. "I
mean, I am 17, and, you know, if I want water, I am pretty sure I would just go get
it anyway." He did acknowledge that his father kept news about his performances away
from him, "because I didn't want it to distract me or let it go to my head."

26/05/2008

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Missing Persons

2008-06-13T02:25:00.001-07:00

Artist: Missing Persons

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

The Best Of

Year: 1987
Tracks: 15

Famed as practically for their video-ready space age epitome as for their music, the Los Angeles-based New Wave turnout Missing Persons formed in 1980, a year afterwards the marriage of vocalizer Dale Bozzio and her drummer husband Terry. A one-time extremity of Frank Zappa's mount band, Terry Bozzio met the former Dale Consalvi (an ex-Playboy Bunny) at a Hollywood recording studio; after institution Missing Persons -- ab initio dubbed U.S. Drag -- the twosome recruited familiar Zappa alumna Warren Cuccurullo on guitar and Patrick O'Hearn on bass, and with classically trained keyboardist Chuck Wild in towage, they began acting area clubs.

In 1981, the band released its self-titled debut EP; after sign language to Capitol, the label reissued the criminal record in 1982, and the singles "Words" and "Destination Unknown" both intimately hit the Top 40. Their videos too helped Missing Persons find achiever on the newbie MTV web, where Dale Bozzio's hiccuping voice and camp look (comprised of shocking-pink pilus and sci-fi outfits capped off with Plexiglass bras) combined with the group's synth-driven songs to make them naturals for heavy rotation. Later in 1982, the mathematical group issued its first gear full-length album, Spring Session M (an anagram of their name), which launched the underground smash "Walk in L.A."

After 1984's Verse and Reason jagged alone a minor hit with the single "Feed," Missing Persons enlisted Chic's Bernard Edwards to produce 1986's dance-pop movement Coloration in Your Life; the album stiffed, however, and both the band and the Bozzios themselves bust up. While Dale Bozzio issued unitary solo album on Prince's Paisley Park label, Terry Bozzio went on to work with Jeff Beck; Cuccurullo, meanwhile, joined Duran Duran, O'Hearn recorded several instrumental new geezerhood albums, and Wild composed music for films and television.

Brian Wilson, Feist for Ottawa Bluesfest

2008-06-07T22:15:00.001-07:00

Brian Wilson, Feist and TV On The Radio are scheduled to play this year�??s Ottawa Bluesfest in Canada.

Metric, Tokyo Police Club, Secret Machines and Ray Davies are also in the bill for the event, which will take place over 11 days in July at LeBreton Flats Park.

Stars, Jose Gonzalez, Lucinda Williams, Donna Summer, Steely Dan, Martha Wainwright, , Fergie and Wyclef Jean will also play during the forthcoming festivities, which will be the 14th year of the event.

Previous acts to have played the Bluesfest include Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, Kanye West, Van Morrison and The White Stripes, and the event has in the past attracted upwards of 200,000 people.

As previously reported, Feist and Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard are set to team up to record a song together for the forthcoming 'Red Hot' charity album, to benefits AIDS research.

Ottawa Bluesfest takes place July 3-13.

--By our New York staff.
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Kate Lances Little Kid's Hopes

2008-06-05T19:43:00.001-07:00

Kate Hudson's last movie has raked in over $100 billion bucks worldwide -- but judging by her snub of one candy-selling school boy outside Bar Pitti last night, she ain't looking to share the wealth.

If he were selling one of those LIVESTRONG bracelets, she probably would have ponied over a few bucks.

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The National

2008-06-05T19:40:00.003-07:00

Artist: The National

   Genre(s):
Indie
   Dance
   Rock

Discography:


Mistaken for Strangers

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 3


Boxer

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 12


Li Up (EP)

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 4


Alligator

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 13


Cherry Tree

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 7


Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

Withered

The Hold Steady and Kingsley Amis Make Drinking Cool Again

2008-06-05T19:40:00.001-07:00

Courtesy of Vagrant Records, Bloomsbury USA
Good news for fans of alcohol! It turns out this might be the summer when drinking finally stops being something you do alone at your kitchen table and starts being cool. We were a little worried the other week, when The New Yorker published a sad, sad piece reminding us how terrible hangovers are and warning us that science (science!) may never find a cure. The article used a quotation from Kingsley Amis to vividly illustrate "the metaphysical hangover" — "that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future" that afflicts one after drinking too much.

But as his fans know, Kingsley Amis wasn't as down on drinking as that quote suggests.

That's made clear by the Times' review of Bloomsbury's new omnibus edition of Amis's writing on alcohol, Everyday Drinking — even though it uses the exact same quote! Luckily, Dwight Garner's review is also packed with plenty of other Amis bons mots on the drinking life. Our favorite — and the most summery — on the benefits of sangria: "You can drink a lot of it without falling down." Finally, we need no longer feel ashamed of our love of warm-weather girl drinks!

Between Everyday Drinking and the release of the new Hold Steady album, Stay Positive — as filled with beery anthems as every previous Hold Steady album — we're getting pretty excited about drinking our way through the summer! Maybe it's time for Craig Finn and company to dump John Berryman and start reading some Kingsley Amis. It seems like they have a lot in common.

Toasting the Joys of Imbibing Properly [NYT]
A Few Too Many [NYer]

Earlier: Livers, Prepare for Impact: New Hold Steady Album Leaks

Best friends?Photos: Getty Images

Willie Nelson

2008-06-05T19:38:00.001-07:00

Artist: Willie Nelson

   Genre(s):
Country
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Reggae
   Blues
   Pop
   Vocal

Discography:


Last of the Breed

   Year: 2007
Tracks: 22


The Platinum Collection (cd3)

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 16


The Platinum Collection (cd2)

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 20


The Platinum Collection (cd1)

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 20


Songbird

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 11


Countryman

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 12


It Always Will Be

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 13


Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin'

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 15


The Essential Willie Nelson (cd2)

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 19


The Essential Willie Nelson (cd1)

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 22


The Great Divide

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 1


Revolutions Of Time: Journey 1975-93 (CD 3)

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 20


Revolutions Of Time: Journey 1975-93 (CD 2)

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 20


Revolutions Of Time: Journey 1975-93 (CD 1)

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 20


Milk Cow Blues

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 15


The Very Best of Willie Nelson

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 24


One for the road

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 20


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd8)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 15


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd7)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 27


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd6)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 28


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd5)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 28


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd4)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 28


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd3)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 29


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd2)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 32


Nashville Was The Roughest (cd1)

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 30


16 Biggest Hits

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 16


Country Love Songs

   Year: 1997
Tracks: 20


Across The Borderline

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 14


Shotgun Willie

   Year: 1990
Tracks: 12


Stardust

   Year: 1978
Tracks: 1


Teatro Full album

   Year:
Tracks: 14


Red Headed Stranger

   Year:
Tracks: 1


Live from austintx

   Year:
Tracks: 1

As a songwriter and a performing artist, Willie Nelson played a life-sustaining role in post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the mid-'70s, Nelson spent the '60s authorship songs that became hits for stars like Ray Price ("Night Life"), Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hullo Walls"), and Billy Walker ("Funny How Time Slips Away") as well as releasing a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a minuscule, only devoted, cult following. During the early '70s, Willie aligned himself with Waylon Jennings and the burgeoning illicit res publica movement that made him into a star in 1975. Following the crossover success of that year's The Red Headed Stranger and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," Nelson was a real star, as recognizable in start circles as he was to the country hearing; in addition to recording, he too launched an acting life history in the early '80s. Even when he was a star, Willie ne'er played it good musically. Instead, he borrowed from a wide diversity of styles, including traditional start, Western swing, jazz, traditional country, cowboy songs, honkey tonk, rock & undulate, folk music, and the blue devils, creating a distinctive, rubber band hybrid. Nelson remained at the spinning top of the res publica charts until the mid-'80s, when his life-style -- which had always been shut to the outlaw clichÃ©s with which his music flirted -- began to spiral out of control, culminating in an infamous fight with the IRS in the late '80s. During the '90s, Nelson's gross sales never reached the heights that he had experienced a x earlier, only he remained a vital ikon in land music, having greatly influenced the new nation, young diehard, and alternative rural area movements of the '80s and '90s as well as leaving behind a legacy of classic songs and recordings.

Horatio Nelson began performing medicine as a child growing up in Abbott, TX. After his padre died and his female parent ran aside, Nelson and his sister Bobbie were elevated by their grandparents, wHO encouraged both children to play instruments. Willie picked up the guitar, and by the time he was seven, he was already writing songs. Bobbie learned to toy pianissimo, finally meeting -- and afterwards marrying -- twiddler Bud Fletcher, world Health Organization invited both of the siblings to get together his band. Nelson had already played with Raychecks' Polka Band, merely with Fletcher, he acted as the group's frontman. Willie stayed with Fletcher passim high school. Upon his commencement, he coupled the Air Force merely had to bequeath shortly afterward, when he became plagued by back problems. Following his disenrollment from the servicing, he began looking for for full-time work. After he worked several parttime jobs, he landed a job as a rural area DJ at Fort Worth's KCNC in 1954. Nelson continued to sing in honky tonks as he worked as a DJ, decision making to make a twinge at recording life history by 1956. That year, he headed to Vancouver, WA, where he recorded Leon Payne's "Lumberjack." At that sentence, Payne was a DJ and he blocked "Lumber jacket" on the melodic line, which eventually resulted in sales of 3,000 -- a respectable figure for an self-governing unmarried, only not enough to arrive at much attention. For the following few old age, Willie continued to DJ and spill the beans in clubs. During this sentence, he sold "Crime syndicate Bible" to a guitar instructor for 50 dollars, and when the vocal became a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, Nelson distinct to move to Nashville the following year to stress his fortune. Though his nasal bone voice and jazzy, off-centered verbiage didn't make headway him many friends -- several demos were made and then spurned by assorted labels -- his songwriting ability didn't go unnoticed, and shortly Hank Cochran helped Willie estate a publishing contract at Pamper Music. Ray Price, world Health Organization co-owned Pamper Music, recorded Nelson's "Night Life" and invited him to connect his touring band, the Cherokee Cowboys, as a bassist.

Arriving at the commencement of 1961, Price's invitation began a landmark year for Nelson. Not only did he play with Price -- finally taking members of the Cherokee Cowboys to kind his own touring band -- just his songs as well provided major hits for several other artists. Faron Young took "Hello Walls" to number one for ennead weeks, Billy Walker made "Funny How Time Slips Away" into a Top 40 area dash, and Patsy Cline made "Softheaded" into a Top Ten pop crossing hit. Earlier in the year, he sign-language a contract with Liberty Records and began cathartic a series of singles that were unremarkably drenched in in string section. "Willingly," a couple with his then-wife Shirley Collie, became a Top Ten hit for Nelson early in 1962, and it was followed by some other Top Ten individual, "Allude Me," after that year. Both singles made it seem like Nelson was primed to suit a star, just his life history stalled merely as quickly as it had taken off, and he was soon charting in the lower regions of the Top 40. Liberty closed its country division in 1964, the same year Roy Orbison had a hit with "Pretty Paper."

When the Monument recordings failed to become hits, Nelson moved to RCA Records in 1965, the same year he became a fellow member of the Grand Ole Opry. Over the following seven old age, Willie had a unbendable stream of minor hits, highlighted by the number 13 off "Institute Me Sunshine" in 1969. Toward the conclusion of his stint with RCA, he had grown foiled with the label, which had continually time-tested to shoehorn him into the intemperately produced Nashville sound. By 1972, he wasn't even able-bodied to make the country Top 40. Discouraged by his want of success, Nelson decided to pull away from land music, moving support to Austin, TX, later on a brief and disastrous sojourn into slovenly person husbandry. Once he arrived in Austin, Nelson completed that many loretta Young rock fans were hearing to body politic music along with the traditional whitey tonk hearing. Spotting an chance, Willie began playing once more, scrapping his pop-oriented Nashville sound and image for a careen and folk-influenced redneck outlaw paradigm. Soon, he earned a contract with Atlantic Records.

Scattergun Willie (1973), Nelson's first-class honours degree album for Atlantic, was evidence of the transfer of his musical style, and although it ab initio didn't sell well, it earned well reviews and genteel a dedicated cult next. By the flow of 1973, his rendering of Bob Wills' "Delay All Night (Delay a Little Longer)" had cracked the land Top 40. The undermentioned year, he delivered the conception album Phases and Stages, which increased his following regular more with the gain singles "Bloody Mary Morning" and "Later on the Fire Is Gone." But the real commercial breakthrough didn't get until 1975, when he cut off ties with Atlantic and signed to Columbia Records, which gave him complete creative control of his records. Willie's first-class honours degree album for Columbia, The Red Headed Stranger, was a spare conception record album about a sermoniser, featuring entirely his guitar and his sister's forte-piano. The mark was loth to release with such barren arrangements, merely they relented and it became a vast hit, thanks to Nelson's unpretentious cover of Roy Acuff's "Blueish Eyes Crying in the Rain."

Undermentioned the breakthrough success of The Red Headed Stranger as well as Waylon Jennings' coincident success, outlaw country -- so named because it worked outside of the confines of the Nashville manufacture -- became a sensation, and RCA compiled the various-artists record album Treasured: The Outlaws!, victimization material Nelson, Jennings, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter had antecedently recorded for the label. The digest boasted a number unrivaled unmarried in the form of the freshly recorded Jennings and Nelson duo "Honorable Hearted Woman," which was as well named the Country Music Association's single of the year. For the side by side phoebe age, Nelson consistently charted on both the land and pop charts, with "Remember Me," "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time," and "Uncloudy Day" seemly Top Ten land singles in 1976; "I Love You a Thousand Ways" and the Mary Kay Place duo "Something to Brag About" were Top Ten land singles the undermentioned twelvemonth.

Nelson enjoyed his to the highest degree successful yr to engagement in 1978, as he charted with two very unalike albums. Waylon and Willie, his first-class honours degree duo record album with Jennings, was a major success early in the twelvemonth, spawning the signature vocal "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." Later in the yr, he released Stardust, a string-augmented aggregation of pop standards produced by Booker T. Jones. Most observers believed that the unconventional album would derail Nelson's vocation, just it out of the blue became one of the most successful records in his catalog, disbursal almost ten geezerhood in the country charts and eventually marketing over four zillion copies. After the success of Stardust, Willie forficate out into picture show, appearing in the Robert Redford flick The Electric Horseman in 1979 and stellar in Honeysuckle Rose the following class. The latter spawned the hit "On the Road Again," which became another one of Nelson's key signature songs.

Willie continued to have hits throughout the early '80s, when he had a major crossover winner in 1982 with a cover of Elvis Presley's strike "Always on My Mind." The individual exhausted deuce weeks at phone number one and crossed over to number fivesome on the pop charts, sending the album of the same name to number deuce on the pop charts as good as quadruple-platinum status. Over the future deuce years, he had bump off twosome albums with Merle Haggard (1983's Poncho & Lefty) and Jennings (1982's WWII and 1983's Fill It to the Limit), spell "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a duet with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias, became another major crossover success in 1984, peaking at number five on the pop charts and number matchless on the country singles chart.

Next a string of number one singles in early 1985, including "Road agent," the first single from the Highwaymen, a supergroup he formed with Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, Nelson's popularity gradually began to fret. A new genesis of artists had captured the aid of the area audience, which began to drastically cut into his have hearing. For the remnant of the ten, he recorded less oft and remained on the road; he as well continued to do jacob's ladder work, most notably Farm Aid, an annual concert that he founded in 1985 designed to provide help to seedy farmers. While he career was declining, an old devil began to weirdo up on Willie: the IRS. In November 1990, he was minded a bill for $16.7 trillion in back taxes. During the following class, virtually all of his assets -- including several houses, studios, farms, and diverse properties -- were taken away, and to help pay his bill, he released the double album The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? Originally released as deuce discriminate albums, the records were marketed through boob tube commercials, and all the winnings were directed to the IRS. By 1993 -- the class he off 60 -- his debts had been nonrecreational off, and he relaunched his recording life history with Across the Borderline, an ambitious album produced by Don Was and featuring cameos by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, SinÃ©ad O'Connor, David Crosby, and Kris Kristofferson. The criminal record received stiff reviews and became his kickoff solo album to appear in the pop charts since 1985.

Subsequently the loss of Crossways the Borderline, Nelson continued to exploit steadily, cathartic at least one and only album a year and touring constantly. In 1993, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, only by that time, he had already become a living legend for all country music fans crossways the world. Signing to Island for 1996's Heart, he resurfaced deuce years later with the critically acclaimed Teatro, produced by Daniel Lanois. Nelson followed up that success with the instrumental-oriented Night and Day a class by and by; Me and the Drummer and Milk Cow Blues followed in 2000. The Rainbow Connection, which featured an eclectic natural selection of old-time country favorites, appeared in saltation 2001.

Astonishingly fertile as a recording artist, Nelson released The Great Divide on Universal in 2002. A assembling of his early-'60s publication demos for Pamper Music called Crazy: The Demo Sessions came out on Sugar Hill in 2003. Later in 2003 Nelson released Run away That by Me One More Time, which reunited him with Ray Price and kicked off a relationship with Lost Highway Records. It Always Will Be and Outlaws and Angels both appeared on Lost Highway in 2004, followed by the release of Nelson's long-delayed endeavor at a country-reggae fusion, Countryman, also on Lost Highway, in 2005. You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker arrived the following yr, along with Songster, Nelson's coaction with alt-country singer/songwriter Ryan Adams and his lot the Cardinals. The double-disc Last of the Breed, an ambitious project that paired Nelson with Merle Haggard, Ray Price, and Asleep at the Wheel, was released by Lost Highway in 2007.

N.E.R.D, Ting Tings, Death Cab & More For iTunes Live

2008-06-05T19:37:00.001-07:00

A host of names will take part in the iTunes Live series next month, where during July, thirteen shows will see a different band performing each night - that will then be recorded and sold later through the iTunes store.

Names confirmed for the month-long event, including N.E.R.D, The Ting Tings, Jamie Lidell, Death Cab For Cutie and CSS. The Full line-up is as follows.

July Dates:

N.E.R.D (1)

Hadouken! (3)

Lightspeed Champion, Pete And The Pirates (8)

The Ting Tings, Florence And The Machine (9)

Jamie Lidell (10)

James Blunt (12)

Death Cab For Cutie, I Was A Cub Scout (14)

CSS (16)

Guillemots, Lykke Li (17)

Feeder, Infadels (19)

The Script, Sam Beeton (23)

Chaka Khan (26)

Pendulum, INME (28)

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Phil Spector set for new murder trial in September

2008-06-05T19:36:00.001-07:00

Rock producer to face second trail on murder charges

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday set a September date for pioneering rock producer Phil Spector's second trial on charges that he murdered actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his mock castle in 2003.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler ordered Spector to stand trial beginning on Sept. 29 in the high-profile case.
The jury in Spector's first trial deadlocked 10-2 in favor of a guilty verdict in September 2007, forcing Fidler to declare a mistrial, but prosecutors immediately said they would bring the case again.
Most of Spector's defense team quit in October causing delays in the retrial. The new defense team is seeking to have Fidler removed from the case, claiming he is biased against the 68-year-old rock producer.
Clarkson, 40, was found dead of a gunshot to the mouth early on the morning of Feb. 3, 2003 after Spector's driver called police to say that the record producer had killed someone.
Prosecutors say Spector, who is credited with revolutionizing pop music with his early 1960s "Wall of Sound" recordings, shot Clarkson while trying to prevent her from leaving.
They called a series of witnesses to testify that Spector had a history of brandishing guns at women when he was drunk and said forensic evidence indicated that the Colt Cobra .38 special revolver went off accidentally after he jammed it in Clarkson's face.
Defense attorneys countered that Clarkson, best known as the star of such B-movies as "Amazon Women on the Moon" and "Barbarian Queen," had been depressed and may have killed herself.
Spector, who first shot to fame as the mastermind behind the popular "girl groups" of the early 1960s and later worked with The Beatles, The Ronettes, The Ramones, Tina Turner and Cher, did not take the witness stand in his own defense.
He told a magazine interviewer early on in the case that Clarkson committed suicide for reasons he could not grasp.
After a five-month trial in 2007, the jury deliberated for 12 days before telling the judge that they were hopelessly deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous verdict.