The rumours that Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake volition be reuniting to record a new record together just turn down to go away - despite denials from Justin's camp.
The former sweethearts � who starred together on the Mickey Mouse Club before embarking on a three-year romanticism as teens � ar said to be getting back together to execute a couple.
A source tells Life & Style, �They�re provision to disk a duo � a dance track � for her new album.�
Whilst Britney�s professional and personal life went into freefall shortly after the pair schism in 2002,Justin�s career has gone from strength to strength.
Justin�s magic meet could be just what Britney's long awaited comeback needs.
The source added, �He�s been sent her new music, and his feedback is really positive.�
The former couple were so-called to meet last August at Timbaland�s studio just Britney - who was in the midst of her yearlong breakdown at the time - was a no show.
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Britney Spears To Serenade Justin Timberlake?
Thursday, 28 August 2008
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
2. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Press)
3. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)
4. "Moscow Rules" by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
5. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
6. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (The Dial Press)
7. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
8. "The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
9. "Tribute" by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
10. "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
11. "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry (Morrow)
12. "Foreign Body" by Robin Cook (Putnam)
13. "Love the One You're With" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Press)
14. "The 19th Wife" by David Ebershoff (Random House)
15. "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson (Doubleday)
NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)
3. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)
4. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
5. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
6. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)
7. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
8. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind (Harper)
9. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
10. "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It" by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)
11. "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
12. "Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within." by Maria Shriver (Hyperion)
13. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)
14. "YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger" by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz (Collins Living)
15. "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" by Tom Vanderbilt (Knopf)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)
2. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)
3. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
4. "Into The Flame" by Christina Dodd (Signet)
5. "Strangers in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley)
6. "Play Dirty" by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
7. "Cry Wolf" by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
8. "Turbulent Sea" by Christine Feehan (Jove)
9. "Left to Die" by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
10. "The Sanctuary" by Raymond Khoury (Signet)
11. "The Burnt House" by Faye Kellerman (Harper)
12. "The Manning Brides" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
13. "Sweet Spot" by Susan Mallery (HQN)
14. "The Bone Garden" by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine Books)
15. "Beyond Reach" by Karin Slaughter (Dell)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
3. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
4. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
5. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
6. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)
7. "Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness" by Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (Hay House)
8. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
9. "Skinny B----" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
10. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
11. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)
12. "Run" by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
13. "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press)
14. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
15. "Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life" by Tim Russert (Miramax Books)
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Muse, Stereophonics, Prodigy for V Festival Staffordshire day two
The dance band will be going tete-a-tete with The Prodigy, world Health Organization will play a headline slot on the 4Music stage on the same site afterwards the likes of The Pigeon Detectives, The Hoosiers, Duffy and The Hold Steady.
Michael Franti and Spearhead will kick off legal proceeding on the V Stage, and will be followed by The Futureheads, and Lostprophets.
Elsewhere on the site Ian Brown is jell to headline the JJB Arena tent after performances from The Pogues, Jamie T and The Twang.
Richard Hawley will head up the Virgin Mobile Union stage, piece former Clash guitarist Mick Jones' band, , will headline the Sessions Stage.
Keep checking NME.COM for the up-to-the-minute news, pictures, videos and blogs live from V Festival all weekend.
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Saturday, 9 August 2008
Britney Spears Nominated -- By Fans -- For VMA
Britney Spears still has her fans on her side.
The vocaliser has been shortlisted by MTV voters as one of the nominees at this year's Video Music Awards (VMAs) for 'Piece of Me', it has been revealed.
The votes were cast online. Britney's is the only nominee whose name has come prohibited � the names of the other women in her category remain under wraps. Her competition, as well as contenders for Best Male Video, volition be unveiled on Pete Wentz's FN'MTV Friday night at 8 p.m.
The nomination gives the 26-year-old 15 total in her career; however, Britney has yet to score a Moon Man at the honour show.
Britney's functioning at last year's VMAs was branded the most "perplexing and vilified" in recent
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Leona Lewis Offered Million For One Gig
The Bleeding Love star has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since winning U.K. talent show The X Factor in 2006 - and can demand huge amounts of cash to perform intimate gigs for wealthy fans.
The star has been offered a £1 million personal appearance fee to play a small set for an unknown bidder, according to the Daily Mirror.
A source tells the newspaper, "Leona is one of the most sought after stars around. She has little say in the fee charges - big money sponsors literally name their fee and her management respond accordingly.
"She is adamant much of the profit goes straight back to her favourite charities."
Lewis, who has hit the top spot in both the U.K. and U.S. album charts with her debut LP Spirit, is reportedly worth £6 million - but gives most of her money away to charity organisations.
Monday, 23 June 2008
Simon and Garfunkel
Artist: Simon and Garfunkel
Genre(s):
Folk
Rock
Folk: Folk-Rock
Pop
Easy Listening
Rock: Folk-Rock
Discography:
Old Friends: Live On Stage (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel (CD 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
The Definitive Simon and Garfunk
Year: 1991
Tracks: 20
The Concert In Central Park
Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
Concert In Central Park
Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
The Simon And Garfunkel Collection
Year: 1981
Tracks: 17
Greatest Hits
Year: 1972
Tracks: 14
Bridge Over Troubled Water (remastered)
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Bookends (Remastered)
Year: 1968
Tracks: 14
Bookends
Year: 1968
Tracks: 14
The Sounds Of Silence
Year: 1966
Tracks: 15
Sounds of Silence (remastered)
Year: 1966
Tracks: 15
Sounds Of Silence
Year: 1966
Tracks: 12
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Remastered)
Year: 1966
Tracks: 14
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Year: 1966
Tracks: 14
Wednesday Morning, 3 Am
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Year: 1964
Tracks: 15
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M (Remastered)
Year: 1964
Tracks: 15
The Graduate
Year:
Tracks: 14
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel
Year:
Tracks: 33
The to the highest degree successful folk-rock duette of the 1960s, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel crafted a series of memorable hit albums and singles featuring their choirboy harmonies, ring acoustic, and electric guitars; and Simon's acute, delicately molded songwriting. The mate constantly inhabited the more than polished end of the folk-rock spectrum, and were sometimes criticized for a certain collegial sterility. Many too feel that Simon, as both a singer and songster, didn't genuinely bloom until he began his own enormously successful solo career in the seventies. But the best of S&G's work can stand among Simon's best material, and the duette did progression musically all over the course of their five-spot albums, moving from basic folk-rock productions into Latin rhythms and gospel-influenced arrangements that foreshadowed Simon's eclectic method on his solo albums.
Paul Simon & Garfunkel's recording history in reality predated their offset mid-'60s hit by most a decade. Childhood friends piece ontogeny up together in Forest Hills, NY, they began making records in 1957, playacting (and often writing their have material) in something of a adolescent Everly Brothers expressive style. Calling themselves Tom & Jerry, their first single, "Hey Schoolgirl," actually made the Top 50, merely a series of follow-ups went nowhere. The duet split up, and Simon continued to shinny to make it in the euphony business as a songster and casual performing artist, sometimes using the name calling of Jerry Landis or Tico & the Triumphs.
By the early '60s, both Simon and Garfunkel were advent under the influence of folk music. When they reteamed, it was as a tribe couple, though Simon's pop roots would serve the act considerably in their material's synthesis of family line and pop influences. Signing to Columbia, they recorded an initially unsuccessful acoustic debut (as Simon & Garfunkel, not Tom & Jerry) in 1964, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. They once more went their separate slipway, Simon moving to England, where he played the kinfolk circuit and recorded an obscure solo album.
The Simon & Garfunkel story might have over at that place, demur for a brainwave of their producer, Tom Wilson (world Health Organization likewise produced various of Bob Dylan's early albums). Folk-rock was pickings off in 1965, and Wilson, world Health Organization had helped Dylan electrify his good, took the strongest track from S&G's debut, "The Sound of Silence," and embellished it with electric guitars, bass, and drums. It got to act one in early 1966, giving the duad the impetus to reunite and make a sober go at a transcription vocation, Simon returning from the U.K. to the U.S. In 1966 and 1967, they were regular visitors to the pop charts with some of the best folk-rock of the era, including "Homeward Bound," "I Am a Rock," and "A Hazy Shade of Winter."
Simon & Garfunkel's early albums were erratic, simply they steadily improved as Simon sharpened his songwriting, and as the couple became more comfortable and adventurous in the studio. Their execution was so clean and tasteful that it price them some hipness points during the psychedelic earned run average, which was a flake wacky. They were far from the raunchiest thing going, just managed to pull off the peachy exploit of appealing to variable segments of the pop and john Rock audience -- and various years groups, not just now limited to adolescents -- without compromising their medicine. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (late 1966) was their first very consistent album; Bookends (1968), which actually blended antecedently released singles with some new real, reflected their ontogenesis maturity. One of its songs, "Mrs. Robinson," became one of the biggest singles of the late '60s afterward it was prominently featured in one of the charles Herbert Best films of the period, The Graduate (which besides had early Simon & Garfunkel songs on the soundtrack).
It was unsurprising, in retrospect, that the duo's partnership began to weaken in the late '60s. They had known each other almost of their lives, and been playacting together for over a decennium. Simon began to find constrained by the limits of working with the same henchman; Garfunkel, world Health Organization wrote virtually none of the material, felt overshadowed by the songwriting talents of Simon, though Garfunkel's high tenor was crucial to their invoke. They started to phonograph record some of their contributions singly in the studio, and hardly played live at all in 1969, as Garfunkel began to pursue an acting career.
Their last studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, was an enormous hit, topping the charts for x weeks, and containing foursome score singles (the title course, "The Boxer," "Cecilia," and "El Condor Pasa"). It was certainly their most musically ambitious, with "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and "The Boxer" employing thundering drums and tasteful orchestration, and "Cecilia" marking one of Simon's offset forays into South American rhythms. It as well caught the confused, reflective tenor of the multiplication better than about any other popular release of 1970.
That would be their last album of new material. Although they didn't necessarily mean to break up at the time, the break from recording finally became permanent; as Simon began a solo calling that brought him as a great deal success as the S&G outings, and Garfunkel chased coincidental acting and recording careers. They did reunite in 1975 for a Top Ten single, "My Little Town," and periodically performed unitedly since without ever approaching close to generating albums of new material. A 1981 concert in New York's Central Park attracted half a meg fans, and was commemorated with a live album; they likewise toured in the early '80s, only a aforethought studio album was canceled due to artistic differences.
Coldplay: 'Religious Lyrics Come from School Assemblies'
Monday, 16 June 2008
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Split between great garage rock and slow-moving menace, '...Lazarus...' begs to be listened to in halves: half of the songs when you're heading out the door for the night, the others when you get home. You can take on the world and then dive the depths afterwards.
Following on from the distortion pedal charm of last year's Grinderman side project, Cave has decided that the ringing in the ears should continue longer, and on 'Albert Goes West' and 'Lie Down Here' the equipment and eustachean tubes get some nasty treatment. At 50, he's never sounded younger.
When you've tired yourself out from headbanging to them, 'More News from Nowhere' and 'Hold on to Yourself' are so chock full of moody soundtrack ambience that you'll wonder if Cave could turn their lyrics into films.
The quality control throughout is superb and, just like with 'Nocturama' in 2003, by the close you'll be yearning for more and wishing that this had been a double album.
Harry Guerin
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
Speedy J
Artist: Speedy J
Genre(s):
House
Techno
Ambient
Discography:
Public Energy No 1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
A Shocking Hoppy
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
A Shocking Hobby
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
G Spot
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J, is a Rotterdam-based techno musician whose urbane blending of melodious electro-pop with a harder, more Detroit-fueled sharpness has been among the most highly-praised of post-rave European techno. The Dutch repp in Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin's Plus 8 judge, Paap was equally well-known as a club DJ (his nom de platter is in reference to his artistry on the cut) ahead decision making in 1997 to curtail his DJ engagements and nidus on his medicine. His 1993 debut LP, Powdered ginger, was an piquant portmanteau word of ambient textures and hard, laconic beats, and was immediately smacked with the "intelligent dance music" tag, assisted by the comprehension of a geminate of tracks on the first volume of Warp's influential (Stilted Intelligence) series. Paap has since released several follow-ups under the Speedy J byname (G-Spot, Public Energy No. 1, A Shocking Hobby) and two solo albums in an ambient series for Fax titled Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 (just re-insert the wanting vowels for a spry translation). He's besides recorded a sprinkling of material as Public Energy for Plus 8, as easily as for his possess Beam Me Up! judge before discontinuing the latter in 1996. He is cofounder of a Dutch remix net, dedicated to bringing Dutch electronic musicians in touch with one some other and nurture collaborative projects, and late to his moratorium on the DJ circuit was known for his commitment to bringing dance-based experimental electronic music to a wider audience, playing out often in improbable combinations with groups like Cypress Hill and Henry Rollins. In addition to his original recorded put to work, Paap has besides remixed tracks for Secret Cinema and Sven Väth. [See to it Also: Jochem Paap]
Monday, 2 June 2008
Eddie Murphy marries film producer
People magazine reports that the ceremony took place off Bora Bora and was attended by 25 guests.
Murphy divorced his wife of 13 years, Nicole, in 2006. The couple had five children.
Edmonds was previously married to R&B star Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds. They had two children together.
BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed
This year no celebrities will enter the 'Big Brother' house but well-known personalities will instead act as Big Brother, setting tasks and making the rules for the housemates, who are a group of talented young people, including scientists and acrobats.
The new house will feature Banksy-style stencilling and graffiti on the walls, with 12 single beds for the housemates to sleep in.
The Diary Room chair is neon purple and the bedroom walls are decorated with a British cityscape.
The garden has an intimate hot tub instead of a swimming pool and the housemates will also have access to a gym.
Dermot O'Leary is due to present the new series with Davina McCall returning to present the summer series of 'Big Brother'.
A Channel 4 statement said: "The identity of the celebs taking part remains tightly under wraps, but their aim will be simple: putting their stamp on the activities in the 'Big Brother' house and generally causing mischief."
Blake Shelton - Shelton Falls For Bubles Ipod Hit
Country star BLAKE SHELTON has girlfriend MIRANDA LAMBERT to thank for his hit cover of crooner MICHAEL BUBLE's song HOME - because she downloaded the tune on his iPod.
Fellow country singer Lambert was such a fan of Buble's 2005 track she put it on Shelton's iPod, so he could think of her when he heard the song on tour.
But he did more than that when the tune started becoming a favourite of his.
He tells America's USA Today newspaper, "The more I listened, the more I thought, 'That's not just an adult-contemporary record, that's a country hit, too.'"
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Russell Brand - Brand Bags First Radio Oscar
Russell Brand won his first Gold award at the radio industry "Oscars" last night.
Brand, who launched his Saturday late-night Radio 2 show in 2006, picked up the Entertainment Award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Meanwhile Radio 1's Chris Moyles won a Sony Gold for best Breakfast Show and Jonathan Ross on Radio 2 won the Music Radio Personality Award.
Radio 4 won UK Station of the Year, beating Radio 2, the UK's most popular station, into second place.
But Today veteran John Humphrys was pipped by Simon Mayo on Radio 5 Live to the Speech Broadcaster of the Year title.
Dermot O'Leary beat fellow Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker to the Music Programme award. Planet Rock, the radio station which is expected to close at the end of the month if it cannot find a buyer, was named Digital Station of the Year.
Queen guitarist Brian May has said he is involved in a "rescue operation" to save the GCap Media station.
Jenny Abramsky, who is stepping down as director of audio and music at the BBC to chair the Heritage Lottery Fund, won the Special Award.
British broadcaster Brian Matthew won The Gold Award for "an impressive record of more than 50 years of national and international radio broadcasting".
BBC 6 Music's George Lamb was awarded Rising Star award, beating Kelly Osbourne on Radio 1.
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Lohan's Fur Coat Fuss Goes To Court
The fur fuss swirling around Lindsay Lohan has gone legal - the actress has been slapped with a lawsuit for taking a coat without permission. Masha Markova claims the star took her $12,000 mink coat as she left a New York club at the end of a night out in January. The New York student has filed papers in Manhattan's state Supreme Court. She went public with the missing coat saga when she spotted Freaky Friday star Lohan wearing her mink in a magazine photo. She told the New York Post, "It was my coat. It was no doubt." The coat was reportedly returned to Markova in February.See Also
Nino De Angelo
Artist: Nino De Angelo
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Flieger Cd5
Year: 1989
Tracks: 3
Samuraj Cd5
Year:
Tracks: 3
Although he makes the news these years more because of his massive personal debt than his music, Nino de Angelo has had a long and successful life history in Germany as a pop singer. Born in Germany as Domenico Gerhard Gorgoglione on December 18, 1963, to Italian immigrant parents, de Angelo began his music life history in 1979 when he began tattle Elvis Presley, Adriano Celentano, and Renato Zero songs in a Persian eating house. A year later in 1980 he officially became a German citizen. Turning 17 in 1981, he signed a transcription contract with Polydor Records in Hamburg, releasing two singles under the nominate Nino before the year was up, only neither of these fared well. His third single for the pronounce appeared in 1982 under the nominate Nino de Angelo and reached heights into the German pop charts, attracting the attention of the teen magazines -- and de Angelo's run as a stripling matinee idol began. He released several singles and albums through the eighties, slowing his pace in the nineties spell he battled lymph node cancer and several financial disasters, rebounding slightly as the 21st century began, although his life history as an adult singer is silent organism shaped.
Binkey Kok Publications
Artist: Binkey Kok Publications
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
The Unique Singing Bowl
Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Alanis Morissette plans fall U.S. tour