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Friday, 27 June 2008

Chris Mills

Artist: Chris Mills

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

L.I.V.E.

Year: 2004
Tracks: 1

Americana singer/songwriter Chris Mills was born an Army brat, disbursement his formative days surviving in both the U.S. and Germany; as a stripling he settled in southerly Illinois, where he was open to the groundbreaking ceremony guerrilla land good of local heroes Uncle Tupelo. While in high schooling, Mills too fronted a pep pill alloy band, only in the long time to fall out his music took an more and more rootsy turn; upon signing to Chicago indie Sugar Free, he issued his debut EP Nobody's Favorite in 1997, followed in early 1998 by the full-length Every Night Fight for Your Life. Kiss It Goodbye arrived in mid-2000.

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

ABC's remake of Life on Mars destined to crash and burn

MARS ATTACKS: Bashing ABC�s version of Life On Mars, the hit BBC time-travel police drama, is getting to be like self-abuse for me � I know it�s probably wrong and definitely far from productive, but it�s a nice stress release and I probably can�t stop myself now, can I?

And right on cue comes a story on the U.K. Guardian�s film and TV blog judging the show by its apparently-scrapped pilot � the one they made before original producer and showrunner David E. Kelley dropped out and the setting was changed from Los Angeles to New York in the �70s. James Donaghy, the paper�s TV writer, calls it �pretty damn bad.� Particular disapproval is reserved for Jason O�Mara, the Irish actor who took the role of Sam Tyler -- played by John Simm in the BBC original.

Donaghy calls O�Mara �an identikit beefcake of no notable ability,� whose initial response to discovering that a car accident has rewound him back to 1972 is �as cliched as his blandly rugged mug. He shouts, he barges, his eyes pop. It's all quite tiresome.�

Neither does he have much in the way of praise for Rachel Lefevre, who plays the love interest role of Annie Cartwright� a fellow police detective in the U.S. reworking who is based on a lowly Women�s Police Constable played memorably by Liz White in the original. She�s a �swimwear model with a police badge who appears to have wandered into the building by mistake,� and she and O�Mara share a �flatlining sexual chemistry.� So far, so not good.

Apparently, the only good choice made by the show�s original producers was casting Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt, a role made memorable � frankly, it was the best thing about the show � by Philip Glenister in the BBC original. Any actor would relish the bombastic leeway Glenister carved out for Gene Hunt, and Meaney is certainly up for the challenge, but according to Donaghy, the Hunt role in the ABC version is �criminally underwritten ... he feels like an afterthought. He needs to be rewritten with the understanding that he, not Sam, is the most important character in the show and that it lives or dies on his success. It is remarkable that the producers don't seem to have grasped this.� At this point, if this thing makes it to air, I�ll perform all of ABBA�s Arrival album in a jumpsuit and blonde wig.

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Friday, 13 June 2008

HFA en Espanol Debuts Online

NEW YORK, May 29 -- The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), a
leading U.S. music rights licensing organization, has added a Spanish
language section to its website, http://www.harryfox.com/espanol. HFA en Espanol
has answers to frequently asked questions regarding HFA and music
licensing, along with a direct email, esp@harryfox.com, which goes directly
to the company's Latin Licensing agents.

"HFA is aware of the significant demand for Spanish language recordings
in the U.S., and we have a dedicated team of licensing agents for the Latin
market who are fluent in Spanish and are ready to assist labels and
publishers with their mechanical licensing needs," said Gary Churgin,
President & CEO, HFA. "We will continue to develop our specific Spanish
language service as needed to best serve this market."

According to RIAA reports, almost 7% of CDs shipped in the U.S. in 2007
were in the Latin music genre, defined as having 51% of material in
Spanish. Mechanical licenses are required under U.S. Copyright Law if one
wants to duplicate and distribute a recording of a song that is owned by
someone else. U.S. mechanical licenses are also required for recordings
made abroad and imported into the country. Through proper licensing, the
publisher, and ultimately, the songwriter, are compensated for the use of
their work.

About HFA

Established in 1927 by the National Music Publishers' Association, HFA
represents over 35,000 music publishers for their licensing needs in the
United States, issuing licenses and collecting and distributing the
associated royalties. In addition to being the premier mechanical licensing
agent in the U.S., which includes CDs, ringtones, digital downloads,
interactive streams, limited downloads and more, HFA is dedicated to
finding new ways for its affiliates publishers to recognize value for their
catalogs, including lyrics and tablature. Further, HFA provides collection
and monitoring services to its publisher clients for music distributed and
sold in over 95 territories around the world. For more information about
HFA, or to become an affiliate publisher or a licensee, see
http://www.harryfox.com.

Songfile(R) is a registered trademark of The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. All
rights reserved.

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Saturday, 7 June 2008

SumOne

Artist: SumOne

   Genre(s):
Jungle

Discography:

Sprengstoff (SPRENGSTOFF010)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 4

Murdarah Freak Out Hush

Year: 2005
Tracks: 3

Makaveli

Monday, 2 June 2008

Anuna and The Ulster Orchestra

Artist: Anuna and The Ulster Orchestra

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Behind The Closed Eye

Year: 1997
Tracks: 13

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Classmates give hero's welcome to Cannes winners

PARIS (Reuters) - Flush with glory but shrugging off stardom for now, the teenage actors who triumphed at the Cannes film festival came back to school on Monday to a hero's welcome.

The amateur cast of classroom drama "Entre les Murs" (The Class), crowded the stage in Cannes when their film won the top award on Sunday, sharing the limelight with the likes of Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Catherine Deneuve.

After an overnight bus from the French Riviera, they arrived back to their inner city school on the fringes of Paris on Monday afternoon to be mobbed by schoolmates and reporters.

"I'm so excited, there are so many people. It's bizarre," said young actor Franck Keita as he stepped off the coach to huge cheers and applause.

Teachers and students waved from classroom windows as a crush of television crews and balloon-carrying fans temporarily blocked the busy street where the documentary-style film about life in a tough Paris school was shot last summer.

"We knew there would be a prize when (the judges) asked the students to stay for the awards ceremony, but no one expected the Palme d'Or," said school principal Jean-Claude Defaux, who applauded the film for its realism.

It was the first time a French film had won Cannes' coveted top prize in 21 years, and came at a time when the problems in the country's often crowded classrooms have been highlighted by massive teacher and student protests.

Hailed as an insider's look at France's difficult "priority education zones", or ZEP, the film touches on many of the issues shaking modern French society, including immigration, ethnic integration and scholastic under-achievement.