Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson will release her debut album 'Anywhere I Lay My Head' this summer.
The 23-year-old star of 'Match Point' and 'Lost in Translation' spent five weeks recording the album, which features 10 covers of Tom Waits songs and one original track.
Johansson recorded the album at Dockside Studios in Louisiana with producer David Sitek.
The album also features collaborations with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zimmer.
A US release date has been pencilled in for 20 May, while an Irish release date has yet to be confirmed.
This is not Johansson's first foray into music. The star has previously appeared in Justin Timberlake's video for 'What Goes Around', while last year she sang onstage with The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Coachella Festival in the US.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Doctor Who makes his debut at the Proms
Doctor Who makes his debut at the Proms
The Tardis volition ca-ca its debut at the Royal Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Hall this summer when the BBC stages a Doctor WHO prom in an attack to draw new audiences. Roger Frank Lloyd Wright, the restrainer of BBC Radio receiver 3 and the festival's fresh manager, denied the effect represented "dumbing pour down". He said it was "very much in the Proms mildew".
The concert on 27 July, presented by Freema Agyeman, wHO played the Timelord's supporter Martha Jones, is 1 of a series designed to advance more diverse attendance. The subject for the evening is time and space, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Aaron Copland's Flourish for the Green Human, "Jove" from Gustav Holst's The Planets and Richard Wagner's "Sit of the Valkyries", as well as Gilbert Murray Gold's theme from Dr. World Health Organization. In a nod to contemporary music, the evening also includes the UK premier of The Torino Ordered series by Mark Anthony Turnage.This year's season, from 18 July to 13 September, will also feature Nigel President John F. Kennedy, returning for the first time in 21 long time on 19 July. He will make for Elgar's Fiddle Concerto, the ferment that established his reputation, and will reunite with Vernon Handley, world Health Organization conducted the master copy recording.Tributes will besides be paid to Ralph Sarah Vaughan Roger Williams on the 50th day of remembrance of his death, with a concert devoted to him on 26 Aug. In a twist to the Last Night, his Sea Songs will be played rather of the Fantasia on British people Sea-Songs by the Proms flop, Sir Patrick Henry Natalie Wood.The festival will also mark the centennial of the birth of the French composer Laurence Olivier Messiaen with a series of organ recitals.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Feist is winner of Shortlist Prize
Feist is winner of Shortlist Prize
Canadian singer-songwriter Feist has won the 2007 Shortlist Pillage in the US for her album 'The Reminder'.
Hoarding reports that the judgement control panel for the prestigious award included Nose candy Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Cat Power's 'The Greatest' was the victor last yr; previous winners include TV on the Radio, Damien Rice, NERD and Sigur Ros.
Show the review of 'The Reminder' here.
My Robot Friend
Artist: My Robot Friend
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Dial 0
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Hot Action and Remixes
Year:
Tracks: 22
 
Steppenwolf
Artist: Steppenwolf
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock
Other
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Born to Be Wild: A Retrospective (CD 2)
Year: 1991
Tracks: 17
Born to Be Wild: A Retrospective (CD 1)
Year: 1991
Tracks: 17
16 Greatest Hits
Year: 1990
Tracks: 16
Skullduggery
Year: 1976
Tracks: 8
Hour Of The Wolf
Year: 1975
Tracks: 8
For Ladies Only
Year: 1971
Tracks: 10
Steppenwolf Seven
Year: 1970
Tracks: 9
Steppenwolf 7
Year: 1970
Tracks: 9
Live
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Monster
Year: 1969
Tracks: 7
Early Steppenwolf
Year: 1969
Tracks: 6
At Your Birthday Party
Year: 1969
Tracks: 13
The Second
Year: 1968
Tracks: 12
Steppenwolf
Year: 1968
Tracks: 11
Light-emitting diode by St. John the Apostle Kay (natural Joseph Joachim Krauledat, Apr 12, 1944), Steppenwolf's blatant biker hymn "Max Born to Be Wild" roared come out of the closet of speakers everyplace in the fiery summertime of 1968, Lav Kay's letting down rasping sounding a soporific telephone in to coat of arms to the counterculture bm speedily sprouting up nationwide. German immigrant Kay got his master set out in a bluesy Toronto band called Hedge sparrow, transcription for Capital of South Carolina in 1966. After True sparrow disbanded, Kay resettled to the Westward Glide and formed Steppenwolf, named later on the Woody Herman Hesse novel. "Max Born to Be Wilderness," their third 1 on ABC-Dunhill, was immortalized on the soundtrack of Dennis Hopper's tube cinema classic Well-heeled Rider. The song's mention to "heavy metal thunder" last gave an assignable call to an rebellion genre. Steppenwolf's second giant slay that year, the psychedelic "Deception Carpet Drive," and the follow-ups "Isidor Feinstein Stone Me," "Move Over," and "Hey Lawdy Ma" further effected the band's credibility on the hard-rock racing circuit. By the betimes '70s, Steppenwolf ran out of steam and disbanded. Kay continued to platter solo, as other members plaza together ersatz versions of the streak for touring purposes. During the mid 80s Kay re-formed his own version of Steppenwolf, scrape extinct his hits (and approximately new songs) at oldies shows. All the same, they'll be remembered for generations to hail for creating one of the ultimate gas'n'go rock anthems of whole time.
"King of the B's" gets A-list treatment
"King of the B's" gets A-list treatment
Cannes, France (Hollywood Newsman) - The man wHO brought more top-drawer directors and bottom-of-the-barrel schlock to Hollywood than anyone will be profiled in the documentary film feature "King of the B's: The Freelance Life of Roger Corman."
Stay 'N Pit Prods. will finance and create Alex Stapleton's docu examining the impact of Corman, wHO over 5 decades has directed to a greater extent than 50 films and produced close to 400.
The docu testament front at how Corman has influenced the diligence through and through films like 1960's "The Little Buy at of Horrors" and the auteurs, including Martin Scorsese, he has mentored. Films wish Alexandre Aja's upcoming remake "Marauder three-D" proceed his bequest.
Stapleton, wHO produced Spike TV and Canal Plus' docu "Just for Kicks," will make his feature directorial debut with "Baron."
Reuters/Hollywood Newsman
Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request
Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request
Eyes like Katie Holmes, the sultry pout of Angelina Jolie and a consistency like Jessica Biel ar the looks nearly plastic surgery patients in Beverly Hills desire, according to a fresh survey.
The particular attributes of the iII actresses topped the list of the annual 'Hollywood's Hottest Looks' review by the Beverly Hills Constitute of Aesthetic and Reconstructive Operation.
According to doctors Richard Fleming and Toby jug Mayer, their clients ask for plastic operating room not to look exactly like a specific lead, simply to replicate a distinct feature of speech of various celebrity faces and bodies.
The most requested look-alike female nose was that of 'Grey's Anatomy' star Katherine Heigl, spell Brits actress Keira Knightley was tops in the cheek section, and Paris Hilton had the to the highest degree sought-after skin.
The features most desired by men were Leonardo da Vinci DiCaprio's nose, soccer player Saint David Beckham's torso and the blue eyes of the latest James Bond thespian, Daniel Craig. George Clooney's cheeks and Mat Damon's lips as well got peak charge.
Dr Fleming said: "Our patients continue to turn to Hollywood to raise their standard of beaut. Our patients need to look rested, energetic and, to the highest degree of whole, youthful like the celebrities they see in glossy magazines."
Madonna to tour
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