LATEST: Rapper PAPOOSE has blasted reports he tried to break his fiancee REMY MA out of a New York jail in order to marry her - insisting the rumours are "ridiculous".
Papoose, real name Shamele Mackie, was alleged to have attempted to smuggle in a handcuff key last week (ends11May08) to free Remy Ma from incarceration at Rikers Island prison - where she was awaiting sentencing for her part in a July (07) shooting.
The couple was reportedly due to wed at the jail on Monday (12May08), but, according to the New York Daily News, the ceremony was called off as a result of Mackie's break-out attempt.
However, while Mackie admits that he did have a small key on his person when he went to visit his beau, he claims it was never his intention to use it to try and break Remy free.
He tells MTV.com, "That whole claim and that rumour is ridiculous. Ever since she's been incarcerated, I've been going to visit her consistently. I've always had my key chain that has the key to my truck, my crib...
"This particular time, this one dude, I guess he had a bad day or something. One C.O. (correction officer) looked at it like, 'You can't bring this in here.'
"It was a small key. I honestly don't think the s**t could open handcuffs. (Sneak it to Remy) on Rikers Island? What are you gonna do with that? For me to give her a handcuff key, that's ridiculous. They put in the papers (that) I was trying to help her escape and all that. If that was true, I would have been arrested."
Mackie had the key confiscated before he was allowed into the visiting room, and, despite his protestations, the prison warden subsequently banned him from visiting Remy Ma until November (08).
Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years behind bars on Tuesday (13May08), after she was found guilty of shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph outside a New York club last summer (07).
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Catastrophic
Artist: Catastrophic
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Cleansing
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Guitarist Trevor Peres was known in the tardy '80s and early '90s for his cultivate with Florida death metal heroes Obituary. Along with Death, Morbid Angel, and others, Peres and Obituary practically outlined a musical apparent motion marked by its extreme riffing and cartoonish imaging centering on all things obscure, evilness, and bloody. The ring released several identical successful records for Roadrunner Records, beginning with 1989's Slowly We Rot and continuing through most of the '90s. After 6 releases, Obituary had black market its line, and Peres went on to var. his have ring that would admit him to pursue a somewhat different musical management. Peres formed Catastrophic shortly later, with Brian Hobbie (bass), Keith DeVito (vocals) Chris Basile (guitars), and Rob Maresca on drums. The grouping recorded demos and made several appearances at significant U.S. metal events (care the Milwaukee Metalfest) before signing with Metal Blade Records in the summertime of 2000. The group's debut, The Cleansing, was then released in 2001 to broadly safe reviews. Combining something of a New York hard-core formidability to their well-bred death alloy, Catastrophic bad a effectual that spell not completely unique, at least compares favorably with the many similar artists competing for a share of the twenty-first c extreme metal market.
Sony/ATV inks deals in Latin genre
Elvis Crespo, David Cabrera among artists
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed four worldwide co-publishing agreements with songwriters and producers in a wide range of Latin genres.
The signings include Juan Jose Hernandez, author of Gilberto Santa Rosa's hit "Conteo Regresivo," as well as songs recorded by Elvis Crespo and El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. Also newly signed to Sony/ATV is David Cabrera, Ricky Martin's lead guitar player and musical director, who produced the artist's "Black & White Tour" DVD.
Biingual songwriter, producer and engineer Baltazar Hinojosa has worked with Ximena Sarinana and Luis Fonsi, among others. Sony/ATV signee Arthur Hanlon is an instrumental artist whose "La Gorda Linda" topped Billboard's tropical songs chart and whose upcoming album on Universal Music Latin Entertainment includes duets with Ricardo Montaner, Sergio Vallin (of Mana), Fonsi and Alexandre Pires.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed four worldwide co-publishing agreements with songwriters and producers in a wide range of Latin genres.
The signings include Juan Jose Hernandez, author of Gilberto Santa Rosa's hit "Conteo Regresivo," as well as songs recorded by Elvis Crespo and El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. Also newly signed to Sony/ATV is David Cabrera, Ricky Martin's lead guitar player and musical director, who produced the artist's "Black & White Tour" DVD.
Biingual songwriter, producer and engineer Baltazar Hinojosa has worked with Ximena Sarinana and Luis Fonsi, among others. Sony/ATV signee Arthur Hanlon is an instrumental artist whose "La Gorda Linda" topped Billboard's tropical songs chart and whose upcoming album on Universal Music Latin Entertainment includes duets with Ricardo Montaner, Sergio Vallin (of Mana), Fonsi and Alexandre Pires.
Carl Newman preps Pornographers, solo material
CLEVELAND -- With stateside touring winding down for the New
Pornographers' latest effort, "Challengers," principal member Carl
Newman said he's already looking ahead.
"I think the next Pornographers record will be fairly rock," Newman
said. "I think with 'Challengers,' we moved as far in this
direction as we can go, unless we turn into M. Ward or something.
The songs I find myself writing these days are a little bit more
rock, but that's as far as I can say."
Newman, who said he hopes to have demos ready for band consumption
by the end of the year for a possible 2009 street date, also said
he's writing material for a solo album, which in a perfect world
would be released in the fall. As far as what differentiates a solo
song from a New Pornographers song, that answer isn't
clear-cut.
"That's the confusing part," Newman said. "In a lot of ways they're
similar, but in a lot of obvious ways, they're not similar. The
Pornographers have all of these different people in the band and
different voices, which makes a big difference. On my own records,
I'm kind of left to my own devices. That can be both good and
bad."
The New Pornographers, who are scheduled to perform Monday and
Tuesday in Washington, D.C., have a Pacific Rim tour booked for
Australia and Japan later this year. Newman said the band's current
set, which includes a cover of the Electric Light Orchestra's
"Don't Bring Me Down," is a career retrospective, while showcasing
"Challengers" material in a new light.
Pornographers' latest effort, "Challengers," principal member Carl
Newman said he's already looking ahead.
"I think the next Pornographers record will be fairly rock," Newman
said. "I think with 'Challengers,' we moved as far in this
direction as we can go, unless we turn into M. Ward or something.
The songs I find myself writing these days are a little bit more
rock, but that's as far as I can say."
Newman, who said he hopes to have demos ready for band consumption
by the end of the year for a possible 2009 street date, also said
he's writing material for a solo album, which in a perfect world
would be released in the fall. As far as what differentiates a solo
song from a New Pornographers song, that answer isn't
clear-cut.
"That's the confusing part," Newman said. "In a lot of ways they're
similar, but in a lot of obvious ways, they're not similar. The
Pornographers have all of these different people in the band and
different voices, which makes a big difference. On my own records,
I'm kind of left to my own devices. That can be both good and
bad."
The New Pornographers, who are scheduled to perform Monday and
Tuesday in Washington, D.C., have a Pacific Rim tour booked for
Australia and Japan later this year. Newman said the band's current
set, which includes a cover of the Electric Light Orchestra's
"Don't Bring Me Down," is a career retrospective, while showcasing
"Challengers" material in a new light.
Lee Ryan denies assault charges
Former Blue star Lee Ryan has appeared in court today, pleading not guilty to an assault charge.
The 24-year-old singer has denied attacking a taxi driver following a minor traffic accident in Oxted on New Year's Eve.
Ryan has been ordered to reappear at Redhill Magistrates' Court in Surrey for trial on 7 May.
The 24-year-old singer has denied attacking a taxi driver following a minor traffic accident in Oxted on New Year's Eve.
Ryan has been ordered to reappear at Redhill Magistrates' Court in Surrey for trial on 7 May.
Jonny Greenwood
Artist: Jonny Greenwood
Genre(s):
Reggae
Discography:
Ether BBC
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Although most people's initial musical exposure to Jonny Greenwood came via his staggeringly ill-shapen guitar crunches on Radiohead's breakthrough single "Creep," Greenwood (non to be bemused with his older brother/bass-playing bandmate Colin Greenwood) could be more than fittingly described as Radiohead's jack of all trades -- a multi-instrumentalist world Health Organization is as comfy playing marimba, sampler, or keyboards (to name just a few) as his unambiguously angular guitar lines. Along with Thom Yorke's inimitable vocals, Jonny Greenwood's spacious array of unconventional sonic textures helped to define Radiohead's typical sound and force the boundaries of their euphony into strange and by all odds non-rock directions.
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood was born on November 5, 1971, in Oxford, England. Along with his brother Colin, Greenwood attended Abingdon School good Oxford; it was here that the old Colin first-class honours degree came into contact with class fellow Thom Yorke. Before longsighted, the duo was performing euphony together in a project dubbed TNT. Guitarist Ed O'Brien and drummer Phil Selway were before long admitted into the sheep pen, and the new band adopted the byname On a Friday (in point of reference to the day of the calendar week they would routinely have together and practice). Jonny Greenwood, wHO was a duo of years jr. than the early little Joe, repeatedly asked to dally with the grouping; he was finally invited to play harmonica with On a Friday at a 1987 gig at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. This proved to be his installation into the lot; he later took over keyboard duties for the chemical group earlier finally switch into the role of lead guitar player.
However, On a Friday was placed on an extended hiatus when the four old members went cancelled to college in the fall of 1987. A couple of old age later, Greenwood himself went on to study music at Oxford. By the summer of 1991, though, his bandmates had gradational from college and reunited the group, prompting him to entrust school (subsequently only a year) so that he could commit to On a Friday on a full-time ground.
The reformed quintette cursorily got to influence, recording and cathartic a series of demo tapes and gigging steady in the sphere. It wasn't long earlier the major labels came knocking, and On a Friday soon had a record plow with EMI. Their modern mark quickly pointed out (non unjustly) that the band's diagnose was slightly unmanageable; the band concurred, and Radiohead was selected as their new name, taken from the title of a Talking Heads sung.
In previous 1992, Radiohead exploded in America with their unmarried "Creep"; featuring Greenwood's jarringly percussive, softened guitar bursts (which queerly provided the song's hook), "Weirdo" was widely embraced by MTV and alternative wireless, wHO order the song into sonorous rotation. Although follow-up singles from their album Pablo Honey were released, Radiohead could not escape the one-hit wonder stigma until the release of The Bends in 1995. An awful artistic leap over their kickoff record album, The Bends contained plenty of Jonny Greenwood guitar pyrotechnics ("Just," "My Iron Lung"), only besides revealed an assured, mature side of the mathematical group that was previously unknown ("Street Spirit," "Juke Plastic Trees").
Round this clock time, Greenwood's physically aggressive style of performing guitar began to take a toll on his right radiocarpal joint. To relieve the pain and deter the onrush of carpal bone tunnel syndrome, he was fitted with a radiocarpal joint brace to put up support to the joint. The pair soon became a trademark of sorts for Greenwood, and he continued to wear it out of subroutine long afterward the quick menace of wound was departed.
After The Bends, Greenwood began to show signs that he was maturation uninventive with using the guitar as his primary means of expression. Said the guitarist, "There's only 12 power chords, and I think we've had about 20 years of them, so peradventure it's time to go on." Greenwood took this view so far as to (half-jokingly) matter a cue to on-line Radiohead fans, request them to send him any interesting chord progressions that they could devise.
Notwithstanding, when Radiohead released the massively successful OK Computer in 1997, the guitar knead was taken to new high. Beginning immediately with the opening unkeyed "Airbag" riff, Greenwood redefined what a guitar could good like, whether it was the distant, chiming gull-cries of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" (which succeeds admirably in its attempt to recreate Miles Davis' Bitches Brew trumpet tone) or the digital meltdown near the end of "Paranoid Android."
On the ensuing North American term of enlistment, withal, Greenwood's dissatisfaction with playing strictly guitar-oriented music reached its zenith -- a tone that was carried all over into the recording studio following the tour's culmination. The release of Kid A in 2000 and its counterpart Amnesiac the following year clear reflected this; Radiohead's trademark guitars had vanished from all just a handful of their songs, replaced or else with layers of synthesizers, keyboards, and samplers. And although Radiohead's 2003 release, Hail to the Thief, featured more than guitars than either of the group's previous deuce albums, Jonny Greenwood's debut solo album, Bodysong (released afterward that year), was a mostly guitarless social occasion, proving once once more that Greenwood motivation non be shackled to the confines of the electric guitar to compose original, remindful music.
Various Artists, Andy Votel presents...Brazilika
Beckinsale talks about cat rescue drama
Actress Kate Beckinsale has revealed that her pet cat caught fire from a candle at her home as she was getting ready for the Screen Actors Guild Awards last weekend.
The actress said that the cat was now fine but explained that she had got a fright when she saw that he had caught fire.
Beckinsale said: "Our cat, Clive, caught fire on a candle. As I was getting ready, there was a 'whoosh', like a fireball, and he went up like a rocket."
She continued: "He's fine. He had no idea what had happened to him."
The actress said that the cat was now fine but explained that she had got a fright when she saw that he had caught fire.
Beckinsale said: "Our cat, Clive, caught fire on a candle. As I was getting ready, there was a 'whoosh', like a fireball, and he went up like a rocket."
She continued: "He's fine. He had no idea what had happened to him."
Paramore plots summer 'Riot' dates
Indie rockers Paramore [ tickets ] will mount a summer headlining trek following the conclusion of the band's current dates as part of the Vans Warped Tour [ tickets ].The outing, dubbed "The Final Riot!"--alluding to the title of the band's most recent studio album--kicks off July 28 in Reno, NV, following the completion of Paramore's Warped Tour duties and upcoming European trek, as well as a few festival dates in July.Labelmates Phantom Planet, along with alt-rockers Jack's Mannequin and Paper Route, will appear on several of the tour's stops. The full schedule is below; more information on support acts and overseas dates is posted at Paramore's official website."Riot!," Paramore's sophomore set on the Fueled by Ramen label, debuted at No. 20 on The Billboard 200 last June, eventually peaking at No. 15. The album's first single, "Misery Business," rose to No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 last summer, and scored heavy play on MTV.Fueled By Ramen re-released "Riot!" as an interactive-video special-edition last fall. The set features bonus tracks, live performances and karaoke versions of "Misery Business" and another of the album's singles, "Crushcrushcrush."
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