The Bamboos

   
Artist: The Bamboos

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 Rawville [VINYL]

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12

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Movie stars clash in Hollywood union brawl

Movie stars accustomed to polite rivalry for coveted film roles and Oscar glory are taking sides in an increasingly bitter labour dispute between Hollywood's two actors unions.

The larger and more militant Screen Actors Guild this week enlisted such high-profile members as Jack Nicholson, Ben Stiller and Nick Nolte in its campaign to scuttle a contract negotiated by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Other A-list performers, including Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin and Sally Field - who won an Oscar for her role as a sweatshop union organiser in Norma Rae - sided last week with AFTRA in publicly urging that union's 70,000 members to ratify the labor pact.

The dispute is ratcheting up tensions in Hollywood over the possibility of actors walking off the job this summer, just as the film and TV industry is still recovering from a 14-week writers strike that ended in February.

SAG leaders say AFTRA's tentative labor deal, covering work on prime-time television, is fatally flawed and undercuts SAG's position in its own contract talks with the studios on a broader TV and motion pictures contract.

Both contracts expire on June 30, though SAG leaders say they are prepared to negotiate past that deadline if necessary to get a deal.

Meanwhile, they are going all out to persuade some 40,000 of SAG's 140,000 members who belong to both unions to vote "no" on the proposed AFTRA settlement, and have suggested the two unions could reunite afterward to bargain jointly.

UNION SPLIT

The two had bargained together for nearly three decades, but AFTRA decided to go its own way earlier this year after long-simmering tensions with SAG reached a boiling point.

AFTRA leaders maintain they have negotiated the best deal possible, one they say improves on contracts obtained earlier this year by Hollywood directors and striking screenwriters, and they vow not to go back to the bargaining table with SAG under any circumstances.

The studios, and some union members, have accused SAG leaders of dragging their feet in talks while campaigning to defeat the AFTRA deal, which requires a simple majority of ballots returned by July 8 to win ratification.

An AFTRA spokeswoman said union leaders are "very confident about the merits of the deal."

But they have cast the consequences of a defeat in the most dire terms, saying rejection would likely lead to a strike as SAG seeks to press demands that are otherwise beyond reach.

SAG has argued just the opposite.

"The SAG national negotiating committee knows that a 'no' vote makes a strike less likely because it shows that all actors want a better deal," SAG said in a full-page ad printed on Wednesday in the industry's two leading trade publications, Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

SAG plans to run similar ads on Thursday, along with the names of 67 members urging a "no vote."

The vote-no campaign also has included recorded telephone messages to dual union members from Ed Asner and Sandra Oh, a mass mailing and video messages posted on SAG's website from Martin Sheen, Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen.

AFTRA, in turn, has collected more than 600 signatures on a petition urging ratification of the deal.





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Wings

   
Artist: Wings

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 London Town

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 16


   
 Wings Over America Cd 2

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 13


   
 Wings Over America Cd 1

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 15


   
 [1977] Wings Over America (live)

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 28


   
 Wings At The Speed Of Sound

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 14


   
 Venus and Mars

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 16


   
 Wings Wild Life

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 13

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Tony-winner Patti LuPone working on memoir

Canton

   
Artist: Canton

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Ambientmix

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 1

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Gescom

   
Artist: Gescom

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Iss-Sa (EP)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 5


   
 [SKA010THIS] 12 inch

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 4


   
 [SKA010THAT] 12 inch

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 4


   
 This [single]

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 3


   
 That [single]

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 4


   
 Motor [single]

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Keynell 12 inch

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Key Nell [single]

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Key Nell (Autechre Remixes) [single]

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 2


   
 Key Nell (Autechre Remixes) 12

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 2


   
 The Sounds of Machines our Parents Used [single]

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3


   
 The Sounds of Machines Our Parents Used

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3


   
 Gescom 2 EP [single]

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 2


   
 Motor 12 inch

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4


   
 Gescom EP [single]

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4


   
 Gescom E.P. 12 inch

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4

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Shrouded in conjecture and just a bitty bit of dear merriment, Gescom is the more than dancefloor-friendly identity of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, aka Autechre. The bulk of the pair's Gescom material (save for an EP a patch on "future casimir Funk" label Clear and David Moufang's Source pronounce, as intimately as a mail-order-only 12-inch offered to members of the group's fanclub) has been issued through the Manchester-based experimental techno label Skam, owned and operated by occasional collaborationist Andy Maddocks. Focusing on the more than uptempo tendencies of Autechre paired with a harder, rougher, more driving rhythmic edge, Gescom material cadaver committed to the more than adventuresome side of electro/techno even as it gives DJs a bit more backbeat to turn with. The group hit a bit of ill fame (apart, of course, from the thick-and-thin dedication of Ae trainspotters) when a path ("Mag") from their second Skam dozen was included on South London breakbeat virtuosos Coldcut's famous Journeys by DJ mix academic term. The first-class honours degree Gescom full-length, MiniDisc, appeared in 1998. Silence then felled seam upon Gescom releases until 2003 when the Iss Sa EP came out the same day as the Autechre full length Draft 7.30 [See Also: Autechre]

Kuti, Fela Ransome and Nigeria 7

   
Artist: Kuti, Fela Ransome and Nigeria 7

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 The '69 Los Angeles Sessions

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Carl Barat nervous about solo Glastonbury show

Carl Barat is starting to feel a little bit nervous before his Sunday evening (June 29) solo show.

The Dirty Pretty Things man revealed it's the first time he's even gone alone before.

Speaking to NME.com Barat said: "I'm absolutely petrified - I've never done a solo show before."

He added that he hasn't chosen the songs he'll be playing yet.

Barat said: "I guess I should just play songs that I like. I'm not sure what - I'd better get rehearsing!"

Keep up with all the action from Glastonbury this weekend (June 27-29) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Glastonbury Festival page. Plus make sure you get next week's issue of NME � on UK newsstands from July 2 � for the ultimate Glastonbury review.

Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan

   
Artist: Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Trouble in Mind

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 12

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Michaela McManus of 'One Tree Hill' joining 'Law & Order: SVU'

LOS ANGELES - Michaela McManus, who played book editor Lindsey on "One Tree Hill," is joining "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as an assistant district attorney.

McManus, who follows Diane Neal in the prosecutor's role, joins a cast headed by Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni, series creator Dick Wolf announced Tuesday.

The show is part of NBC's "Law & Order" family.

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NBC is owned by General Electric Co.

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On the Net:

http://www.nbc.com/Law-&-Order:-Special-Victims-Unit/

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Gin Blossoms

   
Artist: Gin Blossoms

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Major Lodge Victory

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Outside Looking in

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 New Miserable Experience

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


   
 Congratulations I'm Sorry

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 13


   
 Dusted

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 12


   
 Up and Crumbling

   Year:    
Tracks: 5

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Alternative magnate popsters Gin Blossoms were formed in 1987 in Tempe, AZ, by longtime friends Bill Leen (bass) and Doug Hopkins (guitar), with an initial batting order besides featuring vocalist Jesse Valenzuela, guitarist Richard Taylor, and drummer Chris McCann. The following year power saw several personnel office shifts as the band struggled to solidify -- McCann was replaced by Dan Henzerling and, shortly thenceforth, Phillip Rhodes, while Taylor was laid-off and replaced by guitar player Robin Wilson. Wilson and Valenzuela after switched roles, and the band recorded a self-released record album, Dusted, in 1989. A&M signed them the next year.


Later an telling 1991 debut EP, Up & Crumbling, the Gin Blossoms rocketed out of the college pop charts and into the mainstream with their 1993 hit unmarried "Hey Jealousy." Combining the vibrancy guitar hooks of the Byrds and R.E.M. with a square, rootsy drive, the band's breakthrough full-length album, Modern Miserable Experience (which had actually been released the old year), was filled with songs equally as impregnable as "Hey Jealousy," including the sec strike single, "Establish Out About You." New Miserable Experience and its singles henpecked radio and MTV for the following year -- "Hey Jealousy" and "Establish Out About You," both penned by Hopkins, were in lumbering radiocommunication rotation nigh a year subsequently their initial sack -- pushing the sales of their debut album to over one billion copies.


However, all was non intimately. Hopkins' struggle with alcoholism and depression had taken its toll on the band during the sessions for New Miserable Experience, and he was laid-off shortly subsequently the record's release, with guitar player Scott Johnson pickings his station. Speculation abounded as to whether the band would be capable to wield their success without Hopkins' black bile songwriting voice. Tragically, on December 5, 1993, Hopkins stroke and killed himself, regular as the songs he had scripted were blanketing the airwaves.


In the summertime of 1995, the Gin Blossoms contributed "'Till I Hear It from You," a song they co-wrote with Marshall Crenshaw, to the soundtrack of the plastic film Empire Records. "'Till I Hear It from You" became a major radiocommunication hit, merely was never released as an official individual until it was the B-side of "Follow You Down," the showtime undivided from the group's second record album, Congratulations...I'm Sorry. Upon its release in February of 1996, Praise...I'm Sorry charted well, merely inside sixer months, it had disappeared from the charts. Following the encouraging circuit, the Gin Blossoms disbanded in 1997.


Queerly sufficiency, the group reunited sans Rhodes on New Years Eve of 2001 for a concert. Deciding to arrange themselves back together for a spell, the band hit the road a few months later in the summertime of 2002 and released a alive DVD that fall to prepare audiences for a new album, Dusted, which was followed little Joe eld later with Major Lodge Victory.

Edna

   
Artist: Edna

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Veranero

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3

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