BLONDIE
After a solo fling last year with her “Necessary Evil” CD, Deborah Harry returns to her more familiar post leading Blondie, which is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its landmark release, “Parallel Lines,” by performing the entire album. Tonight at the Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis, 508-775-6630; tomorrow at South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset, 781-383-9850.
CUTE IS WHAT WE AIM FOR
The band name says it all. Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Middle East, Cambridge, 617-884-EAST.
ESKI ESKO
Pronounced ex-ee ex-oh, this local progressive six-piece (the new incarnation of what was previously called On Fire) marks the release of a new CD, “I Am Your Bastard Wings.” Caspian, Hooray For Earth and Taxpayer also perform. Tomorrow at the Paradise, 617-562-8800.
LUCY KAPLANSKY
A one-time singing partner of Shawn Colvin, Kaplansky’s charm lies in her calming, girlish vocal qualities and compelling interpersonal insights gleaned from her experience as a psychologist. Tonight at Club Passim, Cambridge, 617-492-7679.
LYRES
The Boston garage legends return. Tonight at the Middle East, Cambridge, 617-864-EAST.
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND/CLARE AND THE REASONS
Shara Worden’s disarming blend of classical styles with scratchy guitar and bits of electronica makes My Brightest Diamond a one-of-a-kind musical experience. Local bluesman Geoff Muldaur’s daughter Clare and her Brooklyn-based band, the Reasons, fill the opening slot with close harmonies and old-timey flair.
Tonight at Berklee Performance Center, 617-747-2261.
STEVIE NICKS
Maybe, as reported, the Fleetwood Mac songstress hasn’t changed her set list since last summer, but count on Nicks to switch shawls every so often. Sunday at Bank of America Pavilion, 617-728-1600.
PHIL LESH AND FRIENDS/LEVON HELM
Monday, 30 June 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Don Henley
Artist: Don Henley
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
An Eagle Out East
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
The End Of Innocence
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
I Can't Stand Still
Year: 1982
Tracks: 11
Inside Job
Year:
Tracks: 13
Out of all of the Eagles, Don Henley had the most successful solo life history. After the chemical group broke up in 1982, Henley released his first solo album, I Can't Stand Still. Although it wasn't as successful as an Eagles book, the album performed respectably, launch the number ternion single "Unsporting Laundry" and exit gold. Building the Perfect Beast followed two old age by and by and naturalized Henley as a solo star topology in his have right. Featuring the Top Ten hits "Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants to Do Is Dance," as well as the Top 40 singles "Not Enough Love in the World" and "Sunset Grill," the album sold over two meg copies and stayed on the charts for over a year. Henley's third gear album, 1989's The End of the Innocence, was his most ambitious record book still, as well as his near commercially successful. The album sold over three meg copies and stayed on the charts for near triad eld, launching the strike singles "The End of the Innocence," "Heart of the Matter," "New York Minute," "How Bad Do You Want It?," and "The Last Worthless Evening." Henley reunited with the Eagles in 1994, embarking on a general tour of duty. The mathematical group released a live album culled from an appearance on MTV Unplugged called Blaze Freezes Over; the track record too featured a handful of new studio apartment tracks. Blaze Freezes Over was a major success, selling over 5 jillion copies by the summer of 1995. However, the mathematical group decided not to pursue whatever more projects together and Henley continued working on his fourth solo record album, at last issued in mid-2000 under the title Inside Job.
Monday, 16 June 2008
Motel Connection
Artist: Motel Connection
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Soundtrack
Discography:
Do I Have a Life?
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
My Darkside
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Santa Maradona Ost
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
P Samuel-Krakatoa Torino
Year:
Tracks: 1
Andata e Ritorno (cd2)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Andata e Ritorno (cd1)
Year:
Tracks: 11
Motel Connection are an Italian electronica and house jazz band from Torino, formed in 2000 by DJ Pisti and Subsonica's singer and bassist, Samuel Romano and Pierpaolo "Pierfunk" Peretti Griva. Motel Connection effectively kicked off their life history when director Marco Ponti asked them to compose the music for his 2001 make film Santa Maradona. The following year they released their number one album, Give Me a Good Reason to Wake Up, featuring eight-spot remixes from the film's soundtrack addition deuce fresh tracks, all sung in English. Among these was the arrive at single "Two," whose tV received all-encompassing airplay during 2002-2003. After a new soundtrack for some other Ponti film, 2004's A/R Andata + Ritorno, Motel Connection's irregular album appeared in 2006, under the title Do I Have a Life?
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Hutch Parker named chairman of New Regency
Will work with current chairman, CEO Robert Harper
Hutch Parker is leaving his post of vice chairman of Twentieth Century Fox to become chairman of New Regency alongside current Regency chairman and CEO Robert Harper.
Parker had been vice chairman of Fox since 2007, prior to which he was president. He joined the company in 1995 and oversaw the roll out of such hits as the "X-Men" trilogy, "Night at the Museum," "Borat," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Dodgeball," among others.
Regency is hoping Parker will help take company to "new heights," which among other things will mean the creation of a bankable franchise. Regency, a production and finance company owned by Arnon Milchan in which Fox has a stake in, has had its share of hits in the form of the recent "What Happens in Vegas" as well as "Alvin and the Chipmunks" and the monster smash "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," but it has yet to master the art of the movie series. It's latest attempt, "Jumper," didn't get gain much height at the box office.
Amongst its upcoming releases are "Marley & Me," the adaptation of the best-selling novel starring Owen Wilson; "Mirrors," starring Kiefer Sutherland and directed by Alex Aja; and "Meet Dave," starring Eddie Murphy.
Parker will also be running the company's TV development and production as well as other media-related ventures. Shows Regency has produced include "Malcolm in the Middle" and "New Amsterdam."
Parker's move to Regency reunites him with a Fox co-hort, as Harper held the position of vice chairman at Fox Filmed Entertainment from 2004 to 2007.
There has always been a lot of cross-pollination between the two companies, with the latest move occurring last week when Sanford Panitch, who was president of filmed entertainment at New Regency, walked across the lot to head up newly formed Fox International Productions.
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Sienna Miller and Rhys Ifans take a “break”
Sienna Miller and Rhys Ifans have reportedly decided to “take a break”.
Miller is said to be struggling with the prospect of settling down, while Ifans doesn’t like the fact the actress going out on the town alone.
And tensions grew between the pair when Sienna was moved to tears over a picture of her ex-lover, Jude Law, kissing Rod Stewart’s daughter, Kimberly, and Rhys’ attempts to make her smile backfired terribly.
A source said: “Sienna and Rhys have been rowing a lot lately.
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Jailed American Idol star pregnant - report
It has been reported that former 'American Idol' star Jessica Sierra is expecting a baby in jail.
MTV News reports that the website TMZ.com quoted sources as saying that Sierra is on a pregnancy diet in the infirmary at Falkenburg Road Jail in Tampa, Florida.
Sierra was arrested on 2 December outside a bar near Tampa and is facing charges of disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and violating parole.
The 22-year-old was the 10th place finalist on the fourth season of 'American Idol' in 2005.
MTV News reports that the website TMZ.com quoted sources as saying that Sierra is on a pregnancy diet in the infirmary at Falkenburg Road Jail in Tampa, Florida.
Sierra was arrested on 2 December outside a bar near Tampa and is facing charges of disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and violating parole.
The 22-year-old was the 10th place finalist on the fourth season of 'American Idol' in 2005.
AFTRA sends deal to members
SAG steps up the fight
AFTRA's national committee on Friday "overwhelmingly" voted in favor of the tentative primetime/TV agreement reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers last month. The contract now goes to its 70,000 members for ratification.
Earlier in the day, SAG leaders voted to try to torpedo that ratification vote, with its national executive board agreeing by a narrow margin to spend an initial $150,000 on a campaign to encourage dual card members to vote down the tentative AFTRA deal.
The SAG vote was taken during an in-person and video conference meeting with SAG's national executive board. One source put the vote at 13 in favor, 10 opposed.
SAG and AFTRA share 44,000 members, and SAG is looking to those members to vote against the AFTRA contract. Results are expected to be announced on or about July 7.
SAG's vote comes after president Alan Rosenberg and national executive director Doug Allen sent AFTRA a letter Thursday asking it to delay the member ratification vote. AFTRA refused.
"It has become clear over recent days of bargaining that the prospect of an immediate ratification vote on the proposed AFTRA Exhibit A contract is distracting the industry from seriously engaging on SAG's proposals and has the unfortunate prospect of interfering with SAG's ability to exercise its leverage for the benefit of all actors, members of either or both of our unions," the letter stated.
In response, AFTRA president Roberta Reardon and national executive director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth told SAG "in our view, delaying this process would not be in the best interest of our members. Nor do we believe there is anything about AFTRA's ratification process that would 'distract' either SAG or the industry from good faith negotiations or in any way be 'interfering' with the guild's negotiations with the AMPTP."
Sources say AFTRA board members were furious over SAG's letter, calling it "blackmail." They are also angry about their sister actor union's push to get members to vote down the AFTRA contract.
Sources close to SAG said the vote over the fight against AFTRA was divided between the West Coast members who are part of the "Membership First" faction, which received the majority, and East Coast members.
Said one member who attended the meeting: "Basically, it was all the Membership First people rabidly embracing this idea and the others opposing it, as predicted."
Asked about the campaign to sway AFTRA voters, Allen said: "We will be communicating the results of (our) analysis to our membership and will be educating SAG members about the impact of the AFTRA deal on our negotiations and on our effort to secure the best possible contract for actors."
SAG plans to hold a "solidarity rally" on Monday morning at its Wilshire Boulevard headquarters in Los Angeles. Susan Savage, a SAG board member and member of Membership First, has described it as an anti-AFTRA contract rally.
In an e-mail on Thursday, Savage encouraged members to vote down the AFTRA contract and also inferred that Tom Hanks and George Clooney had phoned Rosenberg to tell them that they supported SAG's position.
Hanks and Clooney denied the claim. A SAG spokesperson said Savage has since apologized for not being clear in her message, noting that Savage meant to say that Hanks and Clooney are in support of SAG's overall negotiations, not the anti-AFTRA contract initiative.
For 27 years, SAG and AFTRA had jointly negotiated the primetime/TV portion of their performers contract. But AFTRA voted to suspend the agreement and bargain on its own after more than a year of locking horns with SAG leaders over various issues.
AFTRA reached its tentative deal on May 28. SAG is in negotiations with the AMPTP; its deal expires June 30.
AFTRA's agreement includes a bump in actor rates over three years, jurisdiction over new media and retaining, for now, consent over the use of clips in new media for nonpromotional use.
In an open letter Friday to members, AFTRA negotiating committee member David Basche wrote the union "won a great contract," including a 10% increase in minimums over the contract term that was "far greater than the AMPTP wanted to agree to and were achieved only because we did not back down and stayed focused, calm and strong on the members' behalf."
"I think it's damn good, more than expected," he wrote, "and some of these increases are the first in almost a decade: Hard won and well deserved."
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New Sondheim Musical Finally Opening This Fall, Directed by John Doyle
Photo: Getty Images
Playbill is reporting that casting notices have appeared for Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's looonnnng-delayed musical Bounce, which is now scheduled to open at the Public Theater in October. The musical, about turn-of-the-century confidence men the Mizner brothers, has a checkered development history; Sondheim started working on it in 1996, and since then it's gone through two workshops, a legal battle with Scott Rudin, a roadblock from Roger Berlind, several different leading men, two different directors (Sam Mendes and Hal Prince), three titles (previously, Wise Guys and Gold!), and a modestly received premiere at the Goodman in Chicago. Nonetheless, a new Sondheim show in New York is always worth cheering about, especially when directed by the new king of Sondheim, John Doyle, whose revivals of Sweeney Todd and Company set the bar pretty high. We're officially excited!
Sondheim and Weidman's Bounce Will Bow at Public Theater This Fall [Playbill]
Playbill is reporting that casting notices have appeared for Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's looonnnng-delayed musical Bounce, which is now scheduled to open at the Public Theater in October. The musical, about turn-of-the-century confidence men the Mizner brothers, has a checkered development history; Sondheim started working on it in 1996, and since then it's gone through two workshops, a legal battle with Scott Rudin, a roadblock from Roger Berlind, several different leading men, two different directors (Sam Mendes and Hal Prince), three titles (previously, Wise Guys and Gold!), and a modestly received premiere at the Goodman in Chicago. Nonetheless, a new Sondheim show in New York is always worth cheering about, especially when directed by the new king of Sondheim, John Doyle, whose revivals of Sweeney Todd and Company set the bar pretty high. We're officially excited!
Sondheim and Weidman's Bounce Will Bow at Public Theater This Fall [Playbill]
Gillian Anderson Expecting Third Child
Gillian Anderson is pregnant with her third child.
The former X-Files actress, 39, and her longterm boyfriend Mark Griffiths already have a 20-month-old son, named Oscar, together.
Anderson also has teenage daughter Piper, 13, from her first marriage to Clyde Klotz, who was an assistant art director on the hit sci-fi programme, reports People.
The former X-Files actress, 39, and her longterm boyfriend Mark Griffiths already have a 20-month-old son, named Oscar, together.
Anderson also has teenage daughter Piper, 13, from her first marriage to Clyde Klotz, who was an assistant art director on the hit sci-fi programme, reports People.
Hub jitterbuggers find '30s-inspired dance craze in full swing
You won’t find the music touted as the next big thing. Yet around Boston, the swing inspired by Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman is still doing what it did back in the ’30s and ’40s when it was America’s sound: keeping the dance floors packed.
Today those floors are mostly in church halls, not swanky ballrooms. And swing dance die-hards who grew up with the music have been joined by new generations of spiffily dressed lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers who are as likely to have Bellevue Cadillac pouring through their earbuds as Gnarls Barkley. Like their elders back in the day, these new swing fans are drawn to both the music and the scene.
“There’s nothing better than dancing with a 20-year-old and then dancing with a 70-year-old,” said 30-something Mary Ann Hill of Back Bay, who goes to at least one swing dance event every week. “Where else can you do that?”
Hill and other swing enthusiasts find the action in spots such as St. James Armenian Hall in Watertown, St. Mary’s Orthodox Church in Cambridge and the Swing City event at Dormition Greek Orthodox Church in Somerville.
At those events, live bands often lead the party. Dance lessons are offered beforehand.
“The music is fabulous,” Hill said. “It’s nothing you can turn on the radio and hear.”
Olaf Bleck recently took over Swing City’s Friday-night tradition from founder Dan Mezrich, who had run the weekly event since 1994. At first glance, Bleck is an unlikely successor, being best known as founder of SalsaBoston Entertainment, which hosts salsa events around town.
“As a salsa promoter, I thought they were different but similar,” he said. “What it really boils down to is that when people discover partner dancing they get hooked. Young people get sucked into the whirlpool of partner dancing once they find out how interactive and social it is. Both swing dancing and salsa have that. It’s just fun.”
“I’ve been swing dancing for about two and a half years and I’m loving it,” Hill said. “Rarely do you have different generations coming together like this and having a fun time. I’ve never experienced that anywhere else in my life.”
The Compaq Big Band at Swing City, Friday at 9 at Dormition Greek Orthodox Church, 29 Central St., Somerville. Lessons at 7:30. Tickets: $15; 617-513-9841. Rocco & the Stompers at Boston Swing Central, June 13 at 9 at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, 8 Inman St., Cambridge. Lessons at 8. Tickets: $12; bostonswingcoop.org. The Blue Suede Bopper, June 14 at 9 at St. James Armenian Church, 465 Mount Auburn St., Watertown. Lessons at 8. Tickets: $15;bostonswingdance.com.
Today those floors are mostly in church halls, not swanky ballrooms. And swing dance die-hards who grew up with the music have been joined by new generations of spiffily dressed lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers who are as likely to have Bellevue Cadillac pouring through their earbuds as Gnarls Barkley. Like their elders back in the day, these new swing fans are drawn to both the music and the scene.
“There’s nothing better than dancing with a 20-year-old and then dancing with a 70-year-old,” said 30-something Mary Ann Hill of Back Bay, who goes to at least one swing dance event every week. “Where else can you do that?”
Hill and other swing enthusiasts find the action in spots such as St. James Armenian Hall in Watertown, St. Mary’s Orthodox Church in Cambridge and the Swing City event at Dormition Greek Orthodox Church in Somerville.
At those events, live bands often lead the party. Dance lessons are offered beforehand.
“The music is fabulous,” Hill said. “It’s nothing you can turn on the radio and hear.”
Olaf Bleck recently took over Swing City’s Friday-night tradition from founder Dan Mezrich, who had run the weekly event since 1994. At first glance, Bleck is an unlikely successor, being best known as founder of SalsaBoston Entertainment, which hosts salsa events around town.
“As a salsa promoter, I thought they were different but similar,” he said. “What it really boils down to is that when people discover partner dancing they get hooked. Young people get sucked into the whirlpool of partner dancing once they find out how interactive and social it is. Both swing dancing and salsa have that. It’s just fun.”
“I’ve been swing dancing for about two and a half years and I’m loving it,” Hill said. “Rarely do you have different generations coming together like this and having a fun time. I’ve never experienced that anywhere else in my life.”
The Compaq Big Band at Swing City, Friday at 9 at Dormition Greek Orthodox Church, 29 Central St., Somerville. Lessons at 7:30. Tickets: $15; 617-513-9841. Rocco & the Stompers at Boston Swing Central, June 13 at 9 at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, 8 Inman St., Cambridge. Lessons at 8. Tickets: $12; bostonswingcoop.org. The Blue Suede Bopper, June 14 at 9 at St. James Armenian Church, 465 Mount Auburn St., Watertown. Lessons at 8. Tickets: $15;bostonswingdance.com.
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