Samantha Ronson Swaps Lindsay for Julia Roberts...for a Good Cause

Samantha Ronson may be spending about of her time making headlines with a Razzie winner, but soon she's going to be outlay at least one nox with the possessor of a more prestigious piece of hardware.

The celebrity thread maker has been tapped to get the VIP crowd primed for Oscar winner Julia Roberts and the Dave Matthews Band, wHO will be taking the stage Sept. 10 at Madison Square Garden as part of the Stand Up for a Cure's 2008 concert series.

The charity, which raises money for lung cancer research and treatment, confirmed Wednesday that Ronson would be deejaying the preshow party and Roberts has signed on to host the event.

"We are thrilled at the range of artists world Health Organization have opted to shine a light on the need for funding and awareness this year," Stand Up for a Cure founder and executive producer Jordan Belkin said.

And these were obvious choices all around: Roberts will be there to give the cause a world-class face, and no one knows more about finding a glimmer of hope where none existed before than Ronson.

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Gwen Stefani Gives Birth To Second Baby Boy

Former No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani has minded birth to her second child in Los Angeles.


Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale was born at 12.46pm (local fourth dimension) at Cedars Sinai infirmary weighing 8.5oz.


Zuma joins Stefani and married man Gavin Rossdale's first

Bernie Mac Hospitalized

Bernie Mac has been hospitalized with Pneumonia at a hospital in Chicago, merely is expected to be released before long, his publicist confirmed on Friday.

"Mr. Mac is responding well to treatment and will be released shortly," the actor's rep Danica Smith aforesaid in a statement.

The 50-year-old comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, a tissue inflamation, but his rep said his illness has been in remission since 2005 and that the Pneumonia has nothing to do with it.

"He asked that his privacy and that of his phratry is well-thought-of while he gets easily," she said.

A native of Chicago, The Oceans Thirteen star is also known for his role on the Fox show The Bernie Mac Show that ran from 2001-2006 and for which he was nominated for two Emmys and deuce Golden Globes for his performances.

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Dirty Pretty Things announce UK tour

Dirty Pretty Things have announced a new UK tour.

The band will hit the road in October, touring throughout the autumn.

The group, led by The Libertines' Carl Barat, are set to release their second album, 'Romance At Short Notice', on June 30.

They will play:

Glasgow ABC (October 4)
Edinburgh Old Picture House (5)
Manchester Academy 2 (7)
Leeds Metropolitan University (8)
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall (9)
Keele University (11)
Cambridge Junction (12)
Norwich UEA (13)
London Roundhouse (14)
Oxford Carling Academy (16)
Southampton Guildhall (18)

Tickets go on sale on Friday (June 20). To check the availability of Dirty Pretty Things tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Steve Stoll

   
Artist: Steve Stoll

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 The Blunted Boy Wonder

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 Model-T

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Producing pure, minimalist analogue-minded techno in the vein of early Plastikman and Joey Beltram (level though his life history began as a drummer with the industrial label Wax Trax), Steve Stoll has recorded for Nova Mute, Probe, DJax, Delirium, Synewave and his possess Proper NYC judge. Raised in Brooklyn, Stoll listened to hip-hop and discotheque as a child, then linked the Army straight knocked out of senior high. He served for five old age, including a period in the Gulf War when he plotted bomb runs by satellite. After being released, Stoll shifted around: he played drums for the industrial chemical group Sister Machine Gun, studied nothingness and began recording straight-edged techno for Big Apple labels like 212 Productions and Damon Wild's Synewave.


Stoll debuted for Sm:)e Recordings with the 1995 album Cardiac pacemaker. The following year brought another album, Cypher Divide (recorded as the Operator) and an EP for Nova Mute (as the Blunted Boy Wonder). After he reverted back to Steve Stoll, Damn Analog Technology followed in 1997 and The Blunted Boy Wonder one year subsequently.

Exclusive: Babyshambles Return To The Studio After Charity Gig

Babyshambles have gone straight back into the studio to record their third album just hours after playing a last minute gig in London, Gigwise can reveal.



Speaking exclusively to Gigwise, drummer Adam Ficek said that the group are in “the process of knocking our new album into shape.”



The band performed last night (June 12th) at 93 Feet East in aid of the charity Teenage Kicks, a charity that Ficek described as close to the bands hearts.



Babyshambles were a last minute addition to the line up, having just arrived home from a festival in Sweden.



“We just about had time to play through a short set of shambles classics, ending with 'Fuck forever',” Ficek said.



“It all ended up in the usual showered excitement of booze, sweat and thankfully no tears”



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All My Heroes

   
Artist: All My Heroes

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Magnolia Street

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6

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A week's worth of good music for May 23-29

--- FRIDAY --- Guitarist Anders Osborne plays at Le Bon Temps Roule. Rocking at the Maple Leaf are The Radiators plus Groovesect. Get your hipster on with Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship?, followed by My Graveyard Jaw...

Stranjah

   
Artist: Stranjah

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 31R023

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Version (VER001)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2

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Crystal Castles bring Topman NME New Noise tour to London

Crystal Castles performed a chaotic set in London tonight (May 14) as the Topman NME Noise Tour came to the capital.

The Toronto duo attracted a huge throng for their headline slot which saw singer Alice Glass, who was dressed in a black top, grey skirt and bright blue tights, writhing around the stage and throwing herself into the crowd on several occasions.

As the band arrived onstage, the fans launched a huge cluster of glowsticks into the air before the duo launched into their remix of Klaxons single 'Atlantis To Interzone'.

Shrouded in a flashing strobe light, Glass later picked up one of the lights onstage and swung it round during a rousing rendition of single 'Courtship Dating'.

During a chaotic version of crowd favourite 'Alice Practice' she also mounted a drum kit while the band went on to perform rare track 'Baptism' before closing the show with a remix of 'It Fit When I Was Kid' by Liars.

Crystal Castles played:

'Atlantis To Interzone (remix)'
'Reckless'
'Baptism'
'Crimewave'
'Air War'
'Courtship Dating'
'Alice Practice'
'Black Panther'
'It Fit When I Was A Kid (remix)'

Kicking off the evening earlier were West London gloom rockers White Lies who welcomed early revellers with new single 'Unfinished Business' and 'Death'.

Next up were Preston four-piece Team Waterpolo who performed to an energetic crowd some of whom were dressed in glow shades.

The band later played forthcoming single 'Square One', 'So Called Summer' and 'Problematic Girls'.

Friendly Fires then got the crowd dancing to the likes of 'On Board', 'Paris' and Photobook' which saw singer Ed Macfarlane smashing a cowbell.

The Topman NME New Noise Tour wraps up at Stoke Sugarmill tomorrow night (May 15).




May 15, 2008 at Sugarmill, Stoke -
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Rosie O'Donnell won't remarry until same-sex marriage legal in every US state

NEW YORK - Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is doing it. So is "Star Trek" actor George Takei. But comedian Rosie O'Donnell isn't jumping at the chance to walk down the aisle.

O'Donnell and her girlfriend, Kelli Carpenter, were married four years ago when the mayor of San Francisco allowed same-sex marriages. The California Supreme Court later declared such marriages invalid.

Now the state's highest court has ruled that denying same-sex marriages was discriminatory and many gay and lesbian couples, including DeGeneres and girlfriend Portia de Rossi and Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, are planning to tie the knot.

O'Donnell said that she and Carpenter are "going to wait until it's legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we'll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state."

"Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognizes the marriages of every other state, I think that'll be the time we would do it," the 46-year-old said.

Asked if she thought that time was near, O'Donnell replied, "Yes."

"The same way it was illegal for black and white people to marry at one point and people couldn't conceive of that ever being different, I do think that two consenting, law-abiding adults who want to share their life together should be allowed to do that," she said.

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UK file sharers arrested

Six people have become the first individuals in the UK ever to be arrested for using a file-sharing site. Five men and one woman were detained by police earlier this week in relation to the uploading of music from the now-defunct website OiNK. They were released on bail pending further enquiries.

OiNK was shut down last October following a joint venture between Cleveland Police, Interpol and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Up to 180,000 members used the site to share high quality music files via popular peer-to-peer protocol BitTorrent. Site founder Alan Ellis, 24, was arrested shortly after the site's closure on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and copyright infringement. He remains on police bail.

The site was singled out under Operation Ark Royal last year after it was discovered that users were sharing pre-released music. A statement released by the British Phonographic Industry said: "The illegal online distribution of music, particularly pre-release, is hugely damaging, and as OiNK was the biggest source for pre-releases at the time we moved to shut it down. We provided the information to assist this investigation."

In the US last year, single mother Jammie Thomas became the first individual to be successfully prosecuted by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringement. Thomas was ordered to pay $222,000 (£113,085) in damages after being found guilty of illegal file-sharing. The fine amounted to $9,250 (£4,711) for each of the 24 tracks she was prosecuted over.

However, these latest arrests are the first time British police have taken direct action against individual users of a file-sharing site. They were released on bail pending further enquiries and are due to appear in court on July 1.


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Dosh

   
Artist: Dosh

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Pure Trash

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Dosh

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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Martin Dosh was natural to an ex-Catholic non-Christian priest father and an almost-nun female parent outside Los Angeles; he and his kinsfolk touched back to his parents' native Minneapolis when he was precisely a bambino. By age three, Dosh had started piano lessons, which he continued until 11, and then pick up the drums when he was 15. The adjacent year he touched to Massachusetts to attend euphony schoolhouse, tooling around on the East Coast until he finally returned to his parents' home in 1997 when he was 25 (he had since picked up the keyboards over again). Finding the music scene there palmy, he presently started playing drums in the Andrew Broder-led Fog, as well as in their subservient offset, Lateduster. In 2003 Anticon released Dosh's self-titled debut, followed by Pure Trash, which featured vocal samples from his married woman, deuce children, and his drum students, in 2004. The Lost Take, which had contributions from Andrew Bird, Jeremy Ylvisaker of Fog, and members of colleague Minneapolitans Happy Apple and Tapes 'n Tapes, came out in 2006.





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Hollywood Productions Moving East

At least four television series that were to have been produced in Hollywood will be shot in New York instead in order to allow producers to take advantage of recently enacted local and state tax credits for shows filmed in that state, the Los Angeles Times observed today (Tuesday). The series include, Ugly Betty, Life on Mars, Fringe, and Kings.In fact so much TV and film production is suddenly moving to New York that producers are having a difficult time finding studio space there where they can be shot. Jim Sharp, an executive with 20th Century Fox Television, told the Times, "If you try and lock in a soundstage facility, there are people standing in line. You better not blink, or you're going to miss an opportunity." The exodus of shows to New York has raised concerns among Hollywood production crew workers, who already felt the effects of the writers strike in their own pocketbooks. In an interview with the Times, Steve Dayan, a Teamsters' business agent, said, "Television is really the lifeblood of the below-the-line economy in Hollywood, so if we start losing TV series to other states, then obviously it's going to create more hardship for our members."


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Johnny Vegas - Vegas Stars In Massive New Bbc Three Comedy

Johnny Vegas is to star in a new BBC Three comedy called Massive, that sees the launch of Manchester's hottest new record label – Shady Records.

The cast also includes Ralf Little of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps and The Royle Family fame and Carl Rice from Scallywagga.

Massive follows Danny and Shay as they call time on their dreary temping jobs to follow their dream and bring their music obsession to the masses.

Danny's from Didsbury (posh), Shay is from Gorton (not so posh) and they both work for the council. Bored with their lives, they're brought together by their love of music.

The series follows their attempts to get the label up and running – signing bands, losing them again, always on the lookout for the next big thing.

En route the Beeb promises they will pluck a girl band from the obscurity of Superb'uns cake shop, get sued by Eminem, get lost in the Pennines – where they find the new Oasis – and get involved in a scam involving a Macedonian prostitute called Zora who has a revolutionary way of making shish kebabs...

Massive has been written by Damian Lanigan whose music credentials go back to 1984 when his band The Twentieth Legion played the Hacienda.



14/05/2008 15:49:20

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