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Jennifer Aniston Stalks Alec Baldwin

2008-09-10T18:25:00.001-07:00

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Girl next door, Jennifer Aniston is preparing for her latest role as a stalker on US comedy series 30 Rock.

The Friends star's theatrical role, Claire Harper is the former roommate Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) who arrives in New York and stalks Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin).

Jennifer is returning to the small screen later on guest coming into court on Courtney Cox�s show Dirt, as Courtney�s equal and tribade interest.

In an interview with People, co-star Fey said: "Jennifer is not just incredibly adorable to have around, she also has what the young citizenry would call 'mad skills'. We're very excited that she's connexion us."

Ex-John Mayer will no doubt, be hoping the actress doesn�t take her stalking office too seriously.

Aniston set to return to TV

2008-09-01T18:03:00.001-07:00

Jennifer Aniston is reportedly set to return to TV.

The actress - world Health Organization shot to fame stellar as Rachel Green in hit US TV show 'Friends' from 1994 to 2004 - is aforesaid to be in talks to come along in a high-profile demonstrate on US TV network NBC, which broadcasted 'Friends'.

A source told America's OK! magazine: "Jennifer is in talks to have a guest place on peerless of their high-profile shows. The top choice is '30 Rock', but if that doesn't work taboo, they'll try to get hold another bear witness for her to make an appearance on."

A representative for NBC refused to confirm the reports.

Since 'Friends' finished, Jennifer has starred in a variety of movies including 'The Break-Up' and 'Along Came Polly'.

She also made a cameo appearance on former 'Friends' castmate and close sidekick Courteney Cox's magazine based TV drama 'Dirt' in 2007.

Jennifer is not the only actress making a move back to the small screen.

Katie Holmes - who starred as Joey Potter in 'Dawson's Creek' from 1998 to 2003 - toilet soon be seen playing an attorney in legal drama 'Eli Stone'.

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Loud Technologies Chairman and CEO Jamie Engen to Step Down; Rodney Olson Named as Engen's Successor

2008-08-22T18:04:00.001-07:00

WOODINVILLE, Wash., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The board of
directors of Loud Technologies, (Nasdaq: LTEC), a leading professional
audio and music products company, today announced that Jamie Engen is
stepping down from his position as chair and chief executive military officer
effective immediately. The table has named Rodney Olson as the company's
Chairman and CEO.

"Over the yesteryear ten days, Jamie has played a critical office in growing
Loud Technologies into the industry leader that it is today. We appreciate
his contributions and wish him the c. H. Best," said Tom Taylor, the board member
who light-emitting diode the search for Engen's successor. "We are rosy to receive a
potent successor to take o'er the reins and preserve our increase efforts."

Olson joins Loud Technologies later on a decade with Cardinal Brands, a
Kansas-based $170 million office products company, where he has served as
CFO, president and, most lately, CEO for the past two long time. Under
Olson's leadership, the company's revenues grew 30 percentage despite highly
competitive securities industry conditions. Prior to his time at Cardinal Brands, Olson
served as CFO at Sabreliner Corporation, a $250 million air company,
where he lED the company's M&A natural process and was integral in driving taxation
and market share growth in the six years he was there.

"Rodney has a proven track record of success all over his 20 years of
experience in executive positions, and the board is confident he has the
skills and expertise needful to hint Loud Technologies into the future,"
said Taylor. "His focus will be on integrating our recent acquisition of
Martin Audio, while also overseeing sales and marketing to aid Loud
Technologies and our dealer partners drive our stable of well established
brands."

About LOUD Technologies Inc.

LOUD Technologies Inc. ( hypertext transfer protocol://www.loudtechinc.com ) is one of the world's
largest manufacturers and distributors of professional audio and music
products. As the corporate parent for world-recognized brands including
Alvarez, Ampeg, Crate, EAW, Knilling, Mackie, Martin Audio, SIA and TAPCO,
LOUD Technologies produces and distributes a wide range of digital
recording products, loudspeakers, commercial audio systems, audio and euphony
software, guitars, guitar and bass amplifiers, and orchestral string
instruments. LOUD Technologies' brands can be establish in professional and
project recording studios, video and broadcast suites, post-production
facilities, sound strengthener applications including churches and
nightclubs, and retail locations and on major melodic tours.

Forward-Looking Statements

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statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. The words "believe," "expect," "foresee," "intend," "will"
and similar expressions ar examples of words that identify advanced
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anticipated achiever of our management initiatives in drive future
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on information currently available to us. These forward-looking statements
may be affected by the risks and uncertainties associated with our line
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Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2005. We do not assume, and expressly disclaim, whatever obligation
to update these forward-looking statements to conform them to actual
results or changes in the Company's expectations.

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I-Kyong Sin

2008-08-12T18:04:00.001-07:00

Artist: I-Kyong Sin

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Forest In The Rain

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

Machine Head

Sheen Denies 'Child Abuse' Slur

2008-08-06T18:16:00.001-07:00

Actor Charlie Sheen has furiously denied a "queasy" allegation from his ex Denise Richards that he molested their two young daughters. Richards' lawyer Neal Hersh called an emergency hearing in Los Angeles last hebdomad to reappraisal "serious issues" in the actor's rest home that it was aforesaid could be damaging to the couple's kids. The New York Post's rumormonger column PageSix has now reported that Richards had made an allegation of child abuse. According to the publication, Richards screened videos of their children Sam and Lola during the auditory modality apparently

The Soul Seekerz

2008-06-30T08:42:00.001-07:00

Artist: The Soul Seekerz

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Perfection

Year: 2005
Tracks: 6

The White Buffalo

The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed

2008-06-30T07:04:00.001-07:00

Artist: The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

The Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed 1969

Year: 1974
Tracks: 9

The Verve - No Mud At Glastonbury As Festivalgoers Arrive

Martin Barre

2008-06-30T01:47:00.001-07:00

Artist: Martin Barre

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Stage Left

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

As the spark advance guitar player for Jethro Tull, Martin Barre has been joined at the hip to Ian Anderson since 1969, when he replaced Mick Abrahams in the group's lineup. His playing has provided practically of the energy that allows the band to soar on record and in concert amid the knockout of Anderson's melodies and the complexity of his lyrics, and played no small persona in portion the stager band (some would say "dinosaur") make headway the 1988 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Album for Crest of a Knave. Anderson himself has been quoted as locution, "Without Martin Barre, Jethro Tull could not be."

Barre's solo run was confined to his home studio until he assembled a band to play some charity gigs in the early 1990s. Since then, he has recorded a partner off of albums that allow him to stretch stunned in directions that Tull unremarkably doesn't license, and to put his instrument into new sounds, genres, and musical contexts.

Miley Cyrus's Hannah Montana Hit Gets Mae Shi Remix

2008-06-30T01:46:00.001-07:00

The Mae Shi have covered 'See You Again' – a song made famous by US teenage actress Miley Cyrus.

The song, which is not expected to get an official release, was originally released on the soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical, which stars Cyrus.

The Mae Shi are currently touring the US but are due to arrive in the United Kingdom later this summer.

In addition to their own headline dates, the band will also play the Day at the Races Festival and Standon Calling.

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LiveDaily Sessions Podcast: Langhorne Slim

2008-06-30T01:44:00.001-07:00

Born Sean Scolnick in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Langhorne Slim [ tickets ] coupled his hometown's name with his lanky build to create his catchy stage moniker. Since graduating from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, Slim has focused on his career as a folk singer/songwriter, putting in tour time with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Cake and The Violent Femmes, among others, and landing a slot at Tennessee's Bonnaroo Festival.Backed by the War Eagles--Paul Defiglia on bass and Malachi DeLorenzo on drums--Langhorne Slim signed with Kemado Records and released his full-length, self-titled debut in late April. The trio is currently in the middle of an extensive North American tour that wraps in mid-September with a two-night set at the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Bristol, Tennessee.

Sean Finn, David Moore

2008-06-30T01:42:00.001-07:00

Artist: Sean Finn, David Moore

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Jet Set

Year: 2004
Tracks: 7

Klostertaler

2008-06-30T01:41:00.001-07:00

Artist: Klostertaler

   Genre(s):
Folk

Discography:

Rock'N'Roll Muass Sei

Year: 2007
Tracks: 14

Etta James

2008-06-30T01:40:00.001-07:00

Artist: Etta James

   Genre(s):
Blues
   R&B: Soul

Discography:


Let's Roll

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 12


Burning Down The House

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 12


Blue Gardenia

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 13


At Last!

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 14


Life, Love and the Blues

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 12


Live From San Fransciso

   Year: 1994
Tracks: 8


Matriarch of the Blues

   Year:
Tracks: 12


Come a Little Closer

   Year:
Tracks: 12


Blues To The Bone

   Year:
Tracks: 12


Big Blues Collection Vol.2

   Year:
Tracks: 12

Few R&B singers have endured tragical travails on the massive storey that Etta James has and remain on earth to talk or so it. The lady's no shrinkage violet; her autobiography, Rage to Survive, describes her past (including legion do drugs addictions) in sordid item.

Only her personal problems have rarely moved her tattle. James has hung in there from the eld of R&B and doo wop in the mid-'50s through soul's late-'60s prime and right up into the '90s and 2000s (where her 1994 disc Mystery story Lady paid loving jazz-based tribute to i of her idols, Billie Holiday). Etta James' voice has deepened o'er the years, coarsened more than than a little, simply still conveys noteworthy passion and pain.

Jamesetta Hawkins was a baby gospel singing prodigy, telling in her Los Angeles Baptist church choir (and over the wireless) when she was only five days old under the care of Professor James Earle Hines. She affected to San Francisco in 1950, shortly teaming with deuce other girls to form a vocalizing radical. When she was 14, bandleader Johnny Otis gave the trio an audition. He in particular dug their answer birdsong to Hank Ballard & the Midnighters' "Work With Me Annie."

Against her mother's wishes, the young vocaliser embarked for L.A. to record "Roll With Me Henry" with the Otis ring and vocaliser Richard Berry in 1954 for Modern Records. Otis upside-down her number one name to devise her stage handle and dubbed her vocal radical the Peaches (besides Etta's sobriquet). "Roll With Me Henry," renamed "The Wallflower" when some radiocommunication programmers objected to the original title's connotations, topped the R&B charts in 1955.

The Peaches dropped from the tree short thenceforth, but Etta James kept on vocalizing for Modern end-to-end lots of the tenner (ofttimes under the supervising of saxophonist Maxwell Davis). "Good Rockin' Daddy" besides did rather well for her afterwards in 1955, simply worth follow-ups such as "Cleaning woman" and "Bad Lover" (the latter a fiery cradle cut in New Orleans with Lee Allen on adolphe Sax) failed to catch on.

James II landed at Chicago's Chess Records in 1960, signing with their Argo subsidiary. Immediately, her transcription calling kicked into heights appurtenance; non only if did a mate of duets with her then-boyfriend (Moonglows lead singer Harvey Fuqua) chart, her have sides (outset with the tortured lay "All I Could Do Was Cry") chased each other up the R&B lists as comfortably. Leonard Chess viewed James as a classy lay isaac Bashevis Singer with pop crossover potential drop, financial support her with lush violin orchestrations for 1961's pleasant-tasting "At Last" and "Trust in Me." But James' rougher slope wasn't forsaken -- the gospel-charged "Something's Got a Hold on Me" in 1962, a kinetic 1963 unrecorded LP (Etta James Rocks the House) cut at Nashville's New Era Club, and a blues-soaked 1966 pas de deux with childhood sidekick Sugar Pie De Santo, "In the Basement," ensured that.

Although Chess hosted its have killer house band, James traveled to Rick Hall's Fame studios in Muscle Shoals in 1967 and emerged with one of her all-time classics. "State Mama" was a searing slice of eudaimonia Southern soul that contrasted markedly with some other standout from the same roger Huntington Sessions, the spine-chilling ballad "I'd Rather Go Blind." Despite the death of Leonard Chess, Etta James remained at the label into 1975, experimenting toward the end with a more than rock-based advance.

Thither were some mighty lean days, both personally and professionally, for Miss Peaches. But she got back on track recording-wise in 1988 with a set for Island, Seven-spot Year Itch, that reaffirmed her Southern soul supremacy. Her following albums have been a varied lot -- 1990's Relieved to My Guns was contemporaneous in the extreme; 1992's Jerry Wexler-produced The Right Time, for Elektra, was glibly soulful, and her almost other '90s outings birth explored jazz directions. In 1998, she as well issued a vacation record album, Etta James Christmas. She was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and in 2003 received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. That year also sawing machine the release of her Let's Roll album, followed in 2004 by a CD of raw blues performances, Blues to the Bone, both on RCA Records. James then shifted gears and released an album of pop standards, All the Way, on RCA in 2006.

In concert, Etta James is a impudent, no-holds-barred performer whose suggestive stage antics sometimes edge on the repugnant. She's paid her dues many times over as an R&B and soul initiate; long may she bear on to shock the naive.

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Jolie-Pitt Foundation donates $1 million to Iraqi children affected by war

2008-06-30T01:38:00.001-07:00

LOS ANGELES - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means limited to their own.

The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict says the couple has donated $1 million to help children affected by the war in Iraq.

The organization will distribute the donation, made through the couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to four organizations working on behalf of children who have lost parents, homes and schools in Iraq.

Children in the United States who have lost parents in the conflict will also benefit.

"These educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to help them heal," Jolie says in a written statement from Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which she co-chairs.

Pitt adds in the statement: "We hope to encourage others to give to these great organizations."

The money will be divided between the Armed Services YMCA Operation Hero Program, which provides military children with counselling and educational support; Women for Women International, which will provide books, school supplies and other basic necessities to Iraqi women and children; the International Rescue Committee, which will repair three schools and offer classes for more than 2,500 students; and NineMillion.org, which will give school uniforms and learning materials to more than 2,000 displaced Iraqi kids.

Last year, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation gave more than $300,000 to support the International Rescue Committee's relief program for Darfur refugees.

Jolie, who's expecting twins, has said the babies are due in August. She and Pitt have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

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On the Net:

Education Partnership for Children of Conflict: http://educationpartnership.org

International Rescue Committee: www.theirc.org

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Brooke Shields - Shields Defends Celebrity Kids Looking For Fame

2008-06-30T01:36:00.001-07:00

Actress BROOKE SHIELDS has vowed to support her kids if they choose to pursue a career in the spotlight - because she would be a hypocrite to stand in their way.

Shields has two daughters - Rowan Frances, five, and Grier Hammond, two - with her TV-writer husband Chris Henchy.

And she admits she won't deny her children their dreams of superstardom, since her own career as a model began as an infant - but insists they must make time for their studies.

She says, "I'm going to try to protect them. I also can't be such a hypocrite. Both their parents are in the entertainment industry, so I can't completely deny them... If they want to do it, I can't deny them. They just have to have an education."

Shields was the youngest fashion model to appear on the cover of fashion magazine Vogue at the age of 14 in 1980. Later that year, she rocked the media with controversy over her infamous sexually-charged print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans.

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