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WIN BUTLER: There is no
pretense, no artifice, but an unadorned immediacy
Photo:
Win
Butler and Arcade Fire.
Win Butler looks away when
he talks -- up and to the side, about 45 degrees, his eyes
glassy and his tone reflective. When he finishes a thought,
he turns and looks straight ahead, his face blank, and he
waits. There is no pretense, no artifice, but an unadorned
immediacy. It's disconcerting at first, until realizing it's
just his way. It's real. A tad serious, but tangible, and
honest. Somewhere in there is a 25-year-old man who, with a
little help from his friends, has made one of the most
urgent, emotional and inspiring rock records in recent
memory. What a year. Just 14 months ago, nobody knew
the Arcade Fire. Not David Bowie, not David Byrne, Coldplay
or U2. A mere 14 months later, Butler, Regine Chassagne and
their band have all but conquered the world. They are indie
rock royalty, having performed alongside their icons (Bowie
and Byrne), toured the world, appeared in most major music
publications, and garnered an ever-growing following.
Funeral has already sold
224,000 copies in the U.S. and 70,000 in Canada, according
to Nielsen SoundScan -- impressive numbers for an
independent debut album. Last week -- as the Arcade Fire
prepared to play the final three shows for its Funeral
album, all opening for U2 (Friday in Ottawa, today and
Monday in Montreal) -- Butler sat in a cafe and, with
distracted serenity, put things in perspective. "It
probably seems like more of a jump from the outside than
inside," he said of the group's skyrocketing success. "We
had never made a record before. There was no rule, as far
as we knew, about how it's supposed to work.
"Everything that happens, you just figure out how you feel
about it, and try and learn from it. It's the type of
things you spend your energy worrying about that change,
according to the situation. It feels like we're on one
path, trying to think about what we're doing and not get
caught up in the whole thing." It's a very Montreal
approach -- taking everything in stride, being unfazed by
hype and, of course, doing art for art's sake. The Texan
Butler has found his place, here -- starting a band,
marrying Chassagne and, most recently, buying property.
The Arcade Fire purchased an old church, about an hour
outside of Montreal ("real estate is shockingly cheap out
there"), which they are converting into a studio. Winter
projects include getting the studio up and running, and
beginning to record music for a new album. "It would have
been very easy to end up on the road for another year
behind (Funeral)," Butler said, "Which I think would have
been a huge mistake. Even though, from a promotional
standpoint, it would have been the smart thing to do,
there wouldn't have been any more records to make, because
we would have been done. "Touring is such a tricky thing.
It's so exhausting, but so great. To have the opportunity
to see the world this year has been something we never
could have predicted. It was amazing. We got to go to
Brazil, Japan, Europe several times. Even though at the
end, you start to never want to leave home again." With a
few exceptions, the band has put an end to all interviews
and other promotional hullaballoo. Butler said even now
it's often difficult to reflect on the group's successes
over the past year. "It's very hard mentally when you're
trying to move on and do other stuff, to go back," he
said. "We're doing some year-end interviews with
magazines. I don't mind it, but it's hard to be always
thinking about what happened over the past year, or to
think about yourself as promoting your record. We might
come across as standoffish, but it's really just about
trying to survive." In a moment of either generosity or
masochism, Butler indulged a question about the highlights
of the past year, though he went back a bit further, to
September 2004, when Funeral was released. "Finishing the
record, getting the final product, was the most exciting
thing. It was such a big project. We worked so hard on it.
To have it be done was so rewarding," he said. "The first
time we played with David Byrne in New York was really
special, but the last shows in Montreal (in April at the
Corona Theatre) were really great, too ... I don't know,
there are too many things." Byrne joined them on stage
last November for a rendition of Talking Heads' This Must
Be the Place (Naive Melody) -- a song, fittingly, about
home. "It was like meeting some professor who's an expert
in your field ... I don't know how many rock people you
would ever in a million years want to be on any level,
cause they're all so (messed) up ... He's in complete
control of what he's doing. He's a humble dude. It was
really fun. "We were all looking at each other while we
were playing, like, 'This is absurd.' It wasn't even a
celebrity thing, it was just, 'I love this song, and the
person who wrote this song is singing it, and they're
playing it, and it's just like, why?' " It's a rhetorical
question, but one that captures the magic of The Arcade
Fire -- a configuration of individuals that makes music
and performs with such sweeping spirit as to profoundly
touch all who come into contact with it. It's a question
that conveys Funeral's sense of childlike wonder, sadness
and redemption, the breathtaking fervour of the band's
live shows, and Butler's fascination with faith (he
completed a degree in religious studies at McGill
University). "I'm religious, but maybe not in the
conventional sense," he said. "Religion tends to take the
more f--ked up side of human nature more seriously than
humanism. I tend not to relate to stuff that says, 'It's
all good.' "Religions dwell on the f--ked up stuff too
much, but at least they're looking at death, and taking
stuff seriously. MTV doesn't take it very seriously."
The title Funeral came
after Butler, Chassagne and band member Richard Reed Parry
each lost family members during the making of the album.
And while many songs resonate as distinctly anthemic,
Butler said that to him, the music is rather heavy. "A lot
of it is pretty dark. There are always two sides to a
coin. You can hear a song like Power Out, and the line,
'There's something wrong in the heart of man / Take it
from your heart and put it in your hand,' and interpret
that as uplifting. I see it as, if there's something
f--ked up in your heart, you're going to put it in your
hand as a sword." And so, with hearts of darkness and
armed to the teeth, Butler and his bandmates are
infiltrating the hedonistic world of MTV. "We heard one of
our songs (on the radio) the other day, followed by
something really awful, and with something really awful
before it," Butler said. "It's hard to even want to go
there; it's such a depressing situation. "But at the same
time, when I was 15, all I heard was stuff on the radio
and MTV. I found Radiohead because I saw their video on
MTV, and Bjork, all the stuff that ended up meaning a lot
to me, and that helped me appreciate the Smiths and the
Cure and all this other music that I ended up exclusively
listening to, that was so under the radar for someone
living in the suburbs of Houston. So I definitely don't
feel snobbish about it." At the same time, he knows that
critical and commercial acclaim is unreliable, not
particularly meaningful, and often simply irrelevant. "You
read (UK music magazine New Musical Express) reviews of
(The Clash's) London Calling, and they're kind of
mediocre. It's like, 'what were these people thinking?' Or
some David Bowie stuff that was way ahead of its time. Or
Bob Dylan, everyone booing every show when he was at the
height of his creative powers. "Not to compare us to those
artists, but you feel almost like you're cast in some
random time, and how people react to you is out of your
control. Ideally, you keep doing whatever it is you're
doing, without getting too f--ked up by what you think
people are going to think about it." On Sept. 8, they
played three songs with Bowie for Fashion Rocks in New
York. That performance has been turned into a live EP,
available exclusively from iTunes, with all proceeds going
to hurricane relief charities. A week later, Bowie joined
the band for a performance at Central Park's Summerstage.
"He came out for the encore, and he just owned the place,"
Butler said. "He's so good at what he does, so comfortable
on stage, even though it was a really punk rock version of
the songs, really sloppy. I was pissed off at the
audience, and the whole crew was really annoying. "We came
off stage before the encore, and the backstage guy was
like, 'If you don't get back on now, you can't play.
You're out of time.' Earlier he had been stressing us
during soundcheck. So I was like, 'Don't f--king talk to
me.' "We had 15 minutes left, which I didn't know. I threw
a chair against the wall. David Bowie and his wife were
right there. (Bowie) said something about how he felt like
he was watching (temperamental Nine Inch Nails frontman)
Trent Reznor. I can't believe I threw a chair in front of
David Bowie." -By T Dounlevy.
Elton
to wed partner in small ceremony
Photo:
Elton John,
left, with David Furnish.
Rock star Elton John
says he and partner David Furnish plan a small private
ceremony to seal their civil partnership under new
legislation offering gays many of the legal protections
available to married heterosexuals. "It'll be a very small
family affair and then in the evening there'll be a soirée
somewhere, which we have yet to work out," John was quoted
as saying in an interview with Attitude magazine released
Thursday. "But the ceremony itself will be David's parents
and my parents and the two of us. They'll be our
witnesses. That's the way we want to do it. They've been
so fantastic to us and so supportive. Out of respect for
their support, we want to just keep it small. Not to make
a ballyhoo of the ceremony," John was quoted as saying.
The ceremony will be held on Dec. 21, the effective date
of the legislation creating civil partnerships.
Furnish, a Toronto-born film producer, and John have been
together for 12 years. "As far as I'm concerned,
I've always considered myself committed to Elton and he's
the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with.
So in that sense I don't feel like the dynamic of our
relationship is going to change," Furnish was quoted as
saying. "But from a social standpoint, I think it's
hugely significant. It is a major, major change. It is one
of the defining issues of our times. And I applaud Britain
for embracing the diversity of our society."
GLORIA LORING: HER
LIFE, BOOKS, MUSIC AND STARDOM.
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ARTICLE AND EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
She
did it all with class, beauty, intelligence, style, talent, unique
creativity, guts and warmth. And she excelled in everything she
accomplished. Grande Dame Loring is a published author, a national
speaker, a world-class actress, an international celebrity, a star
of the American cinema and television, a leading figure of the
American theater and concert halls, a singer, a composer, a
lyricist, a songwriter, a producer, a certified yoga
teacher, a member of Who's Who in America and The World Who's Who
of Women and a humanitarian. This woman is almost
99.99% perfect. This is the kind of people who create and shape
the greatness of a nation. This is the vintage of noble souls,
warm hearts and bright minds who make the sun rise and
shine over the hills, the prairies and the faces of people we
love...And this is the kind of human beings who at every
dawn, make the wild roses bloom in the valley and on the landscape
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CHRISTINA PETROWSKA
QUILICO
Gems With An Edge (Welspringe) As part of New Music
 Concerts' Piano Marathon at The Music Gallery this weekend, Christina
Petrowska Quilico will offer comments on and performances of the
keyboard music of her first husband, the late Michel-Georges Brégent,
whose aleatorically influenced Geste, originally recorded on
the RCI label, reappears on this Welspringe disc...ROBERT
SILVERMAN
Live At The Chan Centre (Orpheum Masters). Among the Westben
Arts Festival's most innovative programs this year is Sipping with
Silverman, this coming at The Barn in Campbellford, during which the
Vancouver based pianist Robert Silverman will introduce a selection of
wines appropriate to the music he will be playing...NEW
ARTS TRIO
In Recital At
Chautaqua (Fleur de Son Classics)
When the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra opens its season Wednesday at Roy Thomson Hall, the
last player to walk onstage will be Jacques Israelievitch, its
concertmaster since 1988 and one of the most versatile violinists in
the country, with a discography to his credit of solo and chamber as
well as orchestral work...
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ESSENTIALS: THE BEST AMERICAN CABARET MUSIC AND SONGS CDs
Thanks to digital and
electronic media and technology, nowadays, aspiring and struggling
artists can produce their own albums and CDs. And this is more than
wonderful. Because, many highly talented artists who lacked funds or
did not know how and where to reach executives in the recording and
records industry have to a certain degree solved the dilemma and
overcome the impossibility of having their own records/albums/work
published and made accessible to millions worldwide. Thanks to this
new medium of publishing and distributing albums and CDs, an
overwhelming number of new artists were able to reach us, and vice
versa. It was beneficial to both of us. Like the Independent Film
Production new world, music has become independent and universal. Many
of the CDs we reviewed throughout the years came from artists who
recorded and produced their own music, songs and compositions. Another
beneficial and fruitful aspect of the personal and independent- self
produced artist/product- is the artistic freedom, artists began to
enjoy. Freedom in choosing their own songs, lyrics, style and format.
They are no longer at the mercy of records producers and records
companies executives. And this is wonderful too, because it gave birth
to a great number of magnificent recording artists who never had the
opportunity to see their work published and their music heard.
Fortunately to all of
us, great talents -old or new- emerge or resurface . And wonderful
gone-by-era fabulous music came back to life. Music like the cabaret
music. And this helped us to reach first class singers and become
aware of their work. Many of those self produced works became THE
ESSENTIALS. And this is what briefly, we will be talking about
herewith. There are essentials in all genres and styles of music,
exactly like it is the case in motion pictures and world literature.
And the ESSENTIALS are those CDs or recordings which are looked upon
as major, important and most significant for the genre per se. Cabaret
is my forte. Cabaret music is my favorite topic. And I will writing
about it, and about the best cabaret CDs of recent years; CDs of
American Cabaret singers and songwriters. Unquestionably, the greatest
non Parisian, non ethnically French Cabaret singer in the world and
outside France is RAQUEL BITTON who currently liv......Read
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On a Dance Floor. Madonna (Warner)
It's back to the future
as Madonna fetishizes the disco ball and rides a deep
house beat into the sunrise. This one's for the clubs. She
delivers an ode to one of the planet's great clubbing
cities, on the sure-to-be-big-in-the-Apple I Love New
York. At her best, Madonna lets her voice hang on simple
pop hooks. She is at home amid the thumping beats and
synth-laden production (courtesy of DJ-producer Stuart
Price, aka Les Rhythmes Digitales). They lose the plot a
bit, eventually, and songs begin to blur. But it's an
easy, fun listen that captures house music's ability to be
both festive and introspective. Party on. Rating: 5 stars
out of five-T Dounlevy.
Aerial, Kate Bush (Columbia)
Kate Bush hasn't
released an album since 1993's The Red Shoes, and at 47,
she's now more soccer mom than chanteuse. But she's still
masterful at making spooky, sexy music tinged with
strangeness. And this double-CD set should satisfy
long-neglected fans. Both discs, A Sea of Honey and A Sky
of Honey, are filled with Bush's lush piano-playing,
strings, moody electronica, nature sounds and her poetic,
if not slightly wacky words.
 The
first single, King of the Mountain, sounds like the onset
of winter itself with synthesized wind blowing and icy
computerized blips. The lyrics are about Elvis, the king
himself, frolicking "in the snow with Rosebud," a presumed
allusion to the sled in Citizen Kane. In Pi, she sings the
mathematical equation. And it sounds good. Really -- if
you're the kind of fan who loves her operatic voice and
wouldn't mind hearing her sing a grocery list or the
alphabet. On the second disc, Prologue sounds like soaring
movie music with lyrics about "the light in Italy." If
King of the Mountain is winter, Sunset is summer. Stripped
down, the song is about the words. "This is a song of
colour," Bush sings. "Where sands sing in crimson, red and
rust/Then climb into bed and turn to dust." It hits a
crescendo with Spanish-style guitar and a peppy chorus,
"Oh, sing of summer and a sunset." Both CDs are classic
Kate -- meant to be played in the dark when you're up too
late. Amazingly, her voice hasn't changed dramatically
over the years. If anything, the squeakiness of Wuthering
Heights and Running Up that Hill, has simply mellowed,
leaving behind a more mature, seasoned voice, but no less
haunting. Rating: 4 stars out of five.-T. Kurtis.
 The
Body Acoustic, Cyndi Lauper (Epic)
On her new disc The Body
Acoustic, 52-year-old Cyndi Lauper recasts a slew of her
old hits -- from She Bop to True Colors and Time after
Time -- in acoustic form. It's an experiment that could
soar or crash. Alanis Morissette released an acoustic
version of her breakthrough, best-selling 1995 album
Jagged Little Pill to lukewarm reviews just a few months
ago. But Lauper -- both slinky and spunky in a bodiced red
dress and platinum hair on the album's cover -- has penned
or performed some of the most durable tunes to come out of
the '80s. And her voice, at once raspy, perky and
thrillingly powerful, can still pull emotion out of the
deep crevices of those 20-year-old words. The Body
Acoustic, while not earth-shattering, shakes up an old
formula with new tricks, from Lauper's own dulcimer
playing to talented guests. First of all, Lauper
co-produced the album with Rick Chertoff, the whizz behind
her 1984 Grammy-winning debut She's So Unusual, and
William Wittman, who produced 2003's At Last. Quietly
unassuming, She Bop -- which was originally a bouncy,
naughty hit from Lauper's debut, She's So Unusual -- could
fuel a spaghetti western with its dusty dulcimer chords
and whistling interlude. Noteworthy songs include Money
Changes Everything with Lauper and Taking Back Sunday's
Adam Lazzara harmonizing along to a hand-clapped beat.
Sarah McLachlan's breathy duet with Lauper on 1984's Time
After Time provides good contrast to Ani DiFranco and
Vivian Green's inspired yelps on Sister of Avalon. True
Colors, from 1986, is frankly beautiful: simplified to
acoustic strings and Lauper almost sobbing its theme of
love and acceptance. Of course, Lauper wouldn't be who she
is without the lasting legacy of 1984's Girls Just Wanna
Have Fun. The only purely un-acoustic song on the album,
it's a cute but fluffy take on the original with Japanese
pop duo Puffy Ami Yumi giggling to a ska-influenced
groove. Yeah, girls just wanna have fun, but then so do
grown women. Rating: 4 stars out of five. -S. Schou.
 Ultimate
Collection , Eurythmics (RCA/SonyBMG)
Annie Lennox was always
a contradictory pop star, seemingly too smart and
unavailable for the full-blown version of what she and
Dave Stewart so obviously coveted. Her bitter edge was,
fortunately, always balanced by something heated and
pleading; and when she sang against the beat in Angel with
that big, fierce/needy voice, all was forgiven. Stewart
programmed synths as emotionally expressive as big pop
ever had, and although personal taste gravitates more to
the downtempo (Baby's Coming Back, Here Comes the Rain)
than the uptempo (the public-advocacy Sisters Are Doin' It
for Themselves), the box score is good.Includes one new
song, the synth-gospel I've Got A Life, all the hits, and
a couple from the underrated 1999 Peace album. Rating: 4
stars out of five. -Marc Nepage.
 Vertically
Challenged , Lady Sovereign (Chocolate
Industries)
The buzz surrounding
this British grime upstart is huge. She's tiny, going on
massive. She has been signed by Jay-Z to release her
full-length debut in the spring. Here, we get a big tease,
in the form of some awesome, next-level U.K. hip-hop
styles. Think Missy Elliott, M.I.A. and Eminem rolled into
the body of a diminutive, teenaged white girl from Wembley.
Hilarious sass, wicked wordplay and deliciously twisted,
big-bass beats to move the dancefloor like nobody's
business. Includes remixes by Adrock and Ghislain Poirier.
Rating: 4 stars out of five.
Breakupdown, Ghislain Poirier
(Chocolate Industries)
He's been called
Montreal's answer to Diplo, but as he proves here,
DJ-producer Ghislain Poirier has his own thing going on.
When not remixing Lady Sovereign or hanging with wild
French rap act TTC, Poirier is banging out booty-moving,
mind-altering electro-hip-hop beats. He covers much
territory over these 20 tracks, adding depth and texture
along the way. Some of this borders on esoteric, but the
funky bottom-end holds everything together. A distinctive,
imaginative album of bass-heavy beatscapes.
 Sheryl
Crow, Wildflower (A&M)
Point to ponder while
contemplating Sheryl Crow's new Wildflower CD: will a bad
review earn a set of tread marks on my back? Time to run.
Don't be deceived into thinking that big rock on Crow's
finger courtesy of fiance Lance Armstrong will result in a
giddy album of love songs. Instead, this disc is downbeat
and downright boring. Crow is 43 now, beyond the point
where all you wanna do is have some fun. She's brooding
over the big issues of life, love, loyalty and mortality,
and that's more than understandable. It's just harder to
make that into engaging pop-rock tunes, and that's Crow's
strength, where she beat the odds to become very
successful in a style that's no longer fashionable. Here,
you slog through seven earnest, mid-tempo songs until
there's a sign of life: Live it Up has Crow urging someone
to not let life pass them by, and it has the disc's
strongest hook and quickest pace. Always on Your Side is
the best of the rest, a stately ballad that benefits from
stripping the music down. Otherwise, the production is
simultaneously busy and rather anonymous, unwisely
emphasizing Crow's thin vocals. Perhaps Wildflower has a
few seeds that will take time to grow. Pass the
fertilizer, though.- Rating: 3 stars out of five.- David
Baunder.
 George
Kahn, Compared To What? (Playing Records)
Over 25 years in Los
Angeles as a composer and arranger, George’s music has
appeared in Television Movies for BET, Hallmark Hall of
Fame, Disney Animation, as well as major ad campaigns for
Lexus and others. In 1998 George created Playing Records,
and has produced four albums of original music that
reflect the history and the ongoing evolution of jazz from
the 50’s to the 21st Century. Over 275,000 music fans
served on MP3.com, and counting! One of the "200 Best"
albums at CDBABY.com But his new CD "Compared To What"
brings him now to an international status, for his
virtuosity sets a new standard for elegance and romance in
contemporary Jazz. This man knows how to create a musical
ambiance that transports the listener to a state of trance
and sinfully beautiful daring thoughts. Kahn's CD is a
monumental musical work, rich, elegant, with defying
innovation and grace. In Kahn's musicality, do not expect
to hear the morose notes of early Bourbon Street Jazz. His
music is up-lifting imbibed with artistic luxury, finesse
and elegant nonchalance. Jazz virtuosity at its best.
Rating: 5 stars out of five. - M. de lafayette.
 Bob
Dylan , No Direction Home: The Soundtrack -- The
Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (Columbia)
Bootlegs and outtakes
are more marketable than ever these days -- and it doesn't
hurt the effort if you happen to be Bob Dylan. For that
reason alone, No Direction Home, marketed as part of
Dylan's Bootleg Series, piques the interest. But the
imminent arrival of a Dylan biopic of the same name by
Martin Scorsese makes it even more interesting to take a
walking tour of the master's career. The two-disc No
Direction Home is a collage of Dylan alt-takes and live
performances. It's an alternate-universe tour through the
career of the former Robert Zimmerman -- and, by
extension, the evolution of folk music through the 1960s.
The most fascinating tune is the first -- a brief, muffled
recording of a song called When I Got Troubles that sounds
like a field recording from a folk-song collector. It's
billed as "most likely the first original song (Dylan)
ever recorded, and it comes across as exactly what it is
-- a Minnesota high-school boy emulating the Delta Blues
sound. Dylan's early professional recordings in this CD
echo his sound on his canon of albums. The earliest ones
sound like (or are about or by) Woody Guthrie; Dylan's
This Land is Your Land, recorded live in New York City in
1961, was clearly the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen's
version two decades later. By 1962, the truly unique Dylan
emerges, and these tracks feel more sensory, more raw than
their familiar counterparts. A 1963 demo of Don't Think
Twice, It's Alright is more ethereal than the better-known
version -- and more stripped down, if that's possible. An
alternate take of Mr. Tambourine Man with Ramblin' Jack
Elliott feels almost desperate, and a live version of A
Hard Rain's Gonna Fall is deliberative and tentative, as
if Dylan's feeling the lyrics more than he did in the
well-known studio cut. By the time outtakes from Highway
61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde appear on Disc 2,
Dylan's willingness to experiment from take to take has
become obvious. Desolation Row has an intriguing electric
riff behind its acoustic rhythm, while Ballad of a Thin
Man, live in Scotland in 1966, is even funkier and more
psychedelic than the familiar classic. For many artists, a
release of outtakes is dull and unnecessary. For Bob
Dylan, of course, it's a treasure chest -- and a glimpse
into what bodes to be an unusual movie. Rating: 5 stars
out of five.
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passionate ubersexual man of the future. An ubersexual? "Ubersexuals
are the most attractive (not just physically), most dynamic, and
most compelling men of their generations," says New York advertising
executive Marian Salzman, who invented the word. "They are
confident, masculine, stylish, and committed to uncompromising
quality in all areas of life." And who is ubersexual numero uno? U2
front man Bono, says Salzman because "he's global, socially aware,
confident, and compassionate...
Welcome
to his revitalized nightmare.
There are, generally, two types of show
biz folk. There are the rock stars who take their craft terribly
seriously and disdain the mundane parts, such as answering the same
interview questions over and over again. And then there are the rock
stars who are simply grateful to be a rock star, and are too
gracious to outwardly tire of the duties, no matter how tiresome.
Alice Cooper is in the latter group, and if you didn't know, or
wanted to hear it again, he'd tell you all over again why it is that
he's forever confused with Ozzy Osbourne when it comes to biting the
heads off birds.
GAIL SWANSON HONORED AS SINGER OF THE BEST SONG OF
THE YEAR
"HALF A HEART", a
song written by Gail Swanson and co-recorded with Willie Nelson was
selected by INA as best song of the year. This is not her first award.
Swanson's CD "LIVING IN A MOVIE" WON BEST ROCK ALBUM IN HAWAII at the
2002 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards; in 10/27/03
MTV
"The Real World/Road Rules
Challenge: The Gauntlet" licensed the instrumental mix of "Paper Doll"
for part of the soundtrack of episode #4; in 6/4/03
Kauai Music Festival
selected "Half a Heart" as a
winner in their songwriting competition; in 3/14/03
Andelle Music
chose "Couple in the Corner" as the winner in their songwriting contest
for the pop/rock category; in 1/15/03...
Zeta-Jones says she's a strict mom.
Catherine Zeta-Jones has some rules about
what her children eat. "I don't give them kid food," the actress
tells Life magazine. "No candy. Almost no juice. When my kids have
juice, it's like they're having their first taste of champagne."
Zeta-Jones and her husband, Michael Douglas, have two children,
Dylan, 5, and Carys, 2-1/2. "We have a pact that if one of us works,
the other doesn't, so the children can have some sense of normalcy,"
the 36-year-old Wales native says...
 Kate
Moss checks out of rehab clinic.
British supermodel Kate Moss has
checked out of the Arizona rehab clinic where she was receiving
treatment for cocaine use, her model agency said Thursday. Moss, 31,
left the Meadows Clinic earlier this week and was spending time with
friends in the United States, according to a statement released by
the London-based Storm model agency...
MUSIC: THE STARS, THE GOSSIPS AND THE NEWS
  Ashlee
Simpson redeems herself on 'SNL'. Ashlee
Simpson sang -- really, she did -- without incident on "Saturday Night
Live" in her return to the scene of last year's lip-synch fiasco. "I
wrote this song after my last 'Saturday Night Live' appearance," she
said, introducing the mournful "Catch Me When I Fall." She belted out
the song with gusto, the only boost seeming to come....
 Boy
George nabbed on narcotics charge. Boy
George was arraigned on drug charges early Saturday, nearly 24 hours
after calling the police emergency line to report what he said was a
burglary in his Manhattan apartment, authorities said. The British
singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, claimed his home had been
burglarized around 3 a.m. Friday, said Detective Kevin Czartoryski, a
police spokesman. Officers arrived at O'Dowd's...
 Jessica
and Nick deny breakup rumours. Another day,
another divorce story about Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. Magazine
reports prompted representatives for the pop star couple to issue
statements Wednesday denying they have split -- although semantically
speaking, the statements left room for a future breakup. "Nick and
Jessica have not separated," said a statement issued on behalf of
Simpson and Lachey. "Rumours to the contrary are simply not true." In
an e-mail to The Associated Press...
Eminem publisher
chasing ring-tone loot.
Grammy-winning rapper Eminem's publishing companies have filed a
lawsuit in an effort to stop his songs from being used as cellphone
ring tones. In the suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in
Detroit, Mich.-based Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated are
seeking a court order...
 Nobody's
gonna rain on this Wolf Parade.Riders on the
storm. Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner is talking on a cellphone as drummer
Arlen Thompson drives the band's tour van through pouring rain, midway
into a 20-hour drive from Vancouver to Chicago. It's an image
befitting Wolf Parade's recently acquired status as indie rock's next
big thing. The makings of the tempest: Heirs to hometown brethren the
Arcade Fire's regal torch; unwitting beneficiaries of the media blitz
surrounding all things Montreal music; anointed by Modest Mouse
frontman Isaac Brock, who produced the band's...
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