DJ Keyz and Lil Wayne & other: June 2008

Yamin

Artist: Yamin

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Almathea

Year: 2005
Tracks: 1

Coldplay - Coldplay Have The Spice To Top Us Single Charts

Victoria Beckham - Haim Posh Spice Is A Terrible Kisser

Former SPICE GIRL VICTORIA BECKHAM has been outted by THE LOST BOYS actor COREY HAIM as a bad kisser.

Haim claims he dated Posh Spice in 1995, a year before she found fame with the Wannabe hitmakers.

And he insists Beckham had a terrible kissing technique.

He tells Britain's The Sun newspaper, "When she kisses she does this little grrhh thing. What did it feel like? Like a girl gnawing on your lip!"

The singer is now married to British soccer ace David Beckham.

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George Clooney - Clooney Calls For United Unions

Actor GEORGE CLOONEY has pleaded for two rival Hollywood actors unions to put their bitter difference behind them - urging them to provide a united front for the sake of the industry.

The star used his peacemaking skills to call for an end to the bitter wrangling between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).

Both unions are currently in crucial contract talks with film and TV studios, which expire on 30 June (08), to prevent another strike which crippled the industry from November (07) until February (08).

Actors are threatening walkouts at the end of June (08) if talks between the unions and major film studios fail to resolve a dispute over pay and conditions.

But the two unions are currently at loggerheads, after AFTRA, a smaller union, agreed to a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

The SAG dismiss the agreed deal - suggesting it undermines their own contract - and have called upon heavyweights Jack Nicholson and Ben Stiller to urge members of AFTRA to reject the deal.

To compete with the actors, AFTRA has recruited Tom Hanks to declare support for the deal.

And Clooney has spoken out in a statement issued on Thursday (26Jun08) urging the unions not to pit actors against each other as it would have a devastating impact on the industry as a whole.

He says, "Rather than pitting artist against artist, maybe we could find a way to get what both unions are looking for.

"Because the one thing you can be sure of is that stories about Jack Nicholson vs. Tom Hanks only strengthens the negotiating power of the AMPTP."

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Dreaded Youths

Artist: Dreaded Youths

   Genre(s):
Jungle

Discography:

Dreaded Youths-CCR001 Vinyl

Year: 2005
Tracks: 3

'Hugh Hefner Engaged In Homosexual Encounter'

Shakin' Stevens 'All Shook Up' Ahead Of Glastonbury Festival

Veteran entertainer Shakin' Stevens has said that he is “very pleased” to have been asked to perform at this year's Glastonbury festival.

Stevens, who will perform on the Pyramid Stage next Saturday (June 28th), said he was delighted to be playing the “biggest festival there is in Britain”.

In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, he also said he hoped that his performance at the festival would address peoples preconceptions about him.

"People have got a preconceived idea of what I look like, what I perform and what my shows are all about,” he said.

“I can understand that, because all they can refer to is 'Top Of The Pops'. But those who come to my shows know better."

The Glastonbury Festival takes place from June 27th-29th. Tickets are still available – click here for more information.

Gigwise's ones to watch at Glastonbury

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Jumping Jacks

Artist: Jumping Jacks

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Jumping in the Moonlight

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Robbie Rivera Feat Justine Suissa

AmneZia

Artist: AmneZia

   Genre(s):
Metal: Alternative

Discography:

Enslaved By Slave

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

Fox talks about Lost in the future

Actor Matthew Fox, who plays Jack in 'Lost', has been talking about what lies ahead in the series.
Speaking to the film website comingsoon.net about his new thriller 'Vantage Point', Fox found the time to talk about 'Lost'.
Following the resolution of the writers' strike in the US, Fox said that he would be going back to shoot more episodes for the fourth series of 'Lost' this spring.
"We probably won't get all of the eight [episodes] we owe," said Fox, "but I'm sure we'll get five or six of them."
Fox remained coy on the development of his character, Jack, and whether he would become a hero or villain in the series.
He said: "I think the idea of hero or good guy, bad guy is sort of an antiquated notion in a lot of respects. I think it's more interesting to accept the complexity of all of us and hope that he makes heroic choices in very difficult circumstances."
He continued: "I really feel like 'Lost' and what I'm getting to do on that show is pretty complex, and it's evolving as well. (Jack) sort of started as this idea. Everybody wanted him to be this heroic guy, and actually, he's really flawed and the island is stripping away this deep compassion in him and bringing out a much darker side, so there's an evolution that's happening in the character that's always been important to Damon [Lindelof, 'Lost' creator] and myself."
Of the fourth series, Fox said: "I think the fourth season will close those two moments of time of Jack in the future and Jack feeling like he's being rescued. The season will be about answering all those questions of who got off with him? Who's in the casket? Why does he want to go back, this guy of all people? Why is he suicidal and desperate to go back?"
In his interview with comingsoon.net, Fox did offer a hint about the timeframe of the series, when asked how much time had passed on the island since the aeroplane crash.
He said: "If you're going to talk about from Jack in the plane crash to Jack in the future, that's about a year-and-a-half, and Jack on the island now would be about 120 days."
For more on 'Lost', read our blog here.
Visit the show's website here.

Pavement

Artist: Pavement

   Genre(s):
Indie
   Rock

Discography:

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

Terror Twilight

Year: 1999
Tracks: 10

Stuff Up The Cracks

Year: 1999
Tracks: 21

Brighten the Corners

Year: 1997
Tracks: 12

Wowee Zowee

Year: 1995
Tracks: 18

Watery, Domestic EP

Year: 1994
Tracks: 4

Westing (By Musket and Sextant)

Year: 1993
Tracks: 22

Slanted and Enchanted

Year: 1992
Tracks: 12

With their fractured songs, unexpected blasts of feedback, laconic vocals, mystifying literate lyrics, and noncompliant low-fidelity, Pavement were one of the most influential and typical bands to emerge from the American metro in the '90s. Pavement, along with Sebadoh, were the leaders of the lo-fi motion that dominated U.S. indie rock 'n' roll in the early '90s. Initially conceived as a studio project between guitarists/vocalists Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg in the '80s, Pavement gradually became a ring during the early '90s. Along the way, their initial EPs and debut album, 1992's Sloping & Enchanted, earned a devoted following of musicians, indie fans, and critics. Before long, the group's aesthetics -- a combination of elliptic, qabalistic subway system American rock, obstinate Anglophilia, a warmth for tweed noise, off-kilter arrangements and tortuous melodies, songs that oftentimes had unfirm titles, and literate, clever lyrics -- were imitated by subway bands through America and Britain. By that detail, Pavement had turn an literal band, 1 with a notorious, acid-fried ex-hippie drummer called Gary Young. Young left wing the ring in 1993 as the band made the move to clean up their levelheaded, if non their sensibility, on 1994's Round-shouldered Rain, Crooked Rain. Their revampment resulted in a near-hit with "Shorten Your Hair," merely the mainstream distinct Pavement were besides foreign for their tastes and the band decided it pet the subway system, going the grouping as one of the most pop -- and the almost influential -- American indie rock 'n' roll bands of the '90s.

Stephen Malkmus (vocals, guitar) had finished poring over history at the University of Virginia and returned to Stockton, CA, when he formed Pavement with puerility acquaintance Scott Kannberg (guitar, vocals) in 1989. Pavement released their low 7" EP, Slay Tracks: (1933-1969), by the summer of 1989. Recorded for 800 dollars at the small-scale local studio apartment Louder Than You Think -- which was owned by Gary Young, a fortysomething drummer world Health Organization appeared on the EP -- and released on the duo's own indie label, Treble Kicker, Slay Tracks demonstrated sonic debts to the Fall, R.E.M., the Pixies, and Sonic Youth. While thither were only a mates hundred copies pressed of the EP, it managed to influence its way to several influential mass within the resistance industry, including British DJ John Peel. Furthermore, the EP, which was credited only to "S.M." and "Helix Stairs," became something of an brain-teaser, since it was supported by no press releases or entropy most the band. By the 1990 exit of Demolition Plot J-7, the band had begun to shape these influences into its have signature levelheaded. Pavement moved to Drag City Records and added Young as a member during the recording of Demolition Plot J-7, but the set didn't do any concerts until after the 1991 release of Unadulterated Sound Forever.

During preparation for their first concerts in 1991, Pavement added bassist Mark Ibold and, in order to bolster Young's rickety timekeeping, a second drummer named Bob Nastanovich, world Health Organization had accompanied college with Malkmus. The new lineup appeared on the band's offset full-length album, One-sided & Enchanted, although the group didn't book whatsoever of the album as a wide isthmus; alternatively, it was pieced together by Malkmus and Kannberg. Before it was released on Matador Records in the spring of 1992, Slanting & Enchanted created highly proficient word of mouth praise; ahead the album was regular available promotionally, critics were lavishly laudatory it in the press. Initially, the band's following was based upon critics and fellow musicians, simply before long bible began to spreading on the street as well. Pavement supported the album with their offset national tour of duty, and while it didn't pass on many cities, it became ill-famed for the band's overemotional good and Young's grandstanding. He would recognize the audience at the threshold, shaking their workforce; he would perform handstands during the show; he would hand out salads at the door; he would now and then break up rummy. Young was asked to leave the set during 1993; his net acquittance with the mathematical group was the EP Watery, Domestic, which was released in the fall of 1992. He was replaced by Steve West, a booster of Nastanovich. After West joined the set, the band's other EPs were compiled on Drag City's 1993 collection Westing (By Musket and Sextant).

Pavement's sound cleaned up more or less later on Young's departure; it was a combination of having a steady drummer and recording in real studios. Some pundits predicted that Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the 1994 follow-up to Slanting & Enchanted, would be Pavement's breakthrough into the mainstream. To a certain extent, it was. The album debuted on the U.S. charts at 121 and "Cut Your Hair" became a Top Ten advanced rock attain and MTV murder. But contempt the album's irresistibly prescribed reviews, Asymmetrical Rain but expanded Pavement's cult dramatically, confirming their status as tube, not mainstream, stars. Following the release of Crooked Rain, Pavement recorded sporadically during 1994; Malkmus and Nastanovich as well contributed to Starlite Walker, the full-length debut by the Silver Jews, which was light-emitting diode by their college friend David Berman.

Pavement returned with their third gear record album, Wowee Zowee, in the spring of 1995. More sprawl and eclectic than either of its predecessors, the album proven erstwhile over again that Pavement were a leader of the underground or else of alternate rock's Next Big Thing. Despite the sundry response Wowee Zowee standard from critics -- which sparked a Pavement recoil in the press that continued for the following two days -- most of the group's traditionalist fans embraced the album. The band besides landed a point on the fifth Lollapalooza, which featured likeminded artists such as Beck and Sonic Youth. Though it may make been financially lucrative, the gig proved frustrating for the band; sandwiched in the middle of the independent stage's circular, Pavement establish themselves playing to fewer people than they might accept, had they headlined the second stage.

The group began 1996 with the dismissal of the Pacific Trim EP and worn out the rest of the year recording their twenty-five percent album with producer Mitch Easter. Released in early 1997, Brighten the Corners was seen as a rejoin to the group's more than accessible, Asymmetrical Rain-like well-grounded; it was greeted with positive reviews and debuted at figure 70 on the American charts. After all-inclusive touring in the U.S. and worldwide, Pavement took a fall apart for the commencement half of 1998. That summer, among the bandmembers' off-duty activities, both Malkmus and Kannberg performed solo gigs: Malkmus introduced new Silver Jews and Pavement songs at the two L.A. dates he played with Scarnella (Nels Cline and the Geraldine Fibbers' Carla Bozulich's side project), patch Kannberg played drums with Half Five Quarter to Six (an impromptu '80s cover band featuring other San Francisco-based musicians) at a charity event called One Night Stand. Kannberg likewise started his own label, Pray for Mojo (later renamed Amazing Grease), which featured bands like the psych-pop jazz group Oranger.

That strike, Pavement regrouped and recorded Holy terror Twilight with producer Nigel Godrich, whose intricate, polished style graced albums by Natalie Imbruglia, Beck, and, most famously, Radiohead. That group's guitar player, Jonny Greenwood, played mouth harp on the album's roger Sessions. When Terror Twilight arrived in the summer of 1999, it won uniformly positively charged reviews, only its bigger, cleaner sound and deficiency of whatever Kannberg songs made it finger suspiciously like a cloaked Stephen Malkmus solo record album. The Major Leagues EP did lineament songs from Kannberg -- which he recorded with Gary Young at Louder Than You Think -- only this did little to dissipate the dissolution rumors Pavement had been scheme since Malkmus' solo gigs, in which he admitted that the bandmembers' desires to unrecorded outside of Pavement could import the group's end. He proclaimed that the band was indeed finished at their November 20, 1999, date at the London Brixton Academy: with a set up of handcuffs suspension from his mic stand -- which he said symbolized being a part of a circle -- Malkmus thanked Pavement's fans "for climax all these years."

However, the official tidings from the circle and Matador Records was that Pavement were only on hiatus. But, in the spring of 2000, word got kayoed that both Kannberg and Malkmus were readying solo projects: Kannberg's, named the Preston School of Industry, reunited him with Gary Young; Malkmus' was ab initio called the Jicks, then rechristened Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and included drummer John Moen, erstwhile of the Dharma Bums and the Fastbacks, and bassist Joanna Bolme, wHO had too worked with the Minders. An interview with Malkmus in the November 2000 issue of Spin confirmed Pavement's detachment for formerly and all. Ibold, West, and Nastanovich likewise stayed fussy during the group's "hiatus": Ibold started his possess judge, West toured and recorded with his project Marble Valley, and Nastanovich well-kept his horse racing topple sheet Lucky Lavender. Late in 2000, it was proclaimed that Malkmus' solo record album -- which had the working claim of Swedish Reggae -- would be known but as Sir Leslie Stephen Malkmus, and that he and the Jicks would tour in the springtime of 2001 with Elastica's Justine Frischmann connexion on as an additional guitar player and Nastanovich as their route managing director. Kannberg and his mathematical group as well began playing dates in early 2001.

Despite the band's slightly confusing and frustrative end, Pavement helped steer the course of action of '90s indie careen in a consistently intelligent, unpredictable -- and regular playfulness -- guidance. In late October of 2002, Matador released a massively expanded version of the seminal Sloped & Enchanted. The version contained an stupefying 36 fillip tracks ranging from an entire unrecorded performance to telltale B-sides. A retrospective double-DVD limit entitled Slow Century was welcomed at the same time. Matador then released a likewise expanded edition of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain in 2004 and Wowee Zowee in 2006, all the more than confirmatory Pavement's legacy as indie tilt trailblazers.

Beyond All Reason

Artist: Beyond All Reason

   Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock

Discography:

The Line We Draw Between [EP]

Year: 2004
Tracks: 4

Wicked Apprentice?

Beatles - Rare Beatles Film Revealed

Rare footage of THE BEATLES on tour in the 1960s has been unveiled for the first time.

The documentary, titled The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Memories, features amateur film clips of the Fab Four on the road in Cornwall, south west England in 1967.

Producer David Lambert says, "This eight millimetre footage is just like gold dust."

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M83's Anthony Gonzalez Talks Saturdays = Youth, His Ode To Teenage Life, By John Norris

The name of the electronic act M83 may refer to a galaxy some 15 million light years away, but from the sound of their latest release, Saturdays = Youth, you'd be forgiven for thinking the number in the group's name refers to year 1983.

"I think that the '80s was certainly one of the most important periods of music so far. I love so many bands from this period that I thought it was a good idea to treat it with respect," said French musician Anthony Gonzalez, who effectively is M83. Gonzalez spoke to MTV News near the end of his recent U.S. tour, and made no bones about the fact that the album, released in April, was meant as an homage to that decade when hair was bigger and life — and synthesizers — were simpler. "To do that, we tried to work only with instruments from the '80s," he said. "We worked only with analog keyboards, analog synths; we didn't use any computers. The idea was to have a very '80s sound, but modern as well."

And not just any '80s sound, mind you. While previous M83 records, like 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, invited descriptions like "electro-shoegaze" and comparisons to the recently reunited My Bloody Valentine, with Saturdays = Youth, Gonzalez veered headlong into the synth-pop realm of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and music from the films of that master of Reagan-era teen travails, John Hughes. Gonzalez, who has long drawn musical inspiration from cinema, admits he's "always been nostalgic," and although he spent his own adolescence in the 1990s, those quintessentially '80s exercises in coming-of-age like "The Breakfast Club" and "Pretty in Pink" proved hugely inspirational to him. "I have so many good memories of when I was a kid, watching those movies. When you are 13 or 14 it's like you are discovering a new world. There is something about being a teenager that I really love."

No kidding: Until now, M83's best known song was probably "Teen Angst" from 2005's Before the Dawn Heals Us, while the new record, awash in swirling synths, features such dreamy odes to adolescence as "Highway of Endless Dreams" and "We Own the Sky," and tells the tale of a "Graveyard Girl," one of those goth chicks who Gonzalez, like many of us, knew and loved — a girl who "worships Satan" but "dreams of a sister like Molly Ringwald." There's also a Ringwald look-alike among the pretty young things on the album cover, along with, in Gonzalez's words, "a boy who looks like Kurt Cobain" and a kid in a skeleton suit "like Donnie Darko."

But surely he realizes the teen years are, in fact, painful ones for many people? "Yeah, some people tell me that," he conceded. "But it was one of the best periods of my life. You experience so many things for the first time — your first sex, so many things. It can be scary, but for me it was just about fun. So that's the reason I did this album. I just wanted to re-create the feeling of my teenage years."

Gonzalez also says he wanted to challenge himself on this — his "shiniest" record to date — to write pop songs, something he calls "really difficult," and likens to a filmmaker trying his hand at comedy. He also hoped to get more confident vocally, singing more than on past M83 records, which were mostly instrumental affairs. Lending a hand in the latter department was Morgan Kibby, singer with the Los Angeles band the Romanovs and a part-time actress; she has what Gonzalez calls "a Kate Bush-type voice."

Despite the fact that this pop path (which follows a full-on ambient record, last year's Digital Shades Vol. 1) may have initially thrown longtime fans, Gonzalez says he doesn't consider the new sound a "betrayal" — instead, it's a new direction, one that is still true to himself. "And I think if you are always doing the same thing over and over, it's going to get boring. Repetition is death for me." And he just may be picking up new fans: The album's sales are outpacing M83's previous releases.

So let's score another one for France! For many years, the French have been about as successful exporting pop music to America as they have been exporting cars here (when was the last time you saw a Renault or Citroen dealership?). But in the past year alone, we've seen breakthroughs for Justice, the Teenagers, and now another success for M83.

All Gonzalez needs now is a little recognition in his homeland. "It's always been more difficult in France," he explains. "But with bands like Daft Punk or Air, they were first really famous in America and then after that they came back to France and had lots of success. So, maybe it will be the same thing for me."

See more of my interview with Anthony Gonzalez of M83 right here.

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DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

Artist: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Greatest Hits

Year: 2005
Tracks: 18

Homebase

Year: 1991
Tracks: 12

Baby girl for Spelling

Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott welcomed their second child, a daughter, on Monday, People.com has confirmed. Stella Doreen McDermott was born at 3:13 p.m. in a Los Angeles hospital via C-section. She weighed 6 lbs., 8 oz. and was 193/4 inches long, a rep for Spelling says.

The couple also have a one-year-old son, Liam Aaron. McDermott, 41, has a son, Jack, 9, from a previous marriage.

Spelling, 35, revealed she was expecting a girl in March.

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Ian Hunter

Artist: Ian Hunter

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

Discography:

Shrunken Heads

Year: 2007
Tracks: 11

Overnight Angels

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Strings Attached

Year: 2005
Tracks: 19

Ian Hunter

Year: 2005
Tracks: 14

Yui Orta

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Rant

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

All American Alien Boy

Year: 1998
Tracks: 8

The Artful Dodger Live

Year: 1997
Tracks: 13

Dirty Laundry

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic

Year: 1993
Tracks: 9

Short Back 'n' Sides

Year: 1981
Tracks: 10

King Bicuit Flower Hour

Year: 1974
Tracks: 10

Welcome To The Club CD2

Year:
Tracks: 11

Welcome To The Club CD1

Year:
Tracks: 11

Live in concert BBC

Year:
Tracks: 13

Ian Hunter Singles

Year:
Tracks: 8

CD2:Ballads

Year:
Tracks: 18

CD1:Rockers

Year:
Tracks: 20

U2's Bono And Bob Geldof Blast G8's Commitment To Africa

U2 frontman Bono and campaigner Bob Geldof have called the G8's commitment to help provide Africa with aid “a disgrace.”

When it met at Gleneagles, Scotland in 2005, the G8 promised to double aid to Africa by 2010.

However, new figures, issued in a joint statement from Bono and Geldof yesterday (June 18th), said that the G8 has so far delivered just 14% of its pledge.

"It's a disgrace that the rich world, France included, has failed so utterly and miserably," Geldof told reporters.

A report from the advocacy group DATA showed that France was one of the worst contributors, so far giving less than 7% of its Gleneagles promise, reports Reuters.

In a direct challenge to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Geldof said that the percentage was a “measure of the failure of the political class of this country."

Despite their strong words, Bono said he had “high hopes” that President Sarkozy could help France fulfil their commitment.

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Kid Rock jokingly urges fans to `steal everything'

DETROIT —

Kid Rock wants fans to know it's OK to illegally download his music.

And while they're at it, they should steal cars, designer clothes and iPods, too.

Well, maybe not.

The 37-year-old Detroit musician posted a "special announcement" on YouTube last week urging fans to "steal everything."

Kid Rock says in the video that he's so rich, he can't complain if fans steal a song or two off the Internet without paying him.

In fact, he says, people should "level the playing field" by stealing anything they need from wealthy corporations.

He mentions laptops, iPods, Toyota vehicles ("It's a foreign car company, so who cares?"), gasoline and Tommy Hilfiger clothing as potential targets for the five-finger discount.

But the rap-rocker, who has resisted selling his music on iTunes and other online stores, tells The Associated Press he was just kidding.

"I was just trying to have some fun with it," Kid Rock said before playing in Wednesday's Buick Open Pro-Am, with friend and pro golfer John Daly, at Warwick Hills near Flint.

The video had more than 100,000 views as of Wednesday afternoon.

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On the Net:

http://www.kidrock.com/

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Sonny Terry with Johnny Winter& Willie Dixon

Artist: Sonny Terry with Johnny Winter& Willie Dixon

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Whoopin'

Year: 1984
Tracks: 10

The Explosion

Artist: The Explosion

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Here I Am

Year: 2004
Tracks: 1

Vir Unis and Saul Stokes

Artist: Vir Unis and Saul Stokes

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:

Thermal Transfer

Year: 2002
Tracks: 9

I Was A Cub Scout split up

"Idol" winner Ruben Studdard to wed

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — He won the affection of millions of people on "American Idol," but this weekend, Ruben Studdard is giving his heart to one woman.

A representative for the former "Idol" confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that Studdard, 29, plans a Saturday wedding. He and Surata Zuri McCants, 30, took out a marriage license on Monday, according to court records.

The Birmingham native, nicknamed the "Velvet Teddy Bear" on the show for his big frame and sonorous voice, has released three albums since his 2003 win, including the platinum CD "Soulful." He is working on a new album.

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Kanye West rails against Bonnaroo criticism

NEW YORK - Kanye West defended himself from criticism over his delayed performance at Bonnaroo, saying on his blog that the flak he’s taken has left him "the most offended I’ve ever been."
West’s performance at the Tennessee festival was scheduled for 2:45 a.m. in the early morning of June 15. West didn’t take the stage until 4:25 a.m., angering much of the crowd who had stayed up late to see the rapper perform.
The delay was caused by problems setting up West’s elaborate stage set, which included an interplanetary landscape of a wavy black platform and a video screen above. Pearl Jam, who had performed on the main stage earlier that evening, also went an hour over its scheduled time. While waiting for West’s concert to begin, many in the crowd pelted the stage with glow sticks and beer.

At the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which traditionally has favored jam bands, West’s delayed show became a kind of rallying point, leading to "Kanye sucks" chants and criticism from pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, who played later the same day.
Writing Tuesday on his blog at www.kanyeuniversity.com in almost all caps, West said he was offended that anyone would think he doesn’t care about his fans and blamed the delay on festival organizers.
"This Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I’ve ever had in my life," West wrote. "This is the most offended I’ve ever been ... this is the maddest I ever will be."
West was critical of the festival for not releasing a statement in his defense. The morning after the show, The Associated Press asked festival spokesman Ken Weinstein about the delay. Weinstein said it was simply a matter of unloading the Pearl Jam stage after its set (which went until about 1:15 a.m.) and loading the West stage.
Following his performance, West’s publicist didn’t reply to a request from The AP for West’s take on the criticism.
In his blog posting, West said he and the festival organizers (Bonnaroo is put on by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment) went back and forth for a month on how his stage could fit at the festival. He said it was clear he was "dealing with ... idiots who didn’t really have the capacity to really put on this show properly."
Weinstein on Wednesday relayed a statement on behalf of the festival that did not specifically address West’s complaints but read: "Our world-class event production team strives to accommodate the needs of every performer."
West also blamed thrown bottles for malfunctions with his "Jane screen." (In the concept concert, Jane is the HAL-like disembodied female robotic voice of his spaceship.) But the stage crew appeared to be having difficulty with the screen well before anything was thrown from the crowd.
West’s set was originally scheduled for 8:15 p.m. the night of June 14, but the rapper requested it be moved later in the evening so it was sufficiently dark for his "glow-in-the-dark" performance. But because of the late start, midway through his performance the morning light began to show — revealing a substantially thinned-out audience.
"It broke my heart that I couldn’t give these fans ’Stronger’ in its greatest form," said West, referring to his hit song. "I’m sorry to everyone that I didn’t have the ability 2 give the performance I wanted to. I’m sorry."
West concluded by saying his elaborate stage cuts his payday in half and leaves him icing his knees.
"Call me what you want," he said, "but never say I didn’t give my all!"
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Compay Segundo

Artist: Compay Segundo

   Genre(s):
Other
   Jazz
   Latin

Discography:

Las Flores De La Vida

Year: 2000
Tracks: 13

Feliz Cumpleanos A Compay Segu

Year: 2000
Tracks: 19

Calle Salud

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

Yo Vengo Aqui

Year: 1998
Tracks: 15

Lo Mejor de la Vida

Year: 1998
Tracks: 15

Duets

Year:
Tracks: 16

Legendary Cuban guitar player Compay Segundo was born in 1907; collaborating with the likes of Sindo Garay, Miguel Matamoros and Benny MorÃ©, he emerged as one of the most well-thought-of musicians of the pre-revolution eRA, and in the late twenties invented the armÃ³nico, a guitar customized with a twofold one-third strand to fuse the tonal qualities of the traditional Cuban tres guitar and its Spanish counterpart. Following Fidel Castro's uprise to power, Segundo worked as a cigar roller before reverting to music during the late 1980s; in his early 1890s he attracted worldwide attention in 1998 for his contributions to Ry Cooder's wildly successful Buena Vista Social Club record album, issuing the solo Calle Salud the following twelvemonth. Buena Vista Connection was issued in fall 2000. Flores de la Vida followed later that same year; Trova Cubana surfaced in early 2001. The torrent of releases, both new and re-issues of greco-Roman pre-fame Segundo sessions, continued end-to-end 2001 with Yo Vengo Aqui, Que Lio Compay Andres and into 2002 with Yo Soy del Monte and Dos Leyendas de Cuba. On July 13 of the following twelvemonth Compay Segundo died of kidney failure at his plate in Havana.

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