Pick of the week: Rock and pop

N*E*R*D
Carling Academy, Sheffield, Monday 18
Academy 1, Manchester, Wednesday 20
Funking rock from the Neptunes spin-off world Health Organization, having channelled the energies of dead souls, ar now eyesight sounds.

Leeds Festival 2008
Bramham Park, Wetherby
Friday 22
An emo and indiepunk friendly throwaway, with the likes of Feeder and Slipknot brush up against the Cribs and Conor Oberst. It's all about hoods and trainers, kids.

Solfest
South Bay Beach, Wigton
Friday 22
Strangely marvelous mix of hula-hooping, knitathons and willow-making workshops among the likes of Supergrass and R�is�n Murphy. Not at the same metre, mind.

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Artist: Happy Mondays: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock Indie Other     Discography:      Uncle Dysfunktional    Year: 2007    Tracks: 13      Step On    Year: 2005    Tracks: 3      Greatest Hits    Year: 1999    Tracks: 15      Bummed    Year: 1999    Tracks: 10      Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches    Year: 1990    Tracks: 10 Along with the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays were the leadership of the late-'80s/early-'90s terpsichore club-influenced Manchester view, experiencing a brief here and now in the spotlight before collapsing in 1992. While the Stone Roses were based in '60s belt down in the mouth, adding simply a little hint of dance music, Happy Mondays immersed themselves in the golf-club and rave culture, finally decent the most recognisable isthmus of that drug-fueled view. The Mondays' music relied heavily on the legal and calendar method of birth control of house music, spiked with '70s soul licks and swirling '60s psychedelia. It was brilliant, colourful medicine that had fractured melodies that never rather gelled into cohesive songs. Inadvertently or not, Happy Mondays personified the atrocious face of gush culture. They were thugs, purely and simply -- they brought proscribed the latent violence that put down to a lower place the airfoil of any dose finish, even one as seemingly beatific as England's late-'80s/early-'90s mouth off scene. Under the leadership of vocaliser Shaun Ryder, the radical sounded and acted like thugs, peculiarly in comparison with their peace-loving peers, the Stone Roses. Ryder's lyrics were twisted and surrealistic, crocked with outlandish pop acculturation references, drug slang, and forbidding gender. Appropriately, their music was as convoluted. Happy Mondays were one of the first rock bands to integrate hip-hop techniques into their music. They didn't sample, but they borrowed melodies and lyrics and, in the process, attached rock and roll profanation. For a band that historied their vulgarity and excess, Happy Mondays appropriately were undone by their addictions, just they left behind a surprisingly influential bequest, patent in everyone from dance bands like the Chemical Brothers to rock & rollers like Oasis. With their indorsement album, 1988's Bummed, Happy Mondays became British superstars, in particular Ryder. Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, released in 1990, marked the height of the band's popularity, creativity, and influence; although the disc made the Top hundred albums chart in America, it didn't establish them as stars in the U.S. After that, the fall was ready. By the time they released their next studio album, Yes, Please, Manchester had disappeared from public knowingness; it sold respectably, but the group didn't get the commercial impact that they had hardly deuce years earlier. Besides the want of public interest, Shaun Ryder had become addicted to diacetylmorphine, watering the dance band aside in the action. At a upper-level record undertake coming together, Ryder walked verboten for some "KY Fried Chicken," which was the band's slang for diacetylmorphine. He never returned and the group apace fell aside. Ryder and the Mondays' full-time social dancer, Bez, re-emerged in the mid-'90s with Black Grape. The band released its critically acclaimed debut, It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah, late in the summer of 1995. Black Grape's sound chased the same way as the Mondays, only with a harder, grittier boundary to their sound and lyrics. In 2007, 15 days since their last record, the band (negative about half the original members, including guitarist Mark Day) released their one-fifth studio record album, Uncle Dysfunktional.

Dreams Of Freedom

Eva Mendes' nipple too hot for TV

An advertising featuring Hollywood star Eva Mendes rolling around on a bed naked has been prohibited from screening on TV in America.

The ad, for Calvin Klein's new sweetness Secret Obsession, was prohibited because Mendez flashes her nipple in one scene.

"Between love and madness lies obsession," Mendes, 34, says in the ad. "Love ... madness. It's my secret."

An edited version is covering on cable TV in America.

The prohibition has seen the ad�become a strike on the internet, with more than 360,000 views on YouTube in just deuce days.

Calvin Klein president Tom Murry

Witness says R. Kelly, girl were in sex tape

CHICAGO (Reuters) - R&B superstar R. Kelly and a girl who described him as her godfather and was about 13 or 14 are the two people on a pornographic tape Kelly is accused of making, the girl's former best friend testified on Wednesday.


Simha Jamison, now 24, said in the second full day of the Grammy Award-winning artist's trial that she recognized her friend Roshona Landfair on the videotape from her face and from a "mullet" haircut the two girls had gotten together.


"I saw (the tape) in late February 2002," said Jamison, a Chicago hair stylist.


"Who did you believe was the female on that tape?" asked prosecutor Shauna Boliker of the Cook County state's attorney's office.


"I believed it was my best friend, Roshona," she replied.


And the man on the tape, which Jamison was shown again on Wednesday before court?


"Her godfather, R. Kelly," she said, explaining that's how Roshona had introduced the singer.


Kelly is charged with 14 counts of videotaping, producing or soliciting child pornography with a 26-minute tape featuring oral sex, masturbation and other explicit acts. If convicted of all charges, the 41-year-old performer, whose given name is Robert Kelly, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. 

Coldplay - Martin Obama As President Would Change Americas Image

COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN is desperate to see presidential hopeful BARACK OBAMA win the race to the White House - claiming it would completely transform America's global image.

The Yellow hitmaker is rooting for the recently crowned democratic party leader to land the role as the U.S.'s next president, and first black president, insisting it would boost the nation's flailing image as a world superpower.

And the singer is keen to see the U.S. return to its former glowing reputation as a well-run country - because he is a huge fan of the American people.

He tells U.S. magazine Rolling Stone, "If Obama was to be president, it would immediately change the whole outside world's opinion of America overnight.

"America's public image at the moment is really bad. And it's a bummer, because over half of Americans are the coolest people on the planet. But they've been so misrepresented."

The British musician is married to American actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who is the mother of his children, Apple, four, and Moses, two.

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The future of TV is written in Internet leaks

LEAKED: Somebody at my favourite TV blog -- TVtattle.com -- must have let their curiosity do the (net)surfing for them, because they discovered that at least two of this fall�s big new shows have already been leaked to online file-sharing networks, months in advance of their premieres. J. J. Abrams new X-Filesesque Fringe is out there, as is True Blood, Alan �Six Feet Under� Ball�s new vampire show for HBO.

The TVtattle blogger found them on a site called Insomniac Times, whose proprietor posts about alternate energy tech and other geeky stuff along with the odd leaked file that's making its way onto sharing sites like Pirate Bay. A quick search on btjunkie revealed that both shows have already been disseminated pretty widely, with hundreds of �seeders� for True Blood alone.

Now, I realize that I�m being a naughty boy by even talking about this stuff, but the fact is that screeners get leaked all the time and if you�re really hot to see a show, either a few weeks or months after it�s aired or even just as long in advance, chances are you�ll probably be able to find it out there in the internet�s capacious grey zones. The media is usually blamed, but by the time newspapers and magazines have been serviced with sneak previews of new shows, they�ve usually already made their appearance online, put there by someone a bit higher in the screener food chain at the studios or their production and duplication houses.

Having finished product available long before it�s supposed to be broadcast � even if it�s theoretically meant for a select audience � is the real problem, since simple laws of supply and demand, not to mention human nature, means that leaks will happen no matter how much security is put in place. Lawsuits won�t work either, Hollywood homies � just ask your depressed buddies in the music business.

What�s required at this point is a whole new way of looking at production and programming. A change that�s basically revolutionary, if you�re a network executive working with a business model that hasn�t changed since Burns And Allen was a radio show. Forget broadcasting, fall debuts, even seasons; with a pilot in hand, the networks � or any producer with access to a distribution network online � can make a show available and gauge audience response accordingly, all at a fraction of the cost of producing episodes in advance of demand.

Every fall, shows fall by the wayside after just a handful of aired episodes, while even more are in the can. Networks then scramble for replacements for the now-vacant time slot -- much to the consternation of advertisers. Every year, this system looks more and more precarious and the sense of dissatisfaction and anxiety increases, while the audiences have already begun consuming programming the way they want � at their leisure. The future, at least for TV, is now � somebody just has to tell the networks.

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Oscar-winning special-effects guru Stan Winston dies at 62

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood special-effects maestro Stan Winston has died at age 62.

The Oscar-winning visual-effects artist died at his home Sunday evening surrounded by family after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a representative from Stan Winston Studio.

Winston won visual effects Oscars for 1986's "Aliens," 1992's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and 1993's "Jurassic Park."

Winston is survived by his wife, Karen; a son, daughter, brother and four grandchildren.

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