Archive for February, 2008.
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Naomi in
Madonna Madonna is in the process of recording her final album for her long-standing record label Warner Brothers Records. The LP will be in released on April 29, 2008 and the title would be “Hard Candy”. This album will be the eleventh for the singer-songwriter, Madonna. This will be the last album that she has to record according to the terms of her contract with the label. The recording and release of this new studio album will signal the completion and end of the Warner Brothers Records contract. Hard Candy will be in released in the United States on April 29th and on April 28 in the United Kingdom. Other European countries will see it released on April 25th of 2008. Some of the other European countries include Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
Many of Madonna’s past albums have not involved too many collaborators. Nevertheless, this new album is different because the singer-songwriter has enlisted numerous collaborators on her Hard Candy project and some of them are Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Danja, et al. The first single on the album is “Four Minutes” and features R&B sensation Justin Timberlake. Madonna’s fans and music lovers can hardly wait for a new album from the female pop legend.
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Naomi in
concert The World Peace One forum, a non profitable organization with the sole objective of bringing peace to this world, has signed many top musicians from all over the world to perform for the peace campaign international concerts that are starting from May 17th of 2008. The World Peace One founder, Doug Ivanovich, has said that the group is in discussions with performers like U2, Justin Timberlake, Aerosmith, Madonna, Lionel Richie, Led Zeppelin, INXS, Celine Dion, Timbaland and ZZ Top.
The World Peace One group is also trying to rope in a few international artists like Gilberto Gil, Linox, Ivan Lins from Brazil; Trollmates and Jane Zhang from China; Turkish musician Tarkan; LadySmith Black Mambazo, Saer and Tamara Day from Africa. Ivanovich says that discussions are one thing and the artists taking part in this novel concept is another thing. He said that the group wants to end all the wars by the end of their 10 year period and they intend to promote and develop the largest people’s movement the world has ever seen. The series of concerts that kick starts in Beijing on May 17th will travel to places like London, Johannesburg, Miami, Istanbul, Portugal, Brazil, India, Puerto Rico, United Arab Emirates and possibly a lot more countries.
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Naomi in
concert The major summer tour of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers has been announced. The band will tour across U.S and Canada and millions of fans are expected to watch this band perform at different places. The coming summer tour will confirm the position of the band as one of the best in the music world. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have already created history by performing in the biggest live event the “half time show of the super bowl XLII”. The performance of the band in this event has given a preview of their program, which is going to hit U.S and Canada.
The summer tour will have special supporting act to enhance the entertainment. Some of the earlier tours had performances by The All Man Brothers, Pearl Jam, Jackson Browne, Steve Nicks and The Strokes. This years tour shows will have opening performance by the legendary Steve Winwood. The concerts of this group is really an entertainment package for music lovers as they will get a chance to see the live performance of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as well as by other great music personalities. The hit songs that are expected to be performed in this tour include “I won’t Back Down”, “American Girl”, “Runnin’Down a Dream” etc.
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Naomi in
top The Brit Awards ceremony that was organized at the Earls Court venue in London on the 20th of February 2008 was a roaring success and all the top glamour and glitz personalities from Britain had attended this gala musical awards ceremony. The best part of the show was the Arctic Monkeys accepting their award for the best British album dressed in true British country style with decoy ducks, flasks of whisky and a horn. Amy Winehouse, the Grammy winner of 2008, sent a televised love message to her imprisoned husband and this was the most touching moment of the entire show. The star of the evening was none other than Paul McCartney, whose five song medley got a vociferous appreciation from the capacity audience.
The Award for the Best British Group went to Arctic Monkeys and the Award for the Best International Album and Group went to the Foo Fighters. Take That walked away with two awards, Best Single and Best Live Act. The International Solo artist Male and Female were bagged by Kayne West and Kylie Minogue respectively. The British Male and Female Solo Artist went to Mark Ronson and Kate Nash respectively. Adele won the critics Award and the British Breakthrough Award was bagged by Mika.
The very popular Australian rock band AC/DC who had not released an album for the past eight years are getting geared up to hit the studios once again to record their new album form march 1st. The group’s bassist, Cliff Williams, who is on a tour to Los Angeles to take part in the Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp revealed that the long wait for the fans of AC/DC will be over quickly as the band has decided to team up once again to record their new music “God, I’m Ready”.
Williams said that there have not been any concrete decisions taken on tour plans as yet, and one will never know when any tour plan will get materialized. But, Williams is very optimistic and says that he expects to be on a tour with the AC/DC band pretty soon. The AC/DC band performed on stage for the last time in early 2001 and Cliff Williams was very much touched in seeing the small kids of 10 to 12 years old enjoying the music sitting on their Dad’s shoulders. Williams wants to see a repeat of the same now and was overjoyed to see the fans enjoying the bassist performing the AC/DC bands classic numbers at the Rock Camp.
Justin Timberlake’s acting career is on a high as he has signed to star in an upcoming drama called the Open Road. He has not only shown his prowess in the music arena but also has shown some of his acting skills in Southland Tales and Black Snake Moan. Timberlake has received critical acclaims for the supporting role he did in Alpha Dog. Justin also has signed to star along with the likes of Jeff Bridges and Mary Steenburgen as his father and mother respectively, in the Independent film to be directed by Meredith.
The story of this independent film revolves around a young man to be played by Timberlake who heads home to get reconnected with his athlete father and an ailing mother. Justin Timberlake is tipped to be the next Super sex star by many people and his female fan following will be waiting anxiously for the release of his new film. Kate Mara, The Brokeback Mountain actress, is to play the role of Timberlake’s girlfriend in the movie. Timberlake will also be starring as an athlete named Jacques Grande in the upcoming comedy flick The Love Guru. As the acting career graph is now going up the rise, there is no surprise that this musical genius will also rule the roast in the film world.
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Naomi in
album Britney Spears who was in news for a variety of wrong reasons is planning to take “Blackout” her recent album to be publicized internationally. So she has decided to start a world tour with a series of performances around the world. She is planning to have a private one month training session for the shows to be done abroad and will leave the country in the coming month. In recent days Britney who isn’t allowed to see her own kids, was spending much time with the kids on the dance floor of the Millennium Complex in Los Angeles.
Britney spent more than one hour teaching the kids some dance steps for the tunes of Madonna. The kids aged between 4 -7 were unable to recognize the pop star but enjoyed dancing with Britney for the Madonna classics “Material girl”, “True Blue” and “Holiday”. It appeared that Britney was also enjoying the company of kids and the dance session with them was a great relaxation for her, after all the bad things happened in her life recently. Hopefully for her and for fans the coming world tour will be a great come back to regain her lost position in the pop - music world.
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Naomi in
concert The famous Vienna Mozart Orchestra founded in the year 1986 is the World’s most famous as well as the best Orchestra and any music lover will cherish the concert done by them. It is a group of able musicians from Viennese Orchestras and from other music groups. The members of this orchestra are dedicated to the Classical Symphonic Music and want to preserve the traditional culture of music in Vienna. Vienna Mozart Orchestra has thirty musicians exclusively dedicated in cultivating awareness about the “King of Symphony” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The orchestra gives performances of Mozart’s Symphonies, Instrumental concerts using violin, piano and other wind instruments and famous duets taken from his operas.
Vienna Mozart Orchestra will be a feast to the ears with all the musical instruments played with accuracy to bring out the best of Mozart’s creations. This year Vienna Mozart Concert will take place at the different venues across Vienna and music lovers from allover the world are expected to attend the concert which proclaims the Viennese Culture of music and concert at its best. The orchestra is really successful in doing justice to the compositions of the most accomplished musician the world has seen till date.
Led Zeppelin is the only rock band that has been able to see all of their released music albums reach the U.S. list of music and top the Billboard Top 10 music charts. The highly loved and followed Led Zeppelin have were initially formed in year 1968 and was composed of only four members, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones namely. The rock band Led Zeppelin has created as well as maintained a very stable record of being a band that is known for selling much more than a whopping 301 million albums in the life span of the band. This band plans to go on tour very soon however the dates of this tour and its destinations depends solely on how the bands front man Robert Plant reacts and adjusts to a tentative plan placed before him. Plant has suspected that he might possess a certain amount of personal issues with list of more preferred cities and others have shown concern over conflicting concert dates.
You can get your town discovered through Bon Jovi’s Lost Highway World Tour this 2008. Read on and learn how you can do this.
Bon Jovi has always made it a point to see their fans from all over the world through their world tours. They announced on January 24 this year that they are asking their fans to make a video as a tribute to their town, showcasing its uniqueness. They can then submit their video to the Bon Jovi Loves My Town! contest.
Bon Jovi’s world theme revolves around their song ‘I Love This Town’ from the successful 2007 album Lost Highway. Videos that will win this contest will be given a chance to show to the world their towns’ people, places, tourist attractions, and other things that set their towns apart from others. The videos will be voted on by judges and also by fans.
The winning video will be made into a multi-million dollar video presentation of the band’s ‘I Love This Town’ song. The contest’s grand prize winner also gets the chance to watch the concert from the stage. There will also be 10 second-placers who will each receive a copy of an autographed Lost Highway CD.
