Adan Chalino Sanchez & other: May 2008

Sunday, 25 May 2008

All Dolled up

Dolly Parton wants to be a star.
Yeah, that Dolly. The 62-year-old icon with the legendary decolletage, dozens of gold records and piles of golden hair.
With the release of her latest album, “Backwoods Barbie,” and a world tour that stops at the Opera House on Monday, Parton wants to be the next Carrie Underwood - and not just because she’s taken to popping up on “American Idol.”

It seems odd because Parton already was the next Carrie Underwood when she made her debut on “The Porter Wagoner Show” in 1967. Parton went on to become one of the biggest country stars of the ’70s and ’80s. But after being ignored by the country music machine for a decade, she wants to wedge herself back into the industry and get heard alongside Underwood, Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert.
“I want to get played on country radio,” said Parton from her Nashville, Tenn., headquarters. “Lots of people my age have been dropped from country radio. They’ve been dropped from major labels. But I feel that this album is right for country radio.”
Parton says “Backwoods Barbie” is a mainstream country album. And she’s right, kind of. “Backwoods Barbie” is her most mainstream country record in 20 years. But it may be too uncontrived - a shock considering Parton is the ultimate dolled-up woman - for today’s Nashville to get behind.
The 12 tracks, nine of which were penned by Parton, brim with classic country’s witty but economic wordplay, deep-woods twang and harmonies. It also has some of the brilliant bluegrass she’s spent the past decade making.
“The majors didn’t really want me so I made my own label (Dolly Records) to put it out on,” the Locust Ridge, Tenn., native said. “I’ve always had my own style, but with my backwoods Barbie look, my big hair and big boobs, so it took a long time for people to see that when I started out.
“It might take time, but I think people will realize how young this music is,” she said before adding with a giggle, “There needs to be a stop to this attitude that old people ain’t any good (to) get me back on the radio.”
As of yet, Parton’s been unable to reverse the industry’s entrenched ageism. In February, “Backwoods Barbie” debuted at No. 2 on the country album charts, Parton’s highest first-week sales in almost two decades. It’s since tumbled down the charts.
But the bumps in the road haven’t stopped Parton from taking her own advice and “gettin’ to living.” After a few weeks sidelined by a back injury (insert your own breast joke here), she’s embarked on her biggest tour in years and is simultaneously finishing the music for the upcoming Broadway version of her hit movie, “9 to 5.”
“Oh, yeah, I’ll be staying busy,” she said. “I’ve got to head over to Europe for a big tour and I’ll keep writing. I know how to keep going, so that’s what I’ll do. Lots about me from my hair to my eyelashes is fake, but the show I put on and songs I write ain’t.”
Maybe that’s why Dolly hasn’t broken through with today’s country audiences: They like real hair and eyelashes - and fake music.
Dolly Parton, at the Opera House, Monday. Tickets: $95-$55; 617-931-2000.

Thursday, 22 May 2008

She-Raw

Artist: She-Raw

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Beauty and The Beats

Year: 2005
Tracks: 19

Hux Flux

Saturday, 10 May 2008

New U2 movie premieres at Sundance

U2's newly concert film 'U2 3D' premiered at the Sundance Movie Festival in Park Urban center, UT on Sabbatum night.
Speech production to the Associated Exhort ahead the screening, U2 guitar player The Edge said: "I was truly hoping we weren't shit after wholly these long time. As luck would have it we weren't."
He was joined at the screening by singer Bono, drummer Larry Mullen and bassist Adam Clayton.
Commenting on eyesight himself in 3D on a cinema filmdom, Bono said: "It's kind of horrific. It's badly enough on a small screen. At present you experience to see the lard fundament 40-foot tall."
The flick, which is the first digital 3D, multi-camera, real time production, will be shown at Cineworld, Movies at Dundrum and Movies at Swords - altogether in Capital of Ireland - from 22 Feb. It will as well be screened at SGC Dungarvan in Co Waterford.

Talk Radio Host James Whale Fired For Boris Endorsement

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Williams 'devastated' by Heath Ledger's death

Actress Michelle Sir Bernard Williams, the mother of Heath Ledger's two-year-old horse girl, is reported to be "devastated" by the news of the actor's prematurely destruction.
Leger was found dead in his New House of York apartment yesterday and constabulary ar presently investigation whether the Australian star, wHO was 28-years-old, died as a result of a drugs o.d..
According to People.com, William Carlos Williams was on location in Sweden with the couple's daughter Matilda when she received news of his last.
Ledger and Hiram King Williams had a three-year relationship together, though they separate last yr. A rootage close to the 27-year-old actress told Citizenry: "She's devastated."
The source adds: "I can't believe Matilda is going to grow up without a daddy, without knowing her padre. And that Michelle will have to share with having a daughter who's doomed her father. She's a survivor. She'll pretend it, just it's release to be hard. Her first concern is release to be Matilda."

Nadine Coyle dating Josh Hartnett?

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle is rumoured to be dating Hollywood actor Banter Hartnett.
The pair take been spotted together in LA several times in the last week, according to the Day by day Star.
A source told the paper: "The whole of Hollywood was talking nearly Banter and this somewhat Irish whisky girl. Non everyone knows Girls Out loud here so the great unwashed were trying to work come out of the closet world Health Organization this stunning daughter was.
"They were spotted at [temp Oscar venue] Blanco 101 looking really much like a couple and chatting over drinks until the betimes hours."
Last month Derry-born star Nadine split with 'Desperate Housewives' thespian Jesse Metcalfe afterwards an on-off relationship.
She of late dismissed guess that she was preparing to take leave Girls Loud.

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