Benefit Concert Rocks to Help Deaf Child Hear

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Help Me Hear
Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to giving listening restoration devices to
broken deaf children, is putting on a benefit concert to raise funds
to purchase a cochlear implant for a deaf child. "Help Me Hear the Music!"
will take place on Friday, August 22 at The Fine Line Music Cafe in
Minneapolis, MN.

The goal of the welfare concert is to lift money to purchase a
cochlear imbed for Erickson, a deaf Honduran boy. Tickets to the benefit
concert are just $15.

All yield will go directly toward Erickson's cochlear implant,
implant surgery, and follow up therapy.

Erickson was innate profoundly deaf, and has lived his life without
hearing a single sound. Even the most advanced hearing aIDS will not help
Erickson hear sounds -- he is completely deaf. A cochlear implant will
electrically stimulate Erickson's inside ear and allow him the chance
to hear sounds. Due to the fact that his class lives in poverty, his
parents cannot afford the cost of a cochlear implant on their have.

Seven bands have joined "Help Me Hear the Music!" to ensure the benefit
concert is a success. All seven bands will be playing the concert on a no
fee basis to point their support for Erickson and the thousands of other
impoverished deaf children in demand of a cochlear implant.

The Abdomen, a Minneapolis-based sibling pop-rock band, testament headline
the show with a vernal and sophisticated performance that has brought
them increasing popularity and recognition. Linden brings contagious energy
to the captain Hicks member band's already tricky lyrics. Breanne Duren, wHO recently
released her self-titled debut album, has an indie-pop heavy that is
supported by her strong piano. Dane Schmidt of Jamestown Story brings an
alternative acoustic sound certain to please fans of all genres of music. The
Voice of Sleep, an up-and-coming duette from Bemidji, Minnesota, has recently
been compared to the likes of Sigur Ros and Copeland. Alicia Wiley, the
2004 Minnesota Music Awards Best Female Vocalist, is an super talented
jazz pianist with a tonic voice. Danielle Thrush has a great, yet
sensual, voice that leads a talented band through soulful melodies.

The doors of The Fine Line Music Cafe will open at 8:00 pm and the
music will start at 9:00 pm. This is an 18+ show, just there will be a full
bar for those 21 and older. The Fine Line Music Cafe is placed at 318
First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN. Please confabulate their web site at
hTTP://www.finelinemusic.com for more information.

Tickets bathroom be purchased in advanced either by contacting Help Me Hear
Foundation at (651) 361-8073 or calling the Fine Line Music Cafe ticket
office staff at (612) 338-8100. Tickets will as well be available at the door.

Help Me Hear Foundation

hypertext transfer protocol://www.helpmehearfoundation.info

Contact:

Brent Lucas

651-361-8073

blucas@helpmehearfoundation.org




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RZA, Kim Gordon, and Albert Hammond Jr. Make You a Summer Playlist

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What jams are rocking RZA's iTunes these days? And what beats are bumping in Albert Hammond Jr.'s ride? In this week's magazine, we asked members of five New York bands (also including Free Kitten's Kim Gordon, the Jealous Girlfriends' Alex Lipsen, and Pistolera's Sandra Lilia Velasquez) to make playlists for classic New York summer activities. Then Vulture tirelessly uploaded all the tracks to Muxtape for your listening pleasure. Hear all five playlists, after the jump!



• RZA's "Staten Island Ferry Ride" playlist [Muxtape]

• Albert Hammond Jr.'s "Upstate Weekend" playlist [Muxtape]

• The Jealous Girlfriends' "Prospect Park Picnic" playlist [Muxtape]

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Harrison Ford to marry Fockhart this summer?

'Indiana Jones' star Harrison Ford is reported to be planning to marry long-term girlfriend Calista Flockhart in a low-key ceremony this summer.
The couple met at the Golden Globe awards in 2002 and have been dating ever since. The marriage, should it go-ahead, will be Ford's third following two previously unsuccessful marriages.
Flockhart has not previously wed, though she has a son named Liam whom she adopted in 2001.
According to the National enquirer, 65-year-old Ford was reportedly reluctant to wed again following his divorces, but has finally decided to wed the 43-year-old former 'Ally McBeal' star.
A source told the tabloid: "He said he'd marry Calista as soon as he's finished with the promotional work for the new 'Indiana Jones' movie - and Calista is holding him to his promise."

Tanzmann & Stefanik / Daniel Stefanik

   
Artist: Tanzmann & Stefanik / Daniel Stefanik

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Bad Ass Mixes Vinyl

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2

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Laura Barton likens the magnitude and awe of the Mississippi river to music

Taiguara

   
Artist: Taiguara

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Latin
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Serie Meus Momentos

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 18


   
 Imyra, tayra, ipy, taiguara

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 14


   
 Piano e Viola

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 12


   
 Viagem

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 11


   
 Hoje

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 13


   
 Taiguara

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 11

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A very popular creative person in the '70s in Brazil, Taiguara is unruffled remembered dear for his sensitive interpretations (for successes care "Helena, Helena, Helena" and "Modinha") and compositions like "Hoje," "Universo do Teu Corpo," and "Viagem."


Taiguara came to Brazil at little Joe with his household and they settled first in Rio and then in São Paulo. He debuted as a isaac Bashevis Singer in university festivals when he was a police force pupil. Abandoning the course, he joined the Sambalanço Trio in 1964. Taiguara recorded his kickoff LP the succeeding yr. From 1966 on, he became more than known for his involvement in historic festivals. In 1966, he taken "Não de Morre de Mal de Amor" (Reginaldo Bessa) and "Chora, Coração" (Vinícius de Moraes/Baden Powell) in the I FIC (International Song Festival). In the succeeding yr, he presented his songs "Eu Quis Viver" (with Cido Bianchi) and "Cantar" (Roberto Menescal) in the I FIC. In 1968, he north Korean won first property in 2 festivals: the Brasil Canta festival with "Modinha" (Sérgio Bittencourt) and the II FMPB (Brazilian Popular Music Festival) with "Helena, Helena, Helena" (Alberto Land). In 1970, he recorded Viagem, with the championship track conclusion up as one of his biggest hits. Having political problems with the military dictatorship in Brazil, Taiguara asleep for a stay of one and a half years in London, England (where he recorded an album). Upon his refund, he began a collaboration with Hermeto Pascoal in experimental projects as an orchestrator. The partnership yielded the LP Imyra, Tayra, Ipy, Taiguara (1975). Due to problems with censoring, he credited several of his songs to his married woman, Ge Chalar da Silva.

Fingathing

   
Artist: Fingathing

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Rap: Hip-Hop
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Time Capsule: the First Five Years of Fingathing

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Superhero Music

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 22


   
 The Main Event

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17

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The instrumental rap music duet of DJ Saint Peter the Apostle Yardbird Parker and bassist Sneaky started playing as Fingathing in 1999. Tool Charles Christopher Parker was a sleeping accommodation DJ observed by Mark Rae of trip-hoppers Rae & Christian at a DMC competition in 1997; Sneaky -- a classically trained bassist -- was operative in a popular Manchester club when the pair off met. Their number single full-length, Main Event, was issued in 2000 on Rae's 1000 Telephone exchange label. Live dates, including a stint opening for DJ Phantasm, followed the discharge of their sophomore campaign, Superhero Medicine, in 2002.

$52,100 for Sex and the City date

$52,100 for Sex and the City date

A Japanese 'Sex and the City' fan is set to pay $52,hundred (€33,C) to see the premier of the fresh film of the impinge on situation comedy with Kristin Davis, one of the stars of the show.
The fair sex, wHO outbid lots of other fans to the prize in an eBay auction, testament too receive a professional hair and catch up with styling and a copulate of Jemmy Choos for the boastfully bash on 27 May.
Davis, wHO played straight-laced brunet Charlotte in the series and reprises the theatrical role in the film, has revealed that she participated in the auction sale on behalf of the charity Oxfam America, a branch of Oxfam Worldwide.
She told US Weekly: "Oxfam's mission is to alleviate poverty and injustice by helping people larn skills and create lives.
"I just got gage from Africa and byword firsthand that we're making a long-term difference. It gave me a sensory faculty of atonement."




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Golden Globes ceremony cancelled

Golden Globes ceremony cancelled

This year's Golden Globes ceremony has been cancelled afterward actors vowed to boycott the event in sustenance of contact Hollywood writers.
The ceremony is to be replaced with a press conference and scaled-back red River carpet event, organisers have confirmed
The Hollywood Foreign Urge on Association said in a program line the hour-long case will be covered by the word class of telecasting network NBC.
The fate of the Golden Globes - due to be held in Beverly Hills on Billy Sunday - had been hanging in the balance ever since striking writers vowed to put up picket lines around the awards show.
On Friday, the Screen Actors Society (Sag down) announced that its members would not cross pale lines limit up by writers, wHO ar locked in a bitter dispute with flick and television system producers.
It straightaway called into question plans for the dinner jacket dinner and awards presentations, which ar unremarkably televised know.Hollywood screenwriters have been on strike since 5 Nov, after the Alignment of Motion Picture and Video Producers (AMPTP) failed to agree terms for a freshly sign.




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Dierks Bentley adds dates before 'Mile' run

Dierks Bentley adds dates before 'Mile' run

Country star Dierks Bentley [ tickets ] has added a handful of new shows to the springtime parcel of his ongoing trek as he gets make to drop a new greatest-hits collecting on fans.The vocaliser faces the busiest stretch out of his flow schedule this calendar month and next, with 20 cities on the calendar through the end of May. Bentley has more than 40 shows go under through summer, with additions to the outing arriving on a fixture foundation. Totally of the singer's presently scheduled shows ar included downstairs.Bentley let his fans adjudicate the title, racecourse sequencing and cover artistry for his forthcoming "Greatest Hits: Every Nautical mile A Memory 2003-2008," which is due in stores Crataegus oxycantha 6. The performer unveiled the results of online vote April 1 during a "townsfolk hall meeting" on his internet site.The accumulation features to the highest degree of Bentley's Top 10 singles, as well as live versions of several of his hits and iI newly cuts, "With the Band" and "Sweetness Wilderness," the latter featuring guest vocals from land singer/songwriter Sarah Buxton.In the interim, Bentley continues to support 2006's "Long Trip Alone," his third gear studio album.

REM to headline Oxegen

REM to headline Oxegen

REM have been confirmed as one of the headliners at this year's Oxegen Festival.
Michael Stipe and Co join Kings of Leon for the extended trey twenty-four hours event which takes place from 11 to 13 July at Punchestown Racetrack, Naas, Co Kildare.
Stipe attended the festival shoemaker's last year during recordings for the band's forthcoming album 'Accelerate'. The record album is adjust for spill on 1 Apr and was recorded in Co Westmeath.
'Supernatural Superserious' is the first single to be taken from the new record album, and is now available digitally.  
Tickets for Oxegen testament go on pre-sale to those registered on the festival's web site from Monday 3 MArch at 8am until 8pm on Thursday 6 Borderland, express to four-spot tickets per person. Tickets go on general sale on Fri 7 March at 8am.
With the event extended to deuce-ace years, the camping ground volition open on the Thursday night for fans want to get an early on spot. However, promoters MCD will be charging an additional €20 for the privilege of acquiring at that place early.

A sharp turn for Death Cab for Cutie

A sharp turn for Death Cab for Cutie

CHRIS WALLA of Death Cab for Cutie thinks that the volatile state of the download-ravaged book industry calls for a fresh room to step commercial message success. "It's like firedog years nowadays," the guitar player figures. "Every unity record you sell actually stands for seven-spot."

Based in Seattle, where Walla and singer-guitarist Ben Gibbard formed the band as a home-recording fancy in 1997, Last Cab has sold about 1 1000000 copies of 2005's "Plans," its debut for Atlantic Ocean after a bowed stringed instrument of albums released by Barsuk, a hometown indie. Yet Walla says that the identification number of masses the radical plays to on tour indicates an consultation a lot larger than that. "Perchance 'Plans' would've been a 7-million-selling record in 1994!" he exclaims.

Ace trillion or 7 trillion -- either figure makes Death Cab, which besides includes bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Jason McGerr, one of the highest-profile acts of the Apostles in option rock right directly. Subsequently this month the banding will perform alongside Jack President Andrew Johnson and Roger Ethel Waters at the Coachella Valley Music & Humanities Festival in Indio, and on May 13, it's scheduled to tone ending a highly anticipated fresh album, "Pin down Stairs."




















Coachella founder Paul Tollett remembers Death Cab's involvement in the festival's 2004 edition (and engagement the band at the Looking glass Theater in Pomona advantageously before that). "It's a all different animate being now," he says.

Gibbard, seated with the perch of the radical at the Le Parc Suite Hotel in Dame Rebecca West Hollywood, agrees. "This band has grown bigger than any of our wildest dreams," the frontman admits.

With that success has come a renewed willingness to experiment. Though Gibbard and his bandmates assert they made no conscious attack to challenge their fans' expectations, "Pin down Stairs" represents something of a left turn for Death Cabriolet: Where "Plans" emphasized the band's well-known knack for pretty, introspective indie pop, the newly CD explores thornier, noisier territory. "I Volition Possess Your Heart," for example, runs for more than ashcan School transactions, the offset quaternary of which proceed without Gibbard's hallmark sensitive-male vocals.

"I don't think we sabbatum devour and said, 'Let's write a 1 and make it really long,' " Harmer says. "In the soundbox of songs that we recorded, it just matte up like this was the charles Herbert Best representation of the album as a whole."

"We weren't certainly it was sledding to work as we were recording it," adds Walla, wHO also produces Death Cab's records. "Merely after it was done, every time we'd rewind and listen to the whole thing, it never got old. You know that's going away to encounter with a three-minute bingle -- the point of it is that you canful listen to it over and over. Just the fact that it was occurrent with something so long was really compelling."

A little more lively

GIBBARD says that as a resultant of the heavy touring Death Cabriolet did in support of "Plans," he "rediscovered riffing on the electric guitar" spell authorship the new album's songs, and that lED to a change in how the band operates in the studio. It recorded much of "Narrow down Stairs" know, with entirely quartet members of the band playing simultaneously. Harmer calls the action a reaction to their get making "Plans," which entailed "each player seance in the control room playing along to what other people had already played."

"It wasn't around brilliant divine revelation," Gibbard acknowledges. "The approach we took is 1 that people were pickings for the start 30 or 40 geezerhood of making rock records. Only in our digital reality, there's this attention to detail that's perchance non so necessary."

Focusing to a lesser extent on detail than on the big scene made the frontman feel like he was "making music rather than recording," he says. "On our previous records I know I didn't fiddle as often music as I did on this 1. That was very satisfying; I mind to it now and remember when we were altogether in the lapp room and this thing happened."

True to Death Cab's indie-scene roots, no one in the banding testament pick up to any anxiety o'er how "Constringe Stairs," with its unexpected break from a proven pattern, power perform commercially. "I would ne'er want to make any decisiveness based alone on trying to substantiate or trump what we achieved with 'Plans,' " says Gibbard. "Those kinds of conversations never exist betwixt us. In this day and age, what could possibly be the next spirit level, anyhow? What could we be hoping to reach?"

"Toby jug Keith could be curtain raising for us," Walla deadpans.

"There's no contention in us," Harmer admits with a laugh. "The Daniel Plainview in this band is at an all-time first gear."

Non surprisingly, Atlantic President Julie Greenwald isn't quite as nonchalant nigh the newly album's performance -- she "can't opine ['Narrow Stairs'] not doing the sami business sector ['Plans'] did." According to Greenwald, "the tonality to merchandising records at present is to be in a project for the long haul. There's no acquiring in and acquiring come out."

To that end, Greenwald says Atlantic Ocean plans to work "Pin down Stairs" for 12 to 18 months, a job she expects testament be made easier by Death Cab's popularity among Hollywood music supervisors, wHO batten songs for films, goggle box and commercials, and by its extensive touring commitments. The band's Coachella date comes in the thick of a two-month North American trek that too includes appearances at Tennessee's Bonnaroo and Booker T. Washington State's Bigfoot! festivals.

That long-term thinking matches the direction the members of Expiry Cab for Cutie think about the band. "For me," says Harmer, "the fact that we're still a band and we drive to draw another album is the biggest marker of success."

Walla is more philosophical. "What we've accomplished is the result of a combination of talent, luck and work," he says. "I'd like to cerebrate it's talent more than the other deuce, just it's belike moderately even betwixt the trey. I cognize so many great bands where it's like, 'Why aren't you famous?' But they never volition be. Cipher decides that form of poppycock."

BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed

BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed

Details of the house that contestants will survive in for the fresh series 'Big Brother: Famous person Hijack' accept been revealed.
This year no celebrities will enter the 'Big Brother' house but well-known personalities testament instead act as Vauntingly Comrade, context tasks and making the rules for the housemates, wHO are a group of talented young people, including scientists and acrobats.
The freshly house volition feature article Banksy-style stencilling and graffiti on the walls, with 12 unity beds for the housemates to rest in.
The Diary Room president is atomic number 10 purple and the bedroom walls are decorated with a Brits cityscape.
The garden has an intimate hot tubful rather of a swim puddle and the housemates will also experience access to a gym.
Dermot O'Leary is due to present the new series with Davina McCall returning to acquaint the summer serial of 'Big Brother'.
A Canal 4 statement said: "The indistinguishability of the celebs pickings part cadaver tightly under wraps, merely their calculate volition be simple: putt their revenue stamp on the activities in the 'Big Brother' firm and broadly causation mischief-making."