 Artist: Alannah Myles: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop Blues Alannah Myles's discography:  Rocking Horse Year: 1992 Tracks: 10  Alannah Myles Year: 1989 Tracks: 10 Toronto rock'n'roll singer Alannah Myles exhausted several long time struggling unsuccessfully to batten down a Canadian record handle, so she and songwriting collaborator Christopher Ward place their sights confederacy of the edge. Myles recorded a demonstration and picture for the birdcall "Just One Kiss," which got the attention of several companies and complete up on her self-titled 1989 debut album. "Lovemaking Is" established her in her home rural area and made Alannah Myles the biggest-selling debut in Canadian history, just it was the smoky, carnal "Black Velvet" that became a worldwide hit, attain number one and only in the U.S. An American release of "Sexual love Is" fizzled as a followup, and Myles thus far remains something of a one-hit wonderment to U.S. audiences. She released a follow-up album, Rockinghorse, in 1992. |
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Mp3 music: Alannah Myles
Monday, 11 August 2008
'Mythbusters' Blows Up -- Literally
Steaks, ninjas and moon landings highlight the latest episodes of Discovery Channel hit "Mythbusters," which starts a run of new episodes tonight (9 ET/PT).
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Eclectic topics, to be sure. But that's precisely what's made science-based "Mythbusters" enduring and endearing to viewers. With an appeal that spreads far beyond laboratory geeks and pre-teens who enjoy watching poppycock being winded up, "Mythbusters" was Discovery's top-performing series during the first quarter of 2008 and has been among its to the highest degree popular shows since 2005.
The first of 11 new episodes aims at boeuf lovers as hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage do what they do best � use pyrotechny and explosives, this sentence to determine their suitableness as steak tenderizers.
Separately, the show's "build team" of Kari Byron, Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci comport an every bit thorough series of experiments in an abandoned suburban subdivision to determine what kind of driver gets better gas mileage: stressed-out or relaxed?
Hyneman and Savage � special-effects experts with top Hollywood pedigrees � have been using science to harbour TV audiences since 2003, determining the validity of more than 300 urban legends, myths, folklore, sayings and oddities. Can you actually tear fish in a gun barrel? (The impact wave from the heater kills the fish.) Use chili peppers to revolt sharks? (Nope.) Find a needle in a haystack? (Possibly.)
"The register is entertainment, but the science part is intended to be thought-provoking," says Hyneman, noting a doozy of an episode Aug. 27 examining the opening that the government arranged the moon landings of 1969 and the early 1970s.
Frequently, the pair will conduct thorough experiments to prove � or confute � a point. Tonight's meat-tenderizing procedures include military explosives, laundry dryers, 40-foot-long air cannons and testing devices similar to the government's.
Yet voice of what makes "Mythbusters" a success is the interaction of the subdued Hyneman with the more playful, excitable Savage, a former child actor. The pair's popularity has earned appearances on talk shows and cameos, including CBS hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Steel Trap - movie review
If companies can still get sued for false advertising, I have a case against Dimension
Extreme. Steel Trap is anything but what Dimension makes it out to be. The DVD cover
art shows a woman inside a steel trap and the tagline reads, "surviving each floor
is the name of the game." One can only conclude that the film involves victims escaping
steel traps. Right?
Wrong. If Steel Trap was actually about surviving different floors of horrific traps
and surprises, it might have made for a decent Saturday night guilty pleasure. There
are no steel traps, though. Not one.
The movie begins with promise but quickly becomes a run-of-the-mill, below-average
serial killer flick. The victims are guests at an extravagant party at the top of
an abandoned building. A short while into the party, five of them receive text message
invites to a private gathering being held a few floors down.
Once the guests (and two uninvited crashers) arrive, they discover a well-decorated
room with name tags waiting for each of them. The tags read: Pig, Loser, Two-Faced,
Loverboy, and Heartless. The invited guests have been tricked. (Didn't see that coming,
did ya!?) A psychopath has locked them inside the abandoned floors, and their name
tags hint at the methods he will use to kill them.
Imagine a golfer with perfect form, but who stops swinging as soon as he makes contact
with the ball. It would be a disaster; spectators would laugh. And audiences wil
l laugh at Steel Trap. It has potential, but doesn't know what to do with it. Screenwriters
Garbrielle Galanter and Luis C�mara (who also directs) have good ideas, but they don't
follow through. Instead of expanding upon the lines the film draws for itself during
the first act, it scribbles off the page with the penmanship of a Kindergartener.
As soon as the first guest meets his demise, the plot loses all of its momentum and becomes
a frail clothesline for unmemorable slasher sequences.
Aside from the lack of steel traps, the film's other plot points disappoint, as well.
The guests do ascend and decend floors as the tagline suggests, but there are no
surprises or even traps in store, only a masked killer who chases them while they
scamper around like decapitated chickens. The nametag gimmick isn't developed thoroughly,
nor is it taken far enough. There just isn't much that makes Steel Trap worth a gander.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Michelle Williams - The Things They Say 8399
"(It's) something you can look back on at the end of your life and think, 'That was a cool thing I did when I was 27." Actress MICHELLE WILLIAMS was delighted to attend her first Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday (22May08).
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Nas Says Jay Electronica Is 'The Whole Package'; LL Cool J Is Ready To Prove He's The G.O.A.T.: Mixtape Monday
Don't panic: We're not changing our format. We're just scaling back this week.
Why? To devote more coverage to our "Hottest MCs in the Game" list. Elsewhere on MTVNews.com, you can see the full 2008 list -- and the debate it's sure to incite.
Next week, we're back big, bold and with a loud bow-wow. Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound will be giving us the ins and outs of their new mixtape with DJ Drama.
This week, we won't leave you totally in a lurch: We have Nas talking about a young artist who's motivated him, and DJ Kay Slay is working with one of the great legends.
Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week
» DJ 31 Degreez and Plies - My World
» DJ Messiah , Jim Jones and Max B - The Blues Brothers (The End of the Wave)
» The Empire - Southern Slang 10
» The Hitmen and 50 Cent - This Is 50
» J. Period, Skillz and Don Cannon - Design of a Decade
'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar
» Bun B (featuring Lupe Fiasco) - "Swang on 'Em"
» Lil Wayne (featuring Kanye West) - "Lollipop" remix
» Lloyd Banks - "Top Five"
» N.E.R.D. (featuring C.R.S. and Pusha T) - "Everybody Nose" remix
» Quan (featuring Lyfe Jennings) - "Baby I'm a Star"
» Raekwon and Ghostface Killah - "Necro"
The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground
Nas and Jay are working together tough -- newcomer Jay Electronica, not Roc Boy Jay-Z. The Queens legend is giving the upstart a chance to shine on Nas' controversially titled LP Nigger.
"When I met Jay Electronica, he handed me a CD and said, 'You gotta hear this one song,' " Nas recalled. " ... I put it in the car, and he did 'The World Is Yours' over. The way he flipped it was crazy. I called him immediately and was like, 'Where you at?'
"Jay Electronica is the future," he added. "He's what rappers are trying to be or what they are aspiring to be. He's the whole package. He has visual ideas for videos, and he could show you what he's been working on. He has a whole different take on his production. The guy's an incredible writer. I like his music. He was like, 'Let's go. Let's get in the studio.' He gave me a lot of his time." ...
LL Cool J is almost done with his first-ever mixtape, The Return of the G.O.A.T., and DJ Kay Slay is assisting him in making that happen. The Drama King says L will also have guests such as Busta Rhymes on the street CD. "Anybody that's featured on the mixtape has to be on a classic LL beat," Kay said.
The Harlem street figure also told us that Cool J wanted to heat things up in advance of his Exit 13 LP. "LL's got an album coming out," Slay continued. "I think he's just aware that he has to have that street presence and make people aware he still is the G.O.A.T. and he can still spit. A lot of people are under the misconception that LL is making those grown-and-sexy records, that he ain't with the street vibe anymore. I think he wanted to step back and let people know he's still the G.O.A.T."
Slay -- who also helped Ray J put together All I Feel -- is working on his next hip-hop compilation, More Than a DJ. The lineup includes, of all people, Uncle Murda. Everyone knows there's been a long feud between Murda's faction and Slay and Papoose's camp.
"At the end of the day, their camp has a lot of individuals that got common sense just like me and my camp," Slay said of how the beef turned peaceful. "Wasn't nobody gonna benefit from the situation. We already know where situations that spill from music into the streets could go at."
Slay said Hood, his former partner and Murda's current manager, reached out so they could cease all the nonsense.
Cool J's mixtape is dropping in a couple of weeks. Slay's album will be out before the end of the year.
Now that you've checked out our "Hottest MCs in the Game" show, we want to know what MCs you're feeling! Keep the debate rolling by submitting your own top-10 list below or heading to YouRHere.MTV.com to upload your video reaction. And the hotness continues: You can check in on last year's top 10 and see this year's complete list on our "Hottest MCs" page.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Receives Teacher's Choice Award for Third Straight Year
Museum's approach to teaching Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade is
obtaining national acclaim
CLEVELAND, June 11 -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum's distance learning program On the Road has received the national
Teacher's Choice Award for the Best Content Provider in the Fine Arts
Museums and Organizations category. This program is made possible through
generous support from the John P. Murphy Foundation and National City Bank.
For the third year in a row, the Rock Hall has received a Teacher's
Choice Award for its distance learning program which is quickly becoming
the most well-known of its kind in the nation. The award is sponsored by
Polycom, an interactive videoconferencing technology company.
This honor comes at a time when the Museum's educational programming is
experiencing an unprecedented growth in attendance, awards from respected
institutions and increased interest from media outlets across the country
and around the world.
"The Rock Hall is an established music hub, but we have a long-term
vision to use technology to provide our unique music based education
programs to classrooms around the world," said Terry Stewart, president and
CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. "We are thrilled to
receive this exceptional acknowledgement of our work from teachers across
the country. Music is an art form that merits serious study and speaks to
students in a powerful way. It has the ability to deepen engagement with
core subjects including language arts, history, social studies and
technology."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is at the forefront of bringing popular
culture into the classroom and utilizing it to shed light on the music that
changed the world. The Museum's state-of-the-art interactive
videoconferencing technology allows it to offer incredible educational
experiences, teaching children and young adults the ways in which music has
played a part in some of the most important social, cultural and political
issues in modern history.
Using a high-tech, fully interactive videoconferencing system, the
Museum's On the Road distance learning program has reached more than 10,000
students and teachers in more than 28 states, Mexico, Canada, England and
Australia. Last year, the Museum won an Honorable Mention in the Best
Content Provider category and in 2005, it won an award for Best New Content
Provider.
"The Rock Hall's distance learning program touches upon key areas of
interest to our foundation," Richard J. Clark, executive vice president of
the John P. Murphy Foundation. "It's a groundbreaking program that has
respected educators around the country buzzing. Music and technology are
integral parts of the current generation's daily life and using them to
encourage renewed interest in core subjects is remarkable."
On the Road makes use of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's
extensive educational resources in order to increase students' knowledge of
the history, the people, and the sounds of popular music. These programs
promote interdisciplinary study and creative, analytical thinking - all
without leaving the classroom. The classes are developed and conducted by
the Museum's education department and include exclusive interview clips
with key figures in the history of popular music, behind-the-scenes
commentary with Museum curators, audio and video clips of Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Inductees, and more. On the Road classes, as well as pre- and
post-connection materials, meet Ohio and National education standards in
disciplines such as music, language arts, social studies, and technology.
Class offerings include:
* From Ambassador to the Orchestra: The Arranger in Rock and Roll
* Great Moments in Rock and Roll: Popular Music Through the Decades
* Hip-Hop Technology: From Turntables to Computers
* Rock and Roll Reactions: Records, Radios and the Birth of Teenage
Culture in 1950s America
* Ball of Confusion: Rock Music and Social Change in the 60s and 70s
For more details about the Rock Hall's educational programs, visit
http://www.rockhall.com/student.
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization
that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world
about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It
carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum
that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through
its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On
Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for
adults, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), $18 for adult
residents of Greater Cleveland. Children under 8 and Museum members are
free. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When you become a member of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to
explore. Call 216.515.1939 for information on becoming a member. For
general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com.
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obtaining national acclaim
CLEVELAND, June 11 -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum's distance learning program On the Road has received the national
Teacher's Choice Award for the Best Content Provider in the Fine Arts
Museums and Organizations category. This program is made possible through
generous support from the John P. Murphy Foundation and National City Bank.
For the third year in a row, the Rock Hall has received a Teacher's
Choice Award for its distance learning program which is quickly becoming
the most well-known of its kind in the nation. The award is sponsored by
Polycom, an interactive videoconferencing technology company.
This honor comes at a time when the Museum's educational programming is
experiencing an unprecedented growth in attendance, awards from respected
institutions and increased interest from media outlets across the country
and around the world.
"The Rock Hall is an established music hub, but we have a long-term
vision to use technology to provide our unique music based education
programs to classrooms around the world," said Terry Stewart, president and
CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. "We are thrilled to
receive this exceptional acknowledgement of our work from teachers across
the country. Music is an art form that merits serious study and speaks to
students in a powerful way. It has the ability to deepen engagement with
core subjects including language arts, history, social studies and
technology."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is at the forefront of bringing popular
culture into the classroom and utilizing it to shed light on the music that
changed the world. The Museum's state-of-the-art interactive
videoconferencing technology allows it to offer incredible educational
experiences, teaching children and young adults the ways in which music has
played a part in some of the most important social, cultural and political
issues in modern history.
Using a high-tech, fully interactive videoconferencing system, the
Museum's On the Road distance learning program has reached more than 10,000
students and teachers in more than 28 states, Mexico, Canada, England and
Australia. Last year, the Museum won an Honorable Mention in the Best
Content Provider category and in 2005, it won an award for Best New Content
Provider.
"The Rock Hall's distance learning program touches upon key areas of
interest to our foundation," Richard J. Clark, executive vice president of
the John P. Murphy Foundation. "It's a groundbreaking program that has
respected educators around the country buzzing. Music and technology are
integral parts of the current generation's daily life and using them to
encourage renewed interest in core subjects is remarkable."
On the Road makes use of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's
extensive educational resources in order to increase students' knowledge of
the history, the people, and the sounds of popular music. These programs
promote interdisciplinary study and creative, analytical thinking - all
without leaving the classroom. The classes are developed and conducted by
the Museum's education department and include exclusive interview clips
with key figures in the history of popular music, behind-the-scenes
commentary with Museum curators, audio and video clips of Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Inductees, and more. On the Road classes, as well as pre- and
post-connection materials, meet Ohio and National education standards in
disciplines such as music, language arts, social studies, and technology.
Class offerings include:
* From Ambassador to the Orchestra: The Arranger in Rock and Roll
* Great Moments in Rock and Roll: Popular Music Through the Decades
* Hip-Hop Technology: From Turntables to Computers
* Rock and Roll Reactions: Records, Radios and the Birth of Teenage
Culture in 1950s America
* Ball of Confusion: Rock Music and Social Change in the 60s and 70s
For more details about the Rock Hall's educational programs, visit
http://www.rockhall.com/student.
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization
that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world
about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It
carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum
that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through
its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On
Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for
adults, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), $18 for adult
residents of Greater Cleveland. Children under 8 and Museum members are
free. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When you become a member of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to
explore. Call 216.515.1939 for information on becoming a member. For
general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com.
See Also
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