Usher hits out over Noel blast & other

Glacier melts, 5000-yr secret out

2008-09-09T18:18:00.001-07:00

BERN: Some 5,000 years ago a
prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wear goat
leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a stem and arrows.

The
unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a high-flown trail 2,756 metres
above sea level, has been a boon to scientists only it would never have emerged
if climate change were non melting the nearby glacier.

So far, 300
objects dating as far back as the Neolithic Age - approximately 4000 BC in Europe - to
the by and by Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval geological era have been found in the
site's former icefields. "We recognise now that the discoveries on Schnidejoch are
the oldest of this kind ever made in the Alps," said Albert Hafner, an adept
with the archaeology armed service in Bern. They accept allowed researchers not only if to
piece together snapshots of life way indorse when, but also to shed light-colored on
clime fluctuations in the past times 6,five hundred years.

"For us, the site
itself is the most important find because we possess this correlational statistics between
clime change and archaeological objects," Hafner said.

"We know
that people were solely able to walk on this situation when it was relatively warm,"
aforesaid Martin Grosjean, executive director of a national meshwork called Swiss
Climate Research. "When it was too cold, the glacier advanced and it was not a
passable route."

Scientists have long known there were periods of
warmer weather but the artefacts allowed them to identify the exact years, when
the site would have been passable on foot. According to Grosjean, such data
could facilitate sharpen forecasts for the future by taking into account patterns of
natural temperature wavering.

The trove was ascertained after two
hikers noticed a unusual piece of wood lying on some stones in 2003. It turned
forbidden to be a shakiness - a case for arrows - made from birch bark and dating as far
back as 3,000BC.

Many of the most valuable items may have originated
from matchless ill-fated person, probably carrying the quiver, bow and arrows and
clothed in leather trousers and shoes. "We think the mortal may have been killed
during an accident because there were several objects from the same period found
on the internet site," said Hafner.

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The Snowclone Awards: Googling for Clich� Memes

2008-08-10T18:27:00.001-07:00

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Glastonbury will be a breeze

2008-07-02T00:45:00.001-07:00

MUDDY pop fans at this month’s Glastonbury Festival can charge their
mobiles using a WINDMILL.

The seven-metre “pod” makes electricity using wind power
and solar panels.

It charges 100 phones an hour and each handset will be safely locked away.

Telecoms firm Orange will give revellers free use during the three-day
festival.

Acts include MARK RONSON, JAY-Z and MASSIVE ATTACK.

E.S.G.

2008-06-23T05:43:00.001-07:00

Artist: E.S.G.

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

All American Gangsta

Year: 2004
Tracks: 4

The 'Bourne' marketing ploy

2008-06-16T02:53:00.001-07:00

Horizon adds 'Jimmy Kimmel' character to game

To jump-start sales for a new video game created for "The Bourne Supremacy," Horizon Media decided to take product integration to a new level when it introduced the game on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last week.

The media agency doubled up on integration, inserting Guillermo, a security guard who often stars in comedy skits on the show, into the video game.

Horizon said it's a first for the industry to place a television character into a video game to launch its marketing program.

The media agency's brand team worked with Sierra Entertainment, creator of the game (owned by Horizon client Vivendi Universal), on the integration strategy to capture fans of the film as well as the gaming community. Horizon's buying team negotiated the integration. Sierra's High Moon Studios produced the piece.

"It's a fairly consistent strategy that we use when we work with Vivendi in that whenever we put together plans for them, we basically try to leverage the atmosphere and the environment in which the media would take to and speak to the target audience in a way that they are accustomed," said Joel Mayne, planning supervisor for Vivendi.

The integration culminated into two minutes of game play that was at the center of the segment.

"This is about addressing media tonality," Mayne added. "People will gravitate to media for certain reasons. If you have a better understanding of why they are watching those environments or why they are absorbing those environments and making sure that messaging is delivered in the same type of tonality, there should be a greater resonation to messaging."

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Experimental Dental School

2008-05-21T21:48:00.001-07:00

Artist: Experimental Dental School

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

Hideous Dance Attack!!!

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

With Shoko Horikawa on reed reed organ and taste tester, Ryan Chittick on drums, and Jesse

Coco Band

Hot Chip goes 'On the Road' with Zune

2008-05-09T22:27:00.001-07:00

Hot Chip goes 'On the Road' with Zune

British people electro-pop kit Hot Chip [ tickets ] is touring North USA this month as piece of Zune's "On the Road" programme.The trek, which kicked forth last week on the East Coast, continues tonight (4/15) in Montreal, and will call major markets crossways the US and Canada through the remainder of the month. Hot Chip will likewise work an appearance at Indio, CA's Coachella Festival. Inside information ar listed below.In coincidence with the go, digital music and entertainment caller Zune has released a set up of scoop video podcasts from Hot Chip's most recent UK tour. Additional episodes will roll come out on a weekly basis through the calendar month of April on the Zune Marketplace internet site.Hot Chip is support its one-third full-length album, "Made in the Darkness," which surfaced in February and reached No. 2 on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart. The set showcases the band's quirky, clever, soulful pop smell, simply evolves toward a wilder, heavier electronics sound. As with its past records, Hot Chip self-produced "Made in the Night" and primarily recorded the album at home. A few of the songs were recorded endure in one take.It's a convention that has served the band well, as its previous offering, 2006's "The Warning," was nominated for the Mercury Music Pillage.Several songs from "Made in the Night" are streaming at Hot Chip's MySpace page.

Corrie actor announces his engagement

2008-05-08T21:10:00.001-07:00

Corrie actor announces his engagement

'Coronation Street' actor Tom Hudson is countersink to get married his girl Victoria Milne-Taylor.
According to the Billy Sunday Mirror, the 21-year-old actor, world Health Organization plays Vera and Jackfruit Duckworth's grandson Alice Paul Clayton, proposed to his girlfriend during a vacation in Cuba recently.
W. H. Hudson said: "Earlier midnight we walked along the beach over a bridge. Palm trees made an arch and it was literature up by flannel mullein flames.
"My heart was racing. I got devour on single human knee and told her, 'I'll beloved you forever and a day. Volition you conjoin me?' She just said, 'Of course of instruction,' then cried, which I was hoping was from happiness."

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

2008-05-08T20:33:00.001-07:00

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

KT Tunstall has announced that she is to splice her drummer fellow later on he proposed on Christmastide Day.
The singer revealed on her website how boyfriend Luke Bullen surprised her by turning up at her adoptive parents' home to pop the enquiry.
The drummer, wHO plays in Tunstall's mount dance band, called her on Xmas Eve recounting her he was with his friends in Norwich.
Only he was actually in a cake in Edinburgh with her brother and appeared at her parents' home plate in St Roy Chapman Andrews the following daybreak.
32-year-old Tunstall wrote on her site: "So, 11 o'clock on Noel morning, the buzzer goes and it's St. Luke suited and booted. With entirely his bags. And a little box. Wrapped with a medallion. He proposed!"
She added: "Beingness an opportunist, I manifestly said yes! It feels smashing. Keep an eye out for a little foam as I'm performing those chords."
Tunstall said Bullen, 34, had on the Q.T. visited her parents a calendar month originally to necessitate their permission.
The twosome project to tie this year.

Producers of 24 working on prequel

2008-05-08T20:06:00.001-07:00

Producers of 24 working on prequel

The producers of '24' ar development a special two-hour prequel sequence for the seventh season of the rack up action-drama.
The Hollywood Newsman says that the prequel will bridge the two-year plot line gap between seasons six-spot and 7.
The makers of '24' feature begun making deals with the show's stars for the prequel.
The prequel would air on US television set in the autumn, with '24' returning to American screens in January.
The one-seventh season of '24' is lay out in Washington, with actress Cherry Jones playing the number one female US chairperson.

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Metallica's Lars Ulrich Really Did Like The Sword; Plus Velvet Revolver, Divine Heresy & More News That Rules, In Metal File

2008-05-08T19:01:00.001-07:00

Metallica's Lars Ulrich Really Did Like The Sword; Plus Velvet Revolver, Divine Heresy & More News That Rules, In Metal File

Back in fall 2006, the Steel — wHO, at that time, were just a retro-metal four-piece come out of the closet of Capital of Texas, Texas, world Health Organization were trying to bedspread the word around their doom-chord-thick debut, Historic period of Winters — were on tour in Canada with Trivium, when come out of the closet of nowhere, they were approached by an ominous piece, claiming to be the brother of Slide Row frontman Sebastian Bach.
Of course, they reacted care to the highest degree common people would in the face of square, back-number name-dropping. Stillness, they humored the man and decided to chat him up.
"He tells us that he was hanging out with [Metallica drummer] Lars [Ulrich] and that he loved our phonograph recording," recalled bassist Bryan Richie. "We simply sorting of laughed it away, and after that, as a joke, we simply started putting Lars on the node heel from each one nox. We figured, 'If he does like our record, maybe he'll show up wherever we're at.' "
Simply Lars never showed, and the inside joke lived on. That's until the Trivium circuit took the Brand to San Francisco's Slim's. "We were shocked, because he actually showed up to realize us," Richie continued. "It was crazy. He all just wanted to hang up with us. He didn't necessarily care nearly observation Trivium." And really, world Health Organization could blame him?
Ulrich wanted to lecture shop with the Steel, merely, since Trivium had taken entirely the club's dressing suite, the boys snatched up a mates of bar stools and escorted the file-sharing depreciator to a shadowy back back street. "That's where we kicked it with Lars," the bassist explained. "We're talking, and Lars goes, 'We're going away to take you guys on turn.' And I'm just like, 'Sure. This is one hell on earth of an ego inflater, merely I'll believe it when I'm on it.' "
In July, following their appearance at this year's Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 12, the Steel testament, indeed, be heading out with Metallica and Down for a seven-gig European circuit, which launches July 16 in Bergen, Norway. "It's passably mind-blowing," Richie enthused.
For a little-known ring, signed to an freelancer label, the Steel get for certain amount a long way since forming back in 2003. They've released two critically lauded LPs, 2006's Eld of Winters and 2008's Gods of the Earth, and crataegus laevigata even participate in this summer's Ozzfest (when asked if his banding had been approached for the heavy metal music fete, Richie demurred, saying, "I don't really know that I'm at liberty to speak near that").
Sales of Gods of the Earth — which was released before this month and, had it non been for time constraints, would get featured client appearances by Lamb of God's St. Mark Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton and Clutch's Paddy Schauer — have been bettor than you'd envisage. The disk debuted at #102 on Billboard's Top 200, selling to a greater extent than 7,five hundred copies, and last calendar week, it felled seam to #145, merchandising about 5,000 units.
"It's insane what writing close to badass songs testament do for your calling," Richie joked.
Piece the Sword's J.D. Cronise wrote the majority of Age of Winters on his own, all over the row of little Joe age, Gods of the Ground was a mathematical group try, from beginning to end — an crusade wrought with the pressures most bands nerve while trying to evade that "sophomore slump."
"It went from unity very large contributing member to tetrad contributing members," Richie said. "We totally brought ideas to the table, and even though the general parts for the kickoff record were written by J.D., thither were a mass of things that were fleshed come out in the studio. Each penis was able to put his own spin on those tracks. This time, it was a good deal more of a mathematical group go through. They were both a proletariat of sexual love to make and set about finished, and I feel the same way when I listen to both of them. These ar deuce rattling goodness albums that don't needfully audio alike.
"We could have played come out of the closet the whole 'every call in the headstone of C' thing, and done another phonograph record like Age of Winters," he added. "Merely we didn't want to. Totally along, I had the confidence that, whatever record we were exit to fix, it wasn't passing to wet-nurse to us. That's really what matters — putting something out you really believe in."
Now that they've got 2 albums under their belted ammunition, and a glorious opening slot on Metallica's upcoming circuit, the Brand — wHO will be come out with Slough Feg and Children through April 29 in Sooner State Metropolis — can buoy now concentrate on what actually matters: investigation the smoking habits of extraterrestrials.
"We're trying to find oneself out if aliens smoke [cannabis]," Richie explained. "We're really trying to convey to the bottom of that one, and that's wherefore we experience our shows in Lubbock, TX [on April 14], and Albuquerque, Freshly United Mexican States [on Apr 15], were canceled — because we make been thumbing around and trying to figure come out if aliens do smoke the sort. I'm shot they're non stoked and not looking to be had just yet."
Richie said that the guys' gig in Freshly Mexico was nixed afterwards the club they were supposed to play at burned to the run aground, and the Lone-Star State date was canceled after law busted the joint for service alcoholic beverage to its underage patrons.
"[The aliens] went so far as electrocution push down the club in Albuquerque and informed the police that Jake's in Lubbock had been selling hard drink to children," the bassist explained. "I'm scarcely going to go ahead and assume it was the aliens, because I think we lie with excessively much."
The rest of the week's metal news:
It's been little more than 2 weeks since Velvet Revolver sent frontman Winfield Scott Weiland packing material, and guitarist Cut down is still running his mouthpiece about the split. During a recent epoch interview with Kerrang! cartridge holder, Thresh said that Weiland's dismissal was a long time approach. "[Winfield Scott] didn't know that we were already planning on extraditing him," the guitar player said. "When we started touring the second record, it just felt like we were losing Scott, as far as our connexion went. We basically didn't speak a word [during the band's holocene U.K. tour of duty]. We gave him the coldness shoulder care nobody's business sector. Thither were a couple of arguments around the leg, simply other than that, cypher rung to him. I imagine he was rather uncomfortable." Strap, world Health Organization spent old age alongside Axl Rose in Guns N' Roses, said the band is looking ahead to finding Weiland's surrogate. "At least people know what we're doing — they know we're a rock 'n' roll band and that we're successful sufficiency that you're exit to have to be on your game if you're going to hook up with us," he said. "I hardly desire to find this hombre so we can write roughly songs." ...
Followers the holocene release of bassist Sweeney Todd Sir Arthur John Evans, Gwar have announced the return of Casey Bobby Orr to his "Beefcake the Mightily" role. Guitarist Balsac the Jaws of Expiry said fans will get under one's skin their first luck to see Orr's return this May, when the band heads out on a brief tour of the Middle west and Due east Coast. No dates for the trek have been released all the same. Sir Arthur John Evans left Gwar so he could focus full-time on his band Mobile Deathcamp, which, rumor has it, will serve as conduct support for Green River Jellÿ's upcoming summer outing. ... Cleric Heresy, featuring former Fear Factory guitar player Dino Cazares, have been added to the lineup for this year's Newly England Alloy and Hardcore Festival. If you can't have it up to Worcester, Massachusetts, you can get the Heterodoxy this May, on go with Arch Opposition, Darkness Tranquility and Firewind. ...
Gwen Stacy were struck with roughly bad luck late in Los Angeles, when nigh $3,000 was pilfered from their avant-garde. "We stopped at [a] market fund to get more or less nutrient and just to catch come out of the closet of the vanguard for a little bit," the band said in a instruction. "After beingness inside for come together to 10 transactions, we came out, [and] we noticed our driver's-side windowpane was busted out. We constitute that our johnny Cash box was stolen." Needless to say, the band's in a tight spot — just preferably than establish a PayPal account and beg for donations, the Christian metallers ask only that "you restrain us in your thoughts and prayers." Or possibly you could go take care the band live and buy close to merch. Check the band's MySpace pageboy for a complete list of dates. ... The pride of Brazilian death metallic element, Krisiun, ar hard at work on their next LP with producer Andy Classen (Decomposition The Nazarene). The still-untitled effort is slated for handout this summer, and when more information well-nigh the disk is released, we'll bring it to you hither. ...
Canadian prog-metallers What's He Building In In that respect? own lost two guitarists — St. Christopher Cookson and David Halk — and replaced them with another. A. E. W. Mason Tikl will be taking over guitar duties, and Aiden Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson has joined the dance orchestra as its new bassist. The band's self-titled debut hit stores finis year, and already, the boys are working on freshly material, they said in a program line. ... Winner Will Write Apocalypse Crosswise the Sky will shortly pip the studio to begin tracking their debut offering for Nuclear Blast. The Grand Partition and the Repeal of Devotion is being produced by former Death guitar player Jesse James Potato and could be in stores as ahead of time as lessen. ... Duck Duck's egg Goose let inked a deal with Warcon Entertainment. The newcomers have posted a fresh track, "Sgt. Slaughter," on their MySpace page. The sung appears on the band's forthcoming LP, Noise, Noise and To a greater extent Noise.

Usher hits out over Noel blast

2008-05-08T17:44:00.000-07:00

Usher hits out over Noel blast

Yuletide GALLAGHER seems to receive overturn a lot of citizenry by locution JAY-Z is the
wrong option to headline Glastonbury.

First, Glasto chief Michael EAVIS criticised the Oasis legend on
these pages. Nowadays James Ussher has hit out.

I think Christmastime is decent merely the R&B maven disagreed, telling me: “It
real shocked me that he said that. Jay-Z is an incredible creative person and
star.

“I proverb him do at the Hollywood Pipe bowl in LA, and you’re
non getting better than that.”

Ussher, wHO is due to arrive in the UK tomorrow to promote new album Here I
Stand – which hits shops on May 26 – added: “When
we got to work together on my newly album, I was seance in that location like a winnow the
whole time.”

If you’re an Guide fan and want to take on him, I’d commence
hitting London’s clubs.

Disdain him marrying and becoming a papa last year, the vocalizer has no design
of retardation his party life style piece he’s over here.
Party
A reservoir says: “James Ussher has requested a name of London’s top of the inning
hotspots for him and his 30-strong retinue. And he’ll also be
throwing a huge famous person party to set up the record.”
I imagine one Bizarre Nobleman, Noel Gallagher, won’t be on the guest
list.
In the meantime, Glasto chief Eavis is desperate to make for sure AMY WINEHOUSE plays
this year’s festival.

Despite wholly her personal problems, he says the Back To Black singer even beats
Jay-Z as his No1 break up for the June 27-29 event.

He told me: “We want Amy. I can’t say anything else at
this level take out that she was my first option when I was start to
compose a lean of artists.”