It's the youth movement that has Middle England on the run. UK newspaper the Daily Mail labels it sinister and accuses it of romanticising death.But as its adherents prepare to march on the Mail's Kensington HQ in protest, is there really anything to be frightened of? "A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams/ Your misery and hate will kill us all/ So paint it black and take it back/ Let's shout it loud and clear/ defiant to the end we hear the call/ To carry on." (From: Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance.)Welcome to the Black Parade - a place, depending on which side of the age/outrage divide you are standing on, is either a shadowy Shangri La for young suicide victims to pass the rest of eternity with fellow outcast kids who dig the same music, or, more prosaically, merely the infectious title track of one of the more engaging rock albums of the past few years.Concern in Middle England has been mounting in recent days over the threat to the nation's youth posed by emo, a not-so-new fangled musical fashion that has spawned a loyal and growing tribe of followers, one instantly recognisable to even the most casual of observers for its shared attachment to skinny jeans, long black fringes and apparently permanently downcast expressions.
According to the Daily Mail, emo is a "sinister teenage craze that romanticises death", with bands such as My Chemical Romance (MCR), the New Jersey, Grammy-nominated five-piece whose Black Parade album was one of the most compelling releases of 2006, providing the musical soundtrack to what it sees as the worryingly depressing lifestyles of the nation's current crop of youngsters.A Kent coroner's comments over the suicide of 13-year-old Hannah Bond, in which he expressed concern over the dead girl's passion for emo music, spawned a glut of lurid headlines earlier this month. But it was the Daily Mail that decided to delve deeper into the craze - prompting one of the unlikeliest protests London has seen for some time.Next Saturday, fans of MCR will descend on the Mail's Kensington headquarters in west London to vent their rage at what they claim is "badly researched journalism in danger of promoting irresponsible stereotyping". It is a remarkably polite and measured response for a group supposedly in thrall to a mind-bending cult.According to one of the organisers, Anni Smith, 16, from Hampshire, festering anger that has been simmering below the surface for some time has finally spilt over. Some 300 people have already logged on to the protest site, www.whatthefrank.co.uk, expressing their desire to take part.
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Amr Diab
Artist: Amr Diab
Genre(s):
Pop
Dance: Pop
Dance
Ethnic
Other
Folk
Discography:
Kammel Kalamak
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Leli Nahary
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Hala Hala
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Awedony
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Aktar Wahed
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Tamally Maak
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Nour el Ain
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
The Very Best Of Amr Diab
Year:
Tracks: 14
Arab Mix
Year:
Tracks: 11
Amarain
Year:
Tracks: 8
Allem Albi
Year:
Tracks: 15
Amr Diab grew up in Port Said and came to Cairo in 1984 to score a musical diagnose for himself. In this venture he succeeded and is now one of the preeminent Al-jil stars, pickings top charge at medicine festivals and enjoying pip after hit in the cassette markets of Cairo.
Arrested Development movie planned?
Popular US sitcom 'Arrested Development' is to be made into a movie, according to the shows star Jason Bateman.
Bateman told US TV show E! News that plans are underway for a movie version of the cancelled show.
Rumours of a big-screen adaptation of the cult show began to circulate last year after the actor was reported to have met with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.
Now Bateman, who currently stars in 'Juno', has confirmed the cast has received calls from executives asking if they would be interested in reviving their roles once the ongoing Hollywood writers strike is over.
He told E! News: "I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started. Any talk is targeting a post-strike situation, of course.
"I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Bateman told US TV show E! News that plans are underway for a movie version of the cancelled show.
Rumours of a big-screen adaptation of the cult show began to circulate last year after the actor was reported to have met with series creator Mitch Hurwitz.
Now Bateman, who currently stars in 'Juno', has confirmed the cast has received calls from executives asking if they would be interested in reviving their roles once the ongoing Hollywood writers strike is over.
He told E! News: "I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started. Any talk is targeting a post-strike situation, of course.
"I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Madden says baby looks like Richie
Rocker Joel Madden has said that his new baby daughter looks like her mother, 'The Simple Life' star Nicole Richie.
In a blog, which he posted on the DCMA Collective website, Madden said: "I am finally home with my beautiful girlfriend and our brand new little daughter."
He also confirmed the baby's name in the posting, referring to the newborn as Harlow Winter.
Madden said: "She is 19 inches long and growing everyday already. We are so blessed to have this beautiful little baby in our lives."
He said that his daughter "looks so much like her mom it's crazy".
"She eats like a little maniac and she's really sweet. She barely ever cries, even when daddy is changing her diaper, and believe me I suck when it comes to diapers, but I'm learning," Madden said.
In a blog, which he posted on the DCMA Collective website, Madden said: "I am finally home with my beautiful girlfriend and our brand new little daughter."
He also confirmed the baby's name in the posting, referring to the newborn as Harlow Winter.
Madden said: "She is 19 inches long and growing everyday already. We are so blessed to have this beautiful little baby in our lives."
He said that his daughter "looks so much like her mom it's crazy".
"She eats like a little maniac and she's really sweet. She barely ever cries, even when daddy is changing her diaper, and believe me I suck when it comes to diapers, but I'm learning," Madden said.
Saves The Day
Artist: Saves The Day
Genre(s):
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Under the Boards
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Sound The Alarm
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Ups and Downs: Early Recordings and B-Sides
Year: 2004
Tracks: 19
In Reverie
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Stay What You Are
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
I'm Sorry I'm Leaving
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
Through Being Cool
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Can't Slow Down
Year:
Tracks: 14
Perfecting their force pop rock candy since the mid-'90s, New Jersey's Saves the Day send for it like it is. They forbear from characteristic pogo-pouncing anthems for their possess far-out post-punk and energetic live shows, influencing a new schooling of emo/punk bands along the way. The first-class honours degree incarnation of Saves the Day happened when singer/songwriter Chris Conley was only 13, and the band was first called Indifference and later, Seffler. A name change to their current cognomen, interpreted from a lyric from the Farside song "Hero," came with the recording of their beginning demonstration. Conley (vocals), Eben D'Amico (bass), Ted Alexander (guitar), David Soloway (guitar), and Bryan Newman (drums) made their debut with 1997's Can't Slow Down on Equal Vision Records, though D'Amico didn't join the lineup until afterwards this album. Recorded during wintertime break of their highschool aged year, the record featured production play from Steve Evetts (Sepultura, Dillinger Escape Plan, Sick of It All).
Through Being Cool followed deuce years by and by, gaining a wider fan al-Qaeda and critical winner among select punk markets with its greater crop up esthesia. However, Saves the Day changed things up for 2001's Rest What You Are. Their third instalment, and first vent for Vagrant Records, Stay put What You Are brought Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Toadies) to the mixture boards for a more structured punk rock rock cause. The record album sold more than cc,000 copies, landed on the Billboard charts, and produced deuce heavily rotated MTV2 videos for "At Your Funeral" and "Freakish." Lots of touring followed; they headlined 2001's Vagrant turn with labelmates Dashboard Confessional, and scored opening slots for Weezer and the Pop Disaster Tour with Green Day and blink-182.
In Reverie, the band's first gear for DreamWorks and with new drummer Pete Parada, followed deuce eld by and by. Vagrant issued Ups & Downs: Early Recordings and B-Sides in August 2004, an album that contained precisely what the title states. Saves the Day re-signed with Vagrant in early 2006 and officially welcomed new bassist Manny Carrero into their ranks. Sound the Alarm followed that April, which of course meant circuit dates through the rest of the year, including dates on summer's Warped. Parada made his way out in March 2007 and was replaced soon sufficiency by ex-Classic Case/Glassjaw drummer Durijah Lang.
National Registry preserves recordings
Science, politics and music that moved us
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2007 National Recording Registry
WASHINGTON -- We don't think much about the Internet winging messages across the globe at blinding speeds, but in 1925 the first broadcast that spanned the Atlantic was a technological marvel.
A recording of that broadcast joins the world's best-selling album, political speeches, a collection of Navajo songs and pop, blues, country, jazz and musical theater classics among recordings newly deemed worthy of preservation for future generations.
Librarian of Congress James Billington on Wednesday announced the 25 additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part of its efforts to preserve the nation's aural history by archiving recordings deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
The inductees range from Michael Jackson's 1982 all-time best-seller "Thriller" and T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad" to the 1977 record of Earth sounds that flew aboard the spacecraft Voyager in the event alien life forms encountered the craft. Other recordings added to the registry include works by Roy Orbison, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Kitty Wells and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady."
Appropriately in an election year, this year's list also includes President Truman's 1948 speech at the Democratic National Convention and future President Reagan's radio broadcasts from 1976-79. New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics to children during a 1945 newspaper delivery strike also made the cut.
A technological breakthrough in broadcasting was included: a 37-minute broadcast that originated in London, traveled by land line to station 5XX in Chelmsford, then crossed the Atlantic and was picked up by an RCA transmitter in Maine and relayed to WJZ New York and WRC Washington.
"Audio preservation constitutes a critical challenge," Billington said. "Much has already been lost, particularly in the field of radio."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The full list of recordings is on the next page.
2007 National Recording Registry (in chronological order)
"The First Transatlantic Broadcast (March 14, 1925)
"Allons a Lafayette," Joseph Falcon (1928)
"Casta Diva," from Bellini's "Norma"; Rosa Ponselle, accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti. (Dec. 31, 1928, and Jan. 30, 1929)
"If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again," Thomas A. Dorsey (1934)
"Sweet Lorraine," Art Tatum (Feb. 22, 1940)
Fibber's Closet Opens for the First Time, "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio program (March 4, 1940)
Wings Over Jordan, Wings Over Jordan (1941)
Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics (1945)
"Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad," T-Bone Walker (1947)
Harry S. Truman speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention (July 15, 1948)
"The Jazz Scene," various artists (1949)
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," Kitty Wells (May 30, 1952)
"My Fair Lady," original cast recording (1956)
Navajo Shootingway Ceremony Field Recordings, recorded by David McAllester (1957-58)
"'Freight Train,' and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes," Elizabeth Cotten (1959)
Marine Band Concert Album to Help Benefit the National Cultural Center (1963)
"Oh, Pretty Woman," Roy Orbison (1964)
"Tracks of My Tears," Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1965)
"You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song," Ella Jenkins (1966)
Music from the Morning of the World," various artists; recorded by David Lewiston (1966)
"For the Roses," Joni Mitchell (1972)
"Headhunters," Herbie Hancock (1973)
Ronald Reagan Radio Broadcasts (1976-79)
"The Sounds of Earth," disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft (1977)
"Thriller," Michael Jackson (1982)
Related Content
2007 National Recording Registry
WASHINGTON -- We don't think much about the Internet winging messages across the globe at blinding speeds, but in 1925 the first broadcast that spanned the Atlantic was a technological marvel.
A recording of that broadcast joins the world's best-selling album, political speeches, a collection of Navajo songs and pop, blues, country, jazz and musical theater classics among recordings newly deemed worthy of preservation for future generations.
Librarian of Congress James Billington on Wednesday announced the 25 additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part of its efforts to preserve the nation's aural history by archiving recordings deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
The inductees range from Michael Jackson's 1982 all-time best-seller "Thriller" and T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad" to the 1977 record of Earth sounds that flew aboard the spacecraft Voyager in the event alien life forms encountered the craft. Other recordings added to the registry include works by Roy Orbison, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Kitty Wells and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady."
Appropriately in an election year, this year's list also includes President Truman's 1948 speech at the Democratic National Convention and future President Reagan's radio broadcasts from 1976-79. New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics to children during a 1945 newspaper delivery strike also made the cut.
A technological breakthrough in broadcasting was included: a 37-minute broadcast that originated in London, traveled by land line to station 5XX in Chelmsford, then crossed the Atlantic and was picked up by an RCA transmitter in Maine and relayed to WJZ New York and WRC Washington.
"Audio preservation constitutes a critical challenge," Billington said. "Much has already been lost, particularly in the field of radio."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The full list of recordings is on the next page.
2007 National Recording Registry (in chronological order)
"The First Transatlantic Broadcast (March 14, 1925)
"Allons a Lafayette," Joseph Falcon (1928)
"Casta Diva," from Bellini's "Norma"; Rosa Ponselle, accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti. (Dec. 31, 1928, and Jan. 30, 1929)
"If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again," Thomas A. Dorsey (1934)
"Sweet Lorraine," Art Tatum (Feb. 22, 1940)
Fibber's Closet Opens for the First Time, "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio program (March 4, 1940)
Wings Over Jordan, Wings Over Jordan (1941)
Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics (1945)
"Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad," T-Bone Walker (1947)
Harry S. Truman speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention (July 15, 1948)
"The Jazz Scene," various artists (1949)
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," Kitty Wells (May 30, 1952)
"My Fair Lady," original cast recording (1956)
Navajo Shootingway Ceremony Field Recordings, recorded by David McAllester (1957-58)
"'Freight Train,' and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes," Elizabeth Cotten (1959)
Marine Band Concert Album to Help Benefit the National Cultural Center (1963)
"Oh, Pretty Woman," Roy Orbison (1964)
"Tracks of My Tears," Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1965)
"You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song," Ella Jenkins (1966)
Music from the Morning of the World," various artists; recorded by David Lewiston (1966)
"For the Roses," Joni Mitchell (1972)
"Headhunters," Herbie Hancock (1973)
Ronald Reagan Radio Broadcasts (1976-79)
"The Sounds of Earth," disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft (1977)
"Thriller," Michael Jackson (1982)
Bonerama
Artist: Bonerama
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Live From New York
Year:
Tracks: 13
Live at the Old Point
Year:
Tracks: 10
Rock-oriented New Orleans brass band Bonerama were formed by trombonists Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, both of whom had been members of Harry Connick's band since 1990. Mullins obtained a weekly residency at the New Orleans night club Tipitina's in the summer of 1998 and turned it into a trombone summit. In addition to Klein, he enlisted trombonists Rick Trolsen, Steve Suter, and Brian O'Neill (world Health Organization died of a heart tone-beginning in December 2005), as well as tuba musician Matt Perrine and guitarist Bert Cotton. The brake drum chair has been held at various times by Eric Bolivar, Terence Higgins, Russell Batiste, and Stanton Moore. Despite its horn-heavy instrumentality, Bonerama were a rock band, known for playing such covers as "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group along with songs by Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and the Allman Brothers Band. The group's first album, Live at the Old Point, was released on October 9, 2001. Live from New York followed on August 26, 2005. Bonerama's third gear back-to-back live record album, Delivery It Home, which had been recorded at Tipitina's, was released on July 24, 2007.
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