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Tom Cruise's hotly anticipated madcap Nazi adventure, Valkyrie, was screened recently for the unsuspecting, nondiscriminating citizens of small-town Nevada. The audiences weren't told what movie they'd be seeing, just that it was free. So, what did people who'd have sat through practically anything think? "'They liked it,' said a source." Next stop, Oscars! [E! via Defamer]
 Artist: Silicone Soul: mp3 download Genre(s): House Discography:  Staring Into Space Year: 2005 Tracks: 11 Silicone Soul, composed of techno heads Graeme Reedie and Craig Morrison, carries the torch load-bearing club/dance music in Scotland. Hailing from Glasgow, Reedie and Morrison right away clicked as kids, for the two were punk rock misfits wHO loved music. They formed a stripe, Dead City Radio, and played unnumberable gigs in and round their hometown. The fire of the deuce, however, flickered out after Morrison witnessed a Primal Scream show, and most at once they scrapped their obnoxious snarl for an electronic lookout. The early '90s were fagged frolicking with techtronics, palling about with Slam's Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle eyepatch gaining confidence as house music makers. Forming Depth Perception Records by 1996 and establishing Silicone Soul as a legit cloak, Reedie and Morrison inked a apportion with Soma in 1998 and released trine raved tracks, "Mounting Walls," "All Nite Long," and "Right on 4 Tha Darkness." The yoke gained praise from some of the genre's forerunners (Laurent Garnier, Pete Tong, Andrew Weatherall) and played festival dates at Roskilde and T in the Park, left over perfectionists in their oscilloscope of intricate family medicine. Debut LP A Soul Thing followed in 2000. |
will.i.am's video tribute to U.S. presidential wannabe BARACK OBAMA has earned the BLACK EYED PEAS star his first Emmy Award.
The Yes We Can Song promo, which was inspired by one of Democratic presidential candidate Obama's stirring speeches, was honoured with an Emmy in the inaugural New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment category at the 35th Annual Creative Arts + Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony in New York on Friday (13Jun08).
The new Emmy category recognises innovative production techniques and the use of media enhancement to support content.
The video, co-produced by and featuring will.i.am and directed by Jesse Dylan, became an Internet sensation earlier this year (08) as the hip-hop star showed his support of Obama.
The Yes We Can Song promo has garnered over 25 million views online since it was posted on 2 February (08).
Inspired by Obama's speech the night of the New Hampshire Primary, the video features footage of the Senator delivering the speech as well as cameos from many of his celebrity supporters.
These include Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Common, Kelly Hu and Nick Cannon.
British Sea Power have already announced a tour for October (dates below), but way before that the band will play a unique show later this month.
Held at the Natural History Museum in London, the group will perform to just 600 fans on June 21st, where they will play live in front of a selection of films from the museum archive.
The gig, which has previously been played by The Strokes in 2006, is part of an event billed as Exhibition Road Music Day, based in south London museums.
More details can be found at the Exhibitionroadmusicday.org website.
Those headline British Sea Power dates in the Autumn are as follows:
October Dates:
Brighton Corn Exchange (2)
Southampton University (3)
Cambridge The Junction (5)
Bristol Academy (6)
Birmingham Academy (7)
Newcastle Academy (8)
Dundee Fat Sams (10)
Glasgow ABC (11)
Manchester Ritz (12)
Leeds Metropolitan University (13)
Oxford Regal (15)
London Roundhouse (17)