Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Esperanza Spalding - Beautiful, Soulful, Fun, Incredibly Talented!


I can't believe that I only discovered her a few days ago while she sang "If I was your Girlfriend" for Prince's tribute at the BET Awards.

It is so refreshing to hear this kind of music and singing. She's soulful, jazzy, she is a pro jazz bass player, and her voice is beautiful!

I was instantly drawn to her music and singing after seeing her at the BET Awards and have been listening to her music non-stop!

Check her her website and MySpace page! This is exactly the kind of artist I want to see live!




Joy Ike's Sophomore Album "Rumors"


It is easy to label an artist as soulful, but increasing difficult to find a real soul artist in today’s music scene. Joy Ike is the needle in the haystack. Her recently released sophomore album, 'Rumors', rises above the rest busting through with a soul sound that has drawn comparisons to Norah Jones, Fiona Apple, and Regina Spektor.

Her single "Sweeter" has received praise from NPR’s music critics with All Things Considered calling her, "a unique blend of neo-soul, with just the right dash of pop...a truly compelling act to watch."

'Rumors' has also racked up an incredible amount of attention in her hometown of Pittsburg, PA and has garnered new listeners across the country building a band of passionate new followers.

Joy released 'Rumors' her second full length album independently and continues a grassroots attempt to stay true to her values.

Joy Ike "Sweeter" MP3

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Sonny Rollins Receives Miles Davis Award


Tenor sax player, Sonny Rollins won the Miles Davis Award last Sunday at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Previous recipients of this award include Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner and Mike Stern. It is meant to honour an international artist for the entire body of his or her work.

His nickname is the Saxophone Colossus and he has been performing for the past five decades! His original style is bebop, but he has also explored other genres such as calypso, funk, R&B and pop.

Sonny Rollins will be touring in various venues throughout Europe, Japan, and New York until November. Check out his touring dates here.

Check out Sonny's video library, including his Podcasts, peformance clips, interviews and special features about the Sonny Rollins Group on his website.

Here's one of the videos of this legendary saxophonist:

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BET Awards Prince with Lifetime Achievement Award


Sunday night, BET awarded Prince with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Four incredible women, Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Alicia Keys, and Patti Labelle paid tribute to the music legend by performing "Let's Go Crazy", "If I was your Girlfriend", "Adore", and "Purple Rain". One could really not be moved after seeing these great artists perform for Prince, and moved he was. After their performance, Prince received the Lifetime Achievement Award and gave a great speech which you can listen to below.


Now Prince will be on his way to Europe, where he will be performing in several countries. Soon he will also be releasing his new album 20Ten through the Belgian newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad" and the German "Rolling Stone" magazine. I am very excited to see how it will be released in North America (in particular Canada :-))

In the meantime enjoy the tribute, the ladies were amazing and I got to discover a new amazing talent Esperanza Spalding, I can't stop listening to her music since Sunday!


Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

"Doctor Who" Finale Review: Part 1 (The Pandorica Opens)

Oh My God! What an amazing series for the new Doctor. He seriously has had a great first series. Loved him from the very beginning. The whole series was absolutely magical. So many twists and turns from start to finish. I seriously am looking forward for what's in stall for us in the Christmas Special and especially Series 6 next year. Anyway, back to reviewing this epic ending to a fantastic new series.
So, "The Pandorica Opens" begins with Van Gogh lying in his bed in France in 1890, screaming in fear at a painting that he painted of an exploding TARDIS. Then it jumps 1941 where we find Bracewell showing Winston Churchill the painting. Bracewell advises Churchill to send a message to The Doctor. Churchill picks up the phone to make a call. A phone in Stormcage Containment Facility in 5145 rings. A guard picks it up and says that there was no Doctor there. At that point River Song demands to speak to the person on the other side of the call. River realises he is new, and kisses him, using a hallucinogen in her lipstick to make him delirious, and she escapes. Then we head over to The Royal Collection where River Song walks among the paintings in the Royal Collection gallery and finds the one she is looking for. She trips one of the alarms. Liz 10 then appears with a gun aimed at her. River tells her that this is for The Doctor, and Liz recognizes the name. River shows her the painting of the exploding TARDIS. River then heads to The Maldovarium where she talks to a salesman at a bar, asking for a vortex manipulator from a Time Agent in return for a device for deactivating micro- explosives similar to those she had planted in the salesman's drink.
Meanwhile, The Doctor and Amy are in the TARDIS discussing where to go to next. The Doctor decides to take her to one of the oldest cliff faces in history so that he could through her off it. Not really. It's a joke. Anyway, they went to the cliff face that's made of pure diamond to decipher the writings on the face that up until now have not been translated. When the TARDIS lands, the writing simply says "HELLO SWEETIE" and a set of temporal co-ordinates are written underneath. The Doctor and Amy then head back into the TARDIS and end up landing in Roman Britain in 2nd Century AD. The guards that greet them when landing, takes them to see Cleopatra, who turns out to River Song in disguise. Song shows The Doctor the painting of the exploding TARDIS. River's previous warning that the Pandorica would open also concerns him, and the Doctor decides to look for it. He looks at the Roman maps, since if someone had built such a device, they would want to remember where they left it. The three of them leave the Roman camp and travel by horse to Stonehenge to see if they can find the Pandorica. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver and it picks up some activity below Stonehenge. They find an enterence to below. There they find Pandorica. The Doctor then relises that the Pandorica is not a fairytale or a myth after all. IT'S REAL! Amy says that the real box is so similar to the one in the story book of the same name. The one she read as a child.
River detects a signal coming from the six pillars surrouding the Pandorica and the entrance to the room that it's in. She detects that there is at least ten thousand ships in orbit. She can't tell exactly how many there is as the scanners are corupted. There really be millions of starships in the skies above them. Among the starships are Dalek saucers, Cyber Ships, Sontaran flagships, Slitheen Vessels, Judoon Rockets and an Atraxi Ship, all presumably after whatever the Pandorica contains. The Doctor decides to call on the Romans to help. River goes back to use her influence as "Cleopatra" to talk them into helping. However, the legion commander has arrived with news that Cleopatra is in Egypt. It turns out that she's infact dead. River attempts to talk the commander into helping, eventually resorting to using her disintegrator pistol to demonstrate her power. However, before the commander can react, a volunteer arrives. The volunteer is infact.........Rory. Back at Stonehenge, a Cyber arm on the floor of the chamber has reactivated, sending bolts of energy from it's gun around the room. The Doctor and Amy run for cover behind the Pandorica. The Doctor says to Amy that he has a plan. So his plan turns out to be him running out from behind cover and shout, "Look at me, I'm a target!". Classic "Doctor Who" moment. Hillarious! He manages to get close to the arm. He tries to pick it up, but the electronic grip function on the arm incapacitates the Doctor. That electric shock thing that the Cybermen do to hurt people. By now, the head has also worked it's way down using tentacle-like wires from the neck section and a sleeper dart from one of the pipes hits Amy. The head opens. The Cyberman is a type-2 upgrade, with the parts grafted directly onto the body. The skull of the previous occupant is ejected, and the body attempts to assimilate Amy. After getting attacked by the Cyberman, who is missing it's head and arm, Amy takes cover in a side room, but before the Cyberman can get to her, it is killed by the Roman Rory. But Amy doesn't recongise him. The Doctor wakes up and notices Rory, hardly reacting, and begins his speculations again. However, after a few minutes, he notices and they go through an awkward phase. This was very funny. The Doctor decides to address the fleet of ships in orbit, while River goes to fetch the TARDIS for some technology. The Doctor gives a speech on how he had defeated most of those aliens at some point, and the fleet falls back, giving them about half an hour to think things through. When River gets into the TARDIS, she attempts to go back to Stonehenge, but instead is thrown to 26th June 2010, the date that appeared on the base code of the universe and as such when it would end. She leaves the TARDIS just before a warning is broadcast on the speakers. The speakers were saying, "Silence will fall", and then the screen at the centre console cracks. There are scorch marks on the ground, and River enters the house nearby, which has been broken into. By some of the things she finds, she notices that the house is Amy's house. River goes up into Amy's room and find a book on Roman Britain and Pandora's Box. These are the exact things that is happening right now, where The Doctor is. She tries to return to inform The Doctor of her findings, but is instead thrown uncontrollably around the Time Vortex. She phones the Doctor to get help, who tells her to shut off the engines once he learns the date she is at, "26th June 2010". The base code of the universe the Doctor had seen the last time he met River was 26062010. She can't deactivate the engines, so he tells her to shut them off automatically by landing and leaving the TARDIS. She lands, but the doors are locked.
The Romans begin to fall asleep, but they remain standing. Even Rory, who is talking to Amy and is not being recognized, begins to fail, but he resists. The Romans suddenly look up, and their hands fall away to reveal guns, they are in fact Autons who are under the control of the Nestene Consciousness. The Doctor is escorted, by the Romans, to the Pandorica, where he is confronted by the Dalek Supreme, Eternal and a single Drone, who have all teleported in from their ships above and they state that The Doctor is responsible for the end of the universe. He's suppost to be responsible for the "Crack In The Wall" that have been appearing through out this series. According to the Daleks, The Doctor's TARDIS caused them. The Cybermen arrive and their Cyber-Leader states that all evidence correlates, The Doctor is to blame. Silurians, Sontarans, Judoon and Sycorax arrive and The Doctor realizes that they have formed an alliance to save the universe from him. The alliance had built a perfect trap, using Amy's memories as building blocks. Very clever idea.
The alliance believe that The Doctors TARDIS exploding will cause the end of the universe. The Auton Rory is still fighting, but he ends up shooting Amy. That was a really imotional scene. She then dies in his arms. AWWWWW! The Pandorica finally opens and inside is a holding cell, designed for a humanoid. A prison for The Doctor. To keep him from damaging the universe, even though he's the one who protects it from the villains. So, the Daleks say that it is for the Doctor. The Doctor tries to protest, saying that it is the TARDIS that is the threat, not him, but the Daleks state that he is the only person who can fly it, since they are unaware of River's presence and have him strapped into the holding cell. Watching Matt Smith fighting for his life and begging them not to lock him up was again, so imotional and such a powerfull scene. It was like watching David Tennent fighting for his life when he was The Doctor. With the Doctor held firmly in place, the Pandorica closes. River manages to open the TARDIS door, but in front of her is a wall of stone. She says that she is sorry, and the TARDIS console explodes. There are thousands of explosions across the sky, and Earth is left in the middle of a void. Silence falls.

Moffat Hints About "Doctor Who: Series 6" Story Arc!

Tonight after the series finale on BBC 1, "Doctor Who Confidential" on BBC THREE had Steven Moffat hinting what he's got in store for us for Series 6 next year.
He explained that he's gonna take the "Silence Will Fall" story arc from this series and continue it onto the next series and explain (in more depth) what it is. He also said that he wants explain more about the voice that was heard in the TARDIS in the finale. And finally, he wants to tell us who River Song is to The Doctor and whats the deal with her background all about.
Basically he said this, "Something that we’ve been hearing about throughout this series is going to continue and become more significant, and we’re going to learn more in the next series, which is the Silence." and this "What is that? Who is that? Who are the Silence and what’s coming. The whole point of the Silence is next series. Also who is River Song? Who is she really? That’s what we’re going to find out next year." Exciting stuff. Can't wait!

Doctor Who: Blood Of The Cybermen Game!

Now that Series 5 has finished (will post my finale review soon), the second game is available for download from today. The second game, "Blood Of The Cybermen", sees The Doctor and Amy travel to a present day Arctic after they receive an SOS call in the TARDIS. They end up having to help Professor Elizabeth Meadows and her crew from the Cybermen.
Here's the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jaP5BIMQMQ

Amber Heard To Play Younger Mystique?

According to Movieweb.com, sexy-on-legs actress, Amber Heard is up for the role of the younger Mystique in the upcoming "X-Men: First Class". And Rosamund Pike is not up for the role of Emma Frost. She's actually up for the role of Xavier's assistant, Moira McTaggert.

Inglorious B******* Chooses To Play Magneto!

So "Inglorious Basterds" star has chosen the role of the younger Magneto in Matthew Vaughns "X-Men: First Class" rather than going for the unknown role in Marc Webbs "Spider-Man: 2012 Reboot".

Friday, June 25, 2010

Screen-shots From SAW 2 Game!

Above are some of the new screen-shots from the highly anticipated game sequel, "SAW II: Flesh & Blood". Makes you just wanna play the game all day long when you get it. Love the new subtitle to it, "Flesh & Blood". Nice!

Jonny Lee Miller Joins New Series Of Dexter!

Lee Miller is set for the role of a mysterious man who has something to do with Julia Stiles character in the new series. There is now news yet what their characters are called, but I'm sure we'll hear about it soon.

Lake Bell Out Of SCRE4M!

Sexy actress Lake Bell, has announced on her Twitter page that she has had to drop out of her role in "SCRE4M" due to conflicts with her schedule. Now, filming in meant to begin on Monday. Soon we will hear who is replacing her. Most probably near the end of this weekend or even the beginning of next week.

Neil Patrick Harris Is Back For Harold & Kumar 3!

Actor, Neil Patrick Harris is set to return as himself for "A Very Merry Harold & Kumar Christmas". He confirmed this earlier this week in an interview with Moviehole.net. The film is set for release this Christmas.

"Piranha 3D" Official Poster!

Little Fockers Trailer Is Fecking Hillarious!

The first official "Little Fockers" trailer is so funny I nearly pissed myself. This is the film in the series we've been waiting for since the beginning. All the cast above will return (except for Dustin Hoffman) with some new cast members, including Jessica Alba and Harvey Kritel.
Here's the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YkaY_KBPdc

The Green Hornet Images And Trailer!

These two new images from the highly anticipated film are looking good. The first official trailer is amazing and I'm really looking forward to the new film when it comes out in January 2011. This is the action film Seth Rogen's been waiting for. You can see that he enjoy's this role so much. Here's hoping it works.
Here's the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5PqclBsCHo

Two New TF3 Set Pics!

Official Image Of Jason Momoa As Conan!

I really think he looks good as the new Conan. I'm really looking forward to the new film. I loved the original two films with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hopefully this remake/reboot will live up to them.

"2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams" Official Pics!