Wednesday 10 September 2008

Liam Gallagher Plans To Move Into John Lennon's Old Apartment Block

Liam Gallagher wants to move into the old apartment impede of John Lennon.


It's claimed the Oasis star wants to go into the Dakota Building in New York, which overlooks Central Park.


A quaker of Liam's tells the Daily Star: "He loves that division of New York and feels he'd be very much at home thither. He would also feel close to Lennon's spirit."


Just this hebdomad Gallagher aforementioned he hopes to leave the UK when his kids destination their schooling and be active to New York.




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Sunday 31 August 2008

Download Grant Lee Buffalo mp3






Grant Lee Buffalo
   

Artist: Grant Lee Buffalo: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rock

   







Discography:


Jubilee
   

 Jubilee

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 14






Although heralded by the critics and championed by their musical peers, the '90s alternative/roots rock trey Grant Lee Buffalo failed to break through to the mainstream, despite unassailable songwriting and an original style. The band's drawing card was Grant Lee Phillips -- natural in 1963 and raised in Stockton, CA, Phillips was equally influenced by rock music early on (David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Kiss) as well as country icons (Long horse cavalry Owens, Merle Haggard, etc.). By the dawn of his teen age, Phillips began playacting guitar and writing his own original compositions, as he sought-after to combine his both preferable styles of music together as one -- leading to the formation of his first real dance isthmus, Bloody Holly.


Prior to his twentieth birthday, Phillips relocated to Los Angeles, where he roofed houses with hot pitch during the day, attended movie shoal at night, and reserved the weekends for music. By the end of the '80s, Phillips had formed the neo-psychedelic kit Shiva Burlesque, issue a couple of critically acclaimed simply commercially unmarked releases, 1987's self-titled debut and 1990's Mercury Blues, earlier rending up. Phillips then recruited Shiva's drummer Joey Peters and multi-instrumentalist Paul Kimble (the latter of which double on bass and keyboards and, later on, production duties) for a new envision. Utilizing a reserve of songs idle by Shiva, the raw group first went under several different names (including the Machine Elves and Mouth of Rasputin) earlier settling on Grant Lee Buffalo.


The newly named kit landed a weekly abode at West Hollywood's Cafe Largo in the early '90s, as they honed their songs and alive picture, patch edifice up a significant undermentioned in the litigate. The trio sent a demonstration magnetic tape to the Singles Only label (headed by Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould), wHO in turn issued the song "Bleary" as a single in 1992. By this time, the bombilate encompassing Grant Lee Buffalo had spread to other record labels, as Slash Records sign the trio and issued their full-length debut, too coroneted Muzzy, in 1993.


Grant Lee Buffalo supported the release with about a year of solid touring -- orifice for the likes of Cracker, ex-Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg, and Pearl Jam. Instead of taking some much-needed time turned from their backbreaking agenda, the 3 went directly back up into the studio to work on their soph drive, 1994's Mighty Joe Moon, which spawned their first single/video to attract the attention of MTV and radiocommunication (albeit mildly), the easy lay "Mockingbirds." Despite landing place a prestigious gig curtain raising for R.E.M. (the group's first area enlistment in five years) and Phillips being recognised as Male Vocalist of the Year by Rolling Stone cartridge, the album failed to break the stripe commercially. Further fine releases followed, 1996's Copperopolis and 1998's Jubilee, which, again, were critically acclaimed yet commercial underachievers. Fed up, the trio softly disbanded in 1999.


Phillips immediately launched a solo vocation, issue a couple of albums, 2000's Ladies' Love Oracle and 2001's Mobilize, both of which were whole penned and performed by the ex-Grant Lee Buffalo frontman (Phillips has also guested on albums by such early artists as the Eels, Neil Finn, Harvey Danger, Robyn Hitchcock, and Michael Penn, piece producing Eenie Meenie's self-titled 1997 EP). In 2001, a 30-track Grant Lee Buffalo overview was issued in England (where the grouping had enjoyed more significant success than in their native land), entitled Rage Hymnal: Gems From the Vault of Grant Lee Buffalo. Rhino released it stateside three old age later.






Thursday 21 August 2008

First FLEXUS(TM) Interspinous Spacer Surgeries For IDE Clinical Trial

�Globus Medical, Inc., the largest
privately held spinal implant manufacturing business in the world, proclaimed
that the first FLEXUS(TM) Interspinous Spacers have been implanted under an
Investigational Device Exemption ("IDE") of late granted to Globus by Dr.
Donald Johnson II and Dr. Rhett Murray.



The FLEXUS(TM) Spacer is placed with a unilateral approach between two
spiny processes with minimal perturbation to the surrounding muscle system
and tissue. FLEXUS(TM) is a unitary radiolucent implant that requires no
intra-operative assembly and a single incision to insert. It is
manufactured from PEEK radiolucent polymer rather than titanium to more
tight match the biomechanical properties of ivory and eliminate MRI
scatter.



"FLEXUS(TM) is the windup of utilizing surgeon input and
technology simplicity to create innovational technologies to treat spinal anesthesia
stenosis. The FLEXUS(TM) IDE reflects Globus' position as the world-wide
leader in the development of hind end motion preservation devices. We are
excited to start the clinical trial to develop strong supportive data for
the product," aforementioned Michael Boyer, Group Engineering Manager for
Interlaminar Fixation.



"The combination of a unilateral approach and a unitary plant makes
FLEXUS(TM) not only a more than efficient routine but likewise one that is less
traumatic to the affected role," said Dr. Donald Johnson II, a spine surgeon of
the Southeastern Spine Institute in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. "I am proud of with
the PEEK pattern as it will enable better radiographic follow-up and allow
me to monitor both the decompression and the adjacent anatomy."



After implanting the first FLEXUS(TM) device, Dr. Rhett Murray, a
brain surgeon of The Spine and Neurosurgery Center in Huntsville, Ala.,
aforesaid, "The surgical technique and approach was very straightforward. The
simplicity of the FLEXUS(TM) design in distracting the stenotic segment may
be good in treating this dreadful condition. We are excited to
participate in this IDE."



The 340 patient prospective, randomised FLEXUS(TM) IDE study will seek
to prove comparison with the X-Stop device over the two year study period.
The study will involve patients that are over 50 years old world Health Organization may benefit
from the decompression provided by the FLEXUS(TM) gimmick, at up to 20
clinical sites across the United States.

About Globus Medical, Inc.



Globus Medical, Inc. is the largest in private held spinal anesthesia implant
manufacturer in the world. Based in Audubon, Pa., the privately held
company was founded in 2003 by an experienced team of spine professionals
with a shared vision to create products that enable vertebral column surgeons to
employ both fusion and non-fusion solutions to promote healing in patients
with spinal disorders. Globus Medical has a full portfolio of spinal anaesthesia fusion
products, burgeoning initiatives in biomaterials development and minimally
invasive approaches, and is among the world leaders in the evolution of
motion sparing technology. Additional information can be accessed at
http://www.globusmedical.com.


Globus Medical, Inc.
http://www.globusmedical.com


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Monday 11 August 2008

Sage Francis

Sage Francis   
Artist: Sage Francis

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   Other
   



Discography:


Human the Death Dance   
 Human the Death Dance

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


Road Tested 2003-2005   
 Road Tested 2003-2005

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 21


Healthy Distrust   
 Healthy Distrust

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


Sickly Business   
 Sickly Business

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 22


Dead Poet Live Album   
 Dead Poet Live Album

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 21


A Healthy Distrust   
 A Healthy Distrust

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


Sick Of Waging War   
 Sick Of Waging War

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 21


Personal Journals   
 Personal Journals

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 19


Still Sick...   
 Still Sick...

   Year:    
Tracks: 21




Born Paul Francis in 1977 in Miami, FL, Sage Francis exhausted to the highest degree of his youth in Providence, RI. Interested in the poetic side of rap, Francis has been riming since age octet, afterwards victorious the Superbowl Battle in Boston in 1999 and the Scribble Jam in Cincinnati in 2000 and 2001 (the last under the name of his "metal" change self, Xaul Zan). After graduating from Dean College in Massachusetts with an A.A. in communication theory and from the University of Rhode Island-Kingston with a B.A. in journalism (where he started the now-defunct mathematical group Art Official Intelligence), Francis worked on releasing his solo records. Always an dull and political rapper and a strict vegetarian, he started the Sick Of series in 2000 on his primary Strange Famous Records with Still Sick...Urine Trouble, and continued with Sick of Waiting Tables (2001), Sick of Waging War (from 2002, and containing the single "Make-do Patriot," recorded exactly unrivalled month later the September 11 attacks on New York), and Sickly Business (2004). He too released one album on Anticon in 2002, Personal Journals, and was sign in 2004 as the starting time rap creative person on Epitaph Records, which issued his extremely hoped-for A Healthy Distrust in 2005. Two age later he was operative with composer/trumpeter Mark Isham on the soundtrack for Pridefulness and Glory prima Edward Norton. Two tracks from these seance all over up on Francis' have 2007 full-length, Human the Death Dance. Sage Francis is unitary half of the Non-Prophets (Joe Beats is the producer and DJ), wHO outset recorded the 12" Drop Bass/Bounce/I Keep Calling on their friend's Emerge Records in 1999. A uncut record album on Lax Records, Hope, came out in 2004.





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Tuesday 24 June 2008

Tetsu Inoue and Taylor Deupree

Tetsu Inoue and Taylor Deupree   
Artist: Tetsu Inoue and Taylor Deupree

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   



Discography:


Active # Freeze   
 Active # Freeze

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14




 





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Sunday 22 June 2008

Sex Pistols: 'We were never punk, we bitterly reject it'

Sex Pistols have denied they are a punk band following their headlining performance at the Isle Of Wight festival last night (June 14).

Despite being so closely associated with the genre and the 1977 British "summer of punk", frontman John Lydon declared the band wanted nothing to do with punk moments after stepping off stage.

"We never liked the moniker 'punk' right from the start," declared Lydon. "That�s something like the press gave to us or attached to us. I�ve always, myself personally bitterly rejected it. I don�t like the term. It means in American, you know, Mr Big�s Bum boy in prison. I really don�t think any big fat Yank fancies my bottom!"

Lydon said though that he enjoyed playing his biggest British date in several years � "a thoroughly enjoyable gig. It�s nice to see the English amusing themselves as per usual � Sex Pistols stylie!" � he had a few words of warning for the country of his birth.

He told Virgin Radio: "Tony Blair's Britain! All right! An upper class twat teaching me working class values! Look what he's done! He took Britain to war! He took us to war right? He became George Bush's lapdog, and by association we're what? We're Yankee poodle pus? You know, we're like lap fodder for that?

"It's insane! And the only troops that did any good anyway over there was the Brits, as per usual, you know with our crappy outfits, and boots that don't fit, and water bottles that leak. You know! We're in Basra, in hardcore gaffs, and they sod off to you know, the centre of the city to open up a disco!"

However Lydon, who now lives in America, added he was not anit-American but, on the eve of his last visit Britain as president, he was just anti-Bush.

"I'm not anti-American, I live in America and the soldiers that are sent out there, they're coming back so distraught and so disillusioned by their government," he explained. "Don't hate Americans, hate, like most decent Americans, hate that government. Not the people, hate that government. All right?"

Live highlights of the band's set are being broadcast at Virginradio.co.uk.

Keep up with this weekend's (June 13-15) festival action as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Isle Of Wight Festival page and NME.COM's Download Festival page for live coverage from both sites.

Saturday 21 June 2008

Sidney Poitier pens letters to great-granddaughter in new book

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - It all began when Sidney Poitier flew to Atlanta in late December 2005 for the birth of his first great-granddaughter.

"When I arrived at the hospital, I saw my great-granddaughter in her mother's arms," he recalled. "Directly behind her was my daughter, the baby's grandmother. Next to her was my former wife, who was the baby's great-grandmother.

"I saw that I was in a room of four generations. I would soon be 80, and Ayele was one day old. I realized that the time between us would be short. I decided I would write a book in the form of letters so I could cover everything that I've felt and learned, and talk to her about things that I don't understand."

The result is "Life Beyond Measure, Letters to My Great-Granddaughter." It follows his 1980 autobiography, "This Life," but is much more personal, with little reference to his movie career. The chapter titles tell of his concerns. Among them: "Me and God," "Battling the Demons," "People of Courage," "The World I Leave You."

"Life Beyond Measure" was a gruelling task for Poitier, who had to dig into his earliest memories, his relations with his parents, his sometimes wayward youth.

"I'm going to quit writing," he vowed, somewhat unconvincingly. "I was working eight to 10 hours a day on the book. I'm going to relax, find something else to do." Still, he talked about three more books he wants to write.

Poitier sat down for an interview in his comfortably cluttered house a few blocks from the Beverly Hills Hotel. "My wife collects knick-knacks," he explained.

He and Joanna Poitier live alone. Gone are the girls: Gina, Pamela, Beverly and Sheri from his marriage to Juanita Poitier, as well as Sydney and Anika, from the marriage to actress Joanna Shimkus.

At 81, Sidney Poitier seems little changed from his movie years. His hair is a bit thinner, and he has been forced to abandon tennis and golf because of a bad back. But he still stands tall, and his face is smooth.

"I retired from acting a long time ago," he remarked (his last film was "The Jackal" in 1997). "I had spent all that I had to spend in terms of creativeness. The work was organic, and I tried to make it organic for a long time. By the end of 56 movies . . . I found that I had spent it as honestly as I could, and I was obliged to myself to quit."

He still gets offers for films but he's not interested in working. He said he's playing the grandfather and the great-grandfather in his real life. He now has two great-granddaughters.

Poitier spent his early life in the Caribbean but he was born in the United States. His father and his six-and-half-month pregnant wife had gone to Miami to sell their tomato crop. Their mission over, they prepared for the trip back home. But Sidney was born, all three pounds of him. Survival seemed doubtful and his father found a shoe box for the burial. But Sidney, the youngest of nine children, did survive, and he was taken home to Cat Island in the Bahamas.

"The island is the same size as Manhattan," he remarked, "but it had only 2,500 population."

Poitier spent his first 10 and a half years on the quiet island with no school to attend.

"I have always been a learner because I knew nothing," he observed. "I didn't have an education and I couldn't read very well. I couldn't spell. I could barely count to a hundred. But I did have a curiosity. I looked at insects. I looked at birds and crickets. I looked at fish on the edge of the sea."

When Florida banned the import of tomatoes from the Bahamas, the family moved to Nassau where his father found other work. But there was a much larger world beyond island life. Sidney and his mother arrived at the busy Nassau harbour and he saw something that resembled a giant beetle. "What is that?" he asked his mother. "That," his mother replied, "is a car."

Poitier writes of an incident in his early teens. He fell in with a group of adventurous boys and they robbed a corn field one night. They were roasting their loot when the farmer saw the fire and called the police. The other boys' fathers raised the $8 bail money; Sidney's father didn't have the cash, and his son spent a night in jail.

Poitier quotes his father: "You need a stronger hand. You were born in America. The time has come for your mother and me to send you back." At 15, Sidney was sent to live with his brother Cyril in Miami. He didn't see his parents for another eight years.

Miami was totally different from Cat Island and Nassau. Poitier writes of "the searing shock of racism, segregation and the mistreatment of people on the basis of colour alone."

Poitier was 16 when he got off the bus in New York City and headed for Harlem. On the way he spotted a sign in a restaurant's window: "Dishwasher Wanted." He got the job and spent his evenings washing dishes at $4 plus change and his days looking for better jobs.

After a brief stint in the Army, he returned to job hunting and answered an ad: "Actors Wanted - American Negro Theater." He was briskly sent away but returned and got a job. He had found his lifetime work.

Poitier is an omnivorous reader and especially likes scientific works.

"I'm impressed by science," he remarked. "I don't very often read novels. I stay with what I see, what I've learned, what I try to understand."

In his letters to Ayele, Poitier expresses his concern for the planet.

"We all are obliged to do something for the universe," he said. "The universe is where we live; it's our home base. I believe that our greatest obligation is not to abuse it.

"My friends think I'm nuts. But this is the way I feel."










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