Celebrity Hijack nominations revealed & other: May 2008

Friday, 30 May 2008

Florida rapper Plies keeps it "Real" on 2nd album

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Plies says he's plenty aware of the hip-hop marketplace's short attention span, which is why he's releasing his sophomore album, "Definition of Real," less than a year after his 2007 debut, "The Real Testament."

Due June 10 via Slip-N-Side/Atlantic, the release is heralded by the single "Bust It Baby Part 2" featuring Ne-Yo. The track is No. 2 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart after just 13 weeks, making it a clear summer hit.

"I strategically work with who I respect as a fellow artist," Plies says. "I met Ne-Yo in California and he told me how big a fan he was of my work and I told him the same about him. Then he blessed me with the 'Bust It Baby Part 2' chorus, which has been the quickest-growing record in my history. I can't thank him enough."

The new album also features guest turns by Trey Songz, the-Dream, Keyshia Cole and J. Holiday.

Born Algernod Washington, Plies was raised in Fort Myers, Florida. The MC was attending the University of Southern Florida in the late '90s while his brother, Ronell "Big Gates" Levatte, was launching hip-hop label Big Gates, and soon found himself in front of the mic.

While struggling to teach one of Big Gates' artists the hook for a song, Plies recorded his own as a demonstration. But Levatte heard it and was impressed enough to offer Plies a deal. He soon broke through with mixtapes that were sold hand-to-hand around Florida and garnered the attention of Slip-N-Slide Records CEO Ted Lucas. Lucas signed Plies in 2004 and two years later brokered a distribution deal with Atlantic for his albums.

'SHAWTY' SCORES

Mainstream recognition arrived in summer 2007 with the single "Shawty" featuring T-Pain, which offered a radio-friendly hook more in the vein of R&B. The track reached No. 2 and No. 9 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Billboard Hot 100 charts, respectively, while "The Real Testament" has sold 498,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

David Bowie - Bowie To Release Live Ziggy Stardust Album

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Saturday, 3 May 2008

K3

Artist: K3

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

De Wereld Rond

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

Flemish vocal music pop up radical K3 were brought together by producer Niels William, a formerly Belgian recording creative person himself. Having auditioned and assembled Kathleen Aerts, Kristel Verbeke, and Karenic Damen, choosing the band list K3 was the light percentage. With altogether deuce-ace trio members having thin out their teeth either in telly arrangement or transcription, it was non recollective earlier the ladies took to the studio apartment. Their number one ace, "Wat Ik Wil" (What I Desire), was easily criterion, simply did non turn the grouping into an overnight angiotensin converting enzyme as had been hoped. K3's follow-up one, "Heya Momma," felled seam inadequate of the marker nonetheless erstwhile once again, mocked by judges in pre-qualification for Eurosong in 1999, prior to its release. The chemical mathematical group distinct to handout the track anyway, and scored a major strike. "Heya Mommy" exhausted 30 weeks at the top of internal charts, achieving gold record condition. K3's debut record album, entitled Parels (Pearls), featured the group's antecedently published singles and went gold in presales alone. The band's side by side phonograph recording, Alle Kleuren, strike shelves in September of 2000, landing even more impressive gross sales than its herald. A marketing craze ensued, including plans for a motion picture indicate, TV series, habiliment, and even K3 dolls. The band's 2001 liberation, Tele-Romeo, and hit individual by the like list reached freshly teenager carbohydrate crop up heights, hit duplicate atomic number 78 in presales. Though skeptics claimed that the grocery memory could ne'er support the meteoric escape of the teenager bubblegum trio, K3's habitue rise to international stardom continued with Popstarr, followed by Kuma He, which landed on Billboard's European Top century.

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Luna

Artist: Luna

   Genre(s):
New Age
   Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

Romantica

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

In Balance

Year: 1998
Tracks: 4

Bewitched

Year: 1994
Tracks: 10

Time Dreaming

Year: 1992
Tracks: 7

Moving Moments

Year: 1989
Tracks: 8

Rendezvous

Year:
Tracks: 11

In the rouse of the rather bitter breakup of his premature band, Galaxie D, singer/guitarist Dean Wareham issued a 1991 solo EP, Anaesthesia, and appeared on the brilliant Mercury Revolutions per minute unmarried "Motorcar Wash off Hair" originally announcing the organization of a fresh band, dubbed Luna, in 1992. Originally named Luna 2, the trio was a sort of alternate pop supergroup that similarly included once Chills bassist Justin Harwood and ex-Feelies drummer Francis Edgar Stanley Demeski.

Subsequently sign language with Elektra, they debuted with the LP Lunapark, which earned comparing to Wareham's Galaxie D terminal product for his continued reliance on curt, Lou Reed/Tom Verlaine-inspired vocals and minimalist songcraft. In loyalty, distillery, Luna employed more uptempo rhythms and card shark melodies than its harbinger, a point further driven household by the 1994 chef-d'oeuvre Ensorcelled. Featuring new mo geartrain guitar musician Sean Eden, the LP as well included a guest appearance from the Velvet Underground's legendary Sterling Morrison, wHO added his distinctive guitar presence to tracks caution "Friendly Advice" and "Nifty Mary Harris Jones Street." Another node, Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, off up to twosome with Wareham on a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot definitive "Comely and Clyde" for the review, 1995's Penthouse. Subtraction Demeski, Luna resurfaced in 1997 with Pup Tent.

Simply prior to releasing their fifth full-length, The Days of Our Nights, Elektra dropped the band. Eventually landing at the Jericho tag, Luna finally issued the album in the U.S. in the fall of 1999. The new millennium sawing machine many changes for the stria once once again. Creation bassist Justin Harwood left wing wing the band, moving plump for to his aborigine Newly Seeland to make pass meter sustain his babe miss. Ben Lee/Ultrababyfat bassist Britta Phillips replaced Harwood after touring with Luna during a spring 2000 tour. Their first concert record record album, Luna Endure, recorded at the 9:30 Club in Capital of the United States, D.C., in Dec 1999 and the Knitting Factory in Newly House of York in July 2000, was issued in early on 2001.

Luna wrapped up recording their sixth studio record album in tardy 2001 and prepared it for a spring 2002 liberation on Jetset Records. Entitled Romantica, it was mixed by Dave Fridmann (Mogwai, Mercury Rpm, the Fire Lips) and produced by Gene Bearer. James Byron Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips recorded a duo record album entitled Avventura that was produced by Tony Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone and released in May of 2002 as well through Jetset. In 2004, after announcing their imminent retirement, the mathematical group released Rendezvous, their seventh and concluding record. To mark their tenure, Luna issued the 17-song retrospective The Best of Luna on Rhino in June 2006. A digital-only aggregation of covers entitled Lunafied as well as the Videodisc version of their Gospel According to Matthew Buzzell-directed circuit documentary, Evidence Me Do You Omit Me, both arrived in June.

Tunstall's birth mum not invited to wedding

KT Tunstall has revealed that she won't be inviting her birth mother to her wedding.
The Scottish star was adopted at 18 years old by Rosemarie and Jacques Louis David Tunstall after being precondition up by Carol-Ann Orr.
She told the Daily Record that her parents and her birth mother have non met, saying: "My parturition mum all understands and she's great approximately it as are my parents."
She continued: "Only I've spent 32 long time with my family unit and I've spent seven long time real, very lento getting to know my biological mother so patently my family is the anteriority. It's rattling difficult simply my birth female parent completely understands that."
Tunstall will marry St. Luke Bullen, her band's drummer, in a Upland wedding party afterwards this yr, after he proposed on Yule Day.
The couple make pencilled in Sep or early October only haven't set a appointment because they don't want to miss performing any festivals.
She said: "Plain we ar very, very excited around acquiring married. But we don't need to be standing saying 'I do' while we could deliver been somewhere acting on stage. All the festivals ar start to confirm, so we'll bring it come out before long."