Lily Allen Biography

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born May 2, 1985 in London, England) is an English pop singer-songwriter, mostly known for her songs: “Smile”, “LDN” and “The Fear”.

Allen is the daughter of comedian/actor/songwriter/frequent New Order collaborator Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.

Allen has released two hit albums as of 2009: “Alright, Still” (2006) and “It’s Not Me, It’s You” (2009).

Her first single “Smile” reached number one on the UK singles charts in July 2006. In December 2006 her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag.

Her second album “It’s Not Me, It’s You” was released in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2009 and on 10 February in North America. It has been certified 2× platinum by the British Phonographic Industry on the date of 28 August 2009.

In September of 2009 Allen announced that she is considering a career in acting and that she will not renew her record contract. In a blog, her last before taking it down, Allen wrote that she has “no plans” to make another record. “The days of me making money from recording music have been and gone as far as I’m concerned”. Allen’s spokesperson said “She is not quitting pop music. She is not thinking about her next album right now because she is still in the middle of promoting her current record.” ( Wikipedia ).

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Saosin New Album - In Serach Of Solid Ground

Southern California quintet Saosin are one of the fastest-growing headliners in rock – earning mainstage slots on the Vans Warped Tour, selling out clubs in a flash, going out with heavyweights like AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday and garnering an ocean of fans who’ve downloaded their songs from MySpace over five million times – all before they’ve released a full-length album.

That will all change on September 26th with the Capitol Records release of their self-titled debut.  As your average Saosin fan (and there are legions) will be quick to point out, the wait was a considerable one.  “We were waiting until the songs were right,” says frontman Cove Reber with some understatement.

It’s been three years since word of the band’s full-length debut first surfaced, and in that time a lot has changed within the music scene from which they originally emerged and within the band itself. (Saosin Site). Read More

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Radiohead Rock For Haiti at Small Los Angeles Benefit Show

 

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Even Radiohead can be surprised by the difference a rock band can make. On Sunday, the forward-looking Oxford quintet took a break from recording sessions for its next album to perform at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood and raise desperately needed funds for Haiti earthquake relief. “This is how much money we made,” singer-guitarist Thom Yorke announced late in the two-hour concert, as he was handed a card with a final tally. “Gross: Fuck me! $572,774!”

Tickets for the night’s “Radiohead for Haiti” concert were sold over the weekend via online auction, with a top price paid by one fan at $4,000 for a single pair. “What did you do to get a ticket?” Yorke joked with the crowd. “Get money from your dad? Or blackmail your boss?” The all-star audience included Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, Flea, Drew Barrymore, Paul Thomas Anderson and Anna Paquin. (Rolling Stone). Read More

Paranormal Activity (FIlm)

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Katie, a student, and her boyfriend Micah, a day trader, live in a two-story tract house in suburban San Diego, California. Katie claims that a ghostly presence has haunted her since her youth and believes that it has followed her to their new home. During a visit to their house, Dr. Fredrichs, a self-professed psychic, assesses that they are being plagued by a demon which feeds off negative energy and is intent on haunting Katie no matter where she goes. Dr. Fredrichs recommends they contact Dr. Johann Averies, a demonologist, but Micah's reluctance to do so leads to arguments with Katie. Each night, Micah mounts a video camera on a tripod in their bedroom to record any paranormal activity that might occur while they sleep. He manages to capture several phenomena, such as objects moving on their own, lights and televisions switching on and off, and sounds ranging from voices and growls to footsteps and loud thuds. The strange occurrences in the middle of the night soon involve Katie awakening to spend several hours standing by the bed staring at Micah while he sleeps and going outside to sit on the backyard swing, none of which she remembers the following morning.

Katie, already irritated by Micah's making light of the situation, becomes irate when Micah brings home a Ouija board, despite Dr. Fredrichs' warning against any attempt to communicate with the entity. While the two are out of the house, a wind blows through the living room and the Ouija board's planchette moves on its own. A small fire soon erupts on the board and extinguishes moments later. That night, Micah sprinkles talcum powder in the hallway and later they find non-human footprints leading to the bedroom from the attic. In the attic, Micah finds a charred photograph of a young Katie, previously thought to have been destroyed in a house fire. That night, the bedroom door slams shut and is violently banged upon from the other side. The next day, they discover the glass over a photo of them has been smashed with Micah's image scratched underneath. Dr. Averies is abroad when Micah finally agrees to invite him, so Dr. Fredrichs agrees to make a second house call. Upon his arrival, Dr. Fredrichs immediately has a sense of dread. He apologetically leaves despite their pleas for his help, stating his presence is only making the demon angry.

That night, Katie is dragged out of bed and down the hallway by an invisible force. Hearing her screams, Micah gives chase and wrests her away; the next day he discovers a gruesome bite mark on her back. Stressed and exhausted, the couple decide to go to a hotel. Micah later finds Katie gripping a cross so tightly that it bloodies her palm. Just as Micah is set to leave, a suddenly calm Katie insists they instead remain at the house. Micah, angry at a situation he cannot control, burns the cross and the picture found in the attic.

That night, Katie awakens to once again stare for several hours at Micah while he sleeps. She then goes downstairs into the darkness and begins screaming. Micah wakes up and runs after her, while the camera, left on its tripod, records what sounds like a struggle downstairs. The screams suddenly stop, and a brief silence is followed by the sound of heavy footsteps coming up the stairs. Katie returns to the bedroom from downstairs, wielding a knife with blood on her clothes. She then sits next to the bed and rocks back and forth in a catatonic state for the next few days. Her friend Amber calls the house, and later arrives, discovering Micah's body downstairs. When police officers arrive, Katie comes out of her catatonic state and, confused, approaches them. The officers instruct her to drop the knife, but fire on her after being startled by a door suddenly slamming behind them. The movie ends with audio of the police discovering the camera and a picture of Katie and Micah as the credits roll. (Wikipedia).

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Linkin Park Announce Summer Tour With My Chemical Romance

 Following their appearance at the Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey this weekend, Linkin Park stopped by New York’s Museum of Television and Radio to announce the details of their fourth Projekt Revolution tour, which kicks off on July 25th and hits twenty-nine amphitheaters before wrapping on September 3rd in Englewood, Colorado. The band will be joined on the main stage by fellow Bamboozlers My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday, as well as HIM, Placebo and Julien-K. “If you took Linkin Park off this bill it would still be the best bill of the summer,” says singer Chester Bennington. “Saying yes to this tour was a no-brainer,” My Chem’s Gerard Way adds. “Linkin Park has a vision, just like our band and Taking Back Sunday.” An eco-friendly outing, Projekt Revolution will include side stage performances by Saosin, The BledMindless Self-Indulgence, among others. (Rolling Stone). 

Taste of Chaos Tour Report: Mild Chaos, Ample Angst

The crowd didn’t seem to notice the absence of headlining act 30 Seconds To Mars at Friday night’s Sacramento pit-stop on the Rockstar-sponsored Taste of Chaos tour. And why would they? The evening — featuring a screamo-heavy bill that included The Used, Aiden, Senses Fail and Saosin — offered enough frenetic fist-pumping and sweaty moshing to satisfy even the most devout Jared Leto acolyte. (The official word from 30 STM’s camp was that frontman Leto had been hospitalized for strep throat, though insiders speculate that he simply wanted to spend some extra time at home in L.A. before gearing up for the tour’s Vegas stop.)

Things got off to a slow start with earnest but forgettable sets by Evaline and Chiodos, but the show picked up remarkably when Seattle quintet Aiden appeared. Led by singer Wil Francis (who wore a pink shirt emblazoned with the words “To Hell and Back”), Aiden owned the crowd when the opening strains of the raucous tune “The Suffering” from (2006’s Rain in Hell) were audible. “I want this shit to be epic,” Francis bellowed, ordering the crowd to part and make room for a massive moshing session. From the controlled chaos that ensued, it was evident the audience was more than willing to accommodate. Francis’ rock star showmanship was in full effect, and came complete with inspirational messages (“Music has the power to save and save lives”) and a Messianic, “walk-on-water” take on crowd-surfing that might best be described as “crowd standing.”(Rolling Stone) Read More

John Mayer in His Own Words

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In our new issue, John Mayer opens up about his hunt for "the Joshua Tree of vaginas" and harshly critiques his own albums. Here's bonus interview from Erik Hedegaard's chat with the guitarist:

Check out Mayer's most outrageous moments, from his Borat mankini to impromptu jam "Bare Ballin'."

On his early ambition:
When I first sat down to solicit myself for a record deal, I did the rounds at all the record companies in New York City in 2000. The label heads would ask me, "What do you want as an artist?" and I said, "I want to be the guy who plays The Tonight Show, [and then sits] on the couch, making people laugh." There were only two men who were musicians who could truly sit on the couch at the time I came up: Chris Isaak and Harry Connick Jr.

On his biggest hits:
My hits are not hits. "Your Body Is a Wonderland" is the biggest hit I've ever had, maybe ever will have. There wasn't a ton of music in that song. It's a novelty tune. I don't have Lady Gaga-sized hits; I'm trying to get hits on my terms, hits without selling out the musicality. "Waiting on the World to Change" has all of its roots in Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye. It's "We're a Winner" and it's "People Get Ready" and it's "This is My Country." "Who Says" is no different than a Lyle Lovett song, except it has the phrase, "Who says I can't get stoned?" which is a little bit like, "They say I've gotta go to rehab." It has a little bit of fang on it.

On becoming a staple of the tabloids:
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. I remember reading Pearl Jam saying that after Ten, "I wish we hadn't gotten this big." I read that, and I go, "Well, then give it back. Someone else will use it." The idea that phenomenal success is something to wish away... I don't understand it. I hope I sell 100 billion trillion copies of whatever I put out, but if you're that guy, then next time out, don't write a hit song.

I love being a famous musician but I don't like the [intimate details of my] relationship to be known. It just makes me severely, severely uncomfortable, as I believe it would make anybody uncomfortable. How did we get to where we actually say this: "Why do I watch that? It's like a car crash, you can't look away." Guess what? I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

Personally, I want to watch somebody entertain me safely without the sense that I'm going to fall through the net and crash with them. Personally, I want to see somebody who is a trained professional entertaining me — Alicia Keys entertains me, she's fantastic. That's why I liked Norah Jones selling as many records as she did, that was a "well done, America."(Rolling Stone). Read More