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Sunday 7 September 2008

Pats Playlist: Sammy Morris

With the start of the New England Patriots [team stats] season today, we kick back off Pats Playlist. In this modern Sunday series, which volition run weekly until the Pats� last game, we talk to players around what�s playing on their iPods when they�re non playing on the field.

Running back Sammy Morris exhausted four age with the Buffalo Bills and iII years with the Miami Dolphins [squad stats] in front coming to New England last twelvemonth. His brief season included back-to-back 100-yard rushing games before he suffered a season-ending thorax injury in October.

Age: 31

First concert: 95 South

Favorite genre: �I hazard it would be rap, but hip-hop and r & b are close, neck and neck.�

Artist or group he�d most care to meet: �Outkast. I like their style. Their songs have that certain Outkast feel or sound to them, just at that same time they�re still different from most rap groups.�

Playlist: San Antonio native Morris� favorites includes rap, current and old-school r & b and a bit of rock music. He name calling Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Alicia Keys and Keyshia Cole as some of his favorite artists, merely also gives props to classic musicians who paved the way for today�s stars: the O�Jays, Al Green, the Four Tops, Sade and Earth, Wind & Fire.

�You could even put Journey on in that respect,� Morris added. �I got a little bite of everything.�

Game day: Morris switches to purely rap music by the likes of Ludacris and his ducky group, Outkast. He says hip-hop beat generation put him into the proper state of matter of judgment to beat the opponent.

About rap, Morris said, �I like the lyrical content plus the beats. But on game day it�s pretty lots strictly precisely about the beat.�

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Thursday 28 August 2008

Justice play roof-raising set at Reading Festival

Justice played to a capacity crowd on the NME/Radio 1 Stage[b] tonight (August 23) at [b]Reading Festival.

Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay appeared onstage after a minor detain to rapturous applause from the crowd. Despite the some mid rain, many people watched the determine from outside the tent.

Flanked either face by a huge stack of Marshall Amplifiers, and with their traditional cross placed underneath them, the French duet launched neat into 'Genesis' from 2007 album 'Cross'.

At one peak, Auge and de Rosnay saluted the crowd in unison, causing a flurry of glowsticks to be thrown skywards towards them.

Although the band played the likes of fan-favourites 'Waters Of Nazareth' and 'The Party', the biggest cheers of the countersink were reserved for 'D.A.N.C.E' and their remix of Simian's 'Never Be Alone', retitled 'We Are Your Friends', both of which saw mass sing-a-longs from the crowd.

NME.COM is bringing you unrecorded coverage square from both sites of the Reading And Leeds Festivals 2008. For the latest news, blogs, pictures and picture interviews head to the Reading And Leeds Festivals index now.

Plus make sure you sustain next week's issue of NME - on newsstands nationwide from Wednesday August 27 - for the ultimate Reading And Leeds Festivals review.

For more Reading And Leeds Festivals reportage including live footage and more, visit fellow official media partner bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds.

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Monday 18 August 2008

Download Hawthorne Heights mp3

Artist: Hawthorne Heights: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rock
Alternative
Other

Discography:

If Only You Were Lonely

Year: 2005

Tracks: 2

The Silence In Black And White

Year: 2004

Tracks: 11

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Year:

Tracks: 1

Post-hardcore/emo-pop quintette Hawthorne Heights came to life in the summer of 2001. Originally called A Day in the Life, the Dayton, OH, collective saw numerous batting order changes and shifting music styles sooner subsiding on its flowing formation. Composed of drummer Eron Bucciarelli, bassist Matt Ridenour, vocalist/guitar player J.T. Woodruff, and guitarists Casey Calvert and Micah Carli, Hawthorne Heights built their fan nucleotide on a solid monstrance and a series of self-booked national tours that saw them sharing the phase with the likes of From Autumn to Ashes and the Descendents. In 2003, they signed with Chicago label Victory Records, resulting in the 2004 release of their potent full-length debut, The Silence in Black and White. As the guys relentlessly toured behind it, the record album became Victory's highest-selling debut, spell their tip single, "Buckeye State Is for Lovers," slow invaded tilt radio, MTV, and teen hearts across the rural area.

Their follow-up, If Only You Were Lonely, as well as the DVD This Is Who We Are, arrived in 2006. Leading up to the album's waiver, Victory urged street team members to avail it debut above urban singer Ne-Yo, whose possess hyped handout came out on the same day. Questionable promotional tactics included rearranging stock displays to shroud Ne-Yo's record and make Hawthorne Heights' more big. Lonely debuted at number trinity on the charts, though, unsurprisingly, more than a few eyebrows were raised in the band and label's guidance. Regardless, the album continued to sell well, as its get-go single, "Locution Sorry," garnered airplay on many a modern rock candy radiocommunication station.

However, controversy came to a head in early August when Hawthorne Heights suddenly proclaimed that not only were they departure Victory Records (despite a contractual obligation of deuce more albums for the label), just also suing them all over respective issues including unpaid royalties and tarnishing their discover and relationship with fans over the aforementioned incident (the band claimed to have no noesis of the street team letter that was issued as though personally from them). In a statement issued online, the dance orchestra compared their fourth dimension at the label to being in an "abusive relationship" and straight attacked "greed driven" label chief Tony Brummel. As issues were sorted out behind the scenes (and Victory counter-sued the banding claiming they simply wanted to jump to a major), Hawthorne Heights continued touring nationwide and served as headliners on the fall 2006 translation of the democratic Nintendo Fusion Tour with openers Relient K, the Sleeping, and more.

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Friday 8 August 2008

People, Hello! buy first photos of Jolie-Pitt twins

NEW YORK () - The first pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newborn twins experience been sold to entertainment news magazines People and Hello!, with all issue going to charity.

Getty Images said on Friday it had done an exclusive photo pip of the twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, with Jolie, Pitt and the couple's four other children, Maddox, Zahara, Pax and Shiloh -- three of whom are adopted.

Getty did not disclose the amount gainful by the magazines for the exposure rights simply some newsworthiness media reported it was about $11 million. An industry source said that figure was higher than the amount of money paid by both People and Hello!

"The Jolie-Pitt family and Getty Images have in agreement that all proceeds will be used for charitable purposes," the agency said in a statement.

It aforesaid the photos will be published on Monday in People in North America and in Hello! elsewhere.

Oscar winner Jolie, 33, gave birth to the twins on July 12 in Nice, France. The family has rented a villa in nearby Provence.

Jolie and Pitt, 44, are one of Hollywood's virtually glamorous couples, dubbed "Brangelina" by the celebrity urge on, and the birth of their gemini was the subject of obsessive media coverage.

People magazine reportedly nonrecreational $4 gazillion in June 2006 for North American rights to pictures of Jolie and Pitt's number one biological child, Shiloh, although industry sources said that figure was wildly inaccurate.

The couple donated the money from the photos of Shiloh, world Health Organization was born in Namibia, to charities helping African children.�

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