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Rihanna's Violent 'Man Down' Video Condemned by Parents Television Council

2011-06-02T21:19:00.001-07:00

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A new Rihanna music video, in which the singer guns down a man in retaliation for an apparent sexual assault, was condemned on Wednesday for encouraging young women to turn to violence.

"Man Down", which debuted on the Black Entertainment TV (BET) network on Tuesday, shows Rihanna firing in cold blood on an unarmed man at a rail station, and killing him.

The reggae style song by the 23 year-old R&B singer features the lyrics "Momma, I just shot a man dead...I never been so proud."

Rihanna, herself the victim of a violent 2009 physical attack by her then boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, said in Twitter messages to her fans that the theme of the video was female empowerment.

"Young girls/women all over the world...we are a lot of things! We're strong innocent fun flirtatious vulnerable, and sometimes our innocence can cause us to be naive! We always think it could NEVER be us, but in reality, it can happen to ANY of us! So ladies be careful," she wrote.

The Parents Television Council, the Enough is Enough campaign, and entertainment think tank Industry Ears called on BET and its parent company Viacom to stop airing the video.

"If Chris Brown shot a woman in his new video and BET premiered it, the world would stop. Rihanna should not get a pass," said Paul Porter, co-founder of Industry Ears, which campaigns against negative images in the media.

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Porter said that in 30 years he had never witnessed "such a cold, calculated execution of murder in prime time."

Melissa Henson of the Parents Television Council said that "instead of telling victims they should seek help, Rihanna released a music video that gives retaliation in the form of premeditated murder the imprimatur of acceptability."

BET and Viacom did not immediately return calls for comment on Wednesday.

"Man Down", the latest single from Rihanna's "Loud" album, was released last week.

Brown, 21, pleaded guilty to assaulting Rihanna in February 2009, setting off a national debate about young, abusive relationships. He publicly apologized, underwent court-ordered domestic violence counseling and spent six months performing community service.

Rihanna has referenced domestic violence in several other hits, including her 2010 duet with Eminem "Love the Way You Lie".

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by Christine Kearney)

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Greenday's Showing on Road

2011-06-02T04:52:00.000-07:00

Green Day's 'American Idiot' Broadway Show Going On The Road

Cast for the North American tour, which begins in December, hasn't been announced yet.

By Gil Kaufman

After shutting things down on Sunday with a blow-out that included a full-on set from Green Day, the "American Idiot" Broadway show is hitting the road for a North American tour.
The show, inspired by songs from the legendary East Bay punk trio, will kick off its road show on December 28 with a two-week-plus stint at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in Toronto, Ontario, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Though the casting has not yet been announced, the Broadway edition featured a long run by Green Day singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong as lead character St. Jimmy, as well as appearances by singer Melissa Etheridge. More dates are expected soon, but for now the tour is slated to wrap up with a June 5-10, 2012, run at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington.
"American Idiot" opened on Broadway on April 20, 2010, to positive reviews and strong box office. Along the way, it snagged a Grammy for Best Musical Show Album, as well as Tony awards for Best Scenic Design of a Musical and Best Lighting Design of a Musical and a nomination for Best Musical. It also snagged a 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations and two trophies at the 2010 Broadway.com Audience Awards for Favorite Ensemble Cast and Favorite Leading Actor in a Musical for John Gallagher Jr.
The play has also been optioned by actor Tom Hanks' Playtone production house for a possible adaptation for the big screen.
The dates for the "American Idiot" tour:
» 12/28/11-1/15/12 - Toronto, ON @ Toronto Centre for the Arts
» 1/17-1/22/12 - Detroit, MI @ Opera House
» 1/24-1/29/12 - Boston, MA @ Opera House
» 1/31-2/5/12 - Raleigh, NC @ Memorial Auditorium
» 2/21-2/26/12 - Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
» 2/28-2/29/12 - State College, PA @ Eisenhower Auditorium
» 3/2-3/4/12 - St. Louis, MO @ Peabody Opera House
» 3/13-4/22/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ Ahmanson Theatre
» 4/24-4/29/12 - Tempe, AZ @ ASU Gammage
» 5/8-5/20/12 - Dallas, TX @ AT&T PAC
» 5/29-6/3/12 - Costa Mesa, CA @ Segerstrom Center
» 6/5-6/10/12 - Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre

Linkin Park, Staind, Mastodon, Paramore Lead Transformers Sounds

2011-06-02T04:07:00.001-07:00

(Gibson) Some of the biggest bands in rock will be part of the soundtrack to the new Transformers movie. The Transformers: Dark of the Moon album will include selections from Linkin Park, Staind, Mastodon, Paramore, Theory of a Deadman and more. It will be released on June 14.
The soundtrack includes an exclusive remix of Linkin Park's "Iridescent," which marks the third time the band have worked with director Michael Bay on a Transformers movie. Also of note, Mastodon's contribution is a cover of ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid."

Transformers: Dark of the Moon hits theaters on June 29. Check out the album's tracklist here

Guns and roses Guitaris in multi-Car accident

2011-06-02T04:04:00.001-07:00

(Rock News Desk) Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal survived a potentially fatal car accident on Tuesday after a driver ploughed into his vehicle and forced it into another two.
He miraculously walked away from the pile-up, which totaled his Toyota – and after dealing with the associated paperwork he got straight back to work making music.
Bumblefoot, 41, posted a photo of the wreckage via his Twitter account and commented: "Thank you Toyota for the functional seat belt, air bags and crumple zone. You saved my skull." He added: "SUV just ploughed into me at full speed. My car is totalled and two other cars she smashed me into. I'm well enough to tweet, which means I'm not dead yet. " more on this story "

Kingston critical situation

2011-05-31T19:58:00.003-07:00

Sean Kingston remains in critical but stable condition . As we Got information about him couple of days ago.
jackson Memorial Hospital, where the 21-year-old singer was admitted after the accident, issued the following statement to Billboard.com: "Sean Kingston is currently in critical but stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. Sean's family asks for privacy at this time but is thankful to his friends, family and fans for their outpouring of prayers and well wishes."
Kingston's rep also told MTV that Kingston is "sedated but fully conscious," while Cassandra Sanchez, the female passenger who was riding with Kingston when the crash occured, told TMZ that he is "is lucid and understands what's going on," and that doctors plan to keep him in the hospital for "a couple more weeks."

Sanchez added that Kingston was driving "really fast" when the accident occured, explaining that she and Kingston went riding with two other friends, and that although both pairs pulled away from the dock at the same time, "we were going so fast we just blasted past them. When we turned a corner and crashed...they were so far behind us they didn't even see us crash."

Sanchez, who is described as a "longtime friend" of Kingston's, says she told Kingston to stop heading towards the bridge but that he "lost control" while trying to avoid it at the last minute.

Kingston was admitted to the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital Sunday and has since been Transferred to ICU. His family issued a statement through Kingston's rep on Monday, saying that he had been "stabilized" and thanking "everyone for their prayers and support during this time."

Gospel music

2011-05-14T21:52:00.000-07:00

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

Like other forms of Christian music, the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace. However, a theme of gospel music is praise, worship or thanks to God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit.Gospel music in general is characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian. Subgenres include contemporary gospel, urban contemporary gospel (sometimes referred to as "black gospel"), Southern gospel, and modern gospel music (now more commonly known as praise and worship music or contemporary Christian music). Several forms of gospel music utilize choirs, use piano and/or Hammond organ, drums, bass guitar and, increasingly, electric guitar. In comparison with hymns, which are generally of a statelier measure, the gospel song is expected to have a refrain and often a more syncopated rhythm.

Many attempts have been made to describe the style of late 19th and early 20th century gospel songs in general. Christ-Janer, et al. said "the music was tuneful and easy to grasp . . . rudimentary harmonies . . . use of the chorus . . . varied metric schemes . . . motor rhythms were characteristic. . . . The device of letting the lower parts echo rhythmically a motive announced by the sopranos became a mannerism . . ."[1] Patrick and Sydnor emphasize the notion that gospel music is "sentimental", quoting Sankey as saying, "Before I sing I must feel", and they call attention to the comparison of the original version of Rowley’s "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story" with Sankey's version.[2] Gold said, "Essentially the gospel songs are songs of testimony, persuasion, religious exhortation, or warning. Usually the chorus or refrain technique is found

Bass music

2011-05-14T21:49:00.000-07:00

In music, a solo (from the Italian: solo, meaning alone, even though assolo is now used in Italy when referring to the musical solo) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context.

The word is also used for the act of performing a solo, and sometimes for the performer (more often a soloist).

The plural is soli or the anglicised form solos. In some context these are interchangeable, but 'soli' tends to be restricted to classical music, and tends to refer to either the solo performers or the solo passages in a single piece: it would not often be used to refer to several pieces that happen to be for single performers.n many jazz performances, each number will alternate ensemble sections with solo sections where one performer is playing either completely alone, or with unobtrusive accompaniment from the others. Common examples are the rhythm section of jazz bands, and quiet background music by other wind instruments. Such solos are most often improvised.
In popular music a solo refers to a "crowd-pleasing" improvised melody[1] played by a single or featured performer and may also refer to a drum solo. Use of the term "solo" appears to follow from jazz and, though they are often pre-composed or originally improvised, the expectation that solos be improvised continues, especially in certain genres.

Classic music

2011-05-14T21:45:00.000-07:00

5Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times.[1] The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period.

European music is largely distinguished from many other non-European and popular musical forms by its system of staff notation, in use since about the 16th century.[2] Western staff notation is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitch, speed, meter, individual rhythms and exact execution of a piece of music. This leaves less room for practices such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation, that are frequently heard in non-European art music (compare Indian classical music or the Hindustani classical music of South Asia and Japanese traditional music) and popular music.

The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age.[6] The earliest reference to "classical music" recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about 1836.

pop music

2011-05-14T21:41:00.000-07:00

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style.

he term "pop song," is first recorded as being used in 1926 in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal".Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music.According to Grove Music Online, the term "pop music" "originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for Rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced ...".The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's "earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ...[,] since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mu[ic], usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles, the rolling stone, ABBA, etc.

Jazz music

2011-05-14T21:37:00.000-07:00

Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United states from a confluence of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century american popular music Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes,imrovisation and the swung notes.
The word "jazz" years also spelled "jass") began as a West coast slang term and was first used to refer to music in Chicago at about 1915.
From its beginnings in the early 20th century jazz has spawned a variety of subgenres: New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, bigband-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusion such as afro cuban and free jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from the 1970s, acid jazz from the 1980s (which added funk and hip hop influences), and Nujazz in the 1990s. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local, national, and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adapted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.

Rap music

2011-05-14T21:32:00.000-07:00

Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music & reggae, but the phenomenon predates hip hop culture by centuries. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area among speech, prose, poetry, and song. The use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form,meaning originally "to hit^".The word had been used in British English since the 16th century, and specifically meaning "to say" since the 18th. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning "to converse", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style.Today, the terms "rap" and "rapping" are so closely associated with hip hop music that many use the terms interchangeably.

The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book how to rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” (rythm and rhyme), and “delivery”.Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat

Metal music

2011-05-14T21:27:00.000-07:00

Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States.With roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity and machinmo.
The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin,Black sabbath and Deep purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s judas priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence;Motorhead introduced a pink rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Tron maiden followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads".

Rock music

2011-05-14T21:21:00.000-07:00

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz ,classical and other musical sources.
Musically, rock has centred around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music with a 4/4 beat utilizing a verse corus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis.

Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.