Melbourne (ANI): Justin Timberlake has revealed that he is suffering from a combination of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder. The SexyBack singer revealed that his condition is hampering many domains in his life. At times, this 27-year-old gets finicky about making sure that objects are always lined up perfectly. "I have OCD mixed with ADD. You try living with that. It's complicated," The Daily Telegraph quoted Justin, as telling website Collider.com. Other celebrities like David Beckham, Jessica Alba and Cameron Diaz have admitted that they are suffering from OCD, which is a psychiatric anxiety disorder often characterised by obsessive thoughts, compulsions or rituals.
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Friday 27 June 2008
Toires and Gator Dash
Artist: Toires and Gator Dash
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
Back To My Family
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Report: Loren appeals for Naples cleanup
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Sophia Loren is imploring people to clear the garbage off the streets of her beloved Naples.
"I beg you, with my hands clasped in prayer, to multiply efforts to remedy to this tragedy," Loren was quoted as saying by the Italian daily La Repubblica on Friday.
Loren said that seeing footage of the streets of Naples and the surrounding Campania region littered by piles of trash moves her to tears.
"I look at this tragedy with deep anguish in my heart," the paper quoted Loren as saying.
Speaking from Geneva, she urged Neapolitans: "Cooperate! Make an effort! This is our problem."
Loren spent her early years in the small town of Pozzuoli, just outside Naples, and her family moved into the city during World War II. The 73-year-old Italian actress, who won the best-actress Academy Award in 1962 for "Two Women," now divides her time between Switzerland and the United States, but the paper said she recalled Pozzuoli and Naples as the places of her "dearest memories."
Since December, Naples and its surrounding areas have been plagued by tons of garbage. Collectors stopped picking up the trash because dumps are full and residents have protested against new ones. Angry residents have also taken to burning rubbish, knocking over refuse bins and dumping bags of refuse in the countryside.
The government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi has passed a series of measures aimed at solving the crisis.
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Primer Imperio
Artist: Primer Imperio
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Primer Imperio - Torre De Control
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Hadouken! To Cover The Prodigy At Glastonbury
Hadouken! spoke to Gigwise today ahead of their performance on The John Peel Stage to explain their thoughts on Glastonbury.
Frontman James Smith was looking eager to get out and perform as he sat down backstage to discuss his bands upcoming performance.
“It’s looking pretty muddy already – but that’s part of the fun. We’re looking forward to smashing it.”
He revealed Hadouken! would be playing a cover of The Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’ and expressed his concern over the line-up.
“I was looking at the bill and I didn’t think there was many bands that we shared a lot in common with so hopefully we’ll have a little niche in the crowd.”
Speaking of the band’s fantastic past year James said: “It’s been pretty mental and snowballing – you’ve got to accept that it’s not going to last forever.”
With Jay-Z making all the headlines over his much debated headline appearance on Saturday Gigwise asked James’ opinion on the matter.
He said: “I think it’s a shame that it’s been like that. I think it could have been a really exciting proposition that you’re going to have a Hip-Hop act, but it seems to have been turned sour.
James finally added some touching sentiments over the Glastonbury experience: “It’s obviously the biggest festival and one of the first as well – it’s definitely got a history and it’s a good one to play and say we’ve done.”
Stay tuned to Gigwise for all the latest gossip from the site.
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LiveDaily Interview: Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi [ tickets ] guitarist Richie Sambora is a numbers guy. Ask him how his band's European tour is faring and he'll recite figures like a booking agent. "It's unbelievable, unbelievable," Sambora said via telephone on his way to Bristol, England. "It's all stadiums out here and everything's sold out like crazy. They're big gigs: 60,000 in Manchester, 72,000 in Munich. I'm on my way to Bristol right now, which is going to be about 43,000 this evening. I couldn't have wrote the book better. We're the No. 1 tour in the world this year."For that fact alone, Sambora and the rest of Bon Jovi--frontman Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres--have reason to be confident. Also fueling the band's latest round of success is the hit "Who Says You Can't Go Home," which was dubbed the first No. 1 country record by a rock band; and "Lost Highway, the group's 10th studio album, which went to No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart. It was the first time Bon Jovi hit the top spot since "New Jersey" in 1988. Sambora spoke to LiveDaily about the European tour, writing new material and Bon Jovi's hands-on work ethic.Congratulations on being named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Yeah, unfortunately, we weren't able to be there. We had 55,000 people in Copenhagen, so we couldn't ignore them. [Laughs] We pushed it to next year, so they're going to give it to us next year. How important is it to win awards like that in this stage of your career?At this stage of our career, I think it's very, very important. It's kind of a vindication. Also, it feels great to be recognized by your peers like that. We were inducted into the European Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame last year, Songwriters Hall of Fame. Anytime you make those kind of breakthroughs and those milestones, they're like earmarks in your career. At this stage in our career, man, it really, really feels good to get recognized like that. To what do you attribute your longevity? Not too many bands who have been around as long as you can pull off the kind of numbers that you do.Just being diligent and working really, really hard on every aspect of our career. It starts, No. 1, with the songs. Jon and I have somehow struck a nerve where the songs that we write really touch people and they become their songs. I think that's No.1. No. 2, the band's diligent, hard work on building a massive touring base throughout the world, throughout our career for 25 years, especially with the decline of the record business at this point. The touring business is all the music business has left of it at this point, I think. Have you started writing new material?No. We're in tour mode. We have always been the kind of band where the new record is indigenous to the time frame of when it's written because we feel that culturally, and everything that happens in the news and as we're traveling around the world, and what's happening to us personally, is going to come through that period of time. We very, very rarely take songs from other periods of time and plug them into new records. With "Lost Highway," was it important to capture that country audience?Absolutely, on the heels of "Who Says You Can't Go Home," obviously, being the first No. 1 country record by a rock band. It was like we said, "Hey, anytime evolution opens up a door like that to a band that's been around for as long as we have, you have to go with it." We made that record in a very short period of time. It was like three months. Lo and behold, it was No. 1 in about 17 countries, so it was very, very well received. Did you purposely record it quicker than other records?No, it just kind of happened that way. The record has its own life. It's like the living work. It takes on a life of its own. That record just happened to go down quick. I saw the show in Phoenix and I was really struck by the incredible production.We've always been a great live band. There's been the naysayers and all that stuff about our reputation or whatever, but I think when people come to see us live they go, "Now I get it. Now I understand." After 25 years and 120 million records, it's not like we're a flash in the pan at this point. What we try to do with the production is give the people their money's worth and give them something special. We like to give them something they're going to be able to take home with them. We like to give the "wow" factor when it comes down to our production. That's very, very important. We make the stadiums and arenas a very, very intimate place. We've learned that throughout the years. How much of the production do you design yourselves?We're definitely involved hands-on in everything. We're involved in picking the bands that open up for us. We're involved in putting the production together. Obviously, we use people who know what they're doing. We're record makers, songwriters, producers, performers. We hire the right people. We work together with them and we put it together.
Brandy Putting The Finishing Touches Epic CD
Brandy Norwood, who recently signed a new deal with Epic Records, is currently putting the finishing touches on her untitled fifth studio album, her first release from the label whose roster include Kat DeLuna, Jennifer Lopez, and Sean Kingston.
The project involves producers and songwriters such as Rodney Jerkins, The Neptunes, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Rockwilder, Tim & Bob, and executive producer Bryan Michael Cox.
Brandy is also rumored to be working on a soundtrack for a yet-untitled sci-fi/action video game for PlayStation Portable in which she will be providing the voice for the main character. The album eventually received a Gold certification for more than 500,000 copies shipped to stores.
Afrodisiac, the last studio album from Brandy, released by Atlantic Records in 2004, debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard 200 and at number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop albums chart, selling more than 131,700 copies in its first week.
The disc, primarily produced by Timbaland, received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Contemporary R&B Album."
- Listen to Brandy's "Feel So Good"
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Oystein Sevag
Artist: Oystein Sevag
Genre(s):
New Age
Electronic
Other
Discography:
Private Collection
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Pearl Collection
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
Bridge
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Global House
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Link
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Close Your Eyes And See
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Early Works
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Visual (with Lakki Patey)
Year:
Tracks: 14
Caravan
Year:
Tracks: 11
New Age composer and keyboardist Øystein Sevåg was born in Norway in 1957, offset pianissimo lessons at age quintuplet. As a teen he played bass in a rock band only returned to his classical roots in time to study pianissimo, fluting and composing at the Music Conservatory of Oslo; by the 1980s, however, Sevåg had get transfixed by the possibilities offered by the development of the synthesiser, and he plunged into electronic music with his self-released 1989 debut LP Close Your Eyes and See. The mathematical product of cinque years in the studio, the album lento crept into Billboard's New Age charts, and it landed Sevåg on the Windham Hill mark to number the followup, 1993's Connexion. He returned deuce eld later with Global House, a book reflecting a newfound stake in acoustic sounds and worldbeat textures; Ocular, a quislingism with guitarist Lakki Patey, followed in 1996. Signing to the Hearts of Space mark, Sevåg resurfaced in 1997 with the acclaimed Bridge deck.
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