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Stage set for ECHO Arena's 'Now That's What We Call Culture' talent show
HERE are Merseyside’s final 12 undiscovered acts who will tonight show thousands of people that Liverpool has got talent. Five singing acts, two dance groups, four bands and one poet have been chosen to perform at the city’s huge variety-style show. 32 young dancers from MD PRODUCTIONS will dance to Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care About Us.
Entire article http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/08/08/stage-set-for-echo-arena-s-now-that-s-what-we-call-culture-talent-show-100252-21490052/
African music embraces a world of influences
EDMONTON - As technology continues to bring disparate peoples closer together, national borders mean less and less to the popular notions of world music.
Consider Daby Toure, whose ancestral roots lie in Mauritania and neighbouring nations in northwest Africa. Thanks to recordings and radio, he grew up hearing the pop sounds of The Police, The Beatles, Dire Straits, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson like millions of other people in the western world.
"It can be a problem," explains Paris-based Toure, "because when people talk about African music or world music, they usually think about drums and percussion and the older sounds. But there are many new generations coming in Africa who know about all kinds of music from outside. I'm part of that new generation. We are African, of course, but we also borrow from other cultures."
In fact, there's much about 35-year-old Toure that bucks the stereotypes of the worldbeat genre. While he plays acoustic and electric guitar onstage, he is a largely self-taught multi-instrumentalist who played nearly all the parts on his two Real World recordings Diam (2004) and Stereo Spirit (2007).
He also speaks and sings in five languages -- French, English and the native tongues of Wolof, Sonink and Pulaar. Finally, despite popular conceptions that Africa is one of the world's biggest trouble spots, Toure sings relatively sunny songs of hope and celebration.
"People think if you come from Africa the only choice you've got is to be a revolutionary, to be political because of the situation with African people. There is so much they don't know about how African people want to carve their own destiny. That's why I try to write about what we talk about every day in Africa."
Daby Toure belongs to a musical lineage going back several generations. His father was a doctor before joining Toure Kounda, the Afro-pop band that two of Daby's uncles were leading in Paris. Even after the father and son moved to France in 1989, the elder Toure steered Daby away from a musical career.
"He really tried," Daby laughs, "but it didn't work because I really loved music and I knew it was my life."
For the son, relocating to such a cultural centre meant coming into contact with a whole new set of musical influences, including jazz acts like Weather Report and Pat Metheny. Before long, he set aside his studies in business and formed a group with his cousin to explore the crossover point between jazz and African music, named Toure Toure. They recorded one album and even toured North and South America before Daby Toure realized that he wanted to start writing and singing his own songs in a somewhat simpler style.
It didn't happen easily. He kept encountering other people's expectations of what an African performer must sound like -- until he met Peter Gabriel, who offered to put him on the Real World label.
Their friendship spawned two albums that balance relatively gentle rhythmic elements with acoustic guitars and Toure's sublimes vocals, though Toure warns that the live performances he puts in with his current touring trio (guitar, bass, drums) have more funky energy.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/whatson/story.html?id=d03ffdb1-d67c-41f2-b46b-e2a5a5bb26e5
Joshua Wins! And I'm Backstage With All the Dance Scoop...
This is the sort of revelation that leaves me speechless?that some reality contestants on programs like So You Think You Can Dance are such a clear front runner all season long, the executive producers see it coming a mile away
Joshua Wants to be Startin' Somethin': The man of the hour said he wants to pursue his dance career, but also wants to sing and get signed by a record company and wants to be "bigger than Michael Jackson." He also will be starring in what Shankman calls "The first 3-D dance movie, Step It Up 3-D." But I just have one thing to say to that: Hello, what about Captain EO?
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b22822_joshua_wins_im_backstage_with_dance.html
Jolie tops the spammers' list of names used to tempt
Angelina Jolie is the most popular bait used by spammers – four times as popular as Barack Obama whose name falls behind in second place.
The spam bait list, compiled by Secure Computing in its August threat report, shows that during the past month, 12 million spam messages – from 100,000 unique IP addresses on the first day of outbreak – were sent with Jolie's name in the subject line. Around 2.28 per cent of the total global email volume was found to have text such as “Angelina Jolie naked”.
Dr Sven Krasser, director of data mining research, said: “Spam is the delivery medium of choice for social engineering schemes to create a tempting lure for consumers. One small mistake can be costly. For example, when a mobile worker falls prey, they may unknowingly penetrate and infect the corporate network.
“It is therefore imperative for organisations to secure the paths to the network properly. Especially with the proliferation of blended threats, it is of paramount importance that organisations protect both email and web gateways.”
Other new spam waves include messages that include fake invoices, such as those claiming to be from UPS package tracking, whereby recipients risked downloading the Agent.JEN trojan.
Panda Security, which discovered the UPS-related bug, said the suspicious emails have subject text along the lines of “UPS packet N3621583925”. The messages claim that it was not possible to deliver a postal package and advise recipients to print out a copy of an attached invoice.
The top 10 ranked spam bait names are: 1 – Angelina Jolie; 2 – Barack Obama; 3 – Paris Hilton; 4 – Britney Spears; 5 – Hillary Clinton; 6 – George Bush; 7 – Jessica Simpson; 8 – Osama Bin Laden; 9 – Brad Pitt; 10 – Michael Jackson.
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Jolie-tops-the-spammers-list-of-names-used-to-tempt/article/113579/
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Stage set for ECHO Arena's 'Now That's What We Call Culture' talent show
HERE are Merseyside’s final 12 undiscovered acts who will tonight show thousands of people that Liverpool has got talent. Five singing acts, two dance groups, four bands and one poet have been chosen to perform at the city’s huge variety-style show. 32 young dancers from MD PRODUCTIONS will dance to Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care About Us.
Entire article http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/08/08/stage-set-for-echo-arena-s-now-that-s-what-we-call-culture-talent-show-100252-21490052/
African music embraces a world of influences
EDMONTON - As technology continues to bring disparate peoples closer together, national borders mean less and less to the popular notions of world music.
Consider Daby Toure, whose ancestral roots lie in Mauritania and neighbouring nations in northwest Africa. Thanks to recordings and radio, he grew up hearing the pop sounds of The Police, The Beatles, Dire Straits, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson like millions of other people in the western world.
"It can be a problem," explains Paris-based Toure, "because when people talk about African music or world music, they usually think about drums and percussion and the older sounds. But there are many new generations coming in Africa who know about all kinds of music from outside. I'm part of that new generation. We are African, of course, but we also borrow from other cultures."
In fact, there's much about 35-year-old Toure that bucks the stereotypes of the worldbeat genre. While he plays acoustic and electric guitar onstage, he is a largely self-taught multi-instrumentalist who played nearly all the parts on his two Real World recordings Diam (2004) and Stereo Spirit (2007).
He also speaks and sings in five languages -- French, English and the native tongues of Wolof, Sonink and Pulaar. Finally, despite popular conceptions that Africa is one of the world's biggest trouble spots, Toure sings relatively sunny songs of hope and celebration.
"People think if you come from Africa the only choice you've got is to be a revolutionary, to be political because of the situation with African people. There is so much they don't know about how African people want to carve their own destiny. That's why I try to write about what we talk about every day in Africa."
Daby Toure belongs to a musical lineage going back several generations. His father was a doctor before joining Toure Kounda, the Afro-pop band that two of Daby's uncles were leading in Paris. Even after the father and son moved to France in 1989, the elder Toure steered Daby away from a musical career.
"He really tried," Daby laughs, "but it didn't work because I really loved music and I knew it was my life."
For the son, relocating to such a cultural centre meant coming into contact with a whole new set of musical influences, including jazz acts like Weather Report and Pat Metheny. Before long, he set aside his studies in business and formed a group with his cousin to explore the crossover point between jazz and African music, named Toure Toure. They recorded one album and even toured North and South America before Daby Toure realized that he wanted to start writing and singing his own songs in a somewhat simpler style.
It didn't happen easily. He kept encountering other people's expectations of what an African performer must sound like -- until he met Peter Gabriel, who offered to put him on the Real World label.
Their friendship spawned two albums that balance relatively gentle rhythmic elements with acoustic guitars and Toure's sublimes vocals, though Toure warns that the live performances he puts in with his current touring trio (guitar, bass, drums) have more funky energy.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/whatson/story.html?id=d03ffdb1-d67c-41f2-b46b-e2a5a5bb26e5
Joshua Wins! And I'm Backstage With All the Dance Scoop...
This is the sort of revelation that leaves me speechless?that some reality contestants on programs like So You Think You Can Dance are such a clear front runner all season long, the executive producers see it coming a mile away
Joshua Wants to be Startin' Somethin': The man of the hour said he wants to pursue his dance career, but also wants to sing and get signed by a record company and wants to be "bigger than Michael Jackson." He also will be starring in what Shankman calls "The first 3-D dance movie, Step It Up 3-D." But I just have one thing to say to that: Hello, what about Captain EO?
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b22822_joshua_wins_im_backstage_with_dance.html
Jolie tops the spammers' list of names used to tempt
Angelina Jolie is the most popular bait used by spammers – four times as popular as Barack Obama whose name falls behind in second place.
The spam bait list, compiled by Secure Computing in its August threat report, shows that during the past month, 12 million spam messages – from 100,000 unique IP addresses on the first day of outbreak – were sent with Jolie's name in the subject line. Around 2.28 per cent of the total global email volume was found to have text such as “Angelina Jolie naked”.
Dr Sven Krasser, director of data mining research, said: “Spam is the delivery medium of choice for social engineering schemes to create a tempting lure for consumers. One small mistake can be costly. For example, when a mobile worker falls prey, they may unknowingly penetrate and infect the corporate network.
“It is therefore imperative for organisations to secure the paths to the network properly. Especially with the proliferation of blended threats, it is of paramount importance that organisations protect both email and web gateways.”
Other new spam waves include messages that include fake invoices, such as those claiming to be from UPS package tracking, whereby recipients risked downloading the Agent.JEN trojan.
Panda Security, which discovered the UPS-related bug, said the suspicious emails have subject text along the lines of “UPS packet N3621583925”. The messages claim that it was not possible to deliver a postal package and advise recipients to print out a copy of an attached invoice.
The top 10 ranked spam bait names are: 1 – Angelina Jolie; 2 – Barack Obama; 3 – Paris Hilton; 4 – Britney Spears; 5 – Hillary Clinton; 6 – George Bush; 7 – Jessica Simpson; 8 – Osama Bin Laden; 9 – Brad Pitt; 10 – Michael Jackson.
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Jolie-tops-the-spammers-list-of-names-used-to-tempt/article/113579/
Today in
Michael Jackson History
Michael Jackson History
1981 - Michael Jackson's single "We're Almost THere" hit #46 in the U.K. six years after charting in the U.S. 1987 - Michael Jackson's "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" was released from the forthcoming album "Bad." The duet, with Siedah Garret, became the 7th #1 single of Michael's career.
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