‘Umbrella’ Watch 2008: Is the Jonas Brothers’ ‘Burnin’ Up’ the Song of the Summer?

From now until something displaces last year's "Umbrella" from the top of our iTunes most-played list, Vulture will be judging the contenders for this year's Song of the Summer.

The Jonas Brothers, "Burnin' Up"

Propelled by the moderate success of the Jonas Brothers' TV movie Camp Rock, this first single from next month's A Little Bit Longer currently sits atop the iTunes Top Songs chart. It's a slick, semi-catchy story of romance during a deadly volcano eruption ("I'm slipping into the lava / And I'm trying to keep from going under," goes the chorus). The track has this Beastie Boys–inspired video, and it also has a mid-song rap (by the Jonases' actual bodyguard!), something we've not heard attempted in earnest in more than seventeen years. The fact that most JoBro fans are under the legal ages for driving and drinking would seem to hurt your chances of hearing it booming from a car stereo or playing in a club or bar (three obvious requirements for any "Umbrella" successor), but since we're just know-nothing grown-ups, we freely admit that we're probably wrong.

Indulge in luxury Champagne fest

FORGET the Glastonbury mud, floating tents and soggy wellies - a new festival
with a luxurious twist is the place to be this summer.

The Magic Loungeabout boasts 24 hours of live acts, set in a North Yorkshire
picnic with a Champagne bar to celebrate in style.

Guests can indulge in free camping and parking, as well as a posh sherpa
service to carry their bags.

Billed as a ‘grown up’ festival, it promises to treat guests like VIPs without
the designer price tag.

The line up includes a host of stars from GARY NUMAN to LADYTRON and
MORCHEEBA to funk band THE EGG.

A free aftershow party held under the stars will feature DJ sets from JOHN
KELLY and MATT COOPER.

The Magic Loungeabout, which takes place on August 30, promises to be an
intimate alternative for people who want to get away from the queues,
overpricing and overcrowding.

Visit Magic Loungeabout for tickets and more
info.

Sloan delivers the goods on 8th studio album 'Parallel Play'

With all the praise heaped on Canadian bands the last few years - The Arcade Fire come to mind - it's a wonder a wider audience has yet to discover Sloan.

Coming on the heels of 2006's "Never Hear The End Of It," Sloan's eighth studio offering, "Parallel Play," is another excursion to guitar pop heaven. While "Never Hear The End Of It" boasted 30 tracks over 80 minutes, Sloan pull a 180 on "Parallel Play," breezing through 13 tracks in under 35 minutes.

All four members - Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson and Andrew Scott - contribute to the songwriting while trading instruments and vocal duties throughout (their harmonizing would make even Crosby, Stills & Nash proud).

There may not be anything revolutionary here but Sloan's workmanlike approach offers a delicious variety from easygoing folk to '70s arena rock. They offer straightforward rockers in disc opener "Believe and "Down in the Basement," channel The Jesus and Mary Chain on the churning smoker "Burn For It" and get a tad punkish on "Emergency 911."

They also offer lush mid-tempo fare such as "If I Could Change Your Mind" and "All I Am Is All You're Not," the latter taking a nice swipe at selling out: "What I might lack in pizzazz/I make up in charm just as/Expensive but I can't be bought/I'm all you're not."

As always, giving Sloan a spin will not disappoint.

Check out this track: "Witches Wand" is a driving folk-rock anthem complete with delightful chorus harmonizing and hand claps that'll take you right back to the early 70's.

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"Parallel Play"'

Sloan (Yep Roc Records)

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Kate Bush

   
Artist: Kate Bush

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Electronic
   ROck: Alternative
   Vocal
   R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 Aerial (CD 2)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Aerial (CD 1)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


   
 Aerial

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Red Shoes

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


   
 This Woman's Work CD2

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 14


   
 This Woman's Work CD1

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Sensual World

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Whole Story

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Whole Story

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 12


   
 Hounds Of Love

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Dreaming

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 10


   
 Never For Ever

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Kick Inside

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 13


   
 Lionheart

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10

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One of the nearly successful and popular solo female performers of the past 20 age to arrive out of England, Kate Bush is too one of the most unusual, with her keening vocals and remarkably literate and complex body of songs. As a girl, Catherine Bush studied piano and violin while attending the St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School in Abbey Wood in South London. She too amused herself playing an organ in the barn behind her parents' theatre. By the time she was a teenager, Bush was writing songs of her own. A household supporter, Ricky Hopper, heard her music and brought Bush to the attention of Pink Floyd confidential information guitarist David Gilmour, wHO arranged for the 15-year-old Bush to record her first base demonstration. With Gilmour's help, Bush was signed to EMI Records at eld 16, though the company made the decision to bring her along slow. She studied dance, pantomimist, and voice, and continued writing. She too began thinking in footing of which of the cc or so songs she'd written would be part of her first transcription, and by 1977, she was ready to begin her formal life history, which she did with an original sung dynasty, "Wuthering Heights," based on material from Emily Bronte's novel (and more direct inspired by Bush's visual perception the 1970 film directed by Robert Fuest and prima Timothy Dalton and Anna Caulder Marshall).


The strain would sic a pattern for often of her future work, which was filled with literary and other external thematic allusions, and sometimes made tied fans feel as though her lyrics ideally would come with footnotes -- heady hooey for a teenage stone singer in the later '70s. Her precocity was demonstrated by the plan of attack she took to the birdcall, advisedly poignant what she felt -- in her mid-teens -- was the interpreter of a apparitional Cathy, whom she regarded as a severe, grasping digit, arrival out to her lover even from the grave. "Wuthering Heights" rose to number one on the British charts when it was released in 1978, and Bush became an overnight whiz at the age of 19. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, a collection of material that she had written from 15 forwards, some of it displaying extremely provocative and advanced sexual references and images, reached number trio and sold over a million copies in the U.K.


Bush's irregular album, Lionheart, reached number six-spot but didn't accomplish anything like the sales totals or decisive applaud of its predecessor, and in later on eld Bush regretted the kick involved in planning and recording that record album to capitalise on the success of her debut. In England during the spring of 1979, Bush embarked on what proved to be the only concert tour of her career to date, playing a serial of shows highlighted by 17 costume changes, heaps of dance, and complex lighting. Bush was besides apparently the first base rock performing artist (at least since the days in the early '60s when Sweden's Spotnicks experimented with a more rude translation of the applied science) to have enjoyment of a radio voice mike, which freed her up to move just about the microscope stage as few singers earlier her had been capable of doing. The tour proved both wearing and financially disastrous, and ever since then Bush has avoided whatever simply the most circumscribed live concert appearances, primarily in documentation of certain charitable causes. This absence from the concert stage and the extended periods -- much as practically as trey to basketball team geezerhood -- between albums, and the dense, reference-filled nature of her songs and lyrics, experience also resulted in Bush becoming one of the more enigmatic pop artists in England since the Beatles; her relatively private personal life has only added to the mystique encompassing her. But her relative distance and her unusual sound and approach to down music besides made it more hard to "explicate" or encapsulate her figure out in a few wrangle to the uninitiated, specially in America, where radiocommunication play and television exposure proven practically harder to get along by during the number 1 few years of her career.


By the start of the eighties, Bush was established as one of the most ambitious and geek artists ever so to have achieved success in rock music, with a kitchen stove of sounds and interests that perpetually challenged listeners, panoptic literature, artwork, poetry, cinema, history, and all style of other subjects. "Babooshka" (1980) became her showtime Top Five individual since "Wuthering Heights," and her subsequent album, Never for Ever, entered the British charts at issue one in September of 1980. During this period, Bush began co-producing her have work, a critical gradation toward refining her sound and as well establishing her independence from her track record company. Although 1982's The Dreaming reached issue iII, the single "At that place Goes a Tenner" failed to arrive at the charts, and near observers felt that Bush had lost her audience. Bush was unfazed by the criticism, and even began pickings steps to have herself more than independent of her record label by establishing a domicile studio, this part in reaction to EMI's huge studio charges on her previous records -- from the mid-'80s forwards, Bush was free to spend her time at her leisure working out her sound, and it seemed to pay sour with her side by side release.


After two years' absence, Bush re-emerged in August of 1985 with "Linear Up That Hill," which became her second biggest-selling single. The resultant record album, Hounds of Love, the first record made at her 48-track home base studio, debuted on the British charts at the numeral one billet in September of 1985 and remained in that respect for a total month, and shortly after "Running Up That Hill" gave Bush her long-awaited American breakthrough, reach number 30 on Billboard's charts. By this clock time, in England Bush was ranked alongside of Madonna in footing of her musical wallop, "Running Up That Hill" having bumped "Like a Virgin" out of the number one chart position. The changes in her sound and her development as a writer/performer were showcased in the January 1987 best-of collection The Whole Story, for which she also re-recorded the booster cable vocal for "Wuthering Heights" to bring the vocal more in short letter with her sound as it was in her 1920s (she afterwards admitted that she would have liked to have done something similar with several of her other early recordings done when she was in her teens). The album also featured her modish single, "Experimentation IV," whose lyrics were built on a scientific discipline fable plot line that was echoed in the telecasting, which Bush directed with a cast of familiar flick performers, and which came out like a miniaturized musical interpretation of a Quatermass-like hair-raiser. That like year, Bush south Korean won the Best British Female Artist honor at the sixth-annual BRIT Awards in London.


In October of 1989, Bush's first new album in almost four age, The Sensual World, reached the British numeral deuce spot, and received an unprecedented promotional press in America, where she signed with Columbia Records for her next releases. Bush's next record album, The Red Shoes (1993), elysian by the 1948 photographic film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, debuted in the American Top 30, the first time one of her albums had of all time charted that heights -- Bush made a rare personal appearance in New York that December, an autograph signing at Tower Records on the Lower East Side, and the resulting descent of admirers stretched nigh six blocks, and compulsory her to broaden her appearance by respective hours (she was still delighted and astounded by the procession five hours into the upshot). It would be some other 12 years before Bush would take up her transcription calling. Rumors of a unexampled record album began circulating in the late '90s. During this time, Bush became a mother and quietly retreated to her countryside home on Berkshire, Reading, England. In 2005, Bush finally released her followup to The Red Shoes, the double-disc congeal Aerial.

Front

   
Artist: Front

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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Discography:


   
 Green Emerald Eyes

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2

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Dennis Farina - Farinas Weapons Charges To Be Dropped To Misdemeanour

Khujo Goodie

   
Artist: Khujo Goodie

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Mercury LP

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Mercury

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12

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Herve Boghossian

   
Artist: Herve Boghossian

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Mouvements

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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RT� seeks Class Act entries

TOKIO

   
Artist: TOKIO

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Harvest CD2

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


   
 Harvest CD1

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 17

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Hudson confirms dramatic Corrie exit

'Coronation Street' star Tom Hudson has confirmed that he is leaving the soap in a dramatic storyline.
The 21-year-old actor, who plays Jack Duckworth's grandson Paul Clayton in the show, will reportedly leave Weatherfield after setting Leanne Battersby's Italian restaurant on fire.
According to reports, Paul will set the premises on fire in order to claim the insurance money for the failing restaurant.
Hudson told The Sun: "I've loved it on 'Corrie' but I've got other things planned."
"Paul's just like his dad Terry and he'll definitely return to Weatherfield to cause more trouble for his granddad."
Speaking about his exit storyline, Hudson said: "It's a great storyline - exactly the kind of exit I hoped for."

Kiuas

   
Artist: Kiuas

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Reformation

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10

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Formed in the year 2000 by singer Ilja Jalkanen, guitarist Mikko "Ilmarinen" Salovaara, keyboardist Atte Tanskanen, bassist Teemu Tuominen, and drummer Markku Näreneva, Finland's Kiuas is influenced by a ten thousand of heavy metallic element styles, including thrash, power, and even folk strains. Apparently big fans of mini-CDs, the group debuted with The Discipline of Steel EP in early 2002, recurrent the gesture with the Born Under the Northern Lights EP a year by and by, and then made it troika in a row at the begin of 2004 with the Wintertime in June EP, released through England's Rage of Achilles Records.

Desperate Housewives - Sheridan Credits Grandmother With Bolton Matchmaking

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES star NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN rekindled her relationship with MICHAEL BOLTON because her grandmother convinced her he was the right man for her.

The actress dated the singer for five years from 1992, before splitting up. They got back together in 2006, and subsequently got engaged.

And Sheridan believes her late grandmother played a crucial role in convincing her to date Bolton once more.

She says, "My dear grandmother, whom I called Nanny, recognised the love we had for one another and, during the time we were apart, she could never resist saying, 'Have you spoken to Michael? He does love you, you know'.

"By the time we got back together, Nanny had died, but maybe she was part of the universe conspiring. And I do sort of believe that. I must say, the way things went down and the fact that this was what she always wanted does make me sort of believe that she had a hand in it."

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