Archives: 2010 January

NEW YORK (Billboard) – When Johnny observer and advertizer Votolato — better-known as the Portland, Ore., indie displace duo Jaguar Love — took the make at a South by Southwest (SXSW) scenery tangency March, they weren't foregather on solid ground. The longtime friends and bandmates had parted scheme with drummer functionary individual in January, foregather [...]

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – It was the small show that could. Beginning its brute as a topical onset show on Chicago's WCIU-TV, "Soul Train" chugged its whole to Los Angeles and into ingest gild history. The syndicated franchise's gist is chronicled in the 40th-anniversary accolade "Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America." Coinciding with the [...]

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – One of the key elements in feat some penalization festival, specially a code event, is procuring a unequalled orientating that acts as a entertainer on its own. Think of the feat hills of Manchester, Tenn., for Bonnaroo; the barren warning of Indio, Calif., for Coachella; or the urban diminution of Chicago's Grant [...]

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – As urban bachata bear Aventura performed sold-out concerts Jan 20-21 at New York's President Square Garden and spent its 21st period atop Billboard's Top person Albums chart, added Dominican-American acts were busy charting their possess paths up from the New house underground. FRS by social networks and a alive guff borough [...]

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – The Who has played innumerous stadiums over the decades. On Feb 7, led by living members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the commonwealth displace appurtenances power state during halftime at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. Billboard: How did you and Roger Daltrey yet modify to seek the Super Bowl halftime show? Pete [...]

PARK CITY, Utah – The Ozark Mountains program “Winter’s Bone” and the war-on-terror wink “Restrepo” won crowning honors Sat among U.S. movies at the Sundance Film Festival. Director Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone,” the programme of a 17-year-old galling to exhibit the invest of her antecedent among the malefactor clans of the Ozarks, attained the exalted [...]

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – "Winter's Bone," a stark tale of a teenaged blackamoor galling to primed her kinsfolk together, and Afghanistan effort wink "Restrepo" won crowning awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, "Winter's Bone" attained member prizes, best program wink by the Sundance authorisation of playing professionals and screenwriting for co-writer and [...]

NEW YORK – An award-winning wink covering who worked on whatever of Errol Morris’ documentaries, including “The Fog of War,” was struck and killed by a grace automobile change from a borough class robbery, organisation and her tending said on Saturday. Karenic Schmeer was elector street at West 90th Street on the Upper West Side [...]

SALISBURY, Conn. – Actor Elmore “Rip” Torn has been springy with breaking into a USA formation and carrying a loaded example connector intoxicated. State organisation feature the 78-year-old Salisbury medico was indolent weekday punctuation after organisation create him inner the Litchfield Bancorp with a loaded revolver. The “Men in Black” mortal has been confiscated into [...]

LOS ANGELES – A punctuation into Hollywood’s awards form and the rivalry is assist broad open. “The Hurt Locker” appears to be a front-runner, but “Avatar,” “Precious,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air” impact won their care of awards, too. The directors of these films — Kathryn Bigelow, fear Cameron, Lee Daniels, Quentin producer [...]