C4 takes on TV2 with new season content

Youth channel C4 is preparing to take on TV2 as it pushes its programming towards more drama content.

The new season on C4 will see the return of Skins, the channel announced at its new season launch today.

The acclaimed British drama is joined by the sci-fi epic Battlestar Galactica, dark drama The Black Donnellys and The OC-esque Friday Night Lights.

Director of C4 Andrew Szusterman denied recent media reports that C4 is moving away from being a music channel.

"This isn't a return to TV4, we're still going to have music at peak and off-peak times," he said.

He also denied that C4 is becoming a dumping ground for programmes which had failed to prove themselves on TV3, saying the new season was a "natural evolution" for the channel.

Szusterman said C4 had more accessible local content and criticised TV2 for being nothing more than a vehicle for the popular soap Shortland Street.

Other content on C4 will include Dai Henwood and his series Roll the Dai, in which the comedian will take on the Outback.

For film fans the Sunday night blockbuster slot is set to return with the classic Godfather trilogy as well as lighter 80's fare like Teen Wolf, Red Dawn and Beetlejuice.





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Elliott Smith

   
Artist: Elliott Smith

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Pop
   Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 New Moon

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 24


   
 Unreleased Studio Recordings CD1

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 22


   
 Unreleased Studio Recordings

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 Live In Paris

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Live in Austin

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 21


   
 Live Nantes

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 21


   
 Live at Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 20


   
 Figure 8

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 16


   
 Either-Or

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


   
 Roman Candle

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 9


   
 Elliott Smith

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 XO

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Tribute to Elliott Smith

   Year:    
Tracks: 28


   
 Singles and B-Sides CD2

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 Singles and B-Sides CD1

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


   
 From A Basement On The Hill

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success in 1997 on the strong point of "Miss Misery," his Academy Award-nominated song from the film Good Will Hunting. A native of Portland, OR, Smith began writing and recording his first songs at age 14, later decorous a fixture of the city's flourishing music aspect; as a member of the isthmus Heatmiser, he debuted in 1993 with the LP Dead Air, issue his first solo effort Roman Candle on the bantam Cavity Search label a year later on. For his 1995 self-titled album, Smith signed with the noted Kill Rock Stars label; Either/Or followed in 1997, around the same fourth dimension that filmmaker and longtime fan Gus Van Sant requested permission to usance the singer's music in his coming Good Will Hunting. Smith as well composed a fistful of modern songs for the soundtrack, among them "Overlook Misery," and when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its Oscar nominations the following February, the track was a surprise entry in the Best Original Song category. Although he did not win, Smith performed the song live at the televised Oscar circularize, appearing onstage aboard superstars Trisha Yearwood and eventual award-winner Celine Dion in one of the to the highest degree notably dreamlike musical moments in recent memory. Smith's DreamWorks label debut, XO, followed later on in 1998. Two days later he delivered Figure 8, which indulged in lavish arrangements and orchestrations more than so than whatever of his previous solo efforts. For the future two age, Smith heavy over what was to be his next album, From a Basement on a Hill. He would not live to check its completion, however -- to the shock of friends and fans alike, Smith's body was set up on October 21, 2003. To date, the medical examiner has been unable to determine the cause of death, and the Los Angeles Police Department's investigation corpse open. From a Basement on a Hill was released deuce years shy of the number one day of remembrance of his last to critical herald. In 2007, Kill Rock Stars issued a two-disc set of some of the recent singer's unreleased put to work, all of which had been recorded between 1994 and 1997. Entitled Young Moon, the 24-track ingathering contained three songs that had been antecedently released on hard-to-find compilations or soundtracks, an early version of "Miss Misery," and a live favorite of his, a cover of Big Star's "Baker's dozen."





LiveDaily Song of the Day: The Uglysuit - "Chicago"

Hieronymus Bosch

   
Artist: Hieronymus Bosch

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Artificial Emotions

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Human Abstract

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11

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Zapata

   
Artist: Zapata

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 El Ultimo Hombre Honesto

   Year:    
Tracks: 3

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Busta Rhymes: Shoot My Wad!

Basic Element

   
Artist: Basic Element

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   Dance: Pop
   disco
   Other
   Electronic
   House
   

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Discography:


   
 The Earthquake

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 Love 4 Real CDM

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 4


   
 Startrack

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Shame

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 This Must Be A Dream

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 4


   
 The Ultimate Ride

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 Queen of love

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 5


   
 Touch

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4


   
 Basic Injection

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Promise Man (Maxi Cd)

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 4


   
 The Fiddle (Single)

   Year:    
Tracks: 4


   
 The Empire Strikes Back

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


   
 Real Bad

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Move Me (Singel)

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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'Juno' Star: 'I Feel Weird Being Nominated'

Hate

   
Artist: Hate

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Awakening Of The Liar

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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Polish black metal band Hate was born in the former '90s and exhausted the number one half of the ten bit by bit construction their fan base with a number of demos recorded by various lineups. In 1997, a slightly stable formation, including vocalist/guitarist Adam the First Sinner, guitar player Kaos, bassist Daniel, and drummer Mittloff, cut the group's domesticated debut, Daemon Qui Fecit Terram, which was quickly followed by 1998's Lord Is Avenger. New bassist Cyrian united in metre for 1999's Victims mini-album, and 2000's Cains Way. Their start international release, 2001's Sanctum Dead Trinity, combined tracks from all their previous albums and was issued by World War III records.

American Hi-Fi

   
Artist: American Hi-Fi

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Hearts On Parade

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Art of Losing

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 American Hi-Fi (Special Edition)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14

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Drummer Stacy Jones already had his hand in rock & roll prior to his gig with American Hi-Fi. Having been a division of some of the 1990's biggest alternative acts, Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt, Jones turned his experience inner out for his have musical externalise. While working on Nina Gordon's Tonight and the Rest of My Life solo album, Jones looked toward the plangency of Cheap Trick and draw the healthy rock sounds of American Hi-Fi. Jones, guitarist Jaime Arentzen, bassist Drew Parsons, and drummer Brian Nolan established dwelling base in his aboriginal Boston and signed to Island to issue their eponymous debut in 2001. The album spawned the catchy radiocommunication single "Flavor of the Weak", and was followed by stack of touring, Live From Tokyo (2002), and Art of Losing (2003). And in time, before long after Losing's handout, Island gave American Hi-Fi the heave-ho. Undeterred, Jones touched Hi-Fi's HQ to Los Angeles, hooked up with producer Butch Walker, and got to operate recording a fresh record. Hearts on Parade was released in Japan first, and as they shopped for a domestic tag Jones and his band went out on tour with Walker. Maverick eventually expressed interest, and Parade was issued stateside in April 2005.

Big Ang

   
Artist: Big Ang

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Take Me to the Clouds Above

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1

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Vatican weighing in on "good cinema"

By Eric J. Lyman


TAORMINA, Italy (Hollywood Reporter) - The Vatican said
Wednesday that it is working on a set of guidelines for what it
considers "good cinema."


The move comes two days after the Vatican told producers of
"Angels & Demons" that their follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code"
doesn't qualify.


The Vatican on Monday barred Sony Pictures' "Angels &
Demons" from shooting inside any of Rome's churches. On
Wednesday, the film crew said it will move a bit further south
and shoot the church scenes for the film inside the former
royal palace in Caserta, outside Naples, a secular building.


Priest Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome,
said Wednesday that the church was working on a set of
guidelines that will determine whether a film contains the
"proper" religious sentiment.


The Church staunchly opposed "The Da Vinci Code," the 2006
adaptation of the Dan Brown best-seller. "Angels & Demons,"
also based on one of Brown's novels, is entirely set in Rome.
As with its predecessor, "Angels & Demons" stars Tom Hanks and
is being directed by Ron Howard.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Francis Monkman

   
Artist: Francis Monkman

   Genre(s): 
Electronic: Progressive
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Energism

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11


   
 Energism

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11

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Best known as the founder of Curved Air, Francis Monkman is unusual regular among the ranks of progressive rock's musicians for his level of musical training. As a student at the Westminster School in the '60s, he studied organ and cembalo and he nursed the ambition to lead a Mozart opera. And later in the tenner, as a pupil at the Royal Academy of Music, he south Korean won the Raymond Russel Prize for his virtuosity on the cembalo, simply he likewise took up acting the electric guitar. During this period, he likewise became a session musician. In 1970, Monkman was the catalyst in the formation of Curved Air out of an before radical called Sisyphus. Their ternion albums carven out a permanent place for the radical in the annals of progressive rock, simply Monkman too worked as a session instrumentalist on records by the Shadows, David Essex, Kate Bush, Steve Harley, and Paul Nicholas, among many others. Monkman never took himself likewise far from good classic music, chronic to give performances at Royal Albert Hall and the Purcell Room. In the mid-'70s, Monkman was introduced to authoritative guitar player John Williams and played on his album, Travelling. The two later on formed the group Sky with Herbie Flowers, Kevin Peek, and Tristan Fry. He too performed live with Brian Eno (which appeared on the album Dali's Car) and played on albums by acts including Renaissance, Al Stewart, the Alan Parsons Project, and Kate Bush, and moved into soundtrack composition during the '80s, most notably writing the music for The Long Good Friday. He too worked with the other John Williams (the soundtrack composer) on The Empire Strikes Back's score. Monkman has too occasionally miscellaneous his classical and rock backgrounds more closely on albums such as Symphonic Rock: British Invasion, Vol. 1.

Amon Duul [Uk]

   
Artist: Amon Duul [Uk]

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Fool Moon

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 5


   
 Hawk Meets Penguin

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 2

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