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Sunday 7 September 2008

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

HARDCOVER FICTION


1. "Devil Bones" by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)


2. "The Gypsy Morph" by Terry Brooks (Del Rey)


3. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Dial)


4. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)


5. "Silks" by Dick and Felix Francis (Putnam)


6. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)


7. "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" by Sean Williams (Del Rey)


8. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)


9. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)


10. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Press)


NONFICTION/GENERAL



1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)


2. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)


3. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)


4. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)


5. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)


6. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)


7. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)


8. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)


9. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind (Harper)


10. "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It" by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)


MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS


1. "Eight Sandpiper Way" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)


2. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci (Vision)


3. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)


4. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)


5. "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn (Pocket)


6. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)


7. "Compulsion" by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)


8. "The Edge of Desire" by Stephanie Laurens (Avon)


9. "Dark Light" by Stephanie Laurens (Avon)


10. "Wild Card" by Lora Leigh (St. Martin's)


TRADE PAPERBACKS


1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)


2. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)


3. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)


4. "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers)


5. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)


6. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)


7. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage)


8. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)


9. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)


10. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)










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Thursday 28 August 2008

Dierks Bentley hosts concert to benefit children's hospital

Dierks Bentley [ ] will host his third annual "Miles & Music for Kids" Oct. 5 in Nashville. The hourlong celebrity bike ride to benefit Nashville's Vanderbilt Children's Hospital testament go through Williamson County and business district Nashville, and then will end at Riverfront Park with a concert featuring Bentley and friends, including special guests Tim McGraw and John Rich, according to a press release.

"Miles & Music for Kids" has raised more than $250,000 for Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in the previous iI years.

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Monday 18 August 2008

Download Vincent Delerm mp3






Vincent Delerm
   

Artist: Vincent Delerm: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Pop

   







Discography:


Kensington Square
   

 Kensington Square

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 10






The music of French chanson Vincent Delerm channeled the sophisticated, archly literary pop tradition first popularized by American songwriters like Randy Newman and Paul Simon. No surprise, care that he is the tyke of acclaimed novelist Philippe and children's writer/illustrator Martine Delerm. Born August 31, 1976, in Evreux, Vincent was brocaded on the romantic, melancholy pop of French icons Alain Souchon and Françoise Hardy. As a teen, he embraced British post-punk icons the Cure and Joy Division, and at 17 formed his own mope-rock outfit, Triste Sire. He continued piece of writing songs and pedagogy himself piano temporary hookup perusal modern lit at the University at Rouen, later expanding into theater of operations and celluloid as beneficial. Delerm however reserved his superlative passionateness for music, and in 1998 made his solo live debut at Rouen's Ronsard Hall. A Parisian floorshow term of enlistment followed a year later on, and in early 2000 Delerm befriended comedian Jérôme Deschamps, populace Health Organization passed his demonstration to producers with wireless spreader France Inter, world Health Organization in February invited the virtual strange to perform on the network's flagship computer programme, Tyre le Pont dES Artistes. A stint in reinforcement of Matthieu Bermeulen followed, and in the summer of 2001 Delerm open for Thomas Fersen during an extensive residence at Paris' Cigale Club. After the run came to a close, Fersen recommended him to the Tôt ou Tard label, which issued Delerm's self-titled debut LP in the bound of 2002. Inspired in large character by Delerm's sexual love of French picture palace, fill in with nods to stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irène Jacob, the disc cursorily racked up sales in excess of hundred,000, with a spell highlighted by a five-night bide at Paris' celebrated Le Bataclan. In early 2003, Delerm in any case standard the Victoire de la Musique prize for the year's best debut album. Guests including Keren Ann and Dominique A populated the 2004 followup, Kensington Square. The magnetic disk was another considerable commercial success, simply Delerm temporarily mothballed his musical calling to dribble a crinkle the stage production Le Fait d'Habiter Bagnolet, which was arranged at Paris' Théâtre du Rond-Point at year's determination under the direction of Sophie LeCarpentier. Delerm's third base record album, Les Piqûres d'Araignée, followed in the fall of 2006.






Friday 8 August 2008

WinSonic Digital Media Group, Ltd. Launches New Business Venture - Rainysongs Digital Content Development and Distribution

ATLANTA, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Winston Johnson, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of WinSonic Digital Media Group, Ltd. (OTC
Bulletin Board: WDMG), announced today that WinSonic Digital Media Group,
WinSonic Digital Cable Systems Network and Rainysongs Entertainment
(http://www.rainysongsentertainment.com) have executed a Memorandum of
Understanding outlining a proposed venture 'tween the companies. This
venture volition bring more content development, delivery, distribution,
production and media and entertainment services to WinSonic Digital Cable
Systems Network. This venture brings to WinSonic substantial catalogues of
amusement assets and music recordings available for sale.

Customers will enjoy full-featured, digital entertainment content.
WinSonic Music and Rainysongs will offer songs a la carte or
subscription-based music downloads providing the topper in music discovery,
from music editorial and professional play lists to advanced search and
browse capabilities. WinSonic Distribution Services enables music labels,
artists, publishers and media companies the ability to quickly institute their
products to securities industry, increasing receipts velocity, expediting acquisition of
new customers and enhancing current customer relationships.

WinSonic is a market leader for independent distribution of digital
music and video recording, with powerful marketing, packaging, distribution and
operations capabilities throughout the world. WinSonic serves artists,
labels, music publishers, television receiver, film and video library owners and
other rights holders by developing unexampled and imaginative ways to market and
sell digital content. In addition, for digital and mobile retailers,
advertisers, consumer brands and technology companies, the Company provides
a single gunpoint of access code to one of the world's largest and highest quality
digital content catalogues that spans global superstars and niche and
speciality artists.

WinSonic platform enables content providers the power to offer
end-users a greatly enhanced experience across any digital media type,
content library or audience scale. This eliminates the need for additional
investment funds in equipment or expertise to ramp up and do their networks.
The Company Content Delivery provides HTTP/web distribution of digital
media files such as video, music, games, software program and social media.
WinSonic Music and Publishing Group can now provide on-demand streaming for
all major formats including Adobe Flash, MP3 audio, QuickTime, RealNetworks
RealPlayer, Windows Media and iPod compatible. 'WinSonic Music and
Rainysongs Entertainment strategic initiative establishes local, global,
and wireless networks, i.e. Verizon, Cogent Sprint, AT&T and Comcast,
capability to all new platform standards for delivery of digital media.
Through WinSonic's coalesced efforts, we can provide the promise of senior high school
quality communication theory and entertainment integration that our customers and
the market have come to demand. This combination is more powerful because
of our heritage of creation, service, timbre, reliability and
integrity,' said Winston Johnson, Chairman & CEO of WinSonic.

About Rainysongs Entertainment:

After years of research and development in the amusement business
Rainysongs has evolved into one of the internet's most groundbreaking digital
euphony labels. Rainysongs bridges engineering with entertainment using the
World Wide Web. Since its inception, Rainysongs has expanded its
entertainment platform to marketing and advertising that's directly
affiliated to music entertainment, including movies, automobile reviews,
business and travel. All this connects to our consumers. "I'm pleased to
have got the opportunity to take Rainysongs to the adjacent level of technology
and distribution through our novel relationship with WinSonic. Winston
Johnson, CEO, introduced me to the future of technology and we share a
common vision for our companies' success," says Rainy Davis, CEO of
Rainysongs Entertainment.

About WinSonic Digital Media Group, Ltd.

WinSonic Digital Media Group, Ltd. is a facilities-based media
distribution solutions company with a distinctive video transport concept
that enables users to view, interact, and mind to all types of audio,
online video, and digital TV, in full-screen format, at high speeds, superb
lineament, and greatly reduced costs, while reduction the need for expensive
high-speed connections.

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described from clock time to clock time in the Company's reports and readjustment
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not limited to, its report on form 10-KSB for December 31, 2007.
Consequently, all of the modern statements made in this press
release are certified by these cautionary statements and there can be no
assurance that the actual results anticipated by the company will be
realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the
expected consequences to or personal effects on the company or its business or
operations.




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Tuesday 1 July 2008

Maroon 5

Maroon 5   
Artist: Maroon 5

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Rock
   Other
   Alternative
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Soundtrack
   



Discography:


Wake Up Call   
 Wake Up Call

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2


It Won't Be Soon Before Long   
 It Won't Be Soon Before Long

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


This Love (Single)   
 This Love (Single)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


This Love (Remixes)   
 This Love (Remixes)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5


This Love   
 This Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


Spider Man 2   
 Spider Man 2

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


She Will Be Loved (Single)   
 She Will Be Loved (Single)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


She Will Be Loved   
 She Will Be Loved

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


1.22.03.Acoustic   
 1.22.03.Acoustic

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 7


01.22.03 Acoustic   
 01.22.03 Acoustic

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 7


Songs About Jane   
 Songs About Jane

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12




A merge of polished pop/rock and neo-soul sexuality appeal made Maroon 5 one of the well-nigh popular bands of the 2000s, with such radio-ready songs as "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," and "Makes Me Wonder" all topping the cosmopolitan singles charts. Previously, bandmates Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Madden (basso), and Ryan Dusick (drums) had spent the latter half of the '90s playing in the modern john Rock outfit Kara's Flowers, releasing their debut album for Reprise Records piece unruffled attendance high schoolhouse. The record tanked, however, and Kara's Flowers set up themselves dropped from the Reprise roster. After briefly attending college, the bandmates regrouped as Maroon 5, added late Square guitar player James Valentine to the card, and embraced a more than R&B-influenced sound. Several eld later, the quintet had formally risen to the head of popular music with the multi-platinum releases of Songs About Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long.


Songs About Jane propelled the band into the mainstream, merely the album was non an immediate hit. Octone Records had signed the new christened Maroon 5 in 2001, and debut record album Jane appeared to half-hearted response in June 2002. "Harder to Breathe" became a radio set staple 17 months afterward and was shortly followed by the ubiquitous "This Love," whose sticky picture (featuring frontman Levine and a scantily TV-watching crowds at MTV. Songs About Jane entered the Billboard Top Ten in August 2004, more than 2 old age after the album's Will Be Loved" and "William Ashley Sunday Morning" helped the album move over 2.7 gazillion copies by year's end.


Maroon 5 toured exhaustively in documentation of Jane's slow-developing success, issue deuce makeshift recordings -- 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live Friday the thirteenth -- piece electioneering the earth alongside the Rolling Stones and John Mayer. Their schedule was peculiarly nerve-wracking on percussionist Dusick, world Health Organization sustained wrist and articulatio humeri injuries and was often ineffective to run. By fall 2006, Dusick had been formally replaced by Matt Flynn (the onetime drummer for Gavin DeGraw), and the revised banding released its soph effort in May 2007. It Won't Be Soon Before Long proved to be as popular as its harbinger, spinning off the chart-topping single "Makes Me Wonder" and






Thursday 19 June 2008

'Bruno' gets summer '09 release

Sacha Baron Cohen's next comedy spoof coming May 15





"Bruno" is getting a summer season release date. Universal will unspool Sacha Baron Cohen's next comedy spoof May 15.


Like the title character in "Borat," "Bruno" is based on a skit character -- this time a faux fashionista -- from Cohen's one-time HBO series, "Da Ali G Show."


So far, Sony's Tom Hanks starrer "Angels & Demons" represents the only competition for "Bruno" in its release slot.


The Uni move follows a better-than-expected bow of $26.5 million for "Borat," which Fox opened in November 2006. "Borat" grossed $128.5 million overall domestically.



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Tuesday 10 June 2008

Harold Budd and Andy Partridge

Harold Budd and Andy Partridge   
Artist: Harold Budd and Andy Partridge

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


Through The Hill   
 Through The Hill

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16