Hollie soars to top of IMNZ chart

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- Hollie soars to top of IMNZ chart
- Concerts this summer
- Gore Galore but a Violent Game Can’t Hold a Gutbucket to the Movies
- The devil went down to Gulfport
- America And China; The Toxic Twins ne A Plutocracy The ther a…
- Pregnant Woman Murdered; Fire Rages at Lake Tahoe; Paris Hilton to be…
- Ratt ‘n’ roll at the casino

Hollie soars to top of IMNZ chart
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Jun 25, 2007
Their self-titled album was releasedin the UK in May. After supporting Slint the bandwill open five German shows for The Blood Brothers. 8 Foot Sativa’s ‘Poison of Ages dropped on May21; Gary Smith is the only remaining original memberof the band; he is joined by Ben Read and JamieSaint Merat from Auckland death metal bandUlcerate Romilly Smith of New Way Homeand Christian ‘Monk’ Humphreys. The band arecurrently in the middle of their album release tour. July 9sees the release of an EP of remixes of Minuit’strack Except You on vinyl. Flip Grater’s trackLong Awaited Sigh from her album ‘Cage For A Song’ hasbeen licensed to play in the popular US TV show Brothers andSisters; the show stars Calista Flockhart; withRob Lowe guesting and is currently playing in the USand Australia and about to start in the UK. Katchafire and Pitch Black have been bookedfor shows in London by the Spacific crew who specialise inpromoting New Zealand music to UK audiences… The will return to Australia in September for acomprehensive tour and locally they’re on tour with both8 Foot Sativa and the Bleeders throughout Juneand July. The Draft (US) – ¾ of Hot WaterMusic – will be joined by special guests Cobra Khanand (making his first live appearances solo andacoustic) Ryan Thomas – former frontman for punkveterans Sommerset. Cyphanetik’s newsingle Till My Death produced by Nate D is thefirst from the forthcoming EP ‘The Bitter Taste ofLife’. The second Breakin’ Wreckwordz compilation isalmost in the can; it will involve all of the crew entwinedin new ways and will be your first chance to hear tracksfrom new act Cancer featuring Lubin McFienfrom The Vietnam War Louie Knuxx and JayRoacher. Ethical has been busy: he’s reppingtwo crews (BWW and MTC) and just came off a tour of Chinaas X-ecutioner Roc Raider’s hype man. His debutalbum ‘Ages Turn’ is out in September and first videofrom it Talk of the Town (produced by Roc Raider) hitsscreens shortly.

Concerts this summer
Sofia Echo – Jun 25, 2007
The concerts are jointly organised by Joker Media and the municipality of Kavarna. n July 6 Led Zeppelin’s vocalist Robert Plant will be performing at the Kaliakra stadium. Trash metal band Sepltura are giving a concert in Kavarna on August 15. The concert will be part of another rock festival Trash Til Death. Eccentric pop and rock singer Pink is performing on July 1 at the Akademik stadium Sofia. Tickets are between 30 and 50 leva with the first 3000 tickets at a promotional price of 20 leva. Pink’s visit to Bulgaria her first will be part of the music festival Arena Muzika organised by Sofia Music Enterprises.

Gore Galore but a Violent Game Can’t Hold a Gutbucket to the Movies
New York Times – Jun 25, 2007
Perhaps the most striking thing about the game is how conventional most of it is. You look around for tools like a crowbar to open a door and figure out small puzzles (like throwing a brick through a window to enter a building). f course there’s creepy music and wacky leather fetish outfits but that’s de rigueur. The story was suitably interesting though not overly creative. The problem is that in addition to just hitting a bad guy a couple of times with a bat there are other options like slitting his throat sticking a scythe in his nose and yanking his head back. Rather than stab him with a shard of glass you can stab him wrap a cord around his neck stuff his head in a toilet and smash him on the back of the head. With the motion-sensitive controller on Nintendo’s Wii that means jerking and shaking the controllers around in vague imitation of the mutilations on screen… ” (For “Hostel and “Saw III” I could find only the more extreme unrated cuts. ) With some trepidation I put it on and the first scene was of a young man in a bleak cell being taunted to find a key by digging into his own oozing eye socket. If he does not yank out the key in 60 seconds his head will be crushed in a spiked metal “death mask” around his neck. Later after someone else is burned to death in an industrial oven a character cuts a hole into the back of his own neck. As the camera cut in for a loving view of the gaping wound it was clear why the genre is sometimes called “torture porn. ” Unlike the digital models in Manhunt 2 these were real people. Banning the original version of Manhunt 2 may be a good way to demonstrate that the industry can police itself.

The devil went down to Gulfport
Poynter.org – Jun 25, 2007
He felt nervous and out of place. He had played in college bands but that didn’t prepare him for Harlem. “The music seemed like it was coming from a different world. “Four years passed. Gussow’s girlfriend left him. He dropped out of publishing and graduate school and threw himself into harmonica… Some say it came from the blaze of Magee’s fingers. thers say he had suffered some sort of mental breakdown and started calling himself “the dark Lord. ” Still others said he was traumatized by the death of his wife. The truth is buried somewhere in Magee’s memory. All Gussow knows for sure is that Magee was a Christian who quoted Scripture and debated holy men. Any real fire was saved for Magee’s music. Gussow struggled to keep pace with the indomitable guitar man’s powerful play.

America And China; The Toxic Twins ne A Plutocracy The ther a…
pEdNews – Jun 25, 2007
Those who are numb to the odors are those who virtually douse themselves or shower in fragrances. Another source of toxic China Syndrome are plastic cell phones whew! They are the worst mine is metal and old but I won’t trade it in on a plastic Chinese toxic death fumes emission cell phone and when they can no longer update mine I will go without. Well they no longer make fragrances from natural ambergris (acres of whale vomit but good for non-toxic fragrances) from which the great perfumes have been made for hundreds of years because either there are too few whales or the few that there are have learned to take bicarbonate of soda after a meal. Maybe now people can learn to do one of two things chuck the carcinogenic fragrances or live with the headaches and the fatal results As for my wife and I we have found that almost everything you don’t buy at rganic food stores such as Whole Foods is toxic in some way or other. These products and many more unnamed here have several things in common; they are toxic or carcinogenic or allergenic or both. Many toxic items are made of petroleum byproducts and are products outsourced offshore and the people who buy them have no clue as to the dangers.

Pregnant Woman Murdered; Fire Rages at Lake Tahoe; Paris Hilton to be…
CNN International – Jun 25, 2007
LEMN: Mangled metal blown-out ceilings piles of debris remnants of a suicide bombing at a busy hotel in central Baghdad. At least 12 people are dead including seven Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders attempting reconciliation. The Mansour Hotel also houses a Chinese Embassy and several Western organizations. This was one of several bomb attacks around Iraq today that killed at least 46 people. President Bush today condemned the hotel attack and singled out the deaths of those seven Iraqi sheikhs… UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It’s a racing car but it is built for the road. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And the noise. VINCHI: While other Ferrari lovers would call it music but what about it? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It’s loud. VINCHI: The man behind Ferrari’s success today is Luca Cordero di Montezemolo. With Schumacher he brought home five consecutive world championships between 2000 and 2004 but when he took over the company in the early 1990s Ferrari had not won a season in 21 years. Its fabulous cars meanwhile remained unsold. LUCA CRDER DI MNTEZEML FERRARI PRESIDENT: I said listen this is terrible for us because we are for exclusivity.

Ratt ‘n’ roll at the casino
Appleton Post Crescent – Jun 25, 2007
post –> Ratt ‘n’ roll at the casinoIf that Vince Neil concert last week at neida Casino in Green Bay didn’t satisfy your lust for ’80s hair metal nostalgia here’s another one for fans of leather and spandex. Ratt will perform Sept. Tickets cost $20 plus fees and go on sale July 2 through neida Casino Ticket Star. The current lineup of the “Round and Round” guys includes Stephen Pearcy on vocals Warren DeMartini on guitar and Bobby Blotzer on drums… Tickets cost $20 plus fees and go on sale July 2 through neida Casino Ticket Star. The current lineup of the “Round and Round” guys includes Stephen Pearcy on vocals Warren DeMartini on guitar and Bobby Blotzer on drums. Incidentally Ratt provided one of the more compelling episodes of “Behind the Music” with an interview with rhythm guitarist Robbin Crosby before his tragic death.