No way baby ‘” awards show is out-of-touch embarrassing
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- No way baby ‘” awards show is out-of-touch embarrassing
- 25 dead in Pakistan election rally blast
- Grammy nominees with Seattle connections
- – DAWN – RSS Feeds; February 10 2008
No way baby ‘” awards show is out-of-touch embarrassing
San Diego Union Tribune – Feb 10, 2008
Among the creatively negligible performers who have won Grammys are Michael Bolton Lil' Kim Starland Vocal Band Debby Boone The Captain & Tennille Britney Spears and Kenny G. Ditto A Taste of Honey Men at Work livia Newton-John Christopher Cross and Maroon 5. More recently some of artists who made excellent albums in the past year were either ignored (Kings of Leon The National Nick Lowe hip-hop visionary Pharoahe Monch Mali's Tinariwen and San Diego's Pinback) or relegated to minor categories (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Bjork LCD Soundsystem and National City-bred music maverick Tom Waits). But who'd expect more from an event that has been marred by repeated embarrassments since being launched in 1959?That was the year when Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie each won two Grammys one less than “The Chipmunk Song” by David Seville & The Chipmunks. Never mind that there were no Chipmunks who were a recording studio creation. There also was no Milli Vanilli 1990's briefly anointed Best New Artist Grammy victors… A year earlier that award went to April Stevens and Nino Tempo for “Deep Purple” a frothy remake of a 1939 big-band hit that had as much to do with rock as Hannah Montana does with death-metal. It was not until 1967's “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” that The Beatles won its first Album of the Year award. Bob Dylan had to wait until 1972 for his first Grammy when he was honored for his cameo on the all-star “The Concert for Bangla Desh” album. Dylan didn't win a Grammy on his own until 1980 18 years after his debut album came out.
25 dead in Pakistan election rally blast
NEWS.com.au – Feb 10, 2008
The ANP has announced a three-day mourning period and asked its workers to organise condolence meetings and hoist black flags at their offices said Mian Iftikhar Hussain the party’s provincial information secretary. "We have suspended the election campaign for three days and our workers shall hold condolence meetings to mourn the deaths" Mr Hussain said. Meanwhile two separate bomb blasts destroyed music and barber shops in Peshawar the capital of the country’s militancy-hit north-west police said. No one was injured by the improvised bombs but the explosions damaged five shops in Pawakai and Sufaid Dheri neighbourhoods of Peshawar late yesterday local police officials said. Nobody claimed responsibility for the blasts but several music shops and hair salons have been attacked in the past by pro-Taliban militants who want to impose a strict Islamic code banning music and shaving of beards. Last year former interior minister Aftab Sherpao survived two suicide attacks in Charsadda that left dozens of people dead the most recent in December. Election rallies have been sparse since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s death in a suicide bomb and gun attack in Rawalpindi on December 27 and after the government issued a "security advisory" for candidates to avoid big gatherings.
Grammy nominees with Seattle connections
Seattle Times – Feb 10, 2008
Here’s a breakdown of the talented locals. Chris Cornell best song written for motion picture television or other visual media: He’s known best as frontman for grunge band Soundgarden and later the rock band Audioslave but now Cornell can count another achievement. The Seattleite is nominated for “You Know My Name” used in the James Bond film “Casino Royale. ” Cornell wrote the song with Grammy award-winning British composer David Arnold… This is the third nomination in a row for Best Recording Package for Clark’s firm. Called Invisible Creature the Queen Anne firm focuses on the music industry designing album packaging and gig posters. Clark also plays guitar in his own heavy-metal band Demon Hunter (. Tucker Martine best engineered album nonclassical: Former Seattle resident Martine was nominated as engineer of “Floratone” a collaborative music project involving drummer Matt Chamberlain guitarist Bill Frisell and producer Lee Townsend. Martine now lives in Portland but works in Seattle.
- DAWN – RSS Feeds; February 10 2008
Pakistan Dawn – Feb 10, 2008
Witnesses said people inside the packed venue were trying to escape the crush just as hundreds of others were surging their way inside. “Ten people were killed. Six other people were injured” the Bandung police chief said. (Posted @ 10:55 PST).