Singer Lenny Kravitz has been admitted to a hospital in Miami to be treated for severe bronchitis.
The 43-year-old musician has reportedly been suffering from a series of severe respiratory tract infections, as well as flu, since mid-January.
A spokesperson for the star said in a statement: "Due to extreme dehydration and fatigue, doctors were unable to control it with outpatient treatment and advised the singer to check into the hospital."
"He was taken this morning to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami for immediate treatment."
Kravitz's illness has forced him to postpone promotion events for his new album 'It Is Time for a Love Revolution'.
Thursday 29 May 2008
Sunday 25 May 2008
My Darkest Hate
Artist: My Darkest Hate
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
To Whom It May Concern
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Demon Hunter
JOHN ELLIS AND DOUBLE-WIDE
Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow (Hyena): A-
The tutelage of Ellis Marsalis is readily apparent in the work of ex-Charlie Hunter band saxophonist Ellis, and explains how the blood of New Orleans flows within the native North Carolinian. Forming a new band with only sousaphone (Matt Perrine), organ (Gary Versace) and drums (Jason Marsalis) behind him is a stroke of genius. With the sousaphone playing the bass-like beat of a tuba in the second-line tradition, Ellis has the freedom to explore grooves as unfettered as their titles (“Tattooed Teen Waltzes with Grandma”). As the album’s title suggests, the playfulness is enough to compel you to reach for the nearest umbrella and kick up your heels. Download: “Three-Legged Tango in Jackson.”
(Appearing Wednesday at the Regattabar, Cambridge.)
The tutelage of Ellis Marsalis is readily apparent in the work of ex-Charlie Hunter band saxophonist Ellis, and explains how the blood of New Orleans flows within the native North Carolinian. Forming a new band with only sousaphone (Matt Perrine), organ (Gary Versace) and drums (Jason Marsalis) behind him is a stroke of genius. With the sousaphone playing the bass-like beat of a tuba in the second-line tradition, Ellis has the freedom to explore grooves as unfettered as their titles (“Tattooed Teen Waltzes with Grandma”). As the album’s title suggests, the playfulness is enough to compel you to reach for the nearest umbrella and kick up your heels. Download: “Three-Legged Tango in Jackson.”
(Appearing Wednesday at the Regattabar, Cambridge.)
Take That star to pen musical drama
Gary Barlow is set to write a new musical drama set in a fictional performing arts school.
The Take That star will pen songs for Britannia High, an eight-part musical drama which will air on ITV1 later this year.
Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips will also be part of the project and will choreograph the series.
The drama will be preceded by two behind the scenes documentaries which will show how Phillips and theatre producer David Ian select actors and actresses to become the stars of the show.
Viewers will also see how Barlow creates the musical numbers for the series and how Phillips teaches her routines.
Eight hour-long episodes will then follow the progress of the group of pupils practising for a live finale.
Paul Jackson, ITV director of entertainment, said the show's format was not "like anything else on British television and we're confident audiences are going to love it".
"ITV1 has lined up some of the biggest names in music and entertainment to make Britannia High," he said.
The Take That star will pen songs for Britannia High, an eight-part musical drama which will air on ITV1 later this year.
Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips will also be part of the project and will choreograph the series.
The drama will be preceded by two behind the scenes documentaries which will show how Phillips and theatre producer David Ian select actors and actresses to become the stars of the show.
Viewers will also see how Barlow creates the musical numbers for the series and how Phillips teaches her routines.
Eight hour-long episodes will then follow the progress of the group of pupils practising for a live finale.
Paul Jackson, ITV director of entertainment, said the show's format was not "like anything else on British television and we're confident audiences are going to love it".
"ITV1 has lined up some of the biggest names in music and entertainment to make Britannia High," he said.
Spears undergoing psychiatric evaluation
Britney Spears is on a psychiatric hold in a Los Angeles hospital as she undergoes evaluation.
The 26-year-old was taken from her home to hospital yesterday by ambulance.
Speaking to People magazine, Spears' representative, Sam Lutfi, said that Spears was undergoing evaluation on the orders of her psychiatrist.
"She went willingly," Lufti told the magazine. "It was like something in her heart was telling her she should go. She knew something was wrong."
UCLA Medical Center declined to confirm if Spears was a patient, citing confidentiality.
Spears' parents and Lufti were pictured leaving the hospital on Thursday. When asked if her daughter was "OK" by reporters, the singer's mother Lynne said: "Yes."
Friends and family have said they believe that the 26-year-old is suffering from bipolar disorder or other psychiatric problems.
An unnamed source told Us Weekly that Spears had not slept since Saturday.
The source said that the "intervention" by Spears' family and psychiatrist had been planned for a number of days.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness in the US has pleaded for Spears' privacy during her treatment.
The 26-year-old was taken from her home to hospital yesterday by ambulance.
Speaking to People magazine, Spears' representative, Sam Lutfi, said that Spears was undergoing evaluation on the orders of her psychiatrist.
"She went willingly," Lufti told the magazine. "It was like something in her heart was telling her she should go. She knew something was wrong."
UCLA Medical Center declined to confirm if Spears was a patient, citing confidentiality.
Spears' parents and Lufti were pictured leaving the hospital on Thursday. When asked if her daughter was "OK" by reporters, the singer's mother Lynne said: "Yes."
Friends and family have said they believe that the 26-year-old is suffering from bipolar disorder or other psychiatric problems.
An unnamed source told Us Weekly that Spears had not slept since Saturday.
The source said that the "intervention" by Spears' family and psychiatrist had been planned for a number of days.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness in the US has pleaded for Spears' privacy during her treatment.
Indiana Jones for Cannes Festival?
It is reported that the eagerly-awaited Indiana Jones adventure, 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', is to debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Variety says that the film will premiere at the festival on Sunday 18 May and its stars have been notified.
Reunited director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford are joined by Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf in the new blockbuster.
Set 19 years after 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', the story finds Indiana Jones (Ford) battling Soviet Agents, led by Spalko (Blanchett), for the Crystal Skull.
'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' opens worldwide on Thursday 22 May.
The official Cannes line-up will not be announced until April.
To watch the trailer for 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', click here.
Variety says that the film will premiere at the festival on Sunday 18 May and its stars have been notified.
Reunited director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford are joined by Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf in the new blockbuster.
Set 19 years after 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', the story finds Indiana Jones (Ford) battling Soviet Agents, led by Spalko (Blanchett), for the Crystal Skull.
'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' opens worldwide on Thursday 22 May.
The official Cannes line-up will not be announced until April.
To watch the trailer for 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', click here.
Laura Barton: Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll
The Chapel of St Barnabas sits on Manette Street, between the scuffle of Charing Cross Road and the bluster of Greek Street, at the very edge of Soho. Past the Borderline, before the Pillars of Hercules, a nondescript metal gate leads to a low, huddled doorway and on through a dim passage to the chapel itself, where stands an altar with soft red marble pillars. From time to time, musical performances are held here, before the rows of chairs set out in lieu of pews, in the space beneath the blue semi-dome painted with golden stars, in a small, calm clearing that somehow makes me think of that Lorca line: "The still pool of your mouth, under a thicket of kisses."
A little while ago, I was here at St Barnabas for a showcase held by XL Recordings: there were videos from the Raconteurs and Vampire Weekend, Phill Jupitus played jovial host, and the evening culminated in a live performance by Cajun Dance Party. I have, it occurred to me midway through the evening, probably been to more gigs in churches than I have religious services. From a bill featuring Belle and Sebastian and Arab Strap, to a more recent lineup of Emmy the Great, the Mountain Goats and Micah P Hinson at the Union Chapel in London. And they always enrapture me. I remember going by myself to see Sigur Rós play such a gig one early summer evening, many years ago. The air was still warm, you could hear birdsong drifting through the open chapel door, and as they played, I remember a feeling more transcendent, more glad-hearted than I had experienced at any harvest festival or carol service. It appeared to me then, as it appears to me now, that it does not matter whether it is Silent Night or Svefn-g-englar that fills those church walls; the thing about music in churches is that its performance feels like a celebration of creation, an affirmation of how damned glorious it is to be alive. As Stravinsky put it: "The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."What I like about churches is somehow what I also like about musical instruments and lyrics and songs - that they only truly come alive with human contact. Cold marble, hard pews, stained glass, share much with guitar strings, piano keys, CDs, sentences, syllables, that in their inhabitation, in their playing there comes the sense of the inanimate made flesh. To hear the heave and huff of the church organ, to hear the swell of the choir and the congregation, to feel music and voices rising to the rafters, is to see life breathed into the building itself. And so to hear Jonathan Richman at the Union Chapel, or Patti Smith incanting at St Giles, or even All Things Bright and Beautiful sung with glory and gusto in a small Lancashire church, brings to me a similar shiver as that first snap and crackle as needle kisses vinyl; the sense that something has been resuscitated.There was a television series first screened in the mid-70s, named A Passion for Churches, which saw John Betjeman waxing lyrical about the churches of Britain. I've only ever seen it on YouTube, but in the clip I like to watch when I'm far from home or sick of the city, he is rhapsodising about Norfolk churches. There are shots of Wymondham Abbey, the rich green of the churchyard, and stained glass windows showing bewinged and halo-ed angels engaged in silent, motionless musical pursuit: lute, violin and horn; cymbal, trumpet, tambourine and triangle. And then in the final moment comes a clutch of pale-skinned, blue-clad choirboys rehearsing Ye Holy Angels Bright. "Behold! Behold! Behold!" they sing, as the choirmaster tuts, and the piano wheezes, breathing life, suddenly, into their stained-glass friends. And above it all, in its well-articulated chug, rises the voice of Betjeman himself, reading a line from Psalm 150:6: "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord."
A little while ago, I was here at St Barnabas for a showcase held by XL Recordings: there were videos from the Raconteurs and Vampire Weekend, Phill Jupitus played jovial host, and the evening culminated in a live performance by Cajun Dance Party. I have, it occurred to me midway through the evening, probably been to more gigs in churches than I have religious services. From a bill featuring Belle and Sebastian and Arab Strap, to a more recent lineup of Emmy the Great, the Mountain Goats and Micah P Hinson at the Union Chapel in London. And they always enrapture me. I remember going by myself to see Sigur Rós play such a gig one early summer evening, many years ago. The air was still warm, you could hear birdsong drifting through the open chapel door, and as they played, I remember a feeling more transcendent, more glad-hearted than I had experienced at any harvest festival or carol service. It appeared to me then, as it appears to me now, that it does not matter whether it is Silent Night or Svefn-g-englar that fills those church walls; the thing about music in churches is that its performance feels like a celebration of creation, an affirmation of how damned glorious it is to be alive. As Stravinsky put it: "The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."What I like about churches is somehow what I also like about musical instruments and lyrics and songs - that they only truly come alive with human contact. Cold marble, hard pews, stained glass, share much with guitar strings, piano keys, CDs, sentences, syllables, that in their inhabitation, in their playing there comes the sense of the inanimate made flesh. To hear the heave and huff of the church organ, to hear the swell of the choir and the congregation, to feel music and voices rising to the rafters, is to see life breathed into the building itself. And so to hear Jonathan Richman at the Union Chapel, or Patti Smith incanting at St Giles, or even All Things Bright and Beautiful sung with glory and gusto in a small Lancashire church, brings to me a similar shiver as that first snap and crackle as needle kisses vinyl; the sense that something has been resuscitated.There was a television series first screened in the mid-70s, named A Passion for Churches, which saw John Betjeman waxing lyrical about the churches of Britain. I've only ever seen it on YouTube, but in the clip I like to watch when I'm far from home or sick of the city, he is rhapsodising about Norfolk churches. There are shots of Wymondham Abbey, the rich green of the churchyard, and stained glass windows showing bewinged and halo-ed angels engaged in silent, motionless musical pursuit: lute, violin and horn; cymbal, trumpet, tambourine and triangle. And then in the final moment comes a clutch of pale-skinned, blue-clad choirboys rehearsing Ye Holy Angels Bright. "Behold! Behold! Behold!" they sing, as the choirmaster tuts, and the piano wheezes, breathing life, suddenly, into their stained-glass friends. And above it all, in its well-articulated chug, rises the voice of Betjeman himself, reading a line from Psalm 150:6: "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord."
Indradyumna Swami
Artist: Indradyumna Swami
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Param Gati
Year:
Tracks: 6
Pada Kamalam
Year:
Tracks: 8
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