
Gov’t Mule 11/28/2004: Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD
The mule is the mutt of the barnyard, a no frills work animal that does all the dirty work. Gov
The mule is the mutt of the barnyard, a no frills work animal that does all the dirty work. Gov
With midnight extravaganzas, extended curfews and no-holds-barred performances, New Years Eve has become the quintessential rock ‘n roll holiday. Every band seems to step it up a notch and find a way to make the last show of the year their finest.
Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won best film at the US People’s Choice Awards, voted for by the US public.
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ won best drama, despite both films being snubbed so far at US film awards in the run-up to February’s Oscars.
Nominees for the People’s Choice Awards were picked by a 6,000-strong Entertainment Weekly magazine panel, and winners were subsequently chosen by 21 million online voters.
Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore dedicated his trophy to soldiers in Iraq.
His film was highly critical of President George W Bush and the US-led invasion of Iraq, and Moore was an outspoken Bush critic in the 2004 presidential campaign inwhich Democratic challenger John Kerry lost.
“This country is still all of ours, not right or left or Democrat or Republican,” Moore told the audience at the ceremony in Pasadena, California.
Moore said it was “an historic occasion” that the 31-year-old awards ceremony would name a documentary its best film.
Source: bbc
Ringo Garza, drummer for the Los Lonely Boys was arrested Thursday along with his wife on a marijuana possession charge after police searched their home, authorities said.
Ringo Garza, 23, and Lenora Garza, 24, were booked on $1,000 bail Thursday morning and released shortly after, according to jail records.
Authorities said the search was conducted after two women filed a police report a day earlier after a night of drinking at the couple’s home. The women filed the report at a hospital. Further information about the report wasn’t available.
Garza and his wife each face a misdemeanor charge of possession of less than two ounces of marijuana.
“Ringo and his wife would never do anything like what is being said about them,” Los Lonely Boys manager Kevin Wommack told the San Angelo Standard-Times for its Friday editions. “We have faith that the people of San Angelo, the courts, the prosecutors and the jury will be fair in this matter.”
The arrest was the drummer’s second for possession of marijuana. He pleaded no contest to a similar charge in 2003.
The Tex-Mex flavored rock ‘n’ roll group hit the national spotlight in 2004 with their Grammy award-nominated debut album “Los Lonely Boys.”
Source: cnn
Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart’s best-selling “America (The Book)” over the satirical textbook’s nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.
“I’ve been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I’ve objected to so strongly that I wouldn’t allow it to circulate,” said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.
“We’re not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public,” Willits said. “If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we’d have the book.”
Wal-Mart has declined to stock the book because of the page, which features the faces of the nine Supreme Court justices superimposed over naked bodies.
The facing page has cutouts of the justices’ robes, complete with a caption asking readers to “restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe.”
The book by Stewart and the writers of “The Daily Show,” the Comedy Central fake-news program he hosts, was released in September. It has spent 15 weeks on The New York Times best seller list for hardcover nonfiction, and was named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the industry trade magazine.
Former English teacher Tara Skelton of Ocean Springs said the libraries shouldn’t decide what is in poor taste.
“It just really seemed kind of silly to me,” she said. “I don’t think the Supreme Court justices have filed any defamation of character or libel suits. It’s humor.”
Source CNN.com.
Scottish rock act Franz Ferdinand leads the field with five nominations for the Brit Awards, which will celebrate their 25th anniversary this year. Muse was close behind with four nominations, while American acts Maroon 5 and Scissor Sisters garnered three each.
Franz Ferdinand’s nominations include best British group, best British album for its self-titled Domino/Epic debut, best British rock act, best British live act and best British breakthrough act.
The group will compete in the best British album category with Keane’s “Hopes and Fears” (Polydor), Snow Patrol’s “Final Straw” (Polydor), Muse’s “Absolution” (Mushroom) and Kasabian’s self-titled RCA debut.
Scissor Sisters’ self-titled Universal debut and Maroon 5’s “Songs About Jane” (J) share nominations in the best international album category with U2’s “How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” (Universal Island), the Killers’ “Hot Fuss” (Lizard King) and OutKast’s “Speakerboxx/The Love Below” (Arista).
In the best British single category, nominees include Will Young’s “Your Game,” Shapeshifters’ “Lola’s Theme,” LMC vs. U2’s “Take Me to the Clouds Above,” Jamelia’s “Thank You” and Band Aid 20’s recent charity remake of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Franz Ferdinand, U2 and Scissor Sisters will perform at the ceremony, to be held Feb. 9 at London’s Earl’s Court.
For a full list of the 2005 Brit Awards nominees visit billboard.com.
Eric Clapton is set to headline a tsunami relief concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on January 22nd. British singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy and Wales’ own Manic Street Preachers will also perform, with additional acts to be announced.
All proceeds from the Cardiff show will go to victims of the December 26th tsunami which devastated South Asia, leaving approximately 150,000 dead and a decade’s worth of rebuilding in its wake. About two-thirds of the venue’s seats (45,000) have already sold, and organizers anticipate raising about $1.8 million.
Meanwhile, Sharon Osbourne and American Idol judge Simon Cowell are preparing a charity remake of Clapton’s Grammy-winning “Tears in Heaven.” Among those confirmed for the celebrity recording thus far are Gwen Stefani, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Ozzy Osbourne and Elton John. Clapton originally penned the hit song in memory of his four-year-old son Conor, who died in a 1991 accident.
Source rollingstone.com.