Music Soup

Continue our super game challenge that calls to you readers the best songs of 2008, taken and inspired by the official compilation blue Festivalbar 2008. Good: the winner of the first contest was Sara Bareilles with “Love Song” and won the second Estelle with “American Boy”, which will show the video in the remainder of the post.

The protagonists of this third challenge, involving all registered users clicking on to the top post in the race for the election of the song better among those offered this summer are: Sonohra, Leona Lewis, Daniele Silvestri, James Blunt and Baustelle. To register (you know that you are many more than a thousand and you grow every day?) Just follow this link.

Jennifer Hudson is a ragazzona afroamericana not yet 27enne, with a crazy voice and a remarkable stage presence. Despite the young age can already boast a curriculum that many other colleagues dream: going from singing to acting with a fluency that make it seem like the easiest thing in the world, is a intrattenitrice all-round (as only the American school knows form ).

The fans remember the film for the masterful interpretation in musical DreamGirls, which according to many has obscured the most quoted Beyoncè, that gave a Golden Globe and-hear-hear an Oscar. More recently was the assistant Louise (Saint Louis!) In the film version of Sex & The City and this year will appear in other Hollywood films.

Now back to his first love, music, with the single “Spotlight” that anticipates the release of an entire album that will bear his own name. Date scheduled debut at home, September 30. Jennifer among other things has participated in the third edition of the talent show American Idol, reaching between 12 finalists but not winning. The piece of clear mould R’n'B was written by Ne-Yo, who has also co-produced with Stargate. For the other tracks on the disc it comes to famous collaborations with the singer of OneRepublic Ryan Tedder and (the inevitable) Timbaland in the first row. After the jump find the video of “SpotLight” expect comments and impressions.

After the intense world tour, closed last April 19 in Costa Rica, the Smashing Pumpkins are preparing the celebrations for the 20-year career. It seems that the leader Billy Corgan has in mind several initiatives to celebrate magna pump in the two decades of activity.

According to the official website of the band in September could see the light of a new single, accompanied for the occasion by a tour that will stop in all cities in the United States not affected by the previous “Zeitgeist tour.” If it were not enough, is also for sale for some days on the site Instruments Eldery the Fender Stratocaster limited edition “Billy Corgan signature, available in black and white: strictly for fans only.

But not all. According to published on smashingpumpkins.com Indeed, during 2008 will be reprinted the first official band album “Gish”, released back in 1991. Inside the new packaging, of which there is currently a publication date, could also be included unpublished material pre-Gish. Even here seems quite trust the idea of a tour to support this year.

The June 13 is released on disc that was expecting for almost a year. And I could hardly feel adequate in the face with trying to make a complete speech about it.

Dargen D’Amico with “Di Di Vizi Form Virtues” gives us an experience, a journey of 35 songs that advice to every lover of music. This is most likely a work that transcends the genre Hip Hop, and amending the royalties, managing to get anyone it wants to grasp the message and artistic validity, without prejudice, and appreciate the emotions that gives throughout the audience.

We the ranks of the situation Amy Winehouse, as always from the point of view of music, with inevitable relation to its latest events of health. As many of you have imagined, Amy drugs is a very long time (but not!) And because of a serious pulmonary emphysema was hospitalized and now forced to use an oxygen mask to assist breathing, with all the recommendations that now are threats because they stop smoking crack.

Despite its weak state of health will participate in two important events: the Glastonbury Festival, which will reach the stage at 10 pm, at the opening concert of Jay-Z. The singer 24enne will also present the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, to be held on June 27 all’Hyde Park in London. The moves, to avoid any kind of stress, will be only by helicopter. Nurses and doctors will accompany every trip and after the performances will return to hospital

These are days of important announcements for the English rock music: just yesterday we told the new release of Verve, today touches nientepopòdimenoche to Oasis. After the first advances at work in the studio el’apparizione network traces unpublished, are now official title, single launch and date of publication of the seventh album of the brothers Gallagher.

As happened 3 years ago with Lucky “Do not Believe the Truth”, the band called Dave Sardy to produce the new material, which will be published on October 6 and titled “Dig Out Your Soul.” The disc will advance from the single “The Shock of the Lightning,” outgoing September 29. Noel has dealt with the composition of the song, Liam instead we put the item, it was packed very quickly, cast, and could therefore be intuitive and immediate. This at least is what we hope, because they believe that “the first registration, demos, is always the best and manages to capture the right energy.”

Illuminante intervention published on Melablog of Kid Rock on the complicated issue of music illegally downloaded from the internet. The rocker, having announced to boycott Itunes, in a video on Youtube calls illegally downloading his music, given that he is “fottutamente rich”.

But not only. It invites young people to the theft of computers, shoes, machinery and so on. As Mr. concludes. T, saying the children “Do not let the school and been away from drugs.” What has done to attract attention to Youtube or simply because it is crazy not change: it’s very funny.

The Ting Tings are definitely the group of summer, and despite the great success that their Great Dj continues to obtain, the two have already prepared the third single. After publishing (indeed, to be exact republished) the single “That’s not my name”, is now the turn of “Shut up and let me go,” always extract dall’album “We started nothing.”

The video directed by Alex and Liane of the study Factory, is inspired all’estetica movement Neoista, which has had a great influence in the development of imagination indie. We talk just of aesthetics, however, since the Tings still account for Columbia. The video can be found after the jump.

Here’s a new video quartet nerds New York Vampire Weekend. It’s called Comma Oxford and is the third single extract from the first album, behind the movie camera is the actor-director Richard Ayoade.

E ‘out of a few days “Son of manga”, the new single by Carlo Fath in art simply “I, Carlo”. Defining exactly Carlo is not easy. Producer and songwriter, in 2007 I stupì nicely with the album “In the perennial reserve” and individual “ego” and “Danziamo”, songs that had a good also reflected in the programming schedules of the major radio and TV. With its aesthetic and its naive texts only appartentemente naive, the singer of German origins became spokesman of a certain generation of 30enni - those never fully grown - and what was left of generation-x. A kind of anti Max Pezzali, but not in the sense of enemy but opposite.

If both are singers of life made up of things, feelings and gestures simple and sincere, Carlo goes more deeply into the psychology and in memories of his generation, and not surrender to observe with a critical eye the changing world around him. From time to time casts a melancholy look at his childhood, but that (sometimes) sentimentalista excessive rhetoric that characterized the production of 883.