Tagged: dreamgirls

Local band The Fresh & Onlys showed up at Bottom of the Hill looking for hugs and Fireball.

As promised when I wrote about Skimmed in November 2012 here is the review of the thirteen track LP Summer Lovers - which was released on the 23rd February 2013. Skimmed - Summer Lovers Opening with the familiar and signature sound is Ronnie an invitation in to the darkened sultry tease that is Skimmed . An evocative underlay and vocal has the listener reaching for a glass [...]

I can't believe I'm about to dedicate an entire blog post to defending Tom Cruise , but boy must Showbiz 411 really have it in for him. The website has already run two articles sounding the death knell for Cruise's run as a true box-office draw. The first gong, Roger Friedman's Tom Cruise "Rock of Ages" Box Office May Be Lower than "Valkyrie," "Knight & Day," which ran on Saturday morning, was fair enough. But practically every line of Tom Cruise Has Worst Opening Weekend Ever with Rock of Ages , which ran [...]

THE VIDEOS THAT MADE MY WEEK w/Icky Blossoms, S.Maharba, Lone, deadCAT, Sina., Tomas Barford and The Beastie Boys Watch THEE video that made my week HERE . Icky Blossoms - “Babes” Sina. - “Remembrance” S.Maharba - “S.I.T.W.S.M.” deadCAT - “littlefeet” Tomas Barford - “Broken Glass” Lone - “Dream Girl/Sky Surfer”

Mike's future in New Directions is challenged after his parents ask him to drop out because he received an A- (the Asian F) on an exam. In other news, the auditions are heating up for the musical,  West Side Story , and Will wonders why Emma doesn't want him to meet her parents who are in town visiting. Watch & Listen below! Asian F Songs Run The World – Beyonce – (Heather Morris) [...]

Things get weird in The Death Set's latest video for Another Day . The Autista Collective and Scion A/V have produced a beautifully cinematic portrait of a lonely guy emotionally consuming his way into pregnancy. It is difficult to find a truer love than that between an emotional wreck and their food. It is also difficult to imagine a man giving birth to the girl of his dreams. Ridiculousness aside, love is what you make of it, regardless if it is for pancakes or a newborn girlfriend lying naked in the street. [...]

Things get weird in The Death Set's latest video for Another Day . The Autista Collective and Scion A/V have produced a beautifully cinematic portrait of a lonely guy emotionally consuming his way into pregnancy. It is difficult to find a truer love than that between an emotional wreck and their food. It is also difficult to imagine a man giving birth to the girl of his dreams. Ridiculousness aside, love is what you make of it, regardless if it is for pancakes or a newborn girlfriend lying naked in the street. [...]

The latest album from the award-winning season three American Idol contestant debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at number two this past week.

Saturday was the kind of night I didn't want to feel anything. In the afternoon down at Pike Place Market, I'd run into my ex who, as these things go, is the love of my life, the most beautiful woman in the world, and seeing her hold the hand of another man was, to way understate it, difficult. But I'd agreed to go to a show that night down at the Kingcat Theater, and while taking notes as a band played was one of the last things I wanted to do, I still went. I'd given my word, and for [...]

This Dominican beauty hails from Nebraska (Yes who knew Omaha can have such a beautiful import). If this Taurus beauty looks familiar its because she have been featured in Lloyd Banks "Bimma, Benz, Or Bently" , Chris Brown's "Let Me Transform Ya" and many more!! Check out Ms. Diaz's site www.ayishadiaz.com as well. [...]

A 'Smashing' Resemblance? Last week, Billy Corgan attempted to remind people that he still fronts a band he calls The Smashing Pumpkins by revealing on Twitter that his new bassist, Nicole Fiorentino , was one of the two girls featured on the cover of the band's 1993 release Siamese Dream . The news got around over the weekend and raised a fair share of surprised glances. But, was it too good to be true? Today, credible site TMZ (right?) are trying to tell [...]

This is perhaps the weirdest and coolest story of the day. It's not really ironic, but it's certainly a weird coincidence. The girl on the left side of the Smashing Pumpkins seminal album, Siamese Dream, the one wearing the fairy wings, is now the bass player for the band. Nicole Fiorentino became the band's bass player in mid-2010 after auditioning.  She was a touring player for a little bit with the band after stints with Veruca Salt and Spinnerette. Billy Corgan broke the news on Twitter. I'm sure there [...]

This is an absolutely a-typical post for this blog, and for me… (well only sort of, I love pop and it’s pretty blatant) But this CANNOT be overlooked. Her vocal prowess, her stage presence, this RICH mash-up of three amazing and inspiring power ballads… all performed live for the Grammy’s. Plus, Reba introduces her. What else could we want? Oh, the cape she’s wearing. Right. Just listen. And if you’re a complete vocal-masturbation-case like me, download the mp3 audio rip HERE .

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Tape Tuesdays will be a biweekly feature on Sunset in the Rearview. I  will be compiling a new playlist every other week, with a new theme each time. My advice: stream the music on MixPod, listen to the songs, and if you’re a fan, put them together on your computer or iPod as a playlist. My shorter playlists are always better than the longer ones because they seem to have a consistent flow; larger playlists tend to get overpacked and diluted. Every tape will be short enough to fit on a single CD, so if you [...]

Well maybe you were one of the over 500 people to download J-Money and E-pif's songs from Satuday? I hope so, they are top notch. Either way, Eric, E-Pif just sent me over another song. This one's of just him from a while back. We all have a dream girl, right? mp3: E-Pif - Dream Girl

The Crystals Hundreds of girl groups rocked the 1960s, ages before Destiny's Child and The Spice Girls even took their first breaths. The 2006 musical film "Dreamgirls"-a fictionalized story loosely based on The Supremes-revived interest in the trend, but we took it a step further. Uncensored Discussions host Courtney E. Smith sat down with a current female singer noted for having a girl group sound- Kate Nash -to discuss The Crystals, one of the earliest and most successful groups of the era. Hear their discussion about the Phil Spector-produced girl group from [...]

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Giusto ieri gli amici del blog di Cinema.it hanno pubblicato una speciale playlist di film che trattano (ognuno da una particolare angolazione) di musica e/o musicisti. La cinquina proposta è ben assortita , si va dal biopic in odor di classica a pellicole sul glam e il rock'n'roll...fino ai gangsta rappers made in USA. Dategli un'occhiata se vi interessa, potrebbe essere lo spunto per una bella maratona cinematografica da spararsi in casa una di queste gelide sere d'inverno. Approfitto dell'occasione per rimpolpare la lista con qualche altro titolo 'a tema', e vi [...]

glee cast - don't rain on my parade (funny girl / barbara streisand cover) [holy shizz!!! if i could give a standing ovation to this lea michele recording i will. this is just incredible!] glee cast - and i'm telling you i'm not going (dreamgirls cover) [it was only a matter of time that amber riley would sing this song. and well... she sings it!] glee cast - you can't always get what you want (rolling stones cover) [everything sounds bland after hearing those two [...]

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With no rhyme or reason, our editorial staff chooses the top 10 biggest music-related news stories of 2008. Coming in at #8: Jennifer Hudson 's mother, brother and nephew are slain in a family tragedy. Singer-turned-Academy award winning actress Jennifer Hudson hit her career high in 2007 when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Effie White in the film Dreamgirls . But like our #8 choice, Jennifer Hudson's place on our biggest news stories of 2008 continues an ominous trend [...]