See Rain-Lashed Hydro Connect Festival In Pictures!

The freshly dubbed Hydro Connect fete on the banks of Loch Fyne, Inverary, Scotland was strike by torrential rain in the early hours of Sunday forenoon.

The unrelenting rain turned the lush green fete site into a mudbath within hours. One merrymaker told Gigwise: �I do festivals and have done for long time and receive never experient such chaos.�

Despite the torrential weather, this did little to dampen the heart of the event as a whole which featured headline performances from Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Kasabian and Sigur Ros.

CLICK HERE to take in 50 arresting photos of the result, capturing all the bands (as well as the rain and the mud).

Also featured ar Spirtualized, The Gossip, Noah and the Whale, Glasvegas, Santogold, Elbow, Grinderman, Friendly Fires and many more...��

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Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson Launches Social Networking Game

Michael Jackson is launching an exclusive gaming contest to take advantage of the force of social networking.

To promote his outgoing King of Pop record album, released on August 25th, Michael has launched a dance game application on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo allowing fans the chance to get ahead a host of antic prizes.

The game will allow users to control Michael Jackson's dance moves as they aim to maintain up with the steps during his tracks in a dance-mat style routine. Hand-and-eye coordination is the key to the game as arrows direct users to try and build up the biggest jazz band they can and take care the King of Pop break out the trademark moves he made a worldwide phenomenon.

Prizes testament be awarded for the highest

Download Jenny Owen Youngs

Artist: Jenny Owen Youngs: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other Rock     Discography:      Batten the Hatches    Year: 2007    Tracks: 13      The Scrappy Demo    Year: 2004    Tracks: 6 Coming up strong behindhand R. Stevie Moore as the to the highest degree talented singer/songwriter to be based in the nondescript chamber community of Montclair, NJ, Jenny Owen Youngs looks like Lindsay Lohan's indie-kid jr. sister (though, ironically, the baby-faced Youngs is in fact around a half-decade old than the hard-partying actress-singer) only sounds like an all successful spinal fusion of Liz Phair's perceptive and nervily comical lyrics and the orchestrated folk-pop of Regina Spektor and Erin McKeown, with barely a wind of Nellie McKay's jazzy floor show leanings and Cat Power's throaty, confessional angst. Born in New Jersey in 1981 and raised in the usual suburban environs, Youngs number 1 picked up the guitar at the age of 14 and attended the music program at the State University of New York at Purchase at a clip when that previously hidden prowess school was single-handed populating what would become the entire New York "anti-folk" picture: besides Youngs and Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis, Langhorne Slim, and the Moldy Peaches' Adam Green and Kimya Dawson were all SUNY-Purchase graduates. Maintaining a friendship with Spektor, world Health Organization chose Youngs as her curtain raising act on the tours undermentioned her breakthrough album, Soviet Kitsch, Youngs wrote and recorded her debut album, 2005's self-released Batten the Hatches. Although the album garnered in general positivist reviews, it attracted small notice until one of its highlights, the remorseful "Screwing Was I," was put-upon in the second-season undoer of the democratic overseas wire sitcom Weeds. Signing with the Canadian indie Nettwerk Records, Youngs released a remixed and repackaged version of Batten the Hatches in early 2007.

ViRexx Announces Approvals Of Rights Offering

� ViRexx Medical Corp. (TSX:VIR) (AMEX:REX) ("ViRexx"), a company focused on developing innovative-targeted therapeutic products that offer wagerer quality of life and a renewed hope for living. Its platform technologies include product candidates for the intervention of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, avian influenza viral infections, biological defense and nanoparticle applications, select solid tumors and late-stage ovarian cancer, announced that further to its press release of July 16, 2008, ViRexx has received a final receipt from the Alberta Securities Commission and conditional approval from The Toronto Stock Exchange with regard to a rights offering by way of a Short Form Prospectus dated July 17, 2008 ("Final Prospectus"). A Form F-7, Registration Statement Under the Securities Act of 1933, has too been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


The Final Prospectus was mailed to registered shareholders of ViRexx on July 30, 2008 together with the rights certificates.

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John Mayer - Mayer Blasts Photographers For Selling Mundane Photos

JOHN MAYER is begging the paparazzi to stop snapping him performing "mundane" tasks, because he fears he'll become more famous as a celebrity than a singer.

Since the star hooked up with new flame Jennifer Aniston, the couple has become regular tabloid fodder, with photographers following their every move.

But Mayer fears the attention is damaging his reputation.

He laments, "I don't have a problem with my privacy as much as I have a problem with people messing with my message.

"If you're going to take pictures of me doing mundane stuff, will you at least take pictures of me playing guitar? Because, right now, it looks like all I do is drink coffee and do dry cleaning and go eat dinner."

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Baird Hersey

   
Artist: Baird Hersey

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Waking The Cobra

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 18

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Reiki

Justin Timberlake Gets In Trouble With The Cops

Justin Timberlake found himself on the wrong side of the law on Thursday, when he was booked for a parking violation in New York.

 The SexyBack hitmaker arrived at the MTV studios in the city ahead of the network's Fall 2008 Upfront Presentation - to inform artists about multi-platform opportunities on the music channel.

 But after leaving his black SUV outside the building, the star was handed a parking ticket by a warden upon his return to the car.

 However, the incident did little to dampen Timberlake's spirits - footage posted on TMZ.com shows the singer laughing and joking as the official handed him the penalty.


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Don Dorsey

   
Artist: Don Dorsey

   Genre(s): 
Celtic
   

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Discography:


   
 Bach Busters

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 17

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Turn the River

Though most know Famke Janssen for action-oriented roles in the X-Men films, she bears the heft of this weighty drama with apparent ease. Janssen stars as Kailey, a woman who had to give up her son at birth, but now she's using her skills as a pool hustler to earn enough money to get him back. Actor Chris Eigeman (THE TREATMENT) turns director, writer, and producer with this acclaimed indie film.

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Questions, hope as buyers hit Cannes

Can films like Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, NY" bring an end to a film festival cold streak?

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Photographer cleared of assaulting Paul McCartney's ex

A photographer convicted of assaulting Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife has been cleared of charges after Heather Mills failed to appear in court today (May 20).

Jay Kaycappa had been sentenced to 140 hours of community service for allegedly grabbing Mills by her shoulder and taking her photograph in 2006, but these charges were reversed after he won an appeal today in a Lewes, England court.

An attorney told the court that he believed Mills did not attend the hearing because she was in the United States.

However, Judge Richard Brown said he received a note from Mills' physician saying she was suffering from stress, reports the Associated Press.

Last week, a High Court judge declared Mills' and McCartney's marriage officially over.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Ashlee Simpson 'not engaged' yet

Singer Ashlee Simpson is "not engaged", despite being pictured with a diamond ring on her wedding finger.
According to People magazine, the 23-year-old, who is currently dating Fall Out Boy star Pete Wentz, dismissed the rumours during a recent visit to Fuse TV.
Simpson said that she was wearing a promise ring from her boyfriend, explaining by saying: "It just means that he hasn't asked my dad yet."
A representative for the singer said: "She is not engaged."

Irish stars honoured at British Film Awards

John Carney, the writer/ director behind 'Once', and 'Atonement' cinematographer Seamus McGarvey were amongst the winners at the British Film Awards.
Carney took the prize for Most Promising Newcomer in the awards designed to honour the British film industry, despite the fact that he is Irish.
Armagh's Seamus McGarvey was one of three winners for 'Atonement', which also took prizes for costume design and production.
In the other categories Helena Bonham-Carter was named best actress for two performances - in 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street' and low-key drama 'Conversations With Other Women'.
Irish citizen Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor for his role as a Texan oil prospector in 'There Will Be Blood'. The performance has already earned him a Golden Globe and he is hotly tipped for Bafta and Oscar glory later this month.
Julie Christie, also a front-runner for Oscar success with 'Away From Her', received the Alexander Walker Special Award for outstanding contribution to film.
Joy Division biopic 'Control' was the surprise winner of the best film award, beating 'Atonement' and 'There Will Be Blood'. It also won best screenplay.
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood received the best film score award for 'There Will Be Blood'.

Houwitser

   
Artist: Houwitser

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Damage Assessment

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Rage Inside The Womb

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10

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Bra Boys

Are Sydney's Bra Boys a violent gang or just a loyal bunch of surfers? This documentary narrated by Russell Crowe (AMERICAN GANGSTER) explores this underground culture from the inside courtesy of writer-director-producer Sunny Abberton. The filmmaker and his three brothers--Koby, Jai, and Dakota--lie at the heart of this engrossing true story about some of Australia's most notorious people.

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Ariel Kalma

   
Artist: Ariel Kalma

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Flute For The Soul

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 Serenity

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 8


   
 Ariel Kalma Same

   Year:    
Tracks: 3

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