Oscar winner Hudson ready for her CD close-up

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Jennifer Hudson doesn't drink coffee. Doesn't care it, she says. Doesn't need it, counters her manager, Miguel Melendez.

It's 6:20 a.m. on a Monday good morning in July, and an uncaffeinated Hudson is busting full bound through her warm-ups during a heavy check for a public presentation on "Good Morning America." It's her first TV appearance in support of "Spotlight," the debut exclusive from her first album.

Hudson shakes off any concerns about the ungodly hour. ("The ring got in that respect at 4:30 a.m.," she notes.) Melendez, clutches his Starbucks as he watches. "Good Lord, she makes me feel old," he sighs.

It's easy to block Hudson's early days, perhaps thanks to the years she's already exhausted in the pop acculturation spotlight. At 26, her career path may be impossible to duplicate: She went from being a choir isaac Merrit Singer at her church in her hometown of Chicago to a Disney Cruise Line chanteuse to an "American Idol" contestant to an Academy Award victor for best supporting actress for her role in "Dreamgirls." Thanks to the ever-expanding entertainment landscape, what this substance is that Hudson has built a significant career on a multiple-octave voice -- without releasing an album.

All that changes September 30, when Arista/RMG releases her self-titled debut, which offers up everything from pop to R&B to gospel. The theme of the record album is simple: Play to the push rather than zeroing in on unmatched particular segment of it.

TAKING A CHANCE

"It is risky, because people expect you to just do one thing," Hudson says. "I'm going to take the chance and record what else is a part of me."

"Jennifer Hudson" features "Jesus Promised Me a Home Over There" -- a gospel tribute to the singer's days in the church choir -- and "You Pull Me Through," a track that Diane Warren penned for Hudson's lung-busting balladeer side. The album will also include the classic "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from "Dreamgirls" and "All Dressed in Love" from the late "Sex and the City" soundtrack.�

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Faster Pussycat

   
Artist: Faster Pussycat

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Between The Valley Of The Ultra Pussy

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Whipped!

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


   
 Wake Me When It's Over

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 12


   
 Faster Pussycat

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10

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Sleazy Hollywood metal band (whose name was lifted from a Russ Meyer flick) Faster Pussycat released their start album in 1987 and peaked commercially two eld by and by with the gold record album Wake Me When It's Over, and the Top 40 single "House of Pain." Although their next album, 1992's Whipped, hit number 90 on the charts, it fell off speedily; with the alternative rock explosion, the hard stone audience had changed and had no solitaire for Faster Pussycat's jazzy glam metallic element. After the group's split, vocalizer Taime Downe formed the industrial/goth getup the Newlydeads (along with a former member of some other former L.A. glam pop outfit, Bang Tango's Kyle Kyle), issuing iII albums -- 1997's self-titled debut, 1999's remix aggregation Re-Bound, and 2001's Dead End. With America experiencing a resurging bet in '80s glam pop by the early twenty-first c, Faster Pussycat reunited for a circuit. But instead of an album of all-new material coincidental with the circuit, a aggregation of old tracks remade as techno remixes was issued, entitled Between the Valley of the Ultra Pussy (Downe was the only member of the ring to suffer whatever stimulation with the stick out).





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MJ Cole

   
Artist: MJ Cole

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Cut to the Chase

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15

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With his accessible urban appealingness and his talent for duplicate breakbeat culture's incendiary phobias with the Hi-NRG of pop and sulphurous R&B, MJ Cole was one of U.K. garage's first true stars. Ultimately renting himself out for Mariah Carey and De La Soul remixes, Cole began with drum'n'bass label SOUR, where he worked in the ab initio unassuming position of tape operator. After slogging up to an engineering title for name calling like Freq Nasty and Ed Rush, he caught the service department bug in the centre of 1996 while working on Ramsey & Fen's 2-step remixes for Kym Mazelle. It was there that solo maneuvers began to form. At first rejected by every allocator in the U.K., an early self-production "Sincere" establish source at AM:PM and became one of the earliest garage records to crack Britain's Top 40, which at the prison term was focussed on widescreen indie and Fatboy Slim. Two old age after the single's surprise success, Cole issued his debut uncut of the same name. The album's ready, crisp, and vigorously mainstream output fashion earned him a Mercury Prize nomination although many critics lambasted it for devolving to the last-place common denominator, hobbling U.K. garage's reputability in its babyhood.

Bernard Pretty Purdie

   
Artist: Bernard Pretty Purdie

   Genre(s): 
Soundtrack
   

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Discography:


   
 Super Funk Blaxploitation Lialeh

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 7

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An all-time peachy soul, R&B, funk, and pop out drummer, Bernard Purdie's impeccable time and mastery of backbeats and grooves are famous. He stirred to New York from Maryland in 1960, and recorded with James Brown, King Curtis, and many others. He was CTI's business firm drummer in the late '60s and early '70s, and worked with Grover Washington, Jr. and George Benson among various others. Purdie toured with Curtis and Aretha Franklin in 1970, and was Franklin's music film director until 1975. During his studio apartment days in the early '70s, Purdie recorded with Louis Armstrong and Gato Barbieri along with numerous rock-and-roll, pop, and individual roger Sessions. He recorded with Dizzy Gillespie in 1980 at the Montreux Jazz Festival and toured with him in 1983. Purdie recorded with Hank Crawford during the early '80s, and has continued working steady into the '90s. He generated a firestorm of reaction in 1993 when he aerated it was his uncredited drumming instead than Ringo Starr's on some Beatles tracks. Purdie claimed proof was forthcoming, but none was presented. He made a rare engagement as a drawing card for Flying Dutchman in 1972, Pretty Purdie, that has prospicient since disappeared. But Purdie can be heard on multitudinous discs by Brown, Franklin, Curtis, Gillespie, and Crawford among many others.

Lindsay Lohan Cancels Birthday Bash

Lindsay Lohan has cancelled her planned 22nd birthday party over fears of negative publicity.
The actress has claimed she will be "in production on a movie" and "can't commit to a specific date”, but a report on the Perez Hilton blog claims Lindsay had been advised to ditch the plans for a lavish bash by her management.
Lindsay, who has set tongues wagging with her close relationship with Samantha Ronson, had set up a website to appeal for corporate sponsorship for the Moroccan-themed bash, but was apparently short of offers following her previous stints in rehab.

Bush Tetras

   
Artist: Bush Tetras

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Tetrafied

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 16


   
 Boom in the Night

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14

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New York's Bush Tetras had a no undulation tie, via guitar player Pat Place's connexion with James Chance, merely the band's sound was neither delirious nor disordered sufficiency to be by rights categorized with those bands. They played scrappy post-punk, with fellow Americans Pylon and Konk and Brits Delta 5 and Au Pairs as close coevals. If there's whatsoever one vocal the Bush Tetras ar known for, it's 1980's "Overly Many Creeps" -- the band's to the highest degree representative vocal and besides the catchiest, made by the kind of jagged rhythms, slicing guitars, and sniping vocals that were secondhand end-to-end their short life. Perhaps the song wasn't quite a insistent or spellbinding sufficiency to become a break undivided of the unexampled waving eRA (released on the minor 99 label, its touch was limited), merely it could be argued that Romeo Void wouldn't accept become popular without lettered about it. That band's "Never Say Never," a brilliance single in its possess right, seemed to take a duo cues from the Bush Tetras; during a 2003 episode of VH1's Bands Reunited series, Romeo Void guitarist Peter Woods matter-of-factly confessed to being elysian by the sound of Place's guitar.Later Place, bassist Laura Kennedy, drummer Dee Pop, and singer Cynthia Sley made their debut with an EP centered around "Likewise Many Creeps," signed with the U.K.'s Stiff tag, and recorded some other EP, Rituals, produced by the Clash's Topper Headon. The live cassette Wild Things, which included a cover of John Lennon's "Dusty Turkey," was released by ROIR in 1983. By this stage, the Bush Tetras -- along with Konk, mate New Yorkers Talking Heads, and Manchester's A Certain Ratio -- went external the realm of Western music for inspiration. African and Caribbean influences played a significant part in their intelligent. This like year mired the exits of Kennedy and Pop and an eventual split. Post-breakup, most of the members went on to passing groups. Pop, his Tom Verlaine/John Cale-associate wife Deerfrance, and former 8-Eyed Spy member Michael Paumgardhen formed Floor Kiss; Sley and ex-Voidoid Ivan Julian had the Lovelies; Place helped out spoken word creative person Maggie Estep. A spell later these less meaning projects dissolved, ROIR compiled all of the Bush Tetras' studio apartment recordings and threw in some demos for Better Late Than Never. ROIR being ROIR, it to a fault was a cassette-only release.The original lineup got back together in 1995. Windfall in the Night, another retrospective on the by-then-evolved ROIR, functioned as a CD interpretation of Better Late Than Never, with all merely one track from the earlier acquittance included. It came out just now before 1996's Dish Lies, an album of new material that came and went without much notice. It had the bad fortune of predating the rocketing stake in post-punk that took defend during the early 2000s.





Double success for Take That at the Brits

TV presenter Cotton gives up alcohol

TV presenter Cotton gives up alcohol

TV donor Fearne Cotton has revealed that she is now teetotal having given up




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