Singer India.Arie is set to make her Broadway debut in September

NEW YORK - India.Arie on Broadway - produced by Whoopi Goldberg.

The Grammy-winning singer will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." She will open in the play Sept. 8 at Circle in the Square.

Preview performances begin Aug. 19 in what will be a revised and updated version of the play, which was an off-Broadway hit for the Public Theater in 1976 before transferring to Broadway for a run of more than 700 performances.

The new production will be directed by Shirley Jo Finney and choreographed by Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony winner.

"For Colored Girls...," a prose-poem portrait of black women in America, originally featured Shange and Trazana Beverley, who won a Tony for her performance.

Goldberg has been involved in productions of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," her own "Whoopi ... The 20th Anniversary" and a revival of August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."

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Superjoint Ritual

   
Artist: Superjoint Ritual

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Use Once and Destroy

   Year:    
Tracks: 18

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The early 21st century power saw Pantera isaac M. Singer Phil Anselmo launch several side projects, including Necrophagia, Viking Crown, Christ Inversion, Southern Isolation, and Superjoint Ritual. The latter grouping is comprised of guitarists Jim Bower and Kevin Bond, drummer Joseph Fazzio, with none other than Hank Williams III on bass voice (Anselmo handled both vocal and bass duties for the group's recordings, simply opted to condense only on vocals for the group's live shows). According to Bower, the members of Superjoint Ritual approached the writing and recording of their debut with "the perfect 15-year-old mentality of having everything loud, everything on 10, getting ladened, and rental whatever happens, bechance." Recorded at a rehearsal place turned recording studio apartment in Anselmo's backyard, the roger Huntington Sessions were produced by previous Ugly Kid Joe appendage Dave Fortman (world Health Organization has turned into quite an a producer of radical heavy bands - Eyehategod, Soilent Green, etc.). May of 2002 saw the release of the quintet's debut, Use Once and Destroy, an album that reflected such influences as Black Flag, Righteous Pigs, Celtic Frost, and Voivod, among others. Superjoint Ritual supported the record album with a summertime enlistment the same year.





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Boy George To Play For New York Sanitation Workers

British singer Boy George is set to play an exclusive gig for an unlikely audience - he will perform at New York's Department of Sanitation Family Day in August . The former Culture Club frontman worked alongside the Big Apple's sanitation workers in 2006 when he was sentenced to community service and garbage duty after falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in the city. And the star - real name George O'Dowd - is keen to perform for the people he met while being punished - insisting their kindness made the humiliating task easier. He explains, "The people I worked alongside showed great kindness to me at a very difficult time, and I wanted to thank them all in a way that would show my appreciation." The star will play at the department's annual Family Day on 17 August . He is kicking of a North American tour in Aspen, Colorado a month before . A spokesman for the Department of Sanitation says, "Keeping New York City safe and clean is a daunting challenge - as Boy George well knows - and we welcome his generous offer to entertain those who have made our city the cleanest it has been in more than 30 years."


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Santogold - Self-titled

Rating: * * * * The voice of New York-based singer
Santogold (real name Santi White) sounds a lot like some other great
singers. Even so, it makes for a unique centrepiece to her debut album. She
has a cool, sonic squawk, best...

For A Space

   
Artist: For A Space

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Welcome 4.000

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Secrets Behind

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 6

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Katherine Heigl - Heigl Upsets Greys Staff With Emmy Snub

LATEST: KATHERINE HEIGL has upset staff on the set of GREY'S ANATOMY after withdrawing from the Emmy awards as part of a protest about her character's development on the hit show.

The actress insisted her name be left off the official ballot because she felt her character was awful during the most recent season of the medical drama.

But the move has disgruntled workers on the programme.

A source tells America's Entertainment Weekly, "The show bent over backwards to accommodate her film schedule, and then she criticises the show for lack of material?

"It's an ungrateful slap in the face to the very writers responsible for her Emmy win in the first place."

Heigl won the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Emmys last year (08). She has since established herself as a movie star with roles in Knocked Up and 27 Dresses.

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LiveDaily News Break Podcast: Trisha Yearwood, Pearl Jam, Disturbed and more

Today's LiveDaily News Break Podcast features news and tour information about Trisha Yearwood [ tickets ], Warrant [ tickets ], Journey [ tickets ] and Pearl Jam [ tickets ]. We'll also list off this week's Top 5 entries on the US album chart.

David Cook Nervous About National Anthem

For David Cook, the most recent winner on American Idol, getting the chance to sing the National Anthem at Tuesday's NBA Finals game in L.A. ranks high on his list of achievements.

"Top three," he told OK! before the game. "Between this, getting to do The Tonight Show, and I got to visit a children�s hospital in New York which was pretty heavy... Jay Leno and this, respectively, take second and third to that."

Of course, with dozens of A-listers in the crowd at the Staples Center and millions of fans watching at home on TV, David was well aware of the potential for disaster.

"It�s the one song you don�t want to mess up," he confessed. "So I�m going to try to not notice Jack Nicholson sitting in the front row."

The biggest difference between singing at the NBA Finals and the Idol finals? "No matter what I do I don�t have Simon telling me how dreadful it was afterwards."

One celebrity who was definitely rooting for David to do well was new girlfriend, and fellow AI alum Kimberly Caldwell, who waited in the dressing room while he performed but who joined him in the crowd when the game began.

As for the immediate future, David will soon rejoin his Idol competition for this summer's tour, and then he's got an album to release. "We�re looking at mid-fall, October - November," he revealed about the release date. "We started writing stuff this last week and so far, so good."

However, before you get your hopes up that he and gal-pal Kimberly will collaborate on a song together, David says, "There will be no duets."

By Jon Warech





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Flaskkvartetten

   
Artist: Flaskkvartetten

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Flaskkvartetten Featuring Freddie Wadling Med Vasteras Symfonietta

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8

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Pussycat Dolls shoot raunchy video for new song

London (ANI): American pop/R&B quintet the Pussycat Dolls have undergone a sexy new make-over for their latest music video. The girls are said to have shed their usual clothes in favour of raunchy costumes on their new video for 'When I Grow Up on Hollywood Boulevard', the Sun reported. Nicole Scherzinger, who is the group"s lead vocalist, was seen showing off a super slender midriff in a hot pink top teamed with kinky zips, figure-hugging leathers and big hoop earrings. The one taking the prize for flashing the most flesh and baring her body in a barely-there boob tube was Ashley Roberts. Kimberly Wyatt sported a punky image by donning ripped tights and a neon yellow bra.

Joey Fatone - Fatone Relieved Illegitimate Child Story Is Dead

Pop star JOEY FATONE is breathing a sigh of relief after learning a report he fathered a four-year-old lovechild is untrue.

The former 'N Sync singer was stunned when tabloid reports recently linked him to a fatherless young girl.

But the claim has since been disproved.

He says, "Someone said that I had a four-year-old daughter and it was in the tabloids.

"This wacky lady, basically, was just like, 'Yeah, this is your kid!'

"It was completely... not true. It was just odd, it was the weirdest thing."

Fatone has a seven-year-old daughter Briahna with wife Kelly Baldwin.

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FunnyOrDie, bored with the Web, goes HBO

HBO is buying 10 half-hours of original comedy from FunnyOrDie.com, the website that brought the world "The Landlord" and also ... also ... wait, let me just Google around for a second ... hold on one second ... HERE!  It also brought the world "Porn Star Politics." 

I threw a dis on FOD last year because they hadn't come up with that many good new videos, and I have to agree with myself.  Although to play devil's advocate, there's really no one anywhere who's been able to produce funny Web videos consistently. 

On the other hand, if you have the likes of Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay lending their names to the site, you'd think they've be able to come up with at least one good viral viral video every month. And the fact that they haven't speaks volumes about how much energy they put into the site, other than as a promotional vehicle for their movies. The thing about FunnyOrDie that initially got everyone so excited was the promise of high quality Web content from Hollywood's funniest people. That just hasn't materialized. 

Now they're moving even further away from that idea, back in time toward traditional TV and its stuffy old formulas. As smart as these guys looked when they launched, the whole thing has come to resemble a glorified publicity effort. 

Funny or die? I've made my decision.

image: Ferrell, Apatow & McKay from funnyordie.com

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