Ben Folds faked it for us

EVER the joker, BEN FOLDS has pulled another trick from his sleeve.

And this time he's taken a side-swipe at the download generation.

Ben decided to prank those pesky downloading kids by recording and releasing a
batch of joke songs - and convincing some of his online fan sites that they
were the REAL tracks from his new album Way To Normal.

But he got broken by eagle-eared listeners.

And now he's said that he mightiness even departure the fake songs - which were
recorded in under 24 hours on July 11 in Dublin - as a bonus CD.

Ben said: "We had a night to kill in Dublin and we just had this idea
that we would write new songs to the titles of all the songs on the album."

But Bizarre has got its custody on ane of the few actual copies of Way To
Normal - and we can report that it's a fracture record.

The album is a definitive 50/50 Ben mix of upbeat piano-rock and heartsick
laments to lost love.

Our initial favourite track is the amazing Brainwascht, as intimately as the more
affectional Cologne and Effington.

Ben Folds plays a one-off show - featuring the genuine tracks - at Shepherd's
Bush Empire in London on November 30.

Way To Normal is stunned on September 29

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Download John Jenkins

Artist: John Jenkins: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other     Discography:      Beyond city light    Year: 2005    Tracks: 10 John Jenkins, wHO had a similar wakeless to Jackie McLean, was to the highest degree active in 1957, just dropped out of music by the mid-'60s. In 1955, he worked with Art Farmer, lED his possess group, and freelanced about Chicago. Jenkins affected to New York in 1957; played with Charles Mingus; lED 2 albums of his have (on New Jazz and Blue Note); and recorded as a sideman with Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Paul Quinichette, Clifford Jordan, Sahib Shihab, and Wilbur Ware. Not lots has been heard from him since.

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Iggy and the Stooges

   
Artist: Iggy and the Stooges

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   Other
   

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 Metallic K.O. - Disc 2

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Metallic K.O. - Disc 1

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Rough Power

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 17


   
 Open Up And Bleed

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 Metallic 2xKO

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
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   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 8


   
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Artist: Primera Clase

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Dance
   

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 Salsa

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Lindsay Lohan walks away from Manson movie

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan passed up a role in a movie about convicted killer Charles Manson in order to accept two other offers, including a guest star turn on the TV comedy "Ugly Betty," her publicist said on Friday.


Lohan's spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane, said the 21-year-old actress was "definitely interested" in "The Manson Girls," but she denied online gossip reports that Lohan was dropped from that film because other actors refused to work with her.


"Unfortunately (the Manson movie) didn't come together quickly enough, and she was offered other roles, which she accepted and is looking forward to doing," Sloane told Reuters.


The ABC television network announced on Monday that Lohan, who is seeking to rebuild her career after a year of personal upheaval, has signed a deal to guest star in six upcoming episodes of the popular workplace comedy "Ugly Betty," starting this month.


Sloane said Lohan also has been cast to star in the forthcoming film comedy "Labor Pains," produced by Rick Schwartz, whose credits include the Martin Scorsese films "The Departed," "The Aviator" and "Gangs of New York."


As described in the New York Post, Lohan will play a young woman who pretends to be pregnant to avoid being fired.


For "The Manson Girls," Lohan had reportedly been attached to play a Manson "family" cult member named Nancy Pitman.


But a source with knowledge of the project said producers failed to put money into escrow in time to hold Lohan's availability, leaving her free to take other work. 

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"As soon as the press make a mistake, I sue them. I have sued a lot; if you don't make a stand you're open to it." British actress SIENNA MILLER warns the media against printing false reports about her.

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Fire torches sets, tape at Universal

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — One of Hollywood's largest movie studios starred in a disastrous sequel Sunday as a fire ripped through a lot at Universal Studios, destroying a set from "Back to the Future," a King Kong exhibit, and a streetscape seen frequently in movies and TV shows.

It was the second fire at the historic site in nearly two decades, leveling facades, hollowing out buildings and creating the kind of catastrophe filmmakers relish re-creating. This time around, thousands of videos chronicling Universal's movie and TV shows were destroyed in the blaze.

But Universal officials said that they were thankful no one was seriously injured at the theme park and that the damaged footage can be replaced.

"We have duplicates of everything," said Ron Meyer, NBC Universal president and chief operating officer.

The blaze broke out on a sound stage featuring New York brownstone facades around 4:30 a.m. at the 400-acre property, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Michael Freeman said. The fire was contained to the lot, but about 400 firefighters were still trying to put it out several hours later.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. Damage was expected to be in the millions of dollars.

The iconic courthouse square from "Back to the Future" was destroyed, and the famous clock tower that enabled Michael J. Fox's character to travel through time was damaged, fire officials said. Two mock New York and New England streets used both for moviemaking and as tourist displays were a total loss, Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Darryl Jacobs said.

An exhibit housing a mechanically animated King Kong that bellows at visitors on a tram also was destroyed.

All three sites were either damaged or destroyed during another fire at Universal Studios in November 1990. That fire caused $25 million in damage and was started by a security guard who was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to arson.

Hundreds of visitors who had waited for hours outside the park gates were turned away after officials decided not to open the area. On a typical weekend day, about 25,000 people visit Universal Studios. NBC Universal said in a statement that the park would reopen this morning.

Universal Studios, nine miles north of downtown Los Angeles, has thrill rides and a back lot where movies and television shows are filmed, including scenes from "War of the Worlds," "When Harry Met Sally" and "Scrubs."

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Beckham To Return To Ugly Betty

Victoria Beckham is reportedly set to return to U.S. TV show Ugly Betty after her successful cameo role last year. The Spice Girl appeared in the show playing herself as a bridesmaid to Vanessa Williams' catty fashion boss character, Wilhelmina Slater. Impressed TV bosses asked Beckham to return and the star has now reportedly agreed to a regular guest spot on the program. A source tells Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald, "The producers are delighted she will return. She is going to feature quite a bit." The show is becoming famous for its celebrity cameos, with supermodel Naomi Campbell and Lindsay Lohan both appearing in the latest series of the hit comedy.


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Tom Cruise tells Oprah he wants more challenges

Tom Cruise tells Oprah he wants more challenges

Windy City (Reuters) - Hollywood's stars paid tribute to Tom Cruise on Monday's Oprah Winfrey television demo, with the actor saying he hoped for more challenging roles and to mold with the likes of Al Pacino and Henry M. Robert DeNiro.


In the irregular of 2 interviews with Cruise, Winfrey aired highlights since the actor's breakthrough function 25 days in 1983's "Risky Clientele," including a ostensibly death-defying stunt from "Missionary post: Impossible 2" in which a bare-chested Cruise leaps across a rocky drop.


Cruise said he dangled from a thin wire during quaternion years of shooting the view.


The film clips were interspersed with videotaped congratulations from a long lineup of celebrity friends and co-stars, including actors Testament Bessie Smith, Dustin Hoffman, and Renee Zellweger, film director Steven Steven Spielberg, soccer participant Saint David Beckham and his married woman, Victoria.


Cruise repaid the compliments in full, locution he hoped to work with "so many" other actors, among them Pacino and De Niro.


"I'm actually surprised how a lot I've accomplished," the 45-year-old histrion said, responding to an hearing member's question around whether he had done everything he set out to do.


"I feel actually privileged to do what I do, and I give thanks you for allowing me to entertain you," he said. "As you go along, you recall, 'how can I save challenging myself even to a greater extent?'


"I finger at home plate on that flick set. A lot of times I show up up before the crew. And I feel this is what I'm supposed to do." 

Luke Kook's Brit of bother

Luke Kook's Brit of bother

Having ne'er actually been to the Brit school, In the news is free to create an alone complex quantity edition of it in our capitulum. A version non dissimilar to a pastiche of a 1950's boarding shoal, populated by buxom matrons, shrivelled old tutors and irrepressible schoolhouse bullies. Albeit irrepressible school bullies world Health Organization spend their spare time as a harmonising electro-pop trio.It seems unlikely that the real British school is markedly different from our imaginary version and so it's just to be expected that everyone should go around sneering at the whole thing and decrying its graduates - like Adele, Amy Winehouse and Gospel According to Luke from come out of the closet of the Kooks - as nada more than a clump of prancing thespians.










What everyone should remember though is that beliefs lav hurt, especially when they're held around people world Health Organization actually deliberate themselves to be true, thoughtful artists. The great unwashed like Gospel According to Luke Queer bird for example.The adult male is overturn around the misuse he receives for attendance the British people school and so, this good morning, he got his pantryman to charge a message that he wished to schmooze about it to Kim Dawson of Kim Dawson's Playlist.Kim received the message, arranged a suitable rendezvous, and was thither to bring a comforting ear."People still make playfulness of me for going away in that respect," the ringlet-tousled, skinny-jeaned isaac M. Singer moaned at Kim. "Amy Winehouse, Adele and Kate Nash don't fetch the lapp treatment, but they did the lapp course as me. I'm a form of martyr for that station now."A sorting of martyr. Ie not a martyr at whole, in that he hasn't actually sacrificed anything for the schoolhouse. A school that no dubiousness played roughly role, however small, in helping Pritchard get a foot on the pop ravel. Simply still, he's decided it's worth chucking the son in altogether the lapp as it volition only if avail to disabuse people of their silly beliefs that the British people shoal is full of pampered, preening ponces.Smartness Gordon just won't yield up on the Jay-Z Glasto Headline Outrage story. The Sun's Bizarre man tried to flam up the fib a wee spell ago, claiming that "fans" were so irate at the decision to place the NY rapper atop the Pyramid stage that they would be abandoning the fete in droves and that, as a result, Jay himself would be pull out.As it happened, such events never transpired merely when Christmastime Gallagher was asked around the affair and said that having rap at Glastonbury was "wrongfulness" the tarradiddle acquired newly legs.So it is that today, Smarting Gordon is stillness asking pop stars what they think of the Glasto bill, and reporting their views in his editorial. Today's pop star is Ussher."It actually shocked me that [Noel] said that", Guide confesses (geddit R&B fans?!?) to Smarting, wHO has already declared he believes Noel to be "in the mighty"."Jay-Z is an incredible artist and headliner. When we got to work together on my newly album, I was session at that place like a fan the unit time."This is presumptively what is known as journalistic balance and i canful alone hope that Gordon has carry it just so he can publish an interview with Kasabian in which they threaten the rapper with a Chinese cauterize should he condescend to take the stage at Pilton next month.And finally, Smart Gordon is coverage that the next item on Lily Allen's docket is to pen around comedy with the male Agyness Deyn (Ie he's presently all o'er the document. Sadly the slim down and blond piece does not give), Gavin and Stacey's James Corden.Here's how Smart Gordon reports the news: "Knock criticize, who's in that respect? Lily Allen. Lily Allen wHO? Lily Allen Stewart Konigsberg the comedienne."I know it's non funny story. But neither is the news that Lily is followers in her father's footsteps and turning her hand to writing comedy."We think that's a suitable anticlimactic way to end today's column. And so we shall.





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Madden's ex wishes him well with Hilton

Madden's ex wishes him well with Hilton

Actress Sophie Monastic has dismissed rumours that rocker Benji Madden dumped her to start a relationship with socialite Paris Hilton.
Monk told Aussie newspaper Hail Sun that her break up with Madden was amicable and that she wished him well for the hereafter.
Monk reportedly said: "Lease me make this as field as possible - Benji did not go out me for Paris Hilton."
"Benji and I did not break up badly or anything like that. We both decided, as adults, our relationship had run its course and decided to be active on."
She likewise said: "I feel no bad blood towards Benji and City of Light at all and am really happy with life at the import."

Williams 'devastated' by Heath Ledger's death

Williams 'devastated' by Heath Ledger's death

Actress Michelle Williams, the mother of Heathland Ledger's two year old girl, is reported to be "devastated" by the news of the actor's prematurely death.
Account book was plant dead in his Newly House of York flat yesterday and police force ar currently investigation whether the Aboriginal Australian asterisk, wHO was 28-years-old, died as a solution of a drugs o.d..
According to People.com, Williams was on emplacement in Sverige with the couple's girl Matilda when she received intelligence of his death.
Ledger and Williams had a three-year family relationship in concert, though they divorce last year. A source close up to the 27-year-old actress told People: "She's devastated."
The reference adds: "I can't believe Matilda is expiration to grow up without a pappa, without knowing her don. And that Michelle volition have to take with having a daughter who's doomed her padre. She's a survivor. She'll do it, but it's sledding to be hard. Her first-class honours degree concern is going to be Matilda."

Carey sets date for her new album

Carey sets date for her new album

Mariah Carey has announced full details of her freshly album, 'That Chick'.
Billboard reports that the album will be released on 1 April and showcases Carey's talents as a pop, ballad and R&B vocaliser.
Among those wHO take worked with Carey on the album ar producers volition.i.am, Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins and reggae asterisk Damian Robert Nesta Marley.
The full tracklisting for the album is:'Lovin' You Long Time''Touch My Body''That Chick''Thanx for Nothin'''For the Record''Migrate''Cruise Control''Love Story''OOC''Bye

Aglarond

   
Artist: Aglarond

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Gothic
   

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Discography:


   
 The Journey's End

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10

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