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�The Recession� (Def Jam): C+

The Jeezy formula isn�t exactly a revelation. Mix a abrasive Southern drawl and tales of slinging dope with epic, synth-laden tracks and you feature listenable simply lyrically abandon cocaine anthems. But on his third album, the self-proclaimed Snowman may have realized there�s more to life than powder. OK, so his metaphors ar laughable and he�s never going to win an award for wordplay. But there is a darker, more urgent undercurrent to Jeezy�s rhymes as he actually infuses shallow Drug Dealing hundred and one instructionals with talk of political and social issues. Download: �The Recession.�

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Jessica Simpson Goes on Over to CMA

Jessica Simpson continues to follow in Carrie Underwood's footsteps.

Proving that she's truly serious about this state thing, the 28-year-old Texan joined the Country Music Association last week, E! News has learned.

"She was very gratifying and seemed happy to join the organization," a Simpson source said. "Being a fellow member makes you part of the industry. It�s great for networking. �

Along with SAG-style privileges, such as special-rate health insurance, her membership makes her a voting phallus of the CMA, meaning she could have a say in upcoming CMA Award nominations.

The flirtatious "Come on Over," her low gear twangtastic individual for Columbia Nashville, peaked at No. 18 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart later on debuting at No. 41, despite a whole crowd of receiving set play.

The tune itself received a pretty warm "Howdy!" from critics, but a better quiz of Simpson's down-home staying power testament be the performance of her sixth studio album, Do You Know, which is referable out Sept. 9. Dolly Parton duets on the title path, ensuring some street cred right off the bat.

The CMA's roll boasts more than 6,000 artists, songwriters, recording execs, producers, radio personalities and other prominent state figures.

That lineup includes Underwood, a CMA member, succeeder of quadruplet CMA Awards and the ex-girlfriend of current Simpson flame Tony Romo.

"It's in spades media-driven," Simpson told country music website TheBoot.com last calendar week, referring to Underwood's recent comments to Allure around still getting calls from Romo. "People are just trying to make a story out of nil. I obedience her and hopefully she respects me. We've just dated the same guy�that's it!"

"I don't understand why she would say that," Simpson added. "I esteem Carrie, and I would never suppose anything like that."

As far as Underwood's musical success is implicated, however, Simpson had nothing but respect for the 25-year-old attain machine.

"I call back it's telling how many No. 1s Carrie Underwood has," the country starter said gracefully. "Her pick in songs is genuinely great, and she has an incredible voice. As far as new people, she has one of the strongest voices out there."

�Additional coverage by Claudia Rosenbaum

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Two things we love this week

Television

"In Plain Sight"

U.S. Marshall Mary Shannon just entered my life and she's already departure it. She's a type on the USA summer series "In Plain Sight," whose premise is pretty ludicrous: Mary works for the Witness Protection Program in Albuquerque, N.M., keeping her federal witnesses � criminals and innocents alike � safe from damage. So yes, it's implausible, but veteran film and television actress Mary McCormack makes me believe the character's emotions anyway. Happily, the show has been renewed for a second season. But don't wait: The season finale pose at 10 tonight on USA.

Raina Wagner, Seattle Times NW Ticket editor

DVDs

"Pete Seeger: The Power of Song"

The powerful PBS documentary on the expansive folk vocalist and societal activist is now available on DVD, with ternary additional scenes and basketball team additional Seeger family little films. The composer of such American classics as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "If I Had a Hammer," Seeger was a victim of anti-communist hysterical neurosis in the 1950s. The film, directed by Jim Brown, shows how he rose to a higher place those world Health Organization blacklisted him, displaying the kind of patriotism and dignity that his detractors lacked. It's an inspiring story of survival, unitary with lessons applicable to the electric current climate of Homeland Security hysteria. The DVD is out straight off on Genius Products ($24.95).

Patrick MacDonald, Seattle Times euphony critic

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Astarte

   
Artist: Astarte

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Metal: Death,Black
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Demonized

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14


   
 Sirens

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Quod Superius Sicut Inferius

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rise From Within

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Dark Doomed Years

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8

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Danny Rampling

   
Artist: Danny Rampling

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Break For Love (cd3)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 Break For Love (cd2)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 Break For Love (cd1)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 A Decade Of Dance

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 2

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Danny Rampling has been one of the to the highest degree celebrated DJs on the British house scene since its beginnings. After being uncovered to the original Balearic vibraphone on Ibiza, Rampling returned to London, founded several originative club nights and DJed on pirate ship radiocommunication until the music he helped push went mainstream and landed him a spot on Radio 1. Born in Streatham, London, he began DJing patch still a adolescent, and became enmeshed in the capital's productive soul/rare-groove scene during the '80s. On a 1987 visit to the Spanish vacation island of Ibiza, however, Rampling was low introduced to the important blend of soul, Italian discotheque, American house/garage and alternative dance termed Balearic.


Rampling, with friends Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker, eventually returned to Britain and banquet the intelligence about Ibiza through club nights, pirate radio, and the growing residential district of warehouse parties subsequently to morph into the gush scene. Rampling's Shoom was maybe the to the highest degree significant club night for early house music; though only a few 100 clubbers were exposed to the new sound at Shoom, it proven the life-sustaining spark for subsequently clubs and raves which numbered thousands of entries. Though the club was at peace by 1989, Rampling had already begun playing in Europe and in 1990 founded some other classical club night, Pure. His legal progressed from acerbic house to harder enchantment during the nineties, and he joined the BBC's Radio 1 in 1996 with a pop show, The Love Groove Dance Party. (He's likewise released several double-disc blend sets based on the show.)


Rampling released commix albums for Metropole, Mixmag, and Dragonfly, and began recording for Deconstruction with his Millionaire Hippies project. Always known as one of the hardest clubbers on the fit, Rampling suffered a partitioning from exhaustion during 1997, then was dropped by Deconstruction after non producing another Millionaire Hippies record. Signed to Distance Records, he returned in 1998 with new productions and some other blend album, Club Nation, recorded for Virgin.

Blake Baxter

   
Artist: Blake Baxter

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   

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Discography:


   
 Prince of Techno ep

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Perhaps the most underrated figure of Detroit techno's number 1 wave, Blake Baxter began recording in the mid-'80s before Motor City mainstays like Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. Presaging the influence of erotic house during the late '80s, Baxter was inspired by the sexual soul of Barry White and Prince as well as cosmic funk machines like Parliament and Funkadelic. He released his number 1 single on the seminal Chicago sign label DJ International and recorded several classics for Saunderson's KMS Records, and by the '90s cultivated his connexion with Detroit's techno subversives Underground Resistance, for whom he served as a directing wanton.


With the Detroit scene on the prove after the spill of his DJ International and KMS material, Baxter ducked the hoopla centered around the important compilation Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit (though his productions figured prominently on it) and affected to the dark Incognito pronounce. Seminal releases Sexuality, the Crimes of the Heart EP, and his 1990 debut record album The Underground Lives signalled a freshly independent-minded producer, and he as well exhausted much time in Berlin during the early '90s. The extended stay put yielded several releases, including the Logic singles "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" -- later sampled by the Chemical Brothers -- and a 1992 record album highborn The Project. He also recorded with Orlando Voorn as the Ghetto Brothers. Back in Detroit, he recorded "Prince of Techno" for Underground Resistance and set up his have labels, Mix Records and Phat Joint (the latter focussed more on rap). In 1995, Baxter released a retrospective on Disko B entitled The Vault. Two years later, The H Factor (Hurricane Melt) followed, also on Disko B. The mix record album A Decade Underground appeared in 1998. Ambition Sequence was issued in 2000; Dream Sequence 3 followed a year later.

Madonna 'planned Glasto film screening'

Madonna had planned to hold a screening of her new film at Glastonbury Festival, according to a report.

The star apparently considered answering fans' questions at the Somerset event but pulled out after talks with organisers.

I Am Because We Are, recently shown at the Cannes Film Festival, is about Malawian children.

"Madonna hoped the film could be shown on the Saturday and there was talk of a question and answer session," a source told the Mail on Sunday.

"But poor ticket sales for the festival put her off. After talks with organisers it was decided the festival was not the right venue to showcase the film."



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