Skinny Paris Hilton: The Next Nicole Richie?

Paris Hilton stepped out in LA yesterday looking for all the world like Nicole Richie during her deathly-thin phase

Dressed in a trademark maxi-dress that showed off her painfully thin arms and jutting chest bones, the socialite was happy to pose for photographers as she went about her errands.

Her unhealthy look wasn't helped by a deep terracotta tan that only emphasised her twiglet-like limbs.
And when Paris let her hair down, the similarity to a super-skinny Nicole was uncanny.


Paris isn't the only Hilton who seems to be wasting away if these recent pictures of her younger sister Nicky are anything to go by.

Time for Mama and Papa Hilton to sit their girls down to a hearty, family meal...
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Marcus Intalex

   
Artist: Marcus Intalex

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 REVOLVER004

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


   
 Revolver (REVOLVER006)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


   
 Marcus Intalex-REVOLVER008 Vinyl

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


   
 Soul:R (SOUL:R015)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Nicotine and New Found Glory

Monochrome

   
Artist: Monochrome

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Ferro

   Year:    
Tracks: 7

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Apprentice Advisors Set For Strictly Come Dancing

Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentice advisors Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford are set to sign up for the new Strictly Come Dancing series.
Hewer, 64, is said to be keener to take up the offer than Mountford,  56 - who was in particularly fine form in this year’s Apprentice series - but BBC bosses hope both will accept a £25,000 offer.
A source tells the Mail on Sunday, “They are the unacknowledged stars of The Apprentice and more and more people have been watching it because of them.
"They have really interesting, understated personalities and some of their reactions to what the candidates do in Sir Alan’s tasks are wickedly funny."
A BBC spokesperson says, “Nothing is confirmed yet."

Little Louie Vega pres Anane

   
Artist: Little Louie Vega pres Anane

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Shake Dat Booty CDM

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 5


   
 Nos Vida and Mon amour Vinyl

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2

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Britney's Pussycat cameo is axed

Britney Spears's cameo in the Pussycat Dolls' new video has been axed.

The popstar's appearance in the promo for 'When I Grow Up', which was shot in LA last week, hasn't made the final cut, according to MTV.

A spokesperson for The Pussycat Dolls was unavailable for comment on the decision.

The video premieres on FNMTV tonight.

According to Us magazine, Spears looked "hot and blonde" during a "very short sequence" in the original edit.

> In Pictures: Pussycat Dolls shoot new video



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Franz Ferdinand man adds to Bo Diddley tributes

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos this evening (June 2) paid tribute to revolutionary guitarist Bo Diddley, and revealed that he immediately put on a Bo Diddley record after hearing news of his death.

Kapranos, who is currently putting the finishing touches to the band�s third studio album in London told NME.COM:

�It's rotten news about Bo Diddley. When I heard it I put �Road Runner� on the record player. What a riff. What a guitarist - totally revolutionised the way the instrument was played with that loose sexy rhythm.�

Diddley died today after suffering heart failure. He had been ill for some time, having had a stroke in May 2007 while on tour in Iowa. He then had a heart attack in August of the same year.

Artists such as Slash, Albert Hammond, Jr., and the �s Mickey Hart all paid tribute to Diddley today.

--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.




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Nashville Pussy

   
Artist: Nashville Pussy

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Get Some!

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 High As Hell

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17

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Atlanta-based tackiness rockers Nashville Pussy were lED by the husband-and-wife duo of singer/guitarist Blaine Cartwright and guitar player Ruyter Suys; joined by bassist Corey Parks (the sister of NBA superstar Cherokee Parks) and drummer Jeremy Thompson, the radical (named in mention to a railway line from Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo LP) debuted in 1998 with the album Let Them Eat Pussy, originally issued on Amphetamine Reptile. An metro front-runner, the record was reissued on major pronounce Mercury later that like year, and the song "Deep-fried Chicken and Coffee" was nominative for a Grammy for Best Heavy Metal Performance. Parks leftfield the group in early 2000 and was replaced by Tracy Almazan for Heights as Hell, which followed in the middle of the year. The album came out on TVT and helped asseverate their cult following, but farther advancement was out of use by a deficiency of label support. A successful enlistment and several soundtrack and compiling appearances unbroken the band fussy lag before they stirred to Artemis for 2002's Say Something Nasty. The live DVD Keep on F*ckin' in Paris! appeared in 2003. Nashville Pussy returned two days later with the Get Some! LP. It marked the debut of bassist Karen Cuda.

Metro Station's Trace Cyrus Isn't Standing In The Shadow Of Half-Sister Miley

It's never easy being the brother of someone famous. But when that someone is the most famous teenager in all the world, it's especially difficult to break out from her immense shadow to pursue your own professional endeavors.

Still, Trace Cyrus — who plays lead guitar for synth-pop outfit Metro Station — has managed to do just that, even with his half-sister, "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus, dominating international headlines, both for her music and film work as well as her personal foibles. But if it hadn't been for "Hannah Montana," chances are good that Trace Cyrus never would have met Mason Musso, his Metro Station partner in crime.

"It was our parents who told us we should meet," Cyrus told MTV News this week. "I already knew [Mason's] little brother, Mitchel, because he'd been cast on 'Hannah Montana' with my sister, and [the show is the reason I moved] to California, as [did] Mason's family. One day, Miley gave me a CD of Mason's, and I fell in love with the music. I went down to the ['Hannah Montana'] set one day to hang out with my sister, and Mason was there. We hung out a little bit and talked about music. The next week, I think, I went over to his house, and we recorded our first song. Ever since then, we'd get together every weekend to make music, and I think our parents are shocked that it turned into something more than they expected."

Of course, Cyrus and Musso don't want to be known as their siblings' brothers, and they've worked hard to distinguish themselves from their famous family members.

"My sister and my dad were doing acting and singing, and Mason's brother was doing acting. ... Making music was something we wanted to do so bad, but we didn't know if we'd be able to get out of their spotlights and do our own thing and be our own individual selves," Cyrus explained. "But it's been cool, because Metro Station ... people have taken to it as our own thing — separate from everything and anyone else."

So far, Metro Station's self-titled 2007 debut has sold more than 87,000 copies in the U.S., and the band has toured with the likes of Panic at the Disco, Motion City Soundtrack and Forever the Sickest Kids. This summer, the guys are hoping to pick up even more fans as they hit the road with Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte for a trek that starts July 8 in Chicago.

Metro Station signed a deal with Columbia Records soon after an intern working at the label stumbled upon their MySpace page, Cyrus recalled. The intern told his boss about the guys, and before they knew it, they were on a plane to New York, where they tracked the songs they'd been working on for their debut disc. And while his sister isn't the type to offer words of advice, Cyrus said he's learned a great deal about the music business from his father.

The majority of his life was spent in and around the industry, thanks to his honky-tonkin' pop, Billy Ray Cyrus. His summers were spent on the road with his dad, and over the years, he learned firsthand about the inner workings of what can be a soul-crushing business. He learned that fame can be fleeting — one minute they love you, and the next they've forgotten your name.

"I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business," he explained. "I've been playing my guitar, and I've been on tour with Dad every summer since I was a kid. And I've seen mistakes he's made and the stuff he went through with labels, and I know that the music business is scary."

But that hasn't deterred Metro Station from carrying on and working on new material, some of which they may preview for fans on their summer tour. But will Cyrus ever team up with Miley on a Metro Station track?

"Actually, I'm going to sing on one of the tracks on her next album," he said. "I can't say much about it right now, but we will be collaborating."






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Judge Dread

   
Artist: Judge Dread

   Genre(s): 
Reggae
   

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Discography:


   
 Reggae and Ska

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Although often dismissed as a novelty act, Judge Dread was actually a groundbreaking artist. Not only did he put more reggae records onto the U.K. chart than anyone else (Bob Marley included), he was too the number 1 white creative person to actually let a reggae collide with in Jamaica. The Judge too holds the record for having the most songs banned by the BBC, 11 in all, which by the way is exactly the routine of singles he placed on the charts.


Estimate Dread was natural Alex Hughes in Kent, England, in 1945. In his teens, he moved into a West Indian household in the Caribbean neighborhood of Brixton. Hughes was a big man, which helped determine his early life history as a bouncer at the Brixton's Ram Jam clubhouse. He too acted as a bodyguard for the likes of Prince Buster, Coxsone Dodd, and Duke Reid. There was a spell as a professional matman, under the mighty cognomen the Masked Executioner, and even a problem as muscle for Trojan Records, collection debts.


By the end of the '60s, Hughes was working as a DJ with a local tuner station and running his own sound organisation. It was Prince Buster world Health Organization provided the impetus for Hughes' metamorphosis into a recording artist. The DJ was so taken by Buster's germinal "Swelled Five" that he went into Trojan's studio to record his possess follow-up. Over the rhythm of Verne & Son's "Piffling Boy Blue," Hughes recited a slip of hilariously rude greenhouse rhymes. It was by vapourous prospect that Trojan label head Lee Gopthal walked by during the transcription; impressed, he immediately signed the DJ. His song was coroneted "Big Six" and Hughes chose the name Judge Dread in honour of Buster. The single was released, ably sufficiency, on the Trojan label imprint Big Shot. Initially an resistance hit, once Trojan signed a distribution plow with EMI later in 1972, the single rocketed up the charts, regular though the distributors refused to carry the phonograph recording. The song was as well a reach with a radio ban as well, and Trojan's artful cries that it wasn't about sexual urge were met with the same scorn as Max Romeo's "Wet Dream," the first-class honours degree of the unmannerly reggae hits. The ban was no more effective this fourth dimension either, and the single rocketed to number 11, outlay half a dozen months on the chart. "Large Six" was barely as enormous in Jamaica, and before the year was out Dread was in Kingston playing earlier an excited crowd. Those nighest the stagecoach fictitious the white military personnel milling about was Dread's escort or possibly his director, at least until he stepped up to the mic. An audible gasp arose from the crowd together as no one in Jamaica had considered the possibility that the Judge was white.


Back in Britain, "Self-aggrandizing Seven" was regular bigger than its predecessor, poke its way up to telephone number ashcan School. It overly was an innuendo-laced nursery rime, toasted over a perfect rocksteady cycle and reggae beat. In the new year, "Big Eight" stab up the graph as good. Amazingly though, Judge Dread's debut album, Dreadmania, failed to regular scratch the bottom reaches of the graph. However, the British continued to have an insatiate desire for his singles. In the thick of all this rudeness, in faraway Ethiopia people were dying, so he helped devise a benefit concert prima the Wailers and Desmond Dekker, and besides released the benefit single "Mollie." The single was the get-go of Dread's releases non to brag a single intimate innuendo, simply radio receiver stations of the Cross prohibited it anyhow and the charity record failed to chart. In an attempt to pick up some airplay, Dread released singles under the pseudonym JD Alex and Jason Sinclair, merely the BBC wasn't fooled and prohibited them careless of content.


The artist's endorsement album, Working Class 'Ero, which arrived in 1974, besides failed to graph. "Big Nine," released that June, and "Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt," which arrived in December, turned out to be hardly as limp. Judge Dread seemed to have lost his potential and both singles lacked the jabbing naughtiness of their predecessors. However, the DJ stab back up the chart the following year with "Je T'aime," a cut through which managed to be even more than suggestive than the original. The ever-enlarging "Self-aggrandizing Ten" took the creative person back into the Top Ten that autumn; and the "Bad" series finally over at a ruler-defying 12. A new album, Bedtime Stories, barely lost the Top 25, piece the double A-sided single "Christmas in Dreadland"/"Come Outside" proven to be the perfect holiday offering. The hits unbroken approaching, although none would once again break into the Top 25. In the spring, The Winkle Man sidled its way up Number 35. The Latin flare of "Y'Viva Suspenders" proved more than popular in August 1976, but failed to move over a leg up to the Last of the Skinheads album.


UK was now in the grips of punk, simply Judge Dread was bemoaning the want of reggae in clubs, and want to "Bring Back the Skins," one of a quartette of songs on his February 1977 fifth Anniversary EP. However, the artist was open of writing more than than uncivil hits. One of his songs, "A Child's Prayer," was picked stunned by Elvis Presley, world Health Organization intended on recording it as a Christmas present for his girl. However, he died before he had the fortune. In the fall, the delightfully whacky barnyard havoc of "Up With the Cock" scraped into the Top 50. Dread's wild affair with the charts terminated in December 1978, with the holiday flavored "Hokey Cokey"/"Jingle Bells." It had been quite a go and 1980's 40 Big Ones summed it all up. Dread sporadically continued releasing albums, which were noneffervescent bought by hard-core fans. He as well continued touring, playing to humble, simply zealous audiences. His last point was at a Canterbury clubhouse, on March 13, 1998. As the coiffe finished, the complete performing artist sour to the audience and said, "Let's hear it for the band." They were his final words. As the mighty Judge walked offstage, he suffered a black mettle attack.





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