VH1
gives us 'Big in 2002' awards
Not
that we don't have enough award shows throughout the year, now there's
an award show for the events of the year. The cable music channel
VH1 held it's first annual 'Big in
2002' awards show last night the concept - the fads in
fashion or 'vogue' throughout the year from Baddest 'bald' guys to
'kick ass' femme fetiles.
Performances included
upcoming jazz vocalist and a winner on the night (in the Lolita
Ford - Best Female Newcomer
category) Norah Jones, New Jersey
natives Bon Jovi and a stirring
tribute to the late Jason Mizell
aka Jam Master Jay of
Run DMC featuring Chuck
D, Kid Rock and Grand
Master Flash on the double Ts. The show's host were The
Soprano's Drea De Matteo and Michael
Imperioli.
Here are the winners
and the categories on the night
"King of Hip-hop" Award
Run DMC
Your Attention Please (The year’s most unexpected outstanding movie
performance)
A tie between Adam Sandler (news)
in "Punch-Drunk Love"
and Nia Vardalos in "My
Big Fat Greek Wedding"
Shakespeare In Da Hiz-Zouse (The year's best performance by a Hip-Hop
artist in a movie)
Ice Cube in "Barbershop"
I Believe I Can Spy (The year's best movie spy)
Eddie Griffin in 'Undercover
Brother'
Play It Again Sam (Best Prequel/Sequel)
Austin Powers in 'Goldmember'
You Can't Spell "Bald" with "Bad" (This year's
"IT" bald guy)
Vin Diesel
Do I Look Fat In This Fight? (The best chick fighter of the year in
a movie or television show)
Lucy Liu in "Ballistic:
Ecks vs. Sever"
Rockin' & Rulin' (The legendary artist who made the biggest splash
in 2002)
Paul McCartney
Lolita Ford (Best female newcomer)
Norah Jones
Hit Me Baby One More Time (Best new album from a hitmaker)
Creed for 'Weathered'
"Can't Get You Out of My
Head" (Best Song)
Vanessa Carlton - 'A
Thousand Miles'
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Sean
Paul's video shoot sees a man shot dead
A
man was shot dead on the set of upcoming reggae superstar Sean
Paul latest video shoot. Sean was in the Toronto suburb
of Vaughan filming the video for his new single, 'Get
Busy,' on Monday evening when Ramesh
Christie, a 21-year-old onlooker, was shot as he sat
in his white SUV on the same block as the video set. Christie escaped his car and
tried to get away as his assailants continued to shoot at him, but
he collapsed nearby. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced
dead. No one else was injured during the shooting.
The Little
X-directed video shoot was stopped as police began investigating
the crime scene and questioning everyone present. According to a
police representive, the victim was not part of the video's crew
or talent. Police are looking for two black male suspects in their
late teens or early 20s who were driving a black SUV at the time
of the shooting.
Said Sean Paul "I was
deeply saddened to hear that a shooting occurred last night in the
vicinity of my video shoot, although I did not witness the incident,
my sympathy and prayers go out to the victim's family and to those
who have been affected by this tragedy. We must overcome violence
and hatred. All life is precious. Respect."
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Source:mtv.com
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Singer
of Stereolab is killed in bike accident
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Mary
Hansen, the keyboardist and vocalist for the cutting
edge electronic sound Stereolab,
was killed in East London on Monday (Dec 9th) after being struck
by a car while riding her bicycle. She was 36.
"Obviously,
you never expect incredibly tragic sorts of things like this
to happen, and everyone in the band is just numb from deep,
deep shock," said Martin Pike,
Stereolab's manager and co-owner of the band's Super 45 imprint,
Duophonic. "None of the band has spoken about how
they'll deal with it yet."
Hansen joined
Stereolab in 1992, helping the electronic dance band craft its
signature sound. While the group never had blockbuster sales
success, Stereolab and Hansen
carved out a cult following of devoted fans, adoring critics
and fellow musicians alike including Sonic
Youth, Pavement
and Blur, who all took Stereolab
on tour.
The singer's
body is being flown to her native Australia, where a private
funeral will be held. London police say they are continuing
to investigate the circumstances surrounding Hansen's death.
Pike says the family has yet to decide whether or not a civil
suit is appropriate said Pike "There is a legal process
that will be gone through but it's just too soon to say what
will happen,"
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- Napster
assets goes on the auction block
The
Santa Clara, Calif.- based software maker Roxio
(the makers of Easy CD Creator)
bought the brand name and intellectual property after Napster's bankruptcy.
The leftover of computer parts, laptops, and Napster-logo trinkets
went on the auction block Wednesday (Dec. 11) in San Francisco.
Available for purchase
on the cheap are pallets of monitors and servers that were once used
by the company that amassed tens of millions of users looking to trade
music for free online.
A federal judge
ordered Napster offline last year until it could comply with an order
to halt the unauthorized trade of copyright music. Napster never met
that legal challenge and has remained offline ever since. The company
filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and Roxio says it may launch
some form of renewed service under the brand name in the near future.
Since Napster fell
off the map, they also got another giant Audiogalaxy
to stop their free downloading service but other free online music
trading services are still going strong, including KaZaA
and Gnutella. The music industry
has tried to counteract with its subscription services -
Pressplay and MusicNet,
but have failed to attract anywhere near the audience the free services
have. Reports say the subscription services have fewer than 500,000
users combined, whereas KaZaA has about 3.5 million users online at
any given time.
Source:billboard.com