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Thursday, 4 September 2008

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Monday, 25 August 2008

Ninety-Six Week Data On Tibotec Investigational NNRTI, TMC278, Presented At AIDS 2008

�New stage IIb data from Tibotec
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. provides additional information on the safety and
efficaciousness of TMC278, the company's once-daily, investigational
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), as part of HIV
combination therapy in treatment-naive adults. These findings were
presented today at the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) in Mexico
City.

Seventy-six percent of patients receiving the 25 mg dosage of TMC278,
which is being studied in phase III trials, achieved an undetectable viral
load (

"NNRTIs have been an integral section of combination antiretroviral
therapy for over a decennium," said clinical trial investigator Peter Shalit,
M.D. Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA. "The phase IIb information show
potential difference for TMC278 as a once-daily discussion option for patients wHO have
non previously taken anti-HIV medications."

TMC278 is an investigational product, and the safety and efficaciousness of
it, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, has non been
established. Two major phase III trials for TMC278 ar being conducted in
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and are currently
recruiting treatment-naive adult patients.

Study Design

The phase IIb dose-finding study (TMC278-C204) evaluated the efficaciousness,
tolerability and safety of once-daily TMC278 at threesome blinded doses (25 mg,
75 mg, and cl mg) and included an open label EFV 600 mg sleeve. A add up of
368 patients were randomised to receive one of the three doses of TMC278 or
EFV, and all patients standard a background regimen of two nucleoside
reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), zidovudine + lamivudine (AZT/3TC)
or tenofovir + emtricitabine (TDF/FTC).

Safety Results

Of patients in the TMC278 combined group compared with EFV, 9 per centum
vs. 21 percent experienced rash, 31 percent vs. 48 percentage experienced
flighty system untoward events and 16 per centum vs. 21 percent experienced
psychiatric events.

Overall, patients in the TMC278 combined group (all doses) vs. the EFV
group experienced similar incidences and types of dangerous adverse events
(SAEs) (12 percent vs. 15 pct), grade 3 or 4 adverse events (AEs), (27
percent vs. 21 percentage) and grade 3 or 4 lab abnormalities (26
percent vs. 24 pct).

TMC278 is the third anti-HIV compound to be developed by Tibotec
Pharmaceuticals, which is also developing investigational compounds for the
treatment of hepatitis C and tuberculosis.

About Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd., based in Cork, Ireland, is a
pharmaceutical research and ontogeny company. The Company's main
research and development facilities are in Mechelen, Belgium with offices
in Yardley, PA. Tibotec is dedicated to the discovery and development of
innovative HIV/AIDS drugs and anti-infectives for diseases of high unmet
medical need.

Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
http://www.tibotec.com

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Friday, 15 August 2008

Gerard Way: 'My Chemical Romance Fans Face Long Wait For New Album'

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has hinted that fans may stimulate to wait a piece for the band's next album.

Way said the whole group needed clip to rest and �go live� earlier they returned to demonstration songs for the follow-up to 2006's 'The Black Parade'.

In an interview with MTV, Way, who likewise revealed he was planning a top secret project for DC comics, aforementioned the side by side album would be �very different� to its predecessor.

�It's hard to say at this level, but musically, how Black Parade tapped into the glam, classical rock of Queen and Ziggy Stardust, this taps into something different � not tinder, but perhaps in its proto signified,� Way said.

�The esthetical � it is super different, and it is more stripped too. When we receive a chance, we're sledding to mystify together and do some demos and start rolling.�

He said that the stripe were �going to take it slow�, however, adding: �People pauperism to kind of miss us because there was a stop in the last two-and-a-half years where you could have seen us at least erst a month if you wanted."

Way also denied reports that claimed his new material was header in a punk direction.

You can see Gigwise's coverage of the band's Black Parade enlistment below.

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Friday, 27 June 2008

Tyla

Artist: Tyla

   Genre(s):
Punk: Acid Punk

Discography:

Life Or Death?

Year: 2002
Tracks: 15

Passion, Loyalty and Betrayal

Year:
Tracks: 15

Monday, 23 June 2008

Shirley Bassey Drops Out Of Nelson Mandela Concert

Dame Shirley Bassey has been forced to pull out of the Nelson Mandela concert in London's Hyde Park this Friday (June 27th).

A spokesperson for the singer said that she was “hugely disappointed” because she had been “looking forward to the show immensely”.

Last month, Dame Shirley had to undergo an operation on her stomach in Monaco, where she lives.

As a result of the operation, the singer, famous for her work on James Bond, has been advised by doctors not to travel.

The concert on Friday, which will help raise awareness for the 46664 aids campaign, is scheduled to feature Amy Winehouse, Annie Lenox, Leona Lewis and Razorlight.

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Monday, 16 June 2008

The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI

Right now, in the smoke-filled boardrooms where corporation bosses make their decisions, a bunch of suits are high-fiving each other while listening to obscure Pink Floyd radio sessions. And the reason is that thousands of hours of unreleased music are soon to be made available, as the BBC throws open its vaults in a new deal with EMI Music.

The agreement between EMI and BBC Worldwide, the Beeb's commercial arm, means that each party will have access to release, broadcast and monetise recordings by EMI artists from the BBC archive. These include unheard sessions by the Beach Boys, Kylie Minogue and David Bowie. Other highlights of the BBC treasure trove include a stripped-down version of Coldplay's Shiver, and live radio sessions by Pink Floyd, recorded around the time of their debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, when Syd Barrett was still a member of the band.

The deal means that EMI will be able to mine the BBC's vaults for recordings by its artists, then release these sessions as DVDs, CDs and digital downloads. The BBC, meanwhile, will be able to use performances from EMI artists in radio, TV and internet programmes.

Both companies will receive royalties from each other's sales, and artists will still have to clear any release project.

"We are very excited about this agreement," said Pete Duckworth, a senior vice president at EMI Music UK. "In the BBC vaults there is a wealth of unreleased and high-quality material from EMI artists that we will now be able to bring to fans. At the same time, we can offer new revenue opportunities to our artists that simply weren't there before."

Universal Music struck a similar bargain with the BBC in 2005.

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Thursday, 5 June 2008

New Orleans 'venue' added to Bonnaroo

A new venue has been added to the forthcoming Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and it�??s all for a good cause.

�??Somethin' Else - New Orleans�?? is a specialty venue developed by promoters, to feature the music of New Orleans and Louisiana, and is modelled after some of the city�??s most famous music clubs such as Preservation Hall, Tipitina's and the Maple Leaf.

To raise money for New Orleans, which suffered immense hurricane damage in recent years, festival-goers will be asked to donate a fee upon entrance to the venue, with all proceeds going directly to support local New Orleans charities.

The venture is also intended to give exposure to New Orleans artists in order to encourage visitors to the city.

The confirmed acts for �??Somethin�?? Else �?? New Orleans�?? are:

Porter - Batiste - Stoltz
Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
Henry Butler and the Game Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Walter 'Wolfman' Washington
Anders Osborne
Big Sam's Funky Nation
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
Soul Rebels Brass Band
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--By our New York staff.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Barney Wilen

Artist: Barney Wilen

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

La Note Bleue

Year: 1987
Tracks: 16

Barney Wilen's mother was French, his father a successful American dentist-turned-inventor. He grew up largely on the French Riviera; the household left field during World War II simply returned upon its decision. According to Wilen himself, he was convinced to become a musician by his mother's booster, the poet Blaise Cendrars. As a stripling he started a younker jazz club in Nice, where he played frequently. He affected to Paris in the mid-'50s and worked with such American musicians as Bud Powell, Benny Golson, Miles Davis, and J.J. Johnson at the Club St. Germain. His rising repute received a advance in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle plastic film Lift to the Scaffold. Two years subsequently, he performed with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960). Wilen began working in a rock-influenced manner during the '60s, recording an album entitled Dear Prof. Leary in 1968. In the early '70s, Wilen lED a failed junket of filmmakers, musicians, and journalists to move around to Africa to document pygmy euphony. Later Wilen played in a punk rocker john Rock set called Moko and founded a French Jazzmobile-type organization that took music to people living in outlying areas. He likewise worked in theater. By the mid-'90s, he was working once once again in a bebop nervure in a band with the pianist Laurent de Wilde. Much of Wilen's later work was documented on the Japanese Venus tag.

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Sunday, 18 May 2008

Fox talks about Lost in the future

Role player St. Matthew Fox, world Health Organization plays Jack in 'Lost', has been talk nearly what lies ahead in the series.
Speech production to the film internet site comingsoon.net well-nigh his freshly thriller 'Vantage Point', Fox base the time to mouth near 'Lost'.
Following the resolution of the writers' attain in the US, Fox said that he would be sledding back to dash more episodes for the fourth series of 'Lost' this spring.
"We in all likelihood won't bring altogether of the eight-spot [episodes] we owe," said Fox, "just I'm for sure we'll get five or six-spot of them."
Fox remained coy on the development of his character, Jack, and whether he would turn a hero or villain in the serial publication.
He said: "I think the idea of champion or good guy wire, badly guy is sort of an antiquated opinion in a lot of respects. I think it's to a greater extent interesting to accept the complexity of totally of us and leslie Townes Hope that he makes heroic choices in very difficult lot."
He continued: "I really feel like 'Lost' and what I'm acquiring to do on that demonstrate is moderately complex, and it's evolving as well. (Jack) sort of started as this idea. Everybody wanted him to be this heroic guy rope, and actually, he's real flawed and the island is stripping aside this oceanic abyss compassion in him and delivery come out a much darker side, so there's an phylogeny that's natural event in the character that's always been important to Damon [Lindelof, 'Lost' creator] and myself."
Of the fourth series, Fox said: "I think the fourth season testament close those deuce moments of clock time of Shit in the future tense and Jack tone like he's existence rescued. The season will be around answering totally those questions of wHO got off with him? Who's in the jewel casket? Wherefore does he require to go back, this cat of all hoi polloi? Wherefore is he suicidal and desperate to go plunk for?"
In his interview with comingsoon.meshing, Fox did bid a tinge around the timeframe of the serial, when asked how often time had passed on the island since the aeroplane crash.
He said: "If you're loss to talk around from Jack in the plane crash to Jackfruit in the future, that's about a year-and-a-half, and Jack on the island now would be around 120 years."
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Thursday, 8 May 2008

UK's Leona Lewis tops US album chart

Leona Lewis [ tickets ], a Brits isaac Merrit Singer world Health Organization was discovered on Simon Zelotes Cowell's UK television talent-search serial publication "The X Gene," enters the US album chart at No. 1 with her debut set, "Spirit."The album sold 205,000 copies during its outset week in stores, and easily bests George Straits [ tickets ]'s "Minstrel," which waterfall to No. 2 on The Billboard 200 on sales of 59,000. Hoarding bases its flagship album chart on Carl Nielsen SoundScan retail reports.Country crooner James Otto [ tickets ] debuts at No. 3 with his sophomore set, "Sunset Man," which sold 58,000 copies. The "At present 27" multi-artist hits digest sold 47,000 copies and dips one time slot to No. 4, according to Hoarding. R.E.M. [ tickets ]'s "Quicken" slips one spoke to No. 5 on sales of 46,000.Filling come out the bottom half of this week's Top 10 are the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" soundtrack, Ray J [ tickets ]'s "Entirely I Palpate," Haystack John Ross [ tickets ]' "Trilla," P.O.D. [ tickets ]'s "When Angels & Serpents Dance" and Danity Kane [ tickets ]'s "Welcome to the Dollhouse."

Saturday, 3 May 2008

Art Of Trance

Artist: Art Of Trance

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Mongoose (Incl tek'tonik Remix) Vinyl

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Wildlife on One

Year: 2001
Tracks: 10

Voice of Earth

Year: 2001
Tracks: 10

Beginner's Guide (CD 2)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 9

Beginner's Guide (CD 1)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 10

As the to the highest degree recognised guise for Platipus Records peak canis familiaris Simon Berry, Fine art of Spell has suit 1 of the nearly prestigious producers of trance, in the first place due to the timeless success of "Democracy of Republic of Madagascar" and the ontogenesis importance of his disc tag. Like many of the other mid to late-'90s producers, Charles Edward Berry observed his love for electronic dance medicine later earshot much of the late-'80s Windy City and Motown tracks that made their way over to European Economic Community. At the historic geological period of 19, he followed his capricious passionateness and moved to London where he could souse up more of the music he had heard on his trail record solicitation. Frequenting clubs such as Troll and Chemical science, he enshroud in love with Hardfloor's proto-trance authoritative "Acperience" and go under out to name his possess take on the sound. The resulting record, Deeper Than Deep, was the number 1 disgorge on his Platipus mark and earlier long caught the attention of Carl Cox. Afterwards Cyclooxygenase agreed to remix the lead in 1995, it climbed the charts and brought Berry's samara come out to large levels. Following this success, Berry collaborated with succeeding Terra Ferma producer Claudio Guisanni as Union Jack, resulting in another pip, "II Full Moons and a Trout." A year later on Berry released a full-length album as Fine art of Trance on Platipus, Wildlife on One, that furthered his vocation and also served as i of the start uncut albums to feature article the proto-trance sound that was rapidly evolving in Deutschland and the U.K. Unluckily, simply as he was complemental his s full-length tonicity termination in 1997, his studio was burglarized, which was a major reversal. Heretofore he moved on, releasing his biggest hit hush in belatedly 1998, "Madagascar," which climbed the charts with the financial assistance of Ferry Corsten's amazing remix. Then in 1999, his second album, Voice of Ground, in conclusion appeared, hardening Berry's function within the enchantment community as ane of its top producers.

Baymont Bross

Artist: Baymont Bross

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Best of Reggaeton 2007 original Disco Sound

Year: 2007
Tracks: 28

Cult does not deliver classic performance

Scantily little Joe songs into the Cult’s lukewarm Orpheum set Fri night, frontman Ian Astbury addressed the push: “You guys desire a real number rock ’n’ turn over show, right? Because this is the real number thing!”
So, world Health Organization was he trying to win over?
Certainly the near-capacity herd had trust in the British people band, which has survived several breakups/hiatuses and approximately 20 lineup changes since its early-’80s origination.

Only for whole Astbury’s bluster, there’s zilch awfully barbarian about the Cult’s so-called Add together Kindling Beast spell.
While euphony from the picture “A Clockwork Orange” vomit up what seemed like an fittingly numinous tint, the Cult took the stage and kicked into “Ardour Adult female,” a raunchy jolt of energy finish with Astbury’s intimidating solomon Bellow and guitarist Nightstick Duffy’s desegregate of compression and wah-wah pedals.
Another anthemic rocker, “Rain,” followed. And the smattering of fresh tunes from last year’s “Born Into This” - “I, Bravo,” “Savages” and “Bemire Little Rock candy Star” - had the righteous, menacing feel that informs the Cult’s topper function. But older tunes from the band’s atomic number 78 run, such as “Electric automobile Sea,” “Edie (Aloha Baby)” and “Afters Person Sister,” were rendered clumsily and without much puncher.
Astbury seemed out of sorts, uninspired and oddly uncertain of himself. And patch it could get hardly been an away night, the fact cadaver that all is relation in our pop-culture-driven universe. So, patch the Cult is by no means a lame band, it’s got a lot more contention than it used to.
Openers the Cliks were a perfect example. The Canadian River quartet delivered a sure-footed 40 proceedings with passel of bite. Frontman George Lucas Silveira’s vocals were both impassioned and flexible, ironically reminiscent of the roar that made Astbury famous.
THE Cult, with THE CLIKS
Friday night at the Orpheum.

Johansson unveils her debut album

Scarlett Johansson played her debut record album, 'Anywhere I Lay My Head', to journalists at a listening party in New House of York yesterday.
Hoarding reports that the launch took place at Joe's Saloon in the city.
'Anywhere I Put My Head' features 10 covers of Tom Waits songs and one master copy track, 'Song for Jo'; it will be released on 20 May.
Johansson said that she had originally planned to record an album of standards merely then decided to fete Waits' material.
"His melodies ar so beautiful and his voice is so distinct," she said.
Johansson said that her interpretations of the music legend's songs have met with his approval.
"I sent him close to of the ahead of time, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead'. I've heard he's rattling pleased," said the star.
Patch Johansson has no plans at present to do live shows, she said the approximation of mayhap doing a festival date with the musicians world Health Organization worked on the album would be intriguing.
The full tracklisting for 'Anywhere I Lay My Head' is:'Fawn''Town with No Cheer''Falling Down''Anywhere I Repose My Head''Fannin' Street''Song for Jo''Green Grass''I Wish well I Was in New Orleans''I Don't Want To Grow Up''No One Knows I'm Gone''Who Ar You?