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Jessica Simpson – In This Skin
Artist: Jessica Simpson Title: In This Skin Label: Columbia Rating: 5/10 Company Line: Listen to Jessica Simpson’s In This Skin, and you will hear many things: Love. Romance. Sexuality. Sweetness. Maturity. Peace of Mind. Yet chief among the things you will hear is the sound of a woman becoming her own person and staying true…
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Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Game: Ghost Recon: Island Thunder Platform: Xbox Studio: Ubi Soft Rating: 8/10 Game Company’s Description: Russia has fallen under the control of ultra-nationalistic leaders intent on rebuilding the Iron Curtain. This leads to conflict with NATO as Russia attempts to reclaim the breakaway republic of Georgia, and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.…
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Chingy – Interview
Chingy throws back some dinner and we chat about life, music and being on top. Can you believe the record is top ten on the charts? It’s a great thing, but I’m a humble guy. I don’t take anything for granted. I’m excited about it but I’m just chillin’ and letting nature take its course.…
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Eastmountainsouth – Interview
Eastmountainsouth Interview with peter adams How is the road? Great. We are just getting used to playing in front of more people than we are used to. That is a good thing right? It is a good thing. It is hard. How has the reaction been? The audiences seem to like it. So far the…
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The Dandy Warhols – Welcome To the Monkey House
Artist: The Dandy Warhols Title: Welcome To the Monkey House Label: Capitol Rating: 7/10 The Good: “I Am Sound” – Very understated yet big on loveliness. “Plan A” – Good god is this Duran Duran making a come back or The Dandy’s kicking it to another gear? “All of us sick about it” and it’s…
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Halloween: 25th anniversary
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers Studio: Anchor Bay Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into…
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Freddy Vs. Jason
Cast: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland Studio: New Line Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: A group of teenagers finds themselves stuck in the middle of a battle between two forces of evil: silent stalker Jason Voorhees (Hodder) and gabby dream master Freddy Krueger (Englund), as the battle wages from Elm Street…
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Nate Sallie – Inside Out
Artist: Nate Sallie Title: Inside Out Label: Curb Rating: 5/10 Company Line: Having inked a deal with Curb, Nate immediately began writing and recording with producers Mathew Gerrard, Chris Estes and Greg Biek, quickly finding a musical chemistry that further tightened his songwriting chops. The resulting tunes are energetic, taut, guitar-driven, pitch-perfect power-pop anthems with…
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Grind
Cast: Mike Vogel, Adam Brody, Joey Kern, Jason London, Vince Vieluf Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Four skaters follow the summer tour of a skateboard star (Jason London) from Chicago to Oceanside, CA, pulling tricks and tearing it up, in their wild attempts to get noticed and grab a major sponsor and a…
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Open Range
Cast: Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Abraham Benrubi, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon Studio: Touchstone Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Following the day-to-day encounters of four cattle herders who roam the countryside without owning a particular piece of land, or “freegrazers” (Costner, Duvall, Luna, Benrubi), living in the final years of the Wild West, this film tells the…
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