It's time for another "Entertain Me" favorite, singer/songwriter Aiden Leslie to let loose and answer this writer's "stupid questions" - OK Aiden, here we are now, "Entertain" us.
MS: Anything you are “Trying To Leave Now”?
AL: Not at the moment. That was last year...
MS: Do you aspire to perform with an Elvis hologram?
AL: I didn’t know what a hologram was until recently…they kind of scare me☺
MS: What's it like being a Devo, spill?
AL: There is nothing to spill…LOL. I feel like a nerd most of the time.
MS: Isn’t Erasure that thing on the end of a pencil?
AL: YES☺ AND also, a great band that inspired me in a huge way!
MS: Glee or Smash?
AL: This is probably the wrong answer…but neither.
MS: What’s a Farrah Burns and should we all have one?
AL: Hard to define, but (she’s) got it goin’ on!
MS: So, where would you like to visit that’s “Worlds Away”?
AL: Anywhere where I haven’t been before…and that list is long!
MS: Falsetto or Auto Tone?
AL: No question. Falsetto!
MS: Bitter or Sweet?
AL: It’s always bittersweet.
MS: If your life was a pop song, what pop song would it be?
AL:“My Way.” Frank Sinatra.
Do it Aiden's way at www.aidenleslie.com
Monday, April 30, 2012
10 Stupid Questions: Aiden Leslie
Friday, April 27, 2012
For Immediate Release: Japan's TsuShiMaMiRe Is "Shocking"
Japan’s
TsuShiMaMiRe release their new concept album “Shocking” as well as an extended
version of 2011’s “Giving Blood” album entitled “Giving More Blood” on May 1
2012 via Good Charamel Records
Humans are the
only living thing which can love FOOD and love
ROCK ‘N’
ROLL.
“Kufuku and Kuhaku”(“Hungry and Empty”), people feel empty in the world that is filled with only objects and information. The 3 main ingredients departed the planet “SHOCKING” on the UFO called “SARA” (It also means plate in Japanese); these ingredients names were; Cabbage Wild, Marice and Mizevi. They landed on the planet earth, and started becoming people’s messiah, “Meshiya”...
As you can see, Japanese Female
Alt Rockers, TsuShiMaMiRe have found another
way to express themselves.
The
“Shocking” album
follows a theme throughout the album with a storyline, Shocking is “Concept Album”. You
know, like “Ziggy
Stardust” by David Bowie,
“Berlin
“Shocking” consists
of 12 stories of Space themes. We are not going to mention the theme and stories
here as we don’t want these notions to get in the way of your own imagination.
TsuShiMaMiRe
started their own label “Mojor
Records” in Japan North
America !
After numerous
tours around the world with acts such as The Suicide Girls and Peelander Z,
TsuShiMaMiRe continues to push out their boundaries and create new, stimulating
sounds that set this unique group of women apart from the
rest.
Good
Charamel will be releasing this amazing
album in North
America in 2012 as well as
simultaneously releasing an extended / remastered version of TsuShiMaMiRe’s
2011
release “Giving More Blood”
with bonus material and remixed tracks.
Please press “Play”… and that will
launch the rocket. Please Enjoy “Shocking” the new
album by one of Japan
Watch the video
for “Hungry and Empty” from “Shocking” at the link
below
Sample
tracks from Shocking
here:
TsuShiMaMiRe
also contributes 2 songs to the just released I Love J-Rock 2
compilation.
View the
I Love J-Rock 2 album trailer and
sample all 8 songs from the record at: http://www.goodcharamel.com.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
10 Seconds With: Naama Kates
“My life was nothing but examined,” shares Kates. “I had just moved to Los Angeles and everything that I was feeling got written into a song; my personal therapy. What I write tells me what I’m thinking, reflects what I’m going through.”
What started with a small keyboard that Kates purchased at Guitar Center led to an impressive catalogue of original songs about universal themes, such as loneliness and unrequited love. Written with a soft touch and a slight edge, Kates’ take on subject matter that could be dreary is light and hopeful, which is further elevated by her superb arrangements. Count backward from one-to-eight before you lose it…
MS: BTW I love your single “Before You Lose It”.
NK: Awwwwwwwwwwwwww, Thank You.
MS: One of the things I really like, that I typed in the intro, is the line - “Count Backward from one - to - eight” before you lose it…that was interesting I think most people take about twenty. (laughs)
NK: Well, it’s based on, ya know, you are supposed to count to ten before you say anything. I made it eight because music is in four/four time.
MS: That makes perfect sense. Do you write all of your stuff, or do you collaborate?
NK: I write all my stuff. I do the piano, lyrics and the chords, the song is fully written, and I work with a producer, he then puts it together with drums, guitars, bass, he plays the bass so he does that part. I don’t do the arrangements, obviously my producer does that. (laughs)
MS: You based the title of your upcoming album “The Unexamined Life” on a quote from Socrates “An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living”. You also say your life is nothing but examined, expand on that.
NK: Oh well, that has to do with a little less than one year after moving to Los Angeles, CA - I started writing and bought a keyboard. At that point I was not going out at all, not leaving the house, I was an agoraphobic…and I didn’t like driving very much. I was taking two LACC classes because I decided to stop acting, working a bar two nights a week. That’s all I did for a year, it was a lot of introspection. (laughs) I figured out what mattered, and what didn’t.
Examine your life with Naama at: http://twitter.com/#!/naamakates
Friday, April 20, 2012
Reel Life: Celebrity Sex Tape
"You guys are just jealous that I dabbled the dipstick in some Hollywood Creamy Sashimi" - Sex Ed "Celebrity Sex Tape"
CST is the number one movie on Netflix at the moment, and I can see why, this movie really takes me back to the teen sex comedies of my youth, the 80's to be exact, when my sister and myself, under 17 at the time, bought tickets to see the raunchiest teen sex comedy of all time (at least then) "Porky's" (Yes, the ticket seller was slacking and not asking or caring about under age teens catching the extremely "R" rated flick).
Well CST has out raunched "Porky's" and updated the naughty 80's for today's seen it, heard it and done it all audience.
Yes, Celebrity sex tapes are all the rage now, and a great way to get yourself some...fame and fortune that is. From the pioneer of the game, Paris Hilton to the copycat, Kim Kardashian, to the, yawn what a surprise, Kendra Wilkinson.
CST is about: Some 'BigBangTheory'-like guys are just having fun in college and stumble onto a party with a famous gal who does'nt realize she is being too friendly with strangers with a camera and a libido....
The famous gal's manager then blackmails the "Big Bang Theory" like guys for $500,000 million dollars for ruining his clients reputation after said video hits the Internet. The only way they can think to earn it? Bang other has been actresses online and make a bundle doing a load of "Celebrity Sex Tape"s...
Got it?! Good CST stars "Entertain Me" favorite up and coming actor, Jonathan "JB" Brett as "Sex Ed" and another favorite here, the film company, The Asylum.
Despite all it's risque content, CST is also a movie with heart that extols the virtue of true friendship, and what that means. That being stated, if you want some good old fashioned 80's raunch that will take it even further than the teen sex comedy "golden era", check out this Netflix number one from The Asylum - tell them a "Porky's" fan sent ya ; )
http://www.theasylum.cc/
Thursday, April 19, 2012
For Immediate Release: Shonen Knife Is Back !
SHONEN KNIFE Announces New Studio Album “Pop Tune” (Out June 6)
And Upcoming North American Tour
Check Out the Tour Video at
“Pop Tune” was recorded in Osaka in early 2012 after the bands wildly successful “Osaka
“Pop Tune” will be released World Wide on June 6th (on Good Charamel Records in North America) and their 2012 North American tour will begin in Philadelphia this July (dates listed below).
Check out the tour video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBL7VdmAmpY.
7-19 Philadelphia
7-20 Asbury Park , NJ
7-21 Brooklyn, NY- The Bell
7-22 Hoboken
7-24 Providence , RI- Providence
7-25 Portland , ME
7-26 Allston , MA-
7-27 Rochester , NY
7-28 Long Lake , NY – Mt. Sabattis
7-29 Bethlehem
7-30 Detroit
7-31 Great Rapids, MI-
8-2 Chicago , IL-
8-3 TBA
8-4 Minneapolis , MN
8-5 Fargo, ND- The Aquarium
8-8 Seattle , WA-
8-9 Portland
8-10 San Francisco
8-11 San Jose , CA-
8-12 So Cal.
8-13 So Cal
8-14 Tucson
8-16 Austin, TX- Red 7 -
8-17 Dallas, TX- Club Dada
8-18 Little Rock
8-19 Nashville
8-20 Cincinnati
8-21 Cleveland , OH-
8-22 Toronto , ON-
* w/ opening band White Mystery
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
R.I.P. Dick Clark -
"After six tours in the 60's with Dick Clark - I can truthfully say he was the finest gentleman I have ever worked with in the business" - Teen Idol, Mike Clifford
Host and TV producer Dick Clark has died. He was 82. TMZ first reported the news Wednesday afternoon. A rep told the site that Clark underwent surgery Tuesday night and suffered a heart attack following the procedure.
Clark started his career as a radio announcer at WRUN in Utica, N.Y., when he was 17.
His long-running show, "American Bandstand," was on the air from 1957-1989. "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" began in 1972 and continues to this day with Ryan Seacrest.
Clark launched the American Music Awards in 1973. He became a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee in 1993.
Clark suffered a stroke in December 2004. He continued performing even after the stroke, even though it had affected his ability to speak and walk.
Hey Dick, Keep On Rockin' !
Monday, April 16, 2012
Manic Monday: Midnight Red
It's Monday time for some fun - check out boy band, Midnight Red covering: "Sexy & I Know It" by LMFAO
These Boys have been on "Entertain Me" before because of their string of performances at the Hollywood & Highland Hard Rock Cafe, which I went to with my buddy and their publicist, Ken Phillips - "The Boys" are currently filming the video for their single "Hell Yeah" Enjoy your Monday..!
www.midnightred.com
These Boys have been on "Entertain Me" before because of their string of performances at the Hollywood & Highland Hard Rock Cafe, which I went to with my buddy and their publicist, Ken Phillips - "The Boys" are currently filming the video for their single "Hell Yeah" Enjoy your Monday..!
www.midnightred.com
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