McCain camp accuses NBC of partisan coverage

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The John McCain military campaign fired turned an angry letter to NBC News criticizing Andrea Mitchell's comments regarding the "cone of silence" at Saturday night's presidential candidates' forum at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.

Campaign manager Rick Davis cited Mitchell's comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the Barack Obama campaign had said privately that they believed McCain "may get had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well prepared."

Pastor Rick Warren on Saturday sat downhearted first with Obama and asked him the same questions he would afterward ask McCain.

Davis denied what he called "a completely uncorroborated Obama political campaign claim that John McCain somehow cheated." While Obama was being interviewed, McCain was drive to the event and then in a putting surface room without TV, Davis said.

In a letter to NBC News president Steve Capus, Davis said that the network's "level of objectivity ... has fallen so low that reporters ar now giving voice to unsubstantiated, zealot claims in order to undercut John McCain." He requested a meeting with Capus to discuss news standards and objectivity.

"We ar concerned that your news division is following MSNBC's lead in abandoning nonpartizan coverage of the presidential race," Davis wrote.

In a statement Monday, NBC News said that it welcomed an chance to address with officials from both campaigns and said it is in daily contact with the McCain camp.

"With all due respect to the safari leadership, they are viewing our coverage through a political prism," NBC News said. "We stand by our coverage, our journalism and our journalists."�

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Ryan Adams books more shows on eve of tour launch

Ryan Adams [ ] & The Cardinals have extended the itinerary for their North American tour, which kicks off tomorrow (8/22) in San Francisco.

New to the group's docket are more than than a half-dozen October dates set in the South and West, including a trio of performances scattered more or less the Lone Star State. After getting things started with a headlining show at San Francisco's fabled Fillmore tomorrow night, Adams and company will drop a mates of weeks opening for Oasis [ ], and so get top billing during a run that now stretches into mid-October. Details are included below.

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Adams and his band--Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Chris Feinstein (bass), Jon Graboff (pedal steel) and Brad Pemberton (drums)--are supporting Adams' in vogue album, last year's "Easy Tiger," as well as "Follow the Lights," a Cardinals EP that surfaced last October.

The aforementioned releases follow Adams' prolific 2005 output, which comprise the double album "Cold Roses" and the full-length sets "Jacksonville City Nights" and "29."


[Note: The following turn dates experience been provided by creative person and/or circuit sources, wHO verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur before go on sale. Check with official creative person websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

August 200823 - San Francisco, CA - Fillmore26 - Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater (w/ Oasis)27 - Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place (w/ Oasis)29 - Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place (w/ Oasis)30 - Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome (w/ Oasis)September 20081 - Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Center (w/ Oasis)4 - Ottawa, Ontario - Scotiabank Palace (w/ Oasis)5 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre (w/ Oasis)7 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion9 - London, Ontario - John LaBatt Center (w/ Oasis)25 - Schenectady, NY - Proctor's Theater26 - Syracuse, NY - Landmark Theater27 - Rochester, NY - Auditorium Theater29 - Columbus, OH - Palace Theater30 - Cleveland, OH - Palace TheaterOctober 20082 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre3 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theater4 - St. Louis, MO - Fox Theater5 - Madison, WI - Overture Hall7 - Ames, IA -Stephens Auditorium

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Simone-ized: Nina's daughter pays homage to mom

Many sons and daughters follow in the footsteps of their high-profile musical parents. John and Sean Lennon. Duke and Mercer Ellington. Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus. The list goes on and on.

Lisa Celeste Stroud, world Health Organization took the stage name Simone to honor her mother, vocaliser Nina Simone, may have got been innate into the role, just she has taken a roundabout way to get there - from support a Latin superstar to a erolia minutilla in the military to belting on Broadway.

�If anyone had told me two years ago that my first CD would be covering a lot of my mother�s tunes, I would get laughed in their nerve,� said Simone, world Health Organization will sing at Scullers Jazz Club on Thursday. �But I always told my mother that she was the doorway through which I�d have to walk in order to achieve my stardom. I didn�t realize how prophetic that was.�

Nina Simone�s footsteps were different any other�s, so it�s no surprise her daughter took a while to find them. A strong-minded artist wHO straddled genres, Nina Simone earned a reputation as a ardent singer unafraid to speak her mind and plait her music with politics, especially during the Civil Rights era.

After she died in her adopted France in 2003, her daughter sang at a monument at Harlem�s Abyssinian Baptist Church. It was the start of a new career instruction for the native New Yorker.

�I was there when (my mother) wrote the song �Young, Gifted and Black�,� Simone said. �I remember her telling me that you need to know world Health Organization you ar and where you come from. But even though I panax quinquefolius in church service for trey years after we touched (to North Carolina), I wasn�t thinking about music at all. I cherished to be an international lawyer.�

But Simone joined the U.S. Air Force alternatively, where she rose to the social status of staff sergeant as a civil engineer.

�I despised what I was doing,� she said almost her 5 years at the drafting board and with surveying crews. �My heart wasn�t in it.�

Then a quaker heard her accompany a pianist at a cabaret in Germany and starting spreading the word around Simone�s vocalizing talent. More shows followed, leading to a post-military gig as a backup singer for Spanish star Raphael.

�The flare was lit in my belly from there,� Simone said.

She eventually moved to Los Angeles and won roles in touring productions of �Jesus Christ Superstar,� �Rent,� �The Lion King� and �Aida.� Then she changed direction again, joining the acid-jazz band Liquid Soul.

After a 2006 show in New York dedicated to her mother, she started working with jazz manufacturer Bob Belden on her solo debut, �Simone on Simone.� Applying her soulful voice to her mother�s classics, Simone realized she had come full circle.

�This has sour around and enhanced wHO I am,� she said. �When I get to my next project of my own music, I�ll be ready. I�ll have paid homage to the 1 who walked before me.�

Simone, at Scullers Jazz Club, Thursday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $26; 617-562-4111.

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CONOR OBERST

�Conor Oberst� (Merge): B+

No longer the Bright Eyes whiz thomas Kid heralded as the new Dylan, new Neil Young, etc., and, at age 28, not yet a wizened older Americana caption, Oberst is just Oberst. And it�s these middle years - between buzz boy and elder solon - that are most interesting. Recorded in rural Mexico, this eponymous album is the first released under his own call in 12 years. It�s the level-headed of a near-genius blithely relaxing with slight, bare folk songs (�Cape Canaveral�), gentle roots rockers (�Sausalito�), tiny benighted ballads (�Lenders in the Temples�) and barnburners (�I Don�t Want to Die (In the Hospital).� Download the loosest, most-relaxed number: �Souled Out!!!�

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Artist: JMJ

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 Destination Docklands

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Finders Keepers To Release Well Hung Compilation

Finders Keepers Records - a label never short of surprises - has compiled a new collection of 60s/70s Hungarian rock to be released as the aptly named, 'Well Hung'.

Twenty-two rarities, obscurities and potentially lost forever gems will adorn the compilation, that features heavy psych, jazz and glam as found in the vaults of Eastern Europe's "best kept secret", Supraphon Records.

As per usual, a CD and 12" are available - with Finders Keepers selling copies now in their online store, before it hits the shops.

Well Hung Tracklisting:

1. Anna Adamis & Gabor Presser - Ringasd el magad No.2

2. Omega Redstar - Egy lany nem ment haza

3. Metro - A penz

4. Hungaria - Vegallomas

5. Kati Kovacs - Add mar Uram az esot!

6. Corvina - A Tuz

7. Neoton - Nora

8. Tamas Somlo & Omega - Azt mondta az anyukam

9. Meteor & Demjen Ferenc - Kivanj te is nekem szep, jo ejszakat

10. Illes - A bolond lany

11. Omega - Kergeskezu favagok

12. Sarolta Zalatnay - Hadd mondjam el

13. Locomotiv GT - Megvarlak ma delben

14. Nemenyi Bela & Atlantis - Kinai fal

15. Katie Kovacs & Gemini - Nem biztos semmi

16. Piramis - Mondj egy meset

17. Skorpio - Szevasz haver

18. Omega - Felbeszakadt koncert

19. Illes - Nekem oly mindegy

20. Bergendy - Hetkoznapi Balladak

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Model Bruni marries French president

Former international model Carla Bruni married French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday in Paris.
The couple walked down the aisle at the presidential Elysee Palace, less than three months after they reportedly first met.
In a short statement, the couple said that they "were married... in the presence of their families in the strictest privacy."
The official who had performed the ceremony, Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement said, "The bride wore white; she was ravishing, as usual and the groom wasn't bad either."
53-years-old Sarkozy married Bruni, thirteen years his junior, in the presence of 20 close family and friends, Lebel said.
He called the ceremony "a moment of family intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot of affection between the spouses."
"I wished them a lot of happiness," he said.
At a news conference in January, Sarkozy revealed that the relationship was "serious" and hinted that wedding plans were in the works.
However he refused to reveal the date for a wedding, saying only that France might learn about the nuptials once they had already taken place.