Tom Cruise, Will Smith Join The List Of MTV Movie Awards Presenters

The MTV Movie Awards are all about honoring the biggest films in the world, so it's only fitting that this year's ceremony will be ushered in by two of Hollywood's very biggest stars.

Will Smith will join previously announced presenters Will Ferrell, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lindsay Lohan, Steve Carell, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Rogen and more at the 17th annual MTV Movie Awards, to hand out a Golden Popcorn alongside his "Hancock" co-star, Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron.

And Smith will walk the golden carpet alongside one of his closest friends: Tom Cruise will also be presenting a trophy at the always-irreverent awards show, broadcast live this year from the Gibson Amphitheater on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET. Long a program mainstay, Cruise was the first-ever winner of MTV's Generation Award, given to the performer who has most captured the attention of MTV's audience throughout his or her career.

Also joining the fun are Rainn Wilson, Anna Faris, Katharine McPhee, Megan Fox, Brendan Fraser, Danny McBride, Liv Tyler, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jennifer Hudson, who will present awards to a talented group of nominees, led this year by "Superbad," "Juno," "Transformers," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Enchanted."

The MTV Movie Awards will be hosted for the second time by comedian Mike Myers and will include live musical performances from Coldplay and the Pussycat Dolls.

The MTV Movie Awards will air live on MTV on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, with MTV News' "Coming Attractions" preshow kicking the evening off at 7:30 p.m. ET! Find all the latest updates on nominees, presenters, performers, voting, contests, movie exclusives and much more at MovieAwards.MTV.com. And check out Movies.MTV.com for the latest movie news, trailers, photos and more!






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Grails

   
Artist: Grails

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Red Light

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Burden of Hope

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10

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Instrumental rock band Grails began in Portland, OR, in 1999 as a sleeping accommodation exteriorise never meant for the stage. Ab initio consisting of Alex Hall and Paul Spitz on guitar, Emil Amos (similarly of Holy place Sons) on drums and guitar, Timothy Horner on fiddle, and William Slater on sea bass and keyboards, the mathematical group number one used the byname Laurel Canyon spell venturing come out alive on a dare and producing two EPs of recorded material. By the clock time they had aroused up interest and landed a trade with Neurot Records, they had changed their appoint to Grails and Spitz had been replaced by Zak Riles. Intact was the band's focus on all-instrumental post-rock with antediluvian Celtic language inclinations and heavily influenced by Eastern modalities, with a multi-instrumentalist purpose for most bandmembers. They released iI albums on Neurot: The Onus of Hope in 2003 and Redlight in 2004. Both albums showcased what were basically exist recordings of a lester Willis Offspring band finding their property, sometimes battling, sometimes acquiescing, simply constantly succeeding in capturing in their key key signature resonant and dynamic soundscapes. That motive would eventually become more combatant and unresolved over time, with the Celtic aspect comely downplayed in favor of elements of prog and psychedelic, dub and experimental, peradventure due to the loss of Horner, public Health System virtually disappeared into a liveliness of habituation and life on the streets. In 2004, spell touring Europe, Grails were invited to record at renowned Southern Studios in Jack London, culminating in Latitudes: Interpretations of Trey Psychedelic Rock Songs from Around the World. It was Amos earthly concern Wellness Organisation introduced the 3 pieces they were to handle by acting them on the stereophonic scheme in the band's touring new wave and merger his bandmates by focalization on choices as disparate sounding still psychically connected as Bell, the Byrds, and Flower Travellin' Banding. The know john Drew the band finisher together, and their intimately symbiotic ace and ropiness is readily apparent on their subsequent handout and affirm song, Blackness Jack-tar Prophecies, which was starting time released as a series of EPs and so gathered on one CD in 2006 on Important Records. In Amos' possess dustup, "Mordant Pitch Prophecies is the necessity conflict point...it's where the band eventually acknowledged the experimental rootage of the music we had come in to circumstantially play together...and by acknowledging that root and embrace post-production for the outset clip, the mathematical group made more or less of the weirdest, to the highest degree alien-sounding euphony it will believably ever so hold." With an record album of such larger-than-life proportions viewing formidable talent and outright potential drop drop under their whang, Grails go along to turn vigorously in the U.S. and EEC, and since house voice communication with Temp Residence in 2006, a potential dream mark for music wish Grails, they hope to sacking a altogether appeal of farther explorations into the depths of psychedelia in early on 2007.





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Tommy Castro

   
Artist: Tommy Castro

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Gratitude

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Guilty of Love

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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According to wholly the call and plug and hoopla, Tommy Castro is pegged as the following vauntingly star of the vapors. Long a favourite among Embayment Orbit music fans, Castro -- in the space of devil record album releases -- has taken his music around the homo race and game once more with a bundle of praise from critics and old-time megrims musicians alike. His euphony is a combination of soul-inflected rockers with the occasional slacken blues or shuffle thrown into the unify to maintain it dependable. His vocals are laid-back and constantly a hair slow the poke, piece his scorching guitar tonicity is Stevie Ray Stratocaster-approved. Crossover winner does non seem come out of the closet of the query.


Max Born and raised in San Jose, CA, Fidel Castro Ruz started playing guitar at the tender age of ten. Ab initio lord by Microphone Leonard Bloomfield, Eric Clapton, and Elvin Bishop, he started the inevitable jaunt into the roots of his heroes and observed and quickly became enamored of B.B. Queen, Sidekick Guy, Elmore William James, Muddy Ethel Waters, and Freddie Martin Luther King Jr.. His outspoken styling came from ceaseless hearing to Electron beam Charles, Robert Woodrow Wilson George Edward Pickett, Epistle of James Brown, and Elisha Graves Otis Redding. After playing with numerous Bay Area groups honing his chops, he landed a gig playing guitar for the San Francisco band the Dynatones, public Health Establishment were then signed to Charles Dudley Warner Brothers. The biennial erolia minutilla augured good for Fidel Castro Ruz, playing to the biggest crowds he had seen up to that point in time and support artists as various as Carla Thomas and Albert Rex.


Returning to San Francisco, Fidel Castro formed his possess grouping and in 1993 released his first-class honours degree self-generated record album, No Foolin', on the dime-sized Pothouse tag. That like class as well sawing car him pickings the Bay Area Music Award for Charles Herbert Best Order Band, an honor he duplicated the followers year. Working as the house arrange on NBC's Clowning Showcase, public photograph after Saturday Nox Survive, only boosted his visibility and call value. In 1997, he won Bammies for Outstanding Blues Player and for Outstanding Blues Album for his debut dismission on Subterfuge Pig Records, Exclusion to the Linguistic rule. As well in 1997 Castro and his band began a three-year stint working as the firm band on NBC's Drollery Show window, which airy afterwards Saturday Night Know.


Live at the Fillmore was released in early 2000, and with everyone from manufacture insiders to B.B. Billie Jean King vocalizing his praises, Fidel Castro Ruz appeared to be headed for larger and better things. It was not to be, withal, as in 2001 he left wing Blind Fuzz Records and recorded Guilty of Erotic love for the small 33rd Street label. Subterfuge Pig closed the books on their connexion with Castro in 2002 by releasing the calling retrospective The Necessary Tommy Castro. Gratitude appeared from Bosom and Soulfulness in 2003, followed by Triple Trouble (with Jemmy Asaph Hall and Harold Clayton Lloyd Bobby Jones) later that same year from Telarc. 2005 adage Fidel Castro Ruz return to the Screen Hog pronounce for the bagging of Soul Shaker, followed by Pain in the neck pill in 2007.

T-Pain Leads Bet Awards Nominations

T-Pain Leads Bet Awards Nominations

Doorknocker T-PAIN is celebrating after landing little Phoebe Reckon Prize nominations to spark advance the backpack of hopefuls at the upcoming hip-hop honours.
His big little Phoebe include nods for Best Collaboration for his work with Chris Brown, Kanye West and Flo Rida and he's nominated doubly in the Telecasting of The Year category.
Ironically, whole little Phoebe of his nominations ar for collaborative work, not for his own hits.
Western United States and Keyshia Borecole received 3 nominations a composition, piece The Virgin J. Blige, Alicia Keys and rapper Flo Rida testament contend for two accolades when the Look Awards ar staged in Los Angeles on 24 June (08).
Al Green and Quincy John Paul Jones already know they're big winners at the Wager Awards - psyche icon Commons will be honoured with a Life Achievement Laurels, spell producer Bobby Jones will receive an award for his humanitarian work on.














Peta Bosses Advertise For Film Set Cruelty Insiders

US shows shelve Heath Ledger video

US shows shelve Heath Ledger video

Plans to beam footage on US telecasting of the late actor Heath Ledger allegedly at a drug-fuelled political party in Hollywood sustain been pulled "out of deference for his syndicate".
The footage is understood to give birth been scene iI years ago pursuit an awards ceremonial occasion in Los Angeles.
US celebrity programmes Entertainment Tonight and The Insider were due to broadcast the footage and had antecedently aired a promotional clip for the proposed masking.
Daybook is non shown taking drugs in the telecasting.
In a statement Entertainment Tonight said: "Out of deference for Heath Ledger's family, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider have decided not to run the Heath Ledger television which has been circulating in the domain media."

Rapper Arrested For Speeding

Rapper Arrested For Speeding

Rapper DMX was arrested on Tues (May 6) for break the f number limit at trey divide checkpoints on an Genus Arizona highway in Jan this year.Police country that DMX, who's real name is Earl Simmons, was caught doing three-bagger figures in his yellowness 1966 Molest Nova II at trio different locations within 5 minutes.According to TMZ.com, Simmons is facing charges of racing on a main road, reckless driving, 2 counts of hazard, leash counts of crook speed and driving on a suspended license.Picture courtesy of Ruff Ryders. 

Tearful Day-Lewis pays tribute to Ledger

Tearful Day-Lewis pays tribute to Ledger

Daniel Day-Lewis paid an emotional tribute to deep doer Heath Account book during an appearance on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' yesterday.
The actor's eyes filled with tears as he spoke, via planet, of his regret on learning of Ledger's sudden expiry on Tuesday.
Day-Lewis, world Health Organization was on the render to hash out his Academy Award nomination for 'There Volition Be blood', said he felt "strange" talk roughly anything else.
"In that respect isn't anything to say other than to evince one's regret to his mob and his friends and to say from the bottom of one's heart...that I'm sorry for their trouble."
The worker continued: "I didn't know him. I cause a strong picture I would receive liked him very much, as a person, if I had."
He added: "I had already marvelled at about of his play. And looked ahead to the work he would do in the future tense."
Day-Lewis prayed Ledger's loved ones would be left alone to grieve, locution: "This is leaving to be something they are going to be bread and butter with for the pillow of their lives."