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The winners of Stand Up To Cancer's "Up 2 You"competition in which Dave Stewart and Joss Stone asked the world to spread the word about the initiative by covering their hymn "Stand Up To Cancer" and upload a video of it to YouTube. The entries are covering a wide range of musical, visual and social ways expressing the message of the song. Read details of the competition and the prizes in the original announcement here and watch the videos … more

Dave Stewart is teaming up again with song writing partner Glen Ballard, to create original songs for the upcoming CGI-animated / live-action hybrid The Smurfs, set to hit theaters next summer.  The Smurfs is directed by Raja Gosnell (Scooby-Doo, Beverly Hills Chihuahua).  The film comes from Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia Pictures, and will be released in 3D on August 3rd, 2011. In this new update on the classic cartoon, … more

As published here on ethrill.net first accidentally, then later together with Activision this week, Dave Stewart and Joss Stone contribute the theme song to the new official James Bond video game "Blood Stone". Now I am happy to bring you a first pre-listen bit of the song "I'll Take It All" as well as the official launch trailer for the game. But before, here's an interesting article about the acting part of Joss Stone in the game (by

Judith Hill, featured vocalist on Michael Jackson's "This Is It" (video), wrote a tribute song to Michael Jackson together with Dave Stewart called "Michael" for the first anniversary of his death. Judith Hill about the emergence: "It was fantastic. I've been working with Dave and we wrote some songs together and this one came out just very naturally. By the time we finished it, it was so appropriate for this whole first anniversary, ... it's just a kind … more

It was nearly half a year ago that I wrote about the track "Your Love" by Nicki Minaj, a young rapper who is sampling "No More 'I Love You's" from the album "Medusa" (1995) by Annie Lennox in the song (original news post). Now she has brought this (back then not much liked amongst Annie Lennox fans) tune to the top of the US Billboard rap charts - "Your Love" is #1! Billboard.com: MINAJ RULES RAP: 25-year-old Queens, New York-raised rapper … more

Nightmare & the Cat (the new band of Siobhan's and Dave's sons Django and Samuel Stewart) have successfully performed their first show last week. See a photo from the show here. If you missed it and are in the Los Angeles area, here are the next chances to see them live: Upcoming concerts Fri, Jul 16, 9:30 pm Echo Curio, Los Angeles, CA with Kandyce and the Killdozer, $5 Thu, Aug 05, 8:00 pm … more

Ann Marie Calhoun made headlines recently as a spokeswoman of the Conspiracy For Good (e.g. here), but she is after all also a musical artist, a rock violist in great demand (e.g. by Hans Zimmer who asked her to play on his latest hit movie soundtrack for "Sherlock Holmes"). Ann Marie Calhoun is one of Dave Stewart's five "Factory Girls", signed to his record label Weapons of Mass Entertainment (WME), and today WME published two music videos … more

Not for the first time Dave Stewart met with the still hip Pharrell Williams (highly successful R'n'B dance producers in the past decade and member of The Neptunes and N.E.R.D) and famous movie soundtrack composer Hans Zimmer, but this time they are all three working together. Dave wrote on Twitter today: "just spent last three days working with Pharrell Williams wrote six songs together with Hans Zimmer amazing unique sound" Last month Pharrell … more

Dave Stewart wrote on the Huffington Post website today the background story of his hymn for this favourite charity "Stand Up To Cancer" and the new "Up 2 You" competition: "As most back stories to songs do, this one begins with a woman. In this case, it's the powerful force of nature known as Laura Ziskin - not just a cancer survivor, but a cancer fighter. When she's not making movies about superheroes, she's off being one with her Stand Up To Cancer … more

In celebration of its two year anniversary on May 28, 2010, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has launched the Dave Stewart "Up2 You" Video Challenge. The Dave Stewart "Up2 You" Video Challenge invites the public to upload a YouTube video in response to Dave Stewart's powerful song "Stand Up To Cancer" which has become the anthem for the organization. The song is featured in a PSA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yxwtsVIQSQ) … more