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Reply #180 posted 09/06/12 4:30pm

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MADONNA'S ADDICTED TO SWEAT DVD PRESS RELEASE

Hard Candy Fitness®, the global luxury fitness brand co-founded by Madonna, announced today the launch of a new DVD series “Addicted To Sweat” (ATS). The groundbreaking fitness DVD series will feature the exclusive programs created by Madonna and demonstrated by Madonna’s personal trainer Nicole Winhoffer. The programs were previously available only at Hard Candy Fitness clubs. The four-disc set is available for purchase at www.AddictedToSweatDVD.com .

“The Addicted To Sweat series is inspired by my weekly workout regimen that helps me take care of my mind and body,” commented Madonna.

In the DVD series, Winhoffer showcases and teaches the Hard Candy Fitness’ results-driven techniques and programming created by Madonna, which blends innovative dance, toning and cardio training.

Winhoffer who is also a professional dancer stated, “Madonna is my mentor and my teacher. Working together these last few years has enabled us to reach our goals in creating a beautiful and ideal physique for her. Through this experience, we were able to create training techniques that I get to showcase in the Addicted To Sweat DVDs.”

The series of four DVDs are as follows:

DVD ONE- ATS DANCE: GET WET Structured like a dance class, Winhoffer breaks down all steps in this tutorial-style DVD. It will hone in on the importance of form and focus to perfect choreographed dances, strengthen the core, and reach optimum results.

DVD TWO- JAW BREAKER TOWEL: SLIPPERY WHEN WET A unique, total body conditioning workout that targets every muscle during a short, intense routine that pays special attention to abs, core, arms, chest and back.

DVD THREE- ATS DANCE: WET, WET, WILD Building from DVD one, Winhoffer pushes the dance skills to the next level, featuring more diverse moves that increase the power of the workout.

DVD FOUR- JAW BREAKER CHAIR: DRIPPING WET A chair and the floor are the only tools required for this extreme workout aimed at sculpting, toning and tightening the entire body.

PRICING & AVAILABILITY The four-disc set is available beginning today and can be purchased for $59.95 at www.AddictedToSweatDVD.com .

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Reply #181 posted 09/06/12 4:34pm

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MADONNA INVITES SUPERSTAR DJ AVICII TO PERFORM AT YANKEES STADIUM


Madonna has invited Grammy nominated superstar DJ, remixer and producer AVICII, aka Tim Bergling, to join her at Yankee Stadium on September 6 & 8 for her MDNA shows in New York City. Bergling is reciprocating Madonna’s surprise appearance at his headline show at Ultra Fest this year, when the two debuted AVICII’s remix of her “MDNA” track “Girl Gone Wild”. “She showed up and supported us, and this is my way of showing up and supporting her,” Bergling told USA Today. The critically acclaimed AVICII, whose sets DJ Times called ‘euphoric, epic, fun’, will throw a massive dance party for 50,000+ fans expected that night.

No stranger to stadium size audiences, the 22 year old AVICII has, this year alone, headlined the ULTRA Music Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, performed at Coachella and headlined at Lollapalooza.

Avicii announced his fall college/major market tour earlier this month. For more info, please visit www.avicii.com

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Reply #182 posted 09/06/12 4:38pm

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MADONNA BRINGS POP SPECTACLE TO BOSTON

From the Telegram & Gazette:

When it comes to the great minds that emerged out of the 20th Century, Madonna has to be ranked high on the list, right near Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. No kidding.

Nearly 30 years in her career, Madonna has survived changing musical trends and has outlived most of her musical rivals. Selling a whopping 300 million-plus albums worldwide, The Material Girl has forged a stellar career out of marginal talent, impeccable timing and uncanny marketing skills. Let's see those eggheads Einstein and Hawking do that.

Besides being pop's ultimate opportunist, Madonna's still a taboo-breaking, button-pushing pop dynamo ready to explode with imaginative costume changes, dazzling choreography, elaborate set pieces and a stellar roster of hits.

And who needs "Fifty Shades of Gray" when you have 54-year Madonna?

Fresh from her controversial, breast-baring, crowd-mooning, Israeli flag wrapping, swastika-displaying, anti-Pussy Riot prison sentence and pro-gay rights pontificating treks through Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Rome Paris, London, Edinburgh and St. Petersburg, Madonna performed a salacious, scandalous, unorthodox, unpredictable, inspired, seductive, sexy and spirited, 19-song, hour-and-50-minute set last night to a sold-out crowd at the TD Garden.

The show opened up with an elaborate and eye-popping cathedral scenario complete with winged, bare-chested demons gyrating and contorting their muscular bodies and red cloak-wearing monks tolling a church bell and swinging an incense burning censor like they were taboo-smashing wrecking balls, all unfolding in front of a humongous cross with the initials "MDNA."

Always a master in the entrance department, a floating confessional booth (with Madge tucked inside) descended to the stage and the pop icon smashed through the cathedral's faux-stained glass window with an AK47. Then, a lean, mean Madonna and her monks-turned-"Magic Mike" extras strutted their respective stuff on the stage while religious icons and fire and brimstone imagery rained on the video monitor during "Girls Gone Wild," the first of eight songs from her latest, "MDNA."

If Armageddon is just around the corner, it's going to look pale and less memorable dance moves in comparison to Madonna's latest concert extravaganza.

With the accompanied visuals sometimes more compelling than the actual songs, Madonna was figuratively and literally packing heat as she threateningly pranced on the stage waving a big silver handgun (and pointing it at the audience) during "Revolver."

Boasting what may be the highest body count ever depicted during a stage number, the carnage continued with the over-the-top, Tarantino-esque revenge fantasy and splatter-fest, "Gang Bang." With Nancy Sinatra cool, Madonna - sporting a Pussy Galore-like getup that made her part femme-fatale/part Bond girl - hid out in a sleazy "Paradise Motel," where a group of ninja-assassins tried to sneak up on her, only to get shot at point-blank range, their brains splattered on the video screen monitor.

While this blood bath might have been one of her most alarming and disarming stage antics Madonna has performed in decades, it was "Kill Bill" cool and not to be taken seriously in the very least.

After an abrupt version of "Papa Don't Preach," masked marauders took Madonna away in chains and prepared her for what promised to be a pagan sacrifice during "Hung Up." At one point, Madge did a high-wire act while teetering on the thin line that separates entertainment and schlock.

After all the bondage, buckets of blood, hail of bullets and bouts of blasphemy were over, Madonna reemerged as an adorable, baton-twirling majorette leading a cheerleading squad and sporting a mischievous grin on her face.

Without warning, Madonna slapped Lady Gaga silly by sneaking a snippet of "Born This Way," (Gaga's shameless rip-off of "Express Yourself") during - you guessed it - "Express Yourself." In case the meaning was lost on anyone, Madonna, aka the undisputed queen of pop, added a chorus of "She's Not Me" in the mix.

On "Give Me All Your Lovin' (or what I like to call the Toni Basil-meets-Gwen Stefani cheerleader chant from hell), Madonna made another case why she is the one and only.

After a video montage of her extensive pop catalog, Madonna — who looked more comfortable carrying a toy AK47 than a real electric guitar — donned a six-string solely as a fashion accessory for "Turn Up the Radio."

Dressed in black from the beret on her head to the thigh-high leather boots that covered her toes, Madonna was in full bohemian dress for her an inspired reworking of "Open Your Heart" that featured the organic rhythms of Kalakan (a trio of Basque singers and drummers) and her son Rocco cutting a rug.

Madonna, who recently came back from touring around the world (and causing a lot of controversy everywhere she played), spoke about how she has grown to appreciate the United States because we have the freedom of expression that most places in the world don't have and ""It's ok to be whatever you want to be" over here.

The evening's most visually stunning number "Vogue" combined artsy, black and white styles from different era to form the coolest fashion catwalk ever choreographed. The number also featured a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of her signature torpedo bra (now an aerial-dynamic exoskeleton) from days gone by.

During "Human Nature," Madonna did a titillating striptease in which she got down to her skivvies and flashed the words "NO FEAR," which was scrawled in big letters on her back.

The evening's most bizarre reworking was an almost unrecognizable, Kurt Weill-inspired version of "Like a Virgin,' in which Madonna played an old and decrepit broken-down saloon singer knocking on death's door. Tapping into her inner-Marlene Dietrich with a whiskey drenched splash of Lotte Lenya thrown in for good measure, an exasperated Madonna sang the number like she didn't have the strength or the air in her lungs to push out the words, let alone breath.

A barefoot Madonna wearing a combination ceremonial robe/disco getup transformed what appeared to be a virtual Buddhist temple into the coolest dance club on the planet on the throbbing, club-hopper, "I'm Addicted."

In what might go down as the pop concert of the year (I said pop concert; Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters are rock concerts), the evening came to a rousing close with a show-stopper version of "Like A Prayer," complete with 30-plus-strong chorus, and the all-out aerobic workout, "Celebration."

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Reply #183 posted 09/06/12 4:41pm

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MADONNA DOES IT HER WAY AT HIGH ENERGY GARDEN SHOW

From the Boston Globe:

As we have all surely learned by now, Madonna does not do half-measures.

Tuesday night at TD Garden the truly, remarkably indefatigable pop superstar powered her way through a sold-out performance just shy of two hours and heavy on the razzle dazzle.

The show included but was not limited to: a seedy motel set, on which a gun-toting Madonna was attacked on all sides by assailants she handily dispatched in choreographed fight scenes set to the dark “Gang Bang”; a phalanx of flying drum majors beefing up the backbeat on the jubilant “Give Me All Your Luvin’”; a crew of slackline acrobats flipping, twisting, and bobbing on wires during the disco throbber “Hung Up”; video cameos by Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne; a bevy of costume changes; and a full stage of nearly 30 dancers, instrumentalists, and singers clad in choir robes, ecstatically raising their voices on “Like a Prayer.” Add an elaborate, state of the art stage with banks of platforms rising and falling and walls of video screens, and Madonna’s arsenal was short only a kitchen sink.

Madonna herself remains impressively fleet of foot, dancing nearly non-stop; and when she sang live, she was perfectly competent of voice, even if the mix didn’t always do her favors.

Most Madonna fans know she is no mere jukebox in concert and has too many songs to please every fan with a wish list, but anyone who expected all that effort and spectacle to be in service of her greatest hits, was likely disappointed that the show focused so heavily on her middling latest album, “MDNA.” Often when she did do familiar songs, they were either partial performance teases (“Papa Don’t Preach”), mash-ups (“Candy Shop” and “Erotica”), or drastically reinvented, like her deathly, dirge-like waltz version of “Like a Virgin.”

Older songs that got the full treatment included a bouncy take on “Express Yourself” which snuck in bits of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and, pointedly, Madonna’s “She’s Not Me.” A sassy “Vogue,” in classic form, came complete with flamboyantly-clad dancers strutting down the arrow-shaped runway that jutted into the arena and corralled a portion of the crowd on the floor

While some of the “MDNA” songs benefited from live concert energy -- one of the album’s stand-outs, moody ballad “Masterpiece” was enriched by Basque trio Kalakan -- it’s hard to imagine a majority of fans preferring them to any one of the many hits that flew by in a rapid-fire video montage at one point.

But as we all have also surely learned at this point, Madonna does just what she wants to do, and there is something admirable, if not totally satisfying, about that.


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Reply #184 posted 09/10/12 2:22am

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Madonna adds another Madison Square Garden date

Published: Friday, September 07, 2012, 9:59 AM Updated: Friday, September 07, 2012, 10:40 AM
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Madonna, in concert at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

The MDNA Tour keeps growing.

Madonna, who has already sold out Yankee Stadium shows scheduled for Sept. 6 and 8 and a Madison Square Garden date on Nov. 12, has added a fourth New York City date. She'll be back at the Garden on Nov. 13. Tickets to this show go on sale Sept. 14 at 10 a.m.

"MDNA," Madonna's twelfth album, is heavily influenced by European dance music. The set features writing and production collaborations with William Orbit (who worked with Madonna on the "Ray of Light" set), French house deejay Martin Solveig, and Italian techno hitmaker Benny Benassi. It exchanges the art-hip-hop sound of the 2008 "Hard Candy" set for club beats reminiscent of "Confessions on a Dance Floor," the '05 album overseen by Yorkshire house musician Stuart Price.

The MDNA Tour set list reflects that decision. Madonna does play versions of her early pop hits, but the show is heavy on material from recent albums. Rather than hiring young pop singers to warm up the sold-out crowds, she's enlisted EDM deejays to spin before her sets. Avicii, who hit with "Levels," will open the Yankee Stadium shows. Solveig will spin before the Madison Square Garden concert on Nov. 13.

The concert, which is heavy with spectacular set pieces, returns Madonna to familiar themes. She begins the show in a confession booth suspended above a cathedral made of light and shadow; at the end of her Act of Contrition, she emerges with a gun. Just as she did at the Super Bowl, she appears in full cheerleader regalia to sing "Give Me All Your Luvin," the lead single from "MDNA." She also takes a petulant shot at Lady Gaga midway through the show, performing a live mashup of "Express Yourself" and "Born This Way," with a bit of "She's Not Me" thrown in, just in case you don't take her point.

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Reply #185 posted 09/10/12 6:16am

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Now madonna and janet fans can "get on it" and be addicted to sweat lol

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Reply #186 posted 09/10/12 8:41am

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I saw the tour on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium. It was okay. Kind of boring for the most part, with a few really awesome moments that were a lot of fun.

She really has a lot of terrible songs on that new album. And every time she does that horrible slowed-down version of Like a Virgin, I want to throw rocks at her head. Do the song right or don't do it at all.

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Reply #187 posted 09/12/12 1:58pm

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MEET THE TECHNO WIZARDS BEHIND MADONNA'S NEW TOUR

Madonna’s MDNA Tour stops by the Air Canada Centre for two shows tonight and tomorrow. The show trekked through Europe and Dubai this summer, creating the expected media whirlwind — from a nipple slip, to brandishing fake machine guns, to championing LGBT rights in ultra-conservative Russia. These incidents make the time when Toronto police threatened to arrest her if she simulated masturbation on stage (which she did anyway) during 1990′s Blond Ambition Tour, seem tame.

Controversy aside, this tour is also one of her most technologically-intricate productions. Madonna collaborated with many of the same people behind her dazzling Super Bowl halftime show from earlier this year, including Cirque du Soleil’s Michel Laprise, who returns as show director.

Montreal-based multimedia production studio Moment Factory was also brought back. “The whole process started right after the Super Bowl. The day after we finished that show, everybody put their minds on the tour,” says Johanna Marsal, a producer at Moment Factory. The company has also worked with many other artists including Arcade Fire, Celine Dion, Jay-Z and Tiesto.

Their mission for the MDNA Tour: Create content to shape the universe, enrich the choreography and intensify the drama of 12 of the show’s 22 songs – including classics “Express Yourself,” “Like A Prayer,” “Vogue,” and recent hit “Hung Up,” where Madonna and her dancers walk across a slackline.

With four months to bring Madonna’s vision from concept to reality, the Moment Factory team created 2D and 3D animation pieces, including a 3D photo-realistic ornate cathedral that serves as the dramatic backdrop for the show opener “Girl Gone Wild.” “The cathedral took us more than a month and a half to create. She really wanted to have a dark and magical beginning,” says Marsal.

The team also co-ordinated video shoots in Montreal, New York and they even shot a kaleidoscopic train ride through India, which serves as the backdrop for “I’m A Sinner” in the final act of the show.

Madonna describes her show as a journey that moves from darkness to light, as exemplified by the violent first act – ‘Transgression’ – which includes the Tarantino-esque track “Gang Bang” from her recent album and lots of bloodshed in the background courtesy of Moment Factory.

In keeping with the philosophy of movement, Moment Factory leveraged the state-of-the-art stage, which contains 36 motorized cubes, all covered with LEDs and constantly morphing through the show. The technology, Marsal teases, is brought to the brink in the full throttle, assault-on-the-senses finale.

Throughout the process, Marsal’s team had to ensure their content integrated seamlessly with the choreography, lighting, and other elements, which were all being conceived, revised and finalized at the same time. “The amount of communication and co-ordination in this project was insane,” says Marsal.

At the heart of the project was ringmaster Madonna, who has a reputation for being very hands on and detail oriented. These qualities may push some over the borderline, but Marsal and her team appreciated the experience. “It was a pleasure to work with her, because she was very involved in every level. We would know right away if we were going in the right direction or if we should rework the concepts. She made sure all the departments were in synch. I was surprised by her energy and talent.”

Working on the Super Bowl was good training for the tour, says Marsal. “There were plenty of things that we wanted to put into the Super Bowl that we couldn’t, because we only had 12 minutes. So the tour was a great opportunity to showcase all the ideas and everything Madonna wanted to showcase.”

As multimedia technology continues to evolve to greater heights, Marsal says the future of the concert experience also lies in the participatory aspect. Earlier in June, Moment Factory worked with singer and dancer Usher on his London show. Audience members got the opportunity to live tweet and their tweets materialized on the stage backdrop.

After months of hard work, Marsal and her colleagues enjoyed the fruits of their labour when they attended the MDNA Tour’s opening night in Tel Aviv in May and its Montreal stop on August 30. “When we saw the show for the first time and saw the public react to it, it was an amazing sensation,” says Marsal. “For me, the best part was when the show came to Montreal, and the fact that we could share our work with our colleagues, collaborators and community; it was a completely different feeling.”

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Reply #188 posted 09/12/12 2:05pm

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From the Ottawa Sun:

MADONNA WOWS CROWD AT SCOTIABANK PALACE

The fans who shelled out upwards of $300 for the hottest ticket in town know that Madonna puts on less of a concert than an all-out event.

None went home disappointed from the sold-out Scotiabank Place show that stretched well into the midnight hour.

Of course, with all the international headlines left in the wake of her MDNA tour - with the swastikas superimposed over political faces, the flaming crucifixes, the boob flashes, feigned violence and calls for revolution - it seemed like everyone was waiting to see which pot Madonna would stir next.


Truly, it just doesn’t qualify as a cause celebre anymore until Madonna’s scrawled in lipstick across her backside.


But other than a “No Fear” tattoo on her exposed back, there was little in the way of political furor, and except for a few cheeky exchanges with fans, Madonna mostly let her music do the talking.

Not that a Madonna concert is ever just about the music.
The accompanying imagery, dripping with metaphor, was just as much a part of the spectacle as the music, and, as expected from someone with Madonna’s knack for provocation, the images pulled no punches.

The show’s overture began with a dozen cloaked figures swinging a giant smoking urn over the crowd as Madonna descended from the rafters in a gilded confessional, launching her MDNA tour as she does the album with Girl Gone Wild.

Images of Renaissance-styled angels descended into a hellfire backdrop as the beat slipped into Revolver, but the opening credits to The Exorcist soon dissolved into something more closely resembling a Tarantino film.

Under the throbbing beat of Gang Bang, Madge and her femmes fatale wielded pistols and assault rifles and randomly picked off imaginary assailants in the crowd as all sorts of blood spatter and viscera splashed across the screen.

Numerous video interludes showcased her entourage of toned dancers, and allowed for the customary costume changes as the set unfolded in five distinct acts: Transgression, Prophecy, Turning Up the Hits, Masculine/Feminine and Celebration.

After such a foreboding opening, resonating with Gothic subtext, Madonna emerged from the first costume change as a caricature of her old, bubbly bleached blonde persona, dressed as a marching bandleader complete with twirling baton for Express Yourself.

And if there’s anything to the rumours of a feud between Madonna and her prime progeny Lady Gaga, the Queen still wears the crown, as she interpolated the carbon copy Born This Way, singing (somewhat cattily) “She’s not me” before busting back into Express Yourself.

And the fans - the show was, as expected, a complete sellout with more than 15,000 packing Scotiabank Place, many likely rueing Tuesday morning as the show didn’t get underway until almost 10:30 - gleefully played the part, with many dressed up and putting on their favourite era Material Girl face.

All of those faces were present on stage, too.

Madonna emerged in tight black leather slinging a matching six string for Turn Up the Radio, she was her bad Catholic girl prototype on all fours in Papa Don’t Preach, Masterpiece ushered in a cadre of Golden Age Hollywood romantics in flickering monochrome, the sex-charged groove of Human Nature featured her Erotica imagery, and she was barely recognizable as a grown-up crooning the once-bubbly Like a Virgin.

Yet, for all of her longevity, the 54-year-old Queen of Reinvention rarely showed her age, her trademark lithe moves front and centre on every song.

The only time she even hinted at her years was when she informed the audience her son, who usually dances in the show, had to miss Monday’s gig “because he had to go to school.”

Only fitting, because “back to school” is exactly where Madonna sent a new generation of impersonators.

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Reply #189 posted 09/12/12 2:11pm

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Check out great images of Madonna performing at the Scotiabank Place arena in Ottawa, Canada on Monday





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Reply #190 posted 09/14/12 5:25am

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She was awesome you guys!!! I'm glad I didn't sell my tickets, I nearly gave them up cause of being broke, but my seats were great, she looked better than Sticky and Sweet, and she brought the new songs to life smile

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