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Please catch Sitti as she goes on a Radio Tour this month to promote her newest album “Contagious”, now available at your favorite record bars.

July 29
1:00 – 3:00pm — Magic 89.9 with Suzy & CJ

July 30
12:00 Noon — RJ100.3
1:30pm — RT 99.5
2:00pm — Mellow 94.7
3:00pm — Jam 88.3
3:30pm — Wave 89.1
4:00pm — Max 103.5
5:00pm — 96.3 WRock internet radio **
6:00pm — Easy Rock **
7:00pm — Crossover 105.1
8:00pm — RX 93.1
8:30 – 9:30pm – Magic 89.9 Boys’ Night Out guesting

**Will update information when possible.

By Phillip Cu-Unjieng

Warner Music has two new releases that come from opposite ends of the music spectrum. The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack reads like a who’s who of the current rock music scene, while their new Sitti CD finds her in an ’80s and ’90s frame of mind, giving hits from that era her signature samba/bossa spin.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack (Warner Music) —This is one of those compilations that either has us raving and rocking, or has us just thinking “quick fix” but just a hint of each band’s output. Look at the list of bands with tracks on this soundtrack — Linkin Park, Green Day, All American Rejects, the Fray, Staind, Hoobastank, Nickelback, Cheap Trick and Taking Back Sunday — and one really can’t ask for more in terms of quality bands and music. And the funny part is, my favorite tracks here are Cavo’s Let It Go and the funky cover of Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House by The Used. So if you hate buying CDs, of the mind that most of them have two, three good tracks, and the rest are filler, then this could be the wise buy for you.

Contagious Sitti (Warner Music) — As can be expected, there are the Jobim tracks that stamp authenticity to the samba muse that has dominated Sitti’s musical agenda, but what makes this new CD unique, are the covers that are given the Sitti treatment. Sade’s Your Love Is King, Sarah MacLachlan’s Adia, Smokey Robinson’s La La Means I Love You, Annie Lennox’s No More I Love You’s, Mike Francis’ Let Me In, One On One from Hall & Oates, a Basia medley and Culture Club’s Do You Really Want to Hurt Me. Really liked the Adia and One on One, and those work better than say, the Annie Lennox, which is a gut-wrenching tune now made too languid. But by and large, this is another feather in the cap for Sitti; smart selections, solid rearranging, and her voice and the formula still works.

PhilStar

“Astig” is a full-length feature digital movie that will compete at the 2009 Cinemalaya Film Festival. It is written by multi-awarded writer Jerry Gracio and directed by GB Sampedro, one of the country’s most sought-after concert, music video, TV commercial and TV show directors. “Astig” is also the first attempt of Boy Abunda and Boy So in movie production.

“Astig” is an episodic tale of four young men trying to live to survive the sexual squalor, seductive filth and emotional perversity of Manila. It stars Dennis Trillo, Edgar Allan Guzman, Arnold Reyes and Sid Lucero. Episode 1 tells the story of ARIEL (Dennis), a conman who works for a shop at C.M. Recto Avenue selling fake diplomas and other documents. He meets and falls in love with a young girl but decides to leave her. Episode 2 is about BOY (Edgar Allan), an expectant young father who has to sell his body to pay his wife’s hospital bill. Episode 3 tells the story of RONALD (Arnold), a Chinese mestizo from Zamboanga who goes to Manila to sell a decrepit building which he inherited from his father. After giving in to the seduction of a gay man who bought his property, he reaffirms his sexual identity by hiring a prostitute not knowing that she’d run away with his money. Episode 4 is about BASTE (Sid), a Marine Engineering student and an overly protective brother who wants to avenge his sister who was deceived by her boyfriend.

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