Music News, Interviews and Reviews

Black Eyed Peas, Jason Mraz smash chart records (Reuters)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:46:17 -0700

Reuters - The Black Eyed Peas and Jason Mraz will shatter two records for longevity on the Billboard Hot 100 when the singles chart is released Thursday.

Tito Jackson says UK shows will honor Michael (AP)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:46:17 -0700

AP - Tito Jackson says he plans to pay tribute to his brother Michael during a British tour later this year.

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Daughtry announces arena tour dates (Reuters)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:46:17 -0700

Reuters - Chris Daughtry and the rock band that bears his name are only halfway through a string of summer club dates celebrating the chart-topping album "Leave This Town," but their next extended jaunt through North American arenas is already set.

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Danger Mouse Looks Through A Label, Darkly

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:29:06 -0700

Behind his "Dark Night of the Soul" collaboration with Mark Linkous
and David Lynch

The final product isn't exactly what
Danger Mouse envisioned, but the cutting-edge producer breathed a
heavy sigh of relief with the release of Dark Night of the Soul, a multimedia package he
created in tandem with songwriter Mark Linkous (the creative force
behind Sparklehorse) consisting of a record and a large-form book
of photos commissioned from filmmaker David Lynch. For the album,
Danger Mouse and Linkous created moody backing tracks, then offered
them to 10 vocalists who were charged to...

Spin goes crazy with "Purple Rain" tribute album (Reuters)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:53:31 -0700

Reuters - Spin magazine is going crazy with its July issue, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Prince's "Purple Rain" with a comprehensive oral history of the film and album and a free downloadable tribute that features nine bands doing song-for-song covers of the record's classic tracks.

Aerosmith keeping in touch with young fans (AP)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:53:30 -0700

AP - Aerosmith may be nearly 40 years old, but the group is staying connected with younger audiences.

'DVD Jon' Mocks Apple ... Big Time

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:46:27 -0700

Jon Lech Johansen, who as a teen cracked and published the code to unlock the DVD, is rankling the establishment again. His company, doubleTwist, has placed a huge, mocking advertisement outside the San Francisco Apple store.

DJs cash in on their own music using 'stolen cards'

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:39:22 -0700

A group, including a number of DJs, are accused of making hundreds of thousands of pounds by buying their own music online with stolen credit cards.

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Ticketmaster to change online system in U.S.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:21:44 -0800

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Ticketmaster agreed Monday to change its online ticket sales process after butting heads with Bruce Springsteen and his fans, but an Ontario lawsuit against the company will go ahead.

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Why give music away for free?

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:38:39 -0800

I had an email from a musician today who said he was struggling a little with the idea of giving away mp3s. It’s a really common issue, and so I thought I’d share my response.

1) You’re not giving away music, you’re giving away RECORDINGS of your music;
2) Don’t try to make money from your music, make money BECAUSE of your music;
3) Economics works differently for bits than it does for atoms.

Man 'finds US troop data' on MP3

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:37:55 -0800

A New Zealand man says he found data about US soldiers on an MP3 player he bought from a thrift shop.

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A Legal Thriller: Michael Jackson Sued by John Landis (E! Online)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:37:33 -0800

E! Online - Remember that Thriller musical we told you about yesterday? Seems Michael Jackson already has a sequel in the works.

Bruce Springsteen to launch world tour (Reuters)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:37:33 -0800

Reuters - Bruce Springsteen will launch a world tour this year, the rock performer said on his website on Tuesday as his album "Working on a Dream" hit music stores.

Concert industry posts record year despite economy

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:20:06 -0800

AP - The stock market is in the tank, the plant is closing and the neighbor is losing his home ... the perfect time to go to a concert, by one measure.

Nick Cave/Bad Seeds Catalog Gets Deluxe Reissues

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:39:07 -0700

Nick Cave has joined the push to up sell devote fans with "premium packages". Artists and labels have been late to grasp the fact that their core fan base is not impressed nor do the highly value MP3 by themselves. Expect a serious 'pile on' in the coming 6-12 months as everyone embraces new digital packaging ideas.

Dapper don Nick Cave and his old friends the Bad Seeds must be used to the deluxe treatment by now; after all, they're rock royalty if anybody is. But the band's monstrous back catalog? It may have never been treated so good before.

Mute Records is set to reissue remastered, 5.1 surround sound-enhanced versions of the entirety of the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds discography, with the initial batch of four titles due later in 2008. Cave and the Seeds' first four discs-- 1984's From Her to Eternity, 1985's The Firstborn Is Dead, 1986's Kicking Against the Pricks, and 1986's Your Funeral... My Trial-- make up that initial batch, and boy, are they in for a treat. The collector's editions will be double disc sets containing both the remastered stereo album and the new surround mix, B-sides, and new liner notes. Each album will also contain one of a series of short films (collectively titled Do You Love Me Like I Love You?) made by the UK-based team of Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

Indeed, Forsyth and Pollard are putting together Do You Love right now, and they need your help! "Have you been affected by the songs of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds?" they ask on their website. If the answer is yes, and you'd like to explain just how in front of a camera, you should probably click here pronto.

In other Cave rumblings, the theatrical production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck-- for which Nick Cave and Bad Seed/Dirty Three dude Warren Ellis composed music a couple years back-- is coming to NYC. Woyzeck will play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House on October 15, 17, and 18 as part of BAM's Next Wave Festival.