Monday, 1 September 2008
New Kids (and Same Old Groupies) on the Block
The boys from Beantown still managed to pull a big crowd, despite not having a Top 10 single since 1990.
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Friday, 22 August 2008
PINK
So much for amicable breakups. Since visiting Splitsville with hubby/motocross star topology Carey Hart, Pink has taken the high road in the press, simply in real life she�s laughing all the way to the studio.
The leading single turned her fifth album is almost whole directed at Hart and teeters 'tween self-empowerment and schoolyard parody, from the opening chants of �na na na na na na na� to the icy chorus, �So, so what?/I�m motionless a rock star/I got my rock'n'roll moves/and I don�t demand you/And infer what?/I�m having more fun/and now that we�re done/I�m gonna show you tonight/I�m alright, I�m just fine/and you�re a tool/so, so what?�
Perhaps the lady doth protest too much, as hints of loneliness and absent-husband syndrome creep in. Regardless, breakups, attitude and guitar riffs sure make for fun music.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
When music barely pays the bills
As a routine classical musician, he lugs a 40-pound double bass from business district Los Angeles to Century City to Azusa and points in between.
"In the most reductionist price, I am paid to come in with my bass and play these notes," he said, transactions before descending, tuxedo-clad, into the orchestra pit at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. "We ar the laborers."
Eckert's quotidian illustrates how the business of producing beautiful sounds can
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Fatal
Artist: Fatal
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Transparent (TPT011)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Rapper Fatal first surfaced as a appendage of the Outlaws, a collective organized by Tupac Shakur during his 1994 immurement in an upstate New York prison house mobile telephone set. Also including rapper Khadafi, the Outlaws made their recorded debut on Shakur's All Eyez on Me album; however, afterward Shakur and Khadafi were both murdered in separate 1996 incidents, Fatal was forced to go it solitary, signing with the Relativity label to release his solo debut In the Line of Fire.
Nathan Lane - Lane Becomes An Addams
Rob Stevenson to be president of Virgin US
EMI Music has appointed Rob Stevenson to president of Virgin US, effective Aug. 15. He will be based in the company's New York office and report to Nick Gatfield, president of A&R for North America, U.K. and Ireland at EMI Music.
Most late, Stevenson was executive VP of A&R at Island Def Jam Music Group in the United States. In that role, he signed and helped develop such artists as Fall Out Boy, the Killers, the Bravery, Sum 41, Lady Sovereign, Saliva and Thrice, among others.
In addition to his A&R persona, Stevenson also served as president of Stolen Transmission, a joint venture imprint label with Island Def Jam Music Group. Prior to that, he held various older A&R positions at Universal Music Group.
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Deemi
Artist: Deemi
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
Soundtracks of my life
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
R&B vocalist Deemi, hailing from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood, took tattle severely as early as heights school, attention Manhattan's Talent Unlimited High School. In 1998, she crossed paths with producers Chris Styles and Bruce Waynne. The two helped her craft a demo, but she later realized that she should sing more roughly her possess life story (including physical ill-use at the men of her father, as well as organism the mother of deuce children prior to turning 21) than simply interpret common relationship themes. Eventually sign to Atlantic through a partnership 'tween organizations run by Styles and Waynne (the latter is one half of Midi Mafia), Deemi was mark to release her first album, The Soundtrack of My Life, in 2007.