Topic: MUSIK - on July 2, 2007 at 5:15:00 PM CEST
Anger at Prince free CD giveaway
The music industry has reacted angrily at a decision to give away the new album by US musician Prince with a tabloid newspaper.
Planet Earth will be given free with a future edition of the Mail on Sunday.
The 10-track CD from Prince - whose hits include Purple Rain, Sign O' The Times and Cream - is not due to be released until 24 July.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 2, 2007 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
Where Have All the Rock Stars Gone?
James Brown's death last December was a much more pointed, and poignant, marker of the changing role of popular music in American culture than the current exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
While the San Francisco counterculture did exemplify the importance of music to the 1960s youth movement, Brown stands out as one who became more than just a musician. He was not only the inventor of funk and the Godfather of Soul; he was also Soul Brother No. 1, a leader about whom Look magazine could ask on its cover, "Is this the most important black man in America?" Today there is no popular musician, black or white, about whom something similar might be said. Brown's televised concert in Boston the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated helped prevent riots in that city, while Los Angeles and Detroit burned. His "Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud," released later that year (1968), became the anthem of the black-power movement. Through it all, Brown never made stylistic concessions to attract a crossover audience, yet, as he himself observed, he lived the American dream, going literally from rags to riches.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 2, 2007 at 5:11:00 PM CEST
The Record Industry's Decline
This is the first part of a two-part series on the decline of the record industry. Today we're including Brian Hiatt and Evan Serpick's report on where the music business went wrong, from the current issue of Rolling Stone, as well as an interactive graphic illustrating the industry's slide. Tomorrow, check back with RollingStone.com for interviews with industry leaders on the future of the music business.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 1, 2007 at 5:45:00 PM CEST
Prince roils the U.K.
Sony BMG U.K. will not handle Prince's upcoming album release after a national British newspaper struck a deal to give the CD away. Columbia in the United States recently struck a worldwide deal, understood to cover just the new album, Planet Earth. The label's U.K. company had sought, and has now achieved, an exemption from the terms of that deal, according to a spokesman for Sony BMG.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 29, 2007 at 2:57:00 PM CEST
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn widespread criticism from music retailers.
The Mail on Sunday revealed yesterday that the 10-track Planet Earth CD will be available with an "imminent" edition, making it the first place in the world to get the album. Planet Earth will go on sale on July 24.
"It's all about giving music for the masses and he believes in spreading the music he produces to as many people as possible," said Mail on Sunday managing director Stephen Miron. "This is the biggest innovation in newspaper promotions in recent times."
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 29, 2007 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
Rolling Stone Writes Obituary For The Recording Industry's Suicide
Yeah, it's not like most of the folks outside of the recording industry didn't recognize this years ago, but Rolling Stone has pretty much summed up the situation in the recording industry by writing what is effectively an obituary for the industry's suicide.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 23, 2007 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Manu Chao Makes The Most Of Rare Appearance
When singer/guitarist Chao and his Radio Bemba Sound System band (comprised of a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, drummer and percussionist) arrived, three of them were already shirtless, no doubt knowing what a hot and sweaty show they were in for. Everyone on stage was jumping during the opening number, and periodic leaping broke out throughout the night both on stage and in the crowd. While the sextet urged fans to sing, dance, clap and thrust their fists in the air, they needed no prompting. This was no average placid Toronto rock show audience, and you can probably chalk up its exuberance to the large European and Latin contingent in the house as well as the high-energy music.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 21, 2007 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Die Hinichen - Die ordinärste Bänd von Österreich - verpönt bei Funk und Fernsehen
Die Hinichen sind eine Band aus Wien. Der Name der Band leitet sich von dem Wort hinich, was im Wiener Dialekt soviel wie "kaputt" bedeutet, ab. Hinicha (plural Hiniche) ist ein in der Wiener "Unterschicht und Unterwelt" mäßig häufig verwendetes Schimpfwort.
Ihre Songtexte befassen sich bevorzugt mit sozialen Tabuthemen wie Stuhlgang, Inkontinenz, Meteorismus, Intimgeruch oder Promiskuität. Dabei lässt sich eine gewisse Neigung zur Koprophilie und auch zur analen Fixierung nicht leugnen. Sie kokettieren mit der Frauenfeindlichkeit vieler ihrer Texte (Bsp: Die Fotze meiner Frau riecht wie das Arschloch einer Sau). Manche Lieder sind ordinäre Texte zu berühmten Melodien.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 21, 2007 at 9:35:00 AM CEST
John Lennon: The Lost Lennon Tapes - The Original Radio Shows
Welcome to the Lost Lennon Tapes, as originally broadcast by Westwood One almost 20 years ago. Please note that this podcast is not a rehash of the Lost Lennon Tapes LPs (which excerpted the music only), but consists instead of the original shows (from vinyl and/or tape sources) in their entireties, with narration, interviews, sponsor spots, etc. The sound quality is good, not fantastic, but the content is still as interesting as when it originally aired in the late 80's.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 20, 2007 at 2:04:00 PM CEST
Congressman Has Lunch With Mashup Artist
A few months back we were all shocked to hear Congressional Representative Mike Doyle come out and praise mixtapes and mashups. Doyle wondered aloud during a hearing if these new creations were really all that different than Paul McCartney copying Chuck Berry's bass lines. He named Greg Gillis, a popular mixtape maker, as an example of a "local guy done good." Newsweek journalist Steven Levy thought it might be a good idea to get the two together, and sat in on a lunch between the Congressman and the mixtape artist and performer.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 19, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
Still think Prince is socksy?
LOOK at his thick white socks and platformed flip-flops and still tell me PRINCE is a sex symbol.
The style blunder was captured as the Purple Rain star shuffled through Nice airport in France.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 19, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM CEST
Bob Marley’s Exodus First Album Released On USB Format
Bob Marley’s legendary Exodus will be released exclusively via USB memory sticks, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the landmark release. The Marley album is the first major label catalog artist to have an album released via the new USB memory stick format.
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