The News Review:
- Leading the battle for independent music labels
- Copeland | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
- These Musicians Play Bars Without Leaving Home | Game News Story |…
- Mark Steel: The angry voices of disaffected youth
Leading the battle for independent music labels
New Zealand Herald – Nov 15, 2006
Impala also opposes Universal Music Group’s agreement to buy BMG Music Publishing from Bertelsmann. The US$2 billion deal announced in September and now under review by EU regulators would reduce competition Impala says. Mills an xford University graduate opened a London record store in 1974 and rode the punk wave by starting independent music label Beggars Group. The company’s artists today include the Charlatans and Thom Yorke lead singer of Radiohead.
Copeland | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
MTV.com – Nov 15, 2006
Produced by Matt Goldman who would later go on to helm records for Denison Marrs the EP (which the group split with Pacifico) was issued in 2001. A year later Copeland signed with The Militia Group an artist development company located in southern California and relocated to Atlanta to begin work on a proper studio effort. Bucklew stepped in to replace the departing Fuller (who later joined the Beautiful Mistake) and Goldman climbed aboard as producer for the emotionally driven punk-pop stylings of 2003′s Beneath Medicine Tree… The ten-song set debuted at number 115 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart within a week of its release and Eat Sleep Repeat fared similarly after its Halloween release in 2006. Two weeks later the band announced it had joined the major-label ranks of Columbia Records; the partnership didn’t last long however and Copeland realigned themselves with Tooth & Nail Records for 2008′s You Are My Sunshine. setNGrp(1);lsConf. setNKw(10);lsConf.
These Musicians Play Bars Without Leaving Home | Game News Story |…
MTV.com – Nov 15, 2006
All of these avatars were controlled by other people elsewhere in the world each logging in to hear Te — or Keiko Takamura as she’s known in “SL” play. “In ‘Second Life’ I am almost as big as you are going to get” she said. This is the new way to play music. Te didn’t have to worry about having industry connections sporting the right look or playing the kind of music that the people who live in her town want to hear. Instead she rocks out virtually and nothing (except maybe the computer she predicted last month had a “95 percent” chance of crashing midconcert) can stand in her way. Many stories have been written about “Second Life” the malleable 3-D world that is not quite a game the way “World of Warcraft” is but still has managed to draw a million users to run through its digital fields and play. And when they’re not playing people in the world are holding virtual benefit walkathons (see… the in-game frog-legged Frogg Marlowe (FroggMarlowe. com) had been sleeping on friends’ couches and struggling to find an audience for his hybrid of blues folk and punk. (Leap into Frogg Marlowe’s world in this video. ) Life had become difficult enough that he was writing songs about the most essential of problems like needing a place to urinate. Things were not good.
Mark Steel: The angry voices of disaffected youth
Independent – Nov 15, 2006
We sing this three times and then sing ‘I would rather be eaten by poisonous sand-flies of the desert than carry on living’. Now let’s try practice. “Just as post-war radicals dismissed the protest songs of the Sixties as degenerate and then hippies derided punk as ignorant it’s easy now to miss a trend in teenage music especially hip-hop that suggests they’re more articulate and political than is normally recognised. The difficulty is that hip-hop on the face of it has become a platform for promoting the adoration of advertising and wealth. If historians of the future have nothing to go on except videos from MTV they’ll be under the impression that black men in America spent all day in red silk suits and walking across to their ex-girlfriend who’s sipping cocktails by a swimming pool to plead with them to come back as they’re sorry and to prove it they’ve bought them a BMW made out of diamonds. Then she would giggle and her nine friends in bikinis would wiggle their arses by the diving board. And in 2006 that’s how everyone got through the afternoons in Harlem.