The News Review:
- What The Hell Happened To…12.01.08: The Offspring – Splinter
- His health-care reform plan: music therapy
- A new spin
What The Hell Happened To…12.01.08: The Offspring – Splinter
411mania.com TX
With the band in full swing and signed to Epitaph Records before the release of their sophomore album 1994 came around and Smash hit the airways. With singles “Come Out And Play” “Self-Esteem” and “Gotta Get Away” Smash has sold over six million copies in the US alone. While no following album reached the success of Smash the album made The Offspring a household name in punk music.
His health-care reform plan: music therapy
San Diego Union Tribune CA
? For Hurley a self-taught drummer percussionist keyboardist and flutist music has been a source of happiness and delight since he was a child. He was 16 when his mother bought him his first drum set a used Pearl jazz kit. But punk-rock not jazz was his passion and he spent the next 8 years playing in the local punk band Against the Wall. ?I really wanted to do the quintessential punk beat ? a galloping rhythm and a backbeat with the snare drum constantly on the one and the kick drum alternating in between. I thought that was the best thing ever? Hurley said. ?By the time I could play it we could write songs. Because that rhythm is in every punk-rock song.
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A new spin
Boston Globe United States
Collins says SoundExchange which collects royalties for digital music transmission estimated that he would have had an annual minimum fee of $2500 if the new royalty rates had stuck; he declined to say how much he was paying before the announcement. Copyright holders and Internet radio entities are negotiating the initially announced rates. “Initially I decided I was going to shut down my station” says Justin Scott a 30-year-old Weymouth resident who started his emo punk and ska station Angry Monkey Fight on Live365 two years ago but has had stations at other sites for about 10 years. “I was concerned I was going to be nailed for previous fees. I got a lot of fan mail had people donate money. There are a lot of people who want me to keep it going. “If the royalties issue is resolved the number of Internet radio webcasters and listeners could rise dramatically.