Posts for 'Music' Category

This Sunday, during Big Brother on Channel 4, a three-minute advertising break will be filled by a video for the dance group's new single "Feelin' Good". The Italian car company have paid for the video which will not appear as an advert.

A blue Punto Evo car will make a quick appearance however, it has been reported. Next week, 30-second edited versions of the same video will form part of a normal Fiat advertising campaign. A special edition of the car, called Feelin' Good, is also to go on sale.

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Superstar Prince is giving away his new album to his millions of fans . The singer has shunned selling his eagerly-anticipated CD 20TEN in the shops or releasing it online because he wants as many people as possible to hear his music.

More than 2.5 million copies of his 10-track album will be free in next ­Saturday’s Daily Mirror – the only place in the UK and Ireland it will be available. His decision is the talk of the record industry because he is the first major artist to release a new album in a national daily newspaper.

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The lineup of screenings at this year's AthFest FilmFest is pretty staggering: including shorts (but not counting individual music videos), over 30 different films will be shown over the weekend, nearly all of them produced in Athens and/or by Athenians.

Programs include Athens TeenScreen (a collection of shorts by "the next generation of Athens filmmakers"), two more separate programs of shorts (one devoted to horror films!) and the AthFest Music + Video Show, featuring about two dozen bands. Then there are the locally produced features Pushin' Up Daisies, Not Since You and The Gallon Challenge.

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Looks like rapper Snoop Dogg's an un-wanted man in one Dutch town. Snoop Dogg was dropped from the lineup of the free, Parkpop festival in The Hague after the town's authorities (including the mayor) banned him from performing in an effort to ensure the "open and friendly character" of the concert.

Snoop is reportedly "astonished" by the ban. In a statement, the rapper's management wrote: "There's been much speculation that, given the enormous response by Snoop's fans to the free festival, the local authorities would not be able to provide sufficient security."

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George Strait sits atop Billboard's list of the top 25 country music artists of the past 25 years.

The Texas-based singer beat out Garth Brooks on a star-studded list compiled by.

The magazine to coincide with its Country Music Summit on Monday and Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn.

Strait and Brooks are followed by Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson and Tim McGraw in the top five.

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A YEAR ago Brian Eno loaded the inaugural Vivid festival with sonic anaesthetics of the type dentists play to calm you during root canal treatment. For Lou Reed's opening gambit in his own Vivid he gave us an aural depiction of an extraction.

You knew you were in trouble when, before the show, a suited gentlemen handed out free earplugs. The steady, throbbing drone that greeted us by way of pre-show mood music suggested they might be necessary. I have been bothered by the volume at many shows in my time, but I do not recall previously being scared in advance.

Reed and his colleagues came on stage a mere 15 minutes late. The leader immediately set about making several electric guitars feed back to his satisfaction, and Ulrich Krieger began beating on an enormous gong. Sarth Calhoun started doing to an array of electronics what shampoo manufacturers reportedly do to mice: vicious experiments.

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After charting six previous times on the Hot Tours chart so far this year, country star Taylor Swift earns her first stint at No. 1 with $8.1 million in ticket sales revenue reported from the ongoing Fearless Tour.  Box office grosses from 10 performances at eight arenas were reported during the past week by The Messina Group, the tour's promoter.  Two of those venues, both in the metropolitan New York area, hosted Swift for two consecutive nights with the Prudential Center reporting the top gross and attendance.  The Newark, N.J. arena's $1,742,669 is the third highest gross since the tour began in April 2009.  Only Acer Arena in Sydney (Feb. 6-7) and Philadelphia's Wachovia Center (March 18-19) grossed more during their two-show runs.  Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. (May 14-15) sold just 234 seats less than Prudential Center and is this week's second highest grossing arena, and No. 5 among the top venue grosses from the Fearless Tour's trek during 2009-2010.

Veteran rock band Pearl Jam ranks No. 2 this week based on reported totals from the first three arenas on its 2010 U.S. tour.  Promoter Live Nation reported more than $2.1 million in gross sales from three mid-western arenas, with almost 34,000 tickets purchased.  Kansas City's Sprint Center (May 3), Scottrade Center in St. Louis (May 4) and Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio (May 6) are the first of 11 venues on the schedule during the brief U.S. tour leg during May.  The band will head to Europe with bookings scheduled during June and July.

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Revenue increased by 1.4%, bringing the total income for 2009 to £928.8m. Download sales provided the shot in the arm, rising by more than 50% to earn £154m, compared with £101.5m in 2008.

"It's encouraging to see industry revenues stabilise and even show modest growth in 2009," said BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor. But he warned the market was still "constrained by competition from illegal downloads".

Singles boost Sales of CD albums continued to fall in 2009, dropping by 6.1%. Digital income now represents over 20% of overall recorded music revenues, taking into account earnings from online downloads alongside mobile, subscriptions and advertising-supported services.

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Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are once again in the running for country music gold! CMT announced its first-round finalists for the CMT Music Awards.

And the two singers both picked up nominations.Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova" is nominated for both Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.

And Swift's "You Belong With Me" is in the running in the same categories. Also up for Female Video of the Year is Kellie Pickler with "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You."

Also up for best video -- which can be awarded to male, female, group, duo or collaboration -- are Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley.

Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band.Fans can vote through May 3 on CMT.com to narrow each category to four finalists, which will be announced May 11 (except for Video of the Year, for which finalists will be announced at the beginning of the awards show).

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali feels that the classical music is facing a lot of "cultural aggression" in India and it is a miracle that the young generation is still interested in preserving the tradition. "I have been seeing the cultural aggression gradually in our country. It is two hundred television channels versus traditional art whether classical music or theatre or dance," Khan said.

"I'm seeing today that the generation of Amaan and Ayaan...if they are playing classical music it is God's wish because there is so much temptations around...it is a miracle," he added. Khan points out that while the niche audience of classical music is still alive in the country, the decline in the number of concerts, especially in North India, is cause for worry.

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