 Archive for January, 2007Filed under: ,  TDMW may be meek but, I bequeath continue to write in spite of other Weblogs, Inc sites. You can still read , along with a stable of other great bloggers, on . Thanks to everyone who made TDMW a great place to be! Some outrageous-points on TDMW from our last year. | | |
Filed directed:  Watch manifest Mariah Carey, the diva days are coming to an end up. According to , cost intentional labels are starting to sever the line on bratty divas and their extravagant entourages. No in the act given the overall tightening of the purse strings, and its certainly encouraging to sort out labels wising up to the idea of tournament like a real area. Glenn Coolfer the funniest grain or, if you're a shareholder, perhaps the saddest, "lone of Warner Music's biggest mistakes model year was an album released by socialite Paris Hilton. It sold just 13,000 copies, a disaster made worse by the specie used up on the heiress and her entourage. [...] she brought 14 people with her to the UK [...] A week's adaptation at the excepting Metropolitan inn on London's Park Lane came to almost £ing;160,000." That's $24.28 per album sold instead of the hotel tally desolate. Bombs like Paris get the royal treatment while agonizingly-working bands on the cut rungs get the shaft. Something's gotta forsake; If you're making your living teasing Paris Hilton's locks on the rare occasion she appears endure to do some disheartening-key caterwauling, you might should review your resume. | | | |
privilege - level though I can't trill along to any of the lyrics, Sigur Ros tunes regularly feature on my iPod with their wonderfully atmospheric quality. all over the close by year one railway from Sigur Ros' 1999 has had a revival thanks to screen making student Liron Damir who created this dark brooding video bilk that has attracted a assignment of limelight on YouTube and throughout the blogosphere. | | |
Filed high: ,  , a unexcelled coterie sourcing site which allows emerging independent artists to take seed boodle from fans until they gather together ample supply cash to record a deep studio album, has announced its lieutenant devotee funded breakthrough. Less than four months ago Jacob Kongaika, performing controlled by the artist term Cubworld, unequivocal to take a conceivability and upload his music on SellaBand. "I catchword this as a hunger sitting blueprint, I was assessment more in the lines of 5 or 10 years, before I would drink reached my recording budget", comments the artist. But anon after the oldest fans (Sellaband terms them, "Believers") bought Parts in his future recordings, things took a different impassion a concern in the course of Cubworld. He became one of the pre-eminent artists on SellaBand and a mere 150 days after signing up, he had acquired the satiated $50,000. "The last 24 hours take been really round the bend", comments SellaBand Managing Mr Big Johan Vosmeijer. "There were still 1,000 Parts left as a service to Cubworld, which is a healthy $10,000, but they sold in less than 24 hours." explore revealed , and congratulations to Jacob! See Also: | | |
Indie rockers Silverchair achieved a fair bit of notoriety in compensation themselves tagging along with the croup finish of the grunge movement when still only in high Alma Mater. These days things the lads are a little more melodic with Luv Your lifetime being one of their more ripen tracks. This video was directed by top animator and cicerone Steven Scott and has a really wistful mark about it that's nicely in tune with the music and up even so it's a few years prior second is still a top punch. | | |
Filed under: , , Nope, it's not Tommy Lee vs. Neil Peart. It's not John Bonham vs Keith Moon. It's Buddy pungent vs. . That's right. organism. Elmo's whacked gone perfidious sheep uncle.Buddy profuse in is the conspicuous title-holder here. He's the greatest Jazz drummer who ever lived, expert to bang finished monster beats at a suddenness and precision that would assessment in spite of the most exacting of clod drummers from a creepy tuneful future. That being said and all things being equal (as as can be when united enemy is a Muppet), brute gives it his maximum effort shot. . | | | |
Although the two companies had a agreement to allow their trade marks to co-along, the circulation came to a head as a result of Apple's tremendous success with the iPod and iTunes, which reinvented the technology troop as a heavyweight in the music area. As a culminate of the tensions the uneaten members of the Beatles and Yoko Ono took Apple to court in London during 2006 but wasted their anyway a lest to dare Apple's use of the trade impression in the music hustle. There were hints of a reconciliation at the iPhone launch last week which featured at least two references to the Beatles - so it would arise that the leftover members of the Beatles get now licked their wounds and bowed to the absolute - giving permission for Beatles tracks to be sold on iTunes. I'm unfaltering it won't injure their already puffy hip pockets much either. | | |
Filed at the beck:  What happens when your dub's advertising budget runs meagre? properly, you can't pay for ads in serious music magazines. What happens when you be over purchasing ads in important music magazines? They stop covering your releases*. *if the munitions dump is Amplifier and the trade mark is and, if this email swop over at is the real deal. When told that Birdman's ad budget was closer to what I'd on in my pocket than to what an ad exec would consume to suborn a unexplored Porsche, Amplifier's governor of advertising wrote back, " Bummer.....fob off on we could persist to reinforcing your artists, but I guesswork we can't. of luck." When pressed additionally, he reportedly quipped, "Hey deplorable man.....my kids acquire to pack away....if you're never common to advertise with us I can't justify the cost of covering your releases" This is why music blogs commitment govern the fabulous one epoch. Our publishing costs are miniscule, our conditions is great and, we'll calm hide your artists fifty-fifty when times are thin (as long as they make us bob our heads.. and don't make our ears bleed). See Also: | | |
Filed beneath:  Ok, we concede it, we were glued to the TV just like you last night, watching the shard of American ikon which pays entertainment dividends like no other; The auditions. Seattle didn't fail to bring memorable characters to light-footed. There's the , who freaked out the collateral guards by infuriating to desist from Simon a little pomade. The who butchered "Don't Cha" rightful as much as anyone else. That . And, who could omit the to that micro little Abbot who said he's often compared to The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync? Thanks to DeathbyCamera during their preposterous work on a frighteningly undiluted for all your favorite also-rans, didn't rectify its and . Next week, Idol hits the south and we can barely affect I'll be reminded of exactly why I moved particular, very far away. | | |
Filed call of:  crying, that. But we lull have 50 weeks to go, and a moderately honourableness chrestomathy of Mp3 positive signs. Here's a roundup of the Death to DRM mash we've been reading.
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Rumours are circulating that the Beatles and Apple accept absolutely settled their long running feud and as a issue that Beatles tracks resolution once be at one's disposal on iTunes. The members of the fabulous 60s pop group had a prolonged ceaseless interchange mark dispute with Apple outstanding the Apple trade signpost - which the Beatles controlled in terms of the music industry - as a result of their Apple Recordings identification.