Posted by Jonny on December 4th, 2008 under Music News, News
Extremely bad news for some of the world’s leading independent labels as leading UK distributor, Pinnacle Distribution, has entered administration.
One of the UK’s leading independent distributors Pinnacle held a 3.8 per cent share of the albums market in the third quarter of 2008.
Indie music label association AIM today held an emergency meeting for impacted labels, urging members that should their label be, “distributed by Pinnacle it is imperative that you take steps quickly to protect your position as best you can.”
Posted by Jonny on December 2nd, 2008 under Music News, News
In music news, we see the coming release of a rather outstanding-looking compilation featuring music from leading indie bands and designed to raise cash for HIV and AIDS awareness.
‘Dark Was The Night’ will be released on February 16 2009 on 4AD. Both Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National produced the album, with John Carlin (founder of the Red Hot Organization) its executive producer.
The video for the current single from the third Flipron album, produced by The Damned’s Rat Scabies. Flipron, if you haven’t yet come across them, are among the most powerful and evocative of the new breed of up-and-coming unique acts, capable of lyrical expression close to the evocative qualities of the poetry of William Blake.
George Michael will release his latest single, ‘December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas) for free through his website on Christmas Day.
The Daily Mail first published these claims on Friday. A spokesman for the artist said the holiday single marks the first Christmas song from Michael since 1984’s “Last Christmas,” which he created when part of the ’80s duo Wham!
The unidentified spokeswoman said the new single was recorded and written by Michael and David Austin.
The news comes as the artist recently hinted to fans that he may be considering retirement.
Posted by Jonny on November 25th, 2008 under Apple, News
New reports claim first-week US sales of the long-awaited Guns ‘N’ Roses album, ‘Chinese Democracy’, have reached between 300,000 to 500,000 copies.
The report also claims the album has seen 25,000 downloads through the iTunes Store in the US, though the album won’t show up in the charts until next week.
The band’s free MySpace streaming premiere of the album attracted 8,429,387 plays in the first four days.
Mulligan points out that as an active musician and an industry analyst, he (and we agree with him) doesn’t believe artists should be returned to some romantic position as unpaid minstrels travelling from town-to-town in hope of earning a few cents to survive.
Posted by Jonny on November 20th, 2008 under Apple, News
Microsoft has introduced its new upgraded Xbox Experience for Xbox Live. New features in this release include streaming of TV shows and films through Netflix (in the US, so far), the ability to install games to the HDD, an avatar system, and the “Community Games platform”.
Placebo will perform with Duncan Sheik and Kate Miller-Heidke during the event, which takes place at the beautiful 12th century temple. The concert will be held at Angkor Wat in Cambodia on 7 December.
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