News from the Music Industry

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rhodney-only love

From rhodney’s new album “2Love”.His first release since the demise of his 80’s band six billion monkeys.

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Added: July 12, 2007

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:27:40 -0700

Isnaj Dui - PATTERNS IN ROCKS - CD - FBox
www.fboxrecords.co.uk Well, after my rave review of Isnaj Dui?s Mini CD release on Smallfish, I didn?t have to wait too long for the second full length Isnaj Dui collection from the Fbox vaults. The delightful ?Patterns in Rocks? sees Katie…

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:23:06 GMT

“The Triad Nightlife ” : Stories
Triad Cars went to Greensboro Coliseum Car show on July 11. If you weren’t there, here is what you missed.

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:28:00 GMT

Music copyright infringement happens all around us every day, by people downloading music from their favorite social networking site to the guy who’s reselling MP3s. Most people who commit music copyright infringement don’t realize that it’s illegal and they can be prosecuted in the United States.

Copyright infringement, as defined by Wikipedia.org states: “Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is protected by intellectual property rights law particularly the copyright in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner’s exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. The slang term bootleg (derived from the use of the shank of a boot for the purposes of smuggling) is often used to describe illicitly copied material.”

We’ve all heard of “bootleg” recordings — usually audio recordings taken from concerts and sold on home made cassettes or CDs and distributed (sometimes out of the trunk of a car) to anyone who will buy. Bootleg recordings have changed, as music copyright infringement has branched into video recordings. Music copyright infringement has exploded with the advent of the Internet, and now people from all over the world are sharing every type of imaginable file — from eBooks to audio to music. Small label artists began feeling the pinch years ago.

Many new and older artists are beginning to see the beauty of the Internet, and are offering their music for sale track-by-track on iTunes and other MP3 sales websites, as well as through their own band websites and MySpace pages. The Internet has helped up-and-coming musicians become visible, while at the same time, drastically increasing the number of music copyright infringement cases.

Music copyright infringement cases have helped to create organizations which protect the Fair Use of an item, such as a song. Organizations such as CreativeCommons.com and the Electronic Frontier Foundation help individuals know their rights under copyright laws.

While there are organizations that help you understand your rights as a purchaser of copyright use, there are organizations that want to limit the ways in which you use the products you buy. It is rumored, for example, that record distribution and production companies want to limit the ways in which you use the music you buy — they don’t want you to put it on your computer or make a Mix Tape or CD from it — for fear of “sharing.”

When music publishers and distribution companies limit uses like this, they’re creating a tidal wave of music copyright infringement cases. By limiting the use of purchased material, the companies are alienating their client base and pushing all their sales away from physical products and toward electronic ones — which are much harder to control.

Nomasterbacks CD release concert on Saturday (Honolulu Advertiser)
Honolulu hip-hop trio Nomasterbacks will kick off the release of its upcoming CD “At Your Door” with a Saturday concert at rRed Elephant. The concert will also feature Earthmovers, Kavet the Catalyst, Bless’dChil’ and DJs Memoirs, Oliver Twist, Matt Ratt, Observ and BM13.

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:17:26 GMT

“I think it’s one of the 20th century’s most powerful works,” Wellenkamp said recently. Britten wrote it in 1940 in reaction to the developing menace of the war. “I waited to find the right occasion,” said Wellenkamp. “It came in 2001, when I, too, felt the menace of war. The driving, emotionally charged score suits the theme and my wonderfully expressive dancers.” See www.joyce.org.

Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority
Enrique Iglesias - Music Exclusiv Interview Obei92

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry.His Asian ancestry comes from his mother’s side of the family.
Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipino-mestizo, Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler.
Iglesias’s career started on Indie label Fonovisa who helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States selling more Spanish albums than any other artists in that period of time. Before the turn of the millennium made a crossover into the mainstream English market and signed a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000 with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums.
Iglesias has had five Billboard Chart #1s singles in English and holds the record for most ever Spanish language #1s on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks with Seventeen. He is also the best selling Latin act in the United Kingdom as well the Best Selling International Artist in India
Iglesias’ album sales currently total over forty million, making him one of the best-selling Spanish music artists in the world. Iglesias has yet to overtake his father’s great sales figures, but has outsold Julio in single-album sales, arguably justifying the label his record company gave him as ‘best selling Spanish artist in the world’. He is the best-selling Spanish language artist of the last decade. Iglesias has said that if he has children and they wish to follow in his footsteps, he would naturally expect them also to be better than he is

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Added: July 11, 2007

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:52 -0700

There’s a lot of hype surrounding your band and the record. Do you guys feel the pressure?

Ricky Wilson, lead singer: Not really, because there’s nothing we can do about it. We can’t go and write more songs because our album’s not good enough. We can just be ourselves. People ask me if I’m worried about writing the second album, but this is more than I ever expected to do. Even if it all stopped tomorrow, we still would have achieved something pretty amazing. I’m just enjoying it for what it is.

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How’d the band get started? I heard you went through quite a transformation early on in your career.

In the beginning, we were trying so hard to just get a record deal that we forgot what was most important, which is just being yourself and not trying to be something you’re not. We weren’t very good at trying to be the Strokes. So we decided to scrap everything we’d written and be ourselves and start something new–and so far, it’s worked.

What’s your worst down-and-out story–when you were at your absolute lowest–before making it big?

We had a prior record deal, but then we lost it. We didn’t really think about tax or the future, and we were thousands and thousands in debt. I remember one day when I was working three jobs … that was the lowest point, really trying to work off the debt.

I don’t think there’s a better rock ‘n’ roll frontman than Mick Jagger, especially with his moves on the stage. You used to cover his songs in high school. Ever think of borrowing any moves?

When you start thinking about how you move onstage, you end up looking a bit stupid. You gotta dance like no one’s watching. That’s kinda what I do onstage. It’s more about just letting go, and then the audience can do the same. There’s no point in trying to look cool when you’re kicking and sweating in front of everybody.