While Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends remains the biggest full-length in the United Kingdom, the band’s term limit/iPod anthem of the same name has been knocked from the top of the singles chart by Ne-Yo’s “Closer,” a disco doozy so sweet we couldn’t stop posting it in April. More »
Today is full of news about new digital-music stores, one of which is launching today, while the others are set to launch later this year. All three offerings will sell DRM-free MP3s from major-label artists, although that fact seems a bit less newsworthy today than it would have even six months ago.
• Rhapsody has launched a digital download store that sells MP3s from all four major labels. Its twist: You can sample entire songs before buying them, instead of those 30-second clips that don’t tip you off to, say, the epic coda in “November Rain.” [Silicon Alley Insider]
Like U2’s manager, Paul McGuinness, Bono firmly believes that all problems can be solved by haranguing people in power and pleading for charitable donations, rather than actually changing economic models. But one thing Bono won’t do is dis Radiohead, one of the few successful bands with any critical cachet whatsoever. So when McGuinness decided to call the Internet release of In Rainbows a failure, Bono felt it necessary to send a letter to NME making clear that while their manager doesn’t want the RIAA to consider these upstarts’ hair-brained schemes, U2 thinks the band are “courageous and imaginative,” etc., smooch smooch, let’s photo op with Barack sometime.
Unfortunately, Miley Cyrus’ new, Brett Ratner-directed video isn’t a Miley-led Guitar Hero marathon; instead, it’s a pretty straightforward clip in which Miley and a bunch of her besties lip-sync along with the super-Avrilly breakup anthem “7 Things.” More »
Bob Dylan is the most-cited musician in judicial opinions with 26 quoted lines, according to an article on the uses and misuses of popular music in legal writing by Alex B. Long. More »
ARTIST: Akon
TITLE: “Hold My Hand (feat. Michael Jackson)”
WEB DEBUT: June 29, 2008
In case you were wondering what former butcher Tad “TAD” Doyle thinks of music these days, he thinks it’s great! More »
In case you were wondering what former butcher Tad “TAD” Doyle thinks of music these days, he thinks it’s great! More »
London resident James Gostelow, the 25-year-old who achieved minor notoriety when he was punched by Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday night, is not mad at the troubled songstress at all. Hey, at least he has the best story of all his friends who went to the festival, right? Gostelow would, however, like to clear up the whole discrepancy over whether or not he was trying to paw Winehouse’s cleavage before the attack. He was just trying to get a hat that was flung by someone in the back rows! Why a hat would be worthy of grabbing during a once-in-a-lifetime extra-slurry Winehouse performance is beyond me, unless it was a Hat FM model.
Status Ain’t Hood, Tom Breihan’s blog for the Village Voice, is calling it a day. It seems that Breihan’s found himself a new gig for some yet-to-be-named online project, and that his planned departure later this week is coinciding with a potential writers’ strike at the Voice that may begin… More »
