Rock in Rio is back home. After 10 years, the public will enjoy again this event that was exported and has generated enormous visibility for the city and the country internationally. The festival will be on September 23th, 24th, 25th, 30th and October 1st, 2nd. The “Parque Olímpico Cidade do Rock” is an area that [...]
Natura Nos Festival with Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol and many others
Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol, Air and Móveis Coloniais de Acaju
Rage Against The Machine is headliner of SWU
RATM in Brazil: they promise a presentation that will go down in history.
Kings Of Leon confirmed to SWU – Starts With You
According to Vírgula.com.br, Kings Of Leon will play at SWU Music And Arts Festival
Bonnaroo 2010 Downloads and Streams
Downloads and streams from the 2010 Bonnaroo music festival become available online.
Warner Music Group hears music in MTV’s online advertising network.
The music conglomerate on Wednesday announced a multiyear, nonexclusive deal to let MTV sell the ads for thousands of Warner’s online music videos.
The music video business, which MTV pioneered three decades ago but has largely abandoned, has migrated online in recent years to sites such as YouTube, Vevo and on artists’ individual home pages. The diaspora, however, has meant that artists and labels have collected very little advertising money from the videos because the clips have been spread far and wide across the Web.
That’s now beginning to change. Universal Music Group, Sony and EMI are pursuing one strategy: Combine all the videos to get critical mass though a company called Vevo and charge more for ads.
Warner appears to be charting a different course with its MTV alliance. Instead of pooling the videos into one online destination, Warner wants to keep the stuff on its artists’ individual websites. All told, Warner’s music videos garnered 26.3 million unique visitors in May, according to comScore, an online tracking firm.
If the line-up for UK music festivals is a closely guarded secret, the amount headliners are paid is even more so – even after the event.
Sometimes though figures leak out – such as the £1.5m The Libertines are reportedly being paid to reunite on the main stage of the Reading and Leeds festival this August.
The Guardian newspaper originally quoted the figure. Festival Republic, who run the event, won’t confirm it but organiser Melvin Benn says the fee will be “worth it”.
But organiser Melvin Benn says: “The Libertines getting back on stage together is an event in music history, we’re happy with the sum that they’re getting to do that and we certainly think it’ll be worth it.”
The Libertines are actually second on the bill – the three headliners this year at Reading and Leeds are Guns ‘N ‘Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink 182.
The event has sold out – but again, according to Mr Benn, the pressure for any festival organiser to get their headliners right is immense every year.
“Only Glastonbury is bigger than its headliners,” he maintains. “And that’s the biggest festival in the world. If we didn’t get the headliners right one year and there were complaints, I still think we’d sell out – but the pressure would really be on the year after.”
But even Glastonbury suffered in 2008 when it booked Jay-Z as a headliner and didn’t sell out beforehand. The event’s organiser, Michael Eavis, this year confessed he was worried they’d go bankrupt because of it, admitting they had “no reserves”.
They took no chances the year after – offering tickets for 2009 as soon as the 2008 event was over.
However, Eavis’s traditional handwritten letters to potential headliners do seem to have their desired effect – stars often agree to play Glastonbury for “next to nothing” just for the honour. Others have to pay for the pleasure of pulling off a real musical coup.
Do you remember Sublime?? In 1996 they became known by single called “Santeria” and few months later they lost the lead singer Bradley Nowell by an overdose of heroin.
Now, after an agreement with Bradley’s relatives, the band has reunited with a new name: Sublime With Rome ( because the new lead singer is named Rome Ramirez).
The band has just confirmed on their website and myspace they are going to join the festival Starts With You(SWU).
According to the website the band will perform on October 10th along with Kings of Leon, Dave Matthews Band, Linkin Park.
With this information on their website, the band confirms the presence of Kings Of Leon (only band that hasn’t been confirmed officially by the organizers)
Tickets:
The festival site has just announced that the ticket sale will begin on July 13th.
Prices will only be released days before this date.
Starts With You (or SWU) will be on 9, 10 & 11 October,at the Maeda Farm in Itu, about 70 km from Sao Paulo.
This is a very interesting article from GO4WebApps Website:
Creating the right music for the song and the instruments that go with them is a professional activity for composers. But once the tune is ready, recording and mixing and then creating, making the music work for the song is a task even professional’s take time as each song is unique in its own self. However, computer based sound studio makes this business a little lesser fuss than in real time as the whole system is automated. These days these online and digital sound studios make them in use. In fact this job has become easy. All one need is to have the creativity and knowledge of how instrument works. One need not even know how to play it. As one can create different tunes with the keyboard alone, however, choosing the right online device is important to make the activity a little less fussy and yet not lose on the quality.
Soundation is an online service with 11 real time effects 2 synthesizers and a drum machine and a fully integrated sound shop. With this, one can get creative with the tunes with minimal fuss. The mixer has many loops to choose from. In fact the whole inter phase is a very clear and user friendly. The left pane contains audio channels. The right pane contains the loops the bottom pane has the option of play rewind and forward whereas the middle pane is where one can visualize the loops chosen and that are being played. On the whole Soundation is user friendly yet having the features that are important to create music that sounds professional.
The Wall Street Journal published more details on Google’s planned music services, claiming that Google will launch a music download store later this year, tied into its search engine.
The web-based download store will benefit from music searches on Google.com – previously these have pointed people to stores from services including iLike and Lala. However, the end goal appears to be a cloud-based subscription service revolving around Google’s Android smartphones.
Peter Kafka from All Things Digital claimed that “digital music is a terrible business and Google should embrace”
HP has acquired streaming music startup Melodeo – the company behind the nuTsie service and apps – for somewhere between $30 million and $35 million. nuTsie lets people scan their iTunes playlists then access them from other devices, including BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile. The company has also released several curated playlist apps for iPhone, usually based around Top 100 songs from particular genres. The article suggests that the next version of nuTsie will let people store their entire music library in he cloud then access songs on demand. “We are excited about the potential of this technology to bring the power of cloud-based delivery services to millions of customers,” says the official HP statement. The company also recently bought smartphone maker Palm.
Microsoft has unveiled a series of new features for its Bing search engine, including beefed-up music search. Users searching for artists will now be able to find lyrics, photos, videos and tour dates. What’s more, a partnership with Microsoft’s Zune division will let them stream songs from a five million-strong catalogue.
Each user can stream individual tracks once in full, before they revert to 30-second preview clips. Bing is also serving up links to buy tracks from Zune, but also iTunes and Amazon MP3. Alongside the music changes, Microsoft has also improved Bing’s games, TV and movie search features.
There were further reshuffles at record label EMI last week. Former chief exec Charles Allen has now moved to the ambiguous role of “advisor”, with former chairman of EMI publishing Roger Faxon taking his place. What does it mean? Officially, EMI has said that it will now “reposition itself as a comprehensive rights management company serving artists and songwriters worldwide”. In other words, the label will now be concentrating on making money from its back catalogue, rather than growing newer acts. Before Allen vacated the CEO seat, he hinted at exactly this sort of strategy, telling Radio 4: “A good example of this is the work we did with the Beatles – we sold 13m albums this year.” Is this the best EMI can do? It’s a sad state of affairs when a major label focuses its efforts on a band that ceased to exist long ago.
Britain’s biggest recording industry association, the BPI, has sent a cease-and-desist order to Google, asking the search engine to take down links to nine “one-click hosting” sites, each of which hosts thousands of illegal songs.
The BPI’s complaint cites 38 links “that are available via Google’s search engine, and [requests these] links be removed as soon a possible as they directly link to sound recordings owned by [BPI] members”. The links point to songs, ranging from K’Naan’s Wavin’ Flag to Michael Bublé’s Haven’t Met You Yet, plus tracks by Eminem and the cast of TV series Glee. While Google does not operate any of the infringing websites, search queries lead users to illegal downloads at sites such as MegaUpload, SendSpace and UserShare.
To bolster its case, the BPI even cites the search queries that bring up the offending links. As stated in the letter, searches for “dizzee rascal dirtee disco” and “k’naan wavin’ flag download” bring up free download sites in the first several pages of results. This search tactic is one of downloading’s worst-kept secrets; even three years ago, major blogs such as Lifehacker were explaining similar techniques.
Speaking to CNet, BPI spokesman Adam Liversage said Google is usually willing to remove links to copyrighted content. “In most cases, Google takes down the links in question, following its own internal procedures.” But although this is true of services like Blogger, where Google has deleted several music blogs, it’s not clear whether it has the same policies with its search index.
Last October, Google removed links to the Pirate Bay – one of the most notorious illegal BitTorrent trackers – from their search index. But the link reappeared within days, and the California search gurus claimed the removal was a mistake. Because Google only indexes sites, listing them in search results but not hosting files, it argues that its hands are clean.
Then again, filesharing services such as Napster and Limewire made similar arguments, asking the courts not to “blame the messengers”. Those services were were annihilated in court. Google is unlikely to concede to the same fate.
EMI has unveiled a surprise restructure that brings the company’s recorded music and publishing divisions closer together, under a new boss. EMI Music Publishing boss Roger Faxon will take charge as group chief executive, with EMI Recorded Music’s non-executive chairman Charles Allen stepping aside to an advisory role.
The company says its aim is to “reposition itself as a comprehensive rights management company that can take full advantage of all global opportunities in all markets for music”. The Financial Times suggests that investors in Terra Firma – who just sanctioned a £105 million cash injection to EMI – were “bemused by the news, as many had not heard of the planned shake-up”
Creating the right music for the song and the instruments that go with them is a professional activity for composers. But once the tune is ready, recording and mixing and then creating, making the music work for the song is a task even professional’s take time as each song is unique in its own self. However, computer based sound studio makes this business a little lesser fuss than in real time as the whole system is automated. These days these online and digital sound studios make them in use. In fact this job has become easy. All one need is to have the creativity and knowledge of how instrument works. One need not even know how to play it. As one can create different tunes with the keyboard alone, however, choosing the right online device is important to make the activity a little less fussy and yet not lose on the quality.
