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Rock In Rio is back home

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 [...]

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Natura Nos Festival with Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol and many others

Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol, Air and Móveis Coloniais de Acaju

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Rage Against The Machine is headliner of SWU

RATM in Brazil: they promise a presentation that will go down in history.

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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

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Bonnaroo 2010 Downloads and Streams

Downloads and streams from the 2010 Bonnaroo music festival become available online.

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Wind Music Awards Bring Out Italian Music Industry

Posted by @altair02 on May 31st, 2010

The Italian music industry gathered at Verona’s picturesque Roman arena on Friday (May 28) and Saturday (May 29) nights for the fourth edition of the Wind Music Awards.

Rather than awarding prizes in individual categories, the WMA show is for Italian artists who have received gold or platinum albums in the last year. At least 40 artists took awards, in addition to performing. They included Giovanni Allevi, Biagio Antonacci, Marco Carta, Elisa, Gianna Nannini and Renato Zero, while Kylie Minogue and David Guetta were among the foreign guests.

A total of 12,000 spectators attended each of the two nights, which will be broadcast in three parts on the Silvio Berlusconi-owned Italia Uno TV network on June 2, 9 and 16.

The event, which is sponsored by the Wind mobile phone company, has no official role, but it does enjoy the full cooperation of the Italian music industry’s three main representative bodies, namely FIMI (for the majors), PMI and AFI (for the indies). The Awards show was produced by Francesco Salzano of the F&P agency and Giancarlo Mazzi on behalf of Arena Extra. Mazzi also directs Italy’s flagship Sanremo festival in February.

The Verona arena had traditionally been the setting for the final night of Italy’s summer-long Festivalbar festival, which had been a feature of the calendar since 1964. Festivalbar has not, however, been held since 2007 and the Wind Music Awards appear to be taking its place as Italy’s principle summer music event.

By Mark Worden, Milan

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AC/DC Holds Off Stones On Euro Chart

Posted by @altair02 on May 28th, 2010

AC/DC‘s “Iron Man 2″ soundtrack (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment) withstands the challenge of the Rolling Stones to start a fifth week atop Billboard’s European Albums chart. Stromae moves into a ninth non-consecutive week at No. 1 on European Hot 100 Singles with “Alors On Danse” (Mosaert/Vertigo).

The AC/DC album posts another week at the top of the Swedish and Austrian charts, and races 15-3 in Norway. But it slips 1-3 in the Belgian region of Flanders and is in a slow descent in most other European markets.

Behind it as a “new” entry at No. 2 on European Albums is the Stones’ reissued “Exile on Main St” (Polydor/Universal). The 1972 classic, now augmented with an optional second CD of unreleased and newly-completed material, arrives at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and Norway, No. 2 in Spain and Holland, No. 3 in Germany, No. 5 in Denmark, No. 7 in Austria, No. 8 in Switzerland and Flanders and No. 9 in neighboring Wallony.

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Gorillaz announced as new Friday headliners

Posted by @altair02 on May 26th, 2010

We’re very pleased to announce that the Friday night Pyramid Stage headline slot which U2 have been forced to vacate will now be taken by Gorillaz, who called offering their services once the news about U2 had broken.

Said Michael Eavis: “This is going to be Gorilllaz’ only UK festival appearance, and it’ll be a massive audio visual spectacle which will really ignite the Pyramid on the Friday night, with Muse, then Stevie Wonder to follow.

“I’m very excited about Gorillaz’ show coming here because they’re so open to guests and collaborations. The alchemy of Friday’s show is going to be astonishing: a perfect, contemporary way to kick off the 40th anniversary celebrations.

“I am so grateful for the enthusiasm of the media and the whole of the music industry for their willingness and eagerness to support us in what could have been a crisis.”

Said Murdoc from Gorillaz: “We’re like some great big horrible warship pulling in to the Bay of Glastonbury to save the day. It was us or The Beatles and they split up years ago. The previous soldiers got pulled from duty last minute so it’s up to my Plastic Beach naval cavalry to sail in and sort the battlefield out. I can assure you though, I’m bringing extra troops. Loads of them. Glastonbury will be ours…cutlasses drawn, trumpets ready. We’re coming in…”

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U2 forced to cancel Glastonbury appearance

Posted by @altair02 on May 25th, 2010

Following a phone call from Bono to Michael Eavis this morning, we’re extremely sorry to report that U2 will not be able to perform their headline slot at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. This is due to the serious back injury which Bono sustained last week and the subsequent medical advice he has received.

Said Bono: “I’m heartbroken. We really wanted to be there to do something really special – we even wrote a song especially for the Festival.”

Said Michael Eavis: “It was obvious from our telephone conversation that U2 are hugely disappointed. Clearly, they were looking forward to playing the Pyramid Stage as much as we were looking forward to watching them. At this point, we have no comment to make about possible replacements for U2′s Friday night slot. Instead, we would simply like to send Bono our very best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.”

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Music Seminar With Living Legends To Feature Yoko Ono

Posted by @altair02 on May 22nd, 2010

Advertising agency Grey New York has announced that its fourth annual Music Seminar with Living Legends will feature Yoko Ono on Friday, June 25, at the Debussy, in Cannes, France. The event will be part of the 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Ono will be interviewed by Tim Mellors, Worldwide creative director of Grey Group, and introduced by Josh Rabinowitz, director of music, Grey New York.

Rabinowitz will also preside over the music jury at the London International Awards, an advertising awards ceremony to be held November 8. This is the first time in its 25-year history that LIA has introduced a jury panel that will be judging the Music categories across all media. LIA is also the first major awards show to recognize and honor Music categories across all media with a separate Jury President and panel.

Additionally, Rabinowitz will moderate two panels June 16 at the Billboard Music and Advertising Conference in New York City.

By Cortney Harding, N.Y.

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Mobile Music Downloads Struggle To Make Headway

Posted by @altair02 on May 20th, 2010

Fewer than 2% of mobile users in the United States and western Europe used their phone to download music in the first quarter, showing the uphill task facing Apple iTuneschallengers like Nokia.

Although 24% listened to music on their phone, the vast majority loaded the tracks on to their handset from music they already had on a computer, according to data from industry trackercomScore released on Wednesday (May 19).

Services such as Nokia’s Comes With Music and advertising-funded start-up Spotify, which both launched in late 2008, have sought to break iTunes’s virtual monopoly of the legal market for digital music.

Nokia does not say how many users it has for Comes With Music, which comes free with certain handsets and allows users to download millions of tunes to their phones or PC for a year and keep them afterwards.

Stockholm-based Spotify has more than 7 million users. It has a free service for listeners who accept advertising, and paid-for services without ads.

Rhapsody America was one of the first services to offer unlimited music packages, in 2007, in an attempt to rival iTunes. Its owners, RealNetworks and Viacom, are now separating it into an independent company.

ComScore’s data was gathered from users aged 13 and over in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States.

The figures also showed that 82% of users in the five European countries used their phone for text messaging, 35% for applic

By Georgina Prodhan, Reuters

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Avon Onboard With Black Eyed Peas World Tour

Posted by @altair02 on May 20th, 2010

Hip-hop foursome the Black Eyed Peas have announced that their 2010 “The E.N.D World Tour” has partnered with Avon Products. The company will be the tour’s official fragrance and cosmetics sponsor. The tour has existing sponsorships in place with Blackberry and Bacardi as well.

The Avon sponsorship comes after an announcement by the brand that it had partnered with Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie on a fragrance called “Outspoken.” In addition to collaborating on the perfume, Fergie and bandleader will.i.am will create an exclusive track for the Avon “Outspoken” campaign, produced, composed and recorded by will.i.am.

The Black Eyed Peas will be joined by Avon when they kick off their global tour in Ireland with booths at select stops along the way where fans can sample the perfume and hear the exclusive track.

“Outspoken” by Fergie will be available in Western Europe this month with launches in North America, Latin America and other global markets to come.

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Canadian Court: 30-Second Samples Exempt From Royalties

Posted by @altair02 on May 18th, 2010

The Canadian Federal Court of Appeals has said online music services do not owe performance royalties for 30-second samples meant to offer customers a preview of tracks they may later purchase. The Copyright Board of Canada came to the same conclusion in early 2009. Both decisions were losses for the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).

Last week, explains IP attorney and blogger Barry Sookman, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled that online music services’ use of 30-second samples qualifies as a fair dealing under the Canadian Copyright Act. Fair dealing is a set of limitations and exceptions to copyright law. It is similar to fair use doctrine of U.S. copyright law.

The decision in what is known as “The Tariff 22 Case” centered around the word “research” in the Copyright Act. Research is one of the fair dealing exceptions outlined by the Copyright Act. SOCAN argued “research” meant formal scientific and analytic activities, not informal window shopping by potential customers. The court disagreed, saying “research” includes activities when a “consumer is searching for an object of copyright that he or she desires and is attempting to locate and wishes to ensure its authenticity and quality before obtaining it.”

The issue of 30-second preview royalties may eventually become a bigger issue in the U.S. In 2009, A report at CNET said U.S. publishers and performing rights organizations had started pushing for performance royalties for 30-second previews as well as digital downloads. Quoted in that article was an Encore interview with David Renzer, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group. Users “go on iTunes and can do lots of things other than download a mechanical (track),” he said. “You can stream radio, and you can preview (tracks), things that we should be getting paid performance income for.”

By Brian Morrissey, Adweek

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EMI Confirms Terra Firma Equity Cure

Posted by admin on May 15th, 2010

EMI has confirmed that it will receive “additional sums” from Terra Firma and its investors – thought to be £105 million ($153 million) – that will avoid a breach of the major’s loan covenant with Citigroup.

Maltby Capital, the investment vehicle used to acquire EMI, has informed Citigroup about the receipt of this confirmation for new equity.

The equity cure, which is expected to be completed by no later than June 14, gives Terra Firma breathing space for another year. Citigroup holds more than £3 billion ($4.4 billion) of EMI debt.

“We are very pleased to have received this confirmation of an additional investment, which is a vote of confidence in EMI from Terra Firma and its investors, following the significant improvement in the company’s operating performance,” said Charles Allen, executive chairman of EMI Music, in a statement.

It is unclear whether the extra investment will come entirely from the firm’s existing investors or another source of capital.

Hands had reportedly been hoping to raise £360 million ($524.6 million) to see EMI through any other covenant tests until 2015. Reuters reported that Terra Firma plans to go back to investors for the remaining £255 million ($371.6 million) at some point.

By Andre Paine, London

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Thom Yorke To Play Big Chill Fest

Posted by @altair02 on May 15th, 2010

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has been announced as one of the main acts for this year’s Big Chill Festival, joining MIA and Massive Attack on the Deer Park Stage this summer.

Other previously announced acts for the 40,000-capacity festival include Kruder & Dorfmeister, Kelis, Roots Manuva and Plan B.

Festival Republic, which is majority owned by Live Nation, acquired the Big Chill at the end of last year, after previous owners Chillfest Limited was placed into voluntary liquidation in 2009.

The Big Chill is held at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire, from August 5-8. The event will also feature the Tate Britain’s Rude Britannia as apart of its arts program.

In related news, those who purchased full-priced tickets through Ticketline to the Glade Festival (Billboard.biz, May 12) can now swap their tickets for a weekend ticket to the Big Chill. The Glade Festival 2010 was recently canceled due to what organizers called an “unexpected forced increase in security and police costs as well as a level of advanced ticket sales below expectations.”

By Crystal Bell, London

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