Отправлено: 13.07.11 09:22. Заголовок: Группа Queen объявил..
Группа Queen объявила конкурс на лучший видеоклип
Группа Queen проведет конкурс на лучший ролик, отснятый на композицию "Sheer Heart Attack". Сообщение об этом появилось на официальном сайте коллектива.
Упомянутая композиция входила в альбом "News of the World", выпущенный в 1977 году. Сейчас группа ищет клипмейкеров, которые сумели бы снять ролик, наполненный свежими идеями, но при этом ориентировались бы на "канонические видеоклипы" Queen. Конкурс на лучший ролик приурочен к 40-летию коллектива.
Конкурсные работы будут приниматься до 27 июля 2011 года. Затем жюри займется оценкой клипов, в результате чего появится шорт-лист из ста роликов. Выбором финалиста займутся участники Queen Брайан Мэй и Роджер Тэйлор, а также британский режиссер Дэвид Мале (David Mallet). Мале ранее снимал клипы на композиции Queen ("I Want to Break Free", "Radio Ga Ga", "Who Wants to Live Forever"), Дэвида Боуи, AC/DC и других групп и исполнителей.
Лучший ролик будет размещен на сайте Queen, а также на официальных страницах группы в различных социальных сетях. Создатель клипа-победителя получит полторы тысячи долларов и ценные призы. Имя финалиста будет названо 11 августа 2011 года
Отправлено: 25.07.11 11:40. Заголовок: Читатели Rolling Sto..
Читатели Rolling Stone выбрали лучшую прог-рок группу
Журнал Rolling Stone опубликовал на собственном сайте список из десяти лучших групп, специализирующихся на так называемом прогрессивном роке.
Перечень был составлен по результатам читательского голосования. Наибольшее количество голосов набрало канадское трио Rush. При этом редакторы Rolling Stone отмечают, что эта группа набрала значительно больше голосов, чем даже ближайшие ее конкуренты.
Группа Rush была создана в Торонто в начале 1970-х годов. На сегодняшний день дискография коллектива включает 18 студийных альбомов. "Snakes & Arrows", последний из них, был выпущен в мае 2007 года. С начала 2010 года участники Rush работают над материалом для следующего диска, который будет называться "Clockwork Angels".
Полностью десятка лучших прог-рок-коллективов, составленная при участии читателей Rolling Stone, выглядит так:
Rush Pink Floyd Genesis Jethro Tull King Crimson Yes Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tool Mars Volta Dream Theater
Отправлено: 16.08.11 10:21. Заголовок: Record Industry Brac..
Record Industry Braces for Artists’ Battles Over Song Rights
Since their release in 1978, hit albums like Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” the Doobie Brothers’ “Minute by Minute,” Kenny Rogers’s “Gambler” and Funkadelic’s “One Nation Under a Groove” have generated tens of millions of dollars for record companies. But thanks to a little-noted provision in United States copyright law, those artists — and thousands more — now have the right to reclaim ownership of their recordings, potentially leaving the labels out in the cold.
When copyright law was revised in the mid-1970s, musicians, like creators of other works of art, were granted “termination rights,” which allow them to regain control of their work after 35 years, so long as they apply at least two years in advance. Recordings from 1978 are the first to fall under the purview of the law, but in a matter of months, hits from 1979, like “The Long Run” by the Eagles and “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer, will be in the same situation — and then, as the calendar advances, every other master recording once it reaches the 35-year mark.
The provision also permits songwriters to reclaim ownership of qualifying songs. Bob Dylan has already filed to regain some of his compositions, as have other rock, pop and country performers like Tom Petty, Bryan Adams, Loretta Lynn, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits and Charlie Daniels, according to records on file at the United States Copyright Office.
“In terms of all those big acts you name, the recording industry has made a gazillion dollars on those masters, more than the artists have,” said Don Henley, a founder both of the Eagles and the Recording Artists Coalition, which seeks to protect performers’ legal rights. “So there’s an issue of parity here, of fairness. This is a bone of contention, and it’s going to get more contentious in the next couple of years.”
With the recording industry already reeling from plummeting sales, termination rights claims could be another serious financial blow. Sales plunged to about $6.3 billion from $14.6 billion over the decade ending in 2009, in large part because of unauthorized downloading of music on the Internet, especially of new releases, which has left record labels disproportionately dependent on sales of older recordings in their catalogs.
“This is a life-threatening change for them, the legal equivalent of Internet technology,” said Kenneth J. Abdo, a lawyer who leads a termination rights working group for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and has filed claims for some of his clients, who include Kool and the Gang. As a result the four major record companies — Universal, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner — have made it clear that they will not relinquish recordings they consider their property without a fight.
“We believe the termination right doesn’t apply to most sound recordings,” said Steven Marks, general counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America, a lobbying group in Washington that represents the interests of record labels. As the record companies see it, the master recordings belong to them in perpetuity, rather than to the artists who wrote and recorded the songs, because, the labels argue, the records are “works for hire,” compilations created not by independent performers but by musicians who are, in essence, their employees.
Independent copyright experts, however, find that argument unconvincing. Not only have recording artists traditionally paid for the making of their records themselves, with advances from the record companies that are then charged against royalties, they are also exempted from both the obligations and benefits an employee typically expects.
“This is a situation where you have to use your own common sense,” said June M. Besek, executive director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at the Columbia University School of Law. “Where do they work? Do you pay Social Security for them? Do you withdraw taxes from a paycheck? Under those kinds of definitions it seems pretty clear that your standard kind of recording artist from the ’70s or ’80s is not an employee but an independent contractor.”
Daryl Friedman, the Washington representative of the recording academy, which administers the Grammy Awards and is allied with the artists’ position, expressed hope that negotiations could lead to a “broad consensus in the artistic community, so there don’t have to be 100 lawsuits.” But with no such talks under way, lawyers predict that the termination rights dispute will have to be resolved in court.
“My gut feeling is that the issue could even make it to the Supreme Court,” said Lita Rosario, an entertainment lawyer specializing in soul, funk and rap artists who has filed termination claims on behalf of clients, whom she declined to name. “Some lawyers and managers see this as an opportunity to go in and renegotiate a new and better deal. But I think there are going to be some artists who feel so strongly about this that they are not going to want to settle, and will insist on getting all their rights back.”
So far the only significant ruling on the issue has been one in the record labels’ favor. In that suit heirs of Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley, who died in 1981, sued Universal Music to regain control of and collect additional royalties on five of his albums, which included hits like “Get Up, Stand Up” and “One Love.”
But last September a federal district court in New York ruled that “each of the agreements provided that the sound recordings were the ‘absolute property’ ” of the record company, and not Marley or his estate. That decision, however, applies only to Marley’s pre-1978 recordings, which are governed by an earlier law that envisaged termination rights only in specific circumstances after 56 years, and it is being appealed.
Congress passed the copyright law in 1976, specifying that it would go into effect on Jan. 1, 1978, meaning that the earliest any recording can be reclaimed is Jan. 1, 2013. But artists must file termination notices at least two years before the date they want to recoup their work, and once a song or recording qualifies for termination, its authors have five years in which to file a claim; if they fail to act in that time, their right to reclaim the work lapses.
The legislation, however, fails to address several important issues. Do record producers, session musicians and studio engineers also qualify as “authors” of a recording, entitled to a share of the rights after they revert? Can British groups like Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and Dire Straits exercise termination rights on their American recordings, even if their original contract was signed in Britain? These issues too are also an important part of the quiet, behind-the-scenes struggle that is now going on.
Given the potentially huge amounts of money at stake and the delicacy of the issues, both record companies, and recording artists and their managers have been reticent in talking about termination rights. The four major record companies either declined to discuss the issue or did not respond to requests for comment, referring the matter to the industry association.
But a recording industry executive involved in the issue, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak for the labels, said that significant differences of opinion exist not only between the majors and smaller independent companies, but also among the big four, which has prevented them from taking a unified position. Some of the major labels, he said, favor a court battle, no matter how long or costly it might be, while others worry that taking an unyielding position could backfire if the case is lost, since musicians and songwriters would be so deeply alienated that they would refuse to negotiate new deals and insist on total control of all their recordings.
As for artists it is not clear how many have already filed claims to regain ownership of their recordings. Both Mr. Springsteen and Mr. Joel, who had two of the biggest hit albums of 1978, as well as their managers and legal advisers, declined to comment on their plans, and the United States Copyright Office said that, because termination rights claims are initially processed manually rather than electronically, its database is incomplete.
Songwriters, who in the past typically have had to share their rights with publishing companies, some of which are owned by or affiliated with record labels, have been more outspoken on the issue. As small independent operators to whom the work for hire argument is hard to apply, the balance of power seems to have tilted in their favor, especially if they are authors of songs that still have licensing potential for use on film and television soundtracks, as ringtones, or in commercials and video games.
“I’ve had the date circled in red for 35 years, and now it’s time to move,” said Rick Carnes, who is president of the Songwriters Guild of America and has written hits for country artists like Reba McEntire and Garth Brooks. “Year after year after year you are going to see more and more songs coming back to songwriters and having more and more influence on the market. We will own that music, and it’s still valuable.”
In the absence of a definitive court ruling, some recording artists and their lawyers are talking about simply exercising their rights and daring the record companies to stop them. They complain that the labels in some cases are not responding to termination rights notices and predict that once 2013 arrives, a conflict that is now mostly hidden from view is likely to erupt in public.
“Right now this is kind of like a game of chicken, but with a shot clock,” said Casey Rae-Hunter, deputy director of the Future of Music Coalition, which advocates for musicians and consumers. “Everyone is adopting a wait-and-see posture. But that can only be maintained for so long, because the clock is ticking.”
Отправлено: 13.09.11 11:45. Заголовок: Бадди Холли получил ..
Бадди Холли получил звезду на Аллее славы Голливуда
Американский музыкант Бадди Холли, считающийся одним из основоположников рок-н-ролла, посмертно удостоен звезды на Аллее славы Голливуда. Как сообщает CNN, церемония закладки звезды около офиса Capitol Records в Лос-Анджелесе состоялась 7 сентября 2011 года, в день 75-летия со дня рождения певца.
Среди прочих на церемонии присутствовали вдова музыканта Мария Елена Холли и актер Гэри Бьюзи, который в 1978 году исполнил роль Холли в биографической ленте "История Бадди Ходди".
Выступая перед собравшимися, вдова Бадди Холли заявила, что ее муж мечтал писать музыку для фильмов и оставить свой след в Голливуде, и теперь его вторая мечта смогла осуществиться.
Бадди Холли (настоящее имя - Чарльз Хардин Холли) погиб в авиакатастрофе в 1959 году в возрасте 22 лет. За свою карьеру он успел выпустить лишь три полноценных альбома, однако многие его песни стали хитами и оказали большое влияние на последующие поколения музыкантов.
В честь празднования 75-й годовщины со дня рождения Бадди Холли различные музыканты подготовили несколько трибьютов. Так, уже вышел сборник каверов под названием "Rave On Buddy Holly", в записи которого приняли участие Пол Маккартни, Лу Рид, Патти Смит, The Black Keys, Modest Mouse и другие.
Также ожидается выход сборника "Listen to Me: Buddy Holly" с участием Ринго Старра, Брайана Уилсона, Джексона Брауна, Криса Айзека и других. Кроме того, Гэри Бьюзи записывает вместе с продюсером Ти Боун Бернеттом диск песен Холли.
Отправлено: 18.01.12 23:11. Заголовок: "The Twist" ..
"The Twist" Ruled The Music World (Again) 50 Years Ago
“The Twist” by Chubby Checker remains a unique single in American music history. While hundreds of singles have reached number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, fell out of that position, and then returned to the top, only “The Twist” reached number one in two completely different chart runs. It reached the top for the week of September 19, 1960 and again January 13, 1962, where it remained for two weeks.
The song first saw the light of day as the flip side of an obscure Hank Ballard and the Midnighters single “Teardrops On Your Letter." Ballard re-released the song as an A-side on July 18, 1960. Checker released his version a couple of weeks later on August 1st. It all came down to Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Ballard wasn’t available but Checker was, and the rest, as they say, is history as his performance on the show made his release the big hit.
Its first chart run was fueled by teenagers, but during the intervening 18 months the dance had become a phenomenon, even accepted by adults. It was one of the first rock songs to cross over to an older audience as the dance craze was appearing in clubs across the United States. Dozens of artists would issue Twist songs to capitalize on its popularity. Joey Dee and The Starliters would also top the charts with their version called “Peppermint Twist.” Checker would release “Let’s Twist Again,” “Twistin’ USA,” and “Slow Twistin.’” Its lasting appeal would be apparent by its reaching number two on the U.K. singles chart during 1988.
The dance was brilliant in its simplicity: swivel your hips and move your knees and arms back and forth, and there you have it. It was so simple even I can do it, and I can’t dance.
Checker would go one to release a number of dance records including “Pony Time,” “The Hucklebuck,” “The Fly,” and “Limbo Rock,” but none had the lasting impact of “The Twist,” which ruled the music world a half-century ago this week.
Шведская поп-группа ABBA, распавшаяся 30 лет назад, объявила о переиздании своего последнего альбома "The Visitors".
Как сообщается на официальном сайте коллектива, подарочный вариант диска, впервые вышедшего в 1981 году, поступит в продажу 23 апреля 2012 года. Помимо оригинального альбома, содержащего такие хиты как "One Of Us", "Head Over Heels" и "Slipping Through My Fingers", переиздание будет содержать DVD-диск с архивными видеоматериалами и семь бонус-треков. Примечательно, что один из них, "From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel", ранее никогда не издавался.
Новая песня из архивов ABBA публикуется впервые с 1994 года, когда вышел бокс-сет "Thank You For The Music" с большим количеством раритетов.
Треклист переиздания "The Visitors" выглядит следующим образом:
The Visitors Head Over Heels When All Is Said And Done Soldiers I Let The Music Speak One Of Us Two For The Price Of One Slipping Through My Fingers Like An Angel Passing Through My Room Should I Laugh Or Cry I Am The City You Owe Me One Cassandra Under Attack The Day Before You Came From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel (demos)
Альбом "The Visitors" стал восьмым в студийной дискографии ABBA. Через год после его выхода одна из самых успешных групп в истории поп-музыки прекратила творческую деятельность и с тех пор неоднократно отвергала любые предложения о воссоединении.
Отправлено: 05.04.12 09:10. Заголовок: Джо со своим новым а..
Джо со своим новым альбомом возбудился не на шутку.После окончания тура Иглс,который начался вчера,он отправится со своим сольным по Америке.
Joe Walsh Sets 2012 Solo Dates
Bruce Springsteen’s been opening up his recent shows with the bold declaration that he’s “the hardest-working white man in show business,” but Joe Walsh may have him beat. A string of solo tour dates throughout May and the summer are just the latest additions to his packed dance card.
Not only has Walsh been palling around with Paul McCartney, he’s also got his own new solo record, ‘Analog Man,’ due out June 5 and plans to join the Eagles for a handful of dates throughout the year, including the New Orleans Jazz & Hertiage Festival. He’s even found time to hit the studio with his bandmates from the James Gang working on both re-recorded hits and fresh material.
Somewhere in between all that, he’ll be playing some solo dates, from a brief initial swing through Oklahoma and Texas in May through a series of summer festivals and the occasional casino stop. There’s plenty of breathing room between shows so if he’s not headed to your neck of the woods, don’t fret; more dates may be on the way. Or maybe he’ll just be too busy with one of his fifteen thousand other projects to hit the stage more often.
Отправлено: 09.04.12 00:02. Заголовок: И не говори: Джефф у..
И не говори: Джефф упрямый, как чёрт. Надеюсь только, что в этом году всё-таки сорокалетие группы и ждать сольника осталось недолго. Хотя кто его знает...
Отправлено: 10.04.12 18:56. Заголовок: Плохо, что Джефф не ..
Плохо, что Джефф не любитель гастролей... Но отчаиваться пока рано, ужасно не хочется жить с такими мыслями!!!! Эх... Надо хотя б Джо заманить к нам в Россию
Отправлено: 11.04.12 21:35. Заголовок: Кстати, да, есть так..
Кстати, да, есть такая фишка, что тот кто приезжал в Россию один раз, обязательно приедет во второй! и даже в третий. Иглсы та еще гастролируют? а то может и правда за Уолша хорошенько взяться (вполне вместо них покатит)))
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