Carrie Underwood Film to Hit Theaters 4-8-11
Country star Carrie Underwood’s first feature film foray, Soul Surfer, is scheduled to hit theaters April 8. Ahead of that release, church leaders, pastors and youth workers are getting an opportunity to take an early look during a series of screenings (information at www.soulsurferwave.com.). Interlínc, which works to share Christian music with youth leaders, has [...]
Did Britney Spears rip off the Bellamy Brothers?
Country fans who somehow find themselves listening to the Britney Spears’ single, “Hold It Against Me,” might be reminded of an old Bellamy Brothers song. “Back in 1979, I wrote a little song called ‘If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me,’” said David Bellamy in a press release [...]
Clear Channel Reports $5 Billion Loss : MusicRow
CC Media Holdings has reported a $5 billion fourth quarter loss due to a major change in the value of its assets such as radio licenses and other permits. CC Media Holdings is the vehicle used by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital to privatize Clear Channel Communications last year in what was reportedly [...]
Bluegrass fans put spin on CD-buying habits | BluegrassJournal.com
When’s the last time you heard someone say they walked up to Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift or Eminem at a concert and bought a new CD directly from the artist? And, oh yeah, can you believe this, it was autographed right on the spot? Believe that one and let me unload some shares of GM [...]
Bluegrass Hotel Turning Sour | The Bluegrass Blog
A cascading series of booked acts for the March 20 concert, scheduled to both kick off a year-long tribute to The Bluegrass Hotel, and raise funds for the American Cancer Society, have announced that they will not appear on the show. Sam Bush was the first to drop, followed almost immediately by John Cowan and [...]
Recording Bluegrass Instruments Online Extra | Mix Magazine
Tradition is good, tradition is important. But just as no one expects rock ’n’ roll albums today to sound like the Sun and Chess records of the genre’s 1950s pioneers, the sonic tastes of bluegrass fans have evolved considerably since the seminal ’40s and ’50s recordings of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Flatt [...]
Eminem producers lose bid for massive iTunes royalties – Ars Technica
Music labels can breathe a sigh of relief after a jury concluded that sales through digital download stores like iTunes should be treated like CDs for the purposes of paying royalties. Eminem’s former production team, F.B.T. Productions, sued Universal over the issue in 2007. The brothers behind F.B.T. claimed that, when Universal provided music to [...]
The Sizzling Sound of Music – O’Reilly Radar
The Sizzling Sound of Music – O’Reilly Radar Are iPods changing our perception of music? Are the sounds of MP3s the music we like to hear most? Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, was on a panel with me at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mountain View, CA [...]
The Bluegrass Blog: Performance Rights Act hearing 3/10
The Judiciary Committee of the US House Of Representatives will take up the Performance Rights Act today (3/10) with a hearing at 10:00 a.m. This legislation (H.R.848) seeks to require broadcast radio (terrestrial transmitter-based) to pay royalties to artists and performers each time a song is played. These royalties are currently paid to copyright holders [...]
CMT News: NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Death of CD Confirmed
Friends and family announced the death of Compact Disc — familiarly known as “CD” — this week. Its remains were said to be scattered over a few dozen remaining retail stores that continued to stock CDs. It is survived by millions of MP3s and thousands of vinyl LP records, which were themselves long thought to [...]
