Artist: Rainbird
Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Poets' Blood
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Arctic Monkeys Frontman Alex Turner Working With Tony Christie
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Rainbird
Artist: Rainbird
Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Poets' Blood
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Arctic Monkeys Frontman Alex Turner Working With Tony Christie
The Real Identities Of Elton John, Freddie Mercury And Axl Rose Exposed On Gigwise
You might know Axl Rose and Elton John by their stage names – but that's not what their mother's call them.
In our latest gallery we've compiled all the musicians that use an alias when they perform on stage – and just why they choose to do so.
From Freddie Mercury to Bon Jovi, this gallery really has got them all.
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Corrie's David set for more trouble
'Coronation Street' star Jack P Shepherd has said that his character is set to cause more trouble in Weatherfield in the coming weeks.
According to Digital Spy, the actor, who plays David Platt, said of his upcoming storyline: "There's something really big coming up at the beginning of April that the whole Street will be talking about - so watch out."
A show source reportedly said: "We've just filmed some amazing scenes with Jack which see him totally destroying the Street."
"It was great fun filming is and the devastation is bound to cause friction amongst Weatherfield's residents."
According to Digital Spy, the actor, who plays David Platt, said of his upcoming storyline: "There's something really big coming up at the beginning of April that the whole Street will be talking about - so watch out."
A show source reportedly said: "We've just filmed some amazing scenes with Jack which see him totally destroying the Street."
"It was great fun filming is and the devastation is bound to cause friction amongst Weatherfield's residents."
Julian Lennon
Artist: Julian Lennon
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Photograph Smile
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Valotte Bonus
Year: 1984
Tracks: 3
Valotte
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
The son of John Lennon and his first married woman Cynthia, Julian Lennon parlayed a remarkable vocal similarity to his father into a somewhat successful singing career during the 1980s. John Charles Julian Lennon was born on April 8, 1963 in Liverpool, and as a child elysian several Beatles compositions: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" reportedly arose out of a drawing Julian made of a classmate, and following his parents' disassociate, he became the field of Paul McCartney's sympathetic "Hey Jude." Julian began playing guitar and drums at age ten, adding forte-piano as a stripling; he appeared as a drummer on the track "Ya Ya" on the John Lennon album Walls and Bridges. Following his father's assassination, Lennon decided to follow a singing vocation, although he apprehensive that his vocal and stylistic law of similarity to his fatherhood would prove detrimental. He ab initio sign-language a contract to book an unreleased song stolen from John Lennon's vaults, merely after intellection better of it, he enlisted Yoko Ono's help in purchasing out the reduce.
Lennon sign-language with Atlantic and recorded his debut album, Valotte, at a French château of the same name. The album produced four chart singles, including the Top Tens "Valotte" and "Besides Late for Goodbyes"; Lennon was nominative for a Grammy for Best New Artist. Success was attended by hedonic indulgence, and the follow-up, 1986's underwritten The Secret Value of Daydreaming, perchance suffered because of it. Lennon returned in 1989 with Mr. Jordan, an album that found him nerve-racking to fall apart away from his John Lennon influences with a darker style redolent of David Bowie. However, the single "Now You're in Heaven" proven only a minor pip. Following 1991's Help Yourself, Lennon temporarily retired from the music industry and worn out nearly seven-spot years in seclusion. In the leaping of 1998, he returned with Photograph Smile, an indie album initially issued alone in Europe and Japan merely disposed American tone ending the next class.
Lykke Li disses Sweden
Lykke Li took a pop at Sweden – and the Glastonbury crowd – during her set on the Park Stage today (June 28).
The star lashed out after bemoaning a lack of dancing in the crowd.
She said: "Glastonbury is like Sweden because nobody is dancing. Why aren't you dancing?"
Playing tracks from her debut album 'Youth Novels' – including 'Breaking It Up' and 'Let It Fall' – the indie-pop singer played a high-energy set in the strongest sunshine of the weekend.
Before 'Window Blues' she asked if the crowd were "sick of love songs".
"Enough of the love songs. This is a song about love, tainted love," she said.
Keep up with all the action from Glastonbury this weekend (June 27-29) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking NME.COM's Glastonbury Festival page. Plus make sure you get next week's issue of NME on UK newsstands from July 2 for the ultimate Glastonbury review.
The star lashed out after bemoaning a lack of dancing in the crowd.
She said: "Glastonbury is like Sweden because nobody is dancing. Why aren't you dancing?"
Playing tracks from her debut album 'Youth Novels' – including 'Breaking It Up' and 'Let It Fall' – the indie-pop singer played a high-energy set in the strongest sunshine of the weekend.
Before 'Window Blues' she asked if the crowd were "sick of love songs".
"Enough of the love songs. This is a song about love, tainted love," she said.
Keep up with all the action from Glastonbury this weekend (June 27-29) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking NME.COM's Glastonbury Festival page. Plus make sure you get next week's issue of NME on UK newsstands from July 2 for the ultimate Glastonbury review.
Unholy Rites Of The Dead
Artist: Unholy Rites Of The Dead
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
The History Of The Banishment Of The Z
Year:
Tracks: 4
Zee U
Free PR should mean free play
Radio gives publicity to the music industry, study shows
MINNEAPOLIS -- The broadcast industry's top lobbyist believes that radio provides so much free publicity to the music industry -- $2.4 billion a year, according to a new study -- that it shouldn't have to pay to play records.
NAB president and CEO David Rehr delivered a keynote at the Conclave Learning Conference here Friday -- one day after the contentious Performance Rights Act sailed through a House subcommittee. He cited the new study by an economic research expert as the latest round in radio's gunfight with the music industry over proposed legislation that would require terrestrial broadcasters to pay royalties to labels and recording artists when they air their music. Rehr said the $2.4 billion figure doesn't include the value of ticket giveaways and other on-air promotions.
Expected to reach the larger and more influential Judiciary Committee for consideration in the coming weeks, HR 4789 has become NAB public enemy No. 1, and Rehr used his first Conclave appearance to rally radio against it, encouraging broadcasters to enlist their local representatives in Congress to oppose the legislation introduced by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., in December. The bill "isn't going anywhere anytime soon," Rehr told the packed ballroom.
"We're going to be fighting this for the next four, five, six years," he said, predicting that it would cost broadcasters $7 billion in fees. "They're trying to extract money from other industries because they haven't addressed their own business challenges."
Rehr also said the radio industry "made a mistake" in not more aggressively fighting new, dramatically higher Internet streaming royalties set by the Copyright Royalty Board.
In a well-received 50-minute speech that was half reality check, half pep rally, Rehr said never before has radio faced so many regulatory issues and so much competition. He spent less time condemning the proposed XM-Sirius satellite radio merger -- which FCC chairman Kevin Martin has agreed to back -- but still vowed to fight it. And he fired a few shots at the FCC's proposed rulemaking on localism, which would require broadcasters to have at least one person on-site at a station 24 hours a day, establish permanent community advisory boards and allow public panels to establish quantitative standards for programming. Such requirements "could actually undermine our efforts to serve local communities," Rehr said. "To have the federal government tell local broadcasters what they need to do every day to serve their communities is offensive and absurd."
Rehr called on broadcasters to remind people "why they fell in love with radio in the first place and reignite their passion." Calling radio "a great equalizer and unifier," Rehr said stations in the coming weeks would receive a set of talking points detailing "what we need to tell people about radio," as well as commercials to remind listeners why they fell in love with radio.
Part of the Radio 2020 PR campaign introduced in the fall, the spots and messaging are intended to get stations to evangelize radio to listeners, advertisers and other media.
Rehr conceded that radio "may have gotten a little stale over the past few years" and suggested the medium is so pervasive that people take it for granted.
"People want new, unique content and niche channels, and radio must respond," he said, offering HD radio side channels as part of the solution.
While the NAB, the HD Digital Radio Alliance and HD radio technology provider iBiquity have made progress targeting auto dealers and automakers to install HD radios, Rehr said: "We still have a lot more work to do. We need a lot more receivers. Manufacturers are starting to see that it's to their benefit that radio is everywhere there is a speaker or headphones."
Rehr, the former president of the National Beer Wholesalers Assn. who replaced Eddie Fritts at the powerful broadcast lobbyist in December 2005, was greeted with applause when he said: "I hope you'll join me in being tired of all the critics of radio. Some of you have given your life to radio. It galls me that we allow people to draw us down. Two hundred thirty-five million people listen to us week in and week out. This is a great business."
MINNEAPOLIS -- The broadcast industry's top lobbyist believes that radio provides so much free publicity to the music industry -- $2.4 billion a year, according to a new study -- that it shouldn't have to pay to play records.
NAB president and CEO David Rehr delivered a keynote at the Conclave Learning Conference here Friday -- one day after the contentious Performance Rights Act sailed through a House subcommittee. He cited the new study by an economic research expert as the latest round in radio's gunfight with the music industry over proposed legislation that would require terrestrial broadcasters to pay royalties to labels and recording artists when they air their music. Rehr said the $2.4 billion figure doesn't include the value of ticket giveaways and other on-air promotions.
Expected to reach the larger and more influential Judiciary Committee for consideration in the coming weeks, HR 4789 has become NAB public enemy No. 1, and Rehr used his first Conclave appearance to rally radio against it, encouraging broadcasters to enlist their local representatives in Congress to oppose the legislation introduced by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., in December. The bill "isn't going anywhere anytime soon," Rehr told the packed ballroom.
"We're going to be fighting this for the next four, five, six years," he said, predicting that it would cost broadcasters $7 billion in fees. "They're trying to extract money from other industries because they haven't addressed their own business challenges."
Rehr also said the radio industry "made a mistake" in not more aggressively fighting new, dramatically higher Internet streaming royalties set by the Copyright Royalty Board.
In a well-received 50-minute speech that was half reality check, half pep rally, Rehr said never before has radio faced so many regulatory issues and so much competition. He spent less time condemning the proposed XM-Sirius satellite radio merger -- which FCC chairman Kevin Martin has agreed to back -- but still vowed to fight it. And he fired a few shots at the FCC's proposed rulemaking on localism, which would require broadcasters to have at least one person on-site at a station 24 hours a day, establish permanent community advisory boards and allow public panels to establish quantitative standards for programming. Such requirements "could actually undermine our efforts to serve local communities," Rehr said. "To have the federal government tell local broadcasters what they need to do every day to serve their communities is offensive and absurd."
Rehr called on broadcasters to remind people "why they fell in love with radio in the first place and reignite their passion." Calling radio "a great equalizer and unifier," Rehr said stations in the coming weeks would receive a set of talking points detailing "what we need to tell people about radio," as well as commercials to remind listeners why they fell in love with radio.
Part of the Radio 2020 PR campaign introduced in the fall, the spots and messaging are intended to get stations to evangelize radio to listeners, advertisers and other media.
Rehr conceded that radio "may have gotten a little stale over the past few years" and suggested the medium is so pervasive that people take it for granted.
"People want new, unique content and niche channels, and radio must respond," he said, offering HD radio side channels as part of the solution.
While the NAB, the HD Digital Radio Alliance and HD radio technology provider iBiquity have made progress targeting auto dealers and automakers to install HD radios, Rehr said: "We still have a lot more work to do. We need a lot more receivers. Manufacturers are starting to see that it's to their benefit that radio is everywhere there is a speaker or headphones."
Rehr, the former president of the National Beer Wholesalers Assn. who replaced Eddie Fritts at the powerful broadcast lobbyist in December 2005, was greeted with applause when he said: "I hope you'll join me in being tired of all the critics of radio. Some of you have given your life to radio. It galls me that we allow people to draw us down. Two hundred thirty-five million people listen to us week in and week out. This is a great business."
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