Loading ...If you haven’t purchased your ten-dollar lawn tickets for the Family Values tour, featuring Korn and whoever is in Evanescence these days, you might want to grab some before the 20,000-seat amphitheater is a thing of the past. The giant outdoor pavilions on the outskirts of larger cities are becoming less and less useful to concert promoters, and they’re being replaced by venues less than half their size. With concert megapromoter Live Nation selling off venues near cities like Nashville, Indianapolis, and Columbus, will the boomer-oriented package tour (this year’s models include a package with Styx and Foreigner opening for Def Leppard) soon be a thing of the past?
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Your Local Awful Outdoor Concert Venue May Go The Way Of Ozzfest’s Ticket Revenues
Mon Jul 2 2007 by dangibs
Clive Davis Still Giving Kelly Clarkson’s “My December” A Chilly Reception
Tue Jun 5 2007 by Maura
The Kelly Clarkson-Clive Davis war of words is clearly not going to end anytime soon–or at least not until Clarkson’s next album, My December, comes out later this month. A brief recap: Rumblings about December being pushed back from its late July release date surfaced a few weeks ago, after Davis allegedly panned the largely Clarkson-penned record in a company meeting; the album’s release date was then pushed up to June 26; then, during the American Idol finale, Davis took to the podium and neglected to plug Clarkson’s album, instead extolling the virtues of professional songwriters.
The skirmish continued last week, the New York Post ran a piece claiming that Davis was out of touch and cramping Clarkson’s style; today, in a sorta-surprising show of corporate dissonance, Fox 411 columnist Roger Friedman ran an item that opened with a comparison between Clarkson and Courtney Love (!), and went on to blame Clarkson’s manager, Jeff Kwatinetz, for a good portion of the friction:
What The Music Blogs Are Posting Right Now
Mon Jun 4 2007 by Maura
- A dayglo swirl of Dee-Lite-related tracks. [Fong Songs] – Hits from the career of Wilbert Harrison, including his version of the Lieber and Stoller song “Kansas City.” More »
Predicting The Madness For Linkin Park’s “Midnight”
Tue May 22 2007 by Maura
The first-week sales figures for Linkin Park’s Minutes To Midnight will be revealed tomorrow, and despite middling reviews, there’s wide speculation that it’ll shatter the 2007 first-week-sales record set by Norah Jones’ Not Too Late, which moved 418,000 copies back in February. More »
Would-Be Chart Brawl: Indie Chanteuse Vs. Guy Who Won’t Remove Hat
Tue May 1 2007 by idolguest3
Over at MTV.com, their weekly chart preview writer tries to stir things up by pitting a couple of this week’s new releases against each other. Unlike last week’s obvious Lavigne-Reznor matchup, next week’s chart sports a random assortment of releases, with never-hatless hyphenate Ne-Yo as the obvious favorite.
So whom does the MTV pundit line up as Mr. “Irreplaceable”’s chief competition? The latest High School Musical spawn Corbin Bleu? The numbingly consistent CD-seller Tori Amos? (She could release an album of piano tunings with a picture of her in a bathrobe on the cover–a very artsy, self-aware bathrobe–and it’d debut at #2.) The mercifully Kroeger-less soundtrack to Spider-Man 3? Guess again:
The Latest Update On The State Of The State Of Hip-Hop
Wed Apr 25 2007 by Brian Raftery
So: Hip-hop. It’s having kind of a tough few weeks. First, Al Sharpton and Russell Simmons start talking about taking artists to task if they use objectionable words. Then conservative columnist Michelle Malkin weighs in, piecing together what she sees as the most misogynistic moments on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. Finally, a poorly sweatered Cam’ron gets grilled on 60 Minutes about his no-snitching policy. And so all of a sudden, three of the most hotly contested social issues are guns, abortion and rap music, meaning that the ’90s revival is really kicking into full gear. But Cam’ron can take com’fort in two pro-rap editorials that appeared today–one by Jim Farber in the the New York Daily News, and one by Kelefa Sanneh in the New York Times. So what are their main points?
Cat Scratch Fever: Your Guide To “The Search For The Next Doll”
Wed Apr 18 2007 by Brian Raftery
EMI Goes DRM-Free, Says To Online Retail, “C’mon, Jump In”
Mon Apr 2 2007 by Maura
As reported, EMI announced today that its catalog would be available in DRM-free format. A quick and dirty primer:
- Every EMI track that is available digitally will be made available without DRM as well. (No Beatles … yet.)
- All sites that sell EMI music digitally will have the option of selling DRM-free downloads in AAC, WMA, or MP3 format.
- EMI’s DRM-free catalog is being referred to as “premium downloads”; on iTunes, the files will be in unprotected AAC format and twice the sound quality of currently available AACs, and they’ll cost $1.29/song.
- The price on full DRM-free albums will be the same as their DRMed-up counterparts.
- Protected AACs from the EMI catalog will still be available for 99 cents/song on iTunes.
- EMI’s music videos on iTunes will also be available without DRM.
- EMI will continue to use DRM “as appropriate,” i.e. when it’s locked into it by a retailer/distribution partner.
The fact that EMI has opened the DRM-free doors to all retailers, and not just iTunes, is probably the most intriguing part of this development–because we have to wonder which digital retailer will be the first to bite.
The full release after the jump.
One Down: EMI Teams Up With Apple, Becomes First Major To Drop DRM
Sun Apr 1 2007 by Maura
According to the Wall Street Journal, tomorrow’s EMI-Apple announcement will have nothing to do with the Beatles. Instead, it will center on EMI’s dropping digital-rights management from most of its online offerings:
In a major reversal of the music industry’s longstanding antipiracy strategy, EMI Group PLC is set to announce Monday that it plans to sell significant amounts of its catalog without anticopying software, according to people familiar with the matter. More »
Who Charted?: In A Dull Week, It’s Hard To Resist Making “Daughtry Is Bald” Jokes
Wed Mar 7 2007 by Maura
Ho-hum, it’s that guy with the shiny, shiny head again: Thanks to a weak release schedule and placement during American Idol’s closing montages, Chris Daughtry’s Daughtry reclaimed the No. 1 spot on last week’s Billboard 200. Daughtry sold 90,000 copies, while the No. More »
