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Dr. Dre's "Detox" To Have Its Day... As Soon As The Dre-Branded Cognac Comes Out

Could a press release from Drinks Americas Holdings, the beverage company that has a joint venture with Universal Music Group to develop beverages of the alcoholic and virgin varieties around the record company's artists, have offered business-page readers an inside line on a possible release date for Dr. Dre's years-in-the-making Detox? A press release issued today by the company claims that not only will Dre's branded cognac and sparkling vodka be released to the marketplace sometime within the next 60 days, said product launches will go hand-in-hand with the release of Detox, courtesy of a "fully integrated marketing program." I guess the plan is to get drunk on the liquor, and then detox with... oh, you know. The relevant chunk of the release is after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Tue Aug 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
4,438 views, 7 comments

Latest by westartedthis: i can't wait to see Dr. Dre on Emeril Live, oohing and aahing while Emeril uses Dr. Dre brand Cognac to make "kicked up" cherries flambe. then, Dre and Doc Gibbs do a calypso version of "Let Me Ride" more »

sellouts?

Santogold Shakes The "Rock Sellout" Hornet's Nest

Santogold has ruffled some feathers with her thoughts on the idea of a musician "selling out," which she expressed to New York in an interview that ran this week. "Everybody wants you to sell a lot of records," the former Epic A & R exec told NY's Sara Cardace, "but it's not considered a failure if you don't. The record labels know that most of the money nowadays is made in licensing.... So where before it might have been, 'Oh, you're gonna sell out?,' now it's how we make our money." This quote inspired outrage from some of the more purist quarters out there, but does Santi have a point? More »

6:00 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,370 views, 22 comments

Latest by rogerniner: It's interesting to hear that selling out is more now about product placement, than just gaining a larger audience, which I am grateful for. And the variety of appropriate product placement to song has balanced out well, due to ad more »

"Stay tuned for news on Dave Mustaine's new coffee blend available ONLY to his fans coming up next week. After "sharing" his daily morning coffee with fans at the Megadeth Forums in the last few months and enganging in several conversations with coffee lovers there, he came up with a true blend he would love to share with all of you." Oh sure, Dave. Talk to the coffee people while our phone call to you goes unanswered. We see who really matters now. [Megadeth.com via Blabbermouth]

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Courtney Love sold Universal Pictures the rights to Charles Cross' Nirvana book Heavier Than Heaven and the Nirvana catalog as a package deal, so expect your favorite track by Kurt Cobain and Co. to be used in a sledgehammer-over-the-head way in the Love-produced Cobain biopic when it hits theaters next year. (Sorry, I'm still reeling from the way Control clumsily used "Love Will Tear Us Apart" to score a marital-spat scene. Oh really? It'll tear us apart? You don't say.) [NME]

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licensing

Get Ready To Get Even More Tired Of James Blunt's Ugly Mug

In this New York Times profile of ubiquitous mewler James Blunt, we learn a lot of little factoids about the crooner—women who eat at "trendy meatpacking district restaurants" somehow find him sexy! he's probably shut down the Ibiza party scene with the power of his own blandness! he's buddies with Kid Rock!—but probably the most enlightening part of the story is the breakdown of just how, exactly, the world came to be throughly sick of "You're Beautiful" a year ago:
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8:53 AM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By mjohnston
725 views, 7 comments

Latest by valerie: Linda Perry is incredibly depressing to me. I used to see 4 non blondes play when she was a little spitfire with a huge voice. She was the kind of performer who wore her politics on her sleeve, but was more »

teenage angst has paid off well dept.

Season Premiere Of "Cold Case" To Be Subtitled "I Loved The '90s"

If you have a sudden '90s-nostalgia jones that can only be cured by the promise of a scripted show about that storied time, you may want to catch the season premiere of the CBS procedural Cold Case, which will delve deep into the Nirvana catalog for an episode that's loosely based on the story of the West Memphis Three: More »

9:30 AM on Wed Sep 12 2007
By mjohnston
674 views, 6 comments

licensing

Interscope Would Like You To Buy Them A Drink (Or Two)

The music business' latest attempt to create new revenue streams comes from a division of Universal Music Group, which, in an attempt to ape Sammy Hagar's tequila success, has enlisted a beverage company to market drinks emblazoned with the likenesses of its artists: More »

3:30 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By mjohnston
745 views, 4 comments

follow-ups

The Case Of The Wienerschnitzel Song: The Label Owner Fills Us In

On Tuesday, we posted about the indiepop band Tullycraft, whose song "Sweet" had been licensed without the band's knowledge to an ad for the hot-dog chain Wienerschnitzel; the licensing was handled by Darla, a California-based label that reissued some of Tullycraft's early material a few years back. Last night we got an e-mail from Darla proprietor James Agren clarifying his side of the story, and he's agreed to let us print it here: More »

2:04 PM on Thu Jun 21 2007
By mjohnston
1,522 views, 37 comments

licensing

The Song That Makes The Nutter Butters And Hot Dogs Dance Has A Sad, Sad Beat Behind It

If you've seen the recent ad for the hot dog chain Wienerschnitzel's Nutter Butter Freeze (screencap above), you've heard a snippet of the song "Sweet" by the indiepop band Tullycraft. What you may not know, though, is that the band itself isn't getting any money from having its song in the ad—and in fact, the members didn't know about the ad's soundtrack music at all until recently: More »

4:37 PM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By mjohnston
1,635 views, 24 comments

"American Idol" Is Playing Ringer Toss Again

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