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Interview: New Beat Fund
idobi writer Catherine Yi caught up with New Beat Fund to discuss their unique sound, the craziest nights on tour, the current Los Angeles music scene, and more.
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idobi writer Catherine Yi caught up with New Beat Fund to discuss their unique sound, the craziest nights on tour, the current Los Angeles music scene, and more.
While they have always been known as more of a pop band, rather than a rock band, this time around on Biography of Heartbreak, This Century strips away any rock or punk sensibilities they once had and go straight for the Top 40 pop sound.
The Gunz Show had an in depth interview with Skate and Surf creator John D’Esposito in which John explained a lot of the behind-the-scenes happenings with the Bamboozle festival, including exactly what went wrong with and who was to blame for his departure. He also discusses the reformation of the Skate and Surf Festival and the start of GameChanger World.
Universal Music Group said Friday that it has agreed to buy the recording division of EMI for 1.2 billion pounds ($1.9 billion).
The NY Post reports that Citigroup is close to the sale of record company EMI. The deal reportedly splits the company in to, with recording artists going into one, and it’s publishing arm sold separately in a deal estimated between $3.3 to $3.5 billion.
Music entrepreneur Sean Parker, a co-founder of music file-sharing service, Napster, and billionaire investor Ron Burkle have teamed up again and are considering making a bid for music label EMI.
Terra Firma has begun telling investors to brace themselves for a takeover of British music label EMI by Citigroup.
Rockstars are notoriously hard to control. Think of Axl Rose or Kanye West. Legendary artists play by their own rules: showing up late to gigs, mouthing off to fans, or fighting record label execs for getting in the way of music. Which makes it especially odd that Apple, for its new music social network Ping, would release a 9 page book of guidelines for artists planning to join the service. Here are some of the rules: Posts should not include advertisements or links to sites outside of iTunes. Posts should not contain links to other content providers. URLs should not… Read more »
Sunday night marked the 25th annual Video Music Awards and there were few surprises as MTV pretended that music is the network’s number one priority for one evening.
All eyes on the red carpet at Sunday’s Grammy Awards went straight to Lady Gaga and her solar-system gown that was totally out of this world.
