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Voted #1 Recording
Studio in America by Billboard Magazine, Fantasy
studios has recently gone over four million dollars renovations.
Entrée
Studio Le Garage!
"It's the
laid back atmosphere here,"says Koella with a big smile. "We
see eye to eye on lot of production decisions and then when it's
time to duel it out, we do it well," says Allardyce with a
chuckle who recently came back
Lillywhite
Sessions at Avatar Studios
Madmoiselle
K She’s Paris
born and a natural frontperson with unbridled energy and guitar-riff-driven
femininity. “The moment you work out that you can make a living
as a musician you just go for it, you don’t worry about the
future, about the uncertainty of it all,” says Madmoiselle
K sitting on the terrace of a central Paris café. You’d
imagine her with cigarette in mouth and beer in hand—nope!
Mademoiselle K doesn’t smoke, drinks herbal tea and has a weakness
for chocolate: “It’s not really very rock'n'roll,"
she says. Mademoiselle K covered music theory, scales and the rest, early in her classical music education in conservatory but things changed when she met her mentor/teacher, Annick Chartreux at her school in the 13th arrondissement. “With Annick I discovered that there was no such thing as different types of music, there was simply the music—no barriers between genres—and that’s helped me to keep a really open mind; back then I studied for my general culture exam by listening to as many CDs as I could: jazz, baroque, medieval, classical… everything."
Sundae
Club Our DJs are spinning Good People. It's perfect if you like to dance in your chair while working! Add a glass of martini after work, and it's, well... Magical mystery tour meets space age story telling from where else? UK's Sundae Club via bedroom/studio! Sundae Club's debut album TECHNOSTALGIA, has already been compared to Air, Lemon Jelly .... "Mainly instrumental, but with a smidgin of vocal contribution, it's a thoroughly English sounding record, recalling the spirit of British Leyland Industrial Action; the advent of Decimalisation; the days of Dual Standard 405/625 line TV, and the discovery of North Sea Gas. (RIP)," says the official web site! Yes indeed, chill-out blends the sounds of early electronics with cutting-edge production magic ... then tops the results with glacé cherries and Jell-o indeed. Produced by George Shilling (Steve Winwood, Coldcut, 22-20s and more. ) Available at CD Baby
Neil
Diamond Home Before
Dark debuted at no 1 on the billboard 200 and is the 29th studio
album with that unmistakable voice and songs from Neil Diamond.
Newly released on Columbia, the album features an encore production
performance by Rick Rubin who steered their 2005 collaboration,
"12 Songs," to a No. 4 debut on the Billboard 200. Diamond, now 67, sports worldwide record sales of 115 million copies, and as of 2002 he was ranked third, behind only Elton John and Barbra Streisand, on the list of the most successful adult contemporary artists in the history of Billboard chart. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and has been recording at Arc Angel studio in Los Angeles, his home for more than three decades. Fast forward to Home Before Dark and you find a Diamond on the charts again! "Writing a song," he says, "is like digging a ditch. You constantly have to dig deeper, until you strike the vein, until you hit the nerve that's causing you pain. It's not romantic. It's grunt work." Neil Diamond will be playing live at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut on August 7 at 8:00 pm. He will then perform at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on August 12
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Attitudes
And Behaviour Around Digital Music Research among 800 UK respondents
revealed: Andersen was accused of piracy while looking after her eight-year-old daughter living on $1,400/month disability check in a suburban Portland, Ore. apartment. She's now represented by Lory R. Lybeck, a Seattle lawyer who will recieve an estimated $300,000 in fees by RIAA, per a recent court order won. The RIAA was eventually forced to drop the suit and she is now countersuing for $5 million. The RIAA's law firm, Holme Roberts & Owen, is representing the organization in court. "I dislike arrogant bullies," Lybeck says. Lybeck figures that with all the potential errors in IP addresses collected by MediaSentry (the investigative firm the record industry employs to track pirates), the RIAA has gone after thousands of innocent people. He thinks the addresses could be erroneous as often as 20% of the time, which would mean 8,000 people wrongly accused. He believes that many innocent people have been coerced into paying because they can't afford to fight the RIAA in court. (Although the SSC has stopped operating, an organization called Settlement Information Line Call Center now plays a similar role for the music industry). Lybeck says the record labels accused people of downloading songs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, but they set the settlement price at a few thousand. "Paying was cheaper than hiring a lawyer. To me, that says this isn't about lawsuits, it's about an extortion campaign," says Lybeck. What about The Settlement Support Center? Its name may suggest a neutral organization set up to resolve disputes with evenhanded objectivity. In fact, it was financed by the record industry and operated like a cross between a call center and a debt collection firm. The SSC made its collections by hiring people such as Mark Eilers, an ex-police officer who called Andersen repeatedly demanding pay. Eilers told Andersen she had shared 1,288 songs on May 20, 2004, at 4:24 a.m. under the screen name Gotenkito. She maintained they had the wrong person and offered to let them look at her computer. She says Eilers told her Verizon had already verified that the illegal activity had come from her home, specified by what's known as an IP (for Internet Protocol) address. When MediaSentry sees people swapping music on file-sharing services such as KaZaA, it records their IP addresses and user names. Then it goes to Verizon Communications or another Internet service provider to find out who was using that IP address at the time of the piracy. But errors can arise in a number of ways. One IP address may be assigned to a device such as a Wi-Fi router that can be used by several people at the same time to access the Net wirelessly. So if a visitor or a neighbor decides to steal music over the Wi-Fi network, the homeowner would still be fingered. In addition, some people have IP addresses that change every time they log onto the Net, so the IP address you use in the morning could be assigned to your neighbor that afternoon. Verizon and other Web service providers try to track who has which IP address at what time, but their records can be faulty. Then there's the practice of hacking into another person's computer to assume its Internet Protocol address when illegally downloading music. Andersen argues the RIAA, the industry's trade group, and its affiliates worked together on a broad campaign to intimidate people into making financial payoffs. Now she and her attorney, Lybeck filed their own suit against the RIAA, the SSC, MediaSentry, Warner Music Group, EMI Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group last year and updated it with an amended complaint this month. "The RIAA is fighting very hard to make sure that Andersen's case never reaches a jury," says Heidi Li Feldman, a professor at Georgetown University's law school. "The minute this reaches a jury, they will have to think about settling." Back in 2005, RIAA filed a complaint against David Greubel for alleged 600 music file sharing on the family computer. The RIAA demanded Greubel pay a $9,000 stipulated judgment as a penalty, though it said it will accept $4,500 should Greubel pay the amount within a specific period of time. The RIAA targeted nine specific songs, including "Sk8er Boi" by Arista artist Avril Lavigne, a Nettwerk management client. "Suing music fans is not the solution, it's the problem," stated Terry McBride, C.E.O of Nettwerk Music Group. studioexpresso agrees with Mr McBride. So much for customer service. If you can't have them, sue them. Sound like a desperate industry?!
Artists To Watch....COME TOGETHER!
Joe
Tayler singer/songwriter
Toronto-born, New York City-based musician, a finalist in MUNY's
'Subway Idol.'
"I cannot stress enough how important this sort of hands-on real-world application is for all of these up-and-coming engineering talents. It is vital that they experience living with a project from start to finish, as well as how we can converge the best of digital and analog technologies. We all have a personal stake in the future of the industry, and I am proud to pass on my experience and guidance." --Eddie
Kramer (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin)
Last night (May
28) The Police
came to the Hollywood Bowl with special guest, Elvis
Costello & The Impostors -tix were going for $300+ ....then
Costello at the El Rey theater hosted a free jam party at midnight
joined by Jonathan Rice, Jonathan Wilson , and Pete Thomas, daughter
Tennessee ...until next month! 
 Green To Fancy Your
Sweet Tooth A California company, Amyris is breeding the oil bug and thinks it can turn sugar into gasoline! Its assembly line? Millions of genetically engineered bacteria (specialized E.coli) who will digest glucose found in plant matter such as sugarcane and excrete hydrocarbons as waste! Of course, we hope the good folks at Amyris have secure measures to protect accidental leak of bacteria (scary thought). Amyris and Crystalsev (Brazil's largest ethanol distributors and marketers) have joined to launch innovative renewable Diesel from sugarcane by 2010. Sweet!....until, next month, grin and be.
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Three
American Boys In Billy Elliot
The
Musical is funny, heartwarming tale of a young boy with a dream,
and a celebration of his triumph against the odds. Set against the
historic British miners' strike of the 1980s, the story follows
Billy's journey as a boy in a small mining town who, after stumbling
across a ballet class while on his way to a boxing lesson, realizes
that his future lay not in the boxing ring but on stage as a dancer.
Billy Elliot the Musical has now played to over 2 million people
worldwide. Three American boys, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and
Kiril Kulish, will create the title role in the multi-award winning
Billy Elliot the Musical, opening at Broadway's Imperial Theatre
(240 W 45th St) in New York on Thursday, November 13, 2008. Featuring
music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall and directed by
Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot the Musical begins previews Wednesday,
October 1st. The general public on-sale is Sunday, June 15th. For
tickets and information visit 
A Captive American Boy Lou Pearlman, who launched Backstreet
Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on on May
21 for swindling investors and major U.S. banks out of more than
$300 million. The 53-year-old impresario lived a jet-set life of
mansions and luxury cars before the fraud scheme collapsed. In an
audacious two-decade scam, Pearlman admitted in his plea agreement
to enticing individuals and banks to invest millions of dollars
in two companies which existed only on paper -- Transcontinental
Airlines Travel Services Inc and Transcontinental Airlines Inc.
He
won investors' confidence with fake financial statements created
by a fictitious accounting firm. When Pearlman comes out of prison,
"he should be turned over to us," said investor James
Taylor. Pearlman unsuccessfully sought a delay in his sentencing
to allow time to launch his latest creation, European pop band 
The New American Idol Cooks But
Is It A Mom Show? According
to Nielsen Media research, the median age of American Idol viewers
is aging like a '70s act. With a record 97.5 million audience votes
cast by phone and text, the split between the two American Idol
contestants was 56 percent for 
UMG
Promotion Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music
company, has promoted Tom Bennett to Chief Executive Officer of
Bravado, its global merchandising division. The appointment, effective
immediately, was announced today by Lucian Grainge, Chairman &
CEO of Universal Music Group International, to whom Bennett reports.
Formerly, Mr. Bennett served as Bravado’s North American CEO.
He will continue to be based in New York. 
A
Desperate Housewife Or A Desperate Music Industry? Jason
Flom (Virgin Records America), Tom Whalley (Warner Bros Records),
Bob Cavallo (Buena Vista Music) , Glen Barros (Concord Records),
Mike Curb (Curb Records) and Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Entertainment)
are household record industry executive names who sit on the board
of Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Since
2003 the 
Deals
On The whole
(360
degrees) As CD sales plunge, an array of players — including
record labels, promoters, and advertisers — are racing to secure
deals that cut them in on a larger share of an artist’s overall
revenue. 
The
Last Show - Warfield And The Dead
The historic Warfield Theater in San Francisco closed down with
a grand finale on Sunday at the end of a week-long celebration revolving
around the band that made it historic in the first place: the Grateful
Dead and family. The sold-out shows were simply advertised as an
unusual five-night stand by 
