Cydney Robinson is the spokeswoman for the shoeless. She finds that toothless poverty in all of us, the barefoot truth, the humanity that is all too aware, the wisdom seldom spoken out loud, and the Kentucky weeds that grow inside.
“Jebadiah was a preacher… in… my… town…” An ominous beginning. You want the song to stop a moment. “The story of this song isn’t very nice. But the music is pretty.” Cydney Robinson spoke the warning. She opens every show with this song, opens the album with this song, and opens up the listener straight to the core.
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The American Society of Young Musicians (AYSM) presents its 4th Annual Hollywood Live Music Showcase on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood CA. Hollywood Live showcase is designed to give fresh, up-and-coming Artists/Groups a platform to showcase their talent in front of some of the biggest executives in the music industry. This year with an overwhelming response from artists, groups and bands from across America, the executive committee of the national ASYM has chosen the participants for the Hollywood Live Music Showcase.
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Hit me, baby, with
one more subpoena
NEW YORK – Kevin Federline now wants Britney Spears’ rehab records. K-Fed’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said Sunday that a chief administrator at Promises, the drug treatment facility where Brit completed a stint last March, had been served with a deposition subpoena over the weekend.
It was the fifth subpoena doled out by Mr. Federline’s lawyers, who are battling Britney for custody of the couple’s two young sons.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/recent-music-news-popuri/
A side effect of today’s fractured, tumultuous music industry is the fluctuating meaning of the greatest-hits album.
On one hand, it remains a giant moneymaker for labels, which are urging their artists to make best-of compilations increasingly earlier in their careers. On the other, iTunes has made it redundant. If you want an act’s highlights, you can assemble them yourself.
This dichotomy has, for some bands, made the decision to make a best-of album an increasingly difficult, sometimes contentious one. Some view greatest-hits albums as a blatant money grab that disrespects the integrity of the album. Pressure from labels can also come sooner than expected.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/greatest-hits-isnt-the-greatest-move/
Retired country superstar Garth Brooks is still retired country superstar Garth Brooks, and he says he’ll stay that way until his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2015.
But the biggest-selling country act in music history believes he’s still packing hits. On Saturday, he announced he’s putting out another boxed set — this one containing four new songs — and he spent time explaining that just because he’s retired from touring doesn’t mean he won’t compete for spins at country radio.
The presence of radio promotions wizard Scott Borchetta at the morning Renaissance Nashville Hotel news conference and the decision to corral 200 radio executives and dozens of music retailers in Music City for what was billed as the “Garth Radio Seminar” signals a seriousness about staying viable in the mainstream country market.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/20/garth-still-works-for-radio/
Interestingly how we all kind of intuited this before long, even if it was nothing we thought to articulate. The use of the word “album” diminished as the CD era progressed. Instead of saying, “Did you get the new Radiohead album?” you maybe, more often, said, “Did you get the new Radiohead CD?”
Bonus tracks were but the first step. Once music fans had pretty much abandoned the vinyl LP, by the early ’90s, the industry found itself released once and for all from the time restriction of the vinyl LP. After which point albums, sure enough, became longer. Quite a bit longer.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/08/07/the-fingerprints-cd-broke-the-spell-of-the-record-album/
The marriage of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill wasn’t just a celebrity match made in heaven. It was a concert promoter’s dream date.
Ten years after a spring tour together led to an autumn wedding, country music’s powerhouse pair hit the road last summer for the inaugural Soul 2 Soul tour, a blockbuster run whose $88 million gross made it the year’s third-highest grossing show — and the biggest country trek of all time.
In a country music world where don’t-fix-what-ain’t-broke traditions hold sway, it was no shock when McGraw and Hill announced they’d be reprising Soul 2 Soul to take the visually rich, three-hour show to more than 60 cities.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/10/10-years-of-tim-mcgraw-and-faith-hill/
A computer program is changing the face of the music business by allowing record labels to predict a hit at the click of a mouse. Is this the death of pop as we know it, asks Jo Tatchell, or a new hope for unsigned bands everywhere?
Martin and Ruth, aka Spike, the next big girl/boy duo (so they hope) add some synth and a new background vocal to the mix. He saves the song and she emails it to Polyphonic Human Media Interface who, within 24 hours, will tell them whether their song will be a hit. When the results arrive they hover over the 20in screen and click on the returned mail. There is a graph, showing a cluster of many dots, like a constellation, and somewhere in the cluster a red spot. The spot marks their song, not quite a bullseye, but still in the throng. “It’s scored a seven,” Ruth says, scanning down. “We’re in. The record company will definitely meet us now.” Their future suddenly looks a lot rosier.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/10/technology-is-changing-the-face-of-the-music/
As any 14-year-old will tell you, the true measure of a pop star’s popularity is how many friends he has on MySpace. And as far as friends goes, megastar rapper 50 Cent’s got plenty of ‘em — more than 908,000. But even 50 knows he’s going to have to harness more than just a well-organized MySpace contingent to top the 1.14 million copies he sold of his last album, “The Massacre,” in 2005.
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/09/virtuall-life-of-music-stars/
“AC/DC Classic Logo“, a logo/typographic design by Gerard Huerta used as a principal design element on a number of LP/CD/DVD covers for AC/DC, including “Let There Be Rock”, a recording released in 1977 on Atlantic Records.
Released as a follow-up to their album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, the 4th AC/DC album - Let There Be Rock - was the first to be released simultaneously world-wide (Dirty Deeds was not, in fact, released in the U.S. until 1981, and went on to sell over 6 million copies in the U.S.). As with the band’s previous recordings, fans in different parts of the world received slightly different products, with U.S. fans getting a record sans the naughty “Crabsody In Blue” (which was replaced by “Problem Child”). However, while the fans in Australia received a record packaged in a pretty mundane cover, U.S. fans enjoyed a cover that featured the debut of Mr. Huerta’s classic logo (Australian fans did finally see this product a bit later when the packaging was replaced to be the same world-wide).
Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/09/the-story-of-acdc-classic-logo/
