In a new move the music industry, Island Def Jam Music Group will start featuring advertising in future releases as a way to combat money lost from declining record sales.
The first deal, created for the Mariah Carey release "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" on Sept. 15, is a 34-page co-production with Elle magazine that includes lifestyle ads from Elizabeth Arden, Angel Champagne, Carmen Steffens, Le Métier de Beauté and the Bahamas Board of Tourism.
The mini magazine contains Mariah-centric editorial (“VIP Access to Her Sexy Love Life,” “Amazing Closet,” “Recording Rituals”) and lifestyle advertising along with lyrics and other CD booklet elements. Elle contributed the editorial and designed the layout.
The booklets were created for the first run of U.S. CDs (1 million) and the first 500,000 overseas.
“We don’t have music retailers any more, so a smart consumer products company that understands the value in distributing music is going to restore the vitality of our business,” Reid speculated. “If we distribute music properly and if it’s done tastefully, it could be a huge profit center for all of us. That is the missing link—we need partnerships.”
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Epica Completes New Album, "Design Your Universe," and Reveals Cover Art
Dutch symphonic metal band, Epica, has issued the following update:
"Last week we have finished the mixing and mastering of our new album 'Design Your Universe' in the Gate-Studio. We are very pleased with the result!"
"The artwork has also been finished, so here it is: The official cover for 'Design Your Universe'"
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Red Hot Music Again?
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have tentatively scheduled October ‘09 to reconvene after a two-year hiatus since their tour for 2005’s Stadium Arcadium, drummer Chad Smith told Billboard:
“It’ll be two years in September, so now we’re ready,” Smith, who is currently drumming for Chickenfoot, said of the hiatus. While Flea and guitarist John Frusciante will probably bring some musical ideas, the band expects to carve out songs through jamming and improvising.
"That's the plan. Everybody was like, 'Y'know, I really like having this time off, not being a Chili Pepper and doing other things...It'll be two years in September, so now we're ready. You can't force people to play when they don't want to play or aren't ready to play or whatever -- not in our band, anyway."
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White Wizzard Recording Yet To Be Titled New Album
Earache Records announced today that White Wizzard has entered the studio to record their first full-length album.
White Wizzard bassist and founding member Jon Leon comments:
"We are headed to Phoenix, Arizona to begin recording our full-length album with producer Ralph "Talladega" Patlan. He earned the nickname Talladega (from the American raceway) from Dave Mustaine of Megadeth when they worked together. He lives up to the name... Ralph is a quick, efficient producer with a great ear and one of the best in the world for recording rock and metal. He has worked with UFO, Michael Schenker and Megadeth to name a few. We will track at his personal studio, "Skimo Studios" in Phoenix and then mix at the legendary Prairie Sun Recording in Northern California, where many huge albums in the last 30 years were cut.
"We will post some updates from the studio and we will be filming the entire process. Hoping to have this out early 2010 on Earache Records worldwide and then tour like mad to support it. Should be a great year... Until then, thanks for supporting White Wizzard!!"
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Devendra Banhart Confirms New Album, New Label
The ever-interesting folk-hippy Devendra Banhart will release his next album, What Will We Be, this October; the new collection of songs is the singer-songwriter’s seventh, but first release with Warner Bros., who lured him away from indie label XL Recordings.
What Will We Be is the follow-up to 2007’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. The fourteen-track album was co-produced by Banhart and Band Of Bees’ Paul Butler.
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