I frequent many sites looking for music news and found a great site- www.pastemagazine.com. They are running a feature called "The 40 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time" and I think it will be a fun feature for us to explore. That said, let's explore what made their Top Ten:
10. The Olympic Games on NBC - "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" by John Williams
Better than Charles Fox' Monday Night Football theme music. Better than the intro to Wide World of Sports. This piece originally composed by Williams for the 1984 Games in Los Angeles has been the heart of NBC's Olympic coverage ever since. His NBC Nightly News score is pretty great, too.
Rather an odd pick in my opinion, but nonetheless, it comes in at number 10. We will look at #9 tommorrow!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cover Art of Keyshia Cole's 'A Different Me'
While her LP, 'Different Me', will not hit the U.S. market until mid December, Keyshia Cole brings out an official cover art for the upcoming album.
An official cover art for Keyshia Cole's third studio LP "A Different Me" has been unveiled. On the cover art posted on the news photo, the R&B singer/songwriter is shown wearing a swimsuit with tattoos on her left wrist and right upper arm.
"A Different Me" is scheduled to come out in the United States on December 16 via Geffen/Interscope Records. One of the songs titled "Playa Cardz Right" which features Tupac Shakur has hit the airplays since October 21 and it can be listened through Interscope.
"It's a different me this time: a young woman who's still growing and finding myself, exploring life through different routes musically and in other areas," Keyshia commented on her latest work. "I wrote more about other people's situations than my own. I'm moving forward."
SOURCE: http://www.aceshowbiz.com
An official cover art for Keyshia Cole's third studio LP "A Different Me" has been unveiled. On the cover art posted on the news photo, the R&B singer/songwriter is shown wearing a swimsuit with tattoos on her left wrist and right upper arm.
"A Different Me" is scheduled to come out in the United States on December 16 via Geffen/Interscope Records. One of the songs titled "Playa Cardz Right" which features Tupac Shakur has hit the airplays since October 21 and it can be listened through Interscope.
"It's a different me this time: a young woman who's still growing and finding myself, exploring life through different routes musically and in other areas," Keyshia commented on her latest work. "I wrote more about other people's situations than my own. I'm moving forward."
SOURCE: http://www.aceshowbiz.com
DOMINIA: New Album Cover Art Revealed
Nov. 18, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia-based metallers DOMINIA have revealed the cover art (see below) for their second album, "Judgement Of Tormented Souls". Due on January 14 in Finland via UHO Production (distributed through EMI Finland), the CD was produced and mixed by Janne Saksa at Sound Supreme Studio in Hämeenlinna, Finland and was mastered at the Cutting Room in Sweden.
DOMINIA's debut album, "Divine Revolution", was released in September 2006 via UHO Production. The CD was recorded at Sound Supreme studio in Hämeenlinna, Finland with producer Janne Saksa.
SOURCE: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com
St. Petersburg, Russia-based metallers DOMINIA have revealed the cover art (see below) for their second album, "Judgement Of Tormented Souls". Due on January 14 in Finland via UHO Production (distributed through EMI Finland), the CD was produced and mixed by Janne Saksa at Sound Supreme Studio in Hämeenlinna, Finland and was mastered at the Cutting Room in Sweden.
DOMINIA's debut album, "Divine Revolution", was released in September 2006 via UHO Production. The CD was recorded at Sound Supreme studio in Hämeenlinna, Finland with producer Janne Saksa.
SOURCE: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com
The Killers' difficult third album (cover)
By Alice Jones
After artist Paul Normansell created an image of Kate Moss for GQ magazine, he landed the commission of a lifetime.
Paul Normansell thought it was a joke when he took a phone call from The Killers' manager, asking him to design the cover art for the band's third album. "At first I thought, 'someone's having me on'," says the 30-year-old artist from Solihull. "And then I spoke to Brandon Flowers."
It's a long way from the Birmingham dormitory town, whose most famous musical sons are the long-forgotten Ocean Colour Scene and Ritchie Neville from the boy-band Five, to Las Vegas – the city of sin and birthplace of The Killers. Nevertheless, the band spotted Normansell's mosaic-inspired portrait of Kate Moss in GQ magazine in May and within a month had called him up to ask him to create the back cover for their latest album, Day & Age. As time went on, he was commissioned to do the front cover and individual portraits of the four band members, too, all in his trademark colour-spot style which echoes the band's own dot-matrix logo.
Normansell's portrait of The Killers' leonine guitarist Dave Keuning also adorns the cover of the current single, "Human", and his work plays a leading role in the video as the band hold their individual headshots in front of their faces and playfully swap them around. The epic final shot has them linking arms to watch the sunset over Utah's Goblin Valley, which fades out to become the lilac-hued landscape of Normansell's cover. The paintings on screen are not the originals, though. "I was shipping them out for the video but they never got to the desert in time," says Normansell. "They've got all the originals in their recording studio at the moment. When I saw the band after their gig at the Royal Albert Hall, they said they'd like to keep them, but the record company has paid for them, so whether they get to keep them or not, I don't know."
Even if the painting doesn't end up above Flowers' mantelpiece, it's quite an honour to be Killers-approved. Since the band formed in 2002, the evolution of their sound, from indie-glam to synth-pop via blowsy Springsteen-iana has been mirrored by its imaginative image-making. The flamboyant yet enigmatic frontman, Flowers – who recently said he would feel "petrified" if he were to make his stage costume a T-shirt – has moved with Madonna-like ease from rocky leather-and-eyeliner for Hot Fuss to deranged Wild West ringmaster (complete with bushy moustache) for Sam's Town to his current favourite, a sharp tuxedo with owl-feather epaulettes, designed by Fee Doran (who memorably draped Kylie in a white hood for "Can't Get You Out of My Head"). The Killers' last album, Sam's Town, featured a trailer-trash beauty queen on its cover, shot by Anton Corbijn, the director of the award-winning Ian Curtis biopic, Control, and countless music videos for U2, Nirvana and Coldplay.
The cover for Day & Age went through a month of negotiations and several versions – including a cluster of palm trees and a Mexican ruin – were rejected before the band happened upon an old photograph of a nocturnal desert scene which appealed to their Nevada roots. It is not, as one blogger has suggested, "a depiction of the place Brandon went to kill the animal he wore on his shoulders in the promo pics". From there, it was a slow process of getting the colours just right. Flowers was, apparently, particularly keen on pastels.
Normansell graduated from the University of Central England in 2001 and started out producing abstract paintings which were snapped up by, among others, Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong and British Airways. One particularly keen collector bought a painting and asked the artist to design a tattoo based around it in 2004. "It's quite bizarre that someone's got a tattoo of my work on them. It's there for the rest of his life, so fingers crossed he really likes it." Inspired by a picture of Kate Moss in a magazine, Normansell began to apply his spot technique to portraiture a couple of years ago, rendering his famous subjects in thousands of meticulously applied dots of gloss paint on aluminium sheets. The reflective materials give his pop art a magazine-shoot high sheen at the same time as producing an unsettling distortion effect. "Depending on where you view the image from, it can go in and out of focus," he explains.
Normansell is working on another portrait of Moss, commissioned to hang in the head office of the cosmetics giant Rimmel and has just completed a Jimi Hendrix for an exhibition at The Gallery at 94 in London. Other subjects on show there include Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Agyness Deyn, posing in candy-pink Wayfarers, on sale for around £5,000.
SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk
After artist Paul Normansell created an image of Kate Moss for GQ magazine, he landed the commission of a lifetime.
Paul Normansell thought it was a joke when he took a phone call from The Killers' manager, asking him to design the cover art for the band's third album. "At first I thought, 'someone's having me on'," says the 30-year-old artist from Solihull. "And then I spoke to Brandon Flowers."
It's a long way from the Birmingham dormitory town, whose most famous musical sons are the long-forgotten Ocean Colour Scene and Ritchie Neville from the boy-band Five, to Las Vegas – the city of sin and birthplace of The Killers. Nevertheless, the band spotted Normansell's mosaic-inspired portrait of Kate Moss in GQ magazine in May and within a month had called him up to ask him to create the back cover for their latest album, Day & Age. As time went on, he was commissioned to do the front cover and individual portraits of the four band members, too, all in his trademark colour-spot style which echoes the band's own dot-matrix logo.
Normansell's portrait of The Killers' leonine guitarist Dave Keuning also adorns the cover of the current single, "Human", and his work plays a leading role in the video as the band hold their individual headshots in front of their faces and playfully swap them around. The epic final shot has them linking arms to watch the sunset over Utah's Goblin Valley, which fades out to become the lilac-hued landscape of Normansell's cover. The paintings on screen are not the originals, though. "I was shipping them out for the video but they never got to the desert in time," says Normansell. "They've got all the originals in their recording studio at the moment. When I saw the band after their gig at the Royal Albert Hall, they said they'd like to keep them, but the record company has paid for them, so whether they get to keep them or not, I don't know."
Even if the painting doesn't end up above Flowers' mantelpiece, it's quite an honour to be Killers-approved. Since the band formed in 2002, the evolution of their sound, from indie-glam to synth-pop via blowsy Springsteen-iana has been mirrored by its imaginative image-making. The flamboyant yet enigmatic frontman, Flowers – who recently said he would feel "petrified" if he were to make his stage costume a T-shirt – has moved with Madonna-like ease from rocky leather-and-eyeliner for Hot Fuss to deranged Wild West ringmaster (complete with bushy moustache) for Sam's Town to his current favourite, a sharp tuxedo with owl-feather epaulettes, designed by Fee Doran (who memorably draped Kylie in a white hood for "Can't Get You Out of My Head"). The Killers' last album, Sam's Town, featured a trailer-trash beauty queen on its cover, shot by Anton Corbijn, the director of the award-winning Ian Curtis biopic, Control, and countless music videos for U2, Nirvana and Coldplay.
The cover for Day & Age went through a month of negotiations and several versions – including a cluster of palm trees and a Mexican ruin – were rejected before the band happened upon an old photograph of a nocturnal desert scene which appealed to their Nevada roots. It is not, as one blogger has suggested, "a depiction of the place Brandon went to kill the animal he wore on his shoulders in the promo pics". From there, it was a slow process of getting the colours just right. Flowers was, apparently, particularly keen on pastels.
Normansell graduated from the University of Central England in 2001 and started out producing abstract paintings which were snapped up by, among others, Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong and British Airways. One particularly keen collector bought a painting and asked the artist to design a tattoo based around it in 2004. "It's quite bizarre that someone's got a tattoo of my work on them. It's there for the rest of his life, so fingers crossed he really likes it." Inspired by a picture of Kate Moss in a magazine, Normansell began to apply his spot technique to portraiture a couple of years ago, rendering his famous subjects in thousands of meticulously applied dots of gloss paint on aluminium sheets. The reflective materials give his pop art a magazine-shoot high sheen at the same time as producing an unsettling distortion effect. "Depending on where you view the image from, it can go in and out of focus," he explains.
Normansell is working on another portrait of Moss, commissioned to hang in the head office of the cosmetics giant Rimmel and has just completed a Jimi Hendrix for an exhibition at The Gallery at 94 in London. Other subjects on show there include Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Agyness Deyn, posing in candy-pink Wayfarers, on sale for around £5,000.
SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk
Give them a spin, again
The independent record stores still thrive in some parts:
By Sara Stephenson
Features Writer
Published: November 17, 2008
The vinyl record sales doubled worldwide in 2007 and continue to rise, according to a September 2008 Wall Street Journal article.
Stores that sell vinyl in Stillwater and Tulsa have also noticed an increase in sales.
The Antique Mall at 116 E. Ninth Ave. has at least six dealers who sell vinyl records.
“They’ve gone up quite a bit in the past four to five years,” said Amy Pitchford, who has worked at The Antique Mall for two years.
Pitchford said the most records sold are from the classic rock and pop genres; jazz is also a popular genre while country is the least sold.
The most common buyers of records at the mall are college students. Of course, there could be many reasons why students are buying more vinyl.
“A lot of people say the sound quality is better,” Pitchford said.
Records are also cheaper than CDs with most priced between $4.50 and $10.
“I like the artwork,” Pitchford said.
The Antique Mall has almost always had records for sale but recently have been selling more.
Rory’s Corner Mall at 123 E. Ninth Ave. also sells vinyl records. The store is across the street from The Antique Mall and has been in business for three years.
The owner, Daniel MacRory, has been in the collectible business for seven years.
MacRory said he has also noticed an increase in record sales over the last year.
He said he researched the subject and found that the recent increase was because of a mistake with an REM album.
A company in Seattle ordered 500 LP albums instead of CDs, and the LPs sold out within a week of release. Record companies started producing more LPs, and worldwide LP sales increased in February because of the REM accident.
Fifty percent of his sales come from high school and college students, as opposed to 25 percent a few years back.
“In my opinion, they’re getting a more defined ear,” MacRory said.
MacRory said he has always been on the cutting edge of music from eight tracks to MP3s.
In 1994, he decided to convert back to LPs for his listening pleasure.
“Digital music takes all of the fun out of it,” MacRory said.
LPs keep the raw distortion of the music, which digital music takes away, he said.
MacRory said 70s rock is the most popular genre he sells and he said he can’t seem to keep Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Grateful Dead and similar bands’ albums on the shelves.
Meanwhile, Starship Records in Tulsa hasn’t noticed a demand for any particular artist.
The sales are pretty evenly spread, said Calvin Compton, who has worked at Starship for three years.
Compton said the store’s vinyl sales have increased mainly because there seems to be a resurgence in production with more indie and underground musicians putting out vinyl, he said.
Record buyers at Starship generally range from 18 to 35 years old , he said.
Whether because of sound quality or expense, record sales have indeed increased in Stillwater and Tulsa.
“The general idea is to preserve vintage stuff,” Pitchford said.
By Sara Stephenson
Features Writer
Published: November 17, 2008
The vinyl record sales doubled worldwide in 2007 and continue to rise, according to a September 2008 Wall Street Journal article.
Stores that sell vinyl in Stillwater and Tulsa have also noticed an increase in sales.
The Antique Mall at 116 E. Ninth Ave. has at least six dealers who sell vinyl records.
“They’ve gone up quite a bit in the past four to five years,” said Amy Pitchford, who has worked at The Antique Mall for two years.
Pitchford said the most records sold are from the classic rock and pop genres; jazz is also a popular genre while country is the least sold.
The most common buyers of records at the mall are college students. Of course, there could be many reasons why students are buying more vinyl.
“A lot of people say the sound quality is better,” Pitchford said.
Records are also cheaper than CDs with most priced between $4.50 and $10.
“I like the artwork,” Pitchford said.
The Antique Mall has almost always had records for sale but recently have been selling more.
Rory’s Corner Mall at 123 E. Ninth Ave. also sells vinyl records. The store is across the street from The Antique Mall and has been in business for three years.
The owner, Daniel MacRory, has been in the collectible business for seven years.
MacRory said he has also noticed an increase in record sales over the last year.
He said he researched the subject and found that the recent increase was because of a mistake with an REM album.
A company in Seattle ordered 500 LP albums instead of CDs, and the LPs sold out within a week of release. Record companies started producing more LPs, and worldwide LP sales increased in February because of the REM accident.
Fifty percent of his sales come from high school and college students, as opposed to 25 percent a few years back.
“In my opinion, they’re getting a more defined ear,” MacRory said.
MacRory said he has always been on the cutting edge of music from eight tracks to MP3s.
In 1994, he decided to convert back to LPs for his listening pleasure.
“Digital music takes all of the fun out of it,” MacRory said.
LPs keep the raw distortion of the music, which digital music takes away, he said.
MacRory said 70s rock is the most popular genre he sells and he said he can’t seem to keep Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Grateful Dead and similar bands’ albums on the shelves.
Meanwhile, Starship Records in Tulsa hasn’t noticed a demand for any particular artist.
The sales are pretty evenly spread, said Calvin Compton, who has worked at Starship for three years.
Compton said the store’s vinyl sales have increased mainly because there seems to be a resurgence in production with more indie and underground musicians putting out vinyl, he said.
Record buyers at Starship generally range from 18 to 35 years old , he said.
Whether because of sound quality or expense, record sales have indeed increased in Stillwater and Tulsa.
“The general idea is to preserve vintage stuff,” Pitchford said.
Attention Conspiracy Theorists: Did John Lennon Sell His Soul?
A new book is coming in December from New Chapter Press that asks whether John Lennon sold his soul to Satan in exchange for his musical success. The Lennon Prophecy, A New Examination of the Death Clues of the Beatles by Joseph Niezgoda will interpret the hidden messages and symbols that have supposedly been littering the Beatles landscape for many years.
According to the press release, "Niezgoda dissects and examines the Beatles' and Lennon's recordings and album artwork and follows a fascinating and unique trail of sorcery, mysticism, numerology, backward masking, anagrams and literary and theological writings to explain his conclusions."
The Lennon Prophecy puts forth the theory that a 20-year-old Lennon, so disillusioned with a life of sadness and disappointment where he was abandoned by his father and stricken with the death of his mother, entered into a deal with the devil to achieve fame and fortune. Niezgoda alleges that a 20-year pact began in December of 1960, shortly before a night when Beatlemania first struck audiences on December 27, 1960, when the Fab Four played at Town Hall Ballroom in Litherland, England. During that performance, as Niezgoda writes, "The Beatles evoked a response noticeably different from anything in their past." From there, The Beatles inexplicably and immediately shot to global fame at a level never seen before or since. The 20-year pact came to its tragic conclusion on December 8, 1980, when Mark David Chapman, who testified he was possessed by demons, fulfilled the end of the contract by murdering Lennon outside of his apartment at The Dakota in New York City.
Clues foretelling the death of Lennon are revealed in album covers such as Rubber Soul, Yesterday and Today, A Collection of Beatles Oldies, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road as well as Lennon solo albums Imagine and Walls and Bridges. Songs that also reveal the mysterious prediction of death and connections to the devil include Tomorrow Never Knows, I Am The Walrus, Come Together, One After 909, Let It Be, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolution No. 9, which Niezgoda reveals is in itself a step-by-step preview of the actual assassination. The video for the biggest hit off Lennon's last album (Just Like) Starting Over also reveals an intriguing clue that brings the literary world of James Joyce into the myriad clues.
Lennon's alleged anti-Christian behavior as well as his infamous declaration that the Beatles were "Bigger than Jesus" are also presented as evidence of a possible pact. Niezgoda also dispels the "Paul-is-Dead" mythology that theorized that the Beatles inserted clues in their songs how Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash.
According to the press release, "Niezgoda dissects and examines the Beatles' and Lennon's recordings and album artwork and follows a fascinating and unique trail of sorcery, mysticism, numerology, backward masking, anagrams and literary and theological writings to explain his conclusions."
The Lennon Prophecy puts forth the theory that a 20-year-old Lennon, so disillusioned with a life of sadness and disappointment where he was abandoned by his father and stricken with the death of his mother, entered into a deal with the devil to achieve fame and fortune. Niezgoda alleges that a 20-year pact began in December of 1960, shortly before a night when Beatlemania first struck audiences on December 27, 1960, when the Fab Four played at Town Hall Ballroom in Litherland, England. During that performance, as Niezgoda writes, "The Beatles evoked a response noticeably different from anything in their past." From there, The Beatles inexplicably and immediately shot to global fame at a level never seen before or since. The 20-year pact came to its tragic conclusion on December 8, 1980, when Mark David Chapman, who testified he was possessed by demons, fulfilled the end of the contract by murdering Lennon outside of his apartment at The Dakota in New York City.
Clues foretelling the death of Lennon are revealed in album covers such as Rubber Soul, Yesterday and Today, A Collection of Beatles Oldies, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road as well as Lennon solo albums Imagine and Walls and Bridges. Songs that also reveal the mysterious prediction of death and connections to the devil include Tomorrow Never Knows, I Am The Walrus, Come Together, One After 909, Let It Be, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolution No. 9, which Niezgoda reveals is in itself a step-by-step preview of the actual assassination. The video for the biggest hit off Lennon's last album (Just Like) Starting Over also reveals an intriguing clue that brings the literary world of James Joyce into the myriad clues.
Lennon's alleged anti-Christian behavior as well as his infamous declaration that the Beatles were "Bigger than Jesus" are also presented as evidence of a possible pact. Niezgoda also dispels the "Paul-is-Dead" mythology that theorized that the Beatles inserted clues in their songs how Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash.
Album Cover Art
Let's continue our look at the Gigwise.com list of the top 50 dirtiest and sexiest album covers (as compiled by their staff- Gigwise comments in quotes):
34. Queens of the Stone Age: ‘Queens of the Stone Age’ - "The debut album from Josh Homme and company sports a cover that could have been stolen from a Prince record. A model suggestively holds her underwear as if ready to remove them and unveil the prize below."
Queens of the Stone Age (also known as QOTSA or simply Queens) is a hard rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997.
Originally formed under the name Gamma Ray by guitarist Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of riff-oriented, heavy music which Homme described as 'robot rock', saying that he "wanted to create a heavy sound based on a solid jam, and just pound it into your head". The band is frequently described as stoner rock, although they reject the term.
“ The term sucks. The only element of the audience I want to get rid of is the shirtless, sweaty, maxi-mullet jock dudes. We want sex to bleed into the music. At our shows, we want to see half boys and half girls in a utopian world, dancing and drinking. ”
Their sound has since evolved to incorporate a variety of different styles and influences. As of October 2008, the Queens of the Stone Age are:
Joshua Homme – vocals, lead guitar (touring 1997–present); K/Q, QotSA, Split, R, SftD, LtP, EV
Troy Van Leeuwen – guitar, keyboards, lap steel, backing vocals (touring 2002–present); LtP, EV
Joey Castillo – drums (touring 2002–present); LtP, EV
Michael Shuman – bass, backing vocals (touring 2007–present)
Dean Fertita – keyboards, guitars, percussion, backing vocals (touring 2007–present)
Award nominations:
Grammy Awards of 2003 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "No One Knows"
Grammy Awards of 2004 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "Go With the Flow"
Grammy Awards of 2006 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "Little Sister"
Grammy Awards of 2008 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "Sick, Sick, Sick"
34. Queens of the Stone Age: ‘Queens of the Stone Age’ - "The debut album from Josh Homme and company sports a cover that could have been stolen from a Prince record. A model suggestively holds her underwear as if ready to remove them and unveil the prize below."
Queens of the Stone Age (also known as QOTSA or simply Queens) is a hard rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997.
Originally formed under the name Gamma Ray by guitarist Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of riff-oriented, heavy music which Homme described as 'robot rock', saying that he "wanted to create a heavy sound based on a solid jam, and just pound it into your head". The band is frequently described as stoner rock, although they reject the term.
“ The term sucks. The only element of the audience I want to get rid of is the shirtless, sweaty, maxi-mullet jock dudes. We want sex to bleed into the music. At our shows, we want to see half boys and half girls in a utopian world, dancing and drinking. ”
Their sound has since evolved to incorporate a variety of different styles and influences. As of October 2008, the Queens of the Stone Age are:
Joshua Homme – vocals, lead guitar (touring 1997–present); K/Q, QotSA, Split, R, SftD, LtP, EV
Troy Van Leeuwen – guitar, keyboards, lap steel, backing vocals (touring 2002–present); LtP, EV
Joey Castillo – drums (touring 2002–present); LtP, EV
Michael Shuman – bass, backing vocals (touring 2007–present)
Dean Fertita – keyboards, guitars, percussion, backing vocals (touring 2007–present)
Award nominations:
Grammy Awards of 2003 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "No One Knows"
Grammy Awards of 2004 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "Go With the Flow"
Grammy Awards of 2006 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "Little Sister"
Grammy Awards of 2008 - Best Hard Rock Performance - "Sick, Sick, Sick"
This Date In Music History-November 19
Birthdays:
Acclaimed folk singer Katy Moffatt was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1950.
Born on this day in 1943, Fred Lipsius, of Blood Sweat & Tears.
They Will Be Missed:
Tom Evens of Badfinger died at the age of 36 in 1983. Like his band mate Pete Ham, Evens also hanged himself.
In 1992, songwriter Bobby Russell, who wrote many Top 40 hits including "Honey" and "Little Green Apples", died of heart disease at the age of 51 . Russell scored a hit of his own in 1971 with "Saturday Morning Confusion" which reached the Top 25 on the Country charts and the Top 30 on the Pop charts. In 1973 he composed "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", which became a number one hit for his wife, Vicki Lawrence.
Record producer Terry Melcher, who was behind hits by the Byrds, Ry Cooder and the Beach Boys, died in 2004 (age 62) after a long battle with skin cancer. The son of actress Doris Day, he co-wrote ‘Kokomo’ for the Beach Boys, produced Mr Tambourine Man for the Byrds, as well as hits for The Mamas and the Papas.
Dave Guard (The Kingston Trio) was born today (died March 22, 1991).
History:
A 60 track album called "Beatles Anthology I" was released in the US in 1995 and sets a first-day sales record of 450,000 units.
In 1994, Nirvana entered the US album chart at #1 with 'MTV Unplugged In New York.'
Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" at Sun Studios in Memphis in 1955. It became his biggest Pop hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard chart. Elvis Presley's version, which gets more air-play these days, only managed to get to #20.
In 1965, Roger Daltrey walked out on a Who performance at London's Glad Rags Ball after they experienced trouble with the P.A. In the days that follow, many think that Daltrey will be replaced by Boz Burrell, an alumnus of the Sidewinders and Feel for Soul who later went on to sing and play bass with King Crimson.
In 1968, Diana Ross exercised her diva rights by interrupting the show to ask the world to embrace racial understanding. The audience, which included members of the royal family, applauded for two minutes. She didn't change the world.
Van Morrison's 1970 album, "Moondance" was awarded a gold record in 1976. The LP contained two hits: the title track and "Into the Mystic".
In 1957, Chicago radio station WCFL was picketed by the local chapter of the Elvis Presley fan club when it refused to play Presley's records. Despite the protest, the station did not change its policy. The policy remains in effect to this day.
Gary Lewis and The Playboys recorded "This Diamond Ring" in 1964, which will climb to number one in the US the following January.
The Supremes enjoyed their eighth US number one hit in 1966 with "You Keep Me Hangin' On.”
Crosby Stills & Nash member David Crosby had a successful liver transplant operation at Dumont-UCLA in Los Angeles in 1994. Crosby's liver was deteriorated from extensive alcohol and drug abuse, as well as hepatitis-C.
Acclaimed folk singer Katy Moffatt was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1950.
Born on this day in 1943, Fred Lipsius, of Blood Sweat & Tears.
They Will Be Missed:
Tom Evens of Badfinger died at the age of 36 in 1983. Like his band mate Pete Ham, Evens also hanged himself.
In 1992, songwriter Bobby Russell, who wrote many Top 40 hits including "Honey" and "Little Green Apples", died of heart disease at the age of 51 . Russell scored a hit of his own in 1971 with "Saturday Morning Confusion" which reached the Top 25 on the Country charts and the Top 30 on the Pop charts. In 1973 he composed "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", which became a number one hit for his wife, Vicki Lawrence.
Record producer Terry Melcher, who was behind hits by the Byrds, Ry Cooder and the Beach Boys, died in 2004 (age 62) after a long battle with skin cancer. The son of actress Doris Day, he co-wrote ‘Kokomo’ for the Beach Boys, produced Mr Tambourine Man for the Byrds, as well as hits for The Mamas and the Papas.
Dave Guard (The Kingston Trio) was born today (died March 22, 1991).
History:
A 60 track album called "Beatles Anthology I" was released in the US in 1995 and sets a first-day sales record of 450,000 units.
In 1994, Nirvana entered the US album chart at #1 with 'MTV Unplugged In New York.'
Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" at Sun Studios in Memphis in 1955. It became his biggest Pop hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard chart. Elvis Presley's version, which gets more air-play these days, only managed to get to #20.
In 1965, Roger Daltrey walked out on a Who performance at London's Glad Rags Ball after they experienced trouble with the P.A. In the days that follow, many think that Daltrey will be replaced by Boz Burrell, an alumnus of the Sidewinders and Feel for Soul who later went on to sing and play bass with King Crimson.
In 1968, Diana Ross exercised her diva rights by interrupting the show to ask the world to embrace racial understanding. The audience, which included members of the royal family, applauded for two minutes. She didn't change the world.
Van Morrison's 1970 album, "Moondance" was awarded a gold record in 1976. The LP contained two hits: the title track and "Into the Mystic".
In 1957, Chicago radio station WCFL was picketed by the local chapter of the Elvis Presley fan club when it refused to play Presley's records. Despite the protest, the station did not change its policy. The policy remains in effect to this day.
Gary Lewis and The Playboys recorded "This Diamond Ring" in 1964, which will climb to number one in the US the following January.
The Supremes enjoyed their eighth US number one hit in 1966 with "You Keep Me Hangin' On.”
Crosby Stills & Nash member David Crosby had a successful liver transplant operation at Dumont-UCLA in Los Angeles in 1994. Crosby's liver was deteriorated from extensive alcohol and drug abuse, as well as hepatitis-C.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Make music personal ... again
I love these stories about local record shops and here is another for your enjoyment (this one happens to be about some record stores in my area!)
Make music personal ... again
(UWM Post/UWire via COMTEX) -- -- They're big, they're round and there are probably boxes of them in your parents' attic. What are they? They're vinyl records, and they're making a comeback.
Sale numbers from the Record Industry Association of America reflect that in 2006-2007 vinyl showed a 46.2 percent increase in revenue and a 36.6 percent increase in units sold. With this increase in sales, entertainment and record companies alike are taking notice.Stores like Best Buy are now beginning to carry vinyl to keep up with the change. Also, record companies are repressing classic rock artists like Jimi Hendrix on heavy weight vinyl to improve sound quality, which is one of the main reasons people started listening to vinyl again.
Vinyl enthusiast Sahan Jayasuria says that he prefers the warmer and fuller sound of vinyl. He also likes the fact that vinyl records are collector's items. "Some records are more limited than others [and some are] hand numbered," he said. There are many other factors that play into the vinyl resurgence too.
One reason vinyl is coming back is because it's a more personal way of listening to music. Vinyl records require much more care than CDs and MP3s. Because vinyl is easier to scratch and break, you cannot keep them out of their case and in a pile on your desk. Most vinyl collectors have a cleaning kit to help keep their records in top listening condition.
Vinyl is also more personal because it forces the listener to actually sit down and listen to the music. You cannot go to the gym or walk to class with vinyl as it forces the listener to stay within earshot of the player. The listener is forced to really hear what is being played, allowing them to get a deeper understanding of the music.
The biggest thing that makes vinyl so personal is the flip. When listening to an MP3 or CD, there is no flipping involved. You may be asking why the flip is so important, and the answer is that flipping the record makes you part of the listening process. Instead of just hitting play, the album cannot finish unless you flip it.
As previously mentioned, vinyl is now considered collectors item. Just like baseball cards and comic books, vinyl records are one more thing for people to maintain and cherish. This gives new vinyl enthusiasts a reason to re-buy their favorite albums that they had previously purchased on a different format.
For people who still want to be able to make their music portable, records are now coming with a free MP3 downloads so you can take your music with you as well as collect it on your shelf. The larger album art is another reason why people like collecting vinyl. Stores are now making frames for vinyl so that collectors can put their favorite albums up on their wall.
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' new album "Cardinology" is a vinyl collector's dream. This album not only comes with a free MP3 download of the entire record, but has different cover art drawn by graphic novelist Leah Hayes, who also drew the pamphlet in a comic book style for the album. Also included is a 7-inch with two songs not on the record. These bonuses will only be given to those who buy the vinyl record.
With vinyl sales rising, what are music stores doing to satisfy their consumers? Atomic Records rearranged the store a year and a half ago to accommodate the growing demand for new vinyl. They also increased their order size for new releases on vinyl.
"We usually order in about 10 copies of a record on the release date," Atomic manager Vicki Flurry said. For "Cardinology," Atomic ordered 20 copies for the release date.
Exclusive Company manager Wade Michaels said that vinyl never left. "We've always carried new vinyl, but for the past two years we've been making more room for it." When asked if interest in buying vinyl will continue to grow, both stores said yes, and that they will continue to make more room for it. Both stores also said that if you want a record not in stock, they can order it for you as long as it's in print.
Though not all of the new releases offer a free digital download, there are some new nifty gadgets to help you get your jams in your computer. Companies like Ion are making turntables that convert the songs to MP3s, so there is no excuse to not join the vinyl revolution.
U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Nov 17, 2008
http://www.uwmpost.com
Make music personal ... again
(UWM Post/UWire via COMTEX) -- -- They're big, they're round and there are probably boxes of them in your parents' attic. What are they? They're vinyl records, and they're making a comeback.
Sale numbers from the Record Industry Association of America reflect that in 2006-2007 vinyl showed a 46.2 percent increase in revenue and a 36.6 percent increase in units sold. With this increase in sales, entertainment and record companies alike are taking notice.Stores like Best Buy are now beginning to carry vinyl to keep up with the change. Also, record companies are repressing classic rock artists like Jimi Hendrix on heavy weight vinyl to improve sound quality, which is one of the main reasons people started listening to vinyl again.
Vinyl enthusiast Sahan Jayasuria says that he prefers the warmer and fuller sound of vinyl. He also likes the fact that vinyl records are collector's items. "Some records are more limited than others [and some are] hand numbered," he said. There are many other factors that play into the vinyl resurgence too.
One reason vinyl is coming back is because it's a more personal way of listening to music. Vinyl records require much more care than CDs and MP3s. Because vinyl is easier to scratch and break, you cannot keep them out of their case and in a pile on your desk. Most vinyl collectors have a cleaning kit to help keep their records in top listening condition.
Vinyl is also more personal because it forces the listener to actually sit down and listen to the music. You cannot go to the gym or walk to class with vinyl as it forces the listener to stay within earshot of the player. The listener is forced to really hear what is being played, allowing them to get a deeper understanding of the music.
The biggest thing that makes vinyl so personal is the flip. When listening to an MP3 or CD, there is no flipping involved. You may be asking why the flip is so important, and the answer is that flipping the record makes you part of the listening process. Instead of just hitting play, the album cannot finish unless you flip it.
As previously mentioned, vinyl is now considered collectors item. Just like baseball cards and comic books, vinyl records are one more thing for people to maintain and cherish. This gives new vinyl enthusiasts a reason to re-buy their favorite albums that they had previously purchased on a different format.
For people who still want to be able to make their music portable, records are now coming with a free MP3 downloads so you can take your music with you as well as collect it on your shelf. The larger album art is another reason why people like collecting vinyl. Stores are now making frames for vinyl so that collectors can put their favorite albums up on their wall.
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' new album "Cardinology" is a vinyl collector's dream. This album not only comes with a free MP3 download of the entire record, but has different cover art drawn by graphic novelist Leah Hayes, who also drew the pamphlet in a comic book style for the album. Also included is a 7-inch with two songs not on the record. These bonuses will only be given to those who buy the vinyl record.
With vinyl sales rising, what are music stores doing to satisfy their consumers? Atomic Records rearranged the store a year and a half ago to accommodate the growing demand for new vinyl. They also increased their order size for new releases on vinyl.
"We usually order in about 10 copies of a record on the release date," Atomic manager Vicki Flurry said. For "Cardinology," Atomic ordered 20 copies for the release date.
Exclusive Company manager Wade Michaels said that vinyl never left. "We've always carried new vinyl, but for the past two years we've been making more room for it." When asked if interest in buying vinyl will continue to grow, both stores said yes, and that they will continue to make more room for it. Both stores also said that if you want a record not in stock, they can order it for you as long as it's in print.
Though not all of the new releases offer a free digital download, there are some new nifty gadgets to help you get your jams in your computer. Companies like Ion are making turntables that convert the songs to MP3s, so there is no excuse to not join the vinyl revolution.
U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Nov 17, 2008
http://www.uwmpost.com
Rosetta Reitz, women in jazz promoter, dies
Douglas Martin, New York Times
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Rosetta Reitz, an ardent feminist who scavenged through the early history of jazz and the blues to resurrect the music of long-forgotten women and to create a record label dedicated to them, died Nov. 1 in New York City. She was 84.
The cause was cardiopulmonary problems, her daughter Rebecca Reitz said.
Ms. Reitz (pronounced rights) came by her interest in jazz through her husband and male friends, but as the feminist movement gathered steam in the 1960s, she noticed something was missing: the music's women. So she started collecting old 78s of performers like trumpeter Valaida Snow, pianist-singer Georgia White and a bevy of blues singers who had faded from memory.
At the same time, she unearthed lost songs by more famous artists like Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey.
"In that decade of the 1920s, when jazz was really being formulated and changing from an entertainment music to an art form," Ms. Reitz said in an interview with the New York Times in 1980, "these women were extraordinarily important and instrumental in accomplishing that."
"Louis Armstrong was a sideman on records in the '20s with singers like Sippie Wallace, Eva Taylor, Hociel Thomas, Virginia Liston and Margaret Johnson. These women's records were made as their records. But when they come out now, they're reissued as Louis Armstrong records, when actually he was not that important on them."
These women "had the power," she told the Christian Science Monitor in 1984. "They hired the musicians and the chorus line, a lot of them wrote the music themselves, and they produced their own shows. They were more than just singers; they were symbols of success."
Music was at first just one element in a busy life. Ms. Reitz was at different times a stockbroker, a bookstore proprietor and the owner of a greeting card business. She was a food columnist for the Village Voice, a professor, a classified-advertising manager and author of a book on mushrooms. She was a founding member of Older Women's Liberation. She reared three daughters as a single parent.
Ms. Reitz also wrote "Menopause: A Positive Approach" (1977), considered one of the first books to look at menopause from the viewpoint of women and not doctors. She listened to her recordings of women while she wrote the book, many of them celebrating the strength of women rather than treating them as victims.
"I was so alone and needed to be nurtured, and I found I was getting it from them," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1992.
Ms. Reitz started Rosetta Records in 1979 with $10,000 she had borrowed from friends. Her routine was to scout out lost music, usually through record collectors. She then supervised the remastering of records that were often severely damaged; researched and wrote detailed liner notes; and designed graphics and found period photographs for the album covers. She personally wrapped each order and took it to the post office for shipment. (Around a dozen stores later carried the Rosetta label.)
Over the years, Ms. Reitz went from vinyl recordings to tapes to CDs. She refused to give sales figures, but she did tell the Los Angeles Times that the four titles in her "independent women's blues" series of compilations - including "Mean Mothers" - sold around 20,000 copies each. Some albums centered on themes like railroads or prisons.
Much of the music she recorded was in the public domain, but Ms. Reitz said she had devoted time and energy to tracking down the rights to some songs and to paying artists royalties when she could. Her label had not issued a recording in at least 13 years, but previous releases are sometimes sold on the Internet. And a number of mainstream labels also have reissued albums of the artists Ms. Reitz admired.
Rosetta Goldman was born in Utica, N.Y., on Sept. 28, 1924. She attended the University of Wisconsin for three years, moved to Manhattan and got a job at the Gotham Book Mart. She negotiated a loan to buy her own bookstore, the 4 Seasons, in Greenwich Village, where literary figures like Ralph Ellison were celebrated.
For years, Ms. Reitz lobbied for a postage stamp honoring Bessie Smith, which was issued in 1994. She produced concerts by longtime female blues singers for the Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
She married Robert Reitz when she was 23, and they divorced in the late 1960s.
Ms. Reitz did not always finish what she started. She had planned to make 26 albums, she said, but completed only 17. She never finished a book on women in jazz. And even her success with the Rosetta label had left her with a conviction that more work still had to be done.
"My hope and dream," she said, "is that there won't be a need for a women's record company."
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Rosetta Reitz, an ardent feminist who scavenged through the early history of jazz and the blues to resurrect the music of long-forgotten women and to create a record label dedicated to them, died Nov. 1 in New York City. She was 84.
The cause was cardiopulmonary problems, her daughter Rebecca Reitz said.
Ms. Reitz (pronounced rights) came by her interest in jazz through her husband and male friends, but as the feminist movement gathered steam in the 1960s, she noticed something was missing: the music's women. So she started collecting old 78s of performers like trumpeter Valaida Snow, pianist-singer Georgia White and a bevy of blues singers who had faded from memory.
At the same time, she unearthed lost songs by more famous artists like Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey.
"In that decade of the 1920s, when jazz was really being formulated and changing from an entertainment music to an art form," Ms. Reitz said in an interview with the New York Times in 1980, "these women were extraordinarily important and instrumental in accomplishing that."
"Louis Armstrong was a sideman on records in the '20s with singers like Sippie Wallace, Eva Taylor, Hociel Thomas, Virginia Liston and Margaret Johnson. These women's records were made as their records. But when they come out now, they're reissued as Louis Armstrong records, when actually he was not that important on them."
These women "had the power," she told the Christian Science Monitor in 1984. "They hired the musicians and the chorus line, a lot of them wrote the music themselves, and they produced their own shows. They were more than just singers; they were symbols of success."
Music was at first just one element in a busy life. Ms. Reitz was at different times a stockbroker, a bookstore proprietor and the owner of a greeting card business. She was a food columnist for the Village Voice, a professor, a classified-advertising manager and author of a book on mushrooms. She was a founding member of Older Women's Liberation. She reared three daughters as a single parent.
Ms. Reitz also wrote "Menopause: A Positive Approach" (1977), considered one of the first books to look at menopause from the viewpoint of women and not doctors. She listened to her recordings of women while she wrote the book, many of them celebrating the strength of women rather than treating them as victims.
"I was so alone and needed to be nurtured, and I found I was getting it from them," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1992.
Ms. Reitz started Rosetta Records in 1979 with $10,000 she had borrowed from friends. Her routine was to scout out lost music, usually through record collectors. She then supervised the remastering of records that were often severely damaged; researched and wrote detailed liner notes; and designed graphics and found period photographs for the album covers. She personally wrapped each order and took it to the post office for shipment. (Around a dozen stores later carried the Rosetta label.)
Over the years, Ms. Reitz went from vinyl recordings to tapes to CDs. She refused to give sales figures, but she did tell the Los Angeles Times that the four titles in her "independent women's blues" series of compilations - including "Mean Mothers" - sold around 20,000 copies each. Some albums centered on themes like railroads or prisons.
Much of the music she recorded was in the public domain, but Ms. Reitz said she had devoted time and energy to tracking down the rights to some songs and to paying artists royalties when she could. Her label had not issued a recording in at least 13 years, but previous releases are sometimes sold on the Internet. And a number of mainstream labels also have reissued albums of the artists Ms. Reitz admired.
Rosetta Goldman was born in Utica, N.Y., on Sept. 28, 1924. She attended the University of Wisconsin for three years, moved to Manhattan and got a job at the Gotham Book Mart. She negotiated a loan to buy her own bookstore, the 4 Seasons, in Greenwich Village, where literary figures like Ralph Ellison were celebrated.
For years, Ms. Reitz lobbied for a postage stamp honoring Bessie Smith, which was issued in 1994. She produced concerts by longtime female blues singers for the Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
She married Robert Reitz when she was 23, and they divorced in the late 1960s.
Ms. Reitz did not always finish what she started. She had planned to make 26 albums, she said, but completed only 17. She never finished a book on women in jazz. And even her success with the Rosetta label had left her with a conviction that more work still had to be done.
"My hope and dream," she said, "is that there won't be a need for a women's record company."
Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales
Week Ending 11/15/2008
1. 45rpm - Benny Cliff "Crazy Mama" / "Born Lived And Died" Horseshoe - $3,601.75 Start: $9.99 Bids: 15
2. 45rpm - Tommy & The Derby's "Don't Play The Role" / "Handy Andy" Swing - $3,116.00 Start: $350.00 Bids: 19
3. 12" - OXO "Keep On Living" - $2,725.00 Start: $999.99 Bids: 16
4. LP - Beatles "Please Please Me" UK Mono Parlophone - $2,714.92 Start: $7.46 Bids: 36
5. 45rpm - The Galaxys "Lover's Prayer" / "Jelly Bean" Carthay - $2,560.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 19
A rare Rockabilly 45 from Benny Cliff sells for a little over $3.6k this week for the #1 spot. Making the Top 5 for the second time since September is the Tommy & The Derby's "Don't Play That Role" Northern Soul 45. This makes the #2 spot, selling for more then $3.1k, over $1k less than it sold the week of September 6th.
Next, a rare Italian disco 12" sells for over $2.7k.
The Beatles get the #4 spot with a UK first pressing of "Please Please Me". This one sells for more than $2.7k.
In the #5 spot, a rare Doo-Wop 45, from the same seller as this week's #1 record, The Galaxy's "Lover's Prayer" bids up past $2.5k.
As always, I want to thank Brian over at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com for this interesting and valuable data. Stop by the site and listen to Counter Clock Radio- you'll love the old sounds!
Insound Beefs Up Indie Vinyl Offerings
By Michael D. Ayers, N.Y.
When online retailer Insound began offering instant MP3 downloads of albums being ordered on vinyl, only a handful of indie labels were on board for the promotion. But by year's end, nearly 500 titles will be part of the program.
Driving the expansion are partnerships with Sub Pop and Matador, making the complete catalogs of Iron & Wine, the Shins, Wolf Parade available alongside titles from Fleet Foxes, Flight Of The Conchords, Mogwai, Band Of Horses and the Postal Service.
Insound has seen a massive spike in LP sales, both domestically and internationally, coinciding with an overall boom in vinyl purchases.
"The percentage increase over the last 12-18 months in vinyl sales has been dramatic -- close to 100%," Insound co-founder Matt Wishnow tells Billboard. "Our gross margins and pricing model for vinyl are the exact same as that for CDs. However, there is one major difference and that is the elasticity of that margin. We don't discount vinyl often because consumers believe that vinyl is worth the suggested price."
Offering two forms of music for one price has been made possible by lenient royalty deals. "Fortunately, a lot of our label partners work with bands that control their own publishing or who have progressive publishers," Wishnow says, allowing Insound to avoid paying mechanical royalties twice for one album.
Insound plans to further its physical/digital product bundles in 2009, including band merchandise such as T-Shirts, posters or tote bags paired with digital downloads for a price in the $20 range.
Visit The Site Today & Get Your Christmas Orders In!
http://www.insound.com/index.php?from=5141
Source: http://www.billboard.biz
When online retailer Insound began offering instant MP3 downloads of albums being ordered on vinyl, only a handful of indie labels were on board for the promotion. But by year's end, nearly 500 titles will be part of the program.
Driving the expansion are partnerships with Sub Pop and Matador, making the complete catalogs of Iron & Wine, the Shins, Wolf Parade available alongside titles from Fleet Foxes, Flight Of The Conchords, Mogwai, Band Of Horses and the Postal Service.
Insound has seen a massive spike in LP sales, both domestically and internationally, coinciding with an overall boom in vinyl purchases.
"The percentage increase over the last 12-18 months in vinyl sales has been dramatic -- close to 100%," Insound co-founder Matt Wishnow tells Billboard. "Our gross margins and pricing model for vinyl are the exact same as that for CDs. However, there is one major difference and that is the elasticity of that margin. We don't discount vinyl often because consumers believe that vinyl is worth the suggested price."
Offering two forms of music for one price has been made possible by lenient royalty deals. "Fortunately, a lot of our label partners work with bands that control their own publishing or who have progressive publishers," Wishnow says, allowing Insound to avoid paying mechanical royalties twice for one album.
Insound plans to further its physical/digital product bundles in 2009, including band merchandise such as T-Shirts, posters or tote bags paired with digital downloads for a price in the $20 range.
Visit The Site Today & Get Your Christmas Orders In!
http://www.insound.com/index.php?from=5141
Source: http://www.billboard.biz
Album Cover Art
Let's continue of look at Gigwise.com's list of their top 50 dirtiest and sexiest album covers (as compiled by their staff)
35. Rollins Band: ‘Nice’ – Here is what Gigwise had to say: "The legend that is Henry Rollins drafted in a naked woman for the sleeve of his 2001 album, only the dollar notes concealing her private parts. Sadly, the cover failed to attract the attention of the public – the record only reached number 178 in the American Billboard Chart."
Rollins Band was an American alternative rock group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.
They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s. Critic Steve Huey describes their music as "uncompromising, intense, cathartic fusions of hard rock, funk, post-punk noise, and jazz experimentalism, with Rollins shouting angry, biting self-examinations and accusations over the grind."
This particular LP is one I would buy just for the cover art, I love pictures of money (and I don't mind the model posing with the money either!)
35. Rollins Band: ‘Nice’ – Here is what Gigwise had to say: "The legend that is Henry Rollins drafted in a naked woman for the sleeve of his 2001 album, only the dollar notes concealing her private parts. Sadly, the cover failed to attract the attention of the public – the record only reached number 178 in the American Billboard Chart."
Rollins Band was an American alternative rock group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.
They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s. Critic Steve Huey describes their music as "uncompromising, intense, cathartic fusions of hard rock, funk, post-punk noise, and jazz experimentalism, with Rollins shouting angry, biting self-examinations and accusations over the grind."
This particular LP is one I would buy just for the cover art, I love pictures of money (and I don't mind the model posing with the money either!)
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