On opening night of The River Tour 2016 in Pittsburgh, Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to the late David Bowie with an encore performance of “Rebel Rebel”.
Bruce’s Tribute to Bowie in Pittsburgh
22 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
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Old Music is Outselling New Music for the First Time in History
22 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
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So much for the Adele effect. This past year, catalogue albums outsold the current ones by 4.3 million copies.
(via chart attack)
by Adam Pugsley
Despite the massive success of Adele’s album 25, which sold a whopping 7.4 million copies in only six weeks, 2015 marked the first time in U.S. history that new releases were outsold by catalogue albums. Seems like everyone’s been feeling extra nostalgic lately.
The term “catalogue” refers to albums released more than 18 months ago. According to Nielsen’s annual year end music report, catalogue albums outsold current releases by 4.3 million copies, something never before seen in the industry. Just 10 years ago, current music sales outpaced catalogue music by over 150 million albums. Keep in mind that these stats don’t include album streams, but regardless, it’s a significant turning point…
Video of the Week: David Bowie Impersonates…
21 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
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Video of the Week: Iron Maiden vs The Monkees
20 Jan 2016 2 Comments
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DJ Schmolli is responsible for mashing together metal and bubblegum in brilliant fashion.
The video by Gutthell clashes nicely too.
Rock Legend Animal Dies Aged 66
20 Jan 2016 2 Comments
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(via Waterford Whispers News)
TRIBUTES have been flooding in from all across the world following the death of Animal, the legendary drummer with rock outfit Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.
Fans of the supergroup were shocked to learn of the passing of the iconic percussionist, who passed away at just 66 following a short illness. Remaining band members Dr. Teeth, Janice, Zoot and Floyd Pepper took to the group’s Facebook fan page to announce the sad news earlier today.
“We will never forget you, brother,” read the statement from the band.
Read more: http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01/20/rock-legend-animal-dies-aged-66/
How the Phonograph Changed Music Forever
19 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
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via Smithsonian magazine
by Clive Thompson
These days music is increasingly free—in just about every sense of the word.
Right now, if you decided you wanted to hear, say, “Uptown Funk,” you could be listening to it in seconds. It’s up free on YouTube, streamable on Spotify or buyable for about two bucks on iTunes. The days of scavenging in record stores and slowly, expensively building a music library are over. It’s also become easier than ever to make music. Every Mac ships with a copy of GarageBand, software powerful enough to let anyone record an album.
Are these trends a good thing—for musicians, for us, for the world of audible art?
Now the arguments begin. Some cultural critics say our new world has liberated music, creating listeners with broader taste than ever before. Others worry that finding music is too frictionless, and that without having to scrimp and save to buy an album, we care less about music: No pain, no gain. “If you own all the music ever recorded in the entire history of the world,” asked the novelist Nick Hornby in a column for Billboard, “then who are you?”
Artists fight over digital music too. Many say it impoverishes them, as the relatively fat royalties of radio and CD give way to laughably tiny micropayments from streaming companies, where a band might get mere thousandths of a penny from their label when a fan streams its song. Other artists disagree, arguing that giving away your music for free online makes it easier to build a global fan base avid for actually giving you money.
A confusing time, to be sure. But it’s certainly no more confusing than the upheaval that greeted a much older music technology: the phonograph. Back in the 19th century, it caused fights and joy too—as it forever transformed the face of music.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/phonograph-changed-music-forever-180957677/
Every Moment Has A Song 